Champions Creed

Chapter 319 Chapter 318: You don’t understand what GOAT is (please give me a monthly ticket!)
Roger's nickname of Agent 0 is rarely mentioned anymore because this nickname came from the early days of his career, when Roger often played games with 0 assists, hence the name.

后来罗杰逐渐成长为一个双能卫，甚至在99-00赛季打出了史无前例的35+5+5全能数据，这个绰号自然就被遗忘在了历史之中。

But today, Roger gave the nickname new life.

You never know what words Roger will use to shame someone. Agent 0 was originally a very cool nickname, but when Roger used it to describe Arenas, whose stats were all zeros, the entire meaning of the nickname changed.

Arenas walked to the sidelines with a strong sense of shame, but Stephen Jackson added: "You only had 0 assists that year, and he had all 0. So, he should be called Super Agent Zero."

After hearing this, Gilbert Arenas swore that from now on, he would always carry a gun in the locker room!

In just half a quarter, Warriors fans experienced happiness they had never experienced before.

For many years, the Golden State Warriors have been the lambs to the slaughter, and any crappy team can walk around here with impunity.

It was thought that the introduction of Alan Houston would be the beginning of all changes, but he failed to help the team out of the predicament.

Today, someone who can really help the team out of trouble appeared.

During the preseason, because Roger did not play much and did not play at 100%, Warriors fans have not experienced this kind of refreshing feeling.

And at this moment, they were simply having a blast!

It has been many years since Warriors fans have seen such an exciting game.

Although it was only a few rounds, the changes brought by Roger were already obvious.

Sitting back on the bench, Hubie Brown shrugged at Roger, "If you're like this, these guys won't be able to practice defense, because you can take care of the opponent's most threatening offensive point by yourself."

"Hubi, you can't practice defense against a rubbish team. I don't know what David Stern is thinking. How could he treat today's young people like this? He actually arranged for them to embarrass themselves in a nationally televised game."

Hubie Brown laughed and made it sound like David Stern was beating up Arenas.

Weren't you also assigned to the returning Jordan back then, but you played out a different outcome.

On the other hand, Rudy Tomjanovich felt that it was probably time for him to retire.

I thought the Houston duo could lead the team out of the post-Olajuwon era, or at least give people a glimpse of hope. But now it seems that the first game of the new season will fail.

There was no way. Coach Tang couldn't resign on the spot. He could only guide Gilbert patiently: "Gilbert, no matter how strong the opponent is, you have to stay awake. You made too many mistakes, and you can completely control these mistakes! Don't be nervous, okay? You are lost!"

There's nothing wrong with what Tomjanovich said, unless the person receiving it is Gilbert Arenas.

Arenas, who was sitting on the bench, frowned and stared at Tomjanovich: "Oh, I knew you looked down on me too."

Tang Shuai: ???
"Listen Gilbert, this has nothing to do with respect or not."

"That's enough. I'm very sober now. Put away your outdated chicken soup. I don't need it!"

The timeout ended quickly and Arenas returned to the court.

Rudy Tomjanovich, the coach who led his team to defeat Roger and win the championship in 1994, doubted his life for the first time. He discovered for the first time that he did not understand basketball or basketball players.

He turned to look at his assistant coach Dean Cooper: "I really want Kermit Washington to come over and knock that bastard's head open to see what's inside!?"

To be honest, the whole world knows that Gilbert Arenas has more potential and talent than Cuttino Mobley. Arenas' performance as a starter last season was enough for him to compete for the Best Rookie award. If it weren't for the fact that he started for such a short time, the Best Rookie award would never have gone to the Spaniard who dreams of becoming a doctor.

So even Tomjanovich couldn't understand why Roger didn't even bother to try to work with Arenas and just traded him, even for half a season? Why did he just ignore Gilbert Arenas' talent?
Now Tomjanovich understood.

This is not a question of talent or potential.

There are two kinds of teammates in this world that you should not have no matter how strong or how high their potential is: teammates who can't play and teammates who are mentally abnormal.

The game continued, Arenas wanted to regroup. He was not the kind of person who would give up easily. Don't worry about whether he had delusions of being looked down upon, but at least every time he was looked down upon, or he thought he was looked down upon, he would work harder.

This time too, he decided to redouble his efforts to fight back.

The Rockets are on offense, Gilbert Arenas directly controls the ball and wants to play one-on-one.

In fact, Arenas is not only good at using his body. His shooting is much better than some forwards who only use their body.

Because he gained a lot of weight this summer, Arenas was too fond of using his body to gain an advantage during the preseason. He believes that he has formed an inertial mindset.

Now, he just needs to go back to being himself last season and rely more on skills rather than his body, and he will definitely be able to break through.

Arenas dribbled the ball with both hands outside the three-point line, taking advantage of Roger's unstable center of gravity.

But in the end, he neither went left nor right, but suddenly retreated and pulled up one step outside the three-point line!
The emergence of Arenas has given the league another player who likes to hold the ball and shoot three-pointers besides Roger.

Arenas feels even better when shooting three-pointers with the ball than when shooting three-pointers after receiving the ball. All of his buzzer-beating and buzzer-beating three-pointers were shot by himself with the ball, including the classic three-pointer that he turned around early to celebrate.

However, Roger's defensive attention was very focused, and he actively blocked Arenas' shot the moment he stepped back.

Coupled with his height and wingspan advantage, Roger tightly covered Arenas, turning this into an extremely bad shot in space.

The basketball bounced off the frame, but Gilbert Arenas still failed to score!

To put it bluntly, the general is not only lacking in physical strength but also in his peak condition.

It is an all-round weakening.

His confrontation ability is not yet to the point where he can slaughter the back line, and his shooting level is not yet so perfect.

In fact, even at his peak, Gilbert Arenas could never gain much advantage over Roger.

Some groups often use the term "Young James" to cover up the weakness of LeBron James in the early stage of his career, but even Young James defeated the Wizards led by the General in the playoffs for three consecutive years.

Tomjanovich looked at Arenas' inexplicable shot and felt that he would never be able to lead the Houston Rockets back to the top.

If the Houston Rockets really want to build a team with Steve Francis and Gilbert Arenas as the core, the only thing Rudy Tomjanovich can do is resign.

After Arenas missed the shot, Stoudemire secured the defensive rebound and the Warriors advanced calmly.

The Warriors' offense is not as fast as the Hawks' because Hubie Brown believes that over-emphasizing fast breaks will make players relax their vigilance on the defensive end.

Some balls can still be interfered, but they may abandon defense and run forward because of the desire for fast break. Some rebounds can still be controlled, but they may be lost because of the desire for fast break.

The Warriors do not refuse to counterattack, but they will not deliberately play the seven-second offense.

This is normal. In the entire NBA history, only Mike D'Antoni likes to play the seven-second offense.

So this time the Warriors were still fighting a positional battle with the Rockets. Alan Houston easily ran out of the open space, Roger passed the ball in time, and the latter made a steady mid-range shot.

Roger gave people the feeling of being at ease in these rounds. He could completely control the offense without deliberately playing superstar balls.

After being the main point guard of the seven-second offense last season, Roger has actually made great progress in organization.

This season, with Spoelster, an old acquaintance of Roger's who started out as his personal video editor, Roger also received a lot of game video analysis of top point guards in the preseason training camp.

He can lead the team better and pass the ball more accurately.

In the traditional basketball concept, point guard is a crooked way.

You can either focus on scoring or be unselfish.

Look at Allen Iverson. Even though he was less than 185 cm tall, Larry Brown still pushed him to the second position to focus on scoring.

But Roger's performance is making the point guard "legitimate".

This is not the first time Roger has changed basketball. It was he who caused high school rookies to emerge like mushrooms after rain, it was he who tilted the NBA's voice towards the players, it was he who made the three-pointer with the ball popular, and now he has made the role of point guard no longer useless.

This is what GOAT-level influence should be like.

8-0, the Houston Rockets seemed powerless to fight back.

This Golden State Warriors team may not be the favorite to win the championship, but please believe that they can still handle most teams in the league.

After Roger made the assist, he pointed to the score and said, "Gilbert, do you have to take the shot? Hakim is my friend, and I don't want him to see his home team being ruined like this. You know, I'm a sentimental person."

"shut up!"

"Shut up? What right does a piece of trash have to order the king around?"

"Stop looking down on me!"

Arenas, who was both inferior and conceited, completely entered a vicious circle. The more Roger attacked him with trash talk, the more he felt that Roger looked down on him, and the more he wanted to prove himself.

All Roger had to do was prepare his butcher knife and wait for him to fall into his trap.

When it comes to destroying his opponents, Roger is as skilled as a worker on an assembly line.

Arenas's intensity was severely increased by Roger, and Rudy Tomjanovich's blood pressure was severely increased by Arenas.

After that, as expected, Gilbert Arenas was completely ruined.

Just as Hubie Brown expected, Roger didn't get any data from the poor guy.

Arenas always likes to motivate himself by saying "I'm a zero".

But from now on, this sentence will only remind him of this unforgettable and shameful night, because Roger really made him completely zero.

Roger was pressing him throughout the entire game and didn't relax for any round.

And when Arenas leaves the court, Roger leaves the court, and when Arenas comes on the court, Roger comes on, and Arenas is never allowed to clock in for other people.

This kind of targeting has far exceeded the scope of competition. Roger openly abused Arenas and made him pay the price for all his words and deeds in the summer.

Today, Arenas taught the entire league a lesson by breaking the law: Yes, the king left the dynasty he built. But be careful with your words, the king's majesty cannot be trampled on.

Rudy Tomjanovich replaced Arenas halfway through the third quarter. Arenas walked off like a lost dog, because he knew that this was neither a rotation nor a rest.

This means the game is over.

At this moment, the score difference has been widened to 33 points, and the game has completely entered garbage time.

Although Steve Francis tried very hard to regain his position, he was without Yao Ming and only had Arenas who was completely ineffective on the court. Francis was alone and could not stand up to the Warriors.

When he was substituted, ESPN displayed Arenas's stats for the day at the bottom of the live screen, five neat zeros.

Mike Breen exclaimed: "Roger has redefined the meaning of the word 'blow up'!"

Rudy Tomjanovich looked at the distraught Arenas and was really worried that the kid's self-confidence would be completely destroyed by Roger tonight.

Thompson is a principled man, but today he told Arenas: "If you want, I can let you go up and score a few points in garbage time."

Even Tomjanovich couldn't stand seeing Arenas leave the game with five zeros. Yes, scoring in garbage time is a shameful behavior, but leaving the game with five zeros is even more shameful!

No one will remember a fool who scored points in garbage time, but people will always remember the legend of Arenas' 50-point guard.

Arenas leaned on the bench, glanced at Thompson, covered his head with a towel, and muttered, "Playing in garbage time? Don't look down on me."

His arrogance and pride made him successful, but his arrogance and pride also destroyed him.

In the end, Gilbert Arenas did not play again, and the Houston Rockets lost to the Warriors 78-113.

The data provided by ESPN immediately appeared on the computer in front of Mike Breen, and he was reluctant to read it out loud.

"Unfortunately, Gilbert Arenas became the sixth player in NBA history to play more than 20 minutes but have all five basic statistics as zeros. Oh, he has one more zero than others, hanging on his jersey.

Roger showed his dominance, and he is still the most difficult player in the league. History will not repeat itself, and Roger will not be the next Michael Jordan.

In other words, no one can become the next Roger.

This is ESPN, I'm Mike Breen, welcome to Roger's Dynasty, and I'll see you next time."

轰下23分8次助攻6个篮板4个抢断3个盖帽的罗杰站起身，与火箭队的球员们握手、拥抱。

When it was Arenas' turn, Roger patted his head and said, "Do you know how to talk to me next time? There is only one way that the times will change, and that is when I retire. Before that, Gilbert, please stay humble."

Arenas was like a child being scolded by his teacher, with his head down and not saying a word.

Is he arrogant? A little, but not even one-tenth as arrogant as Roger.

However, Roger kept him humble.

All I can say is that in this basketball world where the strong prey on the weak, if you don’t have the strength, you’ll have to keep your tail between your legs.

Then, Roger turned around and shook hands with the Warriors legends who came to watch the game tonight.

Tom Mechery, who gave up No. 14 to Roger, suddenly said sorry.

"Sorry? Why?" Roger looked confused.

"I said before, don't let this number lose its dignity. Now it seems that it is my honor for you to wear No. 14, and this number will only be greater on you. Come on, I will write a collection of poems for your journey with the Warriors."

"That's too much, Tom."

"It's not an exaggeration. It's just to express my apology."

The 02-03 season kicked off with another cold-blooded massacre by the Kings.

Roger is still Roger, and everyone knows that he is absolutely capable of making the Warriors better.

After the game, Roger simply didn't say hello to his three rumored girlfriends to avoid attracting scary looks from the other two.

But after returning to the locker room, he still sent a text message to Eva Green: "Are you free later?"

Roger once read a wise quote in a book: Don't waste bad girls, and don't let down good girls.

So Roger decided to deal with them one by one.

After the opening game, as the season progressed, the Warriors still exposed many problems.

The most serious problem is that this team's interior defense is shockingly weak.

You can tell Amar'e Stoudemire is trying hard, but some of his defensive choices are laughable.

Sometimes he would dive too aggressively, leaving the basket empty, and sometimes he would defend the basket too tightly, giving the opponent the opportunity to jump shot close to the basket.

He even needed Hubie Brown to remind him to raise his hands when he was under the basket.

ESPN commentator joked: "Amare has excellent physical fitness, but he is like a person who has never driven a car trying to drive a Ferrari. He can't even play one tenth of the performance of the car."

Stephen Jackson has tried his best to clean up Stoudemire's mess, but he is not toilet paper after all, and it is impossible for him to be fully responsible for the interior defense.

On the bench, Troy Murphy's defense was even more disastrous.

This non-mainstream center who likes to float outside and shoot three-pointers fits people's stereotype of white inside players very well: soft, slow, and unable to jump. His average number of three-point shots per game is even more than his rebounds.

Under such circumstances, Hubie Brown missed Marcus Camby very much. Camby's surgery was successful and he is now recovering. He reports to the team once a week for a physical examination.

But what disturbed Hubie Brown was that Marcus Camby looked very depressed. Every time he came to the Oracle training center, he would not meet his teammates and would always leave after the physical examination with a stern face.

The child's dream seemed to be strangled by this serious injury.

In addition, the Warriors also lack ball-handling points.

Alan Houston is not an efficient second ball handler, and Tayshaun Prince's ball handling development is not smooth.

Although Mobley is very good at holding the ball, he is too average without the ball. When he and Roger are on the court at the same time and cannot control the ball, his role will be greatly weakened. The most suitable role for him is still a sixth man who can control the ball at will in the transition period.

But there is also good news. Jason Richardson's shooting stability has improved a lot this season. And with his explosive physical fitness and explosive dunks, he quickly became one of the most popular players on the Warriors.

Because of his and Stoudemire's existence, a term began to appear particularly frequently in domestic sports channels - "force to split Huashan Mountain".

Chinese fans hear such words on TV on countless weekends.

"Second place in the top ten goals: Roger played the lead and Jason Richardson scored.

The first of the top ten plays was Roger's dunk pass, and the little bully scored again. "

In short, the strengths and weaknesses of this Warriors team are very distinct. By the end of December, the Warriors ranked fourth in the Western Conference, slightly behind the Spurs, Kings and Lakers.

The Dallas Mavericks, who have the black and white twin towers, surprisingly ranked fifth. The reason is simple: the Sharks are accustomed to playing in the regular season and often miss games. So most of the time, the Mavericks are actually led by Dirk Nowitzki alone.

Although the Warriors' performance matched their lineup, this was still Roger's worst regular season record in his career.

Equally bad is Reebok's other superstar, Tom Brady.

The rookie was injured in the first half of the 02 season, but led the team to catch up in the second half, but was still one step away from the playoffs. As the winner of the Super Bowl last season, the New England Patriots did not even make the playoffs this season, which was really disappointing.

After the fall of Tom Brady of the New England Patriots, the most anticipated rookie this year became the second-year No. 1 pick Michael Vick of the Atlanta Falcons.

This super rookie has had a big breakout this season, leading the Atlanta Falcons to rise from frustration and successfully make it to the playoffs.

Both of them shined in their sophomore year and both are quarterbacks, so Tom Brady is inevitably compared to Michael Vick.

When being interviewed by reporters, Brady was asked, "What do you think of Michael Vick of the Atlanta Falcons?"

Tom Brady made a joke: "Atlanta? The only professional player I know there is Roger the Savior, hahahaha."

But this sentence angered Michael Vick, who had a similar childhood to most black NBA stars. He was born in a chaotic and violent neighborhood, so he was full of thorns and fired wildly at Tom Brady in the media.

"First of all, Roger is not a professional player in Atlanta now. Secondly, we will soon replace the Atlanta Hawks and become the pride and champions here! Those bastards who are short-lived and can't even make it to the playoffs better shut up, otherwise I will make you shut up the next time I see you!"

Tom Brady was not to be outdone: "Champion? Believe me, without Roger, Atlanta won't win any professional sports championship in 15 years! Even if Roger builds another dynasty in the Bay Area, you still won't win a championship!"

"You know, that idiot Tom is good at baseball and football, but he doesn't understand basketball at all. I say that Roger can't win a championship in the Bay Area. Look at their record, their ranking, and their weak defense. He will be like Tom Brady, completely rotten in the past glory."

Tom Brady didn't want to argue with this idiot anymore. He responded for the last time: "It's not that I don't understand basketball, it's that you don't understand what GOAT is. Roger will come back, and so will I. And those rubbish that only know how to talk will get nothing in the end."

Time flies. Although the Atlanta Falcons upset the favorite to win the championship and the Green Bay Packers, who had the best regular season record, in the first round of the playoffs, they lost to the Philadelphia Eagles in the second round and missed the Super Bowl.

Tom Brady's "15-year championship curse" seems to have begun to take effect.

What about Roger? Will he rot in the past?

After the regular season, the Warriors won 56 games and ranked fourth in the Western Conference, while the Dallas Mavericks won 55 games and ranked fifth in the Western Conference.

That means the first round of the playoffs will be a fateful match between Roger and Shaq.

This is Shark's best chance to beat Roger in the playoffs since he left the Magic.

He also told the media: "You know, the regular season sharks are still napping, and the playoff sharks are about to eat meat. I basically agree with Michael Vick's point of view. Roger can't win a championship in the Bay Area. Just wait and see, Uncle Shaq will be the first to destroy his and the Bay Area's championship dream."

The Sharks were looking forward to their first victory over Roger in the playoffs, which would be a turning point in their career when they were oppressed by Roger. From now on, no one could say that they had never defeated Roger.

But there is this expectation, just like what Tom Brady said.

"You don't even know what GOAT is."
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Last night, Roger was spotted dating Scarlett Johansson. This is Roger's third date this season after Eva Grant and Anne Hathaway. His speed of changing girlfriends has reached its peak this season. Does he really want to surpass Wilt? - San Francisco Chronicle

Roger won the scoring title for the eighth consecutive season, officially surpassing Michael Jordan to become the player with the most consecutive scoring titles. - Sports Illustrated.

I don't know if the Warriors can win the championship, but I know Roger will never allow himself to be eliminated in the first round. Unfortunately, Shaq's curse of not being able to win after Roger left will continue. GOAT will never be eliminated in the first round! - Oakland Star.

(End of this chapter)