On December 14, the eve of the 76ers playing against the Lakers at home.

Wei Xia asked Cousins ​​out and they played golf together. When they were in Los Angeles, Wei Xia often played, but no one in Philadelphia played with him. His skills were much unfamiliar and he was completely defeated by Cousins.

"You can't do it!" Cousins ​​said complacently, "If I had known that your golf was so bad, I would have changed the game."

It is rare that he knows that it is not good for people to make a fool of themselves like this.

Wei Xia smiled faintly, "Besides golf, what other ball sports do you play?"

"That's a lot! Baseball, rugby, badminton, volleyball, beach volleyball... And, the ball sports I'm best at, must be women's..." Wei Xia stopped him from speaking, "Because you have a wide range of interests, can't you concentrate on the court?"

Cousins' high school coach Otis and Weisha told a story.

A story about Cousins' impatientness.

He said that when Cousins ​​reads, he does not read one word at a time, but he will quickly turn the book to the page he is interested in by looking at it.

If the story is true, Wei Xia is quite envious of Cousins.

He likes reading books as much, but he can never accurately find the paragraphs he cares about at a glance. This is not a video. Does a normal person have a way to quickly pull the paragraphs he is interested in like watching a science and education film with mosaics on the computer? No, you have to drag it out for a while.

"No, it's okay." Cousins ​​shook his head. "I'm very focused on the court. Why do you all think I'm not focused?"

Wei Xia gave three examples without hesitation: "You often stand aimlessly on the court and stare blankly, and let your opponent enter our penalty area to score. What's worse is that when we pass the ball to you, you just shoot with an expressionless face, but your eyes don't look at the basket at all. Do you want me to believe that you are focused in that state?"

Cousins ​​defended: "Maybe, maybe I'm not focused, but there's a reason!"

“What’s the reason?”

Cousins ​​entered Chamberlain's mode.

His scout report said that he is a combination of negative factors such as Coleman, Beasley, Randolph and Rashid. Wei Xia believes that Chamberlain's ability to turn the blame is also needed.

Anyone who has something to do with his teammates is not his responsibility.

For example, help prevent distracted things.

His excuse was that his teammates had been missing all night and he couldn't take care of it alone.

For example, negative things on the offensive end, because his teammates ignored him too many times, and his heart was traumatized. Before he could recover, the ball came over. How could he still cheer up?

As for standing on the court and staring blankly, Cousins ​​admitted that his thoughts sometimes slid into endless places on the banana peel.

OK, he finally took responsibility for something.

"Is this what you want to say, boge?" Wei Xia asked disappointedly, "It's just others who are wrong. You're right, you're not wrong at all? You are forcing yourself to believe in this matter and make mistakes again and again?"

Cousins ​​wanted to answer, but the disappointment and frustration on Wei Xia's face made him unable to speak.

"Do you know Andrew Bynum?" Weisha asked.

"I know, he entered the NBA in the same year as you. You have been teammates in the Lakers. There are rumors that the team is going to trade him with me!" Cousins ​​pretended not to care.

Weisha said: "You, like Andrew, have an unpredictable ceiling. In the eyes of scouts, you will become the strongest inside player, but... Andrew's progress is not as expected, so he was traded."

Cousins ​​listened.

"I think the team didn't care enough about Andrew, because at the Lakers, the lottery show was not as good as the Sixers. Andrew and I didn't get the starting position in the first season. Even Andrew did not become the starting position in the second season. He never became the starting position." Wei Xia said with regret. "He clearly has the ability to start on any team, but he has not become the starting position. His patience, loyalty and sense of mission to the team were buried off the court."

"Then, we saw another Andrew."

Cousins ​​was addicted to words.

"Boge, don't you think you're very similar to him?" Weisha's words silently made Cousins, "Do you want to be abandoned like him? We do need you very much, and I have to admit it, but if you don't make any changes, the door to leave Philadelphia has been opened to you."

Cousins ​​is not used to being criticized by others for being criticized by others.

He said angrily: "I've been banned, what else can I do? I made a mistake. Now I'm banned, what else do I want me?"

Wow, he also knew that was a mistake.

"Do you think you are wrong?" Wei Xia instantly caught the point.

"I..." Cousins ​​also realized the problem, "I might be wrong."

I changed my words again, but it was wrong, and it might be wrong, with the same meaning.

"You are indeed wrong. No matter how uncomfortable lgbt makes you uncomfortable, it is not your reason to attack them. I don't like political correctness, just like you, but I also have an lgbt friend. He is my teammate at Villanova University, the author of the song "i         Wish. Do you think he is also disgusting? I don't think that to me, he is a very important friend, and your words hurt all of them." Wei Xia asked, "Are you right? Shouldn't you apologize?"

Cousins ​​admitted his mistake to Wei Xia in person: "I was wrong, I'm sorry."

"That's it. If you make mistakes, you will admit them. There is no big deal." Wei Xia said. "We will make mistakes, admit them, accept them, and insist on being responsible for our own mistakes, because no one can avoid mistakes. No matter how great a person is, there will be times when he makes mistakes."

Wei Xia said to Cousins ​​like a brainwashing: "The most important thing is that we recognize our mistakes, and we learn from them, and that's the most important thing."

Wei Xia was very long-winded tonight, but his words were all heartfelt words.

In fact, he envied Cousins ​​very much.

He started since he entered the league, and in his rookie season with the Lakers, he played as a substitute for Smash Parker in most games.

Is Parker better than him?

hehe.

Wei Xia was in great pain at that time. If he had just suffered and had not turned the pain into fuel for progress, then there would not have been any subsequent stories.

In the face of troubles and difficulties, you can face it and make it better for you.

The word "giving up" never appears in Weisha. Every time Phil Jackson called him off the bench, his eyes were full of passion, and he was eager for every opportunity like a thirsty traveler in the desert seeing water.

"Don't complain, boge, this is an opportunity to make you stronger. Now you are stuck in a bottleneck. People outside of Philadelphia want to see you choke to death. The bottleneck makes people frustrated, the bottleneck makes people discouraged, but the bottleneck is also an opportunity. You must be mature, boge!" Wei Xia approached step by step, forcing Cousins ​​to the corner, and he made Cousins ​​unable to breathe.

"Did you feel it, boge?"

If Wei Xia is referring to the powerful aura emitted from him, it is difficult to breathe.

Then Cousins ​​was absolutely full of feeling.

He can only use his mouth to provide oxygen.

"We may be knocked down, but I will definitely stand up, I will." Wei Xia gently patted Cousins' chest, "I believe you will stand up, boge, I sincerely look forward to your growth."

The next day, Cousins ​​apologized to the entire lgbt community in his personal name: "I hope I can choose any appropriate time, place and method to solve this incident, but I chose the most wrong one. Like many people, I also tried my best to protect my friends and family, so my emotions controlled my will. I have realized that my behavior is without excuses and I will fulfill the professional ethics of the league and the team. For my behavior, I want to apologize to the people I have hurt, my team, my fans and the management of the Kings. I hope I can look forward and return my attention to basketball."

The lgbt group may not accept his apology, but what the 76ers want is his attitude of admitting his mistakes.

If you have an attitude, you are not afraid.

With an apology, it would be meaningless for Cousins' ban. Therefore, the 76ers announced that Cousins' ban will end on December 15.

The night before Cousins ​​lifted the ban, the 76ers played against the Lakers at home.

The Lakers, who joined the league's number one center, did not experience the transformation they imagined.

At the beginning of the season, Mike Brown took charge, playing Princeton, losing streaks, Brown, was dismissed, D'Antoni became the firefighting coach, and the Lakers began to run and shoot.

D'Antoni's tactics do not require the European Big White Bear as comprehensive as the Gasol brothers, but they require Howard to actively cut in from high pick-and-roll.

Howard doesn't love this. He is the number one center in the league. What's the point of being always? O'Neal was always shy and said on TV again that he was the weakest c-first ever. Therefore, Howard didn't play many pick-and-rolls, and he was more about going to the low post to ask for the ball.

Howard occupies the space for breakthrough at a low post. The Lakers' pick-and-roll offense often hits halfway through the emergency stop jump shot, with low efficiency and countless counterattacks. The age led by Kobe makes the Lakers the team that is the least defensive team in the West.

In the game against the 76ers, the Lakers gave 40 points to counterattack. Kobe scored 35 points on Wei Xia's head, Wei Xia returned him 40 points, and the Lakers were defeated.

"If Dwight comes but can't make any achievements in the playoffs, it's a big joke."

After the game, Wei Xia joked.

"It would be nice to be able to enter the playoffs at our level!" Kobe said in anger.
Chapter completed!