Chapter 379: Interesting cousin

Anderson's talkative skills soon made the locker room as it should have been, and the players talked to each other, and soon forgot about the trade. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

This is also the reality of the NBA, most players are not easy to survive on a team, and they have long been down-to-face about trading, and now they have a good teammate to talk to, and they are naturally welcome.

Rondo sat alone in front of the closet, no one went up to communicate with him, and he didn't take the initiative to talk to the others, looking a little out of place.

Tang Hao got up and walked over.

"Hey, Rajan, how does it feel to be with the Lakers?"

Seeing that it was Tang Hao who came over, Rondo's tense face showed a smile: "It's okay." ”

"The climate in Boston is a lot different from here, and it took me a lot of time to get used to it when I first arrived." Tang Hao picked the lock and chatted.

"Yes, I've lived in Boston for so many years, and now I'm in a coastal city, and it's a bit uncomfortable." Rondo sighed.

Tang Hao picked several topics, and after chatting, Rondo's mentality was obviously relaxed.

"Actually, my days in Boston were not as good as I imagined, and many people, including many loyal fans of the Green Shirts, thought that I was brushing up on assists and not bringing victory to the team, especially after Kevin (Garnett) and Paul (Pierce) were traded." After talking, Rondo also said what had been held in his heart for a long time.

"Then some people say that I am a scoring brush, you brush assists, I brush score, our group, it's actually quite good." Tang Hao teased.

Rondo was originally sighing, but when he heard Tang Hao say this, he couldn't help laughing.

"Guys, it's time to train." The players chatted in the locker room for a while when assistant coach Jesse came in and shouted to the players.

Kobe got up first, the other team members followed, Tang Hao and Rondo glanced at each other, and also got up and walked out of the locker room.

In the training session, Scott directly arranged Rondo in the starting team, Rondo/Tang Hao/Nick Young/Ryan Anderson/Jordan Hill, on paper alone, the Lakers' starting competitiveness has improved a lot compared to before.

This arrangement is reasonable, but it makes Clarkson a little unhappy, Jeremy Lin should have traded out, it should have corrected him, or at least, it should have allowed Rondo, a newcomer, to play as a substitute for a while, but the reality of the situation made him a little unacceptable.

At the beginning of the full-court confrontation training, Clarkson pestered Rondo and was 100% strong.

Rondo was not annoyed by Clarkson's approach, on the contrary, his eyes were full of excitement, and it felt that he was born a warrior.

In the starting team's attack, Rondo was haunted by Clarkson with the ball, but he grabbed the ball and kept watching his teammates' movements.

Tang Hao came out at this time, and as soon as he ran to the tactical position, Rondo's pass came over.

Rondo has just arrived at the team and is certainly unfamiliar with the team's tactical system, and this pass is completely instinctive as a traditional point guard.

Tang Hao received the ball very comfortably, and turned around with a dry pull-out hand.

A mid-range shot hit steadily.

When Scott saw this scene, there was a hint of surprise and excitement in his eyes.

Tang Hao is very good at passing, but what the team needs more is obviously his scoring, so it is very necessary to add a Rondo who is good at passing.

Now Rondo looks like the perfect cut, and this pair is very exciting.

Back on the defensive end, Clarkson was strong and didn't take much advantage, and he forced a shot and got a big hat from Hill.

Rondo spent most of his time with the Celtics, and his defensive prowess is definitely above the league average.

After half an hour of full-court confrontation training, Rondo gave Tang Hao at least 8 assists, and Tang Hao could obviously feel that he was quite comfortable after receiving the ball.

In the past, he used to pass the ball comfortably to others, but now it is his turn to receive the ball comfortably, and that feeling is quite refreshing.

After a short day of practice, the Lakers were on a plane to the Sacratos.

Their next opponent is the Kings.

This is arguably the easiest opponent the Lakers have faced in recent times.

At the heart of the Kings is DeMarcus Cousin, nicknamed "cousin" by fans, who is not like a professional player, but his dominance on the interior is the strongest since Howard, which is why the team has never traded him despite the poor European record in successive seasons.

It's just that this season, things have changed a bit.

The team fully listened to Cousins in the selection of the head coach, and chose his favorite Mike Malone, if the team still can't improve, then Cousins's team attributes are expected to shift from non-sale to saleable.

And more importantly, because of the team's poor record, stadium attendance has begun to decline, and even Cousins can't guarantee that the team will have enough ticket revenue.

The game came as scheduled, and the attendance rate of the stadium reached a new season high of 80%, but it was not because of the home team, but because of the arrival of Tang Hao.

After scoring 101 points and 50+30 data in a row as a rookie, Tang Hao has become a hot player in the league.

"Tang, what kind of data are you going to get today?" The game was about to start, and the on-site reporters quickly found Tang Hao to start the interview.

"I can't control my data, man." Tang Hao said with a smile that Rondo's joining made him feel very good.

"We all know that Rondo just joined the Lakers, and some people say he's a data brush, a cancer for the team, what do you think of that?"

"Wait a minute, I have a new answer to that question you just asked." Tang Hao suddenly spoke.

The reporter looked at Tang Hao suspiciously.

"I'm going to score at least 30 points."

"30 points? It's not too hard for you to score, you seem to be a little ...... Low profile? But I'm curious, why 30 points? ”

"Because those 30 points are the points from Rajan [Rondo's] assists."

The reporter was stunned for a moment, and then immediately understood the voice of Tang Hao's words.

Tang Hao, this is changing direction, it's quite long!

Didn't you say Rondo is a brush? Then I'll let him brush more!

After the interview, Tang Hao and his teammates began the final warm-up before the game.

At this time, the time until the game is getting shorter and shorter.

The practice was almost over, Tang Hao was about to go to the field to sit down for a while, and at this moment, a huge figure circled towards the middle of the arena, talking as he walked: "Tang! ”

Tang Hao heard the shout, turned his head and saw that the person who shouted him turned out to be Cousins, a trace of doubt flashed in his eyes, but he still walked towards the middle circle.

"Don, this is my home turf, I advise you to keep a low profile, otherwise you will be humiliated very badly, I promise."

Tang Hao was stunned for a moment, and looked at Cousins with some confusion, he didn't seem to have spoken to him before?

"Remember my words." Cousins didn't explain, and after saying a cruel word, he turned around and left.

Tang Hao was stunned in place, and only said a word after a while.

"Inexplicable......"

After the final warm-up before the game, the starters from both sides took to the pitch one after another.

On the Lakers' side, Scott directly put Rondo and Anderson into the starting lineup, and the lineup was exactly the same as in the previous training session.

Such a deployment of troops quickly attracted a burst of ridicule from the on-site commentators.

"Byron is a bit of a Spartan warrior, but many of his team members are all Spartan children~"

The narrator's words immediately drew a burst of laughter from the commentators.

On the Kings' side, the starting five Tigers were also the same as in the previous game.

Darren Collison and Ray McCollum on the line, Rudy Gay on small forward, and Cousins and Jason Thompson on the inside.

It was Cousins and Hill who jumped the ball, and Cousins used his weight advantage to squeeze Hill and jump first after the referee threw the ball into the air, bringing the ball back to the Kings' half.

Collison grabbed the ball and advanced to the front of the court against Rondo's defence.

When it came to the frontcourt, Cousins went to the inside position, and Collison flicked the ball in.

Cousins hit Anderson with his back, and he got to the inside in three or two hits, Hill came to help defend a little slower, and Cousins turned and hit a hook basket.

The fans cheered for Cousins, and most of them insisted on coming to the game, mainly because of the inside monster Cousins.

"Look at Ryan, are you sure he's an interior player? And not a stake? The home commentator made no secret of his ridicule.

After Cousins scored, he turned around and glared at Tang Hao fiercely.

Tang Hao was a little speechless, this Cousins was really full of hatred with him for some reason.

Tang Hao didn't understand it too much, but being treated so hostilely, he didn't make a response, and he couldn't say anything.

The Lakers' offense, Rondo reached out and made tactical gestures from the outside.

He made the gesture of 1, he didn't master much team tactics not long after he arrived in the league, and the No. 1 tactic was originally Kobe's specific tactic, but at this time it was just from Kobe to Tang Hao.

The quality of Anderson's blocking and dismantling for Tang Hao was not high, and when Tang Hao came out, McCollum followed him.

But he hasn't arrived yet, Rondo has already played the ball.

As soon as Tang Hao fell into place, the ball was in his hands.

He picked up the ball and turned, and McCollum was more than a metre away from him.

Tang Hao made a feint to break to the right.

The benefits of the quality of the pass were reflected, and McCollum was still more than a meter away from Tang Hao, so he could only choose to pounce.

Tang Hao moved quickly, flicked the ball to the left with his right hand, made a beautiful pass from behind, and directly changed the ball to the left side, his whole center of gravity flashed to the left, and McCollum was shaken clean.

He took the ball in his left hand, followed by a stop-and-go jumper.

"Huh~"

A hollow shot into the net, Tang Hao hit Cousins with a response ball.

The on-site commentator chose to be silent at this time.

Cousins' brow furrowed, this anwserball had already angered him.

The Kings' offense, Cousins just rushed to the front court to ask for the ball, and asked for the ball while asking for the ball.

Collison gave the ball to McCollum, and McCollum followed up and gave it to Cousins.

Cousins pressed straight inside from the free-throw line.

Hill packed early, and Cousins directly changed direction in the opposite direction, turned around sharply, and made a layup that caused Anderson's blocking foul.

Cousins stepped to the free-throw line, held his breath and hit both free throws.

He scored four straight points in the opening game.

After the punishment, he glared back at Tang Hao again.

Seeing this scene, Tang Hao couldn't help but smile.

This Cousins is really like a little girl, it's a little interesting~

Cousins didn't expect Tang Hao to laugh, and after being stunned for a while, his brows furrowed even deeper, revealing an expression of "excuse.me (what the hell)".

Tang Hao couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Coming back to the Lakers' offense, Rondo advanced to the front court with the ball, beckoning the team to block and dismantle, Yang blocked and dismantled, and Rondo made a passing action.

The Kings' defensive center was immediately pinned down.

At this moment, no one noticed that Rondo made a covert pointing movement with his left hand.

Only one person noticed.

Tang Hao saw Rondo's gesture and quickly cut into the basket from the outside.

Rondo's hand that had been passing the ball to the right suddenly pulled back, and without turning his head, he threw the ball into the basket.

The Kings reacted, and as soon as they turned around, they saw a figure rising to the right of the basket.

Tang Hao!

The angle of the ball was just right, Tang Hao grabbed the ball in the air with his right hand, basically didn't adjust much, and pressed it directly under the basket.

"Bang!"

A simple and quick air catch appeared in the Arco Arena in the opening second round.

"Oh! My God! The commentator instinctively shouted, Tang Hao jumped too high!

Scott smiled at the corners of his mouth.

The tacit cooperation between Rondo and Tang Hao is like two teams that have just formed a team, but it looks like two old partners who have played for more than ten years.

Cousins gasped at this time and glanced at Tang Hao, and then turned his head to look at Rondo.

Tang Hao noticed this scene, and he suddenly seemed to understand something.

What did Cousins say before the game because he said he was going to score 30 points with Rondo's assist?

He didn't think about it before the start of the game because the interview was before the game, but after thinking about it, it was not impossible for the Kings reporter to turn around and relay the words to Cousins.

If it's because of this, then Cousins is really a little interesting, after all, his words are not aimed at anyone, not even the Kings, Cousins has a strong sense of honor in this team.

The game continued on the court, with the Kings' Collison advancing to the front court with the ball, and Cousins wanting to continue playing in the low post.

This time, however, Anderson opted to go around the front and Collison was thwarted in his passing lane, and Cousins was ultimately unable to receive the ball.

Collison turned and chose to play with Guy, and Guy's shot popped out of the frame.

Cousins struggled to grab the offensive rebound, but before he could make a shot, Anderson pulled it out.

The ball touched the back of Cousins' hand before the game, and the referee awarded the Lakers possession.

Cousins yelled in a hurry, rushed to the referee's side and repeatedly signaled that he hadn't touched the ball, and almost got started when he saw the referee's indifference.

The referee unceremoniously gave a technical foul.

There was boos from the audience.

Tang Hao looked at this "cousin" at this time thoughtfully, in terms of personality, Cousins is really a freak in the professional league, but in terms of ability, he is indeed the top of the active inside.