Chapter 523: This Ball Is Returning You for Dibeken!
"Ratrier, we're meeting again!" When Meng Xu began to advance with the ball, Meng Xu found that it was not Kassel who was defending him, but his old acquaintance Ratril Sprewell.
"That's unfortunate." Sprewell responded to Meng Xu with strong anger, and then posted it, pestering Meng Xu to death, and at the same time, behind Sprewell, Szzerbiak was ready to make up for Spreville at any time.
For Meng Xu now, the bag clip defense is already the norm, not to mention the multi-person bag after holding the ball, that is, the bag without the ball, which is often encountered, but the Timberwolves look a little different for Meng Xu's defensive strategy today, if you want to say that it is bag defense, Meng Xu is now only Sprewell alone, but if it is a single defense, Szzerbiak gave up James Posey, who was supposed to defend, and has been wandering not far from Meng Xu.
Because of Meng Xu's strong breakthrough and shooting ability, the players who defend Meng Xu can't let Meng Xu break through, and even more so can't put the shot, so most of the teams in the league basically have only one move when defending Meng Xu, that is, to defend Meng Xu indiscriminately, two people can't do it, just three people, but today's Timberwolves' defense of Meng Xu is very special, with Sprewell defending Meng Xu from close quarters, pressing Meng Xu's shooting space, and letting Szczebiak make up for him behind Sprewell. At the same time, it can also block Meng Xu's breakthrough route after Meng Xu passes Sprewell, and not only Szebiak, but even Garnett, who is defending Jermaine O'Neal not far away, also glances at Meng Xu from time to time.
Obviously, before today's game, Timberwolves head coach Philip Saunders must have done a lot of work, and even carefully studied all the offensive means that Meng Xu could use on the court, Philip Saunders knew very well that only by limiting Meng Xu, the Timberwolves could beat the Pacers today.
Garnett has always been one of Meng Xu's sufferers, due to Garnett's first-class movement speed and super defensive prediction, so whenever Meng Xu meets Garnett, Meng Xu's breakthrough will be somewhat limited, especially in the last two seasons, when Meng Xu plays the Timberwolves, he will more or less reduce the number of breakthroughs. Now Garnett has entered the peak of his career, with a value of 97 ability, and Tim Duncan is basically on par, plus the outside players in the confrontation with the inside players, born in a slight situation, even if Meng Xu has the talent to suppress such a god-level, in the direct confrontation with Garnett and Duncan, it is obviously at a disadvantage, so Meng Xu in the game, unless the situation on the court has reached the point of last resort, Meng Xu rarely takes the initiative to go to the basket, To challenge the likes of Garnett and Duncan. But in today's game, when Garnett used a dunk to shock the Pacers in the first round, Meng Xu, as the boss of the Pacers, had to respond.
In the midst of the boos of the fans, after a series of feints, Meng Xu successfully shook off the Sprewell who was clinging to him, and such a scene has been repeated countless times for Sprewell. When Sprewell was still on the Knicks, he had already played against Meng Xu many times, it can be said that in Sprewell's career, Meng Xu was the player who made him the most difficult to defend and embarrassed him the most. The night when Meng Xu scored 82 points at Madison Square Garden, it was like a nightmare, always accompanied Sprewell, until now, the game that made Sprewell reluctant to look back will still appear in Sprewell's dreams from time to time, and Sprewell has lost count of how many times he has been awakened from his dreams and then remembered the scene of that night.
After Meng Xu got rid of Spreville, Szzambiak quickly appeared in front of Meng Xu, blocking Meng Xu's continued forward route, but in front of Meng Xu's signature large-scale change of direction breakthrough, Szzambiak, who turned slowly, had just completed the turn, and before he had time to move laterally, he was already left behind by Meng Xu.
After Meng Xu got rid of Sprewell and Szebiak in a row, Garnett immediately gave up the defense of Jermaine O'Neal and pounced on Meng Xu, and at the same time, in order to prevent Meng Xu from passing the basketball to Jermaine O'Neal after he left, Garnett also stretched out a long arm while rushing towards Meng Xu, trying to block Meng Xu's route to Jermaine O'Neal's pass. At the same time, the Timberwolves' center Michael Olowokandi also relaxed his defense against Nn Hilario and began to move towards Meng Xu's line to the basket.
"It's a really good opportunity, the Pacers have three players empty, as long as Meng passes the basketball, then it's a great chance to score!" Under Meng Xu's signature breakthrough, the Timberwolves' defense has been torn to pieces, so in Scott Skyles' view, Meng Xu's passing the basketball to his teammates who have been vacant is definitely the best choice, after all, Meng Xu is now facing the encirclement of Garnett, Szzerbia, and Michael Olowokandi, and behind Meng Xu, Reggie Miller has gotten rid of Kassel's defense, and at the same time on the left and right sides of the basket, Nn Hilario and Jermaine O'Neal are also unguarded right now.
"If Meng will choose to pass the ball at this time, then the person in front of him must not be Meng!" After hearing Scott Skyles' words, Magic Johnson smiled and shook his head, according to Meng Xu's character, the Pacers' offense, no matter how good the chances of his teammates are, Meng Xu will complete it by himself, and there is no response in the face of provocation, which is definitely not Meng Xu's style.
At this moment, when Meng Xu rushed to almost four meters away from the basket, Meng Xu grabbed the basketball with one hand and jumped up against Michael Olowokandi, looking like he wanted to block Michael Olovocandi.
However, after jumping up, Meng Xu found that he was now facing more than just Michael Olowokandi, on the left side of Meng Xu's body, Garnett also jumped up after Meng Xu jumped, and at the same time, Meng Xu's afterglow also swept to Szzerbiak.
"You're finished!" Seeing Meng Xu, who had been surrounded by himself and Michael Olowokandi, Garnett did not hesitate, and directly waved his palm towards the basketball that Meng Xu was holding.
But at the moment when Garnett made a move to block Meng Xu, Meng Xu grabbed the basketball's arm and suddenly pulled down, and at the same time made a body folding movement in the air against the double block of Garnett and Michael Olovocandi, in order to avoid Garnett and Michael Olowocandi's block.
After discovering Meng Xu's intentions, Garnett immediately withdrew his arm, and at the same time completed the turn in the air, and once again put his arm on the top of Meng Xu's head, but Meng Xu, who passed by Michael Olowokandi, made a movement to fold his body again, completely getting rid of Garnett's cover, just when Meng Xu was still floating in the air, Michael Olowokandi, who jumped one step ahead of Meng Xu, had already landed, and Szebiak behind Meng Xu, He could only watch Meng Xu fly in the direction of the basket in the air.
"Fold twice, pull the rod three times!" In the face of the blocking of Garnett, Michael Olowokandi, and Szebiak, Meng Xu folded his body twice in the air, and at the same time completed three pull-up actions, thus completely getting rid of the block of the three Timberwolves players, and drawing an end to the offense with a reverse dunk, for a while all the fans in the target center were dumbfounded, and even the boos just now came to an abrupt end with Meng Xu's dunk.
"This is a return for you!" When Meng Xu was pulled up from the ground by his teammates, Meng Xu walked directly to Garnett's side, although there was no grudge between Meng Xu and Garnett, but when Mutombo was blocked by Garnett and was injured because of defending Garnett, as the boss of the team, Meng Xu had to do something for Mutombo.
Garnett, who was originally a little stunned because of Meng Xu's dunk just now, after hearing Meng Xu's words, his face became quite ugly, although Meng Xu's dunk was still 108,000 miles away from the dunk, but Meng Xu successfully broke out of the encirclement and dunk successfully under the joint cover of the three people, which was enough to make Garnett, who had experienced all this personally, unable to hang his face. Also after Meng Xu's difficult dunk, Garnett's attempt to hit the Pacers' morale through the dunk after the opening has basically declared bankruptcy.