NBA regular season has not yet begun, and some players are already contributing news to fans and the media. Among them, three stars who are the "hardest" in the league have made trouble one after another. Up to now, even the outside world's public opinion has softened their attitude towards them, and they are a little bit laissez-free. When they see their news, no one even expresses their opinions excitedly.
This shows how strong these people are to "make trouble". There is a saying that goes by
. The worst thing is not that you have a problem, but that you don’t realize that the problem lies with yourself. These three stars are obviously typical of “a dead duck’s stubborn mouth”. This attitude advocates the “hard guy league” NBA, which is completely unpleasant.
Obviously, they will be ridiculed by the outside world, mainly because they are unwilling to admit their responsibilities at all.
So, next, let’s take a look at the respective problems of these three stars.
first place, Westbrook: "I am an excellent pitcher."
As the starting guard of the Lakers Russell Westbrook is trying to redeem himself into his final career. Although it seems that the projection has not made much progress, at least Lakers new coach Ham gave him a new role positioning.
As long as Westbrook insists on honing his shooting, he may not be able to become the "highlight" of the new season. However, Westbrook's training does not seem to consciously strengthen his shooting. In the training video, his "three-no-touch" shooting is common.
This makes the outside world still doubt his shooting level, but Westbrook himself did not realize this and still insisted on being "hard-mouthed" to indicate that he is an excellent pitcher.
Westbrook revealed that he did not adjust his shooting status during the offseason, but just tried to stay patient and relax. "The quality of the shooting is very important. What I want to emphasize is to make sure I did not make bad shots and try to attack the basket."
"I know I am a good pitcher, I am full of confidence in myself, and believe that I have the ability to shoot."
In fact, the performance in the preseason may have given Westbrook some illusions. In the previous preseason game with Suns , Westbrook made 2 of 4 three-pointers, and until now he still believes that his influence is not just three-point shooting.
can only be said that if you want to talk about the NBA, Westbrook is the "hardest" one.
second place, Drummond Green: "I am in a bad mental state because of my private affairs."
According to Drummond Green, he called Poole because private matters affected his personal emotions. This statement is actually completely untenable.
Warriors player Draymond Green publicly apologized for the incident of his hitting Jordan Poole at a press conference. "I never escape, I will face my mistakes. First of all, my behavior is wrong... I have apologized to the team for this and apologized to Poole. The video of this incident was exposed yesterday, which made me feel very embarrassed. Moreover, this incident also embarrassed the entire team, Poole and his family."
According to the Athletic reporter, Green will not participate in the team's activities in the next few days.
Obviously, Green's speech in the interview was not credible. He expressed several views. First, he admitted his mistake, indicating that the day of the incident caused his mental state to be in a bad state due to personal affairs, so he beat someone; second, he decided to leave the team for a while and let the team return to the atmosphere of competing for the championship. Third, he believes that the video of beating people should not be leaked.
In fact, Green not only had conflicts with Poole, he also had conflicts with Durant , and even had disagreements with Barnes at the earliest. Looking at the similarity between these three people, they all posed a threat to Green's contract, so they were hostile to Green.
Obviously, since Green is a "recurring offender", he really can't say that he has "admitted his mistakes". Moreover, it is understood that he did not apologize to Poole in person. This insincere statement is really annoying.
So, Green is obviously untenable to relieve himself by using his poor mental state. In the eyes of the outside world, these are just "hard-mouthed" whitewashing.
When talking about his relationship with Poole, Green said: "I love Poole, and this will not change at all. He is my brother, and as I told him before, I will always support him. The main task at the moment is to rebuild the trust in the locker room."
can only be said that Poole is also quite bad, there are such brothers.
third place, Ben Simmons : "Tricky jump shot training".
Ben Simmons has posted photos of his hard training videos and photos in more than one offseason, and these training results have never appeared on the field.
After losing successively in preseason games against 76ers and Heat , Simmons practiced a mid-range emergency stop jump shot in training. In the video posted, Simmons' movements were smooth, with 3 of 4 shots, but it was obvious that his shooting rhythm was very different from those excellent shooters, such as poor shooting points, staying in for a long time, etc.
is still at this level after practicing for many years, so basically everyone knows that the training of this video is still useless. Simmons' shooting percentage of more than 10 feet has accounted for about 12.6% of his shooting percentage, with less than 30%. Due to his poor offense, it is hard to say how much the Nets will suffer in the future.
Although the shooting is not good, Simmons never finds his own reasons. NBA preseason , Nets 80-109 lost to Heat . Ben Simmons' performance was not ideal. He played for 25 minutes and 23 seconds, made 2 of 3 shots, scored only 4 points, 10 rebounds, 4 assists and 1 steal, and made 6 turnovers, with a plus or negative value of -18.
After the game, Ben Simmons said in an interview that he wanted to strengthen his aggressiveness and attack the basket. "On the offensive end, we have to find a balance when we execute tactics. If you look at the statistics, you will find that I only took three shots, which is really too few."
"I hope to catch the ball more at low posts, I want to get the ball more at deep positions, I want to launch more aggressive attacks on the basket and get the chance to go to the free throw line."
According to Simmons, he still needs more opportunities to run-in, but from the field, it can be seen that as long as Simmons does not shoot, then as a point guard, he will never have a long-distance threat, and the opponent will unscrupulously double-team Durant, and Simmons turns a blind eye to it.
It’s no wonder Durant criticized the whole team and gave the following evaluation: “Except for the health of all members is worthy of appreciation, everything else is bad.”
If you have technical problems, you will admit your shortcomings and correct them. If Simmons continues to be so "stubborn", he will never make any progress.
How long can the Nets rely on Durant? It depends on how long Durant's mentality can last this time.
's respective teams are very sad.
The "hardness of mouth" of the above three stars is really the best league, basically reaching the intensity of turning a blind eye to the facts and reaching the state of "you say yours, I say mine".
So, with these "hard-mouthed" stars, the Lakers, , Warriors, and Nets are all very sad.
