Although Kalonsky II's sudden visit to Phoenix caught Yu Xiaochun a little off guard, the news he brought still made him excited for a while.

Halfway through the season, his friend has been in the NBA for three months, and his ability value has risen from the original 78 to 81. Although the person who gave the rating was Scott Kalonsky II, a rather deviant old man, Yang Yiming's rating was inevitably stained with the light of his super talent (the opponent's rating system will take into account the player's talent differently, which means that his other ratings that reflect actual combat ability are correspondingly higher), but if what he said is true, then Yang Yiming's progress is indeed amazing.

With an ability value of more than 80 points, you can basically sit in a regular rotation position in the NBA.

But the most terrifying thing is not how many points Yang Yiming was rated, but the 3-point improvement from 78 to 81 was achieved in just three months!

How many NBA players have been fighting for several seasons to seek such progress but can't get it, and this Chinese actually did it unknowingly?!

It's incredible.

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On the night he met Kalonsky II, Yu Xiaochun lay on the soft collapsed bed in the hotel and couldn't sleep for a long time.

A phrase he had heard at night haunted his mind and made him think: "... Some changes have happened, but you're still in the dark, and when you do notice it, you're just like the whole stadium that came back to watch the game, thinking you'd seen some overnight miracle. ”

So the change of his good friend, 21-year-old Chinese teenager Yang Yiming, has happened?

So a player who has been on American soil for less than three months, and even has no experience in other professional teams, is enough to establish himself in the NBA, the temple of basketball?

So Yang Yiming, really has the talent described by Karonsky II, no one has been around for more than ten years?

All of these made Yu Xiaochun feel confused and excited, a mixed complex feeling. It was as if he was in the eye of the storm, and the world outside the edge of his vision had been turned upside down, but he was still in a constant and calm mood. Passing through the edges, there seemed to be subtle breaks and screams, which he couldn't confirm, so he could only wait and see. And Kalonsky II, at this time, like a radio signal that suddenly crossed the storm, burst out on the radio with a loud noise: "Be careful, the storm is coming!" ”

Storm!

Is the storm really coming from China?

Is it really just because he was in the center of the storm and got along with Yang Yiming every day and night that he didn't notice it?

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According to the old man of Karonsky II, Yu Xiaochun should have been aware of it. As a crazy man who loves basketball, Yu Xiaochun is the most proficient in statistics, and as of the game against the Suns, Yang Yiming has played 37 games this season with an average playing time of 24.5 minutes, 13.2 points, 5.1 rebounds, 2.2 assists, 1.9 blocks and 1.0 steals. Even though the rookies of the 17th class are full of talent, Yang Yiming's points and steals can also rank in the top ten in the five basic statistics, and with the blessing of ten block explosions, his 1.9 blocks are far ahead of all rookies.

From the template of a 3D player, Yang Yiming's defensive threat naturally does not need to be repeated, the Trail Blazers have four blocks in a single quarter, five blocks in three consecutive games, and his opponents include both famous players like Anthony Lillard, as well as direct competitors like Jayson Tatum, it can be said that his presence on the court itself has been a synonym for deterrence. His three-point shooting, in terms of shooting percentage, has steadily climbed from a mid-30s at the start of the season, and Kalonsky II's comments confirm that.

Even if you want to talk about the progress of the completion of Coach D'Antoni's "show me the Rookie of the Year Award", Yang Yiming is not lagging behind. This rookie class has a lot of talent, including Ben Simmons of the 76ers in terms of all-round development, Donovan Mitchell of the Jazz team in terms of scoring, Jason Tatum, the "lifelong enemy" of the Celtics in terms of youth and aging, Danny Smith of Dallas in terms of physical fitness, Los Angeles darling Lonzo Ball in terms of the overall situation, and Kyle Kuzma, Ball's teammate who is seriously underrated. But even so, Rocket No. 17 Yang Yiming still often shows his limelight, standing in the top five positions in the rookie power rankings, and it is still unknown who will die in the best rookie deer.

From this point of view, Yu Xiaochun is really just turning a blind eye to this upcoming Chinese storm?

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But his suspicions are also justified.

His suspicions came from the fact that all was going well. More than three months ago in the summer, he didn't know Yang Yiming, who was just a young player with a slight character in the tournament he had covered. A whistle-blowing announcement from Team Rocket directed his curiosity to the former. The precursor of the storm was formed. On the other side of the ocean, China. Hovering, moving, gathering, expanding. This storm is like a huge black hole of inertia, absorbing all the energy he can come into contact with in the shortest possible time: the hypnotic masseuse Nina helps him improve his physical fitness, the ten effective blocking cheats of Karonsky III are partially used by him, and the mystery of Karl Malone's blocking and dismantling is almost understood in seconds... The cyclones over the Great Plain Ocean grew bigger and faster, and finally turned into a devastating storm that befell the United States, and it was now unstoppable!

But it always feels a little unreal.

Yu Xiaochun meant that even if the maker of the storm was by his side and he had seen the process of formation with his own eyes, it was too unlike an event that happened in the real world. If you have to be figurative... He has also read a lot of bloody online novels before, all of which are like plots that only exist in novels: the protagonist who is gifted or amazed by his life is often invincible because he is reborn and holds a certain system, turning the opponent's mastery into his own use, becoming king step by step, and finally achieving the grand hegemony and becoming the first strongman in the universe.

It's like a game!

Yang Yiming's past 90 days are like a game that takes place in the real world!

And what made Yu Xiaochun feel that everything was like a game was what the old man Kalonsky II said to him at the end of the previous conversation on the court: "Whether you can see it or not, but the change has indeed happened." You're only at the center of the incident that you haven't changed drastically, but I'm telling you, your friend is not the same player as he was three months ago. ”

"What do I want to express, you ask? What I want to say is that even if you don't see the change yet, you need to recognize it and embrace it. It's so huge, even though it's formless. You need to be prepared to make your heart and body bigger so that when it actually becomes a physical object, you will be able to hold each other enough. ”

Yu Xiaochun didn't know when this strange old man's speech had become a philosopher's tone, but Karonsky II didn't care, and continued to indoctrinate him: "So it's time to think about a bigger cause, dream." They all say that people are great because of their dreams, and I think that only by seizing every moment when dreams come true can we talk about true greatness. So the question is: does he want to be the All-Star Ticket King? ”

Thinking of this, Yu Xiaochun sat up from the bed, panting in the dark night, as if he had to suck all the air around him into his body. He was sweating profusely, his eyes staring at the darkness around him. Without glasses, all the darkness seemed to be one color, and he couldn't see through the borders, and his heart was pounding.

All-Star Ticket King.

He felt that it was time to talk to Yang Yiming alone.