NBA: The man who passed the ball to Yao Ming

Chapter 214 The Rockets and Warriors' "Tacit Ball" and the New Year's Eve Accomp

After flying to San Francisco, the Rockets did not arrange training that day because they had plenty of time. Instead, they asked the players to adjust themselves for half a day. On the second day, they arranged a full-day training at a high school near the hotel where they stayed.

On the third day, that is, December 12st, at 31 pm local time in San Francisco, the Rockets' away game against the Warriors officially started at the Oracle Arena.

Perhaps because of the upcoming New Year’s Eve, today’s Oracle Arena is not only overcrowded early in the morning, but also has a very good atmosphere. On the sidelines of the court, Zhang Jinshui also saw many Chinese-faced fans playing slogans wishing Zhang Jinshui and Yao Ming a happy new year , can not help but make Zhang Jinshui's heart warm.

However, although they were moved in their hearts, Zhang Jinshui and Yao Ming did not show mercy to the Golden State Warriors on the field.

Yao Ming was the first to stand out today. As soon as he came on the court, he took a position inside. After receiving a timely pass from Zhang Jinshui, he scored 6 points in a row against Warriors center Troy Murphy.

Although Troy Murphy averaged 14 points and 10 rebounds per game, it seems that he still has some combat effectiveness, but after these few rounds of confrontation with Yao Ming, people with a discerning eye can immediately see that those statistics are likely to be regardless of the outcome of the game It was brushed out under the premise of not having any gold content at all.

And when the head coach of the Warriors had to let Ricky Davis and Quentin Richardson back to the inside to double-team Yao Ming, Yao Ming passed the ball in a timely manner, giving Zhang Jinshui and Tracy McGrady plenty of room to attack.

Under such a rhythm of the game, the Rockets easily gained a huge lead of 12 to 3 as soon as they came up. At the beginning of the game, the Warriors players who seemed to want to present a New Year gift to the home fans slapped a resounding slap.

Frankly speaking, using Yao Ming as the axis of offense to attract the opponent's defensive attention and create offensive space for other players is just the first-dimensional offensive system Van Gundy designed for the Rockets.

As for the Warriors' defense, even the Rockets' offensive system in this dimension can't resist it.

In the next game, Yao Ming continued to do whatever he wanted in the inside of the Warriors.

If the Warriors do not double-team, he will directly cause damage at the basket. If the Warriors double-team, Yao Ming will use the pass to help Zhang Jinshui and Shane Battier on the outside to get three-point opportunities.

当第一节比赛进行到8分钟的时候，姚明已经6投5中，罚球3罚3中，拿下了13分5篮板3助攻1盖帽。

The Rockets also led the Warriors by 25 points with an exaggerated 10-15.

If you can only describe it in one sentence, it is: the Rockets and the Warriors are not teams at the same level at all.

Baron Davis and Jason Richardson are still somewhat active on the offensive end, and they also played several dazzling offensive routines such as 2+1 with a strong inside and continuous breakthroughs.

However, their vitality was limited to the offensive end, and they immediately froze as soon as they returned to the defensive end.

From this detail, it can be seen that the Warriors players' minds today are still only on the data, and they have no desire for victory or defeat.

Under such a general trend, the score on the court came to 32 to 15 at the end of the first quarter, and to 58 to 41 at the end of halftime.

Gradually, Zhang Jinshui began to feel an inexplicable magnetic field.

This kind of magnetic field made the players of the two teams gradually form a certain tacit understanding: Don't worry about chasing points, and I don't waste energy to strengthen the defense. Let's guard the point difference together. You are on this side, I am on the other side, Each play their own "beautiful" basketball, as long as they don't interfere with each other.

For the Warriors fans at the scene, on the premise that they already know how much the home team is, they can see them playing back and forth with the Rockets. The difference of less than 20 points is not ugly, and it is also a good time. watching experience.

Therefore, the lively atmosphere at the Oracle scene almost maintained the frontcourt, and even organized several crowd waves.

In the end, the game ended in a strange atmosphere where the Rockets players were satisfied, the Warriors players were satisfied, the commentary on the sidelines was satisfied, the fans in the stands were satisfied, and Van Gundy was also satisfied.

The Rockets eventually won the game with 115 to 100 points and a bloodless victory.

In this game, Yao Ming, who only played hard for one quarter, finally won the best player of the game with 20 points, 10 rebounds, 5 assists and 2 blocks.

麦迪和张金水则在几乎没什么发力的情况下，分别拿下了18分5篮板3助攻和13分7助攻2篮板。

At first glance, Zhang Jinshui's performance in this game is very poor. Baron Davis can even be called the worst point guard who has made Zhang Jinshui perform the worst in the matchup in the past 2 months.

However, the fact is that this game is really boring. Zhang Jinshui gave up a lot of offensive opportunities to other players in the rotation. In addition to randomly triggering [Fu Lin Xin Zhi], he even has the weapons in the arsenal. None of the other badges are used.

而相对火箭队球员平淡无奇的数据统计，拜伦戴维斯的28分8助攻5篮板和杰森理查德森的35分5助攻5篮板看上去相当的豪华，算是给自己和勇士的球迷献上了一份礼物。

But are such statistics really meaningful?

Zhang Jinshui could only shake his head from the bottom of his heart. He finally understood why words like "data brush" and "during the Vietnam War" are almost the most derogatory adjectives in the NBA. , but it's really not that strong.

From this, Zhang Jinshui couldn't help but think of Mike James who was about to meet against the Raptors. In his last life, this guy averaged 05 points, 06 assists and 20.3 rebounds in the Raptors in the 5.8-3.3 season. An All-Star guard.

Later, when he was about to join the Rockets, Zhang Jinshui even looked forward to him because of this technical statistic.

However, after joining the Rockets, he showed his true colors within a few games.

In the end, he only played 33 games with the Rockets, averaging only 6.5 points, 1.6 assists and 1.6 rebounds per game. He couldn't even last a season, and was swept out by the Rockets.

Of course, these thoughts are just hidden in the heart.

When Jason Richardson came up to shake hands with him after the game, Zhang Jinshui smiled politely and praised the opponent for playing a wonderful game.

When Zhang Jinshui walked back to the locker room with Yao Mai, many Hua Guo faces guarding both sides of the player's aisle said to Zhang Jinshui in Mandarin: "Zhang Jinshui, Happy New Year!"

"Zhang Jinshui, I hope you will play better and better in the new year."

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Zhang Jinshui didn't realize for a while why the fans here would say happy new year to him so enthusiastically. After all, for Zhang Jinshui, who was born and raised in China, it seems that only the Spring Festival is the New Year. January 1st is just a New Year's Day.

Yao Ming on the side saw Zhang Jinshui's confusion, and explained with a smile: "Jin Shui, when I first came to the beautiful country a few years ago, I had the same doubts as you, and then I gradually understood that in the eyes of the people of the beautiful country , New Year's Day is the real New Year.

This time period, especially the New Year's Eve tonight, is interoperable among all races.Chances are everyone will hit the streets and count down to the new year together.

The Hua people who left their homes and stayed in the beautiful country for a long time gradually regarded New Year's Day as the most important festival of the year. "

Zhang Jinshui suddenly realized and nodded, but when he began to accept this day as an important New Year's Eve day in a year, he couldn't help thinking of Zi Chunlin in his heart, and he couldn't help feeling a little regretful. Such a special day, but two people can only separate two places.

But before this thought had time to dissipate, Zhang Jinshui raised his head, but unexpectedly saw an all-too-familiar figure.

Zi Chunlin, who was wearing white tie and blue skinny jeans, was standing at the door of the away player's locker room with a smile on his face: "Jin Shui, Chinese New Year is coming soon, I'm here to wish you a happy new year!"

"Also, bring the red envelope!" Zhang Xiaoman also flashed over from behind Zi Chunlin.

Unexpectedly, Zi Chunlin and Zhang Xiaoman appeared in San Francisco quietly.

With surprise on his face, Zhang Jinshui stepped forward quickly and hugged Zi Chunlin in his arms.

"How did you come?"

Before Zi Chunlin could answer, Zhang Xiaoman on the side had already chirped and said, "What do you think? In order to accompany you on the New Year's Eve, my sister-in-law stayed in the store last night until the early morning to prepare for the store's New Year's Eve activities. I went to San Francisco. Hurry up and give me a big red envelope."

Zhang Jinshui put Zi Chunlin down and stared at her.

Zi Chunlin's pretty face flushed slightly, and she didn't speak, as if she acquiesced to Zhang Xiaoman's words.

Zhang Jinshui only felt that his heart was warm. What could be happier than having close people by his side during major festivals?

What's more, Zhang Jinshui's rumored girlfriend has surfaced, which has caused some waves in the Zi media these days, and even some gossip media have picked up Zi Chunlin's photos and background.

Under such circumstances, Chunlin still blatantly appeared at the door of the Rockets' locker room. In fact, it was tantamount to confirming that she was Zhang Jinshui's official girlfriend.

This is undoubtedly the best New Year gift for Zhang Jinshui.

At this time, Yao Ming and Mai Di also came over, and they both called Zi Chunlin younger siblings with ambiguous expressions.

Although Zi Chunlin's pretty face turned redder, she still let Zhang Jinshui hold her hand, stood firmly beside Zhang Jinshui, and responded to Yao Ming and Mai Di.

It just so happened that Zhang Jinshui's performance in today's game was average, and he was not overturned by the official on-site team, so he didn't have to participate in the post-match press conference.

After returning to the locker room to shower and change clothes, Zhang Jinshui hurried away with Zi Chunlin and Zhang Xiaoman as if fleeing before the other teammates also came out to say hello to his younger siblings.

Before going out, Van Gundy with a smile on his face shouted: "Your vacation is allowed tonight, you can stay out all night, but please control the number of sprints, and tomorrow at 12 o'clock noon, stay at the team on time collection of hotels."

These words caused another wave of booing from other teammates pretending to be dissatisfied.

But Zhang Jinshui was too lazy to care about them, and rushed out to meet Zi Chunlin and the others.

That night, Zhang Jinshui, Zi Chunlin, and Zhang Xiaoman were driven by Zi Qiuli to Haight Street, one of the landmark buildings in San Francisco, at the east gate of Jinshan Park.

In this place where the hippie culture of the beautiful country was born in the 60s, it has already been filled with stalls and races from all over the world, and there are crowds of people rubbing shoulders everywhere.

Zhang Jinshui soon followed Zi Chunlin and the others into the New Year's Eve atmosphere, tried various delicacies, and finally counted down to welcome the New Year with the people on the street.

In the middle, there was also a very impressive episode.

After Zhang Jinshui finished counting down among a group of Chinese people, he threw away his hat because of excitement, and was immediately recognized by the surrounding Chinese people, and attracted the attention of many Chinese people.

However, the crowd just greeted Zhang Jinshui politely and wished each other a Happy New Year, instead of rushing forward, on the contrary, they kept preventing the people around them from approaching this way to prevent the crowd from causing a commotion.

In the end, Zhang Jinshui left Haight Street smoothly under the spontaneous escort of hundreds of Chinese people.

When he was about to board the car, Zhang Jinshui couldn't help shouting thank you to the crowd and raised his thumbs high.

Unexpectedly, what they got in exchange was that group of people shouting together, hoping that Zhang Jinshui would play for the Golden State Warriors after completing his rookie contract with the Rockets. Zhang Jinshui could only say a few perfunctory words, and then sat in the car despondently.

In the car, Zhang Jinshui began to be thick-skinned, wanting to follow Zi Chunlin back to her hotel to sleep, and claimed that the hotel he was staying in was too far away, and the head coach Van Gundy had already specially approved him not to return to the team tonight Hotel to sleep.

Unexpectedly, Zi Qiuli and Zhang Xiaoman ruthlessly ridiculed these remarks, and said: "That's fine, we will take you back to the hotel where we are staying."

After waiting for the car to drive for a while, Zhang Jinshui discovered that Zhang Jinshui took the team bus today wherever the car passed.

And, unfortunately, the last place the car parked was at the entrance of the hotel where Team Rocket was staying.

It seems that Zi Chunlin must have done his homework before coming here, and specially booked the hotel with their Rockets.

This time, Zi Qiuli was stunned, and he deliberately repeated the excuse Zhang Jinshui made up just now in a strange tone: "Hey, someone seemed to say just now that the hotel where their team stayed was not in the city center. It's in a very remote place in the suburbs."

He hated Zhang Jinshui so much that his teeth itch.

But the embarrassment came quickly, and the happiness came even faster. Before Zhang Jinshui launched a counterattack against Zi Qiuli, Zi Chunlin gave Zhang Jinshui a displeased look and said, "I want you to take care of it!"

Then, holding Zhang Jinshui's hand, he took the elevator straight to his room.