NBA: The man who passed the ball to Yao Ming

Zhang Jinshui was sitting on the sofa drinking milk, when he heard the words "lick donkey balls", he almost spit out a mouthful of milk onto the coffee table.

"Crazy!" Zhang Jinshui shook his head speechlessly, reached out to pick up the remote control and turned off the TV, so he wouldn't bet against Nate Robinson, this guy is not qualified at all.

In fact, since Zi Chunlin spoke to him sternly at the airport last week, he has become much more low-key, and has never had any verbal ties with any reporter.

Even though the bet between him and Buckley had already been heated up in the media in the beautiful country, Buckley went to various TV studios every day to express his disdain for him, Zhang Jinshui did not reply a word.

On the one hand, he didn't want to make Zi Chunlin worry because of his excessive high-profile. On the other hand, the media reporters who deserved to be angry were also angry, and the bet that should be made was also accepted by Barkley. Zhang Jinshui had no dissatisfaction to vent. up.

The next thing he has to do is to calm down and wait for the arrival of the summer league.

Scoring 30 points in the game and forcing Barkley to kiss the donkey is his best response to Barkley.

In Zhang Jinshui's original expectation, after returning to Houston from New York, he should be able to re-enter training soon.

However, an NBA player has more chores to juggle than he ever imagined.

After returning to Houston, he first officially signed a rookie contract with the Rockets, and then attended the media day arranged by the Rockets for him and Luther Head. The boss, Alexander, met and participated in a community charity event.

After finishing all these things, five days have passed, and he still needs to move out of the hotel, find a place to live with Zi Chunlin, and settle down in Houston completely.

Fortunately, Zi Chunlin grew up in Houston and has a lot of contacts in this city. Her real estate agency friend quickly took the two of them to see a big house.

The big house is next to the lake and has a good view. There are nearly 20 rooms on three floors. The basic furniture is fully equipped. There is a large lawn in front of the house, and there is a swimming pool, parking garage and half a basketball court behind the house. .

Zhang Jinshui took a fancy to this house at a glance, and planned to rent it for three to five years, but Zi Chunlin saw that Zhang Jinshui liked it, and immediately proposed to help Zhang Jinshui pay 50 US dollars to buy this house, and wait for Zhang Jinshui to receive it. Pay her back slowly after the salary.

Zhang Jinshui naturally agreed, but he couldn't help but sigh in his heart. If other people saw it, they would doubt whether he or Zi Chunlin was the boss and who was the employee.

Zi Chunlin also likes this house very much. After getting the house key, her desire to decorate was immediately aroused. After moving, she kept bringing back some furniture or decorations from the outside and placed them in every corner of the house. .

Before and after, it took only three days for Zi Chunlin to decorate the whole house with a sense of life.

While Zi Chunlin was decorating the house, Zhang Jinshui naturally trained hard on the half basketball court in the backyard of the house.

Before going to the rocket base to participate in team training, he only had three days for closed training.

Now, his main attribute value has reached 70, and the value improvement through training has become very slow.

Three days is definitely not enough for him to greatly increase the value of a certain attribute.

In the end, Zhang Jinshui decided to set aside three days for the three-pointer that he is best at at this stage, and the passing that urgently needs to be strengthened, which can be regarded as a new type of "combination of work and rest".

But after three days, the effect of the training is very general.

Three days of training only helped Zhang Jinshui improve his passing ability by 1 point. As for three-pointers, even if he made at least 2000 three-pointers a day, the green on the progress bar was only half improved.

Zhang Jinshui couldn't help but feel a little regretful. It seems that the attribute value after 80 points can only be improved by the attribute point reward of [Mission Achievement].

The good news is that he will soon have a high-level game to play. At this stage, it should not be a big problem to complete one or two [mission achievements] in a game and earn three or five attribute points.

"Drip! Drip! Drip!" The sound of the car horn rang downstairs.

Zhang Jinshui hurriedly poured the remaining milk into his mouth, and then rushed downstairs.

When he rushed into the car, Zi Chunlin took out a shoe box from the back seat and handed it to Zhang Jinshui, saying, "Today is the first time you go to the Rockets for training. This pair of original Chicago in 85 is for you."

Zhang Jinshui grinned and said, "Thank you, Sister Chunlin."

Starting from this day, the Rockets will start a week-long summer league preparation training.

At 8:[-], Zhang Jinxiu arrived at the Rockets base. He first went to the locker room to change his training equipment, then went straight to the basketball court, and found that there were already a dozen players waiting on the court.

Because of the "kissing the donkey" that has been making a lot of noise recently, Zhang Jinshui has already become a familiar face in everyone's eyes, and he is also the core of this summer league team. introduce.

Besides Hyde, Zhang Jinshui was pleasantly surprised to find two familiar faces in the crowd, Hayes and Lucas III.

He thought about it carefully. In his last life, these two people probably converted their two-way contracts into official contracts by virtue of their outstanding performance in this summer league.

But in this life, the situation should be different.

Although Hayes is only 198 centimeters tall, he has the unique skill of grabbing offensive rebounds, and he will definitely find a position in the Rockets.

It should be difficult for Lucas III. After all, Van Gundy has promised to give Zhang Jinshui enough playing time, and the Rockets will trade from the Toronto Raptors to the streetball king Alstom before the season.

In the process of greeting his teammates one by one, Zhang Jinshui encountered a familiar face again. It was his center teammate Dean when he played three-on-three in the Rockets trial training. He was also the only one of the five main players of the Viper team to enter the summer league roster. of.

Although this big black guy has average abilities, he is obedient and has done a good job helping Zhang Jinshui in pick-and-rolls a few times.

Zhang Jinshui estimated that Van Gundy recruited him to play pick-and-rolls for him.

"Let's gather together." Van Gundy walked into the court with the old Hughes and another assistant coach. He clapped the tactical board in his hand vigorously, interrupting the conversation of the players.

Generally speaking, NBA teams are led by assistant coaches to participate in the summer league. After all, the main players are on vacation, and a bunch of pseudo-Rocket players are playing. It is not worth wasting the head coach's effort.

But this year was an exception. Van Gundy was worried about Zhang Jinshui, the disciple he had just selected, and decided to end it himself.

Of course, he has another thought, which is to try to formulate offensive tactics around Zhang Jinshui's three-pointers and breakthroughs early. He regards Zhang Jinshui's two abilities as the biggest reinforcement for the Rockets this offseason.

After briefly asking the players to introduce themselves, Van Gundy immediately began to explain the three offensive tactics he wanted to try in the summer league. Two of them were initiated by Zhang Jinshui's pick-and-roll, and the other was Through several off-ball pick-and-roll runs, Zhang Jinshui created a three-pointer.

After the explanation, Van Gundy divided the fifteen players into three groups, led by himself and two assistant coaches for practice, and finally said: "Except for Zhang Jinshui at point guard and Luther Hyde at shooting guard, the main players at other positions The spots are all vacant, and we will focus on practicing these tactics in the next seven days, and whoever practices well enough will get the main position.”