super point guard

Chapter 8 An Unusual Game

The NBA Summer League in the summer of 2011 started in August. This summer league was held in Las Vegas, a famous casino city in the western United States. There are as many as a dozen teams participating in the summer league. , including the Minnesota Timberwolves where the promised friend Derek Williams is, so many news media have focused on the Minnesota Timberwolves.However, in addition to the Minnesota Timberwolves, there is another team that has received a lot of attention from the news media, and that is the Cleveland Cavaliers where this year's No. [-] pick in the draft is Kyrie Irving.For Promise, it will be very enjoyable to watch the duel between them.And the team Xu Nuo joined was naturally his own team, the Indiana Pacers. In the Indiana Pacers, Xu Nuo also met his two good friends in the future, namely power forward Joey Dorsey and three Point shooter Steve Novak, the two also joined the Indiana Pacers.Therefore, during the entire summer league, in addition to being with Derrick Williams, most of the rest of the time was spent with Steve Novak and Joey Dorsey. , and between the two, Xu Nuo thinks he prefers the former.

"Don't think I'm a racist, in fact I don't care about these things," Promise told Derek Williams, "But I really don't like the Joey who looks darker. Dorsey, but I prefer Steve Novak, who looks more comfortable." But Derek Williams just laughed it off, and didn't ask too much about it. The matter, and the "prejudice" promised to Joey Dorsey did not affect his relationship with Novak and Dorsey.

However, what Xu Nuo thought most about at this time was to quickly finish the summer league and then go home, but Xu Nuo also admitted that he was doing well in this summer league.They don't have a lot of games, and the intensity of the games is not very high. Although Xu Nuo has been worried that he will not be able to keep up because he hasn't exercised for a long time, but so far, he hasn't seen it yet, so Xu Nuo is very relieved .On days when there is no game, Xu Nuo hangs out with his three friends and walks back and forth on the Las Vegas Strip, but they have never been to a Las Vegas casino, although Joey Dorsey has always wanted to go.And when it comes to the game, the outstanding performance of these four people has made their team far ahead of other teams in the summer league rankings.Derrick Williams is the leading scorer for the Minnesota Timberwolves, averaging around 19 points in six games.And Joey Dorsey won the Pacers' rebounding leader with an average of 8 rebounds per game. Steve Novak's 45% three-point shooting rate is also the highest in the Pacers.As for promise, relying on the data of 10.1 points and 8.1 assists per game, he won the extreme recognition of his teammates. Even Derek Williams thought that promise played very well, "If you are given enough ball rights, you You can play a lot better than me, man!" Derek Williams said to Xu Nuo.

He is naturally very happy to win the trust and commitment of his teammates, but what he thinks more about is going home early.Nevertheless, the summer league still left a very deep memory for promise, especially the game against the Cleveland Cavaliers, which made promise unforgettable.

The reason for making promises unforgettable here is not because of how exciting and intense this game is, but because this game has a very profound meaning for promises.

Before the start of this game, even Derrick Williams made a special trip to watch the game, because he wanted to see what his good friend promised to face Kyrie Irving.This game promises them to play very hard. From the beginning of the game, they are pressed by Kyrie Irving and the Cleveland Cavaliers. Whether it is promises themselves or Steve Novak, they have never been able to attack Find the feeling, and Steve Novak is also plagued by foul trouble. Fortunately, the summer league is full of 10 fouls before being sent off, otherwise he should have rested on the sidelines.But despite this, Steve Novak was replaced by the team's head coach.

"Brother, this game is up to you!" Derek Williams said to Xu Nuo when Steve Novak was off the court.

At this time, their Indiana Pacers were far behind the Cleveland Cavaliers 23:37, and Xu Nuo did not perform very well before. He only made 4 of 1 shots and scored 3 points and 2 assists.And after Steve Novak left the field, Xu Nuo immediately felt that the burden on his shoulders was much heavier, and what Derek Williams said made Xu Nuo almost crazy.

"This is just the summer league, don't take it so seriously." Xu Nuo said with a bitter face.

"No!" Derek Williams said seriously, "If you are not serious about the game now, then you may not be serious about the game in the regular season in the future. At that time, many people will question your professional attitude. , by then it will be too late for you to regret it!"

Xu Nuo thought about it, and it was indeed the case. If this is the case, then let's fight hard, anyway, everything will go all out.

As a result, under the leadership of the promise, the Indiana Pacers began a Jedi counterattack.

And right from the start of this summer league, almost everyone judged that this black-haired, yellow-skinned, dark-eyed guy from the East will surpass the legendary point guard John Stockton one day in the future!
I promised myself that I didn't expect that I would surpass John Stockton one day in the future. In Xu Nuo's eyes, John Stockton was a senior master who looked up to the mountains. How could I and other juniors be able to compare ?Xu Nuo believes that if he can reach the heights of Steve Nash or Jason Kidd, then his life will not be in vain.But in the eyes of his teammates, he was not just Steve Nash or Jason Kidd in this game, he was John Stockton!

After the restart, Xu faced Kyrie Irving and slowly dribbled the ball from beyond the three-point line.

"Should I take this ball? Is it a pass or a direct shot?" Xu Nuo thought in his heart.

The teammates on the court were all in a hurry, yelling at Xu Nuo loudly, asking Xu Nuo to pass the ball to himself, and Derek Williams on the sidelines kept urging Xu Nuo, asking him to make a choice quickly .So, Xu Nuo raised his hand outside the three-point line, facing Kyrie Irving.

"Pass, are you going to shoot?" Derek Williams yelled from the sidelines.

But Xu Nuo ignored Derrick Williams' clamor on the sidelines and shot directly from beyond the three-point line, even though his shooting percentage was not good before.

As a result, the ball hit the basket steadily, and the score became 26:37.

"Good job!" Derek Williams yelled at the court, regardless of what he had said before.

"Just fight like this, man, kill them all one by one!" Steve Novak also roared.

Immediately afterwards, Xu Nuo intercepted the Cavaliers defender's dribble, then picked up the ball and ran to the front court, and the Cavaliers players followed closely behind him.Just when Xu Nuo reached the basket of the Cavaliers, the Cavaliers players behind him jumped up and wanted to block Xu Nuo's layup, but Xu Nuo didn't mean to make a layup at all, but flicked his wrist lightly, and the ball came In the hands of teammates in the left corner of the field.When his teammate received the ball, the court in front of him was as wide as the sea, followed by an outside three-pointer, and the ball went into the net firmly.

"Don't look at the pass, man, you're so good!" Derek Williams yelled from the sidelines.

Xu Nuo, who completed a beautiful assist, did not smile at all on his face, but stared coldly at the opponent in front of him, as if he was going to kill someone.

"I must play well, I must win this game, this is my responsibility!" Xu Nuo said to himself in his heart.

As a result, in the next few rounds of offense and defense, the Cleveland Cavaliers' offense has never passed the level of promise, even the point guard level, let alone the subsequent offense?Therefore, the Cleveland Cavaliers did not score at all in the next few minutes, and Xu Nuo passed the ball without looking at him three times in a row to assist his teammates, helping the team quickly overtake the score by 38:37!

"Are you 'Magic' Johnson? Or 'Pistol' Maravich?" Derek Williams asked loudly during a timeout.

"No, I'm just myself." Xu Nuo replied coldly with Yao Ming's warning.

After the timeout, Steve Novak came on the court with Promise, and the Cleveland Cavaliers' defensive attention was completely directed to Promise alone, but the pain for the Cleveland Cavaliers players was that no matter how they defended Xu Nuo, Xu Nuo has a way to pass the ball in his hand, such as jumping pass, crotch pass, behind the back pass, etc. Most of them pass the ball without looking at people, but his passes can still be accurate into the hands of his teammates.Under the promised needlework, Steve Novak's three-pointers bloomed all over the court, and even Joey Dorsey, who has never been very good at scoring, was able to score an alley-oop dunk with the promised assists.Before he knew it, under Xu Nuo's cold gaze, he had scored nearly 20 assists, which was quite dazzling in the summer league where the defense was not particularly good.As a result, relying on the promise of crazy assists and passing performances, the Indiana Pacers staged a big comeback, and finally defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers 79:76.

After the game, all the news media paying attention to the summer league focused their attention on Xu, and everyone was asking what is the secret of Xu's explosive performance in this game.

"This is my game," Xu Nuo said into the microphone, his voice still cold, "I have to win for my team, this is my responsibility! This is what I do in this game. So the secret of being able to explode is also the most precious thing I have learned from this game, and this is a summer league game that I will remember forever!"

Derek Williams looked at the promise to be interviewed by a large number of journalists, smiled and said to Joey Dorsey and Steve Novak: "This is exactly what he deserves!"

But for Xu Nuo, whether he will be interviewed by journalists or whether he will become famous is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that he has learned from this game to take the initiative to take responsibility and dare to stand up to the challenge. For promise, these will be very beneficial to his entire career in the future.And this is why this game will become a game that Xu Nuo will remember for life.

(End of this chapter)