Legendary star

Chapter 560

"Hey, Derek, why are you so excited?" After the whole game, the veteran Derek Coleman, who only played 5 minutes at the end of the fourth quarter today, was obviously very excited when he left the court. After passing the towel handed over by his teammates, Derek Coleman waved a few times towards the audience. As a veteran who has been in this league for almost 15 seasons, a former Rookie of the Year and All-Rookie Star, Meng Xu really can't think of an ordinary divisional finals, why can Derek Coleman be so excited.

"Hahahaha, Meng, don't you know, this game is Derek's first conference finals in his career." Seeing Meng Xu asking Derek Coleman with a puzzled face, and Derek - Kenny Anderson, who has been teammates with Coleman for 5 seasons and was once known as the Trident of New Jersey with Derek Coleman and Petrovic, immediately came over and unceremoniously revealed Derrick Coleman's old bottom.

"Kenny, you bastard, don't forget that you haven't played in the division finals before." Derek Coleman, who was exposed by Kenny Anderson, retorted at Kenny Anderson without showing any weakness.

"Hahahaha..." Seeing these two funny people revealing their old background, the "old guy" and "old guy" who even started to blush and scolded, but the Pacers players around them didn't think so. What will happen to the two of them, the relationship between these two old guys is very good.

The Trident period of the Nets can be said to be the most brilliant period in the careers of Kenny Anderson and Derek Coleman. The talented Nets have been placed high hopes by countless people, especially Derek - Coleman is predicted to become the most powerful striker in history, but the accidental death of Drazen Petrovic changed everything. Drazen Petrovic, known as Mozart in the basketball world, He was killed in a car accident while visiting his girlfriend during the offseason. Since then, Derek Coleman has fallen in love with drinking. After entering the league, he dunked Shaquille O'Neal and shocked everyone with his talent. The distance from the most powerful forward gradually drifted away, and finally he could no longer bear his Nets management, and directly sent Kenny Anderson and Derek Coleman away to start the reconstruction.

And Kenny Anderson and Derek Coleman, who left the Nets, are also sinking day by day. Derek Coleman, who was sent to the 76ers, was directly sent to Larry Brown after Larry Brown took over the 76ers. Kicked away, drunk, lazy, and hot-tempered, Larry Brown is the most despised player of this kind, although after the contract with the Hornets ended, Derek Coleman was invited by Iverson Returning to the 76ers, but at this time Derek Coleman has changed from the core and boss of a team to a role player.As for Kenny Anderson, after leaving the Nets, he successively moved to the Trail Blazers, Celtics, Supersonics and Hornets. It is very unfortunate that he has moved to so many teams and played so many seasons in this league. , But neither Kenny Anderson nor Derrick Coleman has ever touched the conference finals floor.

For Derek Coleman and Kenny Anderson, who have reached the end of their careers, money is not so important to them, otherwise Derek Coleman would not give up the 76ers for 3 years and 1500 million He chose to join the Pacers with his old brother Kenny Anderson with a basic salary. Derek Coleman and Kenny Anderson, who are not short of money, now need a championship to complete their own career.

Due to the outstanding performance of the Pistons in the series against the Heat, many people supported the Pistons before the start of the Eastern Conference Finals. After all, the Pacers are already a public enemy of the league. Knowing how many teams dream of killing the Pacers with their own hands, those who are not as strong as the Pacers, and those who cannot meet the Pacers, naturally pin their hopes on the Pistons, hoping that the Pistons can kill the Pacers, especially The two teams that entered the Western Conference Finals, the Timberwolves and the Mavericks, are even more so. But after the first game of the Eastern Conference Finals, many people did not have any hope for the Pistons. After all, judging from the process of the game , they can't see the hope that the Pistons can beat the Pacers at all. The 74-point difference is a desperate enough result.

On May 5, the second game of the Eastern Conference Finals was played at the Bankers Life Arena. After losing the first game to the Pacers by a large margin, Larry Brown did not change the starting lineup of the Pistons, but he was very impressed with the team's tactics. Slight adjustments have been made to strengthen the defense and oppression of the Pacers' outside players. At the same time, in the game, as long as Meng Xu appears near the 23-point line with the ball, the Pistons will firmly double-team defense against Meng Xu.

Since he knew that the Pistons could not beat the Pacers, in the second game, Larry Brown chose to strengthen the team's defense, and also used a half-court press tactic against the Pacers in the game. Want to disrupt the rhythm of the Pacers.But it is a pity that in the current league, if it is said which team is best at using pressing tactics, then the Pacers say they are the second, and there must be no team that dares to say that they are the first, so Larry Brown wants to use it. The plan to use the pressing tactics to deal with the Pacers quickly fell through, but Larry Brown still insisted on using the half-court pressing tactics against the Pacers. After all, Larry Brown did not expect to pass the half-court pressing tactics. To kill the Pacers, as long as they can slightly disrupt the Pacers' offensive rhythm, it is enough for Larry Brown.

The Pistons' half-court press and double-team defense really limited Meng Xu's offense to a large extent. Although Meng Xu can also force a shot when facing double-teams, this is not the regular season after all, but the divisional finals. A little carelessness will cause irreversible consequences. Therefore, facing the Pistons' pursuit and interception, from the second half of the first quarter, Meng Xu entrusted the task of organizing the team to James Posey, while he himself It's playing off the ball.

Ron Artest's pressing defense ability is very good, but when Meng Xu started playing off the ball, Ron Artest's defense was obviously not enough.

After handing over the work of organizing and connecting the teams to James Posey, Meng Xu's offensive ability was completely unleashed. Xudu was a little unexpected.Originally, Meng Xu thought that James Posey's passing ability was good enough, but Meng Xu discovered today that it was not enough, far from enough. When Meng Xu started playing off the ball, James Posey's passing ability and vision It seemed a little stretched.

"My God, is this guy possessed by Jordan? Erwin, have you counted how many times he has made consecutive mid-range shots?" After dropping Ron Artest, and then throwing the basketball in his hand into the basket again and again with a shooting speed that surprised everyone on the scene, Michaels and Magic Johnson in the commentary on the sidelines have all Standing up, I couldn't believe that the person in front of me was Meng Xu.Meng Xu's scoring methods are very comprehensive, three-pointers, mid-range shots, post-ups, face-ups, breakthroughs, off-ball running positions, almost omnipotent, but in today's game, when Meng Xu played in the second half of the first quarter In the middle, after hitting all 9 mid-range shots, Michaels was still intimidated by Meng Xu.

You must know that since last season, Meng Xu has been continuously pulled out by the media and various experts to compete with Jordan. After repeated discussions, the various media and experts finally reached an agreement. That is, in terms of personal ability, Meng Xu and Jordan are already on par, but in terms of specific scoring methods, off-ball running and breakthrough, the two are on par, and Meng Xu is slightly better in passing and three-pointers. The CIC is clearly dominated by Jordan.Although Meng Xu also had a record of 7 consecutive mid-range shots, it is common for Meng Xu to hit the iron continuously. After all, Meng Xu's mid-range shot method can avoid the opponent's block to the greatest extent. and interference, but because there is no time to adjust, the stability is very poor. Once the hand feeling fluctuates or the physical strength drops, it is normal to continue to hit the iron, so Meng Xu's CIC is notoriously bad. Stable, naturally there is no way to compare with Jordan's CIC.

But in today's game, Michaels had to wonder whether the results he discussed were correct for those so-called brick players.

As for the Pistons bench, Larry Brown, who personally formulated the defensive strategy against Meng Xu, had trembling hands at the moment, speechless in surprise. In the second half of the first quarter, Larry Brown had already Two timeouts were called in a row, and Meng Xu's backhand changed from Artest to Hamilton, and then the two played together, but the final result was in vain.

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