"Meng, we will definitely win this game." When all the starters of both teams came on the court, Jermaine O'Neal and Tony Barty had already entered the center circle and were ready to jump the ball, standing opposite Meng Xu Paul Pearce, making no secret of his desire to win. To be precise, the Celtics have no way back now, two games are over, 0-2 behind, if this game is lost again, the series is 0-3 behind, and they are really going home to fish, so in this game, the Celtics can only let go.

"Paul, Larry doesn't want you to win." Looking at Paul Pierce, who swore by him, and Antoine Walker, who had an unkind face, Meng Xu smiled at them.

"Boy, let you be arrogant for a while, and you won't have such good luck in this game." Antoine Walker, who was on the side, stared at Meng Xu intently, and said hatefully in his heart. Before this round of the series, Antoine Walker took the initiative to ask for help to defend Meng Xu in this round of the series, but after two games, Walker found that he couldn't prevent Meng Xu at all, even if it was a double bag with Paul Pierce, he couldn't prevent this guy, in the first two games, how did this guy's 3-point shot shoot and how to have, one after another, which made Walker feel painful.

Since Meng Xu entered the league, because he is also Bird's successor, Meng Xu is often compared with Antoine Walker by the media, especially after the news that the Celtics are ready to trade Meng Xu with Walker, this comparison is even more noisy. In last season's regular season, Meng Xu was considered to have a big gap with Walker, but since last season's playoffs, no media will compare Meng Xu and Walker, because in their eyes, Meng Xu is already a superstar who is one level stronger than Walker, and there is nothing Walker can do about these undisciplined media, the only thing he can do is to beat Meng Xu to prove himself. But because Walker generally plays power forward in the Celtics, so in the four regular seasons, the two rarely have the opportunity to match, and in the playoffs, Walker, who can no longer hold back, strongly asks the head coach to go to the opposite position with Meng Xu, because in the previous games, Pierce's defense against Meng Xu was not good, so head coach Jim? O'Brien also had the attitude of giving it a try and let Walker play small forward.

"Haha, Walker looks like he's ready to fight me." While the referee was saying something to the players of the two teams who jumped the ball, Meng Xu took the opportunity to move his body, but when Meng Xu's afterglow swept to Antoine Walker, who was not far from him, Meng Xu couldn't help but smile at him.

What do you say about Walker, a player, he has height, strength, arm span and speed are also good, and his sense of rebounding is also very good, but this guy is too easy to eat feints, for a player like Meng Xu who is full of feints, many times, before Meng Xu's consecutive feints are completed, Walker is already out of position, so Walker is also one of Meng Xu's favorite players.

And Walker's offensive methods, I don't know if it's because of the fear of confrontation after injury, is now more and more biased towards shooting, and likes to shoot 3 points very much, and Meng Xu has won the top two in the list of 3-point shots this season, but his 3-point shooting rate can not be complimented, with an average of 34.5% of the 3-point shooting rate per game, nearly 10 percentage points lower than Meng Xu.

After the end of the regular season, Meng Xu and Walker became the only two players this season who averaged more than 8 3-point shots per game, 8.5 and 8.2 respectively. So there are good things in the media, running to interview the two of them, wanting to know why they shoot so many 3-pointers, the first to be interviewed is Walker, and the answer Walker gave was "because the NBA has no four-point line." "Arrogance, it's so arrogant, so when the reporter heard Walker's answer, he was directly stunned. And when this reporter went to interview Meng Xu, he heard an answer that was even funnier than Walker, and Meng Xu replied to him like this at the time: "Because, I think it's easier to shoot 3 points." "It's easier to shoot 3 points! After hearing Meng Xu's answer, the reporter who interviewed Meng Xu once thought that there was something wrong with his ears, and after asking 3 times in a row, the reporter finally determined that Meng Xu answered him like this.

Because there is no 4-point line in the NBA! I think it's easier to shoot 3 points! When this interview was published, the basketball community in the United States was in an uproar, and these two guys are too weird. The current NBA still advocates the concept that the closer to the basket, the easier it is to score, not to mention the "four centers" and "four big forwards", even Jordan, who once dominated the league, his main scoring means are mainly mid-range shots and breakthrough layups. Therefore, although the 3-point shot tactic has been accepted by more and more teams, in the American basketball world, the 3-point shot tactic is still a tailgate evil, so you can imagine how much shock Meng Xu and Walker's words will bring.

Therefore, every time he sees Walker, Meng Xu can't help but fantasize in his mind about Walker's answer to the extreme when facing reporters, and at the same time sigh, a mountain is still a mountain high, and the strong have their own strong players.

What Walker thought when he said this, Meng Xu didn't know, but when Meng Xu said that it was easier to shoot 3 points, he really thought so at the time, because before the playoffs, with Meng Xu's shooting attribute of less than 80, coupled with the very weak chicken's mid-range shooting skills, not to mention that the mid-range shot could not be taken, and even the layup was a common thing. Therefore, Meng Xu's main means of scoring, in addition to breaking through layups and making foul free throws, is only left to shoot 3 points, compared to the huge pressure on the body when breaking through, and the pain from the knee and ankle, it is much easier to shoot 3 points, which is neither time-consuming nor effortless, how good. And Meng Xu's current long-range shooting attribute has reached 105, plus the shooting rate bonus of Meng Xu's 3-point skills, as long as the physical strength is sufficient, the shooting rate of about 4 percent is still guaranteed, which is why Meng Xu's 3-point shots this season have reached 8.5 times.

"MD, this guy can't have any special love, right?" Seeing Meng Xu smiling at himself, Walker immediately shuddered, and in some places it was tense for a moment, and at the same time he said in his heart, it is really possible, this guy is 22 years old this year, and he is not small, when he is 22, he has a daughter, and this guy can look good, although he has not been in the league for a few years, but he is envious of the 10 million contract with Nike a year. But the strange thing is that a young, handsome, and golden guy has no girlfriend until now, and occasionally there are some scandals, which are proven to be fake in a few days.

Just when the players on the field were thinking about each other, Michaels, the commentator of the game, had already begun to introduce the starting lineups of both sides in this game: "In this game, the Celtics have changed a lot in the lineup compared with the previous two games, the starting center is still Tony Barty, Antoine Walker returned to the position of power forward, but it was Eric Williams who replaced him as a small forward, and Paul Pierce is still a scoring guard in this game, in the position of organizing guards, Eric Strickland replaced Kenny Anderson as the starting point guard. ”

"Compared with the Celtics, the Pacers' starting lineup has not changed in the slightest, it is still center Lorenzen White, power forward Jermaine O'Neal, small forward Meng Xu, scoring guard Reggie Miller, and playmaking guard Jamal Tinsley."

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