Chapter Twenty-Seven: December Madness (Part II)
On December 24, the Highlanders took on the Morby Revellers away.
It's Christmas Eve, and even the stadium is bustling with activity.
The Morby Revelers are the toughest part of their 10-game winning streak and are playing away from home today, so it will be even harder to win.
In this game, Liu Hao and George were both put into the starting lineup.
The Revelers will need to provide firepower against a team that is extremely strong both offensively and defensively, and the combination of Liu Hao and George is currently the most dangerous scoring combination in the league.
As soon as they came up, the carnival team specially targeted Liu Hao and tried not to let him catch the ball.
However, Liu Hao, who has been here for almost two months, has no ball running skills.
With the help of George's cover, Liu Hao, who received the ball on the bottom line, used his body inertia to jump up directly and hit the opening goal.
But this time, the audience's boos overshadowed the cheers, but Liu Hao was not affected at all.
Just kidding, Lao Tzu was a gold medal fighter in his previous life, didn't he experience this kind of small scene that day?
Next, on the defensive end, Liu Hao sent hot pot to the opponent and assisted his teammates to play a fast attack.
One offense and one defense, today's opening performance was just perfect.
This perfect performance convinced the opponent, but it couldn't convince the trolls in the audience, and these people still kept booing Liu Hao.
In Liu Hao's current words, your boos are my biggest motivation.
Liu Hao's performance next can be described as the most explosive moment since entering the league, scoring, assisting, stealing everything, and almost single-handedly beating the Carnivalers to a timeout.
In less than 8 minutes of the opening game, Liu Hao shot 6 of 7, 3 of 3 three-pointers, scored 15 points, plus 4 assists, 3 steals and a block!
It's a supernatural rhythm!
"Stop him for me, Rudy!"
Coach Morby replaced Rudy in an attempt to limit Liu Hao by giving up the offense.
But there is an old Chinese saying that Shibei should be impressed for three days, not to mention that it has been Shibei for three weeks.
Again, the defensive pressure brought by Rudy to Liu Hao is not as heavy as before, probably because he has improved too much recently.
didn't let George block and dismantle, Liu Hao directly accelerated past Rudy, and then directly dunked!
Bang dang!
No one thought he would be able to do this, so the opposite center didn't even have time to make up for it.
After this goal, the boos on the scene were obviously weakened, and even the Carnival team fell into silence, and the pressure brought to them by Liu Hao today was not lost to the Patriots' Devin at all.
In the next round, it was Rudy who defended Liu Hao.
This time, Liu Hao directly pulled up after a simple shake, and the ball hit again!
"Asian Maddie!"
The cheers for Liu Hao from the sidelines began to outweigh the boos.
But today, Liu Hao's feeling has been completely opened, and nothing can stop him, his yearning for brushing points.
Swish!
By the time Liu hit the three-pointer, the Highlanders had already led the Revelers by a full 20 points, and the game was only five minutes away.
The Highlanders, for their part, played the no-play card early and replaced them with substitutes.
At the end of the game, Liu Hao scored 41 points, 4 rebounds, 11 assists, 4 steals, and 2 blocks on 16-of-25 shooting, 5-of-6 three-pointers, and 6-of-8 free throws!
Liu Hao has conquered thousands of trolls just by relying on this game, this kind of terrifying dominance, he is simply the Jordan of the Development League!
And the revelers team spent this unforgettable Christmas with Liu Hao's shadow.
On Christmas Day, Liu Hao prepared a huge "surprise" for his friend George.
That is to wake him up at 4 a.m. to practice, and then blow him up on the court with all kinds of dry pulls, and in the name of giving George the perfect experience of the joy of playing with his idol.
It wasn't until the evening that George realized what kind of Christmas I was having......
After Christmas, the Highlanders welcomed their last opponent of December – the Huntville Flights!
The Highlanders, who were playing at home, faced a strong Flying team, and this time it was George's turn to break out.
He seemed to have learned something in the crazy heads-up with Liu Hao on Christmas Day, and the match was very dominant.
The 20 points and 14 rebounds are a good example, in addition to which he has five assists.
And Liu Hao's performance is still like that, only cutting 30 points.
Well......
Now whether it is the audience or teammates and coaches, Liu Hao cuts 30 points as a daily thing, as long as he doesn't cut 40 points or 50 points, it is not a good hand.
This is the end of the whole December competition.
The Highlands are firmly in first place in the league with 10 consecutive wins, and Liu Hao won the Player of the Month award for his average of 34 points, 4.1 rebounds, 6.9 assists, 1.1 steals and 0.7 blocks per game in the second round.
On the other hand, after learning about this incident, Firth immediately published another newspaper.
The name of the newspaper is Crazy December, which records the crazy performance of Liu Hao and the Highlands team in December, 10 consecutive wins, what does it represent in a league with only 8 teams? It means that they have proven that they have what it takes to win the championship.
In it, he also boldly estimated Liu Hao's upper limit, and wrote:
Liu is now averaging 26.4 points per game, ranking in the top 10 in the Development League.
He will have a place in the NBA, both defensively and offensively, he is good enough to play the NBA guard position.
Although this report is reasonably analyzed, it seems that NBA teams are not interested in developing league players this year, and many scouts have come to observe it in the past.
But there's nothing wrong with thinking about it.
In this month when Liu Hao was crazy, shocking games were also staged in other places.
At this time, the scouts' eyes have long been on the 03 players, who are known as the silver generation.
The high school student from Akron, the lightning-fast Dwyane Wade from Marquette, and Anthony who is about to lead Syracuse to victory......
At this time, the league has fallen into madness, and many teams even want to get a high pick by "swinging badly", hoping to change the fate of the team.
As a result, very few scouts will notice the situation on this side of the Development League, let alone just an Asian defender.
Although Houston used the top pick to draft Yao Ming from China this season, it doesn't seem to be a loss at the moment, but it doesn't make any money.
And there are very few Asian guards who meet the requirements of the NBA, let alone this Liu Hao who appeared out of thin air.
Unfortunately, Princeton and his colleague Andrew got together for coffee that day.
Andrew is a tall man who has also played in the NCAA and is now a scout for the New York Knicks.
Beside them, there was a Flyer basketball newspaper about Liu Hao.
"This, I didn't expect him to hit it!"
"Who? Why are you making such a fuss. Andrew noticed the look of surprise on Princeton's face.
I took a newspaper in my hand, and what caught my eye was Liu Hao's pretty dry pulling.
After reading it, Andrew smiled and said: "This year is a big year for the draft, I wonder if there are any powerful characters in the development league?" ”
"I don't think so, the fact that this Asian defender was able to play like that there is a lot of performance there shows that this year has not been good."
"Really!?" Although Andrew said it, he decided in his heart to go to the development alliance another day to take a look, maybe he could find some good seedlings.
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