At the beginning of the death entanglement, Curry followed me to slam dunk

Chapter 89

Judging from the pre-match lineup, the second-year team undoubtedly outpaced the first-year rookies in every position.

Especially in the three-second zone, Lopez, Gasol Jr., Love, these are all players who have proven themselves in the NBA.

Compared with the inside combination composed of 2 meters Taj Gibson and 06 meters Blair in the first-year team, their advantage is even more obvious.

What's more, the sophomore team had previously won seven straight seasons.

Therefore, most fans and media are generally optimistic that the second-year rookies can teach their juniors a lesson.

However, Du Zhe knew that in this rookie competition, the first-year team happened to be upset and won the game with a hearty victory.

Therefore, among the casual teammates, Du Zhe seemed very serious.

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"Hello, audience friends, I am Director Zhang, today's commentary."

"I am today's commentator and guide."

With the familiar voices of the two commentators, today's game is about to officially start.

"We can see that today Du Zhe has overwhelmed Michael Beasley, who was ranked second in 08, and appeared in the team's starting lineup."

"This is also the league's recognition of Du Zhe's recent strong performance." Director Zhang habitually praised Du Zhe at the beginning.

Director Yu, based on the pre-match preparations, followed the script: "Well, Du Zhe is also the third player from Huaguo to participate in the Rookie Challenge."

"Dayao played for the second-year team in 04, and they beat the famous 03 Platinum Generation in that game."

"However, Dayao didn't perform very well in that game. He only scored 6 points and 5 rebounds."

"As for the UAE, he played for a first-year rookie in the year before. He scored 8 points and 2 rebounds in that game."

"I don't know if Du Zhe can bring us some surprises this year and realize the breakthrough of Huaguo players in the Rookie Challenge."

Director Zhang on the other side naturally has full confidence in Du Zhe: "I think according to Du Zhe's style of play, he can 100% perform brilliantly in this kind of performance-oriented rookie competition."

"Of course, considering that Du Zhe will participate in the slam dunk contest and three-point contest in the future, he may also have some reservations in today's game." Director Zhang felt that what he said just now was a bit dead, so he went back and made up for it a little bit.

Just between the introductions of the two commentators, the rookies of the two teams officially appeared, and the game was about to begin.

"The audience can see that the leader of the second-year team and the winner of the Rookie of the Year last season - Derek Rose, did not play today." Director Zhang first introduced the changes in the players.

Then he took over from the coach and gave a further explanation: "Yes, Rose has asked for leave from the league before the game, and has been approved to miss this year's rookie match."

"However, fans of Rose don't need to be discouraged. After all, Rose has been selected to the All-Star team. In the follow-up All-Star Game, he will still play normally."

"And the second-year team replaced Rose with Italian small forward Danilo Gallinari. He is currently playing for the Knicks and averaging 15 points per game."

In the gap between the two introductions, the two teams have completed the opening jump ball.

Sophomore Brook Lopez won the jumper and gave his team a chance to go first.

In addition to Du Zhe, Lopez's desire to win today is also extremely high.

If Du Zhe's purpose is to get rewards, then Lopez's purpose is very simple, he is simply afraid of losing.

Before the All-Star weekend, the Nets had 4 wins and 48 losses. They were bullied in the league. The whole team had long forgotten what it was like to win.

So even in this entertaining rookie challenge, Lopez worked hard to win.

However, in this kind of game, the inside line without the ball often doesn't have much room to play, and can only become a foil for the game.

Three minutes after the opening, Du Zhe finally ushered in his first chance to make a move.

He used his running position to successfully get rid of Casspi's marking, and scored a three-pointer from outside the three-point line.

However, Du Zhe is a player who mainly plays off the ball, and the level of tacit cooperation between teammates in this kind of game is also incomparable to usual.

In addition, the team's defender also wanted to express himself, so in the next few rounds, he only watched his teammates perform.

The two teams haven't taken it seriously on the defensive end, and the score has been rising alternately without widening the gap.

However, this year's first-year rookies are obviously not afraid of tigers. Different from being easily handled in the past, the first-year team played extremely active in this game. The two starting guards Evans and Jennings frequently relied on breakthroughs. succeed.

For a while, the second-year rookies who were old seniors felt a faint feeling of being suppressed.

Especially when the sixth man James Harden came on the field, the situation on the field became more and more unfavorable for the second-year team.

Evans, Jennings, and Harden, one is the point guard version of James, the other is Mr. 55 points, plus a thunder star, the combination of the three guards can be said to be able to shoot suddenly.

Seeing that the situation on the field became more and more unfavorable, Du Zhe also ignored other things and began to secretly increase his defensive strength.

And with his current defensive ability, these first-year rookies will definitely not be able to handle him as long as he is strong.

Especially Evans, he was the one who won the MVP of this rookie match in his previous life, and now he naturally needs to be taken care of by Du Zhe.

Evans still wanted to break through like before, but after the frontal defensive player was replaced by Du Zhe this time, he was already timid for three points.

Counting the summer league, Evans has played against Du Zhe four times in total, but after these four fights, he has been worse every time.

Originally in the summer league, he could barely compete with Du Zhe.

But in the regular season, the original Huaguo player, who had average physical fitness and relied more on skill and experience to defend, turned around and made up for his shortcomings.

Although at other times he was the favorite of everyone, but when he met Du Zhe in the regular season, he had no choice but to cut off the power.

This time was no exception. Evans originally wanted to show off his skills, but Du Zhe simply refused to accept his fancy tricks.

Originally, Evans wanted to rely on his physical advantage, but now he is no longer facing those thin point guards.

Du Zhe, who was one size bigger than him, did not suffer at all in the confrontation. Instead, relying on his wingspan advantage, he steadily and ruthlessly broke the ball in Evans' hands.

After stealing the ball, Du Zhe immediately counterattacked with the ball.

The two defenders, Westbrook and Gordon, reacted quickly, leaving and following the counterattack for a fast break.

But Du Zhe has no plans to pass the ball now, so he chose to do it himself this time.

Today he has to play alone.

(End of this chapter)