You should cross the mountains like a brave man

Chapter 201

After the game in Utah, the Lakers returned to Los Angeles the next day, and they will welcome two opponents at home.

One is the Timberwolves from Minnesota, and the other is the Bobcats from Charlotte.

Before the game against the Timberwolves, something happened that made the Lakers' hearts fluctuate.

The Lakers arrived at the Toyota Center on time for practice as usual.

Because it was a game day, they just played small games to ensure that they had enough energy to deal with strong opponents at night.

Well, the Timberwolves are not a strong enemy, but the Lakers don't have the capital to watch people eat. They didn't make the playoffs last season, and they were considered a weak team before the start of the season.

Wei Xia got on the bus early as usual.

He greeted the Lakers bus driver, "Good evening, Sammy."

"Do you really have obsessive-compulsive disorder? Every time you are the second to get in the car." The driver joked.

One more thing, the first person on the bus is always Kobe.He wants to prove that he is the most important person in the team, so being the first on the bus is a ceremonial proof.

Wei Xia chose the second bus not to prove that he has the ambition to squeeze Odom into the third child, but because he doesn't want to squeeze with other people.

Come early and feel at ease.

By the way, the name of the Lakers' bus driver is very interesting. He has the same name as the actor in "Taxi Express".

His name is Samy Naceri (Samy Naceri). He has been the bus driver of the Lakers since 1999. He has a cheerful personality and can chat with anyone. Because of his special name, everyone likes to make fun of him.

Moreover, "Taxi Express" is one of Weixia's favorite series of movies.What he likes is not the plot or the male protagonist, but the female protagonist in it, nicknamed the French Mei Ting Marion Cotillard. Her naked body inside makes Wei Xia surge with countless male hormones.

And in that blooming season when he was less than 1 meters tall, he swore to his brothers and sisters: "I will marry this woman back home one day!"

As for now, he is no longer interested in marrying Cotillard home.Because she often reveals three points in movies, as long as there are conditions, men in any part of the world can see her privacy.Wei Xia couldn't accept this.

That's right, the reason she didn't marry Cotillard back home was not the real technical problem of how to marry her back home, but "she took off".And just like that, the dream of bringing Cotillard home vanished like the childhood aspirations of those kids who dream of growing up to be scientists and pilots.

After that, Wei Xia's teammates got on the car one after another.

Vaughan Weaver sat next to him, and Bynum occupied the seat of two people alone. He was indeed too big, and no one wanted to squeeze in with him.

"I have a dream - I want to dunk on KG's head!" Weaver said boldly, "If I have a chance to play later, I will let KG know how good I am!"

Smash Parker said disdainfully: "Stop blowing it, after seeing KG, you probably can't even pronounce the F sound of FU/CK, so you will stop playing."

"Woo, why did you expose me?" Weaver cried sadly.

His acting skills are bad enough, but it is these impromptu performances that allow him to enjoy himself in front of every teammate and every coach.

Talking to people like this, talking shit to hell, even talking shit with shit classmates, you have to analyze why your emotional intelligence is so stinky today, it's worth learning from Bynum, who doesn't look down on others except Kobe and Wei Xia.

Unlike Kobe, Phil Jackson was always the last to get in the car.

Kobe competed to be the first.

Jackson's selection of the last entry seems to be for some kind of indescribable sense of ritual.

He seemed to prove that everything was under control.

Today, after he got in the car, he greeted the driver in a rare way, "Sami, how are you doing?"

"Very good, coach." The driver replied with a smile.

"Is the family okay?" Jackson asked with a little incomprehensible smile on his face.

The driver replied as usual: "Everything is fine."

"Well, I have something to tell you," Jackson said.

The driver looked at Zen Master.

"You're fired, Sammy."

Jackson's tone was so relaxed that he seemed to say, "You look good." The driver hesitated for a few seconds before reacting to Zen Master's words.

He was, fired?

The nice driver thought he had misheard. Jackson was joking, right?
"What?" the driver asked with a stiff smile.

"You got fired, Sammy, and it was a tough decision," Jackson said.

The bus, which was still a little idle, was completely silent.

The driver was in a state of confusion and didn't know where to place his hands on the steering wheel. He was fired?Jackson wasn't joking, he was serious.How should he deal with himself and where should he go?He didn't know, he didn't know what to do next.

"Your salary today, the club will send you as usual, please get out of the car now."

Jackson, who had greeted him just now, had changed into a ruthless face, and did not give the driver a chance to take pictures or ask why.

The new driver is ready, his name is Claude Brialy, and the biggest difference between him and Sami Nassely is that they are completely different.

Nassari likes to laugh, he has a sullen face, and even the self-introduction is full of compulsion. He doesn't care that there are a bunch of millionaires in his car, he looks like a driver in the army.The tone of his voice made one imagine him saying "Yes, sir" with a serious face.

Moreover, his name is Claude?Hell, his parents probably thought the French name was funny, but in France, 10 out of 5 male actors are called Claude, and the other 5 who aren't named Claude may have 1 or 2 real names called Claude.

Uninteresting names, uninteresting people.

10 Claudes are not worth one Sami.

The dismissal of Nassari is undoubtedly Jackson's personal act, and he has enough rights to do it.

What is puzzling is, why would he do this?
Nassari is just the driver and he has a good relationship with everyone.It can be found that the atmosphere on the bus is declining rapidly, which is the aftermath of Nassari's public dismissal.

If Jackson had done this silently behind his back, and had chosen an appropriate time to announce it, there would never have been such a negative reaction.

There was no way he didn't know how it would react, but he did it anyway.

After finishing, he also hoped that everything would remain as usual, so that everyone would not doubt, worry, or be curious—how could it be possible?
Nassari may be a friend of a certain player, but he doesn't even bother to explain.He sat silently, with unchallenged authority, what a complicated person, what a despot with a sense of distance.

Until today, Weisha was convinced that he and Phil Jackson would never be able to establish a friendship like high school coach Greg Donner and college coach Jay Wright.

Weaver looked around until he met Weisha's eyes, each seeing the anxiety in the other's eyes.

Yes, they're still wondering about Nassari's firing.

They even felt a little sorry and sad for the driver's departure.

Later, Tony Kukoc, a veteran of the team and who has followed Zen Master for many years, shared a story about him and Zen Master in the Bulls.

Almost exactly the same as today.

Zen master fired a staff member who had played for the Bulls for many years without any reason. He made no mistakes, but Zen master just publicly announced that he was fired and let him go immediately.

Why did he do that?

Kukoc, the Zen master’s old subordinate, still doesn’t understand, “It’s impossible for us to understand Phil’s thoughts, maybe that’s his purpose, he just doesn’t want us to understand what he’s doing.”

Fortunately, Wei Xia is not the only channel for Kukoc, and later he got the answer from Jim Bass.

Sam Nassari is the eyeliner placed by Buss Jr. on the team.

In fact, it is a bit strange to say that he is an eyeliner. He just regularly reports the team's situation to the people around Bass.

In 1998, Buss Jr. had just taken over part of the work of the Lakers. There was nothing, no foundation, no one, and without his father's support, he was nothing in the team.So he arranged for Nassari before the Zen master entered the Lakers.

Regarding the earliest internal situation of the Lakers, he learned about it through Nassari.

Later, as time went by, although Bass didn't do much work, he had more and more people under him, and there were more and more ways to get news. Since 2001, Nassali was just an ordinary driver, and even Bass almost forgot his existence.

Although Wei Xia learned some inside information through many channels, he still didn't understand Jackson's purpose.

Perhaps what Kukoc said is the truth, what Jackson wants is that they can't understand, can't understand.

Think about how he described the triangle offense?

philosophy.

He even described a mere basketball tactical system as a philosophy.

Didn't he know that saying that would make people feel dizzy?It is impossible for him not to know, maybe that is his purpose, he just wants you not to know.

Jackson's sacking of Nassari disrupted the team's morale, and Kevin Garnett put up a DPOY-level defense that night against the Timberwolves.

He allowed Kobe to score only 20 points.

Do you think Kobe scored another 30 points with 20 shots?No, Kobe scored 56 points on 20 percent shooting.

This is why it is said that Garnett's defense is great.

Kobe's hand feeling was very good, but the Minnesota's defense with Garnett as the axis left him with no chance to shoot. He made 16 of 9 shots in the game. Although he scored a quasi-triple double with 8 rebounds and 9 assists through passing, he met the Wolves with amazing defensive performance and explosive touch. He made 16 of 12 shots and 5 of 4 three-pointers.

113 is better than 108
The Lakers ushered in their first loss in December with a 5-point gap.

(End of this chapter)