rpbooks Chapter 134 Visiting Oklahoma City
Chapter 134 Visiting Oklahoma City
Chapter 134 Visiting Oklahoma City
After a wave of five consecutive victories, the Blazers lost 99 to 104 to the Mavericks in Dallas, but this defeat did not affect his good mood, because he will follow the team to visit Oklahoma City in the next game, There was his buddy Westbrook at UCLA.Due to the tight schedule, Ye Feng doesn't plan to take time to visit this small town, but Westbrook also doesn't plan to take his good buddies around - he is not familiar with this place yet!
Objectively speaking, Oklahoma City and Seattle are really not in the same class.Seattle is the largest city in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. It is also known as the "Emerald City". It is the largest city in Washington State. "The Best Place to Live in America" by "Fortune" magazine, "The Best City to Live and Work" by "Fortune" magazine in 1995, and the city with the highest quality of life recognized in the United States in 1996.Oklahoma City's economy is dominated by agriculture (sideline) industry, construction industry, health care industry, manufacturing industry and mining industry. The only things worthy of praise are health care and education. Presumably the players feel a little bit aggrieved.
Moreover, the size of the ball market is closely related to the strength of the team to a large extent. Since entering the 21st century, only a team with a small market like the Spurs may have achieved great success in the NBA. Apart from their excellent draft vision and internal team building, there are few small teams that can make it all the way to the championship in the life-and-death professional basketball league.
Don't think this is alarmist. From 2000 to 2008, the Lakers three times, the Celtics once, the Heat once, the Spurs twice, and the Pistons once. Of these eight championships, only the Spurs are a team in a small market, and the Pistons can only It counts as half. After all, Detroit's skinny camel is bigger than a horse, and it is still considered an important city in the territory of the US auto industry. The other three cities, Los Angeles, Boston and Miami, are out-and-out big ball cities.Even going back to the 90s, Chicago and Houston together won eight championships, who said that these two are not big ball markets?
The size of the ball market is closely related to the team's income, and in this increasingly commercialized league, in order to retain or introduce superstars, in addition to excellent coaches and teams, only the attractiveness of the city and the team's A big contract was offered.From this perspective, Oklahoma City can't catch up with Seattle even if it's flattering.Fortunately, there are many talents in the Thunder now, and the vision of the management in the draft meeting has been fully proved, and they have just moved, and some hidden problems have not yet exploded.
Even so, when Westbrook saw his old friend, he still had a gloomy face on his face. Although he is now an iron-clad starting point guard, the team's record made him unhappy, especially with Ye Feng. After comparison of the Blazers.The team in the rebuilding period will inevitably have to pay tuition. Westbrook does not understand this truth, but he is used to being a winner. He is still a little unhappy with the status quo of the team. The Thunder only played 11 wins and 38 losses, properly at the bottom of the Western Conference.Comparing the two, he even wondered if Ye Feng would laugh at him as soon as they met, even if it was very likely to happen based on their friendship.
But Ye Feng was obviously not as heartless as he imagined, instead he kindly comforted him.This is not pretending. He really understands the current situation of the Thunder, because the Trail Blazers were like this last season. This is the only way for an immature team to mature, and no team can avoid it.Especially for a small ball market like the Thunder, maybe they can only slowly build their own lineup by continuing to draft. To put it bluntly, if they want to recruit stars with the current conditions, they are really not qualified.
Westbrook was depressed for a while, but soon regained his optimistic look, and began to ask about Ye Feng's recent situation in Portland with great interest.Ye Feng talked about some things about himself in the team, including how old players like Roy, Alder and Blake took care of him, and he also talked about his best friend Oden in Portland.Suddenly Westbrook said without thinking: "Then how old is he this year?" Ye Feng was taken aback, and said helplessly: "Why are you also interested in this guy's age? When I was in the All-Star Rookie Challenge Ask, and I'll introduce you to each other."
Hurriedly changing the topic from Oden's age, Ye Feng asked: "What do you think of your team? I am quite envious of you..." Let alone whether I am really envious, I still have to talk about this scene , Do you still want Ye Feng to say "Your team is rubbish hahahahaha"?Westbrook scratched his head and said: "The atmosphere of the team is quite good. After all, everyone is still young, but this is also our biggest shortcoming. It is easier to get ahead when playing. Occasionally, impulsively, we will lose the advantages we have just established. Throw it away."
This is also the truth. Ye Feng is too aware of the character of his good friend. Going forward is definitely not a compliment to him. Many times you will even think that this is a supercar without brakes. Push the pedal to the bottom.Ye Feng asked: "Isn't your team planning to bring in some veterans to guide you?" Westbrook nodded and said, "I also think it's necessary, but the management hasn't made any moves yet, and I still He's a rookie, he's soft-spoken, and it's useless to talk to the general manager directly, and it might be more effective to replace him with Kevin." Of course, the Kevin here is not the common alumnus and friend Kevin Love of the two, but the current Thunder Promising team leader Kevin Durant.
Ye Feng smiled secretly: "Even if Durant went to tell the general manager himself, I'm afraid it won't have any effect? Maybe his plan is to hoard a batch of high-ranking fresh meat and cultivate it slowly?" But he didn't either. Instead, he began to ask Westbrook curiously: "Is this guy easy to get along with? Did he also look like a good baby in the training session? The team has you two guys together, one ball is enough. ……"
Well, apart from the fact that the first two questions were gossips, the latter ones were teasing by Ye Feng. Unfortunately, Westbrook was quite straightforward. He thought about it seriously, and whispered: "He, he is always like this on weekdays." ..."
(End of this chapter)