Unlike the winner's Bobcats' away locker room, there was silence in the home team's locker room at the Toyota Center after the loss.

In contrast to Hu Qingniu, who worries that his team's young players will not be able to hold their breath and become arrogant before the final game, the Rockets' coach Van Gundy is helpless about the team's morale sinking into the Mariana Trench.

Moreover, even him, an NBA veteran who has been in the NBA for more than ten years and started from video editing, feels that the game the day after tomorrow has no chance of winning, and he can't help but think in his heart, although he didn't win the championship, the runner-up is already a rare good result. After all, it's been 10 years since Olajuwon lifted the O'Brien Cup at Sky City, and reaching the finals is a historic breakthrough for Van Gundy's own coaching career.

Would it be a nice finish, Van Gundy thought, and maybe his players thought the same.

In the silence, it was Yao Ming who broke the suffocating silence.

"I don't know what to say." The voice was not loud, but it still attracted everyone's attention, and Battier, Juwan Howard, and Hardaway, who was wearing ice packs, all looked at him.

Yao Ming knows that he has been in the United States for three years, and his skills have improved a lot, and he is not scared at all in the face of O'Neal, but he has never been able to become a leader in the locker room and on the court. A leader, like the soul of a team, can lead the team forward anytime and anywhere.

In this regard, the Rockets have been led by Francis for the first two years, and now Hardaway is clearly doing better than him. In a foreign country, Yao Ming has just overcome the barriers of language communication, the barriers of competitive level, and now he has to face the challenge of the position of leader, which is not easy, but Yao Ming knows what he must say now.

"I... I don't know what to say, but that's not because I have nothing to say," Yao Ming raised his head, opened his eyes wide, and said sincerely to each of his teammates, "On the contrary, I have a lot of things I want to say, but I don't know how to express them." ”

At this moment, Yao Ming's personal translator gestured with his eyes, but was rejected.

After a pause, Yao Ming continued.

"I'll tell you something I know well."

Yao Ming dragged the tactical blackboard to the middle of the locker room, which was obviously a breeze for him.

"In the U.S., the maximum you can get in school is 5, or A," Yao Ming smiled and wrote down the number 5 on the tactical board, "but when I was a kid, in China, we had a lot of questions on a test paper, sometimes more than the number of games the Rockets played in an entire season, so our perfect score was 100. ”

A heavy 100 was pressed on the small blackboard by Yao Ming.

"100 points is enough for every child to be proud of, and when they get home, they can even make all kinds of requests to their parents and parents, whether it is ice cream or amusement parks."

The team couldn't help but smile.

Yao Ming didn't laugh. "We're kids with 100 points now. Even if we don't do anything and lose our panties in Charlotte the day after tomorrow, the newspapers all over Houston have prepared a press release praising our breakthrough this season, our media will sing our praises, our fans will comfort us, and even our boss will throw us a celebration party and throw his checkbook at us this summer. ”

Some of the players even laughed out loud that it had been a successful season, and several of them were going to sign big contracts.

But Yao Ming's words changed.

"If you look at it this way, we can even cancel our tickets the day after tomorrow and stay in Houston until the game is over."

Yao Ming gradually became excited.

"No, that's obviously not right. Why don't we go and score one hundred and one points?!!! ”

"The Bobcats have only lost one game in the playoffs, just last week in Houston, where they scored 100 points, but we scored 101. Why don't we do it again?!! ”

......

- Why don't we go and score one hundred and one points? Why don't we do it again?

Yao Ming's speech was not long enough, not even a tenth of Martin Luther King's, that would not be enough to be on the level of a famous speech. But the last two sentences were deeply imprinted in the hearts of all Rockets players, including head coach Van Gundy, and everyone couldn't help but answer in their hearts.

- So, just do it!

Not long after, a press release called "Let's Go and Win One Hundred and One Points" was sent directly back to China across the ocean through the Internet, and directly appeared in the headlines of major sports media an hour later.

At the same time, various media in the United States also began to publish this inspirational speech.

One media even published every word that Yao Ming said an hour ago, and not a word was missed.

Therefore, there is no impermeable wall in the world, and it is all aimed at the media. Every sports outlet spends a lot of money, connections, and means to build its own sources across NBA teams.

Sometimes, a powerful whistleblower reporter even knows his team better than the team owner, and even more so can break the news when a major transaction occurs, and at this moment, the owner of such and such a team stretches out his first few fingers, points to his president of basketball operations and says, what is the bottom line of our negotiations later.

is like Yao Ming's speech, which obviously took place in his own locker room in his own stadium, and it was full of his own people, but there were people who could reveal all the conversations word for word. And it's not one media, it's a number of media outlets, many media outlets in China and the United States.

The bald public relations operations manager of the Rockets now has a terrible headache, and he doesn't even know the news, and in less than an hour, he rushed out of the Americas and went to the world, this kind of big scene shows that there are several ghosts in the locker room.

The bald public relations manager grabbed his hair, immediately drew a list of lists, gathered the strength of the department, and planned to come up with an elimination method.

The crowd spoke enthusiastically.

"Yao's translator used to work for a certain wave before, and he is very suspicious."

"But he is at most an informant for the Chinese media, and he can't all be exposed, Yao also has a Chinese agent, I think he must have a part."

"Last time I saw Yao's Chinese agent having dinner with a CBS reporter......"

“CBS？ Is this also news, I have even seen this Chinese agent eating with TNT's big-mouthed Buckley, and it is very suspicious! ”

The bald manager nodded with satisfaction, it seems that his department's information collection work is doing a good job, and he usually pays attention to collecting useful information.

"Also, Yao was also present at the time, and I put forward a hypothesis, I think it is possible that Yao himself is also a source of TNT?"

"I also saw it at that time, I also saw that Hu Qingniu, the head coach of the Bobcats, and Sabonis, the team member, were all present, Yao should not have leaked the news, but ...... The rebels have defected, right? ”

"It's a coincidence that it's not, I also saw it at that time, not to mention Hu Qingniu and Sabonis, I also saw the manager, manager, you said yes or no, it was 7:8:9 last Saturday night."

The bald general manager looked confused, and he was suspicious of myself.

"Last Saturday? Seven p.m.? Still eight minutes and nine seconds? Is it outside the Toyota Center? ”

"Yes, manager, did you say it's a coincidence, we all saw it."

"I'm a ghost! That day, the boss invited Coach Hu Qingniu to dinner, and we accompanied him! What are you thinking about here every day, get out of here, let me go out and play! ”