Guard With a Knife

The top 16 opponent is Arizona State University. They eliminated the University of Washington in the first round. Freshman James Harden was very sophisticated and cunning in his first knockout game. He scored a game-high 19 points and 6 assists.

In addition to James Harden, Arizona State University (ASU) has another eye-catching player named Jeff Pendergraf, who is an inside player with excellent physical fitness. He scored 9 points, 13 rebounds and 2 blocks in the game against the University of Washington. He is a super blue-collar.

The game against ASU on Friday afternoon was not favored by the TV stations, and even the arena was only half filled with spectators.

There is nothing to watch in this game.

In fact, there is no suspense in this game.

The trio set the pace from the start of the game, with the Puppies completely dominating Jeff Pendergraf in the paint. Pendergrave was everything a puppy could be, and better than him.

Whether it is physical strength, jumping ability, positioning ability, rebounding ability, or blocking ability, the puppy has an overall advantage.

Moreover, the puppy has something that Pendergraf does not have, super bullet speed, excellent passing awareness, and a smart brain.

So... Pendergraf is in full swing.

In the end, the puppy scored 2 points, 12 rebounds, 3 assists and 2 blocks. Among them, one block was given to James Harden. James Harden broke into the penalty area with a classic snake-shaped breakthrough. When he was making a backhand layup, he was directly killed by the puppy with a diagonal stab, and he directly pressed it with one hand. backboard.

This made James Harden panicked and surprised. Normally, his breakthroughs rarely yielded such results, and he was surprised that the pup wasn't fooled.

Before the game, he looked at the puppy's basic physical measurement data, and he found that the height and wingspan of the two were exactly the same, but now he was playing the invisible No. 1 position, while he was the solid No. 5 position.

At present, the playing style of the two can be said to be completely opposite. The puppies are firmly stationed in the paint area, influencing the game with rebounding and defense.

But James Harden is another extreme. He can shoot suddenly, has excellent shifting ability, and has a kaleidoscope of floor scoring skills: Richmond's turnaround shot, Paul Pierce's post-up singles, Manu Gino Billy's snake step breakthrough, he is good at everything.

He is only 18 years old this year, but he plays like a mature and steady old fritters.

During the intermission, Ben Holland repeatedly emphasized: "Russell, you should learn from James Harden. His style of play is more reasonable."

However, Russell obviously didn't listen carefully, he still insisted on his personality in the second half, he was like a beast descending the mountain, he didn't get entangled with his opponent at all, and directly strangled their ankles with speed, using Kevin Love Or the puppy screen, directly into the penalty area, or complete a straight-legged jumper from the free throw line.

He is so invincible!

To be honest, coach Ben Holland is a little helpless about this, because Westbrook's mutated version of DDM can win.

He didn't replace Westbrook until the last five minutes when he started to get assists frequently, by which time garbage time had arrived. Westbrook also apparently wants to improve his assist stats from 7 to 10.

So, when he returned to the bench, he was a little unhappy.

However, Kevin Love's small talk with the puppy let him release this unhappiness.

"Hey, Snoopy." Kevin Love asked the puppy seriously: "Don't you think James Harden looks a bit like a black girl? He's too delicate, he should give himself some masculinity."

"Masculinity? Lend him bin Laden's beard?" The puppy complained angrily.

Then Westbrook chuckled. His brain made associations,

He put it together: "This is indeed a genius idea, he should give himself some beard, if he can grow it. Ha ha ha ha!"

After the game, James Harden actually came over. He proposed to change jerseys with the puppy, and of course the puppy did not refuse.

The two exchanged their jerseys, then parted ways after a polite handshake.

ASU's schedule for the season is over, and they're down in the top 32.

The winner will move on, and they will start the quarter-finals in three days.

Their opponents were released an hour before the end of the game. Stanford University, with twin center Lopez brothers, eliminated the top seed in the Southern District, led by OJ Mayo, University of Southern California.

There is no doubt that this is the first important test of the puppy's basketball career, because he will face two seven-foot men at the same time, and they are still twins! !

However, before that, he had to face Jennifer.

Jennifer has been staying in Satmento for the past three days, since she tasted the joy of that incident. She is self-taught and has learned a lot of advanced postures, which makes the puppy very happy, and he tries new tricks almost every day.

The two never tire of it.

"I'm going back to Los Angeles this morning, and my agent picked up a literary film for me."

Jennifer told the puppies at four in the morning.

The puppy was silent, just turned Jennifer over silently.

Time is ticking.

...

Basketball experts are not optimistic about the promotion prospects. They believe that the 1.93-meter Snoopy will completely lose all the chips he won in the previous two games this time.

"The Lopez brothers are too powerful. Under NCAA rules, they are the strongest inside combination in the country. Trying to continue to use Snoopy to open up the situation is simply wishful thinking, which will never happen."

"Brook is good on offense. He's a smaller version of Tim Duncan. There's no job he can't do around the basket. Robin is a passionate defensive player. Rebounds, blocks shots, builds morale, he can do it all! "

"Height is Snoopy's biggest flaw, and his slow movement would have killed the Lopez brothers."

"..."

Almost one-sided reviews.

The puppy looked at the newspaper handed over by Mr. Ben Howland, and then raised his head: "At least one thing is worthy of recognition. Now the basketball circle uniformly calls me 'Snoopy', which will reduce a lot of communication costs. .”

Ben Howland let out an 'ah'. He originally wanted to use these negative comments to boost the morale of the puppy.

However, the puppy gave him such a feedback: Isn't the focus too weird?

Just as he was about to continue 'stimulating', the puppy asked again: "I heard from Team Leader Peterson that a group of Chinese journalists will come to interview me today. What time will they arrange it? I don't want my compatriots who came from afar Lose courtesy in front of you."

"They will arrive at the arena at two o'clock in the afternoon. Before the game starts, we will arrange for you to conduct a half-hour closed-door interview in the conference room."

Ben Howland replied.

The puppy nodded. When he browsed the Chinese webpage recently, he found a lot of news reports about himself. This gave him a kind of pride of "returning home".

For the past two days, he has been waiting for a call from his parents. He feels that the domestic news will definitely shock them: it turns out that his son has done such a big thing on the other side of the ocean without making a sound. They will be surprised when they see the news I'm dumbfounded.

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[Send it in the third watch, it's actually dawn. I must ask for a recommendation ticket, my hardworking hands! 】

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