Chapter 1112 1111. Special Card: Jimmy Butler's Madness
"Happy New Year to Brother Ace, Happy New Year to Uncles and Aunts, Happy New Year to Sisters Levia and Alexia, Happy New Year to Dinah... My dad has something to do today and can't come, so I came in his place." Little Jimmy was very happy. He politely took a bunch of gifts, and everyone had a share, including the two babies.
His most proud disciple is Chinese. Coach Kruger has also learned a lot about Chinese culture and knows that Chinese people will visit during the New Year, so he sent little Jimmy out at home. The coaching staff still has to prepare for the team meeting at noon and the afternoon. Simple training and tactics to prepare for emergencies.
"Come just come, bring any gifts." Liu Mang's mother saw a guest coming to visit on the first day of the New Year. They were very happy and quickly asked the coach's child to sit down.
Little Jimmy can understand Chinglish when he hears it. Just like Chinese people and Americans speaking Chinese. As long as they can understand the words, they can probably guess what they mean. However, little Jimmy is not as adaptable as Maddie and others. , feeling strange, sat down.
The difference between little Jimmy and him in the original time and space is that he has received a better education in this time and space. Reading is very important. You may not be able to learn many things that you will need to work and make money in the future, but reading is not about letting people learn what they need. How to make money.
Little Jimmy, who originally had breakfast, then had another breakfast.
Liu Mang could tell that little Jimmy was worried and didn't say much. After eating breakfast, he took little Jimmy to the open-air court behind the villa.
Little Jimmy was depressed yesterday, and Liu Mang always wanted to talk to Little Jimmy.
It's not just because Jimmy is depressed, the Southern California High School League should be in season now. As the star of the school, how can Jimmy have time to attend the party?
This made Liu Mang feel very puzzled.
"Tell me, what's the matter with you today?" Liu Mang asked.
"Brother Ace, I... got into a fight at school." Little Jimmy said depressedly.
"Fight? Did you beat your opponent? It doesn't matter. This is a men's sport. It's normal to have conflicts and fights." Liu Mang thought it was something. He had fought in the NBA. If it hadn't been for the Pacers later, The real-Auburn Hills Palace incident, the poor version of the Auburn Hills Palace incident that he and his teammates caused, is still being scolded.
Liu Mang was very grateful for the selfless dedication of the Pacers' Sanda team, which made people forget about their group fight in which as many as nine people were suspended.
"No...it's not..." Little Jimmy looked embarrassed, "I beat up my teammates..."
Liu Mang's hand flicked and threw a Los Angeles-style hollow outside the basket.
"Hit your teammates?" Liu Mang was choked so much!
Liu Mang didn't pay much attention to the news about high school students. Since the NBA has now canceled the qualifications of high school students to participate in the draft, the media has reported much less on high school students. Only now does Liu Mang know that this kid has done such a big thing!
I have a dark history of fighting with my teammates in high school. If he is dug out during the draft... he will definitely be dug out, and it will have a great impact on the draft market!
Liu Mang naturally hopes that little Jimmy can be selected with a high pick. After all, in this time and space, little Jimmy has received professional basketball training earlier and has a better living environment. The key is that he still works so hard and deserves to be picked with a higher pick. Selected.
For little Jimmy, Liu Mang didn't think about how low he should pick him to get cheaper or something. There were so many low-ranking relics that he could pick up. Of course Liu Mang hoped that his little brother would be as high as possible. The higher the pick, the higher the pick.
Moreover, these are two very critical years for little Jimmy. Little Jimmy will turn 17 in September in the summer and is about to enter the important senior year of high school. The summer of 2007 will be the time for little Jimmy to choose college.
Last summer, little Jimmy was ranked ninth among high school students in the United States and has a very good prospect. This fight with his teammates will inevitably affect the views of college coaches who pay more attention to the team than the NBA.
"Tell me, how can you fight with your teammates?" Liu Mang said depressedly, "How many times have I told you, when it comes to tolerance, you are better than them, they envy you, jealous of you, it's very It’s normal, they are just children, and they will definitely not be as good as you in the future, so you don’t have to be familiar with them!”
"Brother Ace, it's not because of this, it's like this..." Little Jimmy began to talk about his fighting experience.
As Liu Mang listened, he slowly turned from angry to speechless.
What Liu Mang admires most is Little Jimmy's efforts, but the thing that got Little Jimmy into trouble happened to be because of his efforts!
"...That Bells is so annoying. He can run as fast as me and jump higher than me, but he just refuses to train hard and his shooting is so bad. In the last game we played Torrey Pines High School, he was only one point behind. He can't even score a layup, and he can't do anything except dunk..." Little Jimmy said, turning into complaining.
Liu Mang now understood very clearly that little Jimmy worked hard himself, so he felt that others should work as hard as him. Then when he saw people who were talented but didn't work hard, he couldn't stand it. Finally, he regretted that he had to fight against a strong opponent. After losing, he broke out. He got into a fight with his teammate named Bales Chandler in the locker room and injured him. He was banned from participating in team activities and was not expelled from the school team. Still. For the sake of coach Kruger, he has now returned to Atlanta and is preparing to transfer.
Liu Mang didn't know what to say for a while.
After Little Jimmy finished complaining, he said: "Brother Ace, do you think he is disgusting! He can jump better than me, and his speed is not worse than mine, but he wastes his talent like that. We can obviously win more games."
When Liu Mang heard this, his first feeling was that he was indeed speechless.
Liu Mang thought for a while, organized his words, looked at Little Jimmy who was getting angry as he talked, and asked: "Little Jimmy, what is your ranking in the United States?"
Little Jimmy was waiting for Liu Mang to join him in scolding that teammate. He suddenly heard such a question, which was a little strange, and he still answered: "After Conley, Oden, and Westbrook entered college in the summer, I was promoted to ninth place. , I have been promoted to eighth in November. After Mayo and Rose enter college in the summer, I hope to enter the top three!”
Little Jimmy is still very proud of this.
"Then that guy named Bales-Chandler, what's his ranking?" Liu Mang continued to ask.
"Him? He can't even make it into the top fifty in California." Little Jimmy looked down upon him.
"Yes, he can't even enter the top 50 in California. He has no possibility of becoming a professional player. You are too stupid to fight with him." Liu Mang said lightly, turning on the head of state mode by the way. He had never heard of this Bell. Who is Chandler?
"He is so talented!" Little Jimmy cared about this very much.
"No, being willing to work hard and making progress after hard work is also a kind of talent," Liu Mang stared at little Jimmy and said, "In my opinion, he has no talent. Even if he has good physical fitness, he is not talented. Really talented Talented people should either train hard like you to become the top ten in the country, or even if they don't work hard, they should be like Kwame and Josh, who can become the best in the state by just playing in high school, or even Among the top players in the country, can your teammate do it?”
Hearing Liu Mang's very confusing words, little Jimmy thought about it and realized that it was indeed true. Even if his teammate was very talented, he was still far behind Josh Smith and Kwame Brown.
"Brother Ace, are you asking me not to worry about my teammates? But you said that you want me to learn to take on the responsibility of a leader..." Little Jimmy felt a little shaken in his heart.
"No, you should shoulder the responsibility of a leader," Liu Mang continued, "but you have to learn to see your teammates clearly. Is he suitable to work with you towards your goals? There are so many high schools in the United States and so many talents. How many people who look good can enter the NCAA Division I? With so many players in the NCAA Division I, how many can eventually enter the NBA? There are at most 50 players in a year. You will meet many teammates in the future, but they will Unlike you, your goal is the NBA, they are not.
Maybe one day you will arrive in the NBA and find that there are players in the NBA who are even more horrifyingly talented, so horrifying that you can’t even imagine them, but they don’t play as well as you. This is normal.
There are many players in the NBA who are more talented than me, but I am the MVP.
No, as high as the heart is, the sky is as big as the sky. You can remind your teammates to work hard, but if they are not the ones who can succeed in the first place, they are not in the same world as you. You don't need to pay attention to him. "
God worked fine, and when Liu Mang finished speaking, the sun that was covered by white clouds came out, shining sunlight just above Liu Mang's back. Little Jimmy looked at the dazzling light on Liu Mang's body.
He... believed it!
"Brother Ace! I understand!" Little Jimmy nodded in agreement.
Liu Mang started practicing shooting and would go to the gym soon. There was a team meeting before lunch.
Little Jimmy thought for a while and seemed to really understand something. He said goodbye to Liu Mang and left Liu Mang's house.
Just after Jimmy Xiao left, Liu Mang received a system prompt.
"Ding... Congratulations to the host for getting the special card: Jimmy Butler's Madness."
"Jimmy Butler's Madness: The 2018-2019 fourth quarter version of Jimmy Butler's special three-point card, one-on-one one-on-one three-point shooting. If you successfully take two three-pointers, one of them must be a three-pointer."
"Huh?" Liu Mang didn't expect that he would get a special card after giving some blind instructions to Little Jimmy!
Liu Mang remembered that little Jimmy was also the kind of person in the NBA who was "jealous of talent". He was unhappy when he saw people who were more talented than him but didn't work as hard as him. He had many conflicts with his teammates on the team, which caused The team was in chaos, but he was stunned that when the team was in such chaos, he shot more than 50% of three-pointers while only shooting 32% in the first seven years of his career. The rate, especially the three-point shooting rate in the fourth quarter was as high as 60%! He once became the most powerful three-point killer in the fourth quarter that season.
Before that, Jimmy's three-pointer was missed by his opponent!
As his mind wandered, Liu Mang remembered that after little Jimmy later became famous through "hard work", it was revealed that he had transferred schools during his college and high school years, and both times had conflicts within the team! The key is that this kid is always the one who causes conflicts!
After a comprehensive analysis, Liu Mang realized that this boy had been so careless since he was a child!
But...whatever, in Liu Mang's opinion, a little brother with character is also very good. In the future, when he enters the NBA, he can overwhelm him when his own team drafts him, and other teams can draft other players. The team's stumbling block... Playing well in other teams and having a good opponent... Liu Mang feels excited just thinking about it!