king of defenders

Chapter 970 Confrontation with Butler

"Do you want to strengthen your personal offense?" Butler's pupils shrank.

Before Meng Yun hit one at the beginning, he didn't make many shots later. He was more about organizing the offense and letting his teammates find the offensive rhythm, but the effect was not good.

Now began to strengthen the personal offense.

Teague came to the frontcourt, Butler asked for the ball again, and was about to hit Green single-handedly, but just about to break through, one of the diagonal stabs leaned over, it was Meng Yun.

"Are you helping to defend?" Butler chuckled, not caring, imitating Meng Yun's style of play just now, and suddenly pulled up, leaning back a little, and flicking his wrist.

Swish!
The goal is scored, the score is 19:12.

Turning from defense to offense, Meng Yun came to the frontcourt and gestured to his teammates. Whiteside came up to pick and roll, Meng Yun threw off Butler, then went straight to the inside, jumped up to face Towns, and with a snap, Towns The thug fouled, and the referee blew his whistle to signal Meng Yun to the free throw line.Towns shook his head, sending Meng Yun to the free throw line was no different from sending points.

Sure enough, Meng Yun made two free throws.

For a while, the two sides started to attack. Meng Yun scored points again and again. The Timberwolves had Butler and Towns on one side. Teague was a point guard and didn't intend to make a shot. Wiggins simply stood outside the three-point line without opening up. With the ball in hand, I just watched Butler and Towns play, and I didn't feel that the two were playing too alone, so I was happy.

After some confrontation, coach Spoelstra still called a timeout.

Meng Yun's offense is of course no problem, scoring consecutive points, Butler can't stop him, but the Heat's defense is a problem, they can't prevent the opponent's offense, so even if Meng Yun scored consecutive points, the Heat are still behind .

"Substitution." Coach Spoelstra said: "Monroe, Wade go. Xiang Long, Brende go. Remember, pay attention to defense and prevent the opponent's attack."

"Yes."

"Yes." Brende and Xiang Long agreed.

Brende's role in the team is actually a defensive player. There are many players on the team who can score, but his scoring ability is relatively less prominent.

So as a rotation player at position 3, his task is to defend.

Xiang Long has scoring ability and is very good, but he is also very good defensively.

Pause ends.

The two sides returned to the court, Meng Yun came to the front court, set up a pick-and-roll with his teammates, accelerated the breakthrough, and plunged into the inside lane, looking very determined.The Timberwolves players quickly shrank and surrounded Meng Yun.

But at this moment, Meng Yun suddenly passed the ball out of the crowd and gave it to Xiang Long who was following up. After receiving the ball, Xiang Long made a throw and easily scored two points.

"Hmm." Coach Spoelstra nodded secretly.

After that, Meng Yun continued to show his scoring ability and broke through continuously. The Timberwolves had to shrink the defense line, but this gave the Heat an outside chance.

Xiang Long, Green, including Brende are all capable of three-pointers. When Xiang Long and Green hit three-pointers successively, the Heat have already closed the score.

However, as soon as he was about to catch up with the score, Butler suddenly hit a three-pointer and opened the gap again.

"Brende still can't guard Butler." Coach Spoelstra was not surprised. The Timberwolves couldn't guard Meng Yun, and his side couldn't guard Butler. There was a gesture on the field, "Team Butler."

The Heat began to double-team.

A moment later, the Timberwolves requested a timeout and replaced Butler and Downs together.

When the Heat used double-teaming, Butler was restricted, and the point difference was tied by the Heat.

Here, coach Spoelstra also replaced Meng Yun, Green, and Whiteside successively. Both sides replaced the rotation lineup, and there were only 2 minutes left in the first quarter.

When the first quarter ended, the score was 32:33, and the Heat led by 1 point.

In the second quarter after that, Wiggins seemed to wake up suddenly, and hit two consecutive three-pointers to help the Timberwolves overtake the score.The Timberwolves stabilized their lead until the end of the second quarter, leading the Heat by 2 points.

"Coach." Rostern said, "It won't work like this. Butler has already scored 20 points, and it's only the first half. If Butler can't be restrained, the second half will be even more difficult."

Coach Spoelstra nodded, but also with a serious face. He thought for a while and called, "Meng Yun."

Meng Yun stepped forward: "Coach."

Coach Spoelstra said: "Wait a while in the third quarter and you go to defend Butler."

Meng Yun grinned: "Okay."

Section 3 begins.

Both sides deployed the main lineup. Butler soon found that the person defending him was no longer Green, but Meng Yun. The corner of his mouth turned up, and he said to Meng Yun: "Finally, it was you who defended me."

In fact, the reason why Butler attacked so aggressively and fiercely today is to a certain extent, he wanted to force the Heat to perform a defensive rotation and replace him with Meng Yun to defend himself.

He has always wanted to have a duel with Meng Yun, but it is a pity that he was only defending against Meng Yun before, but Meng Yun did not guard against him. Strictly speaking, it was not a head-on confrontation, and now he finally had his chance.

"Come on." Butler and Meng Yun laughed.

"Then come on." Meng Yun laughed.

Butler gestured for everyone to pull away, and then singled out Meng Yun.

I saw that he first took continuous cross steps, swinging his shoulders back and forth, making fake moves to confuse Meng Yun, and then suddenly started to break through from the left.Meng Yun retreated quickly, stuck in position, and blocked Butler's breakthrough direction.And Butler didn't plan to just rely on such an acceleration to pass Meng Yun, that's not realistic.

He stopped quickly and dribbled the ball under the crotch again, changing from the left to the right to break through, and Meng Yun also quickly started.

However, at this moment, Butler suddenly stopped and lifted the ball. Meng Yun had no time to think about it, and subconsciously jumped up, only to realize that he had been fooled when he jumped up.Butler just swayed, didn't really take off at all, waited for him to jump before taking off, deliberately leaned on him, and then threw the ball.

"beep!"

The referee blew his whistle, and the basketball rolled around the hoop twice, and finally got into the hoop.

This is a beautiful 2+1.

Jimmy Butler smiled slightly at Meng Yun: "You've been fooled."

Meng Yun didn't take it seriously, and said calmly: "It doesn't matter, you can be fooled sometimes."

Butler couldn't help laughing, suddenly found it very interesting, and a little strange, why did he think Meng Yun was a very interesting person now?Why didn't I feel it when we were training together?

Then he understood.

That's right, it was Wade who brought Meng Yun into their small team when they were training together. At that time, Meng Yun was just a rookie, a rookie.Every time he was abused by him, the strength gap between the two was still a bit big.So at that time, in fact, he didn't regard Meng Yun as a person of the same level as himself, and he didn't have the heart to really understand Meng Yun. Of course he wouldn't find out, and he didn't even care whether Meng Yun was an interesting person.

For a moment, he couldn't help but feel a little bit emotional, how long has passed, only two seasons, it's only a little more than two years, the young rookie has grown into the current All-Star player, it is enough to compete with him rivaled, and even surpassed him in some respects.

This is truly a genius.

Butler actually hates geniuses, but some people are destined to be exceptions, even he has to admit, such as LeBron James, and Meng Yun.

Shaking his head and shaking off his complicated thoughts, Butler walked to the free throw line and made an extra free throw.

(End of this chapter)