Chapter 382: The Strongest Layup in History
"The Pacers called a timeout, brought on all the main players, and with Jason Kidd taking over the game after the opening, it didn't look like it was going to end there." Magic Johnson, who had already lost interest in this game, put aside those careful thoughts in his mind after Jason Kidd's outburst and put all his attention back on the court.
"This substitution of the Pacers is a bit weird, Meng Xu replaced Jamal Tinsley, not James Posey, is Meng Xu going to play point guard?" After the Pacers completed the substitution and saw that Meng Xu did not replace James Posey in the same position, but replaced the team's playmaker Jamal Tinsley, Michaels began to speculate whether Meng Xu would play playmaking guard and directly opposite Jason Kidd, if that was the case, the game would be more interesting.
"Meng Xu was at the Spurs last season, playing as a playmaker, so there is no problem for him, and I am very much looking forward to what kind of performance these two will play after Meng vs. Jason. Meng and Jason are the two players with the most triple-doubles this season, Meng Xu has 12 triple-doubles this season and has won more than 10 triple-doubles in two consecutive seasons, and Jason has also scored 9 triple-doubles this season. Because he is a signed commentator for ABC, Magic Johnson has a lot of data on basically all players in the league, especially Meng Xu, Magic Johnson is particularly concerned, because until now, Magic Johnson is still looking forward to him being his successor.
"Meng, it's finally time for us to showdown." When Meng Xu dribbled the ball through the middle circle from the backcourt, Kidd rushed over as soon as possible, and at the same time waved his hand at his teammates behind him, signaling that he didn't need to wrap up, this time defending, Kidd was ready to deal with Meng Xu alone. After Meng Xu started to possess the ball, Kidd did not press Meng Xu all over the court like defending Jamal Tinsley, because Kidd had already tried it last season, and pressing defense had no effect on Meng Xu at all, and it was easy to lose position and be broken by Meng Xu.
Last season, when Kidd was still in the Suns and Meng Xu was still in the Spurs, the two met a total of 4 times in the regular season, and each time Meng Xu embarrassed Kidd, on the offensive end, with Meng Xu's amazing ball control skills, it was very difficult to steal directly from his hands, and at the same time, with Meng Xu's two-meter height, it was basically impossible for Kidd to block his passing vision, especially when Meng Xu chose to shoot on his head, Kidd could only look at the ball and sigh. And on the defensive end, Meng Xu rarely eats feints, and Meng Xu's movement speed and reaction ability are even faster than his own, and with his super long arm span, he is like a spider-man, completely covering himself.
But the difference now is that when the game entered the fourth quarter, Kidd felt that he was at his best, both physically and in the state of the game, and after trying a breakthrough, Kidd vaguely felt that he had found that omnipotent state again, and after a summer of hard work with Payton last offseason, Kidd also learned some tricks from Payton to deal with big men, so Kidd's self-confidence is now skyrocketing.
"Jason, in that case, give it your all." After Kidd suddenly exploded and successfully took over the game, the Nets, who were severely hit and psychologically stressed in the second and third quarters of the game, have now gradually recovered their morale. Kidd's current thoughts, Meng Xu is also very clear, it is nothing more than wanting to defeat himself in one-on-one, continue to improve his morale and fighting spirit, and by the way, also hit the morale of the other party, Meng Xu is also thinking the same now, today's game is not just an ordinary playoffs, this game is also related to the trend of the entire series, whoever wins this game, who will take the lead.
Meng Xu turned sideways to Kidd, holding the basketball with one hand, to be honest, in the face of this kind of defensive player who is 10 cm shorter than himself, Meng Xu shot directly in place, and he could shoot him to death, even if he didn't shoot 3 points, with Meng Xu's current outside players, he is basically the strongest back body ability, just Kidd's body, pushing him all the way to the basket, there is no problem, but Meng Xu now has no idea of shooting or playing back, after Kidd scores through continuous breakthroughs, use breakthroughs to return the color, Naturally, the offensive option is the most morale-boosting option.
In the cheers of the fans, Meng Xu began to turn around with the ball, and after finding that Meng Xu had no intention of shooting, Kidd stuck to Meng Xu, and at the same time put one hand on Meng Xu's waist, and the other arm was open, ready to slap the basketball in Meng Xu's hand at any time. After Meng Xu completed the turn, he immediately hit Kidd, and then quickly lowered the center of gravity of his body and began to change direction in the opposite direction, but this time Meng Xu's invincible change of direction did not get rid of Kidd, although Meng Xu fell half a body distance, but Kidd still followed Meng Xu closely, and kept dragging his jersey.
After completing the first change of direction, Meng Xu continued to lower the center of gravity of his body, his shoulders were low to only Kidd's waist, and after the first change of direction was completed, he only took a step forward, and Meng Xu's second change of direction began, this time Kidd finally lost his position, and Kidd, who lost his body's center of gravity in the process of twisting left and right, was left behind by Meng Xu, but after stabilizing his body's center of gravity a little in place, Kidd continued to chase in the direction of Meng Xu's breakthrough.
Contrary to the wave after wave of cheers from the audience, several commentators on the sidelines all held their breath at the moment and stared at Meng Xu with wide eyes, for fear of missing every moment. After shaking off Kidd with the second change of direction, Meng Xu completed the last change of direction in front of Keith Van Horne, who was on defense, and rushed directly to a distance of less than 3 meters from the basket, and his fingertips lightly touched the basketball in motion, Meng Xu took advantage of the situation to pull up the center of gravity of his body, jumped his body into the air, and grabbed the basketball that rebounded into the air with his left hand.
Meng Xu, who had just caught the basketball, saw Kenyon Martin pounce towards him in the air, through a lever and drifting to the right side, Meng Xu easily dodged Kenyon Martin's block, just after Kenyon Martin was shaken away, Keith Van Horn behind Meng Xu and Todd McCloch, who was on the right side of the basket, jumped up almost at the same time, floating in the air at the moment, surrounded by Nets defenders Meng Xu, his brain was already blank, in order to avoid Keith Van Horn's block, Meng Xu switched the basketball from his left hand to his right hand through a lever movement, and then used his last strength to shake the basketball in the air before Todd McCloch pounced on him.
After the basketball came out of his hand, under the collision of Todd McCloche, Meng Xu lost his body center of gravity in the air and flew out towards the bottom line, before his body landed, Meng Xu saw the group of reporters behind the basket, all of them with their mouths wide open, like looking at monsters, staring at themselves, just a moment later, including this group of reporters, the entire side stands, all boiled, the faces that had been distorted, the towels that kept flying and all kinds of small things that were thrown into the air, all of this, all proved what a crazy layup Meng Xu had just made.
"Oh, cake seller, this is definitely the best layup I've ever seen, like Dr. J." On the commentary seat, Magic Johnson, who had already stood up, put his hands on his head, still with an incredible expression. After the layup after the aerial change of hands and 3 consecutive pulls, Magic Johnson searched all the layups in his mind, and only in his rookie season, Dr. J Julius Irving's aerial loop layup in the Finals can be compared, no, even Dr. J's layup, compared with Meng Xu's layup just now, it is slightly inferior.
"This layup is definitely the strongest layup in the entire history of basketball." Michaels tugged at his tie and sat there in a daze, swallowing his saliva for a long time before he said this. As a Pacer celebrity, Myer Daniels didn't have so many scruples, so he directly ripped off the microphone on his head, threw it on the ground, and rushed to the sidelines. As for the Pacers' bench, everyone, including Larry Bird, waved everything they were holding in their hands and yelled at the court with a frantic face.
"How is this possible?" Just when the banker's life arena was in a frenzy, almost all the Nets players were thinking like this at the moment, and someone could complete such a layup? Everyone, including Kidd, was staring blankly at the court, or the big screen in the center of the court, the layup action that Meng Xu had just completed was being replayed over and over again, if it wasn't for the opponent, they would not hesitate to applaud Meng Xu.
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