legendary basketball guard

Chapter 71 Thomas and His Story

Lin Xiao nodded quietly.

Isaiah Thomas continued: "My teammate, Bill Laimbeer, always told me that someone was going to play the villain, and we were willing to play the villain. We didn't run away. If your job is not trying to make everyone like you, but What about knocking down guys that everyone loves?"

"I don't know." Lin Xiao thought for a while. In which era, he was not born yet, but he had also heard of the cruel competition and the intensity of physical confrontation during that time.

"In the cruelest era, we are the cruelest force. Funny? Right?" Isaiah Thomas showed his signature smile.Lin Xiao felt that this smile was very charming, just like his nickname, Smiling Assassin.Always able to deliver a fatal blow.

Lin Xiao shook his head.Isaiah Thomas goes on about him and the Bad Boys Legion

"There are only a few of us who like it, and most of us don't like it. We like to say one thing, video, and we never lie. Once upon a time, this was the richest city in the United States. When I was born, it was the time of riots. '1981s, you know, most of our team was born during the turmoil years, and our neighbors would disappear at any moment, and since then, it's basically been like that, each of us for food, we fight. Yeah , It’s such cruelty.” Isaiah Thomas paused, pondered for a while, and continued: “Before I came here, there was no team culture here, and everyone who came here would think about how to leave. In [-], I was drafted by the Pistons. I didn't want to go there at all. I just wanted to go back to my Chicago and the Bulls."

"I was doing badly on purpose, just like you, but when I got on the court, I was going to play hard. In the first game, I scored 31 points. It was an open goal, but For Detroit fans, it's been a long time coming, it's like magic, right?" Isaiah Thomas said with a laugh.

"In the second game, I went back to Chicago, my hometown, and the crowd here loved me and applauded me, but I couldn't come back, and I scored 28 points. It was a very difficult choice, but I will not Show mercy. I was also confused. When the team continued to slump in the first season, I couldn't sit still, and I scolded them in the locker room."

"Sir, won't you fight like that?" Lin Xiao seemed to feel that he had asked a very stupid question.

"No, none of them dared to stand up. At that time, they were all softies. They couldn't accept my toughness. Even though our outside line can score high points, our inside line is too weak. In the first season, We didn't even make it to the playoffs. The second season, a big hooligan, villain came here. Bill Laimbeer, he's not as bad as you think, he's a good guy. Me and him carry completely different things Coming here, but we're all one of a kind, we all want something, and that's winning."

"I asked him why you came here. One person may be because of desire, another may be because of wanting. But the desire to compete is the same." Lin Xiao suddenly remembered the comment made by a former reporter of the Detroit News in his autobiography He two.

"We hate losing, we can't stand losing, our team is obsessed with winning, we are terrified of losing, we just want to win. Lambiel said that he was willing to kill me for me to win, in fact he Did that too. We ended up with the title, didn't we?"

Don't be fooled by that smile, behind a bright smile is often a very, very tough guy.

"Daddy Chuck is here, and we are getting better and better. In 1984, I was selected for the first team and was the assist king. We also entered the playoffs as we wished, and then we were educated by Bird for several years. At that time, his state Excellent, we were just scared of him, his jump shot was called the silent death by my aunt, it was hilarious, they were too strong, we lost the game. Then we came to Joe Dumars, he always used his own way to play. He was upset with us and we got into a fight with him when we first came, lol”

"We all cherish our work. We also traded for Rick Mahon. This guy had a big fight with us when he first arrived, and then he was honest. We became a team and Lambiel told him you need Defense and rebounding, Rick Mahon asked him who the fuck you are, and then we got into a fight. But we were on the court, it was the same tight-knit team, and Vinnie Johnson was traded later, really Great, John Sally, he's a character that doesn't fit us, we both fought each other, and Rodman, this guy, we push each other up. When we all grow up, we beat that goddamn elf (Kay I don't know what kind of injury my ankle suffered in that game, it was like entering a fantasy space, but for the last ball, Lambiel was still close to fouling A long distance, I don't know how to blow it, maybe he pushed 200 people in front of him, and the referee decided that he fouled."

"And your boss, Mr. Jordan, he grows too fast. I found a way to deal with him when we lost once. When he single-handedly forced him to go to the middle, the middle was forced to the left, and then the nearest player Double-team him and make him pay for every score."

"The incident that followed brought our team together. We made it to the Finals again. We swept the Lakers 4-0. We won the championship. When they left the field, we kept on Ask each other? Have we won? Are we world champions?"

"Rodman's performance has grown beyond our expectations. James Worthy was a mess under his defense. We ended the game in our own way. The second year, Mahon's performance and the efforts of his teammates, we again Standing on top of the world. Just like that we did it, we were TM world champions. Did you ask me that was cool? Yes, it was cool, we were a team. That's who we were. Then we couldn't stop Jordan and his team , the end of our bad boys corps is coming. The whole team fell apart and when I realized that it all fell apart, at the age of 32, I ran out of ammo and I gave my all to I have nothing left of this team."

"This is my story, thank you for listening." Isaiah Thomas patted Lin Xiao on the shoulder and stood up. It was already around one o'clock in the morning.

Lin Xiao returned to the hotel with the story of Isaiah Thomas and fell into a deep sleep.

(End of this chapter)