Chapter 291 Recommend K Martial Arts Hall to Jordan

   At 8:30 p.m., ESPN announced the latest championship probability prediction on its own NBA program, the Bulls 51% and the Suns 49%.

ESPN gave its own explanation, and the beautiful host Cathy said on the show: "The Suns are strong on the inside, the Bulls are strong on the outside, and the offense is initiated from the outside. Once the Bulls lock the Suns' outside, they can suppress it. The purpose of the inside, which is why we are more bullish on the Bulls."

   "Now I'll call Michael, hoping he's watching our show."

   In the show, the hostess interviewed Jordan by phone on the spot.

   "Good evening, Cathy, nice to hear from you."

   "Oh Michael, good evening, I'm glad to hear from you too. So Michael, do you agree with our forecast data?"

   "Well, you guys are too conservative, you can actually give them an egg."

   "Giggle..."

   "Dog Jordan, I'll kick your **** when you meet me!" Wang Tiejun cursed when he saw this.

Next to   , Yu Feihong said, "Do you think she will call you?"

   As soon as she finished speaking, Cathy, the hostess of the show, ended her interview with Jordan, and said with a smile, "I will contact Mr. K next, and I hope he is watching our show."

   Ten seconds later, the landline next to Pharaoh rang, and he reached out and grabbed the microphone.

   "Hello, I'm old K."

   "Good evening, I'm Cathy, ESPN's NBA host. Old K, are you watching my show?"

   "Wait, I'll tune to your channel right now, I was just watching TNT. By the way, is that ESPN?"

   "Okay, old K, I know you're angry, so do you have any questions about our data?"

   "No, I'm not angry, ESPN's forecast numbers are as bad as ever, I'm used to your unprofessionalism."

   "Old K, can you give me some face? I'm a beauty."

   "Okay, the beauty must be given to you. Now I'm going to borrow your program to send a message to Mr. Jordan."

"Please say."

   "Mr. Jordan, I'm sorry, this year will be another disappointing year for you," said Pharaoh.

   "Hmph, absolutely impossible!"

   Jordan, who was sitting in front of the TV, snorted coldly.

   Beside him, in addition to the family, there is the agent David Frank.

  Frank finished Ewing's contract, arranged a good fishing pier for him, called him a door-to-door service from the Gold Club, and then rushed to Chicago.

   "Michael, you are already 32 years old, and your physical function is no longer at its peak. These few years will be the last chance. Don't be careless." David Frank warned.

"No problem. Although my body is not as good as when I was in my twenties, I am more dominant in the game. Through training, my strength can remain at its peak for at least three or four seasons. I am confident that I can do it." Jordan said confidently.

  David Frank thought for a while and said, "I contacted Barkley yesterday, and he is going to come to Chicago to watch the finals."

   "I invited him." Jordan nodded.

  Frank said: "Michael, he recommended K Martial Arts Hall to me and thought you could try the K Martial Arts Hall's VIP service."

   "K Martial Arts Hall?"

  Jordan frowned.

   Of course he knows about K Martial Arts Hall, which is often reported by the media, because many Hollywood CAA stars are VIP clients of K Martial Arts Hall, and they are surrounded by massage therapists from K Martial Arts Hall, so they are very popular in the media.

Observing Jordan's expression, and seeing that he did not stop him from speaking, Frank quickly continued: "According to Barkley, there are not many VIP projects in the K martial arts hall, and what he and Da Meng buy are mainly medicated baths and medicines. Oil massage. The former can improve physical fitness, and the latter can improve the ability to resist injuries and diseases.”

   "They used it and it worked?" Jordan asked suspiciously.

Frank said: "Barkley said that after three months of use, they felt that the medicated bath can effectively reduce the fatigue after the game, speed up the recovery of physical fitness, and the medicated oil massage can also relieve the body faster, which can indeed reduce injuries. probability.

  According to him, old K said that it would take at least one or two hundred times to have some obvious effects, which is about four to six months. Now they use it every day, no games and no pulls, which is what the old king asked for, and the old king has been using it. "

   "Let me talk to Barkley."

  Jordan thought for a while and said, "But that bastard, Old K, I'm afraid he won't do my business, right?"

  David Frank breathed a sigh of relief, he was afraid that Jordan would reject K martial arts because of the conflict with the old K.

In fact, in his opinion, it is absolutely unnecessary to affect the off-court because of things on the court. After three seasons, Old K can now be said to be a superstar, especially this season, he led the team to complete three rounds of sweeps as the core. Reaching the finals has laid the foundation for the super-giant. Jordan should maintain a good relationship with old K off the court, at least there is no need to be so stiff.

However, Jordan's character is too stubborn, he is not in a hurry to persuade him to say anything, he can only follow along and say: "Old K opened the K martial arts hall to make money, as long as you have enough money, from the businessman's point of view, he should will not refuse."

  Jordan nodded thoughtfully.

  …

   There was no training on the 1st. On the 2nd, the Suns arranged some recovery training in the morning, but the volume was not very large. In the afternoon, the tactical meeting of the finals was held.

   Head coach Westphal presided over the meeting, in addition to the players and coaching staff, Colangelo and other management participated.

"In the first two away games, we'd better try to win one, so that we have an advantage when we return to the home field. If we can win two of the next three home games, we are sure. We should also win two home games, if we do No, we will be in danger in the finals."

  Westphal first talked about home and away and analyzed the situation.

  Assistant coach Lewis said: "They lost to us in 1993. We should have the confidence to win this time. After all, we have a psychological advantage."

   "Haha..." There was laughter from everyone in the conference room.

After    quieted down, Westphal continued: "Tactically, the coaching staff has discussed it many times, and now I will talk about it.

   On the defensive end, the Bulls should still use the defensive strategy of blocking the outside line and cutting off our internal and external connections. They can't guard against the old K, and they can only work **** the outside line defense.

   Our solution is to strengthen the transfer and response of the ball, and at the same time widen the gap to prevent them from double-teaming the ball carrier.

  As long as we can pass the ball, the old K can handle everything. This is our offensive tactic, flanking triangle offense. "

  Assistant coach Lewis added: "Jordan or Pippen should switch to the 1, Kevin, if they are pressed, quickly play the ball to the 3."

Seeing Kevin Johnson nodding, he said to Drexler again: "Clyde, after you get the ball, you don't need to break through. Pippen or Jordan won't let you in easily. Just give it to K, and you'll be fine. Stay at the 3-point line and wait for the return pass, or wait for an opportunity to cut inside."

   "Understood." The glider nodded.

   Westphal said at this time: "The weak side should strengthen the running at this time, AC, Dan, you should do more pick-and-roll tactics, try to get an open position, or implement back-cut tactics.

  Old K, pay attention to the open position on the weak side. If they go down to double-team you, you can choose to score the ball or attack, you decide. "

"I know."

   Old Wang and Dan Marley nodded in succession.

Westphal added: "We don't need too complicated offensive tactics, play triangle offense on the strong side, pick-and-roll tactics on the weak side and cut-in tactics, as long as the outside mistakes are well controlled, the transfer of the ball is done well, and it can be passed on. , the attack is no problem.

  The problem is that the Bulls' perimeter defense is their best. Whether our perimeter can break through their blockade is very important. "

   Lewis said at this time: "If necessary, Greene, you will be involved."

   "Understood." AC Green said.

  Lewis added: "As long as we move the ball well on the perimeter, the tactical movement is clear, and the perimeter is largely opened, they can't really lock us up."

Nodding, Westphal continued: "After talking about the offensive end, let's talk about defensive tactics. Of course, the basic tactics of the Bulls' offensive tactics are triangle tactics, which create single-play opportunities for Jordan. But the specific implementation must be to open the inside, A combination of positional warfare and quick breakouts on the outside.

In terms of fast break, in fact, they do not have the advantage of playing more and less, because the speed of old K can already keep up with the rhythm of fast break, even faster than Clifford Robinson, and no faster than Tony Cuco. Very slow.

   Their advantage in the fast break lies in Jordan and Pippen, especially Jordan's finishing ability. We can only try our best to defend this, and there is no good way.

   But be careful, don't foul easily, our bench lineup is not as good as them, the main foul is too much, we will be in trouble.

  In positional warfare, their triangle tactics have high requirements on the transfer of the ball. The defender must keep up with it, and try to cut off the connection between the triangles to destroy their ball transfer. "

   After talking about tactics, we ended today's training with a two-hour tactical drill.

  No.3 trained as usual, with a normal level of intensity.

On the 4th, the Suns boarded a special plane to Chicago.

   Danny Manning, who was resting at home from a serious injury, also went to Chicago with the team on crutches this time. He recovered well after the operation, but no one can guarantee his state after his comeback next season.

   He only has a one-year contract with the Suns, and the Suns have not renewed his contract with him now. Injuries are an important reason, and it is also an important reason to renew Wang Tiejun first.

   So his current situation is not very good. The reason why he only signed with the Sun for one year was that he wanted to renew a big contract in the future. Now everything is in vain.

The only consolation for    is that he made it to the finals this time and has a chance to win the championship he coveted.

  Accompanying the team, there are also the family members of the wives, and some local media, all of which are chartered flights to Chicago.

   In addition, five hundred Suns fans also chartered flights to Chicago.

   This time, the Bulls were very stingy, so they allocated 500 tickets to the fans of the away team, and they refused to give more than one.

   Ma Jian, who followed Wang Tiejun, stayed in Phoenix these days. The tickets for the United Center were too expensive. Pharaoh didn’t prepare them for him, but the tickets for the home court were prepared for him.

   He has gained some media attention in the past few days, but last season he was a substitute for Van Horn at the University of Utah. He had no chance and the data was not good, so the evaluation of the media was not high, and the prospect of the draft was still bleak.

   Now he just wants to get more attention from some teams. After he loses the selection, he can get trial training opportunities for some teams, and have the opportunity to play in the summer league, or even the preseason, to see if he can perform.

   At three o'clock in the afternoon, the Suns arrived at the hotel and held a press conference.

"Old K, I heard that your K martial arts hall has several mysterious VIP services, which can effectively relieve fatigue and reduce injuries. Can you introduce it?" The first question was a reporter from the New York Times, he asked A question unrelated to the finals.

Lao Wang smiled and said: "There are many people in Phoenix who are enjoying those services, and there are many stars in Hollywood, too, and they are very satisfied with the effects. In addition to the specific effects you mentioned, there are also some effects, such as improving physical fitness, and enhance resilience.”

   "But I heard that you don't plan to promote in the NBA, why is that?" the reporter asked.

   "Who said that? That's impossible, how could I not make money? Anyone can become a VIP customer of K Wuguan as long as you pay."

Pharaoh immediately denied it and explained: "But my martial arts gym is not currently promoting outside of Phoenix. Soon K martial arts center will build its first branch in Los Angeles, and I hope more people will join the K martial arts center. "

   "Old K, the Suns have completed three sweeps, so how confident are you of sweeping the Bulls in the upcoming finals?"

   The second question was from the Washington Post reporter. His question made the reporters below exclaim, and all the local reporters stared at him.

   Old Wang looked at the reporter with a smile, are you digging a hole for me?

   He didn't evade the question either, saying loudly, "It doesn't matter if we can sweep the Bulls, whether I have the confidence to sweep the Bulls or not.

  Three sweeps made our self-confidence peak, but we were still calm and we knew that the most important thing at the moment was not the sweep, but to win this series and win the championship.

   So stop asking me if I can sweep the Bulls, it doesn't make any sense, the championship is the ultimate meaning. "

   "Old K, the best lineup will be announced tomorrow, do you think you can enter the first team? Or double first?" the next reporter asked.

"I think I have the hope of entering the best first team. Double first team depends on luck, but the final result depends on luck. This is not something I can decide. What I can decide is my own performance." Wang said .

   "Glider, you will face Michael in the finals again, how confident are you that you can beat him?"

  Drexler said very unhappily: "He is not invincible, otherwise he would not have been suppressed by the black and white duo and the bad boy army for so many years, and they won't have a chance to emerge until they get old."

   This remark made Chicago people unable to refute, Jordan's Bulls did emerge after the three teams' roster aging.

   But they are also very unconvinced. If the league hadn't introduced that **** anti-isolation law, Jordan would have been stronger and the data more terrifying.

   Just fact is fact, Jordan lost to the Bad Boys so many times, they can't say it now.

   Drexler continued: "If he is really invincible, why did he lose to the Suns in 1993 and lose the chance to defend the dynasty? So I believe we can win this finals."

This remark made all the local reporters roll their eyes. The Bulls did not win three consecutive championships and lost the dynasty they could easily have. This is the biggest regret of all Chicagoans. It is a pity to this day. Now it is mentioned by Drexler, which is in their hearts. A knife was inserted.

   And in this finals, according to ESPN's chance of winning the championship, the Bulls do not have a great advantage, so they dare not say that the Bulls can successfully defend their title this time.

   In the evening, the Suns booked a restaurant in the hotel and invited the wives and family members over to have dinner together.

  Pharaoh suggested: "Guys, let's watch TNT's show together tonight and see what those guys will say."

   "OK, why don't we pack a bar in the hotel?" Kevin Johnson suggested.

   "OK."

   Everyone agreed, and Colangelo also generously stated that the cost would be paid by the team.

   (end of this chapter)