Chapter 240: Can You Sign Me?
"Congratulations to the host for breaking George Gervin's single-quarter scoring record and receiving a system milestone reward."
"Congratulations to the host for breaking Dennis Scott's single-game 3-point shooting record and receiving a system milestone reward."
"Congratulations to the host for breaking John Rose's single-quarter 3-point shooting record and getting a system milestone reward."
The host scored 59 points, 12 assists, 10 rebounds, 3 steals, 1 block, and earned 139 experience points and 139 points each. The host's single-game evaluation is B-level, and an additional 50 points of experience and points will be awarded"
When he was celebrating wildly with the players and even the staff of the whole team, a series of pleasant system enhancement sounds sounded in Meng Xu's ears, and he won 3 milestone rewards in a single game, and this extra gain also made Meng Xu excited. At this time, on the Spurs' bench, only the embarrassed Steve Cole, and the smiling Popovich were left, and even Mike Budenholzer joined in the crazy celebration.
As a head coach from a military background, although Popovich is not conservative, his requirements for the Spurs will always be, unity, discipline, just like an army, but Meng Xu is now moving more and more towards the spiritual style of the Spurs, incompatible with the direction, although Meng Xu is also very team spirit and knows how to sacrifice for the team, but Meng Xu has one of the biggest flaws, that is, he likes to be in the limelight, the bigger the scene, the more so, which is contrary to the low-key required by Popovich, And Popovich has now discovered that the more critical the moment, the less Meng Xu believes in his teammates, even if his teammate is Tim Duncan, his first choice is always himself, he only believes in himself, just like the guy named Michael.
Because of this, Popovich is now more and more in crisis, for fear that one day when he wakes up, his most trusted disciples will be incompatible, and the team he has worked so hard to build will fall apart, so although the Spurs won the focus battle, Popovich looked at the players who were still celebrating on the field, and his expression was a little abnormal.
At this time, Kobe Bryant was still sitting under the basketball hoop, looking at the high-spirited Meng Xu not far away, even if his teammates had now walked into the players' tunnel, and the fans on the scene had begun to leave the court, but at this time Kobe Bryant was still indifferent to Meng Xu in the distance.
This game was the happiest game in Kobe's career, strong opponents, excellent teammates, and his best self, everything seemed so perfect, but in the end he lost, not only lost the game, but also lost the bet between himself and him, which made the strong Kobe a little frustrated. At the same time, Kobe Bryant also strengthened his opinion again, Meng Xu and himself are the same kind of people, and this guy will also be the biggest opponent in his career.
"In the next fight, I will definitely beat you." Kobe Bryant, who woke up from frustration and trance, patted his jersey and walked towards the players' tunnel.
"Congratulations, you have made the current Kobe Bryant stronger than yourself at the same time in history, maybe next season, maybe this season, you will meet Kobe Bryant at his peak." Just as Meng Xu's teammates finished celebrating and were about to leave the field, Anna's voice sounded in Meng Xu's ears again.
"Kobe Bryant, the real pinnacle?" Now Kobe Bryant is already making people's heads bigger, stronger than this Kobe, thinking about it makes people's scalp numb, it is impossible for me to use the pretending to be *forced* moment every time I meet Kobe, I knew that I wouldn't play so big, I stepped on Kobe's body several times in this game, and in the next game, with that guy's character, I didn't try my best to make myself.
"Originally, after Kobe Bryant became a supergiant this season, he didn't reach the peak of his career until 4 seasons later, and now? Maybe you'll witness a Kobe Bryant who is even stronger than the original history, so take care. In this game, Kobe not only completed the transformation from superstar to supergiant, but also his own strength rose from 94 to 96, and now Kobe is already the top 5 players in the entire league, 96 Kobe Bryant plus 98 O'Neal, the Spurs' dynasty road is becoming more and more difficult. And according to Anna, Kobe Bryant will become stronger this season, thinking of this, Meng Xu also shook his head, it seems that he is also going to speed up and improve his strength.
"Hey, Meng, can you sign for me?" Just as Meng Xu was about to walk into the players' tunnel, a blonde girl with a ponytail, a loose T-shirt on her upper body, and jeans on her lower body stood outside the railing of the players' tunnel, shouting loudly at Meng Xu.
"Signature? All right. "This is the first time Meng Xu has met a fan in the away stadium and asked him for an autograph, just for the sake of your good looks, I'll sign one for you.
"Sign here." Just as Meng Xu walked to the edge of the railing, the blonde girl found a Spurs' No. 5 jersey out of nowhere and handed it to herself, along with a ballpoint pen.
Seeing the jersey prepared by this girl in advance, Meng Xu also smiled, in the home court of the Lakers, someone actually held the Spurs' jersey, although I don't know why I didn't wear it, but it can also prove that this girl is a Spurs fan.
And after the end of this game, Meng Xu also rarely appeared at the post-game press conference, and as the focus of the game, when Meng Xu sat down with head coach Popovich at the press conference, at this time, looking at the crazy reporters in the field, Meng Xu wanted to retreat.
On December 21, 2000, the day after the end of the game between the Spurs and the Lakers, almost as he expected, Meng Xu became the focus of the entire American sports world and media, not only ABC, TNT, espn, these TV networks that broadcast NBA games, but also the rest of the major American media, including almost all newspapers and magazines, are reporting the game throughout the game, and after Meng Xu shoots, he turns around to celebrate, and the picture of Meng Xu turning around to celebrate is constantly played on the TV screen. And Kobe Bryant's 58 points and Meng Xu's 59 points, and even Meng Xu's 35 points in a single quarter, this kind of news, which is enough to detonate attention no matter which game it is put in, no one pays attention to it now.
Although this game is not a Christmas war, but because of the league's early hype, this game has also attracted countless attention, and because of the Christmas holiday, there are not a few fans who watched this game, according to later statistics, Kobe and Meng Xu at the last moment of the competition, set a 13% rating, once again refreshed the regular season ratings record this season.
After the game against the Lakers, the Spurs left for Charlotte and then to Golden State, and after the game between the Hornets and the Warriors, the Spurs team will be disbanded and go back for Christmas. In these two games, Meng Xu was rested again, and because of the nearly 30 shots in the game against the Lakers, the Spurs announced that Meng Xu's wrist was injured and could miss about a week.
On December 22, the Spurs played away against the Hornets, the Spurs without Meng Xu were ended by the Hornets their 11-game winning streak, due to Meng Xu's absence, the Spurs were really unavailable in the point guard position, the two bench guards Derrick Tiard, and Jalen Jackson's performance was not satisfactory, and the Spurs' outside defense This game is basically useless, the Hornets' 3 outside Jamal Mashburn, David Wesley and Byron Davis 3 combined to score 67 points, Let Tim Duncan's 30 points and 17 rebounds go down the drain. ,
On December 24, the Spurs played against the second-to-last Warriors in the West, and finally the Spurs had 6 double-doubles and defeated the Warriors with a score of 105-90, avoiding the embarrassment of consecutive defeats, and the Hornets, who are currently 6-19, can basically consider competing for the top pick. Meanwhile, Dave Cowens, who has been in charge of the team for less than a season, is now on the verge of being sacked.
After this game, the entire Spurs team went home, and according to the news released on the league's official website, the first round of this season's All-Star voting has officially begun.