The Fifth Point Guard

Inside the Arizona Wildcats' stadium.

April in the United States.

The temperature is not high yet.

The two people who were fighting bulls on the field looked like two martial arts masters, with a faint white gas coming out of their heads.

"I've heard an old saying in your country, it's called ginger or old spicy."

"But I like this sentence better, the waves behind the Yangtze River drive the waves ahead."

"Okay, you two, stop talking about it, 5 to 5, the last goal." Jefferson, who was unexpectedly defeated early in the bullfight, muttered angrily.

"The loser shut up." Arenas laughed at Jefferson and said, "I will avenge you with this ball."

Shentong lowered his center of gravity slightly, and focused on Arenas who was holding the ball.

It has been a week since the end of the NCAA Finals.

After accepting the invitations of Arenas and Jefferson, Shentong has been training here with several teammates.

During this week, Shentong mainly improved his defensive ability, especially single defense.

Since studying "Basic Defense", Shentong found that there is an additional attribute in his body: defense.

{

Defense: 70-80

Advantages: With slender limbs and a pair of big hands, he has the innate advantages of being an excellent defender, good defensive awareness, and strong single-defense ability

Disadvantages: Lack of defensive experience, ability to assist defense and make up defense needs to be improved

}

With a week of hard training, Shentong has fully integrated the "defensive factor".

[Defense: 72-80]

The lower limit has been raised by 2 points.

Don't underestimate these two points, the feeling it brings to Shentong is an all-round improvement.

Especially just now, with a bit of luck, Shentong eliminated the mighty Jefferson for the first time in a bullfight 6-5.

Jefferson: If I knew it, I wouldn't have missed his first two three-pointers.

At this moment, today's bullfighting is the ultimate duel.

Shentong VS Arenas.

last ball.

"Sun Tzu's Art of War" has a saying: Know yourself and know the enemy, and you will never be imperiled in a hundred battles.

Although he has lost the bullfight for six days in a row, Shentong has discovered Arenas' habit.

When singled out, Arenas likes to get in close contact with the defender, use the movement of his feet to create a shooting space, and then end the attack with a jumper.

especially.

When facing the decisive goal.

Sure enough, as Shen Tong had guessed, Arenas started spinning on the spot.

After turning around with his back against Shentong several times in a row, he suddenly took a step back and shot.

Shentong, who had been prepared for a long time, immediately reached out to cover it.

However.

You have a plan.

I have had wall ladders.

In the face of Shentong's "unpredictable prophet" block, Arenas resorted to a fadeaway shot.

Even if Shen Tong's prediction is correct, the step back and lean back cannot block Arenas' shooting route.

"Yeah~~ It's time to decide the winner!" Someone from the sidelines yelled directly.

etc.

Why did Arenas suddenly close his eyes?

"Boom"

The shot goes wide!

what happened?

"Foul, he's a foul!" Arenas raised his hands and shouted towards the sidelines, "You all saw it, Richard, to be fair!"

Jefferson rubbed his eyes.

"Sand got in my eyes"

Arenas looked at the clean floor: "."

"Loren, tell me." Arenas said, pointing to the tall Woods.

Woods raised his left hand silently, and slowly raised his middle finger.

In the other semi-final of the internal bullfight just now, Arenas regained the ball with a controversial steal and narrowly beat Woods 6-5.

Woods protested at the time, thinking that Arenas hit his left hand when stealing.

Arenas denied it.

"Well, I know you are all waiting to see my good show, thinking that I can't win? You are too young, and I have been the bullfighting king for the past six days!" Arenas said angrily.

After receiving the ball from Shentong, Arenas hit it back hard.

"Come on, Shen, I must guard against you." Arenas sank his buttocks, opened his big hands, and blocked in front of Shen Tong.

"Innocent."

"Boom boom."

Shentong started dribbling.

Continuous feints.

Change hands left and right and step down to dribble.

Emergency stop jumper outside the three-point line!

The movement is very smooth and done in one go.

This set of movements seems to have been practiced countless times.

Arenas tried his best, but faced with Shentong's emergency stop jumper from beyond the three-pointer, there was nothing he could do.

He could only watch Shentong throw the ball gracefully in front of him.

"brush"

Go in!

6-5, Shentong won!

This is also the first time in the past week that someone other than Arenas won the bullfighting title.

"Yeah~~" Jefferson and Woods immediately went forward to bump their chests with Shen Tong to celebrate.

Arenas looked unconvinced.

"He blew my eyes with the ball just now. This is a foul. Isn't that a foul? It must be a foul."

nagging.

However, Shentong, Jefferson and Woods ignored Arenas.

Only Wharton.

"Hey buddy, didn't you notice? It's amazing how fast that guy has improved."

Recently, Wharton, who had lost consecutive battles and was no longer at the bottom of Shentong, looked enviously at Shentong surrounded by Jefferson and Woods.

"His ball really fouled." Arenas was still chattering.

April 18, 2001, the final day of the NBA regular season.

The Spurs, locked in the league and No. 1 in the West, ended in a hasty end in today's game.

67-105, a disastrous loss to the Seattle SuperSonics.

None of the main players of the Spurs played. Only Duncan walked through the game and did not show any desire to attack. He scored 9 points and 4 rebounds on 4 of 8 shots.

Facing the boos of the away fans, Zhuge Popovich didn't change his face.

Compared with the dull game of the Spurs, there are still two wonderful highlights today.

From the New York Knicks and Toronto Raptors, respectively.

The other teams that made the playoffs have already determined their rankings, but the difference between the two teams is only 1 game, ranking fourth and fifth in the Eastern Conference respectively.

In the last round of the game, neither of these two teams dared to be careless.

The Knicks defended and the Raptors attacked.

Whoever can win fourth at the last moment means that they have home court advantage in the first round of the playoffs.

Shen Tong and others who finished the day's training are watching the game between the Raptors and the Wizards in Jefferson's dormitory.

Vince - Carter kills the Quartet in this game.

Not only sent the world's best dunks in the game, but also repeatedly hit shots from beyond the three-point line.

From the beginning of the first quarter, the Raptors led the Wizards all the way under Carter's strong performance, without giving their opponents any chance to overtake.

With 34 points, 6 rebounds, 4 assists, 3 blocks and a 62.5% three-point shooting rate of 5 of 8 shots, Carter dedicated everything he can do today.

"Vince is awesome, there is no other player in this league with such a strong personal style." Jefferson looked at Carter on the TV screen and sighed.

"Kobe, Tracy, Vince, Allen, now is the era of the four major shooting guards." Luke Walton said.

"When I enter the NBA, I will be one of the top five guards." Arenas showed a very stinky expression.

Everyone: →_→Arenas←_←

The Raptors' win made the Knicks feel the pressure.

However, under the leadership of Alan Houston and Kurt Thomas, the Knicks defeated the Pistons 94-88 at home without any risk, and successfully defended the game.

With the end of this season's NBA regular season schedule, the new draft players began to submit draft applications one after another.