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LAS VEGAS -- It started out sloppy, but then there were thunderous Slam Dunk Contest-worthy dunks followed by a stirring comeback capped off by a scintillating buzzer-beating game-winning 3-pointer.Ben Simmons versus Brandon Ingram?Part I was a thriller even if the first meeting between the NBAs top two draft picks didnt exactly live up to the hype surrounding the two prospects.While Simmons at times dazzled a raucous and almost completely filled Thomas & Mack Center with an array of no-look passes and a near triple-double, Ingram struggled with only seven points.However, Ingrams?Lakers?backcourt mate,?DAngelo Russell, helped Los Angeles erase a 16-point third-quarter deficit before burying a rainbow 3-pointer at the end to edge the Philadelphia 76ers?70-69 before a delirious pro-Lakers crowd.I love it, said Simmons, who finished with 8 points, 10 rebounds and 8 assists for the Sixers. Had a good fight. Cant do too much about that [Russell] shot.It was Lakers versus Philly tonight, Simmons said of his first game against Ingram. They made a big deal out of [the first two draft picks facing each other], but I came into the game to win.There was a buzz circulating before the game as the stands began to fill quickly. NBA executives and coaches such as?Jerry West and Tom Thibodeau, along with scouts from all over, came out to watch the versatile and playmaking Sixers first overall pick out of?LSU?against?the Lakers long?scoring swingman from?Duke.Ingram said he could feel the excitement in the arena and the pressure to perform.I think you kind of hype it up a little bit and you hype coming into the game and you try to get the jitters out and you try to play the game, Ingram said. There was a lot of energy in the building tonight.From the jump, it was easy to see the stark contrast between the two top prospects. Although the two did not cover each another, Simmons was visibly and considerably bigger and thicker at 6-foot-10 and 240 pounds than the rail-thin 6-9, 190-pound Ingram.And the crowd got to see their different styles as well. Not long after touching the ball for the first time, Simmons delivered a soft alley-oop to Richaun Holmes for the first score of the game. He blocked center?Ivica Zubacs shot, stripped Ingram on a drive and drew oohs from the crowd when he did?a Hakeem Olajuwon-like Dream shake move in the post before missing a shot.However, Simmons -- who handled the ball for some stretches but not exclusively while he was on the court -- did have seven turnovers, two coming in the first six minutes as both teams struggled to shoot.The Lakers backed off and practically dared Simmons to shoot. The facilitator shot just 3-for-8, often driving and trying to create for teammates.I think [the hype and atmosphere] affected both sides and both teams, Sixers summer league coach Lloyd Pierce said. In terms of [Simmons] poise and confidence, I dont think he was rattled one bit. I think he just wanted to get it started from the jump.The Lakers and Sixers scored a combined 25 points and made a total of nine shots together in an ugly first quarter. Ingram didnt shoot any better. With Jerami Grant on him at times, Ingram went 0-for-7 in the first three quarters before knocking down his only three shots in the fourth and finishing 3-for-12 from the field.It wasnt exactly how the Duke product envisioned following up his impressive 12-point, 2-block debut on Friday night in an 85-65 win over the Pelicans.I think hes a human being, Lakers summer league coach Jesse Mermuys said. Yeah, I felt the pressure for him. Of course. Im sure he felt pressure. Its easy for us to say, Oh, Brandon, dont worry about it. Just play your game, keep it simple. Thats really simple to say, but its really hard to execute. So Im sure he was probably juiced for this game.While the crowd was looking for any highlights from Simmons and Ingram, it was Philadelphias Grant and Los Angeles Larry Nance Jr. who energized the crowd with a dunk show in the second half.Grant scaled the 7-foot-1 Zubac before throwing down a rim-rattling dunk that could easily be not only the best dunk of summer league, but one of the best dunks of the upcoming regular season. That put the Sixers up 41-25 midway through the third.But Nance Jr. thrilled the crowd with two soaring dunks, one in which he took off just inside the free throw line.Simmons, who clearly wanted to win this game as evidenced by his fist pump and scream after one Lakers timeout in the third, kept delivering some impressive no-look passes, but Russell ultimately stole the show, scoring 11 of his 22 points in the fourth.Philadelphias T.J. McConnell knifed through the lane for a layup that put the Sixers up 69-67 with 1.8 seconds left. But after a timeout, Russell took the inbounds pass well beyond the arc and sank a rainbow shot with McConnell draped all over him.Certainly, Simmons and Ingram will remember their first encounter for a long time.Simmons, hes great, Ingram said. Of course, hes a great player and when he came in today he did a lot of different things. He rebounded the ball. He made his teammates better and he scored the ball.Simmons knows he will have better games, even if he did flirt with a triple-double.Obviously I got to do much better than tonight, Simmons said. Got a few more games to go and looking forward to learning from my mistakes.I think just learning how to handle different situations, he added. Obviously [the fourth quarter] was going back and forth, I think we should have slowed it down a little bit. That is what we are here for, to learn. Cheap Shoes From China . "Theyve both been real good," said Babcock. "Havent changed our minds." A decision has seemingly been made - Sundays Group B-deciding tilt against Finland ahead - but it could not have been an easy one. Price opened the tournament with a sturdy 19-save performance against the Norwegians, yielding just one goal. 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You played cricket for a few months, and then suddenly the field hockey sticks would come out, then it was time to kick a football around, and soon your attention turned to table tennis or badminton - more commonly the shuttlecock variety; less frequently the one played with a little woolly ball.Such sports were interspersed with games of a more provincial provenance such as kabaddi, gilli-danda, seven-stones, and other assorted country cousins. Looking back, I have no idea how we knew to move from one to the other: the sequence went without saying, as it came without saying.You might think the sheer abundance of sports would have made for an egalitarian playground in which those with limited talent in, say, cricket, could make up for it by excelling at soccer or field hockey or kabaddi. But you would be, for the most part, quite wrong. It was evident that the divine distribution of sporting talent or acumen was both unfair and capricious: the same guys who scored centuries in cricket were invariably the ones who banged in the goals in hockey or football, or walked away with the trophy at the end of the table tennis tournaments. These neighborhood dadas commanded the respect of everyone else and were much revered for their sporting acumen.Conversely, those who made up the numbers in the cricket XI were also all too often the ones who spent their time futilely chasing the soccer ball but rarely coming into actual contact with it, let alone booting it into the goal. Part of the disenchantment of growing up was the realisation that there was no yet-to-be-discovered sport out there at which one might finally excel, exacting sweet revenge for all the daily humiliations endured until then.One catches glimpses of the portable nature of exceptional sporting talent every now and then. I remember a Wimbledon crowd gasping in appreciation as Roger Federer casually and elegantly redirected a speeding tennis ball with pinpoint precision straight into the hands of a ball boy - with his foot. Clearly the Fed must have been a mean soccer player in his youth. And I once watched some grainy video footage of Yuvraj Singh playing tennis at an exhibition match that left no one in any doubt that the phenomenal eye-hand coordination that launched six sixes in an over translated innto booming serves and topspin forehands as well.dddddddddddd And the entire South African cricket team looks as if they could easily swap their whites for rugby or soccer jerseys and still hold their own.Looking back in my minds eye at some of these talented but nameless allrounders from maidans in Bangalore and Chennai, a couple of things stand out. First, they had certain physical attributes that distinguished them from others. These included wiry or strong physiques much better developed than those of others in their own age group; keen eyesight; and an instinct for timing and positioning their bodies in such a way as to create optimal impact. They were, quite simply, physically more advanced than others in their peer group.But it was a second, more ineffable, quality that set them apart, one that I did not, indeed could not, appreciate back then: its almost as if they were able to watch the game from up on high, from a different vantage, which allowed them to see a certain grammar or geometry that was invisible to the rest of us. This translated into them having more time, appearing to be less rushed, than others. When they were batting, they instinctively knew where the fielders - that is to say the gaps in the field - were. When fielding they knew to read the angles faster and move towards the ball to cut it off rather than give chase after it was hit. And when bowling, they werent the ones with the long run-ups and the grunting effort but the ones who got most of the wickets. Not surprisingly, these allrounders were invariably selected to be the captains of teams, irrespective of the sport, on which they played.I suspect the range of sports played by the average schoolboy has diminished considerably in the India of today, as cricket has risen to an unprecedented eminence and is pretty much played all year round. Specialisation and organised playing of sport (rather than just playing with friends in the neighborhood) also happens earlier in life than it did in those relatively carefree days of the past.While I remain quite skeptical that these developments will result in Indias future cricketers being more competitive internationally, there is no doubt in my mind that the decline of the dada of the maidan, that effortless jack of all sports, is something to be mourned. They were the true allrounders of their times. ' ' '