Chapter 9 The last day of training camp, 5v5 in the audience
However, after giving a thumbs up, Ben Wallace did not forget to "beat" Woody: "Congratulations, man, in terms of basket confrontation, you just defeated a star high school student. It can be said that in this regard, you are already the best group of American high school students, but... some basketball is not just a basket confrontation, it is composed of rebounds, scores, passes... all aspects. You are now only in one aspect, reaching the highest level in high school, but you still need to continue to grow, so man, continue to come to my room tonight and watch the good game video!"
If Ben Wallace had originally questioned that Woody was a "big guy pretending to be a genius", then he completely dispelled this doubt in a group confrontation before training camp.
Woody is no longer a question of whether he can do it or not. He is just a rare kind of... a pure rookie!
In order to improve his sense of the game, Ben Wallace would pull him to watch Pistons' game video every day, tell him some regular tactics and what to pay attention to on the court as an inside player.
He didn't know if he could learn to play the whole audience by just watching the video like this.
However, Woody did show strong adaptability in the subsequent 5v5 group confrontation.
This was another shock to Ben Wallace.
It can only be said that geniuses cannot be judged by common sense, and the speed of progress is the same as that of riding on a rocket.
Woody looked at Ben Wallace so serious and laughed. He understood Ben Wallace's meaning, but he could only say that he was different from the arrogant black man: "Ben, I will not be proud and complacent because of this little progress. I am still far from it!"
After the training, Woody did not rush to Ben Wallace's room, but took a shower first, took the time to take a look at his system panel.
As he expected, he impressed Ben Wallace with a deep impression on him. He had completed 95% of this task, but he was still the last 5%. On the last day of training camp, there was an open 5v5 game. In that game, he played a good performance and this task should be completed.
He is not in a hurry.
Ben Wallace prepares Woody for the fifth game of the first round of the 2001-02 season, with the Raptors.
Before the video was played, he told Woody about the predecessor of the game: "We easily won 2-0 in the first two games of this series. The outside world is optimistic that we will complete the sweep in the first round, and we think so ourselves, but as a result, the third and fourth games of the series, the Raptors completed a tenacious counterattack and rewritten the big score to a 2-2 draw. At the end of the regular season, we ranked second in the East, and they were only seventh in the East. If we lose, then they will complete the 'Black Seven'..."
"We definitely don't want such a thing to happen. They... naturally want such something to happen!"
"To be honest, man!" Woody interrupted at this time, "You must be an excellent commentator in the future!" Ben Wallace's words made him look forward to the upcoming game.
This will definitely be a wonderful game!
The result was not as expected by Woody. The game was anxious all the way, and in the end, the Pistons narrowly won by 3 points.
Ben Wallace also seemed to recall the difficulties at that time. After the video ended, the lingering fear on his face disappeared for a while. The room became silent. He pretended to be deep and asked: "Man, what did you see in this game?"
Woody was uncertain with a little point: "As an inside, I have to practice the free throws?"
This sentence was "real injury" and "disabled blow", which made Ben Wallace "silence". In this game, he had a total of 10 free throws, only 4, with a shooting percentage of 40%. Although his average free throw average was not high in the season, only 53%, in this anxious game, he scored one more free throw, and he missed one more shot than usual.
He blushed and explained: "This is a life-and-death battle, a matter of critical moments..."
Then there are words like "You haven't experienced such things yet, you'll know after you experience it", "The water of free throws is too deep, and it's really hard to grasp at that time" and so on.
It was not until Woody smiled badly that Ben Wallace realized that Woody was teasing him!
So that's how Woody you are!
wrong……
Ben Wallace remembered that when he was in the first training session, the kid came up and asked him how tall he was. At that time, he thought Woody did it on purpose. Now seeing his sluggishness, Ben Wallace was even more convinced that the kid did it on purpose at that time!
Seeing Da Ben, he was immediately anxious, and Woody said: "I know, you want to tell me that under any circumstances, you must believe that you can go to the end, no matter how bad it is!"
Just kidding, Woody is a person with full reading comprehension in junior high school. He can understand the subtext of those literati and poets, but he still doesn't understand the purpose of Ben-Wallace?
But Ben Wallace had a stern face: "No, I want to tell you that the arrogant person has no good ending! Just like we were leading 2 games, thinking that the sweep was about to happen, but we were chased by others for two games, so man, at any time, don't think you are stable!"
Well……
I can only say that Ben Wallace wants to tell Woody too many things.
Of course, Ben Wallace also knew that no matter how much reason he had told Woody at this moment, many things still had to be experienced by Woody himself to have a personal experience.
He didn't expect Woody to understand everything now, he hoped that Woody could understand it in the future.
Ben Wallace was so moved that he wanted to send a text message to Oakley again, but thinking about the last time he disturbed him eating the fruit plate, he was scolded, so this time he held back.
After thinking about it, after Woody left, he called a few phone calls to the reporter he knew, and the unified words were: "Man, and 1 is about to hold the final 5v5 of the whole audience. If you have time, come and have a look. I believe you will definitely get surprises when the time comes!"
His words indeed attracted the interest of several journalists.
It's off-season now, and there are so few reports that can attract attention. Everyone is trying hard to find gimmicks.
In this way, on July 27, on the last day of the And1 training camp, several media outlets that originally had cooperated with And1, plus several reporters who were fooled by Ben Wallace, appeared in the training hall.
As far as the number of media is concerned, it can be seen that although And1 is currently in a fierce momentum, its influence is not something that can be changed overnight.
If this is Nike's training camp, I'm afraid the number of this media will increase several times, and there are special staff responsible for unexpected situations on the court, such as the endorsement star being detained and the videotape is not included.
But this can be said to be a very good exposure for these students in the And1 training camp.
Although the Internet industry is changing with each passing day, the majority of media resources are still traditional print media and TV channels, which are very precious. Even the top players of this training camp, Outro and Perkins, can only have so many media around them on some important competition days.
So even Outro was eager to try, wanting to have a good performance and seek some summer exposure for himself.
Compared to him, Perkins was a little frowning.
Woody could already press him to the ground to rub him a week ago. In the past week, this guy's ability has increased significantly. Perkins directly matched him, and no matter which aspect, he would not have the advantage.
Destined to be a foil for Woody, do you think he will be in a good mood?
But retreating is not Perkins' character. He said that he wanted to be the next "Ben Wallace", which was really not against his will to warm up. And isn't Ben Wallace the most praised by Ben Wallace the "heart of steel"?
so……
Isn’t it just that Woody “ravaged” in front of everyone?
What's wrong with this?
As a man, he should go through something!
I, Perkins, do it, do it!
Fortunately, Perkins didn't ask this to be shouted, otherwise he would have to cry.
Finally, I had the courage to play, turned my head and saw Woody warming up extremely seriously. The adult collapsed for only a moment, and the minors were the same. Perkins hurried over and said: "Brother, be gentle."
In terms of age, Perkins and Woody are both 17 years old, but Perkins' month is bigger; in terms of astrology, Woody is unknown, Perkins is one of the 78th "star high school students" in the United States.
But at this moment, it is really hard to tell which of these two people is older and who is more famous.
Woody has really given Perkins a psychological shadow in the past week, so that Perkins really wants to call Woody "Brother".
Woody looked at him like this and patted his shoulder comfortably: "Man, you think too weakly. In fact, I have always put a lot of effort into solving you. You are a clown-like guy. Even if I solve you like Batman, it is not that easy!"
"Fruit, is it true?"
This evaluation surprised Perkins. He didn't expect that he still had such a high position in Woody's heart.
He waited for Woody to give a definite answer again, and his arrogant face was filled with the expression of "I read less, don't lie to me."
Woody didn't comment: "Recalling carefully, did you almost grab rebounds several times? If you grabbed those rebounds, will the winning or losing relationship between us change?"
His rhetorical questioning put Perkins in recollection.
Don't say...
It seems to be true!
Perkins had a little more confidence on his face: "So, I'm not as weak as I thought?"
"Of course, man, warm up, I'm still waiting for a big fight with you!"
Woody responded faster this time than before. Seeing him so sure, Perkinston felt full of strength.
"See you later, man, let's have a good time!"
Perkins ran to warm up, Woody laughed and continued to join in his warm-up.
He just noticed that Perkins was a bit timid. How could he play a good game with such emotions? How could he be a "background board" for him? Of course, he had to be full of confidence!
But unexpectedly, this guy was also "If you dare to say it, he dares to believe it"!
It's not surprising. After all, I have had the experience of pressing Woody to the ground to rub it, so I must be a little confident in myself.
But, now Perkins only has two words in front of Woody:
Toy!
As two people with the same blue-collar positioning, Woody's physical talent is much better than his, but Perkins cannot respond in other aspects, and it is really a one-sided kneading.
Chapter completed!