Healthy basketball, starting from eating the old Lakers F4

Chapter 79 Rookie Challenge, Sword Pointing to MVP
"Brother, what program is today?"

"Going to sea again?"

At 2 pm on February 13, Dunn, Anthony and Wade met again.

"I'll take you for a massage later."

Dunn explained the arrangements for the afternoon to Anthony and Wade.

Wade smiled and said, "Are you serious?"

"Hey, you're absolutely serious!" Du En smirked.

Anthony also showed his trademark bright smile of a sunny and cheerful big boy.

It didn't take long for Anthony and Wade, who were enjoying the massage, to scream "ah, ah, ah".

"Brother, I will crack you!"

"Dune, didn't you agree that it would be very comfortable?"

Facing the doubts from Anthony and Wade, Du En said indifferently: "I'm just asking you, are you comfortable? Are you serious?"

Anthony and Wade heard this and could only say fuck.

"Forget what you learned in rookie training camp?

We should hit the ball well now and not pay too much attention to other things.

There is also a Rookie Challenge tonight!You don't want to lose to those guys in the second grade, do you? "

As a local snake in Los Angeles, if Dunn wants to continue to arrange a feast for Anthony and Wade, it will naturally not be difficult, and Dunn is not short of the money.

The problem is, Duane needs the MVP of the Rookie Challenge, and Duane needs to rely on the strength of Anthony and Wade to help him win the next Rookie Challenge.

Usually the rookie challenge is won by the second-year team with more experience in the game.

And the Rookie Challenge MVP will only be selected from the winning team.

Dunn checked in advance. Since the rookie challenge was held in 94, until the All-Star Weekend last year, a total of 9 rookie challenge MVPs were born.

They are Anfernee Hardaway, Eddie Jones, Damon Stoudemire, Allen Iverson, Zaidrunas Ilgauskas, Elton Bran De, Wally Szczerbiak, Jason Richardson, Gilbert Arenas.

In other words, once Dunn wins the MVP of the Rookie Challenge, the upper limit will be a super giant like Iverson, and the lower limit will be a quasi-All-Star like Momonga or Richardson who averaged 20+ per game at his peak.

This is also because most of the Rookie Challenge MVPs are All-Star players, which means that the Rookie Challenge MVP template is no different from the All-Star template.

The Rookie Challenge is about to begin, and with the help of Anthony and Wade, Duane will naturally not miss the good opportunity to win the MVP template of the Rookie Challenge.

"Dunn, you are right, then let the three of us win the rookie challenge tonight!

However, you have to treat us well tomorrow, and then don't make excuses!
We came to Los Angeles to see you. "

After yesterday afternoon's sea adventure, Anthony also began to liberate his nature and his personality became lively and cheerful.

In the past, Anthony was more sullen. Even in matters between men and women, it was his girlfriend who took the initiative to attack him, which forced him to submit.

Just like going to sea yesterday, Anthony is like an old scumbag, not taking the initiative, not refusing, and not being responsible.But when it comes to doing business, he works harder than anyone else.

It was also yesterday that Wade invited Dunn to explore the sea in Miami, and Anthony realized that it was still possible to play like this.

Nowadays, no one has a girlfriend around them, so naturally they are more relaxed.

"Don't worry, even if there is a slam dunk contest to participate in tomorrow, I will give up my life to accompany Junzi, and I will definitely make you happy!"

Duane made a commitment, and Anthony and Wade had no other opinions.

The time soon came to more than three o'clock in the afternoon, and the three of Dunn arrived at the Staples Center together and began to warm up and practice.

The game time of the Rookie Challenge is earlier than the regular game, starting at 05:30.

However, there are usually not many people watching the Rookie Challenge, and the arena with 2 people must not be full.

Sometimes, it is even arranged to play in university arenas with only four to five thousand seats.

Of course, as players on both sides of the competition, they still attach great importance to this game, and came to the Staples Center early to start warming up in advance.

When the three of Dunn arrived at the arena, Hinrich, Bosh, Kaman and others had already arrived, and most of the collars of the first-year rookie training uniforms were already wet.

And here, Du En met Yao Ming again.

Originally, it was just a simple exchange of pleasantries, but members of the Yao team pestered them again. Not long after, some domestic reporters wanted to interview Du En.

Du En could only delay the warm-up time a little bit to deal with one or two.

Fortunately, there was not too much entanglement. After a few minutes of simple interviews, Du En and the first-year rookies participated in the group warm-up. ,

In other words, this year's Eastern and Western All-Star coaches are Carlisle of the Pacers and Sanders of the Timberwolves.

The Western All-Star head coach should have been a Zen master, after all, the Lakers are the No. [-] team in the Western Conference.

However, Zen Master refused on the grounds that he was ill. In fact, he did not want to work overtime on the All-Star Weekend, but went on vacation with Jenny.

And Rick Adelman, the head coach of the second Kings in the West, was the head coach of the Western All-Star last year, so this year the Western All-Star head coach fell directly to Sanders, who is the third in the West.

This also means that the coaches of the first-year team and the second-year team are the assistant coaches of the Pacers and Timberwolves respectively.

Although the coach in the Rookie Challenge is usually a show-off, he will not call timeout casually.

However, it does have some coaching responsibilities, being able to decide which five people will play on the court.

It is also because of Duane's good relationship with Reggie Miller that Pacers assistant coach Mike Brown also has a good attitude towards Duane.

That's right, it is the only bread that has coached Kobe, James, and Curry in the future!

Last season, Mike Brown served as Popovich's assistant, received a championship ring with the Spurs, and then jumped to the Pacers with Carlisle.

Also because of his background in the Spurs, Mike Brown is currently better at building a defensive system, and of course he has some understanding of the tactics of handing the ball to Duncan.

If it takes another ten years, Mike Brown's tactics can be expanded to, give the ball to James, give the ball to Kobe, and give the ball to Curry...

In short, Mike Brown, who also wants to help the first-year team win the Rookie Challenge, knows how to use the resources of the first-year rookies, reasonably match the lineup, and establish a better defensive system.

Wade, Hinrich, Dunn, Anthony, Bosh, this is the starting lineup selected by Mike Brown.

In fact, it is more suitable for Hinrich to play point guard and Wade to play shooting guard, but in the Heat and Bulls, Wade is playing point guard and Hinrich is also playing shooting guard.

As for Bosh, even O'Neal has defeated him. What's wrong with competing against Yao Ming in the Rookie Challenge?Try without dying.

Although the current starting lineup is relatively small, Duane is still very satisfied.

The Rookie Challenge is similar to the All-Star Game, and the first three quarters (the first 30 minutes) are not seriously defended.

Therefore, they usually play fast breaks, keep turning back and running, and hit the basket.

It doesn't matter if the starting lineup is smaller. It's useless to send out the Five Deaths anyway. They are all undefended, so it's not as good as the Five Deaths to speed up!

Besides, in the starting lineup, both Wade and Anthony are Dunn's brothers.

Wade plays point guard, isn't that just to dribble for Duane?

Dunn is naturally very satisfied with this more suitable lineup.

As for whether anyone will feel dissatisfied?James is naturally not satisfied.

"Obviously I'm the No. [-] pick!"

James replaced Duane because of the Rookie Challenge. With a look of grievance and dissatisfaction, he approached Mike Brown for an explanation.

Mike Brown didn't care too much about James' unreasonable trouble, but asked James: "Can you replace Dunn, or are you willing to replace Cameron as the fourth?"

In order to better adapt to the rhythm of the NBA game and give full play to his own strengths, James always plays the No. [-] position in the Cavaliers.

Now if he is asked to do the dirty work in the fourth position, wouldn't it be more uncomfortable than killing him?
Although James really wants to replace Duane, after all, this starting lineup is also very suitable for him to play.

But the problem is that Duane's ability in the regular season, whether it is all aspects of statistics, team leadership results, or matchup performance, leaves him speechless.

Now that the only rookie who disagrees has shut up, the first-year team's starting lineup is set.

In the blink of an eye, the time came to 05:30 in the evening, and most of the seats in the Staples Center were filled with spectators.

Although the entire arena could not be filled, compared to the previous Rookie Challenge, it was already very remarkable.

"Dunn, do you want to jump ball?"

Before the start of the jump ball, Bosh took the initiative to release goodwill with Dunn.

The starting center for the sophomore team was Yao Ming, and the jump ball was supposed to be Bosh and Yao Ming.

However, considering that Du En and Yao Ming are from the same country, Bosh gave the jump ball to Du En.

Hearing this, Du En also nodded and thanked: "Thank you, Chris, I will pass the ball to you later."

"Hey, that's a good deal! I know your pass is great, and Shaq often praises you in the media!"

In the shadow of a famous tree, it seems that Bosh has also paid attention to Du En for a long time, and wants to play brother basketball together in the future.

"Dayao, I'll dance the ball with you."

"Okay, hahaha!"

Seeing Du En coming in front of him, Yao Ming also smiled with a characteristic embarrassment.

Soon, the referee threw the ball into the air. Perhaps Yao Ming didn't take it seriously at all, and didn't take off, but just stood there and stretched out his hand.

But Du En was serious, and really tried his best to get the ball from Yao Ming, so he jumped hard.

When Du En flew into the air, he realized that Yao Ming hadn't taken off yet.

"Dayao, don't release the water, it's meaningless to release the water."

Du En slapped the ball back to the backcourt, said something to Yao Ming, and then walked to the frontcourt.

Soon, Wade dribbled the ball across the half court, and Duane didn't even ask for the ball. Wade gave the ball to Duane knowingly, and then played without the ball, getting rid of Ginobili's defense, He went around and cut to the basket.

Seeing this, Du En raised his hand in a feint to attract the defense.

In the first 30 minutes of the rookie challenge, he didn't take defense seriously, but he would stretch his arms and legs, just pretending.

Du En is the most famous among the first graders. If Du En raises his hand on a fake shot, the second grade perimeter player will naturally rush towards Du En and pretend to interfere.

Unexpectedly, Du En's move was a fake shot and a real pass. With lightning speed, he passed the ball to Wade under the basket.

Wade's speed was too fast, and when Wade rushed to the basket, Yao Ming was still outside the restricted area.

At this time, Wade got the ball, and if Yao Ming wants to defend Wade, he needs to take another step into the penalty area.

It was also because Yao Ming was relatively honest in defense. He noticed that Wade was getting the ball under the basket, so he took a serious step into the penalty area, and then saw the power of Wade's throw.

"Brother, you are working too hard. This is the Rookie Challenge, there is no need to play like this."

Seeing that Wade scored two plus one, Du En immediately stepped forward to help Wade.

At the same time, Anthony also walked towards Wade.

Wade also knew that Duane and Anthony would come to help him, so he didn't rush to get up from the ground, but just stretched out his hands towards Duane and Anthony.

"Did you two secretly practice more behind my back? Why do you cooperate so tacitly?"

Anthony first put on a posture that I came first, then smiled and said: "I like the feeling of tacit cooperation between brothers."

Soon, Wade was pulled up from the ground by Duane and Anthony, and then stood on the free throw line, high-fiving Duane and other starters one after another.

brush--

Additional penalties were added, and the first-year team led by three points.

(End of this chapter)