Legendary star

Chapter 558

"Ben, are you okay?" After the long timeout, the rotations of the two sides entered the field one after another. As the team behind, the Pistons naturally sent most of the main players to continue playing, but the performance in the previous games was not ideal. Ben Wallace and Richard Hamilton were put on the bench by Larry Brown. As the defensive core of the Pistons, they were put on the bench at this time. It's not good, Richard Hamilton, who received the same treatment as Ben Wallace, also asked Ben Wallace a little worried after seeing Ben Wallace's uncertain expression .

In today's game, the Pistons played extremely hard up and down. They were like a defenseless brown bear who plunged into the trap that the Pacers dug for them in advance. From the offensive end to the defensive end, the Pacers were everywhere. Targeting, Ben Wallace, who is the core of the Pistons' defense, and Richard Hamilton, the first breakup player in the Pistons, are the focus of the Pacers' care.

Ben Wallace, who frequently left the basket to defend Jermaine O'Neal and NN Hilario, consumed a lot of physical energy in the previous games, but he failed again and again. Ben Wallace, who has gradually grown into an All-Star, has a very tough heart, but in the face of Jermaine O'Neal and Meng Xu's YAN shots again and again, Ben Wallace's heart will show some Ben Wallace, who was fluctuating and didn't know what he thought of, tilted his head slightly, and finally stopped his gaze in the distance, on the person he respected deeply in his heart.

"I'm fine, Richard." A moment later, Ben Wallace withdrew his eyes and thoughts, smiled slightly at Richard Hamilton beside him, then put the towel on his head, and leaned directly on the seat On the back of the chair, staring intently at the ongoing game on the field.

"Yeah." Relatively speechless, after nodding to Ben Wallace, Richard Hamilton closed his eyes. While taking the time to rest, he also wanted to calm his mind and think about it by the way. Let's see how to get rid of Tyshawn Prince's defense in the following games. Although Hamilton only stayed in the Pacers for one season, for this little guy who often defends himself and Reggie Miller in training games , Hamilton is very aware of his strength on the defensive end. In the finals last season, Tyshawn Prince, who was still a rookie, was arranged by Larry Bird to defend Kobe Bryant. The little guy with a somewhat thin body can always make his opponent feel like he is stuck in a quagmire. Richard Hamilton, who was marked by Tayshaun Prince all the way today, is like this.

Perhaps because of Jermaine O'Neal and Meng Xu's rest, Mehmet Okur and Collis Williams, who replaced Ben Wallace and Richard Hamilton, played at the end of the first quarter. In these 2 minutes, he performed very well, especially Mehmet Okur, who played center, did not have any entanglement with Mutombo at the basket at all, but like an outside line, he repeatedly pulled three points A 3-pointer from outside the line, and Mehmet Okur's two consecutive 3-pointers before the end of the first quarter also allowed the Pistons to successfully narrow the score to 6 points at the end of the first quarter.

Larry Brown continued to use Mehmet Okur after the start of the second quarter, inspired by Rick Carlisle's use of Jermaine O'Neal, thanks to Mehmet Okur's performance The inside combination with Rasheed Wallace directly copied the tactics used by the Pacers in the first quarter, so that the two insiders frequently pulled to the outside to shoot from the middle and long distances. Instead, Chauncey Billups, After passing the pick-and-roll cooperation with his teammates, he kept hitting the Pacers' basket.

"Do the same thing as the other!" After seeing the situation on the field after the game entered the second quarter, Magic Johnson suddenly became interested. He couldn't wait to know what Rick Carlisle would do next. Coping, what Magic Johnson likes to watch most now is the two head coaches fighting each other in the game.

"The Pacers called a timeout, and Rick Carlisle responded very quickly." Michaels, sitting next to Magic Johnson, seemed to appreciate Rick Carlisle's timeout.

"This guy is really bold!" After Rick Carlisle called a timeout, Magic Johnson, who was looking forward to Rick Carlisle's next changes, was surprised to find that Rick - Carlisle did not make any adjustments to the team's lineup, but chose to use zone defense against the Pistons, and very boldly asked Meng Xu to defend the drawn Mehmet Okur and James Posey to defend Rasheed- Wallace.

"You look down on me too much." Seeing Meng Xu who had already put on a defensive posture in front of him, Mehmet Okur's face immediately became less pretty, although I was just a small character, But I am also an insider with a height of 2 meters, and I call an outsider to defend me. What does this mean?Do you look down on me?Although you are No.11 in the league and a superstar, you can't humiliate me like this, I also have dignity.

Obviously, the Pistons will not let go of this very obvious dislocation opportunity. They originally planned to break through Billups who was talking about it. After seeing the changes in the Pacers, they immediately gave up the plan to break through. It was to hand the ball directly to Mehmet Okur and ask him to play Meng Xu in a dislocation single.

"Humph, it looks like today is the time for me to make a name for myself." Without any hesitation, after receiving the ball, Mehmet Okur jumped up under Meng Xu's defense after making some adjustments.Mehmet Okur wants to score under Meng Xu's defense, and has become famous since then, but Okur's head is still very clear now. Although Meng Xu is an outside line, his body is bigger than in this league Part of the outside line must be strong, and Meng Xu's strength is one of the best among all outside lines in the league. Therefore, Okur has no plan to play back-up singles or use his body to overwhelm Meng Xu. After all, Meng Xu is the best defender of the two times. As a player, using his height to shoot directly in front of him has become Okur's best choice. Okur also believes that since he is 10 centimeters taller than Meng Xu, as long as he jumps casually, Meng Xu is very likely Eighty-nine can only look at the ball and sigh.

While jumping up, thinking that he will score on the No.1 head of the league next time, Okur's heart is full of fire, what a great opportunity to become famous!
It's just that when Okur completed the jump and hadn't had time to throw the basketball in his hand, the expression on the face of this big man who was excited just now changed, because what appeared in front of him was the one who had stretched his arms. Meng Xu, and Meng Xu looked a little higher in the air than him. Mehmet Okur, who felt his body was about to fall, had no choice but to put the basketball in his hand towards Meng Xu before Meng Xu's big hand covered him. Throw it in the direction of the basket.

What happened after the basketball was dropped made Mehmet Okur, who had already started to fall, have an incredible expression on his face, because the basketball he had just thrown had only traveled a very small distance. He was slapped flying by Meng Xu.

Not to mention Mehmet Okur, who was blocked by Meng Xu, even the rest of the players on the court, and even the audience on the sidelines, were shocked by what happened just now. Meng Xu's ability to block shots is very strong , An outside player who can contribute 150+ blocks in a single season is definitely a very remarkable thing, but most of Meng Xu's previous block targets are outside players who are shorter than himself, or the kind of surprises when assisting in defense. In Meng Xu's career, it is unique in Meng Xu's career, and even in the entire history of the NBA, it is also very rare.

Immediately after a brief silence, the Banker Life Arena immediately erupted. The waves of cheers made people's ears go numb. All the attention on the scene was focused on Meng Xu at this moment. Tyshawn Prince, who grabbed the basketball that was shot by Meng Xu and completed a fast-break dunk, was directly ignored by the audience and teammates on the field.

(End of this chapter)