Basketball: The Chosen Victim

Chapter 87

After experiencing the suffocating atmosphere of the Grizzlies' home court, Wu Di felt a long-lost intimacy when he returned to the Cavaliers' home court.

This kind of intimacy begins when parking. The Quicken Loans Arena is located in the center of Cleveland. The parking space is as tight as the tiebreaker, but as a player, there is an exclusive parking lot.

Not only that, as the head star of the Cavaliers, Wu Di directly has an exclusive luxury parking space with an identity plate.

You know, Quicken Loans Arena is not only the home of the Cavaliers themselves, it is also the home of the Cleveland Monsters of the American Hockey League and the Gladiators of the American Football League. There are usually some music festival activities, and many players and staff want to Use this parking lot.

But Wu Di Leng has his own exclusive luxury parking space, and no one can use it except him.

Another person on the team who can enjoy this treatment is coach Scott.

Even the boss Gilbert didn't enjoy this treatment, but when Gilbert came to watch the game, it was usually brought by the driver, so he didn't need to park by himself.

Stepping off the Lamborghini bat, Wu Di is ready to start the team's warm-up training against the Nets this morning.

Today, he wore a light blue haute couture suit and a pair of patent leather Pepsi red, white and blue AJ1s. As soon as he walked into the player tunnel, he was snapped by photographers and reporters.

Wu Di's outfit was only unveiled in the morning, and during the game in the afternoon, the arena was full of spectators imitating the outfit.

This earthy combination of "suits and sneakers", which has been despised by fashion bloggers for a long time, has become a fashion code in such a short period of time...

Facts have proved that the biggest role fashion can play is just icing on the cake. As long as the face is handsome enough, the beggar can also dress up as a sharp brother, and as long as the face is broken, Guanxi can seamlessly play the role of country love in whatever he wears.

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There are not many die-hard Cavaliers fans. The so-called small ball market in Cleveland is just an excuse for some fans.

Although not as good as Los Angeles and New York, Cleveland is not a village. It is a typical medium-to-large city in the United States, and its status is similar to that of China's new first-tier cities.

In the global city ranking produced by "Global City Lab", Cleveland ranks 115th, and the Chinese city that is close to this ranking is Chongqing.

In fact, this can also be seen from the attendance rate of the stadium. The more than 70 seats in the Quicken Loans Arena are basically full, which is much better than the Grizzlies whose attendance rate is less than [-]%!

It is also much better than the Bulls before Jordan came!
The Bulls weren't even at 50% attendance before Joe's boss left...

The big ball market and the small ball market are all made through hard work. Milwaukee, which is smaller than Cleveland, has the blessing of Brother Antetokounmpo behind it, hasn't it gradually developed?
Going to a live football game means almost the same thing as going to a party for Americans.

The game, the stars, the atmosphere, the audience, etc. are all the highlights of the party.

In the warm-up session before the game, the camera frequently showed Megan Fox sitting in the VIP area in the front row.

She wore a black Cavaliers fan hat today, a large navy blue sweater, and a white jersey number 46. Under her eye-catching big white legs, there were black calf socks.

The simple collocation, wearing on Meghan's body, is extremely sexy. The Hollywood goddess turned out to be a participant in the Cavalier Party, which instantly sparked screams from the fans present.

Except for Meghan, almost one-fifth of the more than 2 spectators have already put on the No. 46 jersey.

It has doubled since the beginning of the regular season!
"The finale is the real king of Cleveland, No.46, Wu~Di!"

Accompanied by the roar of the live DJ, there was a bang, and the flame spray guns on the dome illuminated the Quicken Loans Arena like daytime!

At the same time, Wu Di's photo also occupied the huge screen in the center of the arena, and the atmosphere on the scene was instantly ignited!

"Hey, listen to the overwhelming cheers at the scene, our Wu Di has really become a big star!"

In the CCTV live broadcast room, Director Zhang smiled.

"Yeah, it's almost the same as when LeBron was in the Cavaliers before! And Director Zhang, did you notice that when the DJ called his name just now, the surname came first and the first name followed, which is completely different from the American habit. I guess It was specially changed, this guy has already caught up with Dayao!"

Ma Jian said enviously that Yao Ming was called Ming Yao at the beginning, and he was corrected as Yao Ming after he entered the All-Star Game as the champion of votes. Now Wu Di was corrected after only playing 12 games.

And when he played in the NCAA, his name was always "Jianma"...

Thinking of this, he continued to say sourly:
"Hehe, let me just say, it's better than staying in the Heat! In the Heat, I can only play as a substitute. I don't know when I will be able to make a breakthrough. Now it's great to train in the Cavaliers as the core. Wu Di really has to thank James! Otherwise, absolutely no It may rise so fast!"

That's right, he is a fan of James. When Wu Di was traded, he posted that it was not necessarily a bad thing, and now it really proves that he is "right".

Director Zhang waved his hands and said:

"There is a role for this factor, but it is not the decisive factor. The decisive factor depends on our Chinese teenagers to strive for themselves! Look at Adam Morrison, who was selected by the Bobcats in 06. Wasn't he also trained as the core of the team? Today The news has just been released, and people have already considered retiring!"

Ma Jian smiled awkwardly. There is no doubt that strength is the foundation, and opportunities are also important, but opportunities are just catalysts. If Wu Di does not have the strength to be the core of the team, he is probably not much different from Morrison of the Bobcats. ...

Hey, wait, bobcat?
Ma Jian laughed again:

"...That's different, Adam Morrison was chosen by Jordan, who doesn't know who Jordan chose who is unlucky?"

Director Zhang was speechless when he saw him playing haha ​​like this. Every year there are No. [-] and No. [-] picks in the NBA, but how many of them actually become stars?
He didn't want to argue with Ma Jian on this issue anymore, so he changed the subject and said:
"Speaking of Jordan, in addition to the big player deals this year, the team also made a lot of big deals! Jordan's acquisition of the Bobcats counts as one, and Russia's richest man Prokhorov's acquisition of the New Jersey Nets also counts as one!"

"However, the record of the Nets is relatively average now. They are both 5 wins and 6 losses with the Cavaliers, ranking 9th and 10th. Whoever wins this game can achieve 6 wins and 6 losses, which is equal to the eighth Pacers. Already!"

"The Cavaliers have Wu Di to support the scene, but the Nets have also reinforced a talented small forward, Travis Outlaw!"

"This player's name is very domineering, "outlaw", which translates to "outlaw lunatic". He does have the capital of madness. His physical fitness is extremely abnormal. He is 2 meters tall and has a wingspan of more than 06 meters. A muscular man, he once dunked Dayao..."

On the court, the appearance ceremony is over, and the big centers of the two teams are ready to jump the ball.

"The starting centers of the two teams are all third-year players in the 08 draft. The Cavaliers are the second-round pick Jordan Jr., and the Nets are the No. [-] pick in the first round of the year. People call it Daluo!"

But Jordan proved that the "for reference only" of the draft pick is more than just a lie. With a whistle, he jumped high, leading the ball with a palm and firmly dialing the ball into Davis's hands.

This moment attracted a burst of exclamation from the fans on the scene.

"Today's game, our knight army will win a crushing victory!"

Seeing this, the female DJ at the scene began to output by riding her face, and added another sentence after speaking:
"If Wu Di's physical strength is fine!"

When Wu Di heard the words, a black line appeared on his face. The DJ was hinting at Megan's defense last night...

In fact, with his 92 super giant physical fitness, he has already recovered.

Not only that, but he also used the 130 million rewards he won in the Grizzlies game to give his waist a little bit of talent.

Then after intensive training with Megan for many times, his waist and abdomen strength has increased from 85 to 86, perfectly fulfilling his talent!
Damn, is there a star who is more diligent than him?

"Short, your golf skills are as bad as Megan's acting skills!"

Outlaw spat trash talk at Wu Di, who had just asked for the ball at the top of the arc.

As the first-round pick of the Platinum Generation in 03, he did not secure his starting position in the Nets until this year, but Wu Di became the core of the team in the first season, and also won the favor of the goddess!
All this made him jealous...

Why Wu Di? !

His height and wingspan are obviously stronger than Wu Di's, and his jumping speed is about the same, only his strength is a little weaker!
His salary is twice that of Wu Di!
The only thing that can be explained is Wu Di's skin...

Is yellow skin so easy to use?

"See if I don't prevent you from crying today!"

His slender arms are in a defensive posture, blocking Wu Di's way. He has studied Wu Di's game video before the game. No matter whether Wu Di is breaking through or shooting, he is confident in defending him!

Wu Di was also speechless, the extrajudicial lunatic "Zhang San" in front of him is not very smart!
Ordinary people watched the Grizzlies game before, who would dare to talk trash to him?
Guy was overwhelmed with anger, and Hollins was so angry that he jumped up, this fellow dared to spray here, how hard is his head?

Wu Di swung the basketball around in front of him, and when he reached the highest point, he decisively hit the ball on his bald head...

Boom!
The basketball rebounded into his hands as if it had hit an iron plate.

Well, it really is 24K real iron!

"Hahaha!"

This action that only appears in streetball instantly turned the Quicken Loans Center into a sea of ​​joy.

Amidst Outlaw's bewildered face, Wu Di dashed towards the basket with cross steps, leaving only a broad back for him.

Daluo and the Nets' starting power forward Chris Humphries saw his teammate Outlaw being so humiliated, and they all tried their best to defend!

"Damn it, even if it's a foul, you have to defend the ball!"

Da Luo gritted his teeth. If Wu Di scored this goal, their morale might be hit hard today...

Wu Di's eyes froze. Da Luo's height was too high. At this distance, he could no longer pass the ball to Jordan and pass it back to Jamison, which was equivalent to reorganizing the attack...

No, this opportunity must not be wasted!

Wu Di made a super high throw directly.

Little Jordan just wanted to jump up, but when he saw the height of the ball, he stopped instantly. Wu Di thought highly of him too. If he could fly so high, he would have saved the world by wearing red underpants!
The ball was indeed not passed to him, the basketball hit the top of the backboard, and when it rebounded to the other side, it was suddenly caught in the air by a pair of big flying hands, and then drifted and pressed the wrist to make a shot...

Swish!
The basketball fell firmly into the net!

"This ball is for..."

The DJ at the scene just wanted to say that the ball was given outrageously. Seeing this scene, he immediately changed his words:
"This ball is so wonderful!"

0: 2!

【Ding!It was detected that the host scored +2 on a fadeaway jumper after the game with the Nets, and the wealth value was credited, +10000 US dollars! 】

Relaxed, freehand, and another [-] dollars in the account!

Wu Di's current wealth value is 62 dollars, if he can get more than 38 rewards today, he will be able to increase his waist strength again!
Only at this moment did Outlaw come to his senses. Watching the slow-motion replay on the big screen, he exploded with rage!
Damn, he looks so stupid!
"I will make you pay for it!"

He wants to get the ball on the left wing, and then his crotch is about to burst in. He wants to come to the basket of the tyrannical Cavaliers!
But when he bumped into Wu Di, it was like bumping into an iron wall...

Although he is 2 meters tall, his weight is only 06 kilograms, and he put on a pain mask in an instant due to his lack of strength...

But he still has two brushes. He has quick eyes and quick hands to make a bomb jump, and he wants to take advantage of his height to make a mid-range shot...

However, Wu Di took advantage of the opportunity to cut the ball, and the Nets were instantly hit with a fast break!

"Although the two teams have the same number of wins, the strength of the Nets is obviously worse than that of the Cavaliers. On their back line, last year's All-Star guards Devin Harris and Anthony Morrow can not be left behind. The wind, but Humphries and Outlaw on the front line are completely lost..."

"Although Outlaw has entered the league for 7 years and has accumulated a lot of game experience, but these experiences are useless in front of real talents..."

"His height and arm length advantage is very clumsy under Wu Di's defense. He has no other tricks to play except for floating outside shots, but his shooting rate has been as low as 25%, which is severely restricted by Wu Di..."

"In the face of Wu Di's offense, his defense is also lackluster. Compared with ordinary big men, his footsteps are very flexible, but he is too easy to be deceived by Wu Di's fake moves. In the Nets coach "Little General" Amid Avery Johnson's roar, he did jump less, but this made Wu Di more unscrupulous in his jump shot stunts..."

In the cheers of the fans at the scene, the Cavaliers established a huge advantage at 20:35 in the first quarter.

Outlaw was beaten so badly that his head drooped like a bean sprout, completely losing his confidence as an "outlaw fanatic".

In the case of "Zhang San", Wu Di changed his strategy on the field and focused on training Jordan from the second quarter.

Jordan's blue-collar skills such as rebounding and defense are quite solid, but his offensive methods are very single. When attacking the frame, he is not even good at close-range throws. He can only dunk or simple layup, which is to eat cakes. .

But because he played as a substitute in the Clippers before, he didn't have many opportunities to eat cakes, so the offensive position is not aggressive enough.

This defect is not obvious when encountering ordinary starting-level centers, but once encountering a center with top defensive awareness like Gasol Jr., it will be severely restricted.

In the last game, Jordan only scored 6 points, 8 rebounds and 4 turnovers.

Gasol's position was precisely stuck at the uncomfortable point of Jordan every time. Jordan's temper was completely lost when he was defended, and he could only rely on the rebound to explode a little later.

And Daluo is like a low-profile version of Gasol, who just happened to practice for Jordan.

"Use your butt to squeeze him out, yes, from the moment you use your butt, the attack begins! Don't wait for me to pass you a pass before you squeeze, if you can squeeze him away, the ball will automatically go to you ..."

Wu Di yelled when commanding Jordan to take a position on the court, completely ignoring the swollen faces of the Nets on the court.

Harris took the lead in turning on the Pluto mode, catching up and scoring consecutively. At the end of the second quarter, he led the Nets to chase the score to 45:52.

But Wu Di didn't panic. After the third quarter, he still used Da Luo's defense to train Jordan.

It can be seen from his own experience of realizing his talent that if he wants to make real progress, he must find the right opponent.

Jordan practiced there for ten days, but it might not be effective to face Daluo on the court for an hour!
Since he was recognized by Jordan as the boss, he had to teach him out!

Although there will be fewer points in this way, sharpening the knife is not a mistake, and if you don't train it, there will only be more assists wasted later.

Besides, what they will face in the next scene is Gasol, who is more difficult than Gasol!

Fortunately, Jordan deserves to be a center who eats cakes and eats double firsts. After Wu Di's one-quarter training, he has obviously made some progress, and helped the Cavaliers bite the score in the third quarter.

Seeing that it was almost the same, Wu Di turned on Death Mode again at the beginning of the fourth quarter, extending the lead to more than 10 points and directly killing the game.

The score was finally fixed at 97:109. The Cavaliers won the home game without bloodshed, and tied for eighth in the Eastern Conference with the Pacers!
(End of this chapter)