Chapter 204 - Instilling Fear

The next day at practice coach was yelling at everybody about the things they did wrong when I was out of the game. They had to correct it as the coach wanted them to be perfect. They started working on their weaknesses, I didn't hear anything the coach was saying as I was perfect so he definitely was not talking to me.

I worked on my ball handling as that was probably the only thing I could work on and also my hops as I wanted to be more proficient at dunking and not just be known as a shooter. I had a guy there that was helping me practice all these things not only was the professor from And1 helping me with my handles but I had the high flyer Dr J helping me with my dunks. It was quite an honor to have them both training me.

They worked me to the bone while my other team mates looked in surprise once in a while because I was working much harder than them and without any breaks. 

Thanks to my unlimited stamina in games and training I was able to train without stopping. Everyone at the gym was looking at me like I was a monster because they had gone out for lunch and came back and I was still working with the same intensity. 

The professor and Dr j were shocked by my progress and by the end of the day they didn't have anything else to teach me. 

I had learned all their moves and was nba ready. I knew that when I finally sat down to rest all the sourness in my body from working nonstop would catch up to me so I wasn't going to stop until I got back in my room and in bed. 

I had to jog to the shower 

Jog and eat 

And jog back to my room and take another shower while jogging and when I finally laid in bed extreme pain ȧssaulted me till the point of passing out.

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Back in the gym coach was talking to my two trainers as they praised my work out for the day. They told the coach that I had learned everything they knew in one day and that in the game tomorrow he shouldn't play me due to fatigue which could cause injuries.

Coach looked at them funny and laughed saying "I have to play him but I can reduce his minutes, maybe playing a few minutes towards the end should be fine and that depends on if we are losing or not". 

They all came to an agreement before the end of the training for the day, sending everybody off to rest because they had a game the next day.

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The next day we were playing against the 76ers, Maurice Speights was their key player. There was a small crowd at the gym as we all slowly walked towards it to get warmed up. I was still sore from the previous day so I was slowly making my way to the court. Everybody noticed this and couldn't help but shake their heads, they noticed how hard I trained the previous day. Nick came and tapped me on my back which caused me extreme pains as I glared at him with hate in my eyes.

"Don't touch me punk otherwise next time I'll cut those arms off". 

Nick shivered and quickly took his hands off me. 

"I'm in pain, I'm sorry", I apologize to him. 

"I might have to sit this game out but if you guys are losing too badly I'll come and help you guys out".

Nick laughed and "said don't worry we won't need your help after all they have me on the team and that's all they need is me and JaVale, we can get it done without your help".

I smiled and said" I hope so" and I want to sit down. I didn't even bother warming up with the other guys. 

I asked one of the interns that were helping out with the summer league to toss me a ball as I shot from the bench. Everybody there was shocked as I was shooting ball after ball while sitting down on the bench and making them. The other team saw this and were very intimidated and hoped that I wouldn't get to play in the game.

The media ate this up and said" Eazy can even make shots from the bench while sitting down, this guy is a genius, one of a kind let's hope we get to see him do things like that in the game" the commentator was saying as the game had finally started. McGee won the jump off and passed it over to Nick Young who drove it in and scored the first bucket.

They went back and forth throughout the game until halftime. We were up by two points. The 76ers team were just glad that I wasn't on the court playing, otherwise they would have had trouble if I had stepped onto the court. 

Nick came on the bench glowing that he was the MVP and that the other team was scared of him but that was not the case, they were truly scared of me a person that was just sitting on the bench, as I can see their eyes wander off to watch if I was still sitting down once in a while and their heart's calmed down as soon as they saw how relaxed I was looking, as if I was not going to be playing in this game.

I honestly was too tired and sore to be thinking about them as I watched the others play. Halftime was over and they were back at it again, Nick Young took a bad shot and missed it. 

I could only shake my head as I thought this guy was getting too ċȯċky, he was talking so much trash back in the locker room during the halftime but the true person that was carrying this team was McGee grabbing all the miss shots that Nick was shooting and putting it back up due to being bigger and taller than his opponent.