NBA basketball rhythm monster

Chapter 55 Confrontation with James

As a summer league with the purpose of training new players and selecting lineups, famous stars generally do not participate.

This makes Li Luo feel like a dimensionality reduction blow here.

Especially after having almost a coach-like authority, the entire team has a tacit understanding under his leadership, and is not at all jerky and reckless like other teams.

Halfway through the Summer League schedule, Li Luo had perfect statistics of 19.3 points, 9.1 rebounds and 7.5 assists in three games. However, such luxurious statistics are not unique in the entire Summer League, because Cleveland's chosen son also has the same performance.

Excellent performance.

If Li Luo's results are a bit unexpected, LeBron James's 21.0 points, 8.7 rebounds and 9.9 assists perfectly meet people's expectations for him.

And today, July 21, the summer league is coming to an end, these two No. 1 picks in the 2003 class are about to start a confrontation like Mars colliding with the earth.

Summer league venues are generally relatively small. If there is a showdown between unpopular teams, the venue may even be a simple league training hall renovated. No one will watch it anyway.

But today's game was obviously extremely popular, and all the 300 spectator tickets sold by the league were quickly sold out.

However, thanks to the fact that this league is held in Boston, as a local team, the Celtics easily applied for the North Shore Garden Arena as the venue for this game. With the spacious venue, NBA officials easily sold 7,000 more tickets

A ticket.

Even ESPN and TNT, a pair of American sports media giants, sent commentators to explain the game.

The two old partners of Charles Barkley and Kenny Smith finally reunited in the dugout before the start of the NBA playoffs.

"Kenny, good evening, it's been a long time since I've been with you."

"Good afternoon, Charles, it's just been an offseason, but I've been looking forward to this matchup for a long time."

"Of course, who doesn't look forward to it? The battle between the No. 1 pick and the No. 2 pick is always the highlight after every draft. Kenny, which great guy do you think will win today?"

"This is hard to say. You know, the charm of sports competitions is here. You never know who the winner is before the final whistle blows. But judging from the data, LeBron is obviously better in terms of personal ability.

One of the best. I wonder if LeBron has strengthened his shooting during this holiday. His 42.7% mid-range shooting rate and 34.5% three-point shooting are not outstanding, but they are by no means a hindrance. It seems that he has adapted to NBA-level confrontation.

Already."

Kenny thought for a moment and expressed another consideration:

"But obviously the Celtics are a better team than Cleveland. After three games, the Celtics beat their opponents by 13 points. The Cavaliers have two wins and one loss in three games. Both wins were a little bit complicated.

It means narrowly escaping."

"Hey, Kenny, it's just summer league, that doesn't mean anything."

Barkley obviously disagreed with Kenny's judgment, and he gave his own reasons:

"I have to admit that Li Luo is a player with great football intelligence." After saying that, Barkley looked at the information on his desk and said to Kenny Smith:

"A reporter's survey showed that more than half of the tactics of the Celtics' entire summer league were formulated by Li Luo. Now some players in the Celtics team directly stated in interviews that Li Luo was the team's leader.

Shadow Coach'."

"Wow, more than half of the tactics? Is that an exaggeration? This statistic is even better than the average rookie assistant coach. Doesn't the head coach Wilt Ketter in the team feel offended?"

"Haha, there is no doubt that this newly hired Celtics assistant coach enjoys the pleasure of winning all the time. However, it can also be inferred that it will not be a problem for Li Luo, a player to join the management after retirement, because he has the ability.

"

"This is too exaggerated." Kenny Smith was a little surprised that a player could have such good tactical reserves.

"So, your judgment is that LeBron James is better than Lee Luo in terms of personal ability, but the Celtics are better overall with the help of Lee Luo?"

"That's pretty much what it means. One more thing, Kenny, have you noticed the two people's fighting style?"

"No, I occasionally paid attention to the news throughout the holiday and didn't watch much of the game."

"LeBron is worthy of being the chosen one. Will he be the strongest high school student in history? Now he can basically have the upper hand in any NBA-level confrontation. His attack to the basket tears apart the opponent time and time again.

Defense. If the opponent double-teams, his excellent vision can immediately find his teammates in the open space. This is also the reason why his assists are higher than Li Luo."

Buckley continued his analysis:

"And Li Luo has another style of play. His intimidating power one step beyond the three-point line is simply terrifying. Although his physical fitness cannot keep up with James, Li Luo has a variety of play styles and is even more difficult to defend. Breakthroughs, pick-and-rolls, and mid-range

He can take all kinds of shots. As an insider, he only took 27% of the shots in the penalty area and shot 58.2%. This shows that almost every shot he makes is good."

Barkley came to a conclusion, "If it were me, I would rather defend James. This guy Li Luo is as slippery as a loach."

While the discussion between the two was in full swing on the commentary table, the players on both sides had already finished warming up and were ready to go on the field.

As the two most dazzling people in the 2003 class, to be honest, there is no deep hatred between Luo Li and James. Luo Li is most indignant at the sneaker company's contemptuous behavior.

Not only these two people, there are actually very few people in the NBA who have substantial conflicts. Most of them are fans outside the stadium who are watching the fun and getting angry.

After all, they are all working in the NBA league, so there is no benefit in quarreling with each other.

Of course, the winner will definitely eat more deliciously and sumptuously.

Luo Li hugged James as soon as he came up. The nearby cameras buzzed loudly. No one will miss the strongest showdown among this rookie class.

The Cavaliers won the kickoff, and Jeff McGinnis, a Cavaliers guard who had fully utilized his tool-man attributes in the previous three games:

Dribble the ball across half the court, hand it over to LeBron, then squat outside the three-point line to catch one or two sudden balls, and then throw them out.

This kind of job in this game is equivalent to having the latest ticket to watch the game. You can see things clearly and get paid. (Spoiler seat?)

In the early years, when LeBron's body was not full of flesh, he looked almost two sizes smaller than now. In fact, the Cavaliers did not consider training James in the direction of Magic. But later the team could not recruit anyone such as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Worthy.

Such big shots can't afford showtime and give up.

LeBron James, who received the ball, was holding the ball outside the three-point line like a defender. Chucky Atkins, a young man who desperately needed court performance to win a job, did not dare to be careless at all. He opened his arms as wide as possible.

, his footsteps are always cruising, ready to defend.

But James' playing style was beyond his expectation. He saw James explode the ball on the ground, and the powerful explosive force made the ball almost fly forward. He ran forward in pursuit of the ball.

Atkins was shocked and immediately prepared to defend.

But once James was allowed to speed up, Atkins was hit and staggered to the side, while James went straight to the basket with almost no impact on his speed.

"Bump!" The basket trembled under this powerful dunk, and at the same time, the referee blew the whistle:

"Celtics No. 3, blocking foul, extra free throw."

"He's grown again!"

Li Luo, who has studied James in depth, looked on with a gentle look on the sidelines. The ball was so fast that he didn't even expect it, and he didn't even have time to make a defensive move.