Chapter 274: Rookie Challenge
The All-Star Rookie Challenge has reached seven consecutive wins for sophomores, except for the 02 year when the first-year team knocked the sophomore over, the first-year team has never won, none of the rookies in the All-Star Challenge in the last seven years have won, even the current James, their 03 golden generation, was beaten hard by the big brothers in 02.
And just last year, Ross and their rookies were cut by Durant with 46 points and sent directly to the kitchen to stew.
But this year, the situation looks a little different, TNT's scene, specially found Howard and Wade to be invited guests, to watch the rookie challenge together, this year's rookie can be said to be too strong offensive ability.
Although their height is too poor and their physique is not better than that of the other party, their powerful attack power still makes people feel a little terrifying.
Curry, Jennings, these are all famous maniacs in the league now, if one of them is not good, they will smoke you!
30 points, 40 points, which looks easy and happy for them, Jennings has completed a great feat of 55 points, Tyrek Evans is averaging 20+5+5 per game, Curry has also completed his first triple-double, and the first-year team looks really strong.
However, the lineup on the sophomore team is obviously more powerful, and the starting lineup on the sophomore team is center Brook Lopez, big forward Michael Beasley, small forward Danilo Gallinari, scoring guard Zhang Kong, and point guard Rose.
From the perspective of the lineup, the height is much taller than the rookie team, although the great Oden is still absent, but the lineup on the sophomore team is quite good, with the strong scorer Mayo sitting on the bench, the new wolf king of the Timberwolves, Lefou, the Grizzlies' Mark Gasol, and the Warriors' Anthony Morrow, are all very powerful pump-mad players.
This lineup has to score and score, it has to be organized, and it has to be tall...... As for the defense...... The people who defend in the All-Star Game are all compared to that...... Just like Zhang Kong, he will never miss any opportunity if he can block.
In terms of attack power, the combination of Zhang Kong and Rose is obviously not very powerful, but let the two guys who were selected as All-Stars this year sit on the bench, such a thing is even less powerful, although the fans bought tickets to come in to watch the game, but the sophomore team can't have no bright spots, so Ewing waved his hand, and Rose and Zhang Kong formed a lineup that looked like double point guards.
Before the game, no one expected that the Wehrmacht, which should have been a very easy exhibition match, turned out to be so fierce.
The starters on the first-year side are Tachenrick Evans, Curry, Brandon Jennings, DeJuan Blair and Omi Casby, although Zhang Kong is an All-Star starter, but last year's champion and champion treatment, in the pre-game press conference, Zhang Kong got his own task, scoring guard, mainly responsible for scoring, and other things will be talked about later.
If Jim O'Brien, who is in front of the TV, knows about Zhang Kong's mission, I don't know what kind of laughter he will have!
All the coaches who have been in contact with Zhang Kong will not let him be a pitcher, because he has nothing to do with pitchers at all.
He's made a lot of threes, but those threes were basically pull-out threes, and he needed to get the ball to attack.
Obviously, the sophomore team didn't let him get the ball, and it seemed that Zhang Kong's shooting percentage and height were still very deceptive.
However, it seems that this arrangement is more reasonable, because Rose almost does not care about no jump shots, and like Rondo, he is a breakthrough player, although Gallinari's three-point shooting is very good, but it seems to be a little worse than Zhang Kong.
Generally speaking, non-American players are still relatively accurate in their outside shots, which is not a prejudice, but a concept formed by many European players who have played a lot of games! As for the Chinese players...... Looking at Yao Ming and Yi Jianlian, who just entered the NBA, you can understand that Ewing is not unreasonable in this arrangement, and the Chinese feel is still relatively bullish.
When the teams of the two teams came out of the players' tunnel, the audience cheered, this is the All-Star Game, there is no home, no away, no strong opponents, and no referees who are biased towards other teams, everyone on the court feels very comfortable, but the screams of those female fans on the sidelines are a little unbearable, which makes Zhang Kong, who is used to being quiet, feel a little noisy, in the TV broadcast seat on the top side of the cowboy stadium that Zhang Kong did not notice, when Zhang Kong played, A person's body shook for no reason, and when he saw the familiar figure again, this person didn't know what to say.
Because it was so far away, Zhang Kong couldn't have noticed anyone sitting in such a nowhere place, he just stretched out his arm, ready to start the game! Like Wade and Howard, who served as commentators on the sidelines, these rookies were very immature, and at the beginning of the game, the sophomores slowly controlled the rhythm.
With three minutes and 12 seconds to go in the first half, Rose contributed a very beautiful dunk, he shook off Evans in front of him, and completed a very domineering dunk on the head of Blair, who had come to make up for it.
In terms of pure dunks, Rose's dunks are very good, his body is very strong, which also makes his dunks very domineering, and Zhang Kong has successfully become a shadow on the court...... It's up to him to mark Curry, Curry has no chance to score, unless Curry starts to go crazy from the beginning, but the difficulty can be imagined, after 13 draws, 15 draws and 17 draws, the sophomore team took the lead in adjusting the lineup, except for Rose, the other starters have returned to the bench.
"Zhang Kong's face is a little ugly, since the opening game, Zhang Kong has not touched the ball, obviously there are some problems with the attack of the second-grade team!" Sun Zhengzheng looked at Zhang Kong on the court and said with some concern, although our teacher Sun's basketball level is not good, and it is only better than that of primary school students, but in terms of observing the psychology of players, he is an expert in old fritters.
"Zhang Kong's main problem now is that he can't get the ball, Rose controls the ball very well, if you want Zhang Kong to attack, you have to get the ball into his hands, you can see that Zhang Kong is still a little nervous, Rose doesn't give him the ball, he doesn't care what Rose wants! In fact, the All-Star Game is an exhibition game, the most important thing is to enjoy the fun, defense is not very important, look at him to defend Curry so badly, but he does not recruit the head coach to see, this is not a regular season, and there is no important surname, in terms of victory or defeat, the most important thing is to show his strength, but obviously Zhang Kong is a little too serious! "Where there is Sun Zhengping, there must be Zhang Weiping and Zhang guidance, this pair of golden partners will always be Meng will not be out of focus, and Jiao will not be away from Meng.
The reality can't help but make Zhang Kong a little depressed now, the game went on for five minutes, and so far, he has an assist, a rebound, a point, and not a single block, because he is not a point guard, and Rose is really ruthless.
If he doesn't pass the ball, he won't pass the ball, the dominance of the offense is firmly controlled in his hands, and he hasn't even touched the ball a few times from Gallina, who took the lead, but after all, he has touched it, and Zhang Kong has not touched the basketball except for the serve.
All-stars also need connections, so the average interior player is always very depressed in the All-Star Game, just like Nowitzki, Yao Ming, these overseas players, it is always difficult to get the opportunity to perform in the All-Star Game, this year's All-Star Game is in Dallas, so that Nowitzki's performance is likely to improve, otherwise it will be another soy sauce.
Obviously, Zhang Kong is not the kind of guy who sits here and waits for the opportunity to come, even if he is now off the court, Zhang Kong has not given up this game, sitting next to him is Brook Lopez, the big center of the Nets has also encountered a similar situation as Zhang Kong, the All-Star Game, the inside line is always not popular, the outside player controls the ball, in order to show himself, he cares about the life and death of your inside! So now Zhang Kong needs to cheer up and form a gang, Ross is not an opponent, otherwise Zhang Kong will speak directly on the field, and the competition within the team is also about skills, although Zhang Kong can't hold the ball in attack, he can't hold it.
But he is a center forward, so he naturally has the opportunity to compete for a second attack, and now Zhang Kong wants to cooperate with him.
Things have proved that when a thing is inconsistent, several people are together, and things will naturally open, and the same unpopular is Gallinari, an Italian guy, Zhang Kong secretly said his thoughts, and these two guys immediately agreed.
Rookie Challenge, these rookies want to show themselves, originally they thought that they were close to Rose's set, and Rose would be more powerful.
But now it seems that Rose doesn't hang these guys, so they can only turn their eyes to the other side, and in addition to Rose, in this team, the only one who looks to have the biggest wrist at the moment, and who is also neutral, is Zhang Kong.
The three guys got together and muttered there for a long time, although Bosh and Ewing saw it, they didn't say anything, such things are also relatively common in the All-Star Game, and the players will always think of ways to do something for the sake of the ball.
What Ewing and Bosh need to do is to change players in about the same time, so with two minutes and 21 seconds left in the third quarter, the sophomore team re-replaced the main players, and Rose also came down for more than a minute just now, and at this time followed Zhang Kong and them on the court, but he felt a little strange, except for Beasley, the other three guys in the home team were weird, and when they looked at themselves, the smile was always very dark...... Could it be that these three guys have to calculate their own failures?
(To be continued)