Chapter 173: Rookie Challenge MVP (18/20)
The game started just after the referee's whistle and DeMarcus Cousins won the scrum for the first grade, and the defense on the court was very relaxed due to the showman's game. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
John Wall dribbled to the front court in succession and threw it directly into the air between the free throw line and the basket, Blake Griffin was already in the air, receiving Wall's pass and completing a wonderful empty dunk! Take the lead for the first-year team.
The basket was still shaking slightly after the dunk, and Griffin seemed to be warming up for tomorrow's slam dunk contest. After falling to the floor, Griffin waved his fist at the live camera.
The sophomore team was shot by Curry outside the three-point line, and he wore Yang in 100 steps! Curry, who scored after shooting, held his hands high and was also looking for his touch for tomorrow's three-point contest in advance.
The first-year team served quickly after Curry's goal, the incredibly fast Wall had already broken through the half-court with the ball, Yuan Shu followed, and the second-grade team only DeMar DeRozan was in place, Wall did not choose to score on his own, but suddenly passed the ball backwards when he broke through DeRozan.
In this undefended situation, knowing that the game is expressive, Yuan Shu used the strength specialization skill, and opened the jumping bonus of the jumping stone, which directly triggered the effect of "meteor slam dunk", holding the ball alone like a meteor, crossing a rainbow-like trajectory in the air, and slamming the ball into the basket!
This huge destructive force made DeRozan, who was originally standing under the basket, involuntarily take a few steps backwards until he was far away from the basket, and he still had some palpitations when he recalled Yuan Shu's dunk just now.
Although there have been grievances with Cousins and Griffin on the court, on the stage of the All-Star Game, Yuan Shu and the two still talked and laughed without any discomfort. The two took the initiative to high-five Yuan Shu to celebrate after Yuan Shu dedicated this dunk.
Wall seemed determined to be a good carrier, diching out 12 assists in the first half alone, six of which went to Yuan, five to Griffin, and one to Cousins.
Cousins showed the essence of comic on the court, after a dunk under the basket in an attack, he turned around and kissed the back of Blair's head who was responsible for defending him.
Another time the ball went out of bounds and was falling into the hands of a young woman on the sidelines, Cousins actually took the ball from the beauty's hand, and patronized to talk to the beauty, forgetting that there was such a thing as the game, and completely ignored the referee who kept reaching out for the ball, until the referee took the ball away from Cousins's hand with both hands, Cousins did Cousins realize that he was still participating in the game.
However, although Cousins sometimes did not perform normally on the court, he also scored 10 points and 7 rebounds in the first half, contributing good statistics.
Unlike the first-year team, which relied on interior offense, the second-year team mainly relied on Curry, Harden, Jennings, DeRozan and Matthews to score from the outside, and the sophomore's best performance in the first half was because of Tyrek Evans' injury, who replaced James Harden, who shot 6-of-9 in the first half, 3-of-4 from three-point range, and scored 15 points in the first half.
At the end of the first half, the first grade team unexpectedly led the second grade team 71-69, and the score of the two sides was very high, the main reason was that both sides only attacked and did not defend.
"Looks like the first grade is going to win this time." Van Gundy said at half-time.
"It's strange, the second grade is only 2 points behind, which is not a lag, I think the serious second grade team will overtake the score in the second half." Mark Jackson is still adamant that sophomore will win.
In the second half of the game, Yuan Shu began to show his steps under the basket, "virtual and real turn" + "finger wrapping soft", "virtual and real turn" + "meteor slam dunk" and other moves were used in the case of 0 defense, which was very bluffing, and the ornamentation was absolutely first-class!
In the second half, Wall continued to brush his assists, as Van Gundy said, the trio of Wall + Yuan Shu + Griffin almost all the team's scores as long as they were on the court, and almost every offense would be breathtaking, and the hits applauded, after all, anyone who saw players like Griffin and Yuan Shu take off with the help of Wall over and over again, destroying the opponent's basket, will not help but applaud!
The game was not until the last moment, there was a little tension, because the sophomore team was still behind the first grade at the end of the game, and the sophomore team won the previous eight years, so the sophomore team did not want to lose in this game, under the leadership of Harden and Curry, the sophomore played an 11-0 attack wave, narrowing the score gap to only 1 point in one fell swoop.
At the critical moment, Yuan Shu hit two key balls in a row, one was a single shot against Blair under the basket, using the "Mongolian wrestling power" to resist the opponent and then went to the basket, and the other was to hit a mid-range jumper at the free throw line. For this point, Yuan Shu, who knows that with the help of the system, he also needs to hone his skills, and has practiced free throws and jump shots near the free throw line.
The first-year team did not give the second-grade team a chance to win at the end of the second half, and once again played a 77-71 lead in the second half, winning 148-140 at all, ending the first-grade team's eight-game winless streak against the second-grade team!
For the sophomore team, Stephen Curry had 24 points, three rebounds and eight assists, James Harden had 30 points and DeJuan Blair had 15 rebounds. In the first-year team, DeMarcus Cousins got 33 points and 14 rebounds, performing well, and John Wall, who has been delivering cannonballs for Yuan Shu and Griffin, also got 22 assists, Griffin just recovered from injury last season, because the team limited Griffin to only play half the court, so Griffin only played 20 minutes, got 16 points and 6 rebounds, and Yuan Shu played almost the whole court without any scruples, anyway, there was no project for the next day's game. Being able to experience first-hand that participating in the All-Star Game, even if it's just a rookie challenge, is extremely shocking to Yuan Shu after being reborn, and of course he has to perform well.
32 points, 13 rebounds, 5 assists, 2 steals, 3 blocks, plus 2 key goals in the final moments of the game, helped Yuan Shu set a record for NBA Chinese players, completed the feat that Yao Ming failed to accomplish, and won the MVP trophy of the 2011 Rookie Challenge!