NBA: Starting with Jokic template

Chapter 15 Preparing for G6 Training Match

The next day, the Thunder flew back to Oklahoma on a special plane.

After half a day's journey, everyone returned to their homes to rest.

But in the Thunder's training hall, there is still a figure who keeps practicing shooting.

“Hoo, hoo…”

The sound of deep breathing was unusually clear in the empty stadium. The basketball was slapped hard on the ground, followed by a lateral move and a three-pointer shot in a somewhat special posture.

"Shh!"

The basketball went into the net. Lin Chuan stopped training and wiped his sweat with the towel that the staff had prepared.

It was Lin Chuan who was training alone at the training ground. After flying for two hours early in the morning, everyone chose to go home and rest, but Lin Chuan put down his luggage and rushed back to the training ground for training.

Only when the next contract is signed with a big contract can life be changed.

Now the only way is to train hard, play well and win the finals.

Lin Chuan is quite frugal. Although he entered the NBA, the salary at the end of the second round is not high, and no one knows, not even he himself, how long he can stay in the NBA. Therefore, even though he entered this high-paying league, he still did not give up the lease of his previous apartment, but instead renewed his contract for another year.

Even the landlord couldn't help but complain about Lin Chuan.
"He's already in the NBA, but he's still renting an apartment for $1000 a month. I don't know if you would think he's bankrupt because of his extravagant spending. He's already 6 feet 11 inches tall, but he doesn't think the house is too small."

"The house is not small, as long as the bed is long enough."

Lin Chuan could only laugh it off and asked the landlord to renew the contract for another year.

Money cannot be spent indiscriminately. Whether in his past life or this life, Lin Chuan has heard too many news about NBA players going bankrupt due to spending money indiscriminately. As a Chinese, he cannot associate with those uneducated black people who only know how to play basketball and spend money indiscriminately.

Of course you should save the money you earn with great difficulty, unless you become famous and sign a big contract.

G6 will be played tomorrow, so Lin Chuan dare not slack off.

After that performance yesterday, he doesn't think the Heat will still treat him as a nobody and ignore him.

Spoelstra is the team's video analyst, so he will definitely analyze his performance and impose restrictions on him.

Even though the Heat's lineup is a bit distorted, it's still scary when it works.

Otherwise, how could the Heat make it to the finals without a strong inside player?

Lin Chuan didn't dare to underestimate the other party.

"Let me in!"

After shooting long three-pointers for more than ten minutes, Lin Chuan's last shot went into the basket with his shout.

From then on, his shooting training was over.

"Fuck, Lin, how long have you been practicing secretly? You just got back and you're already here to practice. Are you Kobe?"

The door opened and Westbrook walked into the practice field twirling the ball.

"I just have to work harder to keep up with you guys, a group of star players."

Listening to Lin Chuan's words, Westbrook threw the ball to the ground and dribbled a few times.

"After all, we drank until 6 o'clock yesterday. We barely rested before boarding the plane and flying back with everyone. You only rested for a short while. I feel a little guilty about that."

Westbrook took the ball, dribbled a few steps to the free throw line, then suddenly jumped up, with a movement that was both stiff and smooth, and the ball flew out of his hands and fell into the basket.

It was Westbrook's signature shot.

Zombie jump shot.

"But it does arouse my fighting spirit, you kid!"

Lin Chuan was a little surprised and looked at Westbrook. There was a gleam in his eyes that almost flashed Lin Chuan.

"The coach and others will be here soon. Let me see your performance again in the training match!" Not long after, everyone returned to the training hall to make final preparations for tomorrow's G6.

Brooks divided everyone into two teams, the starting team and the substitute team.

Needless to say, the starting team is Durant, Westbrook, Perkins, Ibaka and Sefolosha.

The bench team is led by Harden, Lin Chuan, Fisher, Nick Collison and Daequan Cook.

Although Cook did not get much playing time in the finals, he played in many games throughout the playoffs. As a connector during the substitute period, he allowed Westbrook and Harden to have some rest time.

Generally speaking, the jump ball session is omitted in training matches, but during the finals, the competition format is more formal.

Lin Chuan and Perkins stood in the center circle, waiting for Brooks to throw the ball.

Wow!
The ball was thrown into the air, Lin Chuan jumped up quickly and hit the ball behind him.

Perkins is dark, thick and strong. He is two centimeters shorter than Lin Chuan, weighs more than ten kilograms, and is not as good in jumping ability.

He knew from the beginning that he could not compete with Lin Chuan in the jump ball, so he just jumped lightly at the beginning and then immediately retreated to defend.

The substitute team was unlucky. The ball shot by Lin Chuan was caught by Westbrook, who stepped on the accelerator and rushed forward.

Fisher is facing Westbrook, and Lin Chuan doesn't think that Fisher can defend Westbrook who is at his peak.

Sure enough, Fisher had just pulled up his shorts and stood in a horse stance, ready to defend seriously when Westbrook rushed past him.

All that was left in front of him was the exhaust from Westbrook’s sprint.

Lin Chuan in the inside had been waiting for Westbrook to attack, just waiting to give him a big block.

Westbrook saw Lin Chuan but didn't brake at all, he just rushed in.

After two consecutive big steps, when his foot was one step inside the free throw line, the whole person had already taken off into the air and flew in like a flash of lightning.

Lin Chuan jumped up and tried to block the shot, but Westbrook's dunk was extremely powerful. It went directly between Lin Chuan's hands and dunked over him fiercely.

"Hey!"

Westbrook landed steadily and called out to Lin Chuan to attract his attention.

"You are this, Lin."

Then he made a Too Small gesture in front of Lin Chuan.

Damn, this guy.

Lin Chuan laughed out of anger. He didn't expect that he would be dunked by Westbrook and ridiculed.

However, this taunting gesture should be the first time Westbrook used it, and he can be regarded as a witness.

Lin Chuan was a little careless, thinking that Westbrook's breakthrough dunk would not be as powerful as James'. He could even withstand James, so he would not be unable to withstand Westbrook.

As a result, he suffered a loss and was dunked on head-on.

I can only say that it’s a good thing that Lin Chuan was strong and didn’t get knocked down, otherwise it would have been really embarrassing.

But this dunk also served as a warning to Lin Chuan.

He is a fusion of Jokic, but after all, he is still an NBA player, not a fusion of aliens.

"That's it. If he plays like this tomorrow, he'll be beaten. He'd better just sit on the bench and watch the water dispenser!"

After dunking, Westbrook started talking trash to Lin Chuan.

After hearing Westbrook's trash talk, Lin Chuan did not talk back.

but……

Lin Chuan is not a person who will suffer a loss, he must fight back on the court!
(End of this chapter)