Chapter 172: Director Empty!
The All-Star Rookie Challenge began in 1994, and in the first two years, the league simply divided the rookie players into two teams, starting in 1996, the rookie players began to be divided by the East and West leagues to which they belonged, and from 2000 to 2011, the rookie game became a first-year vs. second-year team, and in 2012, it was changed to a mixed team of first- and second-year teams.
And this year, the All-Star Rookie Game has made a revolutionary change, allowing the first and second grades of the United States to play against the first and second year players of other countries, so that the confrontation will be stronger.
The representative members of the U.S. team include Xie Chen of the Heat, McCarvey of the 76ers, Oladipo of the Magic, Zach LaVine of the Timberwolves, Noel of the 76ers, Plumlee of the Nets, Cody Zeller and so on......
The representatives of the international team include Wiggins of the Timberwolves, Adams of the Thunder, Bucks, Mirotic of the Bulls, Schroder of the Hawks and so on.
Although there are second-year members in it, the biggest attraction of this game is Xie Chen vs. Wiggins.
Two minutes before the start of the game, Xie Chen seemed to be out of his mind, his state of concentration was not very concentrated, and the ball was handed over to Zach Lavin, Katie's appearance surprised Xie Chen too much, especially during the day Xie Chen only read novels on his mobile phone. Mobile Reading Network just finished buying a birthday gift for Katie, today is Katie's birthday, but the gift was placed with Wade, but even if it brought the arena, would Xie Chen choose to give it to her?
Two people who were once close, but once they are estranged, the relationship is even more awkward than that of strangers.
Katie came here as an ESPN reporter and hosted the FirstTake show, so it stands to reason that she wouldn't have been so busy. But she insisted on coming here to work as a war correspondent, and her intentions were self-evident.
Katie and the camera walked towards the 03 golden generation, and Katie sat in the seat to Wade's right, ready to start interviewing the trio, but. As soon as Katie sat down, Wade hummed the birthday song, and Katie was shocked and ashamed, and froze there for a moment.
James wondered for a while: "D-Wade, does anyone have a birthday today?" ”
Wade smiled and said nothing, Katie eased up, entered the identity of the reporter, said hello to the three, and then asked the three, "Dwyane Wade." LeBron, Cameron, watching the rookie game today, do you remember the scene when you played the rookie game? Back then, you turned the rookie game into a slam dunk contest, what do you think of this year's rookie game? ”
As soon as they heard Katie's question, the three of them were happy, and they were indeed very emotional. Unexpectedly, 11 years have passed in the blink of an eye, but the three of them are still sitting together. They are all current team leaders, but there are too many facts that have happened in the past 11 years.
James smiled: "Wow, coming here to see the new class of young people playing, it really doesn't make people sigh that we seem to be really old, haha, the All-Star Rookie Game of that year is the same as today." It didn't get too much attention either, and everyone waited for two days to see Kobe, AI, Carter, and T-Mac. Look at O'Neal, but actually our rookie game was pretty good. ”
James was obviously minding that he wasn't selected to the All-Star team in his rookie season, and Anthony, who was also mindful of this, continued: "That's right, if you go back and watch our rookie game now, it will be great, in addition to the three of us, there are Stoudemire, Yao Ming, Ginobili, Bosh, Boozer, and these guys on the court now will also have a large number of superstars in the future." ”
Wade smiled: "The popularity is all started little by little, me, LeBron, Cameron, Chris Bosh, it's all like that." But now there's one on the court who's better than we were back then, and he's an All-Star starter in his first year, you know who it is? Miss Reporter? ”
Hearing Wade's question, even Xie Chen on the court stopped moving, and Katie said embarrassedly: "Of course I know, Chris Xie of the Miami Heat." ”
Wade continued to joke: "That's right, my teammate is amazing, he's so popular, there are a lot of girls like him, and there's a girl from Los Angeles who shows him love at the Staples Center!" ”
Katie was already blushing, this interview couldn't continue, and Anthony and James suddenly realized that the reporter in front of them was the girl who showed love to Xie Chen at the scene!
At this moment, Wiggins on the court completed a break, and then quickly passed the ball to Brother Alphabet, who strode to the basket and easily completed a violent dunk!
Yang Jian couldn't help but exclaim: "Oh, good ball!" A cooperation between Wiggins from the Timberwolves and Brother Alphabet from the Bucks, the international team was full of firepower at the beginning, especially Wiggins and Brother Alphabet, who frequently staged empty catches and violent dunks, but Xie Chen did not move. ”
Zhang Weiping answered: "Yes, Xie Chen is generally a late striker, let you play first, and I will play after you finish playing, and the rookie game is not what he values the most, tomorrow's three-point contest and the all-star game the day after tomorrow are the highlights." ”
Yang Jian also nodded in agreement: "Well, I would also like to remind the audience and friends that tomorrow at half past eight in the morning, lock our program, not only will there be a dunk contest, but the three-point contest is also known as the showdown of the strongest three-point lineup in history, I believe it will be a feast for everyone's eyes!" ”
Xie Chen didn't think about making a preemptive move, but Katie's appearance disturbed Xie Chen's thoughts, plus Xie Chen didn't attach much importance to this game, scoring and stealing all the points would not increase the system points, and the opponent was very weak, so he couldn't arouse Xie Chen's interest.
However, since Wiggins and Brother Alphabet have started to dunk performances, of course, they can't play too ugly on their side, just like James said, maybe there are few people who pay attention to this rookie game now, but in a few years, when these people have grown into superstars with tens of millions of fans, and then look at this game in turn, at least let them watch it.
Since you want to perform, you must have a fast break opportunity, and since you want to play a fast attack, you must grab a rebound or steal as soon as possible, Xie Chen patted Zach LaVine on the back, suggesting that the opponent's performance is about to start.
Essam from Australia of the international team just received the ball, and he didn't calm down and snapped. Xie Chen broke it directly, and then quickly pushed it to the front.
When Yang Jian saw this scene, he was also shocked: "It's broken!" Xie Chen made the first steal in this game, see how he plays this ball! ”
Xie Chen's steal attracted the attention of everyone on the scene, Xie Chen quickly advanced to the basket, and the defender was still sticking to Xie Chen. There was no intention of letting go of a horse, Xie Chen himself didn't plan to score by himself, Zach LaVine on the left side had already followed, I saw Xie Chen smash the rebound, Zach LaVine flew up from behind, bang!
Hands buckled!
"Beautiful slam dunk fit! Xie Chen and LaVine returned a ball to Wiggins and Brother Alphabet. ”
When it was the international team's turn to attack, Wiggins asked for the ball and played alone, because the All-Star Game was basically not very defensive. So he just symbolically stopped Wiggins, and seeing Wiggins's sudden resoluteness, he didn't follow again, Wiggins entered the inside line and staged a heavy dunk again.
However, Wiggins had just finished dunking and was excited, but he didn't expect the U.S. team to serve quickly. Xie Chen advanced the basketball to the half court in the blink of an eye, and then. Just after halftime, he threw the ball to the basket!
There was an exclamation at the scene! Start passing the ball so far away!
Bang! Zach Lavin, known as "Bai Wei Shao", soared into the sky again, and his hands hung on the basket again!
Even Wade and Anthony couldn't help but applaud in amazement.
"That's a great pass, man! I'm a little bit going to want you to pass me tomorrow, haha! Zach LaVine was shocked by Xie Chen's assist, and ran over to laugh at Xie Chen. But Xie Chen didn't look at him at this time, and even pushed Raven away and quickly ran forward!
"What?" Zach Laven wondered for a while, why didn't Xie Chen high-five him and run forward? Shouldn't you go back to defense? Don't...... Xie Chen wants to steal?!
Only then did Zach LaVine notice that the international team had seen a quick backcourt ball from their side. I also want to learn to advance quickly and play faster, so the person who receives the ball in the backcourt is far away from the person who serves, which gives Xie Chen the opportunity to steal!
Xie Chen intercepted in front of Wiggins like the wind, broke the serve, and then, the moment he broke the ball, he threw it in the direction of the basket, without even looking at it, he knew that Zach LaVine would definitely appear there.
Sure enough, the two had an amazing tacit understanding, and LaVine flew up again, catching the basketball windmill in the air!
"Three times! Three air relays in a row! It's so beautiful! ”
The atmosphere was ignited all of a sudden, although the number of fans was small, everyone clapped excitedly, and even at this moment, they enjoyed it more than watching the All-Star Game.
LaVine was so happy, and he was so happy to have a teammate like Xie Chen!
Because Xie Chen drove the game to be entertaining and watching, everyone played more freely, followed by an increase in mistakes, interception of passes, and the next two minutes, it was simply a feast of ball breaks between the two sides.
It didn't take long for Xie Chen to make 5 steals in the first half, and it can only be said that it is too cool to use S-level steal skills to deal with these rookies and use them in low-intensity games.
Brother Alphabet stretched out his long arm for a beautiful interception, and then dribbled to the basket alone, turned around with a beautiful back, but did not dunk, but passed to Wiggins in a chic manner, but Xie Chen suddenly appeared and intercepted again!
"Oh, Xie Chen is already the sixth steal! His steals are like playing, even if he plays casually, he has to admit that his stealing ability is really powerful. Yang Jian couldn't help but admire, and began to look forward to how Xie Chen would cooperate with his teammates in this ball.
Everyone on the international team also knows that Xie Chen will not dunk before the All-Star Game, and may not even dunk during the All-Star Game, so this ball focuses the defense on Zach LaVine, who has cooperated with him many times, even if it is an All-Star Game, it is impossible for the opponent to play all the time.
Then, Xie Chen passed lightly all the way to the basket, exchanged a dribble behind his back and threw the ball to the basket with his left hand, and a black player completed a turn and back dunk after receiving the ball!
This time it's Oladipo! In the first half, Xie Chen turned into an air director, mobilizing the atmosphere of the scene to the highest value! (A good event for pie in the sky, cool mobile phones are waiting for you!) Follow from ~ Dian/Chinese network public account (WeChat add friends - add public account - enter ddxiaoshuo), participate now! Everyone has a prize, now pay attention to ddxiaoshuo WeChat public account! (To be continued......)
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