Chapter 53: Rookie Challenge

The All-Star Event is divided into three phases, one is the Rookie Challenge, one is the individual competition, and finally the All-Star Race. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The Rookie Challenge is a game in which the best 9 players are selected by the first and second year rookies, and the coach is the assistant coach of each team.

This year's sophomore team includes Howard of the '04 Magic, Lore Deng, Ben Gordon and Nocioni of the Bulls, Mavericks guard Devin Harris, 76ers forward Higerda, Nets center Corstic and Delonte West, and third-year Bucks T.J. Ford, who missed last season due to injury and is still eligible for selection.

The coach is former Chinese men's basketball coach and Mavericks assistant coach "Silver Fox" Harris, while another former Rockets legend, Moshe Malone, will be his assistant.

First-year members include the Clippers' Liu Su and Ryan Gomez, the Hornets' Paul, the Bucks' Bogut, the Knicks' Fry, the Pacers' Granger, the Rockets' Luthor Hyde, the Jazz's Deron Williams and the Raptors' Villanueva.

The head coach of the first-year team is Sidney Lowe, assistant coach of the Detroit Pistons, and Rockets legend El Vin Hayes will serve as assistant coach.

The starting lineups for both sides were also lined up, with Colestic, Howard, Igrada, Ben Gordon and Harris in the second year. The first-year starters were Bogut, Fry, Granger, Liu Su, and Paul.

The rookie challenge still attracted a lot of people to watch, and the superstars in the league were all doing off-the-court to support the younger brother or junior. The main character, Yao Ming, sat on the sidelines, and he was in front of his teammate Hyde and compatriot Liu Suguan. James is also off the court, hoping to find a trade partner and then strengthen the team so that he can hope for a championship.

Bogut was no match for Howard when he jumped the ball, and the sophomore got the ball. Harris dribbled across the halfcourt, Paul stepped forward to defend, Harris crossed Paul through him, and then jumped off the free throw line to score. 2:0

All-Stars, whether it's a rookie challenge or a regular game, generally don't take defense seriously at the beginning. It will not start to play seriously until the fourth quarter, because both sides want to compete for honor, and the MVP of the rookie challenge is also the MVP! Although the gold content is not as good as the main competition, you can only participate in the Rookie Challenge twice in your life, which is rare!

Paul dribbled over, Liu Su blocked him, Paul passed Harris and attracted Ben Gordon. Liu Su came out, Paul immediately passed the ball, Liu Su jumped outside the three-point line, and the ball went in. 2:3。

The first few goals are usually scored by one person, and they are usually scored without defending. One of the most interesting things about this year's Rookie Challenge is that the sophomore guards are mostly shooting guards and don't know how to organize offense. Conversely, first-year guards are all point guards and are good at organizing offense.

This situation makes the second-year attack not very smooth, and it is all up to the individual ability of the players to score. However, the first grade cooperated too smoothly, and sometimes he didn't shoot when he should shoot, but fortunately, Liu Su's offensive ability was also very strong, and he still played well after switching to a point guard.

Sophomore offense, Harris passes to Howard, Howard dunks; First-year offense, Paul fell to Granger, and Granger scored on a jumper; Second-year ball, Ben Gordon scored on a layup; In the first grade, Liu Suchuan Bogut scored in the air......

The scores of the two teams alternated and varied, with Howard staging a dunk show, and Liu Su and Paul sending out various empty catches, which made the audience applaud again and again. Speaking of performance, Liu Su naturally will not fall behind, after shooting two three-pointers, Liu Su also began to try to dunk, fast break self-throwing and turning around to dunk, 360° air can make people dunk.

It is in this situation that Liu Su dares to try this dangerous style of play, if it is put in the regular season, it will definitely be invalid if he is pushed by others, which is too hateful.

The audience gave Liu Su's performance a positive applause, which suddenly made him surpass Howard and become the most popular player on the field. Houston fans are also far and near, Liu Su and Yao Ming are Chinese, and Yao Ming is the boss of the team, Rockets fans naturally give Yao Ming face.

In the second quarter, Liu Su and Paul went down to rest and replaced them with Deron and Hyde, both of whom are also the best guards this year. Deron is a point guard and Hyde is a two-way guard, so Hyde plays shooting guard. Hyde's ability to participate in the Rookie Challenge is the result of the league reassuring Houston fans, otherwise it would be difficult for him to compete with Nate Robinson and Raymond Felton.

Delon was not a good player for show, and was replaced by Liu Su after seven minutes, who played as a point guard. After Liu Su came on the field, he began to pass the ball, breaking through the ball, and each ball would be distributed to the hands of the empty players, and then turned into assists.

A group of Chinese fans immediately pulled out a banner with one of Liu Su's nicknames: Oriental Magician. Liu Su also intended to show off his passing ability, and passed the ball without looking at people, which made the fans scream again and again.

With an efficient playmaker, the first-grade team's score began to skyrocket, leaving the second-grade team quite behind.

At the start of the third quarter, Delon and Ryan were replaced, with Delon playing as shooting guard. In fact, there are some problems with this lineup, Delong's long-range offensive ability is not very strong, and he is still a little worse as a scoring guard, wasting several Liu Su's passes.

The strength of the second-year team was stronger than that of the first-year, and they gradually caught up with the score at this time. Liu Su still wants to win the MVP, so naturally he can't let the sophomore catch up, so he immediately made a pull-up jump shot at the three-point line, and scored two three-pointers in a row to open the score anew.

In the sixth minute, Liu Su was replaced by Paul and did not come up until the end of the third quarter. At the end of the third quarter, the first-year team led by two points at 96:94.

In the fourth quarter, both sides put their starting lineups, and the real decisive moment came, and no one wanted to lose. Liu Su shook his wrist, silently reading his own data in his heart, 18 points and 15 assists, and the MVP he wants needs to score more!

In the fourth quarter, the sophomore served first, Harris hoisted the ball to the inside, and Howard squeezed through Bogut to dunk and score, leveling the score.

First-year serve, Paul dribbled the ball across the half court, Liu Su went up to answer, and then Bogut shook off Ben Gordon and scored on a three-point jumper for 21 points.

On the sophomore serve, Ben Gordon broke through to the interior with a cover and scored a layup.

Paul and Frye block and Frye dunk and score.

The two sides came and went, and various tactical cooperation began to play out. Originally, if this was the case, the scores of the two teams would definitely be anxious to the end, but Liu Su didn't want this, he turned on the scoring mode.

Ben Gordon's defense was not good, Liu Su received the ball and shot him directly, Ben Gordon came up to defend, Liu Su leaned back slightly, dodged Ben Gordon's palm, and scored with a high arc shot.

Then, Liu Su suddenly stole Howard's pass, and the dragon went down quickly, causing Harris to foul and play 2+1.

Liu Su's outburst took the suspense out of the game, winning 142-134 in the final grade, and Liu Su won the MVP of the Rookie Challenge with 35 points and 16 assists.