Legendary star

Chapter 358 The Strongest Layup Skill

"Jamal, give me the ball." Jamal Tinsley, who was dribbling the ball and observing his teammates' positions as usual after Jermaine O'Neal successfully jumped the ball, just passed halftime when he saw Meng Xu asking for it. The ball, without the slightest hesitation, Jamal Tinsley passed the basketball in his hand to Meng Xu, while he ran to the left side of the court, preparing to follow the 3-point line to the bottom line.In the Pacers' current tactics, as long as Meng Xu attacks with the ball, Jamal Tinsley and Reggie Miller will definitely do everything possible to find open opportunities beyond the 3-point line.

"Do you want to double-team?" Seeing Meng Xu taking the initiative to hold the ball against Sprewell, Alan Houston, who was entangled with Reggie Miller, subconsciously looked at the head coach Jeff Van Gundy on the sidelines. During the game, the Knicks double-teamed Meng Xu, but Meng Xu kept playing off the ball and took very few shots. After losing two away games in a row, Van Gundy returned to New York and gave up on Meng Xu. Xu's double-team defense.

"Wait first." Seeing Alan Houston's questioning gaze, Jeff Van Gundy didn't say anything. Instead, he put his hands on his chest, focused all his attention on Meng Xu, and comforted himself in his heart.If the Knicks want to double-team Meng Xu, they can only let Alan Houston go, but in this case, Reggie Miller will be unguarded again. Originally, Jeff Van Gundy thought that Reggie Miller is old and can't do it. He can't make any waves, but in the previous two games, Reggie Miller scored 38 points in one game and 24 points in the other game. For this reason, Jeff Van Gundy does not dare to let Reggie Miller rashly now, and continues to double-team Meng Xu.

After receiving the ball, Meng Xu saw that Sprewell was the only one defending him, so he didn't pick and roll with Jermaine O'Neal. He first moved two steps laterally, and then directly started to change direction, getting rid of Sprewell. After Weir, he then used Jermaine O'Neal to block the defensive power forward Kurt Thomas, and then rushed directly to the basket.

When Meng Xu dribbled the ball towards the basket, the Knicks' white center Tyrese Knight quickly gave up the entanglement with Lorenzen White and began to seize the favorable position on Meng Xu's only way. In the defensive position, Kurt Thomas, who was delayed by Jermaine O'Neal, also rushed towards the basket, and Sprewell, who was still chasing after Meng Xu just now, quickly retreated to defend Jermaine O'Neal .

Seeing the performance of the players on the field on the defensive end, Jeff Van Gundy nodded very satisfied. As the No. Except, after watching countless Pacers game videos repeatedly, Jeff Van Gundy also discovered a mystery in the Pacers' tactics.Although Meng Xu's breakthrough ability is very good, but many times Meng Xu, who has already rushed to the basket, did not choose to make a layup. Instead, after attracting the defense, he distributed the basketball to the outside.

The more videos he watches, the more Van Gundy understands that most of Meng Xu's breakthroughs are mainly to attract the defender to shrink. Once the defender chooses to shrink the defense under Meng Xu's breakthrough, even if Meng Xu already has a good He will pass the basketball whenever there is any offensive opportunity, and the main target of Meng Xu's pass is the Pacers' outside lines. Meng Xu didn't layup, which is very doubtful. Combined with Meng Xu's funny scene in last year's All-Star Game, Van Gundy came to the conclusion that Meng Xu's layup was not good, so in this game , Although the Knicks did not continue to double-team Meng Xu, their defensive strategy against Meng Xu has also become mainly defensive shooting. At the same time, as long as Meng Xu breaks through, they will keep a close eye on the Pacers' outside lines.

On the current court, the Knicks are strictly implementing Van Gundy's pre-game deployment without any discount. Alan Houston is doing his best to chase Reggie Miller, and Mark Jackson is staring at Jamal Tinsley. , Sprewell also leaned against Jermaine O'Neal, blocking Meng Xu and his passing route.

But this time, when Tyrese Knight had already occupied a favorable position in advance and Kurt Thomas was double-teaming from behind, Meng Xu did not observe the positions of his teammates around him, but used the third time Change direction, and while pulling your body up, jump to the side of Tyrese Knight's body.

"Boy, you are looking for death." After seeing Meng Xu's attacking choice, Tyrese Knight immediately turned towards Meng Xu's jumping direction, and at the same time stretched out his arms, in the direction of Tyrese Knight. With his height and wingspan, he didn't need to take off at all when blocking Meng Xu's shot, but this time, in order to ensure the success rate of defense, Tyrese Knight still jumped up high and was still in the process of rising Tyrese Knight in the movie, can already imagine the next scene, he is like a fly swatter, pushing the kid in front of him to the ground with the ball, regular season MVP?Anyone who dares to be arrogant in Madison will end badly.

"What? There is such an operation?" Tyrese Knight, who had already flown into the air, waved his big hand, trying to block the basketball in Meng Xu's hand, but found that Meng Xu used an extremely easy folding lever, Dodged his own block. You must know that before the game, the head coach Jeff Van Gundy told himself that the kid in front of him had extremely poor layup skills. As the head coach said, as long as he dares to layup in front of him, he can block him by himself, but now it seems that the head coach obviously miscalculated, but fortunately, although his block was avoided by him , Kurt Thomas, who was following Meng Xu, had already taken off, and it should be too late depending on the situation.

However, the next scene shocked Tyrese Knight, who had already started to fall. After Meng Xu pulled the bar once, after noticing Kurt Thomas flying over from behind, he first took a very obvious step in the air. He took a step, and then made a pull action again, avoiding Kurt Thomas' block in the air, and very lightly the basketball in his hand was still towards the basket.

"Oh, it's a cake." Michaels on the commentary seat stood up directly from the seat after a burst of exclamation. Meng Xu's actions just now were so familiar. After searching in his mind for a while, Michaels Si can say with certainty that it was Michael, it was Michael. Meng Xu's layup action just now resembled Michael when he was young. It can even be said that it is a replica of Michael's layup, including the leg swing in the air. of.

At this moment, on the Pacers' bench, Michaels's expression was similar. Just a moment later, when Meng Xu finished layup and landed, on the Pacers' bench, except for Larry Bird who barely remained calm. , including assistant coach George McGinnis, all the Pacers players rushed to the sidelines waving towels. Bobby Simmons was the most exaggerated, lying on the ground directly, making a five-body posture.

"How is this possible?" Spike Lee, who was still yelling wildly on the sidelines just now, opened his mouth slightly, his mind was full of images of Meng Xu's layup just now.

"Excellent ability to stay in the air, perfect coordination in the air, two consecutive layups after pulling the bar, Meng's layup is definitely the best layup in this round of the series."

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