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Chapter 36 The Discordant Voice
As night fell on the 11th, Chinchilla finished his dinner hastily in the apartment, left the house on foot around 5:10, and walked to the Toyota Center Arena, which was only [-] minutes away from his apartment, in a trance.

Totoro's heart is very rough. Although he knew that this day is not very far away from him since he crossed, he didn't know that he was actually still alive until he saw the brightly lit Toyota Center in the night and the enthusiastic fans gathered outside. Not quite ready for this moment to come.

He's about to make his NBA debut, he's about to realize his childhood dream, he's about to play on the nba floor!
Well, the last thought is too lacking in ambition. Paul is still working hard for the Western Conference Finals. He has just stepped on the floor of the preseason and he is so excited. He still has a long way to go.

Passing through the long and narrow player tunnel, there are not many reporters waiting here. Houston is well-known in China, but it is only a second-rate city in the United States. The Rockets and the Grizzlies against today are not giants. It didn't attract too many reporters to come here.

However, Totoro still met a few Chinese media. Rockets games have always been a frequent visitor to CCTV, and Houston has soon become the base camp of Chinese journalists. Meeting a few domestic media people here is really a rare and common thing.

After answering a few questions politely, Totoro quietly walked into the locker room of the home team.

It's not that there are no people here, but none of the old players came. They all know that they just need to come one and a half hours before the start of the game. Dayao also told Chinchilla about this, but today Chinchilla just feels a little excited , I couldn't help it, so I came here 3 hours in advance to prepare.
"Hey, brother, hello, my name is Marc Gasol, I just finished participating in the Olympics in BJ, I like China very much."

Little Gasol is the idiot who came over 3 hours in advance and waited stupidly besides himself. After seeing Totoro, he immediately greeted him with a smile and communicated with himself in his half-baked English.

"Hi brother, you performed very well in the Olympics. I admire your tough style of play. You will be the best rim protector in our team."

There is an old saying in China that "you don't hit a smiling face when you stretch out your hand", and Gasol has always been good at the game and is very low-key off the court. Naturally, Totoro will not give him face.

"You can call me Mark, we will be teammates on the same team in the future."

Little Gasol said very enthusiastically that foreigners have a habit of only calling Mr. Jia by their surname and not their first name when they meet unfamiliar people. When he asks you to call him by his name, it means that he really loves you. when friends saw
"Uh, that, then you can also, you can call me a cat, you are right, we are all rookies, starting today we will work together to get ahead in the NBA!"

At this time, Totoro is in pain again because of the name.

Nimama, it was not good for me to choose a name at that time, but I chose the cheating name of Totoro.

As China gradually becomes a great country in the world, the Chinese language is gradually becoming more and more popular in the world, and more and more foreigners are learning Chinese.

Now his name is just "Long" and "Mao" in the eyes of foreigners, but one day foreigners who are familiar with Chinese will understand the true meaning of his name.

In the future, if you see a stranger call you "Dragon.Sir", that's fine, it sounds quite domineering, but if you see an acquaintance call you "Cat", then it's not friendly at all.

In addition to the meaning of cat, cat also means evil woman, and in some American local slang, it also means **. Isn’t this just looking for scolding?

The most important thing is that when more and more Chinese people know the word Totoro, it is probably another meme like the little giant dynamic 囧 picture.

"Okay, Mao, we must help each other!"

Gasol, who has a simple personality, didn't notice Totoro's disgusting expression after eating half a catty of flies. He even reached out and patted each other's shoulders in a friendly way. Hearing his most awkward pronunciation, Totoro Zi felt more stuffed in his heart.
The two chatted enthusiastically for more than an hour about their prospects for the new season. Of course, Gasol was mostly talking there alone, but Totoro always had a word without saying a word.

It can't be blamed on Totoro's impoliteness. In fact, the Chinese are also very puzzled, please, brother, we just met. Is it really okay for you to get acquainted like this?Are crooked nuts born to chatter?
An hour later, the old Rockets players also came to the locker room one by one.

Some of them are wearing earphones, some are carrying big backpacks full of snacks. In fact, the atmosphere in the locker room of nba is not very depressing, and the players have a very relaxed life. As long as you play well on the field, you can turn over the locker room No one cares about you when you come here.

Yao Ming's locker is the one in the middle of all the lockers, with Artest and Randolph on both sides, next to the President and David Lee's, and then Totoro's closet.

From this, we can see the current status of a team. The little giant is the core of the team. However, no matter how good Totoro performed before, they are only a rookie. Being the No. [-] player of the team is already very good. After all He hasn't even played a single NBA regular season game.

However, this is not the ultimate goal of Totoro. At the end of this season, Totoro does not expect to be able to replace the core position of the little giant, but the second in command of the team is definitely in his set goal.

After that, Adelman also brought the coaching staff to the locker room, said some nonsense, and then took Dayao and Artest to the pre-match press conference.

An hour later, under the reminder of the staff, the Rockets walked out of the locker room, ran to the player-only channel and entered the Toyota Center.

"Hoohoo!"

"Rocket you are the best!"

"Championship, our goal this year is the championship!"

"Fuck those Memphis guys and let them know whose territory this is!"

If you talk about the Toyota Center, the home of the Rockets, the level of luxury of the arena here is definitely not comparable to that of Staples and Madison Garden.

But when it comes to the team's stadium atmosphere, the fanaticism of Texas fans is definitely the highest in the league, and since the last playoffs and the dirty series with the Utah Jazz, Rockets fans have More violent and vulgar.

Last year, they had a chance to break into the second round of the playoffs. In last year's regular season, they had an astonishing 22 consecutive victories. Everyone regarded the Rockets at that time as one of the favorite teams to win the championship, but who knew that in In the playoffs, Dayao was injured before the playoffs, then Alston was injured by Okuron, and Landry was knocked out by Boozer. Under the "fierce" defense of the Jazz, The Rockets, which had a disorganized lineup, once again became full of injuries, and were finally eliminated by the opponent 4-2 out of the playoffs.

So this year, when the Rockets and the iron-blooded men returned in an offseason, the fans still had great expectations for the team.

It's just that the Rockets have changed a bit too much now, and the other players are fine, but for Totoro, an unknown soldier who can only change their soft wheat, the fans still have some discordant voices.
(End of this chapter)