When he arrived at the hotel in Houston, Zhang Hao was still as usual. He had time the day before the game, so he focused on studying the videos and information of his opponents.

After a long time, his teammates already thought he was a boring basketball worker.

He became a role model, but it was difficult to learn from him.

At 5:10 pm, when we finished our work today and were about to call our teammates for dinner, Zhang Hao received a system prompt.

"The signing player Wang Zhizhi made a 37-minute appearance in the game against the Huskies, scored 11 points, 12 rebounds, 10 assists and 4 blocks, helping the Huskies defeat the Huskies 92-75... Congratulations to the host for receiving a double reward of 4 days of lifespan."

When Zhang Hao saw the system prompt, he was shocked!

Xiao Wang is OK! He actually got a triple-double in his second game in his sophomore year!

But this playing time, this score...

Zhang Hao thought of a game last season. Not long after the fourth quarter was up, the score difference exceeded 20 points. Then he played half a quarter before being replaced because he was still 3 points away, but the opponent was so behind and he didn't give him a chance to shoot easily. He was cautious and defended...

"John Thompson seems to like Xiao Wang very much. He played 31 minutes in the last game, but Georgetown won this year more than last year. Iverson, the best player and best defensive player in the Big East Division, left, his strength has declined a lot, and he has not recruited a particularly talented outside line... They seem to be a big center, and there have been 9 centers selected in the first round in history. Xiao Wang will become the 10th... There seems to be only one NCAA champion.

Ewing, Mooning, Mutombo, these should be the three best centers in Georgetown University's history. Xiao Wang is really different from them. Perhaps this has made John Thompson, a talented old coach, have a good interest in cultivating it?"

After being happy for Wang Zhizhi, Zhang Hao went to find Kenny Anderson and Jason Williams. After lunch, he returned to his room and called Wang Zhizhi and congratulated him.

After hanging up the phone, Zhang Hao felt that it was quite troublesome. He had to call Wang Zhizhi to the other party's school team manager, but he could not give the other party too expensive gifts, otherwise it would cause trouble for others and would cause NCAA investigation.

After resting for a night, the next morning, Zhang Hao followed his teammates to prepare for the Rockets at home.

Del Harris is preparing to carry out the "anti-trend style" to the end, and the tactics he has arranged are becoming more and more special...

Zhang Hao felt the madness of the old fox who dared to let the rookie Kobe attack in the last two consecutive games in the playoffs.

When Zhang Hao was about to have lunch and was preparing for lunch break, Jason Williams hurriedly ran in.

"Aix, have you read the news?"

"What's wrong?"

"The Spurs announced that David Robinson's right foot's tibia joint cartilage was broken, and the ankle ligament was torn, and the season was reimbursed!"

"Well……"

Although Zhang Hao knew that David Robinson would be reimbursed for the season in the end, as a student majoring in sports medicine, he knew that the injury was cured. If he had money, David Robinson would definitely be a rich man.

This injury, also known as "football foot", is mostly found in European and South American athletes. It has very perfect treatment methods. Los Angeles and Miami have experts in this field. If the injury is treated early, it will be treated, not to mention perfect recovery, at least the impact will be much smaller.

And David Robinson's level is definitely the worst!

The cartilage is broken and the ankle ligament torn is well treated, but it is only good for ordinary people. For an athlete, this is equivalent to a devastating blow to explosive power and explosion speed!

Zhang Hao doesn't believe that the Spurs will deliberately make David Robinson, who is in his year of playing, deliberately make his injury worse and reimburse him for a whole season, or is it an injury that will almost cause the player to perform a cliff-like decline.

David Robinson has had a double team for two consecutive years in the past two seasons. If Jordan had not made a comeback, David Robinson could have completed two consecutive MVPs last season.

"This is because 'football foot' is rare in the NBA and doesn't take it seriously? Or is it because we were competing for the first place in the Western Conference with our Lakers at that time, and we were afraid that the hospital in Los Angeles would cheat them? It was delayed to this point and deteriorated to this point. It's a sin!"

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With 6 games at the beginning, David Robinson averaged 15 points, 8 rebounds, 1 assist and 1 block per game, and David Robinson ended his journey in the 1996-1997 season.

The Spurs also went from a bad start to a real bad team.

In an interview before the warm-up, the Magic mentioned David Robinson of another Texas team, Spurs.

"I was also forced to leave the NBA arena at the age of his. I hope the general can defeat the injury..."

When Zhang Hao heard the magician's words, he heard a lot of emotion. The magician was also at the same age and suffered a destructive career-like blow.

Zhang Hao, who was interviewed together, said: "I think players should have more knowledge of their bodies. It is important to trust the team's doctors, but when there are special circumstances, you can refer to opinions from multiple parties instead of blindly following others' opinions..."

As soon as these words were spoken, they offended people.

The Spurs firmly refused to admit that it was a problem with the team doctor group, and the hospital where their team doctors are located has also come up with a lot of theoretical evidence.

Zhang Hao doesn't care about this, just say, otherwise he will always feel uncomfortable, anyway, he doesn't want to play in the Spurs anyway.

And this matter was over. He had expected David Robinson's injury to worsen. Last season, he reminded him that he was treated as trash by the other party...

It happened now, and that happened.

After the interview, Zhang Hao was not affected by the injuries of other team players and began to warm up for the game against the Rockets tonight. If you want to say what the impact is, he is more patient with the warm-up and is more active in the post-game physical therapy...

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Currently, the Lakers have 5 wins and 1 loss, and the Supersonics, which beat 4 wins and 2 losses, ranks second in the West. The Rockets regard the Lakers as an opportunity for them to cheer up and attach great importance to this game.

After entering the field, Lakers players felt the hostility of the opponent.

Among them, Divac's hostility is particularly obvious, and his hostility is very targeted - Zhang Hao.

He believes that the Lakers' glory last season should have been his, and now he should have been his partner with O'Neal, Barkley, and Kenny Anderson.

Zhang Hao got used to hostility from his opponent.

Of course, because of being traded, I hated the Lakers. The Magic wanted to exchange a few greetings with the other party before the game. When the Magic walked over, he took the ball to the court.

It wasn't originally a very good former teammate, so he only worked with him for two seasons, so it doesn't matter to the Magician.

Before the game, five top 50 superstars took a group photo, and Zhang Hao was once again envious. At 7 o'clock in the evening, the game between the Lakers and the Rockets started.

After the game started, as expected, the Rockets had a clear advantage in the interior.

The Lakers are also unlucky. They only met the Rockets after playing five or six games in the new season. A few games earlier, they could definitely win the game easily.

After several games of adjustment, the Rockets have gradually improved. In the past 3 games, 1 win and 2 losses, their playing style has become clearer, unlike the two towers that always overlapped positions at the beginning.

Both Divac and Olajuwon can work at high and low positions, and their cooperation is getting stronger and stronger.

Although the Rockets are also slow-paced teams, Olajuwon, who has recovered in form and Divac, who has entered the golden period of his career, can play the inside of the Lakers led by Zhang Hao.

Fortunately, the old fox was prepared and emphasized the counterattack, and there was no blind rush. The physical strength of the confrontation in the past few years would not be able to keep up, otherwise the old Nelson's team would not be so miserable in the past few years.

But Kenny Anderson, the Magicians' two ball-holding cores, seized the opportunity to start a fast break. The former relied on his own speed to drive his teammates, and the latter guided in the backcourt like Kidd, and the Los Angeles Kakashi team went online again!

By the end of the quarter, the young and more energetic Zhang Hao and Kenny Anderson led the team to an advantage, and once scored the score at 109 to 100 with three minutes left, and it was about to lock in the victory.

But in the last 3 minutes, Zhang Hao, Kenny Anderson, and James Robinson failed to make a total of 5 long shots. Zhang Hao scored the usual key three-pointer in the last 6 seconds, and he didn't make a hit. He felt very hot and occasionally had moments of printing photos with his jersey.

The Rockets' gambling-style contraction had a miraculous effect. The Lakers relied on Barkley to grab the offensive rebound in the last 3 minutes to cause a foul of 1 free throw, and the Rockets made a 10-1 wave and dragged into overtime!

Although Olajuwon's spirit has declined a lot, his strength is still there, his skills are still there, and he does not rely so much on athletic ability. The 92's ability evaluation is definitely one of the best centers in the league.

At first it seemed that Olajuwon had declined, but in this match, Zhang Hao felt that it was possible that Olajuwon performed so badly in the first three games in order to accommodate Divac. Now the tacit understanding of the two towers has become better, and Olajuwon has also played at the top level.

Fortunately, Barkley had an offensive rebound at a critical moment. Although he was unfortunately unable to make both free throws, the Lakers were not directly reversed by the Rockets and entered overtime.

In overtime, the Rockets, who were at the end of their strength, soon collapsed. Zhang Hao and Kenny Anderson both chose to break into the basket and cause continuous damage. The two worked together to help the Lakers play a 15-4 wave in overtime!

In the end, with Zhang Hao's 24 points, 10 rebounds and 2 assists, Kenny Anderson scored 29 points and 14 assists, George Lynch, who scored 32 points and set a career high with Zhang Hao's restraint, and Barkley and Jason Williams, who worked together to win 20 rebounds... The Lakers defeated the Rockets 125-114 without any danger and avoided losing streak!

Zhang Hao continued his small achievement of not suffering a series of losses in the regular season after joining the Lakers.

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As a team in the spotlight, any characteristics of the Lakers will be studied under a microscope, and their opponents will get more information about them; conversely, they can obtain relatively less information about their opponents.

In terms of current strength, they are indeed inferior to those of the Bulls and Jazz teams that are also under the microscope.

Five-five openings have also become the norm...

However, on November 13, the Lakers were not dragged so miserably this time!

The day after playing against the Rockets, the Lakers came to San Antonio, another Texas team. After a night of rest, in the away game against the Spurs, the Lakers led by 89-60 in the first three quarters with nearly 30 points!

Zhang Hao played 21 minutes in the first three quarters and was replaced in half of the third quarter. He made 11 of 15 shots, including 2 of 2 three-pointers and 6 of 6 free throws. He easily scored 30 points, 6 rebounds, 1 assist, 3 blocks, and clocked out after get off work.

In the end, relying on Zhang Hao's 30 points, Kenny Anderson's 12 points and 7 assists, and the Magic's 14 points, 11 rebounds and 13 assists... The Lakers scored 6 players in double digits, slaughtering the Spurs 119-88, improving their record to 7 wins and 1 loss!

Zhang Hao watched the Spurs' rotation, so the 37-year-old Wilkins played for 41 minutes. Avery Johnson, Forron Maxwell, and Sean Elliott, the three David Robinson, were all under 30 minutes. On the contrary, some players whose names were not very good have more playing time than the starter.

Watching David Robinson resign after being injured ** Hill's replacement, Spurs vice president and interim head coach Greg **Vicci...

This is a mess, and I won’t hide it!

However, it was a bit of a decisive decision. Indeed, Zhang Hao also believed that when Duo continued to suffer from chaos, Wilkins was in good condition. With the 83 ability evaluation and the All-Star Elliott who was 86 ability evaluation, the Spurs would probably win more than 30 games, but that was meaningless. David Robinson's strong strength led the team to win 60 wins, but David Robinson was reimbursed, and it was completely meaningless to maintain that little face.

However, in the Spurs, Zhang Hao felt the determination to have the opportunity to get Duncan's team...

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After two consecutive away games in Texas, the Lakers returned to Los Angeles, and the schedule was still tight, with their 17 games in November.

When I arrived in Los Angeles, I went straight back to Time Warner Training Hall and held a tactical meeting.

Del Harris said from the beginning: "We have a good rest today and tomorrow, we have no training..."

Zhang Hao and his teammates all understood why, and the next 5 days and 4 battles will come!

In the 5-day and 4 games between home and away, we first play the Clippers at home, then play the Suns away, and then play the Warriors away, then return to the home court and play the Jazz back to back.

Before the start of the season, Zhang Hao saw that there were only 14 games in December and January, and he thought it would be good to play more games in November. He would play more games while he was in good physical strength and would feel comfortable in the middle of the season.
To be continued...