no shortcuts in basketball

Chapter 92 "We Will Not Lose"

"This ball is getting more and more interesting!" Zhang Weiping couldn't help laughing and said in the commentary booth.

Tonight's game was the smoothest he had commented since "Yao Shark's first duel".

After the encounter between Yao Ming and O'Neal in that game, he came up and gave O'Neal three consecutive caps, and almost didn't let him pass.

Tonight, Xu Yong dunks James again, steals Xiu's crotch and dunks again, exactly the same!

"This is a world-class small forward." Yang Yi was also very happy at the side, and directly said what he had written at the beginning.

Xu Yong's explosive performance for the first time, let alone tonight, the "Basketball Pioneer" will not worry about selling it in the future.

And what excites him even more is that Xu Yong is an outsider, which may have greater market potential than Yao Ming.

That is an innumerable amount of money that can be seen even though it is still untouchable.

Not to mention, at the beginning Xu Yong rejected him, he deserved it, he never had such a thing as cheek, from now on he will be the number one Xu Chui!

"We have to get to know Xu again, he is an incredible guy." Reggie Miller couldn't help but marvel at the commentary seat on the other side.

As a former superstar and now a senior commentator, he has seen countless people. Even in his eyes, Xu Yong's game temperament is absolutely rare.

The rookie is directly the deputy No.1 in the league, and the key is that he succeeded both times. This is by no means what the outside world said [second place in parallel imports].

If this is a parallel import, then he hopes that there will be more such parallel imports in the future.

Xu Yong's steal and dunk not only helped the Bulls overtake the score all of a sudden, but also reversed the momentum that the Bulls had always been suppressed.

The Bulls took advantage of the momentum to pursue and directly played a wave of 6-0, stopping the Cavaliers.

When the Bulls left the court, there was overwhelming cheers at the scene.

Since Jordan retired for the second time, they felt the Bulls' vitality again for the first time.

It is no exaggeration to say that the Bulls' expectations for them are even higher than the one three years ago.

Because the talents of the twin stars Rose and Xu Yong are much higher than those of Ben Gordon and Luol Deng.

And apart from them, Noah and Deng's talents are not low.

There are four such players in a team, just tell me whether you expect it or not!

Of course, there were 48 minutes in the game. This wave stopped the Cavaliers' offense, and the outcome of the game was not determined. Even the situation is still unclear.

Because after returning from the timeout, James changed his style of play.

He still plays with the ball, but starts calling pick-and-rolls.

Each player has the personality of each player, and also because they will make completely different choices when encountering the same problem.

As for Xu Yong who dunked and steals Xiu's crotch, Kobe had to fight Xu Yong for the whole game, and it was face-to-face.

If someone gives him a pick-and-roll, he will most likely say "put away your damn pick-and-roll, I want to go one-on-one with this guy" like he did when he criticized Malone back then.

Because Kobe is paranoid, paranoid will often come to the fore.

But James is different, he is smart.

After failing to take advantage of Xu Yong in two consecutive attempts, he did not continue to fight hard.

There is a pick-and-roll and no use, which is not what the Smarts did.

And the effect of this pick-and-roll is really good.

Especially the player Varejao, he is seriously underestimated.

Excellent pick-and-roll ability, top-notch pick-and-roll defense ability, excellent rebounding and defense, and he is also very good at coping. The difference between him and Noah is actually not much.

Even his wingspan is a few centimeters longer than Noah's, and his peak season statistics are better than Noah's, averaging 14.1 points, 14.4 rebounds, 3.4 assists and 1.5 steals per game.

If it wasn't because he was too glassy, ​​he would have a chance to have a career similar to Noah's.

At this time, Tinoah has to go again. Now Noah is too thin. He is misplaced against James, who uses the pick-and-roll space to start up. As a center, he has no advantage in confrontation, and he is completely unstoppable.

And unlike many people's impressions, James' shooting during this period was not bad.

In six years, even if it is a lump of elm wood, it has been practiced.

Of course, although James and Simmons both have Si in their names, they are not only posing, but also really practicing.

Or it can be said that James' overall shooting level at this time is better than that of the Heat.

It's not that he stopped practicing when he got to the Heat, but because he gained weight and muscle, just like Xu Yonggang when he entered college, his shooting became unstable.

So when James took out the Cavaliers' ace tactic of picking and rolling with Varejao, the Bulls really couldn't restrain him.

As for flanking, this move is the most useless for James. Others can be black, but James' passing ability is not black.

But besides Embiid, which MVP is easy to limit?

So under the leadership of James, the Cavaliers quickly regained the momentum of the game.

However, they also failed to win the game in one go.

It also played well tonight because of the Bulls.

Although Noah couldn't guard against him, he really worked hard, and he seemed to want to prove something tonight;
Rose is also venting himself on the offensive end. You must know that he has proved in the playoffs last season that even in NBA-level games, he can get whatever he wants like in the NCAA;

Xu Yong became the soul of the Bulls tonight. Although James' choice to call the pick-and-roll prevented him from performing as well as before on the defensive end, when the Cavaliers were tired of dealing with Rose's breakthrough on the defensive end, he always Being able to come out from the oblique side and deal such a fatal blow to you.

And when Rose is off the field, he can become a swingman with the ball as he did in the preseason, sorting out the Bulls' offense.

Of course, even Cavaliers coach Mike Brown has to lament that as a rookie, Xu Yong seems to last too long.

Halftime is almost over, it seems like he hasn't watched Xu Yong rest yet?
And this approach is very motivating to teammates.

For example, "the newcomers are so hard-working, why should we not fight", "Although we can't do what Xu Yong did, at least we can't hold back" and so on.

Of course, most of them will not know Xu Yong's perverted training methods, and the way Sandek used Xu Yong during the two-year NCAA period.

All in all, just like Xu Yong is not afraid of James, the Bulls did not have the slightest timidity in front of the Cavaliers tonight, but played full of competitiveness.

Because it is inevitable to make mistakes when you are young, but also because you are young, you are fearless.

The game came to the final decisive moment when the two sides took the lead alternately.

At this time, there are only 35 seconds left before the end of the game. The score on the field is 96. The Bulls have the ball and their timeout time.

For the Bulls, Xu Yong scored the highest in the team with 22 points, Rose scored 20 points, and Deng generally scored only 9 points today.

De Nagro laid out a play for Rose.

After returning from the timeout, the Bulls failed to run out of this tactic, because the defense master Brown's defensive response is the master key.

Except for O'Neal shrinking under the basket, he chose two people to guard Xu Yong and Rose.

This move is really unique, because Deng feels average today, and Sangueira's offensive threat is also very small.

So the Bulls played this wave of tactics to the end, directly turning Noah into the future Draymond Green, holding the ball at the free throw line to support, but he didn't have a chance to pass the ball for a long time.

In the end, there was no other way. Seeing that the attack time was running out, Noah could only choose a mid-range shot.

"when!"

Then, as has been the case throughout the preseason, his mid-range slams out of the basket, the rebound gets caught by O'Neal, and the Cavaliers call a timeout.

At this time, there are still 16 seconds left in the game.

Originally, the Bulls had a chance to kill the game, but with the failure of this wave of offense, this opportunity is now given to the Cavaliers.

After a pause, Noah looked extremely annoyed, and suddenly slammed the bench beside him hard after sitting down.

Although he played very hard, but the Cavaliers are James and O'Neal, his performance tonight was poor.

Not to mention the key shot just now.

At this moment, Xu Yong, who noticed this scene, walked up to Noah.

At this time, all the other teammates looked at Xu Yong with nervous expressions.

Noah was picking on the rookies before, and he played so badly tonight, Xu Yong can definitely find trouble with him at this time.

However, what Xu Yong did next made everyone stand in awe.

Because Xu Yong reached out and patted Noah's shoulder before he walked up to Noah: "Don't blame yourself, your shot choice is fine."

After Noah looked up, he said in a very calm but very sure tone: "Don't worry, we won't lose."

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