One Year Left to Play

A whistle blows first, followed by a technical foul like a dragon!

Rashid Wallace looked at the referee, dumbfounded, couldn’t help but raise his chin, his gaze following the direction of his nose towards Bald Head, and shouted loudly: "NO!"

Why did he get another technical foul?

Bald referee saw Rashid Wallace’s vicious expression, puffed his mouth again, just about to whistle again, assistant referee quickly moved next to Crawford, put a hand on the whistle’s air outlet, stopped it timely, and quickly explained the situation.

Hearing the boos from the fans, seeing everyone’s attention focused on the bald referee...

Zhang Hao felt like his spotlight was stolen!

Why does Bald Crawford have to steal the scene? The assistant referee at the baseline didn’t even whistle!

Wait, he won’t send the Celestial Venerable off, will he? Zhang Hao felt like he hadn’t had enough fun yet!

After understanding the cause and effect, and seeing Lakers players all gathered around Zhang Hao, Bald referee felt embarrassed.

It was truly unexpected, the main referee turned to Rashid Wallace and gave a technical without a word, not considering any reason, not even pulling away as usual!

Isaiah Rider’s temper was entirely gone, now he’s the one pulling the Roaring Celestial Venerable away from staring at referee and claiming dog food.

He didn’t understand either, why Rashid Wallace was so prone to technical fouls?

Finally pulling Rashid Wallace back to the bench, upon close inspection... well, he didn’t notice before, now Isaiah Rider found Rashid Wallace truly had a face that deserved a technical.

Zhang Hao sighed in relief, the game had just started, how could it lack a major antagonist?

Although his actions were more like an antagonist, the opposite seemed like a face-slapping protagonist template...

The three referees discussed briefly, seeing Zhang Hao scored 32 points, and knowing Zhang Hao’s "bet" with the opponent, although the game wasn’t televised, it would definitely become popular post-game, the league wanted to sell tapes... a technical foul for Zhang Hao taunting? It’s not appropriate, what’s wrong with being a bit arrogant?

Nowadays, if a genius isn’t arrogant, the referees think it’s odd.

As for the protagonist template Rashid Wallace... well, blows were blows; when protagonist templates appear, don’t they all get this treatment?

Generally, antagonist templates like Zhang Hao always have the advantage...

The referee signaled Zhang Hao to take the free throw, Zhang Hao made it easily.

After finishing the free throw, Zhang Hao returned to the bench, recalled the previous attack.

Playing like this is tiring, but now there’s no need to worry about stamina, playing full in the first half, using the Star Experience Card to refresh stamina during halftime, even if exhausted in the third quarter, the final quarter’s jersey could still be used... plus Big Bird’s stamina is good, even better than Zhang Hao himself.

"This tactic, when my dribbling isn’t better, crossover isn’t practiced well, and it’s ball-handling attack instead of sudden acceleration after catch, can occasionally be used in the third quarter, fourth quarter then use the jersey!"

Teammates looked at Zhang Hao, found it incredible.

This young teammate, who has more than half a month before turning 20, just had an enigmatic and crazy demeanor, and now he was so calm in thinking.

How was it done?

But in those few minutes, Zhang Hao scored 8 points, helped them make an 8-2 run, and narrowed the score to 66-70, completely reducing the gap!

In this situation, teammates thought... dazzling! Small boss can be as dazzling as he wants! Love it!

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Nash kept comforting newly befriended Rashid Wallace, Rashid Wallace felt the malice of this face-valued world, suppressed the grief and indignation, and entered the court.

The Blazers made no rotation, with the third quarter just beginning, their offense wasn’t bad, initially PJ Callesimo just wanted to disrupt Zhang Hao’s rhythm.

On Lakers’ side, however, rotations were made, with Magician substituted out and the lineup of Brian Shaw, Doug Christie, Zhang Hao, Barkley, Jason Williams came up, enhancing rebound protection.

Del Harris felt that Brian Shaw was really useful, in terms of skill, he was average, but could be directed to play, knew a little of everything, an external jack-of-all-trades player, played 18 minutes on average this season so far, with 4.8 points, 3.2 rebounds, 2.8 assists, 0.6 steals, 0.6 blocks, except for being slightly costly, he was a perfect role-player.

After the timeout, the Blazers attacked.

Older rookie has stable psychological qualities which 19 or 20-year-old rookies don’t have.

Nash is just that, facing Doug Christie’s defense, didn’t continue pick-and-roll, chose to break through with speed!

Doug Christie really didn’t expect this rookie to be so fast, and his man-ball combination was so good, continuously retreating yet still not able to catch up, with a body’s confrontation seemingly off balance, but steadily breaking towards the target.

Barkley came over for a trap defense, Rashid Wallace moved towards the free throw line.

As Zhang Hao moved towards the reasonable collision zone outside the three-second area, Sabonis cut into the inner line, Zhang Hao returned in time, but Sabonis’ seemingly cumbersome body and hands were delicate, extending the ball to the other side of the basket, and scoring with a reverse layup!

32-year-old Sabonis basically no longer engages in low post bullying, not even considering bullying the seemingly weak Zhang Hao, but his broad shooting range always finds scoring opportunities!

Rashid Wallace led the retreat defense! The Blazers continued their strategy of not contesting offensive rebounds.