Chapter 24: First Encounter with Jeremy Lin
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On November 15, the 18,500-seat New Orleans Arena was packed to capacity, and cheers shook the earth to welcome their new king, a rare occurrence in recent years. New Orleans is a seaport city, and since the hurricane hit New Orleans in 2005, residents have moved out of New Orleans, resulting in only about 370,000 people left in New Orleans.
Today is the team's third game of the new season at home, and due to the team's excellent record in the new season, fans have come out of their homes to cheer for the team, especially for their new king Yang Yi.
Since Paul left, the Hornets have not been so proud, and last season was often a few consecutive defeats or a dozen consecutive defeats, and the team did not have the momentum it has now.
Although it was the league's current underdog Rockets at home today, the fans were still enthusiastic, and the cheers were enough to tear down the roof of the arena before the players entered the stadium.
After that, the players gradually lined up to enter, and the team's DJ loudly led the fans to shout: "The first to enter the game is the team's starting quarterback ~ Eric Gordon, Gordon is now the team's second scorer and the second contributor to the team's winning streak, let's welcome Eric...... Gordon. Next up is the team's starting center ~ Robin Lopez, who guarded the team's penalty area and contributed to the team's winning streak......"
Yang Yi heard the earth-shattering cheers in the field, and he felt some emotion in his heart. When he was in Kentucky, he was the Wildcats' leading scorer and assist leader, and fans loved him a lot, but the cheers that came out on the court were often the team's number one star, Anthony Davis. At that time, he said in his heart that in the future, in a team, the highest cheer can only be himself. Now, with the team's five consecutive wins, his position in the team has also been established, and the Hornets are their own team.
"Finally, let's welcome our new queen bee - Yang Yi with the wildest cheers. He is the team's leading scorer, the pillar of the team, the key to the team's rise, and under his leadership, the team is on the right path! Friends, shout out the king of your hearts, The one!"
Yang Yi strolled in, the shouts of 'The One' in his ears continued, and the fans on both sides of the tunnel stretched out their hands, hoping to touch the fat man. Yang Yi also stretched out his long arms and interacted with the fans.
Jeremy Lin looked at the young fat man not far away in a daze, and his heart was full of emotion, he played a fantastic record in the Knicks last season, when the fat man was still playing in the NCAA, but the Chinese media compared him with the fat man, and he was still a little unimpressed. As a result, now the fat man has played a more fantastic record than him and has become the absolute core of the team, but the Knicks have not kept him, he was signed by Houston in the free market and became the main player of the team, and the status of the fat man is very different.
The circumstances of life are really changing!
As soon as Yang entered the arena and high-fived his teammates, he saw Jeremy Lin not far away, and he recently heard about this Chinese brother and felt sorry for what happened to him. Originally, he had already played in the Knicks, and if he continued to stay in the Knicks, he would not be able to run away from a starting position. Now that you're in Houston, you're going to have to start competing all over again!
The fat man walked up to Jeremy Lin and stretched out his hands and said, "Brother Lin, welcome to New Orleans!" ”
Jeremy Lin held the fat man's hand and said closely, "The One, come on!" ”
The live director quickly captured this scene, and the commentator of New Orleans said excitedly: "It seems that our king and Lin are crazy to know each other, although Lin's madness has gradually stopped, but our king is still continuing to stage his miracle, come on, The One!" ”
"Brother Lin, how about going to dinner together after the game, I want to do my landlord's friendship when I come to my home field!"
"No problem, we don't have a game tomorrow, wait until you call me, let's go taste New Orleans together!"
"Then it's decided!"
The fat man and Jeremy Lin were agreeing to eat, but the on-site director kept the camera on them, the fat man and the somewhat thin Jeremy Lin were in stark contrast, and the wasp commentator said badly: "The One and Lin may really be two different species, this size difference is too big." No, The One isn't part of the planet, he's incredible, this size combined with his strength gives him incredible attack power on the outside, if his defense were better, it would be perfect! However, this is only his first season and he still has time to perfect. ”
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After the warm-up, both sides are ready to play. The starting line-ups for both sides today are:
Rockets: Jeremy Lin, James Harden, Francisco Garcia, Royce White, Omir Axey
Hornets: Young, Eric Gordon, Al Aminu, Ryan Anderson, Robin Lopez
Jeremy Lin is one of the highest-paid players of the Rockets at this stage, and he has an annual salary of more than eight million like Axey, while the team's boss James Harden only has more than six million. However, being able to get the highest salary is also inseparable from his performance last season, and on the pitch, performance is everything.
The two sides jumped in the middle circle, 26-year-old Axey against 24-year-old Lopez. Obviously, the younger Lopez jumped to the ball and Yang Yi held the ball to organize the attack.
Opposite the fat man was Jeremy Lin, and the fat man smiled at him with the ball: "Brother Lin, I'm going to attack!" After speaking, he didn't pass the ball, and walked directly to the basket against Jeremy Lin.
"The One, this is The One, he has unmatched attack power from the outside, Lin is not his one-in-one enemy at all, Harden comes over to help defend, oh my God, this is The One, our king of New Orleans. He resisted Harden and Lin into the restricted area, dunked, dunked, The One completed a super violent dunk on the heads of Harden and Lin, and in less than ten seconds of the opening game, our king scored two points on the heads of Lin and Harden, The One, The One! ”
"Let's take a look at the replay of the top five of today's goals, after the Hornets player was in place, The One didn't pass the ball, he held the ball and hit Lin directly to the penalty area, but before he seemed to laugh and said something, but none of this mattered, he was almost powerless to fight back, Harden saw this and hurried to help defend, but to no avail, the two were not able to stop The One's violent attack, look at Harden's dull eyes, obviously what is in front of him is beyond his imagination."
The fans at the scene were crazy, they stood up and cheered for the fat man, less than ten seconds after the opening, the fat man used his domineering attack to dedicate a wonderful violent aesthetics to them, just with this goal, they went to the scene to watch the game today is definitely worth it!
Harden was stunned, Jeremy Lin was stunned, and all the members of the Rockets were stunned, is this especially sure that it is not an interior player, not Charles Barkley of the TNT commentary team? Even the head coach of the Rockets, Mike Hale, had a look in his eyes full of disbelief, it is one thing to study the fat man in the video, but it is another thing to actually see the fat man's devastating attack on the spot!
Could it be that the inner line Auden the Great was scrapped back then, and now there is another outside Emperor?