Chapter 9 The proud army will be defeated
After the New York derby, Tony and Sun Xiaotian went home happily, and when they went home, only Sun Xiaotian's mother came to New York, and his father did not come because of business negotiations. In fact, whoever comes and who doesn't come is the same for Sun Xiaotian, since he was a child, they have been gathering less and leaving more, and he saw the nanny much more often than his parents when he was a child.
In this way, everyone's dinner is somewhat embarrassing, after all, Sun Xiaotian has very few words with his parents now, he is at the dinner table, he only cares about eating, and his mother only cares about talking about luxury stores in New York with his aunt, and he has no excitement at all to come to see his son.
Sun Xiaotian was actually more worried that his aunt would tell him about his play, he looked at his aunt stupidly several times, and his aunt also looked at him from time to time. Fortunately, the aunt didn't mention a word from beginning to end, so Sun Xiaotian was relieved.
Sun Xiaotian's mother didn't stay in New York for a few days because business was too busy! Before leaving the airport, he hoped that Sun Xiaotian would be able to return to China for the Spring Festival, and handed Sun Xiaotian a bank card and told him that he could spend it as he pleased.
Sun Xiaotian didn't answer, only said that his current money was enough to spend, and after the two hugged, tears rolled in his mother's eyes. After all, she is a mother, and the mother's nature is to love her son, but the love she showed before was simply a material giving.
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After all, the vacation was short, and Yale University was back on its way. The full rest of the holidays, coupled with the return of the team's captain Joe from injury, the "holiday fatigue" that would have appeared in other teams did not show up in the pit bulls. They continued their frenzy to get off to a start, starting with a two-game winning streak that took Yale's record to a dream 6-0 record. After 6 games, Sun Xiaotian averaged 24.3 points, 8.6 assists and 5.3 rebounds per game, and the data was extremely gorgeous! And he is also the scoring and assist king of the Ivy League.
So every time he plays, all kinds of media will do enough work to pay attention to and report on him around the clock, and Sun Xiaotian seems to have been built into the James of New Haven by them. The praise of him from various media is also full of words.
The New Haven Sentinel likened Sun Xiaotian to "the Wukong of the heavens!" ”
The Observer newspaper called Sun Xiaotian "reserved a seat in the first team of this year's Ivy League!" ”
Greenham, editor of Slam Dunk Magazine, praised Sun's talent as "unique!! ”
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In the face of such a reputation, no matter how determined a person is, it is inevitable that he will have some pride, and once the pride is popular, the impact will be a thunderbolt. Therefore, it was our Chinese Chairman Mao who had a foresight and spoke out about the harmfulness of sugar-coated shells.
In fact, the media is a double-edged sword, it can make you famous overnight, but it can also make you doomed, and the next game is like this, it makes all the pit bulls realize how small they are still here.
The seventh game was against the University of Pennsylvania Red Devils, who had won 24 Ivy League titles and were back-to-back until they were defeated by Jeremy Lin's Harvard University the previous year.
But in the face of such a strong team, Yale's desire to win before the game was unusually high, but this desire was a little different. Heywood saw some clues, and kept telling them not to take them lightly.
However, the coach's advice did not bear fruit, and the bulldogs were already carried away by the 6 consecutive wins in the opening game, including Sun Xiaotian, who himself was immersed in the glory of the past. They firmly believe that the University of Pennsylvania can easily beat all the players in the first ranks, so they are too sloppy in handling the ball, which leads to a series of mistakes.
It was Yale's sloppy mistakes, the Red Devils' frequent success with fast-break counterattacks, all kinds of open catches, all kinds of violent dunks, all kinds of three-pointers, plus the convenience of the home court, all of which hinted that Yale had no chance.
The poor performance of the starter annoyed coach Heywood, he frequently called a timeout, hoping to wake them up, but it was still useless, you must know that even Sun Xiaotian, who is usually the calmest, has fallen into confusion, then this team seems to have no hope today.
At halftime, Yale trailed by 21 points, 23-54. It's so rotten!
During halftime, Heywood didn't know how many "F" national curses he scolded in a row! He described the players in front of him as arrogant "sheep", a group of people who wanted to win the game with fantasy.
At the start of the second half, Haywood replaced all of his previous starters and did not give them a minute to play. In addition to calming them down, it is also a merciless punishment for them.
No surprises, 66 to 103! Yale University reaped a fiasco! The pit bulls are completely peeing!
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Although a fiasco cannot be adjusted for a season, the media in the United States are not vegetarians, they need news points! A day ago, they had praised Sun Xiaotian and his bulldogs, but the next day they spoke ill of them, saying that they did not deserve the support of the citizens, and that the previous six consecutive victories were due to luck.
Among them, Sun Xiaotian became the target of public criticism, and a comic version of Sun Xiaotian appeared in newspapers and magazines, deliberately scandalizing him. At the same time, the number of people who say that it is difficult for him to achieve great things has also increased suddenly, and even he himself is wondering where did these people come from? Actually, this is America! In the era when super black and super fans were born together, isn't Yao Ming the same?
Truly! Sun Xiaotian's performance in this game was too different from him, with 6 points and 3 assists, which was too much worse than his dominant performance in the first 6 games.
Sun Xiaotian began to reflect on himself, and he was also the first to take the initiative to communicate with Coach Heywood, and he hoped to tell his coach his inner feelings and assure the coach that he would take the future games seriously.
In short, since something has happened, you can't always run away from it. Every time Sun Xiaotian faces an interview with reporters, he will take this defeat on himself and sincerely apologize to the fans. Of course, Sun Xiaotian's typical oriental sincerity can still impress the American media and fans, and within a few days, his image returned to positive, and some fans also actively posted videos, telling Sun Xiaotian to cheer up, and saying that they would definitely support Yale University.
It was at this time that Sun Xiaotian unexpectedly received a phone call, and the person on the other side of the phone told him not to be discouraged and to actively adapt to American culture. At the same time, you must actively improve your skills and mentality, forget about the previous losses as soon as possible, and devote yourself to the next games. At the same time, he also expressed his appreciation for himself and firmly believed that one day Sun Xiaotian would be able to succeed.
This person is Yao Ming!!!