Basketball's best forward and guard

Chapter 19 [First appearance]

Edison once said: "There is no real genius in the world, the so-called genius is 99% sweat + 1% inspiration"

Jiang Hao has always regarded this sentence as a classic. This is true when his basketball talent is mediocre, and it is even more so after he has top-level talent.

He would rather use sweat to water his talents than waste opportunities with his talents, so in the next time he will not only do his best on the field, but also never slack off on every training day.

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The time soon came to February 2018. In the past two months or so, the Spurs' overall record can only be said to be average.

With the head star Leonard's injury confusing and continuing to be difficult to come back, the Spurs, lacking a leader, eventually lost helplessly against some strong teams.

Frankly speaking, Jiang Hao still performed well during this period. Although his average of 11.9 points per game was not as impressive as the average of 20+ per game at the beginning, he was obviously able to do more things on the court, and he was no longer just a player. pitcher.Popovich and the others originally wanted to train Jiang Hao into an enhanced version of Danny Green, but when Jiang Hao's performance became more and more versatile, they had to give up this idea.

What's more, Jiang Hao has always played as a substitute player, and Popovich never gave him a chance to start.

It's no wonder that some people complained for Jiang Hao. If Jiang Hao can start the game, then his various statistics will definitely usher in an improvement. In this case, he may even have the opportunity to compete for the best rookie.

For young players, this may be the sadness of playing in the Spurs. They can learn a lot and be trained by the team, but it is really difficult to get the ball and data honors.

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The Spurs are currently ranked sixth in the Western Conference. With the halfway point of the season, they don't seem to be under too much pressure to advance to the playoffs, but if they want to go further, or even advance to the Western Conference finals like last season, I am afraid it will be difficult. .

Because Leonard, who is expected to come back in December, has not been able to usher in a comeback until now.

For Spurs players like Jiang Hao, they don't know how Leonard's recovery is going. Leonard didn't say anything, and the management didn't talk about it.

But the outside world has been noisy during this period. Many people have questioned Leonard's absence. People are saying that there are differences between Leonard and the Spurs. Maybe the two sides parted ways at the end of the season. impossible.

On February 2018, 2, BJ time, the Spurs ushered in the last game before the All-Star Weekend at home. After this game, the next game of the Spurs will wait until a week later. Everyone can take this opportunity to have a good rest one time.

Before the game, the Spurs fans were very pessimistic about the result of tonight's game, because the opponent was the Golden State Warriors.

The defending champions continue to maintain a strong rhythm this season. As of now, they have only lost 5 games and are the team with the best record in the entire league. Tonight's game is the second time the two teams have met this season. The last time was at the Warriors' home court, when the Spurs suffered a disastrous defeat at Oracle Arena.

For Jiang Hao, he was very impressed with that game, because he didn't score a single point in that game, and it was the only duck-egg game in his NBA career so far.

At the AT&T Center, Jiang Hao came to the arena for training an hour ago. In tonight's game, he doesn't want to swallow duck eggs anymore. Maybe they will still lose to the Warriors, but he doesn't want to lose as badly as last time.

Jiang Hao used this time to mainly practice shooting, especially three-point shots. As we all know, the Warriors are a three-point team. If they want to beat them, they must at least not be too far behind in three-point shots.

When his teammates arrived at the arena one after another, Jiang Hao was already sweating profusely, and was about to call it a day and get ready to play.

"Jiang, get ready, you will start today"

However, Popovich's light words made Jiang Hao stagger and almost fell down.

Jiang Hao stared blankly at Popovich with his eyes wide open. He had to make sure that Popovich wasn't joking with him.

"You wouldn't repay me with a game of duck eggs, would you?" Popovich smiled, but Jiang Hao's heart was pounding.

He confirmed that the old man was not joking.

It has always been his dream to start the game, but now Popovich suddenly satisfies him, can he adapt?
Jiang Hao spread his hands and could only go all out, I hope this is not a bad night.

Jiang Hao made his debut tonight, and when the starting lineups of the two sides were displayed on the super-large electronic screen at the scene, it quickly caused a sensation.

Fans did not expect that Popovich would let Jiang Hao complete his starting debut in the game against the Warriors.

Is Greg going to leave Jiang with an unforgettable night?You must know that Jiang's performance in the last match between the two teams was not very good. He didn't even score a point in that game.

Some fans are not calm.

Although the 70-year-old Popovich is becoming more and more like an old urchin who is out of tune, everyone still has to feel that this old man's thinking is too advanced.

In the TNT live broadcast room, Shark O'Neal turned forward and backward with a smile. He always felt that his five embarrassing shows needed a little yellow face. The rookie who swallowed the duck egg against each other will serve as the starter.

"Shaq, I have to remind you that this China Jiang is far less miserable than you imagined. Don't forget the game between them and the Clippers in November last year."

As a deadly rival, Barkley with a big mouth has to confront O'Neal even on the topic of yellow players he doesn't like very much.

"Okay, two, old rules, let's first predict the outcome of this game"

Kenny Smith spoke.

"It will be Golden State without a doubt. They have four All-Stars. Honestly, even if Kawhi returns, it will be difficult for San Antonio to win."

"I agree with Shaq"

On this issue, O'Neill and Barkley have the same opinion. This is a relatively rare scene, but it also just proves the strength of the Warriors.

On the pitch, Zaza Pachulia received a "warm welcome" from the home fans after his debut ceremony, and almost all Spurs fans greeted him and his family next to each other.

For the Spurs fans, the scene of Leonard being tiptoed at Oracle Arena in the Western Conference finals last season is still vivid. They hate Pachulia. Even though the Georgian came out many times to clarify that he did not intend to It's hard to stop the fans' hatred for him, and now Pachulia has become the public enemy of all Spurs fans!Maybe from this game until he left the NBA, every time he came to the AT&T Center, he would suffer this treatment.

(End of this chapter)