I'm really not a superstar

Chapter 89 American bumpkins and Eastern culture
The schedule for the China-US men's basketball warm-up match is very tight.

5月26日晚，孟菲斯老虎队抵达粤州，之后要在5月28日、30日以及6月1日，在粤东省三座不同的城市打三场比赛。

In this regard, the University of Memphis has objections, because one game every two days, the schedule is a bit dense for college players.And I have to endure the exhaustion of traveling in a foreign country, coupled with jet lag, it is really hard.

However, the starting point of the competition organizers is to maximize economic benefits. The competition schedule is lengthened, and board and lodging, travel, venues, and organization and operation all need money!
As for the Chinese team, they are also happy to see the results.

Since mid-March, the national team has started two months of closed training.The content of the training is mainly to restore and reserve physical fitness, and the game against the University of Memphis opened the prelude to the Olympic warm-up match, announcing that the Chinese men's basketball team has officially entered the actual combat stage in preparing for the Olympics.

The Basketball Association and the national team certainly hope to make a good start for the Olympic preparations with victory.Especially when the three major centers Yao Ming, Yi Jianlian, and Wang Zhizhi are absent due to injuries, and the team is dominated by young players and draft players, facing the new NCAA champions, they are even more willing to take advantage of the schedule.

But this is a pain for the young people of the Memphis Tigers.

A group of tall men about 2 meters long curled up in the economy class for more than 20 hours. Even a quasi-champion like Derek Rose didn't have any privileges to speak of.

I got off the plane in the early morning and arrived at the hotel after 1 o'clock in the middle of the night, but I was lying on the bed without any sleepiness, because according to the time difference, it is noon in Memphis, which is when they are most lively, so each of them can only "Flapcakes" tossed and turned on the bed.

When the sun was rising, I finally closed my eyes.The door of the room was knocked again.

I saw that Joey Dorsey, like a "debt collector", quarreled everyone and clamored to invite the whole team to have morning tea.

"Joy, you're crazy!"

"I heard that drinking tea affects sleep, I already have insomnia, okay?"

"I'm so sleepy, I need to sleep!"

"#&%$!"

……

But Dorsey didn't think he was disobedient at all, instead he was lively and full of energy.

"Come to East Guangdong, how can you not have morning tea? Isn't that the same as if you went to Disney and didn't take a photo with Mickey Mouse?"

"Why sleep? Now the sun is drying your ass! If you sleep at this time, the jet lag will never be adjusted!"

"CD, you old hat, morning tea is not just tea! It's breakfast, all kinds of delicious food!"

……

Under Dorsey's harassment, no one in the team wanted to sleep, and was dragged by him to "sigh for morning tea".

"Tan" means enjoyment in Cantonese, and "Tan morning tea" is the most important social dining activity for people in eastern Guangdong.There is a saying that you will never wake up a Cantonese who pretends to be asleep, unless you invite him to enjoy morning tea.

Dorsey led everyone to Huirulou, a century-old brand.

Although Dorsey made a lot of trouble, he actually didn't know much about the morning tea culture in eastern Guangdong, because he was a northerner in his previous life, and he was a good man when he drank alcohol, but he was far behind when he drank tea.

But it doesn't matter, Dorsey now has the "money ability".

Can't order food?Then do it all!As for the "two pieces in one pot" and "three packs and five points", what are you kidding, they are all strong men over 2 meters long, and they are not enough to fit between their teeth!

So, Tieguanyin, Oolong, Puer, and Dahongpao were soaked, and all kinds of barbecued pork buns, rice rolls, thin-skinned shrimp dumplings, Cantonese-style chicken feet, pork belly, beef balls, dry steamed siu mai, beef dry steamed, milk yellow Buns, lotus paste buns, mille-feuille cakes, coconut milk cakes, glutinous rice chicken, fresh shrimp intestines, mung bean syrup, shrimp and mushroom salt water corners, spring rolls with shredded chicken with silver sprouts, cold melon soup balls, barbecued pork buns in honey sauce, fish slippery stuffed tip Pepper, Chaozhou steamed rice noodles, Hakka glutinous rice cakes, chrysanthemum dace fish balls, lotus leaf rice, crab roe wonton noodles...all are on the table.

This time, the group of bumpkins in the team can "pull their ass with a knife-open their eyes"!

The big guys stopped being sleepy, and all of them stared wide-eyed, staring at this sumptuous gluttonous feast in astonishment.

"Joy, this breakfast is too rich!" Robert Dozier said in a huff.

Dorsey curled his lips, looking down on the old hat, and cursed: "Where is this? The Chinese food culture is extensive and profound. This is just the breakfast of Cantonese cuisine. There are also Shandong cuisine, Sichuan cuisine, Jiangsu cuisine, Fujian cuisine, and so on. Zhejiang cuisine, Hunan cuisine, Anhui cuisine, Huaiyang cuisine! Have you heard of the Manchurian Banquet? Steamed lamb, steamed bear paw, roasted duck, roasted chick, roasted goose... There are too many, let me tell you this, in Guangdong Province, Except for airplanes that fly in the sky, and tables that run on four legs, there is nothing that Cantonese people don’t eat!"

In one word, the people at the University of Memphis were amazed and ashamed. When I thought that apart from bread and butter, I ate steaks and hamburgers every day, and at most I added some barbecue and salad. !

Everyone turned grief and indignation into food, and started to feast on it.What you eat is called a wind and clouds, and the sun and the moon are dark!

The other diners in the teahouse couldn't help but look sideways when they saw the group of big black men eating like crazy.There were even whispered commentators, "Tsk tsk, looking at the food, I guess he just escaped from Africa. It's too miserable. It's been a long time since I've had enough to eat!"

"Joy, how did you know there would be so many delicious ones?" Will Kemp held a Cantonese-style chicken feet in one hand, and a barbecued pork bun in the other hand, chewing pee beef balls in his mouth, vaguely asked.

"Nonsense, how many times have I told you that I am a Chinese!"

As a result, the whole team was forced to cancel the scheduled field training during the day because they ate too much.

Not only Chinese food, but also everything about this mysterious ancient oriental country made this group of Memphis players who had never seen the world feel fresh.

The crowds here are turbulent and bustling, but they are orderly and very safe;

There are not only row upon row of modern skyscrapers, but also many ancient buildings with a history of hundreds of thousands of years;

The white-collar workers here are in a hurry, but the old men and women who practice Tai Chi and dance in the park not far away have a particularly leisurely pace of life;

There is a lot of traffic on the roads here, and there are many high-end luxury vehicles that are hard to see in the United States, but the team of electric vehicles and bicycles beside the road is even larger.

Even the TV shows are amazing.

The silly Dozier asked Dorsey with a gloomy face during dinner: "Do the Chinese know kung fu? Does it count as a foul when they play basketball?"

Dorsey wondered, why did you say that?

Dozier said that when he was watching TV, he saw a TV series called "Basketball Fire", in which Chinese players could jump and dunk from outside the three-point line!

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In the evening, the whole team conducted the only warm-up training before the game.

The domestic media are very interested in this new NCAA champion.

Various media came to the scene to film the team's training.In this regard, the University of Memphis cooperated very well, not only opening the whole training process to the media, but also meeting the interview requirements.

Head coach Calipari and this year's top pick Derrick Rose are naturally the targets of the media.

Joey Dorsey also received some media attention, but not because of basketball competition.

As a member of the "Iron Triangle", everyone in China generally regards him as a third-in-command like Dennis Rodman, a supporting role behind Ross and CD Roberts.

No way, the information these days is far less developed than later generations. Although the domestic media has done a little homework, knows the title of "Memphis Iron Triangle", and has seen the team's technical statistics in the NCAA, it is natural that Dorsey, who has the worst statistics, I want to be a 3 supporting role.

If it is just the third head of an NCAA team, everyone will not be particularly interested, but Dorsey's other identity is very attractive, that is, "Chinese boy"!
However, everyone looked left and right, no matter how you look at it, this big black man does not seem to be of Chinese descent.

"Dorsey, do you really have Chinese blood?" a reporter asked in English.

Unexpectedly, the big black man in front of him replied in Mandarin with an abnormal standard and even a little northern accent, "Of course, my grandmother is Chinese! So the blood of a Chinese man is flowing in my body!"

"..."

This sudden answer made the reporter a little confused, and he didn't know how to answer the question for a while.

"Uh, then would you like to have news that you are representing the Chinese team?"

"Of course, wearing a jersey embroidered with the five-star red flag is a childhood dream of mine!"

"..."

The reporter was even more confused.Although you have 1/8 Chinese blood, you still have 7/8 American blood!As a black player who was born under the Stars and Stripes and grew up in a capitalist country, shouldn't his childhood dream be to join the NBA and join the Dream Team?
The reporter felt that his mind was a little messed up, so he decided to talk about another topic.

"What's your vision for tomorrow's game?"

"I will go all out, show my best form, and strive to beat the Chinese team!"

"Why? Don't you want to join this team?" The reporter felt that he caught a huge loophole in Dorsey's words.

"Hey, only by defeating them will they realize my talent and ability, and truly realize my value. I will use my strength and performance to open the door to the Chinese national team!"

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PS: The new book is on the shelves, begging for everyone's support

(End of this chapter)