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Chapter 146 MVP of the Rookie Tournament (ask for subscription, ask for monthly ticket)

Come on guys, Li Yu stopped paddling and went all out in the second quarter.

At the same time, the O'Neal team has undergone changes.

Lin Shuhao stayed on the bench, Kawhi Leonard and Li Yu played together, and the lineup returned to normal.

However, the Barkley team still continues the multi-guard lineup. It is worth mentioning that four defenders play at the same time.

In the second quarter, the O'Neal team frequently bombed the basket and staged explosive dunks, while the Barkley team contributed a lot of fancy layups.

Young people are more eager to win. In the second quarter, both sides put up defensive strength, so the score was not as high as in the first quarter.

Don't worry about physical problems, Li Yu put on a shot on the first attack, a true-free throw line dunk, and the audience was excited.

The fans commented one after another that it was a pity that Li Yu did not participate in the dunk contest.

Not to be outdone, Irving took back some of the cheers with a signature pull.

The head coaches of the two teams seemed to intend to promote the duel between the two, and began to formulate tactics around the two.

Here Li Yu just made a logo three-pointer, and Owen immediately went up for a three-pointer over there.

The entire second quarter became the stage for Duke and Junior, and the two played together, earning a lot of attention.

After the first half, 76:71, the Barkley team fell behind by 5 points.

The score is not high, but the level of excitement is not lost at all in the first quarter.

In the rookie competition, at the very least, the selected rookies must show their faces.

Therefore, the time in the third quarter was reasonably allocated to the rookies on the bench.

Derek Williams, who had been holding back for a long time, completed a brutal dunk as soon as he appeared on the court.

He was the No. 11 pick in the 2th season and was once a favorite for the No. [-] pick, but since entering the league, he has not performed as he should.

The Cavaliers management's attitude towards him has also changed from picking up a treasure at the beginning to wanting to send him out in exchange for immediate combat power.

He fell too far behind in the competition for the 11th rookie, and his teammate Irving is hitting the best rookie of the month.

And the Asian point guard, whom he once despised, has jumped out of the competition circle of the same class and started to compete with the big players in the league.

In the first half, he sat on the bench and watched Li Yu in high spirits on the field. To be honest, he was quite upset.

A thought flashed in his mind: Could it be that I was selected by the Wolves and could get a lot of shots, and the praise that person got should actually belong to me?

After dunking the goal, Derek turned his head deliberately and looked towards the bench, he wanted to see Li Yu's reaction.

But the latter didn't pay attention to his ball at all, but was talking and laughing with Magic Johnson.

Unwilling to be reconciled, Derek capped Marshan Brooks again on the defensive end. This bloody cap was wonderful, but it didn't get much applause.

The Duke and Juniors are not present, and the funny duo Rubio and Walker are not playing, and the audience can't lift their spirits.

The All-Star Weekend was originally a tribute to the fans. At the beginning of the final quarter, the head coaches of the two teams tacitly brought the starting lineup to the field.

In the first quarter, the tactics of both sides, singles and doubles, in the second quarter Duke doubled and played on the same field. In the third quarter, the two teams vented off the bench and pecked at each other.

Because there are many defenders on the field, the shooting rate is really not low. After the fourth quarter, the O'Neal team scored 45 points, and the Barkley team scored 43 points.

In the end, with a score of 145:139, the O'Neal team won the game.

Li Yu scored 25 points, 20 assists, 7 rebounds and 2 steals, and won the MVP of the Rookie Challenge.

Irving scored 40 points, 4 assists and 2 rebounds, including 7 of 7 three-pointers, which is a miracle. Unfortunately, his team was defeated and passed the MVP.

The performances of Kemba Walker and Ricky Rubio are remarkable. The two scored 38 points, 11 assists and 8 rebounds in total.

Among Li Yu's teammates, the highest scorer was Paul George's 28 points. Relatively speaking, the O'Neal team's score distribution was more even.

Except for Lin Shuhao, he played 10 minutes and only scored 2 points, 1 assist and 1 rebound.

This kind of performance is in stark contrast to Barkley's crazy praise.

Similarly, Griffin, the white monster praised by the Sharks, did not meet the expectations of the audience, with 6 points, 2 assists and 4 rebounds. Williams, who has not yet been called a "parallel importer", scored high.

Derek Williams scored 12 points on 5-for-5 shooting in 10 minutes. He was not inefficient, but he could only stand aside in front of Li Yu, who was caught by the offensive organization.

Winning the MVP in the rookie game was a sweet journey for Li Yu. He was in a happy mood and was waiting for the start of the All-Star game.

Before the main course, he watched the individual events. The first event was the Shooting Star competition. Because among the participating members, there were no teammates of his own, so he did not pay much attention to this event.

I only know that the New York team won the championship. This is their first time to participate in the competition. It can be said that "the debut is the peak".

Next was the skills competition, and there were no teammates of Li Yu, but he was very concerned about this event because his good friend Owen participated in the skills competition.

Regrettably, Owen was eliminated in the preliminaries.Li Yu immediately called to comfort him.

The three-point contest started. Seeing Rubio standing with a group of elite shooters, I hope he can ask for more blessings.

The defending champion Frozen Face James Jones, his teammate Mario Chalmers, and the new generation superstar Kevin Durant, Morrow of the Nets, Anderson of Mosaic.

These people are all first-class shooters with good shooting percentages. Rubio, who has a 33.7% three-point shooting percentage in the middle, is awkward no matter how you look at it.

However, what is surprising is that Rubio scored 19 points in the preliminaries, and through the playoffs, overthrew Charles and successfully advanced to the final.

And in the final, he defeated the defending champion James Jones and entered the playoff again. Unfortunately, in the playoff, his touch returned to normal and he lost to Durant of the Thunder.

The three individual events were over, and finally came the finale of the dunk contest.

In this slam dunk contest, a total of four players were selected, Kevin Love of the Wolves, Paul George of the Pacers, Chase Budinger of the Mosaics, and Jeremy Evans of the Jazz.

Compared with previous dunk contests, this year's slam dunk contest has dim stars, but it is quite interesting.

Love, who was rated as a soft player, the Wolves' leading insider, and Paul George, who is gradually becoming prominent, are very topical.

In the first round, Evans used aerial photography as a creative idea, Paul George jumped over the heads of the two to complete the dunk, and then Batink completed a well-regulated dunk.

Love made his final appearance. He called his teammate Li Yu as his partner, turned around in the air and changed hands and dunked with one hand, proving that he is not soft.

The performance of the four players in the second round was not bad, and the score was very tight. In the third round, Budinger dunked blindfolded and scored a lot.

Evans, wearing a Karl Malone jersey, completes the flying dunk over the courier.

And Paul George failed to complete the sticker dunk because he tried 4 times, and he succeeded on the 5th time, and he was out early.

When Love appeared on the stage again, he wanted to stage a performance that jumped over the three of them.

The Wolves' four starters left the field at the same time. Rubio, Elvis Presley, and Milicic lined up according to size, and Li Yu was in charge of "feeding" the ball.

They cooperated very well, but it was a pity that Milicic was too tall, Afu was a little too overestimating himself, and the first attempt failed.

The second time also failed, so Milicic had to be replaced by Wesley, but this time it succeeded.

It may be that there were too many failures. In the final voting result, Jazz rookie Evans was elected as the slam dunk champion.

But Love didn't feel depressed at all. He participated in the slam dunk contest just because he didn't want to be considered a harmless fat man. He wanted to prove that he was a brutal power forward!

The goal is achieved, as for winning the championship or not, that is secondary.

(End of this chapter)