Legendary star

Chapter 216

"Beautiful pass. The cooperation between Meng Xu and Duncan is perfect. It can be seen that Meng Xu's pass made Duncan very comfortable. Meng Xu and Duncan still have a tacit understanding." For Duncan, Magic Johnson also I appreciate it very much, the magician has always liked those young players with high golf quotient, and Duncan is undoubtedly one of them.

And when Meng Xu and Duncan completed this cooperation, the old partners Malone and Stockton quickly counterattacked Meng Xu and Duncan in the same way. Under Meng Xu's tight defense, Stockton, who had no chance, Stockton, and Malone staged a very classic pick-and-roll cooperation. After Malone pulled up from the free throw line to block Meng Xu, Stockton rushed towards the basket with the ball. At this time, Meng Xu was killed by Malone. Blocked, so Duncan, who was defending Malone, had to switch to Stockton. After seeing the Spurs switch to Stockton, Malone immediately started to run back and cut. Since Duncan went to defend Stockton, Meng Xu had to defend. Ma Long is two laps older than himself.Although Duncan was defending himself, Stockton did not use his footwork and flexibility to single Duncan. Instead, he used a diagonal pass to pass the ball to Malone behind him on the left. Facing Meng Xu who was defending him, he squeezed and leaned very easily, Meng Xu lost his position, and then Malone had repeated tens of thousands of mid-range shots on the court.

"It's a very exciting pick-and-roll. Malone and Stockton really have a tacit understanding." For Malone and Stockton, this pair of partners who played together before retiring, Magic Johnson is of course very familiar Yes, many times the opponent knows that Stockton and Malone are going to pick and roll, and that Stockton is going to pass the ball to Malone, but they just can’t do anything about it. His own short defensive players, Malone called them ATMs. In the 10-year careers of Malone and Stockton, that is, the Bulls could break the Jazz's pick-and-roll.

It would be great if Meng Xu and Duncan could have such a tacit understanding. After seeing the Jazz's offensive cooperation this time, Popovich on the sidelines is now a little envious of Sloan. Superstars with systems, but the systems of the two are the same. In other words, they both have half systems. When two people are together, they will form a complete system. If it weren't for the Jazz in Salt Lake City Such a small city can't afford high salaries, and no one wants to go there. With the perfect cooperation between Malone and Stockton, as long as they can match a few powerful role players, the Jazz will have won N championships long ago. .But thinking of the championship, Popovich's eyes on Sloan changed from envy to pity. Compared with Sloan, he can be said to be very lucky. He has only coached the Spurs for less than 4 seasons and has already won Two championships, and it can be expected that he can win more championships in the future.On the other hand, Sloan, who was regarded as the best Mesozoic coach before him, has coached the Jazz for nearly 20 years. He has changed from a middle-aged man to an old man, and he has not yet won a championship.

At this time, Meng Xu looked at Stockton with a little surprise. Meng Xu saw Stockton's pass to Malone very clearly. This guy knew it without even looking at it. Is it just because of the tacit understanding formed by their cooperation together all the year round?I'm afraid it's not just this one reason, but another important reason is that Popovich once told himself in the system that the highest level of passing is to rely on his own passing to guide his teammates' running positions, and Stockton undoubtedly Has reached the point of this master.

With a little envy, Meng Xu dribbled the ball across the half court again. Almost the same as last time, Meng Xu blocked Stockton behind with one arm, and then slapped the basketball against Stockton with his body sideways. After Meng Xu forcibly turned around, Duncan had already pulled over to cover Meng Xu. He jumped up again and passed the basketball from Stockton's head to Duncan. Meng Xu suddenly felt that his penis was getting an electric shock. Xu's body shrank suddenly, and he stumbled down from the air, while Stockton looked at Meng Xu innocently at this moment.

"John, if I were a glass, I would definitely choose to join the Jazz." Meng Xu had already heard about Stockton's reputation, and before the start of the game, David Robinson and Sean Elliott Repeatedly told myself to be careful of this guy opposite.Originally, Meng Xu thought he was careful enough, but he didn't expect to fall into his trap just after the game started.

"Really? If you want to come to the jazz, I don't mind." Hearing Meng Xu mocking himself, Stockton not only did not have any mood swings, but still had a serious expression on his face, and at the same time patted himself butt.

"Hold it, hold it back, you must hold it back." After seeing Stockton's movements and expressions, Meng Xu understood instantly. No wonder Rodman scolded him: "You *b*t* river crab* raise Yes." This seemingly gentle guy really has no lower limit at all.

After the first quarter of the game, Meng Xu's performance is still good if you only look at the statistics, with 2 points, 5 assists, 3 rebounds and 1 steal. For a point guard, this kind of data is already quite competent. , but behind Meng Xu’s 5 assists, there were 3 turnovers in a single quarter. In front of Stockton’s superb little moves of pushing his knees, stepping on his feet, and kicking his ankles, especially as long as Meng Xu jumped together, Stockton Keton would stroke his own crab, which made Meng Xu very uncomfortable. At the same time, it also made Meng Xu deeply realize that every mountain is still high. Originally, in Meng Xu's eyes, Avery Johnson's small movements That's enough, but it wasn't until Meng Xu met Stockton today that Meng Xu realized how childish the tricks Avery Johnson taught him were. Compared with Stockton, the Spurs The blackest Avery Johnson is simply a white lotus.

"Although Meng's performance looks good, he sent 5 assists in a single quarter, 1 more than Stockton, but it can be clearly seen that he is as smooth as Stockton." Compared with passing the ball, Meng Xu is still very blunt, and he has a lot of turnovers, he really needs time to adapt to his new role." When Michaels got the game data of the two sides in the first quarter, he was also a little surprised , Meng Xu actually sent out more assists than Stockton, an orthodox point guard, but this does not cover up many problems of Meng Xu after he changed to a point guard. The most obvious problem is that Meng Xu Xu still has a lot of problems in grasping the timing of the pass. Meng Xu's first pass choice is always Duncan. This is why Meng Xu can have so many assists. Duncan's efficiency in the first quarter It was too high. Under Malone's defense, Duncan made 8 of 6 shots and 2 of 2 free throws in a single quarter, scoring 14 points.

"Meng, you did a good job." After the court, assistant coach Mike Budenholzer patted Meng Xu on the shoulder with a smile on his face. Although Meng Xu still had many problems on the court, especially There were too many turnovers, but Mike Budenholzer was very satisfied judging from Meng Xu knowing how to feed Duncan. In Mike Budenholzer's eyes, as long as Meng Xuken played around Duncan, regardless of him Whether it is Jordan or Birdmiller, there is no problem.

After the start of the second quarter, the Spurs sent their own bench lineup, point guard Derek Tial, shooting guard Derek Anderson, small forward Malik Rose, power forward Samaki Walker, center Jeff LaFrentz, after trading Avery Johnson for an orthodox backup center, the Spurs' bench lineup has become more reasonable.Not to mention that compared with the Lakers, at least facing the Jazz's bench lineup is relaxed and enjoyable.The 2-point advantage established by the Jazz's main lineup in the first quarter was wiped out after the substitute lineups of both sides came on the field. Not only that, when the game was officially suspended in the second quarter, 36 to 30, the Jazz had already 6 points behind the Spurs.

Looking at the performance of the substitutes on the court, Sloan could only shake his head helplessly. Compared with the Spurs, the Jazz's main lineup is actually not bad, but the biggest gap lies in the substitutes.The Jazz's main lineup is getting older. In order to keep them in a good game state, they must be given adequate rest, but the Jazz's substitutes are really unreliable. On this group of substitutes, Malone and Stockton performed bravely, but it was useless. As long as this group of substitutes came on the field, they were blown up by the opponent, and it was commonplace to reverse the score.

When the second quarter was over and the two teams' substitute lineups reappeared in the third quarter, the game had already been decided. After three quarters, the Jazz trailed the Spurs by 3 points 56-70. Knowing where the Jazz's stubborn illness is, but Sloan has no solution, let Malone and Stockton play the whole game?This is even more impossible, even if Ma Long is an iron man, he can't bear it, and this is just an ordinary regular season.After experiencing the failure of last season, Sloan also decided to learn from Popovich this season. On the premise of ensuring that he can enter the future games, he will conditionally release some difficult games and reduce Malone's regular season. More playing time to ensure that Malone can get enough rest time.Although he is 14 years old, Malone still played all 37 games in the regular season last season, averaging 82 minutes per game.

In the end, 79 to 88, the Spurs defeated the Jazz at home and achieved 4 consecutive victories. After this game, the Spurs also temporarily ranked first in the Western Conference with a record of 6 wins and 1 loss.In this game, Meng Xu also contributed 15 points, 12 assists, 6 rebounds, and 3 steals. The fly in the ointment is that Meng Xu made 6 turnovers in the game.Although Meng Xu was more careful in the following games, Stockton's defense still caused 3 turnovers, and the 6 turnovers in the game also refreshed Meng Xu's number of turnovers in a single game.

"Ervin, perhaps, as you said, this league will once again usher in a player as special as you." These were the last words Michaels said in front of the live camera after the game, and Michaels His partner, Magic Johnson, had a smile on his face. He looked at Meng Xu who was starting to leave the field, and at the same time thought about the look of his old buddy after losing to him. He could finally beat Larry Bird once. The dragging old guy won't be proud for long.

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