Chapter 56: All-Star Weekend (2)
This year's rookie game is undoubtedly the most interesting and eye-catching one since the official establishment of the rookie game, after all, there are some old faces in the All-Star Game, and Jordan's comeback last year triggered a craze. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info but no matter what, the rookie competition has received unprecedented attention, and this year's super rookies are also gearing up to show themselves on this big stage.
Due to the excellent record of the Bulls, it is very rare for a high school player like Liu Ming to get a rotation opportunity in such a team, so although Liu Ming's data is not particularly eye-catching, he is also favored by the coach of the Eastern rookie team "Cardinal" Auerbach, although he is not a starter, but he is also guaranteed playing time.
It is also very interesting to talk about the coach of this year's rookie game, in order to fit the atmosphere of the 50th anniversary, this year's rookie team coach is the big man in the league, two famous "red-headed coaches" - Auerbach, the red-headed godfather from the Celtics, and the former Knicks' championship coach "Redhead" - Holzman. It's also putting a lot of pressure on the young players of the East and West rookie teams, and the two veteran coaches are older and more prestigious than their own team's head coaches. From here, it is enough to see the weight of this rookie competition. However, the two old coaches seemed quite indifferent, when the DJ introduced the players on both sides on the field, the "red head" Auerbach took out his reading glasses from his pocket and put them on, squinting at the field, full of an old man who reads books and newspapers; And Holzmann's face was calm, and he was already gray-haired, and he looked in good spirits, and it seemed that it was not a problem to command this group of little hairy children under his command. The rules of the rookie game are different from those of a regular NBA game or the All-Star Game, it uses rules similar to those of the NCAA, divided into two halves, but each half is only 15 minutes, and there is no limit to the number of fouls, which means that no one will be sent off.
If the two sides end in a draw, it will go to overtime, but the rules for winning and losing in overtime are that whoever gets a three-point lead first wins. It's like table tennis, in the end, you have to score two points in a row to win, and the same is true here, of course, you can win by scoring a three-pointer, so that the game can be more beautiful.
In the center of the floor of the Gunder Coliseum in Atlanta is the logo for the All-Star Game, featuring a template of buildings in downtown Cleveland, whose city skyline is particularly affectionate.
In the center, Travis Knight, who was drafted by the Bulls but went to the Lakers, stood in the center circle as a Western center and battled for the ball with Eastern center Eric Dampier.
The referee tossed the ball into the air, and Dampier and Travis Knight bounced into the air like springs, but the stronger Dampier was the first to get the ball, and a small player with a furrow "whoosh" out to take the ball down, and then rushed straight to the front like a gale.
This year's Iverson has "exported" hip-hop culture to the league, which can be seen from his new "ridge head".
Unfortunately, Iverson made a pass error, and the ball returned to the Western players, and finally passed to Kobe Bryant by "Little Fish" Fisher, who hit a mid-range jumper. Take the lead and score 2 points.
Liu Ming on the bench felt a little painful when he saw a "No. 2" wearing a Lakers' yellow jersey passing to the Lakers' No. 8 player.
In the past, All-Star games would specifically design All-Star jerseys, generally speaking, if the host city is located in the East, then the Eastern All-Star team is the home team and wears a light-colored jersey, and the Western All-Star team is the away team and wears a dark jersey. The main board city is in the west, so the depth of the clothes will be reversed. This time the All-Star Game League was a big sloth, they didn't design the All-Star uniforms, but asked the players to wear their own team clothes, and the way to distinguish teammates and opponents on the court was by color shades. So this time, the all-star players and rookie players of the Eastern team are wearing white home team uniforms, and the western team is wearing dark jerseys, although the players can tell each other, Liu Ming is still a little unaccustomed, just like Camby in the East, every time Liu Ming has a feeling that he is the person on the opposite team. For fans, it's easy to get confused, and anyway, you can see a group of players in colorful jerseys of each team running around the field.
The rookie game was originally chaotic, and there were frequent mistakes on both sides in the opening two minutes, and after a while, I rushed all the way to the front court when you broke the ball, and then I was broken, and then I took the ball on the opposite side and rushed all the way to the front court, basically there was not much tactical cooperation, and what I saw was personal ability. The two meritorious old coaches sit on the field and watch their eyes and noses, and they watch their mouths and hearts, and young people love to play how they want, and they have the right to watch the play. This kind of game is completely the favorite of outside players, the ball is in hand, I have it in the world, and inside players like Travis can only follow the small one to run back and forth on the court, and the only chance to score is to grab a second rebound offense. Although the game was chaotic, it was quite intense, because the players would not be sent off, so there were a lot of fouls on the court, and the inside players saw the outside players flying up with the ball, so they worked defense, do you want to come in and dunk? No way! Most of the young players are competitive, but unlike the stars of the game, who are mainly entertaining, they have to compete on the court, so some outside players' good opportunities for dunk performances in the fast break are also ruined by the interior defenders with fouls, just not to let the opponent score happily.
After sitting for a while, he finally waited for an opportunity, a chance to kill the ball, and Liu Ming replaced Lei Allen, who was not in good form today.
The ball in the east is in the hands of Iverson, Iverson dribbled steadily over the half, in the face of Fisher's defense, Iverson directly made a big move "crossover", a change of direction, the power point guard Fisher couldn't keep up, at this time Kobe Bryant hurried over to make up for Iverson, but Iverson, as a point guard, seized the opportunity, put the ball on a base, Liu Ming outside the three-point line, and received the ball.
Without hesitation, without much thinking in the brain, he caught the ball and threw it. It felt good to throw it, and Liu Ming just looked at the basketball like this, "Huh". Very crisply.
Jordan took the lead in applauding his "little brother" Liu Ming.
The camera of the TV station also captured this picture, and the director cut the picture to Jordan, who was wearing a sweater and Liu Ming's jersey on the outside, as if he was really a Liu Ming fan. In tonight's game, an important task of the TV station is to constantly give sideline shots, and almost seize all the gaps in the game to give close-ups on the sidelines, because there are too many giants sitting in the audience. Jordan, Pippen, Drexels and their families sat together, and Isiah Thomas, Moses Malone, Dave Debusschel sat here and there, and the cameras were given to them one by one, each of which was a fifty superstar. There were also those who were not the top 50 celebrities, like Inglish, Wilkins, a couple of old guys from the Celtics, Heinsohn, Jojo White and so on.
From this point of view, it is completely understandable that the young people in the center of the venue want to put on a show. Soon the game entered a pause, and the coaches on both sides transferred troops, anyway, the main purpose of the substitution was to let all the newcomers get the opportunity to play, so the two old men didn't need to spend any brains to arrange the troops. The game went very fast, there were only 15 minutes in the half, the referee's whistle was getting looser and looser, and the players slowly began to find their senses, that is, they mainly did it themselves, and if they couldn't do it, they passed it to the nearest person, it was as simple as that. After playing back and forth for a long time, the two sides also scored a lot of points, but there were three players who performed the most eye-catching, one was Iverson in the East, whose speed and passing ability made everyone on the scene astonishing, and one was Kobe Bryant in the West, whose persistence in the offense was amazing.
There is also a "cold killer" Liu Ming tonight, Liu Ming gets the ball as if there is no one to defend in front of him, and throws the ball when he gets it. Expressionless, he returned to the defense after throwing, the success rate was not low, and his cold expression also attracted many fans, Liu Ming knew that tonight's stage was not actually built for him, so Liu Ming had to do something in order to steal the show.
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