Chapter 33 Hold hope in your own hands!
As usual, Lin Fei came to the training ground early to start his new day of training, and his teammates came one by one, but during the training, many people did not smile but looked sad, as if they were about to receive the news of failure!
Lin Fei looked at his teammates and couldn't help frowning. He knew that this was not a good thing, especially for them who were about to face the final challenge.
If the team carries a burden or is discouraged here, it will be difficult to cheer up in the game.
Lin Fei didn't know the reason for this until he faced a group of reporters, because even if the Clippers defeated the powerful New Orleans Hornets, they still need to see the faces of the Warriors and the Nuggets. If the Warriors defeated the penultimate supersonic in the West in the last game, and the Nuggets lost the game, the Warriors would advance. In the playoffs, and if the Nuggets defeat their opponent, the 12th Sacramento Kings in the West, the Nuggets will lock in the playoffs. No matter how the Warriors Clippers Trail Blazers, who rank behind the Nuggets, defeat their opponents, they will not be able to advance to the playoffs.
The chance for the Clippers to advance is only to lose the game with the Nuggets and the Warriors, and their two opponents are countdown in the west. There is basically no suspense in the Nuggets Warriors who are fully fighting for the playoffs. Thinking of this, Lin Fei's eyebrows also frowned.
But after a short thought, Lin Fei's face smiled again. When the assistant coach whistled and announced the end of today's training, everyone was ready to dare to go to the locker room. At this time, Lin Fei decided to do something.
Standing on the sidelines, Lin Fei gathered everyone around and gently clapped his hands.
"Wait a minute, everyone, I have something to say to you." Lin Fei looked at his teammates in front of him and smiled, "First of all, let me tell you the good news, that is, we have a chance to advance to the playoffs!" After saying that, Lin Fei specially looked at his teammate's face. Only a few people smiled with relief, and most of them were still tired and lacked interest.
"Papa!"
Lin Fei clapped his hands again and attracted everyone's attention. "Guys, most of you are older than me. I'm just a rookie, but did you think two months ago that we would have a chance to advance to the playoffs? So now?" Lin Fei looked at his teammates and continued, "Now we have a chance to fight for the playoffs, and this opportunity is what we have worked hard step by step, because we have the opportunity now. If I told everyone at that time that we have a chance to fight for a place in the playoffs, you will definitely laugh at me, 'Hey, dish Bird, put away your fantasies!' But what about now? We did it, we really did it, from impossible to possible, isn't this a progress? Some people say that Houston will end the winning streak after leaving Yao, but they tell others about Houston's strength with crazy 22 consecutive wins, and what about us? In the same way, everyone thinks that we should mess up and go fishing early instead of being a damn disturber in this league and mess up the whole league.
"Look at our record in the past two months. We have only lost three games, only three games. We have the opportunity now only if we work hard step by step? Many people say that we are delusional, but the reality tells us that we have reached half of the so-called delusion in their mouths. If we win, we will go to the playoffs and go to the big scene, instead of going on vacation early..."
"Even if you win, you still have to win the Nuggets and the Warriors. Is this possible? Don't use your words to deceive people, it's not for your own bullshit declaration!" Margetti's voice directly interrupted Lin Fei's words, and his words once again extinguished the effect of Lin Fei's speech.
Lin Fei was not even too lazy to argue with Mageti. He glanced at his teammates in front of him and said faintly, "If we carry such an idea now, then all our efforts are in vain. Is it just to devalue the draft in New York's brain-damaged hands? We need to work hard to hold hope in our own hands, instead of burying hope with our own hands. We have worked hard and paid. Even if the result is a failure, this process will always be worth remembering and cherishing. If we succeed, our madness will be remembered by generations of people. They will say, 'This is a magical power!' ' Shouldn't we work hard? Relax everything. We need to win, then we will fight for this possible victory, instead of being a deserter to accept the arrangement of failure. I hope we can succeed, even if the opponent is the Hornets, even if their opponent is a weak team, what we need is to do everything we should do!"
Not far away, Mike Dunleavy's face showed a gratifying smile. In his eyes, Lin Fei was moving towards a leader, not just a scorer.
Lin Fei's thoughtful teammate walked to the court, picked up the basketball and began his shooting. There was a constant sound.
From Lin Fei's almost farewell to the playoffs before Lin Fei's arrival to the present, so many games, many times relying on Chu Linfei's tireless running and tireless key goals, the team can come here step by step.
Everyone knows that his talent is not very high, but he makes progress with his hard work and strives to win one game after another. Every game is never stopped.
And he is just a rookie who didn't participate in the draft. Now it is the top scorer and the top key killer in the league!
At this moment, the leader's temperament is slowly revealing on Lin Fei's body.
All the last games of the NBA 2007-2008 regular season started at 8 p.m. U.S. time on April 10, and the unprecedented fierce competition for a place in the playoffs attracted the attention of countless people.
Staples Center Los Angeles Clippers vs. New Orleans Hornets, Pepsi Center Denver Nuggets vs. Sacramento Kings, Golden State Oakland Center Golden State Warriors vs. Seattle Supersonics, Rose Garden Center Portland Trail Blazers vs. Utah Jazz will determine the last season in the West. Post-match seats.
Staples Center is full, and every corner of the stadium is full of crazy shouts for the team.
In the locker room of the home team Clippers, Mike. Dun Levy is giving a speech: "You come for victory. Believe that your teammates believe in yourself and repay your fans with victory. What I need is 100% effort. We Clippers will tell the world in our own way. We are not a joke, we are not a fantasy, we are to win. For the final playoffs, we will hold hope in our own hands, and we will not regret our efforts in the end! I believe you can! Come on!"
Dunleavy threw the tactical board to the ground with a roar and raised his arm high, "Come on!"
"Come on!"
The sound passed through the Clippers' locker room to the Hornets' locker room.
"Chris, they want to win, they want to win! Haha!" Tyson Chandler showed his ridicule in front of his face.
"Tyson, we don't underestimate the enemy. The Clippers guys are not easy to deal with. Let's not care what they think. We have only one purpose." Paul paused and looked at his teammates in the locker room, "Victory!"
The voice is soft, but you can hear Paul's confidence.
With the appearance of the Hornets, the players of the Clippers stood in the player channel one by one and waited to play. Lin Fei was arranged in the last, and this arrangement undoubtedly showed Lin Fei's position in the Clippers.
"This is the court platform, the court platform! We will broadcast the last game of the NBA 2007-08 regular season for you. The Clippers, played by Chinese player Lin Fei, will play against the New Orleans Hornets, the second in the West! I'm Yu Jia, the commentator!" Yu Jia's smiling face appeared in front of the national audience on the other side of the ocean.
"Let's welcome us with cheers, six feet and three inches, main defender... Sam... Kassel..." With the live DJ's shouting Kassel trot, the Clippers fans at the scene sent a huge cheer for veteran Kassel.
... "Finally, let's use the warmest applause, the craziest shouts, and the most powerful cheers to welcome our six-foot-eight-inch tall, wearing the No. 8 jersey... Lin... Lin... Feifei...!" The hoarse voice of the DJ at the scene brought the Staples Center to the first wave of cheering and crazy.
Listening to the shouting of the live DJ, Lin Fei trotted out, kept high-fiveing the fans on both sides of the player's channel, and stepped on the court in crazy cheers.
With the end of the American national anthem, the game is about to begin, and the Clippers sit quietly in chairs waiting for the start of the game.
"This is really a crazy day. I like such a game. Everyone is saying that Lin is a fantasy, and I never think so. Only stupid people will doubt a guy with crazy persistence. I hope Lin will slap those guys who despise and laugh at him one after another with his actions!" Barkley is still a strong supporter, and today he is no longer sitting next to his old partner Kenny Smith, but former Rockets coach Jeff Van Gundy.
Van Gundy looked at Barkley beside him, "Charles, I agree with you. Opportunities are always reserved for those who are prepared, and the Clippers are such people!"
With the referee's whistle signaling the players from both sides to appear, Lin Fei stood up first, put his hands in the air, and slowly folded his hands one by one, "Hold the hope in your own hands, ONE, TWO, THREE, come on!"
"Come on!"
The voices of the Clippers players echoed in every corner of the Staples Center.
Middle circle, Tyson Chandler VS Paul Davis, this is an almost unsuspensable jump ball!
With a whistle, the game officially begins!
(To be continued)