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Chapter 54 This Is Not His Team
After the game, Chinchilla walked back to the locker room with his teammates. Totoro failed in the first maiden game. Totoro was not so unacceptable. After all, the Rockets played against the championship team "Los Angeles Aircraft Carrier", but in the end The distrust of the whole team, including Dayao, is what makes him most unhappy.

If you have an opportunity to perform well and you don't seize it, then the team doesn't trust you, so Totoro will recognize it, but in the end he didn't even have such an opportunity at all, it's a bit irritating up.

After the game time ended, Dayao and Artest took a shower in the bathroom of the locker room. The press conference after the game is usually attended by the team coach with the boss and the second leader. In this game, Yao Ming scored 32 points and Artest scored 25 points. In terms of pure performance, they should really follow the old coach to the press conference.

According to the fine tradition of the NBA, the Rockets, as an away team, first held a media press conference.

"Excuse me, may I ask why Totoro, who performed so well today, didn't come to the press conference?"

As soon as the coach of the Rockets sat down with the two leading cores, the reporter's question made the three of them look embarrassed.

The little giant was a little better, his easy-going and humble character had always made him not very concerned about who stole the limelight, but the face of the beast was not very good-looking.

It is well known that blacks are very utilitarian, and Artest is one of these typical blacks.

Before coming to the Rockets, Beast came here with the idea of ​​being the boss. He had played several excellent seasons in the Kings, and the current coach of the Rockets, Adelman, was also his mentor in the Kings. Artest felt that his own strength combined with the advantages of the coach, he was the boss, he was very sure, but when the beast came to the Rockets, he found that there was a big difference between the cruel reality and the beautiful dream.

When the old coach first joined the Rockets, he did not regard the little giant as a direct descendant, and he did have the idea of ​​​​righting Artest.

But the Rockets are not what Adelman said, he himself is a part-time worker after all.
Alexander can't say much about Yao Ming, but he also knows the benefits that Yao Ming can bring to him, so he will definitely do enough to save face, just like saying that Yao is the core of the Rockets team, unless The little giant abdicated himself, otherwise even if James came to the Rockets, they would not be able to snatch the core position from Yao Ming.

Naturally, the beast cannot be compared with the little emperor, so after McGrady was traded away, Artest had already thought about being the second head of a team, but now the problem came, he seemed to be a bit unstable even as the second head.

"As far as I think, our two best teammates in the game are already here today. I understand why you ask this question. If you think we don't meet the league's regulations, you can go to the league to complain about us. Now, Please don't ask about topics that have nothing to do with the game, okay?"

The old handsome said with a cold face, and he was not polite to those reporters.

"Well, I'm a reporter from the [Los Angeles Times], and we observed carefully that Totoro was not involved in your last few offenses. This phenomenon is impossible for a player who performed well throughout the game. Yes, can you explain here whether this is your tactical arrangement? Or is it a manifestation of your veteran players crowding out rookies!"

Reporters are naturally not easy creatures to deal with, and the first question they asked was extremely sharp.

What's interesting is that the three people on stage reacted differently. Adelman was obviously angry, Yao was surprised, but Artest twitched the corner of his mouth a little guilty.

"The question you raised is not professional at all. This is only the first game of Totoro, and it is his first regular season game. He still has time to train himself and gain experience in the game. He still has a long way to go in the future. Sir, please, he is only in the first grade this year!"

The old coach insisted that this was the first game of Totoro, although it was understandable.

Even in the NBA, this is a place where seniority is ranked. It doesn't mean that you can do well in the team if you have the strength. For details, you can refer to Kobe in the first season. At that time, Volute's tactical status was not high when he first entered the Lakers.

"I'm a reporter from ESPN. I have a question and I want to ask Mr. Artest. Can you explain that with 3 minutes left in the game, the Totoro got open opportunities in several offenses? Why do you still force the shot with defense? Is that what the coach means?"

My Neighbor Totoro just didn't come to the press conference, otherwise he probably would have laughed out loud.

Chinese American swears by pointing at the bright light that he never gave money to these reporters and media. He also wonders why reporters will bring up topics related to him today. Although the media always likes to throw stones at failed teams, they don’t always catch them. Leave this question alone.

"This is a matter of our team's tactical arrangements. I follow all the arrangements of the head coach. When he thinks I should attack at the last moment, I will attack without hesitation. When he thinks I should defend, I will defend with all my strength!"

As a child born and raised in a black slum in New York, Artest was fed up with violence, poverty, weakness and helplessness in his childhood in the drug-ridden Queens. He chose to use basketball to escape everything, so Artest Sturt doesn't know how to behave or speak, and is very possessive.

"However, as far as my personal point of view is concerned, I don't think Long should bear that kind of responsibility. At the end of the game, it's the time for the boss of the team to play. Now the team is not his, it's mine and Yao's, and we I don’t think he will be the boss of the team for a year, and the most important thing for him now is to learn how to play basketball and how to adapt to the NBA by Yao’s and me’s side, instead of taking on the task of ending the game.”

Beast's words made the reporters in the audience boil. I believe his words will definitely appear on the pages of major newspapers and newspapers. If you are lucky, it may not be a problem to mix up a few headlines.

(End of this chapter)