Zhang Weiping: You made me not know how to organize language for a moment...
"Xu Yong's ball jumps really high!" Yang Yi realized something and said quickly.
The next second, the arena was flooded with cheers, and all Chicago fans stood up excitedly.
This dunk directly brought them to climax.
Dunk with Thabit and Yao Ming, you kid is really a devil!
Stern almost stood up excitedly, but although he held back, his trembling hands revealed his excitement.
That dunk just now is definitely a world-famous painting, and it is also a hit in the Chinese Derby.
Even with this deduction, the outcome of the game is actually not that important anymore, because with it, this year's China Derby is a blockbuster for the Chinese market.
He has already started thinking about which stars to arrange for a trip to China next summer!
Winning or losing is of course very important, especially for Xu Yong and Yao Ming.
How could two people who were both so competitive be able to give up victory or defeat to each other?
Especially after Xu Yong's dunk, Yao Ming's fighting spirit was completely inspired.
However, Xu Yong's performance is still outstanding.
It turns out that even the best defensive players have things they are good at and things they are not good at.
Battier is one of the best players to defend Kobe Bryant, but he seems a bit helpless against Xu Yong's violent breakthrough method.
Moreover, he was actually in shock all night.
Because of his level, it is impossible not to study the video before the game, but in the video Xu Yong clearly does not change direction without slowing down!
How do you ask him to deal with something he doesn't have?
And Xu Yong is very smart. When facing him, he never has to play behind him, nor will he shoot in front of him, which makes his best defense of blindness useless.
This is really the result of casting a spell and being silenced, blocking the Q!
At halftime, the Rockets led 58 to 51.
In the second half of the second quarter, the Rockets took advantage.
The reason for this wave of advantage is Tracy McGrady.
McGrady played his best 7 minutes of the season in this focus game, delivering 6 points, 1 rebound and 2 assists.
Although the Rockets' Princeton tactics are very good, there are actually problems, that is, when the tactics cannot be opened and need to be solved hard, just like when the Bulls were chasing points in the opening game, the only person they could use was Yao Ming.
But now that Yao Ming has lost weight, his confidence in the low position has declined. At this time, they need hard solutions from the outside.
Artest's ability to hold the ball is very limited, and his shooting without the ball is unstable. He can only be used as a supplement at best, so now it is Brooks who plays that role.
So Brooks averaged close to 20 points per game this season and is the Rockets' scoring leader.
But he is too short, and he is not Iverson. The result is inefficiency and instability.
In comparison, McGrady is that person. Even though he seems to have little skill left, the skinny camel is still bigger than the horse.
McGrady's status is the most positive signal for the Rockets, but the former two-consecutive scoring champion did not get even a second of opportunity in the second half.
Adelman strictly follows the orders of Rockets general manager Mo Gou.
This has also become a key factor in determining the outcome of the game.
After the start of the second half, the Bulls began to catch up with the point difference little by little amid the non-stop cheers of the home fans.
Although at the end of the third quarter, they still had a habitual scoring shortage, Yao Ming's physical fitness also began to have problems on the Rockets.
The two teams continued to play until the second half of the fourth quarter. When Yao Ming no longer had the physical strength to make hard tackles, the momentum of the game began to shift towards the Bulls.
Moreover, Xu Yong showed that he has already begun to take shape in terms of physical fitness and is still strong.
He scored the Bulls' final 6 points, helping the Bulls defeat the Rockets 102-96.
The moment the final whistle blew, all the Chicago fans stood up and cheered excitedly.
The Bulls played another classic battle of the season. Although their overall performance was not very good, they could always win such key battles!
According to the statistics after the game, for the Rockets, Yao Ming had 22 points, 10 rebounds and 5 assists, Brooks had 17 points, Artest had 15 points and 6 rebounds, and Scola had 9 points and 6 rebounds.
For the Bulls, Rose had 16 points, 4 rebounds and 9 assists, Deng had 14 points and 7 rebounds, and Noah had 9 points, 13 rebounds and 3 assists.
Xu Yong made 11 of 24 shots and contributed 33 points, 5 rebounds, 2 assists, 1 steal and 2 blocks.
33 points not only once again set the highest score in a single game of his career, but also once again set the highest score for a rookie this year.
Become Rookie of the Year?
Even with the emergence of a strong competitor like Evans, this matter is becoming more and more likely for Xu Yong.
After the game, the two teams held a post-game handshake ceremony.
After Yao Ming saw Xu Yong, he stepped forward to bump his shoulders and patted Xu Yong hard on the back.
His mood now is complicated.
Because tonight Xu Yong not only won the data, but also won the game.
As he said during dinner yesterday, the Rockets are much stronger than the Bulls in terms of strength, but it was the Rockets who lost, which made it difficult for him to accept.
However, Xu Yong's strength has improved so much compared to the offseason, which means that next year's World Cup is a little more certain, so this is a happy thing.
Soon after Xu Yong shook hands with Yao Ming, he met Tracy McGrady.
"I knew you could play." Tracy McGrady was in a good mood tonight. On the one hand, he played well on his own, and on the other hand, he originally taught Xu Yongmai's dry pull now it seems to be worth the money.
"Everything will be fine." Xu Yong also comforted McGrady. McGrady taught him a favor in the first place.
And what he said is getting better is true. It is torture for McGrady to stay in the Rockets, and the transaction is a relief for him.
In other words, McGrady should be relieved soon.
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This Chinese derby has unprecedented influence at home or among Chinese people around the world.
Before this, no one thought that anyone could surpass Yao Ming or even catch up with Yao Ming's achievements in the NBA.
Including Yi Jianlian at the time, they only thought that if Yi Jianlian could achieve half of Yao Ming's achievements, he would have reached or even exceeded expectations.
But Xu Yong's performance in the past month, coupled with his performance in this focus battle, really gave them hope.
So the impact of this is more than just a few reports.
The most direct thing is that Xu Yong's AJ shoes have begun to sell well in the global market.
Being of yellow race, Xu Yong's basketball journey in the United States was much more bumpy than that of people of other skin colors, but similarly, when he performed well, it brought about the fanaticism of this group.
Moreover, in this era, network information is not so developed, otherwise the clips of this game and the number of views of related videos would definitely make it out of the circle.
Of course, for Xu Yong, the excitement was just for one night.
He really didn't get much sleep on Derby night, so he simply went to train all night.
But the next day, he had forgotten about the game and focused on the next one.
No matter how much attention the derby gets and no matter how much impact it brings, it's all off the field and won't help him in any way on the field.
And if you really want to talk about it, he didn't feel good on the outside last night and his overall shooting rate was not high. He wouldn't refute if others said he was lazy.
What's more, the Bulls can't beat him like this every night.
So he is awake in the world.
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Time flies, and it’s already late December in a blink of an eye.
The Christmas War is coming as planned.
There is only one game on Christmas Day this year, between the Cavaliers and Lakers. Not only is it full of attractions, but the scene of fans from both sides fighting on social media before the game is also rare in history.
The battle before the game between the Bulls and Cavaliers pales in comparison to this.
James and Comey were one of the largest groups in the entire alliance during this period.
Although in terms of numbers, Kemi, who claims to have "6 billion", has the upper hand, all of James and Mi have strong combat capabilities and the battle is fierce.
Especially when the Christmas game was over and the Cavaliers beat the Lakers 102-87, James reached a climax.
However, after Ke Mi said "see you in the finals", a scene that fans were most looking forward to surfaced: 23vs24.
Yes, in this season in history, not many people think that there will be another yellow-green war. With the league's deliberate momentum building, the collision of James and Kobe in the finals is the most anticipated.
Of course, these have nothing to do with Xu Yong and the Bulls. They continue to hit the playoffs.
The Bulls performed better in December than in November. They played a total of 15 games and the final record was 8 wins and 7 losses.
Their ranking has also climbed to seventh place in the Eastern Conference, and their momentum is very good.
However, compared to November, Xu Yong's average data per game in December declined, especially his scoring dropped to around 18 points.
The main reason for this is that Rose's condition started to improve, and Denagro gave more ball rights to Rose.
Another part of the reason is that Xu Yong's performance at the beginning of the season was so dazzling that he even overshadowed Rose. This made it difficult for subsequent opponents to study and target him.
To a certain extent, this can be regarded as a kind of rookie wall.
It's just that other people's rookie wall is caused by the intensity of the schedule. After all, for most rookies, even including the championship, they only play about forty games in total, but here they have to play a year including the preseason. Ninety games, and the schedule is far more intensive than college.
And Xu Yong's words have already entered the evolutionary process of "opponent targeting→self-improvement" in advance.
All Xu Yong can do is to keep training and then improve the proficiency of his existing weapon arsenal, especially changing directions without slowing down.
Although he used this move to surprise him during the Chinese Derby, the time he spent training this move was short after all, and his power began to decline in subsequent games.
At this time, a deal that Xu Yong expected unexpectedly involved the Bulls.
After McGrady completed 6 games for the Rockets, the Pistons took action.
This is a three-party deal, the three parties are the Pistons, Rockets and Bulls.
The Rockets traded Tracy McGrady and Joey Dorsey for Richard Hamilton, Tim Thomas and Lindsay Hunter;
The Pistons sent Richard Hamilton, Will Bynum and Kwame Brown to acquire Tracy McGrady;
The Bulls traded Tim Thomas and Lindsey Hunter for Kwame Brown and Will Bynum.
(End of chapter)
