059 Civilian Basketball
The most terrifying thing about the dream team is that even if they don't send out the strongest lineup, they can defeat any team in the world in waves.
The five-man duo of Blake Griffin, Bradley Beal, Kemba Walker, Mike Conley and CJ McCollum.
Blake Griffin, 29, is the top pick in the NBA '09 draft. Tall 2.08 meters tall and weighing 114 kilograms, he plays as a power forward or center, known as the "White Monster", and has won the championship of the slam dunk contest. The most famous of the five on the court, who has been playing for the Los Angeles Clippers since entering the league, formed the famous "empty city" with Yang Yiming's current teammate Chris Paul and DeAndre Jordan, who has switched to the Dallas Mavericks, but unfortunately never made it to the Western Conference Finals until he was traded to the Detroit Pistons in the middle of last season - before the trade, he and Yang Yiming had a fight at Staples Arena and ended their relationship. According to Griffin himself, this time he took the initiative to ask Ying to play this confrontation match across the entire Pacific Ocean, not for anything else, but to teach Yang Yiming a good lesson on the court - a violent dunk on the head. Griffin was known for his physical perversion since his debut, and as a white man, he easily became a frequent visitor to the top ten slam dunks; In the later stages, he had more offensive skills, using the ball as an offensive starting point, and the offensive area also followed the trend of the times, expanding from the paint area to the outside of the three-point line. Even if Griffin's three-point shooting and free-throw shooting aren't consistent enough, he's good enough to be the interior core that any team can rely on.
Bradley Beal, 25, is a 12-year draft pick. Standing 1.96 meters tall and weighing 94 kilograms, he plays as a shooting guard and forms a backcourt double gun with John Wall of the Washington Wizards. Compared to Wall, who is like a general on the field, deploying the rhythm and controlling the overall situation, Bill is more like an absolutely sharp knife. He's super fast, bold and sharp, and has an average shooting percentage of 40 percent from three-point range every season. His attacks are unstoppable.
Kemba Walker, 28 years old, stands 1.85 meters tall and weighs 83 kilograms, and plays as a point guard. After being drafted by the Charlotte Bobcats, he later became the Charlotte Hornets. Because of his long time playing for the bottom team of the league, Walker is probably one of the most underrated players in the league. As the absolute core and on-court leader of the former Bobcats and current Hornets, Walker's breakaway and his three-point shot are his lethal weapons. More than five assists and one steal per season are enough to prove his skills as the number one, but he has yet to have a convincing performance on a bigger stage.
Mike Conley, 31, was drafted by the Grizzlies with the fourth overall pick in '07 and has played so far. Standing 1.85 meters tall and weighing 79 kilograms, he also plays as a point guard. As a left-hander, he is more physically explosive than Walker (103 centimeters on the spot on the rookie physical test), but more pure playmaker. He uses the most perverted physical fitness, but he plays the most stable and unpretentious basketball, just like the style of the parent team Grizzlies. Conley's skills have almost no shortcomings, but he has not sensationalized the league's nirvana, but with his stable output, good overall vision and mental strength beyond ordinary people, he not only occupies a place among the top stars, but also gets the Grizzlies' five-year, 153 million NBA history of the largest contract.
CJ McCollum, 27, was the Most Improved Player in the 15-16 season. Standing at 1.93 meters tall and weighing 91 kilograms, although he was repeatedly defeated by Yang Yiming, a rookie, against the Rockets during the season, he is still the undisputed second leader of the Portland Trail Blazers. Regardless of the confidence in the key finish, McCollum is no less capable of scoring than his teammate Lillard. McCollum has mastered almost every shooting technique and has an excellent shooting percentage from any angle in the half. His shooting ability is sometimes desperate, teaching opponents to be desperate, and his impeccable consecutive shots can break the opponent's confidence in a very short period of time.
And at this moment, there are no more than a few people who can restrain him on the NBA court, Yang Yiming!
The latter was substituted for the break because of three fouls accumulated in the first quarter. Even if he just led the Chinese team's 12-2 attack wave!
There are four and a half minutes left in the second quarter. The comeback of the American Dream Team of this civilian lineup begins right now!
It starts with CJ McCollum who has no opponent!
Kemba Walker had the ball and everyone was opening up space for him. With 10 seconds left on the offensive clock, Griffin mentioned a pick-and-roll in the high post. But the pick-and-roll was fake, and Walker instead broke through the strong side of the defense, and it was CJ McCollum who came head-on. The two made hand-to-hand passes, then leaned over, and McCollum took advantage of Walker's interspersed cover to shoot from beyond the three-point line!
The ball is in!
In the next round, Zhai Xiaochuan, the inside line of the Chinese team, forced a shot, and in order to counter Griffin's blocking shooting force, it was too big, and he collapsed after smashing the board.
And CJ McCollum did the same, only this time the ball carrier was replaced by Mike Conley. Conley handed the ball to McCollum's arms, this time tilting to the right and hitting a three-pointer!
The shooter who opened the goal account became more and more unstoppable. He made his own pass in the high post and distributed it to Bradley Beal in the bottom corner, who made a shooting feint and then distributed the ball to Griffin, who responded at a 45-degree angle, and Griffin re-fed the ball back to CJ McCollum. Rushing to the penalty area, he threw and hit the third goal in a row!
The real scary thing about civilian basketball is not that a star scores, but that almost everyone on the court has the ability to finish. No one on the field is selfish, everyone is willing to share, and in the end the attack will end in the most reasonable way!
At this time, the Chinese team became the opposite of civilian basketball - Zhou Qi failed to make two baskets and singles, and finally threw a three-pointer almost angrily. The ball hit, but no one would have thought that this would be the only three points scored by the entire Chinese team in this wave of offensive.
The American Dream Team continued to give the ball to the hot-handed, CJ McCollum, but he broke through and immediately distributed it to Conley, who faked a real pass and distributed it to Beal in the air. Beal had an open shot, but Abdul Salamu, who was on the defensive side, actively spelled out outside the three-point line, and Beal was not reluctant to see the shooting opportunity worse, hitting the ground and hitting the ball to Blake Griffin under the basket.
After this rotation, the Chinese team's defense has long been out of order, and Griffin faced Zhao Rui's defense and easily poured the ball into the basket!
The same cooperation continues. This time the Dream Team's passing was even more dazzling. Walker passed back to Griffin after blocking and dismantling, Griffin gave up the opportunity to dunk against the Chinese team's two big interior Zhou Qi and Wang Zhelin, and gave Bill along the bottom line, Bill stepped past the defense and entered the three-point line, but faced the supplementary defense and passed the ball out of the three-point line. On the outside, Conley was picking up, with his left hand on the ball and already in the air, but just when everyone thought he was about to make a move, he caught a quick eye on McCollum who was diagonally into the box. The ball was thrown like a missile over the head of a defender who hadn't yet jumped, and McCollum padded the ball into the rim of the basket like a volleyball!
All five people on the court touched the ball, but no one was greedy for credit, and selflessly gave the basketball to teammates with better chances.
With this line of smooth cooperation, even Yang Yiming on the field couldn't help but jump up and applaud when he saw it.
It's just that he can't!
I can only hide the applause in my heart.
When the strength of the opponent's dream team is obviously above you, and he is still playing basketball that is more reasonable than you, then Yang Yiming knows that the Chinese team really has little hope.
Sure enough, 21 to 3.
The U.S. team, which played "civilian basketball", was not a top NBA star of the five, and used a set of 21-3 shockwaves to completely crush the confidence of the Chinese team that had just established a counterattack before halftime.