NBA: The man who passed the ball to Yao Ming

The Mavericks' record so far this season is 8 wins and 1 loss, only half a game away from the 9 wins and 1 loss of the Rockets, ranking third in the West.

The team that wins this game will sit at No.2 in the Western Conference.

Coupled with the Rockets' rookie guard Zhang Jinshui, in the just-concluded game against the Pacers, he hit 12 three-pointers in three quarters, shocking the entire NBA world.

Together with it, this game has become the game that the NBA media and fans have paid the most attention to in the past two days.

Media reporters from major TV stations in the beautiful country, as well as many media reporters from Huaguo, filled the media area of ​​the American Airlines Center Stadium, the home of the Mavericks, to the brim early in the morning.

It's just that after seeing the Rockets' lineup on the court and the bench, these media reporters realized that the wayward Van Gundy, in the first away game of back-to-back games, chose to rest again.

This game, which was broadcast live across the United States and had a chance to set a new record for the new season's national live broadcast ratings, was hopeless.

Today, the starting lineup sent by the Rockets is Swift, David Wesley, Luther Hyde and Alston.

What surprised Zhang Jinshui was that the last starter turned out to be Chuck Hayes.

Zhang Jinshui couldn't help feeling in his heart that Morey was indeed a "real" man with a fast speed.

During the previous meeting, Morey just mentioned that Chuck Hayes' two-way contract should be formalized.

Unexpectedly, only two days later, Hayes has not met the main players of the Rockets, but he has already appeared in the Rockets' starting lineup.

In sharp contrast to the Rockets, the Mavericks chose the full main lineup to play.

The center is Dampier who ignores Yao Ming and claims to be the second center in the league after O'Neal, power forward Dirk Nowitzki, small forward Josh Howard, shooting guard Daniels and point guard Jason Terry.

In this season, the Mavericks lost their once star guard Michael Finley.

However, after Michael Finley left the Spurs, their former third master Jason Terri and fourth master Josh Howard made up for Michael Finley's vacancy this season. Coupled with the growth of Daniels and Devin Harris, The Mavericks are even stronger this season than they were with Michael Finley last season.

After the start of the game, under the leadership of Nowitzki, the Mavericks quickly scored a 15 to 2 scoring climax and ended the first quarter with a huge lead of 31 to 12.

Although the soldiers of the Rockets already had no illusions about this game in their hearts, the one-sided situation appeared at the beginning, which still made many Rockets players very unconvinced.

Under the leadership of Alston and Luther Head, they began to blow the horn of counterattack and showed some competitiveness on both ends of the offense and defense, but the point difference on the court remained at around 20 points.

In the second half, the head coach of the Mavericks, Avery Johnson, directly hid most of the main players, including Nowitzki and Jason Terry. Festival.

After the score on the field became 80 to 55 and the Mavericks led by 25 points, Johnson removed all rotation players, and the remaining quarter and a half of the game was completely reduced to garbage time.

This result was definitely within expectations.

I believe that many Rockets fans have already predicted this result after seeing the Rockets' starting lineup at the beginning, and they turned off the TV and left the sofa.

However, Zhang Jinshui, who was sitting at home, still watched the entire game from the beginning to the end without landing for a second, not even missing the garbage time.

In this game, Zhang Jinshui still saw many highlights of his teammates.

The first thing I have to mention is of course Luther Head and Alston. They continued the state they played against the Spurs in the last rotation and became reliable players in this lineup. They scored 17 points and 3 assists respectively. 1 steal and 18 points and 6 assists.

Secondly, Swift also had some performance today, scoring a double-double of 12 points, 10 rebounds and 2 blocks.

Although the offensive end still has no singles skills that can be used, but still relying on abnormal physical fitness, Swift still put some pressure on the Mavericks inside, especially in the second quarter. It can be regarded as helping Yao Ming to vent his anger.

What surprised Zhang Jinshui the most was Chuck Hayes.

This short power forward, who has partnered with Yao Ming in the Rockets' starting lineup many times in his previous life, played 30 minutes in his NBA debut, grabbed 6 offensive rebounds, and finally scored 6 points and 11 rebounds , fully demonstrated his personal characteristics of being good at grabbing offensive rebounds and making quick defenses.

In fact, with the experience of the previous life, Zhang Jinshui naturally knows how well these two characteristics of Chuck Hayes fit Yao Ming.

However, since Hayes himself is an atypical power forward, it is difficult for Zhang Jinshui to use words to convince Van Gundy that Hayes is a person who can partner with Yao Ming. Awareness of this is naturally the result Zhang Jinshui most hopes to see.

After the game, Zhang Jinshui did not turn off the TV in a hurry, but continued to watch the post-match press conference.

Van Gundy once again chose to take a rest, giving up a focus game that was followed by all NBA media and broadcast live across the United States, which naturally made many reporters very upset.

However, they did not dare to question Van Gundy like they did in the Spurs' post-game press conference last time.

After all, the Rockets beat the Pistons, making the rest strategy seem to be working well.

Moreover, the Rockets also proved to the world through that game that they have the strength to challenge any strong team, and there is no so-called fear of war.

However, there are still many reporters who expressed confusion about the Rockets giving up the first and second positions in the West to the Spurs and Mavericks respectively.

Coincidentally, after losing to the Mavericks, the Rockets' record became 9 wins and 2 losses, ranking third in the West.

And they will return to home tomorrow to face back-to-back opponents, the Suns, with a record of 9 wins and 3 losses, and the two teams are only half a game behind.

If they lose to the Suns in tomorrow's game, it means that the Rockets will lose the third place in the Western Conference after losing the first and second positions in the Western Conference to their competitors.

In that case, the scene would be a little funny.

Some media reporters who still have a lot of dissatisfaction with Van Gundy and the Rockets in their hearts began to take the rhythm of this plot and pass the pressure on to the Rockets.

But overall, the Rockets have gained more respect from public opinion by defeating the Pistons and Pacers.

Although those media reporters were very upset that the Rockets wasted their focus battle at every turn, they could only pinch their noses to express their dissatisfaction, and they dared not question the Rockets and Van Gundy as unscrupulously as before.

After the NBA officials announced the end of the press conference, Zhang Jinshui also turned off the TV and returned to his room on the second floor.

"Summon the player's growth system." Zhang Jinshui threw himself on the bed and immediately shouted with his mind.

A translucent blue fluorescent screen immediately appeared in front of his eyes.

Zhang Jinshui remembered an old saying he had read on the Internet before, which roughly meant that love is a poison smeared with honey, which can most paralyze the eyes of heroes and corrode their ambitions.

Now, he especially wants to say: the ancients never deceived me.

Since returning to Houston overnight from Indianapolis the night before, and after uncovering the window paper with Zi Chunlin and confirming their relationship, Zhang Jinshui seems to have been given ecstasy soup for the past two days, and has been fascinated until now. Forgot one very important thing.

That is, Zhang Jinshui scored 12 three-pointers in the game against the Pacers, and completed a very difficult system task: 10 three-pointers in a high-level game.

It wasn't until Zhang Jinshui, who always felt that he had forgotten something when watching the game just now, that he suddenly remembered that he had forgotten to claim any system rewards.

But having said that, deep down in his heart, Zhang Jinshui must have felt that Zi Chunlin was a thousand times or ten thousand times more important than the rewards of this system task.

Skipping the [Personal Attributes] panel, Zhang Jinshui directly clicked on the [Mission Achievement] interface with his mind.

The familiar metallic system sound immediately rang in his ears.

"Complete the system task: hit 10 three-pointers in a high-level game, get the task reward, 10 attribute points."

Immediately afterwards, a dialog box with a confirmation button popped up.

"Beautiful!" Zhang Jinshui waved his fist excitedly, and at the same time clicked the confirmation button with his mind, pocketing 10 attribute points.

In fact, he had guessed before that the difficulty of the task was so high that he made 10 three-pointers in a single game, and the attribute points of the rewards should also increase accordingly.

However, what he guessed was to reward 6 or 7 attribute points, but he never thought that it would be a full 10!

With so many attribute points, it was enough for him to directly pull his passing ability from 80 to 90 and activate a golden passing talent badge.

Zhang Jinshui then opened the [Personal Attributes] interface with his mind, and began to re-examine his various attributes.

Recently, because of the Rockets' devilish schedule and the fact that most of the attribute values ​​have reached a value that is difficult to improve, he hasn't looked at his personal attributes for several days.

Name: Zhang Jinshui

Age: 19 years old

Height: 190 cm

Weight: 87 kg

Character Level: Level 3

Field position: point guard

Stamina: 83

Power: 78

Bounce: 78

Speed: 77

Passes: 80

Possession: 75

CM: 75

Three Points: 90

Free throws: 80

Breakthrough: 90

Dunk: 42

Inside Defense: 20

Perimeter Defense: 80

Steals: 73

Caps: 10

Offensive rebounds: 25

Defensive rebounds: 50

potential:???

Overall Rating: 81

Comprehensive evaluation: Excellent physical fitness, the league's top three-point shooter, with lightning-like breakthrough speed, and has elite-level perimeter defensive strength and passing ability.

Zhang Jinshui was pleasantly surprised to find that after not watching it for more than a week, his comprehensive ability rose from 80 to 81.

After careful screening, he found that the improvement was mainly due to the increase in dunk ability from 35 to 42, the increase in strength and bounce from 77 to 78, and the increase in physical strength by 1 point.

The increase in these values ​​should be due to his frequent use of Jim's designed training movements for dunking related training during the recent period.

Especially the improvement of the dunk ability made Zhang Jinshui's heart jump with joy.

As long as he persists in training and continues to increase his dunk ability to 55 or 60, then, with the help of the 50% temporary special effect bonus of [Explosive Ability Value], he can use his skills to surprise four baskets when necessary. Improve the momentum of teammates and fans.

Immediately afterwards, Zhang Jinshui set his sights on the attribute points to be assigned in the upper right corner of the interface.

After getting 10 attribute points rewards today, he has a total of 12 attribute points to be allocated. He can increase the pass to 90, get a golden talent badge, or get another useful offensive attribute from 1 Increase to 75.

However, after careful consideration, Zhang Jinshui decided not to use these 12 attribute points temporarily.

If he can successfully defeat the Suns tomorrow, he will unlock the one-time consumable store.

Since it is called a store, the one-time consumables inside must cost something to buy.

After thinking about it, Zhang Jinshui felt that the only thing that could be used as currency in the system now was the attribute points to be allocated.

Therefore, he decided to keep the 12 attribute points on his body for one more day, at least to determine what he would need to use to buy disposable consumables after the one-time consumables store opened.

In the end, Zhang Jinshui carefully browsed through his various attribute values, especially after lingering on the dunk for a while, before happily closing the interface of the player growth system.

At this time, Zi Chunlin's phone call came in, and he was asked to change clothes and go downstairs quickly. They will be there in a car, and they want to pick him up and go out for dinner together.

Only then did Zhang Jinshui notice that the sky outside the window had already completely darkened.

While eating dinner, Zhang Jinshui found a very headache, that is, Zhang Xiaoman and Zi Chunlin had become friends.

What's more, this little girl who has always had a bad head, made a major discovery: Even if she provoked Zhang Jinshui, as long as she was next to Zi Chunlin, Zhang Jinshui would not dare to do anything to her.

As a result, Zhang Xiaoman became even more embarrassing. After she could not get enough sense of accomplishment from verbal attacks, she began to reveal to Zi Chunlin the embarrassing things about Zhang Jinshui in the orphanage.

For example, go to the field next to the orphanage to steal watermelons, turn on and use all the fire extinguishers in the orphanage, and even peek at Widow Zhao in the next village taking a bath.

In the end, Zhang Jinshui, who was so angry that his teeth were itching, patted the table and said, "Zhang Xiaoman, don't be shy, I'll contact a school in Houston for you to attend right away, just wait."

Unexpectedly, Zi Chunlin's strong support for this proposal, which obviously meant more revenge.

Zhang Xiaoman withered immediately, and began to complain to Zi Chunlin how unsuitable the school was for him with a mournful face, but Zi Chunlin just smiled and comforted her, but showed no sign of letting go.

This time, it was Zhang Jinshui's turn to feel comfortable. He looked at his younger sister Zhang Xiaoman who was ready to roll all over the floor at any time, and then at his girlfriend Zi Chunlin who patiently opened Zhang Xiaoman's face with a gentle smile. He only felt that this could be done every day There shouldn't be any big regrets in the life I live.

However, there is another major prerequisite, that is, we must help the Rockets win the championship.

At [-]:[-] p.m. the next day, Zhang Jinshui showed up in the home team locker room of the Toyota Center on time after throwing Zhang Xiaoman, who was probing his head, to Zi Chunlin.

An hour later, the Rockets' back-to-back home games against the Suns are about to start.