the great gatsby

Chapter 327 Rookie Challenge!
The contract extension between Gatsby and the Knicks outside the game became the most eye-catching news. With a record of 2 wins and 48 losses, it ranks first in the league.

Gatsby's All-Star game this year is still very busy, community activities, commercial shooting, Rookie Challenge, All-Star Game, he is still invited by the league to participate in the three-point contest this year, he can be said to be the busiest player in the All-Star Game.

On February 2th, the All-Star Rookie Challenge was held at the Staples Sports Center. There were 18 spectators attending the game that night. The reason there were no more was because Staples was only used as a basketball stadium. Can accommodate so many people.

On the middle floor of the three floors of the venue, there are nearly 300 luxury boxes, 160 luxury suites, and 15 top-level suites are all full, almost like the All-Star game.

Most of this is Gatsby's credit. The Knicks are in the Eastern Conference. They only have two games a year against the Los Angeles Lakers. Opportunities are too rare for fans and movie fans, and it is too difficult to buy tickets for the All-Star Game. Gatsby fans can only retreat and buy tickets for the Rookie Challenge.

This year's first-year rookies are relatively strong. Cousins, Blake Griffin, Gary Neal, Landry Fields, and John Wall are all very good players. Gatsby knows that this year's rookies are indeed It's very good, they will defeat the second-year pick, and John Wall will win the MVP of the Rookie Challenge.

Continuing the tradition of using star players as assistant coaches in the previous rookie challenge (for the third time), Amare Stoudemire is the assistant coach of the first-year rookie, and the head coach is Kevin McHale.

The sophomore head coach is Lawrence Frank, the star player is Carmelo Anthony, which is also interesting, and the Knicks have both players as assistant coaches, but Gatsby focuses on Steve Kerr , Stephen Kerr is also an assistant coach for the second-year rookie.

Cole announced his resignation from the position of general manager of the Suns after the end of last season and returned to the position of announcer. Now he is an assistant coach, which indicates that he has plans to go to the position of coach.

Cole is very interested in Gatsby, and has been chatting with Gatsby from the very beginning. Cole is a very attractive man, and Gatsby does not feel any sense of distance when chatting with him.

In fact, Cole was also very surprised by Gatsby's conversation. He found that Gatsby did not have the arrogance and innocence of young people at all. Gatsby has to be admitted to be a very attractive young man.

Both Cole and Gatsby had expectations for each other, so they both accommodated each other. Naturally, the chat became more and more speculative. They didn't stop until the game started, but they both left each other's contact information.

First-year team starting lineup: Cousins, Blake Griffin, Gary Neal, Landry Fields, Wall;
Sophomore starting lineup: Blair, Taj Gibson, Matthews, Gatsby, Stephen Curry.

In the second grade, Blair won the jump ball with Cousins. Curry dribbled the ball for half court. Curry gave the ball directly to Gatsby on the first ball. Gatsby was the biggest rookie player present. , There is nothing wrong with the first ball for him.

John Wall is defending Gatsby, Wall is very fast, but Gatsby is not afraid, he is no longer the weak Gatsby, his speed is slower than Wall, it doesn't matter, the moves he can use now Too much.

Gatsby used an extraordinary rhythm. Although Wall was fast, facing Gatsby's constant changes of direction, Gatsby quickly found an opportunity to rush in. After attracting the flanking attack, Gatsby passed the ball out to the To Stephen Curry, Curry did not hesitate to hit a three-pointer and scored the first point for the second grade!
Because the last Rookie Challenge and the All-Star Game were real games, after the league found that the effect was very good, this year's Rookie Challenge is also encouraging real games, so both sides defended very seriously.

John Wall dribbled the ball across the half court very fast, but Gatsby and Curry were also fast. Wall failed to form a transition attack and had to stop and organize. Wall wanted to give Gatsby another, But Gatsby's defense is much better than him, and Wall can only pass the ball.

Griffin catches the ball and plays singles in the interior. The second grade suffers from the interior. In the first grade, there are Griffin and Cousins, while in the second grade there are only Blair and Ty Gibson. Gibson obviously cannot guard Griffin. Gibson weighs only 102kg , and Griffin weighed 114kg. The weight difference of more than ten kilograms made Gibson unable to defend at all. Griffin turned around and dunked directly!

Blair took the ball and immediately served, the second grader pushed up the speed, Curry passed the ball to Gatsby before half court, Gatsby turned around and shot, this time he just passed the halfway line, the audience Exclaimed: Can you vote like this?

John Wall was caught off guard and could only let Gatsby take an open shot. The orange basketball drew a beautiful arc in the air, and then went straight to the basket, making a super long three-pointer!

In fact, Gatsby rarely shoots such a long-distance three-pointer. When the team has enough offensive points, Gatsby is still relatively cautious about his shots.

Staples seems to have become Gatsby's home stadium. After the goal, most of the audience cheered, especially the girl's screams almost pierced people's eardrums.

The defense did not relax in the second grade. As long as the ball is given to the inside in the first grade, Gatsby will participate in the flank attack, forcing Wall to shoot three-pointers. The rookie Wall’s three-pointers are not good, with a 29.6% three-pointer percentage The score was 18:28 after half a quarter, the sophomore led by 10 points, and Gatsby scored 9 points, 3 assists, 1 rebound and 1 steal.

Coach Lawrence Frank seemed to have a plan to make Gatsby consume more energy in the All-Star Game, and encouraged Gatsby to play a full quarter. Gatsby refused with a smile. He was just here for the rookie game. He still has a lot of games to play.

Gatsby set off a frenzy of counterattacks as soon as he played in the first grade. Cousins ​​was overwhelming inside the second grade. Griffin was flanked in the first half and performed poorly and was replaced early. With a height of 213cm, he continued to press down on Blair to grab offensive rebounds and score. He scored 12 points in half a quarter, helping the freshman to tie the score at the end of the first quarter!

(End of this chapter)