The Way of Basketball: Never Talk Shit to Him!
Chapter 475 - 215: Shall I kowtow for you, Su?

Chapter 475: Chapter 215: Shall I kowtow for you, Su?

After Su Wan’s speech, it was evident that the entire Pacers team was much more focused in today’s training.

With Little O’Neal out for the season and Artest’s transfer, the original lineup was essentially unusable.

Zach Randolph, with an annual salary of 13 million, needed to take on his responsibility.

Rick Carlisle also assigned him some tactics.

However, the end result in the scrimmage was not good.

There were many reasons for the poor performance, and one of them was Zach Randolph’s lax attitude.

How could a lousy team like the New York Knicks take a scrimmage seriously?

Randolph took the ball and played seriously for a bit, and while shoving off defenders Dior and Millsap, he threw in a couple of "trash talks."

To be fair, the "Future Bear King" indeed played fiercely against others.

His physique was a bit "fatty muscle," looking like there weren’t many muscle lines, but actually, he was very "tough to beat."

In the paint, often what matters most is who can take more hits!

Dior and Millsap were naturally shorter and weaker, and when overpowered, they constantly lost ground.

It was only when Foster switched to defend Randolph that the "crooked mouth dragon king" slightly restrained himself. But even then, the final results showed Zach Randolph won more than he lost.

Probably that was also one of the reasons for Zach Randolph’s lack of focus.

I haven’t even started pushing hard, and you’re already falling down. What’s the point of even playing this game?

Watching this scene, Rick Carlisle could only smile helplessly. free𝑤ebnovel.com

He had seen too many players with talent but improper attitudes, who ended up achieving far less in the League than what their abilities could have allowed. He had a strong premonition that Zach Randolph was another such player.

To succeed in this League, both talent and attitude are truly indispensable!

Looking at Su Wan, who remained on the court to practice three-pointers after training ended, Rick Carlisle thought to himself:

Now, there’s the best proof.

Zach Randolph looked as if he had seen a ghost, watching Su Wan walk into the locker room.

Right after practice, he had approached Su Wan, wanting to talk, but all Su got was, "Wait until I’m done training!"

Randolph then waited in the locker room, not expecting that it would be nearly 2 hours.

"So, what do you want to talk about?" Su Wan wiped his sweat with a towel while looking at Randolph.

"Have you always trained like this?" Randolph was so astonished that he forgot what he originally wanted to ask.

No wonder, whether in the Portland "Prison Team" or the New York "Scumbags," he had never seen such a player.

Su Wan glanced at him. Do you have something to say or not?

"I heard from Larry that it was you who wanted the team to choose me? Because you thought that I could find redemption here..."

"No, Zach, that’s just the story I told Larry," Su Wan interrupted.

If the original Su Wan had a shred of fondness for Randolph due to the "Future Bear King’s" diligence in Memphis, that fondness vanished upon seeing Randolph’s sloppy attitude in today’s practice.

To him, wasting talent was no different from LeBron James.

So, he never felt pity for those players who had talent but failed to deliver results.

Every person who is pitied has their detestable side.

Milicic was benched by Larry Brown, missing out on playing time during his rookie season, indeed missing the best opportunity to develop his skills. But likewise, his ill-tempered nature, love for drinking, and impulsive anger were also reasons why he couldn’t find his footing in the NBA.

So...

"I just wanted to help Ron move to the team he wanted, without putting much thought into it." Su Wan had now picked up his toiletries and change of clothes, locked his locker, and continued, "As for you, Zach, the Blazers gave up on you, the Knicks gave up on you, and even if the Pacers give up on you afterward, it doesn’t really make any difference to you. You just want to rack up a 20 and 10 stat line every game and trade it for a big contract. So..."

"Don’t worry too much about what I said to Larry, pal!"

"I never really thought about what you could bring to this team!"

"Or, let’s say..."

"Today’s scrimmage already showed through your lax attitude, that I’m just here to bide my time; don’t expect me to play seriously just because I’ve joined the Pacers!"

After speaking, Su Wan left, leaving a brooding Zach Randolph standing in place.

After a long time, Randolph cursed, "Fxxk!"

He felt he must have been out of his mind to wait nearly 2 hours just to hear Su Wan’s ridicule.

Stepping out of the stadium, Randolph habitually found a nightclub, planning to have a wild time just like he did in New York. Yet he walked out of the club past 1 a.m., looking unsatisfied.

Compared to the wildness of New York, the clubs here were somewhat more conservative - truly not as fun to play in.

Finding it boring, he simply went home to sleep.

Driving on the main thoroughfare of Polis.

Looking at the dark streetscape outside the window, which seemed gloomier under the stretch of streetlights, he really wanted to return to the dazzling "Big Apple City." This damn "cornfield" was no place for living!

"Damn Su Wan!"

Zach Randolph grew even angrier.

He swore he would have to teach Su Wan a lesson!

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