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Although the Isaiah Thomas team won, they won hard!
In terms of strength on paper, the Isaiah Thomas team is undoubtedly the stronger side. The Worthy team uses a deformed and relatively weak lineup. It is still not easy to fight against the Isaiah Thomas team to the end!

It is even said that in terms of court performance, Worthy's performance is stronger than that of Isaiah Thomas, but in the end they still lost due to lack of strength.

It is precisely because of the wonderful performance of the Worthy team that this rookie challenge with a huge gap in strength did not become one-sided, and the wonderful game also made the fans very comfortable to watch.

With the foreshadowing of the first game, fans are more interested in the performance of the second game.

Soon, the second game begins!
Team Barry vs. Team Payton!

Unlike the first game, the paper strength of the two teams in the second game was more even.

In the Barry team, there are cutting-edge champion Cunningham, as well as Mobley and Okoro of the Cavaliers, and Shin Kyung and Tate of the Rockets. They are all cutting-edge young people with great combat effectiveness.

The Payton team is not weak, with elegant style, countless three-goal fans, the young Raptors Barnes, the Pacers' young striker Duarte, the Timberwolves' McDanielson, etc., the strength is not weak.

From the perspective of paper strength, this game should be more interesting than the first game.

Sure enough, as soon as the game started, the two teams competed vigorously.

The score has been leading alternately, led by Cunningham of the Barry team, leading the rest of the young people to rush towards the inside of the Payton team.

Cunningham, Shin Kyung and others are all players with great impact. Facing their impact, Duarte and McDanielson, who guard the inside line for the Payton team, can't stand it.

The score began to be gradually opened by the Barry team.

Fortunately, the head coach of the Payton team saw that the situation on the court was not right in time, and quickly called a timeout.

"Guys, they rushed inside too hard. We can temporarily defend a zone for a while. Let's interfere with their three-pointers as much as possible!"

"Cunningham and Mobley are not very capable of three-pointers. Believe me, they can't kill us."

During the timeout, Payton was on the bench, and the head coach seriously explained to the rookies with a tactical board.

Although this is just a rookie challenge, it is essentially for entertainment, but for these rookies, this game is also very important.

You must know that the flow of the All-Star Game is very large, a Rookie Challenge, and the number of viewers around the world watching the game is very impressive.

The rookies have just entered the league, most of them have not played too long, and the number of fans is not too many.

Therefore, this rookie challenge is a good opportunity for them to show their faces and gain fans!

Of course, there are also some players who had many fans on the Internet when they entered the NBA, such as Ramelo Ball of the Hornets, with three goals.

But most rookies don't get that kind of treatment!

The head coach of the Payton team also came over during this period. He naturally knew the importance of this game for the rookies, so he arranged it very carefully.

The rookies also got together and listened carefully to the head coach's tactical deployment.

This temporary team has actually begun to show cohesion.

After a while, the timeout ended and the players from both sides returned to the field.

The game restarts.

According to the arrangement of the head coach, the Payton team began to defend a zone defense in a short period of time, and in turn blocked the impact of the Barry team.

Such a defensive strategy did make the Barry team briefly lose themselves on the offensive end.

The point difference was gradually recovered by the Payton team.

Seeing this, the head coach of the Barry team hurriedly stood up, stood on the sidelines and shouted at the players of the Barry team: "Shoot, don't hesitate, shoot!"

Hearing the head coach's voice, the Barry players took the initiative to adjust.

Start consciously increasing your three-point shots.

It just so happened that the players of the Barry team shot very well today, scoring 3 consecutive three-pointers!
Such a fiery touch instantly opened the gap again!

The head coach of the Payton team panicked and quickly yelled to ask the players to change their defensive strategy to man-to-man.

After taking the initiative to adjust, the Payton team finally stabilized on the defensive end.

Afterwards, Sanqiu and Barnes worked together to recover the point difference, and the game became stalemate again.

At the final moment of the game, both sides can win with only one goal left!
This is the decisive moment!

On the last ball, Barry had the ball, Rockets Tate passed the ball to Cunningham, and Cunningham broke through to the right.

The Payton team quickly double-teamed Cunningham.

Facing the double team, Cunningham didn't have a good chance. In desperation, he had to pass back to Tate!
The distance of this pass was very long, and the three balls defending in front of Tate wanted to steal it, so they rushed forward to press for it, but they were still a step too late, and the basketball was finally passed to Tate.

Seeing the three goals, he quickly returned to his defensive position.

As soon as he returned to his defensive position, Tate moved. He quickly found the opportunity for the three balls and slammed his hand, destroying Tate's dribble.

Tate quickly regained possession of the ball. At this time, the center of gravity of the three-goal defense was unstable. Tate kicked the ground directly to accelerate and missed the three-goal with difficulty.

Get inside.

At this time, there are several defensive players standing on the inside line. Not only that, the three goals at this time are also chasing behind Tate. If you want to hit this ball, it will be very difficult!

But Tate had no fear, he kicked off the ground and took the initiative to expose the ball in the air. After attracting the defense, Tate tightened his stomach and pulled the bar, scoring a difficult goal.

This ball is simply scored in the crowd, the difficulty is very, very high!

The fans present stood up and applauded Tate's wonderful performance.

Tate also raised his hands high, enjoying this wonderful moment that belonged to him.

And just like that, Game [-] of the entire Rookie Challenge ended, and Team Barry eventually advanced to the final to meet Team Isaiah Thomas.

The two teams in the final can be said to be a strong confrontation, which is full of highlights!
But before the finals, there is still one link that has not been completed!
That is the rookie key ball challenge!

The rookie key ball challenge is to complete the challenge with several combinations, which is similar to the skill challenge, and it is not very interesting.

But this year's rookie key ball challenge is different, and there is a big attraction in it!

That's Barnes and Maxie's hip-pushing moment!