The All-Star Weekend Rookie Challenge was held on the evening of February 18. As an appetizer for the All-Star Weekend tournament, it itself has some public expectations.

The day before the competition begins, the first graders will gather to train.

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

It was under his command that Kobe sounded the death knell for the Lakers with the Jazz. At that time, he was just a rookie, but Harris dared to throw such a lot of pressure on him. Later, Harris became the head coach of the Chinese team, with Yao Zhu as the core, and reached the quarterfinals in the Athens Olympics and achieved the set goal.

Although Harris has no merits and no faults, he is still worthy of being commemorated.

Because the Yao Zhun under his command is about to reach the peak and is healthy, he can play for more than 35 minutes in a game without any problems.

Wei Xia came to the gymnasium that had been booked in advance in a training suit. When she saw Harris, she was not as difficult as she imagined.

"Bryant asked me to say hello to you for him." This is the first thing Weisha said to Harris.

"I had a phone call with him a few days ago, and he asked me to take care of you more." Harris' kind-eyed look would not remind people of his nickname - Silver Fox.

Wei Xia just kept Wei Xia and was disagreeable. Kobe's so-called care was to give him status or playing time?

If the player status is allocated according to the ranking, Wei Xia may not be able to start. If the season's performance is judging from the core, he can only choose one of him and Paul.

But although the rookie challenge always plays more seriously than the main competition, it cannot be regarded as a formal competition because of this.

The two participating teams often do not have obvious cores, and they will not cooperate. Whoever takes the ball will play, and only selfless idiots will pass the ball.

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

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

Later, students from the same level who were also selected into the first-grade team came one after another.

The first person to say hello to Weisha was his number one rival, Chris Paul.

"We are under a lot of pressure when you work so hard." Paul joked.

"Sorry, I don't want to be independent either, but I haven't had systematic training for two days." Wei Xia gave a corresponding explanation of his "work".

Paul expressed his understanding, but it was hard for others to say.

Headed by Andre Bogut, a distinctive anti-Western faction was formed.

Several other people joined them.

Wei Xia's old opponent, Charlie Veranova, who has been fighting since the NCAA, will not make Wei Xia curious about his joining Bogut's camp.

It is said that long hair and short knowledge are not necessarily the case that people who don’t have a single hair will have long knowledge. What’s more, this person not only has no hair, but no hair on any part of his body. He doesn’t even have a carrier for his “knowledge”, so it’s not surprising that he goes astray.

Deron Williams, he and Wei Xia have no chance in the past and have no grudges recently. Bogut chose to take the team because he was forced by fans and media.

Since the first game of this season, Utah fans and media have said that it would be better to grit their teeth and choose Wei Xia. Even if he didn't come to participate in the trial, even if he looked down on the Jazz, he didn't need to take any consideration when choosing him. As a result, the Jazz skipped him.

To be fair, Deron's rookie season is not bad, averaging 1,024 assists per game. Except for not being as good as Paul, no point guard in the same class dares to say that he plays better than him.

But as a double-athlete guard, Wei Xia averaged 31 minutes per game as the sixth man, scoring 17.4 points, 5.1 rebounds and 4 assists.

In terms of the comprehensiveness of the data, Deron is absolutely incomparable.

So he disliked Delong and praised Wei Xia's atmosphere, centered on Salt Lake City, spreading to Utah.

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

There is also Channing Fry, who is also in Bogut's camp. His reason for standing in Bogut is the same as Deron. The difference between the Knicks and the Jazz is that they seem to want Weisha more than anyone else, but they do not have the determination to do so during the operation.

Isaiah Thomas's slogan was loud and said that Weisha's Knicks jersey was ready and was waiting for him to put it on. However, after being intercepted by the Lakers, he did not express any statement. It seemed that he had accepted the failure and chose Fry instead.

Fry's performance is also not bad. As a big pitcher, he averaged 12 points and 5 rebounds per game, claiming that he has plans to pull the range outside the three-point line in the future. Because his mid-range shooting ability is too chic, he evokes memories of Ewing from New York fans again and again. His strength is far inferior to Ewing, but he is obsessed with middle-range like Ewing. Moreover, Fry's defense has discouraged the fans, so the criticism of the Smiling Assassin is unfolding again.

They launched a round of harsh criticisms with Thomas not choosing Weisha as the center.

New York media will only be ten times stronger than Utah.

Therefore, Qianning's malicious intention towards Wei Xia was one level higher than Delong.

Delong wanted to embarrass Wei Xia at most, but Qian Ning took the idea of ​​taking advantage of the opportunity to prove himself and let Wei Xia show his true colors.

In this way, Bogut, Villanova, Deron and Fry formed the Anti-Western Party. Although they only have four people, if Wei Xia is isolated and helpless, she is very likely to be as ignorant as Jordan in the rookie season.

After a while, Harris changed into the training uniform and walked into the stadium.

He whistled and signaled the players to concentrate.

Wei Xia didn't hear the whistle because when Harris blew the whistle, he happened to run away to pick up the ball.

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

"It seems that people are not in common," Vilanua said with some slight reference.

"You have to understand that some people want to prove that they work harder than others at all times." Bogut said in a strange tone.

Fry pretended to be a righteous man and said to Weisha: "Don't say that, we should learn more from Wish, although doing so is a bit disrespectful to the coach."

Harris seemed to have not heard their comments, and then blew another whistle.

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

"Training maniac, how are you in your condition?" Bogut's tone was so obvious that even the caddie could hear his hostility.

"Thank you for your concern, I'm all right."

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 should know that you can only play two rookie challenge games at most. It's a big stage and attracting attention from the world. Maybe some of you can become the superstars of the future, but before that day comes, you must show your real skills to let the fans remember you and let those guys who have become stars see your strength!"

Harris's words are very inflammatory and he is an experienced coach after all.

"Next, we will play a confrontation and you will be free to form a team." Harris said lightly.

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

"Yes, I said, team up freely." Harris added a key sentence, "The result of this confrontation will determine who starts tomorrow and who will be substitute."

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

As soon as he finished speaking, Fry, Villanueva, Deron and substitute point guard Luther Hyde from the Rockets walked to him.

"Very good!" Bogut laughed arrogantly, "this is enough, we will win!"

"Damn it's unfair!" Nate Robinson, who is from the Knicks like Fry, complained, "The big guys are all on your side, who are we taking rebounds?"

Bogut said proudly: "The coach said we can team up freely. Although you don't have big men, we don't have wings either, so no one takes advantage of anyone. Our lineup is flawed."

He is really wise. Who doesn't know that both Fry and Veranuar can play a small forward?

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

4 defenders, 1 wing.

Wei Xia has played four-guard system in the NCAA for two years. Jay Wright has promoted the "four defenders" as his signature in college. Without Wei Xia this year, they still play the four-guard system. However, Villanova's four-guard system has a strong position.

They are often matched by one, four and small, while Wei Xia's team, the tallest Granger is the standard small forward, followed by him, a 196 cm double-energy guard, then Paul, a 183 cm point guard, Robinson, an attacking guard who is just over 170 cm, Jascovius, a 193 cm point guard...

No inside line is the first one, not enough ball rights are the second one, and serious position conflicts are the third one.

"Coach, this combination really doesn't work. We don't even have anyone to grab rebounds!" Robinson shouted.

"You make sense, but this is just a test match. I don't need you to fight for it with all my might. I just want to see the characteristics of each of you and decide who will start tomorrow." Harris said.

Robinson turned to glaring at his teammate: "Channing, you'd better get back to me!"

Fry was unmoved.

Robinson scolded irritably, "How to fight this?"

"If you don't mind... let me grab the rebound."

Wei Xia hopes that he will be very handsome when he says this.
Chapter completed!