against the front

Chapter 95
"Charles, it looks like the first-year team might really get back the score!"

As the game continued to advance, the situation on the court became more and more intense. After the first-year team started to focus on the inside, the situation on the court was gradually reversed, although they still had no one to defend against the second Durant of the junior team, but at least they are no longer struggling in the quagmire of going it alone like in the previous games.

The second-year team has been organizing offenses around Kevin Durant, and Durant is currently the player with the highest score in the game. Singles ability, after consecutive singles Al Horford scored, Kevin Durant was not idle, basically every time Yan Hua scored a goal, Durant would hit back a goal, and the difference between Yan Hua and Durant The "answer-ball" in between also made the atmosphere at the US Airways Center more and more exciting.

"Kevin Durant has scored 40 points now. If I remember correctly, he hasn't had much rest in this game." Barkley did not directly respond to Kenny Smith's question, but It was a rhetorical question about Durant, the core of the second-year team. The second-year team was able to overtake the score in one fell swoop when they were 11 points behind. Except that the first-year team did not have a systematic tactical system and lacked coordination. They only knew how to fight alone. In addition, Kevin Durant's performance is also one of the indispensable factors, but in Barkley's view, although the second-year team still has the upper hand, there are still certain gaps in Dwight Howard's arrangement. Hidden danger, and this hidden danger is Kevin Durant.

In today's game, Kevin Durant was entrusted by the head coach of the second-year team Dwight Howard to establish him as the offensive core of the second-year team, and Durant also completed Howard's assignment very well. His mission maintained a very high scoring efficiency from the beginning to the end, and also broke the 36-point rookie challenge record created by Amare Stoudemire, but due to the intense For this reason, Howard has been slamming Durant all the time. In the 40-minute rookie challenge, Durant basically never rested. During the regular season, Durant's physical strength was a big problem that bothered him. Although the confrontation in the Rookie Challenge is not as intense as the regular season, Durant may be physically weak at critical moments when he has played more than 35 minutes and made more than 30 shots.

I have to say that, as someone who has been there, and TNT’s ace commentator, Charles Barkley’s vision and sense of smell are very vicious. After Durant and Yan Hua’s three consecutive “answer-balls”, Yan Hua and Dulan Te's scoring momentum was interrupted one after another. First, Yan Hua singled Al Horford in the low post and missed a hook with his back turned. Then Kevin Durant missed the shot and missed an excellent opportunity to expand the score. , after playing against Yan Hua for three consecutive rounds, Durant's physical fitness seems to have really gone wrong as Barkley worried.

"Boy, you're also unlikely to score in this attack!" In the transition between offense and defense, when Yan Hua held the ball in the low post again, Al Horford stuck it up very tenaciously. In the previous few defenses, Al Horford - Horford suffered a lot. Four defenses allowed Yan Hua to score three goals, and two of them were called defensive fouls by the referee. Yan Hua scored two 2+1s and scored 8 points in a row , although Durant also made three goals and scored 6 points in a row, the point difference between the two sides was still narrowed from 4 points to 2 points. Fortunately, after many times of defense, Al Horford gradually adapted Yan Hua's offensive routine, in the last defense, Al Horford's defense against Yan Hua was very successful, so in this defense, Al Horford is also full of confidence, ready to defend Yan Hua's attack again , It is not a few minutes before the end of the game, so every round, every offense, and every defense is very important now.

Durant's physical fitness has problems, and Yan Hua is not the same. Although in today's game, Yan Huaman played for 20 minutes with full play, but in the few rounds just now, Yan Hua continued to hold the ball in the low position. Playing Al Horford with a strong ball also consumes a lot of physical energy. In the last attack, the reason why Yan Hua missed the hook was that Al Horford, who was out of position, defended quickly and found it again in a very short time. In addition to the defensive position, Yan Hua didn't do his best when he took off, so being interfered by Horford who was on the defense was also a major factor.

"I hope your defense can be as good as your mouth." After the English level has gradually adapted to daily conversations, Yan Hua can distinguish which are genuine greetings, and which are taunts and provocations. There are players with good intentions, Yan Hua will respond to them with kindness, but there are very few such players in the NBA, and for those guys who deliberately provoke him, Yan Hua does not mind going back. This kind of guy who loses the game without losing the team, and loses without losing his mouth, so Yan Hua gradually got used to bickering with them, and at the same time in the system space, he specifically asked Kwame Brown for a while how to talk trash and how to talk. Overwhelm the opponent in momentum, after all, Kwame Brown always brags to Yan Hua about what his teacher is like.

"Little bastard, let's wait and see!" Al Horford's words were not only irritating Yan Hua, but also cheering him up, but Yan Hua's retorted sentence made Horford a little hard to accept, what does it mean to hope you His defense is as good as your mouth, and Al Horford, who has always been very good-tempered, was so angry that he wanted to hit someone after hearing the unspoken words.

But before Al Horford could react further, Yan Hua with the ball in his right hand and his back facing Al Horford began to use all his strength to push Al Horford with his back against him .

"Didn't this kid try his best just now?" In Yan Hua's first back push, Yan Hua almost pushed a staggering Al Horford. In the middle of the game, Horford was a little surprised by Yan Hua's strength, because Yan Hua, who was taller than Horford, was much worse than Horford in terms of weight, but when the two sides stuck and confronted each other, Yan Hua did not fall behind at all. The wind can even firmly suppress Horford. From this, Horford can see that Yan Hua is stronger than himself in terms of strength, so in this defense, Horford is not only very focused, but also has no reservations. He used all his strength to hold Yan Hua firmly behind Yan Hua's back, but to Horford's surprise, he lost his position when Yan Hua pushed his back for the first time , and even because he underestimated Yan Hua's power, he was almost overthrown by Yan Hua directly.

Yan Hua, who had an opportunity, also took advantage of the opportunity to quickly complete the turn, but this time Yan Hua did not use the hook to shoot, but stepped out after turning around, and Al Horford, who was rushing to defend across the way, was a After Yan Hua hung on the basket with one hand across Al Horford, the referee closest to them also blew his whistle. In this attack, Yan Hua not only scored effectively, but also caused Al Horford to Al Horford's defensive foul, this is Al Horford's third foul on Yan Hua.

"Oh, what a joke, the rookie of the Kings is too good!" After Yan Hua pushed Al Horford with his back to complete the turn, and then Al Horford, who came over the defense at the first time, completed the dunk, Kenny Smith, who was on the sidelines as commentator, lost his composure in an instant. He didn't expect this guy who was silent in the first half to be so explosive.

At this moment, not only Kenny Smith in the commentary booth, but also the first-year team's bench, and even the entire US Airways Center were ignited by Yan Hua's extremely domineering dunk.

As a victim, Al Horford, stood near the baseline for a long time before recovering. As a center forward, Al Horford had long been aware of being dunked and used as a background board, but he really He was dunked, and he was dunked in such a high-profile game as the All-Stars. Al Horford couldn't accept it for a while.

After Yan Hua made a steady free throw, the first-year team overtook the score, but as the head coach of the second-year team, Dwight Howard did not call a timeout to adjust the arrangement. After all, this is the All-Star Game, not the regular season. Basically, except for the official timeout and the last moment, under normal circumstances, the two sides of the game will not call a timeout.

Although Howard did not call a timeout, the second-year team players on the field knew how to counterattack.When Al Horford was going to serve the bottom line, Kevin Durant, the core of the second-year team's offense, held Luis Scola, another insider of the second-year team, near the middle circle, ready to fight with him In the next attack, we used a combination to let those first-year rookies know that they shouldn't be so arrogant.

After whispering to Luis Scola for a while, Kevin Durant slowly ran towards the left side of the court, preparing to wait for his teammates' passes and screens there, and by the way, directly attack from there.

After Kevin Durant arrived beyond the left three-point line, OJ-Mayo, who was in charge of defending Durant, quickly posted it. OJ-Mayo's defense can only be regarded as average, let alone defending Kevin- Durant is a player who is much taller than him, but Mayo's defensive awareness is still good. Although he has always had nothing to do with Durant, Mayo still tried his best to fight. Defend Durant, because Mayo wants to win, he wants to overthrow this group of arrogant old birds.

Although Mayo has tried his best to stick in front of Durant in an attempt to prevent Durant from receiving the ball, Durant, who is tall and long, still received a pass from his teammate on Mayo's head. The ball, but this time Kevin Durant, who received a pass from his teammate, did not adjust his body posture on the spot and then shot. Instead, he leaned sideways on Mayo and prepared to move laterally with the ball.

After Durant leaned against Mayo, Luis Scola, who had been muttering with Durant for a long time, quickly ran to a place not far from Durant, and then made a pick-and-roll posture there .

After Scola was in place, Durant accelerated quickly, and then through the pick-and-roll screen with Scola, he successfully got rid of OJ Mayo who was entangled him closely. The tall Kevin Durant, after taking two steps towards the inside, then swayed past Michael Beasley very lightly. Although Durant's position is the 3rd position, Durant's The actual height is higher than that of Michael Beasley. However, in the attack just now, Michael Beasley was like a stake, and Kevin Durant had no temper at all.

After getting rid of Beasley who was defending, Durant was only one step away from the first-year team's basket. Obviously, after Yan Hua helped the first-year team overtake the score with a dunk, Kevin -Durant also wanted to retaliate with a dunk, and by the way, hit the morale of the rookies on the first-year team that was getting higher and higher.

When Durant finished taking off almost three meters away from the basket and was about to smash the basketball in his hand into the basket, Durant suddenly felt a cool breeze blowing around him. Lante reacted, and Durant felt a sharp pain in his right hand holding the basketball.

After the pain spread from the palm to the arm, Durant, who was still on the rise, lost his balance in an instant, and fell heavily backward from the air. Although his body hadn't landed yet, Durant's mind had already It was blank, because before his body lost his balance, Durant had already realized what happened just now.

(End of this chapter)