I really play basketball

Chapter 91 Before Christmas Battle (seeking Monthly Pass)
After drinking too much Coke, Lin Xing walked around twice before going out to drain the water before confirming it.

This big bird walks around the bar, which is a black bar.

"Damn, no wonder they are all black girls!"

Xiaochong is a black man, and the bar he often goes to is a black bar, which is also understandable.

but……

Lin Xing couldn't tell because he had a hard time. If he said this, he might be accused of racial discrimination.

But he is really not racist, it can only be said that most black girls have not grown up to his aesthetics.

"The next time you invite a black teammate, you will definitely not accept it!"

Lin Xing made up his mind, but as far as the warriors were concerned, he was the only one of the yellow race, and the only whites were Mullin and Luke Longley.

Langley had just arrived, so he might not be as familiar with the Bay Area as he was.

As for Mullin...

One of the no-nos within the Warriors is not to invite Mullin to a bar.

Even, don't call Mullin in any off-site activities related to alcohol.

The reason was that, as a young man, Mullin had a bad habit of drinking.

Although it has been corrected, Mullin is still participating in AA activities to this day.

This shows that alcohol is still quite tempting to Mullin, and he needs to stay away.

For Lin Xing, this team of warriors is somewhat boring.

……

On the third day after returning to the Bay Area, Lin Xing drove to the training hall with a displeased face, and started a day of training.

But as soon as he arrived at the training hall, there was good news immediately.

"Sta, the league sent an invitation letter, hoping that you can participate in this season's All-Star Weekend Slam Dunk Contest."

The team's press officer, Peter Russo, walked into the practice field holding an invitation letter and interrupted Lin Xing's shooting practice.

"Invitation letter for the dunk contest?"

Lin Xing was still scratching his head and thinking, when his teammates gathered around.

"The league specially invited you to participate in the slam dunk contest? Wow, Si Da, this treatment is amazing!"

"Yeah, yeah, I haven't heard that anyone participating in the slam dunk contest was invited by the league, didn't they all sign up by themselves?"

A group of people expressed their surprise in one go, and the madman was even more sour:
"My dunk is also pretty good, why don't you invite me?"

At this time, Lin Xing had already thought about it.

Should he accept the invitation?Of course I want it!

Just like what these teammates said, if the alliance came to invite him personally, it would be too embarrassing for him to refuse.

Or even if Lin Xing wanted to refuse, Nike would not allow it.

Of course, more importantly-

There are trophies in the dunk contest, and trophies are equal to honor points.

And the slam dunk contest in 94——

Jordan is retired, Dominique Wilkins might still be able to fly but he has categorically said no, Vince Carter hasn't entered the league yet, Zach LaVine hasn't even been born yet...

In this situation, even Kobe Bryant's short hand can win the slam dunk title, let alone Lin Xing who can touch the top of the backboard.

Who will be Lin Xing's opponent?He doesn't know either.

But what he can be sure of is that this slam dunk trophy is basically a free gift.

He has to take the free honor points!
"In addition, the All-Star voting has already started, Star, Tim, Chris and Latrell are all popular candidates for this year's All-Star.

Therefore, in the next two months, you have to keep mentioning this matter in front of the media to solicit votes for yourself. "

These days, there is no Twitter or Facebook. If players want to canvass for themselves, they can only use the media.

Little Worm Maniac and the others nodded, saying that they would remember the matter of canvassing votes, but Lin Xing focused on another matter.

"Well, Peter, where is my position in the All-Star voting?"

"Power forward."

"Isn't that right, I'm obviously a point guard!"

"Ah, are you a point guard?"

"Of course I'm a point guard!"

Although I had a few arguments with Peter Russo, to put it bluntly, it doesn't count if Russo said it.

Which position to take to participate in the All-Star voting, the league has the final say.

Moreover, the alliance is not just saying it casually, they are backed by big data.

In all the games Lin Xing participated in, his main position was power forward.

Lin Xing is not very happy to let a point guard participate in the All-Star Weekend at the power forward position.

The position is not the second, mainly because the competition for the forward position is too fierce.

All-Star voting, guard, forward, center, each of the three positions has competition.

Because of Jordan's retirement, because Isiah Thomas and Clyde Drexler are getting old, and because the new generation of Kidd, Carter, Iverson, etc. have not yet entered the league.

The competition for the guard position can be said to be pitiful.

Take the West as an example, the starting lineup for the guard position is——

Glider Drexler, who has averaged less than 20 points per game so far this season, Mitch Richmond, who led the Kings and failed to make the playoffs, three point guards (John Stockton, Kevin Johnson, and Tim Hardaway) who have played against the super giants, and Gary Payton, whose personal data is not so outstanding.

With this set of guards, Lin Xing joins it. Isn't it easy to fight for the starting lineup?
Look at the competition for the forward position again——

Last season's regular season MVP Charles Barkley, Sean Kemp who can fly and dunk a bunch of fans, and Karl Malone who just had a battle with Lin Xing.

Depth may not be that great compared to the guard position.

But with Barkley around, Lin Xing, a point guard, was able to compete for the first place, but when he switched to the power forward position, he could only compete for the second place at once.

Don't underestimate the difference in rankings. If Lin Xing loses to Kemp or Ma Long, he can only play as a substitute.

The gap between the All-Star starters and the substitutes is still quite large.

But the facts are set, and Lin Xing can only compete with Barkley, Kemp, and Malone according to the league's ideas.

In fact, when it comes to competition, the competition for the center position is the biggest these days.

Don't look at the center alone, but in the East, there are three famous names competing for the starting lineup-Sharks, Gorillas and Kidney Fighter Mourning.

In the west, there are also three well-known names competing for the starting lineup-Dream, Admiral and African Dashan.

This is not counting Brad Doherty and Vlad Divac, who are also popular.

In the early 90s, it was a prosperous center.

The most intuitive manifestation of the prosperity of the center is——

The regular season has been going on for a month, and the scoring average is on the list:
Shark ranked first, Admiral second, Dameng third, Gorilla fourth, and Lin Xing, who averaged 25.7 points per game, ranked fifth.

And the ones in front of him, coincidentally, are the four major centers.

"When Jordan retired, this league became a league ruled by the four major centers."

……

Lin Xing sighed with emotion, and continued on the road with his warriors.

On December 12, they ushered in a challenge from the Indiana Pacers at home.

The Pacers at this time are already Reggie Miller's team.

But at this time, Reggie Miller has not really become famous.

He hasn't played that series of masterpieces that will be remembered by future generations, he hasn't been praised by Pat Riley as "like Jordan", and he hasn't pushed Jordan away and completed the lore.

But at this point, on the court, he was already an arrogant, audacious shooter.

In this game, he has been provoking the madman who defended him.

The provocative madman moved more and more, but he still scored 5 three-pointers and scored 28 points under the defense of the madman.

On the other side, Lin Xing encountered strict defense, because the head coach of the Pacers is Larry Brown.

Although it has been criticized, Larry Brown's accomplishments in defense are beyond doubt.

He saw through at a glance that the Warriors' offense relies on Lin Xing to disrupt the defensive formation, and then others steal chickens.

For Lin Xing's defense, others may have a headache: You can't defend against him alone, but if you defend against him and your teammates, how can you defend against him?

But for Larry Brown, guarding the forest star couldn't be easier.

He used Sam Mitchell, who was not slow, to keep up with Lin Xing, and then used Rick Schmitz and Dale Davis to protect the frame in turn.

It sounds like it's no different from other teams, but in fact, Sam Mitchell's defense is very different.

He didn't seek to stare at Lin Xing head-on, he just wanted to be able to follow in Lin Xing's footsteps.

Anyway, Lin Xing can't shoot in the middle distance. When he gets to the basket, Schmitz or Dale Davis can resist the front.

Mitchell can choose to cooperate with the inside line to kill Lin Xing, or he can choose to defend the Warriors' center.

In short, if you don't let Lin Xing's three-pointer go, the mid-range pressure will be a little bit, and when they get to the basket, they can defend alone or in a pinch depending on the situation.

With this kind of defensive strategy, there will be no risk of missing people on both sides. Facing Lin Xing head-on, it also has a certain clamping effect.

Thus, Lin Xing played the most uncomfortable game of his career.

His hit rate is not high, only 22 of 9 shots;
The score is not high, relying on a three-pointer and 5 free throws, scored 24 points;
The assists are not high, only 7, because the opponent didn't give much space at all;

The only thing that is very high is rebounds, 12, plus 3 steals and 1 block.

From the overall data, it seems to be acceptable.

The Warriors lost the game because their tactical system was broken, and because Reggie Miller was accurate and drove his teammates.

"Just over [-]% hit rate, it's not like you, Si Da, I heard that Tim took you out for tea, isn't it..."

Although the game was lost, there was still talking and laughing in the locker room.

After all, this is just a regular season, and it's too normal to lose one or two games.

It was team assistant Sydney Moncrief who made fun of Lin Xing, and only Old Nelson's group of tough guy assistants from the 80s dared to make fun of Lin Xing.

Facing the senior's teasing, Lin Xing was anxious: "No! Don't talk nonsense, Sydney, I don't have one."

"there is nothing?"

"Played, didn't score?"

"Hahaha……"

When Lin Xing was in a hurry, more people made fun of him in the locker room, and then there was a joke about Anthony Mason, which caused the audience to burst into laughter.

Lin Xing spread his hands helplessly, did not score?Don't say it's true.

He and Xiaochong went out to have fun this time, so they really played and didn't score.

Therefore, in this game, he stretched his hips a little bit more than before, not because he went out to drink tea.

It can only be said that he encountered a problem.

After the game, Lin Xing asked Tim Glover to add a set of special mid-range shots to him.

Although his style and characteristics are similar to Ben Simmons, his personality is completely opposite.

Now that he knew that CIC's weakness was fatal, Lin Xing decided: practice hard to the end!
Even after a lot of hard training, with little effect in the end, he still has to practice.

Hard training represents a correct attitude.

……

On December 12, the Warriors played another game against the Nuggets.

In the away game, the host coach Dan Issel did not learn from Larry Brown in the previous game.

Therefore, even though there are African mountains on the inside, Lin Xing is still normal.

18投9中的命中率刚过五成，得到25分8个篮板8个助攻2个抢断，带队击败了掘金。

Then on December 12, at home, the Warriors ushered in a door-to-door challenge from the Mavericks.

Facing the Mavericks, who were no different from the beginning of the season, Lin Xing felt refreshed.

全场20投12中，掠下29分10个篮板8个助攻2个抢断1个盖帽。

After the Warriors lost to the Pacers, they started the winning streak again.

On December 12, after two games with no gimmicks, the Warriors finally ushered in another "focus battle".

The Minnesota Timberwolves came to challenge. Before the game, the media began to hype the deal at the draft.

Lin Xing's unique performance now has caused Jack McCloskey to be pulled out again for various whipping corpses.

But at this stage of the season, Sean Bradley slowly found the feeling.

In these few games in December, Bradley still averaged 12 points, 14.4 rebounds and a rookie-first 7.9 blocks per game.

This made Jack McCloskey hardened a lot. Before the game, he was still stubborn:

"Sean's performance is indeed not as good as Star's, but he has found his way of playing. If you give him more time, I believe he can become a better player than Star. He is a center, and his position is determined. He will be the ruler on the basketball court.

And don't forget, we also got as many as three first-rounders from the Warriors, as well as Billy. He hasn't come back because of injuries, but I believe that as a No. 91 pick in [-], as long as he comes back, he will be able to play his value. "

Of course, Billy Owens did not come back, and the next three first rounds are far from being fulfilled.

Sean Bradley is the only one who needs to prove himself in this game.

But Da Bairuan was not able to prove himself, on the contrary, he was detained by Lin Xing again.

In a certain round of the game, Lin Xing quickly passed Christian Laettner, who was defending him, and went to the basket in one step.

Sean Bradley came straight up, and he wouldn't have come up.

But because before the game, general manager Jack McCloskey and head coach Sidney Lowe had been brainwashing him.

It made him feel that as long as he wasn't afraid of confrontation, Lin Xing was nothing.

As a result, with a bang, Lin Xing dunked the ball into the basket directly across from him.

After the dunk, the Oakland stadium went completely crazy.

"Another death button! The victim is still Sean Bradley, which is brilliant!"

"This is Star University, and this is the gold content of this season's slam dunk contest!"

In the commentary seat, Matt Gudica is also blowing.

Although the fans in front of the TV had question marks on their faces:
Hasn't the dunk contest started yet?

But soon, they reacted:

Doesn't this mean that Lin Xing has already booked the championship of the slam dunk contest?

So, after this game——

Sean Bradley lost his confidence by Lin Xing again.

And, the saying that Lin Xing has already booked the slam dunk contest championship spread like wildfire.

After the victory over the Timberwolves, the Warriors ushered in a wave of three consecutive victories.

In these three victories, the opponents did not learn from the Pacers' targeted marking of Lin Xing.

This gave Lin Xing another illusion that CIC's problem didn't seem that big.

As a result, on December 12, the Warriors fought the Phoenix Suns again.

Barkley made a comeback. Before his comeback, he hated Lin Xing so much.

Originally, he planned to fight against the Warriors after his comeback, and he would give Lin Xing a hard time.

At least let Lin Xing know that Barkley is not so easy to mess with.

After that, there was a big incident in which Lin Xing defeated the Knicks gang in one-on-four at the Oakland Stadium.

Barkley was intimidated again. He felt that basketball should be used to solve matters on the basketball court.

So in this game, the sun came prepared.

Paul Westphal referred to Larry Brown's strategy of defending Lin Xing, and he continued to use Barkley to stare Lin Xing to death.

But it's not staring at death head-on, but following the defense to put pressure.

If it is given to the inside, it will be played by Oliver Miller or AC Green.

In this way, Lin Xing encountered Waterloo again.

这场比赛，他19投仅有8中，只得到22分，并且只有7个篮板8个助攻3个抢断入账。

Lin Xing was locked up, and the Warriors lost another game, the fifth loss of the season.

"CIC, it's really urgent."

If there is a mid-range shot, in terms of the Suns' defensive strategy in this game, he will just step over and make a mid-range shot, and all problems will be solved.

It is because there is no CIC that the problem becomes complicated.

So, after the game, Lin Xing increased the amount of CIC practice.

At this time, he no longer expects to fight and grab a high-quality mid-range shot.

What he thinks now is to practice as much as possible by himself.

Then use the bloody value to add points, and add it to about 70.

A CIC of around 70 is almost enough to deal with it first.

But the premise is still that he has to practice by himself first, until he can see the CIC attribute in the system attribute bar.

And this is a very long process.

On the 15th, the Warriors played an away game against the Kings. They won a big victory and got back on track.

On the 17th, facing the Blazers, they won another victory.

Immediately after the back-to-back battles on the 18th, facing the Supersonics, the Warriors lost.

On the one hand, the back-to-back physical exhaustion and the failure of the pitchers on the outside make it impossible to win this game.

On the other hand, the Sonics are not weak this season.

In terms of the regular season alone, they even played better than the Rockets. It is normal to win a back-to-back Warriors.

And so it was, the sixth loss of the season.

Lin Xing and Xiao Chong were also on the sidelines of the Key Arena, and heard Gary Payton's taunting:
"As I said earlier, the preseason games don't mean much. In the real regular season, the two of you together are no match for me. This game proves it."

Regarding this, Lin Xing and Xiao Chong gritted their teeth, unable to refute.

It was Lin Xing who replied first: "Don't be too embarrassing, Gary, there are still two matches in the regular season!"

Xiao Chong followed closely: "That's right, there are still two games left in the regular season!"

Lin Xing immediately added: "Even if the regular season is over, there are still playoffs!"

Xiao Chong still followed Lin Xing closely: "That's right, it's still too early to tell the winner!"

Peyton smiled as a winner: "Well, I will wait for your challenge!"

After losing to the Sonics, the Warriors returned home, defeated the Blazers, and broke the 76ers.

Then, they ushered in a real focus battle-Christmas battle!
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