In November, the daytime weather in Apolis, Minnesota is only 5℃, and at night it is around -5℃.

The Lakers, who just lost to the Hawks, rushed to this cold city to challenge another team named after animals.

The Lakers don't have many choices, they lost in an upset game and have to play another game tonight.

Back to back is so unreasonable.

From a pure basketball perspective, it is indeed unnecessary, and this mechanism is very harmful. Back-to-back games obviously increase the fatigue of athletes. After playing a game, accepting an interview, returning to the hotel and rushing to the airport to another city, the players can really close their eyes between the two games often have less than 5 hours of rest time. In this way, the team's winning rate will be visible to the naked eye.

But just like American football has the risk of concussion for athletes, but the management still holds the risk report, singing, dancing, dancing, and dancing, a game has affected tens of thousands of ticket revenue and sideline advertisements, the service industry around the venue, the operating industry of the venue itself, the television and online media live broadcast industry.

As a commercial league, NBA players, as a commercial asset (although high value but can be excerpted to explore mass-produced) commercial assets, their ability to create value is too amazing. The value they create comes from intensive schedules. For this reason, the risks brought by back-to-back are naturally not worth worrying.

Simply put, players can earn so much money, the team's market value can double, and the league can sell broadcast contracts worth billions of yuan, relying on a large amount of game accumulation. If you play less, the parties involved will make less money. Therefore, the players' guild has used the suspension of the league as a trump card. Since the league has made so much money now, it is impossible for them to take the initiative to reduce the number of games and spit out the money. Even the president who especially likes to reverse the car in the future will consider adding "tourism" in the middle of the season to increase the number of games in disguise.

Therefore, games are impossible to be less, and they will never be less in this life. At most, you can start the season early to reduce back-to-back games, which are detailed operations of schedule development to relieve the pressure. What's more, there are policies on the top and countermeasures on the bottom.

Mr. Lun's omnipotent method of rehabilitation was born to deal with back-to-back.

As for the moment, the Lakers team has no plans to take a rest.

The idea that big guys are instilled is to get as much money as they play games, unless they are injured on duty.

The most abominable thing about the rest of the game is to make the fans who support it subconsciously think that the regular season is no longer important, as long as they play well in the playoffs.

However, if you can't play the regular season well, where will the playoffs come from?

Journalists in Mingzhou are not that interested in the Lakers.

The Lakers successfully entered the hotel, trained on time, and waited for the game time to arrive.

At 7 o'clock in the evening, after dinner, the Lakers took a bus to the target center.

Arriving at the competition site two hours in advance is not just to adapt to the venue.

Everyone was in the locker room, and Wei Xia listened to everyone's conversation with each other at a glance.

Kobe was having a hot chat with a middle-aged black man who often appeared in the locker room.

"The reason why Michael can enter the 'zone' at any time is his sense of crisis." said the middle-aged black man around Kobe. "He knows what he is going to do. I remember in the spring of 1995, when Brian Russell spoke rudely to him. That thing became the source of motivation for MJ to fight against Jazz in the future. I believe that without Brian's words, MJ would not play those games that make people talk about."

The person involved was at the scene, and Russell shouted at the black man: "George, please do not quote the real person's names when making up stories."

"It's both a story and a historical fact," said the middle-aged black man with a smile to Russell, "You'd better admit it."

Russell had no choice but to be helpless. He was not convinced by Jordan in any public place. He wanted to fight Jordan alone and accused the other party of the 1998 push-up. Perhaps it was his unyielding spirit that Jordan remembered, so he was gloriously the last person to thank the latter in his speech in the Hall of Fame.

Russell should be honored.

Jordan's three classic moments in the finals, the first buzzer-beating kill in 1997, turned his lips and clenched his fists, the fifth game of the flu, and the sixth game in 1998, he was not only a witness, but also a witness, and even the person who defended Jordan. The winner will be remembered, and the loser in certain specific situations will be remembered.

For example, we cannot forget Curry's back-to-back story, nor will we forget Duncan's continuous tip-off against Bathir, nor will we forget j.r Smith's dramatic brain short circuit playing the angel and the demon in a few seconds... Russell experienced three times in the above famous scenes alone, and what an honor he was.

"What is 'zone'?" Wei Xia asked the black man around Kobe, a member of the Zen Master's luxurious team - George Mumford.

Mumford worked with Zen Master for many years and experienced the glorious 1990s of the Bulls Dynasty. He knew everything about Jordan's story and was also a very outstanding psychological master. In the mid-1990s, he coached not only athletes in the Bulls, but also star athletes in other fields in Chicago.

Almost all Chicago athletes (Dr. J" Julius Irving, who worked with Mumford and successfully entered the zone, said that they could not control this state independently. Afterwards, they were confused and did not know when and how they entered this crazy state, but they couldn't help but recall the mysterious feeling of blood debt, which was as addictive as sucking **. However, there were still quite surprising exceptions - Mumford discovered that Jordan could control his mind and enter and exit the zone as he wanted.

In order to explore the mystery of "the zone" in Jordan, Kobe regarded every word and every point of Mumford as the Bible and remembered it in his heart.

When Wei Xia asked, before Mumford answered, Kobe said first: "That is a field that only you can enter. Simply put, the movements of others have slowed down in your eyes. Offense and defense, you can easily find a way to crack and then completely dominate the game."

Listening to Kobe's narrative, Wei Xia couldn't help but think about the championship game of the NCAA National Championship half a year ago.

In the last quarter, his condition was similar to what Kobe described. In his eyes, the North Carolina players all looked like slow motion.

"Wish, are you interested in this too?" Mumford asked with a smile.

"You continue to talk, and I will benefit a lot while listening." Wei Xia said modestly.

Russell patted the closet and said, "Stop talking nonsense!"

The victim does not want to be repeated one after another.

After a while, the Zen master entered the locker room without giving a lecture, but simply closed the locker room and lit the sage.

He held sage in his hand and passed by every team member to make sure that everyone was smoked.

Wei Xia's eyes turned, not knowing where this was going.

He looked at Kobe and found that he closed his eyes with pleasure, while the others reacted almost the same, especially the newcomer, Bynum only wanted to sleep when he smelled the smell, and Weaver enjoyed it like a veteran.

Wei Xia is sure that he doesn't enjoy it at all, unless he grows up by smelling this smell since he was a child.

"Relax," Jackson said, "all you have to do is just relax."

His voice was soothing without any pressure.

Wei Xia closed her eyes and calmed down with the Zen master's tone. Is this meditation? He doesn't understand very much. The Zen master wants the players to empty themselves and give them a complete rest in their body and mind.

It lasted about 20 minutes.

Wei Xia was forced to meditate by Jackson for the first time, and he almost fell asleep. Fortunately, it was only 20 minutes, and he would definitely fall asleep after another 10 minutes.

With 90 minutes left before the game started, Jackson asked everyone to leave the locker room and go to shoot on the spot.

Walking out of the locker room, Sprewell asked: "Have Phil been like this all the time?"

"He still has a lot of strange things he hasn't done, you can look forward to it." Brian Cook, who joined the Lakers in 2003, had played a complete season under Jackson's men and still had some understanding of the latter's routine.

The madman could not understand Jackson's approach at all. Hearing Cook's response, he cursed and sweared, "Can such a person lead the team to win so many championships? No wonder the 'Bissad' and Pat Riley don't agree with him very much!"

In terms of championship numbers alone, Jackson is already on par with Red Auerbach. But Auerbach and Pat Riley don't agree with him very much.

Because he always coaches the best players in the league.

The problem is that before he coaches the best players in the league, they are not uncontroversial "best". They may be the strongest players, but the strongest players without a championship, just like Chamberlain. Being able to control the best players is also a skill.

Wei Xia entered the field and warmed up. Starting from a three-pointer from the outside, he found that he felt good today.

He scored 11 consecutive goals at the top of the arc before losing.
Chapter completed!