Basketball Myth: Super Guard

United States, Las Vegas.

A preseason game is underway, the Philadelphia 76ers vs. the Los Angeles Clippers.

The game has entered the third quarter, the score is 72:61, and the Clippers lead by 11 points.

In the first half, the two sides were actually evenly matched, and the score was always anxious. The Clippers did not take much advantage, but after entering the second half, the Clippers played a 10-0 shock wave and suddenly led the 76ers by 11. a lot.

"Substitution." Coach Collins made a substitution, replacing Holiday and Iguodala Qiqi with Qin Hao and Lu Wei.

In the China game two days ago, Qin Hao scored 27 points, plus 7 rebounds and 8 assists. Qin Hao played a total of 28 minutes in that game, and his performance was also very good. However, after returning to the United States, he did not have as much playing time in this preseason game today.

Qin Hao played for 11 minutes in the entire first half, and this was the first time he played in the second half.

However, players such as Lou Wei, Speights, and Thaddeus Yang are much more enthusiastic about Qin Hao now, and regard him as a reliable teammate. So even though the playing time has returned to more than ten minutes, Qin Hao's playing is much more comfortable.

Coming to the frontcourt, Qin Hao passed the ball to Lu Wei, Lu Wei singled, made continuous cross steps, then broke through from the right, attracted the defense and then scored the ball in the middle.

Qin Hao made an empty cut along the middle, and after receiving a pass from Lu Wei, he was a dunk.

"Bang!"

There was a loud explosion, which drew applause from the audience.

After a few games, the tacit understanding between Qin Hao and his teammates has also improved.

Especially with Speights and Lu Wei, the pick-and-roll coordination with Speights, and the pass and cut coordination with Lu Wei, became more and more proficient.

"It's beautiful." Qin Hao and Lu Wei high-five.

The point difference was reduced to within ten points, and the Clippers players frowned. The narrowing of the point difference was nothing, but they could feel that the attitude of the 76ers was a little different.

Qin Hao also played very active and serious today. After the last China game, he understood that for other players, preseason games can be played casually, or not.

But not for him as a rookie.

For him, every game is a kind of experience, every game is extremely important, and it is worthy of him to take it seriously, devote himself wholeheartedly, and strive to be the best.

Seeing Qin Hao being so serious, Lu Wei and others, who didn't care much about the game at first, were naturally embarrassed for being lazy. After all, the relationship is better now.

Under Qin Hao's infection, they will be a little more serious.

For a time, the 76ers reversed the situation and began to close the points gap.

A few minutes later, the lead was down to six, and the third quarter was coming to an end. The Sixers had the ball and they had one last chance to attack.

Qin Hao held the ball and spent a bit of time first. He didn't plan to give the opponent time. When there were only ten seconds left, he looked at Lu Wei, who shook his head at him, indicating that you don't need to pass the ball, you can play it yourself.

"Well." Qin Hao nodded and decided to come by himself.

That's the trust his teammates have in him.

The next moment, Qin Hao suddenly started, a change of direction broke through, the defender quickly retreated, Qin Hao's speed was too fast, he had to deal with it carefully.

But this time Qin Hao didn't break through for a layup, but stopped suddenly, stepped back a little, and followed Paul's way, and leaned back in the middle distance.

Swish!

The ball goes in, two points are valid.

The third quarter was also basically over, with the 76ers still trailing by just 4 points.

Just entering the fourth quarter, the Clippers quickly gained the upper hand again. It wasn't that Iguodala deliberately let the water go. It was only that they played lazily before and couldn't tighten up all of a sudden.

In the fourth quarter, Qin Hao only got less than three minutes of playing time, even if he wanted to do something, he couldn't do anything.

"drop......"

In the end, the whole game ended, the score was 97:91, and the Clippers won.

Qin Hao played 17 minutes and scored 14 points, plus 3 rebounds and 4 assists. His performance was not bad, at least compared to his playing time, it was already very good.

A day later, the 76ers ushered in their final preseason game against the Phoenix Suns.

Qin Hao is looking forward to this game. The "run-and-gun tactics" he played at Syracuse University came from the Suns. Steve Nash of the Suns is his favorite star. Nash's elegant style of play is often used. It made him feel happy to see it.

It's a pity that although Nash started this game, he only played 6 minutes in total. Obviously, the Suns did not take this preseason seriously.

Nash only played for 6 minutes, and Qin Hao was not on the court for these 6 minutes, which made Qin Hao feel a little regretful that he could not face Nash on the court.

After four quarters, the 76ers defeated the Suns 92-85.

I don't know if it is the role of Luka's assistant. Qin Hao played a little more time. After 18 minutes of playing, he scored 15 points, 3 rebounds, and 6 assists. He still performed well.

So far, the 76ers' preseason has all ended. In 5 preseason games, the 76ers won 3 wins and 2 losses, but the results of the games are not included in the regular season record, so it doesn't make much sense.

However, Qin Hao's performance has been unanimously recognized by the outside world. Qin Hao averaged 17.2 points, 5.8 assists and 4.4 rebounds per game in 5 games. To know that his average playing time is less than 20 minutes per game, it is very rare to be able to play such data.

Among a group of rookies, only Wall and Cousins ​​are comparable to Qin Hao. Their average points per game are similar to Qin Hao, but Wall has more assists than Qin Hao, and Cousins ​​has rebounds. Much better than pro-of course, the two also played more time than Qin Hao.

With the end of the preseason and the approaching of the regular season, the debate about who can become the best rookie between Qin Hao, Wall and Cousins ​​also began.

As for Turner, I can't squeeze in yet.

George and Gordon are still in their infancy.

......

Philadelphia, 76ers practice arena.

Today's training has ended, the players have left, only Qin Hao stayed and started his daily extra training.

"Shh!"

Qin Hao hit a mid-range jumper. He wiped his sweat and continued training. The ball popped out of the shooting machine. Qin Hao caught the ball and shot, or made an emergency stop, or leaned back, or turned around and then jumped...

This is Qin Hao's current targeted training - mid-range shooting.

Half an hour later, Qin Hao stopped and stood on the court holding his knees, sweat dripping down his chin, and soon a pool of water stains formed.

"Still failed to break through." Qin Hao sighed secretly.

In the past few months, he has been looking for a breakthrough in mid-range shooting, trying to make up for this shortcoming, but he has never been able to succeed.

In a few preseason games, Qin Hao tried a lot of mid-range shots. After a few games, he could feel that he was very close to that step, but he was always a little short.