basketball hero

Chapter 215 First Start in the NBA

On April 4, the Bucks played against the Thunder at home.Both teams have already missed the playoffs, so for the two teams, it doesn't seem to matter who wins.Of course, for the Thunder, it seems better to lose... because this way they are one step closer to the No. 12 pick.

Since the Bucks lost their chance to make the playoffs for the first time, the Bradley Center has a lot fewer fans.The mood of the fans is also easy to understand. After all, after supporting the home team for a season, in the final stage of the season, they lost the opportunity to get playoff tickets. It takes courage and time to spend money and time to watch such insignificant games. Patience is required.Except, of course, for die-hard fans and season ticket holders.

But in this game, when the Bucks officially announced in advance that Ying Xiong would start the game, it still attracted a group of fans to watch the game.For them, they really want to see if the young Asian guy that the team selected with a lottery pick last summer is really a parallel importer as judged by some outside media.

Of course, the intensity of this end-of-season game that has nothing to do with ranking is not very high, and one game can't explain anything.After all, when who hasn't eaten dumplings, the sample size of one or two games is indeed too small.But these fans just couldn't hold back their curiosity and wanted to see what happened.

In this game, the Thunder's starting lineup for the away game is: Center - Nainad Krstic, Power Forward - Jeff Green, Small Forward - Kevin Durant, Shooting Guard - Kyle Weaver Hall, point guard-Russell Westbrook.

The starting lineup of the Bucks at home is: center - Danga Zuric, power forward - Luke Richard Mbah a Moute, small forward - Ying Xiong, shooting guard - Raymond Sessions, point guard — Luc Crednor.

This is Ying Xiong's first appearance as a starter in the NBA regular season.Although he knows that the outcome of this game is irrelevant, everything seems new to him, even though the teammates around him have been together for a season.

The NBA's appearance ceremony is one of the characteristics that distinguish it from other leagues.Here, each team has its own appearance ceremony.

When the on-site DJ began to mobilize the atmosphere in his unique way, the lighting engineer turned off the lights in the arena.Then, the appearance ceremony began...

The first player to play was Mbah a Moute. Under the projection of the lights, he high-fived with his teammates; Ying Xiong was the second to play.I saw that he felt some dazzling lights hitting him, heard the DJ shouting his name, and the cheers of the fans, as if he had become the focus of the audience in an instant.There were more than 1 fans at the scene. Under the watchful eyes of so many people, I will start the game for the first time in my NBA career. The significance of this game is far greater than the statistics.

Ying Xiong seemed to be full of energy, excitedly high-fiving his teammates, enjoying this wonderful moment of his own.

After the appearance ceremony, the lights on the scene were restored, and the starting players from both sides shook hands and said hello to each other, and the game was about to start.

Looking at Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook in the opponent team, Ying Xiong felt envious. Needless to say, No. 35 Kevin Durant, the No. 0 pick last season, started as soon as he landed in the NBA. The whole team would rather sacrifice the record at any cost, play with him, and let him exercise to his heart's content.The other No. 4 player, like Ying Xiong, is a rookie this season.It's just that he is the 8th pick and Ying Xiong is the [-]th pick.

Ying Xiong saw the two brothers opposite, and thinking about himself, he could only smile wryly.He thought that if he was in the Thunder, even if he couldn't make the starting lineup, the team would definitely focus on cultivating himself, and playing a main rotation would definitely be no problem.

It's just that there are no ifs in this world, and time cannot be turned back. What everyone can do is to control themselves, that's all.

Kostic and Gadzuric prepare a jump ball near the middle circle and the game is about to begin.Standing next to Kevin Durant, Ying Xiong felt the sweat in his palms.

As the referee threw the ball into the air, the game officially began.

Krstic grabbed the first point and dialed it to Kyle Weaver, who immediately passed to Russell Westbrook.

Westbrook dribbles over and Ridnour goes to defend.

Ying Xiong is in charge of defense, and it is the opponent's No. [-] pick, Kevin Durant.

Ying Xiong watched Durant in the video before, and felt that this man was tall and long, with a feeling of Garnett.He specifically checked the information on the Internet and found that Durant's official height is 206cm.

Ying Xiong doubts the authenticity of this height, because Durant's teammate Jeff Green is also 206cm tall, but they are obviously shorter when they stand together.In this way, either Jeff Green falsely reported his height, or Durant falsely reported his height.It is unlikely that Jeff Green falsely reported his height, because as a reference, he stands with other 206cm forwards in the NBA, and his height is similar.In this way, the one who falsely reported his height must be Durant.

False reporting of height is nothing new in the NBA.But for the most part, false reporting of height is generally reported higher, and few players deliberately report shorter.As reported by Gao Gao, as Ying Xiong knows, like his idol Allen Iverson, the official height is 183cm, but the actual height is only about 180cm; even earlier Charles Barkley, known as 198cm, is actually also less than.For stars, falsely reporting their height is not necessarily to play their favorite position, sometimes there are also face considerations.For example, if you convert 183cm, it is 6 feet 0 inches, and 180cm is 5 feet 11 inches.Although the difference is only 1 inch, it is the difference between 6 feet + people and 5 feet + people.

Ying Xiong knew that the person who falsely reported his height to make him shorter was the famous Kevin Garnett.Garnett, who has an official height of 211cm, is obviously taller than Duncan and Nowitzki, who are 213cm, when they are together, but he just doesn't want to report his actual height.According to his own description, in order not to play a center forward, he wanted to play a power forward, so he specially reported that he was a little shorter...

——It’s true that a full man doesn’t know a hungry man is hungry!

And the other Ying Xiong knows is Kevin Durant of the Thunder in front of him.This Durant, like Garnett, is a tall, thin, tall black man with long arms, but his body is not strong. He belongs to the technical flow type and is proficient in projection.This kind of players, in order not to play inside, deliberately reported their height to be a little shorter.Garnett in order not to play center, and this Durant, in order not to play power forward.

According to Ying Xiong's visual inspection, Durant's height should be around 210cm, not the official 206cm.Because he is 203cm, obviously the opponent is much taller than himself.

Of course, Ying Xiong does not think that 210cm playing small forward or shooting guard must have obvious advantages over 200cm.In the final analysis, basketball games are not about height, otherwise the Chinese national team with a super tall average height should be the Olympic champion.

(End of this chapter)