naaapseattle Chapter 232 Hello Thunder
Chapter 232 Hello Thunder
Chapter 232 Hello Thunder
After spending a short leisurely and busy vacation at home, Ye Hao also left for the United States to prepare for the new season.
Starting from the new season, he is no longer a rookie, but a second-time rookie with a year of experience in the league.
However, the new season also has a new start. The team moved from Seattle to Oklahoma City and has a new team name, the Thunder.
The difference from the previous life is that this Thunder team does not have Westbrook, and there will be no future "Three Young Thunder".
Of course, if you want to insist on a name like "Three Young Masters", there are still some,
After all, media reports like to say this, and I don’t know if it’s a bit taller to say it like this, such as the “Three Young Masters”, the “Big Three”, and the “Troika”...
Now the Thunder's three young masters are naturally Ye Hao, Durant and Jeff Green.
It's just that Ye Hao's performance in his debut season was too dazzling, not only covering Durant's light,
And Jeff Green's faint glow can no longer be seen, so that Jeff Green is rarely mentioned in media reports.
This is probably the truest and saddest visual reflection of a good player standing next to a super talented player.
Just sort out the media reports about the Sonics last season and you will know,
From the very beginning, the supersonic team selected the talented player Durant, Durant will be the new boss of this team,
Until the rise of Ye Hao, the Sonics were regarded as a team of Durant and Ye Hao.
Then Ye Hao is considered to be a rare super basketball genius in decades. The Supersonics are Ye Hao's team alone, and Durant is just supporting Ye Hao's second-in-command.
There is basically nothing about Jeff Green in the middle.
In the new season, the Thunder joined several rookie players Serge Ibaka, Andre Jordan, George Hill and Dragic.
Will some of these people come out and join Ye Hao and Durant to form the "Thunderbolt XX" that the media reporters said?
I'm afraid there won't be any, because this is Ye Hao's team, and everyone else is here to assist Ye Hao.
No one can shake this point, especially after the Olympics, Ye Hao's reputation has reached its peak.
As for the prospects of the Thunder for the new season, the media are generally optimistic and cautious.
The optimistic thing is that after a season of training, both Ye Hao and Durant have adapted to the rhythm of the NBA game and grown up. They may go more smoothly in the new season than last season.
Last season, they stumbled at the start of the game. At that time, they would not have thought that they would make the playoffs, let alone reach the Western Conference Finals.
But media commentators are cautious, because they feel that the Thunder did not gain much in the 2008 draft. They probably selected two big men and two small men, and they wanted to rely on them to fill the Thunder. The weak one position and inside line seem a bit unrealistic.
After all, they are all rookies with a very low draft pick. Usually, such a pick is rarely able to play.
Even if you can, you have to go through a long period of training and training.
Moreover, in the eyes of experts, the Thunder's draft not only did not have much reinforcing effect on the team, but instead caused some positions of the team to overlap too much, and the positions that should be strengthened were not strengthened.
When Jordan and Ibaka came to the team, plus Varejao, Jeff Green, Wilcox and Nick Collison on their team, the inside position became very crowded.
At the No. [-] position, they have Earl Watson and Luke Ridnour. This position is considered by the outside world to be the weakest position. Dragic, who was obviously not favored, got reinforcements, but instead caused overlapping positions and wasted personnel.
Experts believe that the problem that needs to be solved urgently in front of the Thunder team management is,
Get two reliable substitute players through the trade, who can play and contribute after Ye Hao and Durant are off the court,
Then you have to go through a trade to get a qualified starting point guard who can provoke the team's offense.
In the transaction, the overlapping positions of those personnel will be cleaned up.
Only in this way can the Thunder go further in the new season.
It's just that so far, the Thunder have not seen any major moves in terms of transactions for the time being. They just signed Sean Livingston with a very low salary in the free agent market.
If there is no injury, Livingston will be a very good player. He participated in the NBA draft in 2004 and was selected by the Los Angeles Clippers with the fourth overall pick.
It's just that he suffered a serious injury with a broken leg in a game between the Clippers and the Bobcats in 2007, and then missed the entire 2007-2008 season and was announced to give up by the Clippers.
In the summer of this year, the Heat originally contacted Livingston and wanted to sign a one-year short-term contract with him.
But after Riley's inspection, the Heat then gave him up.
He's become a free-roaming player with no team again.
At this time, the Thunder chose to take a shot and gave Livingston a two-year basic salary contract to recruit him.
That is, after the signing was concluded, Ye Hao returned to Oklahoma.
To be precise, it was his first time arriving in this city.
It's much smaller here than Seattle.
His houses here are all rented by entrusting others to help. His luggage in Seattle was packed and delivered, and he hasn't even unpacked it yet.
This is a completely new environment.
But it doesn't matter if the city is new, as long as someone is familiar with it.
As soon as he arrived, when he came out, he saw the team owner and general manager who came to pick him up in person.
In addition, there are Durant, Jeff Green and other old teammates from last season.
Even rookies such as Jordan Jr., Ibaka, and George Hill who came to Oklahoma to set up camp in advance also followed.
It can be described as a mighty group of people who greeted Ye Hao.
This is the treatment of the real boss of the team.
Adu didn't have this welcome treatment when he came back from his summer vacation.
As soon as Ye Hao walked out, Durant went up to meet him and gave him a big hug, "Hahaha, finally you're back, our champion! Congratulations on winning the Olympic gold medal!"
Ye Hao smiled and said, "Thank you! How is your summer? How are you doing? Have you picked up some girls on Twitter?"
Durant lowered his voice and said, "Of course, I am very skilled in this area. But don't be so loud. There are still several rookies here today. Don't spoil my image in the team."
Ye Hao reached out and patted Durant's chest, "Come on, are you still ruining your image? Since you publicly said that you want to drink Scarlett's bath water, you have no image in the NBA."
Durant laughed and said, "Speaking of Scarlett's bath water, I still cherish the precious bottle of bath water I got through your relationship before.
Every time I open the lid and smell it, I feel fragrant and intoxicating.
The most extravagant enjoyment is that I take a bath in the bathtub, pour a drop into it, and I feel excited all over, as if I am taking a bath with Scarlett.
I'd love to pour more into it, but I'm afraid to use more for fear that I'll run out of it right away.
So if there is too much poured out, I have to pour it back.
hey hey hey..."
Hearing what he said, Ye Hao suddenly felt his skin was getting goosebumps, and this guy Adu's hobbies were really perverted.
And this is not over, Durant is still talking about his summer affair, "I tell you, after I got a girl on Twitter, I took it home and put a little Scarlett's bath water on her , I feel that she has the smell of Scarlett on her body, she is very exciting..."
But Ye Hao quickly interrupted his speech, for fear that he would say some more colorful pictures.
World harmony is always a good thing.
Ye Hao changed the subject, "Didn't you have basketball training in summer? Are you just thinking about flirting with girls?"
Durant shook his head resolutely and said: "Of course not, you see, I came back early and started training early, just to prepare myself for the new season in a better state.
And newcomers from several teams have also joined in and are training with us.
I knew Andre in college, and when I knew our team had drafted him, I couldn't be happier.
I even asked him to play together in summer, he is really a nice person, I think you will like him. "
Ye Hao nodded. He naturally knew that Durant and Jordan Jr. were good brothers and good friends. He knew it in his previous life.
He also discovered a new change, that is, Durant is not a person who talks a lot, but now as soon as he arrives, Durant pulls him to talk a lot.
Could it be that Durant held back too many words and wanted to talk to him after not seeing him for a summer?
Or is it because Jordan joined the team that made Durant, who is bored and sao, talkative and cheerful?
Maybe it's all possible, Ye Hao can't figure it out anyway, but this is a good change.
Afterwards, Durant called several rookies over, introduced Ye Hao, and said to them with a smile, "This is your boss, why don't you hurry up and call him boss?"
Ibaka, Jordan Jr. and others politely called out the boss.
Durant couldn't help laughing at the shy and restrained looks of these rookies.
The game of poking fun at the team's rookie starts now.
It was really fun.
It was precisely because of this kind of joke that Ye Hao got acquainted with them very quickly.
On the way back, Durant said that he organized everyone to watch the Olympic basketball game together, especially the group stage and finals between the Huaxia team and the US team.
Jordan, who was sitting in the next seat, stretched out his head and said, "Hey, boss, your performance in the Olympics was just like a god. It's too good. But it's a pity that you killed our American team. Otherwise, what would you do? It was so cool."
Several other people also expressed their views.
George Hill said: "In the final, the boss scored several key three-pointers and made a lore, and finally turned around. It's really amazing. This performance is unprecedented."
Ibaka said: "I was very impressed with the boss's ability to block and block shots. I almost forgot that the boss is a guard. I will learn this from the boss later."
Dragic said: "The boss's dribbling, ball control and passing are also very good, and there is a lot of ball possession time in each game, but the turnover is very low, which is too good!"
Jeff Green said: "Hey hey, you are just watching the boss's game as spectators, and you haven't played with the boss yet. After playing with the boss, you know that it is really amazing. Last season, we How did we make it to the playoffs, and how did we make it to the Western Conference finals? It was the boss who carried us in."
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Ye Hao instantly felt as if he had entered a narrow space where rainbow farts were flying all over the sky, and he wanted to hide but couldn't.
Even the team general manager Presti joined the ranks of this rainbow fart, "You have only seen Ye's peerless demeanor on the court, but what I really admire is his outstanding vision of the direction of the team. , It is precisely because of his advice that we will select players with great potential in this year's draft."
Ye Hao could only listen to this with a smile, and couldn't refute anything, it was even more impossible to be humble in front of Lao Mei.
Laomei is not like China, where modesty is a virtue, while in the United States, self-confidence and individuality are virtues.
For Ye Hao, who has played in the United States for a whole season, he is already familiar with the American way of dealing with people.
Along the way, everyone chatted about all kinds of knowledge and interesting things about the summer, but they soon returned to the Thunder's arena in Oklahoma City.
Originally, Presti wanted to send Ye Hao to his residence first, and then take him to the arena after Ye Hao settled down in the residence and had a rest.
It's just that Ye Hao thought it would be more convenient to go to the arena first if he was following a group of people.
And he really wanted to see what the new arena looked like.
The Thunder's new arena is the Ford Center Arena in the city center, which was built and opened to the public in 2002.
After the Thunder settled in Oklahoma City, the team spent more than one billion dollars to renovate and expand the arena, so the entire arena is still very new now.
That's definitely better than it was in Seattle.
After arriving at the arena, team general manager Presti and team owner Clay Bennett showed Ye Hao around, while the other players went to the training hall for training.
While walking and watching, Presti and Ye Hao chatted quietly about the team's future construction ideas, as well as some of his plans for the team's trade.
He said these thoughts to Ye Hao, and he also wanted Ye Hao to give his opinion.
Now, Ye Hao is the absolute boss of the Thunder team, the only team boss.
Many things need to hear his opinions before they can be carried out.
Bennett made it clear in the middle that the team will attach great importance to Ye Hao's opinions and suggestions, and will seriously think about what to do to make the team develop better.
Well, this is how the boss of the team should be treated.
(End of this chapter)