Chapter 919

  Xiao Yao covered the basketball outside the sideline, and the Western Celebrities team served the sideline ball. When several people were chatting, the referee had given the basketball to Anthony Morrel, who was standing outside the sideline. Seeing Anthony Morrell raise his hand to deliver a sideline kick, the people on the court quickly ended the chat, and both sides moved to meet and keep up with their defensive objects.

  Anthony Morrel threw the basketball to the professional player Carmon Blunt who ran to the outside of the three-point line and slipped to the basket.

  After Camon Blunt received the ball, Joey Bielsa, who came out of the inside line, didn't follow closely, and directly pulled out a jumper outside the three-point line. The basketball traverses a beautiful 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 found that Zach Haywood was standing beside Xiao Yao, staring at him, and raised his hand. With a throw, he threw the basketball to Joey Bilsa who was farther away.

   Joey. Bielsa also did not intend to let Xiao Yao organize every ball. Since the opponent interfered with Xiao Yao's catch, Joey Bielsa simply took the ball to the opponent's half and planned to organize the attack on his own.

Camon Blunt has returned to his own three-point line, and no one interferes with professional player Joey Bielsa's ball advancement, allowing Joey Bielsa to take the ball over the opponent's half. field.

  After all the players of the Eastern Celebrities have passed the opposing half, everyone found that the defensive players of the Western Celebrities have undergone some changes. It was no longer Brandon Brown who defended Xiao Yao, but Zach Haywood.

   "China boy, I don't bully girls, and you don't bully kids, let's fight one!" Zach Haywood said to Xiao Yao slightly defiantly.

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

Standing outside the left three-point line, Joey Bilsa saw Brandon Brown defending Mark Dom on the other side with a serious deal of attention. He wanted to throw the basketball to Mark Dom on the other side. Mark Dom and Brandon Brown fought each other with the most interesting "grandfather and grandson". After hearing Zach Haywood's words, Joey Bilsa immediately changed his mind, raised his hand and threw the basketball to Xiao Yao at the top of the arc, and smiled and asked: "Yang, don't pass it, hit one! "

   "Okay!" Xiao Yao nodded with a smile.

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

  Considering that the opponent is a boxer, his upper body strength must be very good, Xiao Yao took a step back with the dribble, and slightly distanced from his opponent.

Xiao Yao stood outside the three-point line when he received the ball, and now he is still backing. Zach Haywood doesn’t think that Xiao Yao wants to open up the space for a super long three-pointer, so he didn’t follow closely, but Zhang. Open your arms, lower your weight, and prepare to face Xiao Yao's breakthrough.

Not to mention that Xiao Yao hasn't scored a point so far. What's more important is that he hasn't even made a single shot. On the contrary, several breakthroughs look beautiful. Zach Haywood doesn't think Xiao Yao is an excellent outside shooter. , And more like an excellent assault player who can pass the ball.

It’s not that Xiao Yao doesn’t have the ability to shoot from outside as Zach Haywood thought, but since it’s a singles, Xiao Yao certainly wouldn’t choose the unstable offensive method of shooting from a long distance. Taking a step back is indeed preparing for a breakthrough. . Facing the strong white man Zach Haywood, Xiao Yao didn't make a breakthrough through the crotch like he did just before teasing a child. Instead, he shot the basketball to his left front on his side of his figure, and followed. Start to accelerate, the left hand catches the ball and breaks through to his left.

  Prepared for a long time, Zach Haywood immediately took a step to the right and blocked Xiao Yao's forward path. At the same time, he slightly raised his chest, intending to make physical contact with Xiao Yao.

  As a result, Xiao Yao, who had just started, made an emergency stop. He took the bouncing basketball with his left hand and took a shot on his crotch. At the same time, his whole body turned to the right, and after receiving the ball with his right hand, he went to his right.

  Zach Heywood immediately adjusted his center of gravity and stepped to his rear left to follow defense. Due to the late start, Haywood was half-positioned by Xiao Yao, and he could only follow Xiao Yao's side and rear.

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

  Xiao Yao suddenly slowed down and stopped in the middle of the sideline of the three-second zone. Zach Heywood swayed with all his strength, but he did not immediately take a jump shot, but dribbled the ball back slowly.

   After adjusting his posture, Zach Haywood saw that Xiao Yao hadn't shot while his center of gravity was unstable, and he felt that Xiao Yao's shooting was average. Thinking of being almost completely shaken by Xiao Yao just now, Zach Haywood not only didn't follow Xiao Yao to pounce, but took a half step back and got closer to the basket.

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

  Zach Haywood watched Xiao Yao take two steps with the ball, immediately raised his arm and jumped up. However, what he didn't expect was that Xiao Yao jumped far beyond his imagination, and Zach Haywood could only lean forward with his upper body, intending to knock Xiao Yao away.

  In terms of body thickness and upper limb strength, Xiao Yao is indeed worse than Zach Haywood. However, Xiao Yao sprinted and took off, Zach Heywood took off vertically. Xiao Yao took advantage of some inertia. When he collided with Zach Heywood in the air, he didn’t suffer too much. It was just that his forward momentum was blocked. Up. Xiao Yao had already tried out Zach Haywood's power when he broke through just now, and this situation was also within his expectations. Although Xiao Yao's forward momentum was blocked, his height at the time of take-off was sufficient. Taking advantage of the pause in the collision, Xiao Yao raised the arm of the basketball and swung it down, smashing the basketball into the hoop.

  "Wow~" There was an exclamation in the audience.

  "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.

  "Yes!" The Eastern Celebrity team's bench all jumped up and shouted with fists or towels.

   "ComeOn!" Joey Bilsa smiled and turned and ran back, while looking up at the audience, waving his arms upwards, indicating that the audience shouted louder. Under his greeting, the audience let out a burst of excited cheers and screams.

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

"Slam dunks in the celebrity games are quite rare, and non-professional players have even fewer dunks. Almost a slap can be counted. There was no dunk in the celebrity game last year!" Zhang Yuan was equally excited. "Unexpectedly, this year's Celebrities, the first dunk was completed by our Chinese star, it is so beautiful!"

  Xiao Yao didn't feel much excitement himself. After landing, he didn't hold his fists and screamed to the sky. He just ran back with a smile.

  But he is not excited, which does not mean that the others on the court are not excited.

  In the training session yesterday, Xiao Yao mainly demonstrated the basic skills of dribbling, passing and shooting. He did not dunk. Apart from Joey Bielsa, other teammates did not know that Xiao Yao could dunk. Xiao Yao also shocked the teammates of the Eastern Celebrity Team. Will Foster was very excited and ran over and slapped Xiao Yao viciously, and exclaimed, "Brother, it's great!"

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

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

  After the Western Celebrities attacked, the position on the field changed a little. This time, it was not the kid Brandon Brown who was advancing with the ball, but was replaced by professional player Carmon Blunt, and the forward position on the right bottom corner was changed from Anthony Morrel to Zach Hay. Wood.

The Eastern Celebrity team’s defensive strategy is to add man to area, as the second height on the field, Xiao Yao’s defensive position is in the middle of the right bottom line, mainly defending the opponent players near the right bottom corner, while taking into account the right side. Defense at the basket. This adjustment of the Western Celebrities team is to replace Xiao Yao from Anthony Morrel to Zach Haywood.

After Camon Blunt took the ball beyond the three-point line, he raised his hand and passed the ball to Zach Haywood in the right corner. Xiao Yao stood in the middle of 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 immediately jumped out and stood. In the defensive position in front of Zach Haywood.

   "Heywood! Heywood!"

  Xiao Yao just dunked Zach Heywood's head, and immediately it was Zach Heywood who faced Xiao Yao with the ball. Seeing such a tit-for-tat scene, there was a drum noise in the audience, and some audience members shouted Zac Haywood's name to help him cheer.

  Many players on the bench for the Western Celebrities also stood up and waved to cheer for Zach Haywood, but Zhuo Zhiyuan sat motionless in his seat and couldn't help lowering his head, reaching out and covering his forehead.

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

  Amid the cheering of the audience, Zach Haywood shot the basketball to the ground, trying to break through Xiao Yao’s right hand. Xiao Yao didn't step back, but lowered his center of gravity again, and at the same time stretched out his right hand quickly.

  "Wow~" The sound of cheering at the scene suddenly turned into a burst of exclamation. It turns out that as soon as Zach Haywood started dribbling, Xiao Yao's hand was copied onto the basketball bounced from the ground.

  Zach Haywood just took a step when he suddenly found that the basketball in his hand was gone, and he was shocked. But 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 pointed behind him.

  With the experience of almost stealing the ball, Zach Haywood did not intend to make a head-on breakthrough. He simply turned his back to Xiao Yao and dribbled the ball to the basket.

   Xiao Yao was also unambiguous, and immediately posted it, and slowly retreated to the basket following Zach Heywood's back slash. Xiao Yao didn't keep his brute force against Zach Haywood, he kept letting go of his strength. When Zach Haywood pushed back, Xiao Yao retreated under the force, and when his strength was used up, he pushed forward again, basically taking a step back and pushing back half a step.

When    exerted his strength, there was no place to focus behind him, and when he ran out of strength, he felt the strength of the opponent's return to the top. Zach Haywood almost made Xiao Yao's center of gravity unstable and his steps were chaotic. Although Zach Haywood finally squeezed to the basket position, it took a lot more effort than originally expected, and the whole person was also very uncomfortable.

   Seeing a suitable shooting position under the basket, Zach Haywood lowered his weight, leaned back again, then quickly turned around and threw the basketball to the basket. As the last time he leaned, he didn't feel the collision of Xiao Yao's body unexpectedly, Zach Haywood still kept his eyes on the shot when he took the shot, straightened his arms and made a one-footed hook throw.

  Xiao Yao accurately judged the timing of Zach Heywood's shooting, and at the last step, he did not make physical contact with Zach Heywood. Instead, he took a step diagonally. When Zach Haywood turned around, Xiao Yao happened to stand on his side. As Zach Haywood raised his arm to hook and shoot, Xiao Yao also raised his arm and jumped up.

The hook shot has a high shooting point and is far away from the front defender. It is a good choice when facing a tall defender. Although Xiao Yao is not much taller than Zach Haywood, he just relies on the dunk just now. Zach Haywood knew that Xiao Yao was definitely better than himself in jumping, so he took such an offensive method.

  But there is a prerequisite that the hook is difficult to prevent, that is, the defensive player is in front of the attacking player. At this time, Xiao Yao appeared on the side of Zach Haywood, and this advantage was not so obvious.

  Bouncing up, Xiao Yao didn't straighten his arms and blocked his palm in front of the basketball that Zach Haywood raised. When the basketball shot by Zach Haywood left his palm, Xiao Yao's palm arrived.

This time, Xiao Yao didn't slap the basketball out with a slap, but swayed back slightly after touching the basketball with his right hand, then quickly pressed down, and at the same time stretched out his left hand to embrace the basketball thrown by Zach Haywood. .

  "OhMyGod!" Seeing that Xiao Yao actually grabbed Zach Haywood's hook shot directly, a huge exclamation sounded from the audience, and some audience members held their heads in disbelief.

   "Unbelievable! Unbelievable!" In the commentary booth, the two well-known commentators who commented on the US Basketball game all year round, who were also the official commentators of this time, stared in disbelief and exclaimed again and again.

   "Xiao Yao grabbed Haywood's shot from the air!" Li Jun exclaimed excitedly, his face flushed.

  "This is a hat grab!" Zhang Yuan shouted with excitement.

  (End of this chapter)