Chapter 495: Turning the Tide (A New Week, A New Beginning)
Chamberlain taught NBA players and fans a lesson with a terrifying special marking, especially the first-year rookies, who were even more frightened by Chamberlain's defense: Is this the defensive ability of the best defensive player? When Chamberlain doesn't care about the team as a whole, when he concentrates on keeping an eye on one person, that person can't do anything!
Wade replaced the frustrated Lopez, Gasol Jr. was given another chance to play, and the first-year perimeter was replaced by the trio of Rose, Westbrook, and Mayo, and the three outline players who were considered the most promising perimeter players in the '08 class teamed up.
After getting off the field, Lopez covered his face with a towel and lay on the bench, his face was expressionless as if he was asleep, but his constantly trembling hands could show his agitation on the inside line at this time, and he was disgraced in front of fans all over the United States!
After the timeout returned, Howard replaced Chamberlain off the court, and Horford pushed to the center position, and Yi Jianlian cooperated with him on the inside. Neither of them is a qualified interior player, the former is physical, skilled and scrappy, but he is too short, which is a congenital disadvantage. Yi Jianlian doesn't regard himself as an inside line now, he sometimes feels like a small forward, so the two of them teamed up to face the rookie inside combination Jordan Jr. + Gasol Jr., it was a miserable.
Durant took over the game, he scored 4 points in a row to expand the score gap, but then Gasol Jr. came to a 2+1 color, and then Horford's shot was blocked by Jordan Jr., and the first-year team grabbed the ball and passed it directly to the new Mayo, who happily came to dunk and score.
After that, Gasol Jr. missed the offensive shot, and Jordan Jr. grabbed the offensive rebound and launched a second offense, causing Yi Jianlian to foul, and he hit both free throws, so that the entire first-year team scored except for Lopez. After that, Durant missed a long shot and Jordan grabbed the rebound, and Rose organized a fast-break counterattack to score a layup and tie the score in one fell swoop.
Howard is really anxious now, the momentum of the sophomore team is completely suppressed, there are only two modes of basketball games, either the strength of the individual is stronger than the opponent and both sides engage in heads-up, or the team battle is more tacit to suppress the other party, but now there is no tacit understanding between the second-year team players, and they can't pick the first-grade team when they are heads-up, so it is natural that the momentum is taken away by the first-grade team.
Durant can't bear the other five people to bomb in turn, and the outside core has a disadvantage, that is, relying too much on the feel, once the feel is gone, the blow to the heart of the army when he repeatedly misses the shot is very strict, and the impact on the game is even stricter.
Howard called a timeout to arrange his tactics, but still did not replace Chamberlain.
After the opening game, Rockets Brooks assisted Thorton for a dunk, and then scored his first shot of the game to help the sophomore team recover some of the difference. But soon the first-year team fought back, Westbrook stole Thorton's pass, and then led the team to launch a counterattack to play a game with Jordan Jr., who relayed in the air and ended the game with a powerful tomahawk slam dunk.
At this time, Fernandes' hand came again, and he made two consecutive three-pointers to suppress the second-year's counterattack momentum. Scola singled Gasol Jr., he shook the opponent with his amazing feet and then made a layup, which was his first personal score in this tournament, and then Thaddeus Young broke through the layup and began to score, leaving Lopez alone without scoring in the whole game.
Later, Beasley broke through the baseline and stepped on the line, and the two teams successively made aerial relay coordination errors, and the first year maintained a 52-47 lead. Mayo's three-pointer continued to hit the sophomores, Beasley's layup extended the first-year advantage to 10 points again, and Dwight Howard scratched his bald head frantically, and he couldn't help but want to call Chamberlain on the court, who comforted him: "There is less than a minute left, what's the use of me playing?" In the second half, the manager, I'll go up in the second half and teach the little guys a good lesson. ”
Durant came up with a three-pointer at the last minute, so that the first half was over, and the first year led by eight points at 60-52.
In the second half, Wade still did not replace Lopez, and for the sophomore team, Chamberlain came on the field.
Lopez was not there, Jordan Jr. went up to defend Chamberlain in high spirits, the sophomore team was beaten a little miserably in the first half, and the big brother Durant who led the team did not give his strength, and it turned out that although the latter was an excellent scoring machine, he was by no means a strongman who could turn the tide on his own.
After Chamberlain came on the court in the second half, there was no need to command, Starkey obediently sent the ball to Chamberlain, counting on him to correct the name of the second year.
Chamberlain held the ball with his back to Jordan Jr. and probed it back, then he turned around, pulled the ball out to the side with his right hand, took a step with his right heel, and his huge body followed flexibly, as if he was about to break through. Little Jordan hesitated slightly, and Chamberlain pulled his foot and broke through to his side. At this time, it was too late for little Jordan to retreat and make up for the defense, and after Chamberlain passed him, he immediately jumped and shot, and hit!
In the first half, the first half was a little miserable by the first grade, the second year old birds couldn't hold their faces, and they came back in the second half to strengthen the defense, Gordon's mid-range shot was interfered with by Thorton, and after the iron was hit, Jordan Jr. and Gasol Jr. guarded the side of the restricted area and prepared to pick up the rebound, but an angry dragon took off from it, and Chamberlain raised his right arm and grabbed the ball with one hand.
Starkey and Thornton break fast, Chamberlain makes a long pass all over the court, Thorton receives the ball to attract Westbrook's defense and passes to Starkey, who makes a layup.
Chasing four points in a row, the expressions on the faces of the second-year stars finally looked a lot better, Durant on the bench was a little lost, he thought he was already very good, he felt that he had helped a team more than Chamberlain, as for why the latter entered the All-Star and he was defeated, he thinks there are two reasons, one is that Chamberlain's Chinese status has pulled a lot of votes for him, and the other is that there are too few high-quality interior lines and too many outside lines in the league now, he can't snatch the All-Star position from Kobe Bryant and Iverson, right?
Now it seems that he was thinking a little simply, but this is not the case at all.
The first-year boys were also very proud, Chamberlain's appearance could not contain their attack, and then Gasol Jr.'s mid-range shot and Gordon's three-pointer led the first-year to launch a counterattack, and now not only the second-year began to defend seriously, but also the first-year, both sides were not as loose in offense and defense as in the first half, and Thorton was even whistled for a defensive foul.
Gasol Jr. singled Scola to turn around and make a layup, Chamberlain came out of the spur and gave him a big hat, Thorton calmly controlled the ball and handed it to Chamberlain to handle the ball, the latter hit Jordan Jr. on his back and made a strong layup, Jordan Jr. couldn't bear him, so he could only reach out and foul, but Chamberlain still dunked the ball into the hoop to complete 2+1.
With Chamberlain's assistance and supplemental defense, the first-year team's offense is no longer so unscrupulous, at least Rose, Westbrook and Mayo's breakthroughs have not been used, as long as they dare to rush into the penalty area, they will inevitably face the giant spirit god-like Chamberlain.
Westbrook threw the iron, Chamberlain turned around and grabbed the rebound, he still hit Jordan Jr. with his back, Wade commanded Gasol Jr. to go up to the bag, but Chamberlain rushed to the basket in the outflanking of the two, Gasol Jr. and Jordan Jr. surrounded him with all their might, at this time Chamberlain threw the ball behind him, Scola was empty, and the shot hit!
Seeing Chamberlain lead the sophomore to launch an effective counterattack, Howard couldn't help but be overjoyed and immediately replaced Durant. With Chamberlain involved on the inside, Durant's appearance is a 2+1. Later, Westbrook and Jordan Jr.'s aerial relay was cooperated by Chamberlain, Durant held the ball to the front court and made a cooperation with Chamberlain, and after blocking and dismantling, Durant distributed the ball to Chamberlain, and the latter shot it.
In this way, the second grade completely tied the score.
Although the talent is outstanding, but the rookie is the rookie, the first-year rookies saw that the opponent was so strong, they were eager to turn the situation back but no one came out, and there was a mistake in a hurry, Westbrook passed the ball to Wade, who was anxious on the sidelines. After Wade got the ball, he subconsciously made a three-point shot, but he hit it.
The crowd burst into laughter, the referees laughed, and then laughed and gave the first-graders a technical foul.
Wade was depressed and yelled, "This is an all-star, gentlemen, this is an all-star, everyone should be relaxed, right?" Stop blowing technical fouls, oh Fack, you blows! ”
Durant executed the free throw, and then the sophomore team had the ball, Chamberlain held the ball in the high post, and Jordan Jr. and Gasol Jr. defended one by one.
In the face of Jordan Jr.'s defense, Chamberlain made a crotch dribble with both hands, and the moment he held the ball in his left hand, his left foot suddenly moved to the side forward, but his left hand was sent behind him, and the ball fell to his right hand like a jumping elf, and then his body braked suddenly, and the ball in his right hand hit the ground through the crotch and returned to his left hand, his body twisted left and right and still chose to break through from the left wing, and little Jordan was flustered by his two changes of direction.
At this time, Chamberlain did not continue to break through, because Gasol Jr. was already waiting for him behind, he put away the ball with his left hand and turned around, with his back to Jordan Jr., he took a step with his left foot as the axis foot to make a turning and jumper posture, Jordan Jr. hurriedly moved to the left, at this time Chamberlain turned around again and launched a real attack from the right side.
Jump shot hit!
As the so-called layman looks at the lively insider's doorway, Chamberlain's double-change turn feint jumper shocked Barkley and Smith, the former pushed James and shouted: "I said man, you better pray that this guy Z is confused, if his offensive skills have really reached this point, then you don't want to win the championship in the next ten seasons!" ”
Barkley gloated when he said this, because he didn't have a championship in his career, so the fat man hoped that everyone else wouldn't win a championship.
Smith sighed, "Do you know who I'm thinking of, Charles, know ......"
"I know, you remembered Hakim coming, didn't you?" Barkley said impatiently, "As long as you see that the interior player is on good foot, you bring out Hakim, I know you played with him on the same team, you won two championships with him, but so what? This is Chamberlain, not the second generation of Olajuwon or the successor of some big dream! Can you stop chattering like a in the future? ”
was scolded by Barkley, Smith was not angry, he grinned and said: "Okay, Charles, I admit that I am like a, but you better also pray that Z's ball is blinded, otherwise you know the result, you are going to get married for the second time this summer!" ”
Barkley's fat face was suddenly depressed, fuck, he forgot about it!
Chamberlain's nimble footsteps, realistic feints and soft touch made Jordan Jr. very unconvinced, and then he also hit Chamberlain with his back and wanted to fight back, but without Chamberlain's shot, Jordan Jr. lost the ball when he changed direction.
Seeing this scene, Buckley suddenly threw the sorrow in his heart to the back of his mind, and he laughed and said, "Guys, do you know what is the saddest thing in life? That's when you break through, the ball hasn't passed! Do you know what the saddest thing is? That's when you break through and people don't pass the ball and concede, like DeAndre Jordan now! ”
Chamberlain grabbed the ball and threw it to Durant, and then followed with his strength, although Rose prevented Durant, but Chamberlain killed him from behind, Durant passed the ball to him, and Rose directly got out of the way: Chamberlain's impact looked like a tank, and he didn't dare to stop it if he had the courage to do so.
The violent dunk was successful, and the second grade began to overtake the score.