At noon, Min Congda drove Dardario to Los Angeles International Airport. She would take a flight back to New York in the afternoon.
Passion is short-lived and unforgettable. Min Congda, who has never been in love, suddenly gave him such a high intensity, plus the parting drama, he was a bit overwhelmed, and he suddenly felt a little uncomfortable.
Daddario almost fulfills all the fantasies a man has about his partner. He is beautiful, sexy, cheerful, has an outstanding family background, is young and promising, has a warm and generous personality, and it can be seen that a good education and a favorable growing environment have made her think better. Simple, not yet polluted by the sleazy environment of Vanity Fair.
When they parted, Daddario's green eyes were slightly filled with tears. She hugged Min Congda tightly, and the short time together made her feel reluctant to leave.
However, although the two of them have done everything, they have not pierced the last layer of window paper emotionally. Daddario still has an acting career to pursue, and Min Congda also needs to lead the Clippers to seriously destroy it.
These small favors and affections like the love between children cannot become the fetters and obstacles that prevent the two people from moving forward towards their respective career goals.
After leaving the airport, Min Congda parked on the side of the road and watched the plane fly into the sky, fly into the sky, disappear into the clouds without a trace, sighed deeply, and thought to himself: "Would you like to go to the ONLY bar for a drink tonight? "
Since he and Daddario have not established a romantic relationship, he naturally does not have to keep the rules for her. He has to do whatever he has to do, right?
But without the four kings of wine, sex and wealth, Min Congda dared not go deep into the pink cave of Santa Barbara alone. The heroines there were not something he could easily grasp by himself.
Tonight, the entire Clippers team will fly to Salt Lake City to play their first real away game of the new season.
Regarding this game, Min Congda is relatively reassured. With the strength of the Jazz and the highland away game, it is difficult for the Clippers to get any benefit from the Clippers who have just played back-to-back games.
The away journey is tiring. After this game, the Clippers will return to Los Angeles soon, and Min Congda will not go with them. There is nothing interesting in Salt Lake City.
The weather is cold, the food is not good, the accommodation is not good, and there is no entertainment at night. It is still more comfortable to stay in Los Angeles.
On the evening of October 30th, at five o'clock in the afternoon Pacific time, the Clippers challenged the Jazz away from home.
Min Congda was cooking dinner at home and watching the game on the TV. He had never paid so much attention to a sports event in his life.
Min Congda still has an impression of the Jazz team, because the Jazz were the final stumbling block to the Chicago Bulls and Jordan's dominance in 1997 and 1998.
At that time, Xinhua Bookstore had large posters of Jazz Karl Malone and Stockton, wearing classic Snow Mountain jerseys. They were one of the few NBA teams that Min Congda remembered.
Karl Malone left the Jazz in the summer of 2003 and joined the Lakers to form F4. The Jazz officially ended the 20-year era of Utah's two evils.
It is a rare thing for a team to be led by a combination for 20 years and reach the highest stage of the NBA step by step.
After Malone left, the Jazz signed a player somewhat similar to Malone in 2004, Cavaliers rebel Carlos Boozer.
Then in the 2005 draft, he used a precious No. 3 pick to acquire Deron Williams, and began to train him carefully. Together with Carlos Boozer, he formed a new point guard-power forward combination to support the Jazz. offensive system.
With the growth of Williams, the Jazz have become a force that cannot be ignored in the Western Conference in the past two years. Because they eliminated the Rockets in the first round of the 2007 and 2008 seasons, they are well known and hated by Chinese fans.
Because of the presence of veteran coach Jerry Sloan, the Jazz's combat effectiveness has always been very stable. Facing teams whose book strength is inferior to theirs, they can steadily beat the odds and win.
However, facing opponents who are stronger than themselves on paper, the Jazz have few options and resign themselves to fate, rarely able to burst out with powerful energy to overthrow their opponents in one fell swoop.
That might be the thing about Salt Lake City basketball, unity but a little less talent.
In February of this year, the Jazz lost their owner Larry Miller, which was definitely a major blow to the Jazz.
Larry Miller is one of the few good bosses in the league. It is precisely because of his existence that the Jazz can maintain a stable lineup and tactics, and the Iron Triangle can survive here for 20 years.
If it were a boss who was radical, paranoid, or someone who liked to take care of things (such as Sterling), the Jazz would have been completely different.
Once such a boss dies, it will have a great impact on the team's management style and team stability, but there will be no clues in the short term.
The Jazz were also affected by injuries after the start of the season. Starting center Okur was absent due to injury. The Clippers were really lucky. In three consecutive games, the opponent's key players were absent in each game.
It can be said that luck gave me enough opportunities.
After the game started, the Clippers did play well. Min Congda watched the two teams going back and forth in the first quarter while chopping vegetables. He had a lot of opinions on the Jazz's defense.
"Can Carlos Boozer know how to defend? With your lateral speed, can you hit someone? Isn't it too easy for Randolph to take action?"
"Damn it, this is also a bald head. Bald head No. 5, how can he have the same virtues as bald head No. 2 of the Lakers? Let me see!"
Min Congda put down the kitchen knife in his hand, opened the laptop placed on the small table beside him, and opened the NBA data website to check it out.
You wouldn't know if you didn't check, but when you checked, you were shocked to find out that Fisher, the bald No. 2 Lakers, and Boozer, the bald No. 5, were teammates in the Jazz.
"It turns out that you two bald guys were teammates together. No wonder you can't achieve any good results. Can you win the championship with such a defense?"
In the first quarter, the Clippers led the Jazz by one point 33:32.
Min Congda was very angry and cut and chopped the vegetables on the chopping board, fearing that he might mistake them for Bald No. 2 and Bald No. 5.
By the time Min Congda finished cooking, the first half of the game was over, and the Clippers actually led the Jazz on the road by 4 points.
"This meal is worthless. What the hell are you guys doing with all the strong teams in the NBA? I didn't make a move all summer. I drafted Gill blindly, didn't make any trades, didn't sign any good players. You all can't do half the job." After the battle, I see that you general managers of the team are all just working for a living, you are complete trash!"
The game continued until the fourth quarter, when the situation on the court suddenly changed. The Jazz suddenly strengthened their defense and the intensity increased by more than one level.
The Clippers instantly entered a scoring drought, made mistakes one after another, and missed consecutive outside shots. They could only rely on Randolph to support him in the low post.
Although Randolph is good, his playing style determines that he has little explosive scoring ability. He scores about 20 points steadily per game, and it is difficult for him to make more contributions.
The Jazz continued to counterattack on the basis of strong defense. The suffocating roar of the Salt Lake City Energy Solutions Center made the Clippers players completely lost.
In the fourth quarter, the Jazz beat the Clippers with a 20:5 offensive climax, and the point difference between the two sides was suddenly widened to 12 points.
It turned out that the Jazz were just playing slowly with the Clippers in the first three quarters. In the fourth quarter, the defense suddenly exerted force and took away the Clippers in one wave.
"Hey, not bad, not bad. Now I feel relieved. It turns out that we are acting in front of us. Let's eat and eat!"
Seeing the Jazz taking control of the game, Min Congda was in a good mood and decided to eat. Feeling that it was not enough, he went downstairs to the convenience store and bought a bottle of beer to celebrate the upcoming salary of US$2,000.
As a result, as soon as I bought the beer, the game was not over yet. I looked at the score on TV:
"Jazz: Clippers, 105:103... Damn it, why are the Jazz leading by two points? I just went to buy a beer! Is the TV broken? Is the TV broken?"
Obviously, the TV couldn't be broken, but Min Congda didn't want to believe it. How could the Clippers catch up with the score in just a few minutes?
What happened in these few minutes?
