Chapter 207: Rookie Challenge

When Wang Cannon saw where Barkley was trying to mobilize the players' feelings in the locker room, he almost burst out laughing.

To be honest, Wang Cannon has never seen such a serious Barkley, which shows that he also attaches great importance to this rookie challenge.

Speaking of which, I have to mention that the slam dunk contest has changed its format, and the rookie challenge has also changed this year.

The new Rookie Challenge has removed the distinction between first- and second-year teams and replaced it with a mixed rookie system, with all first- and second-year players disrupted and the two general managers of Barkley and O'Neal taking turns to pick them.

Barkley won O'Neal in the draw, so he had the first right to pick, and Barkley almost did not hesitate to pick Wang Cannon.

O'Neal disagreed with Barkley's choice, he knew that Wang Cannon had participated in a lot of events this year, so he should not contribute in the Rookie Challenge, and similarly, Griffin would not contribute much, and their stage was in the All-Star Game.

For this reason, O'Neal chose Irving, who has a desire to prove himself among the rookies and is still very good.

The Cavaliers' Irving is this year's No. 1 pick, and he has shown extremely good offensive ability in his rookie season with the Cavaliers, even better than last year's No. 1 No. 1 Wall.

Barkley then chose Wall, who was also the top pick.

Ross Barkley and O'Neal were generally in the same direction, and in the end, the lineups of the two sides were similar.

To Wang Cannon's surprise, the two players on the same team as himself, Bledsoe and Griffin, were on O'Neal's team, but Jeremy Lin and others were on the same team as him.

"Guys! Let's put aside the mess of 1st and 2nd grades, we are now a team and what we need is to win this game! The guys on O'Neal's team are just a bunch of dirty chickens. Not our opponent at all! ”

Barkley waved his hand and shouted like a politician: "Let's kill them!" ”

Barkley's impassioned speech did not motivate the Barkley players, on the contrary, they were frightened by Barkley's appearance.

"I really didn't expect to be on the same team as you, I hope we will work well together." Jeremy Lin was very excited to be able to play on the same team as Wang Cannon.

"Me too. Cooperate well. "Wang Cannon knows very well that Jeremy Lin is a point guard, and he will definitely not have less time to control the ball on the court, and a good relationship with Jeremy Lin will be of great help to his own offense in the game.

Wang Dacang thought it was very good, but when he came on the field, he was a little blind.

"What's going on?"

Jeremy Lin started the same game as himself, and although he was squeezed into the shooting guard position by Wall, he still started after all. Plus Jeremy Lin's crazy watch when he was in the Knicks before. Wang Cannon really thinks that Jeremy Lin will have some outstanding performances on the court.

But Jeremy Lin's appearance shattered Wang's cannon glasses.

Although Jeremy Lin's table on the court is not an amateur, it is too soy sauce.

In the first few rounds of offense, Jeremy Lin was completely playing soy sauce, and the all-star game on the defensive end has always been not very good, not to mention, but on the offensive end, Jeremy Lin has always been invisible, and the only breakthrough with the ball was stealed by the opponent Irving is simply nothing.

See this. Barkley decisively replaced Jeremy Lin with Paul for the Pacers. George. George's arrival immediately improved the situation on the field, but Wang Cannon was dumbfounded.

Jeremy Lin is not on the court, how can Wang Cannon get the ball?

You know, this is not the Clippers, and Wang Cannon is not the only offensive core of the team.

Although he is the most famous player on the court, Wang Cannon plays as a small forward in terms of position after all. After all, there are not many times to receive the ball, especially since this is an All-Star Game, and even though it is only a rookie challenge, the players still tend to show themselves more.

Like the Wizards' John. Wall, though, as a point guard. But when he's on the court, his eyes are still focused on the basket most of the time. Pass? Wait until you get a certain score before you think about it.

Not only that, but because Wang Dacang signed up for too many entries in this year's All-Star Weekend, no one thinks that Wang Dacang will use his best strength in the Rookie Challenge, after all, this is already a project where he has won a trophy, which is obviously more attractive than the Rookie Challenge, the three-point contest and the slam dunk contest, and the final All-Star Game.

So at first, no one thought that Wang Dacang would really take this rookie challenge seriously, even the manager of the Barkley team, Barkley himself.

But in this way, Wang Cannon is in a hurry, after all, others don't know, he himself still knows very well, if he can't get a good number of jΓΉ in the rookie challenge, it will be troublesome, the task is to require himself to get all the awards for the participating items, if he fails the task tragically in the first game, it will be troublesome.

Just like last year's All-New Star Rookie Challenge, when Wang can't get the ball and can't count the jΓΉ, he will do something that will make people stunned.

It's just that the choice made by Wang Dacang this time is quite normal in the eyes of many people.

Wang has targeted the way out of his current predicament to O'Neal's starting point guard, Irving.

Seriously, Irving was quite eye-catching in the Rookie Challenge, hitting a three-pointer, completing a layup inside and assisting Griffin on an aerial relay shortly after the start of the first quarter.

As this year's rookie, Irving is bound to win the MVP of the new Star Rookie Challenge, because there are only a few honors that Irving can compete for this year.

Although he got the top pick and got Irving, the Cavaliers' record this year is still unsatisfactory, and it is not surprising that the Cavaliers will still be the favorite to pick the top pick in this year's draft.

Unable to lead the Cavaliers to the playoffs, Irving can only compete for personal honors.

All-Star Rookie Challenge MVP, Regular Season Rookie of the Year, these are all things that Irving is ready to get. Only with these awards can Irving prove that he is the best choice for the Cavaliers and will be the best point guard in the league for years to come.

If you want to win the MVP of the Rookie Challenge, the first thing you need is to score and assist, although you are facing the opponent of the same champion Wall. And Wall's physical condition is even better than Owen's, but Owen is not afraid, at least on the offensive end, he has many ways to get past Wal.

For example, now, Irving's sudden disguise on the outside line has made Wall, who weighs a lot heavier than Irving, have no time to keep up, and let go of a not-so-obvious gap.

It was through this inconspicuous gap that Owen instantly turned into a humanoid lightning bolt and rushed into the inner line.

At the same time as bursting into the inside line. Irving's gaze quickly scanned the players on the inside.

Griffin and his opponent Favors were still tangling with the basket, while Cousins was standing on the inside with Monroe watching the excitement, and Monroe didn't come up to make up for himself.

"Slam dunk!" For no reason, Owen had already made a decision in his heart.

Wall is behind him, although he may not be as good as him in terms of physical quality, but in terms of pure speed, he who weighs much less than him definitely has a certain advantage, even in the state of possession. But Wall definitely can't catch up with himself.

As for the other two outside players of the Barkley team, they are still quite a bit away from themselves. Owen, who is absolutely confident in his speed, simply doesn't believe anyone can catch up with him.

"Gotta dunk, a nice dunk!"

Without hesitation, Irving threw his body in the air, grabbed the basketball with both hands and moved in the direction of the basket, his mind could already imagine the moment the dunk was completed, and the cheers of the whole court were about to ring. That would be quite a pleasure.

But before he could be fully happy, a dark shadow suddenly flashed in front of his eyes out of the corner of his eye.

Before he could react to what was going on, the basketball in his hands suddenly surged with a huge force, and then the basketball in his hand flew out uncontrollably.

"The lid of the king's cannon!" In the exclamation of the audience, Wang Dacang slapped the basketball in Owen's hands.

Irving, who had no basketball in his hand, hung high above the basket. The basketball was directly overtaken by Wang Dacang, and he rushed towards the half court of the O'Neal team.

Seeing this situation, Griffin shook his head helplessly, this situation is not uncommon in Clippers games, Wang Cannon will always use his unexpected movement speed to run to some unexpected places, complete some stunned dunks, and then complete a fast and scary dragon dunk when everyone is surprised.

It's like it is now.

Originally, seeing Wang Cannon dribbling to the half court, Turner, who was in the small forward position of O'Neill's team, wanted to chase after him, but after he ran two steps, he reluctantly gave up, because Wang Cannon's speed was too fast, even if he ran wildly, the distance between the two people was still widening.

In this case, the pursuit was already pointless, so Turner simply stopped and saved some body to use more on the offensive side.

While Turner slowed down and stopped, the speed on Wang's side slowed down a little.

Instead of noticing that Turner was stopping behind him, he was going to prepare for a dunk.

Due to the increase of the dunk ability value to 90, Wang Cannon is already confident to complete a lot of dunk actions of Niu Fork.

For example, now, after running two steps to the free throw line, Wang Dacang jumped up with his hands holding the basketball.

With his excellent bounce, Wang Dacang created a very long stay time in the air, and with this time, Wang Dacang changed hands under the crotch, and then turned around 360 degrees, and then dunked the basketball into the basket.

The moment the basketball dunked into the hoop, the entire Orlando Lean home court was boiling.

360-degree crotch change hands dunk, such a difficult dunk is not common in the NBA, and only a few players who are very good at dunking do it once or twice, and it is in a game like the dunk contest.

Such a dunk is really rare on the court, and Wang Cannon's dunk will make the audience who participated in the All-Star Weekend excited.

What makes them even more excited and looking forward to is what kind of dunk Wang Cannon will contribute to the slam dunk contest.

When he saw this dunk, Griffin was stunned, as Wang Cannon's teammate. He knows very well how many catties and taels Wang Cannon has, and with such a difficulty coefficient, Wang Cannon couldn't do it before.

Griffin still clearly remembers that not long ago, after Wang Cannon saw himself dunk with this action in training to warm up, he ran over to imitate it, but imitated a scene that he didn't do in an afternoon.

"How long has it been? Did he learn this dunk? ”

Regardless of Griffin's surprise, complete this dunk. Wang Dacang only felt that his whole body was very refreshing and comfortable.

Sure enough, the dunk ability value of 90 is completely different from the effect of 70, and the gap is much bigger!

At this time, Wang Cannon has already begun to think about what kind of scene it will be if the dunk ability value is 99?

I'm afraid that even the most difficult dunk action can be used, right?

In Wang Cannon's memory, the closest to 99 dunk ability value is Carter, who is known as a demigod, and his dunk ability value was 98 at his peak. It was with this 98 dunk ability value that Carter achieved the feat of leaping over a center to complete the death dunk.

Wang Cannon's block and dunk didn't attract much attention from O'Neal, after all, this is an All-Star Game, and the coefficient of the performance is much higher than the game, and everyone wants to show up, even a league superstar like Wang Dacang.

Not to mention Wang Cannon, even Griffin, didn't he also contribute an air relay on the field at the beginning to show his face?

But soon. O'Neal didn't think so, because it was only one round of attack. The king cannon is here again.

This time, the target of Wang Cannon turned out to be Owen, the difference is that last time Wang Cannon blocked Owen, and this time Wang Cannon stole Owen's pass.

"I'll rub!" Seeing that when he passed the ball to his teammates, Wang Cannon suddenly drilled out and snatched the basketball away, Owen couldn't help but be dumbfounded, Wang Cannon is too positive, right?

It's the same as the cap. Wang Cannon, who stole the basketball, rushed towards the backcourt of O'Neal again.

It's just that this time Turner is prepared, and the speed of the defense is a little faster.

Unfortunately, it makes no difference whether Turner's return defense is in the eyes of Wang Cannon.

As last year's leader, Turner and Wall were in a similar situation, and their performance in the team was not bad. But it's not a bull's fork, not even the core of the team. Such a player dares to stand in front of Wang Cannon, isn't he looking for death?

Without even slowing down, the king cannon rushed straight towards the basket.

Turner originally wanted to meet the king cannon for an offensive foul, but when he saw the king cannon's fierce tank-like advance, he immediately coaxed.

Joke! This is the king's cannon! An animal that can knock people unconscious! Don't you want to die? To stop this beast in human skin?

This is an All-Star Rookie Challenge, not an NBA Finals tie-breaker, and even if it is, a championship for Turner Jue is insignificant compared to his nickname.

Therefore, in the face of this situation, Turner decisively chose to get out of the way.

Wang Cannon ran straight past Turner and dunked again.

This time, he still used a trick, changing hands under his crotch and dunking behind his back.

The same pretty, the same crisp and neat.

The deafening cheers made Wang Cannon quite enjoyable.

As an Eastern team, the Orlando Magic does not have a deep grudge against the Western team Clippers, and the probability of the two teams meeting in the playoffs is very low.

Therefore, when facing the Clippers' player Wang Cannon, most Orlando Magic fans will still be willing to contribute their cheers.

Barkley was overjoyed to see the situation on the court, although they are all rookies, Wang Cannon's strength and level are obviously not comparable with others, not to mention anything else, among this group of rookies, there are only 2 people who average 20 points per game in the regular season, one is Wang Cannon, and the other is Griffin of the Clippers.

In addition, the highest average points per game is the Cavaliers' Irving.

Irving enjoyed the same special treatment with the Cavaliers as James back then.

Absolute shots, the heart of the tactics, the ball handler on the field.

But even so, Irving is averaging only 18 points per game.

Compared with Wang Cannon's average of 30 points per game, the gap is too big.

And now, after Owen was broken by the king cannon, he is also a little sluggish. After all, things like blocks and steals affect the state of the game very much, and once or twice, it will cause a lot of hindrance to the player's hand.

"This game is like a good fight!" Looking at the situation in front of him, Barkley thought secretly in his heart, and the smile on his face became more and more intense.

He remembers making a bet with O'Neill on the phone.

That was a few days ago, when Buckley, who was sitting at home drinking coffee and watching TV, suddenly received a call from O'Neill.

On the phone, the dead fat man's voice was unusually obscene.

"I said Chuck! Do you dare to make a bet with me? Bet on whose team will win this rookie challenge? ”

Hearing O'Neill's words, Buckley immediately laughed, to be honest, although he kissed the donkey's ass many years ago because Yao Ming was very unlucky, but his gambling was quite good, especially the bet with O'Neill during this time, almost none of them lost, would he be afraid? (To be continued......)