Chapter Twenty-Six: December Madness (Part II)
Halfway through December, the madness of Liu Hao and the Highlands continues.
On the 13th, the Highlands welcomed the challenge of the Roanoke Show-Off team at home.
The Show-Off team had the lowest record in the league and was completely powerless against the Highlanders.
In this game, Liu Hao continued to play bravely, using his powerful brush, no, his personal ability helped the team defeat the opponent by a big score, and won 7 consecutive victories!
At this time, Liu Hao has become the object of discussion in the development league, and more and more fans who look down on the NBA come to watch the Highlands game.
So in every game that follows, whenever there is a Highland team to participate, the audience will be full.
This kind of thing also made Liu Hao's name reach the ears of some Chinese, and then it was spread back to the mainland across the ocean.
After this period of crazy shooting, Liu Hao's mastery of the dry pull jump shot has also become more handy.
On this day, he received a call from Sun Yi.
"Liu Hao, how are you doing over there lately, are there any games to adapt to the Development League?"
Sun Yi returned to China as early as last month, so he didn't know Liu Hao's performance here, in the past few years when the Development Alliance was just launched, the media's attention to it was not very high, not to mention that the information in that era was still not as developed as in the future.
After a brief chat, Liu Hao didn't tell him about his "anti-sky" performance, and if he wanted to tell him, he had to wait until he entered the NBA.
On the 18th, the Highlanders challenged Charleston Lowgato away
Team S.
Today's game is a little different, not because of how good the opponents are, but because of the fact that some of the more well-known media outlets are here today to bring readers some wonderful basketball stories on the occasion of Christmas.
As usual, the arena was filled with spectators.
Today, Coach Andy put Liu Hao on the starting lineup, intending to win Charleston directly in one go.
Charleston is also the bottom team, and they are not as good as Ronock's Show-and-Go.
In the first quarter alone, Liu Hao scored 14 points and won the attention of the media at the scene.
Under the control of his starting teammates, Liu Hao played very comfortably, and was always able to find a reasonable space to shoot, even if he couldn't find it, he had a dry pull stunt in hand.
"Is he the defender from China? I've heard him called Asian Maddie, and now it's really amazing! ”
"I've never seen this player before, so it looks like I'm going to have to cover him carefully when I go back, and maybe I can get a lot of Asian readers."
Several reporters gathered around to discuss Liu Hao, and they were all deeply impressed by the latter's skills.
Between them sat a round figure, his name was Firth, and he was also a basketball reporter, but his work had been difficult lately.
As early as last month, he noticed Liu Hao, and he has watched the games of the Highland team a lot these days, and he has almost everything about Liu Hao's information.
At the moment, Firth didn't say a word, but he was calculating in his heart.
This is simply a Christmas gift sent to him by God, if it is really as they say, as long as he takes the lead in reporting Liu Hao, then the boss may make up for his year-end bonus when he is happy.
Thinking of this, he had already thought about how to report Liu Hao's deeds in his heart.
There was no suspense in the game, and the Highlanders beat Charleston 120-101 to make it eight wins in a row.
Among them, Liu Hao scored a game-high 38 points, plus 4 rebounds and 7 assists.
After the end, Firth did not rush home, he found the place where Liu Hao and George shared a house, and waited there alone.
On December nights in the Northern Hemisphere, snowflakes are falling and the north wind is blowing......
When Firth almost wanted to give up, Liu Hao finally came back from the arena, followed by George, who was already tired of being a dog.
"Hello, I'm Firth, a reporter for Flyers Basketball Weekly, can I delay you a little longer?"
Firth looked up at the sky, interviews at this time are really uncommon, I hope Liu Hao will agree.
"Uh...... All right. Liu Hao wanted to refuse, but since this person can wait at their door until now, it is really not easy.
"Can you tell me about your basketball experience?" Firth took out a pen and paper, and what he thought in the center of this cold wind could be the same as what was written on paper.
The kind-hearted Liu Hao called him into the house, but it was actually because he was cold.
After telling Firth a lot about his own experience, Liu Hao was really sleepy, but the other side was getting more and more energetic.
"It turns out that Liu, you turned out to be an orphan!" Firth was as surprised as if he had discovered a new world.
Liu Hao's heart: You are an orphan, your whole family is an orphan!
"So you basically came over as a substitute in your college career, and it wasn't until this year's CUBA finals that you came out, that's amazing!"
"So what is your goal, to lead Asheville Heights to a Development League championship or to make it to the NBA?"
Children make choices, and I want everything.
"Listen, Firth, I'm not just going to win a championship and enter the NBA, I'm going to be the number one basketball player in the world!"
Hiss~
The plug-in powerhouse is terrifying!
Firth looked at Liu Hao in surprise, unable to believe that such words could come from the mouth of an Asian player, and this is still a defender.
Oh my God, what does that mean, it means he's going to have a career bigger than Jordan, a more terrifying dominance than Jordan.
"This ...... Can I include this in this report? "Firth doesn't write anything for the sake of popularity like other reporters, he is afraid of ruining a player like Liu Hao because of himself.
"It's better to keep it for me later, and it's not too late to write it in when the time comes."
Although Liu Hao is confident, he is not confident enough to defeat everyone at present, so it is good to be moderately modest, at least he will not be drowned in saliva.
At the end of the interview, Firth published a newspaper overnight.
The next day, the people around were boiling.
Today's newspaper report on the Highlands' Asian defender Liu Hao reads:
This player, who went from obscurity to emergence, in just a few months, first made a splash in the finals of the Chinese University League, and then went out of control to sign the well-known Chinese brand Li Ning, and played a performance of nearly 30 points per game in less than a month after coming to the Development League.
At the end, Liu Hao's goal is to win the championship + enter the NBA, and help the team win 10 consecutive games in the next game in December.
"I didn't expect there to be such crazy Asian players in this world, I'm afraid even Yao Ming can't compare to him!"
"I really want to see him play, maybe he's going to be a good player."
"Hmph, I'm looking at eighty percent because I haven't seen the power of our players, and I can't wait to see him make a difference."
“......”
Liu Hao's name immediately spread all over the streets.
One-third of the people expressed support for the reports about him, and the rest were opposed, and many even waited to see him slapped in the face.
As a party, Liu Hao is desperately practicing his pull-out jump shot in the arena at the moment.
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