743. The Picture Is Too Beautiful (Part 1)
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Many fans in front of the TV remembered last year's All-Star Rookie Game, where the intensity of competition and the number of college stars were higher than the NCAA Finals, and the rookie team was able to win that rookie game, and Curry's 10 three-pointers in a single game contributed to it.
At the beginning of this year's rookie game, that amazing Curry is here again!
And compared with last year, Curry, who is now averaging 21 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists per game in his sophomore year, is more confident, when the ball is thrown, he knows that he will score, and he has already begun to celebrate when the ball is still in the air.
How arrogant and arrogant Curry looks in this ball!
Wall also wanted to take it back to grab a rebound, but he caught a hollow hit and slapped the ball that fell from the basket.
He was mainly scared of this goal, he really didn't expect the sophomore team to play like this.
Wall sent the ball to Griffin, who saw Wall serve and ran out, and was about to pass to Wall, when he suddenly alertly took the ball back and lifted it, at this time Sun Ce and Holiday flew between Griffin and Wall.
Griffin was so frightened that a wisp of cold sweat broke out on his back, if he had passed the ball back to Wall just now, he would have been 100% stealed!
It's too much!
Playing like this at the beginning?
Wall ran a few steps and was stared at by Holiday to death.
Holiday is arguably the best defensive rookie in the class of 2009, probably not even one, and Wall, who is also in the East, suffered several times this season when he met the 76ers in his rookie year.
Griffin saw that the situation was not good, and it would be an eight-second violation to go on like this! Griffin could only push forward towards the front court with Sun Ce on his own.
Sun Ce tried a steal and couldn't succeed, Griffin was too strong, his draft template was Karl Malone, the whole person was made up of muscle bumps, and the width was a circle larger than Sun Ce when the height was not much different.
Griffin pushed Sun Ce to the frontcourt, didn't give the sophomore team a chance to wrap up, and broke through directly to the basket!
In terms of ball control, Griffin is second to none in the big forward, and rushed straight to the basket, and no one from the Griffin sophomore team who rushed up dared to go up to block it, and Blair under the basket withdrew from the bottom line, and Griffin rushed to the inside line to score two points with one hand.
However, Blair's exit was not simply to avoid Griffin, Griffin dunked the ball into the basket, and after the ball bounced off the floor, Blair reached out directly to catch the ball and threw it at Harden.
Fight back!
This is the routine of the Grizzlies and the Knicks!
Harden pushed forward quickly, ran to the front court with Wall, and distributed the ball to Curry, and when Curry received the ball, Paul George followed, and Curlima passed to Sun Ce, who ran from the middle.
Paul George hurriedly rushed towards Sun Ce again, blocking Sun Ce at the free throw line, Sun Ce still wanted to dunk one, but he didn't expect Paul George to be so active, sure enough, he was a teammate, he could only hoist the ball to the left side of the three-second zone, Curry cut in!
One step outside the left side of the three-second zone to receive the ball, Curry stepped on the left sideline of the three-second zone and jumped! Smash the ball into the basket......
That's altitude, it's enough, and the bounce height is quite amazing, but the distance of this flight is ...... Curry didn't count it well!
Obviously it looks like he jumped very high, but Curry dunked and smashed the basket!
The fans who had already begun to cheer couldn't help but start laughing wildly, and many fans almost choked to death without taking a breath.
Fortunately, Curry caught the ball, threw the ball, and hit a layup......
"Stephen! My assists are gone! Sun Ce yelled at Curry, feeling so angry!
"What's my business?" Curry replied nonchalantly.
It's not the first time that Curry can't dunk this kind of thing, what a big deal.
He has a very strong mentality, otherwise he wouldn't have dunked every time he had a chance to dunk after being hatted so many times by the basket.
The five-member team of the rookie team was scared by the sophomore team at the beginning!
This fast attack is too fierce!
5-2, the sophomore team led by 3 points, and the key point was that it was only 24 seconds after the game started! It took 11 seconds for Griffin to receive the serve and break through the dunk, and the two sophomores combined for 13 seconds!
13 seconds and 5 minutes, this is what to do!
The rookie team is full of energy to take out the sophomores, just like last year's class of '09, and use the sophomores as stepping stones to make a name for themselves.
But when the game started, they found that the sophomore team was more disciplined than they were!
Obviously, the sophomore is ready, the lineup structure is not good, people simply give up their height, only send one of the two insides, and the defense is not good, so they specialize in blocking the serve and defending around the front, and the big man can't defend it, so he doesn't defend it, let the big man go inside to score, and then use the speed advantage of the 4 outside lines to play 3 or even 4 to 2.
Even Blair can play fast breaks, and the ball quotient is extremely high, so he can clearly judge the best follow-up line; On the rookie team's side, the two interior lines look very good, but they are not as good as the combination of Sun Ce + Blair.
In the 11th minute of the first half, Curry received a pass from Sun Ce and made the fourth three-pointer of the game, and the sophomore team had led the rookie team by 11 points 44-33!
It's not that the rookie team can't score, but they score very easily, Griffin and Cousins are both interior lines with excellent ball control, their big guys, pouting their butts and dribbling, unless the sophomore team is determined to steal and stick to the defense, otherwise they can easily play small, and the sophomore team does not have the idea of confronting the opponent's big man, wishing that the opponent would rush in and shoot on the inside, reducing the chance of these two super athletic interior lines returning to the defense.
Griffin scored easily, Cousins scored easily, and the alternating point guard duo of Wall and Bledsoe didn't have a hard time scoring as long as they managed to break through.
However, the rookie team barely scored from the outside!
Paul George and Neil, who came off the bench, didn't have a chance to catch the ball at all, and the sophomore team was unguarded on the inside, but very blocked on the outside.
In addition to this, the anti-cut-and-catch shot and catch-and-shoot are also the focus of the sophomore team.
Monroe played three minutes on the court and didn't touch the ball, occasionally teammates broke through and couldn't score, and he couldn't grab the rebound, Blair and Ibaka, who alternated on the court, were mainly responsible for two points on the defensive end, defending the ball and playing high for Sun Zeka!
The defensive purpose of the sophomore team is becoming more and more obvious, that is, to let the rookie team hold the ball and rush in to shoot, interfere when there is a chance to interfere, and simply do not interfere if there is no opportunity to interfere, and directly prepare to serve and break quickly.
Wall and Bledsoe are considered to have fallen into blood mold, and they met Holiday this aggressive defensive eater like a bullfight, Holiday has a strong ability to clingy people, even if these two break in, the shooting efficiency is not high, of course, they don't have much ability to end the offense, creating a lot of rebounding opportunities for Sun Ce.
And on the offensive end, the sophomore team is so strong that it explodes!
Sun Ce, Harden, Curry formed a triangle, all three can hold the ball, can break through, Curry and Harden have three-point ability, Sun Ce also has a certain degree of shooting, of which Curry benefited the most, 11 minutes of 8 shots 5 shots, 4 three-point shots, 2 of 2 free throws, only halfway through the first half, he has 16 points!
Evans plays very low-key, he sends the ball away, he is the containment point, he has no intention of showing off, but a player like him, standing there is a threat.
The game went into a long timeout and the two teams began to rotate.
In these 11 minutes, a lot of things can be seen, and some fans who haven't watched last year's rookie game have found that the sophomore team is too organized, has a fairly clear tactical purpose, and has a strong execution!
The former is because the sophomore team really prepared with heart, and there is also the help of coach Dan D'Antoni.
However, the most important thing is to rely on the opponent to set off, the rookie team is far from the sophomore team that has played in the NBA for one more year, and on the sophomore team's side, the 7 players who played in this small half of the game, Curry, Sun Ce, Harden, Ibaka, Blair, Holiday and Matthews, are all quite good team players.
In contrast, the strongest players of the rookie team, Wall, Griffin, Cousins, Monroe, and Bledsoe, are not team players, and Wall and Cousins have a bit of a tacit understanding, Cousins rarely has people to serve, Wall is one of them, but the two have no chance to cooperate, and they don't cooperate at all.
This makes the two teams feel very different in terms of coordination, the sophomore team is more like a team, and the rookie team is completely alone and has no cooperation.
In terms of execution, it is obvious that the part of the sophomore team that has been on the court is much stronger, and the players of the sophomore team have a very clear role in the team since they entered the NBA, and many of them have entered the NBA in the strong team, even if it is Curry of the bad team, after Curry entered the NBA, in just a few games with Sun Ce, he determined that his position is a scoring point guard who focuses on shooting and organizes offense.
Harden, a strong team like the Thunder, is on the outside of the three positions where there is a need, and although his playing time in the club is not clear, he works hard, so he expands his skills very comprehensively.
Everyone else is similar, and there is a fundamental difference from Wall, Cousins, Griffin, and Monroe joining a bad team.
The teams they are in all have a common characteristic, they have been rotten for many years or chaotic for many years, the management is rotten, the direction of the head coach is not clear because they don't know what the team management needs.
And the fans who watched last year's rookie game were so excited that their expectations came true!
Last year's rookie game, they watched more energetically than watching the NCAA finals, such a game, obviously has little to do with money, mainly to fight for face, which is the same as the NCAA kind of players who do not compete for money but for honor.
TV commentators from many countries and regions saw the cooperation of Sun Ce + Curry + Harden, and they couldn't help but wonder how beautiful the picture would be if the three of them could grow together on the same team.
Looks too strong!