The Whip of the God of Basketball

There are a total of 16 teams participating in this World Championships. Among the teams that Leon least wants to visit their training, if Angola ranks first, then Canada ranks second. It's not because the strength of the Canadian team is too weak, but because there is no player in the Canadian team that Leon wants to investigate. After all, the distance between the two countries is too close, and all Canadian basketball talents are all playing in the United States. We have the same growth experience.

For these Canadian players, Leon is as familiar with them as he is with the US team, because almost all of them are fringe players in the NBA, basically playing in the Development League. This Canadian national team can really play in the NBA Only the Hornets' Magloire, Marko Lodge, who had just been traded to the 76ers, and Steve Nash from the Mavericks.

"What should I do? Change the place?" Morey asked Leon. Their original plan was to inspect the players of European teams, especially some Eastern European teams. For the Celtics who have no draft results this season He said that it would be very good if he could gain something in the European player market.

"No, since you're here, let's stay here, we have plenty of time." Leon suddenly decided not to leave after seeing Nash.

Nash, the player Leon, is impressive. He started in the sun, was picked up by the Mavericks and started to shine. His physical fitness feels average, but he is very hard on the court. When he was a scout, Leon gave Nash a scouting report, and believed that Nash had outstanding talents on the offensive end, but at the same time he also had great limitations. As for the defensive end, as a scout gave him when he participated in the draft, he was basically not up to the NBA average.

This also led to Leon's not being very interested in Nash. In the position of point guard, if an experienced point guard with excellent offensive and defensive skills cannot be introduced, then the Celtics will choose to train Arena. s. This is the consensus reached by Leon and Angie. Angie originally planned to try to contact the Timberwolves point guard Billups, but the offer given by the Celtics obviously cannot directly sign the third player who once played for the Celtics. If you sign first and then trade, the Celtics have no bargaining chips, and emotionally Billups is not willing to return to Boston, a place that broke his heart.

However, before the start of the World Championships, Leon had received news that Nash would not participate in this competition because he played too hard on the court and Nash had multiple injuries. The owner of the Mavericks, Cuban, does not want this player who has just been promoted to an All-Star in the 2001-02 season to suffer too much consumption in the national team game, which will affect his performance in the NBA next season.

But Nash still appeared on the field of the World Championships, and before all his teammates arrived at the training hall, he was the first to arrive at the gate of the field. He was wearing earphones and seemed to be jogging all the way here. He recognized Leon at a glance. Although the two had no friendship, Leon had been an assistant coach for the Celtics for a season. NBA players can at least recognize a team's assistant coach.

"Good morning, assistant coach of the Celtics, Fox...Fox...what's going on?" Nash took off his earphones and walked to Leon to say hello, but he couldn't remember Leon's name.

"Leon, Fox Leon, the current head coach of the Celtics, nice to meet you, Steve...Steve...what's going on?" Leon pretended not to know Nash either. , Stretched out his hand and shook hands with Nash.

"Nash! Steve Nash, you don't even know the name of the All-Star player." Nash said with a smile. Into the ranks of stars.

"Don't you also know the name of the All-Star assistant coach?" Leon got addicted to the All-Star assistant coach in the 2002 All-Star Game, but he is the coach of the Eastern Conference and has no chance to sit with Nash. on a bench.

The two were joking like this, and entered the training hall together. Obviously, Leon had no intention of leaving, but wanted to visit Nash's training. This was also an opportunity to get to know the opponent. Never give up any learning opportunities.

But when Nash changed his clothes and came to the court, he didn't hold a basketball in his hand, but took out a pair of table tennis rackets from somewhere, and held a small table tennis ball in his hand, and then said to Leon, Morey and Cormier said: "How about playing table tennis? It's still early for the team to practice, I also need to warm up a little bit, let's play." They said and threw a racket into Leon's hand.

Morey, who had always seemed uninterested before, suddenly regained his spirits, approached Leon, and said with bright eyes: "Let me try, let me try! I am a table tennis enthusiast!"

It turned out that although Morey was engaged in basketball and was very tall, he was a complete rookie on the basketball court and had never been selected for any level of basketball team. However, he has a unique talent in table tennis. Although it is an unpopular sport in the United States, besides basketball, Morey’s favorite is table tennis. In high school and college, his table tennis level is playing Invincible players all over the school - although there are only a few in the whole school who can play table tennis.

Unexpectedly, Nash also likes to play table tennis, which made Morey's hands itchy all of a sudden, almost snatching the racket from Leon's hand, and then ran up to the second floor stand with Nash, playing in the table tennis The contest began on the table. Only Leon and Cormier were left looking at each other.

Nash is 6-foot-3, and Morey is about 6-foot-4. They're about the same size. They're both long-armed and long-legged guys. It's just that Nash is thin, while Morey already has a big belly and a slap in the face. But the advantage of table tennis is that fat people can be invincible. Morey is worthy of being an American table tennis master who has been invincible in school. Athletes search for the ball all over the floor.

But Nash quickly became familiar with Morey's routines. He thought about it carefully and decided to hit the ball mainly to Morey's backhand. This time, Morey lost the prestige he had just now. His backhand could only push and block but not smash. Nash hit the ball faster and faster. Morey made several mistakes in a row, and the two sides quickly tied.

Leon and Cormier also stood on the sidelines to watch the battle. Cormier was watching the excitement, but Leon saw that after Nash changed his strategy, his hits were extremely accurate. If it was a backhand, it was a backhand, no matter what Morey hit kind of ball. His strength and direction are very good, but his hitting skills are very mediocre, basically at the level of the second grade in Chinese elementary school, and Morey is basically at the level of the fourth grade except for the smash.

For a while, the two killed each other in the dark, and Morey was short of breath. Before Nash's body warmed up, he had become more and more familiar with Morey's three-axe, and broke Morey's three-axe. As long as he didn't make mistakes, then Just wait for Morey to make a mistake.

"I think I need to rest a little bit, or you come to play for a while, Fox. Come to Fox, can you play table tennis? Remember this is a racket, it is used to hit the ball, not to hit people ’” Morey said jokingly, throwing the racket back to Leon.

Morey knew that Leon used to practice boxing, and he was a good fighter, but boxing and table tennis are very different sports. Morey also wondered how much Leon could survive in front of Nash. round.

Leon picked up the racket. He tried to hold it straight first, but after thinking about it, he changed it to a horizontal grip. Then he picked up the ball from the table and was about to serve, but after thinking about it, he still threw the ball to Nash. Serve first.

Nash shook his head, thinking that Leon would not be able to serve. After receiving the ball, he bounced it on the table decently, and then sent a light high ball, as if he was afraid that Leon would not be able to catch it.

Then Nash saw a white object bounce back to the table on his side, and flew far away with a "snap", and he didn't even have time to react.

Leon scored his first point with a powerful smash.

"1:0!" Leon stretched out a finger and said to Nash, then pointed behind him, motioning him to pick up the ball.

"Shit!" Nash cursed. He knew that he had encountered someone pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger. It seemed that his game skills were no worse than Morey's. After picking up the ball, Nash thought about it and decided to repeat the same trick and hit Leon's backhand. Maybe he, like Morey, is a guy who can't backhand.

So, Nash sent a slash ball in the direction of Leon's backhand, then adjusted his footsteps and waited for Leon's return. I saw Leon stepping towards the backhand direction, and then slashed the flying ping-pong ball with his backhand. The ball flew over the net slowly. Nash was ready. He spotted the flying ball and made a good prediction. The landing point of the ball, adjust the time difference, and swing the racket to return the ball to Leon's backhand direction.

As a result, Nash hit a blank! The racket didn't touch the ball at all!

"2:0! It seems that it is right to let you serve, at least you can touch the ball." Leon stretched out two fingers and said to Nash. At this time, Morey on the side was going crazy. He never thought that Leon would be a master of table tennis, so he could only make an unbelievable expression.

Nash obviously dissatisfied, he threw the ball back to Leon and let Leon serve. Leon didn't make too many preparations after receiving the ball. He just served a simple low and flat serve. The ball was fast and had strong spin. After passing the net, it flew straight towards Nash. Nash spotted the flying ball and hit it with his racket. As a result, the ball flew into the sky with a "boom". When he fell, it was already three seconds later.

Leon shook his head and put the racket back on the table. Not only did he feel in his heart that the table tennis level of the American people was really worrying about him. He just added a little spin to the ball, which made Nash helpless.

Of course Nash and Morey didn’t know that Leon’s body was American, but his soul came from China, the Kingdom of Ping Pong. In high school, table tennis, a sport that does not require high physical fitness, was Leon's favorite sport. After playing table tennis for many years, although it is still a scum in the eyes of some professional people, it is enough to walk sideways in front of even more scumbag Americans.

"I am the godfather of table tennis in Boston. If you want to learn table tennis, you are welcome to come to Boston." Leon said nonsense to Nash seriously. But it seems that Nash didn't take this sentence purely as a joke, but nodded and said that he would learn table tennis skills from Leon.

"My warm-up is over. Those who are interested can watch my basketball training. I promise it won't be as ugly as a table tennis ball." After Nash warmed up with a table tennis ball, he was finally about to start his training.

I have to admit that a person's achievements are directly proportional to his efforts. As the best player of the Canadian team, everyone else is still sleeping in the hotel, but Nash came to the training hall first to start training. Leon knows that this is a very hardworking person, and maybe his future achievements may be even higher, even though he is 28 years old this year.

"Will it be higher?" Leon couldn't help but frowned.