After the ga, he heard an even more disheartening piece of news:
Su Wan had scored another 41 points in tonight’s "Huaxia Derby."
Why say "another"?
Because since the ga between the Pacers and the Cavaliers, in seven gas, this was the third ti Su Wan had dropped 40-plus points.
Su Wan’s condition was especially outstanding after LeBron’s suspension.
The "Huaxia Derby" also ended with the Pacers winning easily by 14 points, 112 to 98.
After defeating Yao’s team, the Pacers’ ranking had stealthily climbed to third in the Eastern Conference, matching the record of the leading teams.
Yao Ming hugged Su Wan after the ga, looking at him with evident envy.
In November, Yao Ming could be described as being "on top of the world"; both his individual performance and the team’s results had exceeded expectations, earning him his career’s first "Player of the Month." He had thought that with McGrady’s return, they could take it a step further and beco a powerhouse in the Western Conference.
But the outco had been unexpected...
After McGrady’s return, the Rockets’ record had worsened instead of improving, and they had slipped to the sixth position in the Western standings.
The recently-returned "Best Calves Award" winner had shown a poor state, which was one issue, but more importantly, his coback had pushed Yao Ming out of the tactical position of the absolute core. On the court, Yao could no longer receive the ball as frequently as before and was mostly left running around.
Offensive form needs to be maintained through shooting rights; without it, it’s tough to keep that montum.
Like in tonight’s ga, Yao started by scoring 6 points straight, showing very good form.
But then McGrady inexplicably beca the main attacker. Not to ntion his 1 for 4 shooting, when the ball returned to Yao, his offensive form had also disappeared.
The Pacers had nearly controlled the rhythm of the ga from the first quarter.
By the end of the ga, Yao had hit 8 out of 17 shots, made 3 out of 3 free throws, scoring a total of 19 points, about 8% less than his shooting percentage in November.
McGrady’s situation was even more dire, hitting only 7 of 22 shots, with a 31.8% shooting percentage!
Already anxious about his own poor form after his return, McGrady was even more eager tonight facing the excellent performance of Su Wan. How could a two-ti Scoring King be overshadowed by a second-year player?
This was absolutely unacceptable.
As a result, they let Artest and Su Wan take turns in a "tag-team battle," and McGrady ended up losing his temper completely.
But, frustratingly, while the problem obviously lay with McGrady, Houston’s dia began to bombard Yao Ming, saying he wasn’t worthy of a max salary and should hurry up and sign the contract offered by the Rockets.
Su Wan was a sensitive person.
He had only suspected, but now he was very clear that there was definitely soone behind these voices.
As to who it was, it wasn’t hard to guess.
Often in such cases, whoever benefits is the culprit, and Bill Duffy thought the sa.
This was what Yao Ming found most distressing. He was truthful with the Rockets’ managent, but they played him with public opinion.
"If I were you, Yao, I’d walk away tonight, co what may," said Su Wan.
Yao Ming gave a wry smile.
This "if you don’t like it, just fight it" attitude of Su Wan’s... how he envied it!
He truly wanted to live that freely.
But Su Wan only needed to consider his own feelings.
Yao had much more to think about.
However, he was starting to realize that he might not be so concerned about whether he must stay with the Rockets.
The words from Su Wan that had the deepest impact on him were, "If you don’t respect yourself, how can you expect others to respect you?"
Whenever he was persuaded by "Yao’s team" to "take a step back for a boundless vista," he would rember this phrase and then say with determined conviction, "I can’t just compromise like this!"
Now, he was even more resolute.
It was clear that he had played well, while McGrady played terribly.
The Houston dia didn’t bla McGrady but instead blad him.
That really made no sense!
After the "Christmas Battle," it was the annual opening of the NBA All-Star starter voting.
On December 27th, LeBron Jas, eager to make a statent in his coback ga against the Bobcats, vented his frustrations by scoring 37 points, grabbing 8 rebounds, and dishing out 8 assists.
Cleveland reporters, witnessing such a heroic LeBron, shouted, "The King of Cleveland is back!"
In the post-match interview, LeBron also expressed vigorously and confidently, "I hope I can make it into this year’s All-Star starting lineup. I believe I have the ability and the qualifications to do so!"
However, what LeBron didn’t expect was that his comnts would co under fierce attack from many in the dia:
"A team leader who defends bullying aspires to be an NBA All-Star starter? Has the NBA run out of players?"
"Racists don’t deserve to be All-Star starters!"
"The NBA really is going downhill year by year. LeBron, suspected of bullying and racism, is let go so quickly!"
These opposing voices left LeBron stunned.
He thought everything was behind him, but now it seed...
Nothing had passed at all!
In fact, it looked like it never would.
If Su Wan knew how surprised LeBron was, he’d probably tell him,
"The Eagle County incident is two and a half years old, enough ti for a trainee to debut. Do you see the dia letting Kobe off the hook?"
Even though LeBron was only suspected, his defense of bullying was pretty much confird; otherwise, Jeff McInnis wouldn’t be chasing him around on Facebook like a mad dog now.
So how could it possibly blow over so quickly!
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