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Chapter 738 - 314. It seems like there’s nothing wrong_3

Chapter 738: 314. It seems like there’s nothing wrong_3

By the fourth quarter, the Pistons had extended their performance from the latter half of the third quarter, scoring 17-9 and decisively widening the gap to double digits, securing the victory.

Despite the Bobcats scoring 19-14 in the latter half, they couldn’t turn the game around.

Billups scored 14 points with 7 assists, Hamilton 19 points, Rasheed Wallace 14 points, 7 rebounds, 2 assists, Noah 5 points, 8 rebounds, 3 assists, McDyess 8 points, 8 rebounds, Juan Dixon 11 points, and Ronald Murray 10 points... All overshadowing Zhang Yang’s 29 points, 5 rebounds, 6 assists; Okafor’s 24 points, 12 rebounds, 3 assists, 2 blocks; and Mike Miller’s 15 points.

96-102, the Bobcats lost by 6 points at home to the Pistons, marking their 8th loss of the season.

After playing for 40 minutes, guarding Billups, and still managing to score 29 points from 27 shots, Zhang Yang was exhausted tonight.

He is naturally gifted with stamina, but at only 19 and a half years old, with a potential stamina of 94, having only developed to 90, he just couldn’t keep up.

Zhang San: "As expected, this family can’t function without a leader!"

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After losing to the Pistons, the Bobcats’ record moved to 26 wins and 8 losses.

With a recent record of 2 wins and 4 losses, that night, when Zhang Yang came home and checked the news, he saw a surge of disharmony on portal sites and forums.

He had expected this, the "pro-royalty" supporters had been waiting for such a day.

Far from being annoyed at the situation, Zhang San instead shouted, "Bring it on," and gestured with his hand — the keyboard!

He activated the super transformation mode — backpack mode online!

Waving his keyboard, in the name of quiresultan, he passionately clashed online with the trolls, tossing back responses they couldn’t have anticipated, infuriating them on the other end of the internet.

In the midst of the clash, Zhang Yang saw that familiar username "Your Mother Says to You", a netizen he often saw fighting trolls in past seasons, even more powerful than Zhang San. Although they didn’t know each other, they occasionally joined forces against common foes, creating a "net comrades-in-arms" relationship.

This season, due to the early good performance, it had been a while since the trolls appeared in significant numbers, and Zhang Yang had not seen this netizen for a long time, boosting his fighting spirit.

Tonight, the two brothers would take on the trolls together!

Fighting with the keyboard is hard work, especially one against many, testing not only typing speed but also intelligence, and with an unseen netizen competing on who could respond more brilliantly, it required full focus and dedication.

Exhausted from typing, Zhang Yang fell asleep as soon as he hit the bed.

The next morning, he woke up around 8 a.m., feeling refreshed and invigorated.

Zhang San: "So I say, the trolls should have acted earlier, if they had, wouldn’t I have slept better after a loss?"

He sat up and looked at the calendar on his bedside table, where he had marked the schedule.

The brutal schedule of early January finally ended, the upcoming week still had one back-to-back game, but the opponents were easier to handle, playing the Celtics at home, then the Bucks on the back-to-back second game, followed by the Nuggets and the Knight at home... wait, that’s not right.

Fat Joe can’t play, making the game against the Knight more challenging. Jarett Jack is brave and daring in his play, but in terms of blocking, forcing turnovers, and defensive positioning, he is far behind Felton.

The first game against the Knight without Felton was somewhat uncertain.

The Nuggets were the strongest of these four opponents, a Western conference team with 50 wins, but with the league’s worst defense, Zhang Yang felt no pressure. It would just be a shootout, seeing who could outscore the other.

At 9:30 a.m., Zhang Yang arrived at Tuhang Stadium for extra practice and tried shooting again... giving up, he decided to focus on practicing his shooting during games instead, aiming to accumulate 100,000 shooting points to master the "Shooting Skills (Mastered)" much more reliably than practicing for months.

In another half-season, that person would enter the NBA; then, under his defense, starting a fast break and directly shooting a three-pointer... Zhang San felt excited just imagining it.

Another day passed, and on January 12th, the Bobcats hosted a game against the Celtics.

At 6:40 p.m., both teams entered the stadium, and Zhang Yang, seeing the Celtics’ array of forwards, complained to Hill: "Looks like the Hawks have possessed the Celtics!"

Hill responded: "I’ve been seeing a lot of trade news about the Celtics recently. Many teams want their forward talents, but the offers are like treating Ainge as a fool... Our team made an offer too."

Zhang Yang knew about the Bobcats making an offer for the Celtics, proposing Herrmann for Marvin Williams... really treating them like easy marks, Ainge hung up on Jordan’s call immediately. However, Jordan, whose call was hung up, laughed loudly.

Over 20 years ago, in the playoffs where Jordan was hammered by that Celtics team, Ainge was the one assigned to guard Jordan.

Such an offer, if Ainge accepted, he would make a fortune; if not, it would still irritate Ainge — a typical God of Basketball mentality.

Zhang Yang replied: "Everyone knows the Celtics will definitely let go of most of their forwards, and they are even more desperate than the Hawks to do so; everyone wants to rob them, turning Pierce, the hundred-dollar bill, into small change; from a trade value perspective, the Celtics botched this deal."

Hill said: "But they aren’t without gains; Ainge wants to tank, but the Celtics’ record previously made the playoffs, 12 wins and 15 losses, seventh in the East. After Christmas, they went 1-8, now at 13 wins and 23 losses, twelfth in the East. If they continue this way, they might catch up with the Miami Heat, Knicks, and Bucks."