Chapter 331 330. The bad boy finally got a triple-double again!

The blonde girl was named Ana de Armas, a Cuban-Spanish. Zhang Yang had an impression that she would be called "Little Monroe" in the future. She was the same age as him and would be 20 in two or three months.

The role that Armas has played that has left the deepest impression on him is an AI girlfriend, nicknamed "the nerd's dream" in the Asia-Pacific region.

It was almost ten years later that Armas really made her mark in Hollywood. She is still filming TV series in Europe, including some R-rated comedies. She only plays minor roles in the United States. Every year, she saves money by filming TV series in Europe and then goes to the United States to play minor roles...

This time she came to the United States to pursue the "American Dream", but this time she was most unlucky and met a scammer. She was so happy that she thought she could buy the relationship and play a role with some scenes, but the other party took the money and never contacted her again.

She was not discouraged. This was not the first time she had suffered setbacks. She planned to return to Spain to continue filming the TV series, and then come to the United States to look for opportunities when she had saved enough money.

Before leaving, she and her sisters who came to Hollywood together decided to let off some steam and accepted the invitation from the dean's wife to attend the party.

After wandering around for a while, she finally found Zhang Yang, whose appearance and figure satisfied her...

With the help of alcohol, the talkative Zhang Yang chatted with Armas, from the banquet hall to the room reserved by the dean's wife. He talked about Armas' underwear and got to know her inside out.

Zhang Yang and the blonde girl spent half a night exploring the origin of life.

From the obvious lack of skills, to finding the feeling again, to getting better and better... 30,000 words omitted here...

Near noon the next day, Zhang Yang woke up from a deep sleep and saw that there was no one around.

When I sat up, I felt my waist ache.

"As expected, there are only cows that die of exhaustion, but no land that is plowed to death. This blonde girl left without even saying hello. She really doesn't recognize me after she pulls up her pants..."

Muttering, Zhang Yang got up, stretched his back, and prepared to take a shower and return to the hotel. They had to gather at 2 pm to leave for Denver.

The room arranged by the dean's wife was a complete independent suite, with a kitchen, living room, bathroom, toilet, bedroom... everything. He exclaimed that the dean's wife was really amazing.

From an unknown Hollywood actress, she became the wife of the dean of the University of Phoenix, got the wealthy dean's money into her own hands, and her business continued to grow... She was so amazing that as a married woman, she held parties every now and then and slept with young and strong athletes and handsome young actors, and no one thought anything was wrong with her. Instead, they laughed at the dean who was already in his sixties for not being able to satisfy her.

He opened the bedroom door naked and was about to go to the bathroom when he saw someone in the living room...

The blonde girl whom he thought would run away without recognizing anyone after putting on her pants was actually sitting at the dining table in a bathrobe in an uninhibited manner, eating breakfast with the little sister she mentioned!

Seeing Zhang Yang come out like this, Armas' expression was dull, and a mouthful of milk flowed from the corner of his mouth to his chin.

The little sister next to him opened her eyes and mouth wide, stared at Zhang Yang intently, and swallowed.

Zhang Yang quickly closed the door, took out a bathrobe from the closet and wrapped himself in it, then reopened the door and rushed to the bathroom at the fastest speed in his life.

"Anna, oh my god, you're not bragging, it's really that big! You're so handsome and have a great figure, why don't you ask me to come with you? You're eating alone!"

"Who told you to just pick one at random when you were hungry? As a human being, you have to learn to persevere..."

Zhang Yang, who had just stepped into the bathroom door, heard the sound of tigers and wolves coming from behind and quickly closed the door.

This blonde girl can actually make dirty jokes and is worthy of being the inspirational Bond girl who played supporting roles for more than ten years and became famous in her 30s.

Zhang Yang usually takes a quick shower, but this time he took quite a while. After he thought the two girls should have left, he put on his bathrobe and returned to the living room... He saw Armas, who had put on her makeup again, and turned to smile at him.

Armas slowly walked up to Zhang Yang, stood on tiptoe, put his hands around Zhang Yang's neck, pulled him down, and kissed him.

Unable to bear it, Zhang Yang picked up the blonde and returned to the bedroom amid her screams... 8000 words omitted here...

...

An hour later, the two said goodbye outside the manor and left in their respective cars.

Zhang Yang and Armas exchanged contact information and made an appointment to have dinner together when they were free. He felt that he was the "dinner" that this girl was talking about.

He was in a complicated mood at the moment, but after returning to the hotel, he packed his things and went to the parking lot to meet up with the team and head to the airport. After chatting with his teammates about tomorrow's game, he put Armas out of his mind.

It was fine to occasionally make an appointment to have a meal together, but he never thought about anything more. It was just that he and the other person were attracted by each other's face and figure.

At around 4 p.m., the Bobcats' charter plane landed at the Denver airport.

As soon as they got off the plane, many players on the Bobcats felt unwell, and the team doctor diagnosed it as mild altitude sickness.

Zhang Yang remembers that in the past two years when playing away games here, some teammates also suffered from altitude sickness symptoms, but not many, after all, their Bobcats team is mainly composed of young players.

The symptoms were so common this time because it was the end of the mid-season and physical problems were almost reaching a critical point. In addition, we had just played four away games in five days, and most of the teammates had not recovered after two nights of rest.

Fortunately, he is in good condition. Although he is a little tired, he should be fine after another night's rest.

Seeing his teammates like this, Zhang Yang thought about tomorrow's game and only one word came to his mind - wave!

When they arrived at the hotel, Zhang Yang asked Vincent for the Nuggets' recent game video.

In the past, when he went to play away games, unless it was a back-to-back game, he would go shopping at the mall in the evening and buy some gifts with local characteristics for his mother and brother, especially for away games in the Western Conference, which he only came once a year, so he had to keep a souvenir.

But the two-day trip to Phoenix was a bit tiring, so he planned to stay in the hotel today to have a good rest, eat more, sleep more, and make up for the loss of several hundred million.

He returned to the room and called the front desk to order food. He had just turned on his computer and was about to watch the video when the phone rang. It was the fat Boss.

Before Zhang Yang could even say hello after answering the phone, the person on the other end started yelling.

"Jack, did you see the news? The Nuggets got Allen! Ray Allen!"

...

At 2008 p.m. on January 1, 28, the Nuggets and the SuperSonics officially announced a deal, with the Nuggets sending Marcus Camby and Chucky Atkins to the SuperSonics in exchange for Ray Allen.

In Room 404 of the Trump Hotel in Denver, Hill's room, Zhang Yang, Okafor, Millsap, Alan Anderson, Afflalo... and a computer connected to Felton via video gathered here to discuss the Nuggets' trade.

Normally, when there is something to talk about, we go to Felton's room to talk. Now that Felton is not here, Hill temporarily takes over this role.

Millsap directly complained: "Camby was able to trade for Allen. Are the SuperSonics crazy?"

Hill analyzed: "The Sonics probably don't want to lose Allen for nothing. Allen has a lot of initiative in the trade. He is under contract this season. If he doesn't agree to renew his contract, other teams will not provide good bargaining chips to the Sonics. I have seen news that many teams have made offers to the Sonics, all of which are trying to rob them, using some premium contracts. Compared with those offers, the Nuggets sending Camby is the best offer the Sonics have received."

Millsap nodded and said, "That's right. Allen has a big character problem. Lewis even complained that he never knew what Allen was thinking."

His teammates also agreed with Hill's analysis.

Zhang Yang also agreed that this is indeed the best deal the SuperSonics can make at the moment. This season, Camby averaged 9 points, 13 rebounds, 1.1 steals and 3.6 blocks per game. He is the favorite in the first defense and looks like a good asset. Their team also considered bringing in Ray Allen, but because his current playing style overlaps too much with Ray Allen, this trade option is very low in the Bobcats' team building plan.

Ray Allen's unpredictable personality also makes Carlisle worried.

Carlisle felt that with Zhang Yang, Mike Miller, Alan Anderson and others were enough, and improving the inside support ability was the most important thing at the moment, so they did not formally propose a trade to the Supersonics... The main issue was the price. Ray Allen would be the fourth in command, so the annual salary for the renewal would be at least 1500 million, right? And it must be a long-term contract of 4-6 years.

If they hadn't traded for Brad Miller, their target would have been offensive centers like Jamison and Murphy, not guards.

But, Zhang Yang remembered, Camby was very unpopular in the trading market.

Before the original 2008 draft, the Clippers used only a second-round draft pick to trade for Camby, who had just been selected as one of the first defensive players for two consecutive years, from the Nuggets.

In the first round of the playoffs against the Lakers, Camby averaged only 3.3 points per game with a hit rate of less than 25% when Bynum was injured and facing the inside line guarded by Gasol alone. Even when Iverson and Anthony fed the ball to Camby, he didn't dare to go into the basket to score. As a result, the Nuggets, who had fought back and forth with the Lakers in the regular season, were beaten by the Lakers in the playoffs.

This deal made Camby a big stain in the history of the All-Defensive Team award.

If the SuperSonics really want Camby, they should be able to win him after this season when the Nuggets can no longer tolerate Camby and sell him off using a second-round pick higher than the Clippers'. The SuperSonics have a worse record than the Clippers and more salary space, so if they want to compete, they will definitely win.

Now trading Ray Allen for Camby only saves a second-round pick, which is not cheap.

Ray Allen, who is in his contract year, has a salary of 1600 million. He has played 40 games so far this season, averaging 38 minutes per game, scoring 24.9 points, 4 rebounds, 4.8 assists and 1.5 steals.

Camby has more than two years left on his current contract. His salary this season is $1125 million, which will decrease year by year, to $1000 million next season and $09 million in the 10-765 season.

Because the Nuggets' salary cap exceeded, in order to match the contract, the SuperSonics took on the two-year, $2 million contract signed by Chucky Atkins last summer, $624 million this season and $300 million next season.

Even if the Nuggets have already paid Atkins half of his salary this season, the Sonics will still have to spend more than $400 million to 'save a next-round pick'.

However, Zhang Yang just thought about this matter in his mind.

After all, no one could have imagined that Camby would be so good in the playoffs. A center who averaged 9+13+1+3 in the regular season, his trading value could drop to the point where no team would want him even if he was given away for free.

Zhang Yang originally planned to watch videos and eat to kill time and recharge his energy. But now the Nuggets' rebounding and blocking leaders, who averaged 35 minutes per game, have been traded, and Ray Allen has been introduced on the outside, so the playing style is bound to change a lot. There is no point in watching videos, so he changed the way of killing time - chatting and eating with his teammates.

...

1月29号晚上8点，丹佛百事中心，山猫队5连客最后1战与掘金队的比赛开始了。

Originally, before coming to Denver, the Bobcats players thought they had little chance of winning tonight.

After five consecutive away games, some players even had altitude sickness, while the Nuggets were well rested at home...

But the reality is that the Bobcats took the initiative from the beginning.

Zhang Yang attacked the inside fiercely at the beginning, scoring consecutively, as if he was in an empty space!

With Nene out and Camby sent away, the only capable inside player on the Nuggets is Kenyon Martin.

Although Okafor was in a state of fatigue, he had rested for two days. In addition, he is a very self-disciplined person. The day before yesterday at noon, Nash invited Okafor to dinner. He and Nash only toasted each other with a glass of wine and did not drink any more. When they went to the party in the evening, Nash was going to invite Okafor to go, but Okafor declined. His current condition is much better than when he played against the Suns.

Kenyon Martin was stretched to the limit in dealing with Okafor alone and had no time to take care of Zhang Yang at all.

Steven Hunter, who replaced Camby as the starting player, was almost beaten to tears by Zhang Yang.

In the Nuggets' first 44 games, Stephen Hunter played in only 16 games, averaging 2 points and 1.5 rebounds per game...

After a few rounds, Stephen Hunter saw Zhang Yang advancing and directly expanded the reasonable collision zone and blocked the three-second zone... Perkins enjoyed the same treatment as Kwame Brown.

Perkins: Stop feeding me. I can’t eat anymore!
Facing the fierce attack launched by Zhang Yang and his team, the Nuggets failed to keep up with the scoring!

Camby may be a good rebounder, but he is very good at defensive rebounding, averaging 10.2 defensive rebounds per game, which is first in the league. Without him, the Nuggets' defensive rebounding protection collapsed.

When the Nuggets were forced to shrink and double-team the connection between Zhang Yang and Perkins, the Bobcats had a lot of open shooting opportunities from the outside. After Mike Miller's sluggish performance in the last game, his condition improved a lot tonight and his accuracy in wide-open shots was pretty good.

Even if they missed the shot, Okafor, Zhang Yang, and even Perkins could grab the offensive rebound over Kenyon Martin.

Unable to protect defensive rebounds, the Nuggets' defensive counterattack was basically useless, leaving only two options: forced fast break and positional battle with two guns playing one-on-one.

In addition to the rebounding protection problem, there is another reason why the Nuggets' offense can't keep up - Ray Allen did not report today and made an appointment with the Nuggets to report on February 2st.

If the management of a team with a superstar in the last year of a contract wants to keep this superstar, they have to treat him like a grandson.

首节山猫队打出了31比26的比分，第二节前半段，山猫队打出了14比13的比分，以45比39领先掘金队6分进入官方暂停。

After the official timeout, George Karl asked Anthony Carter and Iverson to speed up, hoping to use speed to defeat the Bobcats.

When this adjustment was just implemented, the Nuggets caught the Bobcats off guard. When J.R. Smith, Kleiza and others who were shooting from the outside had a hot streak, they made a 13-6 run and overtook the Bobcats by 52 point with a score of 51-1.

But Carlisle insisted on the idea of ​​"never running after the opponent without a chance to counterattack" and firmly arranged his players to fight in positional battles.

When the Nuggets' outside receiving players' touch declined, the Bobcats responded with a 9-5 run.

At the end of the first half, the Bobcats regained a 60-point lead with 57-3.

In the second half, the head coaches of both teams insisted on their offensive concepts and continued to attack each other.

It must be said that the Nuggets' style of play was really powerful in the regular season. Although their stability was far inferior to that of the Bobcats, they managed to keep the score by relying on small climaxes from time to time.

But when the Bobcats started to surge on a stable basis, the Nuggets were helpless...

After the official timeout in the final quarter, Zhang Yang first made a pull-up three-pointer against Anthony's defense.

Then Hill stole the ball from Iverson, and Zhang Yang received the ball and counterattacked with a fast break to score two points.

Anthony wanted to respond with a pull-up three-pointer, but missed. The Bobcats fell into a positional battle. Zhang Yang ran back and cut in to receive the ball and slammed the ball into the basket through the opposing substitute center Jelani McCoy to make it 2+1, and also made the free throw.

张杨独自打了掘金队一波8比0，将3分的领先优势拉开到11分，山猫队以106比95领先掘金队！
In the last 4 minutes, the Nuggets, led by Iverson, Anthony and JR Smith, scored 13 to 9, but were unable to turn the tide.

The game ended at 10:24 pm.

张杨首节9分、第二节6分、第三节8分、第四节12分，全场打了43分钟，20投12中，其中三分球5中3，加上8中8的罚球，拿到35分11板11助攻1抢断2盖帽，拿到生涯第二次三双！

在他、希尔、米尔萨普、布拉德-米勒等人的帮助下，帕金斯打了28分钟，12投9中，外加4中3的罚球，拿到21分11板1盖帽，生涯首次20+10！

加上迈克-米勒的18分、奥卡福15分9板、布拉德-米勒7分6板4助攻、米尔萨普8分8板3助攻……山猫队以115比108击败掘金队！
(End of this chapter)