1984-1985 season, and any one NBA championship team like the Bulls lack of polish with many talented players, “raw material”, but what, after all, is only potential. Most of them a blank mind on how to defeat the enemy. But some want to get me to the core position, while others thought Bale. Green, like Heaney, David Greenwood of the talented, but they are not basketball players; David Cossington a player, but he did not know how to play the game; Road Hingis ‘d place a reliable all-around player. And David, Greenwood it? Bulls he stayed only for the money, he even suffered from “pink eye.” I remember once before in training, he will twist my ankle to the back, hard to say: “go on like this, be careful of your legs!”
Fortunately, I did not because it all back, the opposite of my strong desire to succeed gradually day by day. The hope of success, I kept setting goals for themselves; I trained as if every race, and constantly learning summary. In fact, from the first day into the NBA until the last day, I always felt a lot of things waiting to prove himself. Between 1984 and 1998, the only difference is that the people around me has changed expectations, but my own expectations consistently. I have never ceased to chase progress.
Of course, we all know there are many players in the team time to take illegal drugs. I told teammates with training, competition and life, but I did not and their evil deeds. Drugs for some people, I was surprised serving, but I did not feel too much injustice, just think: Maybe this is not professional basketball, clothing ban drugs and then go to play. Not for anything else, not only for their “selfishness” interfere with the training, competitions, so I get along from beginning to end and his teammates are more cordial. I am determined to improve the game, so fans to determine the merits and demerits. My father always told me: “As long as pay, harvesting, etc. in front of you.” This, it has become my life motto. Team the past six months I started going to the harvest both inside and outside the court already. Now I have to do in 1985 All-Star game to let people pay more attention to my presence.
However, the reason is that the elevator was a lot of big players, I do not want to reveal far too confident, so I did not say a word. Wait until the next day returned to Chicago, a reporter who came to inform me that everyone is talking about, he said Ethel Thomas, Qiao Zhige Man and several other position players will try to embarrass me. No wonder in the subsequent period of time they do not accost me, the game deliberately when they passed the ball to me.
This is indeed the best time I feel sad thing, really makes me confused. They thought I was too proud and “disdain greeted with others,” in fact not the case. My parents and I talked over the phone, talking about a long time. The next night, the Bulls home with 3 points advantage over the Detroit Pistons, I was the one scored 49 points, grabbed 15 rebounds, and blocked in the final seconds of an opponent could cast out of the match ball. After the game, in the game, Thomas nodded to me, I politely smiled back at him. I am sure that this smile had already resolved the misunderstanding between us, but Thomas would think so.