nba championship predators

Chapter 202 Give You a Champion

Accompanying Iverson and old friends from the 76ers watched the first day of the game.

The next day, Zhao Ke changed sides again, this time he sat with Wang Zhizhi, Song Yang and Diana Dai, because they were going to watch Yao Bi's Rookie Challenge together, and Iverson had already gone out to have fun, so he didn't watch rookies peck each other.

The players participating in the All-Star Rookie Challenge are the most outstanding rookie players in the past two years. The first-year team composed of 9 rookies of this year will challenge the sophomore team composed of 9 rookies of last year.

This year is the fourth year since the rookie game was changed to confrontation between new and old rookies. In the first three games, the first-year team temporarily led 2-1.

The rules of the rookie game are different from the regular season. The game is divided into two halves. The half time is 20 minutes. Players will not be sent off due to fouls. If there is a tie within the specified time, there will be 2 minutes of overtime.

The 9-man roster for the first-year team is:

Centers: Yao Bi (Houston Rockets), Nene Hilario (New York Knicks), Drew Gooden (Memphis Grizzlies)
Power Forward: Amare Stoudemire (Phoenix Suns), Carlos Boozer (Cleveland Cavaliers)
Small Forward: Caron Butler (Miami Heat)

Shooting Guard: Gordon Girisek (Memphis Grizzlies)
Point guard: Jay Williams (Chicago Bulls), Dajuan Wagner (Cleveland Cavaliers)
This year's high-quality rookies are obviously focused on the inside. The four insiders selected to the 9-man roster will become the mainstay of their respective teams in the future. Among the five outsiders, except for Caron Butler, the other four are all lost.

The 9-man roster for the second-year team is:

Center: Tyson Chandler (Chicago Bulls)

Power Forward: Pau Gasol (Memphis Grizzlies), Troy Murphy (Golden State Warriors)

Small forwards: Andrei Kirilenko (Utah Jazz), Richard Jefferson (New Jersey Nets)
Shooting Guard: Jason Richardson (Golden State Warriors),

Point guards: Gilbert Arenas (Golden State Warriors), Tony Parker (San Antonio Spurs), Jamal Tinsley (Indiana Pacers)
The second-year lineup was not so nonsense. Except for Troy Murphy and Jamal Tinsley, the other seven players later played at the All-Star level.

From the perspective of the lineup, the first-year players are strong on the inside, and the second-year players are strong on the outside.

If, as usual, they completely give up defense and play an exhibition game, the second grade must win, because they will definitely have a lot of opportunities to break through dunks and open three-pointers.

But if defense is considered, the second grade will definitely be tragic. They will be forced to become a jump shooting team with a tight interior, and the shooting percentage of the interior is much higher than that of the outside.

Of course, except for NPCs like Zhao Ke.

This year's All-Star Weekend was held in Atlanta, so the coaches and assistant coaches of the rookie game deliberately chose the meritorious coaches and legendary players in the history of the Atlanta Hawks.

The two assistant coaches are Eagles legends Pettit and Hudson.

The sophomore head coach was Mike Fratello, one of the most successful coaches of the 80s, coaching the Atlanta Hawks from 1983-1990 and winning the NBA Coach of the Year award in 1985-86.

The first-year head coach is the 72-year-old Cotton Fitzsimmons, who coached the Atlanta Hawks from 1972 to 1976 and ranks 10th on the league's history coach win list.The peak of his coaching career was actually with the Phoenix Suns, during which he won the title of "Best Coach" twice.

Zhao Ke's impression of this silver-haired old man is that he discovered the prototype of Mitsui Shou in "Slam Dunk"——

Dan Marley!

In the 1988 NBA Draft, Cotton Fitzsimmons overcame the public opinion and selected Dan Marley with the 14th overall pick in the first round, and claimed: "The fans will regret their boos."

Sure enough, Dan Marley grew rapidly. He was selected to the NBA All-Star team 3 times and the NBA All-Defensive Team 2 times. He became one of the most outstanding shooters in the entire 90s and even in the history of the NBA.

But poor Fitzsimmons can only live for one year now, Zhao Ke is not a god, he didn't even have time to invent postcards, and when he came to this world, the old man had already been diagnosed with lung cancer.

Zhao Ke ran over and hugged the strong old man, and asked him to sign his name on the chest of his clothes as a souvenir.

Surprisingly, the old man actually recognized Zhao Ke.

"I remember you, Zhao Ke."

"You're a good boy, kind of like a young Dan."

"But your hit rate is higher than him, your defense is better than him, and your strength is stronger than him. You are much better than him, hahaha..."

Zhao Ke hugged Fitzsimmons heavily again. He felt a little sad, but he couldn't say anything.

The stubborn old man does not allow his family members to tell others about his illness. In the eyes of outsiders, he is still the tough guy coach who is all-powerful on the sidelines.

Zhao Ke bid farewell to Fitzsimmons and went to say hello to Yao Bi and Nene.

Nene joked with him, "What's the matter, boss? That old man hacked you too?"

Zhao Ke pulled the two big men aside and said solemnly:
"Coach Fitzsimmons has terminal lung cancer and is probably dying. Can you give him a championship?"

Both Yao Bi and Nene were shocked: "I can't tell, the old man is in good spirits, are you serious?"

Zhao Ke nodded, there was no time to babble, and Coach Zhao began to arrange tactics:
"A few guards in your first grade are hot chickens. I guess no one will feed you the ball. So pay attention to rebounding, don't pass the ball, and hit the inside. The inside of the second grade is surprisingly soft, and they can't find the north if they cover it!"

Zhao Ke turned around and returned to the auditorium, Wang Zhizhi asked him: "What kind of ecstasy soup did you give them, are those two boys stupid?"

It turned out that the players who participated in the rookie game began to warm up. Most of them were shooting and a few were dribbling.

Only Yao Bi and Nene, two big fools, stood on the sidelines and discussed for a while how to block, how to help defend, which side of each other's dominant hand...

Cotton Fitzsimmons listened with great interest to the two serious big men discussing tactics there. He thought it was just a formality, but he didn't expect that there were such bright minds among the rookies?
Looking at the remaining seven tall, short, fat and thin, the game has not yet started, and only the basket is left in their eyes.

The game is about to start. Yao Bi and Nene finally reached a consensus and came to Cotton Fitzsimmons to challenge:

"Mr. Fitzsimmons, if you can let us partner inside for a while, we should have a better understanding."

Cotton Fitzsimmons nodded. He was going to start the two of them just now. It is rare to have a player who looks good. Let them play for a while.

Amare Stoudemire and Carlos Boozer are flexing their muscles on the court, hoping to be seen by the coach and play an extra 2 minutes.

If they heard the conversation on the sidelines, they would probably faint in the toilet.

What a fart, everyone has already decided!
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