On January 7, 2004, the Pistons defeated the visiting New Orleans Hornets at home, and their record improved to 30 wins and 5 losses, becoming the first team to win 30 wins this season.

This start record has only been better in the Supersonics last season since the new century.

But the Supersonics' record stability last season was far worse than that of the Pistons. Last season, the Supersonics laid the foundation for the league's first place simply by breaking the game.

The Pistons steadily pushed the game away, rushing to 30 wins and 5 losses, and there was a huge 10-game winning streak during this period.

Nash also won the Western Conference Best Player of the Month Award for two months, and won the Best Player of the Week three times in two months. Last time, he was able to win the Best Player of the Month and Three Times in two consecutive months, and his name was Zhang Hao.

The Pistons have achieved such a record, and their style of play is beautiful, and the fast-moving whirlwind swept the world.

Nash's personal aspects.

The rare white popular point guard with a beautiful style of playing style, the style of the game is elegant.

His appearance is impressive among NBA players.

Image, complex and multi-faceted, to put it simply, you are not a good person.

The group of people in the Portland prison were ripe and leading the evildoers.

When I came to Detroit, a white player became the hero of the entire city in this black city...

Let’s look at the Heavenly Lord, Little Overlord, Long-necked Dragon, Little Prince, Oku...

After playing for a while this season, the NBA officials decisively promoted Nash, which was much stronger than when he first praised Zhang Hao. This season, only the Lakers' James is praised by Nash.

The NBA official predicts that Nash will become a new phenomenal popular superstar and become the king of popularity in the new year.

If you change someone, even if you lead the team to play like Nash, you won’t be so sensational, such as Kidd in the past two years.

But Nash is so special.

The former bandit leader, the current bad boy kingdom tyrant... As he approaches his thirties, his appearance is becoming more and more mature. Looking at it, he looks like the godfather-like temperament that is followed by countless people with waves...

Also, the Pistons have two keywords.

Rise.

revival.

The two are similar, but no matter which one, they always make people pay more attention to it.

However, none of these matters.

But during the beginning of 2004, all of this was the background!

After entering 2004, the news and headlines about basketball belong to Zhang Hao!

The Supersonics' record once fell to 20 wins and 12 losses. Seeing that they continued to lose, their winning rate was about to fall below 50%. Zhang Hao directly started C, with at least 50+ in 3 games and 40+ triple-double in another game... He led the team to a three-game winning streak, improving the record to 23 wins and 12 losses, and his record returned to the winning rate of winning 3 games that can win 2 games.

Entering the middle of the season, as the superstar, Zhang Hao once again attracted all the spotlights to him!

The key is to play against the Clippers away on January 7th... The Clippers have already given tickets, so they can give them as long as they want. The Lakers players went to ask for tickets, and they also gave them all, and all the requirements were met... However, after giving the tickets and giving many tickets, Zhang Hao still did not give him a way out.

20 of 41 shots, including 5 of 12 three-pointers, plus 16 of 18 free throws, Zhang Hao scored 61 points on the night when he turned 27!

After Christmas, the Kings started, and on the birthday night of the Clippers, after 7 games, Zhang Hao increased his triple-double to 11 times, 40+ times to 10 times, 50+ times to 4 times, and also played the first and only one game of 60+ this season!

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"Brother, aren't we going to be low-key and develop in a vulgar way? This wave is too fierce!"

"Our team needs to develop lewdly, I don't need it."

"No? Then why are you so low-key before?"

"Am I low-key?"

"Compared with previous years, it's very low-key. Before Christmas, I only had triple-doubles, 3 triple-doubles, and 40 points, and 1 triple-double."

"..." Why did Zhang Hao feel that he had ruined the little loli's basketball court? But he felt it was pretty good, and he replied: "I didn't keep a low profile, but it was not easy to get high scores at that time."

"Why? Shouldn't NO-handheak make it easier for brother to score?"

"Scoring is easier, but there are more double-teams. The opponent will formulate a more stringent defensive plan. The opponent's players will have stronger desire to hit and make up defense, because my one-on-one single is more accurate than many players' open shots. As long as they feel that the target I passes is not as accurate as my open shots, or if they have the ability to quickly change defense and make up defense, they will choose to hit me."

"Oh oh oh, so that's it... I discussed with my classmates that Bryant's score declined, and he also said that Bryant had to hold more balls this year because the overall efficiency of pure pitchers' playing style is lower than that of a certain degree of ball-holding."

"Yes, although Rivers is not the top coach, it is not bad either. It's easy for him to see this,"

After playing back to back of Los Angeles, the Supersonics returned to Seattle and rested for a night. The schedule continued, but finally there were three easy games in a row. The opponents were the Hawks, Magic, Trail Blazers, and three consecutive hosts.

After a night off, on January 9, the Supersonics' home game day for the Hawks is here.

During breakfast time, Zhang Hao's family was talking about Zhang Hao's recent riot.

As we chatted, the little loli was a little depressed: "Brother the day before yesterday, your birthday was actually playing against the Clippers rather than the Lakers. It would be even more enjoyable to get 61 points against the Lakers!"

"That was arranged by the league specifically."

"Why?"

"China time is 12 hours earlier."

"Oh... eh? Then we play the Lakers for two consecutive games, why not just be arranged on No. 6 and No. 7? There are also back-to-back anyway."

Zhang Hao hadn't figured out how to explain it yet. A qualified assistant, said: "If you play back to back against the Lakers, the excitement may be affected. This warm-up game of No. 4 will also make us familiar with each other's new playing style. Look at No. 6, we played very fiercely? If we play back to back, the league definitely didn't expect Baylor to turn the Clippers into a playoff-level team, Los Angeles, Clippers, birthday night, these three words, plus it's my birthday, must have a high topic."

Zhang Hao took over the conversation: "Yes, even if the No. 6 and No. 7 play back to back against the Lakers, both games are very exciting and the popularity will not be higher than now. And without the question you are confused about now, there will be fewer topics. Also, the league may want me to get better data on birthday nights. When I play on birthday nights, we play the Clippers. I may get more effort and get higher scores because O'Neal played them with 60 points."

The little loli had a very entangled expression and said, "Why do I think the Clippers seem pitiful?"

"What should I do? There must be a team that will let me score 61 points!"

"That's right, let them feel sorry for it first. Anyway, they have been scored more than 60 points by O'Neal..."

...

After breakfast, Zhang Hao came to the stadium and looked at the team's injury chart recently...

‘It’s true that it’s different from before. The second scoring point before was Boss Qiao, who could still be fully attending when he was 40 years old. Now it has become Artest.

The former big shot who defended in series was Big Ben, but now it has become Kirirenko.

The former substitute main scorers were Curry, Hornersek, Smith, Schramf... all Iron Man-level, now Ginobili and Arroyo...'

Zhang Hao really didn't expect that this year, except for Kassel, a teammate who has always been extremely reliable, among other teammates, the most reliable one is Odom, who looks the most unreliable.

In addition to Kassel's attendance this year, only Odom's attendance was the only one in Zhang Hao's teammate, that is, the only one in the Supersonics team was attending!

Ginobili is really easy to get injured when he is the main force. Moreover, his athletic ability is at its peak and he is particularly irritable, but he is not very stubborn, so he makes Zhang Hao, a coach, very much.

Marquez Daniels had an injury history in college. There were originally expectations for the second round in the draft, which was very good. The expectations for the second round were at least the top 58 of the people participating in the draft, but the injury history in college made his draft market plummet.

‘The Demon Sword and Daniels can’t fight tonight. Fortunately, Arroyo can fight, so Zuo Mo and I will play a few more positions…’

Zhang Hao came to the window and looked at Odom, who had already arrived at the stadium for training at around 8 o'clock downstairs.

Odom came to the stadium for training so early because Zhang Hao told Odom in yesterday's training that by the middle of the season, the mid-range and long-distance pitching feel of most ordinary players on the team may be affected. If you catch the rebound and start the defense, Odom needs to pay attention.

Zhang Hao gave the medal of "quarterback" to Hu Weidong, which actually had no effect on his strength, but his ability to guide the whole team to launch a counterattack has declined a little, so there is no need for him to catch the rebound and push the counterattack by himself.

Moreover, if he doesn't have to be a rebounder, his counterattack efficiency will definitely improve.

But after Ben Wallace left, the Supersonics did not do that well.

That was Ben Wallace, the strongest rebounding expert in the league. There was a No. 24 who didn't want to be named and could average 15 rebounds per game.

Chandler has a high defensive ceiling, but he is very experienced.

Chris Anderson, a great teammate, Zhang Hao also thinks he is a great teammate, but Zhang Hao is more aware that he cannot ask such a teammate to do more.

Reggie Evans has good rebounds, but the defense is much worse than Jason Williams, who can make the All-Star at his peak. Jason Williams is at least not dragging his back on defense, and has a very powerful wing pick-and-roll ability. Reggie Evans looks good only in terms of data.

In addition to grabbing the rebound, you also have the awareness and ability to get the ball out of the ball as soon as possible after grabbing the rebound, or give the ball to the outside teammates who can get the ball out of the ball as soon as possible.

The teammate Zhang Hao can expect is Odom.

But in fact, he just said casually that if he really can't find someone to catch the rebound and instigate a counterattack, he will still do it himself.

But after yesterday's training, Zhang Hao casually mentioned Odom. This morning, Odom came to the stadium in advance to catch the rebound and then take the ball after the ball was released.

‘The Left Demon training is also harder than I think… It can make so many people feel sorry for it. It must not only rely on talent, but also. Originally, after being traded to the Mavericks, he suddenly became a fat man with more than 130 kilograms, and directly slipped from the best sixth man to not being able to play the ball. Although he is not self-disciplined, he must have always worked hard...’

Odom downstairs felt the gaze from the second floor. When he looked up, he saw that it was Zhang Hao. Odom tilted his head and smiled at Zhang Hao.

Zhang Hao immediately remembered Odom who was smiling foolishly as he watched Carter fly and slammed next to him...

But he still smiled and waved his hand, returned to his desk, and continued to look at the list of appearances tonight.

‘Stevenson has to be on tonight…’

...

"Deshaun Stevenson, 22 years old, 196 cm, 99 kg, ability evaluation 76, offense 74, defense 79... in 2003-2004 season, averaged 11.4 points, 3.4 rebounds and 1.6 assists per game... shooting percentage is 43.2%, three-point shooting percentage is 31.3%..."

‘No wonder the Jazz were so squeamish that Jamison was not willing to give Stevenson and the first round at the same time. This looks like a very potential striker. It looks more promising than Laga Bale, who is already twenty-six or seven years old, even though he has the strength to touch the defense lineup. At least it seems like this.’

In fact, more than ten days ago, after receiving the response from the Jazz that the Jazz wanted Jamison very much, Zhang Hao asked Larry Harris to turn the requested player from Lagar Bale to Deshen Stevenson. He thought that this choice reduced the value of the player he asked for, and that it was a reasonable requirement to help the Jazz upgrade Brad Miller to Jamison.

But he ignored the issue of ‘potential’.
To be continued...