The Jazz are very strong, and they have a lot of people playing, eight players have averaged 9 points per game for two consecutive seasons, are you kidding?

But the problem is that the Bulls are playing much better than expected, especially Xu Yong.

He can't tear up the defense like Rose or Delon, but he's playing an offensive threat for a top-tier forward ball-handler.

One-on-one no one can limit him, and he can get the ball out quickly when he strikes from the middle.

Even Sloan is a little out of the picture.

Kirilenko's absence had a very big impact on the Jazz.

But that's no excuse, after all, the Bulls are more influential without Rose.

It can only be said that Xu Yong, as a rookie, is not new!

The two teams were in a stalemate until the end, and in the final decisive stage, the "home" fans cheered and cheered, and the Bulls also beat the Jazz 102-97.

At the end of the game, the players all rushed to the field to celebrate.

Even Rose was extremely excited.

Although he didn't play tonight, the teams he didn't play won against the Jazz, which was happier than if he won last time!

You must know that the Jazz team really played tonight, and the main team played until the end.

This is a huge confidence boost for everyone on the Bulls.

Of course, the Jazz players weren't too upset, after all, it was only a preseason game.

After the game, the two teams had a post-match handshake.

In this process, Xu Yong was affirmed by many people on the Jazz team, Boozer, DeLong, including Brewer, who played against Xu Yong for the whole game, all praised Xu Yong's performance.

After all, it's hard not to pay tribute to a rookie who scored a team-high 23 points, five rebounds and seven assists in his preseason debut.

After the opening game, the team members left for Chicago the next day with a happy mood.

On the plane, everyone was talking and laughing.

One of the characteristics of young people is that they have more emotional ups and downs, but they are also easy to be satisfied.

However, there was one person sitting in the front row of the plane, looking a little sullen.

Noah shot 1-of-5 from the field and only had 3 points, 9 rebounds, 2 assists and 3 turnovers.

He grabbed the rebounds okay, but the other aspects of the performance were not good.

In particular, his best defense, which the statistics will not reflect, was also blown up by Boozer tonight.

The plane arrived in Chicago and the players got on the bus back to the stadium.

They would put the game equipment in the arena, have a small meeting and then disperse.

They have two days off until their next pre-season game, during which there will be only some daily training scheduled.

However, as soon as the bus stopped, most of the team members had not yet gotten off the bus, and Noah, who was the first to get off the bus, suddenly gave an order: "Rookies, it's time for you to serve the whole team and carry our luggage to the locker room." ”

After Noah said this, some of the team members laughed.

NBA rookie tricks, Xu Yong has heard this, this is a conventional.

This kind of bag is the most common, and in the 08 Olympics that year, Paul was a newcomer to the banana boat brothers.gif which is also a classic.

It's also common to buy donuts and drinks, and Sun Yue bought them for an entire season with the Lakers before.

And then it's more common to stuff popcorn in the car, or give little pink school bags to rookies, and even Cousins has been .jpg like this.

Basically, that's all, this kind of trick is similar to a rookie ceremony, and if it is rectified, it will be considered an official NBA player.

Of course, there are some weird things, such as Nick Young likes to let rookies call him dad, and I don't know if he didn't play enough poker with his girlfriend.

There is even more outrageous, the incident of Arenas pooping into Bleche's shoes back then, which is out of the category of normal tricks.

Xu Yong didn't say anything, five people (two undrafted drafts without guarantees) went to carry the bags of more than a dozen people, and one person was only four at most, which was a piece of cake for their physique.

"Need my help?" When Xu Yong was about to carry it, Deng leaned over and said.

It can be clearly felt that the trip to London has shortened the distance between him and Xu Yong a lot.

After all, of the 18 points he scored, 10 were assists from Xu Yong.

Xu Yong shook his head, since it was a newcomer's ceremony, it was also meaningful to experience it.

But just as he was walking towards the stadium with his bag, he found that the poster on the front of the United Center had been replaced.

Their old poster before departure has been replaced with a new poster featuring the centerpiece of the Bulls' new season.

What he didn't expect was that he was in the C position with Rose, one left and one right.

And beside them were Deng, Hinrich, and Noah.

Although there are many Chinese in Chicago, there is an element of selling tickets, but in the context that the outside world is still full of doubts about him, hanging such a poster that is equivalent to silent support, to be honest, Xu Yong's heart is still quite warm.

Of course, he may also understand why Noah went and came back to make such a trick for them early.

Think about it from another perspective, the status of the rookie who has been in the team for two years is not as good as the rookie who has just arrived for two and a half months, and it will be a little unbalanced in the heart of anyone who changes.

When they got to the locker room and put down their backpacks, the players all took back their backpacks one after another.

And the interesting thing is that Xu Yong's people who came to get the bag all said thank you to Xu Yong.

Xu Yong is not the only one who saw that poster, not to mention that the outside world is questioning, is it still unclear what strength Xu Yong has for a team?

You're a rookie, so who's going to point fingers at him!

Seniority is useful but not many in competitive sports, and strength comes first.

"Rookies, go buy us some donuts and drinks." But at this moment, Noah spoke again.

Xu Yong frowned.

But before he could speak, Deng had already gotten up and said to Noah: "Joaquin, everyone is tired from the journey, if you still have the strength, why don't you go and buy one for all of us." ”

As soon as Deng spoke, Noah immediately shut up in amusement.

In this Bulls team, the oldest is Hinrich, who has played for six years with the Bulls, and the second oldest is Deng.

And it is precisely because Deng is usually friendly and very educated, so his status in the team is the highest.

If Noah fights Deng, he will really annoy everyone with the Bulls.

Xu Yong cast a grateful look at Deng, and then looked at Noah thoughtfully.

After these time contacts, he found that the Bulls are mostly good men, and even Johnson, the boxing champion, is kind to people.

It's hard to imagine that this is an NBA team in Chicago, known as the "City of Gangsters".

But Noah is a special case, even if there is no today's thing, he is usually a more flamboyant personality.

Looking back at the history of the Bulls, it seems that Noah did play the role of a locker room leader.

After the small meeting dispersed, Deng found Xu Yong alone.

"Joaquin, he should just be a little depressed because he doesn't behave well, I know him, he's not really a bad guy." Deng is here to be a peacemaker.

"Feeling bad and venting on the rookies?" Xu Yong asked rhetorically.

"I didn't mean that, his personality has something to do with his background." Deng explained.

Xu Yong's face was puzzled, he really hadn't learned about Noah's birth in detail.

"His father, Yannick Noah, was a tennis star and his mother was a Swedish beauty pageant winner, and he knew that being born into such a family would make him a little proud, and of course I could make him apologize if you wanted to." Deng is still very realistic.

Xu Yong was interested when he heard this.

Noah is indispensable for the Bulls to rise now, and Noah's flamboyant personality is indeed what the Bulls need.

After all, you have a team full of good men, and it's easy to be targeted in the NBA, and it's obviously better to let Noah play this role than to do it himself.

In a sense, Noah is the equivalent of "Rodman".

So the question is, how did Jordan tame Rodman back then?