no shortcuts in basketball

Chapter 46
14:22.

After Xu Yong scored 6 points in a row, the Devils opened the score again.

The effect that Sandek wanted was perfectly produced.

The pressure came to the Tigers, or Evans.

The Devils are very active in defense tonight, whether they are the starter or the substitute, especially in this period of home start. In this case, only Evans can break through.

Now the hope of the whole village rests on him.

Evans, once again did not disappoint. He passed DeRozan with a large and continuous change of low center of gravity, and made a large European step to the right before Xu Yong's defense. Caused Boateng's defensive foul.

Mature skills, tough confrontation, let him play as a substitute, this is Zhao Weilun from the U19 World Youth Championship, what a shame!
Evans, who scored 2+1, also looked very calm, just stretched out his hand and clenched his fist.

In addition to his physical and technical skills, his mental quality is also very strong.

After hitting and adding penalties against the interference from 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 point difference on the field returned to 5 points, and the suspense of the game was pulled back.

Xu Yong continued to hold the ball in the frontcourt. 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 the savior.

If it weren't for Xu Yong's continuous performance after his reappearance, he would have led the team to catch up with the point difference at this moment.

So the key for them now is to limit Xu Yong's scoring. If they can't do it, they don't want to overturn the score.

Xu Yong held the ball with one hand and made a gesture of falling to start.

This is actually a three-threat stance. Xu Yong has continuously proved his current shooting and breakthrough level.

But this time he neither rushed nor shot, but threw the ball directly over the basket.

Three threats, but there is still a legend!
He attracted the Tigers' defensive attention here, and DeRozan took advantage of Boateng's off-ball pick-and-roll to rush to the basket.

The ball leads people, DeRozan soars into the air, and even makes a windmill after catching the ball in the air.

"Oh!"

The moment the ball was smashed into the basket, the Wells Fargo Arena was boiling!
DeRozan is a native of Southern California. Although he is well-known locally, he is still unfamiliar to most Tempe and even Phoenix people.

Moreover, what DeRozan showed earlier was more about technique, but this alley-oop showed a physical fitness comparable to that of Xu Yong!

DeRozan retreated and clapped Xu Yong's hands with joy.

Although compared with Harden, he and Xu Yong have limited time to play together, but he gave Xu Yong one at the beginning, and Xu Yong is now reciprocating and giving him another one. Perhaps the two are both dunk generals, and there is a natural tacit understanding. Spend.

This dunk also rekindled the enthusiasm of the fans, and the shouts of "defense" resounded through the arena again.

Evans repeated the European step to kill the basket, but this time Xu Yong jumped up suddenly with the cover of Boateng's body, and gave Evans a solid pegboard hat!
The rebound was protected by Boateng, and then quickly passed to Xu Yong, who counterattacked defensively with the ball.

DeRozan on the outside also turned around and went down immediately.

After Xu Yong went out of the three-point line, he made a long pass.

There is a defender in front of DeRozan, and he is watching Xu Yong's follow-up position while advancing with the ball.

When he advanced to the three-point line in the frontcourt, Xu Yong had already passed the midfield.

Seeing this, he accelerated to the basket, and then suddenly threw the ball towards the backboard.

This choice confuses the defender. DeRozan is Tim Duncan possessed, and he is playing high-flying boards?
But this distance is too far!
Before the defender could fully understand, when he turned his head, he saw another figure flying past his eyes.

The scene has already sounded cheers in advance.

DeRozan is not hitting the rebound and shooting, but hitting the rebound!

I have only heard of self-throwing and self-deduction before, but now I am throwing your deduction, and the cheese is up!

The center of gravity of the basketball is low after rebounding from the rebound, and after catching the ball, Xu Yong swung the ball up from the low point and slammed it with both hands.

"Oh!"

The ball was smashed into the basket, and the huge muffled sound came out through the loudspeaker, which was exciting!
Now the Wells Fargo Arena is completely fried.

What kind of fairy cooperation is this!
The Tigers called a timeout directly.

In the past two rounds, Xu Yong and DeRozan were no longer playing, but playing. This is not treating the Tigers as human beings.

DeRozan was also very excited at this time, he ran in front of Xu Yong and jumped up and bumped his chest.

The attempt just now was actually very risky, because it was just a judgment he made in a split second. If Xu Yong didn't understand it, it would most likely be a mistake.

But the facts proved that he and Xu Yongzhen had a natural tacit understanding. The moment he threw the ball, Xu Yong was already running up and taking off.

What is the tacit understanding of "go, enter the house" when I look at you.

This ball will become the headline of today's NCAA news!
The devil's bench, Harden looked more excited than Xu Yong and DeRozan, he directly stepped forward to give them two high-fives vigorously, and also made a big circle with both hands to show the windmill movement of Xu Yong's dunk just now.

At the same time, the action just now was played back on the large LED screen at the scene, which caused another burst of cheers from the scene.

There is a topic that is often discussed by fans, that is, what would happen if McGrady and Kobe played together.

This was most discussed in the summer of 2004, when Tracy McGrady was leaving the Magic.

It's just that McGrady went to the Rockets in the end, and the combination of the two ended up in vain.

Fans who are still looking forward to this aspect can only go to the amateur league to find highlights of the cooperation between the two.

But tonight, [Seven-point Kobe] DeRozan, [Mai Shiqian's successor] Xu Yong, the cooperation between the two in the past can be regarded as the first glimpse of the scene of Ke Mai playing together.

That is, a stewardess came to the stadium, and I will throw it after you have finished throwing it, the city of lobs!

……

In the end, the Devils beat the Tigers 86-66 in the season opener.

魔鬼队这边，徐永贡献了全队最高的22分7板3助攻，哈登16分5助攻，德罗赞12分3助攻。

For the Tigers, Evans became the lone hero, scoring a team-high 21 points, plus 5 rebounds and 7 assists.

Although this is just an invitational match, there is no such thing as revenge or not, but Sandek's goal has been achieved, and even exceeded expectations.

This game not only freed the members of the Devils from psychological pressure, but even built a strong self-confidence.

Although Rose is no longer in the Tigers, Evans' strength is obvious to all, and after all, this is also the 9th and 12th in the survey list. Before the game, I am afraid that no one would have thought that it would be such a one-sided situation.

It can only be said that the Devils showed too many unexpected things in the opening game.

Therefore, it can be predicted that if they continue to perform like this, their rankings may continue to rise when the new survey list comes out.

After the game was over, the players went back to the locker room one after another. After taking a shower and changing their clothes, they should go back to rest.

Xu Yong and Harden walked out of the locker room together. When they came out, a man in a suit and leather shoes stood at the door and looked at them with a smile.

The expressions of the two were stunned for a moment, because they both recognized each other.

"I'm Steve Kerr, Xu, can we sit down and talk?" Just when Xu Yong thought that the other party was looking for Harden, Cole smiled and stretched out his hand to him.

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