Legendary star

Chapter 549 I wish everyone a Merry Christmas

"Oh, this team is really strong. It seems that we don't want to do anything else. We have no chance of defeating them." As the game progressed, looking at the situation on the court, Nets head coach Lawrence Frank Lowering his head slightly, he sighed softly.

Before the start of this round of the series, Lawrence Frank and several assistant coaches watched the video for two consecutive nights and made a lot of arrangements for the Pacers, including how to double-team Meng Xu and how to break the Pacers' defensive system Wait, but after the game started, Lawrence Frank discovered that the progress of the game was completely different from what he expected. The first quarter had been played for almost 4 minutes, but Meng Xu, the core of the Pacers' offense and defense, couldn't even make a single shot. No, it was completely beyond Lawrence Frank's pre-match expectations.And the more this is the case, the stronger Lawrence Frank's sense of crisis is. Meng Xu hasn't played yet, and the Pacers have already overwhelmed the Nets.

"Beautiful pick-and-roll cooperation!" When Jermaine O'Neal and Meng Xu once again formed a misplaced opportunity through the pick-and-roll cooperation, Magic Johnson on the commentary seat couldn't help applauding the Pacers' cooperation.The pick-and-roll and screen between Meng Xu and Jermaine O'Neal really have a tacit understanding. Judging from the pick-and-roll cooperation between the two in this game, they are no different from the Utah Shuangsha at their peak.

"A team that is almost incomprehensible." After hearing what Magic Johnson said, Michaels suddenly had such a sentence in his mind, but Michaels did not say it, but silently in his heart sighed.The Pacers themselves have a superstar with unsolvable singles ability, coupled with excellent tactical coordination and execution ability, this kind of team is really difficult to beat as long as there is no problem.

Although Meng Xu found an opportunity to play Kenyon Martin in a misplaced single through the pick-and-roll with Jermaine O'Neal, but Kenyon Martin, who relies on his explosive physical fitness, is obviously not one of those insiders, and Kenyon Martin is defending. The anticipation and positioning ability of the front end are also very good, so it is still difficult for Meng Xu to play a back attack in front of Kenyon Martin.However, Meng Xu has no intention of making a move in front of Kenyon Martin at all. Since Kenyon Martin is going to challenge Jermaine O'Neal, the protagonists of today's game will be Kenyon Martin and Jermaine O'Neal. O'Neal is gone. As for Meng Xu's current thoughts, it is to feed Jermaine O'Neal more cakes.

Although he didn't plan to play Kenyon Martin in a single position, Meng Xu still acted as if he was going to play with his back, and slapped the basketball sideways against Kenyon Martin. Because of O'Neill's body.When Meng Xu saw that Jermaine O'Neal turned away from Richard Jefferson with a back turn without the ball, and rushed towards the basket again, Meng Xu directly threw the basketball in his hand.

"Oh, God, the rim is innocent!" When Jermaine O'Neal was hanging on the rim again, Michaels looked at the rickety rim and said with a playful face, because Kenyon- Martin's constant provocation against Jermaine O'Neal before the game, coupled with the alley-oop after the opening, the direct consequence was that Jermaine O'Neal continued to wreak havoc on the basket of the Nets after the start of the game. Only 4 minutes into the first quarter of the game, Jermaine O'Neal had already made 5 shots, and all of these 5 shots were dunks. As for Kenyon Martin, except for the alley-oop after the opening, he had two shots in a row. Jermaine O'Neal in singles was taken out of the bag. From the current point of view, Kenyon Martin is completely at a disadvantage.

"The Nets called a timeout, and it looks like Lawrence Frank is ready to adjust." As soon as Jermaine O'Neal got off the basket, the head coach of the Nets, Lawrence Frank, called a timeout. -If O'Neal keeps dunking like this, the morale and fighting spirit of the Nets will be wiped out.

"Kenyon, stop entangled with him endlessly. Your strength is mobile warfare. You have to use your strengths to defeat that guy. Do you understand?"

"Richard, Corey, run, you have to run, even if you don't have a basketball in your hand, don't stay in one place for a long time, only by moving can you find their flaws, OK!"

"Lorenzen, you are the team's last line of defense. Pay attention to your defense. If you can't do it, you will foul. We must never let that kid dunk on our basket again!"

As soon as the players of the Nets left the court, Lawrence Frank pulled all the players except Jason Kidd to his side and taught them a lesson one by one. At the same time, he also arranged a new strategy and the following layout.

After the timeout, the Nets did undergo some changes. The most intuitive change is that Kenyon Martin no longer blindly asks for the ball in singles. At the same time, other Nets players on the field also moved more without the ball.

The Pacers are at the top level of the league regardless of single defense, overall defense, or assist defense, especially the assist defense ability, which is the strongest in the entire league.Therefore, if you want to defeat the Pacers, you must first find a way to break the Pacers' defensive system, and the easiest way to break the Pacers' defense is to let them move, use continuous running and passing the ball to make them exhausted, thus revealing flaws , and after the timeout, Lawrence Frank obviously had this idea. Even the center Lorenzen White of the Nets changed his style of playing with Mutombo in the basket in the previous game, but Started running up and down the paint looking for opportunities.

And after Jason Kidd and Richard Jefferson made several consecutive passes on the outside, the Pacers' loopholes on the defensive end were revealed. Still let Corey Kidders eat dust behind his ass repeatedly, but on the defensive end, Reggie Miller is obviously struggling, especially after Corey Kidders and Richard Jefferson switched positions , Reggie Miller obviously can't keep up with Richard - Jefferson's footsteps.

"Richard, catch the ball." When Richard Jefferson used Reggie Miller's opening to successfully cut in and get an open chance, Jason Kidd immediately passed the basketball in his hand.

However, James Posey, who was not far from Reggie Miller, also discovered the flaws revealed by Reggie Miller, so the moment Richard Jefferson got rid of Reggie Miller, James Posey quickly made up for it. Defending Richard Jefferson, but after James Posey went to defend Richard Jefferson, Reggie Miller, who was supposed to replace James Posey to defend Corey Kiddles, was caught Jason Kidd was blocked, it was this moment of delay, Corey Kidders ran to the top of the arc and got an open chance, but at the moment Corey Kidders received the basketball, Jermaine O'Neal jumped over.

"I have to say that your defense ability has greatly exceeded my imagination, but it is still useless." While shocked by the Pacers' defense ability, Lawrence Frank still showed a smile. It has become an obvious shortcoming, so even if the Pacers' defense is excellent, as long as Reggie Miller is still on the court, the Pacers will always have loopholes in defense. This defense is like this, because Reggie Miller's Leaking people and not switching defenses in time, James Posey and Jermaine O'Neal had to make up defenses for him one after another, and this series of supplementary defenses directly missed Kenyon Martin.

"Corey, here!" Kenyon Martin, who somehow got an open chance, was obviously very excited, and Corey Kidders, who was blocked by Jermaine O'Neal and couldn't make a shot, heard Kenyon Martin After the voice, the basketball was passed directly behind Jermaine O'Neal.

Kenyon Martin, who received the basketball, quickly turned around and rushed directly towards the Pacers' basket. After Jermaine O'Neal went to defend Corey Kiddles, between Kenyon Martin and the basket The room was empty.

So in this attack, Kenyon Martin got an excellent opportunity, an opportunity to wreak havoc on the rim, an excellent dunk opportunity even better than the alley-oop at the beginning of the game.

Two steps in a row, when Kenyon Martin was about three meters away from the basket, Kenyon Martin grabbed the basketball with one hand and jumped up with a hideous face. All the strength was concentrated on the left hand holding the basketball. This time, Kenyon Martin wanted to use a perfect one-handed dunk to vent his grievances.

"What?" Just when Kenyon Martin exhausted all his strength and wanted to smash the basketball in his hand into the hoop, he found that he was holding the basketball with his left hand, and the basketball in his hand was frozen in the air. The same, can no longer move.

Kenyon Martin, who was horrified, fixed his eyes and saw a guy wearing the No. 55 jersey on his side. He didn't know when he had appeared there. Hands above the basketball.

With a bang, Kenyon Martin and the guy in front of him lost their balance almost at the same time, fell from the air, and fell heavily to the floor.

"Boy, this is not a place for you to be unrestrained!" No. 55, who stood up from the ground first, patted his butt, and stretched out a stick to Kenyon Martin who was still sitting on the ground. The fingers shook a few times.

As for Kenyon Martin, who was sitting on the ground, because his mind was full of the scene of being blocked just now, he looked at the tall figure who was shaking his fingers at him with a dull face, and looked at the tall figure who was a little thin, but looked like a mountain. General figure.

(End of this chapter)