The highly anticipated game between the Houston Rockets and the Chicago Bulls, at least among Chinese fans, has finally started.
After introducing the players from both sides, the Rocket Bear, who was named the best mascot in the league last season, started walking around the court holding a Rockets flag. This is the Rockets' inherent routine when playing at the Toyota Center. Usually at this time,
Rockets fans, the atmosphere at Toyota Center will be ignited to the extreme, which can be regarded as putting some psychological pressure on the visiting team before the game.
Psychological pressure again!
Toyota Center is actually not the league's devil's home stadium, and the Rockets' home record is not much better than their away record.
The league's Devils home stadium has the Energy Center, the Target Center, and the Delta Arena in Salt Lake City, but there is no Toyota Center.
However, Rocket Bear's routine is still very useful, and this is also an inherent characteristic of Toyota Center.
If you pay attention, you will find that although the Rockets' home record is not very good, at the beginning of the game, from about the first quarter to the first six minutes of the second quarter, no matter what opponent they encounter, the Rockets will suppress the opponent.
Fighting, this also has something to do with Rocket Bear’s warm-up.
If Salt Lake City's continuous roar of thunder and tsunamis throughout the stadium is called an indiscriminate and continuous attack, then this opening at Toyota Center should be regarded as the most powerful showdown in the league.
Any team that comes to play at Toyota Center will be shocked by the enthusiasm of the fans at first, and then they can't let go, giving the Rockets a chance to take the lead.
If the Rockets weren't always prone to collapse in the fourth quarter, Toyota Center would actually be considered one of the Devils' home stadiums.
Of course, this is also related to the inability of Houston fans to maintain sustained enthusiasm.
It is said that fans are the sixth player of every team. This sentence is actually quite correct.
Although it seems that the cheers, boos and shouts of the fans have no impact on the game, the fans cannot actually go on the field to play, nor can they attack the visiting team's players.
But when it comes to this kind of environment, as a player on the away team, you will find that things are really not like this.
Facing a stadium full of fans supporting your opponent, and facing a crowd of people who constantly interfere with you and give you very bad psychological hints. Unless you have gone through many years of training, you really cannot maintain a mentality.
balance.
For basketball, a sport with high confrontation, multiple rounds, and fast pace, an imbalance in mentality, leading to movement deformation, is often a matter of a thousand miles.
Chen Jie now feels this feeling.
Speaking of which, this is not his first time playing away games. He has also been to home stadiums where the fans are more enthusiastic than the Toyota Center, such as Los Angeles and Philadelphia. He has been to these cities.
Although his feeling there was different from that at the United Center, today, his feeling of being unable to let go became even more severe.
Maybe it was really the Rocket Bears' warm-up that gave Chen Jie a psychological hint that he would be ridiculed miserably if he didn't perform well. Maybe it was because the opponents he faced were his two best friends except Xiao Hei.
Yao Ming and Tracy McGrady, in short, Chen Jie, who stepped onto the court, now feels that his body is not as relaxed as before.
At this time, Yao Ming came over and hugged Chen Jie.
Chen Jie felt that his body was a little stiff.
It was not the first time for Chen Jie to play away from home, and it seemed that he felt the pressure of the visiting team for the first time.
Chen Jie, who has not yet gone to Syracuse Plateau or Utah, is a little wary of the pressure from such enthusiastic enemy fans.
Seeing Chen Jie's expression change slightly, Tracy McGrady lost no time in coming over. While hugging Chen Jie, he whispered in Chen Jie's ear: "Did you see that? Jay, this is Houston, it's mine and Yao's."
Territory, don’t expect to take away a victory here!”
Chen Jie was stunned when he heard McGrady's words.
He did not expect that at this time, McGrady would not come to comfort him, but would instead stimulate him even more.
Although Chen Jie has been in the league for two months, he still doesn't understand that for these American players, such things are normal. Even if they are good friends off the court, they are opponents on the court.
Between opponents, of course, they will use the stimulation that should be stimulated, the use that should be exploited, and trash talk to stimulate the mind.
Regarding the relationship between Kobe and McGrady, both of them used to talk trash to each other, not to mention that McGrady and Chen Jie just got along relatively well.
Chen Jie didn't understand this and was very curious about it, but in Maddie's opinion, it was a normal thing.
Off the court, we are still good friends!
Regarding Chen Jie's surprise, McGrady just smiled slightly, ignored it, and gave no explanation.
He thought Chen Jie would understand.
Chen Jie looked at McGrady's back and felt a little unconvinced in his heart.
Do you really think that I will be defeated by your Toyota Center, which is not the Devil’s home court?
Isn't it just a group of fans? Call them whatever you want, I just play my game, no matter what they do!
Chen Jie tried hard to let himself think this way, but this kind of thing is easy to say, but really not easy to do.
Chen Jie could only adjust slowly by himself.
Fortunately, his ability to adapt is quite strong. Before time travel, he was just an ordinary college student, and he was able to face NCAA games without stage fright. The current situation is just childish.
He was just still surprised by McGrady's trash talk.
At this time, seeing that the game was about to start, and it was about to start, in the CCTV broadcast room, the three people in the CCTV broadcast room, director Zhang Weiping, commentator Yu Jia, and guest commentator Yang Yi, also looked very excited.
"The game is about to start. Let's see, Yao Ming went over and hugged Chen Jie at this time. These two players are the two best players in China in the United States. This scene is very special!" Zhang Weiping
After thinking about it, I still don't know how to evaluate it and finally I used three words: "very special".
Next to him, Yu Jia, who was a little excited, said something directly.
"In the United States, in that country on the other side of the ocean, in the NBA, the temple of basketball that attracts global attention, in Houston, the fourth largest city in the United States, two players from China, two yellow-skinned players, are standing on the field.
In the center, they hug and say hello, and in the next forty-eight minutes, the two people will become the protagonists of the game. There is no doubt that this is a historic moment for Chinese basketball, the entire China, and even the entire Asia.
This is a landmark moment!" Yu Jia's words can be regarded as expressing the feelings of many excited Chinese people who are watching the game now.
And immediately, Yang Yi's words were an interpretation of Jia's words.
"Yes, it is a historic moment. These two players, one inside and one outside, represent the highest level in Asia. The two of them, with their own performance, told the world that Asians and yellow people can also play in this world.
Those who have the ability to make breakthroughs in projects, whether on the inside or outside."
