Standing pretty old

Chapter 566 Rookie Challenge ([-])
"Kenny, Kraft played casually tonight, I think the first-year opportunity has come." James said confidently in the TNT commentary booth.

"Oh, do you think so? However, the Celestials performed well. He has already scored 13 rebounds. Why do you say that the first grade has a chance?" Kenny Smith pretended to be puzzled.

James said: "It's true that Kraft Nguyen grabbed a lot of rebounds, but he didn't have a strong offensive and defensive presence.

His rebounding awareness may be unprecedented in basketball history, but that doesn't guarantee second-year offensive efficiency.

Look, the sophomores substituted Kraft Nguyen and Kevin Durant at the same time, and they'll pay the price for that switch soon. "

TNT made their predictions, while Chaotingtai emphasized Er Niu's performance in the past period of time.

Yang Jian said: "Although Ruan Erniu didn't score many points, he grabbed the most 13 rebounds in the game, and scored 5 points and 5 assists. He has a chance to win the rookie game MVP again tonight!"

Zhang Lili also said: "Although Durant has already scored 13 points, if Er Niu can score more points in the later games, he is still very likely to win the MVP again. Of course, the premise is that the sophomore To win the game."

Just after Zhang Lili said this, the first-year team replaced Fernandez, who performed well from the three-point line, and replaced him with OJ* Mayo. With the addition of screw and round face Deng, the rookies have a total of three guards appear on the field at the same time.

After going through the opening test, the first-year team not only did not slow down to use the height of Lopez and Gasol to play positional warfare, but accelerated the offensive rhythm, trying to challenge the second-year team in the most extreme way.

D. Wade, the assistant coach of the first-year team who stuck the blue commercial tape on his face, also stood up, waving his hands and directing the game.

The tactic of changing guards to strengthen the offense is not like the work of the Lakers assistant Rambis, but has a strong Heat style.

However, if you do it a little more extreme, you can simply replace Lopez with Westbrook, let Beasley go to the fifth position, and simply hit the second-year team with the ultimate small ball.

Even if they didn't do this, with their super offensive firepower, the first-year team gradually caught up and even surpassed the score in just a few minutes.

Ordinarily at this time, Larry Drew should be replaced by Er Niu and Durant, but coach Drew doesn't know whether he is willing to be a clay bodhisattva, or whether assistant coach Howard's aura is too strong, anyway, no one thinks of it. Put the two strongest firepower points of the second grade team back on the court.

The score of the two teams was once stretched to more than 8 points. Fortunately, the official timeout every 5 minutes came again. This time, the interests of advertisers inadvertently saved the second-year veterans once again.

Ruan Erniu and Durant looked at each other, and they both saw the desire for victory in each other's eyes.

To be honest, the premise of not working hard is to win the game. If you are defeated by a first-year rookie, whether it is Ruan Erniu, a contemporary superstar, or Durant, a popular spicy chicken, will be embarrassed.

This is the pride and paranoia of the strong. In one point, Ruan Erniu is obviously better than the current LeBron James, and is closer to Kobe Bryant.

Only the truly strong will hate failure and regard victory as the best physical medicine.

The sparks of yelling and commanding on the sidelines one moment, and preparing to pour a bowl of chicken soup for the rookies of the second grade the next moment.

But Ruan Erniu had already stood up and walked among the players, he was about to seize power!

"Superman, I'm sorry, give me some time!" Ruan Erniu interrupted Spark's chicken soup class in such a straightforward manner, and then said to his teammates, "I can't be led by the nose by rookies anymore, I know everyone It's all about enjoying the game, but losing is the most painful ending, and I don't think anyone here wants to be last year's sophomore team?"

The same is chicken soup, the spark is more about motivation, but for the 07 class who defeated the second-year team, their desire for victory in this game is far from enough.

Ruan Erniu's rhetoric naturally has elements of chicken soup, but he is more to arouse the fear of failure in the second grade.

No one in this world likes to fail, especially the veterans who have played in the league for more than a year, and they don't want to be defeated by the first-year rookies.

Ruan Erniu and Durant returned to the court, but the seized spark still did not change his true nature of playing tricks, and continued to walk around in front of the players' bench, loudly directing the second-year players on the court.

To put it bluntly, this is heartless, but to put it bluntly, it is purely self-indulgent, not just shameless!

Well, the minds of the American people are indeed not that complicated. Anyway, Sparks just want to show off, and Ruan Erniu on the field has no time to care about these things. He just wants to get the score back first.

Sophomores must step up their defense!

They can no longer expand the score further. Once the opponent leads by more than double digits, it will become a game that is easily given up for the rookie challenge game that is not strong enough in defense.

First-year offense.

Westbrook, who was replaced on the field, held the ball from the outside, and quickly passed Durant who was defending him in a straight line. Although the two Thunder players were both playing the second position, the misalignment was too obvious.

"Whoosh!"

Westbrook chose to hit the basket directly, of course Ruan Erniu would not let his friend succeed!
"boom!"

With a solid big hat, Er Niu put aside the brotherhood and the friendship of classmates at the moment.

After Luis Scola got the ball, he immediately made a long pass to the frontcourt, and Jeff Green and Durant were already about to play.

Green got the basketball from beyond the three-point line, and in front of him was Derrick Rose, who was in place to defend in time, but being close to Rose of the Windy City alone was not enough to stop the Thunder's second young master's defensive counterattack.

Jeff Green sent a second pass from the crotch, and the ball went straight to the basket and was in the hands of Durant, who was unguarded. Durant dunked the basket with both arms and scored 2 points, ending the offensive and defensive transition.

Westbrook, who was still angry with Ruan Er in the backcourt, complained: "Hey, Kraft, this is a rookie game, do we need to defend so hard?"

Ruan Erniu chuckled: "Two days ago, Mr. Stern made it clear that he hoped that the first- and second-year rookies would play well and not turn the Rookie Challenge into an exhibition match. I was just following the instructions of Mr. President!"

Westbrook gave Er Niu a hard look, stepped aside and ignored this hypocritical guy.

What a joke, starting from the group of James, Stern began to emphasize that rookie players should play the rookie game seriously, and don't bring the set of performances and shows to the rookie challenge.

However, several years have passed, how should the rookies be handsome or how to be handsome, whether to defend or not to defend, like Ruan Erniu did last year, suddenly increase the defensive intensity from the beginning, and regard the Rookie Challenge as a regular season The game I am playing has actually gone against the trend of this event.

However, this year, Ruan Erniu repeated his old tricks and once again strengthened his own defensive strength, and no one could say anything.

Because Ruan Erniu's status is there, as the team leader with the league's first record in the regular season, he has the qualifications to do what he thinks is right in the rookie game.

Just like the 03 Golden Three Heroes, who completely defined the rookie game as an exhibition game, stars like Ruan Erniu and Durant are also qualified to define the game they participate in as the mode they want.

61:58, the end of the first half.

In the end, the first-year team relied on the first-mover advantage to lead the second-year team by 3 points, but everyone present knew that the second half of the game would inevitably become more difficult.

Durant scored 24 points at halftime, the highest scoring player in the two teams, and he is very likely to refresh the record for the highest scoring rookie game created by Stoudemire.

And Ruan Erniu also scored a terrifying quasi triple-double record of 11 points, 17 rebounds, and 8 assists in the halftime. Last year, he scored 34 points, 22 rebounds, and 22 assists in the rookie game super triple-double record. It seems that today After experiencing the relaxation at the beginning of the competition, Ruan Erniu also gradually became serious and began to move towards a new magical record!
(End of this chapter)