Chapter 156: The Battle of the Low Position

As the last game, neither the Knicks nor the Pacers have the slightest plan, and for the Pacers, their biggest winner or loser is obviously whether they can defend against the Knicks' frightening low post.

After the start of the second quarter, Mo Xi and Rasheed Wallace both went off the court, and the Pacers took this opportunity to force a wave of rhythm, and it didn't take long for them to be happy, and the Knicks twin towers, who had been resting off the court for a while, were sent on, and it was Rasheed Wallace who came on the court.

Compared to Mo Xi, Rasheed Wallace is indeed a little better to defend, but how much better can that be?

Rashid didn't use his low-post skills, and the Knicks ran over him with a bombardment.

Arenas quickly passed the halfcourt and teamed up with Wallace for a pick-and-roll in the high post, and after the two split, they both went to the basket.

Arenas faced Tinsley, it can be said that he was holding back the fire, this proud man has always been unable to forget the scene of his door in the draft, this is his revenge.

Arenas burst into the air, forced a half-turn in the air, turned sideways, and threw the ball into the bottom corner.

In the bottom corner, Sprewell was already waiting there, and after receiving the ball, he shot straight away. Unfortunately, Sprewell wasn't a very good three-point shooter, and the ball bounced off the frame.

However, at the moment when the ball hit the basket, "Boom~" A sound sounded, and the two Knicks players had already appeared under the basket strangely. Dale Davis and Witherspoon, the Knicks rushed for the rebound.

For Dale Davis, facing the Pacers, his heart is quite complicated, and this is where he really grew up, but it was also Bird's Pacers who ruthlessly traded him for an extremely talented high school student. In the face of the old owner, most players are desperate to prove themselves, and Dale Davis is the same, but the thought of playing for the rival team now, Dale Davis feels a sigh.

No matter what Dale Davis thinks, the Knicks' frontcourt combination can be said to be nuclear-weapon-level for frontcourt rebounding, and the Pacers' bench lineup can't do anything effective to protect it.

Witherspoon snatched the rebound from the frontcourt, flicked it again, and handed it to Wallace in the bottom corner on the other side.

Wallace also started straight with three points.

"Huh~"

With a crisp sound, Wallace's three-point hollow hit.

Although the Knicks' current lineup is very strong in rebounding, the defense is weaker, and the defense is not very good under the impact of the second team of the Pacers led by Artest, and the two sides are in a stalemate.

Unable to defend against the Pacers' offense, the Knicks served quickly in an attempt to steal points.

Arenas didn't stick to the ball and threw the ball directly to Wallace without passing half court, Wallace accelerated, split the side, and Sprewell got the ball and started to attack the basket directly.

The Pacers were caught off guard, and Sprewell Young's hand was a first-class signature straight-arm tomahawk dunk.

The Pacers had to call another timeout while switching to O'Neal Jr. for the basket.

Seeing O'Neal Jr. on the court, Rashid Wallace started to get excited.

He took the initiative to ask for the ball in the low post and wanted to play O'Neill Jr.

Arenas gave the ball directly to Wallace in the low post on the left, and for a moment, the players on both sides pulled away, leaving the entire left half for the two to play alone.

O'Neal Jr. is very strong, especially his defense, in the entire East, if it weren't for the existence of Mo Xi, then the current No. 1 center in the East should actually be O'Neal Jr., although O'Neal Jr. should be regarded as the No. 4 position in the strict sense, but after all, a shameless No. 21 rookie has been sitting in the No. 4 position to play the No. 5 position, and it doesn't matter if O'Neal Jr. sits in the No. 5 position and plays the No. 4 position.

Unlike Moxi's low-post offense that emphasizes speed, Rasheed Wallace's low-post offense is more of a change of pace and footwork.

Rasheed Wallace held the ball with his back and gently pressed against O'Neal Jr. In terms of power, O'Neal Jr. is actually superior, but Rasheed Wallace is not the type to rely on strength to win. Wallace swung his head with the ball, flicked it in the opposite direction, and then swung it in the other direction, while Rasheed Wallace's back lifted up slightly, creating the feeling that he could turn around at any moment.

All of O'Neill's nerves were tense, for fear that one would accidentally be used as a background wall.

At this moment, Wallace suddenly activated, instead of turning his back, Wallace took a step back, turned forward, and turned into a face frame.

Turnaround and step jumper?

Little O'Neill subconsciously thought of this in his mind, and his body involuntarily pressed forward.

Who would have expected that Wallace suddenly pulled forward to the side and lowered his center of gravity suddenly, intending to force O'Neill Jr.

Although O'Neal Jr. made a mistake in his first move, he reacted immediately, quickly stepped back, blocked Wallace's offensive line, and at the same time raised his hands upwards to cover the defense head-on.

O'Neal Jr.'s defense is almost perfect, but he is the passive side after all.

Rashid didn't raise his head or look at O'Neal Jr., he turned around again, passed O'Neal Jr. directly from the outside, and came to the other side of the frame.

Rashid's turn was not finished, and after passing O'Neal Jr., he simply didn't turn back, and took advantage of this turn to take advantage of the trend to go backwards, and it was directly a turnaround and backward jumper. It was a very difficult step-back jumper, and Wallace was completely screwed in the air, but his shot was very steady and calm like a machine.

Rashid made a shot, O'Neal Jr. jumped back, trying to block, but the distance between the two was really too big, and O'Neill Jr. could only watch Wallace score this rare goal.

Little O'Neill is very unhappy, I can't beat Mo Xi, forget it, is it possible that I can't beat you now?

With this in mind, O'Neal Jr. returned to the front court and rarely took the initiative to ask for the ball in the low post.

anser-ball?

Seeing O'Neal Jr.'s move, the fans were excited, and this kind of game is what they are most willing to spend money to watch.

O'Neill's low-ranking style is somewhat similar to his big brother with the same surname, first of all, relying on that arm first. Little O'Neal directly "bangbang" three times against Wallace, Wallace was caught off guard and was pushed directly to the three-second zone by O'Neal Jr., here, Wallace is in danger.

Little O'Neal shook from side to side, Wallace knew it was just a feint, and ignored it at all, and then saw Little O'Neal smack his ass, pushed back, and at the same time stepped out of his right foot and stepped in front of him.

Wallace couldn't see O'Neal Jr.'s foot movements, but just by rushing back at O'Neal Jr., he could guess that O'Neal Jr. was about to attack, and he kept an eye on it.

Little O'Neal stepped on his right foot, turned around sharply, and smashed the ball to the ground with a dribble.

Turn and step back jumper.

This is O'Neill Jr.'s famous.

Although Rashid reacted, O'Neal Jr.'s movements were too fast, and he didn't follow up the first time, and O'Neal Jr. scored the goal unguarded.

At this time, Rashid was also a little itchy, and when he came to the offensive end, he actually asked for the ball in the low post, and wanted to single O'Neal Jr. again.

For a while, the audience was in an uproar, and the fans stood up one after another.

Wallace took the ball to O'Neal Jr., pressed against the opponent with his shoulder, and at the same time kept trying to step with his feet, but O'Neal Jr. was unmoved and firmly stood in position.

Rashid's offense needs space, and if he can't rely on his excellent footwork to pull out space, then even Rashid's back-to-back skills are just on paper, no matter how standard they are.

Rashid suddenly dribbled and took a step back, who knew that O'Neal Jr.'s reaction was extremely fast, and he immediately pounced, Rashid was hit, and in order to protect the ball, he had to protect the ball with his back first, but in this way he lost the lead.

As a last resort, Rashid Wallace had no choice but to push with his back, but Rashid was no match for O'Neal Jr. in terms of strength, and Rashid chisels the outside, but failed to shorten the distance between him and the basket.

Rashid could only force his way around.

Rasheed Wallace first flicked outside, feintmed, then quickly pulled, reversed, and tried to hit the basket from the baseline.

However, O'Neal Jr.'s defense is really strong, where has Rashid Wallace, who has been mixed in the west all the year round, seen that O'Neal Jr.'s first step has clearly been shaken by Rashid, but when Rashid turned to the bottom line, he turned back again, and his hands were on one of them, covering Rashid's whole person firmly.

"Dudu~"

Rashid was forced to dribble out of bounds and O'Neal Jr. completed a perfect defence.

Rashid flicked his fist in annoyance.

O'Neal Jr.'s defensive ability has curbed Rasheed Wallace's momentum, and if O'Neal Jr.'s offense wasn't particularly outstanding, I'm afraid the Pacers would have caught up.

Seeing this, George Karl knew that Rashid Wallace should not be able to deal with O'Neal Jr., so he decisively sent Mo Xi back to the court, and replaced Arenas with Ward, so that Mo Xi could play O'Neal Jr. in the low post with peace of mind.

Preventing Rashid brought great satisfaction to little O'Neal, despite having a baby face, little O'Neill was an out-and-out bloodthirsty beast, and at this time this beast had tasted blood, and seemed to be unstoppable.

"Smack-"

The first thing Mo Xi did after he got on the court was not to single O'Neal Jr. on the inside, but to slap O'Neal Jr. on the defensive end with a big hat, an overwhelming big hat, this ball was fanned down and fell into Witherspoon's hands, as a result, Witherspoon received the ball with a burst of teeth, his hand was too painful, and Mo Xi was really powerful this time.

The Knicks launched a fast break, Witherspoon handed the ball to Ward, Ward quickly advanced, threw it directly forward after getting out of the three-point line, and found Sprewell, who had already run to the opponent's three-point line at the moment, and went directly to the basket after receiving the ball.

Artest had just passed halftime and could only watch Sprewell wreak havoc on his basket.

Little O'Neal, who was cleaned up by Mo Xi, was not convinced, he said that it was just an accident just now, and he wanted to do it all over again.

The low position resisted Mo Xi, pouted his buttocks, and turned to retreat.

"Smack~"

There was another crisp sound, but this time Mo Xi's strength was not as great as the last time, and the ball did not fly out directly, but fell between the two.

The two bent down together to snatch the ball, and Mo Xi swung his body, slammed his shoulder and squeezed away O'Neal Jr. to get the rebound.

However, it is clear that the Knicks have lost the opportunity to break fast.

Mo Xi passed the ball to Ward, and the Knicks slowly pushed forward.

After a long time, this time, Mo Xi finally got the opportunity to single O'Neal Jr.

Relying on his excellent strength, Mo Xi directly asked for a position in a deep position, and little O'Neill tried his best to resist Mo Xi, but he could only prevent the other party from going in again.

Mo Xi received a hanging pass from Ward and singled O'Neal Jr.

Little O'Neill's muscles tightened all over his body, he knew how terrible the man in front of him was, he had such thoughts more than once, fighting with me, did he use all his strength? It's a big self-esteem thing, but O'Neill Jr. thinks it's very likely every time.

Mo Xi received the ball, and the muscles of his body also tightened up in an instant, but he immediately softened again, and pushed O'Neal Jr., so that there was a trace of space between the latter and him, Mo Xi turned around and cut in from the bottom line, O'Neal Jr. quickly moved his feet to defend, but at the first time when O'Neal Jr. moved sideways, Mo Xi immediately changed his offensive method, he pulled the ball back, and changed from walking the bottom line to turning around and attacking from the basket.

Mo Xi put little O'Neal on his shoulder, strode to the basket, and Mo Xi started directly.

Mo Xi's rhythm is very good, O'Neill Jr. was pushed by Mo Xi, and it is difficult to get a good position to defend further, and in this position, Mo Xi is bound to use hook hands to end this attack.

Little O'Neal felt a little desperate, in the face of Mo Xi, he often did this, he knew what the other party would do, but he couldn't do anything, he couldn't stop the other party at all, this is like the "big shark" O'Neal's turn and dunk, it's such an action, but how many can stop him?

Mo Xi swiped the ball from his waist, drew a perfect arc in the air, and with a slight flick of his wrist, the basketball flew high.

"Wow", a hollow into the net easily.

Mo Xi turned around and ran to the backcourt in a chic manner, the perfection of his low-post offensive skills made him look so comfortable in the face of most defenders, and now Mo Xi is not the most perfect state, maybe in another year, next year will be the year when he really ushered in the peak