warrior godfather

Chapter 516 The Deepest Dream in My Heart

Curry was silent.

What Zhang Yu said sounded like a conspiracy theory, but when you think about it carefully, it makes sense.

Curry is not an ordinary person. He is the second generation of stars. Dell Curry has won the best sixth man and is the historical scoring leader of the Hornets. Curry can be said to have grown up in an NBA arena.

The experience of moving back and forth since he was a child made Curry realize early on that players are not just athletes, but also employees who keep changing jobs. The NBA is a business.

After entering the league, Curry has a clearer understanding of all this. His current teammates are completely different from those three years ago.

The NBA is a large company with fierce competition. The owners of each team are equivalent to directors in charge of different departments, and the league president is a professional manager in charge of the league under the authorization of the directors.

Every team in the NBA competes with each other and depends on each other. Fans want to watch intense and exciting games and star performances, but except for the supporters of a certain team, no one wants to see that. The team dominates.

Fans don't want to see it, and the league will do everything in its power to prevent the emergence of super teams.

The Warriors have the potential to become a super team. The core stars and main lineup are very young. Zhang Yu has financial resources as an owner and ability as a head coach. Naturally, he has become the target of the league's suppression.

"So...the better I play, the more criticism I get? They will never shut up?" Curry said helplessly.

"You don't have to worry about what they think, it's enough to be yourself, this is the trouble that only the strong will have, what you need to do is to win one victory after another, with one championship after another , Slap them in the face until they dare not question you again!"

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Wisconsin, Milwaukee, in a three-star hotel.

Antetokounmpo sat on the sofa in a weird posture, with his long legs fully stretched out, holding a bag of Oreo biscuits in his hand, eating one bite at a time, watching the general manager broadcast on TV intently. finals.

He just finished the trial training of the Bucks today, and just took advantage of the rest time to watch the Warriors and Heat's G4 at the hotel.

In the first three games, Antetokounmpo only watched two live broadcasts. When G2 started, he had to catch a flight and had no time to watch the game. He could only watch the video the next day.

Antetokounmpo has no hobbies. He puts all his energy on basketball. Video playback and games are his biggest pastime.

At this time, the game has progressed to 2 minutes and 12 seconds of the fourth quarter, the score is 110:112, and the Heat lead by 2 points.

This is a score that is hard to believe that will appear in the finals. In the impression of fans, the finals are dull defensive battles.

But this year's Warriors and Heat have broken people's stereotypes about the finals.

Except for G3, in the first two games between the Warriors and the Heat, they were mainly on the offensive, and the pace of the game was very fast. Although the score was not high, it was because the defensive quality of both sides was also very high.

The same is true today. Both the Warriors and the Heat have tough defenses, but both sides are in very good condition. Many balls can be scored against the defense, but they played a high-scoring game.

However, this also made the game more exciting, and it also told people that it is not only the iron strike that is called a defensive battle, but also the attack is also a defensive battle!
The strategy of the two sides is exactly the same as the first three games. In the fourth game of the finals, there is no hole card to use. It can only be seen who makes fewer mistakes.

Coincidentally, neither the Warriors nor the Heat made many mistakes today.

The Heat still flanked Curry. Curry's out of the ball and Green's response to the ball were timely, and others could also seize the open opportunities.

Clay swept away the decline in G3, regained his shooting touch, and made a few magic shots with flashes and strong shots. Butler's three-point shooting percentage has reached more than 40%. Leonard, Danny Green The players waiting to play have played.

However, the state of the Heat's Big Three is also very good.

The Warriors continued the previous way of defending the Heat, focusing on single defense against James, flanking Wade, and preventing Wade and James from exerting their greatest advantages.

What Zhang Yu didn't expect was that Wade played very steadily in this game and could often find open teammates. James was very resolute in singles, and Bosh also strengthened his role in personal offense with the ball.

Slowly, Zhang Yu understood.

The Heat learned the lesson of last year's finals defeat and took advantage of the trend. Since the Warriors defended against James alone, let James be the attacker;

James and Wade didn't do this before, but it doesn't mean they won't. They used to be the leaders of their respective teams, and the offensive end was a scoring organization.

But bring them back to their old roles, and the duo can do it too.

It's just that Wade's mistakes will be a little more, and James' scoring will be a little more difficult, but today the Heat's team is in a very good state, and these shortcomings have not been reflected.

As a result, the Warriors and the Heat were entangled until the last 2 minutes. Neither of them had the upper hand, and the game entered a critical moment.

On the field, the Heat attacked, Wade held the ball and Bosh picked and rolled, was forced to go to the left, met the Warriors' pincers, jumped up and gave the ball to Ray Allen in the opposite corner, the latter shot the ball and hit a three-pointer , 115:110.

Wade seemed to be possessed by James tonight. He passed the ball with a very wide vision and made several wonderful goals.

This is a superstar, he doesn't know when he will explode, and when he explodes, the opponent can't stop him at all.

Looking back, Curry and Green picked and rolled, but were also pinched by the Heat and passed the ball to Green.

Green slid down, and after attracting the defense, he passed to Clay, who was at a 45-degree angle. Clay also caught the ball and made a three-pointer.

With 1 minute and 35 seconds left in the game, the Heat led by 5 points and began to press time. James held the ball at the top of the arc and did not launch an attack until 8 seconds left in the attack time.

He and Chalmers picked and rolled Curry, and Curry chose to change rooms. James broke through to the inside with Curry on his back, and made a horseback archery throw, 117:110.

"Di-"

Zhang Yu called a timeout and punched the tactical board angrily.

But there is no way, the Heat's second superstar also stood up, this kind of ball is a superstar, no matter how perfect the defense is, it cannot be defended.

After the timeout, Curry threw a super long three-pointer, 113:117, and the game was still in suspense.

But looking back, the Heat pressed time to the end, Bosh received a pass from James, and the buzzer made a two-pointer, 119:113.

At this point, with only 38 seconds left and the Heat leading by 6 points, the chances of the Warriors coming back are very slim.

"Di-"

Zhang Yu used the penultimate timeout in his hand.

This was a short timeout, which ended quickly. After the two sides returned to the field, Curry came out from the bottom line to catch the ball, borrowed the double screen of Green and Chandler, and made a difficult three-pointer, 116:119, There is still suspense in the game.

Spoelstra didn't call a timeout, the Heat sent the ball to Wade, the Warriors tried unsuccessfully for a steal and were forced to call a tactical foul on Wade.

Wade stood at the free throw line and made two free throws.

Zhang Yu used the last timeout, arranged a sideline ball tactic, and successfully sent the ball to Curry, but Curry missed a super long three-pointer, and the game lost suspense. The Heat narrowly beat the Warriors 121:116, The big score was tied at 2:2.

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"It's so exciting...Kacha Kacha..."

Antetokounmpo exclaimed, picked up an Oreo, stuffed it into his mouth, and ate it slowly.

Compared to his big mouth, the Oreos seemed too small, but in order to finish the bag of Oreos slowly and savor its taste carefully, he still chose to eat one by one.

As a child of a poor family, Antetokounmpo has been running around for his livelihood since he was a child, selling small commodities on the streets with his brothers and sisters to subsidize his family.

Oreo was his favorite snack when he was a child, but his poor family made him even unable to eat this cheap snack.

No way, who made Antetokounmpo's family illegal immigrants? If his parents were legal Greek citizens, with Greece's high welfare system, their family's life would be much easier, at least they would not need to worry about filling their stomachs .

Antetokounmpo doesn't resent his parents at all, though.

If it wasn't for his parents who brought him from Nigeria to Greece, it would be impossible for Antetokounmpo to be spotted by a coach for his basketball talent at the age of 13, so he could enter a local professional club for training and set foot on basketball the road.

The best recreational activity for the children of poor Africans is to play football on the sand. This is also the imprint left by most African countries as former French colonies.

In the chaotic Africa, there are not even many basketball courts. Antetokounmpo's talent is likely to be buried. Even if he is discovered by luck, he will miss the best time to receive training.

Not everyone is a peerless genius like Olajuwon and Duncan. Antetokounmpo started training at the age of 13, which is already late enough. He may not even play in the Greek professional league.

上赛季，阿德托昆博在希腊乙级联赛的菲拉斯里迪克斯队效力，场均出战22.5分钟，可以得到9.5分5.0篮板1.4助攻1.0盖帽0.7抢断，三项命中率分别为46.4%、 31.3%、72.0%。

His stats are very average, but his physical talent on the court has made NBA scouts salivate. They traveled thousands of miles to Greece to inspect his game.

Among them, the Bucks paid the most attention to Antetokounmpo's performance, and specially sent senior scouts to inspect each of Antetokounmpo's Greek second games on the spot, and had many interviews with him and his parents. Contact, showed a very strong interest in him.

Antetokounmpo's outstanding talent also caused many basketball agents to flock to sign him. In the end, he chose the top agent in Europe, George Dimit.

After this season's Greek second season, Antetokounmpo came to the United States to participate in the trial training under the arrangement of George Dimit. Before that, he had already signed up for the draft. If all goes well, he will be in the next season. Enter the NBA.

The poor and difficult life of his childhood made Antetokounmpo very poor, and he desperately wanted to change his destiny.

In fact, he is very clear that he has many shortcomings, and his strength is still very weak. After all, he can't kill the Quartet in Greek Second, let alone come to the NBA with the highest level of competition in the world?

But he needs money, he wants to change the lives of his family, and he wants to repay his parents for their upbringing.

So he came to the United States without hesitation, and came to this land that was completely unfamiliar to him.

Antetokounmpo doesn't even speak English very well, but he still tried his best to express himself in the Chicago joint trial and in the trials of each team, hoping to be selected in a higher pick.

George Dimit told him that the higher the pick, the bigger the rookie contract, which became Antetokounmpo's entire motivation.

He doesn't care which team he plays for, he just wants to sign the biggest contract within his ability, because he doesn't know whether he can gain a foothold in the NBA in the future.

Although his family and George Dimiter have great confidence in him, Antetokounmpo is not a fool. He has learned about the experiences of many African and European players in the past, and found that most of them, after entering the NBA, soon Just disappeared, very few can gain a firm foothold in the NBA, and even rarer become stars.

And there are many things in it. White stars like Nowitzki and Parker, and blacks from outside the United States, rarely can play in the NBA. Among them are many talented talents, such as Thabeet, who is a very Bright example.

Four years ago, Thabeet was drafted seventh overall by the Warriors and then traded to the Grizzlies for Curry.

From then on, Curry soared into the sky, but Thabeet didn't make it out, and soon everyone disappeared.

When Curry became a superstar, some media and fans ridiculed the Grizzlies for being blind, but Antetokounmpo, who had learned about the 2009 draft, knew very well that the Grizzlies were not to blame.

At that time, the Grizzlies were also very optimistic about Curry, but Curry did not participate in any team's trial training, which made the Grizzlies full of doubts.

Even so, the Grizzlies communicated with Curry's agent, Jeff Austin, and expressed their desire to choose Curry, but Jeff Austin made it clear that Curry would not play for the Grizzlies, and the Grizzlies were helpless. Only then did he make a deal with the Warriors.

When Antetokounmpo has a deep understanding of a "genius" like Thabeet who has outstanding physical talent but rough skills and weak resistance, he can't help but feel a little uneasy about his future.

He is also this type of player, and even his talent is not as good as Thabeet. Thabeet at least played a dominant defensive performance in the NCAA and is considered to be very likely to become the next Mutombo.

And Antetokounmpo only showed his prowess in the Greek second, and the confrontation strength of the Greek second is much worse than that of the NCAA...

However, none of these can dampen Antetokounmpo's belief in entering the NBA. In any case, he will also get an NBA contract, which is enough for him to change the fate of his family.

Of course, Antetokounmpo's biggest goal is to gain a firm foothold in the NBA, and it is best to become a star. In that case, he no longer has to worry about money and can allow his family to live the best life.

And if you can become the face of the NBA like Curry and James in front of you, and one day stand on the stage of the finals and fight for the championship...

Antetokounmpo didn't dare to think about it anymore, it was something he only dared to think about when he was dreaming.

But just across the TV screen, Antetokounmpo can feel the intensity of the finals. Let him play, and he may not even get a point.

This is the highest level matchup in the NBA, the highest level matchup in the world, and it is also the stage he dreamed of.

Although Antetokounmpo is still far away from that stage, and he doesn't even dare to express this idea in front of others, but that is the dream of every player, and it is also Antetokounmpo's dream. Many times higher than the goal, the deepest dream in his heart.

(End of this chapter)