godfather in black

Chapter 122 124: Paoding Jie Niu

124: Paodingjieniu

The Los Angeles Lakers have arrived in Dallas. Tomorrow is the day of the game. They are training in a rented university gymnasium, but there are many reporters at the entrance of this university gymnasium. They all want to know about the preparations for the Lakers before the game. Condition.Don Nelson said very calmly in an interview: "Although we have experienced a losing streak in the away game, I believe we will eventually come back. Although the opponent is very strong, we are ready to fight to the death."

Dallas Mavericks star Michael Finley said: "We have been eliminated by the Spurs for several years. We don't want to do this again this year. We must win the Los Angeles Lakers. Our goal is the championship."

The head star of the Mavericks, Dirk Nowitzki is very confident in the result of the game. He said bluntly, "It's not like we haven't won consecutive victories. The current total score is only 2-0. Look at you. It seems that we have been eliminated!"

The results of the Mavericks' up-and-down games are still very optimistic. In the first two games, it was not because of their poor performance that they lost the game, but because the Lakers played too well. The problem is not with them. They are very confident.As long as you play better, you can win the opponent.Don Nelson refused to accept Qin Tao's taunts. The Mavericks players did not want to be eliminated early, and Dallas was very active in preparing for the game.

And what about the Lakers?They prepared quite easily, and they did not put all their minds on the series against the Mavericks. On the first day of Dallas, they also practiced their offensive tactics against the Suns.Qin Tao was going to start adjusting tactics in the fourth game. The third game was the opponent's last struggle before death and had to be taken seriously. In the fourth game, they should have almost collapsed.

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Today's training ended, Qin Tao took a few photos and stood in the locker room.The photos are all of Dallas, but a few of them are of cattle. "Hey! Brothers, did you see it? This is Dallas, this is the Dallas cow, how is it, isn't it good!" As he spoke, he yelled like a bull, which immediately caused the players on the field to roar with laughter.

"It's not like learning! Why don't you come and learn from Lamar?" Qin Tao pointed to Odom who was smiling the most.

"No, no, boss, you continue." Odom waved his hands hurriedly while suppressing a smile.

Qin Tao ignored Odom and went on to say: "Look at these cows, the muscle lines are clear! If we beat the opponent the day after tomorrow, sweep them and send them home, we will play in Dallas for a day before going back. How about it?"

Qin Tao's decision was greeted with cheers from the players. He pressed his hands down, made a "quiet" gesture, and continued: "But if you don't finish sweeping your vacation, it will be cancelled. Alright, let's go back to the hotel now!" When you go out to play tonight, come back before eleven o'clock, and I don't want to see anyone tomorrow looking like he was drained by a woman."

After he announced these things, he walked out of the locker room. Outside the university gymnasium, the players were surrounded by many reporters. Although Qin Tao attracted enough firepower in front, these reporters still did not give up their plans to interview the Lakers players.

"Hey! Bryant, you are already leading 2-0, have you ever thought about sweeping your opponent?" A reporter asked Kobe Bryant.

"Sweep? This is a must." Bryant made a simple answer, and then he got rid of the reporter and boarded the bus first.The reporters didn't pay attention to Kobe's arrogant answer. In their subconscious, Kobe should be such a person, and then they pulled Chris Webber.This is very calm after experiencing a knee injury. The reporters didn't think he would be as arrogant as Kobe, but his answer once again exceeded the expectations of the reporters, "Sweep, thank you!!!"

"My God! Have all the people in Los Angeles changed their sex recently?" The reporters couldn't believe it, and they pulled Kwame Brown again. This is a good boy.Brown was still a little cautious when surrounded by reporters, and the reporters thought: "Your answer should be normal this time!" But Brown's answer once again made the reporters stunned. Such a "good boy" actually said the same thing. He made bold words to sweep away his opponent, even though his tone was still a bit reserved.Then unbelieving reporters grabbed Fisher, who was the calmest of the Lakers, but the answer they got was still, "It must be swept, and a loss is a failure." This time, the reporters simply gave up on continuing to interview the Lakers players. Plan, the lonely Butler and Lamar Odom, who has never been upright, what special things do you expect them to say?Do not make jokes.

The reporters immediately surrounded Qin Tao, "Mr. Qin, your players are very confident in sweeping their opponents, where does their confidence come from?" Some people couldn't wait to throw out this question.

Qin Tao, who was still talking nonsense before, replied with a smile on his face without hesitation: "I don't know if you know the story of Pao Ding Jie Niu? There was a butcher in China. So he heals cattle fast and his knives are never blunt." He finished the story with a smile, and the reporters suddenly realized.It turns out that the Chinese in front of him has gone crazy to this point!
"Aren't you afraid that you will end up shooting yourself in the foot if you talk too much?" the reporter in Dallas said dissatisfied.

"I don't know why, as long as I face Dallas, I am so confident. I am the Pao Ding in the previous story. Dallas is just a dying cow. Send away Steve Nash, the real core, and build a new one. Soft German, Cuban's head was smashed by a chicken leg! What is there to be afraid of such a team?" This is not the first time that Qin Tao praised Steve Nash in front of the media. The media in Dallas Everyone knows that this is a stupid deal, he is completely adding salt to the wounds of the Mavericks!
"My players are waiting for me, gentlemen, I won't accompany you anymore." After speaking, Qin Tao turned around and jumped into the car, leaving a group of reporters in a daze.For Qin Tao's performance before the game, the American media gave mixed reviews.The media headed by the Los Angeles media believed that Qin Tao brought a fresh atmosphere to Los Angeles, and the players were very confident.A group of people led by the Dallas media believed that Qin Tao's arrogance would be punished in the end, and that the Mavericks, which ranked fifth in the Western Conference, were definitely not something that could be easily resolved.The great Dallas Mavericks will teach Qin Tao and his Lakers a lesson.

Before the game, the media in Dallas scolded Qin Tao, but Qin Tao didn't care about it at all. What he wanted was for the team to win and pass the test. What did the media say had anything to do with him?The sales volume of those newspapers is high, and the TV ratings are high, will he be given a penny?The role of the media in his eyes is just a way to throw ridicule at opponents.

Of course, in Qin Tao's arrogant remarks, some Chinese media also looked at this matter in another way. As the first coach to land in the NBA, as the first Chinese coach to lead a team to participate in the playoffs, Qin Tao's reputation in China Not low.Although he has not had much contact with the Chinese side, his popularity in China is not low. Many people call on him to become the head coach of the Chinese national team, and some Chinese media have asked him such questions. For the Chinese media He basically laughed off the questions.

For Chinese fans, there are not many loyal fans of the Dallas Mavericks. Most of their analogies to Qin Tao Pao Ding Jie Niu are very interesting, just interesting, nothing more.And Qin Tao didn't pay attention to the media's comments on his arrogant statement sweeping the opponents. As long as the team can concentrate on preparing for the game, there will be no problem. As for the others, it has nothing to do with him.

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In the blink of an eye, another peaceful night passed.In the morning, Qin Tao had breakfast in the lobby of the hotel. He sat in a corner of the lobby, and the other players gathered together to chat and eat breakfast. He was completely free from the tension he felt before the big battle.The Mavericks will have a back-to-back home game tonight, no one wants to be swept away easily, but inside the Lakers, none of the players showed any difference, everything was the same.Easy training, easy preparation, easy competition...

"Qin, why are you doing this?" Qin Tao was watching the players gnaw on the bread, and Brown-Shaw sat down opposite him with a newspaper.

"What's the matter, Brown?" Qin Tao asked after taking a sip of milk.

Brown-Shaw put the dinner plate on the table, and handed Qin Tao a piece of the latest Dallas basketball newspaper. On it was a photo of Qin Tao arrogantly announcing that he would sweep the Dallas Mavericks, and then the entire page was accusing Qin Tao, Said he was too arrogant. "That's it! There's no need to ignore them. These people are trolls in China, so there's nothing worth caring about." Qin Tao seemed very indifferent, "Brown, try this sauerkraut, it's really good!"

"Don't you feel a lot of pressure like this? You have resisted the pressure of the entire team by yourself, and they say you are teaching bad players!" Brown-Shaw was still arguing for Qin Tao.

"Okay! It's okay, it's just stress, it's almost the same as during the college entrance examination!" Qin Tao said indifferently, eating bread.

Brown-Shaw asked suspiciously: "The college entrance examination? What is that?"

"The product of China's deformed education system, let's not talk about it." Qin Tao put the newspaper aside and said, "Don't worry! Brown, what does it matter if they say that I am a Satan with horns on my head? I'm actually an angel with wings on my back."

"Haha!" Brown-Shaw said with a smile, "You still have the mood to joke, but if we meet Phoenix or even San Antonio later, will you still have the time to joke?"

"Hehe! Brown, let's eat! We have to practice after we finish the meal. Before today's game, we will refuse all media interviews and let Don Nelson mess around by himself! Tonight's game will not be that easy! "

"Yeah!" Brown nodded, quickly cleaned up the food on the dinner plate, and the Lakers started the last training session before the third game of the first round of the Western Conference playoffs.

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The Lakers' training session was completely closed today, which made the media very dissatisfied. They clamored that Qin Tao was obstructing the freedom of the press, but they didn't interview anyone on the Lakers team, including the team's bus driver.

The reporters couldn't interview the Los Angeles Lakers, so they naturally turned their attention to their opponent, the Dallas Mavericks. Don Nelson didn't say anything angry when he was surrounded by the media. At this time, he also knew that it would be pointless to spit on Qin Tao again. This will actually increase the psychological pressure on the team. Only by leading the team to defeat can Qin Tao be slapped hard.As long as Qin Tao is defeated, the shitty remarks of that hateful Chinese will naturally become a tool used by the media to ridicule him.

(End of this chapter)