Chapter 336 The Sixth Man

"Xiao, your wine is really good, it's quite expensive, right?" Conley shook the wine glass in his hand, put it in front of him, facing the lamp, and scrutinized the crystal clearness through the bright red wine.

"It's just a very ordinary red wine. You should have something better at home, right?" Xiao Han lay on the sofa beside him, holding a burning cigar in his hand as usual, with his legs together, raised his high, very leisurely.

"Hehe, my dad is very strict with me and I am not allowed to approach his wine cabinet." Conley smiled embarrassedly, and took a sip of the wine in the cup with great cherishment, like a child holding hard-earned candy.

"It seems that I can't let you come to me for a drink. According to the frequency of your five-day four times, it will take a few days to come." Xiao Han moved slightly, making it more comfortable to lie down, and teased.

"No. Xiao, next time I go home, I'll steal two bottles of my dad. No, a bottle of good wine will make up for your losses." Kang Li quickly begs for forgiveness.

"Forget it. If this happens, your dad really wants to kill me. Let me drink yours." Xiao Han reached out and picked up the wine glass on the coffee table, and took a big sip.

"But Xiao, although you have so much wine at home, I have basically never seen you drink it. Why doesn't you finish drinking today? Are you sad? Could it be because you can't play the main player in the team? I'm so sorry if you do that." Kang Li changed his tone and asked.

"It's not like this." Xiao Han smiled slightly and said, "Don't think about it. I'm almost Christmas? I'm just touching the scene and remembering an old friend."

"A girl?" Conley suddenly became interested, put his head over, grinned with a big mouth, and smiled very despicable.

"Yes." Xiao Han responded lightly and lay down again.

For some reason, compared to the spring when the birds are flying and flowers are blooming, Anya likes the snow and winter more in the snow. Anya’s favorite festival is not Valentine’s Day that many girls like, but Christmas.

That winter, more than half a month before Christmas, and it was about the same today. Anya became excited early and would wear a white and fluffy shawl every day to come to the stadium early, happily as if a bird was like a chirping greeting everyone she saw.

Later, Xiao Han learned that Anya's birthday was the day before Christmas. Although she didn't know why she celebrated her Gregorian birthday, at this time, Anya's happiness was obvious. Every Christmas after that year, Xiao Han would involuntarily ring Anya, and this year was no exception.

"What kind of girl? Tell me about it." Conley was very interested in this and asked after him.

"It's just an ordinary Chinese girl." Xiao Han said perfunctorily.

"Aren't you beautiful?" Conley asked suspiciously.

"Not at all." Speaking of this, Xiao Han laughed first. Anya is indeed not beautiful, but beautiful, and it is extremely beautiful.

Conley is not stupid. She can be regarded as the best candidate for the best point guard in the United States of the year. Conley's IQ is naturally not much worse. He could see that Xiao Han didn't want to talk too much about this issue and turned the topic elsewhere cleverly.

"To be honest, Xiao, I really don't understand why the coach adjusted the lineup like this. Although Lewis and Butler are veterans, they can't just squeeze you into the substitute lineup like this. Everyone can see that your strength is much stronger than either of them." Conley said angrily. Although Xiao Han's existence is also a big threat to Conley's main position, because the two have a good relationship, Conley doesn't care much about it.

"It seems that Butler is not the starter either. Isn't our starting small forward Dai Quinn?" Xiao Han smiled indifferently, as if the matter had nothing to do with him.

"This is just the regular season. In the bidding match, Dai Quinn's position will definitely be overwhelmed by Butler. After all, he is not good at defense and his game experience is not as good as Butler." Conley explained to Xiao Han.

"That's not necessarily." Xiao Han smiled unpredictably. Cook's strength is still much stronger than Butler. The biggest possibility of the team is Oden, Conley, Cook, and Harris, the starting position before the starter, and Lewis and Butler will take turns starting according to the opponent's characteristics.

"Huh? What do you mean is that the coach's decision is to be the temporary one now, and he will still rank you first?" Conley said excitedly.

"That won't be. Didn't you see how determined the coach was when he made this decision?" Xiao Han shook his head.

"Then what do you mean?" Conley was confused.

"If you don't understand, don't understand." Xiao Han laughed.

Thad Matt was indeed very determined about Xiao Han's decision. He did not talk to anyone, but announced the result directly in training one morning. This made the players a little strange, because according to Xiao Han's performance in the game against Duke, he was definitely one of the most well-deserved main players in the team. You must know that he played the first starter, and his performance was so amazing that everyone thought the coach would straighten him, but now, he was actually called a substitute again.

Thad Matt did not explain, and Xiao Han didn't need his explanation.

In the last five minutes of the most critical second half of the game with Wisconsin, Xiao Han did not get a minute of playing time. Thad Matt's stubborn decision directly led to the Russian-American University being reversed in the second half by Wisconsin, reversing the advantage of up to 12 points and ending in a bleak situation.

When sitting off the court, Xiao Han expected this result. Russia has talent, but in terms of key goals, there is only one Oden who can rely on. THAAD Matt, who believes that Oden can guarantee victory, obviously made things too simple.

That's right, Oden is indeed a "big master", but the big tree attracts wind. Almost every team in the United States has conducted special research on him. As the main competitor of the Russian Datong League, Wisconsin is even ahead of this. Their defensive strategy against Oden has indeed opened the eyes of the children.

If you can't defend Oden, you can only guard against him to catch the ball, but this is also a very difficult issue. As for college players, Oden is too tall and strong. He can easily catch a high lob against defense, or he can easily succeed in the inside. In other words, it is actually very easy to pass the ball to Oden. Just run to him and throw the ball to his position.

This is the problem.

Not to mention Oden, even if he passes the ball to O'Neal, he has to move the ball to his field of vision first. In other words, if you want to pass the ball to the center, you have to transfer the ball to the player on the same side as the center as the transition. Otherwise, if he passes the ball to the center from behind, he has no eyes on his head. How can he know and catch the ball?

Wisconsin has controlled the operation of the Russian big ball well. Their strategy is very obvious. He focuses on Oden and the Russian big player on the same side, but does not allow the ball to go here, even if the defense on the other side is sacrificed, he will be willing to let the character player kill him than let Oden play. This is a bit similar to the "uncle strategy" similar to the "Jordan Rules" and has successfully achieved results. The Russian big player's offensive success rate at the last moment is terrible.

In addition, Wisconsin itself has an excellent finisher who can hold the ball and play singles. Alando can be said that the Russian University of Russia was defeated by Alando in the last moment while Oden was defended.

Russia University itself actually has such a player, that is Xiao Han. But Thad Matt was determined to hold Xiao Han on the bench in that game. Even at the most difficult moment of the team, even though he knew that Xiao Han could solve the problem immediately, Thad Matt still did not let him play.

In this battle, Russia lost with four points.

After the game, Xiao Han's expression was normal and seemed to not take the coach's approach to employment at all.

Then, the Russian University of Science and Technology returned to the home court and easily defeated the visiting University of Minnesota. With the team leading the team with a big score, Xiao Han made eight minutes at the last moment of the game, making eight ten shots, and weirdly scored the highest 20 in the game, with five rebounds, one block, two steals, and no assists.

Then, Xiao Han was officially positioned as the team's sixth man. Thad Matt also said that he had done it, specifically designated several sets of tactics around him, which was also the last preparation for the game against Florida.
Chapter completed!