The glory of the basketball gods

Chapter 149 Respect him, defeat him

The climate in Houston is subtropical. When Yuan Man arrived here, he felt quite comfortable. This was the first time Yuan Man visited this city.

Houston is called "Space City" or "Space City" because the famous and large-scale Johnson Space Center in the United States is located on the shore of Clear Lake, 35 kilometers southeast of Houston. Houston, known as the capital of the United States, won the above reputation.

On November 2010, 11, an NBA regular season will be held at the Toyota Center, an indoor stadium located in downtown Houston, Texas, USA, which is sponsored by Japan's Toyota Motor Corporation.

When warming up before the game, Yuan Man was surprised to find that the attendance rate of this arena was far lower than expected. The crowds he had seen on TV before, and the huge fan group surrounding Yao Ming and McGrady no longer existed. At the start of the game, the arena was only about 7% full.

Before the start of the game, the starting lineups of the two sides were released. The starting lineup of the Cavaliers has not changed. The starting lineup of the Rockets is as follows:

Center: Chuck Hayes, Power Forward: Luis Scola, Small Forward: Shane Battier, Shooting Guard: Kevin Martin, Point Guard: Kyle Lowry.

In fact, this Rockets team currently does not have a real core player. Although Martin is the team's scoring leader, he does not have much appeal on the court. Although Lowry has leadership potential, he has just been promoted to the main position. With little experience, Hayes and Battier acted as the leaders of the locker room, but unfortunately, their performance on the court did not have any impressive results that could convince the crowd. As for Scola, his hairstyle limited his Take on the role of team leader.

Therefore, this non-nuclear Rockets team played very smoothly, and there will be no calm situations on the scene. This is why there is a lack of support from fans. The results are ordinary, the scene is ordinary, and there is nothing to look forward to.

It can be said that the current Rockets team is the worst Rockets team in the past 10 years.

However, for Yuan Man, this game has a very special meaning.

I think of running in the sunset, that was my lost youth. When I mentioned the Houston Rockets team and saw the player profile of Yao Ming that hadn’t been taken off the wall, Yuan Man seemed to have returned to his high school days. One look at the Rockets game, one look at Yao Ming's performance, I would rather watch the game for 2 minutes longer, but run all the way to the classroom, step into the classroom before the bell rings for class, or sacrifice the time for lunch to share with my friends Let's cheer for the Rockets together in front of the TV.

"Yuan, you are ready to play, why are your eyes red?" Varejao asked with concern.

"It's nothing." Yuan Man hurriedly wiped his eyes with his hands, but he didn't expect to cry sadly, "Sand got into my eyes."

Varejao looked at this completely enclosed modern indoor gymnasium with wooden floors in amazement, and there was no possibility of flying sand at all.

Before going on stage, Yuan Man shook his shoulders a few times, took a deep breath, and his eyes instantly changed from sentimental to competitive.

On the court, the way to respect a person is to try your best to beat him!So today, Yuan Man decided to have no reservations, even if he will face the Heat in 2 days, he must go all out for this game.

With the referee's whistle, the Cavaliers' away game against the Rockets officially began!
Varejao easily won the ball. Although Hayes's foot is very strong, enough to withstand 90% of the league's inside players, but the disadvantage of innate height and ordinary jumping are not enough for Hayes to gain the commanding height right.

Yuan Man is very active in running. Williams controls the ball from the outside. His eyes keep turning with Yuan Man's running. Varejao stands on the bottom line to block Battier who is following up. Passing the ball, taking off on the spot, very standard mid-range shooting posture, soft touch accompanied by a rotating basketball, hollow hits!

"It's not good. This guy looks good today." Battier can see from Yuan Man's first ball that this guy is in a good state today. This intuition comes from a defensive expert's experience experience.

Two minutes later, facing Battier's defense, Yuan Man directly pulled out the shot. At the moment of the jump shot, Battier stood there, staring blankly at Yuan Man's shot, without any defensive action .

"Shua", the crisp sound of a basketball passing through the net, Yuan Man flicked his right hand, indicating that today's feel is quite good.

"That ball just now was McGrady's signature move, a pull-up jumper?!" Battier felt a little turbulent in his heart. After two seasons without Yao Ming and without McGrady, Battier found that he never wanted to be able to reconcile with Yao Ming. McGrady teamed up to play.

The rookie who was facing up just now has a really similar shooting posture!

Not only Battier, after seeing Yuan Man's goal just now, including Hayes, Scola, Lowry, even Brooks, Hyde and others on the bench, they all seem to have seen McGrady reappear On the field at the Toyota Center!
In this game, although the opponent is the famous defensive expert Sean Battier in the league, Yuan Man has trained himself to the S-level pull-up jumper and the kaleidoscopic display to the fullest.

In the middle of the game, Battier felt that the opponent in front of him was McGrady himself. This game was not the Rockets vs. Cavaliers, but the Rockets team of Yao McGrady back then. Battier and McGrady were opponents. In-team practice.

McGrady took a step with his left foot under Battier's defense, then suddenly started to the right, broke through Battier's defense, took off before Hayes' defense, and faced Hayes and Scott's blocks Shot, the ball flew into the basket obediently!

Yao Ming, who was the referee, laughed loudly on the sidelines and shouted at Battier, you must be able to prevent him for the next shot.

There was a smile on Battier's face. When the lights faded away, Tracy McGrady wearing Rocket No. 1 turned into Yuan Man wearing No. 23 Cavaliers jersey, and Yao Ming on the sidelines also turned into cheering for Yuan Man. Hollins.

"This city is no longer suitable for me to stay here." Battier knew that his time in Houston was coming to an end, because if he continued to stay here, he would always live in the nostalgia and memories of the past .

"Didi~~" The whistle sounded for the end of the game. Just like the Rockets' previous dull games, this game ended very flatly, except for Yuan Man's elegant jump shot throughout the game.

98-86, the Cavaliers easily defeated the non-nuclear Rockets and won the 12th victory before the Heat!
Yuan Man made 21 of 14 shots, 3 of 3 three-pointers, and 1 of 6 free throws. He scored 5 points, 33 rebounds and 6 assists. Although Martin of the Rockets also scored 4 points, he almost did not. What a sense of presence, and almost every goal of Yuan Man is impressive.

"The Rockets need a core player like Yuan." Rockets coach Rick Adelman knows that if the Rockets want to make a breakthrough, they must trade for an All-Star player, otherwise even if the team can To reach the playoffs, it is difficult to go far without superstars.

After the game, Yuan Man changed into his clothes after washing, and found a staff member in a black suit standing at the door of the locker room.

"Mr. Yuan, hello, our boss Leslie-Alexander hopes to meet with you." After speaking, the staff member stepped out of the way and made a gesture of invitation.

"I didn't expect them to be quite impatient." Yuan Man nodded and followed the staff to Alexander's office.

In the office, besides the Rockets boss Alexander, there is also Hiroshi Kitada, an executive of Toyota's international cooperation affairs who is determined to win.

(End of this chapter)