I’m Really Playing Basketball

Chapter 159 NBA's first MVP trophy!

Atlanta, Phillips Arena, NBA All-Star Weekend Rookie Challenge.

Less than three minutes into the game in the first half of the game, the coach of the second-year team Mike Faratello requested a timeout.

This is not an official timeout, this is a timeout that Mike Faratro was forced to call.

Because the game only lasted less than three minutes, the score on the court was already 12 to 3.

The first grade comes before the second grade.

After the opening, how long is it that the second grade will be more than ten points behind?

Although the Rookie Challenge is equivalent to a performance competition, it shouldn't be the case either!

After the game started, it was obvious that the first-year players were more in harmony.

And it's quite a tacit understanding!

Chen Xiao, Ron Howard and Wade are the three Eagles of Marquette University.

Chen Xiao and Yao Ming are teammates of the Chinese team, and Yao Ming and Wade are teammates of the Heat.

Boozer and Chen Xiao are teammates of the Nets.

Wade is responsible for organizing and connecting the whole team. He is familiar with the characteristics of the other three players.

The other four are to create opportunities for Chen Xiao to score.

In particular, Yao Ming and Boozer gave Chen Xiao the double screen, which is very good!

Both can be pulled out, and more importantly, Yao Ming also has the ability to pass the ball!

And Chen Xiao's offensive running ability is definitely the top of this group of rookies!

Facing the opening of the first grade, there was a tacit understanding and a very three-dimensional offense, and the second grade simply couldn't prevent it.

Forget it if you can't prevent it, the offense of the second grade is also a bit unsuccessful!

Arenas and Jason Richardson's offense is too anxious, while Wade and Ron Howard's defense is exceptionally good.

Coupled with the offensive role of Chandler and Kirilenko, it was difficult to play out, and it turned out to be like this in the end.

Mike Faratro did not make any adjustments in personnel after the timeout.

There is no problem with the starting lineup of these five people.

There are some problems with tacit understanding. He needs to make some new arrangements for these players based on the game just now.

For example, when Yao Ming and Boozer go out for double screens, Gasol can go out, but Tyson Chandler will not go out.

Kirilenko's ability to assist in defense is very strong and can make up for a gap that has not come out of the inside.

For another example, on the offensive end, Mike Faratro said to Arenas during a timeout.

Not to criticize, just to say.

The meaning is, don't try to be heroic, cooperate more with Gasol, don't go to singles Wade with the ball alone, Wade's defense is really not so good one-on-one singles.

I have to say that Mike Faratro's vision is still very accurate.

He saw clearly the problems after the opening of the second grade.

His own defense lacks tacit understanding, and the opponent's offense is too tacit.

His offense lacks tacit understanding, and the opponent's defense is also too tacit.

In this case, it was normal to be beaten under pressure at the beginning and almost collapsed. Isn't it normal?

After coming back from the timeout, Arenas's offense has obviously converged, and he doesn't want to show off in this game and get the MVP.

After the dribble half-time, he started to cooperate with Gasol very honestly. After the pick-and-roll screen blocked Wade, he played Boozer with a small hit, and faced Boozer's defense. Arenas had a show. After shaking Boozer, a relaxed mid-range jumper succeeded.

12 to 5!

Looking at this second-year offense on the court, Mike Faratello off the court was very satisfied.

The strength of the second-year players is still strong.

As long as some preliminary cooperation is combined, it will be very powerful.

The current All-Star rookie game still has a certain degree of real play.

The scores of both sides in the past nine Rookie Challenges are not so exaggerated. As rookies, in this era, they are indeed very serious when facing the Rookie Challenge.

It's just obvious, serious, serious, but some things are really not a question of attitude, it's completely a question of ability.

Looking back, Arenas, who had just scored an offensive goal, began to feel like Dior again.

Facing such a Dior Arenas, how could Chen Xiao miss it?

Yao Ming and Boozer both pulled out, and then Wade broke through with a handsome stray step and passed Jason Richardson. He originally helped prevent Boozer and Kirilenko from Chen Xiao’s recovery immediately. Wade has a very strong middle distance ability!

Facing the recovered Kirilenko Wade, he jumped up and faced Kirilenko’s help. He turned to a pass very smartly. A lion turned his head and threw the ball to the cover of Boozer. Chen Xiao's hand was thrown away by Nas.

Arenas' defensive attitude is very good.

But the defensive skills are simply pungent.

It really can be blocked by one block!

Can't even grab a cover!

Gasol has come out to help him delay Chen Xiao, as long as he can grab the cover a little, he can catch up from behind.

However, Gasol sighed a little when seeing Arenas's solid appearance under the cover of Boozer.

The team's defensive awareness is too bad!

Of course, I can't ignore the defense, but Arenas's defensive awareness is very bad, and the defense awareness of Jason Richardson, another perimeter player, is equally general.

In the face of Yao Ming's one and two, Gasol and Jason Richardson could only watch Chen Xiao shot from the free throw line.

At this point, Gasol was actually a little desperate.

But Jason Richardson can cooperate better, and can also shake Yao Ming, why are they both hooked?

Brush!

Hit!

14 to 5!

On the court, after Chen Xiao hit the mid-range, he made a high-five with Wade in front and Yao Ming behind him.

Seeing the relaxed smile on Chen Xiao's face at this time, Arenas looked a little uncomfortable.

He showed off just now, and when he turned around, Chen Xiao dumped him without a trace.

Now Arenas finally understood why Chen Xiao would say that at the beginning of the game.

"Gilbert, are you a defensive boss?"

After the start of Chen Xiao's game, he really squeezed his wool!

Looking at Arenas's bitter eyes on the court, Kwame Brown, who was sitting down the court, felt a little distressed.

It is not Arenas that he is distressed, but Pau Gasol is distressed by Kwame Brown.

Gilbert's defense is too harsh.

"Fortunately we are not from the same team!"

I am in the Wizards, he is in the Warriors, I am in the East, and he is in the West.

Although Boss Joe is trained by the Wizards every day, Boss Joe will never torture his teammates like this on the court.

At this time, Arenas, who was looking at Chen Xiao bitterly, had absolutely no idea that Kwame Brown looked at him that way.

In fact, the defense just now in the second grade is not only the two perimeter players, Arenas and Richardson, who have poor defensive awareness.

Just now Kirilenko and Chandler's defensive coordination is also problematic.

Kirilenko shouldn't have reclaimed it just now, he should have more confidence in Chandler's defense ability.

Kirilenko's enthusiasm is too good.

This allowed Wade's breakthrough to attract two people's defense.

And it is the defense of the two strongest defensive players in the second grade.

This is too bad!

The distribution of defensive power is very uneven, and this is even more harmful to the team than Arenas's hot-eyed defense.

If Kirilenko is still outside, Chen Xiao will definitely not be open at the free throw line!

However, this cannot be blamed on Kirilenko, the second-year team is a temporary formation.

It's normal for players to have a bad tacit understanding, and good ones are not normal.

In fact, this year's first-year team is unique in the history of the NBA rookie game.

The rookie game in the past and in the future is impossible to have a team like Chen Xiao, Wade, Ron Howard, Yao Ming, Boozer so tacitly.

And this team is not only tacit, but also very in sync!

It's perfect!

"Their tacit understanding on the court is really good!"

Chris Paul next to him said sincerely, while Anthony and James next to him nodded.

"There should be no suspense in this game."

James' prediction is quite accurate this time.

After the game, the second-year coach Mike Faratro also made some other adjustments to the team.

For example, taking Arenas away from Chen Xiao and turning the player defending Chen Xiao into Jason Richardson.

Jason Richardson's defense is indeed much better than Arenas.

but!

Arenas can't defend Chen Xiao, not because of a single defense.

Chen Xiao did not give Arenas a chance to defend him alone.

In addition to Chen Xiao's opening arena, the other offenses were all offensives with cover.

What's the use of Richardson's defense being stronger than Arenas?

In the end, he was still dumped by Chen Xiao.

When defending Chen Xiao, it is best for defensive players to have good enough defensive running ability.

After that, Mike Faratro also tried Kirilenko. Kirilenko's running position is strong, and his defense against Chen Xiao is indeed excellent, but as a second-year defensive connection point, the most important defense player, Throwing Kirilenko to Chen Xiao's side was very harmful to the overall defense of the second grade.

Especially the second-year team is still a team with no tacit understanding. There is no tacit understanding in defense and Kirilenko's four defenses. The second-year defense is ugly.

Although Chen Xiao's scoring and efficiency have dropped, others can score.

Therefore, the second grade is still being beaten.

At the end of the 20-minute game in the first half, the score of the first and second grades was 58 to 43, which was 15 points behind.

At the end of the half game, he was directly ahead of 15 points. In this game, the important thing is not the leading score, but the easy play.

Of course, no matter how easy it is to play, Yao Ming can only play halftime.

As the best offensive center for the Eastern All-Star team, Yao Ming has an important mission in the All-Star Game.

So in this All-Star rookie game, Uncle Jordan Joe was on the sidelines but supervised.

Yao Ming played halftime, but he didn't need to play in the second half.

As for the two backup guards Chen Xiao and Wade, whatever.

There are Jordan, Iverson and Tracy McGrady in the East, and Carter has four super guards. Wade and Chen Xiao will not have a heavy task in the All-Star Game.

So after the second half, both Chen Xiao and Wade were still on the court.

By the way, because today is February 8th in US time, and domestic time is February 9th, which happens to be the ninth day of the Lunar New Year.

As long as there is no Lantern Festival, even if it is still celebrating the New Year.

Therefore, during the half-time break, Chen Xiao deliberately brought his teammates from the Rookie Challenge and the domestic audience to celebrate the New Year.

Not only that, Chen Xiao also invited all-star players such as Uncle Joe who supervised the battle and the boss of science who were watching the game, plus idol, Iverson, Tracy McGrady and so on.

Even the VIPs of the NBA, James, Anthony and Paul who were watching the game on the sidelines did not let go.

"LeBron, clasp your fists with your hands like this, then, bending over like me, follow me and say: "Chinese audience friends, hello everyone, I am LeBron James, bless you all, happy new year and a good year of the goat! ""

Since this year's All-Star vote, the Chinese audience shocked the world and cast Yao Ming into the All-Star.

Many American players have attached great importance to the group of Chinese fans.

Of course, James can't ignore it.

James was very happy to introduce Chen Xiao to the Chinese audience.

His goal is also a rookie All-Star!

He does not need to worry about the United States, the most worrying is the Chinese side!

As long as you can get the support of the Chinese audience, one more vote is one vote!

"The valuables of the embarrassing pot are among the people, and the counterfeit account is the old Beijing, so..."

James was paying a New Year's greetings seriously, while Chen Xiao next to him was stunned.

Old Beijing?

This sentence in Chinese is very standard!

But, I didn’t teach it?

But, aren't you old Cleveland?

and many more? !

Old Beijing?

LeBron James?

I go!

After James was said to be fast by this kid, he turned into old Beijing!

After the end of the New Year's greetings, James looked at Chen Xiao next to him very expectantly.

Obviously, he hoped that Chen Xiao could help him with a few words.

Chinese audiences are not familiar with him and need to introduce him, such as the son of the Chosen, Jordan and magic combination.

Best, let the Chinese audience know everything about him in the United States.

In this regard, Chen Xiao is of course very happy.

You are old Beijing, can I take special care of you!

We are ‘Chinese’ fellows!

In fact, without the special care of Chen Xiao, after James mistakenly referred to his name as Old Beijing, he was in China and became popular.

"This young man named Old Beijing is so funny. When other players speak of their names, they speak English. He really followed Chen Xiao to speak Chinese!"

"This young man is so cute, a high school student called himself Old Beijing, hahahaha!"

"However, he does look a little anxious, but I like his seriousness!"

Of course, at this time Chen Xiao and James didn't know what happened in China.

In the Phillips Arena, James did not know what Chen Xiao said, but after seeing Chen Xiao's good words to him for a long time, James breathed a sigh of relief.

Then after Chen Xiao finished speaking, James showed himself a very handsome smile beside him, facing the camera so that Chinese audiences far away could experience his handsome smile and self-confident and unrestrained charm like American audiences.

"LeBron, trust me, you will become one of the favorite players of Chinese fans in the future!"

Chen Xiao's words are from the sincerity.

He introduced so many players just now, and James is the most serious one.

This kind of seriousness about the attitude of the fans is experienced by the fans.

Although he was so serious about saying his name wrong, Chen Xiao felt that the feeling of biting his tongue was very cute.

And when Chen Xiao said so, James was of course very happy, and his two big eyes lit up choked up.

During the intermission of the Rookie Challenge, Chen Xiao and the NBA stars who were watching from the sidelines played very happily.

The Chinese audience in front of the TV watched it very happily.

On the sidelines, Teacher Song was stunned.

"Xiao Chen, can such a game be formed temporarily?!"

Although now NBA players have begun to attach importance to the Chinese audience.

But most NBA stars are still very cold.

Even if it is CCTV, if you want to find stars to celebrate the Chinese New Year, there is no way to invite too many heavyweights.

But just now, at least 15 of the 24 All-Stars in the NBA this year's All-Stars were organized by Chen Xiao, speaking clumsy Chinese and greeting Chinese audiences!

You know, the stars invited by CCTV are all in English for New Year's greetings to Chinese audiences!

There are at most a few Chinese used when saying ‘hello everyone’.

What kind of appeal is this? !

Isn't it horrible? !

Seeing Teacher Song's look so surprised and shocked, Teacher Zhang next to him smiled slightly.

"Chen Xiao’s position in American basketball is very special. I have always said that in the United States, we had better separate Chen Xiao from Yao Ming. Although Yao Ming is the No. 1 pick and Chen Xiao is the No. 7 overall pick, Chen Xiao’s face is better than Yao Ming’s. It’s a lot of face."

"This NBA All-Star New Year's greetings to the Chinese audience is Chen Xiao's very special New Year blessing for everyone. Here again, I wish the audience all over the country a happy Chinese New Year, Sanyang Kaitai, and the Year of the Goat! "

"At the same time, I also wish Chen Xiao and Yao Ming more and more prosperous in the NBA!"

I have to say that Mr. Zhang is still Mr. Zhang. This is reasonable!

Keke, go back to the game.

After an intermission, some changes have taken place in the Rookie Challenge in the first and second grades.

Because Yao Ming couldn't play, the powerful first-year team instantly became less powerful.

After all, the match that replaced Yao Ming's Nei Nei was also very serious at Chen Xiao's request.

But for many of Yao Ming's functions, Nei Nei has no way to replace it.

So in the second half, the first- and second-year games started a little bit more than halfway through.

Without Yao Ming, the offensive and defensive strength of the first grade has dropped a lot.

If it is not for the tacit understanding of the first grade, it is still very good, and even the second grade will start to chase points.

By the second half, the strength of the second grade had begun to overwhelm the first grade, and the first grade relied on the tacit understanding and the entanglement of the second grade.

After the halftime showdown, the final opening scene of the All-Star Weekend defeated the second grade by 110 to 98 in the first grade.

In this game, Chen Xiao played 36 minutes, hit 12 of 24 shots, 5 of 11 three-pointers, 4 of 4 free throws, and scored 33 points in the game.

The score of 33 points has also become the highest score in a single game in the history of the Rookie Challenge.

In addition to Chen Xiao's 33 points, sophomore Arenas and Richardson also scored 30 points.

In particular, Arenas scored 7 points in the first half, and in the second half, after Yao Ming failed to make it, he scored 23 points!

This kid, that can really attack!

Arenas' indiscriminate bombing in the second half really shocked Chen Xiao and the first-year players.

In addition to Chen Xiao and Arenas and Jason Richardson.

Wade scored 20 points and 11 assists in this game.

Ron Howard had 12 points and 8 assists.

Boozer scored 16 points.

Yao Ming also scored 12 points in the first half.

The five first-year starters all scored in double figures in this game.

In order to get the MVP of the Rookie Challenge in this game, Chen Xiao played very seriously.

Jordan doesn't seem to want his contribution anyway in the All-Star Game. It doesn't matter if he puts all his energy on this game.

The final result also made Chen Xiao very satisfied.

When the president of the league David Stern was holding the MVP trophy, and the staff called Chen Xiao next to David Stern, the whole world knew that David Stern was holding the MVP trophy. Who does it belong to?

"It is the guard from the first-year team who won the MVP of the 2003 Atlanta All-Star Game Rookie Challenge..."

"Chen-Xiao!"

After David Stern handed the trophy to Chen Xiao's hands, he stood beside him and began to applaud Chen Xiao.

For David Stern, this result is the best.

And looking at the picture of Chen Xiao holding up the MVP trophy with both hands.

Arenas, who was also applauding Chen Xiao in front, was very envious.

Originally, he thought the trophy tonight belonged to him.

His Warriors teammate and boss Jason Richardson said that this trophy belongs to him.

But in the end, it was still gone.

but……

"Well deserved!"

Thinking of the appearance of himself being run by Chen Xiao in this game, Arenas knew that he might need to practice some defensive things.

Especially running defense.

That kind of one-on-one heads-up defense, he is actually pretty good.

Of course, Arenas, Wade, Yao Ming, Richardson, Nene, Jefferson are applauding Chen Xiao.

Jer Williams and Stoudemire hid behind and never applauded.

The two of them feel sad now.

Even if the All-Star game didn't go up, the two also played soy sauce in the Rookie Challenge.

This is too uncomfortable.

"Ten years of appointment, I still have ten years of appointment with him..."

No matter how self-confident and arrogant Stoudemire is, he is still a little uncertain about ten years later.

"No, although he is ahead of me now, his talent is destined to be followed by me!"

"I can surpass him in less than ten years!"

For a moment, Stoudemire was confident again.

Ten years later, I must be qualified to laugh at him!

"LeBron, are you envious? Next year, we will be on this stage!"

After Anthony finished speaking, James, who was applauding, lit up.

In the applause of the audience, Chen Xiao picked up the MVP of the All-Star Rookie Challenge. At this moment, the Chinese audience in front of the TV was a little bit crazy with excitement.

The same goes for Teacher Zhang and Teacher Song next to him.

"China's first NBA MVP is born!"

Even if it's just a rookie challenge ~www.NovelMTL.com~ that is also the MVP!

As long as it is an NBA MVP, any MVP is not easy.

Of course, Chen Xiao at this time must be the most excited and happy person in the audience at this time.

"Ding, congratulations to the host for winning a C-level official exhibition championship trophy, rewarding 1 professional point, 500 basketball experience, and 500 career value."

"Ding, congratulations to the host for winning an official C-level personal trophy, rewarding 400 basketball experience, 400 career value, and a C-level attribute potential card."

"Ding, congratulations to the host for winning a C-level official exhibition game scoring champion, rewards 100 basketball experience, 100 career value, 1 scoring experience card (official competition)."

Little burst!

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