After attending a party together, Guo Xu and O'Neill's relationship has become better, and they are like a pair of brothers in the locker room. At O'Neill's request, Guo Xu and Brian Shaw changed cabinets and went to O'Neal's side, the reason being that it was convenient to chat.

Brian Shaw complained wildly in his heart, you two are going to get a ji?!

Although they still have a Kobe Bryant by the cupboard, Brian Shaw firmly believes that Kobe, a straight man of steel who is good at chatting to death, is definitely not the same as these two comics.

The newcomers are extremely envious, only two games were played in the regular season, Guo Xu is no longer a rookie, and has vaguely become the third leader of the team, which is to improve his status at the speed of a rocket.

After two days off, the players returned with physical strength, but they felt terrible. On the 4th, the Lakers did not win easily against the Grizzlies, and it was not until the fourth quarter that the two sides were decided, and the OK combination played 40 minutes and only won by 13 points.

Like other teams, the Grizzlies used a "shark-slashing tactic" inside to prevent O'Neal from scoring, and O'Neal made a sparse free throw, making only 3 of 14 shots speechless. Even so, he relied on his performance of 12-of-20 shooting to score 27 points, 15 rebounds, 5 assists and 3 blocks.

Bryant shot 9-of-20, 1-of-1 from three-point range and 3-of-4 from the free-throw line to finish with 22 points, five rebounds and two assists.

Harper played 19 minutes, scoring a point on 0-of-2 shooting, diching out two assists and making two steals. Everyone can see that Harper is old, that he can't move at the same pace as a point guard, that he's just a pseudo-starter, and that he has to make way for the youngsters.

The best performance on the bench was Guo Xu, who had the right to shoot in the second quarter and a stronger inside partner.

Space power forward Robert Horry returned, and he teamed up with Grant in the second quarter to stretch the formation wide.

Guo Xu plays blocking and dismantling, misplaced against the Grizzlies' rookie Swift or meat shield center Bryant Levi, both can rely on speed and technology to break through, Grizzlies' backup guard Damon Jones is not fast, more like a scoring guard, and the pursuit defense is poor.

As a result, Guo Xu played 30 minutes, shooting 7 of 12, 2 of 5 three-pointers, 3 of 4 free throws, and scored 19 points and 4 assists.

On the defensive end, Guo Xu didn't take advantage of Mike Biby, the "White Devil" is an underrated point guard, playing Harper can hold the ball and pass people, playing Guo Xu can make a stop-and-go jump shot, there is always a way to score, he shot 10 of 16 from the field, 3 of 4 three-pointers, and scored 23 points, 6 rebounds and 8 assists.

After the game, the major media continued to praise Guo Xu, and casually mentioned Bibi.

Guo Xu's stats are slightly inferior to his opponents, but his popularity is much higher than Bibi's, because he has the gimmick of being the last rookie and also plays for the Los Angeles team. Bibi's style of play is unpretentious and low-key, playing in Vancouver, and the beautiful statistics can't attract media attention.

In the NBA, popularity means money, and only when popularity is high can it win the favor of businesses, and the annual advertising endorsement income of a star is much higher than the salary of playing. At present, many merchants have contacted Guo Xu's agent, Harpy Waters, hoping that he will be the product spokesperson. Harpy did not let him sign a contract, only negotiated, because he firmly believed that his commercial value could be improved.

Looking at Bibby again, Guiwei was the eye of the 98 draft, overpowering many talented players, Jamison, Pierce, Nowitzki, and Carter were all left behind. In his first season, Bibby averaged 13.2 points and 6.5 assists per game and was named to the All-Rookie team, and last season he averaged 14.5 points and 8.1 assists per game, which is already a bit of a star.

However, he played in the Grizzlies for two years, never received a single advertising endorsement, and the number of votes he received in the celebrity vote was even more pitiful. As it turns out, if a player in the NBA is very low-key, he is not far from hitting the streets.

Bibby's evaluation can't be compared with Guo Xu, and this year's rookie list is even worse than Swift, and almost all the media say that the Grizzlies have selected parallel goods.

Swift's ball quotient is unusually low, and he is always out of the tactical sidelines. On the offensive end, he will rely on his physical fitness to play and impact the basket, and on the defensive end, he is easy to shake, and the opponent will shoot a fake move, and he wants to fly into the sky and shoulder to shoulder with the sun......

In this game, Swift only played 7 minutes, got 3 points and 1 rebound.

The Lakers returned home to beat the Clippers 109-93 to snap a four-game winning streak. It was a simple game, but Guo Xu's good luck came to an end.

He was an all-round underdog against Jeff McGinnis and also got into foul trouble, playing just 23 minutes and five fouls, scoring seven points and two assists.

McGinnis is the 8th pick in the second round in 96, with a height of 193CM and a weight of 86 kg. He also dished out a number of assists, with 19 points, 4 rebounds and 8 assists in the game.

It is a great loss to deal with this kind of tall two-way guard Guo Xu, and he must get Kobe, Harper, and Brian Shaw.

O'Neal was extremely brave, shooting 15-of-31 from the field, 9-of-18 from the free-throw line, and blasting 39 points, 14 rebounds, 4 assists and 5 blocks; Bryant 21 points, 5 rebounds and 6 assists continued to play comprehensively; Also breaking out was Ryder, who scored 22 points and 4 assists.

On the evening of the 6th, Guo Xu flew away with the team, and on the 7th and 8th, it was back-to-back games, and the opponents were the Texas Rockets and Spurs.

Guo Xu's poor performance on the court is directly related to continuous flight, and has nothing to do with physical strength, and rookie players will feel uncomfortable to varying degrees when they first join the NBA. Flying back and forth around the United States, the physical exertion of the players is a trivial matter, and it is more of a mental exhaustion.

Before entering the NBA, Guo Xu had taken no more than 10 planes in total, and now flying is commonplace.

Although Guo Xu knew that the probability of an accident on the plane was very low, he still occasionally felt flustered and depressed on the plane. Especially when encountering air currents, the whole body is shaking, and the iron sheet of the plane seems to be torn apart at any time, and he will feel very small.

Compared with airplanes, high-speed rail in the future is really much more comfortable, but NBA players can't make trains to play games.

After checking into the hotel in Houston, Guo Xu fell asleep, and didn't get up until noon to go out to eat. This is another nationally broadcast competition, and he has to cheer up everything he says.

The media has hyped up this match, and O'Neal vs Olajuwon is the biggest attraction.

In fact, the "four centers" have long been unworthy of the name, the only one who is still at the peak is O'Neal, he entered the league late, and the other three centers are not the same age, except for him, only the Spurs "Admiral" David Robinson is in good shape.

"Gorilla" Ewing was traded by the Knicks due to a serious decline in form; Olajuwon, the '84 draft pick, is in his 17th year in the league and is nearing retirement at the age of 38.

Olajuwon played only 44 games due to injury last season, playing 23.8 minutes and averaging only 10.3 points, 6.2 rebounds and 1.4 assists per game.

Now the boss of the Rockets is point guard Steve Francis, he is 191CM tall, weighs 90 kilograms, has super physical fitness, averaged 18 points, 5.3 rebounds, 6.6 assists and 1.5 steals per game in his rookie season, and was elected the best rookie last season with the Bulls' Brand.

Guo Xu is under a lot of pressure tonight, the veteran Harper is now unreliable at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, if the coach arranges him to defend the peak of the boss for a long time, can he prevent it?

As it stands, Francis is the league's most physical point guard, not one of them.