Chapter Forty-Six: The Comai Body
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After Xu Yong scored 6 points in a row, the Devils pulled the score away again.
The effect that Sandek wanted was played perfectly.
The pressure came to the Tigers, or Evans.
The Devils were highly motivated to defend tonight, both as starters and off the bench, especially in this period of home momentum, in which only Evans burst in.
Now the hope of the whole village is on him.
Evans, once again, did not disappoint, his low center of gravity changed sharply to get past DeRozan, a big European step to the right before Xu Yong's defense, and sent the ball to the basket after confronting Boateng, and also caused a defensive foul on Boateng.
Mature technology, tough confrontation, let him play as a substitute, this is Zhao Weilun of the U19 World Youth Championships, Qu Cai!
Evans, who scored 2+1, also looked calm, but just reached out and clenched his fist.
In addition to his physical and technical qualities, he also has a strong mental quality.
After hitting the penalty against the interference of the scene, Evans' personal score has reached 9 points, second only to Xu Yong's 10 points.
And more importantly, after he scored these 3 points in a row, the difference on the court returned to 5 points, and the suspense of the game was pulled back.
Xu Yong continued to hold the ball in the frontcourt, and at this time, the Tigers' defensive focus was all on him.
In fact, Evans' performance after standing up from the bench is not too much to say that he is a savior.
If it weren't for Xu Yong's continuous performance after his re-appearance, he would have led the team to catch up with the score difference at this time.
So the key for them now is to limit Xu Yong's score, if they can't do it, they don't want to turn over this score.
Xu Yong held the ball in one hand and put on a posture to start with a falling step.
This is actually a triple threat stance, and Xu Yong has continuously proved his current shooting and breakthrough level.
This time, however, he neither burst nor shot, but threw the ball directly over the basket.
Three threats, but there is still a legend!
He drew the attention of the Tigers' defense, and DeRozan took the opportunity to take advantage of Boateng's off-ball block to rush to the basket.
The ball led the way, DeRozan took to the air, and even made a windmill move after catching the ball in the air.
"Bang!"
The moment the ball was smashed into the hoop, the Wells Fargo Arena boiled directly!
DeRozan is a Southern Californian, and while well-known locally, he is still unknown to most Tempe, even Phoenixians.
And DeRozan showed more technology before, but this one empty connection shows a physical quality comparable to Xu Yong!
DeRozan high-fived Xu Yong in the retreat, looking delighted.
Although compared with Harden, he and Xu Yong have a limited amount of time to play together, but he gave Xu Yong one at the beginning, and Xu Yong is now repaying him with a peach.
This dunk also rekindled the enthusiasm of the fans, and the shouts of "defense" resounded in the arena again.
Evans repeated the European step to the basket, but this time Xu Yong jumped up violently with the cover of Boateng's body, giving Evans a sturdy pegboard hat!
The rebound was protected by Boateng and then quickly given to Xu Yong, who countered with the ball.
DeRozan on the outside also turned around quickly at the first time.
Xu Yong made a long pass after the three-point line.
DeRozan has a defender in front of him, and he is advancing with the ball while observing Seo Yong's follow-up position.
By the time he advanced to the three-point line in the frontcourt, Xu Yong had already passed the halfcourt.
Seeing this, he accelerated to the basket, and then suddenly threw the ball towards the rebound.
This one choice stunned the defenders, DeRozan is Tim Duncan possessed, playing high throwing board?
But it's too far away!
Before the defender could figure it out, as soon as he turned his head, he saw another figure flying in front of him.
Cheers had already sounded in advance at the scene.
DeRozan is not playing a board shot, but a board empty catch!
I have only heard of self-throwing and self-deduction before, but now I throw you and raise cheese!
The center of gravity of the basketball was low after the rebound rebounded, and Xu Yong picked up the ball from the low point after receiving the ball, and slammed the dunk with the hands of the big windmill.
"Bang!"
The ball was smashed into the hoop and a loud muffled sound came through the loudspeaker.
Now the Wells Fargo Arena is completely fried.
What a fairy tie this is!
The Tigers called a timeout.
In the past two rounds, Xu Yong and DeRozan are no longer playing, but playing, which is not treating the Tigers as people.
DeRozan was also extremely excited at this time, and ran to Xu Yong and jumped up directly and hit his chest.
The attempt just now was actually very risky, because it was just a judgment he made in a moment, and if Xu Yong didn't understand it, it would probably be a mistake.
However, it turns out that he and Xu Yongzhen have a natural tacit understanding, and the moment he throws the ball, Xu Yong is already running and jumping.
What is my tacit understanding of "walking, entering the house" with one look.
This ball will make headlines on the front page of today's NCAA news!
On the Devils' bench, Harden looked more excited than Xu Yong and DeRozan, he directly stepped forward and high-fived the two of them vigorously, and also paddled the windmill action that Xu Yong had just dunked with both hands.
At the same time, the action just now was also being played back on the LED screen at the scene, which caused another burst of cheers at the scene.
There's a topic that is often discussed by fans, and that's what it would be like if Maddie and Kobe Bryant played together.
This was most discussed in the summer of 2004, when Maddie was leaving the Magic.
It's just that in the end, Maddie went to the rocket, and the teaming up of the two ended up in vain.
There are also fans who are looking forward to this, so they can only go to the amateur league to find highlights of the cooperation between the two.
But tonight, [Seven Kobe Bryant] DeRozan, [Mai's Dry Pull Successor] Xu Yong, the past cooperation between the two can be regarded as giving people a first glimpse of the scene of Komai playing together.
That's a flight attendant in the stadium, I'll throw it after you finish throwing, the city of empty pick-up!
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In the end, the Devils defeated the Tigers 86-66 in the season opener.
On the Devils' side, Xu Yong contributed a team-high 22 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists, Harden had 16 points and 5 assists, and DeRozan had 12 points and 3 assists.
On the Tigers' side, Evans became a lone hero, scoring a team-high 21 points, plus five rebounds and seven assists.
Although this is just an invitational tournament, there is no revenge without revenge, but Sandek's goal has been achieved, and even exceeded expectations.
This game not only freed the Devils players from psychological pressure, but even built up a strong self-confidence.
Although Rose is no longer in the Tigers, Evans' strength is obvious to all, and in the end, this is also the 9th and 12th in the survey rankings, and I am afraid that no one expected such a one-sided situation before the game.
It can only be said that the Devils showed too many unexpected things in the opening game.
So it is foreseeable that if they continue to play like this, when the new survey list comes out, their ranking may continue to rise.
After the game, the players went back to the locker room one after another, and when they had finished showering and changing their clothes, they should go back to rest.
Xu Yong and Harden walked out of the locker room together, and just as they came out, a man in a suit stood at the door and looked at them with a smile.
Both of them looked stunned for a moment, because they both recognized each other.
"I'm Steve Cole, Xu, can we sit down and talk?" Just when Xu Yong thought that the other party was looking for Harden, Kerr smiled and stretched out his hand to him.