Chapter 67: The Walking Dead
"What are you doing, Dennis?! I'm not wasting your time by sending you on!! Budenholzer yelled in exasperation when he saw Schroeder dribbling and saying something to his opponent.
Schroeder heard the head coach's roar, and he grinned at Addison: "Okay, the conversation time is over." β
The German point guard slapped the ball hard with his right hand, and the powerful energy exploded from his legs, and the sneaker kicked off the shiny floor. Schroder's speed in the Bundesliga is almost unmatched, and even when he comes to the NBA, he is the best at this point, which gives him great confidence.
Near-blind self-confidence......
Addison anticipated at the same moment as his opponent activated, moving his feet nimbly to his left side while taking a step back with his left leg to allow room for reaction. The Chinese boy was not thrown away by Schroeder at all, and his sharp figure blocked the opponent's forward path at the most appropriate angle.
Schroeder's movements obviously paused, he didn't expect that this yellow-skinned rookie was not accelerated by his own moment, but instead blocked the direction of his breakthrough.
The German point guard took a step back with the ball, he is not the type to use his body to fight, and his speed is his biggest reliance. Once this strongest point is restrained, he will enter into a short-term selection difficulty, after all, his jump shot is not very prominent. Whether it's ability, skill or experience, he is better than Jeff. Teague is a lot worse, Addison leaves him space difficult to shoot alone, and Schroeder's strength is not up to the level of giving himself space to shoot.
Schroder looked a little nervous after two consecutive changes of direction failed to shake off Addison's defense, and his peripheral vision caught a glimpse of Horford coming up from the inside to meet him, and hurriedly handed the ball to his left hand to pass it.
"Smack!!
The shrill sound made Schroeder's heart panic violently, and he almost watched as the Chinese boy suddenly took a step forward at the moment of his pass, stretched out his arms and flew the ball out......
There was a cry of surprise in the court, and Addison grabbed the bounced basketball like a cheetah before everyone else, and started at high speed to kill the front court.
Dennis. Schroeder pursed his mouth and chased after the yellow figure, he was still young, he couldn't bear to be tackled like this by a rookie, and he wanted to make up for his mistake as soon as possible.
I have to say that this German is really fast, and he was not pulled away from Addison. The Chinese rookie rushed into the penalty area and jumped up, and Schroeder, who was behind him, also jumped high with a hideous expression, full of thoughts about fanning the basketball away.
"Give him a big hot pot, Dennis !!"
"that rookie! Kill him!! β
"Come on! Dennis!!! β
Hawks fans shouted cheers for their potential star, only to see the yellow-skinned boy with the ball and jump with his arm folded and passed the basketball down his and Schroder's side to the back.
Schroeder, whose arm was thrown in the air, fell back to the floor in a daze, only to hear someone shouting: "Be careful!! β
Behind him Ruhl. Deng had already grabbed the ball like a beast and jumped into the air, and the strength of his body combined with strong inertia all acted on the slightly thin black young man under the basket.
"Boom !!" The basketball was smashed into the net basket with unprecedented violence, and the Englishman, who usually has an easy-going personality, is now like a black demon god hanging from the basket and looking down fiercely.
Dennis. Schroeder had realized that he needed to dodge, but he was still hit by a powerful force, and the whole person was knocked to the point that he staggered two steps, and then sat on the floor in embarrassment. He subconsciously looked up at the black figure, and the blankness in his eyes still did not disappear.
There was a chilling silence on the Phillips court, except for the boys on the Heat's bench who roared and jumped to their feet, performing their amazing feelings.
"Are you alright?" Millsap, who had run over, stretched out his hand to pick up Schrodra and asked with some concern.
The confusion in the German's eyes seemed to freeze in it, and he shook his head vigorously to shake off the surprise and fear in his heart, and tried to calm his tone as calmly as possible: "...... I'm fine. β
But Millsap could see that the young man's expression was a clear indication that he could not be okay.
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"A Chinese passed the ball to the British, and the British overturned the German's ......" O'Neill put his chin on his hand with a funny pretended serious expression, and thought for a while, "When did the alliance become so unfriendly to international friends?" Butβ"
"But you like it, Shaq, you pretending big fat man, I know you too well!" Barkley stole his colleague's words with disdain, "This kind of shot is not violent enough for a bloodthirsty shark, is it?" β
O'Neill's huge eyes rolled, and then he smiled: "You have a point, Sir Pig, please allow me to ask Dennis. Mr. Schroeder sympathized that he did not look good at what he was doing. β
Indeed, by Ruhr. Schroeder, who fell to the ground, seemed to have entered a trance of 'walking dead', but his tense face revealed a dazedness, and he was almost stealed by Addison again after dribbling to the front court.
His teammate Shervin. Seeing this, Mike hurriedly ran and pulled out the three-point line to respond, and moved the ball with Korver and Millsap in succession, and finally Korver misplaced to face Andre. Dawkins, straight dry pull long-distance two-point shot. The first-half sharpshooter seemed to cool off in the locker room, and the basketball hit the basket and popped off the basket, which was grabbed by McRoberts for a defensive rebound.
The Miami pushed forward as fast as ever, but the Atlantans also adapted to their opponent's fast-paced style and dropped back just as quickly.
Addison glanced at Schroeder's expression and saw that the guy was still in a state of being stunned, and he immediately motioned to his teammates not to block it. After several quick crotch changes in a row, Addison took a step forward with his left hand, Schroeder moved almost instinctively, and the Chinese boy changed direction at high speed and directly passed the opponent from the right side and went straight inside.
After Severoza went off the court, Coach Budenholzer eliminated the defensive strategy of quick reinforcement of the wing players, and Addison only had to face the raised Horford after hitting the inside. The Eagles center knew he wasn't moving well, and he was smart not to stick it up, but to give himself some cushion space.
Addison didn't slow down too much when he rushed over with the ball, facing Horford's center of gravity to the right, and the whole person also took a step towards the right. Horford, who thought that this rookie was going to force a breakthrough, hurriedly took a step back and turned his body slightly sideways, but the next second Addison made a step back and distanced him, and at the same time raised the ball upwards with both hands.
Seeing this, Horford tried his best to pounce back, and Addison folded his arm expressionlessly, and sent the ball down the side of the opponent into the basket with his right hand.
"Boom !!" Chris. Bosh's hands were clasped and his roars reverberated throughout the audience, and 'Dragon King' had completely fallen in love with the feeling of playing with Addison. In the past four years in Miami, he has been enough to be a backstabber and a pseudo-giant, and now as long as there is Addison's passing organization, even if he is not effective on the defensive end, at least he can maintain a statistically exploding state with the opponent's interior on the offensive end.
Just like now, while Horford scored 14 points against Bosh's defense, Bosh also scored 12 points in the Hawks' restricted area, making him unstoppable.
Mike. Budenholzer called a timeout with a serious look on his face, and seeing the score closer, he had to rearrange it. Originally, Budenholzer wanted Schroder to use his speed to storm the Heat's defense and keep up with Addison on the defensive end. He is very optimistic about the young German and even hopes to let SchrΓΆder succeed Jeff after two or three seasons. Teague.
But he didn't expect Schroeder to be knocked to the ground once a few minutes after he came on the court, and his self-confidence was completely shattered. Even for the sake of the young man's future growth, Budenholzer will not continue to let Schroeder continue to be the 'walking dead' on the field.
Jeff. Teague is back in the field while projecting inside Perrault. Antic replaced Horford, who had been on the court for a long time, and maintained the confrontation with a half-starter, half-bench lineup. The Hawks' bench strength is among the best in the league, and whether it's Antich or Mike. Scott, Shervin. Mike has good strength.
Both teams played tepidly for the rest of the third quarter, and both switched to rotation lineups in the second half. Spoelstra didn't dare to let the team play on the second team. Kerr hasn't gotten to the point where he can control the tempo in a fast-hitting fast-break game.
Dwyan. Wade came on with just over two minutes left in the third quarter, and the task of getting enough rest was to use his individual ability to keep the score from reaching more than 10 points before the fourth quarter. The 'Flashes' lived up to expectations with a three-pointer and a foul on the basket to help the visitors bite the score, and the Heat trailed by eight points at 79-87 at the end of the third quarter, still retaining a lot of hope.
"If you look at the state of the Miamins right now, it's hard to compare them to the so-called 'fish belly' who was rated by countless experts before the season as not even making the playoffs." Barkley didn't hesitate to express his opinion, never caring who he was battering, "even against a stronger opponent overall, they still played tenaciously and retained the possibility of victory." β
"So I think the experts who have been skeptical of this Chinese rookie can completely rethink that they don't need to and shouldn't deny this kid because of his skin color." O'Neal is also an unscrupulous character, and even touched on racial issues with one mouth, "I've met a lot of defenders in my career, and in my memory, there are not many guys who can take on the team's playmaking tasks when they were rookies, and no one can smoothly switch team tactics when the manager asks for a change of tactics, and the switch is successful. β
"So the Heat's uniform team at least made the right decision, and they chose the rookie who was the best fit for the team." Kenny. Smith was afraid that the two partners would say something out of the ordinary again, so he hurriedly smiled and shifted the focus, "Spoelstra is also very smart, and he has established this most suitable rookie into the team's organizational core. β