NBA backer king

Chapter 226 Uncle Wooden's Defense
At eight o'clock, the two sides announced the starting list.

Nuggets: Dikembe Mutombo, Rafonso Ellis, Reggie Williams, Bryant Stitch, Mahammad Lauf
Suns: Wang Tiejun, AC Green, Horry, Dan Marley, Kevin Johnson

In the ESPN live broadcast seat, Winston Rollins said: "The Nuggets have a strong interior defense. Mutombo broke out with a stronger defensive ability in the playoffs. I even think he will explode in the next round. Greater ability to protect the basket. Although the Suns are very strong, the Nuggets have the opportunity to continue to create miracles."

Carter Oldman nodded and said: "Kevin Johnson made a lot of breakthroughs, and the old K also attacked in the low post. Mutombo has a lot of opportunities to send big caps.

In the last two games of the first round, Mutombo sent out 8 big caps in each game. The Supersonics didn't dare to go in because of the caps. Even Kemp the Rainman didn't dare to go in and dunk. It can be said that the Nuggets can complete the black seven, and he is the first. "

In the CCTV live broadcast seat, Zhang rationally analyzed: "You must pay attention to the Nuggets. Mutombo's ability to block shots under the basket is too strong."

Su Qun asked, "Director Zhang, what do you think is the chance for the Suns to win this second-round series?"

Zhang Lili said: "The opportunity is still great. The Suns are not the Supersonics. The Supersonics play too averagely. There is no superstar offensive point. You go in and get blocked. He goes in and gets blocked. After 5 games, Mutombo sent 23 big blocks.

The Suns have the iron army as a strong attack point. Even if Mutombo's defense is strong, he cannot completely defend against the iron army.

As long as the iron army restrains Mutombo here, the outside line will also have a chance to rush in and fight. "

粟群笑道：“老K在三场首轮系列赛中，场均35分钟，28分13.5篮板4.2助攻0.9抢断3.1盖帽1.5失误3.5犯规，季后赛更强，相信这个次轮会打得更好。”

Zhang Lili smiled and said: "His playing time has been controlled, from the regular season to the first round of the playoffs. I believe that the physical problems that occurred last season will not become a problem that limits his performance in the next series."

The two were talking, and the starter came on the stage.

The home team played later, and the scene sounded like a tsunami of shouts.

At this time, the domestic capital, Fengshen Street, has become a large construction site.

Eight months have passed, and half of the buildings facing the street have been built, all of which are five floors, and are being renovated, and the vacant area has been leveled.

Iron Army training hall, many people have rushed here since early in the morning.This has been the case since the beginning of the NBA playoffs a week ago.

Wang Tiejun's parents were also picked up by Da Ya, and by the way, the big TV at home was also moved over and installed in the basketball hall.

The national men's and women's basketball teams came here for a while, but after Wang Tiejun returned to the United States, they didn't come much.This year we will play the World Championships, the training tasks are heavy, the time is tight, and there is no time.

The people who came were mainly from the Nortel group. After the first round started, Yu Feihong took a large group of Beijing Film Group people to run here every day. There are big TVs here, and watching the game is more enjoyable.

Under the influence of her and Huang Sanshi, more and more people in Nortel like basketball, and it seems that a trend has formed in the school. If you don't talk a few words about NBA in your free time, you can't keep up with fashion.

Many students from her own class came, and many students from other classes also came.

Just the students of level 94, such as Jin Qiao, Chen Yihan, Jiang Qinqin, Fu Dalong, etc., all ran over.

Add up, there are hundreds of people, big and small, and a basketball court is packed to the brim.

There were a lot of people, and Liu Damei and Wang Aiguo also liked it very much, firstly because it was brought by Yu Feihong, and secondly because they were used to it in the countryside, everyone gathered together whenever they had nothing to do, and it was lively.

"Brother Fei, won't Old K rebuild the training hall?" Huang Sanshi asked before the game started.

"Build it, but it's probably not in the plan this year. He will have to train here when he comes back in a while." Yu Feihong said.

Huang Sanshi paused, and couldn't help asking: "Are you talking with him?"

Yu Feihong's psychological quality was extremely strong, he cast Xiao Huang a light look, and said, "What are you talking about, have I asked about you and your female student? He and I are friends, so let's do it, it's good."

"..." Xiao Huang misfired.

At 08:30, the game officially started.

"victory!"

Before playing, all the players of the Suns gathered together and shouted slogans.

"Victory! Victory..."

All the home fans shouted one after another, and the momentum of the home court began to rise.

In the jump ball session, Pharaoh took the lead to push the ball away, and the Suns attacked.

"I always feel that Old K is jumping a little faster than before, but it's not obvious." Su Qun laughed.

Zhang Lili recalled the recent situation and said: "It is possible that after more than a year of the most professional training, his physical potential has been tapped. It is completely possible and normal to improve his sports quality. After all, he is only under 21 years old. Now is the last age for strength training, and it is not too late."

At this time, Wang Tiejun came to the low position and squeezed directly to the basket.

Mutombo's tonnage is 118 kilograms, which is 8 kilograms lighter than him, and his absolute strength is smaller than him, so he did not perform a hard top, but defended around the front, just not giving him the opportunity to catch the ball easily under the basket.

Mutombo is also very confident. Even if the old K catches the ball under the basket, with his ability to protect the basket under the basket, he can still make the old K suffer a lot.In the regular season of these two seasons, he also blocked old K several times.

He and the Nuggets' coaching staff have studied Old K's style of play, especially the weird skill of relying on power.

In fact, not only him, but which team and inside player in the entire league has not studied it?

The result of their research is that it is impossible to defend the old K closely, or even close to the defense. A certain amount of space needs to be left to avoid being knocked away by the old K, or even knocked over.

This kind of relaxed defense can't completely prevent the old K. The old K's hooks and throws are very fast.

But old K is not the kind of person with strong offensive ability who can completely defend against death. Through this kind of defense, as long as his offensive efficiency can be reduced.

Now, although Mutombo is circling forward, he is not entwined with Lao Wang, leaving him a certain amount of space.

Kevin Johnson saw that Lao Wang reached the basket and immediately lobbed the ball in.

Needless to say, his passing skills are at the top of the league. After reaching the peak, this lob seemed to lose momentum immediately, and immediately fell down. The landing point was near the basket, and Mutombo was in the front position. It was very difficult to steal the ball.

Because the defender left a certain amount of space, Pharaoh couldn't rely on Tieshan to hit, that is to say, he couldn't wipe out the defensive force under the basket before he caught the ball.

He jumped up and caught the falling ball with both hands.

Almost at the same time, Mutombo also jumped up, the purpose is to prevent the old K from taking advantage of the dunk and playing an alley-oop on his head.

"Snapped!"

Lao Wang grabbed the ball with both hands. At this time, he saw a big hand of the defender sealing the front of the ball. If he chose to take advantage of the trend to slam the basket, he would be blocked.

The next moment, he landed on the ground, and with a step on his feet, Tieshan exploded in an instant.

"not good!"

Mutombo's landing time is a little slower, but with this little time, he has no time to move.

"Oh!"

With Juli's upper body, he was knocked a step away when his feet had just touched the ground. When he tried to move forward again, his opponent had already jumped up.

Lao Wang's Tieshan hit is not very powerful, because it doesn't need to be very big, just knock the opponent away.

With more and more experience in playing, and now his use and control of power is getting better and better, and the number of full-strength blows that waste physical energy is getting less and less.

"yeah!"

At this moment, even if Wang Tiejun hadn't finished the finish, the scene had already erupted into huge cheers, and countless arms were shaking.

"boom!"

Slamming the basket with one hand, he responded to the cheers given to him by the home fans with a clean one-handed dunk.

The Nuggets coach is called Dan Issel, and like Westphal, they are both second-year coaches.

He was also a power forward in the NBA before, and his player qualifications are also good. He has won the championship, won the All-Star AMVP, won the scoring champion once, was selected to the best first team once, and was selected to the best second team four times. This hard honor is harder than the three super centers, at least not worse.

He believed in Mutombo's defensive ability. Although he was beaten this time, he didn't show anything. He was very calm. He had just completed the black seven, and he was confident to complete it again. The Suns are not invincible.

Nuggets offense.

On the right wing, point guard Lauf made a breakthrough and made an emergency stop for a jumper.

Under the basket, Mutombo judged that the ball was a little short and would rebound, and he quickly moved to the landing point.

"Why is he so fast?"

But at this moment, a person moved first, and he was stuck in the back with a slap.

"Snapped!"

Lao Wang moved from the basket to the front right side of the basket and protected the rebound
At this time, Lightning Kevin Johnson was going down quickly, and he quickly threw it over. The former caught the ball and went down quickly. The Nuggets couldn't catch up and successfully completed the layup.

0:4, the Nuggets attack.

On the right wing, shooting guard Stic attacked with the ball, broke through Dan Marley, and made a mid-range jumper outside the paint area, which was almost blocked by AC Green in the low post. He adjusted the height of his shot in the air and the ball flew to the basket.

This time, Lao Wang didn't let Mutombo have a chance to enter the basket. He was careless last time, and this time he directly stuck his opponent behind him.

"boom!"

At this time, the basketball hit the basket and rebounded. Although Mutombo was stuck outside, Nuggets power forward Ellis rushed in to grab an offensive rebound, but he was not high enough and was caught by Lao Wang.

"The Nuggets are still very active in grabbing offensive rebounds." ESPN commentary, Rowling said.

Oldman nodded and said: "Ralfonso Ellis and old K are rookies for one year. The fifth pick in the first round is very high. He can play at the third and fourth positions. The Nuggets have high expectations for him. In his rookie season, he started 82 games and averaged 33.5 minutes per game.

His offense is decent, can stretch, 43 percent of his offense is in the paint and the rest is outside.His rebounding is also good. He averaged 9.1 in his rookie season and 8.6 in this season. Offensive rebounds accounted for 32%, which was a slight drop from 36% last season. "

Sun attack.

Kevin Johnson broke through and hit the basket for a throw, but got a sap and was slapped by Mutombo.

Fortunately, with good luck, the ball fell to the right wing AC Green and was snatched by him.

Green forced nearly two points over Rafonso Ellis, missed, and Mutombo grabbed the backcourt rebound.

"These two times were unreasonable strong fights. Tiejun already had a vacant seat just now." Zhang Lili said a little unhappy.

"Yes, it's unreasonable. I should call Old K. He's completely empty." Su Qun nodded quickly.

In CCTV’s live broadcast team, Lao Zhang is hired as a guest and gets a salary, but he has no staff in CCTV. It’s just that he is a basketball professional and is familiar with the NBA, so this team is completely centered on him and he is in charge.

Moreover, he is very familiar with Lao Wang, and now the team's expenses in the United States are all exchanged by him in exchange for Lao Wang. It is said that CCTV is ready to give him a formal staffing.

Nuggets attack, small forward Reggie Williams singles Horry, he was the No. 87 pick in the first round in 201, a swingman, 90 cm, weighing less than [-] kg, fast and explosive.

Robert Horry is 206 centimeters and 100 kilograms. Although he has a height advantage, his flexibility and speed are a bit short. At this point, Reggie Williams has the dislocation advantage of playing big with small.

On the left-wing three-point line, with a tentative step, Williams broke through Horry with one step, entered the flank with the ball, and went straight to the paint.

Wang Tiejun moved to the left midfielder in the paint area. As Williams approached, he immediately retreated to defend.

He had to retreat because Mutombo had already taken the opportunity to move to the basket. If he stayed at the waist to block Williams, the opponent could penetrate his defense with just one pass.

At this time, Williams made an emergency stop for a jumper at the waist, and the ball flew to the basket.

"call!"

Pharaoh, who had just retreated to the basket, took a step forward, but missed a little, and blocked the air.

However, Williams was taken aback. It was really only a little bit short, only one or two centimeters. His shot speed was a little slower, and the ball might be caught directly. It seems that the next time it will not be so deep.

"brush!"

Splashes appeared and two points were hit.

"What a pity!" Su Qun sighed.

"It's a pity, it's impossible to defend against such a ball, but through this defense, the opponent will not dare to go so deep next time. Tie Jun's defense this time has achieved its goal." Zhang Lili laughed.

"The speed of old K's pounce just now is indeed much faster than before." Su Qun laughed.

"In the past, if he was under the basket, he would not make up for it." Zhang Lili laughed.

2:4, the Suns attack.

The left wing is low, Lao Wang wants the ball, and Mutombo still moves forward.

"ball!"

He supported his opponent with his left elbow, and raised his right hand high, signaling an arc to hang his back hand.

At the top of the arc, Kevin John's eyes were sharp, and he noticed that Lao Wang's right hand made a tactical gesture, and he immediately understood it.

At this time, he was suddenly unlucky and pulled to the left wing.

At this time, Wang Tiejun, who was in the low position, suddenly turned around and cut into the paint along the baseline.

The next moment, he pushed in with one hand, and Kevin Johnson passed the ball in.

"Snapped!"

Lao Wang stepped into the paint area, just in time to catch the ball, and then took advantage of the momentum.

"boom!"

With one hand on the bow, and one hand snapping the buckle, the audience burst into cheers.

"yeah!"

An on-site commentator roared excitedly, and roared excitedly: "Very beautiful internal and external cooperation, the lightning is still strong, and the old K's cut is extremely fast.

At the same time, his dunking action is also very explosive, not at all like the explosive power of a powerful heavy center. He has changed too much. "

"Yes, Old K has become faster. His cutting speed did not allow Mutombo to react at all, and he is also more explosive." Another commentator also excitedly said.

Mutombo was amazed in his heart, the old K's cut-in action just now had completely exceeded his understanding of the old K, which caught him off guard.

"Old Mu, you don't seem to be able to guard against me." Lao Wang spat out trash talk, and helped his opponent with an abbreviation by the way.

"Old wood?"

Mutombo muttered a bit in his mouth and didn't object.

His name is dozens of characters long, and the surnames of his ancestors are all included in his name. There are people who call him this and that, not bad for Old K.

But he was not convinced that he couldn't guard against it. Although his face showed no expression, he was still simple and honest, but he decided in his heart to give old K a good look, and hating him with blood all over his face was the best answer.

However, he miscalculated. In the following games, Pharaoh seldom went directly to the basket. Most of the time, he took positions on the low wings and left him to cut inside.

His movement speed was not enough, and he obviously couldn't keep up with Lao Wang. After being hit twice by Lao Wang, he could only change his course, no longer go around the front, and changed to top defense, preventing breakthroughs and not defending shots.

His top defense has one thing in common with the front circle, and it also leaves a certain amount of space to prevent Lao Wang from relying on him.

However, Lao Wang not only has the ability to attack at the basket, but also has hooks and throws near the basket. When he let go of a certain space, it was almost an open space, and he was hit three times in a row and hit two.

He wanted to block Lao Wang, but his movement speed was not enough. His blocking area was more at the basket, and his ability to block shots in this close area was obviously not enough.

Now Wang's bullet speed has also increased, jumping faster than Mutombo, and when the opponent gives him a certain space, he wants to block him. With his shot height and shot speed, even if he is the king of shot blocks, it is very difficult.

In the 10th minute of the first quarter, Wang Tiejun made 8 of 6 shots and 3 of 2 free throws. He scored 14 points and 4 rebounds. His offensive efficiency was very high and he was replaced.

With this efficiency, it can be assumed that he has already blown Mutombo, and Mutombo only gave Kevin Johnson a big cap in the first quarter, and did not cap him.

At this time, at 18:25, the Suns led by 7 points at home.

A few minutes later, the first quarter was over, at 23:29, the Suns led by 6 points.

"If you can't defend K, the chances of the Nuggets winning this series are very small. Then I judge that the Nuggets will double-team K, and try to use K's ability to distribute the ball and the Suns' outside accuracy." Luo Lin analyzed in the ESPN commentary booth.

"Old K averaged 4.7 assists per game in the regular season and 4.2 assists per game in the first round. The Nuggets can only bet on the failure of the Suns' outside touch." Oldman laughed.

At this time, Luo Lin smiled and said, "By the way, buddy, old K has always been dissatisfied with our speculation on the probability of winning, so do you think the Suns have a chance to reach the finals?"

"Um……"

Oldman hesitated, and said: "Actually, I have been thinking about this issue, but to disappoint Old K, I have the same opinion. It is difficult for the Suns to win Mosaic. The Suns only won one game in the four regular season games, which is enough to explain the problem."

Luo Lin suddenly said seriously: "But the first quarter just now told me that things might not be so easy."

"What do you mean?" Oldman asked immediately.

Luo Lin said: "Didn't you notice that in the first round, Old K's performance was not obvious, but in the first quarter just now, Old K showed faster movement speed."

Oldman nodded and said: "Yes, I also noticed that he has become faster. But this is normal, he is very young, not old guys."

Luo Lin said: "This kind of improvement certainly didn't happen within a day or two, and it didn't show up before. This shows that old K has been playing back and forth. Why?"

"For the playoffs?" Oldman said.

Nodding, Luo Lin said: "To be precise, it is for the Mosaic team. He now needs to prepare for the second round of the series, improve his state, and have a final run-in with his teammates, and then fight the Mosaic team in the Western Conference Finals."

"This should be."

Oldman nodded, but said again: "But even if his speed is a little faster, I'm afraid it won't change anything. There is a gap in overall strength."

Luo Lin nodded and said: "In the end, there is progress. At least his defense speed will be faster. Isn't he lacking in defense?"

(End of this chapter)