King of the Point Guard Era

Chapter 233 The Barkley Team With God's Help

As usual, in this happy night, the celebrity game started first. The celebrity game has top American singers, Hollywood actors, and high-ranking American officials from the political circle who love basketball. There are also sports reporters who interview questions and have done The Internet celebrities of basketball videos, of course, cannot do without retired basketball players.This kind of game is like a pot of miscellaneous meat, which is to warm up the next game.

However, such games also have their own fun, because every celebrity game player on the court has his own fans off the court, and these fans are watching their idols on the basketball court like ordinary professional basketball players. Athletes will also have great pleasure in looking differently.

But this is not the main course after all. After watching the celebrity game, the fans in the New Amway Center are looking forward to the Rookie Challenge. .

Especially this time the Rookie Challenge has not only been restructured, with two commentators from TNT acting as the general manager to select players, but at the same time, this time the Rookie Challenge has an unprecedented three All-Star starters, He Yixiang of the Kings and Cousins ​​and Griffin of the Clippers.

O'Neal starts with Wall, last season's NCAA MOP Kemba Walker, Griffin, who was forced to play at small forward, Greg Monroe and Cousins.

Barkley's starting lineup is He Yixiang, Irving, Paul George, Gordon Hayward and Derek Favors who replaced the injured Thiago Splitter.

From the lineups of the two teams, it can be seen that the two general managers are not very competent, and both have bad intentions. One of them almost picked out all the small forwards, forcing Griffin, who screwed up a team, to play small forwards. forward.The other team uses Derek Favors, who is only 208cm tall, as the center, and at the same time sends two small forwards to play.

Seeing this scene, many viewers couldn't help but smile knowingly. They could believe how intriguing the two TNT's clowns were when selecting candidates, and after the selection, they found out that their deformed lineup was so How embarrassing it is.

At the beginning of the game, the O'Neal team with a strong inside line gave the Barkley team a bad start. Wall was dribbling on the three-point line at the top of the arc and suddenly threw it in the direction of the rebound. Griffin, who was serving as a small forward, Immediately rushed to the horse, received the ball in the air and re-entered the box directly.It's like receiving Paul's heavy dunks this season. His beast-like physical fitness makes him easy to use for lobs.Such a beautiful alley-oop dunk naturally aroused cheers from the fans in the new Amway Center.After watching the Masters, they longed for such a dunk.

Hayward spread his hands helplessly, indicating that he was powerless against the ball. Although he was known as the strongest small forward among whites, he was still extremely powerless in the face of this ball.

But fortunately, almost everyone on the Barkley team can shoot a three-pointer. After halftime, He Yixiang accurately found Irving who was ambushing at 45 degrees. Irving caught the ball very comfortably. Facing Kemba Walker's defense, he made a direct three-pointer.The basketball went straight to the hoop.

Irving, a confident guy, doesn't like Kemba Walker as MOP very much, because in his freshman season, he was aiming to lead last year's runner-up Duke to the championship, but in a regular season with Butler University Injured ligaments in the right toe, and took off the protective boots after only two months. He returned to the front line of the tournament in March Madness, but lost to the University of Arizona in the round of 16. Irving played 31 minutes and scored 28 points and 3 assists.

He believes that if he is not affected by injuries, he can definitely play better. It is hard to say who this MOP will belong to.He will not let go of the opportunity of such a head-to-head confrontation now. After scoring this three-pointer, Owen looked at Kemba Walker in front of him: "Hey, buddy, I don't think this is an exhibition game. Today I can Going to shoot you."

As an MOP, Kemba Walker is naturally very unwilling. Looking back, he directly asked for the ball to single Irving, and after a direct change of direction, he quickly rushed to the inside.The Barkley team lacks top frame protectors. Facing such a fast one-stop layup, almost all players are only qualified to watch.Walker did not forget to taunt Irving after he succeeded: "It turns out that I am the MOP, and I think the No. [-] pick should also be mine."

Just a few rounds into the game, the two teams have already sparked off, and this is what the new Amway Center wants to see.They don't love the all-star game as much as they used to. What they want to watch is such a game full of topics, which is much more interesting.

The game was fierce. As No.1 in the current MVP list, He Yixiang was a little surprised. Are the guys in front of him really so strong?Or did he become weaker?All of them are flying into the sky, and one of them has a three-pointer. He Yixiang just passed the ball a few times casually, and even some players are not in a good position, and the opponent's defense is considered to be more attentive.However, his team's three-pointers were scored by scoring, and the frequency of the net-scraping sound almost made He Yixiang help the team's three-pointers to do off-ball training.

The Barkley team also led by 42 points at 31:11 and entered the second quarter. Barkley, who was watching off the court, was also smiling and looked over there with a little demonstrative provocation.I didn't expect my team's three-pointers to be so accurate!I thought I had to rely on He Yixiang to score, but I didn't expect that everyone was a super scorer, and said to He Yixiang: "He, you did a good job. Your pass is still very fast and accurate!"

He Yixiang felt a little embarrassed when he heard these words, because he just scored 6 points on 50 of 7 shots in this quarter. He was the only player in the team with a shooting percentage below [-]%. With [-] assists, his own data may be even uglier.

On the other hand, O'Neal wrinkled his facial features that are usually used as a joke. He was a little dissatisfied with Cousins' state, and said to him: "DeMarcus, a real center is not like a pussy." Standing out there, but dominating the paint, getting the rebounds, putting the ball in the hoop, it doesn’t matter how many people are in the other team’s basket, you just know you’re unstoppable.”

(End of this chapter)