The next morning after playing against the Heat, Zhang Hao also saw news about Duncan while reading books and studying. This popularity is simply contemporary Oden!

Just as he watched the logo man and the cardinal praise Duncan together, Zhang Hao always felt something was wrong.

The Cardinal seemed to really want to choose Duncan. He remembered that the Cardinal also helped the Celtics develop a method to build a team around Duncan, but the No. 1 pick was not won, but was won by the Spurs, who had won five games higher than 5 games. All plans were in vain.

But the logo man, isn't the target O'Neal?

Signing O'Neal's No. 1 pick in the trade and choosing Duncan? This operation...

But it's not like it!

Moreover, Zhang Hao didn't have this in his memory.

At 10 a.m., I flew with the team to Atlanta, the city where the next away game is located.

At 5:08 pm, Zhang Hao received a prompt.

"In the game between the Hoya Dogs and the Irish Warriors, the signing player Wang Zhizhi played for 21 minutes on behalf of the Hoya Dogs and scored 11 points, 7 rebounds, 1 assist and 1 block, helping the Hoya Dogs win the game.

Congratulations to the host for a total life span of 4 days.

The remaining life span is 429 days, and the available life span is 428 days."

“Beautiful job!”

Zhang Hao immediately became happy. It was not just about getting a 4-day lifespan, but also the opponent defeated by Georgetown University.

Notre Dame University, Zhang Hao has the impression that he was one of the universities he applied for. Last year, he passed the NCAA review and entered the first-tier league and joined the Big East League. At that time, he cast a wide net. This team that is not easy to recruit geniuses was also one of his goals, but it was not until he finished the Adidas Training Camp Classic that he received a response.

Although the past is like a cloud, Zhang Hao was also happy to see Notre Dame being beaten!

...

"Iverson is really strong. Even the joint defense can't stop him from breaking through. He is also very accurate in mid-range shots. I wonder if there is any big brother, you are accurate."

"Our coach started to arrange for me to lose fat. By the way, someone scolded me a while ago, and I couldn't help but fight him. I thought I would be punished, but our coach reported to school and that guy was punished..."

"Iverson told me to go to his apartment in a while. I know he wanted to ask me to have a drink secretly. Am I going?"

"On the 6th, the Knicks came to play the Bullets. Ewing came. He praised my shooting talent and said that I had a chance to enter the NBA..."

Listening to Wang Zhizhi's words, Zhang Hao couldn't help but say, "Before entering the NBA, you should practice English first."

A heart-wrenching knife!

In the evening, he went out for dinner with Kenny Anderson, Vaughan Fleming and others. Zhang Hao received a call from Wang Zhizhi, which seemed to be still at a public telephone booth. Since the call was connected, Wang Zhizhi was talking about things related to his team.

Maybe the communication was not smooth and the media couldn't say anything. Zhang Hao, a senior who came to the American basketball world earlier, became the object of Wang Zhizhi's congratulations.

Wang Zhizhi felt very sad, so he had never studied much. He suddenly started learning English at the age of 18... It's hard for him to learn next door... It's wrong, he lives in the school, and the next door is also a man... It's hard for Lao Wang!

However, over the past few months, his English has improved, and his professional basketball terminology is no problem. Some of the most basic communications such as buying things, asking for directions, etc. can be done, but chatting is still difficult.

The most embarrassing thing is that the seniors of the school team come back to praise him, and there is an interpreter standing next to him.

After a few more chats, Zhang Hao ended the phone call with Wang Zhizhi.

"Why did Dazhi become a little childish when he started studying? It seems that nothing is wrong. He is only 18 years old. When I encounter things, I occasionally have a lot of emotional fluctuations in my memory in this era. Although he was a soldier before, he was still an 18-year-old young man in the end."

After packing up his things, Zhang Hao came to the hotel's indoor basketball court for training.

Atlanta is really a good place with a good living environment. The city is built on the Appalachian Mountains and is one of the gathering places for wealthy people in the world. The number of billionaires ranks among the top five in the United States. The living conditions for tourism are quite good. The hotel where the Nets stay has an indoor basketball court.

After exercising his body, Zhang Hao began to actually train his back toppled jump shot.

It's a very simple training to turn over jump shot with your back to the Nets. When playing against the Heat, this move is not very skilled, and he has already achieved the passing level in the running, but he is not very skilled in the turn over jump shot with a fixed turn over jump shot.

If you are more skilled, you can play at a longer distance when playing Cote Thomas and push it to an area as close to the basket. The main purpose is not to pass the ball, but to choose more close to the basket.

...

On November 11, a very bachelor day, the very bachelor Nets challenged the Hawks away with a 3-win and 1-loss start.

In terms of strength, the Hawks should be similar to the Heat, which is the conclusion of the Nets' scout report.

But it's completely different when fighting.

The Heat play style that is consuming with the opponent, consuming the opponent's touch and disrupting the opponent's rhythm. Such a play style is difficult to deal with when encountering unexpected situations, unless the defense is so strong that there are few accidents.

The Hawks play normally, and their lineup is better.

In the 93-94 season, the Hawks packaged two first-round deals for the Clippers, including Dominic Wilkins, the best man film, to the Clippers, and exchanged them for Danny Manning, who averaged 23 points, 7 rebounds, 4 assists, 1.3 steals and 1.4 blocks. This deal starts from emotion. The Hawks' own fans are scolding this deal, but from the perspective of record, the deal is very successful. In the second half of the season, the Hawks' record soared, tying the best 57 wins in the team's history, and then reached the second round again after five years.

Wilkins was 34 years old at that time, and Danny Manning was not yet 28 years old at the peak. He used Wilkins to exchange for Danny Manning in two first rounds. Whether from the value of the transaction or the performance of the season, after the end of that season, Hawks fans also felt that the transaction was correct.

But unexpectedly, Danny Manning, who was between the ages of 28 and 29, declined sharply last season and aged rapidly. He only averaged 15.5 points and 5.2 rebounds per game in the first four games of this season.

Of course this is pretty good, plus the top-ranked point guard Much Brelock, the top-ranking high-scoring defender Steve Smith, and the powerful front-court rotation of Grant Lang, Andrew Lang, Stacey Ogmon, and the substitute lineup, Ken Norman and Alan Henderson...

The Hawks' configuration is aimed at winning the championship, but I didn't expect that the strongest core player Danny Manning degenerated so quickly and collapsed directly after a year of peak.

But it collapsed and was just unable to compete for the championship, and the playoffs were so stable.

99 to 107, the Nets worked very hard, but in the end they failed to improve their record further. They lost the game and their record turned into 3 wins and 2 losses, which was the same as the Hawks' 2 wins and 2 losses before the game.

In this game, Zhang Hao performed stably, played 31 minutes, made 6 of 13 shots, 4 of 5 free throws, and scored 16 points, 6 rebounds and 2 assists.

...

After playing the Hawks, the Nets returned to Rutherford Town.

After a day off, on November 13, the home game against the Kings was ushered in.

Although the Nets lost to the Hawks, the record turned into 3 wins and 2 losses, it still looks good.

After the game started, under the restraint of Almond Gilliam's impact basket, Zhang Hao and Kenny Anderson had more scoring and cooperation opportunities, and they attacked very hard.

The Kings' defense is not good, but the offense is good. The 1988 draft was a talented year. Mickey Richmond of that year just turned 30 and was in his year of playing. Leonard Simmons, Leonard Simmons, Potato Webber, short powerful center Wayman Tisdale... and other teammates against the Nets.

The Kings are a team that is on the edge of the playoffs by purely offense, so their offensive firepower is naturally good, but the Nets start with a hot start and are full of momentum. The two teams are fighting throughout the whole process.

The players on both sides were trying their best to show their strength, but in the end, Mickey Richmond, a Hall of Fame-level player, performed better.

Richmond scored 35 points, 9 rebounds and 3 assists, Sport Weber scored 8 points and 12 assists, Tisdale scored 20 points and 9 rebounds, Walter Williams scored 19 points and 5 rebounds, surpassing Kenny Anderson who scored 23 points and 11 assists, Almond Gilliam with 25 points and 8 rebounds, Zhang Hao with 21 points, 6 rebounds, 2 assists, 1 block and 2 turnovers, Jason Williams with 6 points and 14 rebounds, and Chiles with 8 points and 7 assists, the Kings finally beat the Nets 117-109.

...

Three people were 20+, but they finally lost the game.

There is a chance, but in terms of key goals, Richmond taught Nets players a good lesson.

From 3 wins and 1 loss, a perfect start for the Nets, to 3 wins and 3 losses, the winning rate is 50%, just three days.

However, looking at the schedule, the Nets, which are considered to be one of the top picks teams, have the first 6 games, except for the Raptors who are the bottom of the fish, the Pistons were not sure at the beginning that they had the strength in the playoffs. The other four teams are all playoff-level teams, which can be clearly seen that they are used to give the strong team a drink.

With such a schedule, there will be a 3-win and 3-loss start, and the Nets coaching staff are quite satisfied.

It's right to just lose two consecutive games, it's right to think about developing the habit of winning, but whether it's the cold Randy Whitman, the changeable Butch Baird, or the new coaches Chris Irving and Alwan Adams who just joined the Nets, they never thought that they could really win many games and be better than last season's record.

Zhang Hao played very well in these two games, and from his personal performance alone, it was very good.

But he felt that his opponents attached more and more importance to him, and his poor defense had already become more and more targeted.

If the outside line can play pick-and-roll, the opponent will most likely use the pick-and-roll to pull him out, and he must not fail to follow him out, otherwise the opponent will rush in after the pick-and-roll in the inside line. If it is a powerful inside line, it will not be able to stop him at all.

But if it expands, it becomes an ATM on the opponent's outside line.

Obviously, his stable offensive performance not only brought him the most attention among rookies, but also targeted his opponents.

In terms of offense, his organizational offense is still under development, and passing training has not stopped. The attempted series offensive effect on the field is not bad, but it is not very good.

As for the scoring aspect that Zhang Hao is best at, he also feels powerless during the game against the Hawks and Kings.

Unless he explodes like the Pistons, his performance is just an ordinary main scorer.

This is already very powerful. As a rookie, he is still a high school rookie, but he is not complacent because of this, but is "unsatisfied".

This is his very special place...

...

...

"Aix, are you here to train so early? God, don't you give yourself some rest?"

After losing to the Kings yesterday, their Nets got two days off. The next game was the Pacers at home on the 16th, and the next game was the Jazz at home on the 18th, and then the away game.

In November, their Nets' schedule was very miserable in terms of their opponent's strength. Judging from the tightness of the schedule, their Nets only had 13 games this month, which was quite relaxing.

The team did not arrange training today, and Kenny Anderson did not practice more.

Losing like this... he will definitely lose. He has been playing for several years. He knew that losing is not a good thing. The way he was holding his head and rushing with his head was not suitable for him. He chose to find his teammates to play with him.

Kenny Anderson ran to the apartment where Zhang Hao lived happily early in the morning, but no one was found. When he came to the stadium, he saw that Zhang Hao was indeed training.

Looking at Kenny Anderson who was dragging his suitcase, Zhang Hao replied: "I sleep very on time. Under normal circumstances, I will definitely go to bed at 11 o'clock... Boss, why are you dragging your suitcase? You want to leave the team?"

"You just left the team!

I'm not saying whether you have a good sleep, but that you shouldn't just think about training all day long during your rest days, and occasionally have some entertainment activities... Forget it, it's really a waste of time to find you..."

Kenny Anderson said, depressedly opening the suitcase, a laptop as thick as two bricks, and a box.

"After dying, there is time to entertain, and I have to work hard when I am alive..."

Zhang Hao was pretending to behave when he heard Kenny Anderson muttering, "I also specially used my relationship to get the internal beta game disk of Warcraft 2. I remember you have a computer..." Zhang Hao immediately shut up and immediately came over.

At this time, Kenny Anderson also heard Zhang Hao's pretentious words just now, but he didn't hear them clearly. He asked, "Aix, what did you say just now? What's the time to entertain when you die? What else can you entertain when you die? Are you dancing on the grave?"

"That's because someone is dancing on the grave... Ah, you heard it wrong!
Chapter completed!