NBA, Yao Ming is back!

At that time, Nelson was an assistant coach and international scout for the Suns.

They are primarily focused on European and Asian competitions.

Wang Zhizhi, on-site observer at the Atlanta Olympics.

His father is the famous Don Nelson, who is currently an advisor for the New York Knicks and will likely be working for the Mavericks next season.

He came with the CBA preseason schedule.

I want to see this Chinese teenager who covered Robinson's face at the Olympics.

Just how dominant is their dominance in domestic competitions?

The scene before him made him bite the cap of his pen.

Yao Ming lightly deflected the first hook shot to the ground. Nelson raised an eyebrow and crossed out "No domestic defender" in the "Wang - Technical Characteristics" column of his notebook.

A short question mark was added.

His second turnaround jump shot was slammed into the backboard, causing him to lean forward slightly.

He placed his left hand on the page and tapped the line for "adversarial" with his fingertips, which originally read "above average".

He crossed it out with a thick line.

Until Wang Zhizhi used a bulldozer-like approach to force his way through, his shoulder hitting Yao Ming without moving an inch, and he was instead forced into the three-second zone step by step, Nelson muttered "shit" under his breath.

The pen in his hand quickly scribbled across the notebook, the ink spreading slightly: "Weakness in physical confrontations, completely ineffective against top-tier static talent inside players."

The whistle blew, three seconds left on the attack.

Wang Zhizhi stood frozen in the three-second zone, his hand gripping the ball with bulging veins, while Little Nelson raised his eyes, his gaze already locked on the mysterious number 15 of the Shanghai Sharks.

He excitedly ran his fingers over the blank pages of his stenographer's notebook.

Suddenly, I put pen to paper.

The handwriting was hurried and heavy:

Yao Ming, 16 years old, CBA Shanghai team, 2.20+ meters tall?

Static talents maxed out.

Capping judgment.

Core strength.

Their defensive positioning is among the best in Asia.

However, his offensive skills have not yet been revealed, so he can be developed as a role player – immediately put him on the Suns' international scout level three watch list.

at this time.

The Bayi team was thrown into disarray.

I never expected such a turn of events.

Saulius seized the opportunity and hit a three-pointer.

At this point, the score difference was only 5 points.

He closed the notebook and tapped the Suns logo on the cover with the tip of his pen.

He glanced again at Wang Zhizhi, whose face was ashen.

The surprise in his eyes hadn't faded—

He came to assess a genius.

They stumbled upon an even more terrifying talent.

Really.

Two ways to cook a fish.

I made a profit!

……

Wang Zhizhi stood outside the three-point line.

The ball-catching action was half a beat too slow.

His gaze was still fixed on the astonishment that had been repeatedly suppressed earlier.

Their movements had completely lost their former agility.

Adijiang lobbed the ball into his hands, and he leaned against Yao Ming with his back to him. He instinctively tried to make a footwork move, but his feet felt weak, and as soon as he turned around, Yao Ming stuck to him firmly.

The slight hook shot with the hand was off-center—

The basketball hit the front edge of the rim and bounced away.

Even this ball was almost blocked.

Yao Ming bent his knees slightly, not squatting as deeply as domestic athletes, but making full use of his height and wingspan to raise the ball high.

Position yourself, jump, and grab the board with one hand.

The three movements were crisp and clean.

They didn't give Bayi's inside players even the slightest chance to attack and steal the ball.

After landing, he steadily passed the ball to Zhang Yong on the outside.

The Big Sharks launched a fast break, but Zhang Yong missed a three-pointer.

Before the Bayi players could make a move.

Yao Ming rushed to the basket and grabbed the offensive rebound with a powerful leap.

His attempt to put the ball in for a putback was barely thwarted by Wang Zhizhi.

The ball bounced off the rim again, and he tapped it again.

He managed to force the ball into the basket.

He scored 2 points and grabbed 2 rebounds.

The entire Bayi substitutes' bench looked grim.

Bayi attacked again, Liu Yudong's mid-range shot was missed by Usalius, Wang Zhizhi tried to grab the rebound but was blocked by Yao Ming, Yao Ming grabbed the rebound and passed it to the outside, Zhang Wenqi's jump shot missed.

It was Yao Ming again, charging forward with lightning speed.

He pushed past the defense and grabbed the offensive rebound.

He carried the ball with his back to the goalkeeper and passed it to the bottom corner.

Liang Da received the ball and made a three-pointer.

The point difference widened immediately.

The Bayi team was completely panicked.

Wang Zhizhi, his eyes red, tried to salvage the situation, but his eight shots in half a quarter were all shut down by Yao Ming.

Hook hand was banned.

His jump shot was blocked.

It couldn't be pushed up by force.

He barely managed to score on a bank shot when Yao Ming was a little slow to react, missing the other seven attempts.

The Big Diesel's shooting touch was terrible, and he missed every shot.

It was all Yao Ming's offensive rebounding show.

Zhang Yong's floater missed, and Yao Ming grabbed the offensive rebound and scored on the putback.

Liang Da's layup was lightly blocked, and Yao Ming swooped in to grab the rebound and pass the ball back.

Zhang Wenqi's second attack broke through the defense.

He grabbed rebounds with unbridled abandon.

Positioning, anticipation, and attack... all done in one smooth motion.

It's fair to say that the Bayi team's interior has never been so thoroughly dominated before.

Even the so-called European inside players.

I don't have that ability either.

During this period, Bayi's inside players barely even got a chance to touch the rebound.

This is true suppression.

There wasn't a single excuse to be found.

In the final minutes, Yao Ming grabbed eight offensive rebounds, which allowed the Shanghai Sharks to overtake the Bayi Rockets in rebounds by a large margin.

Yao Ming was the biggest contributor to this comeback.

The entire audience witnessed firsthand what number 15 did on a crazy rebounding spree in the final half of the quarter.

Otherwise, they would have been losing the rebounding battle quite a bit at the beginning.

Not only did they catch up, they even overtook them.

Who can I complain to?

Absolute dominance on the boards!

That means he single-handedly dominated the Bayi team's inside rebounding.

This is a feeling that European centers absolutely cannot provide.

This feeling is...

The more Nelson looked at it, the more he felt he had made the right decision.

Asia truly has geniuses waiting to be discovered.

If Stern wants to pursue a global strategy, he needs to bring basketball talents from around the world to the NBA.

Asia has such a large population market.

Especially in China.

If it is unearthed, it will be a huge contribution to the NBA.

He originally came to observe Wang Zhizhi, who was performing well in Atlanta, but unexpectedly, as he observed, his attention shifted to someone else.

Human beings are animals.

It's just that they're fickle and easily bored.

Don't say that to women.

Look at this.

The same applies to men.

……

Wang Zhizhi looked at the 16-year-old.

They are even minors.

But it had already given him a sense of...

A vague, familiar feeling.

Where have I seen this familiar feeling before?

It's impossible to find it in the CBA, it doesn't exist in Asian competitions, and it's not common in European competitions either...

This is……

correct.

Wang Zhizhi suddenly remembered!

It's the American Dream Team that swept through Atlanta not long ago, invincible!

Their inside game.

That's how I felt.

Although it wasn't that terrifying or intense.

But this feeling.

It's more like the aura emanating from professional athletes over there.

even.

He felt that only the athletes from that region could exude that aura.

And now it's right in front of me.

A 16-year-old minor.

Yet it clearly exuded such an aura.

Ultimately, the Shanghai Sharks relied entirely on his offensive rebounds to create second-chance opportunities.

They gradually chipped away at the score difference.

With 30 seconds left in the game, Bayi narrowed the gap to 86-88.

Adijiang's final three-point attempt missed.

Yao Ming leaps into the air to grab the rebound with a layup.

Wang Zhizhi tried desperately to steal the ball, but Yao Ming backed him up, making it impossible for him to advance even half a step.

After the time was up, the message was passed to Zhang Yong.

Zhang Yong drew a foul and made both free throws.

90: 86!

"They're going to win! The Bayi team is going to lose!"

"The Bayi Rockets' invincible record is about to be broken!"

Unexpectedly, the Sharks won what was supposed to be a sure loss, a game with no hope of winning, which made their commentators extremely excited.

This sense of disparity.

This further intensified the stimulation of excitement.

hum ---

As the whistle blew, the Bayi team's undefeated streak was shattered.

Wang Zhizhi stood in the three-second zone with his head down.

I didn't expect to encounter such a setback on my first day back.

This made him, who was only eighteen or nineteen years old,...

He looked completely listless, not at all like an Olympic prodigy.

In the end, Yao Ming scored a terrifying 8 points, 15 rebounds, and 7 blocks in this game.

and.

He only played for half a quarter.

Almost three pairs already.

And it was a triple-double, the kind with blocks.

Talented!!!

On the sidelines, Donnie Nelson's pen flew across his notebook, finally adding a heavy line:

Top rebounder in Asia.

Even the highest level.

It even has NBA-level rebounding capabilities.

He slammed the notebook shut.

He whispered a few words to the person next to him.

He got up and rushed into the players' tunnel.

He was originally supposed to go to the Bayi team's locker room.

But now he has changed his mind.

……

At this moment, deafening cheers erupted in the Great Sharks' locker room.

The team members patted Yao Ming on the shoulder in celebration, while Li Qiuping held the tactics board and laughed non-stop.

They defeated the Bayi team and maintained their undefeated record.

It's almost like...

The popular manga Slam Dunk defeated the Hainan team.

Everyone has no choice but to be happy.

And just then...

The door was suddenly pushed open.

Donnie Nelson walked straight in, his gaze fixed precisely on Yao Ming.

"Who are you?"

Donnie Nelson pushed open the locker room door, the boisterous cheers paused for a beat, and all eyes turned to this uninvited guest.

Li Qiuping caught sight of the newcomer at a glance. She frowned at first, then put down the tactical board in her hand and took two steps forward to ask questions.

Nelson spoke first, bowing slightly and saying hello in Chinese. Then he briefly addressed Li Qiuping, "I'm an NBA scout. May I take a minute of your time? I'd like to speak with this young player for a few minutes. It won't take long."

"This is my identification."

Li Qiuping stood there, stunned, her eyes filled with astonishment.

Before he could even utter a sound, Nelson had already politely nodded.

He stepped aside and strode towards Yao Ming in the center of the crowd.

There's only one reason he's spacing out.

That's what they just said.

He is an NBA scout.

Just the three English abbreviations, NBA.

That's enough to explain the problem.

Yao Ming was still wiping the sweat from his forehead when he looked up and saw a blond foreigner standing in front of him.

Before he could react, the other person reached out their hand.

His tone was calm, yet concealed a hint of barely suppressed urgency: "Hello, Yao."

"I'm an NBA scout, my name is Donnie Nelson."

"Can we talk?"

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