the great gatsby

Chapter 7 Training Match

Gatsby was chatting with Chris Duhon when he saw a fat man who was seriously overweight entering the arena. He recognized Eddie Curry and quickly greeted Eddie Curry with a smile: "Hey, Eddie, I'm Gatsby, nice to meet you."

Eddie Curry raised his eyelids and looked at Gatsby lightly, with a disapproving smile on his face: "Wow! Our Hollywood actor, are you here for a fan meeting? This is a basketball training facility."

Gatsby's smile faltered. In his previous life, he heard that Eddie Curry's IQ was not up to standard. He didn't expect his EQ to be so low. Anyway, he is also a member of the Knicks. unacceptable.

Chris Duhon next to him hurriedly smoothed things over: "Hey, Eddie, this is our little brother, take care of him more in the future."

After all, Du Hong was the starting point guard in the team. Eddie Curry did not want to offend him. He snorted and turned away. Du Hong comforted Gatsby and said: "Gatsby, don't worry, Eddie has always been like this, just get used to it." .”

Gatsby and Du Hong thanked him: "Chris, thank you."

Du Hong smiled and patted Gatsby's shoulder. He still had a good impression of this young man. Although he didn't know how he played the ball, he was handsome and well-spoken. The key was that he respected him very much.

Gatsby didn't take it seriously, and it would be a fool to care about people like Eddie Curry. During Thomas' coaching period, Eddie Curry actually achieved very good statistics, but after Randolph arrived, Eddie Curry The data here plummeted, and lost confidence.

Last season, he was plagued by various obesity syndromes such as back injuries, shoulder injuries, knee injuries, and inexplicable vomiting. As the Knicks' sub-maximum salary player, Curry only played three regular season games.

According to Gatsby's memory, Eddie Curry played seven regular season games this season, and then was sent to the Timberwolves by the Knicks, and was directly bought out by the Timberwolves. Gatsby didn't even bother to make a good relationship with the players.

The players are basically all here, and D'Antoni and the assistant coach also arrived at the arena. D'Antoni first encouraged the morale of the players, and then began to fight in groups.

D'Antoni put Larry Hughes, Eddie Curry, Al Harrington, Wilson Chandler, and Chris Duhon into one group. This is D'Antoni's envisioned starting lineup, and then the other group is big Wei Li, Danilo Gallinelli, Darko Milicic, Nate Robinson and Jordan Hill, this group is the regular rotation lineup he envisions.

As for Tony Douglas and Gatsby, they could only sit down and watch the game, waiting for D'Antoni to rotate and the team training game to start.

This is the first time that Gatsby watched an NBA player's game at close range. After a long summer, the physical condition of the players has declined to varying degrees, but the physical fitness they showed still made Gatsby praise him—as expected Be the top 400 basketball players in the world!

His physical fitness is amazing, but his coordination is a bit terrible. Except for Chris Duhon and Chandler, the rest of the starting lineup have just been put into the starting lineup. There is basically no tacit understanding, but it is still passable. After all, there are mostly veterans, and Chris After all, Duhong is a point guard who averages 5.6 assists per game. Although he is not a top point guard, he still has the ability to control the court.

The rotation lineup is ugly. Nate Robinson is a very good breakthrough player, but his organizational skills are too poor. If you want him to organize the entire team, it will be too difficult for him.

After playing for about half a quarter, the starting lineup led the rotation by about 10 points. D'Antoni replaced Nate Robinson and went to Gatsby. The starting side replaced Chris Duhon and played Douglas.

Both Douglas and Gatsby were rookies. He was selected by the Los Angeles Lakers with the 1th overall pick in the first round, becoming the first guard from Florida State University to be selected in the first round after Bob Sura, followed by the New York Knicks. Douglas was acquired by the Douglas for a second-round pick and $29 million in cash.

Douglas was very active as soon as he came on the court. As a rookie, he was eager to perform in front of the coach. The Knicks now have three rookies on this team, one for him, one for Gatsby, one for Jordan Hill, and one for Jordan Hill. The treatment is better than that of him and Gatesby. After all, Jordan Hill was selected by the Knicks with the No. 28 pick in the first round, and he was the [-]th pick in the first round. Gatsby is simply an undrafted pick!

So he wanted to take Gatsby's knife from the very beginning. The NBA is so realistic. You have to fight for the opportunity to stand out in every position. eliminated.

The backcourt ball from one side of the rotation lineup, Gatsby received David Lee's serve, and as soon as he received the ball, Douglas rushed to oppress him, trying to force him to make mistakes with oppressive defense. After a summer of suffering, Gatsby After training, his body has become much stronger, but it still seems difficult to move forward in the face of Douglas' oppression.

Although Tony Douglas is only 188cm tall, he weighs 86KG. He is much stronger than Gatsby. Fortunately, Gatsby has rich experience in the game. He barely passed halftime by using the width of the court. D'Antoni nodded slightly. Gatsby Looks thin, but the experience looks pretty good.

Gatsby did not hand over the ball hastily after halftime. Now Milicic is the oldest in this lineup, but seriously lacks confidence. David Lee has a sharp inside offense, but facing Chandler and Eddie Curry's inside advantage is not great, Gallinelli is only a sophomore, not to mention Jordan Hill is a rookie, so Gatsby wanted to cooperate to organize his teammates, he stretched out his hand to signal David Lee to come up High pick and roll.

D'Antoni nodded approvingly again, let's not talk about anything else, at least this young man has some ideas. He dared to instruct the old players to move in the first team training. In a way, he met the requirements of a point guard. Wei didn't even dare to command his teammates, so how could he be expected to control the whole situation.

David Lee is a mild-tempered kid from a rich family. He didn't care about a rookie's command, so he hurried up and helped Gatsby block Douglas. Gatsby just stepped forward and passed Douglas. Chandler could only Release David Lee to block Gatsby's breakthrough route.

Gatsby dribbled another step to the side, widening the distance from Chandler and making room for himself to pass the ball. As soon as David Lee blocked, Gatsby flicked the ball to the ground, and the basketball Cleverly hitting the ground from Chandler's crotch directly to David Lee's hand, David Lee was a little dazed, he went down just to give Gatsby a breakthrough, but Gatsby passed the ball directly into his hands!
David Lee was stunned but kept on walking. After years of training, NBA players' bodies have already had the conditioned reflex ability to make layups directly.

"Strike!" D'Antoni clapped his hands and shouted, although he didn't know that Gatsby was just a blind cat meeting a dead mouse, or had this ability, but it was a strike, wasn't it?

(End of this chapter)