Basketball K God

Chapter 67 Winning can solve all problems

Xie Kai performed well, but he was not happy at all.You must know that most of your playing time is in garbage time.A young man who loves basketball and has a strong sense of competition, in the garbage time when the outcome is no longer in suspense, no matter how good his performance is, his training will be compromised.

Losing is not terrible. What is terrible is that you are often bloodbathed by your opponents and beaten to garbage time, which makes people see no hope.

After the game, when the reporter interviewed Xie Kai and asked him what he thought about his outstanding performance in this game, Xie Kai replied seriously: "We lost, so no matter how good my performance is, it doesn't make much sense. Victory is the only thing that matters. It is the most important thing, I hope we can end the losing streak as soon as possible when we return to the home court!"

The locker room of the visiting team after the game was very quiet, except for the sound of tidying up things, no one spoke.The Kings have lost 4 games in a row, and their performance made the general manager Geoff Pate, who had made rhetoric about the playoffs before the season, lose face. He no longer accepts media interviews easily.

Fortunately, the 4 consecutive away games are over. Next, the Kings will return to the home court and usher in 4 consecutive home games.

Flying back to Sacramento from Philadelphia, Xie Kai felt a little tired.Consecutive away games, fatigue is only a small part of the reason, the main reason is because of the loss.

An NBA legend once said: "Winning can solve all problems!" Although this statement is too absolute, it conveys a very correct point of view: in competitive sports, results can often cover up or solve many problems.Of course a team can lose, and then try to fight for the No. [-] pick, but that must be in the second half of the season, when there is no hope of competing for the playoffs.The league will not allow a team to play badly. If it is bad at the beginning of the season, the fans of this team will probably be gone.

Without the support of the fans, the team's tickets cannot be sold, season tickets are not wanted, peripheral products are not interested, stadium advertising merchants look down on them, and the value of the team continues to shrink.This is a vicious circle, and no small city team with a poor market value has a high market value.

The Kings' first regular season victory is likely to come, and no one on the team can give a clear answer.

Back in Sacramento, Xie Kai felt a long-lost feeling.I went out for almost a week, but came back here with a 4-game losing streak.As a competitor, he felt ashamed to face the fans in Saskatchewan.

On November 11, in the training hall of the Kings, the team conducted a training session.The intensity of training is not great, because there will be a home game against the Memphis Grizzlies the next day.

Xie Kai has joined this team for more than two months, and now he is very familiar with his teammates, but the team really has a good relationship with him, and only the veteran Bobby Jackson and the rookie Jason thompson.

Bobby Jackson spent most of his career with the Kings.The golden period of his career was with the Kings.In the 2002-03 season, he won the honor of "Best Sixth Man".

Today's Bobby Jackson has reached the end of his career. This time he was packaged and traded with Xie Kai to the most brilliant team in his career.

For the rookie Xie Kai, Bobby Jackson still likes it very much.The two were destined, and they were packaged and traded from the Rockets to the Kings together.Xie Kai is humble, trains hard and works hard on the field without being alone. He appreciates it very much.

After all, Bobby Jackson is the old man of the king. He has been in the league for so long, knows a lot, and has a certain status in the world.He was in the king, but no one dared to yell at him, even if he was just a substitute.

"Kane, I can't help you with defense. My defense has not been very good. But I still have some experience in offense. I see that you run a lot on the off-ball side, and you have your own moves, but Sometimes you run too much, even if you can run out of opportunities, the person holding the ball may not be able to see it, nor may they be able to pass it." Bobby Jackson coached Xie Kai on the training ground.He is quite happy to support this Asian rookie. He is absolutely sure that this rookie has great potential, but he is underestimated because of his race.

Of course Xie Kai understood Bobby Jackson's reminder. If you put it more directly, it would be - you don't have a tactical position, so don't run around.Another sentence is that the ball-handlers of the Kings' bench lineup are still not up to the ability to quickly find open teammates and conduct the ball in a wide range.

He's not afraid to blackmail himself, and he's never been a defender known for his passing.The reason why he is more suitable to play the sixth man is also because his scoring ability is better than his organizational ability.

"I see, thank you, Bobby, for reminding me of this!" Xie Kai said sincerely.

The training atmosphere of the Kings is still very good, and everyone is holding back their energy, wanting to end this embarrassing losing streak in the next home game.

Xie Kai also has a relationship with the Grizzlies. In the draft in June this year, the Grizzlies selected him with the 6th pick in the first round.But who would have thought that they quickly traded him to the Rockets after they selected him, and he was traded with the 28th pick in the first round, his teammate Darrell Arthur at the University of Kansas.

Arthur was traded to the Grizzlies, but got a chance.In the past 3 games, he has won the opportunity to start, and he has performed well, and he seems to be the team's biggest potential stock at the 4th position.

The Grizzlies only won 22 wins last season, ranking third from the bottom in the West, and missed the playoffs.But this also allowed them to get the No. 3 pick. After they selected Love, they got the NCAA's top shooting guard OJ Mayo through a trade.

Strictly speaking, both teams are now rebuilding teams.But in comparison, the Grizzlies' lineup is much, much better in terms of potential and talent.The following string of names is enough to illustrate the talent of this team.

Marc Gasol, the younger brother of Pau Gasol, a defensive center, has an eye-catching performance in the Olympics and landed in the NBA this year; Mike Conley, the No. 4 pick last year, has a solid style of play and a backcourt commander; Rudy Gay, 2006 The No. 8 pick in 20.1, the best rookie team of the year, averaged 6.2+2+4 last season; OJ Mayo, one of the favorites in this year's No. 2006 pick, NCAA's first shooting guard; Darrell Arthur, No. 24 Potential stock, has the potential of a rebounding madman; backup point guard Kyle Lowry, the No. 2005 pick in 19, big ass, can shoot suddenly, has great potential; Hakeem Warrick, No. [-] pick in [-], Nicknamed "Helicopter", he is physically fit.

Of course, in addition to the above-mentioned talented men, there are also players with mediocre potential such as the No. 2003 pick in [-], Dakomilicic, and Iranian center Haddadi.

(End of this chapter)