Slam Dunk: My Study Abroad Career in Northern Hunan

Chapter 698 The death knell sounds!
"I will take you to win the championship!"

Wu Dao took the ball and said with a smile towards Barkley who was blocking him.

For today's Rockets, Barkley's presence is extremely important to the entire team. Not only because Barkley is one of the most dominant forward players in the league right now, but more importantly because of his versatility.

Barkley can give the Rockets a huge boost on both offense and defense.

Even at the end of his career, Barkley's various physical functions have declined significantly, but he is an All-Star player at worst and is still an opponent that cannot be underestimated.

Barkley has strength and speed. In fact, Barkley is the only player in the Rockets who can truly compete with martial arts.

Although there is a gap between his height and Wu Dao, at least Barkley can limit Wu Dao's attack to the basket to a certain extent. For today's Houston Rockets, it is actually valuable enough to have players who can do such a thing.

Wu Dao held the ball in both hands and straightened his waist. He had no intention of rushing to attack. He looked at Barkley in front of him with a smile on his face.

Buckley's face remained unchanged as he talked trash about martial arts that seemed like a joke.

It is true that "championship" is always a pain for Barkley, but after so many years in the NBA, how could he be so easily provoked by martial arts words?
Although Barkley has the second-highest number of "technical fouls" in league history, in fact, this guy's fiery temper is actually controlled by his brain.

Wu Dao's weight is actually not much different from that of Barkley, but he is taller and has a higher center of gravity. Even if he takes advantage of the attacker, the advantage Wu Dao can seize under the impact is extremely limited.

Barkley is a man with brains, not the kind of one-cell player who ignites at a moment's notice.

Barkley stretched out his arm and quickly grabbed Martial Arts' jersey. While tugging on the jersey, Barkley's feet kept moving and quickly became attached to Martial Arts.

Wu Dao is a player with a completely different style from Iverson. When he breaks through, he is used to creating some physical confrontations to help himself establish an advantage.

Barkley is one of the few players who can withstand his impact head-on. His weight of 114kg is really not something that can be overcome. Coupled with the "low center of gravity" brought by his 198cm height, Barkley can defend martial arts. Let your feet be rooted deeply into the floor to resist the aggression of martial arts.

"With you joining, the team's foundation will be stronger."

Seeing Barkley's calm face and his appearance of being unmoved and concentrating on defense, Martial Arts also gave up on these small tricks.

"Think about it."

Even a player like Iverson will not rely purely on his own speed in his sudden advances.

While Wu Dao was speaking, his body movements showed no sign of pause. His center of gravity sank slightly, and the basketball quickly fell to his side. At the same time, Wu Dao used his right foot as the axis and quickly lifted his left foot to start, and his body also quickly Leaned on Barkley.

Buckley has excellent dynamic vision, and he can see all the martial arts movements. But unfortunately, although his eyes and brain clearly know what he should do at this time, his body has no way to do it. Follow His will.

With just a thrust, Wu Dao immediately stopped, his speed was curbed, and even the emergency stop became more comfortable.
As the front and rear feet staggered, Budo quickly changed the direction of the ball while dribbling under his crotch. Barkley, who was guarding in front of him, also moved quickly and immediately switched the front and rear feet of the defender. However, at the same time, Barkley completed the change of direction with the front and rear feet. At that moment, the disguised martial arts under the crotch quickly connected to the front of the body and changed direction, and the figure quickly passed in front of Buckley.

Not to mention that his physical functions have greatly deteriorated now. Even when he was at his peak, he might not be able to react and keep up with martial arts movements.

"I think you will be a better fit for our Timberwolves than Tom."

But who says that if your body’s functions can’t keep up, you can’t defend yourself! ?
Basketball is never that simple.

In today's era, every player with strong offensive ability with the ball needs strong physical confrontation.

"Boom!!!"

If he had only used regular means to defend, Barkley would have been broken through by martial arts at this time.

On the basketball court, you still have to talk with the ball, otherwise, the trash talk you say will eventually turn into a roundabout and hit your body again.
"What I said was not entirely a joke."

Things like trash talk are originally used for "auxiliary" purposes. If some players really regard this thing as a weapon that can determine victory or defeat, then it has really gone astray.

The bodies of Martial Arts and Buckley were tightly stuck together. After the fierce physical confrontation, Buckley took a step back. Martial Arts, who had just completed the speed increase, was quickly suppressed.

Wu Dao was pulled by Barkley, and his sudden movement stalled for a moment, but Barkley followed him.

The marching martial artist quickly glanced sideways at the person in front of him who was Buckley. His body suddenly stopped, his center of gravity dropped, and he quickly straightened his back.

"!!!"

Martial Arts' actions immediately aroused Buckley's alert.

Although he knew that this might be Wu Dao's fake move, facing a player with strong shooting ability like Wu Dao, Barkley had to take action even if he knew it might be a trap.

While quickly stopping, Barkley raised one hand high and quickly cut to the basketball in Budo's hand with the other hand, trying to steal it.

But just as Buckley expected, this might be a martial arts trap.

When Barkley stopped suddenly, Martial Arts accelerated again, leaving Barkley behind.

This time, even if Barkley wanted to blatantly pull Budo's jersey, he could no longer do it and could only watch as Budo headed inside.

Wu Dao, who was approaching the basket, quickly encountered Olajuwon's defense.

After the ball was put together, Wu Dao's pace was strange. While joining the ball, he quickly raised the ball in the direction of Garnett and pretended to pass the ball. Olajuwon was not deceived and was still blocked in front of Wu Dao. Wu Dao took the first step. Out, he grabbed the ball with his right hand and quickly raised it high, but Olajuwon remained unmoved.

However, at this moment, Wu Dao suddenly threw the ball.

"???"

The basketball flew past Olajuwon's head. He didn't even react to jump to intercept it. He actually watched the basketball fly past and then fell into the net.

It wasn't until the basketball fell into the net and made a crisp sound that Olajuwon realized that he was being teased by martial arts and couldn't help but twitching at the corner of his eyes and looking very ugly.

The rhythm changes in martial arts are really too weird.

He didn't expect that Wu Dao could throw the ball in such a posture. When Wu Dao took the shot, he didn't take off at all.
A three-step layup, but the ball was sent away in just one step.

If you haven't encountered it before, who can react? !

The sound of the basketball net drew cheers from the fans.

The Timberwolves players high-fived Wu Dao one after another in celebration, then quickly ran back towards the backcourt and positioned themselves on defense.

After the Rockets players looked at each other, they began to organize the offense.

As Wu Dao expected, from the moment Wu Dao started to guard Drexler, the Rockets often subconsciously avoided this point in Wu Dao's defense when making offensive choices. This is also human nature.

The Rockets are different from the Bulls, not Michael Jordan.

In the Bulls, Jordan is the undisputed boss, and Jordan, who is already highly motivated, is also very possessive and controlling. The Bulls' triangle offensive tactics are built around the super giant Jordan.

But the Rockets are different. In the Rockets, there is no real boss.

But the "three cores" in the traditional sense.

When the team attacks, any one of these "three cores" can become the team's end point.

The benefits, of course, are obvious. The advantage brought by the dispersion of ball rights is that it can avoid the deep binding of team strength and star status.

The Timberwolves, coached by Philip, hope to adopt this traditional core style of play, playing team basketball around Wu Dao, Garnett, Marbury and Tom.

The same goes for the Rockets, except that the core is Drexler, Olajuwon and Barkley.

With this kind of offensive system, when a certain player encounters a strong blockade by the opponent, the team can transfer the ball to the other two cores and let the other cores handle the ball.

Because the status of the three cores is relatively equal, when the player in position 1 handles the ball, he will allocate the ball fairly from the dimension of "good or bad opportunity".

It is not like the Bulls dynasty, O'Neal's Lakers in the early 90s, and Yao's national team, where giving the ball to the first core is the team's top priority.

Give the ball to Jordan; give the ball to O'Neal; give the ball to Yao Ming.

In fact, they are all the same way of handling the ball.
The Rockets in the three-core system, when Drexler encounters Wu Dao's defense, they will tend to let Barkley and Olajuwon focus on the offense when handling the ball.

But these two players, let alone how much their status has declined compared to their peak years, there is a huge overlap in the offensive areas of these two players.

No one can afford the large amount of shot power in the inefficient area.

Even if the shooting areas overlap, even if these two players let go of their hands and feet, being able to hit 20+ is considered an "explosion" in this game.

This is the ability of Barkley and Olajuwon today.

Under the conscious guidance of the Timberwolves, the Rockets began to gather the ball towards Olajuwon and Barkley.

The Timberwolves have strengthened their defense inside. Olajuwon, whose condition has declined significantly, has been severely depleted in the high-intensity inside confrontation. This has also caused his condition to suffer greatly when attacking with the ball. ups and downs.

On Barkley's side, he was also forced to handle some balls that he was not good at handling. He tried several high-post shots. After seeing that it didn't work, Barkley strengthened his protection of rebounds. At the same time, on the offensive end, he It is often necessary to pay a huge physical cost to break into the most comfortable position.

Relying on Barkley's efforts, the Rockets still stood firm despite the terrifying martial arts offensive.

At 27:23, the Timberwolves suppressed the Rockets with a slight advantage of 4 points.

Although the situation seems far from hopeless for the Rockets, veteran Tang, who has coached in the NBA for many years and participated in countless large and small competitions, seems to have noticed the intentions of the Timberwolves and Martial Arts.

At the end of the second quarter, Barkley was placed in the rest area so that he could have a more consistent rest so that he could maintain a considerable level of physical fitness for the final decisive moment.

For the Timberwolves, as Barkley came off the field, Wallace was also replaced.

As for martial arts, it still remains on the court.

When the game entered the third quarter, the Timberwolves took the lead in attacking. First, Garnett blocked Drexler's flying cut, followed by martial arts' quick alley-oop dunk.

Without Barkley's restrictions on martial arts, he played more freely, and his desire to attack the basket was fully demonstrated.

Seeing that the score difference was stretched to double digits, Coach Tom did not dare to neglect at all, and hurriedly put Barkley back on the court.

Barkley didn't have much time to rest at all. In the third quarter, the hottest part of the game, he still shouldered the tasks of the team's offense and defense.

He almost relies on his own strength to carry the team forward.

23: 23.

The Rockets still showed terrifying stability under the Timberwolves' high-pressure defense. As the game progressed into the third quarter, the physical fitness of the Timberwolves' players also declined.

Even if he is a physical monster like Martial Arts, he has appropriately reduced his singles.

The situation of the game is still controlled by the Timberwolves.

In the eyes of fans, the strength of the Timberwolves and Rockets is somewhat "close". In their opinion, the Rockets' ability to fight the Timberwolves like this is enough to prove the terror of this Rockets.

Just as Minnie fans in the Target Center were worried about the development trend of this game, the Rockets suddenly collapsed in the fourth quarter.

In the court, the basketball quickly fell into the hands of Wing Martial Arts.

After fighting martial arts for so long, his eyes were bright. Although the anti-collision underwear he wore was soaked with sweat, there was no trace of exhaustion after a hard battle on his face.

As for Barkley in front of him, although he maintained a pretty good defensive posture, his eyes revealed a strong sense of fatigue.

To attack, to grab rebounds, and to face a strong ace ball-handler like Wu Dao, Barkley, who had just recovered from his injury, felt a strong pain in his ankle.

The pain was severe, and the sweat that had just been wiped off could not stop pouring out.

In front of him, the martial arts center of gravity was very high, and he was dribbling the ball with a calm expression, slowly approaching Barkley, full of pressure.

Suddenly, Wu Dao's feet slipped, and he quickly moved the ball to the right with his right hand. Wu Dao's body, which was in a forward posture, was still in place. The basketball rebounded, and Wu Dao's right hand quickly hooked the ball and pulled it back, just like a fake move to rush forward.

However, in front of him, Buckley, who had started in a hurry, couldn't stop after noticing the sudden stop of martial arts. The severe pain caused numbness in his feet. Buckley's control over his body was... weakened.

The consequences of "dislocation" and "separation" between body and consciousness
"Puff-"

There was a muffled sound in the court, and Barkley's burly body was directly knocked to the ground by Budohiro. Budō straightened his head and glanced at Barkley slightly, then raised his hand and shot a three-pointer.

"Uh-huh!!!"

The crisp sound of a basketball hitting the net was the death knell that martial arts sounded for the Rockets.

In the stands, the moment Barkley was knocked down, the fans burst into cheers. The enthusiastic cheers turned into a heavy hammer that hit Barkley's heart.