Chapter Twenty-Four: The Next Gasol?
One step away.
However, after arriving at the Oro Real Madrid team, Sun Hao found that this was the most difficult step.
There are not only talented players who have completed two jumps like him, but also many senior players who have been eliminated from La Liga.
Some of these players are talented, some are powerful.
Although Sun Hao's ability is relatively advanced in it, it is no longer as sharp as before.
The competition here seems to be much smaller than that of the youth team, but it is the real single-plank bridge.
Or to put it more figuratively, going from Oro Real Madrid to Real Madrid in La Liga is as difficult as going from the development league NBDL to the NBA.
This was also the first real challenge Sun Hao encountered after coming to Spain.
However, Sun Hao's belief is very firm.
It's like walking the Huashan plank road, which has already walked two-thirds of the way, and there is no reason to turn back.
And he is not a cowardly person in his bones.
Oro's game was intense, and he was no longer as dominant as he was in the previous league, so he worked on it in the system.
The Euroleague attaches great importance to blocking and dismantling, and the system can't do this kind of training for a while, so he has a good relationship with his teammates and takes the initiative to practice after the game.
He practiced what he lacked, and constantly improved himself.
Even when Fernandez asked him to play, he refused to hold back his restlessness and devoted almost all his time to training.
His goal is to get into La Liga in one year, and now there is still more than half a year left, counting the system for a year, he has to give it his all.
And Joseph's affair made Sun Hao sad at the same time, it also stimulated him.
Putting your energy into training is the most effective way to forget about the experience.
A few years ago, Sun Hao, who was regarded as a neurotic, appeared in Real Madrid again.
The intense training has finally paid off.
Sun Hao's strength was already at the top, coupled with the image of hard training, he was quickly appreciated by the head coach, and he put Sun Hao, who was only 15 years old, into the rotation.
Because of sufficient preparation, Sun Hao played in his first appearance in the Oro League.
Whether it is blocking and dismantling for teammates, or the choice of teammates after blocking and dismantling, and even how to avoid the opponent's blocking and dismantling, Sun Hao has done a good job.
He didn't make a mistake on the court and took his chance to get five points.
Sun Hao only played 8 minutes off the bench in the first game, but his performance was quite good.
That's a very good performance for a player who is only 15 years old and is playing against some players who are 20 or even 30 years old.
And that's just the beginning.
Sun Hao's steady playing style, which is completely inconsistent with his age, continued to be revealed in the following games, and the head coach's trust in him became bigger and bigger.
And with that comes more and more playing time, and more and more performances.
The biggest difference between the Oro League and the two leagues that Sun Hao has stayed in before is that the execution requirements for tactics and the use of blocking and dismantling are much stricter.
Here is more emphasis on the team, so personal data will not be so prominent, more attention to the blocking, and naturally more on the understanding of the blocking.
In the following half a year, Sun Hao did the same.
Use pick-and-rolls to score frequently on the outside, create pick-and-rolls for teammates, and score by receiving passes from teammates.
Although he is a point guard, he does not play the same style as other European point guards, he is biased towards scoring, and of course the key is to be able to score.
For the next half a year, Sun Hao spent his first birthday in Spain, and he fully adapted to the confrontation and intensity of the Oro League.
What's more, as the tournament progresses, he unlocks a series of badges one after another.
Pick-and-Roll Master (Bronze): Slightly increases the shooting rate of breakthroughs or layups and shots after pick-and-roll.
Pick-and-roll Dodge (Bronze): Slightly increases a player's ability to traverse and bypass opposing screens while defending.
Bronze Wall (Bronze): Slightly increases the difficulty of defenders passing through or bypassing pick-and-roll covers, and depletes the opponent's stamina.
The three badges are all related to the pick-and-roll.
European basketball attaches great importance to blocking and pick-and-roll, and the unlocking of these badges is a natural thing.
And in the past six months, in addition to the three newly obtained badges, what makes him even more pleased is the basketball IQ badge.
Although Oro is a second-tier league, the tactical complexity is more complex than the NCAA and the two leagues he has stayed in before, which is one of the characteristics of European basketball.
In addition to training, he spends his free time studying these tactics.
As a result, his understanding of technique and tactics has improved.
Finally, before the end of the season, he managed to upgrade the basketball IQ badge level from bronze to silver!
He got his first silver badge!
Basketball IQ (Silver): Effectively improve the understanding and application of basketball skills and tactics.
Although it is only a difference between two words, after Sun Hao upgraded the badge, he can clearly feel that his understanding of techniques and tactics has reached a new level.
That feeling is like a fantasy novel from the first glimpse of the door, advanced to the integration!
The silver badge also helped him immediately, as he recorded his first triple-double of the season in the semifinals of the Oro playoffs against Joventut.
13 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists! Plus 3 steals and 1 block!
This match was a turning point in the series, with Real Madrid reaching the final and winning the championship.
Sun Hao also won the MVP of the top four of the Oro League with his outstanding performance in that game!
In a year's time, relying on some luck and even more on his own efforts, Sun Hao won the first MVP trophy in Spain.
Although it is only a second-tier league with limited gold content, this is dazzling enough.
You must know that no Chinese player has ever been able to mix in the European league before, even in the lower leagues, but Sun Hao broke this precedent.
Of course, such a result is not known to anyone else in China except his parents.
One of the most valuable players in Spain's second division is not yet worth the media.
Now domestic fans are focused on who will be the first player to land in the NBA.
Prior to this, the Chinese appeared in the NBA, only Song Tao, who was selected by the Hawks with the 67th overall pick in the third round in 1987, who also missed the NBA due to injury.
And at that time, the NBA had very little attention in the country.
However, with the occurrence of the famous "40-minute wait to knock on the door of CCTV" incident in 1989 by Stern, the new president of the NBA, the NBA has an audience in China, and fans naturally have greater expectations for this piece.
Now what they are most looking forward to is the "wind chasing boy" of the Bayi team, Wang Zhizhi who won the hat "Admiral" David Robinson at the Atlanta Games a year ago.
According to the previously released news, Wang Zhizhi is likely to be selected by the NBA because of his age (22-year-old players automatically participate).
In other words, it's probably what will happen in a year's time.
So compared to Sun Hao's MVP in the Spanish Second League, that is what fans pay more attention to.
But Sun Hao didn't care about this, or in other words, he was much more ambitious than that.
The 1997~1998 season of La Liga has come to an end, and after a short offseason, they will usher in a new season.
There is a high probability that Sun Hao will continue to play in the Oro League.
However, on the eve of the start of the season, the assistant coach of Real Madrid in La Liga came to the dressing room.
Because of the team's original starting point guard, Brazilian Fernandonho chose to return to the domestic league for the new season, and the team ultimately failed to find a suitable replacement.
In the end, they had no choice but to acquiesce in the team's loss of strength in this position and began to turn their targets to newcomers.
At this time, Sun Hao, who has been constantly showing highlights in the past year, naturally entered their sight.
Opportunities are always reserved for those who are prepared.
In this way, with 95.5% hard work and 4.5% luck, Sun Hao copied Pau Gasol's feat a year ago, completed three consecutive jumps in one year, and successfully entered the La Liga Real Madrid team!