Legendary star

Chapter 646

"Hahahaha, Elvin, where is the God-Buddha Contest you mentioned?" The first half ended, and during the commercial break, Michaels and Magic Johnson started joking again. Before the game started, Magic Johnson swears that in today's game, Meng Xu and Duncan will definitely stage a wonderful duel. Meng Xu had 9 points, 4 rebounds, and 4 assists. Tim Duncan had 7 points, 6 rebounds, and 2 blocks.Instead, Jermaine O'Neal of the Pacers stole the show with 17 points and 6 rebounds in the half.

"El, what are you in a hurry for? This game is only halfway through, and the wonderful showdown is yet to come." Magic Johnson, who was a little bit uneasy, refused to let go. After Magic Johnson finished speaking, he sat down Sean Elliott next to him couldn't help laughing too.

"This guy really gives me a headache." Popovich, who had already walked into the player tunnel, looked at Meng Xu's back not far away, and while talking to himself, reached out and scratched his head. The already thinning hair, under the ravages of Popovich, lost several more.

As the defending champion, Popovich has only one goal now, and that is the championship, and the Pacers are undoubtedly the biggest obstacle for the Spurs to defend their title. The best opportunity to find flaws, inspired by the Pacers' loss to the Eagles, Popovich also wants to practice some new tactics in today's game, but so far, the effect is not ideal.

Of course, the reason why the Spurs' new tactics did not achieve the desired effect was not because Rick Carlisle was superior, nor was it because the Pacers' core Meng Xu performed super-level. On the contrary, Meng Xu only scored 9 points in the half, which also proved that It proved that Popovich's strategy of double-teaming Meng Xu was correct, but the shift of the Pacers' offensive axis made the Spurs' double-teaming of Meng Xu useless.

Originally, in Popovich's expectation, the use of Bruce Bowen and Robert Hawley's double-teaming was used to consume Meng Xu's physical strength to the maximum in the first half. In the third quarter, the Pacers were taken away in a wave, but apart from a few offenses after the opening, Meng Xu did not respond no matter how provocative Robert Holly was, and the more Meng Xu was like this, the more Popovich So worried that Popovich never dared to relax his defense against Meng Xu. Throughout the second half of the second quarter, Robert Hawley was asked to defend a hero who was a bit taller than himself and also strengthened a lot. Maine O'Neal, and the result was that Robert Hawley was ruthlessly blown away by Jermaine O'Neal.

"It doesn't matter, come according to the scheduled plan." As he walked slowly to the locker room, he kept thinking about it in his mind. Finally, when Popovich walked to the door of the Spurs' home team locker room, Popovich made up his mind. Determined, although the situation on the field has not yet reached the state he expected, Popovich is still ready to implement the established strategy and prepare to defeat the Pacers in waves in the third quarter, because as long as there is a game with Meng Xu, Popovich Povic didn't want to drag the game to the last moment.

"Erwin, maybe the God-Buddhist battle you mentioned is about to take place." After the halftime break, players from both sides walked out of the player tunnel one after another. Looking at the players from both sides who had already entered the field, Michaels looked at the players expectantly. Magic Johnson next to him said something.

"Hmm." Magic Johnson, who originally thought that Michaels was teasing himself again, saw Tim Duncan and Meng Xu who were already standing near the center circle. Tom Duncan, Meng Xu with a relaxed face, Magic Johnson has already felt the aura emanating from them, thinking of this, Magic Johnson can't wait.

Under the anticipation of countless spectators, the second half of the game began. Just as Magic Johnson expected, Tim Duncan played in the first offense of the third quarter, and he was always active near the paint area in the first half. Different, this time the Spurs attacked, Duncan did not go directly to the basket, but ran to the right side of the three-point line and stopped. He didn't care about the defender behind him at all. Duncan, who received a pass from Parker, turned his back With NN-Hilaryo on it, dig in.

Once, twice, after NN Hilario was completely out of position, Tim Duncan took his left foot as the axis and completed the turn very easily. The basketball thrown by Duncan rebounded into the net after hitting the rebound. Remembering a textbook-like mid-range turn around and hit the board jumper, after the shot was made, Duncan took a very rare look at Meng Xu not far away.

Offensive and defensive transition, due to Robert Hawley's end, the Spurs' defense against Meng Xu was obviously relaxed a lot. No matter how good Bruce Bowen's close defense is, it is obviously unrealistic to expect him to limit Meng Xu alone. So this time, Meng Xu received the basketball passed by Tony Allen very easily. After receiving the ball, Meng Xu waved to Jermaine O'Neal who was about to pull up to pick and roll for him, indicating that this time No need for a pick and roll.

Post-up defense has always been Bruce Bowen's shortcoming, not to mention defending a player with top post-up ability like Meng Xu, so when Meng Xu held the ball with one hand and leaned sideways on Bruce Bowen to start testing, Bruce Bowen felt somewhat guilty.

"It hurts." Although he had already prepared enough, the pain from his chest after Meng Xu started exerting his strength still made Bruce Bowen a little unbearable, so he resisted the pain from his chest Pain, Bruce Bowen, who was pushed back by Meng Xu, posted it again, but Bruce Bowen, who had just posted it, was pushed away by Meng Xu again, and this time Bowen retreated farther than It was still far away just now, with a distance of nearly one meter, there was already enough space and time for Meng Xu to choose the way to end this attack.

Just when Bruce Bowen thought that Meng Xu would turn his back and break through him, Meng Xu, who had already completed his turn, jumped up in front of Bruce Bowen. Due to the distance, although Bruce Bowen had already Subconsciously made a block action, but there was no way to interfere with Meng Xu's shot of the basketball. He could only watch the basketball fly over his palm and over his head.

"Beautiful shot, beautiful back-turning jumper, Meng Xu responded to Duncan's attack with a nearly perfect back-turning jumper." When Meng Xu hit the ball with the same shooting method as Duncan, the Magic Shi Johnson shouted excitedly in an instant, and Meng Mi's identity was fully revealed at this moment.

"Tim, how is this shot?" After the shot was made, Meng Xu smiled and said to Duncan who was about to grab the rebound but made an empty jump. It was a response to Duncan just now, although because of the distance, Duncan definitely He couldn't hear what he said, but Meng Xu knew that Duncan would understand what he meant without hearing the voice.

(End of this chapter)