: Avoiding Drinking (Fourth Update)

The loss in the game was a blow to the Clippers, but their performance was much better than last season.

The final loss was really tactical, not as strong as the opponent, and the players were too tired, not that everyone didn't play well.

After the game, Mike Dunleavy carefully summarized the game process and gave everyone some advice before disbanding.

This was not the case last season, because I lost too much last season and lost just the right amount, so it was useless to summarize it.

After each loss, everyone went home, and the team had no morale or a winning atmosphere.

Zach Randolph sat under his locker. When Dunleavy spoke, he wore a big headphone on his head, and he looked like he was listening to music. If he didn't listen to Dunleavy's nagging, Dunleavy was too lazy to care about him.

In fact, Randolph's headphones did not play music, and he listened to what Dunleavy said.

"The inside defense should be more active. The defense can be without talent, but it cannot be without attitude."

This seems to be specifically said to Randolph.

After taking a shower, in the player channel, the reporters focused more on Davis, Curry and Carman.

Davis is an old man from Los Angeles and Curry is the No. 1 pick. His performance in these games is quite amazing. Carman is his own person in the Clippers in 2003 and has been with the Clippers for 7 years.

And Randolph? The cancer that was traded in the mid-season last season, the country bumpkins from Indiana have always ignored the media, and all kinds of bad news off the court. This summer, he hit people in nightclubs, and no reporter wanted to pay attention to him.

Randolph was happy and drove his Chevrolet Impala and went home to rest.

He had a fanatical obsession with the Chevrolet Impala. He bought five of them at one go at home, all of which were from the 1970s styles, and he modified them into different colors.

This boxy box car is extremely cool and eye-catching on the road, and is completely different from Randolph's black and round appearance.

What kind of car a man likes often reveals the true appearance of his heart, which is often different from what people see.

Curry, who is like a baby-faced person, loves wild SUVs, shows that he is not as weak as he looks, but a firm and hard-core person.

Randolph was definitely not so dull in appearance. His love for the Chevrolet Impala began at a very young age. At that time, his dream was to own a car like this.

Now he has achieved it and bought more than one. This cool car shows that he has a passionate heart.

When he returned home, his mother had already returned to Indiana, and his cohabiting girlfriend Francis Drake was waiting for him at home. The two of them hugged and kissed each other on a routine basis.

They knew each other when they were young and grew up in the same parish. After Randolph became rich, they fell in love. She followed Randolph from Portland to New York, and from New York to Los Angeles.

Drake has never been very strict with his star boyfriend. She knows that he can't control it, as long as he still remembers to go home every day.

As long as he didn't cause trouble, Drake was thankful. Since he was a child, this guy's troubles have never stopped.

After the nightclub hit incident last time, Randolph restrained a lot, especially after the start of the season, except for competitions and training, the rest of the time is to go home to accompany her or complete community services.

"Zach, will you still go to community service tomorrow?"

"Yes, I'm a little hungry when I get me a burger."

"Okay, please wait for my big star... By the way, a man named Jordan Peel called home today, and he said he would ask you to shoot a documentary this morning."

Randolph was about to sit on the sofa and play the game console for a while. When he heard his girlfriend say this, he remembered that it was the two black actors invited by Mr. Smart.

Their crew recently followed the team to shoot a documentary. Yesterday, when they were in Salt Lake City, they recorded the Clippers' reversal of the final victory.

Tomorrow they will take a picture of Randolph and record his day in his daily life.

"I understand, then I should go to bed early. Forget it, I won't eat hamburgers anymore. Let's take a break together, my dear."

"Don't you really need to eat it? Do you want to have a drink together?"

"No, no, I won't drink, I'm going to quit drinking."

"Quick alcohol? Really?"

Drake looked at his boyfriend in surprise, and the word "quit drinking" was shocked from his mouth, as if he heard Barkley say weight loss.

For those who are poor in the United States, alcohol has always been a very important thing, and it is the anesthetic agent for temporarily escaping from their miserable situation.

Randolph was no longer poor, but he was once very poor. He had drunk alcohol secretly before he became an adult. Alcohol could remove his dull shell and release his colorful nature.

Randolph confessed to Drake for the first time that he was drinking and a little drunk.

"Zach, do you remember the first time you kissed me? At that time, the smell of alcohol in my mouth was so bad that I was so fumigated. Haha, now you told you that you are going to quit drinking, really? I don't trust you very much."

"Really, what I said is true. When I decide to do something, I will do it. You know me. I am 28 years old and I will start over and play well before I have been completely destroyed by alcohol."

There are many players in the NBA who have been ruined by alcohol, among which the more famous ones are Wen Baker, the All-Star Power Forward, who is very similar to Randolph.

Once talented, but alcoholism destroyed his body and his motor nerves, he experienced a cliff-like decline, and the late years of his career were spent in the Knicks and the Clippers.

The turning point of his career was when he was 28 years old, when the NBA was shut down in 99, when he fell from a power forward who averaged 20 points per game to an early 10 points, and never turned around again.

Randolph didn't want to repeat the mistakes of his predecessors. That day his mother slapped him. He felt that the slap was much lighter than the beat he was when he was a child.

Because he grew up, his mother grew older.

Zach Randolph's expression was very serious. Drake looked at this guy who had been in trouble all year round and suddenly felt that he had grown up overnight and he was about to become a real man.

Drake stepped forward and hugged Randolph and said, "Zach, do you know, at this moment I feel...I want to marry you, really, Zach."

Randolph gently hugged his wife and said, "That day will come soon, I will definitely play well enough on the court."

Randolph showed a firm look on his round and stupid face. He could feel that the Clippers were on the right path to health and the same was true for him.

(End of this chapter)
Chapter completed!