Chapter 505 The New Garfield High School and the Most Important Game Before the All-Star Game

"Yes, you know? When Nate Robinson was about to leave Seattle in despair early this morning, thousands of fans showed up at the airport to 'farewell' him. It was really fun on the sidelines!"

"Hahahaha, I went there yesterday too. That kid deserves it. If we boo him every time he comes to Seattle in the future, he will never get our forgiveness in his life!"

The Seattle SuperSonics will get a very precious rest after defeating the New York Knicks at home.

The home game between the Seattle SuperSonics and the Bulls will be played on February 7th, five days after the game against the New York Knicks.

At the end of the game against the New York Knicks, the Seattle SuperSonics had a record of 40 wins and 8 losses, and were the only team in the league that had played 48 games.

In the same period, most NBA teams now only play 46 games.

After such a long devilish schedule in the past, such a period of rest is a huge relaxation for the Sonics, both mentally and physically.

Team head coach Nelson also understands the current tired state of Sonics players.

So after the game against the New York Knicks, Nelson took three days off for the team.

During these three days, Seattle SuperSonics players can go anywhere except the SuperSonics training facility.

The players of the Seattle SuperSonics are the most famous collection of training fiends in the league.

This is quite famous in the United States.

After the team is on vacation, the Seattle SuperSonics players need to rest and shoot commercials. The Durant generation is now ready to be officially released.

During the All-Star Game, Yes second generation, Roy second generation, and Durant first generation will be launched at the same time.

Although Amazon President Bezos is not very willing to launch signature sneakers for Durant, there is really no other way now.

Since there is really no way to launch a signature sneaker for Durant, Bezos's approach is quite admirable.

Either don't do it, or do it the best you can.

Even if this person is Durant, you must not be stingy when it comes to promotion.

Durant is definitely the busiest player in the Sonics right now.

After all, Durant's first-generation boots are different from Ye's second-generation boots and Roy's second-generation boots.

Ye’s and Roy’s sneakers are really not enough to sell.

And Durant's sneakers really can't be sold.

If you don't cheat a few more people, you will really have to pay for everything.

Bezos thought about it after Durant unexpectedly entered the All-Star starting lineup.

Durant's reputation among NBA fans and basketball groups is too bad, but his reputation among ordinary casual fans is still neutral for the time being.

NBA fans and basketball fans will not regard Durant as an idol, and not many people will buy Durant's signature sneakers. However, if Durant's signature sneakers are beautifully made and well promoted, they can still attract fans from the public. of the market.

As a basketball shoe, it gave up the normal basketball market and focused on the casual fan market. This was already a loss, but now it can only be said to be a matter of loss and loss.

If you can lose as little as possible, then lose as little as possible.

So in the days leading up to the All-Star Game, Durant is the busiest player in the Sonics.

Biez is much busier.

Ye Si's sneakers don't need any other promotion. As long as the release date is confirmed, they will definitely be the focus of the world.

During his holidays, Ye Si usually either trains with the players from the University of Washington or trains with the players from Garfield High School at Garfield High School.

Now that time has entered February, the NCAA P-10 league competition has reached its most intense stage.

The P-10 conference competition, the competition between Afflalo, Jordan Farmar and Westbrook, Kevin Love, Mbah a Moute, Darren Collison and the University of Washington led by Curry has arrived. The intense stage.

The regular season games are almost over, and the P-10 League championship is coming soon.

It seems that this year's University of Washington is going to lose the title of P-10 Conference Championship that they have monopolized for three years.

This year's performance in the NCAA is quite crazy.

The strength shown so far makes all the powerful players in the NCAA feel incredible.

Compared with the current somewhat critical environment at the University of Washington, Garfield High School does not need to be so critical.

Because the crisis is useless, Garfield High School has already won this year's Washington State Competition.

Garfield High School, led by Avery Bradley, Tony Wroten and Kawhi Leonard, easily won the state championship this year.

But in the National Invitational Tournament in New York, Garfield High School met Kemba Walker, who is now like a god in the American high school basketball world, in the first round.

When Kemba Walker was a sophomore in high school, he led the team to defeat Rose, who was a junior in high school that year, in the National Invitational Tournament.

Since his sophomore year in high school, Kemba Walker has been the most effective player in the American high school league.

Just because of his height, his talent has always been doubted, and his future has also been doubted, but there is no doubt that just in high school, he is a super-enhanced version of Isiah Thomas. The dominance of the high school league ranks among the best even in history.

Encountering such a genius, the Garfield High School led by Avery Blood would of course have to be kicked out in the end.

Fortunately, Avery Bradley and Kawhi Leonard are both high school juniors and they have one more year next year.

Leonard was wildly targeted in this year's National Invitational Tournament because of his poor shooting, and he should be able to improve next year.

In the training hall of Garfield High School, the teenagers from Garfield High School around Ye Si were dissing Nate Robinson crazily.

Only Kawhi Leonard is keeping quiet.

This is a very unique boy.

Yease had heard of Leonard before he was called to Garfield High School.

After all, Leonard is the only person in the history of American basketball to be treated like this.

Because he was very tall and his playing style was very long, he was beaten so hard that he couldn't even play basketball.

This is really unheard of.

I heard from Coach Floyd, the head coach of Garfield High School, that when Leonard came to the team, he looked at the eyes of his Garfield High School teammates around him with vigilance, fear and hostility.

Coach Floyd described the feeling of being surrounded by enemies, giving Ye Si a creepy feeling.

I have to say that today’s young people really know how to play.

It beat up Leonard, a seemingly honest kid, to such a psychological shadow.

虽然在弗洛伊德教练看来，伦纳德被揍得有些神经质了，但是这样神经质的伦纳德同样也让弗洛伊德教练看到了他对篮球的爱。

"I saw in him the same dedication to basketball as you."

"Leonard's talent is far less than yours, but in my opinion, his efforts are only a little bit worse than yours."

"This is the first time I've seen someone from a high school student who works as hard as you do."

This is what Coach Floyd said to Leafs.

Coach Floyd had good things to say about Leonard.

Ye Si likes people who work hard.

Talent is determined by God and given by parents, and hard work is yours.

Only those who work hard can change their destiny.

It's clear that Leonard is changing his basketball destiny just a few months after arriving at Garfield High School.

He went from being a Rondo-type player that everyone yelled about to playing to now being the second in command of a state championship team.

Yease likes Leonard, and the players at Garfield High School can certainly tell.

During training, Leonard is the one whom Ye Si gives the most guidance.

From defense to offense, from free throws to shooting, and even dribbling, Ye Si will take the trouble to teach him the most basic things.

The last player to be treated this way by Leafs was Isiah Thomas Jr.

It’s just that Isiah Thomas is not a player at Garfield High School. Even if Yes is good to him, it is impossible to always be good to him.

But Leonard is different. He is from Garfield High School. It seems that Leonard has become a disciple of Ye Si, just like Curry of the University of Washington.

This is quite enviable and jealous.

"Captain is good at everything, but he despises talent too much!"

Avery Bradley sighed, while Tony Wroten beside him nodded wildly.

"The captain believes too much that hard work can change everything, but there are some things in the NBA that hard work can never change. This is not disrespectful to Isiah and Kawhi. No matter how hard these two work, even if they are valued by Yes, they will never be able to succeed. NBA All-Stars unless they are on the same team as the captain in the NBA in the future!"

Avery Bradley is really depressed right now.

As the top high school student tied with John Wall, even if he didn't work so hard, his future in the NBA would not be comparable to that of players like Thomas and Leonard.

Besides, he is already working hard now.

Although he doesn't work as hard as Thomas and Leonard, he can still beat Leonard and Thomas in the future.

No matter how hard the captain tried to teach them, it was useless.

Captain, you might as well spend this time on me!

Leonard's ball feel and offensive and defensive rhythm are strange.

Mechanical and stiff, this is a typical symptom of not having touched the ball as a child.

Just like what is said in many martial arts novels, the meridians have been blocked because of missing the age of martial arts training.

Although basketball has no meridians.

But practicing too late will really affect your feel.

In martial arts novels, the best way to solve the problem of blocked meridians is to pass on the skills from a master, like Xu Zhu.

As for basketball, it really just depends on practice.

Practice several times or even dozens of times harder than others.

Many people say that Leonard's talent is not good, but Ye Si never thinks so.

Players like him who are not really talented are like him. No matter how hard they practice, they will never improve after reaching a certain level.

As for Leonard, although his progress is slow, he has been making progress!

Yes doesn't know when Leonard will stop improving, but as long as Leonard can still improve, he is a person who still has a future.

As long as he doesn't give up because of too slow progress, his future will be worth looking forward to.

Ye Si likes to watch these players who, in the eyes of the world, have no potential, no future and no height, slowly climb up for their dreams.

Only in these people can Ye Si truly see the shadow of his past.

"Captain, I think you can spend more time with me."

"you?"

After leaving the Garfield Training Center, Yease took a serious look at Avery Bradley next to him.

"Captain, I'm serious!"

"You should be serious about reaching your limits. When you practice what I teach you to the limit, I will naturally continue to teach you new things."

Yesi threw the towel in Bradley's hand and walked forward without looking back.

"Avery, everyone's time is precious, and I don't want to waste it with you."

Listening to these words floating in front of him, Bradley was stunned.

It turns out that the captain has always felt that spending more time teaching me training is a waste of time?

"This is really bitter."

Where’s the bitter Nima!

"Tony, eavesdropping is not a good habit!"

"Haha, I think Yes is right. We really need to find the reason from ourselves. Avery, didn't you find that Yes teaches us much more than it teaches Thomas and Leonard every time? "

"So what?"

"This means that Yes still values ​​our talents. The way Yes teaches us is different from the way they teach Thomas Leonard."

After Tony Roten finished speaking, Bradley frowned.

"Avery, I have always felt that Kawhi looks honest, but in fact is full of bad intentions. He can always find a certain balance."

"Kawhi? A bad person?"

Bradley was speechless, Tony, you are the one with bad intentions!

The Seattle SuperSonics started their journey again after a five-day break.

On February 7, 2008, the Seattle SuperSonics faced the Chicago Bulls at home.

This young guard from the Eastern Conference, who had a promising future last season, has not gotten back up after being destroyed by Kobe Bryant and the Lakers. This team is now completely collapsed.

In this year's Eastern Conference, this team's record is only 10 wins and 36 losses. Is this still the Bull that people imagined last year?

The Seattle SuperSonics achieved their 41st victory of the season after defeating the Chicago Bulls 118-108 at home.

After defeating the Bulls, on February 9th, the Seattle SuperSonics defeated the Kings, who were last in the Western Conference, 115-102 on the road.

February 12, 2008, this was the Seattle SuperSonics' last game before this year's All-Star Game.

The opponent is the Utah Jazz, who killed the SuperSonics five times last season!

Before the start of this game, the SuperSonics had a record of 42 wins and 8 losses, still ranked third in the Western Conference.

Before the start of this game, the Lakers with a current record of 40 wins and 11 losses, the Spurs and Nuggets with 39 wins and 11 losses, and the Grizzlies with 37 wins and 13 losses were all staring at this game.

This game determines their strategy in the sprint stage!