After the timeout, the first-year team made personnel adjustments, Wu Huang was still not replaced, and the five players on the court became: Jennings, Wu Huang, Harden, Jerebko, and De Juan.

Wu Huang was moved to the second position, but the ball was still in his hands.

Jerebko was very witty after coming on the court, he sent the ball directly to Wu Huang instead of Jennings when he served in the backcourt, this new guy, I didn't think that Jennings, who played with him, would pass the ball to him so selflessly and help him score, but Wu Huang, who already had 6 assists, was different.

Wu Huang was already laughing miserably in his heart, Jennings was also waiting in the backcourt to serve just now, but the basketball was sent to him who ran to the midcourt, which was a naked slap in the face!

Seeing this, Charles Barkley immediately laughed and said, "Don't they all say that Hugo's popularity is not good?" ”

Jennings' face turned a little blue, and he hated Jerebuko in his heart, how could he be so slapped in the face?

The two teams have played so far, and the defensive end has already become serious, although it is not enough to wrap up or something, but it is impossible to imagine that the situation is flat after the outside players break through like the previous rookie games, and the inside players will make up for the outside teammates in time, although at this point, the sophomore team has not done well.

Wu Huang and Jerebko continued to block and dismantle, and the Swedish forward immediately pulled out after the split, and the sophomore team focused on Wu Huang, who received a pass from Wu Huang behind and hit a two-point shot from mid-range on the wing.

The Swedish interior specialty, which can reach beyond the three-point line, is the most suitable type of interior to block and dismantle with Wu Huang.

However, Jerebko is not as good defensively as Gibson. The sophomore team after a tough first ten minutes. Finally starting to get into the groove. In particular, their dominant interior lineup came into play, with the interior combination of Marc Gasol and Love threatening to knock out the first-year team on the offensive end.

Gasol Jr. used his massive size to dominate the three-second zone almost alone, and Love's long-range shooting made the first-year's interior defense even worse, and a 12-4 attack wave allowed the second-year team to narrow the margin to single digits.

Ewing's original plan was to use a strong interior line to drive the outside offense, but he ignored the team's tactical execution in the All-Star Game, and if it weren't for the fact that the margin was about to be stretched to 20 points, the sophomore guards would not be willing to send the basketball to the inside.

The game was played until 6 minutes and 58 seconds of the first half. Eric Gordon hit a three-pointer and then doubled a one-handed dunk to tie the deficit to 49:50 and put the sophomore team up by one point.

Wu Huang has been replaced and rested three minutes ago, and it stands to reason that in the rookie challenge, even if it is a big-name rookie like Durant and Rose, it is generally 30 minutes of playing time. If you look at it this way, Wu Huang should rest for another two minutes before being replaced.

It's just that this year's first-year team is too far behind the opponent in terms of strength, and Wu Huang still left a 10-point lead for the team when he left the game just now, but in the blink of an eye. They have already been overtaken by the second-year team by one point, which is enough to show the importance of Wu Huang to the first-year team.

Terry Stotts only gave Emperor Wu a three-and-a-half-minute rest. took advantage of the second commercial pause to replace Wu Huang with it.

In fact, the four ad timeouts in the rookie game are very knowledgeable in terms of timing, the two timeouts in the second half are exactly seven minutes apart, generally speaking, this is the playing time of the substitute players, about seven minutes each in the second half, play a few more minutes if you perform well, and when the timeout comes, it is equivalent to the time for substitutions.

Terry Stotts replaced Wu Huang just over three minutes before the second commercial timeout of the first half, and may have had a plan to let him rest for so long.

When Wu Huang was substituted, he had already scored 12 points, 4 rebounds, 9 assists and 2 steals. During his break, the first-year team's blocking and pick-and-roll coordination was gone, and the offense became a variety of singles for outside players, and even if the ball was passed at the end, it was in a situation where there was no chance at all. Even if this kind of pass is not missed, it is difficult for others to have good offensive opportunities.

Speaking of which, the guards of the first-year team are so disregarding the overall situation, which also has a lot to do with Wu Huang, who let him rarely pass the ball to his outside teammates when he is on the court, so that Jennings and Harden and others can't get basketball most of the time, and can only play the role of fixed-point shooters.

So when he gets off the court, these people who finally got the ball, why don't they hurry up and take advantage of the precious opportunity to play more? Otherwise, when he plays again in a while, these people will not be able to touch the basketball again.

This guess is correct, as soon as Wu Huang came on the court, the other outside players of the first-year team really didn't have much ball.

First-year team on-court lineup: Wu Huang, Curry, Harden, Gibson, Jerebko.

Sophomore lineup: Westbrook, Mayo, Gordon, Love, Gasol Jr.

How to defend Wu Huang's blocking, the key is whether the delay of the inside players is in place? This requires a lot of pace and defense awareness of interior players, and sometimes weak-side players have to go to the basket to help defend and make up for leaks, and there are not many teams that can prevent the Knicks from blocking and dismantling in the regular season, let alone the rookie game.

When the two sides were deadlocked, Wu Huang became the brightest one on the court, he held the ball into the inside and hit a big windmill dunk, which dunked out the momentum of the first-year team, and this dunk also helped the first-year team re-establish the lead.

The first-year offensive momentum was very ferocious after Wu Huang came on the court, Curry, Harden and others made contributions one after another, and the team regained control of the situation on the court, Gibson received a pass from Wu Huang and hit a dunk, and the first-year led 57-54.

At the critical moment, Westbrook broke the long-term scoreless deadlock for the second grade, and a beautiful 2+1 also aroused the passion of his teammates, and then Gasol Jr. and Lefu also performed, and after a wave of 7:0 attacks, the second grade overtook the score.

But that didn't pose a real threat to the first grade, and after the two sides were tied at 62, Wu Huang broke the ball from Mayo's hand and counterattacked, DeJuan received the ball and hit a dunk to return the color, and then Evans stole the ball from Beasley, held the ball all the way to the basket, turned and dunked.

After Evans performed a reflexive dunk, Wu Huang staged another pass without looking at people, and it was Evans who received the ball and made a layup in the air. Wu Huang's assist count has unknowingly broken through double digits.

Eric Gordon was one of the best players on the first-year team today. When the opponent scores a succession of wonderful goals. He also warmed up for tomorrow's slam dunk contest, and a tomahawk dunk detonated the audience!

But a dunk couldn't save the momentum of the sophomore team, and the first-year freshmen played well on the court, with 1 minute and 10 seconds left in the first half, the first-year team rewrote the score to 66-64. The first grade then didn't let the second grade take the lead, and they held on to the lead until the end.

At the end of the first half, the first grade led 70-67.

In the first half of the game, Wu Huang of the first-year team scored 19 points, 6 rebounds, 12 assists and 4 steals. Evans had 14 points, Gibson had eight points and six rebounds, Blair had six points and 10 rebounds, Cosby had six points and Jennings, Curry and Harden had five points.

The sophomore team had 16 points for Westbrook, Love and Gordon for 10, Beasley and Gallinari for eight and Rose played just 10 minutes in the first half and scored four points.

Throughout the first half, Wu Huang's scoring led all other players. And in this kind of crazy offensive game, he is a rare player who pays attention to defense. First. He also had four steals, and his excellent defense gave him several fast-break scoring opportunities, and he was not uncommon to see a layup.

The sophomore team also has a player who has a much higher percentage of the ball than his teammates, and that's Westbrook. The Thunder point guard shot 14 times in the half, if he shot in a single round, he was the one who shot the most in the game, outstanding speed coupled with a strong physique, making his breakthrough difficult to stop, in the first half he completed 2 + 1 layups, only 1 of 6 three-point shots.

When it comes to three-point shooting, Wu Huang didn't shoot much in the first half, only 8 shots, but he was the one who scored the most points in the game, and the credit was for the accuracy of the three-point shot.

No matter how serious the defense of this kind of game is, the intensity is not as good as the regular season, Wu Huang's 8 shots are 5 three-point shots, and hit 4, in terms of scoring efficiency, Wu Huang is obviously more skilled than all the players on the floor.

Curry may be unconvinced, but he only got 8 minutes of playing time in the first half, hitting 2 of 3 shots, although the scoring efficiency is high, but the basketball is difficult to pass to his hands, and Wu Huang did not give him a chance to perform at all.

At halftime, some commentators felt that Wu Huang had too much ball-handling, and as long as he was on the court, the basketball was in his hands most of the time, and if the sophomore played against him, then he would not be as comfortable as in the first half.

Besides, this is not a matter of whether it is easy or not, an all-star exhibition game should be a grand party, not a performance stage for someone, Wu Huang just holds the basketball in his arms alone, this kind of selfish approach is worthy of everyone's criticism.

Unbeknownst to Wu Huang, many TV commentators were using the words "selfish" and "narrow-minded" at halftime, thus ignoring many of the things he showed in this game.

Wu Huang in his rookie season, his average points per game is already the highest in the NBA since it entered the 21st century. At the same time, he has already recorded five triple-doubles at the halfway point of the season, proving that Wu Huang is not just a pure scorer.

In terms of scoring ability, Wu Huang is already considered to be among the top players in the active ranks, which is reflected in his ability to shoot against the sky and his ability to defend one-on-one. These include concise and effective footwork, strong reading and defensive blocking ability, historical long-range shooting ability, first-class and balanced physical fitness, and more.

The reason why Wu Huang is not a pure scorer is because his basketball IQ is not only reflected in scoring. First of all, in terms of individual offense, Wu Huang has a very good reading of defense, he can find his suitable shooting point very calmly, and use his talent to feel the opponent's defensive center of gravity change.

This is a must-have sense of smell for a scorer, and the representative of this is Kobe Bryant.

But on the other hand, Kobe's reading of the entire court, in other words, is relatively mediocre. This is because Kobe Bryant's strong self-confidence in himself is actually "paranoia", as well as distrust of his teammates, Kobe Bryant cannot control a team's offense well.

Therefore, Kobe's successful season is to have a good system, the initiation point of the offense is not him, Kobe Bryant, as the regular endpoint of the offense, he can have a relatively good one-on-one space. The running and standing positions of his teammates are more systematic, so that his lack of organizational ability is hidden, and it greatly highlights his one-on-one ability.

But Wu Huang is different from him, Wu Huang can completely dominate a team's offense, and he has a big picture view that Kobe Bryant does not have.

This season's New York, there was no system at the beginning, and it was barely a team with an immature system after playing half a season, so basketball could only rely on Wu Huang himself, but Wu Huang handed over scoring enhancement James-style data.

This is also the scary thing about LeBron, they can be used as the team's core point guards, and at the same time, they have super individual offensive ability. In other words, they have a stronger ability to disrupt the opponent's defensive system, and Kobe Bryant can also attract the pack, but the position is relatively higher, and his passing timing is relatively late.

However, LeBron is inferior to Kobe Bryant in terms of absolute control of individual offense, which makes it easier to limit James' slightly inferior 1-on-1 scoring ability when facing teams with well-established defensive systems and strong defensive capabilities in positional battles, such as the Spurs and Celtics, or the Pistons in previous years.

Wu Huang is different, although this is only his first season, but when fans and the media mention him, the first thing that comes to mind is usually shooting, they will first think of Wu Huang's scoring ability, followed by his all-round, is his passing.

This shows that Wu Huang is not a miniature version of James, nor is he an assist-enhanced version of Kobe.

But whether it is Kobe, James or Wu Huang, they all need to hold the ball, especially the latter two, they are all players with their own systems in the mouths of fans, and they are like a beacon in this unfamiliar environment, as long as the basketball is handed over to them, the whole team has a backbone, and there is a ready-made system.

This is the reason why Wu Huang was chased immediately when he got off the court, but as soon as he got on the field, he immediately overtook the score.

Wei Shao of the sophomore team is more like a continuation of Kobe Bryant at this time, he and Wu Huang are both dominating the ball, but compared with Wu Huang, Wei Shao's inefficiency inevitably makes him more selfish and heroic.

Charles Barkley compared the performance of Wu Huang and Wei Shao at halftime, and finally thought that these two were like comparing Jordan and Kobe, of course, not that these two can reach this level in the end, but referring to the development direction of these two people, and the two gods used as examples are probably their future development tracks, which is the path determined by talent and basketball IQ. (To be continued.) )