Slam Dunk: My Study Abroad Career in Northern Hunan

Chapter 664: Cutting the shark, the locked superstar!
Robert Horry missed the shot and the rebound was controlled by the Timberwolves. The Timberwolves, who easily defended the round, quickly launched a counterattack.

The basketball was quickly transferred to Marbury's hands. The latter took the ball and pushed back quickly, intending to hit the Lakers and counterattack, but the Lakers were unable to gain a firm foothold!
It's just that the Lakers have played against the Timberwolves a lot. They know very well that the Timberwolves are best at defensive counterattacks. Therefore, when Robert missed his shot, the outermost defender was already in front of his body. Take a few steps back.

When the Timberwolves launched a counterattack, the Lakers players, except for O'Neal, immediately returned to their own half-court defense.

Even a center of O'Neal's size can return to defense quite quickly, not much slower than the Timberwolves' counterattack.

Very good defense
The Lakers are worthy of being one of the top teams in the league at the moment. They switch offense and defense very quickly, and they can resist the Timberwolves' counterattack very well.

Marbury saw that the opportunity was not very good, and the risk was not small if he dropped the ball and forced the kill. After a moment of thinking, he decisively slowed down the tempo and changed his position.

After all the Timberwolves players entered the Lakers half, Marbury dribbled the ball for a few seconds, giving his teammates a brief adjustment time, and then quickly gave the ball to Wu Dao on the side under the gaze of his opponent.

As the basketball came into Wu Dao's hands, the eyes of several Lakers players were focused on Wu Dao at this moment. O'Neal, who was guarding the inside, gave up his position under the basket. Instead, he raised his position slightly and cut off the ball. While the Timberwolves were connected internally and externally, they were also vaguely on alert, ready to defend themselves against martial arts advances at any time.

With just a simple position adjustment, the Lakers used this method to put a lot of defensive pressure on Wu Dao.

Directly opposite Wu Dao was Rick Fox, and on the same side, there was Robert Horry, who had let go of Wallace and moved to the mid-range on the wing. At the top of the arc are Marbury and Fisher, and on the left wing are Tom and his opponent Eddie Jones.

The Lakers' defensive focus is on the strong side, which is the right wing where Wu Dao is at this time.

After a quick observation of the Lakers' defensive arrangement, Wu Dao knew that the opponent's defense was aimed at him.

Continuously dribbling the ball with a high center of gravity, Wu Dao silently observed the opponent's defense without releasing the ball or rushing to attack.

The Timberwolves' players seemed to sense Wu Dao's intention. Garnett, who was inside, moved along the baseline toward the right corner and stopped in the mid-range position close to the baseline.

Robert Horry, who was slightly higher up, took a look one after another and did not stick to him. He just stood and blocked the passing route, guarding against Wu Dao's sudden advance.

On the other side, Wallace didn't pull as far as Garnett did. He just retreated to the corner of the left paint area, giving up some space inside.

As for Marbury, who was originally at the top of the arc, he became much more sensible. He directly dragged Fisher's defense and sank to the left corner of the three-point line, seemingly not participating in the offense at all.

Everyone in the Timberwolves stopped and no one took turns.

But Wu Dao on the wing finally made a move after holding the ball for five or six seconds.

The center of gravity dropped rapidly, and he grabbed the ball with his left hand and flicked it. The basketball came directly to Wu Dao's right hand. While dribbling the ball, Wu Dao quickly stepped forward with his left foot towards the right, starting a breakthrough.

His speed didn't seem to be very fast. Rick Fox was able to keep up with Wu Dao's movements and quickly followed up with a sliding step. However, as soon as his body moved, Wu Dao pushed him sideways into his chest.

It didn't look like a sharp breakthrough, but the moment his body pressed against Rick Fox, his breath froze, his steps faltered, and he took a step back to give up his position.

Quickly passing by Rick Fox, the Lakers' defense was directly activated by Wu Dao's breakthrough.

Robert Horry was very decisive. He directly lifted up and rushed towards Wu Dao. Rick Fox, who had just been pushed away by Wu Dao, quickly adjusted his posture and chased back. In an instant, he and his teammates formed a double-team.

While Wu Dao is still in a high position, he has already been double-teamed by the Lakers.

Rick Fox and Robert Horry are both of good height, not that old, and their athletic ability is quite outstanding. When they play together, they put a lot of defensive pressure on Martial Arts.

However, facing the defense of two people, Wu Dao looked indifferent. After crossing the three-pointer, he took two quick steps, then made an emergency stop, combined the ball and jumped back.

Wu Dao's actions obviously aroused the vigilance of Rick Fox and Robert Horry. Wu Dao has an outstanding height and terrifying bounce. Coupled with his fadeaway jumper, the two of them could not hesitate at all when they took off. Otherwise, it would be impossible to complete the shot.

The three of them took off one after another.

However, after the martial arts in the air caused the two people to take off, their postures changed rapidly in the air, their hands quickly came down, and then they passed the ball from Robert Horry's side.

"!!!"

Robert Horry's reaction speed was actually not slow. He raised his arms and quickly hit the ball in the direction of the ball. However, he missed the ball and was too late.

The basketball quickly came to Garnett's hands in the middle distance of the baseline. The latter caught the ball, adjusted on the spot, and shot a quick jump shot.

"Shh!"

Garnett's shooting skills are excellent, not to mention the Lakers' defensive strength is involved in martial arts. No one can interfere with him. The basketball was thrown and fell directly into the net with a crisp sound.

"Snapped!!!"

Garnett, who scored easily, waved his fist, quickly stepped back to defend, and gave Wu Dao a high-five when he passed by him.

The huge force slapped Wu Dao's palm until it hurt.

Wu Dao glanced at Garnett speechlessly.

I have to say that Garnett is so enthusiastic when he plays. Such a player can drive the morale of the team with his emotions. If Budo is the well-deserved boss and leader of the team, then Garnett is The most important pillar of the team.

In the court, the Lakers began to counterattack. Fisher caught the ball in the backcourt and quickly advanced the ball to the Timberwolves half.

The Lakers still wanted to try to beat O'Neal in this round. After Fisher entered the frontcourt, his eyes kept scanning towards O'Neal. However, to their disappointment, Wallace did not defend O'Neal foolishly this time. Pushing O'Neal's back from behind.

Instead, Ben leaned against O'Neal, his left body almost leaning on O'Neal's side, and his arm blocked O'Neal's line of sight towards Fisher. The operation was very insidious.

O'Neal has encountered defenses like this many times in his career, and he also has ways to deal with them.

I saw O'Neal straighten up slightly, push Wallace hard, then quickly turn in the opposite direction toward the baseline, and directly passed Wallace and entered the basket.

Fisher spotted O'Neal's movements, realized that there was an opportunity on O'Neal's side, and quickly lobbed the ball towards O'Neal.

However, he had just passed the ball. Garnett on the right seemed to have expected it. He directly let go of Robert Horry, quickly stopped in front of O'Neal, jumped high and plucked the ball from the air. Hold it in your hand.

Behind Garnett, O'Neal landed in the air. Looking at Garnett who appeared in front of him and intercepted the basketball, he was speechless and quickly ran towards the frontcourt.

On the way back to defense, O'Neill couldn't help but feel an unpleasant feeling in his heart. The Timberwolves' two defenses rotated a little too well.

Everything about the Lakers seemed to be expected by the Timberwolves.

O'Neal vaguely felt that he seemed to be targeted by the Timberwolves!
The Timberwolves once again failed to counterattack with a quick push. This is not to say that the Timberwolves had no chance to counterattack. In fact, if Marbury wanted to get stronger, he would have had the opportunity to score the ball on a fast break.

It's just that Marbury didn't think it was necessary.

Their team has the best offensive core in the league, and this is not a crisis moment. They can play steadily and use their absolute strength to crush the Lakers!

Timberwolves players entered the frontcourt one after another, and the basketball was once again in the hands of Wu Dao.

This time, Wu Dao, who was holding the ball, did not want to play singles. After Marbury sank into the left corner, Wu Dao made a pick-and-roll gesture toward Tom on the side.

Tom's mind met and he set up a pick-and-roll on the right side of Rick Fox, and Wu Dao moved two steps towards the top of the arc, forcing the Lakers to rotate defensively.

Eddie Jones switched defense and moved in front of Budao. Facing the second position who was "only" 198cm tall and weighed "only" 86kg, Budao dropped the ball with his left hand and quickly accelerated to break through.

He directly ran over Eddie Jones and marched to the free throw line. After that, there was no unnecessary action from Wu Dao. He combined the ball with one step and gave Eddie Jones a physical confrontation. After pushing the opponent away for a few steps, he made a light kick. A jump shot is shot directly from the basketball in your hand.

The basketball flew directly over Eddie Jones' head and then fell steadily into the basket.

As the basketball hit the net, cheers erupted from the stands.

"The feeling of playing martial arts is a little different from before."

On the side of the court, in the Lakers' rest area, Kobe, wearing a jersey, put his hands on his chin, paying close attention to everything that happened on the court.

Seeing Wu Dao scoring so easily this time, Kobe couldn't help but frowned slightly and thought to himself.

The feeling of playing martial arts is different from before. Kobe used to watch martial arts playing and could clearly feel the pressure brought by absolute talent from martial arts. It was an indescribable feeling. When standing in front of martial arts , Kobe can clearly feel the strength of his opponent, but Kobe will not feel frustrated after being at a disadvantage in the matchup.

He felt that he couldn't beat martial arts just because his physical talent was slightly worse than his opponent's. If he also had that kind of height and wingspan, Kobe was confident that he would not lose.

just now
Kobe can no longer feel the same feeling in martial arts as before.

After watching martial arts playing, Kobe felt that his was very calm, accurate and relaxed.

Against Wu Dao, you still can't defend against him, but Wu Dao's style of play seems to be a little less fierce.

That kind of temperament, that kind of playing style is very similar to Michael Jordan.
A sense of calmness, a sense of calmness on the NBA court, a sense of calmness from the head of All-Star Eddie Jones
Kobe's eyes were fixed on the martial arts in the court, and his fisted hands were slightly white from the exertion.

"He's getting stronger again. He's getting stronger again."

"You mature so quickly."

In the court, O'Neal was running towards the frontcourt, and his eyes fell on the back of Martial Arts in front of him. Although he is not a player that Wu Dao directly opposes, a player of his level sees players very, very accurately.

O'Neill clearly realized that martial arts had improved again.

If he hadn't clearly known that the guy in front of him was a yellow man, O'Neal would have thought he was competing with the young Jordan.

That is definitely a scene that no one wants to face.

During the Lakers' offensive round, O'Neal quickly put away his random thoughts and focused on the court.

Still down low, the defense O'Neal faced was still Ben Wallace's semi-forward defense.

Although it only takes one turn to pass the opponent, but...
O'Neal turned his head slightly and glanced at Garnett, who was looking at him from time to time not far behind him, and couldn't help but feel a little irritated.

At the top of the arc, Fisher gave the ball to Eddie Jones on the wing.

He finally saw clearly that the Timberwolves would never give him a chance to lob the ball from the top of the arc into the paint.

Attacking from the wings may be the best way to solve the Lakers' current predicament.

Eddie Jones took the ball, raised it above his head with both hands, and pretended to pass the ball. O'Neal, who was inside, saw that the basketball had moved. With his back to the basket, he also quickly changed his position and used his body to suppress Wallace behind him to prevent his opponent from affecting him. Catching the ball yourself.

Although O'Neal, the "fat boy", looks clumsy, this guy is very flexible, and the scary thing is that O'Neal's skills are quite delicate. His skills in important positions are enough for many centers in the league to record videos and learn from them one by one.

Wallace's body was not as good as O'Neal's, and he was not "advanced" in terms of technique. He was easily stuck behind O'Neal, and Eddie Jones also saw the opportunity. He closed his hand and passed the ball to O'Neal. hands.

After playing basketball, the expression on O'Neal's face has obviously changed. Compared with before, he is already excited now!

He blasted the ball with one hand and slammed his body hard on Wallace. Then before Tom's double team came up, he quickly turned around and tried to send the ball away with a small hook near the basket.

However, as soon as the basketball was raised, a big hand flashed towards him quickly.

"Snapped!!!"

Wallace's palm slapped O'Neal's forearm hard, and O'Neal couldn't help but loosen his grip on the ball. Although the basketball was thrown in time, there was no accuracy at all.

The basketball hit the edge of the frame and jumped out of the basket. At the same time, the referee at the bottom line also blew his whistle.

Without any objection, Wallace fouled and O'Neal was sent to the free throw line.

O'Neal, who had successfully caused the kill, had no smile on his face at all. He stood on the free throw line, received the referee's basketball, dribbled on the spot, and then raised the ball to shoot.

The Timberwolves players standing on both sides looked at O'Neal with inexplicable expressions, their expressions were calm and even a little mocking.
With a free throw shooting ability of about 50% in his career, this free throw shooting is almost the same as the blacksmith's fadeaway jumper in the inefficiency zone. Are you afraid...

Anyway, Timberwolves players are not afraid
"Dang~"

(End of this chapter)