After dinner, Yao Ming and Wang Zhizhi did not wander around and went back to the hotel.

Watching Wang Zhizhi driving away in his second-hand Ford at the door, Yao Ming suddenly thought of something and sent a text message to Bill Duffy.

Please contact the representative of Ford and ask him if he can send a car to my friend from the store in Los Angeles? It doesn't need to be too good, about 40,000 to 50,000 will do.

Bill Duffy quickly returned the message and asked Yao Ming for the other party's name and specific address. Yao Ming then sent Wang Zhizhi's message to him. He did not give the address. He believed that Wang Zhizhi's address could be found on Ford's side.

After sending it, he added another sentence: "By the way, when I leave Los Angeles, I will send it to him again!"

After finishing this work, Yao Ming went straight back to sleep. Francis was not in the room. He seemed to be lost in the night in Los Angeles. He made a call with Ye Li and fell asleep when Francis hadn't returned.

But when he woke up the next morning, the latter had already returned, and was sleeping with his head covered, and it seemed that he hadn't played all night.

This was beyond Yao Ming's expectations.

Speaking of which, in recent days, Francis is indeed not as crazy as before.

Before putting it aside, it is estimated that Yao Ming might not be able to see him at this moment.

Yao Ming didn't call him either, so he went to the restaurant for breakfast first.

"Dikembe, you are so early again!"

As before, when he arrived at the restaurant, Mutombo was already sitting there and eating.

In the end, it is "elderly", really feel less.

Seeing Yao Ming sit down, Mutombo directly handed him the newspaper he was reading: "Yao, you have hurt Pau Gasol."

"what?"

Yao Ming was taken aback by Mutombo's words.

Where does this start!

He glanced at the newspaper that Mutombo handed him, with the headline "This is probably why Pau Gasol is not the top pick, and Yao Ming is the top pick!"

After reading this headline, Yao Ming probably knows it. This reporter 80% compared Pau Gasol with him.

Reading on, his guess was quickly verified. The reporter who wrote this article really compared him with Pau Gasol in all aspects, and then came to the conclusion that "Although Yao Ming and Pau Gasol are The same type of player, but Pau Gasol is much worse than Yao Ming in all aspects, which leads to the conclusion that Yao Ming can renew a team, but Pau Gasol cannot.

As for why they suddenly attacked Pau Gasol, it has to start with the game that the Grizzlies just finished yesterday. Yesterday the Grizzlies lost again. Originally it was nothing. It is not unusual for the Grizzlies to lose this season. It’s a rare thing to win, but the problem is that they didn’t even have their face yesterday. They only scored 63 points in the game against the Pistons. They even scored nearly 35 points. Difference.

As the core of the team, Pau Gasol was completely lost in the defense of the Pistons' inside line yesterday. Not to mention all kinds of outrageous mistakes on both ends of the offense and defense, and even the "three non-stick" shots appeared.

It's no wonder that this kind of performance has been attacked so fiercely.

After reading the newspaper, Yao Ming pushed the newspaper back to Mutombo, feeling quite touched: "No way, this is nb. If the performance is not good, it is destined to have such a report."

Take the famous "Yao Hei" Bill Simmons as an example. In his previous life, he was black and he was black from 2002 to 2009. Isn't it because Yao Ming didn't have any outstanding results in leading the team during this period? ?

Look at now, Yao Ming won the "January Player of the Month Award" strongly, and won the All-Star P in mid-February. During the period, the Rockets' record was stable at third in the West. Bill Simmons hasn't been in for a long time. Did you make any comments about cerebral palsy against him?

In the final analysis, you still need to harden yourself.

In addition, Yao Ming is very clear that Pau Gasol’s character and his style of play are destined to be not a good master, he should be a top second master!

Want him to lead the team to achieve results, especially to prove himself in a hard battle, I am afraid it will be a bit difficult.

However, this conclusion will not be confirmed until two or three years, and he will have to be scolded for a while before being confirmed.

Speaking of, the international insiders during this period, especially the guys at the core level of the team, have not been very happy. Pau Gasol went to the Lakers until later, and the wind evaluation began to improve. In the nb His historical status has risen directly to one of the best second-in-commands in history, and Nowitzki is even more miserable. After wearing the soft hat in 2006, he took off the hat until 11, but, He is also crowned gods because of this.

Of course, the most miserable thing is the original Yao Ming, who finally came to a good lineup, his physical durability has expired, and then hurriedly retired at the age of 30, leaving regrets and failed to prove himself.

Um?

Could it be that this is the reason why God asked me to reopen?

Yao Ming thought so.

Mutombo looked at him with an expression of concentration, shook his hand in front of him, and shouted: "Yao, what do you want? Hurry up, it will be cold if you don't eat it."

Yao Ming was interrupted by him, and he stopped thinking about these things. No matter what the reason, he would be done!

Thibodeau attaches great importance to this game with the Lakers. Generally, the Rockets will not arrange training on the morning of the away game. The training of the day often does not start until 2 pm. Today, Thibodeau asked the Rockets to The team gathered at 10:30 in the morning, re-emphasized the night offensive and defensive tactics, and also conducted simulation training, which shows that they want to complete the season double play against the Lakers.

However, although he attaches great importance to this game, he also arranged a lot of tactics for the Lakers, but in the end the Rockets lost the game, 102 to 108, 6 points difference. The Rockets lost Staples Ball. Pavilion.

The strong play of the Lakers "" combination is the main reason for the Rockets' loss. O'Neal has drove full power from the beginning tonight, and Kevin Cato and Mutombo took turns in two "meat shields", and they failed to restrict him. In the end, "Big Shark" scored the highest 36 points in the last 5 games, and also had 15 rebounds, 3 assists and 3 blocks.

Bryant also scored 31 points.

And when the "" combination scored 67 points, no team in the league could not be defeated, and the Rockets were no exception.

Yao Ming's performance is as bright as ever. He scored a total of 34 points, 15 rebounds, 4 assists and 2 blocks. In terms of personal performance, he does not lose "Shark" O'Neal.

The problem is that the Rockets don't have Kobe tonight.

Francis was originally the Rockets' Kobe, but he was only 6 of 17 shots under Kobe's defense today, which was very limited.

His poor performance was the main reason for the Rockets' failure.

In addition, Thibodeau exposed the shortcomings of his inability to arrange offensive tactics in this game.

The Rockets have never been just a team of Yao Ming and Francis. Mobley averaged 17 points per game, and Battier's average scoring has gradually approached 10 points per game.

But when Francis was restricted by Kobe, Thibodeau’s offensive arrangement still gave the ball to Francis or Yao name, so that the two of them could figure out their own way to solve the problem.

There is no spirituality of Tom on the offensive end at all.

This is also the reason why Yao Ming must keep Tom. His spirituality in offensive tactics is rare among the league's coaches. How rare is it? Let's put it this way, these days there are many coaches who praise Yao's name in the league, and none of these coaches, Li, who publicly praise Yao's name, has a better offensive tactical arrangement than Tom.

Yao Ming doesn't keep him, who will he keep?

In the All-Star vote, O’Neal lost, and he lost the first matchup with Yao Ming. It’s been a long time since "Shark" was in the hands of the same guy twice, and this guy is still in the same position as him. Newcomer.

Fortunately, he finally won tonight!

This gave him a little more smile, and it also made him say "it's not easy" in his heart, and suddenly wanted to cry. What's the matter?

Not much to say, we must have two packs of potato chips to celebrate later!

Hey, brother, have you watched the match between me and Yao tonight? I won and I completed my revenge. No one can stop the belief that "Shark" wants to win. How about you? Tim, when will you beat Yao? If I remember correctly, you have lost to him twice!

The happy O'Neal did not forget to send a message to Tim Duncan. Last time he lost, this guy sent him a message and laughed at him the first time, he did not forget!

"Shark"'s mind is better!

But after sending the message, he still felt a little uncomfortable. He decided to call the latter directly, but unfortunately, the call went over and it was a busy tone. After trying several times in a row, all this situation made me black? "Shark" quickly reacted.

He was immediately unhappy, and for him, there was nothing more depressing him than mocking failure.

In a villa in San Antonio, Tim Duncan looked at his mobile phone with a grinning smile, with a smug expression. He blocked O’Neal’s contact information as soon as the game ended. He dared Sure, this fat man would definitely send him a mocking message.

I just don't know what kind of expression this guy will look like after knowing that I blacked out his contact information.

Ha ha ha ha!

It must be very angry!

Tim Duncan was happier as he thought about it, and his smile became more and more ferocious.

The Rockets lost tonight, but Yao Ming didn't take the defeat too seriously. Winning and losing is not the end of the world. It is normal to lose or lose in the face of the defending champion.

If they win every game, then they won't just be ranked third in the West.

They should have been number one in the West long ago.

So he didn't feel sad.

On the contrary, it was a pity. After all, they didn't lose much tonight. They fought until the last minute. If he could play better, he might have won!

Francis was not as free and easy as he was. When interviewed, his entire expression was calm. However, he is so uncomfortable, and it has a lot to do with him as the main cause of the Rockets' loss tonight.

A person with his character is unwilling to be the one who is dragging the team back.

In the past, when Francis showed such an expression, reporters also knew that when the opportunity came, some of the questions that Francis would be angry when he heard, can be asked at this time.

Of course, Francis also knew that this group of reporters would be very fierce on nights like this, so he was also fully prepared.

What he didn't expect was that the firepower tonight would be so fierce.

"Steve, you were photographed by the reporter again at 3 am in the nightclub. Do you think this is the reason why you did not perform well tonight?"

"Yao played very well tonight, but no one around him stood up. Your performance dragged him down again."

"Do you think that compared to Yao, you are the guy who needs to be taken care of more."

Hearing these words that were harsher than usual, Francis was stunned at first, and then he was about to get angry, but when he was about to roar, a black reporter with a red frame said: "Steve, if today Late is a very important game for Yao and the Rockets as a whole, but because you didn't pay attention to it, you lost the game. Would you regret it?"

The reporter said this almost questioningly.

Francis, who had wanted to yell at him, was stunned again after his words.

He almost suddenly thought of the night in Sacramento, Yao Ming said to him, "Steve, let's win the championship together"!

That night, he knew that this kid wanted to win a championship!

After that day, he intentionally or unintentionally began to control his time in nightclubs. He has been unable to figure out the reason, thinking that he is about to see the red world, but now, in the voice of this reporter, he has just understood. It's not that he is not interested in women anymore, but that he is already scared in his subconscious mind. If he continues to do this, he may become the person who drags the "little brother" back.

Suddenly he didn't feel that these criticisms were harsh, but he accepted them in silence, and finally heard them.

The reporters were talking, but seeing Francis didn't react, they didn't say anything.

That's the end of the interview.

However, Francis's heart was still calm, as if something had been pressing on him.

He went back to the locker room to pack his backpack. The other Rockets players had already packed up and got on the bus. He was left alone in the locker room. After he finished like this, Yao Ming also entered the house and started packing things. Francis is more.

Since he scored 50 points on the Kings’ home court, his popularity has surpassed Francis again. Coupled with the fact that tonight’s matchup between him and O’Neal has generated a lot of topics, journalists have asked him too many questions. few.

He was the last person on the Rockets side to finish the interview.

"What's the matter with you, Steve?" Yao Ming immediately noticed Francis' mood a little low.

Francis shook his head: "I'm fine, buddy."

Is this tone okay?

Yao Ming murmured in his heart, but Francis didn't want to say more, so he didn't continue to ask, what if it was inconvenient to reveal his thoughts?

The two men cleaned up their salutes. Francis cleaned up and finished. Instead of leaving first, he waited for Yao Ming at the door. He stared at Yao Ming for a while, and finally couldn't help but ask: "Man, today I performed so badly late and the team lost. Do you blame me?"

"Huh?" Yao Ming looked "You didn't take the wrong medicine" expression, turned his head and glanced at Francis. He wanted to reach out and touch this guy's forehead to see if he had a fever. Otherwise, how could this guy behave? What about such nonsense?

"Man, this is just a regular season. If you lose, you lose. We have already won the Lakers. Do I have to blame you?"

Does this guy treat me like Kobe's paranoia?

"Then what if tonight is a very important game? Just like the tiebreak of the finals!" Francis asked again.

"That won't be true." Yao Ming hardly hesitated. "You didn't lose on purpose. We are brothers. We should fight together if we lose or win. I blame you for what you did!"

When Yao Ming finished saying this, Francis had to say that he hadn't touched his heart. It must be fake. His eyes changed when he saw Yao Ming.

It’s a pity that Yao Ming didn’t notice this. He was still checking whether something had fallen. After checking, he walked towards the door. He didn’t see Francis the whole time, but he saw that Francis didn’t speak. He asked again: "What's wrong with you tonight? Why are there so many strange questions?"

"Nothing." Francis scratched his cheek. Of course he couldn't say that he had listened to the reporter's words, and he was a little uncertain, so I came to ask you, it was too embarrassing.

He is the big brother!

Yao Ming still didn’t ask. The two of them walked over to the bus one after another. The rest of the Rockets were already waiting for them in the car. Mobley saw them and opened the window to urge them. : "Hey, two stars, hurry up, we are still waiting to get on the plane to play cards!"

Mutombo also put his hand out the window, and made a sign of "two": "You two have delayed my loss of 2,000 dollars!"

"Come on, Dikembe, with your card playing skills, I'm saving you!" Yao Ming replied from a distance.

This made everyone in the car laugh, including Mutombo himself. He must also admit that his card skills are bad among the Rockets.

When everyone laughed, Francis suddenly turned his head and glanced at Yao Ming, and said to him: "Yao!"

"Um?"

"Let's create a big scene!"

Leaving from Los Angeles, the Rockets returned to Houston, and then they will face the Philadelphia 76ers challenge at home.

Thanks, Dayao, I received the car, I don’t know what to say, thank you.

As soon as Yao got off the plane and turned on his phone, he received a rough text message.

He replied a message to the latter: It’s okay, Brother Wang, this car was originally given to me by a person in charge of Ford, and I don’t have a place to put it here. Don't worry about this.

Roughly no more information was returned, but Yao Ming knew that he must have this love in his heart.

Hey

Yao Ming sighed. He sent a Ford car. His intention was to let him have a better transportation. In the United States, a car is really an important means of transportation. He didn't want to accept his love because of this car.

But when you think about it, if you want to change this matter to Yao Ming himself, you will probably feel sorry for it. It is normal to keep this feeling in your heart silently.

With the coming of March.

It's time for the major rankings in February to come to an end.

Yao Ming doesn't have such high expectations for the February list.

It's not that he doesn't want the honors of the "Player of the Month" award. For any player, even the "God of Basketball", the more these honors are, the better.

It’s just that he knows very well that his performance in February has declined compared to January, averaging only 24 points, 14 rebounds, 5 assists and 22 blocks per game. Except for the assist data, other data can be said to be a full decline compared to January. It's not because he took the All-Star P on the All-Star weekend and scored 50 points in a single game at the end of February. I'm afraid that now there are experts who jumped out to say that he encountered a "rookie wall".

Well, no matter how your performance is, as long as it is worse than before, it is restricted!

This is the urine of American experts

And the Rockets lost quite a lot in February. In 15 games, they lost 6 of them, which is the most lost month of this season.

For these two reasons, Yao Ming had no expectations for the February awards.

Unexpectedly, when he was finally announced, he still had a sense of presence.

First of all, "Rookie of the Month Award" needless to say, but this award is not for Yao Ming. The entire 02 session is rubbish, and there is no rookie that can be compared with him.

For this reason, when Cuba knew that he had won the "Eastern Rookie Award", he had a look of "What's the use of this". He knew that when he was really waiting for the "Player of the Season Award", the judges There will be no hesitation, and all votes will be given to Yao Ming.

He won the "Rookie of the Month Award", which means he didn't get this award.

This is really a very empty thing!

In addition, Yao Ming also entered the "February Player of the Month" candidate list, but unfortunately the final "February Western Player of the Month" is Dirk Nowitzki.

The Dallas Mavericks lost only two games in February. Nowitzki averaged 265 points, 85 rebounds, and 35 assists per game, with a field goal percentage of more than 50. It can be said that the performance is extremely strong and there is no problem in winning this award.

Finally, in the regular season p list, Yao Ming is still on the list, and the ranking has advanced one place, putting O'Neal behind.

O'Neal was unhappy because of this.

Obviously I just defeated him, how come I was pressed under him again in a blink of an eye!

Once again, Yao Ming was named by spn. This time they didn’t boast much. They just listed a piece of data: “In November 14 games, they averaged 195 points, 978 rebounds, 29 assists, 15 blocks, and December 16. Averaged 227 points, 114 rebounds, 39 assists and 21 blocks per game. In January, 16 games averaged 335 points, 13 rebounds, 45 assists and 2 blocks. February 15 games averaged 24 points, 14 rebounds, 5 assists and 22 blocks. As of the end of February, a total of 61 In a game, he averaged 246 points, 119 rebounds, 41 assists and 2 blocks per game. Guess which player it is. Some people would definitely want to say that this must be the data of the nb superstar. Some people may think that this is a legend. The data of the most brilliant season, but the final result may be beyond the expectations of most people, because this data is the number of Chinese champion Yao Ming who has just entered the league. The data for the four months of the rookie season so far is absolutely huge. Some people should realize, what a terrifying newcomer this is!"

This article was sent out as a headline by spn.

Sure enough, Yao Ming was once again violently praised by a group of "old predecessors".

Just as spn wants to express, most people know that this new Chinese talent has a very strong momentum, but if they hadn't read this data, they would have never imagined that this guy is so strong!

Morisco that night.

Maurice Taylor held the two girls in his arms, took a bite on the left and touched on the right, asking "baby, haven't seen me for so long, do you miss me", Francis suddenly left when he was having fun. Came over and said to him: "Man, you play slowly, I will withdraw first!"

"Ah, so early?" Taylor glanced at the time. "It's only 1 o'clock!"

"It's almost done, let's play slowly. If you don't have enough, just remember my name!" Francis didn't say much, he greeted him and left.

"What's wrong with this tonight?" Maurice Taylor looked at the appearance of Francis leaving, suddenly felt a little strange to this guy.

He and Francis have known each other for a long time, and they know him very well. One sentence can describe it as a nightclub cafe through and through.

He is a man who can't wait to stay in a nightclub 24 hours a day.

He was so early tonight, and he left on his own initiative.

This is really not what the Francis in Morris Taylor's impression would do.

But ~lightnovelpub.net~ he didn’t feel disappointed either. Originally, the club was playing differently. Francis can’t leave and it doesn’t affect him to continue to play. Moreover, this guy said, he won’t be able to call again, so he will be charged. !

Morris Taylor forgot about Francis's departure in the next second, he was about to save the two souls he was holding!

"Well, Steve?"

10 o'clock in the morning the next day.

The Rockets' locker room.

Yao Ming got dressed and was about to walk towards the training hall. At this time, someone who came in surprised him. It was not that he didn't know this guy, but that this guy shouldn't be in the arena at this point in time.

This person is not someone else, it is Francis who usually buzzer to the arena back to training.

Sometimes I will be more than ten minutes late.

In Yao Ming's impression, he really didn't meet him when he was changing clothes in the locker room.

Moreover, this guy's spirit looks good, he used to yawn while scoring in the stadium.

Yao Ming asked: "Are you not feeling well?" He really didn't believe it. Francis is normal now!

"Go to hell!" Francis replied, but Yao Ming's reaction made him somewhat embarrassed and scratched the tip of his nose. "I only showed up in the arena when I was supposed to be in the arena. What's so good about that? surprised!"

"Huh huh!" Yao Ming curled his lips. Anyway, you are already here, and everything you say is right! "

Francis spoke louder because of his guilty conscience: "Hey, man, trust me, it's really not a big deal, it will become more and more common in the future!"

"Really?" Yao Ming looked suspicious.

Francis is not to be outdone: "Look, Yao, you will soon find that Steve Francis is a man who treats the training arena as his family!"