Super Role Player

At 7 a.m., Memphis smells like mud after heavy rain.

Anxi passed through the open-air atrium of the hotel and came to the restaurant at the back. The Spurs had training in the morning, but Anxi took a few hours off. Ivor Clark and the reporters from Time Magazine were already waiting in the coffee shop on the first floor of the hotel.

Anxi saw Ivo Clark from a distance, he waved his hand, and Ivo Clark also saw Anxi.

Ivo Clark stood up, and there were two strangers sitting beside him, a man and a woman. Seeing Ivo Clark stand up, they also stood up.

Anxi walked over quickly, and several people greeted each other.

"Hello, Ann, I'm John Sal, a reporter from Time Magazine." The male reporter got up first and introduced himself, and the female reporter followed, "I'm Kesamina."

Anxi nodded: "Hello."

"Um, I think I'll introduce our division of labor first, Keisha will interview you as the host, Ann." Anxi nodded, and John Sal continued: "I will participate in this interview as a photographer. "

Anxi smiled: "Okay, let's do it as soon as possible, after all, time is limited."

John Sal also laughed: "Understood, you have to go to training later."

Soon, John Sal held up his camera, first took a few photos of Anxi, and then asked Anxi for a few posters. Then I shrank back and started picking posters. Due to time constraints, Time Magazine did not plan to shoot a special cover for Anxi, so John Sal prepared to choose among the posters provided by Anxi.

The selected cover poster also needs to show Anxi's purpose.

And Kesmina has already started the interview with Anxi: "Then Anxi, let's start. The main content of this interview is ten questions."

"Ten questions?"

"Yes, ten questions carefully selected by our editorial department. In addition, we will also interview Mr. Ivo, Mr. Gregg Popovich and several of your teammates to enrich this report."

When Anxi heard this, she nodded and breathed a sigh of relief. Looking at it this way, this interview doesn't have much content.

"Then shall we start?" Kesamina asked again, Anxi nodded, and then she opened a small notebook and started an exclusive interview with Anxi.

"first question,

A long time ago, when Shaquille O'Neal was interviewed by us, he graded the excitement of the NBA. He thought that when he first entered the NBA, the excitement of the game was A-, and after Michael Jordan left the NBA, it became a C—— , and then gradually stabilized to c, but after the labor dispute in 1998, it became d. After the labor dispute ended, the excitement of the game began to pick up, and gradually stabilized at b+ until he retired. "

"So Ann, what do you think of the current NBA games? Recently, the outside world thinks that the Spurs' games are extremely boring. Do you have anything to say?"

Anxi smiled. This question is a bit relevant to the current situation, but the answer is simple. He thought for a while and said: "If Shaquille O'Neal was stable at B+ before retiring, then it should be now. Yes b, slightly down, but still very exciting. As for the Spurs' game being extremely boring, I think that should be the argument of a group of fake fans, I have nothing to say."

Kesamina showed a surprised expression. After all, Anxi's response to the outside world seemed a bit rigid. What was even more surprising was that Ivo Clark didn't mean to stop Anxi at all. After all, Anxi's response of "a group of fake fans" was very There might be an uproar.

"Go on, Miss Kesha."

Kesamina was stunned for a moment, then she came to her senses and asked the second question: "So Ann, this season is your sophomore season, and you have played in the NBA for two years. What do you think is the biggest difference between the NBA and the NCAA?" ?”

Biggest difference? Anxi thought for a long time this time before slowly saying: "The biggest difference, I think, should be confrontation. The NBA pays great attention to confrontation, but ncaa is different. It seems that tactics are the most important focus of ncaa."

As the interview continued, Kesmina asked the question a little faster: "Which athlete do you admire most in basketball?"

This question is not easy to answer, Anxi thought for a while, and gave a very perfect answer: "Anxi." Then, as if seeing Kesamina's surprise, Anxi quickly explained: "Yes, that's right , I think it’s me, for the simple reason that I only believe in myself.”

Kesmina nodded, and then asked the fourth question: "Outside of basketball, which athlete do you admire the most?"

"Liu Xiang, he is the first person of yellow race to fly a 100-meter sprinter, and I am the first person of yellow race to slam dunk." Anxi smiled and gave this answer.

Liu Xiang was also on the cover of Time Magazine, and Kesamina naturally knew it well, so she nodded and quickly recorded it.

"China's economy is developing very fast, and China's market is also very broad. As a player from China, do you think you will have many advantages because of this?"

"I think there must be an advantage, but for me, this advantage is not important." Anxi's answer is still very confident, and Kesamina has already thought of how to write the subtitle of this interview.

"If you had to pick one player as a teammate, who would it be?"

"Manu Ginobili, in fact, I have played in the NBA for two years, and I have cooperated with Manu the most." It is still a seamless answer. Indeed, this season, Anxi is transferred to the bench, and Manuji is naturally the one who cooperates the most. Nobili.

"There are many big players in China, such as ***, Wang Zhizhi, and Yao, and you are one of the few non-big players. Is your growth different from theirs?"

"Of course, I have never played professional basketball in China. I grew up in the NCAA in the United States, which is different from them."

"Then the eighth question, you have become the best sixth man in the NBA this season, but with your strength, you can completely play as the main force. Have you ever thought that if you are the main force, you will achieve greater success? What about achievements?"

The penultimate question is the third one. Anxi had guessed that this question would come up before, so he answered very simply: "No, I never thought about it, because although I played as a substitute, my playing time was at the starting level. of."

"In addition to the best sixth man, you also got the most improved player, have you heard of the curse of the most improved player? Do you think you will be affected by this curse?"

"No, I have confidence in myself."

Kesmina laughed. She looked at her notebook. In fact, there were only 9 questions in her notebook. The tenth question was given to her by the editorial department of Time Magazine. As for the last question, Kaisermina Shamina already knew what kind of questions she should ask.

"Ann, this is the last question. From the first nine questions, I can hear your confidence. Where does your confidence come from?"

For the last question, Anxi laughed, and then replied: "I have always been very confident. If I didn't have this kind of confidence, then I wouldn't be an NBA player, or a Spurs player!"

After asking ten questions, Kesmina ended the interview with a smile, but instead of letting Anxi go, she pulled Anxi and chatted about the situation of this season's playoffs.

John Sarr on the side quickly selected a poster of Anxi dunking in the playoffs, and after showing Anxi a look, it was considered a pass.

"Then we will use this one for the cover, but we will use a little PS in the later stage." John Sal explained to Anxi, and Anxi nodded. Just be that person.

After the interview, Anxi re-entered the preparations for the fourth game of the Western Conference semifinals.

Time passed quickly, and the fourth game between the Spurs and the Grizzlies started again at the FedEx Arena...

After 0:3, the Grizzlies looked down on this game. Lionel Hollins did not mean to refuse to sweep, but judging from the formation, the Grizzlies still wanted to win. All the main players, Marc Gasol also played.

However, from the beginning of the game, the Spurs discovered that the Grizzlies were actually testing the Spurs in this game. They still maintained a high-intensity offense and defense for one quarter, but after one quarter, when the Grizzlies saw that they were still behind the Spurs by 2 At the minute, Lionel Hollins started making substitutions.

The first to replace is Marc Gasol.

Sprained in the second game and played for 40 minutes in the third game, Lionel Hollins should be most worried about Marc Gasol. After all, after the sprain, the possibility of subsequent injuries has doubled, not to mention gray The Bears still use Marc Gasol so overloaded. It can be said that after the third war, Marc Gasol's body has reached a critical point.

The Spurs still made substitutions like the previous three games. In the second quarter, with Marc Gasol leaving the field, the Spurs began to quickly widen the point difference.

In one quarter, the score expanded again. In this way, after two quarters, the Spurs led the Grizzlies by 13 points.

In the second half of the game, Lionel Hollins began to deploy troops. He began to replace the main players who had been overloaded in the first three games, obviously giving up the game.

Popovich shook his head on the sidelines. Obviously, in the case of losing the series, Lionel Hollins made a completely different choice from others. The Grizzlies' bench is not good. They have been playing most of the games with the main force to bite the Spurs. In fact, the Grizzlies have shown some strength to hold the Spurs in the last two games.

If this game continues to be this big, the Spurs won't win it so easily.

But Lionel Hollins obviously didn't want to cause serious injuries to his main players because of a must-lose series, so...he chose to give up. (To be continued.)