Chapter Twenty-Eight: A Trip to the Western Preseason (3)

"Now?" Larry asked, "Are you ready?" ”

"Yes, coach. I'm ready. Luke said.

"Alright," Larry said, looking into Luke's determined eyes, "to warm up." ”

"Hmm."

"Beep-" The 76ers fouled again. Snow fouls John Starks. Starks made 1 of 2 free throws. Snow has now committed three offences.

Luke went up and replaced Snow. played the point guard he knows best.

"Huh?" Barkley asked, "How can you be in the point guard position?" Isn't he a small forward? ”

"It could be some tactic, like switching attacks." Kenny came up with his own idea.

"No, it looks like Luke is going to get serious." Barkley said.

Barkley is right when he says that Luke's return to his point guard position is to explode his strength. He has been played as a striker since the crossing, but his skills are all defenders, and the strikers still play well, but not as handy as defenders. Returning to point guard this time is to let the world see his true strength.

Although he is a point guard, the Jazz can't really let John Starks defend, after all, their height gap is too big, so the first high school player in Jazz history - DeSean Stevenson.

DeSean Stevenson is a very talented player, averaging 23.9 points, 10.6 rebounds and 6.7 assists per game in his final season at Fresno Washington Union High School and 21.6 points, 8.8 rebounds and 6.3 assists per game in four seasons. At the 2000 McDonald's National High School Championship, he also won the "Slam Dunk King" crown in one fell swoop. At 1.96 tall, he's best at spot-up threes and breaking down like the left after playing a trick or two. His quick dribbling and cutting makes Stevenson great at attacking the basket, and he's more capable of attacking the basket when he's given space to play his own unique foot. And he's a rookie this year, having been selected by the Jazz with the 23rd pick in the first round of the 2000 draft.

As soon as he arrived, DeSean Stevenson began to trash talk to Luke: "Boy, I heard you didn't make it to the draft?" Alas...... It's pathetic, don't worry, I'll let you. ”

Luke didn't say anything, just called the team to run, told Tyrone Hill to come up and block the pick-and-roll, and then directly returned the shot and the ball went in. As he left, he said, "Thank you for letting me." ”

After saying that, he left.

"You ......," DeSean Stevenson's eyes erupted into fire, and he was pulled by Don Yell Marshall, "don't pay attention to his words, playing well is the point." It's more fun to beat him on the pitch than to beat him with a squirt! ”

"Wait a minute, I'll see how good I am!" DeSean Stevenson thought to himself.

The score is now 23:17. The Jazz are in front, and the 76ers are in the back.

Offensive and defensive swapping. DeSean Stevenson took the pass from John Starks and went straight to Luke. Luke was undaunted. DeSean Stevenson attempted a cross step, but Luke deliberately gave up his left side to let him burst. Seeing that there was such a big flaw and not wasting it, DeSean Stevenson directly started to break through from the left side, and when he thought smugly that he had passed Luke, he only heard the coach's shout behind him, "Retreat!" Hurry back! DeSean Stevenson realized that his ball was missing and Luke was running wildly. It turned out that the moment DeSean Stevenson broke through, Luke broke the ball.

Luke ran wildly with the ball, went straight in, jumped from the free throw line, bent his arms, folded his legs, and then stretched his body as he approached the basket, did a Jordan dunk and dunked the ball into the basket.

"Shh......h

But the 76ers bench was boiling, especially Allen was the most excited, waving a towel and jumping so high.

And the Jazz bench saw it.

"Carl, what do you think of this man?"

"Judging from the dunk just now, his physical fitness is not bad, and his basketball IQ is not bad. It seemed that there was a lack of self-confidence just now, but now it has completely exploded. It's a bit like Michael. ”

"So, would you be interested in going up there?"

"Wait, see how it goes."

This is exactly the conversation between "Postman" Malone and Stockton. It seems that they have a good opinion of Luke.

Luke didn't notice the two of them at all. His focus is on the game right now. The dunk just now chased back two more points, and now the score is 25:19.

Jazz ball possession. DeSean Stevenson didn't get the ball anymore and John Starks took it into his own hands. He called in for Don Yell Marshall to block for him, and then made a light move to evade Raga's defense and shoot straight three-pointers.

John Starks was lucky, the ball bounced twice off the basket and fell into the basket. No one can do anything about this.

Raga shrugged. It means that there is no way.

Big Ben serves, and Luke receives the ball across half court. The person defending Luke is DeSean Stevenson, Luke looked at DeSean Stevenson in front of him, smiled, and then directly burst out of speed advantage to resist DeSean Stevenson's strong inside, DeSean Stevenson couldn't stop Luke who had completely increased his speed. Danny Manning saw that something was wrong and hurried up to make up for it. But it didn't work, so he had to put his hand on Luke's arm, wanting to take Lukla off with DeSean Stevenson. But how could Luke, who is now in a state of "ignition", get what they wanted, whether it was one person pulling him, or two people pulling him, they couldn't let him down, the whistle had already sounded under the pull of two people, but Luke still didn't give up, although he lost his balance, but in the air Luke still spun the ball in the air, rubbed it above the rebound, and reflexively scored the ball.

β€œyes! Luke's ball is beautiful! Barkley exclaimed.

"Charles," Kenny said, "don't you think the ball looks like Michael?" The exact same movements are used. ”

"How is that possible! How can Luke be like Michael? Of course, Barkley didn't want his favorite junior to be like his sworn enemy, "He's obviously my second generation of Sir Charles." Barkley said proudly.

"Do you still want face?" Kenny and the audience alike.

"Hahahaha......"

Back on the court, Luke made a steady free throw and defended the Jazz's final attack of the half, and the preseason half was over.

"Look at what you guys do in the second half." Luke thought as he returned to the locker room.

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