Entertaining Children

   Chapter 927 Tied MVP

  In the beginning of the fourth quarter, both sides sent the same lineup as the beginning of the first quarter.

  In this lineup, Xiao Yao and Kevin Donovan from the Eastern Celebrities are present at the same time. When attacking, Xiao Yao still played the point guard to organize. When defending, Kevin Donovan went to defend the opposing point guard Robert Foden, and Xiao Yao played the power forward position at the No. 4 position, defending the inside with Albert Lawrence.

   Although the two female professional players under the basket have a considerable advantage in height, they are both playing "Master Ball" and they are not particularly active. Xiao Yao was on the inside side of the defense and was closer to the basket. Of course, he became the main force for rebounding.

  In more than three minutes after the start of the fourth quarter, Xiao Yao grabbed two backcourt defensive rebounds. With more than eight minutes before the end of the game, Xiao Yao's scoring, assists, and rebounding data reached double digits and got a triple-double.

  In addition, in the offensive, Xiao Yao also continued to make contributions. Although he did not shoot and score and only had one assist, but with his sharp breakthrough and reasonable passing, the Eastern Celebrities still played a better offensive performance than the Western Celebrities in more than three minutes. The lead on the score expanded to 8 points.

  On the field, the Western Celebrities team got a free throw opportunity. When the game entered the dead ball time, the Eastern Celebrities team replaced Xiao Yao with two professional players, Albert Lawrence and Kevin Donovan. The Western Celebrities also replaced professional players Carmel Norton and Robert Foden, and replaced two non-professional star players.

  In the next period of time, neither professional players are present on the court, nor is there a better offensive organizer. Everyone has a much simpler and more direct approach to offense. The pace of the game has improved a lot, the number of rounds in the same time has increased, and the scene seems to be a lot of lively, but from the perspective of efficiency, it has declined somewhat.

  During this period, it was obvious that the Western Celebrities players who were behind in the score played more aggressively and harder, but after all, they were all non-professional players, the difference in strength was not very big, and they did not recover the score much.

  Although this is an exhibition match, since it is a match, no one wants to lose, at least not without resistance.

  When there were more than five minutes left in the game, the Western Celebrities took the lead in making changes. Taking advantage of the chance of a dead ball, the Western Celebrities replaced Robert Foden again, and also replaced several amateur players with good hands, including Scott Carr.

After the    substitution, Robert Foden of the Western Celebrities did not lower the pace of the game on the court, but chose to attack. And in the first two rounds of the three offenses (grabbing an offensive rebound), all chose long shots from beyond the three-point line.

  In a basketball game, the best way to chase points is undoubtedly a three-pointer. This adjustment of the Western Celebrities clearly wanted to give it a go and make a fuss outside the three-point line.

  Three three-pointers were taken, Robert Foden and Scott Carr made each and scored six points. But since looking back, the two offenses of the Eastern Celebrities were also scored by Rita Mitchell's mid-range shot and Ben Skool's turn around the basket, so the point difference was only reduced by two points.

  Although the point difference has not been narrowed too much, the Eastern Celebrities also responded quickly. After the Western Celebrities missed their fourth three-pointer in a short period of time, after the Eastern Celebrities' Tom Casey scored a rebound, the Eastern Celebrities coaching staff immediately called a timeout.

  This timeout, the coach of the Eastern Celebrities team arranged some arrangements. When he returned from the timeout, he once again sent Kevin Donovan and Xiao Yao on the field.

  After Xiao Yao came on the field, he still played the position of point guard on offense. After receiving a sideline kick from his teammate, Xiao Yao quickly dribbled the ball to the opponent's half, but did not rush to pass, break or shoot. Instead, he stopped at the top of the three-point arc and slowly dribbled the ball. The tempo of the game dropped.

  After spending seven or eight seconds of offensive time, Xiao Yao greeted Kevin Donovan on the flanks to come over and play a pick-and-roll cooperation with him. Taking advantage of the gap between the opponent's substitution and defense, Xiao Yao passed the ball to Kevin Donovan, who cut to the inside after the pick-and-roll. Kevin Donovan turned around after receiving the ball, but passed the ball to Rita Mitchell in the open before the opponents caught the ball. After receiving the ball, Rita Mitchell made a shot and scored two points again.

After coming back, Xiao Yao no longer received the basket to play inside while defending. Instead, he went to the outside to defend Robert Foden, the best professional player of the opponent's three-pointer, while Kevin Donovan went to mark the defense. Another excellent outside pitcher of the Western Celebrities, Scott Carr.

  Robel Foden took a step with the scout, made a false breakthrough, quickly retracted his leg, and pulled up the shot directly outside the three-point line.

  Xiao Yao moved his center of gravity back and watched after Robert Foden took a shot, he immediately raised his arm and jumped up to block the shot. Xiao Yao's reaction speed and bounce were all manifested at this moment. Although it took off after Robert Foden, his raised finger still prodded the basketball thrown by Robert Foden. Although not a complete shot, the basketball was touched by Xiao Yao and turned into a hollow outside the basket, falling into the hands of Ben Skuer under the basket.

   After receiving the basketball, Ben Skool immediately threw the basketball to the opponent's half court and launched a fast break. After landing, Xiao Yao and Rita Mitchell, who was the most active in the fast break, immediately rushed to the other half.

  This ball Ben Skuer didn't look at anyone when he passed the ball. It threw it a bit too big, and Xiao Yao, who rushed very fast, caught up with the basketball when he was close to the baseline. At this time, Xiao Yao was about to cross the bottom line, and it was impossible to stop the forward momentum while braking while catching the ball. So Xiao Yao jumped up immediately after receiving the ball, turned around in the air, and passed the basketball to Rita Mitchell who was following him.

  Rita Mitchell, who had rushed to within the three-second zone, took the ball and threw the basketball. The basketball hit the backboard and fell into the hoop.

  Bill Justin, who came back from defending Rita Mitchell, caught the basketball that fell from the basket, walked to the bottom line, and prepared to quickly send the bottom line ball.

After landing, Xiao Yao had no time to celebrate with Rita Mitchell, and immediately stood at the bottom line of the opponent's basket, facing Bill Justin, waving his arms and interfering with the opponent's serve. At this time, the opponent has a numerical advantage in the opposite half. If Bill Justin passes the basketball to his teammates directly, it will undoubtedly be extremely detrimental to his side.

   Xiaoyao is taller than Bill Justin, he opened his arms and waved, and at the same time, the whole person was jumping and jumping. It really was a big disturbance for Bill Justin. Bill Justin was afraid of making mistakes, and finally did not choose to drive fast. After Robert Foden returned to his own half, he took advantage of Xiao Yao's jump to pass the basketball to Robert with a ground pass. Foden.

  Robel Foden returned to his own half when he received the ball, not very far from Xiao Yao. After Bill Justin passed the ball, Xiao Yao immediately abandoned Bill Justin outside the baseline and turned to follow Robert Foden. Xiao Yao didn't press too hard or wanted to reach out to break Robert Foden's ball, so he followed the opponent all the way back to his own half.

  The offense of the Western Celebrities is still making a fuss on the outside, but Robert Foden no longer singles Xiao Yao directly, but waved to Bill Justin to help him make a one-block screen.

   When Bill Justin blocked Xiao Yao from the side, Xiao Yao had no intention of changing defenses with Rita Mitchell. He had to squeeze from Bill Justin's side.

  Robel Foden took a step to the left dribble with Bill Justin's one-block screen, facing Rita Mitchell's supplementary defense, jumped and shot from outside the three-point line. I don’t know if it was due to Robert Foden shooting from outside the three-point line. Rita Mitchell did not choose to grab Robert Foden’s arm and foul directly, but raised her arm to follow. Jumped up, trying to interfere with the opponent's shooting as much as possible.

Rita Mitchell is ten centimeters shorter than Robert Foden, and her bounce is much worse. The raised palm has not reached the elbow position of Robert Foden when he shoots, and the interference with him is really limited. . But when Robert Foden made a shot, another palm suddenly appeared next to him, and he touched the basketball in the air again.

After being touched by Xiao Yao, the basketball in the air changed its direction and landed near the bottom line on the left side of the court. This time, it was Zach Haywood at the basket who received the dropped basketball.

  The Eastern Celebrities side's Ben Skuer immediately raised his hands to press Zach Haywood, defending the opponent's basket offense. Zach Haywood turned his back to the basket, dribbled the ball and pushed his back against Ben Skool, seemingly ready to attack at the basket.

  When Zach Haywood dribbled and turned around, Will Foster, who was near the bottom corner, turned and closed to the basket to help defend, and then let go of the Anthony Morrel he was marking.

  Zach Haywood saw Will Foster turn around to make up for himself, and immediately threw the ball to Anthony Morrel, who was emptied outside the three-point line on the left bottom corner.

   But when the ball was halfway, it was stopped by one hand. It was Xiao Yao who was still defending Robert Foden at the top of the arc to stop the pass.

Although Xiao Yao’s defensive object is Robert Foden, on the one hand, there are three people at the top of the arc. Zach Haywood may not be able to accurately pass Rita Mitchell and pass the basketball to Robert. Foden's hand, and Will Foster left Anthony Morrel, the pass is much less difficult. On the other hand, Anthony Morrel is in front of Zach Heywood, and Robert Foden is on the side of Zach Heywood. Zach Haywood may not necessarily see Robert Foden, but it is impossible not to see Anthony Morrel.

After Xiao Yao landed, he saw Will Foster let go of Anthony Morrel from the defense basket, then gave up the defense against Robert Foden, quickly moved to the bottom line, and really intercepted Zach Haywood. A pass to Anthony Morrel.

   However, Zach Haywood's passing power is not small, Xiao Yao is also able to rush to the pass line, and can not copy the basketball in his hands, just hit the basketball.

  The basketball hit by Xiao Yao flew outside the bottom line, Xiao Yao immediately took a step, kicked up on the ground, and jumped outside the bottom line. Xiao Yao who jumped in the air caught the basketball, turned around in the air, and threw the basketball to Will Foster in front of him.

When he rushed forward, he forced his waist and turned to pass the ball in the air. Naturally, Xiao Yao could not maintain his weight and balance in the air. When he landed, he fell directly to the ground and fell into the group of photographers holding the camera outside the bottom line , Scared several photographers hurriedly stepped aside.

  After receiving the ball, Will Foster immediately turned around and threw the basketball to the opponent's half court. But with the experience of Ben Skool last time, Will Foster didn't throw too much of the ball, and it was passed by people. When the basketball flew near the center line and the left sideline, it fell into the hands of Kevin Donovan, who quickly made a quick break.

   This time, Rita Mitchell, who is at the top of the arc, rarely ran to the opponent's half without sullen her head. Instead, she first looked back and looked beyond the bottom line of her own half. Rita Mitchell turned around and ran to the opponent's half after seeing Ben Skool walking to the outside and pulling Xiao Yao up from the crowd to take care of Kevin Donovan's fast break. Due to this hesitation, she was instead immediately followed by Will Foster, who was on the fast break, and ran to the front after being passed the ball.

Robert Foden ran back to defend before Kevin Donovan received the ball, and Bill Justin, who was the closest to his own half, also quickly followed back to defend, plus following Kevin Dono. Scott Carl, who was behind ten thousand, quickly formed a three-defense one.

  Kevin Donovan was caught by Robert Foden and Bill Justin when he drove the ball to the opponent's basket and threw the ball to the outside. It was Will Foster who followed up the fast break to receive the ball from the outside. Scott Carr, who was behind Kevin Donovan, immediately turned to defend Will Foster who was receiving the ball.

Will Foster is not good at long shots. He was about to dribble to break through Scott Carr's defense. He suddenly saw a figure wearing the same color jersey as himself ran from behind him and immediately passed the ball. Got out.

  Of course, Rita Mitchell came from behind Will Foster. When Rita Mitchell received the ball, she had already ran to the middle of the right line of the three-second zone and was unguarded. She jumped up and shot without hesitation, and the basketball steadily fell into the hoop.

  Because of Rita Mitchell's six points in a row, the gap between the two teams widened to double digits, reaching twelve points.

  Although the game still has more than four minutes, these few goals seem to have beaten the momentum of the Western Celebrities. After this goal, the Western Celebrities called a timeout and replaced the former professional player Robert Foden with the kid Brandon Brown, and actress Jesse Campbell for Anthony. . Morrel, seems to have accepted the result of the loss of the game.

After seeing the two substitutions of the Western Celebrities, the Eastern Celebrities also replaced Kevin Donovan and Will Foster in a dead ball, replaced by "owner" Mark Dom and "Actor" Jason Danfore. However, Xiao Yao was not replaced, he was still left on the court.

  The next few minutes will almost become the "garbage time" of the game. However, in these few minutes of "garbage time", the field is not without spectacle.

  Although the suspense of the team in this game is not big, there are still some suspense in terms of the personal award of MVP. Generally speaking, the MVP of a single game is generated from the players of the winning team. The player who performs the best and contributes the most to the team is selected. From the data point of view, it is usually the team with the highest score. Players get. The most eye-catching data in the Eastern Celebrity Team is Xiao Yao, who has already scored a triple-double, but it is precisely in terms of scoring that Xiao Yao is not the highest score in the Eastern Celebrity Team.

The highest scoring player in the Eastern Celebrity Team is Rita Mitchell. After scoring six points in a row, Rita Mitchell's scoring has reached 18 points, while Xiao Yao has only two points so far in the fourth quarter. With two blocks and one steal every time, he hasn't scored yet, and the scoring still stays at 12 points.

  Xiao Yao is six points less than Rita Mitchell in scoring, but he has more assists, rebounds, blocks and steals than Rita Mitchell. If at the end of the whole game, both of them still have this data unchanged, it is really not easy to say who the title of the MVP will fall in the end.

  However, 10 of Xiao Yao's twelve points were scored in the third quarter, and it did not seem to give people the feeling of scoring points. In terms of his scoring ability, it doesn't seem to be a big problem to score six and eight points in the last four minutes or more.

  In the last few minutes, the coaching staff of the Eastern Celebrity Team left Xiao Yao and Rita Mitchell on the field, two players who are expected to win the MVP. It seems that they don’t want to lose the suspense of the MVP too early.

  The players of the Western Celebrities team also know this very well. They know that there is no hope of winning the game. The MVP players of this game will definitely not be produced in their team, but they can still have some influence on the MVP of this game. Although they also admitted that Xiao Yao did very well, emotionally speaking, they didn't want to see the MVP of this game held in the United States be taken by a Chinese star.

  In the next few minutes of the game, a more interesting situation appeared on the court. Obviously it’s **** time, but the Western Celebrities’ defense against Xiao Yao is not relaxed at all. Two people often defend him, and the other defensive player who usually participates in the defense is a match-up defense against Rita. . Mitchell's defense is only to defend Xiao Yao's breakthrough and shooting, and does not interfere with his passing.

   Xiao Yao also knows that the MVP selection is very fancy scoring, but he is not determined to win this title. When the team is leading, his desire to score is not very strong, and he rarely faces strong defenses. Seeing that Rita Mitchell had an open opportunity, Xiao Yao still passed the basketball to her to help her keep scoring.

  When the sound of the game timer resetting to zero sounded, the score on the field was fixed at 78 to 65. The Eastern Celebrities won the game with a 12-point difference.

  In the last four minutes or so, Rita Mitchell scored five more points, and the total score came to 23 points. He was the only player among all players to score 20+. However, Xiao Yao only scored two points in scoring, plus an assist and a rebound.

  At the end of the game, the players of the two teams greeted each other and returned to their respective benches. After several referees retired with the basketball, the host returned to the court with the microphone.

  The host announced the scores of the two teams and guided the audience to express their gratitude to the coaches and players of the two teams with applause. After congratulating the Eastern Celebrity Team, it was finally time to announce the MVP winner of the game.

  "The player who won the MVP of this game is~" the host announced loudly, "Rita Mitchell~"

  "Wow~" The protracted voice of the host had not yet fallen, and there was a huge cheer on the scene. On the bench for the Eastern Celebrities, the stars stood up to hug or high-five Rita Mitchell to congratulate him.

  What everyone didn’t expect was that the host hadn’t finished talking yet. After reciting Rita Mitchell's name, she continued loudly: "He Yang Xiao!"

  "What?" Most people at the scene were taken aback.

   "Congratulations to the two tied for the MVP of this game!" The host finally raised an arm and said loudly.

   "Wow~" louder cheers rang out at the scene.

  (End of this chapter)