I'm king in the basket

Chapter 232 St. Margaery's Night
There aren't many answers to the question of who the Raptors' best shooter is.

Li Xing, who basically has no three-point ability, can be excluded. DeRozan, who averages 0.6 three-pointers per game, can also be excluded. Tony Allen, who "I don't know much about offense", can also exclude this option.

Therefore, the scope narrowed all of a sudden. If you really want to find a shooter, you can only choose from these two people, Bargnani and Calderon.

One thing must be clear, the Raptors are one of the worst three-point shooting teams in the league.

Therefore, shooters are very precious to them.

Flaws are always exposed one after another. Last season, there were no qualified backup guards and no reliable small forwards. This season, their shooters are as rare as rare.

For a team centered on the interior, if there is no shooter, the containment power of the interior cannot be maximized.

A dominant inside line can involve the opponent's entire defense line, forcing the opponent to double-team himself, thus creating comfortable opportunities for the shooter to catch and shoot.

Without a reliable shooter, opponents will double-team the paint without fear.

Calderon and Bargnani are the only ones on the Raptors' outside perimeter who will fuck their opponents up if they get the ball.

It's also a simple matter of choosing a shooter between the two.

Calderon averages 2.3 three-pointers per game, and hits about one goal (the result after rounding, the real number of goals is 1); Bargnani stands out here, unique, with an average of five three-pointers per game , can hit 0.8 goals.

Raptors team's first shooter, Bargnani deserved.

His value is not just shooting. In terms of position, he is a power forward. His shooting range can help Li Xing open up space, give him a comfortable low attack area, and his superb shooting skills make him the team's second offensive point.

A seven-footer who shoots professionally like Bargnani is one of the few in history.

In the nearly 20 years of the Raptors' team history, there has only been one Bargnani.

The secret of the velociraptor interspersed in it, because no seven-footer has ever served as the team's musketeer, so this secret has never been discovered.

This secret does not mean that the flaw of the Swift Dragon's penetration was discovered, but that the discovery made it possible to make this ancestral tactic a step further.

This detail can only be seen by an elder like Bargnani, and others do not have this vision.

Snyder pondered as Bargnani laid out his findings rigorously, illustrating the scalability and sustainability of the play.

Li Xing stood aside, speechless.

He is usually just a supporter of Swift Dragon Crossing. He cannot see the content of the entire tactic. Bargnani has to play Swift Dragon Crossing more than a dozen times in every game. He knows the core of this tactic better than anyone else.

Although this guy is usually very unreliable, maybe this time he is right.

Snyder said to Li Xing: "Larch, you go first."

Before leaving, Li Xing patted Bargnani on the shoulder as encouragement, and then walked out of the coach's office.

"What happened? Is the coach unhappy with you?"

Evans couldn't believe that Snyder was so strict. Li Xing had already performed so well, so what's not to like?
Li Xing didn't say anything, just looked at the office intentionally or unintentionally: "It's nothing, by the way, do you have any arrangements for tonight?"

"Of course there is!"

In the evening, Li Xing went to St. Margaery with everyone.

As the most famous nightclub in Toronto, the Raptors are frequent visitors here.

Those flesh and blood who are usually waiting to catch a rich man's son-in-law's eyes lit up when they saw these millionaires.

The strange thing is that none of the flesh and blood has approached Li Xing.

Who is Li Xing has a dark history in this regard.

The story of the "beginning and abandonment" that made him a scum was circulated among the flesh and blood, and they came to the conclusion: "It's better to find a dog than to be with him!"

Therefore, Li Xing, who is always the focus of the crowd everywhere, is always unattended in nightclubs. He is also happy and relaxed, drinking some wine, eating some unhealthy things, and playing around occasionally is enough.

At this time, a black pearl came over, and she came straight to Stephenson: "Lance, do you remember me?"

"you?"

Sitting on Stephenson's body were two scantily clad women. When they saw the black pearl in front of them, they felt familiar, but they couldn't recognize them.

"who are you?"

"It's okay, you don't know me, but you must know this." Heizhu put an inspection report on the table.Stephenson took the report and looked at it, his eyes widened, and he remembered something terrible.

"I'll wait for you outside."

Black Pearl looked at him jokingly, then turned and left, like those superheroes in blockbuster movies who turned around after something happened.

"I'm going out for a while," Stephenson said.

Barnes was smoking a hookah, and seeing Stephenson's flustered look, he knew something was wrong: "It seems that our rookie is in big trouble."

"That guy is usually a ghost, what trouble can he have? It's okay." Evans can only let himself go when he is in a nightclub.

Li Xing was drinking one cup after another, and his consciousness gradually became blurred.

He didn't know why he had to drink so much, he obviously had nothing to worry about, he just wanted to drink a few sips.

In my previous life, most of those mediocre days passed by like this.

If you can't do anything, you can only be with wine.

Does this count as reminiscing about the life of waste materials?Although he is not yet a winner in life, compared with his previous life, he has two completely different lives.

The world's attention, no matter what the occasion is, is the focus, and the spotlight is always around him. This kind of life is unimaginable in previous lives.

reshape life,

This should be regarded as reshaping the life, right?

Li Xing didn't know, he asked again and again, always feeling that something was wrong, and he wasn't sure if this was the life he wanted.

When people stand on a high place, they are always used to looking back at the foot of the mountain, hoping to see clearly what that small self is like.

The irony is that people on the top of the mountain can never see the scenery at the bottom of the mountain clearly.

"Larch, you can't drink like this." Allen persuaded.

"It's okay, it's okay to drink once in a while." Li Xing smiled and took another sip, this time he was really drunk.

His teammates could only be thankful that this guy had a decent drink, and he wasn't the kind of crazy guy who would go crazy when he got drunk.

"It seems that I will send him back later." DeRozan said.

Bargnani smiled and said, "Leave this on me, I'll be on my way."

After a while, Stephenson came back dejectedly, and sat down as if drained.

"What happened?" Barnes asked.

Stephenson poured himself a glass of wine and said sadly, "I'm going to be a dad."

"congratulations!"

Everyone was about to toast, but Calderon heard something wrong: "Wait a minute, you are not married yet, and, I didn't hear that you have a girlfriend. Be a father? Where did you start?"

"You said that an NBA player who is not married and has no girlfriend is going to be a father. Where should this start?"

Stephenson asked back.

When he said that, everyone understood.

This is another poor creature caught in the trap of flesh and blood.

"Could it be that you really intend to marry her? No way!" Pondexter urged.

"How is that possible? It's just that she asked me to pay a pension." Stephenson said embarrassedly.

"How much?" Calderon asked.

"30."

"Pfft~~~~"

The wine in Bargnani's mouth immediately sprayed on Li Xing's face, and he was already drunk and couldn't feel it.

"30?"

"Is he crazy?"

Bargnani laughed angrily: "Is she planning to feed the child gold, silver and jewelry to grow up?"

“If I don’t give her the money, she’s going to spread the word,” Stephenson said. “She also said she’s going to hire a lawyer, and I’ll be ruined.”

Barnes didn't know what to say to him: "Why are you so careless? You don't wear a condom when you go to bed with flesh and blood?"

"I wear it! I swear I wear it!"

"Did you prepare the set or?"

"She prepared it."

"You dare to wear her condom in bed with flesh and blood?"

Stephenson was speechless, yes, flesh and blood can do anything. In order to get themselves pregnant, they can pierce a hole in the condom to increase the chance of "winning".

Stephenson was very unlucky, and encountered such a thing when he was stealing fish for the first time.

"But, where did you get the money for her salary?"

Stephenson's salary this season is 73 US dollars, which is before tax deduction, and it is not known how much he can receive after tax deduction.

Now, the other party asked for 30 yuan, and Stephenson absolutely couldn't afford it.

"Just as a lesson, you have to give the money," Evans said.

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Everyone knows about Stephenson's difficulties. Evans looked around and said, "Let's do this. How far are you short? I'll lend you."

"Thank you, Reggie."

Stephenson was not polite to Evans, this is his life-saving money.

He is just a second-round pick who has not yet achieved his worth. If this kind of thing happens in his rookie season, it will be an indelible stain on him.

Not to mention that this incident happened in the conference finals, which is the most important moment of the year for the team, but he caused this kind of scandal off the court. If this incident is exposed, any team will punish him Take a cautious, conservative approach.

Just a second-round pick, not indispensable or irreplaceable.

When one Stephenson falls, thousands of Stephensons will hit their heads one after another to make up for it.

This is the biggest difference between basketball and football.

Football has five major leagues, while basketball has only one NBA.

As the highest basketball hall in the world, only hundreds of people can play in the NBA every year, and the elimination rate is astonishingly high.

For a player like Stephenson, especially at the beginning of his career, no mistakes can be made.

Once the trouble is on the table, the career is almost over.

We've heard a lot of stories about prodigal sons coming back, but that's just what the league and the media let you know, and of course they want to promote the good side.

But how many guys do you know who faded out of the league without even a chance to look back?
(End of this chapter)