At the beginning of the death entanglement, Curry followed me to slam dunk

Chapter 14
As a star player, although Artest has been known for his defense, his offense is also unambiguous.

Not only does he have a good shooting touch on the outside, but he can also force some small guards with his strong body.

Although he is shorter than Du Zhe, his body is obviously stronger.

However, Du Zhe did not intend to confront him head-on. Instead, he directly used his long arms to interfere with his dribbling, causing the opponent to make mistakes.

The next step is counterattack and fast break. Dayao just ran back to the half court, and the Warriors' offense was over.

Du Zhe also mentioned a steal in his data column.

Then Du Zhe started to study Artest's skills while laying down to defend.

It can be said that Artest's defensive ability is indeed good, but there is still a gap compared to him, and there seems to be no need to steal.

However, the opponent's other unique skill "Iron Elbow" caught Du Zhe's attention.

"Iron Elbow"——Decreases the user's sanity, launches an elbow strike to an opponent on the field with the attack, and causes critical damage.

After looking at this skill, and then looking at Dayao on the field, Du Zhe admitted that he wanted to break Dayao's ribs again.

"No, no! The risk of this kind of thing is still too great." Du Zhe shook his head, forcing himself to calm down.

As time went by, the Warriors' situation on the court gradually fell into a disadvantage.

At this time, the Rockets, after running in at the beginning of the season, have formed a relatively stable and layered offensive and defensive system.

On the offensive end, the Rockets usually use Brooks, who has a speed advantage, to quickly advance and attack. Once they fail to succeed, they will wait for Dayao to follow up and switch to a positional battle.

In positional warfare, Dayao is the axis of positional offense, Artest is the first choice point for outside attack, Scola is not only a bridge linking inside and outside, but also can rely on skilled mid-range shots and gorgeous footwork to help. Dayao relieved the pressure, and Battier, who ambushed the outside line, also had the ability to shoot a fatal blow with three-pointers.

On the defensive end, the opponents have to face the entanglement of two defensive champions Artest and Battier on the outside. Even if they can get to the basket, they will hit the inside barrier of Dayao.

After the absence of Crawford, the Warriors not only lacked a stable scoring point on the field, but also lost a sharp knife that attracted pressure for other players.

As for the defensive end, Du Zhe naturally took on the important task of exchanging sons with Artest.

Although he can complete a few steals with his personal excellent defensive ability and win fast break opportunities for the team, but more often, he can only watch Dayao inside and put the ball into the basket again and again .

And then his pincer attack on Dayao was not successful because of the fiery touch of other players. Either Scola scored with a steady mid-range shot and gorgeous footwork, or Artest used a steamroller-style breakthrough to crush other defensive players. .

It can only be said that the more flowering rockets are much trickier than the Hornets!

Du Zhe wiped the sweat off his brow, and he has already found his favorite "stealing" target

It was Sean Battier.

As a high-quality 3D player, Battier not only defends solidly, but also has a pretty good three-pointer.

Although his three-point shooting is not at the top level, he still has an ability value of more than 80, and he also has the talent of a very suitable gold-level "catching three-pointer".

However, considering that the first half was almost over, and Du Zhe didn't know whether the 15-minute time limit for imitating skills was based on the game time or the normal time, he didn't rashly activate the skills.

Just be patient and wait until the second half.

At the end of the first half, the score between the two sides was 56:59, and the Warriors were temporarily 3 points behind.

This is mainly because after the Rockets replaced their main players in the second quarter, they were caught up by the Warriors.

The Warriors still focus on a seven-man rotation. Among them, Azubuike and Watson are model workers. They played the entire first half. And depending on the intentions of the coaching staff, it seems that they will not be allowed to play in the second half. Brothers rest.

And Du Zhe played mediocre offensively in the first half, only scoring 2 points with free throws.

Fortunately, his performance on the defensive end was still very stable, and he contributed a lot of risk-taking data. Not only did he frustrate the opposing Artest, but he also missed a layup from Yao in a double attack. This can be regarded as one of the few conversations between the two in the game.

In the middle of the second quarter, Du Zhe was replaced by the coach and Anthony Morrow replaced him.

It's just that as a role player, Moreau has good offensive firepower, but lacks sufficient stability. The characteristics of being a ghost and a ghost are very obvious.

In the last game against the Timberwolves, he shot 11 of 2 from the field, and this time he obviously did not find his shooting bag. By the third quarter, he had already made 6 of 2 shots, contributing Four pieces of fine iron.

On the defensive end, Morrow is obviously unable to play the role of Du Zhe.

In the second half, Artest seemed to put all his anger on Du Zhe on him, using his strong body over and over again to ravage Morrow, who was nearly [-] kilograms lighter than him.

After one and two, the point difference between the two teams was widened again, and it came to 76:67. The Warriors had fallen behind by 9 points.

Old Nelson frowned and had to call a timeout, rearrange his tactics, and arrange for Du Zhe to appear again.

Du Zhe looked at the Rockets bench at the other end of the field - Sean Battier seemed to be preparing to play.

Open three-pointer, right? Catch three-pointer, right? Bring it to you!
Following the whistle that ended the timeout, Du Zhe immediately activated the skill of the Stealer's Glove.

Sure enough, his open three-pointer ability instantly soared to 85 points, and a gold-level "catch three-pointer" talent was added to the talent column.

However, behind these two items, there are numbers similar to countdown, reminding Du Zhe that this is only a skill with a time limit of 15 minutes.

After the timeout, the Warriors implemented a serving tactic in the frontcourt. After Du Zhe's pick-and-roll, Azubuike threw away "Little Black Bean" Brooks and entered the inside.

But Artest, who had switched defenses, quickly stopped his breakthrough with his strong body.

Azubuike quickly transferred the ball to Du Zhe on the outside, ready to slow down the rhythm and reorganize the offense.

But when he was about to pull back to the outside line and get the ball back from Du Zhe, he saw a beautiful arc had already passed through the air.

"Brush!" The three-point ball hit the net.

Azubuike turned his head in disbelief, only to see Du Zhe was making a gesture of celebration for making a three-pointer with one hand, while running back to his own half to defend.

"Really let this stuff be thrown in?" This was somewhat beyond Azubuike's expectations.

It can be said that Du Zhe's three-point ability, in his opinion, belongs to the level of normal training shooting, but it is at the level of blindness when it comes to confrontation in the game.

It seems that this kid got lucky today...

Azubuike shook the sweat off his face and quickly returned to the half court to defend.

(End of this chapter)