After being substituted after playing 14 minutes in the first half, Meng Xu did not get playing time and rested until the second timeout of the second half, when Jim Clemens signaled Meng Xu to start warming up and played in the final seven minutes of the decisive time. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Due to the nature of this game is more entertaining, in the previous game, both sides will not beat each other to death with a stick, but continue to give each other a chance, the difference between the two teams will not be too big, the best situation is that the two teams take the lead alternately, and their own defense will be higher than Meng Xu, who is a level higher than everyone on the field, and also played so seriously in the game, Meng Xu's brutal defense of Williams was even booed by the Auckland Arena.

A player like Williams who plays fancy and passes the ball is very easy to be liked by fans, and the elbow pass that Williams staged in front of Meng Xu in this game will undoubtedly become one of the most memorable scenes in the history of the entire Rookie Challenge, but Meng Xu's "revenge" defense against Williams is deeply distressing, for fear that a player who plays gorgeously will lose confidence and even disappear from the court under this ruthless destruction.

After the pause, Jim Clemens put Odom and Francis on the bench, and once again discharged this lineup in the middle of the first half, but the position on the field has changed, James Posey appeared in the position of the power forward, James Posey is slightly taller than Meng Xu, and is a lap older than Meng Xu in terms of weight, and is very good at defending players taller than himself, and Nowitzki is not the kind of power power forward, so in the first half, Meng Xu played on the offensive end without temper Nowitzki, When facing James Posey, he also encountered a lot of trouble.

And Meng Xu is back in the small forward position, not only to take on the task of defending the second-year main scorer Paul Pierce, but also to make up for Szczebiak at any time, and even cooperate with James Posey to pinch Nowitzki is also one of Meng Xu's tasks, Jim Clemens is simply using Meng Xu as a livestock.

And at the most critical moment of the game, put Francis and Odom on the bench among the most capable players in the team, it can also be seen that Jim Clemens still can't be trusted with these two players, in the previous game, these two players in order to compete with Brand for the MVP of the rookie game, not only did not do anything on the defensive end, but also did not care about the feelings of their teammates on the offensive end, and played crazy ball-holding singles, although Francis and Odom had scored 16 and 15 points respectively in this game, But the two of them didn't stop there in this game.

After being pressed to the bench, Francis and Odom were also grim-faced, staring at Jim Clemens, who was directing from the sidelines, with some resentment.

When the first-year team made adjustments, the two-year team also changed to its strongest lineup, center Reeve Lafrentz, big forward Dirk Nowitzki, small forward Paul Pierce, scoring guard Michael Dixon, playmaker Mike Bibby, and Williams was wearing training clothes and sitting on the bench, originally playing casually, with a very high error rate, and was extremely embarrassed by Meng Xu in the first half, so the sophomore head coach Rick Callisley chose to play more steadily Mike Bibie.

After the game restarted, the first-year tactics were still dominated by Brand, and the remaining players were all pulled away on the outside, which was very similar to the Rockets during the two-game championship, with a strong interior line and a group of outside shooters, but now Brand is far from Olajuwon's dominance and deterrence, so it is difficult to say whether this tactic of the first-year team can succeed.

On the sophomore side, he relied on his own interior advantage to play the two-tower tactics of Nowitzki and Reeve Lafrentz, and this tactic is very similar to the current Spurs, with Nowitzki as the tactical core, Reeve Lafrentz escorting it, and there are also 3 outside lines who are not very good at outside shooting, although they are stronger than the Spurs' outside three, but the strength is limited.

While Brand's strong play against Reeve Lafrenz, he is also very resolute in implementing the tactical requirements of head coach Jim Clemens, as long as Nowitzki comes forward to pack, he will pass the ball to the empty James Posey, James Posey's 3-pointer shooting rate this season has also reached 39%. For the rest of the first-year outside, Meng Xu's average 3-point shooting and shooting percentage can rank in the top 5 in the league, Szzebiak and Andre Miller are not as good as Meng Xu and Posey's 3-point ability, but they also have a very stable mid-range shot, if Nowitzki is not covered, then Brand has a high success rate in his single Reeve Lafrentz.

The game can only be regarded as a real game until now, the players on both sides are doing their best, Nowitzki in the face of James Posey, although the strength is insufficient, can not be forced, but Nowitzki still shows the characteristics of a technical power forward, a big man with a height of 2.13 meters, all kinds of backward shots on the court, all kinds of back turns and half-turns back shots, even if Meng Xuhe and James Posey are sandwiched, they are not the slightest stage fright, calmly shot, calmly hit, The superstar style is undoubtedly on display at this moment.

Second-year small forward Paul Pierce, although a little embarrassed under Meng Xu's defense, can still continue to score by relying on his strong body and excellent low-post skills.

Other players were not so easy, Michael Dixon was avoiding Meng Xu from beginning to end, and once Meng Xu appeared next to him, Michael Dixon would quickly pass the ball out.

Brand was once again in this game, showing the world a standard short stout floor-flowing power forward, and a penalty area with his back to the small beast. In the final moments of the game, although both sides strengthened their defenses, the shooting percentages of players on both sides were even much higher than in the previous game.

With two minutes left in the game, Pierce made a strong burst and passed the basketball to Mike Bibby behind him, who received the ball and went straight to the penalty area, Nowitzki hit a jumper to give the sophomore a two-point lead at 87-83.

Brand hit Reeve Lafrenz again, Pierce stepped forward to wrap up, Brand decisively passed the ball to the outside, after two transfers, the basketball went to Meng Xu's hands, facing Michael Dixon who pounced to make up for the defense, Meng Xu directly hit a 3-point shot, and the first-grade team overtook the score again.

"This Jim Clemens is really a talent, as Phil Jackson's assistant coach, not only is he very familiar with the triangle offense, but he also has a very high level of knowledge about the Rockets' insideout." In the stands, as a regular spectator of the game, Pat Riley said to his disciple Spoelstra next to him.

"Teacher, I think the tactics he uses on the court are very similar to the concept you proposed, if Odom can play as a power forward and Posey can play as a playmaker, then everything will be perfect." As a close disciple of Pat Riley, Spoelstra is naturally very familiar with his teacher, and the concept of Pat Riley is basically that all 5 positions on the field use players with a height of about 203 cm and excellent athletic ability, and now the first-year team is 4 players with a height of about 2 meters, of which 3 are small forwards.

"Odom can't coexist with Brand." After hearing his disciple's words, Pat Riley shook his head and continued, "These first-year players are indeed very good, they have achieved a perfect integration on the field, if you can collect them into a team, it is enough to dominate the entire league. ”