NBA: The man who passed the ball to Yao Ming

On the second day, Zhang Jinshui undoubtedly became the focus of public opinion in the NBA.

A rookie who has been in the NBA for less than half a year and has played 17 official games, even tied the NBA record of 12 three-pointers in a single game. Not long after, he successfully broke the record with 13 three-pointers.

Although the Suns have led a wave of 7-second offense in the NBA, leading all NBA teams to accelerate their offensive tempo, Zhang Jinshui's continuous collision with the single-game three-point record still makes everyone fall below Glasses.

Especially when Zhang Jinshui tied the three-pointer record for the first time, many people felt that Zhang Jinshui just felt too hot in a game, which was not enough to represent his true three-pointer ability.

Last night's record-breaking made these people completely shut up.

Now when the media and public opinion talk about whether Zhang Jinshui's three-point shooting ability is at the historical level, there are finally not too many noisy voices.

Moreover, last night, Zhang Jinshui actually achieved another very exaggerated achievement, that is, he became the second player in NBA history to score more than 50 points in a single game in his rookie season.

In yesterday's game, Zhang Jinshui finally scored 51 points, 5 assists and 2 rebounds.

One more point than Iverson's 50 points on the Cleveland Cavaliers, creating a new rookie season's highest scoring record.

Even Michael Jordan, the basketball god who averaged 28.2 points per game in his rookie season, never achieved such an achievement. His highest score in a single game that year was 49 points.

And when Zhang Jinshui started to achieve some achievements and compared with NBA historical-level stars, he was already almost in this rank.

In the vast majority of the special reports in these two days, the angle of discussion of various media has changed from whether Zhang Jinshui has the potential to grow into a superstar, to now that Zhang Jinshui is becoming a superstar, and he is expected to be able to grow in the future. Keep it up in the game.

However, some media have begun to worry about whether Zhang Jinshui's psychological quality can withstand the pressure of media attention. After all, the outside world's expectations for Zhang Jinshui are too high.

The sports circle has always been a place where stories of exhaustion of talent happen the most. Too many newcomers gave the outside world a huge surprise when they entered professional sports, but they quickly disappeared because they couldn't bear the pressure from the outside world.

However, there is a high probability that Zhang Jinshui will not appear in this rank. After all, facing the praise from the outside world, Zhang Jinshui is very calm in his heart, and naturally he will not put pressure on himself because of the so-called fear of living up to the high expectations of the outside world.

In the next two days, Zhang Jinshui went to the Rockets training base to participate in the team's training as usual.

Because the next home game against the Trail Blazers will be the Rockets' last home game before four consecutive away games, in order to help the players reserve some energy, the training intensity of these two days is relatively low.

And the Rockets' very sweet loose schedule for this period of time is coming to an end.

In the next four away games, they will first fly to San Francisco to challenge the Golden State Warriors away, and then need to fly 1300 kilometers overnight, and challenge the Seattle SuperSonics back-to-back away the next day.

Immediately afterwards, they only had one day of rest, and then they had to fly to Los Angeles to challenge the Lakers and Clippers back-to-back away to the Los Angeles brothers.

Four away games in five days, two back-to-back, with only one day of rest in between, it is simply another small devil's schedule.

Fortunately, the Rockets can fly back to Houston next, and play two more home games before the Christmas holiday, which finally gives the players something to look forward to.

In addition, the home game against the Trail Blazers before the away Devils schedule was relatively friendly.

The current Trail Blazers should be the most precarious team in the entire league.

This team, which was once famous for its gangsters and chaos throughout the league, has only played the league's worst record of 3 wins and 15 losses so far this season, and has already launched an impact on the No. [-] pick next season ahead of schedule.

In the current lineup of the Trail Blazers, the only one who can do it is Randolph, who can contribute 18 points and 8 rebounds per game. The other players are a group of blue-collars and thorns.

Even Randolph's current reputation is far from the reputation he had when he formed the black and white double bears with Gasol after he transferred to the Grizzlies in his last life.

尤其是兰多夫刚刚在休赛季和开拓者队签下一份千万级别的顶薪合同后，得分和篮板立刻就从过去两年的20.1+10.6、18.9+9.6下滑到了本赛季的18.0+8.0。

Combined with the Trail Blazers' garbage record this season, many media have classified Randolph as a player who is a contract fighter, and he started to be lazy after taking a big contract.

Moreover, Randolph's defense has always been criticized. In the statistics of the past 4 years, this big man who averaged 9 rebounds per game can only contribute 0.3 blocks, which is really jaw-dropping. .

At 12:11 p.m. local time in Houston on December 7, the game between the Rockets and the Trail Blazers officially kicked off at the still-hot Toyota Center.

The most surprising team of the season played against the most disappointing team of the season at home. It seems that there will be no suspense, but Randolph still exerted a lot of pressure on Yao Ming on the offensive end in the opening game.

With a huge body that can only be described as fat, he put a lot of pressure on Yao Ming in terms of strength. He squeezed Yao Ming into the basket and scored 4 points in a row.

However, Yao Ming quickly paid back on the offensive end. Randolph's defense was not worth mentioning in front of Yao Ming's left and right hands turning and hooking.

Even if the Blazers double-teamed Yao Ming, their coordinated defensive system, which was like loose sand, could hardly prevent McGrady from pulling out and breaking through.

In the eighth minute of the first quarter, the Rockets had established an 8-point lead 23-12.

It can also be seen from the spirit of the Blazers players that they did not intend to do too much resistance in this game. Let's just go through the motions and don't let them lose too badly. That's fine.

The grandstand at the Toyota Center has once again become a gathering place for Rockets fans, with alcohol, drinks, singing and dancing everywhere.

The state of the Rockets players is also very relaxed, and they are very comfortable on both ends of the offense and defense.

The most nervous person was Zhang Jinshui, who was still thinking about his new purple talent badge [Hot Status].

When the game progressed to the 9th minute, Yao Ming took a break, and the Rockets were led by Zhang Jinshui and Sprewell. When Birdman Anderson, Uncle Mu and JR Smith were on the court, Zhang Jinshui first played [retreat] at the top of the arc. Bu Shenshe] made a three-pointer, and then, he decided to officially start his experiment.

"Family supporter, let me play the next few shots, okay?" Zhang Jinshui said hello to Sprewell after receiving the baseline serve from Birdman Anderson again.

After all, during this period of previous games, Zhang Jinshui often let Sprewell be the main attacker, and he only played a role of tactical assistance and offensive supplement.

Zhang Jinshui immediately started his own experiment after receiving Sprewell's indifferent look of "No problem, I'll give you everything!"

Next, Zhang Jinshui faced the defense of Trail Blazers backup guard Blake, and once again cast the ball with [Retreating Magic Shot].

Unfortunately, this time his three-pointer was thrown on the other side of the coin, and the basketball finally bounced out of the frame.

Fortunately, this plot is just within the scope of Zhang Jinshui's experiment. He just wants to try it out. If he misses some shots during the process of scoring 9 points in a row, will it affect the activation of [Fiery State]? .

Immediately afterwards, Zhang Jinshui still did not use his arsenal, but took the ball to the frontcourt, and gave the ball directly to Sprewell at 45 degrees on the right.

Then, he ran out of the shot space briefly at the top of the arc by running without the ball, took the ball from Sprewell, and stepped on the thick green halo on the soles of his feet to steadily hit another three-pointer.

I have to admit that the Trail Blazers with loose defense and no fighting spirit are really a very suitable object for experimentation.

Zhang Jinshuidao has not used his arsenal so far, and he has easily hit two three-pointers and scored 6 points. Of course, among the 6 points, there was one offense that failed to score.

In the next attack, Zhang Jinshui stopped hiding.

He first consumed his two golden badge [best route] credits, and he followed the green system prompts to enter the penalty area smoothly on both occasions. His scoring streak reached 10 points.

But unfortunately, the metallic system sound that Zhang Jinshui had been looking forward to did not ring in his ears.

It seems that, as defined by the system, there must be no offensive failure in the middle of scoring 9 points in a row.

This is tantamount to raising the activation threshold of the purple badge [Hot Status] a lot. Fortunately, it is still within Zhang Jinshui's acceptance range.

Next, Zhang Jinshui triggered the purple badge [explosive ability value] without hesitation, directly filled up the three-point ability value, and easily hit a three-pointer in the frontcourt.

This is already Zhang Jinshui's 13th consecutive points in this game, and it is the fourth consecutive offensive success without failure.

In the stands of the Toyota Center, I don’t know how many waves of cheers sounded, but Zhang Jinshui’s mind was not on the stands at all. In his ears, the metallic system sound came as promised:

"Score more than 9 points in a row in the game and successfully activate the purple badge [Status Hot]. Do you want to trigger [Status Hot] to increase the value of all attributes by 10?"

"Trigger!" Zhang Jinshui shouted impatiently with his thoughts.

Then, he began to calm down and feel the changes in his body.

After all, the special effect of this badge will not only increase his basketball skill-related ability values, but also increase his physical fitness-related attributes such as strength, speed, and stamina by 10 points.

While breathing, Zhang Jinshui obviously felt that his whole body became much lighter, and the sense of strength bred in his muscles also increased a lot, and his whole body became very focused.

Zhang Jinshui raised his head, stepped back, and stared closely at the Blazers backup guard Blake who dribbled forward after receiving the ball.

When Blake took the ball to the frontcourt and planned to transfer it to Ruben Patterson laterally, Zhang Jinshui rushed up like a swift cheetah waiting for a long time, directly intercepted the ball, and then rushed to the frontcourt at high speed. He went to the basket and completed a powerful one-handed dunk.

The special effects of [Fiery State] are completely different from the [-]% success rate experience brought to Zhang Jinshui by [Fu Lin Xin Zhi] and [Tit for Tat].

Zhang Jinshui obviously felt the changes in his physical state, he just felt refreshed physically and mentally, with a feeling of being slightly drunk from drinking and being ecstatic.

It's a pity that at this time, the referee's whistle interrupted Zhang Jinshui's special effect time of at least 40 seconds, and the stands in the Toyota Center were shouting the slogan "MVP" in unison.

Only then did Zhang Jinshui wake up. It turned out that the first quarter of the game was over.

As for the ball just now, I used the special effects of [Fiery State] to directly defeat the Trail Blazers' final attack, and completed a dunk counterattack before the end of the game.

During the period when Zhang Jinshui was concentrating on the experiment, he scored 15 points in a row, helping the Rockets to turn the score on the court into 38 to 18, leading the Trail Blazers by as much as 20 points.

Sprewell jumped up excitedly, and while pulling Zhang Jinshui to the bench, he said with a smile: "Zhang Jinshui, you're just dealing with a mere trailblazer. As for attacking with all your strength? Take a break when you have to. Rico still has two back-to-back away games in a row."

Zhang Jinshui smiled embarrassingly, and covered it up: "I just want to clock in and get off work early today, so as to preserve my energy for the devil's schedule later."

This was just heard by McGrady on the sidelines, and he immediately responded positively: "Good suggestion! Why don't we set today's goal as: hit the card in three quarters, and hit the clock in two quarters, how about it?"

Van Gundy on the side was noncommittal, but added: "You can clock in earlier if you want to. After all, it is to save energy for the next away game, but we must avoid unnecessary injuries caused by fighting too hard."

McGrady patted his chest and said, "Don't worry, coach."

He paused, then turned his head and said to the other Rockets players: "Brothers, let us work hard to win today and check in safely."

"Yes, work hard to win, and check in safely!" Sprewell followed up and shouted.

Because the first quarter of the game went too smoothly, and the current state of the Trail Blazers is really hard to pay attention to, Van Gundy has nothing to ask for rest during the quarter, but he just told everyone to adjust. Mentality, don't fight too hard.

Soon, the intermission time was over, and McGrady and Sprewell walked onto the court gearing up.