"Hello, Xiao Yao... My surname is Zhang, the arrogant Zhang, just call me Brother Hao. If you are more fashionable, you will call Aix. This is my girlfriend, April Clark."

Touching Xiao Yao's dog head, he couldn't touch it like this in two years. Now, the other party is only one little taller than him... 17 years old, 216 cm, which is simply.

Yao Ming, who has been very square since childhood, is really square now. Why does he feel that the Chinese basketball king in front of him has bad intentions to him?

However, the other party really agreed to help take care of him in Los Angeles. His parents also told him that when he arrived in the United States, he would have to have a good relationship with the basketball king in front of him.

Yao Ming has been very inferior since the fifth grade of elementary school. At the age of 11, he grew to 180 cm and was introverted. Since then, he has been bullied by his classmates. Only his cousin who is one year older than him helps him stand out. He is not autistic, but he has become more dependent on his brother.

I was very excited to hear that I was going abroad, but after coming to the United States, except for the head coach of the youth team of the Shanghai Oriental Shark Club who brought him here, the staff of the Shanghai Sports Bureau, a senior in the domestic basketball industry, and a domestic businessman, he could not understand the others' words.

Uneasy and scared. Now that his head is rua, Yao Ming still feels more comfortable.

With such intimate actions, only his family would do this.

Yes, he is still a child who is only 17 years old in more than half a month.

Yao Ming stayed for a long time and shouted timidly: "Brother Hao, Sister Hao."

"..." Brother Hao, Zhang Hao sounded okay, Mrs. Hao... Forget it, forget it, it's okay. Anyway, April Clark's Chinese has also improved a bit, and you can understand simple conversations.

Seeing that Zhang Hao and Yao Ming met, Wang Zheng, the youth team coach of Shanghai Oriental Shark Club, stepped forward and said, "Aix, Xiao Yao, please take care of you. He is very talented. We hope he can also get more scientific and professional guidance like roughly. We have hired an English teacher and a nanny. You don't have to worry about life, just help take care of this child."

Speaking to other people, Zhang Hao became serious: "Coach Wang, you have to be polite. This is what I should do. We should take care of each other in a foreign country."

When Zhang Hao received a call from Zhang Weiping a few days ago, he already understood what was going on.

Back to August 25, 1997, the Asian Men's Basketball Championship started in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia.

The Chinese team, who was assigned to Group B, met the Korean team the most popular to win the championship in its first game.

The head coach represents a lot of interests. Each of the executives of the Blue Association wants their own people to come to power, either joining in groups or being tough. It was not until July 10 that the Chinese men's basketball team decided to be the head coach.

That's fine, the key is that when there was no coach, it was the executives of the Blue Association who personally led the team to train, allowing basketball players to marathon once a week. This operation is also amazing, called physical training... When Wang Zhizhi returned to the team, three main players who performed well in the Olympics last year were injured!

This led to them who defeated Argentina in the Olympics last year and entered the quarterfinals, they may not even win the Asian championship, and the Korean team has obvious advantages.

Although Wang Zhizhi returned to the team, it seems to be of little effect in the eyes of domestic professionals.

It’s not that domestic professionals look down on Wang Zhizhi, but that Wang Zhizhi’s strength has been calculated among the strength of the men’s basketball team.

As for the year's progress...

In the freshman season, due to Wang Zhizhi's playing style adjustment, he changed from a heavyweight tonnage inside line to a flexible inside line. After the freshman season, he will only adjust his strength to the beginning of the freshman season. The difference is that his playing style has changed.

In last year's Olympics, he performed well, but not much different from before NCAA. At that time, Wang Zhizhi, who had a large tonnage, was able to perform like this in the international arena. He also won the title of Best Center in the World Youth Championship.

In last year's Olympics, Wang Zhizhi's performance was not much better than in the summer of 1995, and was basically on the same level.

This has caused a lot of attacks on Wang Zhizhi's study in the United States, and some domestic experts even asked the country to recall Wang Zhizhi. Fortunately, there were a group of seniors and the support of the Olympic quarterfinals, otherwise Wang Zhizhi would have to go back in his sophomore year.

But another year later, the so-called experts and so-called professionals in China finally knew what professionalism is!

On the afternoon of August 25, Saudi time, the first group match of the Asian Championships. When domestic professionals themselves were not optimistic, Wang Zhizhi scored 26 points, 9 rebounds, 2 assists, and 4 blocks, and beat the Korean men's basketball team with one hand, leading the team to defeat the Korean team 81-75!

This performance is no worse than the top inside players in the European league!

After the sophomore season, Wang Zhizhi's progress surprised everyone in China. In the next two group matches, the opponents were of average strength, but they were still a difficult opponent for the Chinese men's basketball team, which currently lacked three main players, in the eyes of domestic professionals, and it should have been like this.

But Wang Zhizhi proved his progress with his strength. It may still be difficult to say that it is difficult to lead the national team and in the Asian Championships, although he lacked two inside teammates, Shan Tao and Liu Yudong, he supported the inside alone and led the team to advance to the finals 3-0 with Hu Weidong!

As early as the beginning of the year, Yao Ming's parents had already contacted Wang Zhizhi.

Professionals cannot understand the changes in Wang Zhizhi's freshman season, but Yao Ming's parents can understand it.

Yao Ming's parents were both retired provincial team athletes. After his father retired, he went to work at the Maritime Bureau and his mother went to work at the Shanghai Sports Research Institute.

After communicating with Wang Zhizhi many times, Yao Ming's parents had already begun to prepare to send Yao Ming to the United States. The Blue Association is still the same as before. Official battles and interests are more important than anything else. However, the head coach of the youth training team of the Shanghai Oriental Shark Club, the Shanghai Sports Bureau, under the communication between Yao Ming's parents, plans to send Yao Ming to the United States for training. Shanghai is considered the most cutting-edge city in China's science and technology, economy, and thought...

However, the preparations were done and the visa was obtained, but Yao Ming's parents were unable to make up their minds.

There must be many reasons...

But after seeing Wang Zhizhi's progress from the age of 19 to 20, Yao Ming's parents made up their minds to send him to Los Angeles, and the school also contacted him, which was the Inglewood High School where Zhang Hao attended.

Zhang Hao didn't know the other specific situations, but he didn't have to worry about them. Unlike Wang Zhizhi, Yao Ming is not an ordinary child.

In fact, this matter is not that important. Just take care of Xiao Yao's junior brother occasionally. Anyway, the relationship is tied up now, which is another thing... Zhang Hao looked at his father Zhang Weiguo and Zhang Weiping next to his father and were chatting with the Shanghai Sports Bureau and the head coach of the Youth Team of the Oriental Shark Club... No wonder Zhang Weiping's attitude towards him is different from other domestic media!

Other media are very serious, and Zhang Weiping likes to ask some sharp questions every time he interviews him.

People are not afraid of him being angry at all, and they can even let his father beat him if they can't stand him!

Because Zhang Weiping and his father's distant cousin! They are both from the Wei generation...

I just don’t know why it became a single name in his generation.

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Perhaps because Zhang Hao always gave people a very cold impression, Yao Ming's visit to Inglewood High School actually had a very little impact on him.

The so-called care is that only when you really encounter troubles, you need him, and you don’t have to care about the rest at all.

It’s just that I want to bind the relationship, and the relationship between seniors and juniors is still very important.

After receiving Xiao Yao's junior brother, Zhang Hao returned to his usual life.

When studying and training, I occasionally want to be free, but when I go to the United States, Yao Ming is learning English frantically, and he doesn't really disturb him.

When Zhang Hao was free, he went to learn about Yao Ming's situation. Yao Ming was in China and should be graduating in the next semester. However, when he arrived at Inglewood High School, he was similar to Zhang. He had to study for a year of similar preparatory academic year. The students in it were all students from various countries with a poor English foundation. If his grades were good, of course he could also take exams such as sat and go to college next year.

This depends on Yao Ming himself.

Relationship is really important. Anyway, Yao Ming was valued by the Inglewood High School basketball club as soon as he went to Inglewood High School. After Zhang Hao came to play in the Lakers, he would occasionally go back to high school. For example, when he retired from his jersey, he also met the new coach of Inglewood High School.

If you have any regrets about this, Zhang Hao is that there is no option to trigger the signing contract with Yao Ming... Maybe Xiao Yao is still young and is just a high school student.

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As time comes to September, the signings of NBA teams have also come to an end, and most teams have completed their recruitment work.

On September 5, the Lakers finally signed the 14th player on the roster - Robert Pike.

In the 1995-96 season, Robert Pike played for the Bullets...the Wizards played 31 times, averaging 18 points and 9.6 assists per game. They were signed by the Trail Blazers last season, but in the end they were counterattacked by Nash.

Nash is more suitable for Rashid Wallace. The most important thing is that Robert Pike's serious injury in the 1995-96 season. His athletic ability has been weakened a lot, which is a big blow to his playing style. As the season deepens, Robert Pike's injury risks begin to appear. He performed well throughout the season, averaging 10.3 points and 4.4 assists per game. However, after being traded by the Trail Blazers this summer, the Mavericks will only have partial guaranteed contracts next season.

Originally, Robert Pike should have won 4 million next season, but when the Trail Blazers signed, they were worried about their injuries. The contract with only $400,000 in the second year was guaranteed.

In the end, the Lakers signed him for $550,000 a year, of which only $270,000 is guaranteed. His contract can be ended by January 31 at the latest.

Zhang Hao can't say that this contract is good or bad. If he has the strength, based on the situation of the matchup last season, Robert Pike has it, but his personality and injury risks are all problems.

Let him compete for playing time with Lao Yu next door. Anyway, the starting lineup will definitely be Kenny Anderson...

On September 7, the Chinese men's basketball team defeated the Japanese team in the final and won the 11th Asian Championships in the history of the Chinese men's basketball team!

Zhang Hao was very happy. Originally, when he was talking to Xu Jicheng about the national team at the end of last season, he was quite worried that he would not get tickets to next year's World Championships this year. The news from Xu Jicheng was that next year's World Championships Blue Association would definitely invite him to join, but there may be problems in this year's Asian Championships. There will almost be problems in the seventh year of every decade, because next year is the time to choose a new leader...

Specifically, Xu Jicheng didn't say it explicitly, or dared not say much, but at the beginning of this year's Asian Championships, there was a great possibility of being eliminated early and losing tickets to the 1998 World Championships.

Zhang Hao himself remembers that the men's basketball team did not enter the World Championships in 1998.

Don’t worry now, just wait for Lan Xie’s summoning.

Relationship is not only something that others use to build a relationship with Xiaoyao’s parents, but also a connection in China. Zhang Weiping also has help in China... It’s just that he, Mr. Zhang, didn’t know about it before.

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At 2 pm on September 9, Zhang Hao's sixth hour back-shot turn and step-draw jump shot training ended, and the system prompts are here!

"Anfenny Hardaway's back-turning and reversing jump shot first-class training improvement card:

Object of use: Zhang Hao.

Progress: 3 groups each have completed 6 hours of training every day.

Congratulations to the host, the special signing player Zhang Hao’s technical evaluation of the jump shot has been increased to 80.”

“Ability evaluation: 88

Physical fitness: speed 90, strength 92 (explosion 90), bounce 94, flexibility 95, physical strength 93...

Shooting: 79 three-pointers (89 in the top arc area, 77 in the remaining positions), 92 mid-range shots, 95 layups...

Techniques: 84 ball control, 79 pass, 93 catch shot, 79 jump shot, 88 back hit jump shot, 84 cut, 59 jump step, 84 turn, 84 back singles skills 81 ball control change direction, 90 emergency stop jump shot, 69 back hit jump shot, 80 step jump shot…”

The comprehensive technology of back-on singles has been increased from 77 to 81, and the back-on jump shot has been increased from 88. They have gained from continuous back-on jump shots. This is what Zhang Hao expected, which is the increase...it is greater than expected!

Finally, both important training sessions this summer have ended, and he is full of expectations for the new season...

After September, the newly joined teammates also came to Los Angeles one after another.

Old teammates, Kenny Anderson, Jason Williams, Doug Christie, Brian Shaw and others have also come to him to have dinner or chat or play games.

Zhang Hao was not in a hurry to have a good relationship with his new teammates, and he naturally met after the training camp began.

Next, when the coaching team arranges the gathering time on September 27, he has to continue to strengthen his training, and he can devote all his energy to the training of basic skills.

Three-pointers and layups have made progress, but there is still no movement in the mid-range shot. After all, it has reached the top level of 92. If you can make progress casually, there will be a ghost.

But you still need training. Basic skills are the core that supports all technologies!
To be continued...