The yellow storm in the NBA

The Weekly Player of the Week just announced on Monday, Quan Xiao was once again elected the Western Conference Player of the Week. The Rockets played four games last week, and the Rockets won all of them. Quan Xiao's performance was also the most outstanding, and therefore he won the Player of the Week award.

Two days after becoming the best of the month, I got the best of the week.

At the same time, the league started voting for the 2008 New Orleans All-Star Game on November 17. According to the first-round voting results just announced, Quan Xiao’s vote count was pretty good. The guard group ranked second only to Kobe Bryant and Iverson.

In the third.

Compared with the two superstars who have been famous for several years, Quan Xiao still lacks a bit of background, but if all the tickets from Chinese fans are valid, it probably won't be that bad.

Of course, judging from his performance, Quan Xiao is worthy of this voting result. At least he can confidently say that these votes are what he deserves. Either he relied on opportunism in the huge Chinese market behind him, or he relied on his own strength to win.

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Quan Xiao is certainly looking forward to the All-Stars. After all, this is not only a good stage, but also the fans’ recognition and love for the players. It is also a good opportunity for players to increase their commercial value.

However, because he is divided into the guard group, it is really difficult for Quan Xiao to get one of the two starting positions. Not to mention the two of the four shooting guards, there are only Steve Nash and Chris Paul.

, are all superstars with both strength and popularity.

One of them is a two-time regular season MVP and the leader of the small ball storm. The other is a point guard representative of the new generation and the host of this All-Star Game.

Although Quan Xiao is temporarily ahead of them, the lead is not large, and he may be overtaken at any time. Fortunately, he is not too far away from Kobe and Iverson in front, and there is still a chance to overtake.

Their background is definitely incomparable. After all, they have played for several years, and the popularity they have accumulated cannot be matched by a rookie. Then they can only rely on performance to compete for the votes of neutral fans.

If there are no surprises, Quan Xiao will definitely appear in this All-Star Game. Even if he doesn't have the chance to participate in the main game, he still has the Rookie Challenge to play, and the league has also invited him to participate in the three-point contest, and he has already

Agreed.

In the Rookie Challenge, Quan Xiao's goal is very clear, win and then get the MVP. Although the second-year students have played for one more year than them and have more experience, in terms of talent, the 2007 class is much better than the 2006 class. Not to mention the first-year students.

Quan Xiao, the ruthless man who ranks first in the MVP rankings.

Quan Xiao originally wanted to participate in the slam dunk contest, and the league also invited him, but later Quan Xiao gave up. One was because he didn't want to be too tired, and the other was because he really didn't want to spend time thinking about creativity and practice. Although creativity can be

Plagiarism

Yes, but you still need to spend time practicing, right?

Instead of wasting time on this, it is better to use it to practice other useful skills. For example, low post play, fadeaway jump shot, breakthrough with the ball, etc. Maybe after two years, when the skills are almost practiced, you can consider participating in the dunk contest.

Just for fun, don’t worry about it now.

On December 6, 2007, Beijing time, the game between the Rockets and the Grizzlies started at the Toyota Center in Houston.

Home team starting lineup: Yao Ming, Josh Smith, Shane Battier, Quan Xiao, Rafe Alston.

Starting lineup for the away team: Pau Gasol, Damon Stoudemire, Rudy Gay, Mike Miller, Juan Carlos Navarro.

To be honest, this game didn't have much to watch. It was relatively dull. Both teams performed normally. The Grizzlies didn't cause any trouble to the Rockets and even fell behind in every quarter.

The scores in the four quarters were 25:21, 27:23, 31:26, and 28:26 respectively. The Rockets won at home with a score of 111:96.

In this game, Quan Xiao played 33 minutes and scored 29 points on 10-of-18 shooting. Yao Ming scored 22 points and 9 rebounds in 29 minutes, performing normally.

The Rockets were able to defeat the Grizzlies by 15 points because of Bonchi Wells's outburst. He played 30 minutes in this game, made 11 of 14 shots, scored 24 points and 7 rebounds, and became the leader of this game.

x factor.

Two days later, the Rockets challenged the New Jersey Nets away from home, led by the trident of Jason Kidd, Vince Carter and Richard Jefferson. Quan Xiao met Carter for the first time. Carter even came over to talk to Quan Xiao before the game.

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As for the reason, of course it was because Quan Xiao injured Bowen. In Carter's eyes, anyone who could make Bowen suffer was someone's friend.

But friends are friends, and neither of them kept a hand on the court. Carter scored 30 points in the whole game, but under Quan Xiao's hard defense, it took him 28 shots to get this score, which was not efficient.

high.

Although Richard Jefferson in the Trident played well and scored 29 points, the Nets ultimately lost the game at home.

Quan Xiao, who faced Carter, scored slightly lower than him, only 27 points, but he was much more efficient than him. He only took 15 shots and made 11 hits, with a hit rate of over 70%.

In addition, Yao Ming had a double-double with 25 points and 11 rebounds, Alston had 14 points, Shane Battier had 12 points, and Smith had 17 points. All the Rockets' starting five scored in double figures. This is also

The reason why the Rockets were able to beat the Nets 105:93 despite poor substitute performance.

"Man, you played well, keep working hard and you will soon become a superstar in this league!" After the game, Carter came over to tell Quan Xiao.

There were many opportunities for confrontation between the two in this game. Carter experienced firsthand the rookie's considerable strength on both offense and defense. What surprised him even more was that Quan Xiao was very mature and steady in handling the ball, and he could not tell at all.

Still showing signs of a rookie player, without the irritability of most rookie players.

So after just one game, Carter understood why Quan Xiao was able to perform like this. He also had a feeling that Quan Xiao would definitely have a seat in the future list of league superstars.

In addition, because of Bowen, he had a better impression of Quan Xiao, so he came over to show his goodwill to Quan Xiao again after the game.

So far, Quan Xiao has played against three of the four major shooting guards and won them all. Only Tracy McGrady, who played for the Rockets for three seasons and was later traded by the team for Quan Xiao, has not yet played against him.

They have to wait until February next year to meet, which is still two months away!

The schedule is still going on, Quan Xiao's performance has been very stable, and his performance has made more fans start to vote for him. He finally slowly widened the gap with the following defenders, and the rest

It is to catch up with Kobe Bryant and Iverson, but the difficulty level is a bit high. It is estimated that Quan Xiao will have to break out a few more times to have any hope.

On December 10, Quan Xiao defeated the Raptors 100:96 in an away game. Quan Xiao scored 28 points with a 50% shooting rate. Due to Alston's absence, Quan Xiao sometimes played point guard, so he also sent out 10 times.

Assists and achieves a double-double.

On December 11, in back-to-back games against the 76ers, Yao Ming performed poorly in this game, which put the Rockets in trouble. Fortunately, Bunchy Wells stood up again, and Yao Ming only scored 12 points and 9 rebounds.

In this situation, he scored a double-double of 24 points and 10 rebounds on 8-of-14 shooting. He teamed up with Quan Xiao to score 63 points and led the Rockets to a 105:100 comeback victory.

Quan Xiao broke out again. He played 42 minutes and made 14 of 20 shots (5 of 9 three-pointers) and all 6 free throws. He scored a triple-double of 39 points, 11 rebounds and 12 assists, which was the biggest win for the team.

Hero.

He fought so hard in this game that he almost collapsed from exhaustion. He was unable to conduct interviews after the game. He directly asked Li Zixiong to go back to the locker room for a massage to restore his physical strength. Therefore, he was absent from the post-game press conference.

Fortunately, this game allowed Quan Xiao to win another wave of votes from fans, retaining the hope of becoming an All-Star starter.