The Lakers exchanged na’enga’s three rounds of signing for the eight villages. The first show of na’nhicai’s career contributed 12 points and 4 assists to help the team reverse. The first show of the eight villages was not to be outdone, he scored 12 points and 6 rebounds in the 22-minute 7-shot 4 on the substitute. He was the highest in the team with positive and negative values +17 points. He passed the performance and helped the Lakers beat Spurs 113-104.
Although the opponent’s level of Spurs is not high enough, how much help can the eight-village team bring to the Lakers needs to be observed through the tough battle behind, but it is certain that the height, athletic ability, offensive skills are enough to make him seamlessly connect with the Lakers who urgently need these qualities.
The key is that when playing in a high-flow team like the Lakers, when everything is put under the microscope, can the eight villages with psychological problems withstand the pressure?
His mother was Japanese, and his father came from the south-central country of West Africa, Beninese. His mixed identity and black skin brought him a lot of trouble when he was a child in the eight villages. Born in Japan, a country where the whole people love baseball. When he was a child, he also regarded baseball as the preferred sport. He acted as a pitcher and receive the ball player and performed well.
There are two statements about how the eight villages fall in love with basketball, both of which come from the eight villages themselves. One argument is that when he was 12 or 13 years old, he felt that baseball was too slow and boring, so he chose to try basketball. Another argument is that eight villages can’t stand his friends inviting him to join the basketball team. He decided to join the basketball team and gave it a try. As a result, he played a famous role all of a sudden.
No matter which version is the most real, it is a fact that eight villages started playing basketball at the age of 13 and started very late. In Japan, the eight villages are the kind of talented players. When his coach saw him for the first time, he poured chicken soup and said, “you will definitely enter the NBA.” Later, recalling the coach’s words, baicun said with a smile: “I must be very stupid, so I believed his words.”
In 2014, baimura represented Japan in the U17 World Championship. He scored 22.6 points in each game and became the winner of the tournament. Facing the United States with Tatum, Harry Giles and Josh Jackson, the eight villages scored 25 points, attracting the attention of NCAA team gunsaga University. Okosaga has been famous for recruiting a large number of international players and sending them to NBA over the years. When they launched the recruitment of the eight villages, the eight villages knew nothing about this school.
When the eight villages decided to join the NBA, the first problem he encountered was the language barrier. Eight villages said: “One of my goals is to enter the NBA. I know that if I can’t even speak English, I can’t enter the NBA.”
Eight villages learned English by listening to music and watching American TV series. At the same time, he spent a lot of time studying in the study room. The video analyst of okassaga University is also a Japanese, but in order to cultivate the habit of speaking English, the eight villages even tried their best to communicate with him in English. After several attempts, the eight villages finally passed the language pass and got a qualified SAT score.
Okosaga University made a three-year cultivation plan for the eight villages. In the first year, the eight villages were at the end of the board seat, focusing on observation and study. In the second year, the appearance time of the eight villages was increased to 20 minutes, with an average score of 11.6 points, and gradually learned to play with physical advantages. In the third year, the eight villages became the main force, with an average of 30.2 minutes contributing 19.7 points and 6.5 rebounds, with a field goal percentage of 59.1 percent, which made a lot of effort.
The performance of the eight villages won the praise of Coach K and other famous coaches. Bill Evans, the grand coach of Idaho, even said: “His technology is better than we thought, he will make a lot of money in the future.”
Sure enough, at the 2019 draft conference, the eight villages were selected by the Wizards in the ninth order of the first round, and his athletic ability and talent limit were widely favored.
However, after all, the basketball started late in the eight villages, and the three years settled in the University of gunsaga were more like making up lessons. In NBA, where the law of the jungle is strong, eight villages will face more difficult challenges. Fortunately, eight villages have been improving their weaknesses and making progress.
In the 2019-20 season, the eight village games averaged 13.5 points and 6.1 rebounds, and was selected as the second team of the best rookie team. During the season, the three-point shooting rate of the eight villages was only. Scott Brooks, then the wizard coach, explained that the shooting curve of the eight villages was peaceful, he arranged a teaching assistant Corey Gaines to instruct the eight villages to improve the radian of shooting. In the second season, eight villages increased the three-point hit rate to 32.8 percent, and his three-point shot became more and more confident. In addition, at Brooks’s request, his style of play also increased aggressiveness.
However, after the Tokyo Olympic Games in 2021, the eight villages, who were in the rising period, encountered setbacks. He did not participate in the Wizards training camp for psychological reasons and missed the first 39 games of the season. No one is willing to disclose the specific reasons. When facing the questioning, the eight villages only use “prefer not to talk” to avoid. However, according to Mark feiyou, a mentor in the eight-village University, the psychological problems of the eight-village University originated from the pressure of representing Japan in the Olympic Games.
“I don’t think everyone knows how much pressure they have to face to participate in the Olympic Games as a country and a sports event.” Feiyou said.
In the Tokyo Olympic Games, Japan men’s basketball as the host, it was hard to find a victory. Although the eight villages, which were highly expected, scored 22.3 points, 6.7 rebounds and 2 assists, but it was still abused and criticized by countless disappointed fans. When eight villages were selected by wizards to participate in the summer league, 61 journalists from 21 media in Japan reported on the spot, and sometimes the news of eight villages was still broadcast at two or three o’clock in the morning. In the words of a Japanese journalist, even Japanese housewives know the eight villages.
The huge gap in treatment stems from his skin color and the “winning supremacy” of Japanese media and fans “. In recent years, many mixed races have emerged in the japanese sports circle, but even the japanese media have admitted that if mixed races want to win respect, they can only rely on achievements, and they will be discriminated against if they do not have achievements. Even Osaka Zhimei, who once won the beautiful grenadine championship and helped Japan make a historic breakthrough in tennis, was scolded after losing the Olympic Games.
Therefore, when the eight villages made some achievements, he always said that he wanted to help those mixed-race athletes like him and motivate them.
Last season, the playing time and tactical status of the eight villages dropped after returning to the team, but he cast 49.1 percent of field goal percentage and 44.7 percent of the three-point shooting rate. This season, the three-point efficiency of the eight villages declined, but the overall hit rate still reached 48.8%. His basketball end efficiency was decent, and the long-distance two-point shooting rate was 46% career high.
It seems that the eight villages have temporarily walked out of the Demons. During this year’s off-season, eight villages will face new contract negotiations. Living in Los Angeles and playing around LeBlanc James will magnify his every move, can he withstand the pressure of the flow capital? This will affect his future.
At least, from the performance of the first show of the eight villages, his start was not bad. He still needs to continue to prove himself in the next difficult 5 company trip.