Chapter 120: Rookie Challenge
As soon as he arrived in Los Angeles, after checking in to the hotel arranged by the All-Star Committee, Odom had to take Yang Di and the others to a nightclub. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
When I went downstairs, I happened to meet the Rocket team members who also walked in.
"Haha, such a coincidence!" Yang Di shook hands with Yao Ming and gently bumped his shoulder, and he saw that Yao Ming was still carrying some Chinese behind him, and greeted him with a smile.
"It's all my relatives." Yao Ming explained.
"Oh~" Yang Di suddenly realized that All-Star Weekend is indeed an event worth participating in.
"So you guys are?" Yao Ming asked in Chinese, so Odom on the side didn't understand, but seeing Yao Ming's gestures, he immediately interjected: "We're going to go to the nightclub, Yao, do you want to be together?" ”
Yang Di was very embarrassed, and sure enough, some of the family members behind Yao Ming knew English, and secretly covered their mouths and smiled.
Yao Ming rejected Odom with righteousness at this time, and quickly drew a line: "I'm going to play my video game in the hotel, and I won't participate in your activities." ”
While they were talking, some NBA players walked in the doorway.
"Hey, Yang, Dwyan!" James wore a black and white cap, led by Hinrich and Chris Bosh behind him, and his eyes lit up when he saw Yang Di and Wade.
"Hey!" Yang Di and James clapped their hands, and their shoulders leaned lightly.
James was full of spring breeze, and greeted him politely when he saw Yao Ming, Yao Ming waved his hand and left the hotel lobby with his relatives first.
Odom invites James to go to a nightclub with him, and James readily agrees, and at the same time proposes to bring his two newly recognized younger brothers with him.
Yang Di saw that James really had a lot of friends, and felt that James was very charismatic.
Yao Ming's relatives, who had just gone upstairs, thought that Yang Di seemed to be very comfortable in the NBA, which was not quite consistent with some of the "facts" mentioned in domestic reports.
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Los Angeles, Staples Center.
Today is the third day of All-Star Weekend, and it is also the day when several important events begin, and at seven o'clock in the evening, it is the rookie challenge that Yang Di and others will participate in.
Although it was not an All-Star Game, it still attracted many big and small stars, and Staples Arena was suddenly star-studded. Yang Di saw that some Chinese stars also came to the scene to watch the game, although he didn't know him, but he had seen them in TV series when he was a child, such as Jet Li and Zhang Ziyi......
The imperial court station has already sent a special host to the live broadcast, and the veteran Zhang Weiping partnered with the young Yu Jia in the station.
Before the start of the game, the first and second grades each confirmed their starting lineups.
The second-year starters are Jarric, Ginobili, Stoudemire, Boozer and Yao Ming, and on the first-year side, Wade, James, and Anthony are undoubtedly selected as starters, leaving a backcourt position, Hinrich was elected with the number one assist among rookies, and the center position, four competitive people, Bosh, Jandy, Chris Carman and Haslem.
Yang Di's data is not as good as Bosh, he originally thought that this starting position would be obtained by Bosh, but he didn't expect that, because of the consideration of the Los Angeles home court, in the end, this starting position was actually given to Chris Carman, who is now slowly sitting on the starting center of the Clippers.
Yang Di thought to himself when his first start would come.
Before the Rookie Challenge, the singers invited by the committee took the stage to perform, and after a lot of passionate songs, the starters from both sides appeared to prepare for the game.
At this time, on the bench, in addition to Jandy and Haslem, there was also a Bosh, a Maverick's Josh Howard.
The rookie game is actually not interesting, for Yang Di, it does not increase his salary by a dime, nor can it help him improve his personal skills, but some rookie players with relatively low exposure urgently need such a game to increase their popularity and improve their value.
In addition, those who are interested in winning the MVP trophy of the Rookie Challenge will also be more keen to show themselves.
For example, James and Anthony on the court, the two of them couldn't wait to break through with the ball and make easy layups.
The intensity of the rookie challenge is not high, at most there is a little pressure on the ball holder, and if you really jump and dunk, there are generally not many people who will destroy the offense, so in such a game, dunk will always become the main theme, and fans are happy to see the stars complete all kinds of flying dunks.
The pace of the game will become very fast as a result.
So Yao Ming is very unaccustomed to this rhythm, and the time to turn around and run is more than the time to actually fall into the position to attack.
The challenge was divided into two halves, and in the seventh minute of the first half, when the mandatory timeout was entered for the first time, Yang Di and Chris Bosh entered the game together.
Yang Di replaced Kaman, Bosh replaced Hinrich, and the class of '03 became a big man, while two players were also replaced in the second year, with Prince and Ne Hilario coming on to replace Yao Ming and Boozer.
At this time, the sophomore team led the first-grader team by 6 points 24-18.
Wade serves the ball to James on the sideline, James dribbles across the half court, and the basketball is flicked back and forth at his side, through the crotch and then to his left hand, which always looks like they want to shoot together.
Yang Di thought he would go it alone, but James took the initiative to wave to him, signaling to find a blocker.
"Forehead ......"
Yang Di was stunned for a moment, and then walked to the high position and obediently blocked and dismantled James.
James is amazingly wide, when Yang Di helped him block the dismantling, he was almost next to Yang Di's side, and Ginobili, who was defending him, suddenly crashed into Yang Di's arms, and then the Nuggets' Ne-Hilario was very active in delaying James' dribbling, Ginobili didn't see it, and Yang Di chased James by inertia when he dismantled.
Now Yang Di is empty, he hasn't run to the basket yet, the basketball is already flying in the air.
"呲~"
The sneakers rubbed against the floor, Yang Di jumped after hemming his hands, leaned slightly sideways to catch the basketball thrown by James, and then turned his hands into one hand and smashed it down!
"Bang dang!" 24 to 20.
Unhindered, a wonderful aerial connection, his head is almost flat, the height of the jump and the strength of the dunk are amazing.
"It's a good story!" Yang Di was a little surprised, James looked at the five big and three thick, but he did a very good job like passing, with a slight flick of his wrist, he completed the air relay with him in advance.
The second-year team is dominated by Ginobili, and Serbia's Marco Jaric is 2.01 meters tall and can play three backfield positions, but he is good at defending and tackles, and is also a relatively alternative European player. Ginobili played to Stoudemire, who turned around to receive the ball at the elbow zone, as soon as Ginobili passed half-time.
Stoudemire attacked with the ball and faced Bosh almost in one step past his defence.
Bosh's body was too thin, and after being squeezed under the basket by Stoudemire, he couldn't jump at all, and Xiao Si half-turned and hooked his hand, and the basketball hit the board into the basket, 26-20.
Then the first-year quick bottom line ball, after receiving the ball, Wade directly made a long pass to the halfcourt, to Anthony in the middle circle, Anthony and James had already made a fast attack, dribbling to the basket, Jaric defended two, and gave way to the position very familiarly, Anthony faked the pass and made a one-handed split. 26 to 22.
Ginobili chose to block and dismantle Jr. this time, and dribbled to the 45-degree point to Prince, who hit a three-pointer to give the sophomore a 29-22 lead.
Prince smiled and high-fived Ginobili, the two had not played against each other in the finals at this time, but it felt very good to be teammates.
Attacking in the first grade, James shouted at his teammates to run.
"Move to the weak side, the weak side!" James waved his other hand, and then coordinated with Bosh on the strong side on the right side, Bosh's blocking effect was average, after James gave Bosh, Bosh did not get a great opportunity to attack, but he also shot, and faced Xiao Si with a direct jump shot in the middle distance.
Xiao Si symbolically raised his hand, and when he turned his head, the ball had not yet gone in, and Prince grabbed the rebound.
Prince immediately dribbled for a burst of action, and his dribbling was okay, and both sides flooded into the other half, and Prince gave it to Ne Hilario, who came out of the arc to pick up.
As soon as Xiao Nei got the ball, a figure suddenly came out from the side and knocked off the basketball in his hand.
"Wade!"
After the No. 3 grabbed the ball, he dribbled to the front court to complete the two-handed sliding slam dunk, and the dunk posture was very elegant.
29 to 24, the difference between the two sides is not very large.
In a game like the All-Star Challenge, the difference between points within ten points can be chased back anytime and anywhere, and the second-year students feel that this year's first-year team is very fierce, bold and careful on the court, and the ability is also very strong, so they cheered up one after another, and no one wanted to capsize in the gutter.