128 Rookie Game - Down
Yang Yiming, Dario Saric and Bogdanovic completely detonated the audience in the Stamp Arena to watch the rookie game:
Bogdanovic faked a real pass, and with Saric's clever card position, the basketball bounced to the ground, just like a high-throw pass that would only occur in the dunk contest, Yang Yiming inserted it at high speed from the bottom line and stuffed the ball into the basket!
Take the iconic pose of the Air Jordan shoes.
Basketball in hand, arms perpendicular to the ground, legs forked, body fully stretched!
The silhouette of the dunk is exactly the same as that classic logo! It's just that this time the owner of the silhouette has been replaced by a yellow-skinned one!
1/
βThatβs my man!β
The live camera that has just captured this shocking button obviously needs to find some footnotes to fully interpret this shocking button. swept around the front row of the court, and just in time to photograph James Harden, dressed like a big brother in the underworld, dangling the gold chain around his neck, and yelling at the camera menacingly.
"This is my brother!"
Harden roared again.
As if otherwise, it was not enough to express the boss's preference for this little brother.
Not to be outdone, Eric Gordon grabbed Harden's arm to compete for favor, shouting "Yang is my (accented) brother", but he couldn't twist Harden and was stopped behind him by the beard.
Yang Yiming, who scored the ball, was also excited, and showed off the arm muscles that he had just dunked at the camera. Saric and Bogdanovich, who had successfully cooperated, came up to join in the fun, pointing to the biceps that arched like a hill, as if recommending the new chicken wing roots from a well-known fast-food restaurant.
With this ball as a foreshadowing, Yang Yiming really relaxed a lot on the court, and he rested until the second half of the second quarter to play again, forming a terrifying group of anti-aircraft batteries with Croatia's Saric and Finland's Markkanen. He and Markkanen stood in the two corners, and Saric switched positions in two 45-degrees, and the three of them almost missed the shots, instantly extending the lead of the World League to 20 points.
The U.S. team had no three-point across, and it relied on Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown's breakaway dunks to barely keep the gap from widening.
Jaylen Brown really played aggressively, and after breaking through a crotch change of hands, he scored a slam dunk.
It's a shame not to participate in the slam dunk contest!
Who knew that Yang Yiming had already proved that you black brothers were not the only ones who could dunk!
This time it was the Kings' Buddy Hield who burst into the box, and his Kings teammate Daron Fox was close to the defense. Hield has already hit the basket, and it is the Finn Lauri Markkanen who is unguarded and ambushed outside the three-point line in front of the diagonal front, who would have thought that he would not pass when he saw the empty block, but threw the ball to the back of his head at random and threw it to Yang Yiming in the reverse corner!
It's the same as an open three-point opportunity!
Yang Yiming made a shooting gesture, but the ball was shot lightly and softly, and just when everyone was confused, he had already gotten up!
It was Bogdanovic who threw the ball at him just now, and this time it was changed to self-throwing!
Hands buckled!
Maybe he's the one who deserves to go to the slam dunk contest the most!
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With 17 points, 6 rebounds and 3 assists, two amazing slam dunks, Yang Yiming played less than half of the game and handed over the first rookie game report card of his career.
The lead of the international team is expanding quarter by quarter, and Yang Yiming also happens to have the task of the All-Star Game, and he didn't play much in the second half, sitting on the sidelines and watching his teammates have fun.
"Happy?" Yu Xiaochun, who came with him for All-Star Weekend, came over to talk.
"Hmm." Yang Yiming smiled and nodded, obviously satisfied with his improvisation.
"We have a mission ahead of us..."
"Mission...?"
A word to wake up the dreamer.
Yang Yiming, who was still immersed in excitement just now, suddenly calmed down. Indeed, in addition to this entertaining competition, he and Yu Xiaochun also have a special task.
They want to identify who is the mysterious person who sent a challenge to Yang Yiming after the All-Star starting list was announced a month ago?
The mystery man should be among these rookies of the year on the field!
World United, Ben Simmons.
USA United, Jayson Tatum, Lonzo Ball, Kyle Kuzma.
- The four suspects they locked in advance.
"I think let's get rid of Brother Qiu first." Yang Yiming looked around and said in Xiaochun's ear.
"Why?"
"Ambition." Yang Yiming sat down on the sidelines of the rookie and looked at Bauer at the farthest end, "The person who called me to challenge me should be a person with a strong desire to win and a superhuman ambition." I don't think Brother Qiu is so, his physical condition has recovered to a level that can play in my opinion, if he is ambitious enough, he will definitely not let go of the opportunity to prove himself in front of his own fans..."
"Well, that makes sense." Yu Xiaochun nodded approvingly, and then pointed to another Lakers rookie on the court, Kuzma, who had just scored 11 points in a row, which was regarded as setting off a scoring offensive for the American team: "What do you think of him?" β
"Kyle?" Yang Yiming still shook his head, "I still don't think so." I've talked to him, and he's more of a guy who puts provocations on the table. What are the characteristics of the two-wheeled show? I don't think they're going to think about conquering the world so much, their goals are much more realistic, to get a foothold on the team, to play basketball beyond expectations, to get a big contract, and if they can squeeze out a couple of high draft picks, of course it's better, but it's not the 'self-honoring' thing, absolutely not. β
"Hmm... Then it's just the two of them..."
Yang Yiming certainly knows that Yu Xiaochun is talking about the 76ers' Ben Simmons and his "lifelong enemy" Jayson Tatum.
The former made all 5 shots and had double-doubles in assists. The latter came off the bench for the United States team, and his performance was not lost at all with a few violent dunks.
"0 or 25?" The two numbers are the jersey numbers of Tatum and Simmons.
"I'm not sure..."Yang Yiming held his chin and thought for a while:
"You say, is there a possibility... Gone wrong with our screening criteria? β
"Oh? What do you think..."After this reminder, Yu Xiaochun seemed to suddenly have a flash of inspiration in his mind.
"We excluded these four people at the time, based on the results of the All-Star vote. It's a rookie who was selected into the top 10 of the All-Star East and West Division front and back court voting, but didn't end up making the main game like me. But if that's wrong, this guy would be this year's rookie, because he specifically mentioned that I was selected as an All-Star starter, but maybe he didn't make the top 10 at all..."
"In that case, at least half of the people on the field are possible!"
Yu Xiaochun exclaimed, and this shout attracted the sideways glances of the players on the seat. But fortunately, no one could understand what he shouted in Chinese, so Yu Xiaochun quickly covered his mouth and apologized with his eyes.
"No... I have a candidate in mind, and I'm going to verify it..."
Yang Yiming's eyes were fixed on the group of people on the field, but he didn't seem to be there. It pierced through them and landed in the distance, out of nowhere.