Chapter 593: Doing Something?
Although the audience, bench and commentary seats were all boiling, Xiao Yao's hat did not foul, and the game on the court continued.
After landing, Xiao Yao raised his hands and was about to throw the basketball into the opponent's half, launching a fast counterattack, only to find that everyone was staring at him with wide eyes, and no one sprinted to the opponent's half.
The action of waving forward and throwing the ball has been made, but whenever there is no one in front, Xiao Yao can only hold the basketball at this time and not throw his hand, and after squeezing his arm for half a circle, he slapped the basketball on the floor and dribbled the ball.
Xiao Yao's action of swinging his arm made many people react. Rita Mitchell reacted the quickest and immediately turned and rushed towards the opposition half. As soon as Rita Mitchell moved, Jesse Cambuur, a member of the Western Celebrity Team who was defending her, immediately followed her and ran back.
Jesse Cambuur is a well-known actress active in the television industry, 26 years old, about the same height as Rita Mitchell, but on the fat side. In terms of weight and strength, she was much better than Rita Mitchell, but in terms of speed, she was a little bit worse, and after a few steps, she was pulled away by Rita Mitchell.
After Rita Mitchell rushed across the halfcourt, Xiao Yao also threw the basketball in his hand. The basketball landed near the three-point line in front of Rita Mitchell's running line, and after bounced off the ground, it was caught by Rita Mitchell.
Faced with an empty basket in front of her, Rita Mitchell scored two points with an easy three-step layup.
"Anton, what are you doing?" Jesse Cambuur stopped when he saw Rita Mitchell make a layup, and turned to Anthony Morrell who was not far away from him in dissatisfaction.
When Rita Mitchell went on a fast break, the Western Celebrities only had Jesse Cambuur and Anthony Morrell quick to get back on guard.
Camon Blunt is a former professional footballer, and it's understandable that he doesn't chase amateurs as a "classic player". Brandon Brown is a kid, not to mention speed, and defense is not very useful. Zach Haywood was stunned, and he was on the inside line of the Eastern Celebrity side again, far away. Jesse Cambuur didn't have much to say about the three who didn't defend quickly.
Anthony Morrell, who quickly returned to the defense with Jesse Campbuur, was much faster than Rita Mitchell, and he had already rushed to the front of him, obviously catching up with Rita Mitchell from behind to defend this fast attack, but suddenly stopped and watched Rita Mitchell score a layup, which inevitably made Jesse Campbell dissatisfied.
"Hey," Anthony Morrell shrugged back at Jesse Cambuur, "There's a 'Knight' next to Rita," and when he said the word "Knight," Anthony Morrell stretched out his hands and bent his middle finger and made a double quotation mark gesture before adding, "I don't want someone to dunk on my head for a moment and then take the basketball I threw out of the air." ”
"You said that Chinese star?" Jesse Cambuur glanced at Rita Mitchell who was running back, and then looked back at Xiao Yao.
"Di~" The referee whistled and made a pause gesture, and then pointed in the direction of the Western Celebrity Team.
Just two back and forth four balls, the Eastern Celebrities not only beat the Western Celebrities 4-0 in the score, Xiao Yao's two blocks and a dunk caused a great blow to the morale of the Western Celebrities, Zach Haywood was a little confused, and the head coach of the Western Celebrities had to call a timeout.
"Zach, don't care!" Carmon Blunt patted Zach Heywood on the shoulder and comforted him after returning to the bench.
"As long as you don't go to Galita and provoke that Huaxia man in the future. Anthony Morrell smiled and replied.
"What do you mean?" asked someone on the bench, puzzled.
Anthony Morrell laughed, "The Chinese man told Forster that he built Brandon because Zach built Rita. Zach should have heard it, so he switched places with Brandon and me, and went to the Chinese man to fight it alone. ”
"I see!" the head coach of the Western Celebrity Team snapped. The change of position in the previous round was not arranged by her, and she only knew the reason at this time.
"So that Chinese guy is doing this for Rita?" said Bill Justin, "Chasing girls in our celebrity races?
"Zach, find a chance to beat him up and get angry!" Jesse Cambuur said to Zach Heywood with a half-joking laugh, "You can't beat him in basketball, can't you beat him in a fight?"
"If it weren't for the boxing ring, I don't think Zach would have been able to beat him. Anthony Morrell laughed, "Remember the plane robbery at the New York airport a few years ago?
The New York airport hijacking a few years ago was big news, and almost no one knew about it. Although the media did not reveal Xiao Yao's identity at that time, during the New York Fashion Week at the end of the year before last, the news that Xiao Yao was the passenger who caught the robber in the hijacking case spread from China to the United States, and the robbery and kidnapping case at the press conference that occurred afterwards were even more uproarious, and many media reported these three cases together.
"It's him!" The last two cases were all big news, and the last two happened just over a year ago, Anthony Morrell said, and everyone else remembered the incident.
"No wonder Anthony said that Zach might not be able to beat him outside of the ring, and I kind of believed it. Quincy Beasley, who was on the bench, shook her head.
Hearing both men emphasize "outside the ring" and save face for themselves, Zach Haywood did not refute it. Thinking that the Chinese man who dunked on the top of his head and caught his shot directly was the fierce man who captured two knife-wielding gangsters on the plane, Zach Haywood's heart was also a little better.
Although in media reports, Xiao Yao was rescued by the police in the kidnapping case, but in the previous hijacking case, Xiao Yao actually subdued the two knife-wielding gangsters.
Not to mention whether he can beat two professional criminals with knives with his bare hands, the courage to dare to do it in the face of two knife-wielding gangsters is not something that ordinary people have, not to mention that the media report also mentioned that he was shot by one of the gangsters with a knife to the neck. Even as a professional boxer, Zach Haywood admits he didn't have the confidence and guts to do so in that situation.
"Daniel, have all of you Chinese learned kung fu and are all so fierce?" Zach Heywood suddenly turned his head and asked Zhuo Zhiyuan on the side.
"Huh?" Zhuo Zhiyuan was stunned, and subconsciously replied, "I am an American and grew up in the United States. ”
"Huh?" the others looked at each other in surprise.
"But I know he should have a girlfriend. Zhuo Zhiyuan, who was a little embarrassed by everyone, changed the topic and said, "He has made it public on Huaxia's personal social media. ”
As a Chinese-American star who mainly develops in the Chinese entertainment industry and most of his fans are also from Huaxia, Zhuo Zhiyuan also has some understanding of Xiao Yao's situation.
"Is there a girlfriend who is still courteous to Rita?" said Jesse Cambuur with some disdain, "Is his girlfriend here today?"
"I don't know, I didn't pay attention. "Zhuo Zhiyuandao.
Zhuo Zhiyuan and Xiao Yao are not taking the same style route at all, and the two do not have much intersection. The only intersection before was the star charity basketball game, which was stolen by Xiao Yao. If it weren't for today's celebrity match, he wouldn't have been able to refuse, he wouldn't want to meet Xiao Yao again at all, and where would he pay attention to whether Xiao Yao brought his girlfriend today.
"Alright!" the coach of the Western Celebrity Team patted the tactical board on his hand, "That's all for the off-field discussion, let's talk about this game." This is a basketball game, not to fight with knife-wielding gangsters on the plane, no matter how powerful the Chinese star over there is, he is not a professional player in American professional basketball, so let's talk about the arrangement of the game. ”
"Robert, you come on the court in a moment to replace Jesse, and then switch places with Brandon to defend the Chinese star. The coach of the Western Celebrity looked at Robert Foden, a former professional player next to him, and said, "Although you have retired, I don't think you, a former All-Star professional player, will lose to that amateur Chinese star, right?"
"If you take a former professional basketball player against an amateur player, isn't that already treating the other player as a professional player?" Anthony Morrell complained in his heart, but he didn't say it.
The Western Celebrities made targeted arrangements for Xiao Yao during this timeout, and also deliberately replaced a former professional player. As a result, when the timeout ended and the players on both sides returned to the court, the Western Celebrity Team was surprised to find that the Eastern Celebrity Team actually replaced Xiao Yao, who had an extremely eye-catching performance, and their targeted arrangement was completely in vain.
For this substitution of the Eastern Celebrity Team, not to mention the surprise of the Western Celebrity Team, even the commentators and the audience at the scene did not expect it. Li Jun, who was in the commentary seat, was very surprised and said, "Well, the Eastern Army actually replaced Xiao Yao." This second quarter has only opened for more than two minutes, and it is far from the regular substitution time, not to mention that Xiao Yao is still the best player since the beginning of the second quarter. ”
Regardless of whether everyone was surprised by the Eastern Celebrity Team's move to replace Xiao Yao, after the game restarted, everyone still focused most of their attention on the court. At most, it was the time of the dead ball, and the cameras at the scene took care of Xiao Yao sitting on the bench from time to time. However, judging from Xiao Yao's appearance sitting in the seat with a relaxed smile, Xiao Yao didn't seem to be dissatisfied with this substitution.
While most of the people focused their attention on the court, occasionally paying attention to Xiao Yao on the bench of the Eastern Celebrities, few people noticed that Bill Justin on the Western Celebrity bench quietly left the bench, ran to the sidelines and whispered a few words next to a videographer wearing headphones and operating a camera, and then quietly returned to the bench.
The Eastern Celebrities replaced Xiao Yao with the tall Ben Scour. After gaining height on the inside, Joey Bielsa played on the outside and played the role of playmaker. As a result, Robert Foden played on Joey Bielsa on the outside, while Carmon Blunt took on Ben Scour on the inside.
Although Joey Bielsa has a big advantage over Robert Foden in terms of height and weight, former professional players play "classic ball" on the field and rarely take the initiative to attack, mainly for non-professional players. Even if Camon Blunt plays "old ball", Ben Squill will not be able to take advantage of his height and weight to go to the basket. Rita Mitchell, Will Foster and "Boss" Mark Doom were at a disadvantage against Anthony Morrell, Zach Haywood and Brandon Brown respectively.
After more than a minute of play, the Eastern Celebrities chased four points in a row. Taking advantage of a dead-ball opportunity, the Eastern Celebrities made another substitution, replacing Rita Mitchell and "owner" Mark Doom with former professional Kevin Donovan and an amateur player who has not yet played Fred Thompson. The Western Celebrities also replaced their kid Brandon Brown with Bill Justin.
After this adjustment and substitution, the balance of strength between the two sides on the field has become more balanced, and the scores of the two teams have begun to rise alternately.
In the next few minutes, the two teams continued to exchange players. Two male pros were replaced by female pros, and Tom Casey, the only amateur player on the Eastern Celebrity Team who has not yet made an appearance, was also substituted.
So far, all the twenty-two players on both sides have appeared, and when they make substitutions, they have begun to spin around among the players who have played before, but what is slightly strange is that no matter how the Eastern Celebrity Team made substitutions in this section, they did not send Xiao Yao on the court again.
Seeing that the Eastern Celebrity Team went from leading by five points at most to four points behind in this section, but never sent Xiao Yao to play, Zhao Rui in the audience finally couldn't help but complain: "What is the coach of the Eastern Celebrity Team doing? This has been overtaken by others, why don't you let Bayi go on? Is it because Bayi deducted one on the American's head and covered the American's several hats, did he deliberately play against it?"
"That is, Bayi only played half of the first quarter, and only played two minutes in the second quarter, his physical strength was fine, and his skills were obviously better than others, but he was pressed to the bench. Zhuo Zhiyuan played like that, but he played more time than Bayi. Zhou Zhihao looked at Zhuo Zhiyuan, who was running on the field, and said a little unconvinced.
"What are the Americans doing?" Lin Qisan said indignantly.
"No," compared to the two friends next to her, Sun Tingting seemed much calmer, shook her head with a smile, and said, "I heard Bayi say that he came to the Masters this time because Birsa, the assistant coach of the Eastern Celebrity Team, strongly recommended it to the organizers, and he also personally called Bayi to ask Bayi to participate." When the team was divided, Birsa directly asked Bayi to his team, and he probably wouldn't deliberately target Bayi. ”
At this time, there was a dead ball on the field, and the cameraman at the scene once again pointed the camera at Xiao Yao on the bench of the Eastern Celebrity Team, Sun Tingting also pointed to the big screen at the scene, and continued, "Look, Bayi and the assistant coach have a good chat, he himself is not in a hurry, what are we anxious about for him?"
On the big screen at the scene, Xiao Yao was whispering something to Joey Bilsa next to him. Although it is impossible to know what they are chatting, judging by the smiles on their faces as they talk, it is certainly not arguing about anything.
In the audience, in addition to Zhao Rui and other friends, several members of "Immortals" were also fighting for Xiao Yao. Zhao Rui and others whispered Chinese, while these people unceremoniously shouted loudly in English. Several of them were Americans, and the shouting won the echo of some spectators next to them.
At this time, Joey Bielsa and Xiao Yao, who appeared on the big screen at the scene, were discussing the issue of making Xiao Yao appear at this moment. However, what most people didn't expect was that Joey Bielsa was not pressuring Xiao Yao to prevent him from playing, but asking Xiao Yao if he wanted to play.
"Jan, do you want to go up and fight for a while?" Joy Bilsa asked Xiao Yao, "Will it affect what you will do later?"
"It's okay with physical strength, it shouldn't have any effect. Xiao Yao smiled and replied, "But didn't we say that I should play as little as possible in the first half and leave more opportunities for others?
"I'm afraid that I'm too far behind, and it's not easy to chase in the second half. Joy Bielsa smiled, "Since you have confidence, then keep resting and play again in the second half." ”
With about two minutes left in the second quarter, there was a dead ball on the court, and the referee blew the whistle to stop the game, then called all the players back to the bench.
Neither coach called a timeout, and it was an official timeout. Generally speaking, the official pause is for advertisers, and this pause is for a game part of the competition.
"Ladies and gentlemen!" as the players all returned to the bench and took their seats, the voice of the host rang out, "It's KissCam time!"
"KissCam" is a game that is interactive with the audience. When two fans or spectators in the audience appear on the big screen at the scene, the two will kiss in front of the camera. This game has been in the past life and in this world, it first appeared on the court of American professional basketball, and now it has developed to the concert of some celebrities will also play like this, everyone is very familiar with it.
"o~" Listening to the host of the scene talking about the "KissCam" link, the audience at the scene let out a burst of cheers, and then all looked up at the big screen above the court, wanting to see who was the first lucky couple to be selected to kiss in public.
"Damn! What a mess is this American?!"
When the picture on the big screen at the scene stopped moving and froze down, Zhao Rui, Lin Qisan and Zhou Zhihao all widened their eyes, Lin Qisan couldn't help but burst out foul language, and even Sun Tingting on the side was no longer calm, and covered her mouth in surprise.
"This~" On the other side, Dean and George of "Immortals" also looked at each other, and then couldn't help but peek at Sarmeon's expression next to him.
On the big screen at the scene now, the two people in the center of the picture are Xiao Yao and Rita Mitchell who looked surprised on the bench of the Eastern Celebrity Team.
This time it was for the official pause of the game session, the two teams had no tactics to arrange, everyone on the bench did not gather together, but sat on the seats and looked up at the big screen on the scene, and the two appeared in the lens of the live camera and the big screen above the stadium.