I'm really a slam dunk

Chapter 27 The Night of the Christmas War

By the second day.

The Christmas game schedule has been announced.

Game [-]: Cavaliers VS Magic!

Game [-]: Nets VS Rockets!

Game [-]: Mavericks VS Kings!

As soon as the schedule comes out.

Fans frantically discussed the schedule.

at this time.

Du Qi received a call from Yao Ming:

"Dookie, we're going to be rivals on Christmas Day!

The last time you played against the Nets, your ten-day contract expired and you were not able to play against you. Now it's all right, here's your chance! "

"Hahaha, Yao Ming, I'm afraid I will be abused by you."

"That's not good.

I have been paying attention to your game. You have a strong talent in a certain aspect, and it is very difficult to deal with. It is hard to say who will win and who will win.

Anyway, no matter what, I will not show mercy during the Christmas battle! "

"I will go all out! This is the greatest respect for my opponent!"

"I agree with what you said!"

Du Qi and Yao Ming chatted about other things, Yao Ming always wanted Du Qi to call himself "Dayao",
But as a time traveler, Du Qi felt very awkward after calling him twice, so he didn't call him that again.

……

The time has come to August 2003, 12.

The Nets challenged the Cleveland Cavaliers away.

Du Qi met the little emperor LeBron again.

but.

In this game, no "flowers" were played.

Du Qi looked at the little emperor's [-]-point experience bank, feeling a little helpless.This duel failed to win the experience point reward, and the little emperor improved a lot in this game.

Although Du Qi hated the little emperor, he was also hated by the little emperor!

on rebounds,

Also failed to catch up with the little emperor,

And the game played an overtime game. Even if the Nets had two twin stars, Kenyon Martin and Jason Kidd, they still failed to win the Cavaliers and finally lost the game.

"Asia Du!"

"That number ten has improved again!"

"Yes!"

However, judging from the reaction of the fans at the scene, although Du Qi's Nets team lost the regular season, Du Qi also played his own wonderful performance, and Du Qi's popularity has not lost but has risen.

And on this day,
Du Qi's ranking in the rookie list has risen to No. 3!
Second only to LeBron and Yao Ming!
On the Rookie Forum,
Duke has also become a hot rookie.

There is a post that says:

"Looking back at this year's NBA draft, I have to say that this year's No. [-] pick is very eye-catching!"

"But what is more eye-catching is this year's undrafted pick!"

"He is Duke!"

"A rookie from Asia! He is a Chinese who we think is physically weak!

But it was him who set off a wave of undrafted counterattacks! "

"Except for LeBron James, who dares to say that he is better than Du?"

As Ducci's popularity grew, the time came for Christmas, December 12th.

Let's move the time forward one day first.

The morning of the 24th.

Brooklyn Nets.

Manager Thomas called a meeting with the coaching staff.

"First of all, our Nets team would like to thank Coach Paynter for his insight and bringing such a magical Asian kid to our Nets team!"

The applause in the office went to Painter.

"Because of Du, our Nets are finally going to play games on Christmas this year, and because of Du, our Nets tickets were all sold out within an hour after they went on sale, bringing a very considerable amount of money to our club." economic benefit."

"So, I hope the coaching staff can pay attention to this rising star."

After listening to the manager’s speech,
Painter was secretly happy for Duke.

He is such a person. If you admire anyone, you will be sincerely happy for that person.

After finishing the meeting here.

Coach Jesses led the coaching staff to summon the Nets players.Decision-making was spelled out directly in training camp.

"Everyone, I believe Du's performance has penetrated into everyone's hearts."

Standing among the players, Du Qi couldn't help but get excited when he heard being named and praised by the coach.

This is an acknowledgment of oneself.

Then I heard Coach Jesses say:

"So, I hope that in the future games, you can give more balls to Du to handle."

That's the theme.

After listening to the Nets players, they couldn't help but look at each other, some were convinced, but some were a little unwilling.

Including Kenyon Martin and Jason Kidd, they are all a little unconvinced.

We are the stars of the team, okay?

But Jesse seemed to have seen the mental state of the two leading stars, and added:

"Of course, our leading players are Kenyon and Kidd. It is safest to hand the ball to them."

It's almost there!
Kenyon and Kidd reluctantly accepted, but they still glanced at Duke in unison.

Du Qi was pleasantly surprised at this time.

And a little flattered.

He didn't expect to be valued by the team so soon!
'But fast...is not necessarily a good thing. '

Du Qi thought in peace of mind.

Until now, when it came to the Christmas game, Du Qi felt that there seemed to be a little "gap" between the players of the Nets and himself.

Do all good people have to be isolated? ?

"Du, don't be crooked, hurry up and warm up, and perform well today!"

Cam is on vacation today, and he will follow Du Qi to play the game.

He saw Du Qi was in a daze there, his expression turned cloudy and clear for a while, and he knew that this guy was thinking wildly again, so he 'woke him up' he said.

Duke glared at Cam.

I want to tell him that his Chinese literature is too bad, is Wai Wai just thinking wildly?

Seriously crooked, bro~
I ignored Cam and went to warm up with a basketball.

On the field.

The fans at the scene were enthusiastic. Before the game started, many fans were shouting for their favorite star players.

In this atmosphere, soon, the game began.

middle circle.

Yao Ming of the Rockets came out to jump the ball, and Du Qi of the Nets came out to jump the ball.

then,

The fans discovered this fun and magical scene!
"Is there any mistake, two Chinese jump balls??"

"We can understand Yao's height...

However, what does it mean that the Nets sent a small man to jump the ball?
Is it just trying to attract the attention of our audience? "

No wonder the fans.

Many of them don't know Du Qi.

And Du Qi's height of 1.9 meters [-] is compared with Yao Ming's height of [-] meters, isn't he a "small man".

Even the referee looked at the Nets with some doubts, meaning that your Asian player got his position wrong?

But seeing the extremely firm eyes of the coach of the Nets team, he withdrew his puzzled eyes, put the ball in the heart of his right hand, and picked up the whistle with his left hand.

Throw the ball vertically upwards,

"Di-"

As the whistle sounded, Du Qi and Yao Ming jumped up together.

"I think the Nets are just throwing water."

"I think so too, this is to give up the right to open the ball."

"It's funny—"

But before they could finish their words, they saw a scene that surprised them.

and see,
with a snap,
Du Qi and Yao Ming jumped to the highest level and hit the basketball at the same time!
For Yao Ming, there is no difficulty,
But for the "little man" Du Qi, it was surprising!

"Wow! This little guy can jump so high?"

"He actually jumped as high as Yao!"

"Understood!"

"No wonder the Nets want to use him to jump the ball, this jumping ability is really amazing!"

Du Qi and Yao Ming caught the ball at the same time, and the ball hung in the air for a while, but Yao Ming was Yao Ming after all, and he was strong. The next second he took the ball from Du Qi's hands and used brute force to grab the ball. Swatted the ball towards their defender.

The game officially started.

And the fans are still immersed in the scene at the beginning.

"That No. [-], although he failed to help the Nets grab the ball, but his jump has already become famous!"

"Yeah, what an amazing feeling!"

Coaches Jesses and Paynter on the sidelines were also smiling and were not disappointed because Ducci lost the jump ball:
"The Nets are lucky to have Du!"

"This is Du's real jumping ability! It doesn't lose to the little giant at all!"

while talking,
Swish!
For the Rockets, the point guard brought the ball into the first half. Seeing Yao Ming running to the basket, he directly threw the ball to Yao Ming. Taking advantage of his height, Yao Ming easily put the ball into the basket and scored a goal. opened the show.

2: 0.

It wasn't until the second minute that the Nets broke through a dunk by Kenyon.

At the beginning of the first quarter, both the Nets and the Rockets seemed to have reservations and played very conservatively.

At the end of the first quarter, 9 to 11, the Rockets led by two points. At the beginning of the second quarter, the Nets had the ball.

"Equally matched!"

"This kind of game is not very good!"

"Hope it's a good game!"

There was a short break between the festivals, and the fans were watching.

Soon the second quarter began.

The Nets directly came to a big rotation, replacing Du Qi, Kenyon and Kidd, and the Rockets also replaced two people, but Yao Ming was still on the court.

Such a lineup.

Making the second quarter of the game slowly tilted towards the Rockets.

"The Rockets are king in the paint!"

"The Nets twin stars are resting, giving the Rockets a chance to take advantage of it."

It was not until 7 minutes into the second quarter that the Rockets entered the state and launched an offense with Yao Ming as the center.

The score quickly led the Nets by 7 points!
Yao Ming, the inside overlord, put a lot of pressure on the Nets.

"pause!"

Nets bishop Jesse saw that something was wrong, called a timeout in time, and replaced their leading star.

Duke still didn't play.

"Are the Nets going to keep Du as the last player?"

Seeing what Coach Jesses did, Rockets coach Van Gundy couldn't help but look towards the Nets, and his eyes finally fell on Duch.

Thoughtful...

When Yao Ming recommended that the Rockets sign Du Qi, Van Gundy was studying Du Qi.

He knew that Du Qi was a potentially huge threat!

"If this Du doesn't come out, he will always be a hidden danger to our Rockets!"

Van Gundy thought so.

(End of this chapter)