Chapter 258: Kecheng Xiaolin Yang
At noon the next day, Lin Yang came to the Water House Center. On the sidelines, you can see Barkley, the Fliggy, taking his teammates to start training.
In this season, the rookie challenge is very different from last year. In the past, the second-year rookies played against first-year rookies. In many cases, the second-year rookies had more than a year of hard work in the NBA, and they were not ruthless at that time.
The last time Lin Yang successfully completed the counterattack with the first-grade team, it was the first time in several times that the first-grade team won the victory.
So this year, the NBA's All-Star Rookie Championship has undergone a major reform.
Charles Barkley and "Shark" O'Neal, who have been a commentator of TNT TV recently, will serve as general managers of the two teams respectively. They will select 9 players from the shortlist through a draft on February 16 local time.
When Barkley first got the news, he knew that he had the right to choose first. He was very excited. He did not forget that Lin Yang is still a second-year rookie, so it goes without saying who he wants to choose first.
"Where is Lin? You didn't choose Lin? What a joke? Can anyone tell me who chose the cats and dogs in the second grade who are ranked in front of Lin?"
"Sorry! Charles, this is Lin not participating in this year's All-Star Rookie Challenge."
"Okay! Then I choose Kyrie Irving. This little guy is very similar to Lin. I like his breakthrough rhythm and layup methods very much."
Irving played quite well this season, but unlike Lin Yang, he is the No. 1 pick and the team he has won is not strong enough. He averaged nearly 20 points per game but had no way to win the victory with the Cavaliers.
Next, Barkley and O'Neal divided the group of young people, but what if he said, Barkley was still very depressed that he had obtained the first choice but did not get Lin Yang.
Now I suddenly saw Lin Yang in the stadium, and Barkley was very angry: "Lin, why didn't you participate in this year's rookie challenge?"
Lin Yang saw Barkley rushing towards him and said, "Brother, you calm, calm, your Fliggy nickname is not for nothing. If you hit me, I can choose to reimburse the season next season."
"Man, you heard it last time. All-Star weekends are for rest. I'm here to rest. All-Stars are tired enough. Who can play rookie challenge? But I'm still with you."
"Accompany me?"
"Yes, I'm an espn commentator. This time we will explain the game together."
Rookie Challenge
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In the evening, the new Rookie Challenge officially began.
This time, Kyrie Irving, DeMarcus Cousins, Gordon Hayward, Paul George, Derek Williams, Marshan Brooks, John Wall, Thiago Split, Leonard, Evan Turner.
On the other hand, O'Neal chose Blake Griffin, Jeremy Lin, Ricky Rubio, Markieff Morris, Greg Monroe, Landry Fields, Norris Cole, Kemba Walker, Brandon Wright and Tristan Thompson.
Barkley and O'Neal are only responsible for selecting people. They are not actually doing the coaching job. When it comes to the game, they sit in the interview seat.
Lin Yang was placed in the C position by Barkley and O'Neal. As a result, Lin Yang felt very stressed. His small body sat next to O'Neal and Barkley, so why did he feel like a basketball player at all?
It's a bit like Dwayne Johnson was standing between O'Neal and Barkley, and the tough Hollywood actors came to him and became people from the country. Finally, they knew why Kenny Smith said he didn't want to explain with them, and Lin Yang said he didn't think much.
"Welcome to the Rookie Challenge. Tonight, the three of us will lead you to experience the new Rookie Challenge together." Charles Barkley said with a smile.
O'Neal then continued: "The players on both sides of this game were selected by Charles and me. Charles, every time you say that I have a problem with my vision, sorry, this time is my time to prove myself."
Both of them looked at the right method fiercely. If they hadn't been sitting in the middle, wouldn't these two people have started fighting?
Is it because I was sitting in the middle to ensure that O'Neal and Barkley don't fight? No wonder espn asked himself to do this job, and it was because no one did it.
Lin Yang said weakly: "Two big guys, watch the game first, watch the game first!"
The athletes from both sides finally stopped the farce after they came on the court.
The starting members of Barkley are Kyrie Irving and John Wall, the defender, and then the double-forward combination of Hayward and George, plus Cousins, the future super center, the lineup looks quite strong.
O'Neal's team used road signs and Walker's two defenders, Brandon Wright and Markieff Morris, and Greg Monroe played as center.
If we only look at the future achievements of these players from the two teams and play according to the peak situation, Lin Yang can now announce the victory of Barkley.
But now they are all rookies, so it’s hard to say who is better at this time.
The first nickname that Irving got in the NBA was Kobayashi Kobayashi. Lin Yang thought to himself that it was not Lin Yang's successor, so he had a successor for only one year in the NBA. How embarrassing it would be.
Maybe by then, my original version will retire a little later than the successor.
In the first round, Lin Yang, no! Irving showed his excellent crossover skills, and directly got rid of Walker who was defending him in front of him and broke into the inside.
Markieff Morris and Greg Monroe in O'Neal's team are really powerful forwards and centers, both players with strong offense and weak defense. In fact, most of the people selected here are players with strong offense and weak defense. Irving replicated Lin Yang's super trolley in the previous games in this offense.
Of course, the defense between Greg Monroe and Markieff Morris is very different from Gasol and Bynum.
Irving ignited the passion of all the fans of the Water House Center at the beginning of the game.
"It's really worthy of being Kobayashi Yang away. This trolley looks like you." Barkley said with a smile.
Chapter completed!