NBA: The man who passed the ball to Yao Ming

After a night without dreams, Zhang Jinshui regained consciousness the next day at 09:30 in the morning.

The caring Zi Chunlin left the house after helping Zhang Jinshui prepare breakfast.

Since tonight's game is the second back-to-back game, Van Gundy did not arrange additional training, but asked all the players to gather directly in the home team's locker room at the Toyota Center at 6 pm.

Because the game is coming soon, Zhang Jinshui has no plans to do strenuous training.

He spent an hour and a half on the basketball court in the backyard in the morning and afternoon, just doing some simple dribbling and shooting, which was to find a sense of the ball for the evening game in advance.

Zi Chunlin brought back lunch at noon and stayed with Zhang Jinshui at home in the afternoon, and drove Zhang Jinshui to the Toyota Center around 5 pm.

At 5:50 in the evening, when Zhang Jinshui appeared in the home locker room, the Rockets players were almost there.

"Good evening, best rookie." Uncle Mu greeted Zhang Jinshui with a broken gong voice.

Zhang Jinshui smiled at Uncle Mu, walked into the locker room, and high-fived his teammates one by one.

The atmosphere in the Rockets locker room has always been very cheerful, Yao Ming and Alston are competing for the skill of telling jokes.

Seeing Zhang Jinshui come in, they stopped and told the joke that was about to finish from the beginning.

After the speech, Zhang Jinshui and the others began to vote for the funniest of the two.

Just as Zhang Jinshui raised his hand to Yao Ming, Van Gundy and McGrady in a formal suit walked in.

Van Gundy clapped his hands and said loudly: "Everyone, for today's back-to-back games, McGrady will rest, and our starting lineup also needs to make some adjustments."

"David Wesley, you replace McGrady in the starting lineup."

"Zhang Jinshui, you come back to the bench."

Zhang Jinshui immediately nodded in agreement.

After 5 games of running-in, he has been very clear about the tactical intentions of some of Van Gundy's arrangements.

In the absence of McGrady, he was also placed on the bench, mainly to improve the continued stability of the Rockets' lineup for 48 minutes.

The starting lineup will revolve around Yao Ming as the tactical core, and the substitute lineup will revolve around him and Zhang Jinshui as the tactical core.

Compared with the arrangement in the game, what Zhang Jinshui is more worried about now is whether there is something wrong with McGrady's body.

Seeing that his teammates looked at him with concern, McGrady explained with apology: "I have no physical problems, but Van Gundy and Dawson decided to let me rest for this back-to-back game out of the protection of my body. "

Hearing this explanation, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

In Zhang Jinshui's impression, McGrady signed back-to-back protection clauses with the Rockets when he transferred.

However, McGrady seems to rarely use this clause, as long as the Rockets need him, he will appear on the court.

But now that Van Gundy has put the Rockets' goal this season at the top, he must pay special attention to the health of Yao Mai and other players.

Especially McGrady's waist and back make him miss many games almost every year.

Zhang Jinshui fully supported Van Gundy's approach, but this arrangement made the game he had to win suddenly more twists and turns.

Fortunately, the confidence of him and the Rockets was not affected by McGrady's absence.

At 6:[-], Yao Ming, who was ready to go, stood up, clapped his hands vigorously, and called all the Rockets soldiers together.

"Brothers, we want to win six games in a row."

"Six consecutive victories!" Zhang Jinshui followed his teammates and shouted.

Then, led by Yao Ming, a group of players rushed out of the locker room in a single file.

Outside the player tunnel, the entire Toyota Center arena is already bustling with activity.

The stands were packed with Rockets fans in red jerseys.

The lively Rocket Bear, waving the red Rockets flag, ran around the sidelines, driving fans to set off wave after wave of people.

After seeing Yao Ming, Zhang Jinshui and other Rockets players rushing out of the player tunnel, enthusiastic fans immediately set off a tsunami of cheers.

Although this is not the first time facing the enthusiasm of Rockets fans, Zhang Jinshui's arrogance was instantly aroused.

He kept reaching out and high-fiving the fans on the sidelines and waving to the fans in the stands who shouted his name in the distance.

At this time, the Celtics players were already warming up on the field. Zhang Jinshui looked up, and a familiar figure appeared in his sight.

Paul Pierce.

He was wearing the uniform of the Celtics and was leisurely dribbling the ball on the court.

Since Anton Wan Walker was traded away, the Celtics have been called Paul Pierce's team for no exaggeration.

It's just that the Celtics management's helper for Pierce is really not very good. Only Ricky Davis can put it on the table.

This stat fighter who had played 20+5+5 in the Cavaliers back then, was kicked out directly after the Cavaliers selected the little emperor James because of his cancerous style of play.

With a paper lineup like the opponent's, even if McGrady didn't play, Zhang Jinshui wouldn't think it would be too difficult to win the game.

After the warm-up, Zhang Jinshui greeted Zi Chunlin on the sidelines and Zhao Miner in the media area respectively, and then returned to the bench.

At 7 o'clock in the evening, the starters of the two teams took their positions on the court.

The starting lineup sent by the Celtics is center Rive LaFrentz, power forward Mark Blunt, small forward Paul Pierce, shooting guard Ricky Davis, and point guard Delonte West.

The Celtics lineup has the same problem as the Nets, that is, the weak inside line is really vulnerable to Yao Ming.

With the referee throwing the ball into the air, the game officially began.

The Rockets grabbed the ball first, and after Alstom went to the frontcourt, he handed the ball to Yao Ming first.

Yao Ming turned and hooked on the left side of the basket and easily scored two points.

The Celtics also hit a mid-range shot by Paul Pierce to tie the game.

Next, the Celtics immediately began double-teaming Yao Ming, and their head coach, Doc Rivers, was clearly prepared.

Without the support of McGrady and Zhang Jinshui, the double-teaming tactics still had some effect on Yao Ming, and the Rockets' offense began to stumble.

Fortunately, Alston gradually found some inspiration after watching Zhang Jinshui's few games on the bench.

After he catches the ball, or shoots a three-pointer.Or quickly transfer the ball to other teammates.

Although the three-point shooting rate was not high and the passing threat was average, he handled it extremely resolutely, and finally prevented the Celtics from double-teaming Yao Ming too presumptuously.

However, with his hands restrained, and the fact that he had already played a game yesterday, his physical strength was more or less affected. Yao Ming's performance on the offensive end can only be regarded as mediocre.

6分钟过后，他4投2中，得到4分2篮板1助攻，帮助火箭队以12比10领先凯尔特人2分。

It did not gain a considerable lead in the first place, as predicted by the expert football media.

Even the stands in the Toyota Center became a bit dull after several rounds of hand-to-hand combat between the two sides.

However, when Zhang Jinshui stood up from the bench and Van Gundy raised his hand to signal the referee to make a substitution, the fans immediately burst into cheers.

The current Zhang Jinshui is undoubtedly the new darling of the Toyota Center.

"Zhang Jinshui, I will only give Yao Ming another 2 minutes to play. Cherish these 2 minutes and widen the gap!" Van Gundy told Zhang Qingshui before playing.

"Coach, don't worry!"

Zhang Jinshui walked to the backcourt, received Uncle Huo's baseline pass, and carefully advanced to the frontcourt.

Yao Ming mentioned the top of the arc in a timely manner and helped Zhang Jinshui make a pick-and-roll.

Zhang Jinshui immediately activated the golden badge [best route] with his consciousness when the opponent's center Lavlenz and point guard Delonte West switched positions.

Before playing, Zhang Jinshui had already made up his mind to feel the use method and effect of the new badge as soon as possible when the error tolerance rate was the highest in the early stage of the game.