On March 15, 2003, at 7 o'clock in the evening, the game between the Pacers and the Magic has not yet begun, the Bankers Life Arena is already full, Indiana's basketball atmosphere itself is the best state in the United States, in addition to the Pacers' current record, the team has just won the first championship in team history, so now every home court of the Pacers, tickets are in short supply, and now the Bankers Life Arena is already the stadium with the highest attendance rate in the entire NBA. The Simon Brothers, the owners of the Pacers, are said to have recently been considering expanding the arena this summer, increasing the number of seats at the Bankers Living arena from 18,345 to more than 20,000.

When the Magic players walked out of the tunnel, the Pacers fans in the stadium were also quite enthusiastic, starting with the first rookie to appear Gordon Girisek, to the Magic's star Tracy McGrady, the fans in the stadium from the moment they walked out of the tunnel until they walked to their bench, until the Pacers players started to play, the on-site boos stopped.

When Tyshawn Prince was the first to walk out of the players' tunnel, the bank plus life arena immediately erupted into a burst of cheers, as the Pacers players walked out of the players' tunnel one after another, the cheers on the scene became stronger and stronger, and when Meng Xu was the finale of the Pacers, the last time he walked out of the tunnel, the cheers on the scene reached the peak, after the tsunami-like cheers, it was a uniform MVP shout, Meng Xu waved to the fans on the spot, and walked directly towards the Magic bench.

"Tracy, welcome to Indiana!" Before he walked in front of Maddie, Meng Xu stretched out his right hand and clenched it into a fist, and after the two fists touched, Maddie and Meng Xu hugged again.

"Haha, don't try to get close to me in this way, let my subordinates be merciful, I won't eat you." After the hug ended, Maddie said to Meng Xu with a smile, and walked to Jermaine O'Neal behind Meng Xu, Maddie and Jermaine O'Neal have been in an old relationship for many years, since high school, Maddie and O'Neal have been very familiar, even when they travel in the offseason, these two guys are together.

"It looks like the Magic team is going to get ready to speed up this game!" When the players of the two teams finished playing and walked on the court to start warming up, Michaels, who got the starting lists of both sides, roughly guessed the Magic's strategy in this game after roughly browsing the Magic's playing list. Center Sean Kemp, power forward Drew Gooden, small forward Tracy McGrady, scoring guard Gordon Girisek, and playmaker Jacqui Vaughn are obviously not prepared to play positional battles with the Pacers. At the same time, what surprised Michaels was that Maddy, who had been in the scoring guard position most of the time since joining the Magic, changed to small forward in this game, and it seems that Maddie is really going to be directly opposite Meng Xu in this game, as he said before the game.

"It should be like this, the Magic's interior line has always been a shortcoming since Shaq left, and the Magic's positional offensive ability is also average, so if the Magic wants to defeat the Pacers, they can't get into the quagmire of positional warfare with the Pacers, and positional warfare is obviously the rhythm that the Pacers are better at."

When Michaels and Magic Johnson were still discussing the strategies that the Pacers and Magic might use in this game, Jermaine O'Neal and Sean Kemp, who represented the two teams in jump, walked into the center circle, and as the referee on duty threw the basketball in his hand into the sky, today's focus battle officially began.

Jermaine O'Neal was as consistent as ever in terms of jumping balls, beating Camp without any suspense and winning the ball for the Pacers in the first wave of offense. And Meng Xu without the ball just passed the half, Maddie posted over, and after Maddie found Meng Xu, the other players on both sides were also very interested in pulling away, so that their respective bosses had a one-on-one heads-up in this round. Although Maddie will suffer more against Meng Xu in terms of strength, relying on excellent arm span, defensive prediction, and being able to barely keep up with Meng Xu's pace, Maddie is still better than most players in the league when defending Meng Xu. But no matter how good Maddie's defense is, after all, he is just one person, after studying Meng Xu for most of the league for more than half a season, some so-called bricks have found the best way to defend Meng Xu, that is, to wrap and go around, and focus all the attention of the defense on restricting Meng Xu from receiving the ball, and only in this way can Meng Xu's threat be weakened to the greatest extent, as for Meng Xu's role in the bag after receiving the ball, the role played is really limited, because as long as Meng Xu wants to shoot, even if it is a bag of four people, Meng Xu will also shoot without hesitation, if Meng Xu wants to pass the ball, in the gap between a group of people, Meng Xu can pass the ball.

Although these bricks' words seem to have some truth, but most teams will not do this, at least not for most of the game, because such a defensive strategy is destined to be empty at any time among several other players of the Pacers, last season's Finals G4, the Lakers used such a defensive strategy against the Pacers, but in the end, Reggie Miller used 42 points in a single game to teach the Lakers a hard lesson, and that game also became a turning point in the entire series, so, Unless it's a critical moment in the game, teams rarely pack off the ball in advance. Therefore, although Maddie's defensive moves have been done well, Meng Xu still received a pass from Jamal Tinsley after a half-turn and sideways jammed Maddie.

"Beautiful back turn, this is Meng Xu's signature step-back dry pull-up jumper, 3-point hit, beautiful." Meng Xu's first offense was very simple, without the slightest feint, that is, receiving the ball, turning around, stepping back, and shooting, in front of Meng Xu's offensive method, Maddie couldn't do anything, he could only look at the basketball thrown by Meng Xu, and swiped it through his fingertips. After Meng Xu hit the shot, the Banker's Life Arena was like an explosion, and a deafening cheer sounded in an instant, and Meng Xu's name resounded throughout the Banker's Life Arena.

Meng Xu has many scoring methods, 3 points, breakthrough layups, back-to-back singles, each of which is a very efficient scoring method, but when it comes to which scoring method is the most ornamental and most popular with fans, it is undoubtedly Meng Xu's step-back dry pull-out jumper, which seems to be the least efficient offensive method among all Meng Xu's scoring methods, but it is precisely the most popular offensive method among fans, chic and elegant movements, perfect body coordination, and unparalleled charm everywhere.

After Meng Xu hit the first ball in this way, Maddie, who returned to the offensive end, was not to be outdone and appeared in the place where Meng Xu had just shot, and after Meng Xu began to defend Maddie, the other players of the Magic also pulled away like just now, allowing Maddie to single Meng Xu in this offense.

"You're not the only one who knows how to do this." Maddie suddenly took a small step back after continuous dribbling, and then directly pulled out his hand more than a meter away from the 3-point line, watching Meng Xu try his best to interfere with the basketball he thrown, Maddie, who was still in the air, looked at Meng Xu opposite with a smile.

When Maddie and Meng Xu landed in the air one after another, and were swept into the basket by Maddie's basket, Maddie hit back at Meng Xu with an anser-ball, and the banker's life arena, which was extremely noisy and booed, instantly quieted down.

"Beautiful 3 points, Maddie was in the same position, and hit back Meng Xu with a dry shot!" After seeing Maddie's shooting, Michaels on the sidelines also let out an exclamation, dry pull shooting is also one of Maddie's stunts, although Maddie's dry pull and Meng Xu's dry pull are obviously different, but similar to Meng Xu's dry pull, Maddie's dry pull is also elegant and beautiful, elegant and natural.

Compared with Meng Xu's retreat step dry pull, Maddie rarely steps back when he pulls dry, but because the bounce height is lower than Meng Xu's, Maddie's backward amplitude after dry pull is slightly larger than Meng Xu's, and due to the different shooting postures, Meng Xu's basketball arc is slightly higher, while Maddie's basketball arc is flat.

When Maddie hit the ball, 3 to 3, the two sides were tied, and after glancing at Meng Xu, who was calm on the other side, Maddie waved his arm and retreated directly.

Although Maddie had no superfluous movements or superfluous words, from the moment Maddie waved his arm, Meng Xu could still feel the fighting spirit and fighting spirit released by Maddie.

Offensive and defensive switching, when the fans on the scene, after seeing Jermaine O'Neal send the baseline ball, the ball was advanced from Jamal Tinsley to Meng Xu, the fans at the scene instantly burst into cheers, after Maddie hit back at Meng Xu with a dry pull, Meng Xu is now obviously going to have something, no matter which position the fans on the scene stand, this kind of blood boiling anser-ball will always be the favorite drama of all audiences.

Just when Maddie stuck to Meng Xu and was about to defend Meng Xu's attack, Meng Xu just hit it very simply, and Maddie was out of position, and then Meng Xu turned his back directly and wiped Maddie behind him, this time Meng Xu did not choose to continue to shoot on the outside, but rushed directly to the Magic basket.

After getting rid of Maddie, Meng Xu began to accelerate, and Drew Gooden, who gave up his defensive object and rushed over to make up for the defense, was directly knocked away by Meng Xu, rubbing the numb and painful shoulders that were hit by Meng Xu, looking at Meng Xu, who still did not slow down at all, Drew Gooden, who was knocked away by Meng Xu, stood in place and seemed to have forgotten to catch up, and the next scene made Drew Gooden even more dumbfounded.

When Meng Xu knocked Drew Gooden away and rushed across the free throw line, Meng Xu jumped up less than a meter within the free throw line, and this guy actually wanted to dunk!

When Meng Xu got rid of Maddy, knocked into Drew Gooden, and jumped inside the free throw line, almost everyone on the scene, including the Pacers bench on the sidelines, stood up at this moment, and even on the Magic bench, several people left their seats. Kemp, who was still pushing each other under the basket just now, was also shocked when he noticed Meng Xu who was already flying in the air.

With a bang, Kemp, who had adjusted his defensive posture and was about to jump to block Meng Xu, found that Meng Xu had hit his body, and under the huge impact, Kemp took a step back directly, and Kemp looked up and found that Meng Xu was already hanging on the basket.

Buckle, this is an almost perfect buckle, after realizing that he was blocked by Meng Xu, a wail immediately rose in Kemp's heart, this Ni MA used to be deducted by others, and now basically everyone wants to buckle one on my head, but fortunately, his body is not as good as before, and he was directly knocked away by Meng Xu in the defense just now, otherwise he would have been ridden by this kid just now.

Soon, after a short exclamation, the Banker's Life Arena erupted into a roar again, and the name of "Odin" MVP and Meng Xu, all kinds of cheers were endless.