I’m Really Playing Basketball

"It's strange. My exposure in the United States seems to have increased a lot recently. I've made a lot of headlines."

Defeating the Houston Mosaic at home, the Cavaliers gained another four-game winning streak. In the Cavaliers' past four games, Chen Xiao led the Cavaliers to a four-game winning streak.

Moreover, the opponents are all strong teams in the East and West, the Grizzlies, Raptors, Pistons, and Mosaics. These four teams are all strong playoff teams in the East and West.

Originally, apart from defeating the Nets, the Cavaliers had basically not defeated any other strong teams this season. This wave of four consecutive victories against strong teams has made the Cavaliers less of a "bullying" character.

This also allowed many experts in the United States to once again recognize the leadership ability of Chen Xiao, the head of the Cavaliers.

After defeating Mosaic, major expert media across the United States made a brief summary of Chen Xiao's team leadership ability this season.

And this is also the reason why Chen Xiao's exposure in the United States has greatly increased.

The Cavaliers have played a total of 23 games so far this season, with a record of 13 wins and 10 losses. Chen Xiao's personal data is 31 points, 5.3 rebounds and 6.9 assists per game, with a shooting percentage of 51.4%.

For the Cavaliers, a team that has not entered the playoffs in four seasons, Chen Xiao's performance with the Cavaliers this season is very good, both in terms of statistics and record.

Therefore, after this four-game winning streak, even if Chen Xiao is not an American, he is full of praise in the NBA at this time.

Of course, when these American media praised him, they did not forget his little brother in the Cavaliers, James.

In his rookie season, James was able to score 20.3 points, 7.5 rebounds and 9.5 assists. This cannot be ignored.

Even if he is not Xiao Zhan, the chosen one with the No. 1 position in the American media, even if he is an ordinary rookie, he can boast of such data in his rookie season.

Not to mention Xiao Zhan.

For a time, Xiao Zhan's title of the Chosen Son became even louder. At least, in his rookie season, the Chosen Son's performance did not make them, the media, get slapped in the face. This shows that the Chosen Son we have been boasting for several years is not an embarrassing boast.

Historically, James led the Cavaliers to a record of 6 wins and 17 losses in the first 23 games of his rookie season. The Eastern Conference in history is not even a little bit worse than the Eastern Conference this season.

A record of 6 wins and 17 losses, that's really good.

At that time, the media across the United States seemed to have been slapped in the face.

After all, historically, in James' rookie season, the Cavaliers had a good foundation, including Big Z, Boozer, Ricky Davis, and Darius Miles.

Logically speaking, this should not be the case.

One can imagine how much pressure Xiao Zhan was under at this time in history.

Historically, thanks to Nike's continued protection of James this season, it is simply a one-stop service.

From start to finish, he pushed Xiao Zhan to be the best rookie of the season.

This also made Anthony the first player in NBA history to win the Rookie of the Month award every month, but in the end he failed to win the Rookie of the Month award.

Xiao Tiantian is miserable.

Of course, that's history.

Now that he has Chen Xiao's protection, Xiao Zhan is living quite comfortably under Chen Xiao's wings.

There is no pressure at all.

Even if his scoring performance in some games is poor, the media will not find fault with him, because as long as Chen Xiao is there, his assists will definitely be beautiful.

Xiao Zhan is very good at packaging himself. As long as he finds that his game is not good, he will immediately assist Chen Xiao crazily and grab rebounds crazily.

He often posts numbers like 4 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists, or 8 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists.

Such data, don't you think it's beautiful?

Considering the American media's tolerance for Xiao Zhan, this season Xiao Zhan is not the first person responsible for the team. This data is really good.

Therefore, this season, in the United States, basically if Xiao Zhan plays well, some people will praise him, but if he plays poorly, no one will say anything.

The public opinion environment and pressure environment are not a little bit better than the environment that Xiao Zhan lived in in history. It is simply the difference between heaven and hell.

By the way, in the newspaper, Chen Xiao also saw the media’s statistics on his career scoring total. Chen Xiao has played 105 games in the NBA regular season. Chen Xiao’s current NBA regular season scoring total has reached He scored 2,947 points and is very close to the 3,000-point career milestone.

The difference is only 53 points, which is a matter of 2 games at most for Chen Xiao.

Of course, Chen Xiao only needed 105 games to score 2,947 points. The American media naturally praised Chen Xiao again. After all, his career average so far is 28 points, which is quite Dior.

Looking at the newspapers in his hand, Chen Xiao has a better understanding of the winner-takes-all rule of the NBA.

Well, this is a rule shaped by the media. If you want to be the winner, the media will praise you.

Therefore, whether you believe in ‘winner takes all’ or not, you will eventually be assimilated by the media environment.

As far as Xiao Zhan is concerned, Cleveland is his white moonlight, and his dream is to make Cleveland great. But one day, he discovered that the belief he believed in making Cleveland great, because of constant The failure caused the American media, which believes in the winner-takes-all philosophy, to criticize wildly. When the pressure is overwhelming, can Xiao Zhan still hold on to his white moonlight?

Chen Xiao thinks it’s difficult.

People like Jordan were almost destroyed by the media when they didn't win the championship.

There is little chance that Xiao Zhan can withstand the pressure.

In the end, this cute little Zhan will turn into a person who will do anything to win.

Maybe after Xiao Zhan is blackmailed by them, these media can turn around and earn a huge wave of traffic.

Thinking of this, Chen Xiao felt a chill subconsciously.

"These American media are simply a bunch of man-eating monsters!"

Looking at it this way, the Chinese media is still cute!

Well, Chen Xiao thinks the Chinese media is cute, but Dayao doesn't think so.

After Chen Xiao won the championship, the pressure on Dayao was not ordinary.

On December 15, 2003, the Cleveland Cavaliers continued to face the challenge of the Boston Celtics, now tenth in the Eastern Conference, at home.

Before the start of this game, the league announced the Player of the Week for the Eastern and Western Conferences for the previous week.

The Western team led the team to 3 wins and 0 losses, and Peja, who averaged 26 points and 6 rebounds per game, once again won the championship. This season, Peja's strength has reached its peak. This is not the first time that he has won the best of the week, and even the Western Conference's Last month's Best of the Month award was all his, and Peja now ranks higher than Chen Xiao in the official MVP rankings.

Without Weber, he still leads the Kings to great progress. Peja can be regarded as the second boss who has successfully proved his strength in the absence of the boss.

On the Eastern side, Chen Xiao led the Cavaliers to a 4-0 record last week and won the Player of the Week with averages of 32.8 points, 6 rebounds, 9.3 assists, 1.5 steals and 1.5 blocks per game.

Chen Xiao's biggest opponent this week is Pierce, who led the Celtics to a five-game winning streak and averaged 31.4 points, 9 rebounds, 5.2 assists, 2 steals and 1.2 blocks per game.

I have to say that Pierce has been in really hot shape recently.

To be honest, based on the data of Chen Xiao and Pierce this week, there is no problem in giving Pierce the Best Player of the Week.

After winning the Best of the Week, Chen Xiao got another D-level potential card.

This is already Chen Xiao’s third Player of the Week award this season and his third D-level potential card.

For the first two D-level potential cards, Chen Xiao has given the backcourt rebound attribute, and Chen Xiao's backcourt rebound attribute has been increased to 70.

This time, Chen Xiao gave this D-level potential card to offensive rebounds, increasing the attribute of offensive rebounds from 60 to 65.

At eight o'clock in the evening, Gund Arena led the Boston Celtics here. Pierce looked at the jubilant arena around him with a very bad look on his face.

Compared with Boston's lackluster season, Cleveland is thriving.

Although he went all out in the last five games, leading the Boston Celtics to beat the underdogs and have a five-game winning streak.

But the Celtics' current record is still only 12 wins and 11 losses.

This record doesn't even rank among the top eight in the Eastern Conference this season.

Although his performance in recent times has been outstanding, he knows that he cannot be like this in every game.

At the same time, the Celtics' schedule cannot always be filled with such relatively weak opponents.

For a team, the most important thing is not individual ability, but the overall strength of the team.

When your performance really exceeds the endurance limit of NBA teams, your opponents will double-team you. No matter how strong you are, it will be difficult to show your full strength when faced with double-teams. In the end, the outcome of a game will be determined by It’s your team that fights.

The team is what makes Pierce even more uncomfortable.

The reason why the Celtics have been so lifeless recently is because the team's general manager Danny Ainge and Mike James, who performed well after coming to the Celtics, were sent to Detroit in the Rasheed Wallace deal. The Pistons traded a draft pick.

What kind of signal is this?

Anyone who is not an idiot knows that this is a signal that the team needs to rebuild and give up this season.

As a player, when you want to fight to the death, your team is already preparing for something bad. This is definitely the most desperate thing.

Once upon a time, he and Antoine Walker led the Boston Celtics all the way to the Eastern Conference Finals, but now, with the departure of Antoine Walker, the high-spirited Celtics have slowly begun to The smoke disappeared.

And with the arrival of Danny Ainge, he also knew that this was the end of an era.

The first to go is Antoine Walker, and he may also leave this place next season.

Because he knew from many sources within the Celtics that Danny Ainge believed that he was not the future of the Celtics and that he was not qualified to carry the heavy responsibility of the Celtics' revival.

In Danny Ainge's heart, his brother Antoine Walker can't do it, and neither can he.

Even if it weren't for the Jay Williams incident in the summer, he might have been sent to the Houston Mosaic for Francis.

Thinking of this, looking at the happy interaction between Chen Xiao and James not far away, Pierce suddenly saw the shadows of him and Antoine Walker.

Because in this game between the Cavaliers and the Celtics at home, Chen Xiao may score 53 points in the game, thus completing the 3,000-point milestone in his career.

CCTV takes this very seriously.

Starting from the game against the Celtics, CCTV will record everything about Chen Xiao's recent games until Chen Xiao scores 3,000 points.

This means that CCTV does not want to let go of Chen Xiao's milestone.

When Chen Xiao reached 2,000 points in his career last season, he surpassed Kobe Bryant and became the youngest player in the NBA to reach 2,000 points.

If Chen Xiao can score 53 points in this game, then Chen Xiao will score 3,000 points when he is 21 years and 34 days old, and will once again surpass Kobe Bryant and become the youngest 3,000-point player in NBA history.

Of course, even if Chen Xiao doesn't score 53 points in this game, it doesn't matter, because as long as Chen Xiao scores 53 points in these two months, he can surpass Kobe and become the youngest man to score 3,000 points.

Therefore, it is a sure thing that Chen Xiao surpasses Kobe and becomes the youngest person to score 3,000 points.

Unless Chen Xiao is suddenly injured.

"Teacher Zhang, do you think Chen Xiao can score 53 points in this game?"

"It's reasonable to get it, and it's reasonable not to get it."

"..."

What about my chanting?

The look on Xiao Su's face next to Teacher Zhang was as uncomfortable as if he ate Xiang and didn't let him say it smelled bad.

Everyone knows that Teacher Zhang, your mantra is reasonable, but I have never heard that you are really practicing Zen now.

It is reasonable to get it, and it is reasonable not to get it...

However, after complaining about Teacher Zhang in her heart, Xiao Su suddenly felt that this was really the case.

The Celtics' interior defense is not very good. With Chen Xiao's ability, it is possible to score 53 points, which is reasonable.

The unreasonable score is of course because no matter who you are, in the NBA, 53 points is not a small score. Even Jordan dare not say that he can score 53 if he wants to score 53 in a game.

Chen Xiao is about to become the youngest Mr. 3000 points, the news in China is very big.

In history, every time Xiao Zhan breaks the youngest scoring record, it will cause a wave of big news in China.

What's more, it's Xiao Chen, a member of China's family.

In fact, not to mention in China, in the United States, Chen Xiao is about to break Kobe's youngest record of 3,000 points. The news is also very big.

After all, the Cavaliers have won four consecutive victories recently, and Chen Xiao has a lot of news.

Moreover, as a 19-year-old and 350-year-old player who played his first NBA regular season game, Chen Xiao is actually not too early.

Almost 20 years old.

People like Kobe Bryant and McGrady Garnett played NBA games when they were 18 years old or less.

It is actually quite amazing that Chen Xiao can stand out among so many young players in the NBA and become the youngest player to reach this scoring milestone.

It can only be said that in the history of the NBA, no one who entered the league younger than Chen Xiao has reached the peak like Chen Xiao.

And similarly, those players who were at their peak just like Chen Xiao were all older than Chen Xiao.

Chen Xiao was just stuck in the middle.

Both sides came up.

Chen Xiao has never been interested in the so-called youngest record in the NBA.

Who knows if there will be another player who is younger than him and who is at the peak since his debut?

Xiao Zhan of the same team is the reaper of this kind of record.

What's more, these records can't bring him victory, nor can they get him rewards from the system. Getting them is very good, but it doesn't matter if he doesn't get them.

Chen Xiao has always treated him with a normal attitude.

Chen Xiao's attitude is really admired by these young players of the Cavaliers.

We are all young people, and it is difficult for young people to maintain such a calm attitude when facing such a record.

Especially Xiao Zhan.

Xiao Zhan always felt that Chen Xiao was a data controller like him.

Unexpectedly, as a data controller, Xiao Chen controlled different data than him.

Well, Xiao Zhan is right.

Chen Xiao controls the data that can bring him system rewards.

As for Xiao Zhan, he just likes to control this kind of data that the media loves to boast about.

"Xiao Chen, although you don't care very much, you can't let down our Chinese audience. If your score is less than 53 points in this game, I will punish you!"

"..."

Chen Xiao watched Xiao Zhan's 'performance' for the camera. Although Chen Xiao always kept a smile on his face, he was already rolling his eyes at Xiao Zhan crazily in his heart.

Xiao Zhan, it’s okay, we Chinese audiences are on board!

However, looking at the look in the eyes of Teacher Zhang and Xiao Su next to Xiao Zhan, who really understands us, Chen Xiao felt that Xiao Zhan, this kid, is simply the king in this area!

You are only 18 years old!

"Dear viewers of the country of 囧, don't worry, Xiao Qin scores the first goal tonight, leave it to me!"

After James and Chen Xiao were interviewed by Teacher Zhang, Xiao Zhan secretly shouted something to the Chinese audience in front of the camera.

I saw Xiao Zhan on TV smiling and giving a thumbs up as a sign of assurance in Chinese that he understood but still had some glitches.

Let me tell you, it's no exaggeration. As long as the Chinese audience in front of the TV is a fan of Chen Xiao, their favorable impression of Xiao Zhan will definitely +MAX.

What is the highest level of popularity!

That's it.

After Xiao Zhan's "scheming" operations this season, there is no Chen Xiao fan in China who doesn't like Xiao Zhan.

All bound.

So much so that fans of Chen Xiao in China say: "Xiao Zhan is our representative, the number one Xiao fan!"

Xiao Zhan has gone crazy this time!

Xiao Zhan is now so popular among Chinese fans. Not only is he eloquent and has high emotional intelligence, but at the same time, he really cares about the needs of Chinese fans.

What Chinese fans want to do is what I will do!

In this game with the Celtics, after the game started, Xiao Zhan was frantically playing ball for Chen Xiao, and he was sparing no effort.

The Celtics are not a rookie team.

Although Mike James was sent away by Danny Ainge, Pierce and Rickey Davis are still there.

In addition, there are league champions such as Eric Williams, Tony Barty, Vin Baker, and LaFrentz.

This team is not that easy to play.

But in order for Chen Xiao to score more points in this game, Xiao Zhan not only broke through like crazy, attracting the defense, but also distributed the ball to Chen Xiao.

And the whole court was running around to block Chen Xiao's people and cover him.

What a durable young player Xiao Zhan is.

However, in order to fully support Chen Xiao's scoring, Xiao Zhan was already a little out of his depth by the time the game reached the third quarter.

For Chen Xiao to score in this game, they fought so hard that the voices of Teacher Zhang and Xiao Su on the sidelines choked up with excitement and emotion.

This is really no joke.

"Xiao Zhan is Chen Xiao's true brother in Cleveland!"

"Although Xiao Zhan is a foreigner, he is not an outsider!"

Listen, it's all said!

And the Chinese viewers in front of the TV felt that they very much agreed with what Teacher Zhang and Xiao Su said.

If Xiao Zhan, who was playing crazy games for Chen Xiao on the court at this time, knew what Teacher Zhang and Xiao Su said, he would be very happy and excited.

Do you know how hard he works to prevent the Chinese audience from treating him as an outsider?

Now, I, LeBron James, finally get such recognition!

Thanks to the efforts of Xiao Zhan, after three quarters of this game, the score of the two teams was 88 to 84, and the Cleveland Cavaliers led by 4 points at home.

This is a very fast paced game.

In order to push the rhythm and get more rounds, Xiao Zhan went crazy in this game.

And after the first three quarters, when the fourth quarter started...

"Xiao Chen, I fought too hard in the first three quarters. The team's offense in the fourth quarter is all up to you. Don't pass the ball to me, and don't play tactics with me. Just attack when you get the ball. I'll give it to you." Defense, you are responsible for scoring, I am responsible for winning!”

"..."

Is this necessary?

Xiao Zhan, you are such a good actor!

Looking at Xiao Zhan who looked like he was in trouble at this time, Chen Xiao was speechless.

Most of the Cavaliers' team offense, Chen Xiao and James' pick-and-rolls account for a large part.

James said he didn't use tactics. Not only were Chen Xiao and James unable to play the pick-and-roll, but other Cavaliers players were not fools.

Even Crawford knows what to do at this time.

"Boss, I fought too hard in the first three quarters of this game. Don't look for me when attacking. I defend. In the fourth quarter, you treat the Cavaliers like the 76ers and yourself like Iverson. We defend and you attack." !”

"Boss, our victory in this game depends entirely on your score!"

The game between the Celtics and Cavaliers continued after the timeout. In the fourth quarter, Chen Xiao finally experienced the feeling of being Iverson.

Just throw it away, what else can you do?

It has to be said that Chen Xiao is 2 meters tall and has a wingspan of 2.21 meters. As long as he throws, he can really throw it whenever he wants.

It's the same as Iverson on this point.

Don't worry about the hit rate or not, it can't be difficult for anyone to throw it.

Although Boss Ai is not as tall as Chen Xiao, Boss Ai's butterfly pierces the flower and connects with two points from a long distance. No one in the league can stop him.

Of course, the Celtics players are not fools. The Cavaliers let Chen Xiao throw away like this, how could they watch.

However, whether it is one person defending or two people defending, it is difficult to block Chen Xiao's shot.

Throughout the fourth quarter, with the support of the Cavaliers team and the siege of the Celtics team, Chen Xiao took 14 shots in a single quarter, making 6 of 14, 2 of 5 three-pointers, and 5 of 6 free throws. , scored 19 points in a single quarter.

In the entire fourth quarter, the Cavaliers only had 22 points, and Chen Xiao alone accounted for 19 points.

Under the full defense of other Cavaliers players, the Celtics only scored 21 points in the fourth quarter.

In the end, the Cavaliers defeated the Boston Celtics 110-105 at home.

Chen Xiao made 20 of 43 shots, 4 of 14 three-pointers, and 12 of 16 free throws. He scored 56 points, 3 rebounds, and 4 assists.

The 56-point score not only allowed Chen Xiao to reach the 3,000-point milestone after this game.

At the same time, this is also the highest score in Chen Xiao's career.

At the end of the game, after Chen Xiao successfully reached this milestone, Xiao Zhan, who was still 'pretending to be dead' before, immediately became lively and energetic.

This guy's acting skills are really good.

Xiao Zhan fully assisted Chen Xiao in this game. He made 7 of 15 in the game and scored a triple-double of 17 points, 16 rebounds and 14 assists.

Let’s not talk about assists, let’s talk about Xiao Zhan’s rebounds in this game.

In order to push up the offensive and defensive rhythm of this game, Xiao Zhan went crazy grabbing backcourt rebounds.

He didn't even miss his teammates' backcourt rebounds.

After grabbing backcourt rebounds, he pushed for a fast break like crazy.

I have to say that Xiao Zhan really went all out in this game for Chen Xiao's score.

It can be seen from Chen Xiao's shooting percentage that Chen Xiao's touch in this game is actually relatively average.

Logically speaking, it is difficult for him to get 50+ in this game.

But in the end, he was pushed by Xiao Zhan and his teammates to get 50+, reaching a milestone and career night.

On the Celtics side, Pierce also performed very well. He made 12 of 25 shots in the game, 1 of 5 three-pointers, and 16 of 18 free throws. He scored 41 points, 9 rebounds, 6 assists, 4 steals and 2 blocks.

This data is also comparable to Diaw. The reason why Pierce had so many steals in this game was mainly due to the speed of Xiao Zhan.

In this game, Xiao Zhan not only pushed up Chen Xiao's data by himself, but also pushed up Pierce's data.

Xiao Zhan is simply poisonous in this game.

Fortunately, although the Celtics are strong, they are not that strong. Danny Ainge’s series of operations have made the players on this team not work so hard. Otherwise, with Xiao Zhan’s operations in this game, the Cavaliers He must be dead.

Even if it was the Celtics that the Cavaliers played in the first game this season, if James dared to do this, the Cavaliers would lose.

However, no matter what, the Cavaliers won, and Chen Xiao also successfully scored 56 points. Xiao Zhan's plan was successful.

So, after the game, Xiao Zhan went to Teacher Zhang to talk about his achievements.

Good guy, after confessing his achievements to Teacher Zhang and the audience friends in front of the TV, Xiao Zhan actually brought Teacher Zhang and Xiao Su to interview Chen Xiao.

This is really treating yourself as a CCTV reporter.

"Xiao Chen, how do you feel about scoring a career-high 56 points in this game and becoming the youngest player in the NBA to score 3,000 points?"

Looking at Xiao Zhan who was addicted to playing at this time, Chen Xiao smiled and said: "It feels very complicated."

"Very complicated?"

"Yes, although I am now the youngest to reach 2,000 points and the youngest to reach 3,000 points, I know that these last milestones will definitely belong to Xiao Zhan in the future."

"..."

Flower Q!

Xiao Chen, you actually dug a hole for me! ! !

What do you think of Mr. Zhang next to you and the audience in front of the TV? I, the emperor, really have no intention of killing gods!

But if you say so, I wouldn’t be able to clean myself even if I jumped into the Great Lakes.

Originally, you loved Chen Xiao and I loved Chen Xiao too. We were on the same side.

But now, can we still be together?

Xiao Zhan, who was a little dumbfounded by Chen Xiao, looked at Teacher Zhang and Xiao Su next to him with his peripheral vision, and surprisingly found that these two people didn't have the slightest bit of discomfort on their faces.

It seemed that Teacher Zhang and the others accepted that I would definitely break Xiao Chen's youngest milestone one by one in the future.

That is to say...

"Xiao Zhan, come on, grow up sooner, break Xiao Chen's milestone sooner, and you will win the championship together sooner."

Teacher Zhang patted the somewhat dumbfounded Xiao Zhan on the shoulder and said with a smile.

When James came back to his senses and saw the smile on Chen Xiao's face, he also smiled.

Xiao Chen didn't trick him just now, Xiao Chen just helped him confirm something.

He was finally recognized!

With his efforts, he finally became Xiao Chen's own!

Xiao Chen, thank you.

You're welcome, Xiao Zhan.

The two looked at each other and smiled, saying nothing.

At this time, the two of them completely ignored the extremely ugly expression on the face of Gloria James on the sidelines.

Xiao Zhan's performance in this game simply exceeded her bottom line!

"Cleveland is not the kingdom of God but a kingdom. This is not what a king should do!"

ps: First update, please vote and subscribe! ! !