king of defenders

Chapter 460 Data decline
"beep"

The flute sounded, and the game was over.

Originally, the strength of the Hornets was not as good as that of the Heat. Although they took the lead in the middle, they still lost to the Heat in the end.The Heat beat the Hornets 110:108 to win Game [-] of the regular season.

Meng Yun scored 17 points, 5 rebounds, 4 assists, and 4 turnovers. Meng Yun was not very satisfied with his performance.

Seeing Meng Yun's expression, Wade smiled and comforted him: "Don't be too harsh on yourself, you have performed very well, and the coach was still praising you just now."

"That's right." Joseph Young rolled his eyes and shouted, "Isn't it just that I didn't score 20+? 17 points is already very good, and I haven't been able to score [-] yet."

Meng Yun smiled, and suddenly slapped Joseph Yang on the head. Joseph Yang shrank his neck and gave up under Meng Yun's fierce eyes.

Seeing this scene, Wade suddenly had the feeling that "young is good", patted Meng Yun on the shoulder, encouraged Joseph Young, "You have to work hard", and walked away.

In fact, Meng Yun is not dissatisfied with his score. Compared with the preseason, today's score is not very good. He can average 20+ per game in the preseason, but Meng Yun has long been mentally prepared.

What's more, he doesn't care much about scoring. What he is not satisfied with is that he made 5 turnovers today.

"There are many mistakes because I haven't fully adapted to the intensity of the regular season. Scoring is not what I want to care about. The most important thing now is to adapt as soon as possible." Meng Yun is very clear about his situation and knows what he should do. What, just don't need to explain, it would be better to prove it with actions.

At the same time, fans are also talking.

Meng Yun only scored 17 points today. Not being able to score 20+ made many fans a little disappointed, but it is still understandable. After all, the regular season and the preseason are different, whether it is the intensity of the game, playing time, role positioning, etc. It's not the same. It doesn't mean that they can average 20+ per game in the preseason, but they can still be like this in the regular season.

For a rookie, Meng Yun's performance today is not bad.

However, Meng Yun's statistics in the next few games were very average. He didn't score 20+ in one game, and even scored only 8 points in one game, which disappointed the fans.

In the past few days, the Heat first lost an away game to the Cavaliers led by James. Because of James' departure, the two sides settled their grievances, and they were both Eastern teams and rivals in the playoffs, so the game was very fierce. Stella is very serious. Because Meng Yun is still a rookie, Meng Yun only played 15 minutes, while Wade, Bosh, and Dragic all played more than 30 minutes.

In this game, Meng Yun only scored 8 points, plus 1 assist and 1 rebound.

Then the Heat returned to the home court to meet the challenge of the Rockets. The two sides fought until the end, but the Heat still lost to the Rockets and had no choice but to swallow a two-game losing streak.

Meng Yun scored 14 points, 4 assists, and 4 rebounds, but it was very inconspicuous. Compared with Wade's 28 points, Bosh's 26 points, and Dragic's 20 points, it was much worse. Not to mention comparable to James Harden's 39 points.

However, Meng Yun felt that the gain was greater than the loss. He observed Harden for the whole game, and even faced Harden directly. He learned a lot from Harden, such as stepping back and making three-pointers.

It turned out that Meng Yun also tried, but he always felt that it was wrong. After careful observation today, he had some new insights. Although it was impossible to reach Harden's level overnight, the harvest was indeed not small.

A day later, the Heat played against the Eagles at home.

After suffering a two-game losing streak, the Heat used their lives to defeat the Eagles in a devastating manner.

For the Heat, Wade scored 29 points, Bosh had 23 points and 13 rebounds, Dragic had 19 points and 8 assists, Meng Yun also scored 15 points, plus 3 assists and 4 rebounds.

Heat fans are still very happy that the team ended their two-game losing streak, but they are still disappointed with Meng Yun's performance.
"Sure enough, the regular season is not the same as the preseason."

"Yes, Meng was able to average 20+ per game in the preseason, but it dropped so much in the regular season. He averaged only 13.5 points per game, and his assists and rebounds also dropped a lot."

"Meng is just a rookie."

"Towns and Okafor are also rookies. I remember that Towns seems to be averaging 19.5 points and 8.0 rebounds per game. Okafor is not much worse. Originally, Meng's data in the summer league and preseason games were all the same. They are better than them, but I didn't expect to be worse than them in the regular season."

Some people were disappointed, some people sighed, and some people talked nonsense and sneered, as if seeing Meng Yun's misfortune was something to be happy about.

At home, the fans are also very disappointed.

People have placed too much expectations on Meng Yun, so they feel more and more lost.

Strictly speaking, Meng Yun is not bad at playing, averaging 49% from the field and 42% from the three-point range, and his average of 13.5 points per game is actually not bad.

If it was a different person, getting such data would probably be enough to make people gratified.

But this is Meng Yun.
Meng Yun was aware of the outside discussion, but he didn't care.

In fact, the Heat don't care about Meng Yun's data, and the data doesn't explain anything.

American Airlines Arena.

The Heat players are training, which is full-court confrontation training.

Spoelstra, Craig, Rostern and others stood on the sidelines to watch.

Seeing Meng Yun galloping on the field, Craig said: "Coach Spoelstra, you are right, the best thing about Meng is not his physical fitness or technique, but his mind." .He's a natural player with a great basketball IQ and a maturity that's rare for his age."

"Yes." Rostern sighed: "The outside world is discussing that Meng's statistics have dropped a lot compared to the preseason. Compare him with Towns and Okafor. If it is other people of the same age, it must be very depressed at this time. Right? He must be thinking about how to score more points, so as to prove himself to the fans and the outside world. But Meng doesn’t seem to care at all, and it doesn’t affect him at all.”

"Oh." Craig sneered, and said, "Those people know nothing. Towns and Okafor's statistics are good, but how much playing time do they have, and how much is Meng? They say that Meng's statistics have dropped, don't they? Didn’t Meng get better and better at adapting to the game? The data decline is only temporary.”

When it comes to playing time, Spoelstra feels a little guilty.

In terms of talent and strength, Meng Yun is definitely not inferior to Okafor, Towns and others, and even surpasses them in Spoelstra's view.

Towns and Okafor have played more than 30 minutes in their respective teams, that is, D'Angeno Russell and Kristaps Porzingis. Their playing time is also close to 30 minutes. All starters.

But because the Heat have Wade, Dragic, and a complete internal and external line system, Meng Yun can only play as a substitute, averaging only 18 minutes per game.

If Meng Yun is also allowed to play 30 minutes, his statistics may not be worse than Downs and Okafor!
(End of this chapter)