You should cross the mountains like a brave man

Chapter 253 Just let me grab the rebound
The Rookie Challenge of the All-Star Weekend was held on the night of February 2th. As an appetizer for the main game of the All-Star Weekend, it carried some expectations from the public.

The day before the game, the first graders gather for practice.

The head coach of the first-year team is Del Harris, an old friend of Lakers fans and Chinese fans.

It was Kobe who helped the Jazz sound the death knell of the Lakers under his hands. He was only a rookie at the time, but Harris dared to throw so much pressure on him.After that, Harris became the head coach of the Chinese team. With Yao Huang as the core, he reached the quarterfinals in the Athens Olympic Games and completed the set goal.

Although Harris has done nothing, he is still worthy of being remembered.

Because Yao Huang under him is about to enter the peak, and he is healthy, a quasi-perfect body who can play for more than 35 minutes in a game.

Wearing a training suit, Wei Xia came to the pre-booked gymnasium. When he saw Harris, he was not as difficult as he imagined.

"Kobe asked me to say hello to you for him." This was the first sentence Wei Xia said to Harris.

"I was on the phone with him a few days ago, and he asked me to take care of you." Harris' kind-hearted look did not remind people of his nickname - Silver Fox.

Wei Xia just kept smiling and didn't talk to him. Did Kobe's so-called care give him status in the team or playing time?
If the status of players is assigned according to the draft, Wei Xia may not be able to make the starting lineup. If you look at the performance of the season, the core can only choose one of him and Paul.

But although the rookie challenge is always played more seriously than the main game, it cannot be regarded as an official game because of this.

The two teams participating in the competition often have no obvious core, let alone any cooperation, whoever gets the ball will play, and only selfless idiots will pass the ball.

Harris said a few more polite words to Wei Xia and then went to do other things.

Wei Xia didn't even enter the locker room, so he grabbed a basketball and started training.He is very pragmatic and basically does not waste time doing useless things.

Later, students of the same grade who were also selected for the first-year team arrived one after another.

The first person to greet Wei Xia was his number one competitor, Chris Paul.

"You work so hard, we are under a lot of pressure." Paul joked.

"Sorry, I don't want to be a maverick, but I haven't had systematic training for two days." Wei Xia explained his "efforts" accordingly.

Paul expressed his understanding, but it was difficult for others.

Headed by Andre Bogut, there is a distinct anti-Wei faction.

Several others joined them.

Wei Xia's old opponent, Charlie Villanueva, who has been in the NCAA battle until now, joining Bogut's camp will not make Wei Xia curious.

It is said that the hair is long but the knowledge is short, and it is not necessarily true that a person without a single hair has long knowledge, not to mention that this person not only has no hair, but also has no hair on any part of the body.His "insight" doesn't even have a carrier, so it's not surprising that he went astray.

Deron Williams, he had no relationship with Wei Xia in the past, and has no hatred in recent days. He chose to stand with Bogut purely because of fans and the media.

From the first game of this season, some Utah fans and media said that it would be better to bite the bullet and choose Weisha. Even if he didn't come to the trial training, even if he didn't like the Jazz, he didn't need to go through any consideration when he was selected. As a result, the Jazz skipped him.

In all fairness, Deron's rookie season was not bad, with an average of 10+2+4 assists per game. Except that he was not as good as Paul, no point guard in the same class dared to say that he played better than him.

However, as a combo guard, Wei Xia averaged 31 minutes per game as a sixth man, scoring 17.4 points, 5.1 rebounds and 4 assists.

In terms of the comprehensiveness of the data, it has surpassed Paul, and Deron is completely incomparable.

So the trend of despising Deron and touting Weicha centered on Salt Lake City and spread to Utah.

He stood on Bogut just to make Wei Xia sad once, nothing else.

And Channing Frye, who is also in Bogut's camp.His reason for standing with Bogut is the same as that of Deron.The difference between the Knicks and the Jazz is that they seem to want Wei Xia more than anyone else, but they don't have Stud's determination in the process of operation.

Isaiah Thomas's slogan resounded loudly, saying that Weixia's Knicks jersey was ready and waiting for him to wear it. However, after being cut off by the Lakers, he did not express anything, as if accepting failure and choosing Frye instead.

Frye's performance is also not bad. As a big shooter, he averaged 12 points and 5 rebounds per game, claiming that he has plans to extend his range beyond the three-point line in the future.Because his mid-range shooting ability is too chic, he evokes memories of New York fans about Ewing time and time again.His strength is far inferior to Ewing, but he is obsessed with the middle distance like Ewing.Moreover, Frye's defense discouraged the fans, so the criticism of the smiling assassin began again.

They took Thomas not choosing Weixia as the central idea, and launched a round of strong attacks that made people sigh.

New York's media is only ten times better than Utah's.

Therefore, Channing's malice towards Wei Xia is one level higher than that of Delong.

At most, Deron wanted to embarrass Wei Xia, but Chan Ning came with the idea of ​​taking the opportunity of the game to prove himself and let Wei Xia show his original shape.

In this way, Bogut, Villanova, Deron, and Frye formed the Weiwei faction. Although there are only four of them, Weixia, who is isolated and helpless, is very likely to be as enlightened as Jordan in his rookie season if he does not prepare in advance.

After a while, Harris changed into his training clothes and walked into the arena.

He blew his whistle to signal the players to gather.

Weisha didn't hear the whistle, because when Harris blew the whistle, he happened to run to the distance to pick up the ball.

So when his teammates assembled, he was holding the ball back to the shooting area and preparing to continue shooting.

"It seems that there are a lot of people here." Villanueva said meaningfully.

"You have to understand that some people want to prove that they work harder than others all the time," Bogut said wryly.

Frye pretended to be a man of justice to "speak for" Wei Xia: "Don't say that, we should learn more from Wish, although doing so is a bit disrespectful to the coach."

Harris didn't seem to hear their discussion, and then blew the whistle again.

Wei Xia finally heard it. He shook off his sweat, handed the ball to the staff, thanked him, and returned to the queue.

"Training mad, how is your condition?" Bogut's tone was so obvious that even the caddy could hear his hostility.

"Thank you for your concern, I'm fine."

Wei Xia didn't care about his attitude, and responded casually.

"Okay, everyone, I hope you don't regard tomorrow's game as a show. You know, you can only play in the Rookie Challenge for two times at most. It is a big stage and attracts worldwide attention. Maybe some of you can become future superstars, but before that day comes, you must show your real skills, let the fans remember you, and let those guys who have become stars see your strength!"

Harris' words are very provocative, after all, he is an experienced coach.

"Next, let's play a match, and you can form teams freely." Harris said lightly.

Bogut asked, "Can we do whatever we want?"

"Yes, I said, free team formation." Harris added another key sentence, "The result of this match will determine who will start tomorrow and who will be a substitute."

Hearing this, Bogut stood up with joy and said, "Who wants to form a team with me?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Frye, Villanueva, Deron and backup point guard Luther Hyde from the Rockets came to his side.

"Very good!" Bogut laughed arrogantly, "That's enough, we will win!"

"It's not fair!" complained Nate Robinson, who came from the same Knicks as Frye.

Bogut said triumphantly: "The coach said that we can form a team freely. Although you don't have big men, we don't have wings, so no one is better than the other. Our lineup has the same flaws."

He is really wise, who doesn't know that Frye and Villanueva can both play small forwards?

Due to the grouping inside, the lineup of Weixia's team has become: Weixia himself, Paul, Robinson, Danny Granger, Sarunas Jasikevicius PG.

4 defenders, 1 wing.

Wei Xia has played in the NCAA four-back system for two years. Jay Wright has promoted the "four-back" as his signature in colleges. Without Wei Xia this year, they still play the four-back system.However, Villanova's four-back system has strengths.

They are often a combination of one big and four small ones, and in Wei Xia's team, the tallest Granger is a standard small forward, followed by him, a 196 cm combo guard, then Paul, a 183 cm point guard, Robinson, an attacking guard in his early 170 cm, and Jascovicius, a 193 cm point guard.
No inside line is the first, insufficient ball possession is the second, and serious positional conflicts are the third.

"Coach, this matchup really can't be played, we don't even have a rebounder!" Robinson shouted.

"You are right, but this is just a test match. I don't need you all to fight for victory. I just want to see the characteristics of each of you, and then decide who will start tomorrow." Harris said.

Robinson glared at his teammate instead: "Channing, you better fucking come back to me!"

Frye was unimpressed.

Robinson scolded violently: "How do we fight?"

"Let me do the rebounding if you guys don't mind."

Wei Xia hoped that he would be very handsome when he said this.

Like those chicken soup masters in the movies who utter the cliche "everything will pass" to people who are desperate to the point of collapse.

(End of this chapter)