Basketball Myth: Super Guard

A day later, the 76ers headed to Utah for an away game against the Jazz.

This is the second game of the 76ers' preseason, and its purpose is still to train troops, practice tactics, cultivate tacit understanding, and train players...

Qin Hao didn't play much time in this game. For him, the preseason is not really meaningful, but for rookies and marginal players, the preseason is still very important.

Last time against the Wizards, Xiaoka's performance was obvious to all, although the data was mediocre, so this game Coach Luke gave him more opportunities and played a full 32 minutes.

It made both Lavoie and Brackins' eyes red.

Even though this is a preseason game, it means a lot for a rookie to play for so long.

Know that the more minutes you play, not only does the coach value you more, but it also means you have more opportunities to show your abilities and produce better stats.

And these will affect your position in the team, whether you can get enough playing time and opportunities after the regular season.

For rookies and fringe players, chances are what matters!

However, Xiaoka seemed very calm. Well, his sluggish expression has remained unchanged for thousands of years, and he can't tell whether he is calm or not. In short, he played well, scoring 13 points, plus 7 rebounds, 3 assists, 3 Steals, 1 block, better than the last game.

It is worth mentioning that Xiaoka has shown his ability and talent in defense again. Alec Burks, the 12th overall pick in the first round of this year's Jazz, only got poor under his defense. 5 points, 3 rebounds, and 1 assist. Both are rookies. Burks' draft pick is still higher than that of Xiaoka, but the two are in a high-flying matchup.

This naturally annoyed Burks and frustrated the Jazz.

In last year's draft, they chose Gordon Hayward, which was also tepid. He averaged only 5.4 points, 1.9 rebounds, and 1.1 assists per game in his rookie season. After all, he was also the ninth pick in the first round, compared to Qin Hao. Why is the difference so big?

Well, there's a gap in the draft, and that's fine.

This year, Alec Burks was selected with the 12th pick in the first round, but now it seems that it is not as good as Kawhi Leonard, who was selected by the 76ers with the 16th pick. How could the 76ers have such good luck?

In fact, Hayward's progress is obvious to all. Compared with last season, he has improved a lot. In this game, he scored 18 points, plus 4 rebounds and 3 assists, which is not bad.

But compared with Qin Haoyi...

Qin Hao scored 16 points, 4 rebounds, and 8 assists. However, he only scored 16 points in 18 minutes and scored 16+4+8 in 18 minutes. How efficient is this?

There wasn't much suspense in this game, as the 76ers beat the Jazz 112-101 for another victory.

Subsequently, the 76ers returned to the home court and ushered in the last game of the preseason after a day off, and the opponent was the Wizards.

In the previous game, Wall played well at the beginning, but his mentality was a little wrong. Later, it even directly led to the team's point difference being widened and finally lost.

This time Wall was much calmer.

What makes Wall feel depressed is that Qin Hao still has no intention of fighting against him. Last time, he sent Xiaoka to guard against him. This time it was even more exaggerated. From the first quarter, he replaced Xiaoka within two minutes of the first quarter, and almost the whole court used Xiaoka to defend him.

What made Wall even more depressed was that when he played again, he found that the defensive pressure brought by Xiaoka was two more points than last time.

A rookie rookie who didn't even enter the lottery area, how could he have this ability?

This annoys Wall.

Qin Hao couldn't help but show a relieved smile of "big brother". The previous Xiaoka might not have been so good in his rookie season, but now that he has met him, it is not necessarily so.

Fortunately, Wall, who is not impulsive, is still very strong. Even if Xiaoka is defending seriously throughout the whole process, it is still difficult to prevent Wall from scoring.

Qin Hao still didn't play much time in this game, and he didn't play at all in the last quarter, and the Wizards had the upper hand in the fourth quarter with Wall's excellent performance.

Seeing the team taking the lead, Wall performed very well. He didn't lose his calm because of the fight against Qin Hao. The Wizards coach was still very satisfied.

At least Wall is still satisfied.

"Although it's a pity not to choose Qin with the first pick last year, but Wall is not bad, worthy of the first pick." Wizards head coach's eyes swept over Wall and Qin Hao, and he was actually a little regretful. Yes, but I can only comfort myself.

But when he saw that they selected power forward Young Wesley with the sixth overall pick in the first round this year, the Wizards head coach became depressed again.

It's the same feeling as the Jazz.

If it was said that Wall was chosen last year, Qin Hao was not chosen, because Wall performed well enough to comfort himself. So this year's pick of the Wizards, Young Wesley, really can't satisfy them. In three preseason games, he played like a transparent person, not even as good as Kawhi, the 16th pick in the first round of the 76ers - Leonard.

Of course, there is no way to be depressed.

Who let them not hang on the wall, oh no, who let them not have that luck?

At the end of a game, in the end, the Wizards defeated the 76ers 110-102 on the road with Wall's excellent play.

It's just that the Wizards went up and down, including today's 23 points, 3 rebounds, and 9 assists, Wall didn't think there was anything to be happy about. Instead, he felt like he had lost.

Because the 76ers didn't exert their strength at all today, Qin Hao only played 17 minutes, and he didn't play at all in the last quarter. Nene, Iverson, Iguodala, Lu Wei didn't play for long, most of the time. There are three rookies, as well as Mozkov, Thaddeus Young, Speights, etc. on the court.

Xiaoka played 30 minutes and scored 12 points, plus 5 rebounds, 2 steals, and 1 assist. His main focus was on defending Wall.

The 76ers scored the highest with Speights, who scored 21 points. In three preseason games, Speights averaged 20+ per game.

But after all, it's just a preseason game.

The team's other two rookies, Blakeskins and Lavoy, although not as many as Kas, still played more than 20 minutes.

It just seems to be that Xiaoka is more and more valued, his mentality is a little impatient, and he is eager to express himself on the court. Just looking at the data is not bad. The average score in the three preseason games is above 10, but the efficiency is worse than Xiaoka. Far.

What's more, the two only care about scoring points, and they did a poor defense, and they were even reprimanded by Coach Luke for this.

At this point, the preseason is over.

The 76ers are 2 wins and 1 loss, quite satisfactory.

But the preseason is nothing, because the regular season is about to start.