Chapter 295: Sun Yue who seized the opportunity
Li Kaiming's enthusiasm for the Heat's triumvirate who just cut a new career high has not passed, and the announcement of the best player and rookie of the month has made Li Kaiming's popularity in Emilica rise to a new level!
These two things made Li Kaiming enter the eyes of a large number of NbA fans, and people found out that in addition to the home team players they care about the most, there is also a young Chinese teenager who will kill in NbA!
And the effect of this is that many Emerica fans who are on the sidelines are also determined to vote for Li Kaiming with their All-Star votes.
In addition to the All-Star ballot, ESpN also announced the jersey sales ranking for the first month of the new season on their website.
Kobe Bryant won the championship with the blessing of the defending title, his No. 24 jersey became the top seller in November, LeBron James due to the change of team, although the popularity has declined, but the change of team means that his fans have to collect his Heat No. 6 jersey again, and his jersey sales have naturally become second.
Here are some of the league's star players, with Howard, Rose, Wade and others on the list.
And at the end of this list, that is, at the 20th place, the only rookie name appeared - Li Kaiming!
Li Kaiming entered the league as the champion, which originally brought his own halo, not to mention that he also played a rare rookie performance in history, and the jersey sales exceeded that of many old guys, which is not surprising.
At seven o'clock in the evening on December 1, at the home of the Toronto Raptors, the brotherhood battle between Li Kaiming and Elliott Williams officially began.
With Alssoton's injury sideline, Sanders is using Trevor Booker as the starting small forward tonight and has promised Sun Yue to play as a substitute for Booker in the rotation.
In the first quarter, both sides didn't feel good, and the Raptors were originally a piece of defense on offense, ranking 26th among the 30 teams in offensive efficiency before this game, a proper offensive constipation team.
However, the Raptors' offensive garbage is also traceable, they rarely shoot three-point shots, and DeMar Rozan, who is the core of the team, dislikes three-point shots very much, and the total number of shots taken by this team is sometimes not as good as Li Kaiming's alone.
So the Raptors' bad hand is actually not the exception, but their normality, they are not good at offense.
On the contrary, it was the Wizards, because Li Kaiming was overly hard in the last game, and this game simply fell into a state of weakness, and he only got 6 points, 3 rebounds and 1 assist in the first quarter with 2 of 6 shots.
The Wizards also trailed the Raptors by four points 25-29.
In the face of this situation, Li Kaiming can't do anything, his fatigue is still orange and reddish until now, and I don't know if he spent all his luck in the last game, not only is the system lottery luck particularly bad today, but even the feel in the game is ridiculously stinky!
He even wondered if he had forgotten to wash his hands after going to the toilet and his hands were so smelly.
In addition to him, the rest of the Wizards team also performed poorly, especially the outside shooters, Nick Young was choked enough by Wade in the last game, I thought he could return with full blood this time, but I didn't expect it to be a thousand miles, 3 three-point shots in a single quarter, with 2 free throws and 2 points and 1 rebound, which really made the coach on the bench smile slightly, but the coach who laughed was opposite.
Kirk Sinrich is in slightly better shape than Nick Young, after all, as an old traditional point guard, he can lead his teammates even if he has a bad hand, and Hinrich scored 4 points and 3 assists in a single quarter, shooting 40 percent from the field.
As for Trevo Booker, who made his first debut, he was almost scared on the court, especially when this was still away, the Raptors fans were booed by a tsunami after Booker came on the court, and Li Kaiming could even see this guy's face turn white!
And the ending is not unexpected, Booker directly turned into a free man on the court after he came on the court, as if he couldn't find his place, and finally got 0 points and 1 rebound on 0-of-3 shooting in the final quarter.
Sanders couldn't stand it in the middle of the first quarter of the game, and directly replaced Booker with Sun Yue, Sun Yue's performance was very positive after he came on the court, especially on the defensive end, in addition to creating a mistake on the opposite side, he also directly used a steal to win a ball for the Wizards.
But it's a pity that Sun Yue's state on the offensive end is not very good, probably because he hasn't appeared in the rotation lineup for too long.
The second quarter of the game came quickly, and the Wizards' offense in the second quarter was still unscored.
In fact, it's not that the team's offense doesn't have a spectrum, the main thing is that Li Kaiming's state is not good, he alone is counting in terms of points per game, and his score alone accounts for about 1/3 of the team's scores, plus assists and attracting packs to create opportunities for teammates, to put it bluntly, Li Kaiming alone can pull half of the Wizards' offense.
And Li Kaiming, who is the offensive engine of the team, withered in today's game, so the Wizards' offense is naturally not much better, or in other words, the current offensive level is the real strength of the Wizards.
Li Kaiming also wanted to struggle, but after playing a few games himself, he found that tonight's hand was really bad, and it may be the worst game since he entered the league.
So later, he didn't dare to force his shot, if he still forced his shot with a bad hand, it would be hurting the team.
Li Kaiming was waiting for a moment to wait until the final five minutes of the match, when his offensive badge was activated, before he tried to play his own singles.
In such an unfavorable situation, the second quarter of the game also ended quickly.
The Wizards' offense still maintained the same constipation as in the first quarter, but the opposite Raptors were on fire in the second quarter, scoring 38 points in a single quarter to tie the Wizards' second highest score in a single quarter!
The Wizards also trailed by 15 points at halftime, 52-67.
Li Kaiming hit 4 of 10 shots in the half, 0 of 2 three-pointers, 4 of 4 free throws, and got 12 points, 6 rebounds and 4 assists.
Nick Young may have been fed laxatives by Wade in the last game, and today he directly turned into a squirt fighter and almost fell out of his anus.
He shot 1-of-6 in the half, 0-of-4 from three-point range, and scored 2 points, 3 rebounds and 2 turnovers, perfectly inheriting the excellent performance of the previous game.
The Wizards' best performance today was the two centers, starting Andre Blache with 12 points and 5 rebounds on 5-of-8 shooting in the half, and backup center Javier McGee with 8 points, 5 rebounds and 2 blocks.
Sun Yue found a little bit of form in the second quarter, scoring 5 points, 1 rebound, 2 steals and 1 block at halftime, and his performance on the defensive end was remarkable.
Sanders, who returned to the locker room, was also made angry by the Wizards' players, and the team boss took the lead in slackening, what else could he say?
So in the dressing room, he just stressed that the team should run, not one person with the ball, and the others stood and watched.
The 20-minute break was over quickly, and at the beginning of the third quarter, Sanders wanted to improve the team's offense, so he came up with a five-out lineup, with Hinrich, Nick Young, Sun Yue, Lewis and Li Kaiming as the starters in the second half to see if he could find a little firepower for the team.
And as it turned out, Sanders made the right choice, and the Wizards found a little bit of offense in the second half, but only a little bit of it.
Good news, the Wizards' offense is back.
Bad news, the Raptors' feel is back.
Although the Wizards performed well in the third quarter and made great progress compared to the first half, because the defense was too bad, the opposite Raptors were still hot, and the two sides played a 29-tie in the third quarter, that is, the Wizards entered the final quarter with a 15-point difference in the half.
Coming back in the fourth quarter, Li Kaiming wanted to try to find his feel, but it turned out that don't force his hand when he feels bad, because not only will it not let you get his feel back, but it will break down the mentality of his teammates......
Li Kaiming played three rounds in a row and didn't hit a shot, but he didn't prevent the Raptors' counterattack, and when Sanders pinned his hopes on him to lead the team to a reversal, the point difference became wider and wider.
Li Kaiming wanted to wait for the last five minutes to try again, but Sanders didn't give him that chance because in Sanders' opinion, the game had gone into garbage time.
In the end, the Wizards ended their winning streak with a 108-127 loss to the Toronto Raptors on the road.
Li Kaiming shot 7 of 18, 1 of 3 three-pointers, 4 of 5 free throws, and got a quasi-triple-double of 19 points, 11 rebounds, 8 assists and 1 block, and the shooting rate of less than 40 percent refreshed the lower limit of his career, and his average points per game was forced down by 2 points because of this 19 points......
The Wizards' best starting center, Andre Blache, finished with 26 points, 12 rebounds and 1 block on 11-of-16 shooting.
Point guard Hinrich's performance was also decent, with 12 points, 2 rebounds and 4 assists.
Nick Young's performance maintained a steady performance in the first half, slashing 2 points, 2 rebounds and 3 turnovers on 1-of-8 shooting, and the assist-to-turnover ratio reached a terrifying 0-3!
Sun Yue successfully seized the opportunity and squeezed out Trevorbuker's time, he played 24 minutes, scored 8 points, 2 rebounds, 2 steals and 2 blocks on 3-of-7 shooting, and the performance on the defensive end made head coach Sanders shine!
After Thorton's injury, the Wizards lacked a defender at the small forward position, and the most commendable thing about Sun Yue is that his defensive awareness is a very good category at the No. 3 position.
His brightest moment on the defensive end was none other than Howard, the 2008 Olympic pegboard hat, which shows Sun Yue's strong defensive ability.
Yi Jianlian also played a lot of time tonight, played 18 minutes after the whole game, got 9 points, 4 rebounds and 1 steal, although he did not play what Chinese fans imagined, but at least he gained a firm foothold in the Wizards.
Today's game is for Li Kaiming's little blacks, this game can be regarded as a long-term drought and a rainy day, so it is natural to seize the opportunity to criticize Li Kaiming as a "pure passerby".
It's a pity that what they didn't expect was that public opinion at this time was still immersed in the shock of Li Kaiming overturning the Big Three and winning the best of the month, and the remarks of the sunspots seemed to be like a pebble thrown into the sea, bubbled up and disappeared......