Chapter 790: The Return of the King

"Sean, stick it up, tighter, tighter, tighter."

Looking at Sean Battier, who was squeezed away by Meng Xu again and again on the court, Heat's head coach Eric Spoelstra hurriedly shouted repeatedly on the sidelines, asking Battier to stick it again after being squeezed away by Meng Xu, Battier's defense is very good, but due to age, Battier's physical fitness is getting worse and worse now, so it is obviously a bit too much to expect Battier to defend Meng Xu alone.

After the Heat changed their blocking and dismantling defense strategy against the Spurs, the Spurs players on the court responded without any timeout, because Eric Spoelstra asked Sean Battier to give up his defense against Duncan to defend Meng Xu after Meng Xu and Duncan blocked and dismantled, so Meng Xu and Duncan After completing the blocking and dismantling, it became Duncan, and Tim Duncan, who was almost unguarded, easily scored 6 points in a row, so Eric Spoelstra dismantled the West Wall. Now it is to mend the western wall and collapse the eastern wall.

"Sean Battier's defense against Meng Xu is completely ineffective, and the Heat's move to put Tim Duncan after the pick-and-roll is also incomprehensible, it's really hard to imagine that Eric is a head coach who has won a championship." Ross Barkley on the sidelines of the commentary bench made no secret of his displeasure with Eric Spoelstra, who was too poor to command.

When Barkley vented his dissatisfaction with Eric Spoelstra, Eric Spoelstra, who was standing on the sidelines, also began to turn around in a hurry, a simple blocking and dismantling, Eric Spoelstra was stumped, as a new championship coach, Eric Spoelstra is quite confident, and before the start of this game, Eric Spoelstra also made a lot of plans, including how to defend the Spurs' pass, how to break the Spurs' defense, Eric Spoelstralin has made several sets of plans, which can be described as very detailed, and is ready to use a victory to set off the Heat's championship ring ceremony, but now the Spurs are blocking and dismantling on the offensive end and shrinking on the defensive end, which makes Eric Spoelstra sweat.

Eric Spoelstra thinks about it, in fact, the root of the problem is still in Meng Xu's body, first of all, Meng Xu came back after retiring for four years, and the Heat also underestimated his current strength, in Eric Spoelstra's imagination, Meng Xu after his comeback can at most have eighty percent of the strength of four years ago, but which Cheng thinks that Meng Xu is actually not much different from four years ago. Another point is that Meng Xu's style of play is different from anyone in the current league, so the Heat also need time to adapt, and when the two are added, the Heat will now be pressed to the ground by the Spurs and beaten up.

The arrival of the official timeout in the first quarter finally gave Eric Spoelstra a chance to breathe, and in this timeout, Eric Spoelstra also made a bold decision to replace Sean Battier with Udonis Haslem and let James go to the third position to face Meng Xu.

Let James go to the ace against Meng Xu's ace, which is basically Eric Spoelstra's last hole card and method, Sean Battier alone can't restrict Meng Xu at all, double bag, and be taught to be a man by Meng Xu's passing, so Eric Spoelstra simply pulled James out and let James go to the opposite position with Meng Xu, not only on the defensive end, but also on the offensive end to put pressure on Meng Xu.

"Chris, speed, speed, watch how fast you move on the defensive end." Seeing that the timeout was about to end, Eric Spoelstra, who was still a little uneasy, shouted at Chris Bosh.

After the game restarted, James directly pasted Meng Xu, and after coming to the Heat, James began to gain weight, and now he weighs more than 260 pounds, so it is impossible for Meng Xu to easily squeeze James's defense like he did with Battier.

And the fans at the scene let out a burst of exclamations after James pasted Meng Xu, one was the first person in the league and the king who once ruled an era, and the other was the first person in the league now, so the direct confrontation between them is a scene that countless fans want to see, and the Heat players on the scene chanted James's name in unison.

"LeBron, your defense is very good, and you have improved a lot compared to when I left, but if you think you can stop me in this way, then you are wrong." After receiving a pass from Tony Parker, Meng Xu did not move sideways with the ball to seek the blocking and dismantling of his teammates and Yan Hua, but changed his posture from facing James sideways to leaning on James sideways.

James, who knew that he couldn't spray Meng Xu in trash talk, did not compete with Meng Xu for the benefit of words, but focused all his attention on Meng Xu's body, keeping an eye on Meng Xu's every move, and preparing to defend against Meng Xu's attack.

"It's coming!" When Meng Xu's basketball speed began to increase, James knew that Meng Xu was ready to start.

Soon, after Meng Xu pushed James sideways, his body began to turn to the right side, and James, who obviously expected Meng Xu to turn around, also quickly took a step in advance towards the right side of his body, blocking the forward space after Meng Xu turned around, but James's move to the right side also made the left side of his body exposed.

After occupying the forward route after Meng Xu turned around, James was thinking about Meng Xu's next move, but what embarrassed James was that when Meng Xu's body turned halfway, he pulled his body back again, and then completed the turn to the left side at a very fast speed, and wiped James behind him.

And after James was got rid of Meng Xu, Udonis Haslem immediately gave up the defense of Burreth Dior, rushed over to make up for Meng Xu, and occupied Meng Xu's road to the basket one step in advance, Haslem knew very well that he couldn't defend Meng Xu at all, so what Haslem did at the moment was to delay Meng Xu's offensive time and buy time for James's defense.

"How naïve! Do you think that's going to stop me? Looking at Haslem, who had already made a defensive posture in the paint area, after getting rid of James, Meng Xu, who had been accelerating, directly stopped his footsteps, and made a stop-and-go jump shot about a meter away from Haslem.

"A beautiful person who turns his back, there is a breakthrough and a pass in the NBA, you know that he will break through to the right, but you just can't prevent him, this kind of breakthrough is called Iverson, and there is a kind of breakthrough, until you are rid of it, you don't know that he will break through there, and this breakthrough is called Meng Xu!" After Meng Xu successfully got rid of James's defense and rushed to the Heat's basket with the ball, Reggie Miller on the commentary bench also dragged a few words with an intoxicated face, which was used to describe Meng Xu's back-to-back breakthrough.

"Meng Xu's emergency stop jump shot, but Meng Xu also jumped too high!" Looking at Meng Xu, who was jumping high in front of Haslem, Kenny Smith now had only one thought in his heart, the return of the king!