Chapter 87 - Chinese Derby
Ji Feng gradually conquered his teammates with his outstanding performance, and coach Mark must not let Ji Feng play for no reason. Although in Mark’s view, he still prefers Guy, but Ji Feng’s outbreak undoubtedly enriched Mark’s tactical arrangement Ji Feng gradually sat on the bench. Mark started to let Ji Feng appear as the sixth man, and formed a powerful combination with Conley and Navarro.
Ji Feng is certainly not satisfied with the bench, but this is also a good start. At least now Ji Feng has finally established a foothold in the NBA. Ji Feng’s strength has been gradually recognized by people. ESPN has added Ji Feng to this year’s best rookie rankings. He is currently ranked 17th, just one step away from the lotto zone.
And Conley’s 4th has slipped to 9th, because the Grizzlies have too many guards, Conley always can not find time to play, and the performance is more struggling, which makes Conley complain to Ji Feng.
ESPN also commented on Ji Feng, just four words: full potential. But this also surprised many people. ESPN would say good things, which is really surprising.
In the next two games, the Grizzlies went to challenge the Pacers away, and returned to the main scene against the Heat. In the two games, they won and lost, lost to the Pacers with O’Neal, and defeated the lack of Wade and O’Neill. Heat.
These two games were a start and a substitute for the season peak, scoring 16 points, 4 steals, 5 assists and 15 points, 5 steals, 3 assists.
The performance is wonderful, especially so far, the entire preseason season has been able to get 5 steals per game, which makes the opponents who are opposed to Ji Feng miserable, Danny Granger of the Pacers in the interview He said that he didn’t know how Ji Feng grasped the moment of his mistake and took the ball away.
“It’s like opening up, and you know, I have never seen a defender so obsessed with steals, but he can always do it.” Granger said.
These words were also translated back by Chinese netizens, and Ji Feng also had his first nickname, ‘Stealing Madness’.
This nickname was also told to him by a hot letter, making Ji Feng cry and laugh, his other performances were also good, bad dunk, coquettish move, bunker pass, this Granger, Ji Feng decided to be in the future It is harder to entertain Granger!
“How about expressing my gratitude.” Ji Feng thought to himself.
October 22 is the Grizzlies’ training day. The Grizzlies will go to Houston, Texas on the 24th to start two back-to-back games with the Rockets.
The Houston Rockets are a strong team. Since Yao Ming was selected and traded to McGrady, the team has not only gained a lot of popularity, but also reached the playoffs for several years in a row, but the team with two superstars, Yao and McGrady, and The Grizzlies are sympathetic, and are the owners of the first round of playoff games.
Don’t worry about being good in the regular season, you must kneel in the playoffs.
But this season Houston completed reinforcements, Battier joined, Francis returned, so they are ambitious and want to create good results.
After participating in the team’s joint training on this day, Ji Feng routinely performed physical training under the guidance of the physical trainer, but he soon stopped because he received text messages from China again.
“Ji Feng, Ji Feng! My drama is about to be broadcast, do you say I will be recognized by everyone, what if I get scolded!”
Ji Feng looked at this text message and couldn’t help laughing. Recently, he was about to debut, and he starred as soon as he debuted, making it very stressful, so he became very sensitive. So these days I often text Ji Feng in the middle of the night.
Although Ji Feng wanted to say: “It’s okay, isn’t the idol drama just to be scolded, and I’m getting used to it slowly.”
But Ji Feng felt that if he said that, it would explode when it was hot, so he still comforted him every time.
“It doesn’t matter, the first one will be treated as a long experience if you get scolded. If you have time, I will watch your play. Come on!” Ji Feng also remembered the time of the hot new play.
“Well! That’s it! Come on the day after tomorrow! Don’t disturb you! Good night!” Hot see the rest with confidence and satisfaction. She just likes to chat with Ji Feng.
And Ji Feng continued his own training. The day after tomorrow is a big test for him, he will face one of the league’s strongest small forwards, Tracy McGrady.
This is the first time Ji Feng has faced this level of opponents. He also wants to know how much he is different from the top of the world.
And before the game, this game has aroused great concern in the two regions of China and the United States. This may be the most concerned preseason game so far.
The focus of the American media is whether Guy and Ji Feng can withstand the impact of Tracy McGrady. It is important to know that Tracy McGrady, who is at its peak, does not have a person who can completely prevent him. Most of the time it is easy to face.
Do n’t be fooled by McGrady ’s sleepy eyes that do n’t seem to be open, or be attracted by his seemingly careless way of playing. That ’s because in the face of ordinary opponents, he does n’t need to be serious, it is enough to abuse most of them who are standing opposite him. People.
The Chinese media paid more attention to the first meeting between Ji Feng and Dayao, and the name of the Chinese derby was shouted again. In addition, Chinese fans are very concerned about this game. Among Chinese fans, there are many Rocket fans, but many of them are also fans of Ji Feng’s performance. uukanshu.com So this is also a confrontation for Chinese fans.
How much attention is paid to this game, the reporting team from China can know that CCTV sent the highest-level reporters to Houston, and Tencent Sports, a certain wave of sports, etc. sent their own strongest lineup of reporters.
On the 23rd, the Grizzlies assembled and flew to Houston.
This afternoon is the training time for the Grizzlies. The first half is the public training time when the media can enter the shooting. When Ji Feng sat on the stool to organize his shoes, he found that there were a lot of Chinese reporters around, which made Ji Feng appear in an instant. In a trance, Ji Feng thought he was playing in China if his surrounding teammates were wrong.
After the training, Ji Feng was surrounded by a group of Chinese media waiting in the channel. In addition to CCTV ’s old friend Liu Jia, he also saw Tencent ’s beautiful reporter Shen Yang. Compare with other media if they were sent by the masters. Either it looks a bit sorry for the lineup of the audience, or a reporter from Tencent Sports is more pleasing.
“This has captured the men’s psychology. Tencent will be in flames sooner or later, watching basketball while watching beautiful women. This is life.” Ji Feng admired Tencent’s vision.
“Ji Feng, what do you think of the upcoming two Chinese derbys.” Shen Yang took advantage of the beauty and sent a message directly.
“Ah, Brother Yao is very strong, I like to watch him play, but we don’t directly match up, and I haven’t just been here for a while, I can just play the level.” Ji Feng said.
“Are you confident about McGrady, who may be playing against you.” Another reporter then asked.
“Maddy is very strong, I am here to learn, and I will have confidence when I have learned his skills.” Ji Feng said modestly, he can’t always say he can win.