king of defenders

Chapter 1420 Meng Yun Team's Advantage
The James team has the ball. James moves to the right, brings the defender to the right, then distributes the ball to the left, and passes it to Walker. Walker receives the ball and makes a fake shot, then breaks through.

Just when Walker rushed into the inside and hugged the ball for a layup, he suddenly felt that his palm was empty, and the basketball that had not been lifted was cut off.

It's Butler.

Seeing Walker break through Butler, he pounced on him. He shot quickly, accurately cut on the basketball, cut off Walker's ball, then quickly hugged and launched a counterattack.

For a while, Westbrook, Kaka, Antetokounmpo, and Butler all launched a counterattack.

The Mengyun team does not have a big center in this lineup, and the tallest one is Antetokounmpo, but although Antetokounmpo is an inside player, he is very fast, has excellent ball control ability, and is full of impact. He can often be seen on the court. Get the rebound and launch a one-stop fast break, and go to the frontcourt to dunk and score.

For the Meng Yun team, the biggest advantage of this lineup is the counterattack ability besides defense. Several players can counterattack, with strong speed and finishing ability.

Once they are defended, they can immediately launch a quick counterattack.

Butler passed the ball after two dribbles, because Westbrook and Antetokounmpo had already reached the frontcourt, and he passed the ball to Antetokounmpo.

Seeing that Antetokounmpo got the ball and rushed up, the players of the James team panicked and rushed towards Antetokounmpo. At this moment, Antetokounmpo suddenly passed the ball, a ground pass, and went straight to the inside. The other side rushed over, grabbed the basketball and it was a dunk.

"This counterattack is really beautiful."

"The defense is also beautiful, and Butler cuts cleanly."

People admire.

Meng Yun also stood up and cheered for his teammates. This counterattack was really beautiful. Butler made a steal and quickly passed it to the frontcourt. Antetokounmpo didn't take credit for it, and gave it to Westbrook, who had no one to defend and had a better chance. Westbrook ended the offense with a dunk.

The whole process only took a few seconds, so fast that the James players couldn't react.

"This is our advantage. We start from defense and play a quick counterattack." Meng Yun smiled, "Our teammates are all very strong. It doesn't really matter if I can't get up."

After that, the offensive efficiency of the James team was not high. Neither side had the inside height, and there was no absolute advantage in each position. However, Meng Yun's defense was obviously better. He defended the James team's offense several times, and then immediately It was a quick counterattack, and the James team was extremely depressed.

"The Meng Yun team's counterattack was too fast."

"Yeah, the key is everyone is fast, everyone can hit the counter, Giannis, Leonard, Butler, Mitchell, Westbrook, all can counter, any one of them has a very strong Finishing ability. Once the James team fails to score, they will immediately counterattack, and the James team cannot react."

"I didn't expect that Meng Yun could still gain the upper hand even though he didn't play for the Meng Yun team. Now the score is 58:39, and the Meng Yun team has already led by 19 points."

The fans are talking.

Quietly, the Meng Yun team has led by as much as 19 points, and the point difference has not narrowed, but has expanded a little.

James frowned and began to attack by himself. After coming to the front court, he asked for a pick-and-roll, and then forced a breakthrough. Kaka was thrown away. Antetokounmpo quickly made up the defense, but he still couldn't block James. James first found a physical confrontation, Then he scored a layup.

Then James fired from outside the three-point line again, hit a three-pointer, rewritten the score to 58:44, and narrowed the point difference to 14 points.

Seeing James scoring consecutively, the James team seemed to want to start. Meng Yun pulled a look like a spectator, and watched the Celtics coach with interest. The Celtics coach understood and called a timeout.

In fact, in his point of view, there is no need to call a timeout, and they still lead by more than ten points. Xiaoka and the others played very well. James just scored two goals in a row. easy.

But looking at the time, more than five minutes have passed in the second quarter, and it's almost time for substitutions.

After the players came down, the Celtics head coach started to change. Meng Yun didn't need to remind him. After all, he is the head coach of the NBA, and his level is absolutely enough: "Giannis, Leonard, Butler, Westbrook , You four come down and rest. Embiid, Gobert, Middleton, Meng Yun, you four go up."

Hearing the person the coach ordered, Meng Yun nodded secretly, this time it coincided with the coach's idea.

A few minutes ago, the Mengyun team had the advantage by relying on quick counterattacks. If James hadn't scored 5 points in a row with his personal ability, the point difference at this moment would be 19 points.

The James team will definitely respond to this timeout, and the opponents are also all-star players. It is difficult for the Meng Yun team to catch a fresh move, so it is time to make some adjustments.

Since the opponent will respond to the "quick counterattack", then simply do the opposite, instead of playing the "small lineup", directly change to the "Twin Towers".

"Gobert and Embiid, one is 216 centimeters and the other is 213 centimeters. With two big centers on the field, it may be difficult for the James team to grab rebounds." Meng Yun chuckled, "The inside line will become their restricted area. And the James team only has two insiders, Davis and Jokic, both are only 208 cm, Davis is actually a power forward, not a center, and there is a gap between them and Gobert and Embiid in height."

Thinking about it, Meng Yun looked towards the James team: "Besides, the opponent probably won't send Jokic and Davis together."

The James team does not have as many inside players as Meng Yun's team, which is also what Meng Yun deliberately did when selecting players.

In fact, inside players have not been popular in the All-Star Game for a long time, because inside players are not as gorgeous as outside players. Except for monsters like Antetokounmpo, it's actually the same, even dunks are not gorgeous.

Moreover, it is impossible for inside players to pass people with a gorgeous move like Irving, so they can't play any tricks in the All-Star Game.

The big role of these inside players is to guard the inside and act as a defensive gate. However, the All-Star Game has a performance nature. Many times when the opponent's player rushes in, the inside player will just step aside and let the opponent dunk. Act as you want.

Therefore, the role of inside players in the All-Star Game cannot be reflected.

When Yao Ming participated in the All-Star Game, he was very uncomfortable. He really couldn’t play any tricks. The dunks were not good-looking, and the dribbling was not fancy. He was happy to play, but he couldn't get into it, and he always felt awkward standing there.

Therefore, in the reform of the All-Star rules, it began with the selection of the top voters in the east and west. During the selection process, most of the inside players were not the first to be selected.

This is not the case for Meng Yun. Antetokounmpo, Embiid, Xiang Long, and Gobert, he chose four inside players alone, twice as many as the James team.

And now, it's time to play their role.

(End of this chapter)