Legendary star

Chapter 831
After the Spurs took the lead, Russell Westbrook took the basketball from the bottom line and began to advance quickly towards the frontcourt, but after passing the middle circle, Russell Westbrook found that his defense became Kawhi Leonard, not the Tony Parker Westbrook envisioned. Against Tony Parker, Russell Westbrook has a lot of ways to deal with him, but against Kawhi Leonard, Westbrook There are very few means available.

Although Kawhi Leonard doesn't look strong, he is an orthodox swingman, so Westbrook's bulldozer breakthrough when facing almost all point guards in the league cannot be used, because He may not be able to hit Leonard. At the same time, because Kawhi Leonard is a famous long-armed monster, coupled with his height advantage, Westbrook still has a lot of opportunities to shoot in front of him. It is difficult, and Leonard's movement speed is excellent, and his personal defense is also top-notch, so when Kawhi Leonard posted it, Westbrook frowned, trying to break Kawhi Leonard's defense. Defense, but a very challenging thing.

The Thunder's offense has not yet started, and the Spurs' defensive strategy is already very obvious. Kawhi Leonard defends Russell Westbrook, Meng Xu defends Kevin Durant, and Tim Duncan sits at the basket. The Spurs' defensive strategy today is to focus on defense. Meng Xu and Leonard, who have the best single-defense capabilities, are used to limit the Thunder's two outside cores. -Ibaka, then you can only rely on Tony Parker and Boris Diaw to defend with the flow.

After two consecutive attempts to break through and failed, Russell Westbrook handed the basketball to Tzapo Sefolosha who was closest to him, and after receiving the basketball, Tzapo Sefolosha also Instead of attacking with the ball, he transferred the basketball to Kevin Durant.

"Huh..." After catching the ball, Kevin Durant slapped the basketball sideways while looking at Meng Xu in front of him, and took a deep breath.

As the object that Durant has always wanted to surpass, Meng Xu is the person Durant has studied the most, so when Meng Xu posted it, Durant became extremely cautious. In addition, Durant's body has a high center of gravity, and he is prone to mistakes or being intercepted when he breaks through. Therefore, when facing Meng Xu's defense, Durant even played 12 points.

Although he is also a small forward, Durant's height is much higher than that of Meng Xu, so when defending Durant, Meng Xu adopted a close defense, and when he tried to turn around, he used his arms Pressing his waist in a hidden position, with the first goal of preventing him from shooting, Durant has the advantage in height in front of Meng Xu, but he has no advantage in strength and moving speed, so when Durant's turning attempt was repeatedly blocked by Meng Xu After the destruction, Durant could only forcefully turn around at Meng Xu, and then take advantage of his height advantage to step back and shoot.

With a height of more than 2 meters and a super long wingspan, Durant's jump shot after the step back is basically undefendable, but the jump shot after the step back is not Durant This is Durant's last choice when he has no choice but to use the conventional offensive method. At present, Meng Xu is the only one who can force Durant to use a step-back jumper.

Durant's three-point shooting rate is still very good, but this kind of step back outside the three-point line is a little difficult for Durant, because Durant has never shot from this distance. I tried it in the competition, at most it was during training, just practice and play.

So when Durant took off and hadn't thrown the basketball, Durant was already a little uneasy, but when Durant saw Meng Xu who jumped up next to him, Durant didn't Uneasy, but surprised, because Meng Xu's take-off height and the position of his palm are enough to seal Durant's shooting trajectory.

Durant, who was horrified, wanted to do a pulling action in his mind to avoid Meng Xu's block, but Durant's body couldn't keep up with his brain, just after Durant wanted to pass When he leaned up to avoid Meng Xu's block, Durant's body in the air had already started to fall, and Durant had no choice but to throw his hand towards the high point.

Before his body landed, Durant saw the basketball thrown by him and was hit hard by Meng Xu's palm. Seeing this scene, Durant's brain went blank for an instant.

"Oh, this is really unbelievable, Meng Xu actually blocked Kevin Durant's shot face to face!" After landing, Meng Xu trotted all the way to pick up the basketball that he had patted on the frontcourt, and singled After scoring the score with a dunk, Kenny Smith, who was on the sidelines, jumped up from his seat excitedly.

Before Meng Xu got off the basket, the big central screen in the Chesapeake Energy Arena began to play the slow motion of Meng Xu blocking Durant just now. In the middle, almost at the moment Durant took a step back, Meng Xu quickly stuck to it, and then at the same time as Durant took off, Meng Xu jumped up next to Durant, although the height had an absolute advantage, But after taking a step back, Durant couldn't give full play to his jumping ability, so there was a scene where Meng Xu blocked Durant just now, and the audience saw the slow motion on the big screen. After that, most of them let out a series of exclamations in their hearts.

"Such a fast bullet speed, such a high bounce, and such a strong airborne time!"

After playing it on the big screen twice in a row, the Thunder fans who reacted began to boo Meng Xu who came down from the basket, but Meng Xu, who completed the dunk, didn't think much of these boos On the contrary, they opened their arms to signal their boos to be louder, and the fans at the scene, after seeing Meng Xu's hand gesture, booed louder and louder. What's more, some extreme fans have already turned towards Meng Xu Spew out words starting with F.

"Boss, your blocking is great." Kawhi Leonard, who launched a counterattack with Meng Xu, ran towards Meng Xu when Meng Xu opened his arms to celebrate, showing a rare With a smile on his face, he and Meng Xu exchanged high fives to celebrate.

Although Meng Xu is now Leonard's teammate, whether it is in game training or in daily life, Leonard always calls Meng Xu the boss. No matter how Meng Xu corrects him, he will not be able to change it. Long, Meng Xu will not correct him anymore.

Just as Meng Xu and Leonard were clapping and cheering, Kevin Durant, who had just retreated to the center circle, froze in place with a gloomy face. Durant could never have imagined that he and Meng The first duel between Xu and Xu ended with such a result.

"Kevin, are you okay?" Russell Westbrook, who retreated from the Spurs' half court, asked Durant with concern after seeing Durant staring at Meng Xu in the distance.

"I'm fine." After turning his head and smiling at Westbrook, Durant signaled to Westbrook that it was their turn to attack.

(End of this chapter)