king of defenders

Chapter 994

"beep"

The second quarter begins.

Coach Spoelstra ordered: "Whiteside, Xiang Long, Johnson, Thomas Jr., Joseph Young, you guys go." After speaking, he spread out the tactical board, arranged the tactics, and then took He gave Xiang Long and Thomas Jr. a warning look, and waved his hands: "Okay, let's play."

Several people play.

Meng Yun sat on the bench and did not intervene. After hearing what Guo Shuyao said, he decided to let Xiang Long face it by himself. Xiang Long has now integrated into the team and no one squeezes him out. This is much better than being in the Celtics .As long as he has the strength, he can achieve results without any restrictions.

As for the grievances with Thomas Jr., let him settle it by himself.

The two sides returned to the court. The Celtics played Baynes, Theis, Luol Deng, Smart, and Rozier. Facing Thomas Jr., a former teammate, they showed no mercy. More professions are represented.

First, the Celtics attacked. Rozier advanced to the frontcourt and passed the ball to Smart. Smart also targeted Xiang Long in the last match against the Heat, but was blown away by Meng Yun. It is still fresh in my memory.

In this matchup, he no longer targeted Xiang Long, but he was still fierce on both ends of the offense and defense. After a breakthrough layup, he made a high rebound against Whiteside.

The Heat fought back.

Joseph Young advanced to the frontcourt and passed the ball to Thomas Jr. Thomas Jr. took the ball and passed it directly to Xiang Long. Xiang Long didn't have a good position at all and almost failed to catch the ball.

"The ball was passed." Rostern shook his head.

This pass is too amateurish. You pass it before your teammate asks for a position. Isn’t this cheating your teammate?

Thomas Jr. ran away after passing the ball, and didn't wait for Xiang Long to pass the ball back to him in case he encountered a help defense or double-team, so he just left Xiang Long aside.

Xiang Long frowned. He knew what Thomas meant. The coach asked him to pass the ball, but he didn't dare to disobey it, so he passed the ball like this. Anyway, I passed the ball. It's your business if you can't catch it. It's a hole, as soon as he runs away, there will be no one on this side. Xiang Long can either hit by himself or make a long pass, which is not very safe.

"Fuck." Meng Yun scolded secretly, "This is cheating, is there such a thing as digging a hole for teammates?"

Xiang Long also hesitated, let's play by himself, the chance is not good, let's pass the ball, the risk is very high, and he can't stand still here, the defender will come to double-team soon.

Little Thomas sneered, I'll see what you do.

However, Xiang Long didn't play by himself, nor did he pass the ball. Instead, he dribbled the ball from the low post to beyond the three-point line, and then made continuous cross steps like a defender, and then suddenly made a three-pointer.

Little Thomas stared round his eyes, this operation is wrong!

Swish!
With a soft sound, a three-pointer was hit.

"It actually went in." Little Thomas felt as if he had swallowed a fly, and said with a curl of his lips: "Lucky shit."

"Good shot." Meng Yun stood up and applauded, feeling good.

It seemed that he was indeed over-worrying. Xiang Long handled it beautifully. Under such circumstances, he could find another way and score the ball, which surprised him a little.

Meng Yun turned his head and looked at coach Spoelstra. He saw coach Spoelstra's face was gloomy, staring at the court coldly, and his eyes fell on Thomas Jr..

"You little Thomas really don't take the coach seriously." Meng Yun sneered, the coach just said that you did this, and you made it clear that you cheated your teammates. Isn't this a slap in the face of the coach?

Just wait, you will regret it.

Meng Yun is no longer interested in teaching Thomas Jr., because even if he doesn't make a move, Coach Spoelstra will not let Thomas Jr. go.

on the field.

Thomas Jr. failed at one plan, and then continued to come again. Every time he passed the ball to Xiang Long, he was digging a hole, but Xiang Long could always solve it, and even converted it into a score, which made Thomas Jr. very depressed.

Three minutes later, Coach Spoelstra made a substitution and replaced Thomas Jr. with Lu Wei.

When Thomas Jr. came down, Coach Spoelstra didn't reprimand him. He didn't even look at him.

After replacing Lu Wei, the effect was immediate, and the Heat quickly gained the upper hand, but the Celtics immediately replaced Irving and Tatum.

"Meng Yun, Korver." Coach Spoelstra said: "Go on."

Meng Yun and Korver are targeting Irving and Tatum. Korver is now defending against Tatum at the 3rd position. He does not suffer from height.

However, his defense is indeed a weakness, and he was singled twice by Tatum.

Meng Yun squinted his eyes and started to score points. First, he made a layup after a breakthrough, which caused a foul by the defender. The score was 2+1, and then he made another ultra-long three-pointer, far from the three-point line. There is still more than one meter left.And only a few tens of seconds later, Meng Yun made another beautiful steal, one-stop slamming to the frontcourt for dunks.

In a short time, Meng Yun scored 8 points alone, so Kidd had to call a timeout.

After the timeout ended, the Celtics further strengthened their defense against Meng Yun, which made it more difficult for Meng Yun to score, but could not limit Meng Yun's passing. He first assisted Xiang Long for dunks, and then assisted Korvo Paul hit a three-pointer again, which made the Celtics helpless. What should we do?
When the first half ended, Meng Yun had scored 20 points, plus 7 assists and 4 rebounds.

"Meng Yun is in really good shape today."

"Xiang Long is not bad, he has already scored 12 points."

"There is also Korver, who made 4 of 3 three-pointers. He has already scored 9 points. This three-point shooting rate is really high, and he is worthy of being a sharpshooter."

In the auditorium, the fans were discussing with relish.

At this time, the Heat had already led by 14 points. Throughout the second quarter, the Heat won their opponents by 9 points.

Naturally, this is not because the bench lineup has improved. Everyone can see the lack of confrontation between Thomas Jr. and Xiang Long.Leading so much is because of Meng Yun's outstanding performance. He seems to be omnipotent and everywhere, scoring, assisting, and rebounding.

During the intermission, when he returned to the locker room, Kidd frowned and thought for a while, then said, "Come here, let me talk."

The players gather around.

Kidd said: "Obviously, it is difficult for us to limit Meng Yun." No one refuted, he continued: "In the second half, we still have to defend Meng Yun as much as possible. But at the same time, we also have to find a way to cut off the relationship between him and his teammates. We have to guard against other players and prevent them from scoring easily."

"Every time Meng Yun breaks through, our defense will be chaotic, which gives many opportunities to other Heat players. Or when double-teaming or assisting in defense, Meng Yun's pass has brought us a huge threat. "

"Instead of being led away by Meng Yun, it would be better if he beats him and we beat ours. Meng Yun is very strong, but if the teammates around him are all restrained, I don't believe he can beat us alone."

(End of this chapter)