Chapter 64: Five Consecutive Defeats and a Hot Rookie

Wade was injured and suffered a little discomfort in his knee after the Pistons, and the team doctor recommended a two-day break, and he also followed the team doctor's advice and chose to take a break before the Heat will go to the West to challenge. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

At the same time, Grant made a comeback, and the first thing he did after returning to the team was to suggest to head coach Van Gundy that he trade Yang Di, an unstable factor, from the long-term perspective of the basketball game, Yang Di does not attack players who do not understand low-post skills, and there is really no potential.

Van Gundy smiled dryly, saying that he understood and agreed with Grant's words, but he was actually helpless in his heart, and Pat Riley was bent on thinking that Yang Di still had untapped potential.

"It's okay if you don't trade, when I play in the future, don't let him play, I won't play with him anyway." Brian Grant was really angry, and he didn't want to see Yang Di for a second. But he can't say such cruel words as "with him without me, with me without him", after all, he still likes the warm sunshine and comfortable sea breeze of Miami.

"There's no problem with this, I've already lined up my tactics." Van Gundy smiled and nodded, feeling a little dissatisfied, Grant is really making a fuss, and Yang Di is just a rookie no matter how violent he is.

So, in Monday's away game against the Mavericks, Grant started and replaced Haslem.

Yang Di's original playing time of about 20 minutes was immediately compressed, and in this game, he only got the opportunity to play at the end of the third quarter of the second half. As soon as he got on the court, he grabbed a frontcourt rebound on the head of Mavericks backup forward Jamison like a tiger, and hung a defender to complete a two-arm rim.

This dunk boosted the morale of the Heat bench players on the court, and everyone played vigorously, Yang Di was like a little shark in front of the Mavericks bench inside, and the German bamboo pole Sean Bradley, who is 2.29 meters tall, was so hard of his way that he grabbed 4 frontcourt rebounds in just 3 minutes to help the Heat tie the score with 73 points before the end of the third quarter.

Off the court, Grant looked like a pin, Van Gundy saw that Yang Di was fierce and let him play another 5 minutes in the fourth quarter, the Heat did not feel good at this time, the New Zealander who was temporarily recharged, and Kirk Penney, who played in the summer league with Yang Di, performed badly, and missed consecutive shots under the tough physical confrontation.

Then Yang Di was substituted off the field and staggered with Grant without high-fives.

The Heat still lost the game, losing by 10 points in the final quarter, the Mavericks Nash, Anthony Walker, who was newly traded this season, and the star Dirk Nowitzki all felt stable, and all 5 starters had double-doubles, plus Jamison, who scored 10 points on the bench, and 6 people in the game made double-doubles, taking the Heat away in a wave.

Then the Heat challenged San Antonio's Spurs back-to-back, Duncan did not play in this game, but the Spurs were clearly layered, and the tight defense still made the Heat fold, Yang Di played 15 minutes without scoring, but had a career-high 9 rebounds, 4 of which were frontcourt rebounds.

He returned to his home court without stopping, and two days later faced the Timberwolves, who were on a trip to the East and were back-to-back.

The Timberwolves are also amazing defensively, in this era, almost all coaches believe that defense wins championships, Garnett, Cassel, Spreville composed of a trident of offense and defense, and soon suppressed the Heat on the Heat's home court, and the returning Wade performed eye-catchingly, constantly hitting mid-range jumpers for the Heat.

In the end, they lost the game 79-88.

After this game, the Heat have lost five in a row, with a 1-5 record and a joint first place in the East, along with the Chicago Bulls, Orlando Magic and Toronto Raptors with only one win.

This is very embarrassing, the Miami Herald also predicted that the heat team that has been transformed and upgraded this season can at least enter the playoffs, but it is slapped in the face, according to this trend, it is considered to be a high incense to be able to enter the top ten in the East, and what kind of playoffs will it enter, it will be rotten.

All the media began to condemn the Miami Heat's poor record.

There were even voices shouting for Stan Van Gundy to step down, but then again, last season was only the third from bottom in the East, so it shouldn't be a big deal to start a little backwards by two places this season, right?

Yang Di didn't understand, anyway, the rookie list in the first issue was released, and he was actually among them, ranking seventh!

Yang Di played an average of 16.7 minutes per game, scoring 2.4 points, 6.6 rebounds and 0.7 blocks, of which the number of rebounds ranked first among all rookies!

After the first issue of the rookie list was released, Yang Di instantly became an extremely hot rookie!

Ahead of him are LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony, T.J. Ford, Kirksynridge, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh, and the rest of the players, there are high-pick picks like Darko Milicic who haven't touched the ball, and a bunch of low-pick players who are still struggling with the team's fringe positions.

It is worth mentioning that before Grant did not come back, the team's long-appointed starting draft Haslem also entered the rookie list, the eighth place after Yang Di is Chris Carman, and the ninth place is Haslem, who can contribute 7.1 points and 5.7 rebounds in 23 minutes per game.

Three of the top 10 rookies are from the Heat, and some NBA basketball commentators exclaimed the Heat's outstanding draft prowess.

"Jandy's off-court factors aside, he's a rookie with a lot of potential, you know, he's only 19 years old, and he's the youngest player in this rookie class other than Darko Milicic and LeBron James."

This kind of argument has affected the domestic media, and the domestic media has gradually changed the direction of the wind, and some media seeking innovation and change have begun to report Yang Di's news, especially Cai Nan, a reporter from China Sports Daily, who has reported Yang Di in depth, has continued to report on Yang Di, and has formed the first batch of fans who support Yang Di and Cai Nan, and many people have learned about Yang Di's latest information through Cai Nan's pen.

Yang Di is getting hotter and hotter, on November 11, the Heat, who have lost five in a row, will challenge the Houston Rockets away, and the imperial court station broadcasts the game as usual, but it is surprising to find that the ratings are unprecedentedly high on the same day, and a large number of fans pay special attention to this "Chinese derby".

……

Houston, Yang Dee and the Heat's team just got off the plane.

His phone rang suddenly,

"Hey, is it Yang Di?" The thick Chinese pronunciation of the words came out of this foreign phone, and Yang Di was stunned all of a sudden.

"Yes, you are?" Yang Di actually reacted immediately in his heart, but he still subconsciously asked tentatively.

"I'm Yao Ming."

"it."

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Toyota Center Houston is a stadium to replace the original Compaq Center, which can accommodate more than 18,000 spectators to watch basketball games.

As a multi-purpose arena, it can also host ice hockey games, concerts, theatrical performances, and more.

In the basketball training hall of the Toyota Center Arena, Yang Di met for the first time the long-famous predecessor of the same country, the incomparable Yao Ming, the first Chinese NBA champion in history.

Fangzheng always had a modest smile on his face, and after meeting Yang Di, the smile became more sincere, a kind of recognition and closeness from the heart.

"Dude, that's amazing." Yao Ming shook hands with Yang Di, half-bent over and hugged Yang Di, and gently bumped his shoulder.

In the training hall, there were a bunch of Chinese media who had been waiting for a long time, and they clicked and took pictures of the two of them, freeze them into regular photos.

"You're amazing, tsk, hang the sky." Yang Di laughed, it was still better to speak in Chinese.

Although the two met for the first time, they both knew each other's existence in the report, they had been friends for a long time, and after they met, they were both young people, and they soon found a common topic and became acquainted.

"I'll invite you to dinner when I turn around." Yang Di said.

"No, no, no, I invite you."

"It's okay to eat, and it's not like you're being told to put water on the field."

"Then I'll ask you to go online, have you ever been to an Internet café in Houston here, there are a lot of cool modes that are very worth experiencing."

Yang Di: "Yes, what are you playing?" ”

"Monsters, Orcs."

"I like the undead race, the beast race seems to be more powerful in the early stage, and the air force seems to be not good in the later stage, I don't like the beast race."

"Who said that the bloodthirsty technique plus the flying dragon is very powerful, okay?"