Legendary star

Chapter 215 Point Guard Meng Xu Appears
On November 2000, 11, after winning two consecutive away games, the Spurs will face their old rival Jazz at home. The Spurs and Jazz have been competing for the ranking of the playoffs in the past few seasons. very intense.As a team with two superstars Malone and Stockton, and a superstar with a pick-and-roll system, since the Jazz selected Malone, it has never missed a playoff game, and the Spurs and Jazz also have too many players in the playoffs. Match record.

The Jazz and the Spurs, this is a pair of two opponents who have been entangled since David Robinson and Karl Malone entered the league. It’s just that as time goes by, the newcomers on the Spurs push the old ones, David Robinson and Sean Elliott has relegated to the second line, and Malone and Stockton still carry the burden of leading the Jazz to move forward when there is no successor for the Jazz, and the most important thing is that the Jazz has not won a championship so far. The championship has always been an obsession for Malone and Stockton. After entering the Jazz, the pair vowed to bring a championship trophy to the Jazz, but 15 seasons have passed However, the two still haven't been able to fulfill the promise they made to each other when they entered the alliance.

Compared with the Spurs, the Jazz is a more aging team. If the Spurs are still constantly changing blood to make the team younger and younger, then the Jazz's lineup is getting older and older. The active league has the most game experience. Rich team deservedly so.In the Jazz's current starting lineup, the power forward is also the star of the team, Malone, who is 37 years old this season, and the main center, Alden Polynes, nicknamed "Haiti Monster", is only one year younger than Malone and is 36 years old this year. Yes, shooting guard John Starks is 35 years old, the leader of the team, one of the best point guards in the league, John Stockton is one year older than Malone, and is 38 years old this year Yes, the main small forward Brian Russell, this player is still a little younger, but he is also 31 years old. In this league where people who are over 30 years old are already called old guys, it is said that the Jazz are a group of old men who are more than seventy years old. It is not an exaggeration, so the Jazz's current record is also Wang Xiaoer's Chinese New Year, and the year is not as good as the year. In the 9697 and 9798 seasons, the Jazz reached the finals for two consecutive years, and in the following two seasons, both It was easily settled by the Blazers in the semifinals, especially in last year's series. The Jazz lost to the Blazers by an average of 15 points per game. This year, the average age has increased by another year, and the Jazz's record will definitely regress.

Compared with the Spurs, the biggest advantage of the Jazz is that Salt Lake City is a small city with less than 20 people. At the same time, Salt Lake City is still a place of bitter cold. In addition, the owner of the Jazz is a "poor dick", so No superstar is willing to come to the Jazz at all. Not only that, the Jazz can't even keep the rookies they cultivated. There have been many rookies played by the Jazz who have changed jobs after the contract expires. Although Dunk is so old, the Jazz still can't find their replacements. It can be expected that once Malone and Stockton retire in the next few years, the Jazz will soon sink.

When the two teams warmed up and the starting players of the two teams were ready to enter the field, Michaels, who had received the starting lineup of the two teams for this game on the sidelines, saw the starting lineup sent by the Spurs for this game. After that, he was directly forced.

"Meng Xu is going to play point guard in this game? Am I right? Popovich's arrangement is really unexpected."

"It's finally the day." Magic Johnson, the other commentator of the game, showed a very excited look after being stunned for a moment. It can be said that for the day when Meng Xu played point guard, Magic has I have been waiting for a long time.

Compared with the excitement and expectation of Magic Johnson, Michaels is much more rational, because it is Stockton who is facing Meng Xu in this game. Although Stockton is 38 years old, he It is still one of the three best point guards in the league, and Stockton is notoriously dirty. He ranked first among the "Four Villains" in the 3s and is the leader of the list of NBA villains. There are so many small actions that fly out of the sky. Rodman, the most famous villain in the league, called Stockton the most despicable, shameless and despicable person in the entire league. He also commented on Stockton in his autobiography. Cotton "If you poll all the players in the NBA and ask them who is the dirtiest guard in the NBA?What do you think they will answer?They would probably all say it was John Stockton, but no one outside would guess it was him.Because Stockton always puts on an air of integrity. "

"Meng Xu played against Stockton. Meng Xu, who has no point guard experience, will face off against the best point guard in the past 10 years. I think it must be very interesting. There can be some other gains.” As a Meng Chuan, Michaels is surprisingly not optimistic about Meng Xu today. Originally, in Michaels’ opinion, facing the Jazz’s weak striker, Meng Xu will definitely be like the previous ones in this game. It was like that in a few games, killing big, but I didn't expect Popovich to let him play point guard directly. You know, Stockton is the guard who is best at dealing with big players among all the guards in the league.

"El, in my opinion, this game is not as bad as you think. Meng's ball control is very good, and his vision and passing are also very good. His performance on the court always reminds us of Pitt. Peng, Hardaway and other players, so I think maybe after this game, the league will usher in a special player like me again.” In fact, since Meng Xu was crowned Larry Bird’s successor, Magic Johnson began to pay attention to Meng Xu, but in the eyes of the magician, Meng Xu was more like himself than Larry Bird. For this reason, the magician had a dispute with Larry Bird on the phone. I also decided to make a bet to see if Meng Xu's style of play was more like Magician or Larry Bird when no one intervened. Because of this, when the Pacers sent a trade application to the Spurs At that time, the magician called Larry Bird and scolded him for being a shameless villain and not keeping his promise.

"Erwin... Let's wait and see." Michaels couldn't believe what the magician said anyway. Who is the magician?Jordan was No.1 in the league before, a player who can play from position 1 to position 5, and can play well in every position, but Michaels can't see this talent at all from Meng Xu .

When Meng Xu served as point guard in this game, the Spurs' starting roster also changed slightly. The two insiders are still David Robinson and Duncan, and small forward Sean Elliott is at the position of shooting guard. Oelie is back in the starting lineup.

"Meng, be steady." After Duncan overwhelmed Alden Polynice and successfully jumped the ball, Meng Xu started to dribble and advance from the backcourt. It would be nonsense to say that you are not nervous. As a 2 meter big man, even if your ball handling skills are proficient, compared with those orthodox point guards who are 01 meters or 1 meters, they are somewhat inferior A little, and Meng Xu's ball control and passing attributes have reached 8 points, but Meng Xu does not have a ball control and passing skills. Passing the ball, let alone whether the team's tactics will allow it, even the current physical strength is not enough to support Meng Xu to use that style of play throughout the game.

"It seems that it's time to learn a full-time passing skill." After nodding to the assistant coach Mike Budenholzer on the sidelines, Meng slowly dribbled the ball through the middle circle and reached the top of the arc. At that time, the Jazz point guard Stockton immediately posted it. Originally, Sloan also formulated a defensive tactic to double-team Meng Xu before the game, but now it seems that this is completely unnecessary. A point guard Meng Xu, Stockton is very confident that his education will be obedient, and when he plays the Jazz next time, his hands will tremble when he holds the ball, or he will feel a little sadness in a certain part.

"Boy, you are really interesting. This game is just me, an old guy. Let me teach you some life experience." In the first round of offense and defense, Meng Xu and Stockton are now the focus of the field, and The object of the referee's attention, as an old fritter, Stockton also knows that it is not the time to use the "unique move", so Stockton just sprayed trash talk at Meng Xu to divert his attention and influence his state of mind.

"Thank you, John." Meng Xu winked his eyes and said something that surprised Stockton. Regardless of whether Meng Xu's style of play looks like Larry Bird, at least in terms of being cheap. Still got the true biography of Larry Bird.Therefore, Stockton, who originally thought that Meng Xu would say some bad words, was stunned for a moment when he heard Meng Xu say thank you to him. Does this kid not follow the routine?Or is this guy a silly idiot?
Taking advantage of the moment when Stockton was in a daze, Meng Xu jumped up lightly and passed the ball directly to Duncan who was already standing under the basket. After receiving the pass from Meng Xu, Duncan turned around very comfortably. He hit the board with a lean back and opened the scoring for the Spurs.

After seeing Duncan's hit, Meng Xu smiled at Stockton again, and quickly retreated. After switching to point guard, Meng Xu's defensive tasks were greatly reduced. In addition, the Jazz did not do well. An outside scorer, so Meng Xu is also very easy on the defensive end in this game.

　Thanks for the reward of Chuancaofengxu, thank you.

　　Appreciate the monthly pass of the colorful bat, thank you.

　　Thank you for the monthly pass that the factory guard said, thank you.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)