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Chapter 222 Rookie Wall

In the end, the Timberwolves won the game without any risk, and the Rockets' Jedi counterattack at the end of the fourth quarter did not have the desired effect.Adelman is very accurate. Xu Hao is the biggest contributor to the Timberwolves' victory. He scored 7 three-pointers and scored 31 points and 9 assists. , and Love also scored 20+ points.

However, Yao Ming, who lost the game, was not in such a bad mood as he imagined. When the final whistle blew, he came over and patted Xu Hao on the shoulder, and said meaningfully: "Your strength is very strong. I will fight with you on the field."

Xu Hao's heart moved, Yao Ming meant something!The so-called other arenas can only be played by the national team. Now the Chinese men’s basketball team is really good inside. There are Yao Ming himself, as well as Yi Jianlian and Wang Zhizhi. Although Battelle is old, this generation of mobile Great Wall is still not to be underestimated. , and the only position where the national team has an advantage against other teams.

Compared with the inside line, domestic outside players are basically veterans. Hu Xuefeng, Liu Wei and others are not bad, but age is a problem. Sun Yue of the Mesozoic generation has no reliable shooting ability, and Chen Jianghua of the new generation is still very immature. , It can be said that the strength comparison between the inside and outside of the national team is completely unbalanced, which once made Yao Ming feel very troubled.

But if Xu Hao can be selected for the national team, it will be completely different.This game has already made Yao Ming see Xu Hao's talent, and he has also begun to convert his talent into immediate combat power. Players who can start in the NBA have two brushes, as long as the officials of the Basketball Association are not blind , Xu Hao will definitely be recruited into the national team. In that case, the outside problem should be solved. This is good news for the inside team headed by Yao Ming and Yi Jianlian. At least Xu Hao can keep up with their rhythm.

The two chatted for a few more words, and Xu Hao said goodbye to the big brother. They still have four away games to play, so they must pack up their things immediately, and catch the plane to the next destination after the press conference.Yao Ming also understood very well, and waved Xu Hao to go to the locker room to take a shower.Seeing the back of Xu Hao disappearing in the player tunnel, Yao Ming rubbed his chin thoughtfully.

Adelman came over, and he said lightly: "Your compatriots are very good, I saw the shadows of many people..."

Yao Ming smiled: "He is him, not someone else's shadow, maybe he will become the hope of our country in the future!"

Xu Hao didn't know that Yao Ming and Adelman were still commenting on him behind his back. After dealing with the reporters in a hurry, he packed up his things, took the bus to George Bush International Airport with his teammates, and took a flight to Airplane in Miami.At this time, everyone has come out of the excitement of defeating the Rockets, and they all covered themselves with blankets and began to catch up on sleep in their positions.

Perhaps because of the overnight rush, every player in the Timberwolves was in a sluggish state against the Heat. Sessions, who came off the bench, scored 22 points and became the team's scoring leader, but this was not enough for them to beat their opponents.Xu Hao's performance in this game was also very bad. He only scored 13 points and 6 assists, and his shooting percentage was less than 40%. This is not his level.

McHale was a little disappointed. He thought the team would be able to continue the winning streak, but the Heat are not a big fish. They have Wade, who was the first to win the championship in the 03 golden generation. In this game, Wade scored 41 points, 8 With 5 rebounds, 2 assists and [-] steals, he almost single-handedly decided the outcome of the game. Ellington, who was in charge of defending him, was completely blown away by him.

But this is also understandable. The Timberwolves are fighting back to back. Under normal circumstances, the second game of back to back is difficult to play, especially when the previous game consumed a lot of energy.So McHale was disappointed, and he didn't criticize the players under his command. He just asked them to give full play to their strength in the next game, and stop creating a losing streak.

In the next away game, the Timberwolves' opponent is the Wizards who are currently ranked last in the Eastern Conference. No one knows how they have such a bad record with Arenas, Jamison and Butler.Although Arenas was reimbursed directly after only playing 2 games last season, the Wizards' record is completely incomprehensible given the strength of Jamison and Butler.

The Timberwolves also took advantage of the opponent's internal and external troubles to win the game, and the Wizards did not take the lead throughout the game.Four of the team's five starters performed well, except for Xu Hao.Yes, he was lost again in this game, and he was in a worse state than he was against the Heat, with only 9 points, 2 rebounds and 3 assists in the game, and his shooting percentage was 33.3%.

This is Xu Hao's first single-digit scoring in a rookie season. For a player who is eligible to compete for the best rookie, this is obviously not a beautiful report card.Besides, the victory of the Timberwolves can be said to have nothing to do with him. In the 28 minutes Xu Hao played, the team lost 5 points. He is also one of the only two players in the team with a negative plus-minus score. .

In stark contrast to him, his substitute Sessions showed his power again. He scored 18 points efficiently in 14 minutes of playing time and also sent 6 assists.His stats look mediocre, but they are pretty good for a backup point guard, and his shooting percentage is still very high, with 8 goals in 5 shots, much better than Xu Hao.

Xu Hao's loss in two consecutive games is not a big news. Reporters from all walks of life are eager to find out the real reason for this super rookie's sudden downturn. Some irresponsible guys even concocted a non-existent The locker room was conflicted. They thought it was because Xu Hao performed too well in the previous games, so he was excluded by the old players.

Such pretentious reports made Xu Hao dumbfounded. He didn't know who the so-called sources in the article were, but he could be sure that the so-called conflicts in the dressing room did not exist at all. He had indeed behaved badly during this time. But this has nothing to do with external influences, but he can't explain why such a strange thing happened.

However, the explanation given by the head coach McHale in an interview made Xu Hao suddenly realize: "This is normal, and most rookies will encounter such problems. Hitting the rookie wall is not a big deal. We have time to wait. He's back on track. Chris is a very important part of our system, but now we can't win."

(End of this chapter)