super small forward

Chapter 178 178. This is a hand-to-hand fight

Thackeray will tell you his father, Greg LaFleur Thackeray, was a strongback for the NFL Eagles?Specially use the big body to block the attack of the opponent's close forward?He will tell you that his mother, Leslie Thackeray, was the first Canadian female basketball player to enter the WNBA when the WNBA was first formed?Have a place in women's basketball with a soft touch?
Thackeray inherited his father's big body and mother's soft touch, but at the same time he also inherited his father's lack of explosive power and his mother's poor jumping.

Since his parents are both role players in the NFL and WNBA, Thackeray has no shortcuts to enter the NBA, and no one pays attention to him. His parents really have nothing to teach him in basketball. Teach him to make his body stronger.

Thackeray's ability to stay on the team after being selected by the Lakers is also due to his ubiquitous vitality, which can infect his teammates.

Fortunately, it was Thackeray himself who seized the opportunity for Green to rest for three or four months due to injury, and what is different from Liu Ren's memory is that Thackeray now has Whiteside, a good teacher and helpful friend, to teach him defense, and Gaso on the offensive end Will also practiced against him from time to time, so he learned some low-post offensive skills, gradually gained a foothold in the Lakers, and it is not impossible to continue to develop as a high-quality role player!
Coupled with the huge popularity brought by the All-Star selection this time, the Lakers are ready to give Thackeray a long-term contract.

Was forced to eat by Thackeray!

Howard felt his face was hot, and his face was so embarrassing!

It’s true that Thackeray is the starter of this year’s All-Star, but even those who voted for Thackeray know that this is a complete accident. Thackeray’s real strength is just a role player, who only plays 10 minutes per game. kind.

The fans at the scene cheered loudly. From time to time, some people shouted loudly and mocked Howard. Some people even scratched the board that originally said "I love Kobe" with a pen, and wrote that Thackeray is greater than Howard.

Of course Howard couldn't bear it, and continued to ask for the ball to play singles!
Without much resistance, Thackeray was unsurprisingly dunked again by the irascible Howard.

But Thackeray was not discouraged. Nash said that if he was detained, he would fight back!

In Howard's restless oppressive defense, Thackeray inserted his left foot between Howard's legs, picked up the ball, turned left and ducked under Howard's constantly waving left arm, and lifted it up. Right hand underhanded layup!

At the same time, Howard patted Thackeray's head and was fouled by the referee!

Thackeray beat Howard to score 2+1!

Excited, Thackeray had a chest-bumping celebration with Liu Ren, who had just jumped straight out of the bottom line and didn't even have time to jump.

Liu Ren was also happy, if he didn't make up the buckle, he didn't make up the buckle, it's still very cool to watch Howard's furious look up close!
Howard ran directly to the referee and yelled loudly: "He walked! He must have walked!"

Howard didn't believe that the stupid big man who used him as a substitute last season could beat him by force. How could Thackeray, who had always been a stupid big man in his mind, have such good footsteps?

Since Howard never relied on his footsteps in his playing, because he couldn't practice it, he didn't believe that Thackeray had practiced his footsteps in less than a year, and he believed that Thackeray was walking.

But the referee saw it clearly just now, until the ball left Thackeray's hand, his left foot was inserted between Howard's legs like a nail board, and the referee waved his hands to make Howard prepare to attack.

The referees didn't like Howard in the first place, and he was ready to give a technical foul if Howard pestered him again.

In the 10-11 season, after the league gave referees more freedom to whistle technical fouls, it was exposed that the referee association reached an agreement against Howard and did not give Howard a star whistle. Howard was sent off 6 times from time to time in those two years.

There was a lot of trouble about this incident, because Howard was too fond of provoking the referee. Once the penalty was not satisfactory to him, he would yell at the referee. Later, after the referee got the freedom to whistle technical fouls, Howard replaced Lashi for a while. De Wallace is low in the technical foul world. .

At this time, the big screen gave a replay, which can be said to swell Howard's face. The ball just now was just like what the referee saw. Thackeray's ball was a good ball!
This ball can only be blamed on Howard for being too anxious and irritable, and was played by the opponent!

Thackeray stood on the free throw line and made the free throw steadily.

This year, Thackeray has made great progress in shooting. In more than half a year, it has improved more than that of Liu Ren's memories of Thackeray, who played as a fake main player for two years since the 13-14 season!
The reason is very simple. Although the Thackeray in Liu Ren's memory signed a three-year contract, he knew that he was only used to make up the numbers during the Lakers' poor performance, so his vitality is his vitality. He has always had nothing to do. Thinking about playing, he knows that like other second-round picks, he will not be able to stay in the NBA for a few years. The average career life span of NBA second-round picks is less than 3 years.

But Thackeray in Liu Ren's life is completely different. The Lakers are so strong, he can have a stable playing time, and he can play almost one quarter in each game!
Having a stable playing time in a strong team is completely different from playing a false main force in a bad team. The Lakers' goal is undoubtedly the championship. Thackeray's aggressiveness is fully stimulated and he trains hard. After studying hard, he has a good touch talent and slowly developed his shooting ability. Of course, he still mainly focuses on shooting under the basket.

Howard felt offended and continued to single Thackeray!Fight hard!

Thackeray was not afraid at all, and in turn fought desperately!

Who would have thought before the game that the game between the Rockets and the Lakers would become Howard and Thackeray?
The game between the Lakers and the Rockets is very high-profile. No matter which of the top four teams in the West has the possibility of entering the finals, even the Heat in the East gathered to watch this game.

"When did Robert have this inside skill?" James, who has a good relationship with the Lakers, subconsciously glanced at his center Birdman Anderson and Haslem, and was speechless. His center is not as good as the Lakers' towel man.

In this way, Howard and Thackeray collided with muscles and sweat for a few minutes. Both of them had a terribly high success rate. If he didn't make it, Liu Ren's chance came, and he directly pressed Howard to make a dunk, which made Howard even angrier and continued to play singles.

Nash watched Howard and Thackeray both start to gasp, so he looked at D'Antoni.

D'Antoni made an OK gesture, and then put his hands together.

Nash nodded and compared the No. 1 tactic to his teammates.

(End of this chapter)