NBA: The man who passed the ball to Yao Ming

After attending the post-match press conference, Zhang Jinshui and Yao Mai met up with their teammates in the parking lot, rushed to the airport, and flew to the Motor City overnight.

In the game against the Pistons, the Rockets took turns resting quite thoroughly, and even the always belligerent breadwinner Sprewell was put on the bench by Van Gundy.

As for the Pistons, including Hamilton, the masked man who has just been rested for two weeks due to an ankle injury, all five tigers are on the team. One arrow at a time.

When Yao Maishui and the three of them were found sitting on the bench in suits and leather shoes, the faces of Big Ben and others were as black as burnt charcoal.

In the end, the Rockets lost to the Pistons 76 to 100 without any suspense, and flew to Milwaukee, which is still snowy after the game.

At this time, the Milwaukee Bucks ranked eighth in the Eastern Conference with a record of 20 wins and 21 losses.

As a playoff-level team, the Bucks are naturally an opponent worthy of the Rockets and the media who pay attention to the Rockets.

It's a pity that the media focused all their attention on the Rockets' away game against the Pistons, and no one paid any attention to the Bucks.

But this makes Australian center Bogut, who is the No. [-] pick this year, unable to sit still.

He originally thought that as the No. [-] pick in this year's rookie, and he was about to have the first game dialogue with Zhang Jinshui this season, no matter what the spotlight of the media was, he would focus on him.

But the cold reaction from the media seemed that he was not worthy to be compared with Zhang Jinshui at all.

As a result, Bogut began to frantically add drama to himself in front of the media cameras. On the one hand, he claimed that he helped the Bucks enter the top eight in the Eastern Conference, and his contribution to the team was no worse than Zhang Jinshui's contribution to the Rockets.

On the other hand, he also claims that as a center forward, the competition he faces in the interior is much greater than that Zhang Jinshui faces at the guard position. It cannot be judged that Zhang Jinshui is better than him purely based on statistics.

Moreover, he also declared that he will use the victory in the next game to prove that he is a better rookie than Zhang Jinshui.

After the Rockets finished their game with the Pistons and flew to Milwaukee, the good media naturally brought these words of Bogut to Zhang Jinshui intact.

And Zhang Jinshui, who has always been lazy to respond to such provocative remarks before the game, did not remain silent this time, but directly said to reporters: "A player can only score 9 points and 7 rebounds per game, and can't even contribute a block. The center forward, who has the face to think that his contribution on the court is greater than mine, please tell him for me, I think he is very funny."

Such remarks, once fermented by the media, immediately made the game between the Rockets and the Bucks a lot more smokey.

Frankly speaking, before Bogut, Felton, Arenas and others had expressed their hostility towards Zhang Jinshui in public. own game mentality.

But Bogut is really an exception.

In the last life, Bogut, a big mouth, once made some remarks like Yao Ming's ability to become a superstar is entirely because of his identity as a Chinese, which made Chinese fans like Zhang Jinshui very upset.

What's more, Bogut's playing is really dirty. He slapped Yao Ming on the head in the World Cup, locked Duncan in the NBA, and elbowed Siakam. classic picture.

Zhang Jinshui has long disliked Bogut, so he doesn't mind teaching him a good lesson in the next game.

Of course, Zhang Jinshui's straightforward reply immediately made Bogut jump up and down.

The dirty Australian, who rarely enjoyed so many spotlights, immediately vowed that he would beat Zhang Jinshui all over the floor in the next game.

The original intention of Bogut's words was to crush Zhang Jinshui on the court with his ability, but Zhang Jinshui felt a little weird when he heard it.

After all, in the previous life, this dirty player did knock out his opponent's teeth with malicious fouls.

However, Zhang Jinshui was not afraid at all, he still had a bottle of injury immunity potion in his crotch, and he was not afraid of the other party's insidious moves.

And if Bogut really used some insidious means, Zhang Jinshui has no intention of seeking justice from the referee.

On January 1, at 23 pm local time in Milwaukee, the Rockets' away game against the Bucks kicked off at the Bradley Center.

In fact, Milwaukee has never been a city with a particularly strong basketball atmosphere. This can be seen from the fact that the Eagles were stationed in this city for 50 years in the 4s, and later moved to St. Louis due to insufficient fans.

However, after the NBA moved the Eagles away, it promised to the Milwaukee city government that if the NBA wants to expand a new team in the future, the city has the priority, and this is how the Bucks came into being.

In 1971, only three years after joining the NBA, the Bucks won the NBA championship under the leadership of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, which was a short-lived glory.

Since then, though, the Bucks have never had a chance to set foot on the floor of the Finals.

Although they also entered the playoffs for 8 consecutive seasons in the 90s and 11s, but around 2000, they completely sank into an Eastern Conference team.

As the holder of the No. [-] pick last season, being able to temporarily rank eighth in the Eastern Conference this season is already a great improvement for them.

At the beginning of the game, the head coach of the Bucks sent all the starting lineup headed by Reid, TJ Ford and Bogut to the field, and put on a posture of uniting as one and wanting to fight the Rockets forever.

However, they only have Reed's All-Star backcourt lineup, which is really not enough for the Rockets.

After resting the game against the Pistons, Van Gundy sent the main lineup led by Yao Ming, McGrady and Zhang Jinshui to the field in this game. The goal is naturally to take the opponent lightly.

After the start of the game, Zhang Jinshui followed the usual game rhythm of the Rockets and began to constantly look for Yao Ming in the interior.

Facing Bogut with a big mouth but short arms, Yao Ming will naturally not be polite.

Directly using Bogut's center of gravity, he went inside for a dunk and a small hook, which helped the Rockets gain a 4-0 lead, and also let Bogut, who shouted loudly before the game, start to face Some can't hold on anymore.

When Bogut passed by him, Zhang Jinshui couldn't help but sarcastically said: "Yao Ming easily scored points twice in a row. Your defense is too bad."