Entertaining Children

  Chapter 1139 Core Players

  The All-Star of the US NBA is a confrontation between the East and the West, and the All-Star of the NBA is a confrontation between the North and the South. This time the China Basketball Association's Masters also followed the division rules of the All-Star Game, dividing the team into two teams, the North and the South. Although Xiao Yao's habitual residence is in Shencheng, which is located in the south of China, he is arranged in the Northern Celebrity Team according to his native place in Yanjing.

  The players of the two teams are all stars. Even if they know each other, they haven't played together. The basketball game is a collective event. Even if it is a celebrity game in an exhibition game, players must pay attention to some tactics and cooperation. Therefore, before the game, the organizer also arranged training sessions for the two teams so that they can familiarize themselves with each other, formulate tactics and cooperation. Cultivate a tacit understanding of cooperation.

  In the training class, after the team members arrived, it was natural that everyone took turns to introduce themselves and get to know each other.

  In terms of participating players, this year's first China National Basketball Association All-Star Weekend Celebrity Tournament has some similarities and differences with the previous Charity All-Star Tournament and the NBA All-Star Weekend Masters Tournament.

  The celebrity games are dominated by non-professional basketball players' stars, and they are dominated by stars of the entertainment industry. In addition, this time there are also female players in both teams, and there will be scenes of male and female players competing on the same court. The difference is that only two retired former professional players participated in the NBA All-Star Weekend celebrity tournament, and there were no active professional players.

There will be rookie games and the All-Star game in the next two days of the All-Star Weekend. There is no shortage of opportunities for star players to perform. There is no need to join in the celebrity games and grab the limelight with other stars. So there is no male professional player in the team. Understandable. However, not only did the player list of the Masters lack that professional player, but also did not even have a female professional player. The female players on both sides were female stars of other professions, which made people feel a little surprised. It is important to know that the professional players' games in the All-Star Weekend are all men's games, and there is no opportunity for women to perform.

  For whatever reason, the list of players has been confirmed and announced.

  There are no active professional players, and the most professional players in the Masters must be the two former professional players. But when it comes to performance on the court, it is not necessarily these two that everyone is most looking forward to.

These two retired former professional players are both Americans. They spent the beginning and golden period of their careers in the NBA. They were also selected to the All-Stars of the NBA. They only moved to China at the end of their careers. Basketball and retired from the China National Basketball Team. The fame and strength of these two former professional players are unexplainable, but they have been retiring for a long time, and their bodies are already blessed. It's hard to say whether the technology has regressed, at least the physical fitness must have dropped drastically.

  Not to mention that professional players and non-professional players will play "Master Ball" in exhibition matches. Even if they want to play hard, this physical fitness cannot be guaranteed.

Xiao Yao was only twenty years old when he participated in the Charity Star Game, and he won the MVP with a large triple-double performance. Later, when he won a tie for the MVP with a triple-double at the Masters in the United States, he was only 21. year old. Xiao Yao is now twenty-three years old. Even though the officially announced height has not changed, the period from the age of 20 to 23 for boys is in the stage of physical growth. Normally, he should be stronger than before. .

There are no active professional players, and the two former professional players are relatively old. After the announcement of the celebrity list, both the media and the netizens on the Internet have set their sights on Xiao Yao and predicted Xiao Yao The voice of winning the Masters MVP is the most. Even Xiao Yao's teammates think so.

"Xiao Yao, with you in our team, we will definitely win! Is the MVP of this game also booked by you?" After everyone took turns to introduce themselves and met each other, there was a person named Fang Qing The girl smiled and asked Xiao Yao.

"It's just an exhibition game. It's most important for everyone to have fun!" Xiao Yao looked at the other people and said with a smile, "Of course, since it's a competition, we must all win. MVP, or something like that. It’s good to go with the flow. It’s okay to get the best if you can’t. It’s more important for our team to win!"

   "Cut~ It's not a reporter interview, do you want to be so official?" The girl named Fang Qing curled her lips.

   "Tell me about your goals, how many points do you plan to score in this game?" Another actor named Sheng Dongyuan asked Xiao Yao.

   "Very!" Xiao Yao smiled.

   "What? The goal is so low?" Several people were surprised.

  Although scoring ten points in a basketball game is not a very simple task, it is for the average person. Based on the level Xiao Yao demonstrated in several basketball games, this time the opponent did not have any powerful roles such as professional players. This goal was obviously lower than their psychological expectations.

"There are no professional players on our team this time, so I applied to play the first position on offense." Xiao Yao said, "As a point guard, my goal is to assist, not to score. This game, I My goal is to create a new high in the number of assists in my exhibition career. Then I would like to ask you all to help me a lot."

  For the pre-match media and the Internet preaching that he would definitely win the Masters MVP, Xiao Yao not only did not feel complacent, but was a little worried.

  MVP speaks by performance and data on the court. If Xiao Yao performed better than others in the game, he would really win the MVP, I believe no one would say anything. And it's just an exhibition game, and everyone is not a professional player, and they don't take it that seriously. But the game hasn't started yet, it's not a good thing to say that the MVP is Xiao Yao's pocket, and almost ignore the other stars in the competition.

   Xiao Yao has participated in two exhibition matches before, and the dazzling statistics are there. At least from previous performance and surface data, others are not qualified to challenge Xiao Yao. Even Zhuo Zhiyuan, who has been assigned to the Southern Celebrity Team this time, has always been a basketball player. When interviewed by reporters this time, he said in a low-key manner that this competition was with a waist injury and his focus was on participating. I don't care about the MVP anymore, and no one of the other star players publicly talks to Xiao Yao for MVP in front of the media. This is also the origin of this current wave of public opinion.

  But no one said publicly, it doesn't mean that there is no idea in others' hearts. You know, most of the celebrity players selected by the organizers of the NBA All-Star Weekend will be able to play. This kind of situation will inevitably cause some stars who think they are good at basketball to resent Xiao Yao, and then deliberately target Xiao Yao during the game.

  If it's the opponent's targeted defense, Xiao Yao is not afraid, but if his teammates deliberately target him and don't pass the ball to him, he can't care less. Although Xiao Yao didn’t have to win this MVP, he could also grab rebounds and attack on his own. He didn’t necessarily run empty and did nothing, but such a game can only show his failure and incompetence in handling interpersonal relationships. Xiao Yao couldn't accept it.

  Even if not all teammates will deliberately target him, only one or two will deliberately target him not to pass the ball, Xiao Yao doesn't want that to happen, because that means that the atmosphere in the team will be problematic. There is a gap between some members of the team, which will also affect the combat effectiveness. Xiao Yao came to participate in this game, and he also wanted to win.

   Come forward and say in the media that he has no intention of MVP? Obviously it was a lie. If the MVP came, Xiao Yao would definitely not refuse. Such remarks would only appear hypocritical and hypocritical, and Xiao Yao would not bother to do so. He only needs to resolve the relationship between his teammates.

  For teammates, there is definitely no need to say anything like I don’t compete for MVP, and it also seems very fake. All he needs is to let everyone know that he doesn't plan to show the limelight alone, and hopes that the whole team can be successful on the court.

In the list of players of the Northern Celebrity Team this time, there is no teammate from Xiao Yao’s last charity match, nor anyone who has worked with him, so there is no teammate who knows Xiao Yao’s character privately, so he didn’t help Xiao Yao from the beginning. Speaker. Xiao Yao hadn't planned to say that he used multiple passes to show his attitude when he was preparing for training, but now that someone brought up these topics, Xiao Yao made a verbal statement by the way.

  The so-called assist is to pass the ball to teammates to score. In the game, the scoring person is always more of the limelight. Although assists are also a very important statistic, they are still slightly worse than scoring. Xiao Yao scored fifteen assists in the charity star game that year. To create a new high, he has to exceed this number, so he will not pass the ball less frequently in the game.

   Xiao Yao said this, which means that he will not play alone by himself, but will make his teammates score a more important task. After saying this, Xiao Yao could also feel that everyone's smiles were much sincere.

  "You are not the same as others if you don't ask for scores and assists!" Fang Qing said with a smile.

   "But since we are in a team and we are all teammates, then everyone will try their best to help you accomplish this goal." Sheng Dongyuan continued.

   "Yes!" everyone else also smiled.

   "Well, now that the goal is set, then we will start training!" A middle-aged man clapped his hands and said, "Although it is an exhibition match, we must strive to win!"

  The middle-aged man is called Yi Yang. He is a well-known basketball commentator and the deputy editor-in-chief and director of the basketball department of a paper-based media company in China. Although he has never been a professional player or coach, he is also a professional in basketball. In this celebrity tournament, he will serve as the head coach of the Northern Celebrities.

   "Okay!" These players all agreed in unison when the coach had spoken.

   "First of all, I need to understand where everyone is good at the game." Yi Yang said.

   "You just said, I also watched your two games. If you know how to use you, you don't need to talk about it anymore." Yi Yang looked at Xiao Yao.

   Xiao Yao nodded.

   "Now other people take turns to talk about it, I will make some adjustments according to the actual situation." Yi Yang looked at the others, "Who will come first?"

   "Me!" Sheng Dongyuan first said, "I think I can play shooting guard or small forward."

   "Got it," Yi Yang took a note and nodded, "You can be tall, you can practice for a while and then look at it, the next one!"

   "I don't know where I am suitable for playing," Fang Qing said, "I am a girl, and my height and weight are not comparable to those of their boys. I will definitely not be able to make the inside line. Just look for opportunities outside to shoot!"

"That's not necessarily!" Yi Yang glanced at Xiao Yao, and Fang Qing said, "Have you seen the NBA All-Star Weekend celebrity game the year before? It was a girl who won the MVP tie with Xiao Yao that time. That girl is about the same size as you. She is an anchor, not a professional player. She scored more than 20 points in that game and Xiao Yao assisted many of the goals. You can watch that game. If you have a chance, you You can also go inside, especially during fast breaks."

"Really?" Fang Qing looked at Xiao Yao and said, "Then you can also get me more than 20 points? No, I didn't want to get a tie for MVP, as long as I could get 10 points and score two points. Count, I will be content!"

"This depends on your shooting accuracy and awareness and running position." Xiao Yao said, "As long as you run to the right position and I see it again, you will definitely pass the ball to you in time! I said it, compared to To score, I prefer passing assists."

"Speaking of which," Yi Yang smiled to Xiao Yao, "I remember the charity basketball game in China three years ago. You didn't score a point in the first quarter, but you sent out five assists. You still gave different teammates. , It seems you really like assists!"

  Yi Yang saw Xiao Yao repeatedly mentioning this point, and he probably guessed Xiao Yao's thoughts, so he helped him out. Even if they don't know the specific basketball level of these people, Yi Yang also feels that no one of these people can surpass Xiao Yao's basketball strength except the former professional player. And Xiao Yao is not only a scorer, but also an organizer of the team, helping his teammates score. If you want to win the game, players like Xiao Yao will of course be regarded as the core of the team. Xiao Yao is afraid of the estrangement between his teammates and him, of course his head coach must help.

   "It seems to be!" Yi Yang said so, and some others thought of this.

  Although Xiao Yao's scoring ability is very strong, even a rare dunk player among entertainment star amateur players, he started to show his basketball skills in public games with passing assists.

   "Okay! Go on to the next one!" Yi Yang just clicked it and didn't say more, and continued to ask the next person.

"Xiao Yao just said that he wants to play at the number one position. I agree with this, but only for offense. With his height, he has to go inside most of the time on defense." After all the players were finished, Yi Yang Announcing, “When Xiao Yao is on the court, Xiao Yao holds the ball and distributes the ball when attacking, with him as the core of the offense. Pay attention to distribute the ball, not let him play alone! When defending, Xiao Yao stands under the basket and directs the defense. Also use him as the defensive core."

  (End of this chapter)