Chapter 283 Fulfilling the Promise
Xie Kai established his position in the team with a perfect game. Now few teammates still doubt his strength, and the fans no longer miss Mayo and the No. 14 pick Henry.
The embarrassment of five consecutive losses is finally over, and the Grizzlies' confidence is gradually restored. After defeating the Heat at home, their bad atmosphere within the team improved a lot.
In the news and discussions after the game, the situation regarding Xie Kai's importance to the Grizzlies was one-sided. Those who had previously cynicized were criticized and did not dare to show up. Xie Kai's fans held their heads high in the forum, which was quite impressive.
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After the game against the Heat, the Grizzlies will have a four-day break. Their next opponent is the Detroit Pistons from the Eastern Conference.
The Grizzlies paid close attention to Xie Kai's knee injury. They arranged for him to have another check-up on the second day to make sure he was fine before resting.
Xie Kai doesn't think this approach of the team is troublesome or unnecessary. This is their concern and attention to themselves. This shows that he is valuable. If he is a water dispenser manager, the team does not need to be so careful.
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This year’s Thanksgiving is on the 25th of this month, but for the Grizzlies players, there is a game on the 25th, so they cannot celebrate Thanksgiving with their families at home.
Thanksgiving is a traditional Western festival and a festival unique to the American people. At first, there was no fixed date for Thanksgiving, which was temporarily decided by the states in the United States. In 1941, the U.S. Congress officially designated the fourth Thursday of November each year as Thanksgiving Day. Thanksgiving
Holidays generally last from Thursday to Sunday.
It has been many years since Xie Kai immigrated to the United States, but his family did not really follow the local customs. They also celebrated traditional American festivals, but they were somewhat casual and perfunctory. However, they did not miss any of the traditional Chinese festivals.
In the words of his mother Chen Guixiang: "We are Chinese, so of course we celebrate our own national festivals!"
After the examination, Xie Kai left Memphis and went to the University of Kansas to meet Zhou Jing. Since he agreed to see her once a month, he had exactly 4 days, so it was no problem to spend 1 day to meet her.
Of course the Grizzlies approve. They don't want Xie Kai to train intensively just after he returns from injury. They just need to maintain a certain amount of training.
When Zhou Jing saw Xie Kai "disguised" downstairs in the dormitory, she was really surprised and surprised. She didn't expect that Xie Kai really did what he said and appeared in such unexpected circumstances.
Zhou Jing's girlish heart was greatly satisfied, because Xie Kai not only gave her a surprise, but also brought her favorite lilies.
"You didn't break your promise!" Zhou Jing looked at Xie Kai emotionally and said.
Xie Kai's expression said "I have everything under control", which made Zhou Jing's heart beat faster.
That night, the two of them naturally fell in love with each other. In Xie Kai's strong arms, Zhou Jing asked with concern: "Is your injury really not a big deal? It's too heavy a burden to rush back and forth like this!"
Xie Kai said calmly: "Of course it doesn't matter, I know my body well."
"If you come to my place, you won't have time to go home and see your parents. They will blame you!" Zhou Jing said softly.
Xie Kai smiled: "Thanksgiving this time is on the 25th, and we happened to have a game that day, so we didn't have time to go home. We don't take Thanksgiving as seriously as native Americans do, and I don't like eating turkey.
It tastes terrible, but the Chinese chicken is better!”
Zhou Jing finally felt relieved. She was thinking more. She was worried that Xie Kai would neglect his parents in order to fulfill their promise, causing the relationship between them to become bad. In this way, his parents might be angry with her. She
I want to get along with him, and naturally I don’t want to have conflicts before I even meet his parents.
The time spent with the one he loved flew by so quickly. On the second day, Xie Kai left the University of Kansas and returned to Memphis.
Arthur saw Xie Kai in the training hall and said with some surprise: "Don't your girlfriend blame you for coming back so soon?"
Xie Kai looked confident: "I went to meet her, but it was too late for him to be happy. How could he blame me?"
"You rush here and there, be careful of your kidneys!" Arthur said with deep meaning.
Xie Kai thought he was going to say "Be careful with your knees", but he didn't expect that there was something wrong with the other party's words. He threw the basketball over and said, "Darrell, your words are becoming more and more out of tune now!"
Arthur smiled and said: "You didn't learn it from Mario!"
Chalmers, who was far away in Miami, suddenly sneezed twice and looked confused.
"Mario, do you have a cold?" Wade, who was next to Chalmers, asked me with concern.
"No, I don't know why I just sneezed!" Chalmers never imagined that his former teammates in Memphis could really hurt him.
On Thanksgiving Day, November 25, the Grizzlies continued to play at home against the Pistons.
Due to the buzzer beater in the last game, the attendance rate at FedEx Arena, the Grizzlies' home field, is very good this time. The team is also happy. The hot ball market has not only driven the box office, but also the sales of peripheral products.
The investment promotion of arena advertising space, etc., will definitely be beneficial to the team.
The Pistons have 5 wins and 9 losses so far this season, and their record is not very satisfactory. In fact, in the past few seasons, their record has not been very good. Since the 2008-09 season, they entered the playoffs as the eighth seed in the Eastern Conference.
After the last train of the game, they failed to advance to the playoffs in the following two seasons. Now they can be regarded as one of the weak teams in the league. They are slightly better than the top teams, but they are still far away from the playoffs.
, is something that is far away.
The team is aging too seriously, and the core structure is still dominated by the group of players who won the championship in 2004, but those players are no longer at their peak. But the team does not have a young cornerstone who can play a leading role, and it is really "a lack of success"!
Facing such an opponent, the Grizzlies, who just ended their losing streak, naturally hope to defeat them and usher in a long-lost two-game winning streak.
In this game, the starting lineup of the Grizzlies at home is: center - Marc Gasol, power forward - Zach Randolph, small forward - Rudy Gay, shooting guard - Xie
Open, point guard - Mike Conley.
The Grizzlies' starting lineup has a very high win-loss value. They rarely fall into a disadvantage when they play together. This is a lineup they are proud of.
The Pistons' starting lineup for the away game is: Center - Ben Wallace, Power Forward - Jason Markhill, Small Forward - Tayshaun Prince, Shooting Guard - Richard
Chapter completed!