Chapter 205: Thanksgiving

On the fourth Thursday of November, the whole team gets moving to prepare for Thanksgiving and give back to the community. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

Yang Di followed the local customs and participated in it. Together with Fisher and others, I made some exquisite snacks and cakes, and gave some gifts to the children who were also specially invited.

For example, he bought 100 pairs of sneakers and other sports equipment from Nike's official website, and gave them all away on Thanksgiving Day.

It is equivalent to borrowing flowers to offer Buddha, but it has won the hearts of fans.

In addition to the first time, Yang Di's wonderful craftsmanship has won the unanimous recognition of everyone.

"I'm going to open a Chinese restaurant soon, next year at the latest." Yang Di announced the news and decided to open a more upscale Chinese restaurant in downtown Auckland, not thinking about how much money he would make, but only about spreading China's food culture.

As Yang Di became more and more exposed, Nancy also gained a lot of popularity.

With her already outstanding appearance and hot body, Nancy has gained a bunch of fans, and some local magazines in San Francisco took the initiative to find Nancy, hoping to invite her to shoot some cover posters and the like, Nancy kept making appointments for a while, and sometimes Yang Di felt that she was busier than him.

In the second half of November, the Warriors suffered some losses, but also won a few games.

After the whole November, the Warriors actually went 7-6 and still stayed in the eighth position in the West, which is undoubtedly a hard slap in the face of some experts.

But the league-wide focus is not on the Warriors, and the Suns have risen to prominence with a 12-2 record to become the league's No. 1 team so far. It is followed by teams such as the Spurs, Heat, Pistons, and Mavericks.

It's really surprising, you know, the Suns only had 29 wins last season, which was the second-to-last in the West, and even inferior to the Warriors.

The head coach hasn't changed either, and the biggest change for the Suns is nothing more than signing Steve Nash on a long-term contract in the offseason.

The 30-year-old Nash has revitalized the team with his master-level passing skills, giving the Suns a complete engine of their own, while Stoudemire, Sean Marion, Joe Johnson and others have all benefited from it, especially Stoudemire, for whom scoring has become much easier.

In his first month, Nash averaged 17.1 points and 13.3 assists per game, and Stoudemire averaged 27.4 points per game, one topping the assists list and the other ranking third in scoring.

The "mad scientist" Nelson Sr.'s small-ball theory seems to have been confirmed at this moment. D'Antoni, such a junior coach, deeply integrated the idea of running and shooting into the Suns, and the offensive rhythm of the Suns became faster and faster, although there are still many run-ins and unsatisfactory places, but it is undeniable that such a fast play whirlwind has made the entire NBA shine.

Basketball has gotten better, and that's what Stern wants to see.

But overall, most of the teams in the league are still mostly traditional, positional offense-based teams, and many coaches and basketball commentators bluntly said that the tactic of running and bombing can still be applied in college, and in the NBA, sacrificing defense will not go far after all.

Montgomery was also very excited, but after all, he "calmed down", and when he usually trained, he told the team to play positional offense, reduce mistakes, and focus on defense.

His reason is also very simple, Fisher is just an ordinary point guard after all, he does not have the smart passing ability of Nash, and Yang Di is doing better and better as the team's gate, and it is understandable to use this to make a fuss.

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Wednesday, December 1, Auckland.

The weather is clear, the harbor of San Francisco is full of ships, and the people of the Bay Area are busy from morning to night.

At the Oakland Arena, the Warriors take on the visiting Timberwolves.

The Timberwolves have had a bad start to the season, with only 8 wins and 5 losses, and they had the best record in the West last season. (Note: The Timberwolves were in poor shape in the 05-06 season, losing 44-38 and ninth in the West and missing the playoffs)

The team's record is average, and Garnett is not in a good mood, and when he encounters the media who enthusiastically came up to interview, he replied angrily: "Iamverybusy!" "Directly refused to be interviewed by the media before the game on the grounds that he was very busy.

The media retreated, scolding Garnett for being domineering, thinking that Yang Di was very good, basically what to answer, there are no taboos.

There are more and more Warriors fans wearing No. 8 jerseys in the stands, and the game has not yet started, and the court with the main white color palette is already noisy, and the atmosphere is very enthusiastic.

The Warriors made a simple opening ceremony, when the stadium DJ announced Yang Di's name.

The audience applauded thunderously, Yang Di shook his head proudly, danced his shoulders and body, and high-fived Dunleavy, Fisher and others on the side to encourage each other.

The first five tigers stood on the field, with different equipment.

Richardson and Mike Dunleavy are both white jerseys with no protective gear. Power forward Troy Murphy wears a knee pad on his right leg, Fisher has his classic headband on his head, and Yang Di wears elastic knee pads on both legs and a black vest under his rising jersey.

Fisher has always wondered why Yang Di wears a tight-fitting vest under his jersey, he feels that the vest is not very comfortable, and it is easy for people to stretch.

In addition to this, the first mover no one has braces in their mouths.

Braces are simply the best protection for basketball players' teeth, bumps on the court are too common, but seemingly hard teeth are also the most vulnerable.

The Timberwolves wear black away jerseys, PG Kassel, SG Sprewell, SF Szzebiak, PF Kevin Garnett, Mark Madsen.

Yang Di and Garnett stood in the center circle, and Garnett glared at him fiercely.

Yang Di glared back without showing weakness, when he was still in the heat last year, the two clashed on the court.

"Boy, when you meet me, you're dead."

"Why don't you try it?" Yang Di thought to himself that his strength had broken through to S-, Garnett was not known for his strength, even if he was not afraid of confrontation, he would definitely be inferior to himself at this point, and it was difficult to predict who would win or lose this time.

The referee looked at the time and confirmed that the staff were ready, and then blew the whistle with "beep~".

The basketball was thrown into the air, Yang Di and Garnett shouted at the same time, Garnett's reaction was indeed a little faster than Yang Di, and he took the lead in jumping and touched the basketball.

Kassel receives the ball and pushes it across the half.

11 minutes 57 seconds, 11 minutes 56 seconds...... Counting down the clock, the game officially begins.

This game also attracted the broadcast of CCTV5, and CCTV5 specially invited Cai Nan as a guest to participate in the commentary of this game in the studio.

After Cai Nan became the editor of the "Basketball Herald", he published several in-depth NBA articles, and became famous in the Chinese basketball industry, becoming a representative of outstanding commentators of the Mesozoic Generation.

He has always been very grateful to Yang Di, if he hadn't interviewed Yang Di back then, his resume might have been a different story.

And sitting on CCTV5 to explain the NBA made him feel like a dream.

Similarly, as a partner with Cai Nan, CCTV5 found Yu Jia, who is also very young and only 24 years old, to be a commentator.

Yu Jia has just started the commentary now, and there are not many games to comment, so he was very excited to get this opportunity, so he first asked Cai Nan for his views on this game according to the routine.

"The Warriors have a chance to win this game," Cai Nan took a deep breath: "Yang Di is a player who is good at playing tough battles, and today's Warriors are very united. On the Timberwolves' side, the record at the beginning of the season was very average, they lost to the Spurs and many other teams in a row, especially the United States, and many Timberwolves players expressed their dissatisfaction with their contracts, as if to verify the fact that they were conflicting in the locker room. ”

"But there's no denying that Garnett may be the most restrictive player in the league for Yang Di."

Yu Jia sighed with interest, and then said the same as cross talk, and asked one by one: "Restrictive force?" How so? ”