After a two-game losing streak, the Bulls have rebounded strongly. The team won back-to-back victories over the Brooklyn Nets and Charlotte Bobcats to make it two wins in a row. During these two consecutive wins, Sun Xiaotian did not return, and the new starting lineup Belinelli performed eye-catchingly, in two games, he made a total of 11 three-pointers, averaging 16.5 points per game, and the three-point shooting rate reached an astonishing 60.3%.

In fact, Belinelli's explosion was due to Thibodeau's adjustment of the team's lineup, he put Belinelli in the starting lineup, allowing him to play the role of a libero in volleyball. In the game, Belinelli did not have a fixed tactical position, his main role was to run tirelessly.

Thibodeau, meanwhile, also allowed Hinrich to increase his shooting and attacking power. Hinrich actually doesn't lack offensive ability, you must know that when he entered the league, he was known for his accurate shooting. Due to his tactical limitations with the Bulls, his 7.7 points per game is not his true level.

After Thibodeau's adjustments, the Bulls suddenly changed from a defensive powerhouse to an offensive powerhouse. The Bulls averaged 107.5 points per game in both games, compared to the previous 98.7 points, and the Bulls have changed a lot. However, as they put more energy into attacking, their defensive quality has also dropped significantly.

Although the doctor said that Sun Xiaotian needed to rest for about 15 days, the Bulls still postponed Sun Xiaotian's comeback time for safety reasons, because with Rose's lesson, they no longer dared to be careless.

During Sun's break, the Bulls played a total of seven games, and in those seven games, the Bulls' record was not satisfactory, with 4 wins and 3 losses keeping them in third place in the East.

In those seven games, Belinelli was the main player, averaging 14.4 points per game and shooting 47.8 percent from the field. Compared to his previous 9.6 points, his 40% shooting rate is really a lot higher.

When Sun Xiaotian returned from injury, Thibodeau was worried, and he didn't know how to mix Sun Xiaotian and Belineri. Belineri has been in the starting line-up for a great time and the team is on their way to winning. However, when Sun Xiaotian returned from injury, whether his condition could meet expectations, Thibodeau did not know.

Thibodeau's concern is not unreasonable, the rookie wall is really hard to entangle, and I don't know how many high-ranking players have been blocked by this wall. These players either scrapped their efforts to recover, and some said goodbye to the NBA completely. Thibodeau is a person who cherishes talents, and he doesn't want Sun Xiaotian's treasure jade to be destroyed in his hands.

In the end, Thibodeau is still cautious, he wants Sun Xiaotian to adapt little by little, and get back his feelings little by little. So, he placed Sun Xiaotian in the bench lineup.

Although Thibodeau is a cherished talent, Sun Xiaotian also knows the coach's intentions. However, Sun Xiaotian, who came on as a substitute, felt awkward everywhere, and he felt that he could not give full play to his true strength at all.

Sun Xiaotian is the typical slow-heater type who needs a pre-match warm-up to get the feel of the game. However, as a substitute player, you have to be in the kind of microwave oven and have to contribute when you get on the field. Because when the substitutes come on, usually the main players of the game need to rest, what the substitutes have to do is to try not to let the score pull away as much as possible. As a result, Sun Xiaotian's appearance just gave the opponent a chance to breathe, and at this time, Sun Xiaotian's former strength became the team's biggest weakness.

And usually at this time, the starting Belineri often has a good performance, which makes Thibodeau even more worried.

What's even worse is that Sun Xiaotian's efficiency when he is on the field is -5, which is not many points lower than the +7 when he started. (I'm not good at math!) Ha ha! ）

In the first game of Sun Xiaotian's comeback game, the Bulls' opponent was the New Orleans Hornets. Belineri scored 16 points in this game and still shot 53 percent from the field. However, Sun Xiaotian only scored 4 points, and at the same time, there were 5 mistakes. The result of the game was that the Bulls lost.

In the second game, the Bulls defeated the Washington Wizards 98-91. However, the entire Bulls team had 28 turnovers, of which Sun Xiaotian alone contributed 4.

What made Thibodeau even more intolerable was that before the start of the fourth quarter, the Bulls were still ahead of the opponent by as many as 20 points, but as soon as the Bulls came off the bench, they were hit by the Wizards with an 18-6 attack wave. A glance at Thibodeau, who had the wrong momentum, took back the starting lineup in time, and then won the game with difficulty. Sun Xiaotian still scored only 10 points in this game, and his shooting rate was extremely low.

Through these two games, it can be seen that it is not the adaptability between the players that is wrong, but the problem with Sun Xiaotian. Although slow heating is an excuse for players to play poorly, as a player who aspires to become a star, Sun Xiaotian has become very important in how to adjust himself and improve himself.

Jordan, Kobe, James...... These basketball superstars, in their rookie years, have more or less encountered the rookie wall, especially Kobe.

Although Kobe Bryant in his rookie year has a dazzling halo, the pressure and doubts he has to bear are unprecedented. You must know that the Lakers exchanged Divac for the rookie Kobe! Everyone also knows Divac's perfect performance in the king, and when he was in the king, it was the end of Divac's career.

However, in his rookie season, his shooting percentage can only be said to be dismal compared to now, and his dismal performance has attracted many insults.

However, he managed to survive the rookie wall with his tenacious adaptability and self-adjustment, and began to improve steadily in his second season.

Thibodeau has already understood that Sun Xiaotian's "rookie wall" is here, and whether he can survive it smoothly at this time can only depend on himself.

Sun Xiaotian himself thought of this worst-case result during his recuperation, but he didn't expect it to be so soon. The performance of these two games made Sun Xiaotian's emotions fall to the extreme. He's never had such a bad performance, even in the first game of the NCAA, which was much more brilliant than these two.

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The bad comeback made Sun Xiaotian's mood fall to the bottom in an instant. And this negative emotion made him completely out of shape in the game. In this way, Sun Xiaotian fell into a strange circle.

In this circle, he was running around like a bull without a goal. Each time he tried to knock a path of blood, but in the end he found that not only did the wall not fall, but he was covered in bruises.