NBA: The man who passed the ball to Yao Ming

An hour later, the rocket bus arrived at the Hilton Hotel in downtown New Orleans.

Hilton Hotel is an official partner of the NBA and almost takes care of the accommodation for all away games of the NBA team.

When the bus stopped, Van Gundy stood up and announced loudly: "Everyone, we will rest this afternoon, and the time is at your disposal. At 8:[-] tomorrow morning, we will gather at the entrance of the hotel after breakfast, and go to the arena for training together." .”

There was a burst of cheers in the car.

"Great!"

"Long live Coach Van Gundy."

A group of players rushed out of the car happily.

Zhang Jinshui deliberately did not get up, and waited until Yao Ming, who was sitting in the last row, also got off the bus, then stood up, walked up to Van Gundy and Dawson, and asked, "Coach, if I want to train this afternoon, is there a venue? "

"Of course, are you questioning my logistics support capability by asking this?" Dawson asked deliberately with a straight face.

Knowing that Dawson was joking with him, Zhang Jinshui spread his hands and said helplessly, "I don't mean that. If you insist on checking in, I can't help it."

Dawson laughed loudly, and shouted: "Haier, wait for Zhang Jinshui to register in the room, you bring two sparring partners, and go to our training ground with him."

A thin young man sitting next to the driver stood up, nodded and said, "Okay, Mr. Dawson."

Then he turned to Zhang Jinshui and said, "Zhang Jinshui, come with me."

After Zhang Jinshui got out of the car with Haier, Van Gundy looked at his back and said with relief: "The training attitude determines the outcome of the game. This kid looks more and more pleasing to the eye."

"Ha!" Dawson laughed exaggeratedly, and said, "Who would have thought that Coach Van Gundy, who has always been known for his distrust of rookies in the NBA, would be so full of praise for a rookie? The world has really changed too fast. "

Van Gundy smiled and said: "Facts have proved that distrust of newcomers is just a prejudice against me. Dawson, I want to congratulate you. You should be the best manager in the NBA this year."

"Then why not? I exchanged the soon-to-retire Bob Sura for the No. 11 pick, and then selected Zhang Jinshui, the most powerful contender for the Rookie of the Year. My operation is simply miraculous."

Dawson looked terrified, and then said: "But rather than winning the best manager, I hope you can get the best coach of this year."

The implication of Dawson's words is self-evident. The best coaches usually come from the two or three teams with the best record in the league.

"Do your best and obey the destiny." Van Gundy sighed and said:

"The team doctor told me just now that McGrady felt a little tightness in his back after getting up this morning. He made a preliminary assessment and suggested that McGrady rest for one or two games and continue to observe for a period of time."

Dawson's face suddenly changed: "The season has just started, McGrady won't have a recurrence of his back injury, will he?"

"It's not as serious as you think. I asked McGrady just now. He thought he was ok and wanted to play. But I thought about it and decided to let him take a rest. After all, he will play his old club Magic in the next game. He'll keep playing even if he's injured."

Dawson's expression softened, and he asked, "What about the game against the Hornets? Are you planning to include Zhang Jinshui in the starting lineup?"

"No, let him play as a substitute." Van Gundy shook his head.

"Wouldn't McGrady be allowed to start when he was injured? He played so well in the last game, and Chris Paul and Deron Williams, who are in the same class as him, have already started. If he still plays as a substitute , Do you have negative thoughts?" Dawson had a faint worry on his face.

"If we were just an ordinary mid-range team, I would consider putting him in the starting lineup to let him feel that we have cultivated and valued him.

But since our goal is the playoffs and beyond, and I am cultivating him as the Rockets' third tactical core besides Yao Mai, we must put him on the bench first. Staggering the time with Yao Ming, on the other hand, is also training his ability to lead the team alone.

Don't worry, I will talk to him about my thoughts tomorrow."

"Well, I hope he can understand your good intentions." Dawson nodded and said.

Van Gundy laughed and said, "I'm not worried about that. Zhao Jinshui's understanding of the basketball game is much deeper than you think. I believe he can understand and agree with me."

After checking in the hotel room and putting down his luggage, Zhang Jinshui ate lunch and went to the training ground with Haier and two other Rockets sparring partners.

The training venue was the basketball gymnasium of a local middle school. When Zhang Jinshui and the others arrived at the school, just before class in the afternoon, a group of middle school students gathered around the entrance of the arena to watch.

After seeing Zhang Jinshui get off the car, more than half of the students could call out his name enthusiastically. Zhang Jinshui also smiled and waved to them.

Passing through the crowd and entering the arena, there are no idle people. It is obvious that the school has cleared the arena.

Zhang Jinshui did a brief warm-up, and then immediately entered the state, starting the training of dribbling and shooting.

After undergoing the devil's special training before the start of the season, Zhang Jinshui's various attribute and ability values ​​have been very solid, generally reaching more than 70, and the room for improvement through training is almost zero.

However, Zhang Jinshui still likes training very much.

Now he regards training more as a sense of form, which is used to remind himself at all times that he still needs to work hard and not be satisfied with the status quo.

And he has another purpose for coming to training today, which is to study the player growth system in combination with training, and see which attributes still have room for improvement through training.

After being fed the ball by the two training partners for an hour, Zhang Jinshui asked them to take a break, sat on the sidelines himself, and summoned the player growth system with his mind.

A translucent blue fluorescent screen appeared in front of my eyes, and all the values ​​on the [Personal Attributes] panel remained unchanged from the previous comparison.

Zhang Jinshui clicked on the [Attribute Growth] interface again. The progress bar of each attribute was like a slowly crawling tortoise, and there was no hope of upgrading in the short term.

It seems that the only hope is to complete the system tasks to obtain the attribute points to be assigned.

It's just that the vast majority of those tasks are based on the achievement of one or several data as the task completion condition, and Zhang Jinshui has always been a player who puts winning first in the game.

But without brushing the data, it seems that many tasks are difficult to complete.

Zhang Jinshui gave a wry smile, and casually clicked on the [Mission Achievement] interface.

"Ding dong!" The metallic system sound suddenly rang in my ears: "Because the host has already started to compete in the NBA main game, the nba series of missions have been triggered."

Zhang Jinshui was refreshed, and hurriedly pulled down the task list to the bottom.

Sure enough, there are more than a dozen new tasks:

A total of 1 NBA game wins.

A total of 5 NBA game wins.

A total of 15 NBA game wins.

A total of 30 NBA game wins.

......

Obtained five consecutive victories in the NBA race.

Won [-] consecutive victories in the NBA race.

Won [-] consecutive victories in the NBA race.

......

Win more than 50 games in a single season.

Win more than 60 games in a single season.

......

After reading it, Zhang Jinshui was overjoyed. These tasks are much simpler than the data tasks, and they are also very consistent with his game philosophy of putting victory first.

"Wait a minute, didn't we already beat the Kings yesterday? Then the task of [winning an NBA game] has been completed?"

Zhang Jinshui was thinking in his heart when he heard a "ding dong", and the metallic system sound rang in his ears again.