Legendary star

Chapter 35 Christmas Battle (4)

"After this quarter of the game, I don't think I need to say anything. This year's Lakers are much stronger than last season. They are the biggest threat to us this season."

After the first quarter, as the team's head coach, Popovich also used the timeout to give the team some tactical instructions.

"I don't need to say more about O'Neal's strength. Tim and David must have a deep understanding. In the next game, David, you and Tim will start double-teaming him, and you must pay attention to controlling your fouls as much as possible."

"Meng, your defense was very successful in the first quarter. In the next game, continue to maintain the defensive strength of the first quarter. As long as you can cut off the internal and external cooperation of the Lakers, it doesn't matter even if Kobe scores 40 points." In the first quarter, facing Meng Xu's defense, Kobe made 9 of 4 shots and scored 8 points. From the data point of view, Meng Xu's defense against Kobe was not successful, but if considering the tactical level, Kobe's too many singles undoubtedly destroyed the Lakers triangle The original intention of attacking, so there is no doubt that Meng Xu's defense was very successful.

"Meng, I hope you can shoot more outside shots in the next game. You don't need to care too much about the feelings of Mario and Avery. Just throw that damn basketball into the Lakers' basket whenever you have a chance. Understand Is it?" At the end, Popovich suddenly became stern, and the corner of his eye swept across Avery Johnson and Mario Ellie, and the two of them saw the look in Popovich's eyes, and they were also Not daring to look directly at Popovich, but lowered his head reflexively.

"Understood." Since the system has the lowest score in the mode of gaining experience, and Meng Xu's mid-range shooting percentage has always been not very good, even if he is open, he does not have much confidence, so Meng Xu's mid-range shots in each game The number of times is also very small, and the 3 points from the outside, since the game against the Raptors, it has been a quiz, a hard game, the opponent is afraid when it is accurate, and I am afraid when it is hard, it is really killing the enemy Compared with scoring, Meng Xu now prefers steals, blocks and rebounds. In order to gain more experience points, Meng Xu is now doing his best to defend the opposing players and grab every rebound. .So far, he has averaged 22 minutes per game, 7.5 points, 6 rebounds, 3.8 steals, 2.5 assists, and 1.4 blocks per game. In this draft year when there are not many fierce men, he has also entered the best rookie ranking top ten of .

"Louder, Meng." Hearing Meng Xu's reply, Popovich was a little dissatisfied.Popovich has always been very satisfied with Meng Xu's training and game attitude, and even his private life. The only thing he is dissatisfied with is his character. Running out of space, too.And in the game, although Meng Xu's performance on the defensive end was impeccable, and he always overfulfilled the tasks he assigned, but his defensive actions were too clean, pulling these small actions to the top of the average player's defense, It is basically rare for him to use it. You must know that a pure person cannot hang around in this alliance for too long.

"Understood." Meng Xu raised his head and shouted loudly, which immediately attracted the attention of countless fans behind him.

After the start of the second quarter, both teams made certain adjustments. Kobe no longer played singles with the ball, but quickly passed it out after receiving the ball. Double-team O'Neal, as soon as O'Neal receives the ball, Duncan will leave AC Green to double-team O'Neal.At this time, AC Green, who was standing outside the penalty area and was unguarded, also looked embarrassed. Although he was out of space, he didn't have the guts to ask O'Neal for the ball.

O'Neill pouted his **** and pushed hard behind him twice. The old David Robinson lost his balance in an instant. After a quick turn, he was at a position more than two meters away from the basket, facing Duncan jumped up to block himself, and dunked hard towards the basket.

"It was brutal. Shaq's dunk was so brutal. In this duel, Shaq won the game. Not only did he score the goal, but he also caused a foul by Tim Duncan." Amidst the cheers, after shaking off Robinson and dunking Tim Duncan, the magician who commented on the scene did not hesitate to praise O'Neal.

Before the magician finished speaking, O'Neal fell from the basket and jumped in front of Duncan with his signature celebration move, the overlord step. The basketball hoop behind him was still shaking violently, as if telling everyone about O'Neal's dunk. Huge power, while Duncan ran forward blankly, as if nothing had happened.

After Johnson dribbled the ball for half the court, he handed the basketball directly to Meng Xu. After watching Johnson nod at himself, Meng Xu also smiled and dribbled the basketball laterally. Facing Rick Fox's defense, Meng Xu did A breakthrough fake shakes him away, and then a through pass puts the ball in Duncan's hands.

Meng Xu was also very angry about the almost provocative celebration that O'Neal dunked Duncan in front of Duncan just now, and hoped that Duncan could directly fight back against the fat man.After Meng Xu joined the team, perhaps because the two were alumni of Wake Forest University, Duncan also took good care of Meng Xu. The situation of old players bullying rookies like other teams never happened to Meng Xu. , I still remember the scene when Meng Xu went to the Spurs for the first time. In front of all the Spurs players, Duncan put his arms around Meng Xu's shoulders and said something that Meng Xu will never forget: "Let me introduce you, this is my Brother Meng."

When Duncan held the ball, the rest of the players of the two teams also automatically pulled away, allowing the two big guys to single out. Knowing that they were not as strong as O'Neal, Duncan did not choose to play with his back, but chose another offensive method that he was good at. Duncan Lowering the center of gravity of the body and directly holding the ball to break through from the flank, although O'Neal is huge in stature, his moving speed is not slow at all. After seeing Duncan's choice, he moved directly in the direction of Duncan's breakthrough, trying to block Duncan's sudden attack ahead of time. The route to the basket, just after O'Neal succeeded in occupying the position in advance, Duncan made an emergency stop and jumped up in front of O'Neal. Facing O'Neal who was in a hurry to take off and block the block, Duncan leaned on O'Neal in the air and shot the basketball The basketball flew out and hit the board directly, which also caused O'Neal's defensive foul.

After scoring this goal, Duncan did not show too much excitement and excitement, but Meng Xu did run over excitedly to celebrate with Duncan, with an expression on his face, as if he scored the goal just now.

(End of this chapter)