Chapter Thirty-Nine: Alone in the Lead
The dream I had in the bar that day had been so long that Sun Hao had almost forgotten it.
But Laltiki's words suddenly reminded him of a dream.
The name he had been calling for turned out to be Joseph.
Even if there was a well-cooked Angela sitting next to him, he was still called Joseph in his dream.
In an instant, all the past came to mind.
"I was born in New York, but my father was Danish and my mother was American, and they met in Denmark."
"This is my email, be sure to send it to me."
……
"Sun."
Laltiki pulled Sun Hao's thoughts back.
"No, she must have misheard."
Sun Hao shook his head directly and said, he would not admit it.
Raltiki was stunned for a moment, then burst out laughing.
At that moment, there was a feeling of regaining youth on his face.
He left everything behind and left.
After Sun Hao sent Laltiki away, he looked out the window for a long time, and finally patted his head with his hand.
Damn, are first loves so memorable?
When he returned to Spain from Italy, the first thing Sun Hao did was open an email that he hadn't opened for two years.
Before opening it, he was looking forward to it, but after opening it, he was disappointed again when he looked at the emails full of system mail.
He finally turned off his computer and vowed never to look at it again.
Who looks who is the dog!
After Real Madrid returned to Spain after losing the first game of the Champions League, Lasso summarized the team's performance and conducted targeted training.
I can clearly feel that the overall mental outlook of the team has become different from before.
It's like someone walking, and suddenly a mountain appears in front of them, and they fall, and when they climb to the top, they see more scenery than before.
After a two-day break, Real Madrid continued their La Liga fixtures.
This time they are against Alcante, who eliminated them last season.
After winning the title last season, Alcante has completed a magnificent transformation in the new season, and has become the first team in the league like Real Madrid and Barcelona.
Their record so far is 7 wins and 1 loss, second only to Real Madrid and second in the league behind Barcelona.
Calderon, in particular, averaged 12.6 points and 3.6 assists per game this season, making him one of the best point guards in La Liga.
It was a fierce battle.
After the game was not really started, the game process surprised the fans.
Real Madrid kept Alcante at bay from the start and won 70-50.
The number one contributor to the team's victory was not Sun Hao, but Prigioni.
This dead point guard, who was suppressed by Calderon in the playoffs last season, chased Calderon frantically all over the court, falling and getting up again several times.
Fans can see how ashamed he was for last season and what he did this past summer.
The weaknesses of the Alcante team were also exposed in this game.
They have Calderón on the outside, but they don't have a consistent offensive strength on the inside.
After Calderón was restricted, their offense went terribly wrong.
And Real Madrid, who have just lost from the Champions League, are the best in detail and enthusiasm in the game.
Under the influence of two factors, the Alcante team lost unjustly.
With this momentum, Real Madrid continued their winning streak.
By the twelfth round of the league, they had won an incredible 12 consecutive games!
This also broke the streak at the beginning of La Liga!
From the cold winter of last season's semi-finals, fans have experienced the two heavens of ice and fire from the scorching heat with continuous sounds.
However, the season is long, and the reason why those teams that have achieved super history have been able to win in a row is not only strength, but also luck.
Real Madrid's opponent in the thirteenth round is the arch-rival Barcelona.
Barcelona has improved significantly this season.
This improvement comes from the team's two young players, Navarro and Gasol.
The duo were the main players of the Barcelona team in the second half of last season, and their performances have improved this season.
Navarro, in particular, averaged 11.8 points and 2.6 assists per game, and has already shown the strength of Europe's top guards.
Real Madrid played away from home and fell into a passive situation from the start.
They were chasing points all night, and the confrontation on the field was extremely fierce, and people turned their backs from time to time.
It wasn't until the last quarter that Real Madrid tied the score as Sun Hao found the outside touch and hit two three-pointers in a row.
In the final decisive stage, the confrontation on the field became more and more intense.
It was at this time that there was an accident on the field, and Prigioni sprained his ankle while defending, and was helped off the field by the team doctor.
Prigioni left the field, the strength of the back line plummeted, and Real Madrid also regretted losing the game.
And worse than the loss, after the game, Prigioni's MRI report was positive, and he sprained his ankle and was expected to miss 2~3 months.
This is absolutely bad news for Real Madrid.
However, recalling that Prigioni also missed a month due to injury last season, with glass attributes, he has played harder this season, and the injury is not entirely unexpected.
The problem is that this time the injury has been out for too long.
And the last time Prigioni was injured, the team discovered Sun Hao, but it is difficult to have a second one this year.
Lasso's coaching will also face challenges, and how to arrange the formation is the focus of his next consideration.
Lasso's initial strategy was to follow the two-point guard strategy, with Lopes and Sun Hao partnering in the starting backcourt.
But the effect is not good.
In the match against Bilbao, although they won in the end, the opposing defenders combined to score as many as 30 points.
The duo is fine on the offensive end, the problem is on the defense.
They are all short in height, not only are they caught and beaten by the other party, but they also have limited visual interference to the opposite outside line.
Lasso insisted on another game, but against the stronger Manresa team, not only did their outside defense blow up, but the team also lost.
Luckily, Lasso's reflexes were quick, and after two attempts, he gave up and put his former shooting guard Trinidad back into the starting line-up instead.
Trinidad has a good defensive ability, but little to no outside shooting.
Such a partnership means that the team's outside offense depends entirely on Sun Hao.
Sun Hao lived up to Lasso's expectations.
Although his passing ability is not as good as Prigioni's, he has a silver basketball IQ badge and is not inferior in organizational skills.
Of course, the most important thing is that he can score!
Against Messia, he scored 19 points to lead the team to victory, against Burgos he scored 22 points to tie the single-game scoring record and led the team to a winning streak, and against Teslami although he lost, he once again refreshed the single-game scoring record and scored 25 points!
As he continues to score, he has broken the scoring record for players under the age of 18 in La Liga time and time again.
At the end of the week, he averaged 22 points per game!
This kind of performance is crazy in La Liga, and even in the entire European league!
The nickname of the Chinese Napoleon was no longer limited to Spain and began to sweep across the European continent.
You must know that Sun Hao is not yet 18 years old!
And the way he scored like never before, it caused an unprecedented whirlwind in Europe.
Fans flocked to the stadium just to see his scoring performance!
There are even some fans who imitate his style of play on the field and frequently shoot on the outside!
Even, in the next game against the Obadul team, scouts from the NCAA University of Connecticut and the NBA Spurs appeared on the sidelines!
UConn is known for producing high-quality outside shooters, and young players like Sun Hao, who shoot well, are a key recruit.
As for the Spurs, overseas players are their favorites!
Sun Hao will be 18 years old after playing this season, and such a crazy performance is also worthy of their attention.
Sun Hao continued his hot form in this game, hitting 6 three-pointers from the outside and scoring 26 points, once again setting a new personal single-game scoring record in La Liga!
In three games in a row, Sun Hao proved one thing to the fans: the record is broken!
After the game, both UConnda and Spurs scouts came to the locker room.
The two of them had obviously communicated before they came, and they also sent invitations to Sun Hao one after another.
"We want you to come and play at UConn, and we're going to give you a full scholarship."
"We want you to do a tryout for the Spurs ahead of this year's draft, and I understand you'll be turning 18 before the draft."
The two invitations are the same as when they played the finals for domestic high school students.
The difference is that one invitation is a full scholarship and the other is an NBA team tryout!
These two invitations are obviously much more generous than before.