The Point Guard is Here

Fanhee's opponent tonight is Kevin Johnson.

Derrick Rose and Russell Westbrook in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Although his height is only 185, his speed is extremely fast, his explosive jumping ability is amazing, he often rushes into the paint area for dunks, and even has a feat of dunks across Olajuwon.

Once single-core led the team to break into the Western Conference consecutively, but they all returned with regrets. With Charles Barkley joining the Suns, he helped the Suns enter the finals as the second master.

From 1988 to 1991, he was the second point guard in the league. At that time, the Magic was at its peak, Isiah Thomas began to decline, and Kevin Johnson entered the second team.

Then he was seriously injured in 1992. From this time on, Stockton tepidly used assists and steals, becoming the league's top card.

Today's NBA point guard structure is that Stockton maintains the No. 1 point guard in name, Tim Hardaway of the Warriors is actively searching for 20+10, and Gary Payton of the Supersonics is rising sharply.

For the rest, most of them don't have any celebrity appearance.

This is destined to be a barren era of point guards.

Kevin Johnson looked at Fan Xi in front of him, and there was hope in his eyes. He had watched Van Hee's highlights, and he was deeply impressed by Van Hee's unconstrained passing, and when Van Hee stood in front of him, he saw the prototype of a tall point guard.

As a point guard, he hopes to have a point guard flourishing age.

"You need to increase your aggression."

Kevin Johnson on Vanhee after he passed the basketball to Patrick Ewing: "If you want to take a different path, you shouldn't just be in charge of passing the basketball to your teammates. Good point guards shouldn't It's just the executor of the tactics, but the tactics themselves."

Fan Xi has been thinking about this sentence.

At the same time, the smell of gunpowder in the arena is getting stronger and stronger.

The smoke between Oakley and Barkley permeated Ewing and Mason's side, so the Knicks' three British battles with Lu Bu took turns to fight against Barkley!

Barkley can be regarded as a hero of a generation, and his physical fitness is also extraordinary. He is not tall, but his body is extremely strong, and his jumping ability and explosive power are top choices. The most terrifying thing is that he also has excellent touch and ball control ability... This is the enhanced version of the later Fat Tiger.

However, even if he is so strong, he still can't stand the three big tigers of the Knicks.

Phoenix fell at home.

Fan Xi did not play any important role in this game. He played 9 minutes and scored 2 points, 3 assists and 1 steal.

Normal rotation level.

Pat Riley is not in a hurry to let Fan Xie achieve results, he hopes to give Fan Xie a long-term plan to let Fan Xie grow up steadily.

Fan Xi is only 17 years old. He is the youngest kid in the league. What he lacks most is time.

Pat Riley didn't have the idea of ​​backfiring. In his plan, Van Heede gained a firm foothold in the first regular season, and when he played some surprise roles in key games in the playoffs, he would perfectly complete the task.

His eyes are three years or even five years later.

Because even at that time, little Jack was only 20 or 22 years old.

At that time, I should be the general manager and head coach of the Knicks. At that time, Jack Jr. can be established as the core of the team's outside line, and there will be almost no resistance. When Ewing continues to age, Jack will become the leader of the team. At that time, he was only 25 years old... Pat Riley's heart The schedule is as clear as ever.

However, Fan Xi couldn't wait any longer.

The Anfernee Hardaway incident brought him great mental pressure. He realized that if he could not rise quickly, such unfair treatment would increase in the future.

This evening, Kevin Johnson had an in-depth talk with him for nearly forty minutes.

Kevin Johnson stopped Vanhee in the tunnel, and he gave the 17-year-old a lot of advice.

His number one suggestion to Fan Xi is: "You have to quickly increase your breakthrough penetration ability, if your breakthrough threat increases,

You're going to be the most indispensable perimeter player in the Knicks. Although Starks has good physical fitness, his ball handling ability is not good. Derek Harper doesn't have the pace to attack the paint, and Hubert is just a shooter. Greg Anthony can drive, but he doesn't have the passing skills, he can't integrate with other players..."

For Kevin Johnson's suggestion, Fan Xi very much agreed.

As expected of an old-timer point guard who started with a breakthrough, he explained Fan Xi's problem to the point.

Fan Xie is currently gaining a firm foothold in the Knicks and has a stable rotation time. However, compared to other lottery picks, he has not reached the point of "indispensable".

If his ability to break through and kill is improved, he will become an indispensable force for the New York Knicks, and he is also the most scarce force.

But... Fan Xi looked at his points bank. Less than 800 points, and there is still a long way to go before 24,000 points can be used to buy a basic breakthrough in the NBA.

But fortunately, Fan Xi's physical fitness has improved. His explosive power is already at the A level, his speed is at the B+ level, and his agility has even reached the S level.

These are the key qualities to improve breakthrough ability.

Fan Xi had already felt that his breakthrough ability would be adjusted from C level to C+ or B level. Although both B and C are big-bucks in the NBA, they are not worth mentioning, and any guard has such a level.

However, Fan Xi's assist ability has reached the A level of the NBA league, and the increase in breakthrough ability will produce a strong superimposed effect.

Fan Xie said goodbye to Kevin Johnson, and when passing by the Suns locker room, he heard Charles Barkley roaring in the locker room. He was ranting about why no one stood up to support him when he was targeted by the Knicks.

You could tell he was pissed off, he was fed up with his teammates.

The hot-tempered guy really seems to be leaving Phoenix.

Houston Rockets?

The name of another team popped up in Fanhee's head inexplicably, and a picture of Barkley wearing a Rockets jersey appeared vaguely.

oh!

That's too bad.

Fan Xi thought so in his heart.

The Houston Rockets are already terrifying. They were the championship last season, and this season they added Drexler, a former All-Star. If Charles Barkley also joins, even the Chicago Bulls that Jordan returned will not be able to win, right?

…

With Christmas approaching, 1994 is finally drawing to a close.

At this time, the NBA league became restless.

Because the NBA All-Stars have also opened the voting channel.

Players at all elite levels hope to gain fame and financial rewards by making it to the All-Star Game.

All-Stars were very, very valuable honors in the 90s.

Especially at the end of 1994, when the salary of the league is about to explode, when a rookie can get 68 million US dollars for 10 years, everyone knows that the first billion-dollar contract in NBA history is coming soon. up.

Therefore, this season's All-Star honor has become more important than in previous years.

On the plane to Portland, Fanhee saw Boggs, the shortest player in the NBA, attacking the white point guard Mark Price: "If it is really better than ball control, it is really several times better than you."

Price is the Warriors' shooter.

He's been a three-time All-Star in a row.

This made many players unconvinced. Those black players tacitly believed that he was an All-Star who entered by virtue of his skin color, and his strength was not recognized by everyone.

However, I didn't expect Boggs to fire first.

Boggs is just a qualified NBA player. He can gain so much popularity only because he is too short in stature.

But that's the status quo at the point guard line in the Eastern Conference today.

There are no heroes!

The point guards compete with Boggs, Skiles, Price, Derek Harper and other players who are difficult to leave their names in NBA history.

And it was this group of rookies who were still pecking at each other crazily.

Derek Harper has become ambitious recently, and he feels that he should get an All-Star.

He mobilized like crazy inside the team, and he wanted his teammates to cooperate with him.

But.

Teammates also have teammates' competition.

Patrick Ewing was furious recently, because Shaq O'Neal claimed over there that he would definitely have more than one-third more votes than Ewing, and that Ewing was an old star who should retire from the stage of history.

Ewing couldn't be more angry with these words.

This season, Ewing's data is actually no worse than O'Neal. However, from the perspective of court play and off-court entertainment, the Orlando kid is too good.

Ewing suffered a lot in this regard.

However, without arguing about steamed buns, Ewing plans to spend more time on the court in the next month, so he has to count the votes.

Fan Xi actually had an immature opinion. He felt that Ewing would definitely increase the number of votes as long as he imitated a gorilla walking and patting his chest after dunking in every game.

After all, isn't the All-Star just having fun? Who doesn't want to watch monkeys.

However, Ewing doesn't like to make fuss about his appearance. He often says to himself: I don't need a good-looking fan.

It can be seen that he cares a lot about his appearance.

Fan Xi didn't dare to make such a joke, after all, he was a newcomer. Moreover, senior brother Ewing's favorability for him has risen to 9 points, so he will not take risks at this time.

What if the favorability drops?

For Derek Harper, there is another bad news: the backcourt partner, the classmate Starks who claims to be the league's first guard, is also making an impact on this year's All-Star. He was already an All-Star last season. I want Lianzhuang.

This is very bad for Derek Harper.

Fan Xi could clearly feel that something was wrong with the atmosphere in the locker room recently.

However, neither Pat Riley nor the coaching staff took it seriously. Before the All-Star, it is normal to have some mood swings.

Of course, Fan Xi could only be a spectator for the all-star level fairy fight incident.

Although it is said that the All-Star voting in 1994 is that any player is eligible to participate in the election. As long as the number of votes enters the top five in the East and West, they can enter the All-Star starters, and the rest of the substitute players will be selected by coaches and reporters.

But Vanhee never hoped for it.

Among this year's rookie players, only Grant Hill is eligible to become an All-Star. His popularity is too high.

His style of play is very popular, his personality is also very popular, coupled with the support of the league, he even became an idol star.

Hill has a good chance of becoming the vote leader this season. (In fact, Hill has been at the forefront of the vote from 95-00, and his popularity in the United States is extremely high.)

In addition, Jason Kidd is also considered to have a great chance.

Many critics even joked that if Jason Kidd was a player in the East, he would definitely become a sure-fire All-Star.

The point guard competition in the East is just... thin.

On the west side, Stockton, Gary Payton, Tim Hardaway, Dan Marley... and many other outstanding point guards gathered.

Compared with the two rookies of the same class who are expected to become All-Stars, Fan Xi is much bleak.

Also a lottery pick, he wasn't even in the All-Rookie Game discussion.

When the rookies of the same class competed fiercely for the 16 places in the rookie competition, no one regarded him as an imaginary enemy.

Fan Xi was disappointed by this.

Especially after Jaylen Rose, a player under David Falk, recently caught talking trash to the undrafted pick Anthony Tucker and was caught by the media and published in the newspaper, he became more and more sad.

At that time, Rose said harshly to Tucker: "Save it, man. If you can enter the All-Star rookie game, so can Jack Fan in New York."

This trash talk caused Fan Xi to be shot while lying down.

And Tucker's response after the game made Fanhee feel extremely sad.

"It hurt me the most, that he compared me to Little Jack."

Anthony Tucker is an undrafted player. He played for the Washington Bullets and averaged only 4.2 points, 3.2 rebounds and 1.2 assists per game.

He just played good data in the last three games and became famous once as a draft pick.

But such a guy dares to speak insultingly to Fan Xi.

Fan Xi once again deeply realized that he had to come up with something.

The Knicks are in this year's Christmas game.

The Knicks will host the Houston Rockets at home.

This is hailed as one of the biggest highlights of the regular season this season, the battle of the giants, the battle of the championship, the battle of revenge... all elements are assembled in one pile.

In the most important holiday for Westerners, New York fans can't wait to get their shame out of the way.

Derek Harper can't wait to rule over Kenny Smith.

John Starks couldn't wait to wash away the humiliation of the finals from beyond the three-point line.

Patrick Ewing can't wait to reenact the NCAA Finals takedown of Hakeem Olajuwon.

And Vanhey...

He also needs a game to prove himself, and a game that makes those low-level players dare not to "fall into trouble" on him at will.

However, the Houston Rockets, last season's champion, are the most elite team in the NBA.

Can Vanhee perform?

At this time, his agent, Sam Powell, who went home for Thanksgiving, finally returned to New York. Just before Christmas.

His uncle Fan Le, and temporary aunt Madonna also returned from the tropical island.

Uncle Fan Le was the one who convinced Madonna with the reason of "Christmas reunion".

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