Basketball Myth: Super Guard

Xiaoka was selected by Barkley and became a member of the Barkley team.

In addition to the small card, the Barkley team also includes Anthony Davis (Hornets), Kenneth Faried (Nuggets), Bradley Beal (Wizards), Ricky Rubio (Timberwolves) , Tristan Thompson (Cavaliers), Nikola Vucevic (Knicks), Brand Knight (Pistons), Isaiah Thomas (Kings), Alexei Sheved (Timberwolves).

The 10 O'Neal players are Damian Lillard (Trail Blazers), Kyrie Irving (Cavaliers), Andrew Nicholson (Magic), Klay Thompson (Warriors), Harrison Barry Enns (Warriors), Chandler Parsons (Rockets), Dion Waiters (Cavaliers), Michael Kidd-Gilchrist (Bobcats), Tyler Zeller (Cavaliers), Kemba - Walker (Lynx).

Among them, Andrew Nicholson of the O'Neal team is to replace the position of the Pistons player Drummond, who missed the game due to injury.

The starters of both sides have come to the court.

First the jump ball, TT (Tristan Thompson) and Zeller were in charge of the jump ball. TT hit the basketball first, slapped the ball to the backcourt, Rubio took control of the basketball, and the Barkleys started to attack.

Barkley's starting five today are TT, Davis, Xiaoka, Knight, and Rubio.

The O'Neal team's starting lineup is Zeller, Parsons, Irving, Lillard, Walker.

In fact, no matter from the selection of the coaches of the two sides, or the starting lineup at this time, it can be seen that the two sides have different ideas.

As a center in the history of the NBA, O'Neal chose mostly guards. Irving, Lillard, Walker, Klay, Waiters, a total of ten players, guards occupied 5 seats, but there are very few inside players. Just Zeller and Nicholson.

It is not difficult to see from the lineup that O'Neal is obviously more focused on the outside.

On the other hand, on the Barkley side, it is obviously more balanced. There are TT, Davis, Vucevic, and Faried in the interior, small cards in the striker, and Knight, Rubio, Bill, Thomas, etc. in the back.

The difference in the lineup also determines that the way the two sides will play will be different. Rubio did not rush to attack after pushing the ball to the frontcourt. He slowed down first, played positional warfare, first passed the ball to Xiaoka, and then rushed to the inside. Pointing, Xiaoka understood and gave the ball to TT.

The opposite of TT is Zeller. He is 213 cm tall, but he is too thin, and he is just restrained by the type of insider TT.

I saw that TT pushed back two steps after taking the ball, and pushed Zeller's top back step by step. Then TT turned around a half, from the back basket to the face frame, and the situation was a two-handed dunk.

"Bang!"

A loud explosion caused the audience to cheer.

In fact, the Rookie Game is similar to the All-Star Game. Although it is more serious than the Masters, it still has a "performance" nature. Generally, players will not be too serious, at least not at first.

"It seems that the O'Neal team is going to be unlucky on the inside." Butler laughed, quite a bit of schadenfreude. Although Clay was on the O'Neal team, he still supported the Barkley team.

"The inside line is more disadvantaged, but O'Neal's outside line has an advantage." Qin Hao shook his head, noncommittal.

The lineup between the two sides is obviously different. Barkley has obvious advantages on the inside and O'Neal has obvious advantages on the outside. As for who is stronger and who is weaker, who can have the upper hand depends on how they play.

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on the field.

O'Neal's team attacked, Owen took the ball in the backcourt and pushed forward. After reaching the frontcourt, he glanced at Knight in front of him, and suddenly changed direction to accelerate. Knight's heart jumped and moved quickly, but it was too late, and he was given by Owen in one step. Dropped, only to watch him rush into the inside line and hit a layup with a lever.

"It seems that Owen's offensive desire is very strong today. He doesn't pass the ball, he just plays singles. Is this going for mvp?"

"I guess so."

In the audience, the fans were talking.

Irving performed very well in last year's rookie game, but it's a pity that Butler had Qin Hao's help, and finally defeated Irving and won the rookie game mvp.

Owen is naturally not reconciled. Without Qin Hao and Butler this year, it will undoubtedly be his best and last chance to win the MVP of the rookie game.

Because Irving is already a sophomore.

In the next few rounds, the two sides came and went. O'Neal mainly relied on the outside line, especially Owen. The game was very aggressive at the beginning of the game, and it was obviously inevitable for this MVP.

On the Barkley side, there is an absolute advantage in the interior. TT scored a dunk and Davis made 4 and 2, which is not bad.

"Xiaoka is a little bit inactive," Butler said.

In the past few minutes, Xiaoka didn't make a lot of shots, so he threw one, but he didn't make a shot, he didn't get a point, but he grabbed two rebounds.

Qin Hao's old god is there, and he is not in a hurry: "What's the hurry, the game has only been played for a few minutes."

Soon, the two sides began to make substitutions.

After all, this is the rookie game. Just like the All-Star game, in the first quarter, all players still have to go up and play for two minutes, so they can show their faces.

On the Barkley side, Xiaoka was replaced. In addition, TT and Knight were also replaced, and Vucevic and Bill and Sheved were replaced.

The O'Neal team on the opposite side also carried out personnel rotation, Walker, Parsons, Zeller were replaced, replaced by Clay, Waiters, and Barnes.

After this substitution, the situation suddenly changed.

I saw that Lillard first made a driving layup, followed by a three-pointer, and one person scored 5 points in a row. Then Clay also hit a three-pointer, and the two helped O'Neal hit a shock wave of 8:0, which suddenly widened the difference between the two sides by 10 points.

The Barkley team tried to make a comeback. First Vucevic hit a jumper, and then Bill’s three-point shot also ended in a hit, and he fell into a scoring drought.

On the other hand, the O'Neal team has become more and more courageous. The defensive intensity and confrontation intensity of both sides are not very large. In the same situation, the O'Neal team just voted accurately.

For a time, the situation fell to O'Neal's side.

Until the end of the first quarter, the players on both sides showed their faces, but O'Neal, the head coach, had a smile on his face, but Barkley had a straight face with an ugly expression.

Barkley was already 12 points behind in one quarter.

That's not what Barkley wanted.

......

Entering the second quarter, Barkley sent TT and Davis together, Thomas and Knight on the outside, and Faried on the striker.

The strength of this lineup has been significantly further enhanced, and Barkley's layout is also taking advantage of the inside.

But when the game started, I didn't know what was going on.