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Chapter 122 Winning by Big Score

Since entering the league, Irving has excelled in breakthroughs with gorgeous ball-holding changes. However, due to excessive pursuit of skills in breakthroughs, Irving's protection of the ball is not very good.

Therefore, in the face of Owen's breakthrough, Yang Ke confidently adopted the retreat slide defense, which is a highly aggressive defensive movement technique.

Just when Owen took the first step, Yang Ke narrowed his eyes slightly, and his body moved quickly, using the hip joint as the turning point.

Increase the strides of your own movement, use a faster speed, get stuck in the seat in advance, and keep up with Owen closely, while maintaining a close distance within half a meter.

Yang Ke did this to make Owen have no space to raise the ball above his head, pose a threat to shoot, and even have a chance to complete the shooting attack.

This defense is really tough!

Owen frowned. Yang Ke's defense made him feel very uncomfortable and tricky, but he was not ready to give up.

Moving with his thoughts, Owen instantly made a crotch dribble, but there was an obvious pause after his crotch dribble, just as Yang Ke was moving in the opposite direction of him.

Owen suddenly raised the center of gravity of his body and took a step towards the pretend side. After completely attracting Yang Ke's defense, Owen unexpectedly crossed and changed to a breakthrough.

Relying on this set of signature crotch cross-step changes, Owen successfully caused Yang Ke to lose half of his body. When he was about to rush straight to the direction of the hoop, a black shadow flashed past, and Yang Ke blocked it again. in front of him.

"Your speed is very fast, I am only faster than you, but in the case of possession of the ball, you are much slower than me!"

Standing still with a steady center of gravity, Yang Ke looked at Owen who couldn't hide his astonishment. Although he was surprised by his superb breakthrough skills in his heart, he still couldn't help saying.

Yang Ke followed Owen's first step by stepping back, and was not shaken by Owen's crotch cross step. When he got stuck in the defensive position in advance, he directly chose physical confrontation.

Since the advantage of the body against Irving is not obvious, Yang Ke firmly pressed against him, forcing him to attack along the 40-50 degree oblique side of the basket on the floor.

Under the entanglement of the two, there is not much left in the 24-second attack time. Since his teammates have no better offensive opportunities, Owen can only choose to attack by himself.

This is the only way to come!

Under Yang Ke's defense, Owen took a deep breath, and when there was not much time left, he pressed his left shoulder against Yang Ke.

He dribbled the ball with his right hand and moved to the right, while shaking his right shoulder to pretend to break through to the right. At the moment Yang Ke's attention was diverted, Owen quickly pulled the ball back and pulled up a jumper.

Irving's emergency stop jump shot is quite McGrady's style, but it's a pity that this offensive technique requires too much shooting ability, which is not what Irving can control now.

With a soft 'bang', the basketball bounced out of the hoop, and the defensive rebound was steadily picked off by the leaping Bonner.

"Phew, he was almost passed by, this guy is really difficult to deal with! Speaking of his offense, he has a bit of Iverson's shadow!"

Asking for the ball from Bonner, Yang Ke patted the ball with his right hand, held up the corner of his clothes with his left hand and wiped off the sweat on his forehead. Looking at Owen's receding figure from a distance, he murmured with emotion.

However, Irving's defense is scumbag!

Thinking of Popovich's evaluation of Irving's defense before the game, the corner of Yang Ke's mouth raised slightly, and he quickly pushed the ball past the midfield.

According to official NBA statistics, Irving allowed the point guards facing him to have an average player efficiency value of 17.9, which is the highest among all point guards, which shows how bad Irving's defense is.

Although Irving's defense is terrible, Yang Ke will not attack rashly because of this. As a point guard, the first thing he should think about is to organize the team's overall offense, not to attack by himself.

Looking up, the situation on the field is clear at a glance.Due to the existence of the demon knife Ginobili, Alonzo Ki, who defended him, had to focus all his attention on Ginobili.

And Jefferson's fixed-point shooting threat is not weak, so Hudson dare not easily assist in the defense, so the Cavaliers can't easily double-team the Spurs' ball-handler.

With a flash of light in his eyes, Yang Ke dribbled the ball and slowly approached Owen. After he approached a certain distance, Yang Ke clearly saw Owen's center of gravity sit down clearly.

After stopping, Yang Ke narrowed his eyes slightly. He knew that Owen would not give him room to shoot because of his high shooting sight. Of course, this also gave him room to use tentative steps.

After Yang Ke made the three-threat posture, he used his right foot as the axis and his left foot as the arc, making tentative steps, and making a fake shot, easily pointing Owen's center of gravity.

Seeing that Owen's defense was out of position, Yang Ke immediately pulled the ball back. From the corner of the eye, he saw Owen's right foot in front, and Yang Ke accelerated and broke through from his right.

The reason why Yang Ke did this was to keep Owen behind him in one step, so that Owen had to turn around to chase him, prolonging the time for his own attack choice.

Sliding into the interior at a very fast speed, facing Tristan Thompson who came to supplement the defense, Yang Ke did not choose to attack by himself, but passed the ball to Bonner who made a vacant seat behind Tristan Thompson.

Bonner is very tall. After getting the ball, he just jumped lightly and sent the ball into the back of the net very easily, and the point difference between the two teams has come to [-] points.

Then it was the Cavaliers' turn to attack, but Irving still couldn't get rid of Yang Ke's defense. Forced to do so, Irving had no choice but to bite the bullet and beat Yang Ke again. This time he chose to take a bigger step-back jumper.

But because Owen has always been within Yang Ke's defensive range, Yang Ke easily interfered with this shot.The basketball spun several times on the hoop before finally falling off.

"This game is stable!"

Seeing Yang Ke's successful defense against Irving again, Popovich smiled, nodded in satisfaction, and then sat back on the coach's bench with ease.

Smiling and nodding, Borrego had the same opinion about the results of the game, and said: "For now, Young and Leonard's defensive ability is enough to deal with most outside players in the league. Irving is not in their hands. It's normal."

"Well, Irving is not bad. He has great potential. When his offensive skills improve, he will become a threat! Fortunately, his defensive enthusiasm is very low, so it is easy to deal with."

Popovich analyzed calmly. He could see that Irving is qualified to be the best player who combines ball control and shooting, especially his breakthrough direction and big heart, which made him see a little bit of Iverson. figure.

Thinking of the current situation of the Cavaliers, Popovich said: "It's just that the Cavaliers currently don't have a good enough point guard veteran, which has caused Irving's progress to be slower than Young and Leonard."

"Based on the current situation of the Cavaliers, it may weaken Irving's commanding power on the field and the quality of controlling and running the team, making him a good player who is willing to fight alone..."

"By the way, how is the player you contacted? He can be a good reinforcement..."

According to the analysis of Popovich and Borrego, the game quickly lost all suspense. Just halfway through the second quarter, the score difference had reached 28 points.

Faced with Yang Ke and Ginobili's sudden shots, the Cavaliers had no choice but to watch them score.

On the offensive end, Irving, who fell into a solo fight, under the joint defense of Yang Ke and Ginobili, hit the iron continuously and scored few points.

In the end, after Ginobili made another layup, the Cavaliers called for a timeout, and the two teams replaced the full bench lineup in a tacit understanding. Of course, Yang Ke did not play again for the Spurs.

In the end, the Spurs, who were sitting at home, defeated the visiting Cavaliers 125:90, winning the Cavaliers by 35 points, and did not save their opponents at all.

Eight of the Spurs scored in double figures, among which Yang Ke scored 16 points and 5 assists, showing the team basketball to the extreme.

As for the Cavaliers, only Irving and Jamison scored in double figures, and even a few rotation players on the team didn't score a single point.

(End of this chapter)