After the confession failed, I went to the NBA to play and lose weight

Chapter 44 Advertising, Benches, and the Media
In the third quarter, the Wizards relied on Butler's outburst to overtake the score. The Magic's offense was blocked and they only scored 14 points in a single quarter. Van Gundy still only glanced at Li Chengming and said nothing.

In fact, the Magic did not have a problem playing, but suddenly they couldn't score. Especially since Bogans had so many three-point opportunities, he didn't score a single one, and he really dared to shoot.

Li Chengming played in the middle of the field and ran back and forth for more than three minutes. He wanted to call me the ball and I wanted to go home.

As for the Wizards, no matter how inaccurate their three stars are, they dare not let it go lightly, because they don't know when it will explode, and it is uncomfortable for only one of them to explode.

Van Gundy also felt that it was his own problem, and he needed to change his strategy, because today they clearly had the advantage inside. In the third quarter, he arranged a tactic to attract a pincer and then give the outside three-point opportunities.

In the fourth quarter, they finally returned to their normal rhythm. Turkoglu's control was obviously much more stable than Nelson's. Lewis scored and Howard grabbed the rebound. , won the game without any risk.

The Wizards are not a weak team, so winning or losing is actually reasonable, but the original downwind situation was almost overturned, and the coaches and players obviously need to work together.

As for Li Chengming, he went up and back and ran in the first quarter, followed the blame on the court in the third quarter, and was not on the court in the final chasing points. Even if he won, he would inevitably feel depressed.

After the game, the domestic media came up to interview him. He tried his best to deal with it. Fortunately, he didn't ask any annoying questions, otherwise he was afraid that he would really be unable to hold back.

After all, what does it mean for young people to be vigorous if they are not young?

After playing against the Wizards, there were two days of rest, and the team naturally had a holiday. Li Chengming didn't rest when he returned home, but it wasn't training, but the Coke company came to shoot an advertisement.

Well, although he didn't have much chance to play or perform during this period, as a rare oriental face in the NBA, his existence itself has value.

And let alone, Li's father told him that domestic fans still have high hopes for him, and there are more or less driven and guided by those media people.

Anyway, this is not because Li Chengming has no strength, but because he is not given time and cannot perform well.

The same is true for SkyEase, and these media seem to have formed a tacit understanding on this point.

In fact, as early as Dayao's time, relevant domestic media people had the habit of speaking for their own players. Anyway, if they opened their mouths, it was because Dayao tried his best, and the loss was not his fault.

Now when it comes to Kongkongyi and Li Chengming, there is another reason. Kongkongyi's coach doesn't arrange tactics for him, and his teammates don't pass him the ball, or deliberately pass him difficult balls.

Li Chengming's case was even more outrageous here, and it even came out that he was discriminated against.

I was discriminated against, why didn't I know?
In fact, it's not that Li Chengming hasn't thought about whether his lack of opportunities to play is the reason for being discriminated against.

He had only vaguely heard about it before, but the magazines he likes to read, such as "Yi Lin" and "Reader", often boasted about foreign countries, which made him a little confused.

And after coming here in person, of course there are good ones, like Howard and the others can get along well, and the McGilton family is also a very good neighbor, and there are many enthusiastic fans.

But as early as in the summer league, Li Chengming once saw someone holding a bad slogan. The other party probably thought he didn't know English, and he was still smug.

As for Redick, who played the summer league together and has a good relationship, Li Chengming can also feel that he is discriminatory in his bones, but they are very separated from individuals and groups, that is, "I discriminate against Chinese people, but you are my friend".

Of course, I think about this kind of thought too much, and I feel that I am making excuses for myself. To put it bluntly, if I really want to be as powerful as Dayao, no matter how discriminated against, I dare not suppress it casually, right?

"The advertisement this time is very simple..."

Coke's advertisement is just like the drink itself, it has no connotation, and never pursues any connotation, it just needs to achieve the effect.

Anyway, everyone drank it for that refreshment, including Li Chengming himself, who regarded it as "happy water".

There is nothing to say about the shooting of commercials, because Li Chengming's acting skills are unfamiliar and he has no sense of camera, so it took more than half a day to shoot the originally short commercial.

After that, this advertisement will naturally be placed in Asia. After all, Li Chengming is a small person in the United States, and it is not worth the extravagance. Besides, this is the original content of the contract. They want to put Li Chengming here in the United States. But every word is accurate.

Then another day off, and the next day there was another game.

In the game against the Timberwolves, Li Chengming played another 7 minutes in the intermission. He only scored 2 points and 1 rebounds on 4 of 2 shots, and made one turnover.

But this time it's a back-to-back two-way trip, first going to Minnesota, and then "going abroad", going to Toronto to play against the Raptors.

In fact, there were two NBA teams in Canada before, but the Grizzlies moved from Vancouver to Memphis, Tennessee in 01, and now there is only the Raptors left.

There are many Chinese in Toronto, especially foreign students, so Li Chengming saw many young and friendly faces holding signs at the scene, and Li Chengming also received a very enthusiastic response when he waved.

Perhaps because of the back-to-back relationship, Van Gundy gave Li Chengming more opportunities to play this time. He played at the end of the first quarter, the beginning of the second quarter, the third quarter and the substitute stage of the fourth quarter, accumulating 11 minutes. He made all 4 shots, one three-pointer and two free throws, for a total of 11 points.

Unexpectedly, a task was easily completed.

There is actually no pressure on the Magic in this game. Although the Raptors are not big, but Bargnani + Bosh's inside line, it is a dream to limit Howard.

"Dragon King" Bosh is also a player in the 03 class, but compared with James, Anthony and Wade, his achievements and exposure are too far apart.

He is a face-up player, and he is considered the best among the new generation of power forwards, but if he hadn't used the home whistle to knock Howard off the field in the first quarter and had 14 free throw opportunities, the statistics would not be as good as Barney's. How good is Yani.

As the No. 06 pick in 18, Bargnani is even more soft and slender. This is a model of truly floating outside. Few of the 7 shots were restricted, and there were 3 [-]-point shots. The hit rate Of course it was miserable.

It is difficult for Howard to limit the post-up of a traditional center like Dayao, but he is not afraid of these face-up breakthroughs or floating shots, as long as his athletic ability can keep up with timely interference.

However, there was also a problem that he could not return to defend and collect rebounds in time after being dragged out. Li Chengming played with him for 3 minutes, so he took the opportunity to pick up two rebounds and directly used his body to block Bosh behind him. Can't move at all.

It was finally considered a good game, and Li Chengming was in a much happier mood. When he was interviewed after the game, he was also full of red and happy events.

Although Li Chengming is still far from being able to play well, as the three Chinese who are currently working hard in the NBA, it must be the focus of tens of millions of domestic fans.

To put it bluntly, the country now urgently needs to be recognized by the outside world in all aspects, especially the weaker the more so.

But another day later, at Madison Square Garden in New York, against the Knicks, Li Chengming didn't even get a chance to play. He almost made him think that his poor performance on the court made the coach dissatisfied.

In fact, Li Chengming really wanted to play in this game. After all, although the Knicks are a well-known bad team, New York is a big city, and Madison Square is also considered a "basketball mecca". Great performance in "The Big Scene".

Of course, Li Chengming is no exception, he still has the dream of "Fight to Fame".

But today is destined not to have Li Chengming's role. The Magic won a wave of four consecutive victories, and four of the five starters scored 20+. Howard even scored a double 20. Nelson also had 10 assists. Obviously, they are all excited.

Bogans missed 5 of 1 three-pointers today. Li Chengming was really reluctant to go up and replace him. He felt that he would not miss so many shots.

In fact, the players on the Knicks side are not weak, Eddie Curry, Randolph, Marbury, Quentin Richardson, Crawford, as well as small potatoes, David Lee, etc. People, just looking at the data, everyone is doing well, it doesn't matter whether the game wins or loses.

In other words, just attack and don't defend at all, so it's a ghost to win.

But Li Chengming looked at them and even felt envious for a moment. After all, if he was given a chance, he would be able to get a good stat, but if he couldn't win at that time, he would also feel very uncomfortable.

There is no such thing as the best of both worlds...

After these few games, Li Chengming is the marginal player of the team, and with this status and possession of the ball, there is no need to talk about performance, because he has not been given many opportunities at all.

The domestic media were still looking forward to Li Chengming's performance. After all, after the preseason, Li Chengming's performance became better and better. In the last game, he didn't have much chance to perform because of the lack of playing time.

At first, I thought that the head coach was satisfied with him after the inspection. After the start of the regular season, he would get more opportunities, but I didn't expect that after these few games, Li Chengming could only pick up single-digit playing time. This inevitably makes people feel a little disappointed.

On the contrary, the fans of the UAE started to tremble at this time. Although the situation of the UAE didn't look much better, it was still much better than Li Chengming's side, at least the playing time was guaranteed.

　Make a transition, don't worry, the fun will start right away!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)