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Chapter 18 Interview
"Can I borrow afew minutes of your time? Mr." (Can I borrow a few minutes of your time, sir?)

Shi Lei looked at the visitor in surprise, but when he saw the other person's complexion and the press card hanging on his chest, he understood everything.

"You can speak Chinese."

In the noisy arena, Shi Lei had to amplify his volume.

"You are chinese."

Lin Junhui was also surprised. He never thought that the interviewee could speak fluent Chinese, because the domestic media did not have any reports about domestic players joining the NBA.

"Yes, my name is Shi Lei."

Shi Lei stretched out his hand.His expression was very calm, but his heart was not calm at all.

"Made, I finally met a live reporter!"

Lin Junhui mechanically shook hands with Shi Lei, and turned on the recorder with an excited expression in the next second.

"Big news, oh big news!"

"Hi, I'm TOM sports reporter Lin Junhui, when did you join the Spurs?"

"After summer league, I was playing for the Celtics and it was an honor to get a call from the team."

"The domestic team you played for before? Why didn't you participate in the NBA draft?"

"Oh, sorry, I don't think I can answer your question. I'm just an amateur basketball player. As for the draft, I don't really know how to sign up, and I don't know what conditions it requires. That's it."

Shi Lei was inexperienced in dealing with the media, so he leaked everything from this sentence, because this sentence itself is a huge piece of news.

However, seeing that Shi Lei didn't want to talk about this topic, Lin Junhui, who wanted to make a good impression on the other party when they met for the first time, finally gave up digging this news.

"May I ask why you chose the No. 11 jersey? Is there any special meaning?"

Shi Lei knew the meaning of this question, of course he would not say "I just picked one at random", but just as Lin Junhui expected, he said: "My idol is Yao Ming, I hope I can achieve success in the NBA." Same achievement as him."

"So what do you think is the biggest problem you are facing now? What are your goals for the new season?"

"First of all, it is to help the team win, and secondly, I can play better. As for the biggest problem I am facing now, I think I am not adapting to the rules."

Lin Junhui obviously misunderstood Shi Lei's meaning, and comforted him by saying, "This is a problem that many international players have to solve first. Then do you have anything to say to domestic fans and friends?"

Uh, Shi Lei actually doesn't have much to say, at least until he gets a stable playing time.Yidi’s lessons learned from the past, in case he “strikes an iron angrily, picks a board angrily, and fouls a rule angrily” every day.
So he said very nonsensically: "I hope the fans and friends have a happy life."

"NBA Adds New Chinese Army, 20-year-old young player joins the Spurs" - "In the just-concluded NBA preseason game, in the Spurs game against Lyon Aswar, the young Chinese player Shi Lei got the chance to play. Under the strict defense, the opposing players were blocked, helping the team win the first game of the new season with a score of 112 to 95, and achieved a good start
It is worth mentioning that this teenager is the first outside player in my country to join the NBA.
In the end, he said that he was not very used to the rhythm and rules of NBA games, but he also said that he would work hard to achieve good results and help the team win. He also hoped that domestic fans would support him more. Will repay the support of the fans with a wonderful performance.Finally, he also wished fans and friends in China a happy life! "——TOM Sports, reporter Lin Junhui.

Through this report, Shi Lei entered the field of vision of domestic fans for the first time, and some domestic fans began to know that there is such a Chinese player in the NBA.

In Lyon, France, the Spurs did not stay long. On the day the game ended, they took a plane to fly to Israel.

The Spurs' opponent in the second preseason game is Israel's Maccabi.

Maccabi is the overlord of the Israeli basketball league. Since its establishment in 1932, it has won 04 championships.It is also a super team in European basketball. It has won the championship four times and won two consecutive championships in 05 and [-].There are many famous European players who have played for this team, including many NBA stars!

Among all the teams in the NBA, the Spurs are one of the few teams with a complete lineup. They trade every year, with old players leaving and new players coming in, but the framework that really supports the team seems to never change. The greatest power forward in the NBA—Tim Duncan, the most famous perimeter defender in the league—Bruce Bowen, the top guard with the most breakthroughs and the highest shooting percentage in the league—Tony Parker, on the Pampas grassland Eagle - Manu Ginobili.

In this game, Ginobili was once again on the bench. Finley, who joined the team in the new season, made his debut, and the other four remained unchanged.

This was a stalemate game. From the first minute, the scores of the two teams have not been separated, and have been rising alternately. The biggest point difference is only five points.

Finley doesn't seem to have integrated into the team yet, and has always given people a feeling of being out of the tactical system, and his performance was not as dazzling as when he came off the bench in the last game.What's more deadly is that even Parker was restricted. Maccabi's point guard Odoros Papalukas completely controlled the rhythm of the court.There is also Duncan, who gave the Spurs the advantage inside.

There was no garbage time in this game, and the winner was not determined until the end of the game. With the performance of Duncan and Ginobili, the Spurs won this game with 94:89.Shi Lei didn't get any playing time.

But in this match, Shi Lei was not without gains.

As a basketball white Ding, he knew the importance of tactical literacy for the first time.Stronger than Finley, the former "Jordan successor", because he couldn't integrate into the team's tactical system, played 29 minutes and scored only 13 points, not as high as Ginobili who came off the bench.

Is it Finley's ability to hold back Ginobili?I'm afraid no one thinks so.The only reason to limit his performance is that he has not integrated into the Spurs system.

This is also the tragedy of a sideshow. When you can't make the world revolve around you, all you can do is try to keep up with the frequency of its rotation, or be eliminated.

Shi Lei didn't want to be the one who was eliminated, so he began to observe Bowen, observing every move Bowen made in the offense, every pick-and-roll, every choice of pass, observing his defense, observing how he chose every time. Fill in for a sluggish Parker or Ginobili.

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