"Where were we talking about?"
Ryan tried to change the topic, but he was a little confused. Then he saw Lu Ke's meaningful eyes slowly deepening. Ryan became more and more panicked. In a hurry, he actually regained his thoughts, "Leader! Yes, Leader! How important this issue is, it is related to our entire team, well, let’s continue to talk about this topic.”
Lu Ke didn't know what Ryan was thinking, and thought that Ryan was being shy, so he didn't continue to ask any more questions and quietly waited for Ryan's next words, "So?"
After Ryan's thoughts were interrupted, he couldn't connect for a while, so he could only say again, "Sorry, to be honest, I don't know the correct answer. I only know that there is no correct answer for so-called leaders. Every player Every leader has his own style, there is no need to imitate them or follow in their footsteps, the best way is to stick to yourself.”
"Bambi, in my opinion, you have done a good job. You are leading us to victory in your own way, aren't you?" Ryan finally got back on track, and his expression became sincere again. .
"We are winning. I don't know how long this winning streak can last, but I know that just two seasons ago, none of this was possible. Everything we have now is You and Hubble brought it, so please continue to lead us forward. This is what it's all about."
Ryan didn't give any standard answer, but Lu Ke's mood gradually stabilized.
As Ryan said, every patient in the rehabilitation room has his own dilemma. Others can provide help, but in the final analysis, he still needs to achieve his own breakthrough. No one can complete this journey of life for you.
The same goes for team leaders. What he needs is not guidance, but self-assertion. Leading the team the way he did. Maybe one day in the future, he will become a template for others to look up to, maybe not, but after all, you still have to work hard to know, right?
"I have to work hard for your date." After feeling relieved, Lu Ke said easily, and then you could see Ryan's dumbfounded panic, and Lu Ke's mood brightened again, "This is Our agreement! That's it. I'm a very, very committed person, so you can be ready now."
"...Bambi, I said...eh, eh, Bambi!" Ryan couldn't help but started to stutter.
On the morning of his rest day, Lu Ke finished his unexpected visit to the hospital, calmed down again, completed his recovery training step by step, and then took the initiative to find Akins, Willis and Brooks and gathered together. After completing the discussion, we started taking action that night.
Lu Ke, Akins, Willis and Brooks, the four of them split up into two teams, each leading the offensive and defensive teams to different bars. They visited their teammates' homes one by one, and no matter whether the offensive players wanted to or not, all were mandatory, and no one could be missing.
There were some problems on both sides.
In the offensive team, Moss and Crabtree refused to go, but Gene, Logan and Marcus kept heckling, and Vernon also helped a lot, and finally brought the two people over half-pushed and half-draged; Both Rupati and Boone were light drinkers, and like Lu Ke, they rarely drank alcohol for training purposes. Thinking about drinking tonight, they were a little paralyzed.
On the defensive team, Justin Smith simply refused to attend due to injury. In the end, Willis got angry and said that Justin could go over to drink soda, but he still wanted him to go. Justin then went over half-heartedly; Aldon He started drinking before he even went to the bar. After a while, he got himself drunk and went crazy drinking.
It's okay to vent, to admonish, to have a heart-to-heart talk... Always, with the help of alcohol, I still hope to break down the barriers between each other, express all my thoughts, and express all my emotions. Let it all out.
In the end, Justin was completely drunk and squatted at the door of the bar, crying and repeating, "I missed it. I really missed it. No more, and never again." No matter what, Even if I can't persuade you, it's really sad.
In the end, Moss was completely drunk and had a fight with Crabtree on the spot. The two punched each other in the stomach, but accidentally hit their cheeks. As a result, Moss's cheekbones were bruised - —Fortunately, black people can’t see it, it’s just a little red and swollen.
The next day was still a rest day, but neither the offensive team nor the defensive team had a rest. The two sides were still separated and held tactical meetings for the first time. In the morning, it was recovery training, or sobering up training; in the afternoon, it was to review game videos. , reanalyze the game that just ended.
After a long day of training, the offensive and defensive players headed to the bar again.
For professional players, although alcohol is not a ban, it still needs to be controlled; but now is an extraordinary period, and it can only be treated with special treatment. After the experience of the previous night, those thorny players did not resist and chose to go together. .
But unexpectedly, the offensive team and the defensive team met in the same bar, "The Alley of Lima."
In other words, it was not an accident: not only all the players on the fifty-three-person roster, but also the players from the training team were also present, and more than sixty players completed the court-booking operation. It all looks like a premeditated move.
After a few rounds of beer, and with the help of several captains, everyone gradually started talking.
Although there is no formal apology, it seems too pretentious. A toast is the best apology; then, the awkward and awkward atmosphere seems to slowly disappear, and the sharpness of those contradictions and conflicts seems to slowly disappear. I retreated, and under the influence of alcohol, I became harmonious again.
Everything went according to plan.
The idea of four team leaders finally paid off...but if only it were that simple.
When the team officially returned to recovery training on Wednesday, the imagined peace had arrived, but the awkward atmosphere in the locker room was quietly spreading.
On the surface, conflicts and barriers are no longer there. All the players will nod and greet each other. There is nothing wrong with the happy scene; but if you look closely, you can notice something is wrong——
Everyone was too polite.
The smile is unfamiliar and polite, the eyes are distant and perfunctory, and sometimes he is even reluctant to make eye contact. Originally, there was nothing special about this. Normally, teammates would not look into each other's eyes, but today's deliberate avoidance was too obvious, and that rawness was born.
What makes it even more depressing is that no one is joking. Everyone packed up their equipment in silence, completed their preparations, and then nodded to each other, then left the locker room one by one and headed to the training ground as if running for their lives, as if they had all transformed into "training maniac" Lu. Ke.
Everything is too deliberate and becomes false.
Indeed, the players have already spoken out and reconciled with each other; but...have they really spoken out? In fact, they did not apologize directly, let alone have a heart-to-heart talk. After all, they were still unable to explain the conflicts clearly. After all, they were not sixteen-year-old girls who would hug each other and cry after a conflict. All told, they have their own way of dealing with it.
The real problem is that players are real people, not cold computer data after all. The day before yesterday, they were pointing at each other's noses and yelling curses, rubbing salt into each other's wounds; and then seventy-two hours later, they were back to the days before the quarrel? As if nothing happened?
What's more, even before the quarrel, they had small conflicts and conflicts with each other. This was originally the way players got along with each other. Now, they can no longer vent their tempers over those trivial matters -
For example, Aldon always likes to spread perfume everywhere in the dressing room, which is not good enough, and Navarro Bowman complains every time, and even has conflicts; for example, Vernon always likes to go around without a bath towel While walking, everyone passing by expressed their disgust; for example, Logan liked to tell some vulgar jokes, and no one supported him, and everyone complained about it.
But now, all these little fights have subsided, and even some innocuous conflicts have disappeared. Everyone is whitewashing the peace, just like hiding their ears and stealing the bell. The politeness hidden behind the politeness makes them alienate.
In fact, there may be no problems between players. For example, Lu Ke and Aldon have already talked it out, and Justin and Goodwin have also embraced and reconciled... But the overall atmosphere in the locker room makes People didn't dare to act rashly, so that the embarrassing atmosphere became more and more intense, and it seemed to be worse than the previous falling out.
Faced with such a situation, Lu Ke, Willis and others were helpless. They had tried their best and things seemed to have developed as expected. However, no one expected the direction of things. The current inexplicable situation was also unpredictable. It’s really dumbfounding to know whether it has gotten better or worse.
However, Lu Ke also knew that the locker room issue was extremely difficult to deal with. It was unrealistic for fifty-three players to complete a reconciliation and write off what had happened through just two drinks in two nights; now , they cannot act too hastily, they can only wait quietly for the opportunity, an opportunity that can solve all the problems.
But the regular season schedule will not wait for anyone, let alone slow down because of the problems in the San Francisco 49ers' locker room. In the blink of an eye, it seems that there is no time to breathe, another game day has arrived, and another away game has arrived. , so, what will happen this time?
