Yang Yiming's catastrophe continues.

In the regular season against the Bulls, he played 19 minutes and scored only 3 points and 2 rebounds on 1-of-5 shooting.

The next day at the home of the Pacers, in the tug-of-war between the two teams' main players Harden and Oladipo scored 28 points each, Yang Yiming continued to be dumb, playing 21 minutes and scoring 7 points, 4 rebounds and 1 assist on 3-of-10 shooting, and made 4 turnovers under the Pacers' suffocating defense. In the Sino-US Shenzhen match, he faced the "Black Panther" Oladipo, who was bent on scoring and trying to prove himself but was blocked by Yang Yiming's defense, this time he completely broke free from the fetters and rushed forward, almost pulling the rocket off the horse.

Continue the road trip back to the West with the Rockets. In Oklahoma City, where there was no Weishao, the Rockets were defeated by the Thunder in the third quarter. Yang Yiming played 20 minutes, scored 5 points, 5 rebounds, 2 assists and 3 turnovers on 2-of-7 shooting. What is the root cause of the team's loss? In the absence of Wei Shao due to injury, not limiting another star Paul George with 20 points, 11 rebounds, 6 assists and 6 steals is obviously the main reason for the loss - this heavy responsibility, naturally can not expect to return to his hometown "melon" Cameron Anthony, Yang Yiming can not escape the blame.

The Rockets, who have made it five consecutive road games, finally end up on the turf of their fellow state rivals, the San Antonio Spurs. The Rockets, who had bitten the score for almost four quarters, were finally hit by Aldridge on the back of the free throw line, leading by seven points with only two minutes left, killing the suspense of the game. At that time, it was Yang Yiming who was entrusted with the important task of defending Aldridge alone. The Rockets were forced to call a timeout, and Yang Yiming went off the court, and his full-court statistics stayed at 8 points, 5 rebounds, 3 assists and 1 steal in 24 minutes, and the score was less than double digits again.

Unscathed.

Yang Yiming, who never worried about the shooting touch last season, actually practiced shooting in the summer, but his shooting rate plummeted!

What's even worse is that in the Houston Rockets who finally went home, there is no place for Yang Yiming!

In the second season, Yang Yiming was once again sent to the Houston Vipers of the Development League by Coach Mike D'Antoni!

What a catastrophe this is!

November 11, 2018.

Austin Spurs.

This scene Yang Yiming seems to be familiar.

He also played two games in the Development League at the start of last season. In the game with 52 points, the opponent was none other than the Austin Spurs.

The only difference is that last year's home stadium was the Houston Vipers — the Rio Grande Valley Vipers — to be exact — but no one is used to calling the awkward name of the team — at State Farm Stadium in Hidalgo, Houston, and this time it was Austin on the road.

The pitch has changed, and the mood of the players is completely different.

Yang Yiming just entered the league last season, and his performance at the beginning of the season was amazing, but after all, he was an unknown rookie player who had not been drafted, and it was understandable that he was sent to the development league to polish and upgrade. Yang Yiming was spurred by Coach Mike D'Antoni to cut the bet of 100 points in three games, although there are also hidden worries that may not be achieved, but there is always a young maniac spirit, let it go, and have no worries. Even if he didn't reach 100 points in the end of the three games, Yang Yiming probably never thought that he would "sink" in the development league for a lifetime. So in Houston, which is not a luxury Vipers, Yang Yiming is apprehensive, but he still has the courage to dominate the world - I am the chosen son of the NBA, I ran to this small place to score 50 points!

However, Yang Yiming, who is in Austin, has lost his arrogance that is not arrogant, speechless but roaring.

A sense of street despair.

In early November in Austin, there aren't many people near the arena on the outskirts of the city. The winter weather in Texas is also not hot, and you can only feel the burning pain of cutting open skin when the wind blows and blows sand and gravel in the desert area as far as the eye can see.

Yang Yiming got off the bus half a kilometer away from the stadium. It's an ordinary arena, I don't know if it's a coincidence or something that could be done, with the same boring and unflattering black and white color scheme as the senior team, the San Antonio Spurs. There is a small parking lot outside the arena, just like many supermarkets in the United States. Truth be told, the stadium is so ordinary that at first glance there is no sign that it will be with the sports figures. If it is a large warehouse-style supermarket, some people may believe it.

Yang Yiming walked in the lukewarm wind of Austin in November, carrying his equipment bag and walking through this empty and lonely parking lot. There weren't a few cars in the parking lot, and after all, it was just over 9 a.m., and the development league game time and the NBA were simply day and night. The parking lot is also like another upside-down mirror NBA world - there are no shiny luxury cars that can arouse the interest of passers-by, and the cars are either basic or big, clunky SUVs, just like the city and weather in this Texas state, open and lonely. But then again, Yang Yiming's teammates in the Houston Rockets, who are also in Texas, have to squeeze their huge bodies into delicate supercars.

Jose drove Yang Yiming to send it.

But Yang Yiming didn't let Jose drive the car to the door of the stadium. He felt that the way the chauffeur was presented was not in line with today's theme. His guess was correct, whether it was his Vipers or Austin Spurs players, they all drove to the game from their respective rented apartments in Texas.

Yu Xiaochun also proposed to send this trip, so that there would be no need for Jose to run away, he explained. But what he actually wanted was to talk to his good friends on the more than 200 kilometers from Houston to Austin.

They haven't had a proper conversation since they received an email notification from Coach Mike D'Antoni. At least Yang Yiming hasn't expressed his emotions yet, and Yu Xiaochun feels that he should have some emotions.

Yang Yiming declined the kind invitation.

Just like he and José didn't say a word along the way. José, as a broken-mouthed Mexican, certainly couldn't bear the suffocating atmosphere of the summer Texas desert, and tried to open the conversation several times, but was interrupted by Yang Yiming's icy, short, abstract reply.

He decided to get out of the car early and walk through the parking lot himself into this development league game.

After a year's absence, I'm back on the field again.

After the last time he left here, everything went smoothly for him. Championship, sitting on the rotation lineup, and narrowly missing the Rookie of the Year. The Rocket's road to defending the title, he is one of the irreplaceable cornerstones. Especially after the forward line sent Ariza and Bamot away, from the team to the league, critics to scouts, they all regarded Yang Yiming as the future of team development. Yang Yiming himself thinks the same.

At least half a month ago, before everything happened in Los Angeles, who would have thought it would be now.

He, Yang Yiming, walked through the parking lot of Austin's giant shopping mall rather than a stadium, and was alone in a development league game.

Who would have thought that there would be such a catastrophe.