Chapter 140: The End is the Beginning
Xiandao will face a team led by the first person in the league, and he, who once affirmed Rukawa Kaede, faced questions from the media, saying that he didn't know who Lu Dao Xiandao was. Like all the opponents that Xiandao has encountered, no one wants to be used as a foil, and there are only three outbreaks of Xiandao now, and there are still many doubts.
Xiandao was also extremely excited, and in the face of the contempt of the first person in the alliance, Xiandao was particularly looking forward to today's game. The opponent's inner line is very strong, and it is like a forest, which is a big restriction for the immortal path who is good at breaking through. But perhaps because of the contempt of the opponent, it inspired the state of the immortal path. After the opening, Xiandao tried to shoot a three-pointer from the outside. The opponent has a lot of space, and he has obviously made some preparations for this young man who has broken through sharply. After that, it was a mid-range jumper, and Xiandao felt that he felt quite good today.
Xiandao felt that he could shoot every ball, and the hot touch made Xiandao hit the shot frequently, and in less than 5 minutes of the game, he led 13-4, forcing the opponent to apply for a timeout. After the timeout, the opponent was obviously pressing harder, and they realized that it was a mistake to give Xiandao space to shoot.
The strain of the immortal path is very fast, and the close proximity of the pair just gives the immortal dao a chance to break through. Frequently killing the inside, while creating fouls from opponents, it is also a series of goals. At the end of the second quarter, the opponent missed the shot, and Sendo grabbed the rebound and immediately launched a fast break. The opponent's retreat was swift and soon formed a defensive line. Xiandao didn't slow down at all, and rushed straight at the opponent's point guard. When the two of them were about to knock each other down, Immortal Dao turned around three hundred and sixty degrees. Passing the opponent cleanly, it also gave the opponent's players who made up for the defense no time to react. After passing the immortal road, he picked up the basket with a low hand. Xiandao remembered this man. It's an old qualification in the league, and when he was still in his rookie season, he was bullied.
As if to be angry, Xiandao was completely in scoring mode today, leading the team to suppress the opponent from the beginning and always maintain the lead. The opponent failed to turn the score over several times, and faced the opponent's dying struggle in the last quarter. Xiandao faced the opponent with two random three-point shots and completely defeated the opponent.
He scored 38 points in the game, which became a new career high for Xiandao. While taking points on your own. He also provided seven assists for his teammates. Xiandao continued his hot performance, transforming those who doubted him game by game, and more and more people became his fans. More and more people realize that the outbreak of the Immortal Dao is not a fluke. This is a manifestation of his strength.
Four wins in a row ~ five wins in a row. Sendo continues to lead the crippled team to victory. Continuing to perform individually. But physical fitness is a problem that has to be faced, after entering the NBA for so many years, it is the first time that Xiandao has such ample playing time, high-intensity games, and as a core player, he consumes a lot.
In the sixth game, Xiandao felt that he was very tired, never tired, but he had to persist in the current team, and the team needed him. He also hopes that this beauty will continue. The team was met with stubborn resistance from their opponents with one minute left in the game. Xiandao's team is still 5 points behind their opponents, and the winning streak is about to be ended.
A teammate stepped up and made a crucial steal and dunk to close the gap to three points. At one end of the defense, the "fish pillar" successfully fanned off the opponent's shot, and Xiandao took the ball and rushed to the frontcourt, using feints to deceive the opponent who pounced and blocked, and killed the opponent's inside line. The opponent's foul was very vicious, and this was a defense that would rather send Xiandao to the free throw line than let Xiandao succeed. But Xiandao's control of his body is better than when he was in high school, and a few years of NBA training have also made him stronger. After the opponent's foul whistle blew, Sendo lost his balance and hit the ball, and the team regained hope of winning.
The two sides were drawn, the opponent's attack was unsuccessful, and the ball of the attack returned to the side of Sendo's team. A teammate missed an open shot, and luckily the opponent didn't protect the rebound. There were only 20 seconds left on the clock, and his teammates handed the ball to Sendo on the outside. Xiandao was familiar with such feelings, and had the illusion of going back to high school to represent Lingnan in the competition. The coach of the team trusted himself as much as Coach Tian Gang, and did not interrupt the game to arrange the last attack.
Xiandao motioned for his teammates to pull away, and all his teammates stood near the bottom line, leaving Xiandao and the opponent one-on-one in the entire line. In this game, Xiandao's shooting touch was not good, and most of the points came from breaking through to the basket to score points. Xiandao held the ball and only started to attack in the last 10 seconds, and as Xiandao dribbled forward, the opponent kept retreating. The two sides were evenly divided, and the opponent felt that Xiandao would definitely break through, either with a mid-range shot that stopped urgently, or went to the basket to make a foul. All always maintain the distance between them and the immortal road, and do not give the immortal road a chance to pass themselves.
Xiandao did have such an idea, but seeing that the opponent kept retreating, Xiandao looked at the three-point line under his feet and shot a three-point shot very decisively. Shigeichi Taoka has criticized Sendo more than once for his casual and bold approach, but Sendo just can't change it. At this critical moment, Xiandao once again made a bold move. The ball hollows into the net and leaves only 0.5 seconds for the opponent. The away crowd also went crazy, and the home team's defeat was inevitable, but Xiandao's performance made everyone adrenaline secreted, and they no longer cared about the victory or defeat, but simply cheered for the charm of sports.
Xiandao had thrown into a lot of lethal kills, and he was familiar with this feeling. This time the feeling is exceptionally good, with 20,000 spectators, a large number of media, and the highest hall of basketball, Xiandao feels that his dream has really come true at this moment, and his persistence has finally paid off.
The team's winning streak lasted seven games, completely reversing the team's decline, and the whole team was smooth on both offensive and defensive ends, as if they had learned to play overnight. Xiandao's physical fitness was a little weak in the seventh game, and although he gritted his teeth and won 26+5 data in the eighth game, he was unable to lead the team to continue the winning streak.
The loss only relieved the pressure on the players' hearts, and after a few games of adjustment, Xiandao led the team to another wave of five consecutive wins. With a good performance, he has already passed the rookie stage. Invited to the rookie game at All-Star Weekend. Sendo's outstanding performance delayed the coach's dismissal, but the coach was eventually replaced by the team.
Although the new coach also gave Xiandao a lot of room to play, he reduced the number of times his teammates came out to block and dismantle Xiandao. This made the Immortal Dao, who was already physically exhausted. added more burdens, and finally suffered a major injury due to excessive physical overdraft, and had to undergo surgery, ending the season ahead of schedule. However, thanks to Xiandao's crazy performance, the team got on the right track and made the playoffs in one go.
The team could have been in the middle of the season. Write a contract for the offer of immortals. Xiandao is also very eager to stay here, this is the place where he became famous, and the fans here love and support him very much. But the team didn't. Xiandao thinks that it may be his own injury, which makes the team worried, and the team will definitely give him a long-term contract when he recovers from the injury.
Xiandao recovered as expected, but he never waited for the contract to be issued by the team. This made him feel anxious. He couldn't think of any reason why the team wouldn't keep him. The agent found Xiandao. said that he couldn't find the team's management either, and those people seemed to be avoiding him, and they didn't plan to talk to him about Xiandao's new contract at all.
However, the agent also told Xiandao not to worry, he is already in contact with other teams, and he will definitely do his best to find a suitable team for Xiandao and strive for the best contract. After the most abrupt conversation, the agent said to Xiandao very tactfully. When facing the media, there are some things that are better to say less or not at all. The media is the best at stirring up trouble.
After sending off the agent, Xiandao began to reminisce about the agent's words, recalling the dream journey of the past season. After thinking about it carefully, Xiandao found the reason why the team was not ready to keep him. When Xiandao is at its most beautiful, there will be a large number of reporters every day, which is a treatment that Xiandao has not enjoyed before.
The reporter's question is also strange, at a time when the team has not yet changed the coach and he has just attracted great attention. A reporter asked Xiandao: "If the team's leading star comes back from injury and asks you for the ball on the field, will you give it to him?" Sendo replied almost without thinking, "If he is not in a good position, then I will pass the ball to a teammate who is in a better position." Sendo took it for granted at the time, and the reason why the team was able to win streaks was because the ball was running better and playing more like a whole.
But now that I think about it, I did get a little carried away at the time. There is also a relationship between the coach's connivance and trust in him, when the team won consecutive games, the head coach of the team was fired, and now think about it~ Xiandao found the real reason. The coach's reliance and trust in Xiandao caused dissatisfaction among the team's leading stars. This dissatisfaction did not start with the rise of Xiandao, Xiandao remembered that when the team lost consecutive games, the player group led by the star of the house raised a lot of dissatisfaction with the coach's tactical system.
The dominant player likes to use him as the heart of the attack, and he likes to use his individual ability to solve problems. He is also confident that he has this ability, but the coach always wants to rely on the point guard to lead the team to run, and hopes that the leading players will use the running position more to complete the offense without the ball. The coach wants the team's offense to be more fluid and not in the hands of one person.
After calming down and thinking about these things, Xiandao realized that the previous losing streak had injury factors in it. But many games that look completely winnable are still lost, and it is obvious that the players are pushing the management to kick the coach out of the team. And the outbreak of Xiandao proves that the system that the coach has always adhered to is feasible and can bring victory to the team.
This invisibly offended the team's leading star, from the team's record to the better, the coach was still fired by the team, and Xiandao should have been able to predict his fate early. It's just that Xiandao is too immersed in the imagination of beauty, and he has never calmed down to look at these things.
Coupled with the repeated hype and exaggeration of the media, the team seems to be already a Xiandao team, and every time this team is mentioned, the vast majority of people also think of Xiandao for the first time. This is another place to offend the star of the house, the NBA league is like an animal world, every territory has its owner, the fairy road has threatened the former king, and it has become inevitable to be excluded.
Thinking about these things, Xiandao was not so anxious. No matter how well he plays and attracts more attention, he is only a player with a base salary in the end. It is still incomparable with a superstar who has been famous in the league for a long time and has responded to every call with a top salary.
The team has never offered Xiandao a contract, and even if other teams have made offers, the team has remained silent. Even the management of other teams could not find the top management of the Xiandao team and could not confirm whether they would match the offer.
Like a farce, the team's approach deeply hurt Xiandao. He knew that the team had something unspeakable, but he couldn't help but be sad. It wasn't until the last deadline that Xiandao was signed by another western team with a contract with a maximum salary of three years ~ the last year. (To be continued......)