One hundred and thirty-three, the first round of confrontation
After Porzingis came to the position near the top of the arc, Li Wu immediately took a step out of a lateral dribble, and then bypassed Porzingis to hit the three-point line from the side, because of his tall body, he couldn't directly bypass Porzingis, so he was blocked, and the 2014 star Jabari Parker, who followed Porzingis, immediately chose to retreat to defend Li Wu.
At 203cm tall and weighing 109kg, Jabari Parker is also an athletic small forward, and as the 2014 leader, he is not slow, and after two side steps, he successfully blocked Li Wu's path, and he is confident that if the Chinese leader dares to go to the basket in front of him, he will definitely reward him with a big hat.
Compared with Parker's self-confidence, Li Wu has a different opinion, from Parker's moving footsteps, Li Wu has found that the reflexes of this list are far inferior to the alphabet brother who was opposite him just now, after all, the alphabet brother is a character born to play point guard.
So Li Wu dribbled again and accelerated abruptly, sticking to Parker's side to the basket, and the castration was even more aggressive than just now, and the commentator Van Gundy Jr., who had been introducing the history of the two teams, immediately exclaimed.
As the broadcaster of this game, ESPN, they did their homework, after all, this is a clash between teams that are not strong, but ESPN still sent their own ace commentator Van Gundy Jr., for the simple reason that he has a deep relationship with the Knicks and Li Wu.
From 1985 to 2002, Van Gundy Jr. was the head coach of the Knicks, and he was much better than Fisher, leading the team to a 248-172 regular season record, the third-most winning head coach in Knicks history, and the second-highest winning percentage in Knicks history.
For New Yorkers, Van Gundy Jr. is one of their favorite coaches, and as for his relationship with Li Wu, it is because Van Gundy Jr. was once the head coach of the first Chinese champion in NBA basketball history, YAO, and he would have had a chance to win the championship during the Yao Mai period.
As for the other commentator, it was Chris Webb, the champion in 1993, Webber was a commentator for TNT, but ESPN still paid to invite him over, after all, ESPN's commentary lineup does not have too good retired players, so it often invites TNT commentators who have no tasks to come over and do odd jobs.
The other commentator is Murphy, who has just signed with ESPN, and Murphy can really thank his alumnus Li Wu for getting ESPN's contract, if it weren't for Li Wu's appearance, he would not have been able to explain so many games in the NCAA.
With Li Wu being taken away by the Knicks with a list of signs, as well as his explosive popularity, Murphy, as one of the people who have a relationship with Li Wu, naturally signed it with ESPN, after all, ESPN sold the NBA broadcast rights to China's Penguin Sports, and the two sides still have a lot of cooperation, ESPN values Li Wu's resource.
With an exclamation from Van Gundy Jr., Li Wu has already thrown off Parker and killed under the basket, and now he shows dribbling skills that are one step closer than when he was in the Chicago joint training camp, Parker immediately turned back to chase, but Li Wu stopped suddenly, Parker couldn't help but hit Li Wu's back directly, and Li Wu also made a jump shot at this time.
"Beep~~~~~~~~~~~" The referee signaled for Parker to foul.
"Oh! Webb, Murphy, I haven't been paying much attention to the NCAA this year, but I've watched some videos of Columbia, and this year's John Wooden Award winner doesn't seem to be very good at dribbling, so why is it suddenly so powerful? Little Van Gundy couldn't help but ask when he saw Li Wu's movements in one go.
Webber said with a smile: "I heard that he disappeared for a while in the offseason, and he should have had an efficient closed practice, but I don't think any training is able to make a person improve the level of ball advancement to this level in just a month or two, so I think this young man didn't play his full strength at all when he was in the NCAA, just waiting to surprise everyone in the NBA." ”
"Oh! No, Mr. Webb, it's not like that, Lee's level of ball advancement is really not strong in the NCAA, if he showed such talent at the beginning, he would be the champion this year, in fact, the Knicks have been questioned for getting him with the list, many people think that he is not as comprehensive as Russell, after all, he doesn't grab rebounds at all, so I prefer to believe that he improved himself in the offseason. Murphy said.
"If that's the case, he must have a good business opening the training camp." Webb said with a smile, then he moved his eyes to Jabari Parker and said with a smile: "It seems that Lee won the first battle today." ”
"Lee must have given his all today because this game was also broadcast simultaneously in China." As ESPN's ace commentator, Van Gundy Jr. naturally knows his boss's cooperation with China.
"Brush!" Li Wu scored two free throws steadily.
Immediately, Brother Alphabet began to dribble and advance, in Li Wu's opinion, his ability to dribble is quite good, those big hands have provided him with a lot of help, but his center of gravity is still high, Brother Alphabet's first ball wants to use his body to eat Li Wu, so he squeezed in from Li Wu's side after a cross dribble, and the left hand that did not hold the ball squeezed Li Wu who leaned over, and the right hand dribbled the ball.
With his height and long arms combined with his shoulder width, Li Wu really couldn't touch the basketball he was playing on the other side, which was a completely correct strategy, in fact, Brother Alphabet relied on this move to single-handedly beat most of the point guards in the league.
But soon he found that Li Wu was different from most point guards in the NBA, and the way he squeezed him with his body didn't have much effect at all, if it was other point guards with a height of 185-195, he could only watch him dribble the ball into the interior in the face of his physical strength, and if he didn't help defense, he would basically play.
But now Brother Alphabet was squeezed out by Li Wu, and his physical strength could not take advantage, but was squeezed. Although he weighed only 95 kilograms, his strength was not small at all, and it was rare to be squeezed to the outside by a person who was more than twenty centimeters shorter than him.
In desperation, he could only rely on his arm span advantage to pass the ball to Monroe who was standing in the elbow area with a hook hand, and after Monroe got the ball, he used his back-to-back singles skills to force Lopes and score a goal.
López, who is known for his strong defense, was very frustrated with the ball, slapped the basketball hard, walked to the baseline, and sent the ball to Li Wu. After Li Wu advanced to the half court with the ball, Porzingis stepped forward again to perform the block, but this time Brother Alphabet ran in front of Li Wu before Porzingis came up and spread his arms to defend.