I was determined to be bad, but I went straight to the Basketball Hall of Fame

Chapter 82 Alcohol Abstinence (Fourth Change)
The loss of the game was a blow to the Clippers, but their performance was much better than last season.

In the end, the loss was really inferior to the opponent in terms of tactics and strength, and the players were too tired, not because everyone was not playing well.

In the team locker room after the game, Mike Dunleavy carefully summarized the game process and gave everyone their opinions before disbanding.

This was not the case last season, because last season we lost too much, and the losses were straightforward, so it is useless to sum it up.

After every loss, everyone went back to their respective homes, and the team had no morale or winning atmosphere.

Zach Randolph was sitting under his locker. When Dunleavy was talking, he wore big earphones on his head, and he looked like he was listening to music. He didn't listen to Dunleavy's nagging, and Dunleavy didn't bother to care about him.

In fact, there was no music playing in Randolph's headphones, and he heard everything Dunleavy said.

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

These words seem to be specifically for Randolph to hear.

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

Davis is a veteran of Los Angeles, Curry is the No. 03 pick, and his performance in these few games is quite amazing. Kaman is a member of the Clippers in 7 and has been with the Clippers for [-] years.

And Randolph?The cancer who was traded in the middle of last season, a country bumpkin from Indiana, has always ignored the media, all kinds of bad news off the field, and beat people in nightclubs this summer, no reporter wanted to talk to him.

Relieved, Randolph left Staples in his Chevrolet Impala and went home to rest.

He has a fanatical obsession with the Chevrolet Impala, and he bought five of them at home in one go, all of which were in the 70s, and he modified them into different colors.

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

What kind of car a man likes can often reveal his true inner self, which is often different from what people see.

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

Randolph is by no means so dull on the outside. His love for the Chevrolet Impala began when he was very young. At that time, his dream was to own such a car.

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

When he got home, his mother had already returned to Indiana, and his cohabiting girlfriend Francis Drake was waiting for him at home. The two embraced and kissed routinely.

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

For her star boyfriend, Drake has never been very restrained, and she knows that she can't control it, as long as he remembers to go home every day.

As long as he stays out of trouble, Drake is thankful, and the guy has been in trouble since he was a kid.

After the nightclub beating incident last time, Randolph restrained himself a lot, especially after the start of the season, except for games and training, the rest of the time was to go home to accompany her, or to complete community service.

"Zach, are you going to do community service tomorrow?"

"Yeah, get me a hamburger, I'm kinda hungry."

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

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

Their film crew recently followed the team to make a documentary. Yesterday in Salt Lake City, they recorded the entire process of the Clippers' reversal of the lore.

Tomorrow they're shooting a theme for Randolph, a day in his day-to-day life.

"I see, then I should go to bed early, forget it, I won't eat hamburgers, let's go to bed earlier, dear."

"Is it really unnecessary to eat? Would you like to have a drink together?"

"No, no, no drinking, I'm going to quit drinking."

"Stop drinking? Really?"

Drake looked at her boyfriend in surprise, and she was shocked when the word "quit alcohol" came out of his mouth, which was like listening to Buckley talking about losing weight.

Alcohol has always been important to those born poor in the United States, a narcotic that temporarily escapes their misery.

Randolph is no longer poor, but he used to be poor. Before he was an adult, he drank secretly. Alcohol can remove his dull shell and release his colorful nature.

The first time Randolph confessed to Drake was when he was drunk and a little drunk.

"Zach, do you remember the first time you kissed me? At that time, there was a smell of alcohol in your mouth, and it made me feel sick. Haha, now you tell you that you are going to quit drinking, really? I can't I don't trust you very much."

"Really, what I say is true. When I decide to do something, I will do it. You know me. I'm 28 years old, and I want to drink before I'm completely destroyed by alcohol. , start over and play well.”

There are many players in the NBA who have been ruined by alcohol. Among them, the more famous one is Wen Baker, an All-Star power forward, who is very similar to Randolph.

Once talented, but alcoholism ruined his body, ruined his motor nerves, and he fell off a cliff, and the end of his career was spent with the Knicks and Clippers.

The turning point of his career was precisely in the season when he was 28 years old, during the NBA's 99-year lockout period, he fell from a power forward averaging 20 points per game to just over 10 points per game, and he has never turned around since then.

Randolph didn't want to repeat the mistakes of his predecessors. His mother gave him a slap that day. He felt that the slap was lighter, much lighter than the one he received when he was a child.

Because he grows up, and mother grows old.

The expression on Zach Randolph's face was very serious. Drake looked at this guy who had been causing trouble all the time, and suddenly felt that he had grown up overnight, and he was going to become a real man.

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

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

Randolph's round and simple face showed a firm expression, he could feel that the Clippers were on the right path to health, and so was he.

(End of this chapter)