warrior godfather

Chapter 241 Zhang Yu's Goal

March 11, 1 am.

Bang bang bang—swipe!

In the quiet training ground, after some dribbling and shaking, Butler brought the ball to the mid-range position and made an emergency stop jump shot.

After the basketball landed, he ran to pick it up and continued to practice mid-range jump shots.

After returning to Oakland from Los Angeles yesterday, Zhang Yu announced that the whole team will have a day off today. The early season schedule arranged by the league for the Warriors is indeed too easy. After the Lakers, the Warriors will have 2 days of rest before ushering in a draw. Bear game.

Although Los Angeles is very close to Oakland and the players are not too tired, Zhang Yu still follows the usual practice of giving the team a day off after the away game, allowing them to have a good rest and prepare for the next game.

But for Butler, he doesn't want to rest at all. On days without games, training is his best rest. He can't live without basketball.

So after a late sleep, he spontaneously came to the arena to train, but since the trainer was also on vacation, he could only pick up the ball by himself, but Butler was also happy with this, picking up the ball by himself could make him consume more The physical fitness, just in time to train the sprint and run with sudden stops and quick starts.

brush!
The basketball is a hollow hit again. Butler's emergency stop jump shot after the dribble is almost 100% in the case of no confrontation. He has found his own set of shooting rhythms. He is confident that he can maintain a decent enough on the court. s efficiency.

Boom!

Butler picked up the ball, made two consecutive dribbles from the crotch to the back, made an emergency stop and shot a jumper, and watched the basketball smoothly enter the basket.

Holding his right hand high, he looked at the basketball that kept bouncing up on the spot after landing, but its height was getting lower and lower. He didn't rush to pick it up, but sighed softly, and walked slowly towards the basket.

Butler also wants to fully demonstrate his skills in the game, but after the start of the new season, he has become a substitute, his playing time has dropped sharply, the possession of the ball has decreased a lot compared to last season, and there are not many opportunities to attack with the ball. He still assumes the responsibility of a 3D player, and is mainly responsible for opening up space and defending on the field.

That is, in the last game against the Lakers, he attacked with the ball a few times in the second quarter, but after the Lakers paid more attention to his defense, Zhang Yu asked him to stand in the bottom corner.

boom!
Butler hooked the basketball with his foot and took a hard shot.

He is very convinced of Zhang Yu. In his opinion, Zhang Yu must have his intentions in doing so, so he did not complain, but he practiced hard every day, but he did not have the opportunity to show it on the court. This made Butler feel unavoidable. There will be some gloom.

He will not show this emotion, but when there is no one around, Butler will also vent it, so as not to feel uncomfortable in his heart. Fortunately, Zhang Yu has clearly told him that he will not always be a substitute, otherwise Butler I really don't know if I have other ideas.

The relationship between Butler and Matthews is neither good nor bad. He also admits that Matthews is good, but he thinks he is stronger than Matthews. At least Matthews' ball-handling skills are far inferior to him. Give him those tactics of Matthews, and he can score more points.

Bang—swipe!

It was another mid-range shot, and Butler's mood gradually calmed down. These were all arranged by the boss. It is useless to think too much. Let's continue to practice. On the court, Butler can forget all his troubles.

bang-bang-

Suddenly, there was a sound of dribbling in Butler's ear. He turned his head and saw a person walking from the entrance of the training ground in the distance. He was wearing a Warriors training uniform and was clapping a basketball in his hand. It was Clay.

Butler's movements stopped, and he said loudly with some surprise:

"Hey Clay, aren't you home resting today?"

Clay dribbled the ball and walked over here, and replied:
"I'm a little bored at home, I want to come and practice the ball, how about you, aren't you resting at home?"

Butler was stunned. It had been a year since no one had asked him this question. The Warriors players all knew that there were no vacations in Butler's life. One day without practice.

But he immediately realized that Clay didn't know about his habit, and he didn't tell Clay about it.

Butler laughed:
"Didn't they tell you? My nickname is Arena Mouse, the basketball court is my home, and practice is my rest."

brush!
Clay came to Butler's training ground, made a three-pointer, walked slowly to pick up the ball, and said:
"Sounds good, are you interested in playing a game? 10 balls, the loser will... treat the winner to dinner."

Butler, who has always been thrifty, shines in front of his eyes. Is there such a good thing?

He put his ball on the sidelines, walked across to Clay with a smile, spread his legs, lowered his center of gravity, and reached out to Clay:

"You come first."

……

Bang, bang—swipe!

Butler made a three-point threat from outside the three-point line. With a shake of his left shoulder, he suddenly kicked the ground with his right foot, rushed into the three-point line from the left side of Clay, then stepped out with his left foot, and leaned on Clay with his left shoulder , took advantage of his strength to take a step to the right, made an emergency stop and shot, and the basketball went into the net hollowly.

Clay couldn't interfere, so he could only watch Butler make a jump shot and shook his head helplessly.

Butler laughed:
"10:5, you lose, Clay."

Clay shrugged:

"You won, what do you want for lunch? I treat you."

Butler thought for a while and said:
"There is a newly opened Italian restaurant. Stephen has eaten there once. Let's try it?"

Clay naturally had no objection to this, nodded and said:
"No problem, Italian restaurant... Stephen is interested in Italian food?"

He and Curry are not too familiar yet, and he doesn't know him very well.

Butler laughed:
"Oh, by the way, you probably don't know yet. Stephen's favorite food is cheese chicken with pasta. When he was in Indiana, he liked to eat at Italian restaurants very much. Later, he often took me to go with him... Stephen has great taste and the restaurants he recommends are usually worth a visit."

It was only then that Clay came to a realization, and then he and Butler separated and practiced separately. It was not until noon that he packed up his things, and Butler drove Clay to the Italian restaurant.

They will come back to continue training after eating. There is a player lounge in the Oracle Center. They will rest for an hour before practicing until the evening.

The Italian restaurant wasn't too far from the Oracle Center, but it took Butler 15 minutes to drive there.

The two walked into the restaurant, chose a seat and sat down, waiting for the dishes they ordered.

But while the two were chatting, Butler casually glanced in the direction of the door, was slightly taken aback, then waved at Clay, and said with a broken smile:

"Look over there."

Clay, who was sitting opposite him, turned his head and looked in the direction of Butler's finger, and saw Zhang Yu and Curry walking in from the door talking and laughing.

He was a little surprised and said:

"That's Coach and Stephen! They also come here to eat?"

Butler gently moved his chair back and stood up:
"It seems that Stephen wants to eat cheese chicken with spaghetti again. The boss was pulled over by him. Stephen likes to be lively, and he doesn't like to come out to play alone... Wait a while, I'll call them over. "

Clay nodded, watched Butler pass by, greeted Zhang Yu and Curry, pointed his hand this way, they looked over, Clay waved to the two, and then the three came over and sat down.

Zhang Yu opened the chair and said in a little surprise:

"Clay, you went to practice too? I thought only Jimmy would practice during the holidays, but I didn't expect you to go too."

He really didn't expect that Clay would go to extra training. In his previous life, Clay's flirtatious offseason affair was widely circulated. It was used to look for status. Zhang Yu never thought that Clay would practice during the holiday.

Clay clicked his lips, turned his eyes to one side, and said in a slightly lonely tone:
"I still have a lot to improve. There is still a long way to go from Kobe. I must seize every day to practice hard."

Zhang Yu's eyes widened slightly, he looked at Clay, and after a while he said:
"Klay, do you even feel depressed? I thought you would never be upset about things on the court, you would always stay calm..."

Clay gave Zhang Yu a strange look:
"Coach, I'm a human being, how could I not be affected? I really decided to focus on basketball at the time, because our San Margarino was defeated by James Harden's Lakewood, and I could only sit on the bench. Watching him show off his power from the seats, after that game, I completely gave up baseball and focused on basketball..."

When he was talking about this, he raised his eyes slightly and looked into the distance, his voice was a little low, obviously lost in memory.

The three of them listened quietly to Clay's recounting of the past. After he finished speaking, Zhang Yu thought for a while, and suddenly said:
"Let's think about it... on December 12th, we're going to Oklahoma City to play the Thunder. Then I will give you a chance to get revenge and let you face Harden, how about it?"

"Thank you, coach, I will definitely blow him up then!" Clay shook his fist and said through gritted teeth, "If it wasn't for him, the California High School League champions of that year and the following year would definitely be our St. Margarino's!"

"Hahaha……"

The three laughed, and Curry joked:
"Don't worry, when the time comes, Jimmy and I will give full play to help you beat the Thunder and let Harden also taste the taste of failure. In fact, we did it last season, but you were not there at that time, so we will do it again. "

Butler also chimed in:
"I didn't say that, I really didn't see why James Harden was selected with the third pick. He doesn't look strong. We will definitely win..."

A few people teased Harden and the Thunder. Curry and Butler recalled what happened last season when they sniped the Thunder out of the playoff gate. Clay was in a good mood, and immediately waved his hand and said:
"I pay for this meal!"

Butler poked him mercilessly:

"It was you who invited me to dinner at noon today!"

"Then I even hired the coach and Stephen's share now..." Clay added hastily.

"Haha..." Zhang Yu was amused by Clay's serious look, and suddenly his eyes lit up, and he said, "How about this, Clay's dinner at noon today, and tonight, I invite you to my house for dinner! By the way, call again Shangyi, Jeremy and Drummond, it seems that the team hasn’t had dinner together yet? It’s just a good time to call everyone over to get together and get acquainted with each other.”

Hearing what Zhang Yu said, Curry and Butler nodded repeatedly. When they were still in school in Indiana, Zhang Yu often invited the whole team to have dinner together. After coming to the Warriors, because the game is much busier than the NCAA, the players are also adults. People have their own lives, but they haven't had dinner together yet.

The matter of contacting teammates was naturally waited until the afternoon, and then the four of them had lunch while chatting and laughing.

"Stephen, what did you and the boss do in the morning?" Butler asked casually.

"We're going to play golf!" Curry laughed happily, and then looked at Zhang Yu pretending to be disgusted, "But the boss still doesn't know how to play golf, I have taken him to play several times! Boss, you really You are too lacking in athletic talent, I deliberately let you, you can't win."

Both Butler and Clay laughed out loud, while Zhang Yu spread his hands indifferently:

"I don't want to, but I can't help it. I can't even play basketball well, let alone golf. It's a rich man's sport. I grew up poor. Before I met you, I never played golf."

Curry interfaced:
"You should learn more about that. You are a rich man now, how can you not know how to play golf?"

"I have that time, why don't I study the game video and watch the anime..."

"Oh, well, boss, you won. I thought you would find a girlfriend or something, but what you wanted was to watch anime!" Curry stared at Zhang Yu with wide eyes, and shook his head helplessly.

Zhang Yu smiled and said:

"Girlfriend? That depends on fate, let's go with fate..."

The figure of Yan Shu flashed in his mind. As time went by last season, Zhang Yu became more and more busy, and his contact with Yan Shu gradually became less and less. Give up some unrealistic ideas.

Zhang Yu now understands why the richer a person is, the easier it is to be single. He is not particularly rich, but his life is already filled with basketball, and he doesn't have much free time to think about other things.

Although this is because he insists on coaching the team himself, even if he is just a simple team owner, he will definitely be busy with other business matters, just like Mark Baum, who will never be free after all.

Now Zhang Yu has no idea about men and women. He only wants to build a complete lineup system and train rookies such as Curry, Butler, Clay and Green to compete for the championship trophy. This is his biggest goal so far. Target.

This is why Zhang Yu handed over all the layout of the domestic Internet industry to Mark Baum, and he only gave Mark Baum a general opinion.

Why doesn't Zhang Yu know that this will dilute his own interests, but human energy is limited. Zhang Yu puts all his thoughts on the Warriors and has no time to think about these things, and he doesn't have much desire for money. It is enough to maintain the operation of the Warriors.

The four of them had gone through a relatively strenuous exercise in the morning, and they ate very fast, and finished eating within half an hour. Zhang Yu wiped his mouth with a tissue and said:
"Let's go, you guys go back to training, Stephen and I are going to buy something, I'll call you when the time comes, just come to my house, I'll cook Chinese food for you."

　The first update, sorry, it's a bit late, there will be a second update tonight.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)