Chapter 11 A good start
Yi Jianlian's sudden outburst caught the Grizzlies off guard, and Rudy Gay, who had been off the court for a quarter, returned to the court.
Good, good, very good! Your grandfather and my crotch, phew, no, it's my subordinates who never cut off the nobody, and since the Grizzlies have come up with your Summer League best team, then I'm sorry, brother, I have to continue to ride the horse!
Rudy Gay's appearance made Yi Jianlian even more excited!
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At the beginning of the final quarter of the game, Rudy Gay, who had not played in a quarter of the game, returned to the court without the slightest sign of needing to warm up, and came up with an outside three-point shot that hit the bull's-eye.
Yi Jianlian watched the birdman hit three points, and coldly returned to defense, and couldn't help muttering in his heart: It's so handsome!
If the three-point ability value reaches 75, can you be so handsome?
Then I'm, uh, 58, forget it! Forget it! Three points is not handsome, a handsome man generally has no connotation, I have to be a man with connotation!
Watch me make a meaningful layup! Yi Jianlian is still the old way, starting directly from the outside, opening his hand to ask for the ball when he reaches the high position, and rushing straight to the inside, his speed and his strength ensure that he can move forward as recklessly as a small truck.
At least that's how it was in this game.
Yi Jianlian easily scored two more points!
The two sides are so anxious, you come and go, there is no one-sided in the first three quarters, the game is unexpectedly good-looking, Rudy Gay's improvement on the outside of the Grizzlies is obvious, with him, the backcourt of the Chinese men's basketball team can not be so unscrupulous to wrap Mike Conley, the entire defensive line can only be stretched, which compresses Yi Jianlian's space on the inside, the latter can no longer cut so easily, and his performance has dimmed for a while.
Fans who are familiar with Yi Jianlian know that Yi Jianlian made two moves in the early days, turning over and jumping and sliding to the bottom line, these two moves once made Yi Jianlian a qualified substitute in the NBA, infinitely close to the status of the starter, if it were not for frequent injuries, he would not have left the NBA so early.
These two tricks, the current Yi Jianlian will also use them, and he has practiced very well, although he came through it, but this body is Yi Jianlian's, and the muscles have long remembered these two tricks, and he also deliberately strengthened his practice and strengthened it, improving his physical fitness by ten percent to use these two tricks, and the effect is very good.
Originally, he wanted to use these two tricks for a long time, but in the first half he thought about tactics in his heart, sleepwalking throughout the whole process, and he didn't even have a few chances to shoot, and the repeated success of the strong attack on the inside line in the third quarter also made him dare not change his style of play at will, so it has been dragged on until now, and now the difficulty of impacting the inside line has increased, hey~ These two moves have become a life-saving elixir.
Then don't think about it, just change the style of play!
Standing on his feet in the high position, Yi Jianlian asked for the ball from Liu Wei's hand, dribbled twice against the Grizzlies' defenders, and then directly turned around and threw him aside, jumped high, and immediately raised his wrist, and the ball crossed an arc in the air and perfectly drilled into the net.
The whole action was done in one go, without the slightest bit of mud and water.
The Grizzlies players who defended him obviously didn't expect this guy to have such a hand, and they looked at it in a daze, not reacting at all.
"Good shot!"
This goal naturally also caused applause on the bench off the court, today the whole game has been played until now, Yi Jianlian is mostly on the basket, occasionally outside to shoot one, and now suddenly saw his signature way of scoring, only to feel instantly lifted, this goal is so beautiful!
"What's going on with this guy? If he can shoot, why hasn't he used it until now! The head coach of the Grizzlies asked in a deep voice, but no one could answer his question, none of them had seen Yi Jianlian play, how did they know what the latter was like.
Yi Jianlian's threat has risen a notch, forcing the Grizzlies head coach to arrange assistant defenders. This time, Yi Jianlian was restricted, at least he couldn't catch the ball so easily, but the hands and feet of another player on the inside of the Chinese men's basketball team were also untied because of this!
"Chasing the Wind" roughly began his display of interior scoring skills, and the Grizzlies were completely blown out on the inside. Summer League '07 was still an era when the inside line was king, and the team that occupied the box often took the initiative.
The Chinese men's basketball team began to take the initiative, and the score difference, which was already not far behind, narrowed and narrowed, and in the last two minutes of the fourth quarter, with Yi Jianlian's layup, the two teams tied 78-78.
At this time, the score is tied and has different effects on the momentum of the two teams!
The Chinese men's basketball team was completely behind before tying the score this time, without leading by a single point, while the Grizzlies were leading by a whole game, but at this time they were tied instead!
It can be said that the momentum of the two teams has increased and declined extremely well. The growth is naturally the Chinese men's basketball team, and the decline is naturally the Grizzlies!
Morale declined, and the problem that arose was emotional flustering and fear of taking the blame.
First, the Grizzlies two guys on the inside leaked in a row, allowing Yi Jianlian and roughly two points each to overtake the score, and then Mike Conley on the outside made a dribbling mistake and gave away an offensive ball for nothing, and finally even Rudy Gay, who has played in the NBA Pro League for a year, also had a shot blocked.
Anyway, it's all kinds of giving away heads.
The Chinese men's basketball team received all the orders, and the last two minutes were very relaxed and stress-free.
88-82, in the end, the Chinese men's basketball team completed a 12-point reversal and won the opening of the summer league with a beautiful counterattack.
Yi Jianlian played well, scoring a double-double of 27 points and 12 rebounds, especially 25 of the 27 points were scored in the second half, making him the key contributor to the reversal of the Chinese men's basketball team in this game, and he is also a well-deserved MVP of this game.
"This young man named Yi is very good, and if he continues to perform like this, I think he will have a bright future in the NBA!"
The influence of the summer league is not very large, and only a few media outlets have followed up on it, and these media are all niche paper media, which are destined to not make much of a splash.
Although the Grizzlies' interim head coach in the summer league did not hesitate to praise Yi Jianlian, the audience that could know about it probably did not exceed 1,000.
But Hammond called Yi Jianlian:
"Yi, your first game was so good, you completely stole the limelight from Rudy and Mike, damn it, I don't even know how to express my appreciation for you, keep it up, Huaxia boy!"
In fact, in the first half of the game, Hammond watched it with his head in his hands, and at that time, he really had an urge to die, why did he choose such a guy.
Fortunately, he patiently watched the second half, and after watching it, his mood also changed one hundred and eighty degrees: Wow! I was able to choose such a guy!