Jamal Murray's advice sounds like it's working, especially against the USA.

"With such a start, the U.S. team will definitely be beaten up...... "Bogdan has begun to play his role.

"The three Lakers players and two Celtics players on the U.S. team don't have a center, and what's worse is that the other players don't play center either, so it's a bit of a bully for me to go up and play" Embiid smiled and smug.

As Embiid said, just take a look at the U.S. lineup, Ball, Kuzma, Ingram, Tatum, Jaylen Brown, Tonion Prince, Donovan Mitchell...... It's really not a serious center.

"In that case, let's go and blow up the American team!" Zhang Feng raised his arms and shouted.

"Beat the U.S. team, blow up the U.S. team" All the World Team players gathered together and shouted in unison.

After entering, Zhang Feng glanced at the venue, in the end, it was still a rookie game, there were relatively few fans coming, and even the VIP positions on the sidelines were still empty.

As for the stars and entertainment stars, there are very few, only stars like Iguodala who have the task of commenting are present, and the rest are like O'Neal, Barkley, Miller and others, but the staff of their major TV stations are duty-based.

When Zhang Feng sat down, O'Neill walked towards him from the commentary platform, and the two high-fived and embraced.

"You must win the MVP today, you are welcome, although the MVP of the rookie game is not important, it can be the beginning of all the honors in your career" O'Neal tilted his head and exhorted in a serious tone.

Is honor important? Of course it's important! Zhang Feng also wanted to win the MVP, but today's game was a special situation, and he said truthfully: "It depends on the situation, our world team is too strong, in case it enters garbage time early, leave the opportunity to others."

"Yes, I really didn't expect this, but you still have to shoot more and perform more" Halfway through speaking, O'Neal looked around, and then approached Zhang Feng and whispered: "The MVP of the regular season has not yet been selected, although you are far ahead, but if you can be a little more stable, you can be a little more stable, the All-Star is an event that all media reporters and commentators will pay attention to, you must win their favor."

Zhang Feng was very grateful for such concern, and he hurriedly replied: "Understand, I will do my best."

"That's fine, I'm looking forward to your performance!" O'Neill waved away.

Five minutes later, the Rookie Challenge was about to begin, and the players of both teams entered the stadium, and then left the starting line-up on the court, but the starting line-ups of both teams left the fans in awe.

The starting Kings and 76ers of the world team are the lineups that fans didn't guess at all, but the fans of the American team's starting Lakers and Celtics twins guessed it, but they didn't guess that the center of the American team was Tatum.

As the commentary of this game, Miller began to analyze: "The world team has a reasonable lineup, the American team has a somewhat peculiar lineup, how can Tatum jump the ball with Embiid? ”。

"There's no way, the U.S. team naturally suffers a little bit in the lineup, but fortunately, except for the center position, all other positions can be tied, plus the U.S. team's physical fitness is explosive, maybe ......."

"Wait, I said Roland, you won't coach the Masters yet, have you?" Although he is also an ESPN employee, Miller disagrees with Roland, so he interrupts Roland without waiting for her to finish.

"Is there something wrong?" Roland looked confused.

"What Roland said is completely fine, you want to say that Zhang Feng is very powerful, right?" Another commentator, Mike Breen, said.

As ESPN's chief commentator, Mike Brin has absolute authority in live commentary, and even if his achievements in basketball are not as high as Miller's, Miller can only put his temper away as soon as he speaks.

"Actually, I mean, the biggest difference between the two teams is the point guard, not the center" Miller didn't answer Brin's question directly, anyway, the wording is enough to show his attitude.

"I don't think so, Zhang Feng's shooting is of course good, but the reason why he scores and assists high is because the other Kings players fully cooperate, but tonight's game is different, except for Bogdan and Hield from the Kings, other world team players will not make balls for Zhang Feng like the Kings players, it can be said that the level Zhang Feng showed in tonight's game is his real level."

Listening to what Brin said, Miller finally understood: Brin didn't listen to him at all, but just wanted to follow his words to hack Zhang Feng.

The whole world knows that Zhang Feng and ESPN can't pee in the same pot, almost as long as they are ESPN people, they will seize the opportunity to hack Zhang Feng, but there are also some people like Miller who have nothing to do with Zhang Feng but support Zhang Feng.

Now that Brin is openly 'questioning' Zhang Feng's strength, Miller is reluctant to say more, he said perfunctorily: "Maybe, we will know the result when the game is over."

Miller kept his mouth shut, and Mike Brin and Katie Rowland chatted with great interest about the All-Star past, and the two made exaggerated body movements while chatting, and Miller was a little tired of it, but fortunately, the game finally began.

As Miller said, Tatum had no advantage in the jump ball session, and Embiid easily put the basketball into Zhang Feng's hands.

Zhang Feng advanced quickly with the ball, and after reaching the top of the arc, Embiid took the initiative to block for him, while Simmons quietly slipped to the baseline, and Zhang Feng himself began to dribble to the right.

Walking to the right wing, Zhang Feng had completely attracted Tatum's attention, so that Embiid was almost empty, and Zhang Feng immediately twisted his body to pass the ball.

Embiid received the ball and held it up directly, and he was about to shoot. Unexpectedly, Tatum reacted quickly enough to block like lightning.

Who knew that Embiid's shot was fake, as soon as Tatum pounced, he put down the basketball and rushed to the inside in one step.

When his teammate's defense failed, Jaylen Brown immediately stepped forward to make up for it, and he raised his hands in the air, intending to interfere with Embiid's mid-range shot.

But Embiid made another change, only to see him hold the ball in both hands, turn around in a dashing way, easily shake off Jaylen Brown, and then stuff the basketball to Simmons under the basket, who catches the ball and jumps up to the basket.

Seeing Simmons score, Embiid raised his hands high, in Philadelphia, every time he did this action, the Philadelphia fans would cheer cooperatively, but this time in Staples, the fans at the scene were stunned and did not give him any response.

"Okay, this is Los Angeles, I'm not very popular" Embiid laughed at himself as he pulled back to defend.

The U.S. team attacked, Ball passed to Jaylen Brown at the halfway point, Jaylen Brown received the ball and dribbled to the left wing, and then passed to Tatum in the left short corner.

Facing Embiid in such a deep position, Tatum didn't dare to attack, he didn't make a move when he got the ball, and waited until the other players of the U.S. team pulled out the left space before he tried to dribble and attack.

Tatum's style of play is also simple, that is, to use small broken steps to break Embiid, because he does not have a power advantage, and he is too close to the hoop, his speed advantage cannot be released, and the only thing that can be used is rhythm.

I don't know if Embiid's defensive rhythm breakthrough is too poor, or if he didn't take defense to heart in this exhibition game, Tatum only made a few moves and easily got rid of Embiid to the basket.

In the past, Embiid would have chased defense, but perhaps because it was an exhibition game, he crossed his waist to watch Tatum score a layup.

"Yay!!" As Tatum scored, Staples erupted in cheers one after another.

"I'll go, won't I? Do you discriminate? Why didn't we cheer when we scored? Embiid turned his hands to the sky in confusion, and he wanted to ask the fans in the front row for an explanation.

The fans naturally ignored it, but Zhang Feng patted Embiid on the shoulder and said: "Maybe the performance is not exciting enough, after all, we score too easily, and they score heads-up!" ”。

Embiid was quite convinced by Zhang Feng's explanation, he nodded and said, "Next time, I will have a single."

The Yibian World team attacked again, Embiid easily stuck in the paint area, and when Zhang Feng dribbled the ball to the three-point line, he immediately beckoned for the ball, Zhang Feng shook his head and smiled, and then hit the ball and passed it to him.

Embiid got the basketball and hit it directly with his back, he had an absolute power advantage over Tatum, just a few simple tops, Tatum couldn't parry it and retreated again and again.

With space to shoot, Embiid immediately turned around and made a jumper and scored 2 points without much effort.

As before, after the goal, Embiid still raised his hands and waited for the fans to cheer.

But this time his wish was disappointed, and Staples remained silent, except for the lazy voices of the commentators, only the heavy breathing of the players remained.

"I'll go, you're too partial" Embiid shook his head in displeasure.

"Inside alignment, you have too much advantage" The fans close to the sidelines responded, although they only said a few words, but the implication was that Embiid played wonderfully, and crushing the alignment was not good-looking.

Hearing this, Embiid sighed again. "Blame me?" It's too big a big advantage."

"Don't worry, leave it to me, you retreat first" Zhang Feng continued to comfort, Embiid suddenly realized, and then began to laugh.

In order not to disappoint Embiid, this time the American team attacked, as soon as Ball got the ball, Zhang Feng posted it, but unexpectedly, Zhang Feng's behavior attracted boos from the audience.

"Hey, man, haven't you ever seen such a big stage? Don't you understand the exhibition match? ”

"Go back to Sacramento, don't be embarrassed here"

Zhang Feng didn't care about the ridicule and abuse of some extreme Lakers fans at all, who told him to abuse the Lakers at every turn, and the Lakers had nothing to do? It's normal for Lakers fans to be angry, but he still has to defend Ball seriously.

Zhang Feng and Bauer, since the draft, have played each other a total of 4 times, the comedy is that Zhang Feng completely crushes Bauer every time, and the two have changed from lifelong enemies to irrelevant people, after all, fans treat Bauer's standard as a rookie, but the standard for treating Zhang Feng is a superstar.

Perhaps Ball was aware of this, too, and after struggling to dribble the ball to the three-point line, he immediately passed it to Jaylen Brown, who took the ball and headed straight for the basket.

Defensive Simmons didn't catch up, and Jaylen Brown hit a 2-point shot on a pull-out shot as the game went to an official timeout.

"Yay!!" As before, Jaylen Brown scored and Stamps burst into cheers.

"What the hell? Could it be that the goal was so difficult this time? Embiid began to think about it as he walked off the court, "I understand, the game is held in Los Angeles, although there are a lot of fans from other places, most of them are also going for the main game, and most of the fans who come to this rookie game are probably Lakers and Clippers fans."

"Maybe it's not what you think," Zhang Feng decided to tell Embiid his guess, "The fans at the scene only cheered for the American team because we are the world team, don't underestimate the gap between the two names, once it rises to the national battle, the fans will not care whether you play wonderful or not"

"So just now when you defend Ball, the fans boo you, but Jaylen Brown defends me, and the fans don't react," Embiid tried to ask.

"Well, I guess so" Zhang Feng shook his head and smiled bitterly, "but I still need to see, in case I think too much, it may not be."

"I hope it's not like that," Embiid sighed again, but he may also realize that the real situation is indeed as Zhang Feng said, "Let's play a few more balls and see."

In the blink of an eye, the timeout ended, the first quarter was quickly over, and the depressed expression on Embiid's face became heavier and heavier.

As Zhang Feng guessed, every time the world team scores, no matter what the process is, no matter how exciting it is, the Staples fans only applaud coldly.

But whenever the U.S. team scores, the Staples fans cheer and applaud as if they were excited to see their home team win the championship.

"We can't go on like this, we have to get back to our pre-game goals" Embiida stopped the world team 'talking' before the game came out in the second quarter

"Well, I agree to do that, the fans don't know how good we are," Simmons chimed in.

"Tell me, what are you going to do? I listen to you," Bogdan patted his chest, and then everyone in the world team turned their eyes to Zhang Feng, obviously asking Zhang Feng to come up with a tactical plan.

Being watched by his teammates, Zhang Feng couldn't help but glance up, he didn't know if he didn't sweep, and he had an idea as soon as he swept it.

"Shoot three points, shoot them to death, they can't prevent it at all," Zhang Feng said with a smile.

Shoot threes? When the players of the world team heard this tactical plan, they immediately looked at each other, everyone, you look at me, I look at you, and they all feel that Zhang Feng's plan is not bad.

As far as NBA rookies are concerned, the general difference between the American rookies and the rest of the world is that the rookies in the United States have explosive physical fitness, but their basic shooting skills are poor, and the basic shooting skills of rookies in various countries around the world are not bad, but their physical fitness is a little worse.

This statement is not a lie, just take Zhang Feng's world team, first of all, Zhang Feng's three points must be hanging, and secondly, Jamal-Mori, Bogdan, and Buddy's three points are also very good, and even the three points of Markanen and Sabonis are very good.

"Then it's such a happy decision, shoot three points to kill them, I won't go up and drag it back, Jamal, you can get on" According to the pre-game plan and the temporary tactical changes just now, Embiid took the initiative to give up his position.

"I can't do it with three points, Embiid is just missing an inside lineman, Markkanen, you can go up" Simmons also gave up position.

"And me, and me, I know Sabonis has a good three," Sharic also raised his hand.

Zhang Feng really didn't expect that the world team would be so united and successfully formed a new lineup in less than 1 minute.