Chapter 47: The War is Coming
After Yang Mo's words appeared in the newspapers, they immediately caused a stir in public opinion. Since Yang Mo was selected, he has never spoken in public, even when those so-called basketball experts and commentators tried to blacken him and criticize him, he always remained silent.
But now, he actually stood up and spoke. And he seemed so confident, or arrogant.
This statement was immediately interpreted by the public. In the end, 90% of basketball commentators and fans thought Yang Mo was bragging. In their opinion, Brook Lopez's physical data was better than Yang Mo's, and everyone had seen him since childhood and knew his strength. Yang Mo was different. No one had seen his game footage.
With the support of public opinion, Brook Lopez shamelessly stood up and said: "I have never played against this guy, let alone the fact that he beat me. It seems that this guy is not only incompetent, but also hypocritical."
Brook Lopez himself was very happy to say this, and the commentators and fans who supported him were also very happy to hear it, and they had a good time. However, the players who participated in the game that day could not help it, and jumped out one by one to accuse Brook Lopez.
"Brook Lopez is lying." Derrick Rose is an introverted person. He doesn't like to use too many modifiers. He just stood in front of the media and expressed his attitude directly.
The top scholar spoke, and Yang Mo's other two good brothers also stood up.
"I can swear to God, Brook Lopez was beaten by my brother Young in the training camp, even though they only played two rounds. In the first round, Young grabbed the rebound over his head and scored. In the second round, Young directly stole the ball from him, and then launched a fast break, with me assisting Derrick to score an alley-oop." Westbrook told the media everything that happened that day.
Eric Gordon is obviously impatient. He couldn't wait to join the war of words: "Everyone in the world can say that Young is not good here or there, but that poor guy Brook Lopez can't, because he was beaten by Young that time and he didn't even have the strength to fight back. I have never seen a defeated player dare to be so arrogant to accuse the winner who defeated him. This is the most ridiculous thing I have seen since I started playing basketball. And Brook is also the most shameless player I have ever seen."
Brook Lopez couldn't sit still after being accused by three hot rookies in a row. He quickly found the reporter and continued to make his remarks: "As we all know, the three of them are Yang's friends. They will definitely not tell the truth. As for whether Yang beat me or not, I knew it when I played against him."
Brook Lopez's words clearly accused Rose and the other two of favoring their relatives and not helping others, which made the three of them so angry that they stomped their feet. They had never seen such a shameless person.
When the three wanted to tear Lopez apart alive, Michael Jordan, the God of Basketball, stepped out and made the final decision: "I was there, and many managers in the league were there. If the Nets guy is not ready to tell the truth, I am considering releasing the video."
Originally this matter was still being debated, but now that Michael Jordan has spoken out, all the debate has stopped. Now everyone knows that Yang Mo really beat Lopez in the training camp. Everyone feels incredible, but at the same time they also believe that Michael Jordan had no reason to lie.
So those commentators who had nothing to do after eating began to discuss on TV whether Yang Mo really had the ability to play in the NBA, and the conclusion was still no. The reason was that they had never seen Yang Mo's game footage, and Yang Mo's physical fitness was too poor.
These words are more like discrimination than reasons.
As for these guys, Yang Mo just remembered their names silently in his heart, waiting for the day when he could use data to slap their mouths one by one and let them know what strength is.
Soon, the Heat went to Europe for a preseason tour, and Yang Mo stayed in Miami and kept practicing hard. He was waiting for the game to come, waiting to slap Brook Lopez's face, and waiting to make those basketball experts who spewed shit from their mouths suffer the consequences.
The day approached as Yang Mo eagerly anticipated it, and soon the preseason ended.
Soon, the Heat's first regular season game ended. The Heat defeated the visiting Atlanta Hawks 101:92. Pat Riley did not let Yang Mo play in this game.
As the person who chose Yang Mo against all odds, Pat Riley was also holding back his anger. So he arranged Yang Mo's debut in the away game against the New Jersey Nets and accompanied the team to New Jersey. On the plane to New Jersey, Pat Riley pulled Yang Mo to sit at the back and kept analyzing various videos of the Nets. At this moment, he was more eager to be proud than Yang Mo.
Although this game was a competition between two bad teams, due to the previous war of words, it attracted the attention of no less than one billion people. ESPN also urgently arranged to broadcast this game live in the United States. China was warming up for this game a week in advance. All Chinese fans were looking forward to Yang Mo's debut. They also wanted to see whether Yang Mo was really awesome or just a super fake as the Americans said. Emotionally, they certainly hoped that Yang Mo was really awesome. But Americans were different. They were all waiting to see Yang Mo's joke.
It is also worth mentioning that major Korean TV stations also chose to broadcast this game live, and the reason was to pay attention to Yang Mo, because Yang Mo and Jessica are a couple. Under the hype of SM company, various romantic stories of Yang Mo and Jessica kept spreading on the Internet. Although they were all fabricated, they still attracted the attention of many crazy fans. Basically all Koreans regard Yang Mo as the national son-in-law, and hope that Yang Mo can live with their Jessica forever. So emotionally, more than 90% of Koreans are cheering for Yang Mo and their national son-in-law.
Originally, Girls' Generation was going to attend a press conference on this day. However, SM Entertainment planned to use the game to promote Girls' Generation, so they immediately booked the front row seats at the Nets home court so that they could also appear in the game.
It can be said that the attention paid to this game even exceeded that of the annual Christmas game. This is Stern's favorite scene, and it means a lot of money to him. However, he did not expect that the effect of his hype of many plots was not as good as Yang Mo's words. This undoubtedly made him a little frustrated, but more happy. The league has not had such a topic star for a long time.
As the competition approached, there was a lot of noise and attention outside, but Yang Mo slowly calmed down.
Yang Mo's college coach once said that Yang Mo was a natural big-game player, and the more critical the moment, the calmer he would be. So every buzzer beater for Donghua University was executed by Yang Mo. And to everyone's surprise, the buzzer beater success rate was 100%, including the buzzer beater that helped Huaqiao University enter the CUBA quarterfinals for the first time in history.
