Entertaining Children

Xiao Yao blocks the basketball out of the sideline, and the Western Celebrities serve the sideline. While a few people were chatting, the referee had given the basketball to Anthony Morell, who was standing outside the sideline. Seeing Anthony Morell raising his hand to serve a sideline ball, the people on the field quickly ended their chat, and both sides ran to meet and keep up with their defensive targets.

Anthony Morell threw the basketball to Carmon Blunt, a professional player who ran beyond the three-point line, and slid to the basket.

After Carmon Blunt received the ball, Joey Bielsa, who came out of the inside, did not follow very closely, and directly made a jumper from outside the three-point line. The basketball draws a graceful arc in the air, hollow into the frame.

Will Foster of the Eastern Celebrity Team picked up the dropped basketball and stood outside the bottom line. He was about to pass the basketball back to Xiao Yao as usual, but he found Zach Heywood standing beside Xiao Yao and stared at him, so he threw it away. , throwing the basketball to Joey Bielsa who was farther away.

Joey Bielsa didn't intend to let Xiao Yao organize every ball. Now that the opponent interfered with Xiao Yao's receiving the ball, Joey Bielsa simply dribbled the ball into the opponent's half, and planned to organize the attack by himself.

Camon Blunt has retreated near his own three-point line, and no one interferes with professional player Joey Bielsa's ball-holding advancement, allowing Joey Bielsa to take the ball across the opponent's half leisurely.

After all the players of the Eastern Celebrities had passed the opposing half, everyone noticed some changes in the Western Celebrities' defensive players. It was no longer Brandon Brown who defended Xiao Yao, but Zach Heywood.

"Huaxia boy, I don't bully girls, and you don't bully children either, let's hit one!" Zach Heywood said to Xiao Yao slightly provocatively.

"Huh?" Xiao Yao looked at the strong white man in front of him with some surprise.

Joey Bielsa, who was standing outside the three-point line on the left, saw Brandon Brown defending Makdoum on the other side in a serious manner. Langdon Brown played against the very interesting "grandfather and grandson". After hearing Zach Heywood's words, Joey Bielsa immediately changed his mind, raised his hand and threw the basketball to Xiao Yao who was at the top of the arc, and asked with a smile: "Yang, stop passing, hit one!"

"Okay!" Xiao Yao smiled and nodded.

Although the strong white man in front of him is a professional boxer who has won a gold belt, this is a basketball court, not a boxing ring, and Xiao Yao is not afraid of him even if he fights with him, let alone playing basketball.

Considering that the opponent was a boxer, his upper body strength must be very good, Xiao Yao dribbled the ball and took a step back, creating a slight distance from his opponent.

Xiao Yao stood outside the three-point line when he received the ball.

Still retreating now, Zach Heywood didn't feel that Xiao Yao wanted to open up space for a super long-range three-pointer, so he didn't follow up closely. Instead, he opened his arms and lowered his center of gravity, preparing to face Xiao Yao's breakthrough .

Not to mention that Xiao Yao has not scored a point so far, and more importantly, he has not even made a single shot. On the contrary, several breakthroughs look very beautiful. Zach Heywood does not think Xiao Yao is an excellent outside shooter. And more like an excellent rusher who can pass the ball.

It's not that Xiao Yao doesn't have the ability to shoot from the outside as Zach Heywood thought, but since it's a singles game, Xiao Yao certainly wouldn't choose the unstable offensive method of long-range shooting, and he was indeed ready to break through by taking a step back. Facing Zach Heywood, a strong white man, Xiao Yao did not make a crotch breakthrough like teasing a child just now. Instead, he slapped the basketball to his left front from one side of his body, and followed it up. Speeding up, he caught the ball with his left hand and broke through to his left.

Zach Heywood, who had been prepared for a long time, immediately took a step to the right, blocking Xiao Yao's path, and at the same time raised his chest slightly, intending to make physical contact with Xiao Yao.

As a result, Xiao Yao, who had just started, made an emergency stop, took the bounced basketball with his left hand and slapped it under his crotch. At the same time, his whole body turned to the right, and his right hand went to his right after catching the ball.

Zach Heywood immediately adjusted his center of gravity, retreating to his left rear to follow up. Due to the late starting speed, Xiao Yao took half of Heywood's advantage, and could only follow Xiao Yao's side and rear.

However, Zach Heywood's body and upper body strength are indeed good. After following Xiao Yao to the basket for two steps, Zach Heywood squeezed Xiao Yao's breakthrough route to the outside with an intentional physical contact, and regained an inside position closer to the basket.

Xiao Yao suddenly slowed down and stopped suddenly in the middle of the sideline of the three-second zone. Zach Heywood, who was swaying to follow closely, flickered, but he didn't jump up and shoot immediately, but slowly took a step back while dribbling the ball.

Zach Heywood, who had adjusted his posture, saw that Xiao Yao didn't take advantage of his unstable center of gravity to make mid-range shots, and felt that Xiao Yao's shooting accuracy was average. Thinking about being almost completely swayed by Xiao Yao just now, not only did Zach Heywood not follow Xiao Yao to jump out, but he took a half step back and got closer to the basket.

Seeing this scene, Xiao Yao took a step forward, increased his speed, and started with the ball directly.

After seeing Xiao Yao take two steps with the ball, Zach Heywood immediately jumped up with his arms raised. But what he didn't expect was that Xiao Yao jumped far beyond his imagination, Zach Heywood could only lean his upper body forward, intending to knock Xiao Yao away.

In terms of body thickness and upper body strength, Xiao Yao is indeed worse than Zach Heywood. But Xiao Yao took off with a sprint, and Zach Heywood took off vertically. Xiao Yao took advantage of some inertia and did not suffer too much when he collided with Zach Heywood in the air, but the forward momentum was blocked. Xiao Yao had already tested Zach Heywood's power when he broke through just now, and this situation was within his expectation. Although Xiao Yao's forward momentum was blocked, his jump height was sufficient. Taking advantage of the pause of the collision, Xiao Yao raised the basketball's arm and swung it down fiercely, smashing the basketball into the basket.

"Wow!" There was an exclamation in the auditorium.

"Yeah" Dean and others on the sidelines raised their arms and stood up.

"Awesome!" Zhao Rui, Zhou Zhihao and others also raised their arms and stood up and shouted loudly.

"Yes!" the Celebrities East bench jumped to their feet, waving fists or towels.

"Eon!" Joey Bielsa turned and ran back with a smile. At the same time, he looked up at the auditorium and waved his arms upwards, signaling the audience to shout louder. Under his greeting, the audience gave out a burst of excited cheers and screams.

"Beautiful! Xiao Yao completed a wonderful dunk under Heywood's defense!" Li Jun on the commentary booth exclaimed excitedly, his voice trembling with excitement.

"Slam dunks in the Masters game are quite rare, and the dunks of non-professional players are even rarer. They can be counted with one slap. In the Masters game last year, there was not even a single dunk!" Zhang Yuan said equally excitedly, "I didn't expect that in this year's Masters, the first dunk was done by our Chinese star. It's so beautiful!"

Xiao Yao himself was not too excited, and he didn't clenched his fists and shouted to the sky after landing, but just ran back with a smile.

But because he is not excited, it does not mean that other people on the field are not excited.

In the training session yesterday, Xiao Yao mainly showed basic skills such as dribbling, passing and shooting, and he had never dunked. Except for Joey Bielsa, other teammates did not know that Xiao Yao could dunk. Xiao Yao's move also shocked the teammates of the Eastern Celebrity Team. Will Foster ran over very excitedly, gave Xiao Yao a high five, and shouted, "Brother, that's great!"

After Will Foster and Xiao Yao finished high-fiving, he ran away quickly. On the way back to defending his own half, Rita Mitchell took the initiative to run to Xiao Yao and gave him a high-five to celebrate, smiling. Said: "Hey, you are amazing! I want you to be a guest on my show even more now."

"Well, if time permits, I will definitely go!" Xiao Yao laughed, still not saying anything.

After the Western Celebrities attacked, the position on the field changed again. This time it was not the kid Brandon Brown who advanced with the ball, but a professional player Camon Blunt, and the forward position in the right corner was replaced by Zach Heywood from Anthony Morell.

The defensive strategy of the Eastern Celebrities is area plus man-marking. As the second height on the field, Xiao Yao’s defensive position is in the middle of the right baseline, mainly defending the opposing players near the right corner, while taking into account the right side. Defense around the basket. This adjustment of the Western Celebrities team is to replace the player facing Xiao Yao from Anthony Morell to Zach Heywood.

After Carmon Blunt took the ball beyond the three-point line, he raised his hand and passed the ball to Zach Heywood in the corner on the right. Xiao Yao stood in the middle between the bottom corner and the basket, far away from Zach Heywood, unable to intercept the pass, but when Zach Heywood received the ball, Xiao Yao also rushed out immediately, standing at Zach Heywood Defensive position in front of Ke Haywood.

"Heywood! Heywood!"

Xiao Yao just dunked on Zach Heywood's head, and immediately Zach Heywood faced Xiao Yao again with the ball. Seeing such a tit-for-tat scene, there was a burst of drum noise in the auditorium, and some spectators shouted Zach Heywood's name loudly to cheer him on.

Many players on the Western Celebrity bench also stood up and waved to cheer for Zach Heywood, but only Zhuo Zhiyuan sat motionless in his seat, and couldn't help lowering his head, covering his forehead with his hand.

Seeing that Zach Heywood was going to single-play Xiao Yao, Joey Bielsa smiled silently, not only did not move closer to Xiao Yao's basket, but moved a step away from the basket.

Amid the cheers and cheers from the audience, Zach Heywood slapped the basketball on the ground, trying to break through Xiao Yao's right hand. Xiao Yao did not retreat, but lowered his center of gravity again, and at the same time stretched out his right hand quickly.

The sound of cheering at the scene of "wow" suddenly turned into a burst of exclamation. It turned out that just as Zach Heywood started dribbling, Xiao Yao's hand caught the basketball bouncing off the ground.

Zach Heywood had just taken a step forward when he suddenly realized that the basketball in his hand was gone, and he was also surprised. Fortunately, his reaction was fast enough and his body was thick enough. He immediately turned around to block Xiao Yao behind him, and regained control of the basketball that Xiao Yao tapped behind him.

With the experience of being almost stolen, Zach Heywood didn't intend to make a head-on breakthrough. He simply turned his back to Xiao Yao and dribbled the ball towards the basket.

Xiao Yao was also unambiguous, and immediately posted it, and slowly retreated to the basket following Zach Heywood's back cut. Xiao Yao didn't use brute force to push Zach Heywood all the time, the strength in his body was constantly releasing and retracting. When Zach Heywood pushes back with force, Xiao Yao retreats under force, and when his strength is exhausted, he pushes forward again, basically in a rhythm of taking a step back and pushing back half a step.

When exerting force, there was nothing behind him to focus on, and when the strength was exhausted, he felt the strength of the opponent's back. Zach Heywood was almost unsteady by Xiao Yao, and his steps were all messed up. Although Zach Heywood finally squeezed to the basket position, but it took more energy than expected, not to mention, the whole person was made extremely uncomfortable.

Seeing a suitable shooting position under the basket, Zach Heywood lowered his center of gravity, leaned back again with force, then turned around quickly, and threw the basketball to the basket. Since Xiao Yao didn't feel Xiao Yao's body collision in the final swipe, Zach Heywood was careful when he shot, stretched his arms and made a one-footed hook throw.

Xiao Yao accurately judged the timing of Zach Heywood's shot, and he took a step diagonally instead of making physical contact with Zach Heywood in the last step. When Zach Heywood turned around, Xiao Yao just stood beside his body. As Zach Heywood raised his arm to make a hook shot, Xiao Yao also raised his arm and jumped up.

The hook shot has a high release point and is far away from the frontal defensive player. It is a good choice when facing tall defensive players. Although Xiao Yao's height is not much taller than Zach Heywood, but with the dunk just now, Zach Heywood knew that Xiao Yao must be much better than himself in jumping, so he adopted such an offensive method.

But there is a premise that the hook is hard to defend, that is, the defensive player is in front of the offensive player. At this time, Xiao Yao appeared on the side of Zach Heywood, and this advantage was not so obvious.

Jumping high, Xiao Yao blocked the basketball Zach Heywood raised with his palm without straightening his arms. Just as the basketball thrown by Zach Heywood left his palm, Xiao Yao's palm arrived.

This time, Xiao Yao didn't slap the basketball out with a slap, but swung his right hand slightly back after touching the basketball, and then quickly pressed down. At the same time, he stretched out his left hand and hugged the basketball thrown by Zach Heywood with both hands.

"Ohmygod!" Seeing that Xiao Yao actually caught Zach Heywood's hook shot directly, there was a huge exclamation from the audience, and some audience members hugged their heads in disbelief.

"Unbelievable! Unbelievable!" In the commentary booth, the two well-known commentators who have commented on NBA games all the year round and are also the official commentators for this time, their eyes widened in disbelief, and they exclaimed again and again.

"Xiao Yao caught Heywood's shot from the air!" Li Jun shouted excitedly, his face flushed.

"This is grabbing a hat!" Zhang Yuan exclaimed equally excitedly.