NBA: The man who passed the ball to Yao Ming

"Center Yao Ming."

"Power forward Chuck Hayes."

"Small forward Shane Battier."

"Shooting guard Tracy McGrady."

"Point guard Zhang Jinshui."

The starting lineup announced by Van Gundy is exactly the same as the perfect starting lineup for the Rockets in Zhang Jinshui's mind.

After Van Gundy made the announcement, he looked specifically at Sprewell and explained: "Sprewell, with your ability, you are qualified to start any team in the NBA.

However, considering that Yao Ming, Tracy McGrady and Zhang Jinshui have already occupied almost all the ball-holding time and offensive opportunities in this lineup, I put you on the bench, I hope you don't mind. "

Sprewell laughed and said: "I completely understand what you think, coach, don't be afraid that I have other ideas. In fact, after I agreed to join the Rockets, I specifically found us before the Rockets and the Pistons, Heat and Pacers. At that time, I thought that it might be better for me to play as a substitute, and I might have a chance to compete for the best sixth man of the season."

Van Gundy nodded to Sprewell in relief, then turned his head to look at Sean Battier, and said, "Battier, you were originally a player from the Grizzlies, and now you have just been traded to our Rockets. The opponent in the game is away to challenge your old club, which may be a bit difficult for you.

Although I put you in the starting lineup, if you want to take a break and not play in this game, I absolutely respect your choice. "

"Thank you for thinking about this for me, coach." Sean Battier said gratefully: "I do have a lot of affection for the Grizzlies. After all, since entering the NBA in 2001, I have played for the Grizzlies for 4 years. Year.

However, I know that I am a professional player. Now that I have become a member of the Rockets, I am willing to stand with the Rockets all the time and play for any team including my old club, the Grizzlies. "

"I'm glad you can say that."

Van Gundy smiled, and finally announced loudly to all Rockets players: "Our lineup has just undergone a major personnel adjustment, and it will definitely take a while to run in, and the Grizzlies are now ranked fifth in the West, and the Suns won The same, the strength should not be underestimated.

Tomorrow afternoon, it is bound to be a fierce battle. I hope everyone will have a good rest tonight, and tomorrow we can continue our hot momentum of this season and defeat the Grizzlies. "

"Rockets championship!" Finally, Van Gundy raised his right hand and shouted.

Although Van Gundy had already set the Rockets' goal on the trophy some time ago, this was the first time he yelled this slogan in training for so long.

This act means something in itself.

"The Rockets champion!" Zhang Jinshui was excited, and shouted with all his teammates in a uniform voice, shaking the gymnasium with a rumbling sound.

After leaving the high school campus, it was almost dinner time.

Typically, the night before an away game is free time.

The Rockets players would make dinner appointments in twos and threes, and then gather in the hotel lobby a few hours before the game the next day to head to the arena together.

But today is a little different. It is rare that two new members join the team, and one of them is a local local leader in Memphis.

Finally, at the suggestion of McGrady and Yao Ming, Battier led all the Rockets players to a very special Argentine barbecue restaurant in Memphis and had a barbecue meal.

The entire dinner process was very joyful and harmonious. Sean Battier and Sprewell seemed to be born to be the puzzle pieces of this Rockets team, and they got along very well with every player.

Especially Sprewell, already has the taste of the Rockets' social brother.

, he ordered a bottle of wine, and then organized everyone to play a very funny drinking order game. The loser was not drunk, but spilled the wine on himself, and then went back to the hotel smelling of alcohol and knocked on Van Gundy's door , Discuss the team's running tactics with him.

Zhang Jinshui was stunned by such a nonsensical game, but he didn't expect that all his teammates, including Yao Ming, were eager to try.

In the end, I could only hold my nose and play this game with them.

Zhang Jinshui, who had never had any experience in drinking orders, would not be the opponent of other team members who had more or less experience in drinking orders, and finally became the unlucky guy who couldn't win.

Finally, at 10 o'clock in the evening, after Sprewell sprinkled a bottle of red wine on his body, Zhang Jinshui bit the bullet and knocked on the door of Van Gundy's room.

At that moment, Zhang Jinshui's mind suddenly remembered the news that he had seen many football and basketball players in his previous life holding yacht parties day and night, drinking in nightclubs, rowing rubber boats and even group prostitution.

I can't help but sigh in my heart, a group of male athletes is indeed the most brainless and boring group in the world.

According to Sprewell's game settings, Zhang Jinshui knocked on the door of Van Gundy's room. He absolutely couldn't explain that he didn't drink a sip of wine, and could only ask the coach about his running tactics.

Just when Zhang Jinshui was at a loss, who would have thought that after Van Gundy opened the door, he would look up and down at Zhang Jinshui, twitch his nose and smell the smell of alcohol in the air, look up and down at Zhang Jinshui, and go straight to the corridor, ignoring the air. One person shouted loudly at the corner of the corridor:

"Sprewell, I'm good friends with your Timberwolves head coach, Flip Saunders, and he just warned me last night to be on the lookout for some of your silly, nasty pranks.

If the Rockets lose to the Grizzlies tomorrow and you have a negative win-loss score, then the next training session, you need to run [-] laps around the basketball court first. "

"Damn it, Philip Sanders is such a bad old man." Immediately from the other side of the corner, Sprewell cursed angrily, and a lot of low-pitched gloating laughter was trying to be suppressed.

After finishing speaking, Van Gundy shook his head helplessly at Zhang Jinshui, said "rest early", and then went straight back to his room.

Zhang Jinshui breathed a sigh of relief, walked to the other side of the corner of the corridor, shrugged his shoulders to Sprewell, who had a shit-eating expression on his face, and said, "You can hear it on the public phone, but I didn't say anything. "

"Hmph!" Sprewell snorted heavily, and said, "Hurry up and go back to sleep. If you lose to the Grizzlies tomorrow, you all don't even think about it."

After speaking, Sprewell went back to his room in despair.

A dozen Rockets players including Yao Mai and Zhang Jinshui were left behind, no longer suppressing themselves, and laughed hahaha.

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The next day, at 02:30 in the afternoon in Memphis, 30 minutes before the game between the Rockets and the Grizzlies, the Memphis Pyramid Stadium, the home stadium of the Grizzlies, which can accommodate 21000 people, was already full.

The stands were full of fans wearing gray and blue Grizzlies home jerseys.

They stood restlessly on their seats, holding various paper signs of "Beat the Rockets" and "Grizzlies Riding a Rocket". They were dancing enthusiastically, driven by the very rhythmic music accompaniment in the arena. Waving the cards in his hand.

The attendance of the Grizzlies' home games has always been one of the worst in the league.

However, after just experiencing a failed season that barely squeezed into the playoffs as the eighth in the West, and then was swept out by the Suns, the Grizzlies have a very good momentum in the new season.

Not only did they rank fifth in the West with a record of 8 wins and 4 losses in the West, but they also recently defeated strong teams in the East and West such as the Pacers and Los Angeles Clippers, and the momentum is very good.

The improvement in the record, coupled with the fact that the opponent of the Grizzlies today is the Rockets, the hottest team in the league recently, and the traitor of the Grizzlies, Sean Battier, has just joined that team.

The superposition of various factors brought the Grizzlies' home game to a long-lost situation where a ticket was hard to come by.

As the tall Yao Ming and Tracy McGrady rushed out from the player tunnel leading the Rockets, a tsunami of boos immediately sounded from the stands of the Pyramid Stadium.

In addition to the shouts of "beat the Rockets", the Grizzlies fans shouted more "Battier, you traitor!", "Battier get out of Memphis!" and other abuses against Sean Battier.

There was no expression on Battier's face from the beginning to the end. After stepping on the court where he had fought for four years, he began to concentrate on warming up.

Seeing this, Zhang Jinshui couldn't help feeling a little embarrassed.

Think about it in your own shoes, if he played for the Rockets for four years, not only was he kicked out by the Rockets management, but he was also abused by the fans who had been standing in the same trench as him. uncomfortable.

The operating rules of the NBA world, sometimes, are too cruel and ruthless.

In order to take care of Battier's feelings, after fully stretching his body, Zhang Jinshui did not do shooting training by himself, and began to accompany Battier, actively passing the ball for Battier, helping the opponent find three-pointers Shooting touch from outside the line.

But after warming up for a period of time, Zhang Jinshui couldn't bear to hear the Grizzlies fans in the stands still booing Battier tirelessly.

He held up his right hand and began to wag his index finger at the stands that booed the most, expressing his displeasure with them.

But what this action got in exchange was even bigger boos from the stands,

"Zhang Jinshui, thank you, but don't do this, to a certain extent, I can understand their feelings." Sean Battier said gratefully to Zhang Jinshui.

"But all of this is obviously not your fault, don't they have brains?" Zhang Jinshui said unhappily.

"Forget it, let them alone." Battier sighed, raised the basketball in his hand, and threw it to the basket again.

For a moment, Zhang Jinshui saw the sadness in Battier's eyes, and the expressionless expression on the surface was obviously just a disguise.

Hearing the still persistent boos in his ears, the fighting spirit in Zhang Jinshui's chest immediately heated up again.

He couldn't think of a better way to silence this group of idiots than to win the game.

After practicing shooting with Battier for a while, as the referee's whistle sounded, the substitute players on the field began to walk back to the bench.

"Come on Battier!"

"And you, when I come off the bench, you must give me a lead of more than 5 points."

Before leaving the game, Sprewell didn't forget to say a few words to Yao Mai and Zhang Jinshui, as if he had surpassed Alstom and became the Rockets' number one chatterbox.

At 3:[-] p.m. local time in Memphis, the starting players of both sides have already stood in their positions.

As the referee threw the ball high into the air, the Rockets' away game against the Grizzlies officially began.

In this game, the Grizzlies' starting lineup is center Lorenzen White, power forward Pau Gasol, small forward Mike Miller, shooting guard Eddie Jones and point guard Atkins.

Relying on the advantage of bullet speed, Lorenzen White directly gave the racket to Atkins, helped the Grizzlies grab the first ball, and immediately cheered from the stands.

Atkins, who is only 180 tall, took the ball to the front court and immediately passed the ball to Pau Gasol on the right side of the free throw line in the interior.

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In order to reduce Paul Gasol's deterrence on the offensive end, Van Gundy made some ingenious designs on the defensive end, that is, let Chuck Hayes at the power forward position resist the opponent's center Lorenzen White, and replaced it with Center Yao Ming went to defend Pau Gasol.

However, the smart Pau Gasol, facing the defense of Yao Ming, who is used to guarding the inside, did not take the ball into the low post singles. Instead, he took a step back, took off directly, and made a mid-range shot. He made a comfortable arc and made a steady hit.

2 to 0, Pau Gasol helped the Grizzlies usher in a good start.

The Grizzlies fans in the stands became more active.

Zhang Jinshui, who had watched almost all of the Rockets' games in his previous life, naturally knew what a failure it was for Van Gundy to use Yao Ming to defend the opposing Gasol.

Yao Ming, who moves a little slowly due to his huge size, is actually most afraid of Pau Gasol and Boozer, who can pull out a reasonable collision zone and shoot mid-range shots.

On the contrary, in the traditional sense, O'Neal and Cub Howard, who don't have a strong shooting range and can only beat Yao Ming in the interior, often can't get any benefits from Yao Ming.

But Zhang Jinshui didn't dare to point fingers at Van Gundy's arrangement. What he could do was to let Yao Ming, who was not happy on the defensive end, vent on the offensive end.

In this game, Yao Ming, who is destined to be somewhat difficult on the defensive end, can open up the situation on the offensive end, which directly determines the difficulty of the Rockets' game.