Unwilling to give up! Extreme grief and anger!

The weather in Chicago was cold, so I bought a pair of new leather pants and wore a cold Jordan to come to the training camp. When I was training until 10 o'clock, I came to the lounge to watch the Lakers' media day live broadcast.

It's not once or twice that he's been a defending champion, but it's the first time Jordan feels so unpresented as a defending champion.

It’s not that there are no reporters interviewing, but there are more journalists than in previous years.

But the most topics asked this year are all about the Lakers!

Those who don’t know think that the Lakers are the defending champions!

Moreover, is this really a basketball team? It's simply not doing its job! Every day...

So, when Jordan turned off the TV and returned to the training ground, he was photographed by the reporter who was training, and asked "Who is the best young player in your mind?", Jordan replied decisively: "Penny..."

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There were also people who were extremely sad and angry at the live broadcast.

But O'Neal's sad and angry expression was treated with reading comprehension - this is O'Neal's desire to prove himself in the new season, break the rumors that he questioned his 127 million contract premium, and counteracted the "badest contract in history" remarks of Orlando media.

The truth is that O'Neal looked at Zhang Hao with all his attention, envious and jealous!

He can sing! He can rap and dance. He is also an NBA All-Star starter and plays basketball very well.

But when Zhang Hao sang the opening song, he knew that the person who was the most popular tonight was definitely not the person who stood in the C position, but Zhang Hao must be.

The cheers of the fans at the scene, standing in the C position... It's so cool... Zhang Hao stood in the corner.

O'Neal's anger and unwillingness were because he didn't expect to prepare a song to sing today!

Originally, Zhang Hao wanted to be low-key and wanted to let O'Neal sing a song here, but when Jenny Bass called him to sing this morning, he remembered that when he sent Jenny Bass home yesterday, he said that he was preparing a song.

Unfortunately, on the way home last night, he remembered a niche rap song in the future, which captured the period from the Lakers team building to the showtime era.

Unfortunately, he remembered that he forgot to notify his teammates to sing.

Then, I went on stage to perform...

He felt that O'Neal's roar seemed not entirely expressing his attitude to prove himself, and he was also envious and jealous, but if he asked him to choose again, he would still sing instead of making a dry appearance on the elevator.

In the past year since he came to Los Angeles, his hobbies have also changed a lot - how can he not enjoy the spotlight when playing in Los Angeles?

When living is no longer a problem, he enjoys other things that basketball itself brings, such as being in the limelight.

He has played in the NBA, and he just wants to be a superstar now!

However, he can't do things beyond his strength. For example, he is not the strongest one on the team now. After his debut, he silently stood aside and gave the stage to O'Neal, Barkley, Magician, and Kenny Anderson.

The hobbies have changed and habits have been developed. He just likes to keep a poker face in public and relax in private and only a few people.

When the interview was held, the home DJ, who played the host, knew that Zhang Hao did not like to "show off", so when interviewing the five major stars, they came one by one, first of all, Zhang Hao. After being asked two questions, the host immediately changed Kenny Anderson to ask the reporters to ask questions.

Then there was Barkley, then the Magician, and finally the one who pressed the table was O'Neal in the C position.

No one is competing with O'Neal in this C position. Whether it was yesterday's photo or today's role in the stage, everyone tacitly gave it to O'Neal.

The interviews with the five major stars, some of which are easy and some are sharp, and all of them are answered. They passed quickly, and then they introduced more than a dozen other players to play. Before the official training camp time, the Lakers signed three training camp contract players and gathered the 20-man rosters in the preseason.

The next four days of training camp will be team-based confrontational training.

In Media Day, except for Fisher, everyone else has experience. Although today's opening style is very special, there are live broadcasts and fans on the scene. For players who come to play for the Lakers for the first time, the number of media is also amazing, but overall it is Media Day.

The morning interview, afternoon makeup photos and separate interviews were all very smooth.

And because of the live broadcast in the half-hour in the morning, everyone was very excited and happily dealt with some negative questions.

Overall, including O'Neal, who has always been in the C position, I feel that this media has never felt good!

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The Lakers' media day was so exciting, and they were crazy about stealing the limelight, which really made Lakers' players and management vent their vent.

Whether it is the psychological fatigue caused by starting the training camp early, or the negative reports, picking and so on from the media that are inevitable, they have received good emotional venting.

On October 4th, the training camp continued, and when the Lakers started the four-day team training before the preseason, the players' enthusiasm for training was even higher.

The six players in the training camp contract also want to perform well and strive for the Lakers' last official roster spot. Although the hope is slim, they all signed the training camp contract. These players are trying to get their last chance.

There are 445 players in the NBA. When the training camp stage, it is estimated that 30 to 50 places will be left for players in the training camp contract. In most cases, strong teams will choose to leave one position, that is, there may be only 30 places for players in the training camp contract. The guaranteed players in the training camp contract is 150. However, these 150 training camp contract places may be obtained by thousands of free agents who sign up for training camp.

For many players, this may really be the last chance to enter the NBA. By next year, there may be no chance to get a training camp contract.

But at this time someone felt comfortable again...

“Why didn’t anyone notice that I train hard?”

O'Neal was unhappy again.

The 12-day training time before the official training camp time is stipulated. He is really working hard. Zhang Hao has to conduct two hours of personal training every afternoon, and one hour of small-scale cooperation with his teammates.

O'Neal practices for two and a half hours every afternoon. After his teammates gradually became familiar with the training of small-scale cooperation, he took the initiative to participate, helping Kenny Anderson, Magic, Doug Christie, James Robinson and others practice passing the ball for him, and helping Kenny Anderson, Magic, Barkley, and George Lynch train counterattacks at two rhythms...

The training effect is indeed very good. He has never been so serious and regular training techniques before, and he feels that his hooking and turning details have improved significantly.

However, what he wanted more was that others praised him for his hard work in training...

However, in the early stages of training, Zhang Hao did not arrange any training for him. After Del Harris came back, he saw O'Neal training himself, so he ignored him.

As long as O'Neal is present, no matter how he plays the tactics, they will definitely be built around O'Neal. Maybe O'Neal is not the end point in the tactics sometimes, but he has to fight around his inside threats. His playing style is very simple, and it is easy to build tactics around him. He doesn't even need to make too much conciliation. Sometimes when he stands in one position, he can think of ways to run tactics around him.

So during training, except for O'Neal taking the initiative to participate, he was ignored.

It’s not that he doesn’t matter, but that he is too strong, or that kind of strong with extremely outstanding characteristics and is very easy to use...

Another point is that O'Neal has a very famous feature for four years in the Magic - he doesn't like training.

This was the point where O'Neal was attacked the most by Orlando media last season.

In everyone's perception, O'Neal is a person who doesn't work hard.

So, when the teammates were very committed to training mode, no one noticed O'Neal's silent efforts.

But he can't talk everywhere

This hurt him very much. Then, on October 4th, he continued to train again, trying to attract other people's attention, and then slipped in a turn because of his sweat dripping on the floor...

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The next morning, Zhang Hao came to the stadium and asked assistant coach Cot Lambis about O'Neal's fall and sent him to the hospital yesterday. He took the X-ray handed over by Cot Lambis and the detailed diagnosis report after the magnetic testing. After taking a look, he immediately felt like an explosion in place.

"Muscle strain caused by fatigue? It takes 6-8 weeks to recover? Didn't you fall? Why is it so serious? Wait, muscle fatigue? What did he do?"

Cot Lambis responded: "Because he is too heavy and has too good physical strength. He has a lot of training and can keep up with his physical strength but has too much physical burden. His fall yesterday afternoon was just a fuse. He may be injured at any time he pulls his muscles."

"Training? Didn't we arrange too much training for him? We only arranged regular training. He was lazy in strength and physical training. He only had two or three physical training sessions in more than half a month."

"We didn't arrange training for him, and we didn't care about him much, but I watched the surveillance last night. He trained in the arena longer than you do in Aix."

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Unexpectedly, I didn’t expect that Zhang Hao would not expect that such a situation would happen!

It's really unexpected!

Their Lakers team is obviously much stronger than the Lakers team that Rhodes-Neal originally joined in time and space. The star lineup is definitely not bad compared to the double team, Trinity defense, and Ron Harper's Bulls.

The difference with the Bulls is that the top combat power of the Bulls has Jordan, and their tacit understanding of cooperation. Even if their Lakers' training progress is gratifying, they have not yet been fully adjusted through the official game.

But they definitely have a chance to compete for the championship, even if the opponent is the Bulls.

Therefore, when Zhang Hao was given a pre-training camp by the magician to take on the responsibility of assigning training tasks, the first thing he considered was O'Neal's health issues.

No way, O'Neal went to train himself!

This cannot be said that O'Neal is wrong, and it is definitely correct to train hard.

How hurt!

After Cote Lambis told Zhang Hao details, he went back to the head coach's office.

After receiving O'Neal's detailed inspection report last night, Del Harris did not sleep all night.

O'Neal, the core of multiple tactics, was injured by the player with the strongest independent offensive ability in the team, which obviously shattered their original plan.

If O'Neal was injured in the middle of the season, it would be fine to just rest for one or two months. At this time, Del Harris understood why the Magic were so unfriendly to O'Neal last season.

So what if Anfini Hardaway leads the team in the early stage, no matter how good his record is? So what if he grabs Jordan's best month in his life? Doesn't O'Neal have to start working together again when he comes back?

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When the news of O'Neal being injured due to training fatigue was announced, the media reported it very directly, saying that they did not believe the cause of the injury mentioned by the Lakers.

Some media speculate that the reason why the Lakers said was fake, because O'Neal has always given people the impression that it is bad.

After playing in the NBA for 4 years, O'Neal's free throw shooting rate gradually decreased. Before the "shark-cutting tactic" came out last season, O'Neal's free throw shooting rate was almost 50%. Even if there was no "shark-cutting tactic", it was a foregone conclusion that it fell below 50% by the end of last season. It was just because of the "shark-cutting tactic", O'Neal's free throw shooting rate dropped to 46%.

And on Media Day, O'Neal also had training demonstrations, free throws were as always, with less than 70% hit rate during training... How could it be like training?

There are more malicious speculations - O'Neal is a glass man.
To be continued...