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Chapter 244 Shura Field [First update, please subscribe]

Cartwright was distressed.

It took a few days to prepare the tactics, but it turned out to be a waste of time.

How he wished it was the Kings that won the Western Conference, so that when the Bulls played the Kings in the Finals, he could ask Phil Jackson how to beat the Kings.

What should we do now?
You can't always call the Zen master: "O Fei, do you see how our Bulls can beat your Lakers?"

He could imagine that the Zen Master would directly yell at him for being shameless and irritable.

This kind of behavior is like asking the Zen master, I think Jenny sister is very beautiful, you can help me make an appointment with her and see when she has time in the evening.

"Who will die in the finals!"

"For the first time, a Chinese player has entered the NBA Finals."

"The showdown between Kobe and Lu Yu!"

For a time, the finals detonated the Chinese basketball market, and the NBA also vigorously began to promote the finals. For NBA President David Stern, this is a rare opportunity to expand the Chinese market.

Due to the attention of countless fans, some basketball commentators compared the data of Lu Yu and Kobe.

Although the core of the Lakers is O'Neal, Lu Yu is an outsider, and the two are friends in the circle, so this time the gimmick alliance is still placed on Lu Yu and Kobe.

Of course, there are gimmicks between Brad Miller and O'Neal.

It's just that David Stern doesn't want them fighting in the finals.

科比目前场均38.3分钟，砍下25.2分5.5个篮板5.5次助攻1.4次抢断2.9次失误，投篮命中率46.9%，三分命中率25%，罚球命中率82.9%。

Looking at Lu Yu again, he only played 33 minutes per game, scored 25.4 points, 4.8 rebounds, 9.7 assists, 1.9 steals and 2.1 turnovers. He shot 57% from the field, 42.3% from three and 92.8% from the free throw line. The 180 Club.

From the data point of view, Lu Yu's offensive efficiency is higher and he has more assists, but this is when Lu Yu is the team leader and Kobe is only the second leader of the Lakers.

However, in terms of three-point shooting rate, Kobe is a bit ridiculously low.

He is worthy of the title of his little blacksmith.

After watching it, Lakers fans feel that this data comparison does not affect the results of the game at all, because Lu Yu is the strongest in the Bulls, but Lu Yu's data is a little better than Kobe's, but the Lakers still have a Shaquille O'Neal, plus O'Neal, the strength of the two teams is directly tilted.

Predicting the outcome of the finals online, almost everyone believes that the Lakers will win the championship. The only suspense is how many points the Bulls will lose and how many games will be played in the series.

Stern has a headache. He doesn't want the Bulls to be easily resolved by the Lakers like last year's 76ers. If Iverson hadn't fought for a victory in G1 last year, no one would want to watch the bleak ratings.

But from the current situation, it seems that the Bulls really can't beat the Lakers.

In the case of a large gap in strength, it is very difficult to control the field like the Western Conference finals that manipulated the Lakers and the Kings.

On June 6, the Bulls flew to Los Angeles.

They found an arena in advance for adaptive training, and a reporter interviewed Lu Yu after the Bulls' training.

"Lu, you have entered the finals, and you are only one step away from the championship you said at the beginning of the season. Do you have the confidence to defeat the mighty Lakers on the stage of the finals?"

"Of course, I'm very confident that no matter how strong the opponent is, as long as I get on the court, I'm here to win."

The reporter asked again: "Kobe is your good friend. Did you talk on the phone before the game?"

Lu Yu shook his head: "No, I know he won't call me either, if we want to catch up, we can go to the end of the whole series, we have a whole offseason to catch up, but in this round of the series, We are rivals, and we won't put a little bit of water on it because of personal feelings."

Lu Yu is telling the truth. Kobe's character is like this. After the game starts, he will try his best. He can't just play the ball and hug each other. Looking at the score, the Bulls or the Lakers lose by [-] points. There is a dog-blood sprayer who will be scolded by fans when he goes back.

The main theme of this series of competitions is to have a straight face and real swords.

"What do you think of Kobe's strength?"

"..." Lu Yu thought for a while, and said plainly, "Can you reach the finals, what do you think?"

As an opponent, Lu Yu would not go to Kuakobi at this time.

Although he was Kobe's iron powder -- the iron here, the iron of the blacksmith.

Kobe is indeed very good and talented. What Lu Yu admires most is Kobe's hard work, but Lu Yu feels that his efforts are not less than Kobe's. Kobe may have entered the league a few years earlier, but since Lu Yu's journey through, The daily training volume is three times, five times, or even ten times that of others. He has failed, but the basis of his failure is that he has paid. Countless trainings have returned his various court skills, and he has failed. What makes up is the gap between him and Kobe's physical talent.

Of course, this hanging also brought another benefit to Lu Yu.

Even under such high-intensity training, he is still not so easily injured. In addition to his style of play, he mainly shoots, and most of the breakthroughs also choose to pass the ball. It is rare to see scenes where Lu Yu dunks.

Even Kobe, after years of training and high-intensity games, couldn't hold that fragile Achilles tendon in the end.

Therefore, the degree of physical endurance is absolutely guaranteed for Lu Yu's career and his attendance in each season. At least in her first rookie season, she played all 77 games in the regular season - five games were Banned.

Kobe is a good player, but no good player can maintain such a high-intensity training beyond average 38 minutes per game per game, whether it is the current Lakers coach Phil Jackson or Mike Brown, and then D'Antoni, didn't notice that, maybe they did, but they gave up and were willing to fuck Kobe.

Blacksmiths are not iron men.

Or Cartwright knew that he felt sorry for Lu Yu, and often gave Lu Yu enough time to rest.

He even advised Lu Yu to practice less at times, and it was almost enough.

In the evening, Lu Chaoyang, Jessica, Mark Foyou and Snoopy arrived in Los Angeles together. They will support Lu Yu in the finals.

Lu Yu arranged for them to stay in the team's hotel and opened a room for them.

At lunch the next day, because Jessica said that Lu Yu had arranged a lot of work for her, she also asked her to study finance and change her major.

Lu Chaoyang criticized him: "How can you make a girl so tired, although Jessica is very capable, the money you earn can fully support Jessica, so don't you leave the work to a professional manager? rest assured?"

Lu Yu sighed, the old man's words are art.

Originally, it was Lu Chaoyang's request to let Jessica manage the accounts. As soon as Jessica complained, Lu Chaoyang criticized Lu Yu immediately.

The first sentence concerned Jessica not being too tired, the second sentence praised Jessica's outstanding ability, the third sentence indirectly acknowledged the identity of Jessica's daughter-in-law, and the fourth sentence proposed Lu Yu's worry.

Jessica was so happy, she waved her hands and said that she was not tired and should share the pressure for Lu Yu.

Lu Yu also knew that Jessica just complained casually, because of her work, she and Lu Yu would be separated. She also knew Lu Yu's thoughts, but she was very smart and learned to play stupid.

But pretending to be stupid is not really stupid. She will fight for herself when she should fight for it, such as getting Lu Chaoyang's approval.

Unlike several other girls, Jessica is the first and only daughter-in-law recognized by Lu Chaoyang.

Only Mark Foyou was still in the dark, looking at the loving appearance of Jessica and Lu Yu, and lamented that he had discovered the dusty gem of Lu Yu with his shining eyes.

Snoopy muttered to the side, "Scumbag!"

Jessica asked Lu Yu in a low voice: "The game is tonight, will you be nervous? I understand that the Lakers are too strong, and it is difficult for you to win the game."

It's not that Jessica is going to say something frustrating before the game, she's just stating objective facts.

"It's because they are so strong that I don't have any psychological burden." Lu Yu said with a smile: "I just want to enjoy this game and strive to play well. The coach said that he will give me unlimited firing rights and let me be free. play."

"Then you can't fight!" Jessica reminded.

Lu Yu glanced at her sideways: "You seem to be talking a lot today, why do I feel that you are more nervous than me?"

"Come on, I'm not nervous."

Jessica pouted.

But she was really nervous, not because Lu Yu was going to participate in the finals, but because she was recognized by Lu Chaoyang for the first time today, for fear that she would not perform well in front of Lu Chaoyang.

Jessica whispered mysteriously: "Have you really not been able to play basketball before? I heard from my uncle that you only started practicing basketball in the last year of high school. I didn't believe in talent before, but I've never heard of your situation."

"Duncan didn't start playing until he was 14?"

Duncan didn't start playing basketball until he was 14 years old. He practiced swimming before, and he swam happily.

His sisters were all in the Olympics, and he wanted to go too.

When his mother died, he didn't want to swim anymore.

Duncan's passion for swimming faded that year when the island he lived on was devastated by a hurricane.

His classmates and his brother-in-law started teaching him how to play basketball.

His fundamentals were so poor that he thought he would go back to swimming after playing basketball for a while, but the basketball season never seemed to end.

It was such a mistake, Duncan embarked on the road of basketball.

"You're later than Duncan."

Jessica pouted, suddenly changed the subject and said, "In Chicago, I saw your female neighbor, Charlize Theron, she's quite beautiful, nothing happened to you..."

Before Jessica could finish, she was interrupted by Lu Yu.

"I don't know her."

"And that actor in New York, Scarlett Johansson, who complimented you as a flower in front of the media."

"She, she met in Gonzaga before filming. If you don't believe me, ask Lao Lu. They ate at Lu Ji."

Jessica didn't notice that Lu Yu was talking about them.

It was only after Lu Yu finished speaking that he realized that he had leaked.

Lu Chaoyang glared at Lu Yu and smiled bitterly: "Yes, that girl Scarlet was a Gonzaga fan before."

No way, the hornet's nest that my son poked, I had to block it myself.

Who knew that he was so simple and honest, how could such a thing be born.

Snoopy came out to save the field and said loudly: "It's rare for everyone to gather in Los Angeles, come, let's toast, Lu, when the offseason is over, take me back to China to play, I like Chinese dumplings... …”

The topic was thus diverted.

Jessica smiled, she just wanted to tell Lu Yu that she didn't know anything.

In fact, there are many things she doesn't know, at least she doesn't know Annie's existence yet.

After eating, they walked out of the box. The business of Lu Ji Chinese Restaurant in Los Angeles also became popular because the Bulls entered the finals.

"so many people?"

Lu Chaoyang frowned and said.

Lu Yu raised his head, they came earlier, and he had the kitchen arranged in advance, just to be afraid of being surrounded by fans when there were a lot of people. Now that there are so many people, obviously they have to be fully armed to go out.

"I didn't expect so many people at lunch..."

The general manager in charge of the branch was sweating.

Lu Yu just wanted to say it's okay, but he didn't say it, because he saw a familiar figure.

Scarlett Johansson.

She was getting out of the car and was about to walk into the restaurant.

"It's over, why is she here?"

Scarlett Johansson is likely to come to Lu Ji for dinner. She must want to watch Lu Yu's finals tonight. Lu Yu told her that the tickets were gone, but she forgot that a ticket was only a small amount of money for Scarlett .

"Jessica, the girl in front seems to be the female star who has always supported Gonzaga."

At this time, Mark Foyou, who had a good eye, also found out, but he didn't know about Lu Yu and Scarlett.

"is it?"

Jessica slowly raised her head and looked out the door.

Lu Yu's heart twitched violently.

Lu Yu knew that Jessica might have vaguely guessed that there was something between him and Scarlett, but guessing, she would definitely be unbearable to see her face to face, especially when she was just admitted by Lu Chaoyang today.

As soon as the two meet, according to Scarlett's character, Jessica will definitely be excited.

If this fights in a restaurant, it will be even worse than the Shura field.

Lu Yu couldn't even imagine what kind of accident would happen at that moment.

"Hey, that person seems to be Lu Yu!"

I don't know which well-meaning fan suddenly shouted.

In an instant, all the fans in the restaurant were in a commotion, surrounding Lu Yu and blocking Jessica's sight and attention from looking out the door.

Snoopy tried his best to protect Lu Yu.

"Manager, are there any other exits?" Lu Yu asked quickly.

"There is a back door." The restaurant manager replied quickly.

"Snoopy, you arrange for the driver to pick us up at the back door exit, Jessica, let's evacuate first."

After speaking, Lu Yu hugged Jessica and ran in the direction pointed by the manager. A group of fans chased after him, but they were stopped by bodyguards and staff.

Taking advantage of his escape, Lu Yu glanced at Scarlett's direction.

Thank goodness, Scarlett hadn't entered the restaurant, but she saw the restlessness in the restaurant and was worried that something might go wrong, so she hid in the car first, after all, she is also a public figure.

Going out through the back door, the nanny car driven by the driver was already parked there.

"Okay, I'm already in the car, don't put your arms around me."

Jessica blushed slightly.

Lu Yu kept his arms around her, so that she couldn't even turn around to see the situation behind her being chased.

"It's safe, it's all right."

Lu Yuxiao let go, but being interrupted by the fans, Mark Foyou forgot about supporting the female star of Gonzaga, and Jessica also forgot what she wanted to watch.

But the Shura field still exists, and Scarlett has to watch the finals tonight.

As long as the two meet in the finals, it will be difficult for Lu Yu to feel at ease in this finals.

孽 孽!
So men still have to control their lower body. Sometimes don't underestimate this kind of thing, it will really affect your career.

The car slowly drove towards the hotel.

"Jessica, I don't think you should watch the finals this time."

Lu Yu said with consideration.

"why?"

Jessica is a little strange: "I'm going to watch the game, isn't it a predetermined thing?"

Mark Foyo also waited for a reason.

Lu Yu said calmly: "Today, you must have been photographed by the fans. When you appear on the court in the finals, the media will definitely receive rumors. The behind-the-scenes of the magazine company's brokerage company and the catering company must be you in the future, you are a girl. If it's exposed, it's definitely not safe."

The law and order in the United States is not good, especially those around the rich are surrounded by layers of bodyguards.

Even Lu Yu would take three or four bodyguards with him when he went out.

The issue of safety made Jessica's face pale, and her whole person became serious, from a little woman beside Lu Yu to a strong woman at work.

She is behind the scenes and is free to do a lot of things.

If it is exposed, bodyguards will be required for entry and exit, and even the remaining two years of schooling will not be able to be successfully completed.

"If your safety is at stake, I can't feel at ease even in the finals."

Lu Yu looked at Jessica affectionately: "You know, you are more important in my heart than the finals."

After saying this, Jessica was also very moved. After analyzing the pros and cons, especially considering that she still had two years to study, she could only nod her head: "Okay, I will watch the live broadcast in the hotel tonight. , I will go back to Spokane in the morning tomorrow, and you will explain to the media that I am the niece of your former college head coach, so the truth will not be exposed by the media."

Lu Chaoyang and Mark Foyo also agreed with this suggestion.

Only Snoopy is still wondering, who is the female star that Mark Foyou mentioned just now?

Scarlett?
Or Annie?

It must be one of the two of them, otherwise Lu Yu would not think of a way to get rid of Jessica. When will Lu Yu be a bit of a scumbag!

Lu Yu's expression did not change, and he remained calm.

But the heart was still beating.

He knew that no matter how tired he was from today's game, he had to make up for Jessica when he came back at night. He couldn't save his physical strength at night, so he couldn't let Jessica come and return empty-handed.

After getting off the bus, go back to the hotel.

Lu Chaoyang was in the same room as Mark Foyo, and Lu Chaoyang suddenly remembered what had just happened in the restaurant.

"By the way, Mark, you said that you just saw the female star who supported Gonzaga. Who is it?"

"The one who was filming in Gonzaga, seems to be called... Scarlett?"

Lu Yu didn't expect that Lu Chaoyang would be able to recall this afterward, but Lu Chaoyang just glanced out the window lightly and said something casually.

"Oh, it's her...not very familiar."

　I'm coming, I'm coming!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)