Superstar Tyreke

Chapter 125 Jimmy's Rookie Challenge

This year's All-Star Rookie Challenge in Orlando will use a completely different format from the past. This year's Rookie Challenge will use a mixed team of first-year players and second-year players to fight against each other. Mixed teams of sophomores compete against each other.

The players in the roster of the Rookie Challenge are selected by the assistant coaches of the NBA teams. As TNT commentators Charles Barkley and Shaquille O'Neal will serve as the general managers of the two teams respectively. The head coach of the team will be the chief assistant coach of the Eastern and Western All-Star Game coaching staff. Barkley and O'Neal's TNT colleagues Mike Fratello and Steve Kerr will also join the coaching staff of the two teams. Tello will help Barkley, and Kerr will help O'Neal.

The first-year players selected for the All-Star Rookie Challenge are Blake Griffin, John Wall, DeMarcus Cousins, Landry Fields, Paul George, Gordon Hayward De, Greg Monroe, Thiago Splitter, Evan Turner and Jeremy Lin.

The second-year players include Kyrie Irving, Ricky Rubio, Marshan Brooks, Brandon Knight, Kawhi Leonard, Markieff Morris, Tristan Thompson, Kemba. Walker, Derek Williams and Jimmy Butler.

Through the NBA's first rookie draft, the O'Neal team's list is as follows: Blake Griffin, Jeremy Lin, Ricky Rubio, Markieff Morris, Greg Monroe, Landry Fields, Jimmy... Butler, Kemba Walker, Brandon Knight and Tristan Thompson.

Barkley's roster is as follows: Kyrie Irving, DeMarcus Cousins, Gordon Hayward, Paul George, Derrick Williams, Marshan Brooks, John Wall, Tee Yago Splitter, Kawhi Leonard and Evan Turner.

Among them, Cousins ​​​​is unable to play due to injury, Derek Favors will replace him, and Kawhi Leonard is also unable to participate due to injury.

The Rookie Challenge is the same as the All-Star Game. It is a stage for players to show themselves, but it belongs to the first and second graders. The Orlando All-Star Rookie Challenge started at the Amway Center Arena two days before the All-Star Game. The starters are Griffin, Jeremy Lin, Rubio, Morris, Monroe and Knight, and the Barkley team's starters are Irving, George, Turner, Williams and Favors.

The defensive intensity in the rookie challenge is very low, and it is often undefended. It is to let the players on the field score as much as possible to please the fans. Showing their athletic talent and offensive skills is the highlight of this entertainment exhibition game.

At the beginning of the game, the Barkley team started their performance early. Irving made an air-cut pass to George, who completed an alley-oop dunk and scored the first goal of the game!
Then the O'Neal team failed to attack consecutively, while the Barkley team, led by Owen and Wall's double champions, staged dunks one after another, making an 8-0 start, while the Barkley team turned from Griffin to get rid of Williams The defense received Jeremy Lin's air pass dunk and scored the team's first goal of the game.

When the game lasted for more than 5 minutes, both teams made personnel adjustments, and Jimmy Butler stood on the field of the All-Star Rookie Challenge wearing a Kings jersey!

When Jimmy Butler came on the court, Tyreke, who was watching the game from the sidelines, stood up and pointed his fingers at the sky and shouted loudly, "Jimmy!!! Fight hard! Show everyone your strength!!!"

Jimmy obviously heard Tyreke's yelling, turned around and gave Tyreke a thumbs up with a smile.

At this time, the camera lens on the field immediately aimed at the all-star player Tyreke who was cheering for Jimmy on the sidelines. Beside Tyreke, the boss of the Kings, Vivek, was also sitting and watching the game. From the picture of the camera lens, it can be seen that After sitting down, Tyreek and Vivek were laughing and whispering on the sidelines. Obviously, the relationship between Tyreek and the big boss of the team is very good, which made the media start to speculate about the relationship between Tyreek and the team. The relationship between the big boss's daughter.

But today's protagonists are the players participating in the Rookie Challenge. Jimmy put his enthusiasm into the game as soon as he came on the court. Just attack!It's dunks!But Jimmy is best at defense. Even in the Rookie Challenge, Jimmy first showed his strong defense.

During a fast break when the Barkley team grabbed a defensive rebound, Turner dribbled the ball forward from the backcourt. After swaying away from Morris, he was defended by Jimmy. Turner dribbled the ball and was squeezed by Jimmy until his movements deformed. Then Jimmy quickly reached out and knocked out the ball in Turner's hand!
The O'Neal team switched offense and defense. After Jimmy stole the ball, he gave it to Rubio horizontally. Rubio then gave it to Griffin. !
Williams took off the defensive rebound and threw a long throw to Turner in the frontcourt!

"Snapped!"

Jimmy behind Turner judged the passing route first, grabbed the position in front of Turner, and directly reached out to cut off the flying ball!Two consecutive steals!
This is the way Jimmy plays, the bulldog-like bite defense!
Although there is no alley-oop dunk in the arena of the Rookie Challenge, this kind of defensive scene is also passionate enough!

At the same time, although Jimmy's physical fitness is not considered the top in the league, but the audience likes to dunk him!
After breaking the ball, Jimmy took the ball forward and gave the ball to Rubio again after halftime, then Jimmy went straight inside, reached out to Rubio for the ball while running, and Rubio threw the ball high lightly Jimmy jumped up, Rubio's throw pass was just right, Jimmy caught the ball with one hand and smashed it into the basket! ! !

"pretty!!!"

On the sidelines, Tyreke and Vivek stood up and shouted together, as their teammates, as members of their own team, Jimmy's steal and then an alley-oop dunk is enough to make the two excited!

这只是吉米本场新秀挑战赛的缩影，最终吉米全场比赛贡献了10分4板4助，同时拿下了8次抢断！只差一次便追平了2007年克里斯.保罗创造的新秀挑战赛抢断记录！
But in the end Jimmy's O'Neal team lost to Barkley with a 13-point disadvantage. Barkley's Kyrie Irving made 8 of 8 three-pointers and scored 34 points and 9 assists. Orlando All-Star Rookie Challenge Most Valuable Player.

(End of this chapter)