Legendary star

Chapter 158 Pressing and Anti-pressing

Although it was only one round, when Scottie Pippen, the pioneer's lubricant for connecting the inside and outside lines, was restricted by Meng Xu, the Blazers' tactics on the court were completely unable to develop. It took 7 seconds to pass the middle circle, and even with the cooperation of Rasheed Wallace, it took a full 15 seconds to pass the basketball to Detlef Schramf , Although the Blazers played three insiders, they are not afraid of slowing down the rhythm, but such a rhythm is unbearable anyway.

Under this rhythm, Mike Dunville's face on the sidelines is very ugly. Popovich has undoubtedly found the lifeline of the Trail Blazers 3 inside tactics, but out of trust in Pippen, Mike Dunville still believes that Pippen Peng was able to find his own way to cope.

"Boy, you are so arrogant. Do you think I'm those little shrimps? You actually pressed me with the whole court." When Detlef Schramff faced Sean Elliott's defense and A mid-range jumper hit the basketball, and after the rest of the Blazers had started to retreat, Scottie Pippen directly found Meng Xu who was waiting for Mario Eli to send the baseline ball in the backcourt.

"I'll go, this is the coach's arrangement, and I don't want to." After seeing Pippen sticking tightly to him, Meng Xu directly reached out to signal Avery Johnson to control the ball, while he took Pippen forward Although Meng Xu's ball-handling skills have made great progress compared with when he first entered the league, Meng Xu is still not confident enough to be able to dribble the ball under Pippen's full-court pressure. halftime.

"Boy, let me show you what a full-court press is." When Meng Xu passed halftime, Pippen still clung to him relentlessly, regardless of how Mario Elli had already thrown off. Rasheed Wallace, running out of space.

"I don't believe it, you can still follow me." After barely getting rid of Pippen's tearing, Meng Xu walked along the sideline as usual, and Pippen followed Meng Xu closely all the time, not far away from Meng Xu at most. The distance of half a body.

When he turned around from the bottom line along the sideline and returned to the top of the arc again, before he had time to catch his breath, Pippen stuck up again, panting heavily, with one hand still on Meng Xu's back. on the waist.

After seeing Pippen start to compete with Meng Xu on the field, the magician in the commentary also shook his head. This is probably Pippen's least calm game in recent years.Since the Bulls' first 3 consecutive games, Pippen's temperament and personality have undergone earth-shaking changes. Few people can irritate Pippen in the game. Unexpectedly, in this game, he started to fight against Meng Xu. .

As the Blazers' outside defensive gate, when the Blazers got on the three inside lanes, Pippen's defensive task is undoubtedly very heavy. After Peng put all his attention on Meng Xu, Mario Elli could find a gap very easily. In this round of offense, it was Mario Eli who helped the Spurs overtake the score with a 3-pointer.

After Mario Eli made a shot, the Trail Blazers sent a baseline ball. While dribbling the ball, Pippen reached out to greet Meng Xu, who was more than one meter in front of him. His expression and posture were completely telling Meng Xu: "Come on." Ah, come and force me again."

Although he doesn't want to admit it, Meng Xu also knows that compared with the aging Pippen, he is still inferior to him in many aspects, not to mention Pippen's strengths such as organizing offense and various shooting, even if Meng Xu cited The defense he is proud of is not much better than Pippen. From Anna's mouth, Pippen has one A-level and two B-level defensive skills, especially Pippen's personal defense skills, and Lun Nader's Death Coil is also on par.

When Meng Xu stuck Pippen again, through continuous fake moves and a back turn, Pippen still got rid of Meng Xu's defense and successfully dribbled the ball across the half court. Facing Meng Xu's close defense, Pippen He didn't intend to make a breakthrough directly, but directly called Stoudemire's pick-and-roll. After passing the pick-and-roll with Stoudemire, Pippen temporarily got rid of Meng Xu's pressing.Pippen, who had just reached the free throw line after dribbling, had not had time to start when Meng Xu posted it again.

When Meng Xu was still heaving a sigh of relief for sticking Pippen on again, he saw an imperceptible smile on the corner of Pippen's mouth. The right hand holding the basketball flicked slightly behind him, and the basketball appeared behind Pippen, who was already unguarded by Stoudemire.

He was not deceived by Pippen's fake action. Almost at the moment Pippen passed the ball, Meng Xu ran directly towards Stoudemire. Stoudemire, who had just caught the ball and was about to shoot, looked at Meng Xu, who rushed over, subconsciously tightened his ass, but still made a fake throw and a real thrust. After hitting Meng Xu, Stoudemire, who took a step sideways, immediately jumped up. .

It's just that he just reached the height of his familiar shot, and when he was about to make a shot, a black figure appeared in front of Stoudemire again, and Meng Xu directly slapped the basketball that was still in Stoudemire's hand. up.

After landing, he picked up the covered basketball, ignoring Stoudemire who was still sitting on the ground, and Meng Xu went straight to the fast break, but to Meng Xu's surprise, Meng Xu had just reached the free throw line area. Out of the corner of his eye, Pippen caught up with him, but at this moment, Pippen was no longer able to stop Meng Xu.

After taking off half a step below the free throw line, Meng Xu, who hadn't dunked in several games, showed off his dunk again in front of more than 30000 spectators at the Alamo Stadium.

Seeing Meng Xu hanging on the basket, Pippen, who knew he had become the background board, shook his head helplessly, and glanced at Stoudemire who was still sitting behind him. In this round of the series, Jr. The flying squirrel's performance is really bad, and now he even has a little timidity, this is not like the little flying squirrel he usually knows.

"Such a fast bullet speed, such a high bounce speed, is this really a person of yellow race?" When Meng Xu was shot by Stoudemire, after landing, there was almost no pause or power accumulation. Jumping up again, blocking Stoudemire, the magician also had a new understanding of Meng Xu's physical fitness. This is Larry Bird, this is clearly Dominique Wilkins.

(End of this chapter)