Guard With a Knife

　　'S top 16 opponent is Arizona State University. They eliminated the University of Washington in the first round. Freshman James Harden was very sophisticated and cunning in the first knockout round of his life. He scored a game-high 19 points and 6 assists.

　　 Arizona State University (ASU) In addition to James Harden, another outstanding player named Jeff Pendergrave is an excellent physical inside player. He scored 9 points, 13 rebounds and 2 blocks against the University of Washington. He is a super blue collar.

　　 The game against ASU on Friday afternoon did not get the favor of the TV station, and even only half of the audience was installed in the arena.

　　 There is nothing to watch in this game.

　　 Actually, there is no suspense in this game.

　　 The trio mastered the rhythm from the start of the game, and the puppy completely ruled Jeff Pandgrav in the paint. Pandgrave has everything the puppies have, and they are better than him.

　　 Whether it is physical strength, jumping ability, blocking ability, rebounding ability, and blocking ability, the puppy has an overall advantage.

　　 Also, the puppy has things that Pandgrave doesn't have, superb bullet speed, excellent passing awareness, and intelligent brain.

　　 So...Pandgrave fell into a beating situation in all directions.

　　 In the end, the puppy scored 2 points, 12 rebounds, 3 assists, and 2 blocks. Among them, one block was given to James Harden. James Harden took a classic snake-like breakthrough and broke into the penalty area. When he was backhanded to the basket, he was directly stabbed by a puppy and hit it directly with one hand. Backboard.

　　 This makes James Harden face panic, surprised. Generally speaking, his breakthroughs rarely produce such results, and he was surprised that the puppy was not fooled.

　　 Before the game, he looked at the basic physical data of the puppy, and he found that the height and arm span of the two were exactly the same, but he was currently playing in the invisible No. 1 position, but he was in the sturdy No. 5.

　　 At present, the two men's style of play can be said to be completely opposite. The puppies are firmly stationed in the paint zone, using rebounds and defense to influence the game.

James Harden is at the other extreme. He can shoot sharply, has excellent shifting ability, and has kaleidoscope-like floor scoring skills: Richmond's turn shots, Paul Pierce's post-up singles, Manu Gino Billy's snake step breakthrough, he is all fine.

　　 He is only 18 years old this year, but he is playing like an old churros with a mature and prudent attitude.

　　 During the intermission, Ben Holland repeatedly emphasized: "Russell, you should learn from James Harden. His style of play is more reasonable."

However, Russell obviously did not listen carefully. He still insisted on his personality in the second half. He was like a beast going down the mountain. He didn't entangle with his opponents at all. He directly strangled their ankles with speed, using Kevin Love. Or the puppy's screen, directly into the penalty area, or complete a jumper with straight legs on the free throw line.

　　 He is so invincible!

　　 To be honest, Coach Ben Holland is a little helpless about this, because Westbrook's variant DDM play can win the game.

　　 He didn't replace him until Westbrook started to scoring assists frequently in the last 5 minutes, when the garbage time had arrived. Westbrook obviously wants to increase his assist statistics from 7 to 10.

　　 So, when he returned to the bench, he was a little unhappy.

　　 However, the small talk between Kevin Love and the puppy let him release this unpleasantness.

　　 "Hey, Snoopy." Kevin Love asked the puppy seriously: "Don't you think James Harden looks a bit like a black girl? He is so delicate, he should add a bit of maleness to himself."

　　 "Male breath? Lend bin Laden's beard to him?" The puppy grumbled.

　　 Then, Westbrook chuckled. There was an association in his brain, and he pieced it together: "This is indeed a genius idea. He should give himself some beards if he can grow it. Hahahaha!"

　　 After the game, James Harden actually walked over. He offered to change the jersey with the puppy, but the puppy certainly did not refuse.

　　 The two exchanged their jerseys, and then they separated after shaking hands politely.

　　 ASU's schedule for this season is over and they fell in the top 32.

　　 The victor will continue to move forward, and they will start the quarterfinals in three days.

　　 Their opponent was released an hour before the end of the game. Stanford University, which has twin centers Lopez brothers, eliminated the top seed in the Southern District and the University of Southern California led by OJ Mayo.

　　 There is no doubt that this is the first important test in his basketball career for the puppy, because he will face two seven-footers at the same time, and he is still twins! !

　　 But before that, he had to face Jennifer.

　　 Jennifer has been staying in Satmento for the past three days, ever since he tasted the joy of that thing. She has learned a lot of advanced postures without a teacher, which makes the puppy very happy. He tries new tricks almost every day.

　　 The two of them enjoy it.

　　 "I'm going back to Los Angeles this morning, and my agent picked up a literary film for me."

　　 Jennifer told the puppy at four in the morning.

　　 The puppy was silent, but turned Jennifer over silently.

　　 Time is ticking.

　　……

　　 Basketball experts are not optimistic about the prospects for promotion. They think that Snoopy, who is 1.93 meters away, will completely lose all the chips he won in the first two games this time.

　　 "The Lopez brothers are too strong. Under NCAA rules, they are the strongest inside team in the country. Trying to continue to use Snoopy to open up the situation is simply wishful thinking. This is something that will never happen."

"Brook is good at offense. He is a weakened version of Tim Duncan. There is no job under the basket that he can't do. Robin is a passionate defensive player, rebounds, blocks, and manufactures. Morale, he is omnipotent!"

　　 "Height is Snoopy's biggest injury, and his slow movement will make the Lopez brothers eat directly."

　　 "……"

　　 is almost a one-sided comment.

The puppy looked at the newspaper that Mr. Ben Holland handed over, and then looked up: "At least one thing is worthy of recognition. Now the basketball world uniformly calls me'Snoopy', which will reduce a lot of communication costs. ."

　　 Ben Holland said ‘ah’. He originally wanted to use these negative comments to boost the morale of the puppy.

　　 However, the puppy gave him such a feedback: Is the focus too strange?

As he was about to continue to'stimulate', the puppy asked again: "I heard from the leader of Peterson that a group of Chinese journalists will come to interview me today. What time do they arrange? I don't want to be with the compatriots who come from afar. I lose courtesy in front of me."

　　 "They will arrive at the arena at two in the afternoon. Before the start of the game, we will arrange for you to have a half-hour closed-door interview in the conference room."

　　 Ben Holland replied.

　　 The puppy nodded. When he browsed the Chinese website recently, he found a lot of news reports about himself. This gave him a kind of pride of ‘returning home.’

For the past two days, he has been waiting for calls from his parents. He thinks that the domestic news will definitely shock them: it turns out that his son did such a big thing on the other side of the ocean silently, and they will be surprised when they see the news. 'S stunned.

　　……

　　 [Three shifts were delivered, but it was dawn. I must ask for a recommendation, my hardworking hands! 】

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