Chapter 793: Your Uncle is Still Your Uncle
"Tony, I'll keep the ball this time." Because Tony Allen was forced by Dwyane Wade for two rounds in a row, so when Tim Duncan was about to serve the baseline ball again, Meng Xu walked to Tony Parker's side, hoping to switch positions with Tony Parker and let him control the ball.
"This, okay." After struggling for a long time, Tony Parker nodded at Meng Xu, and then turned around and ran directly towards the frontcourt. While running, Tony Parker glanced back at Meng Xu very entangledly, Meng Xu joined the Spurs, Tony Parker is very welcome, because with Meng Xu's joining, they are one step closer to the championship, but after Meng Xu came to the Spurs, Parker first lost the position of the core of the court, from the offensive core of the Spurs and the top scorer to the second line, and now it seems that he is going to take another step back and become a dispensable dribble guard, although Parker knows in his heart that Meng Xu's move is also to win, But anyone can feel uncomfortable.
After Tony Parker left, Meng Xu nodded to Duncan and signaled him to send the baseline ball, for Meng Xu to run to the backcourt to control the ball, the Heat was obviously a little unexpected, although Meng Xu also played as a playmaker and won the assist king, but Eric Spoelstra never imagined that Meng Xu would play the No. 1 position in today's game.
Although he didn't expect Meng Xu to return to the backcourt to control the ball, Sean Battier, who was responsible for pressing Meng Xu, still followed Meng Xu when Meng Xu ran to the backcourt, and after Meng Xu received the baseline ball from Duncan, Battier stuck to Meng Xu tightly and began to press Meng Xu.
However, when Sean Battier was crushed by Meng Xu all the way from the backcourt to the frontcourt, whether it was Battier who was still following Meng Xu's side, or Eric Spoelstra who was standing on the sidelines, his face was a little ugly now, Battier's body was too thin for Meng Xu, although when he was pressing Meng Xu, Battier had worked hard enough, but when defending Meng Xu, Battier was still like a junior high school student defending a college student, and he was crushed by Meng Xu without any strength to fight back.
After Battier was crushed by Meng Xu, Meng Xu is basically empty now, which is also due to the characteristics of the full-court tight defense, as for the rest of the Heat players, no one can give up their respective defensive objects to make up for Battier, so Meng Xu scored a layup in front of the eyes of all the Heat players.
"LeBron." Eric Spoelstra, who looked helpless, took advantage of the opportunity of the Heat to send the bottom ball, called James who was passing by the sidelines, and was ready to let him switch positions with Battier, and he would execute the pressing of Meng Xu, although Battier's defense was also very good, but his physical fitness was completely insufficient in front of Meng Xu, so Eric Spoelstra hoped that the stronger James would replace Battier.
James, who was instructed by the head coach, stayed directly in the backcourt after scoring a single score in the low post, ready to press Meng Xu according to Eric Spoelstra's instructions.
After discovering that the player who defended him became James, Meng Xu changed his way of propulsion, giving up the bulldozer-style rush when he was dealing with Battier's pressing just now, and after two steps of acceleration, Meng Xu directly lowered his body's center of gravity, and used a dribbling method that was almost close to the ground, and got rid of James's pressing very easily, and then pouted his butt and twisted around to rush to the Heat's basket.
In the cheers of the audience, Meng Xu picked up the basket and hit, and then Eric Spoelstra called a timeout, and from Eric Spoelstra's frowning brows, it can be seen that the Heat's full-court pressing tactics have failed.
"This is the gap in pure strength." Popovich, who was sitting on the sidelines, looked at Tony Parker, and then at Meng Xu, and sighed in his heart, due to Duncan's strength slippage and Ginobili's habitual convulsions, so two seasons ago, Popovich helped Tony Parker to the core of the Spurs, but Parker's soft style at critical moments, and the lack of pure strength, still have been restricting the Spurs' ceiling, taking the rounds after the opening of the third quarter as an example, Parker was facing Dwyane Wade pressing, has never been able to rely on his own individual ability to break Wade's pressing, which makes the Spurs' tactics unsustainable under the Heat's full-court pressing, once this situation continues for a long time, the Spurs will definitely face an increase in turnovers, scoring difficulties, and the advantage established in the first half will also be ruined.
And after Meng Xu began to control the ball, the Heat's full-court pressing was useless, Battier's defense was good enough, but his physical fitness was too poor, so his pressing defense was like air in front of Meng Xu, as long as Meng Xu squeezed lightly, Battier would be pushed away, and he couldn't even stick to it, how could he press? James's body is strong enough, but Meng Xu can put the center of gravity of his body very low when dribbling, and a player of James' height has no way to start, so after Meng Xu began to control the ball, the Heat's full-court pressing was doomed to failure, this is purely a gap in strength, in the current league, I am afraid that there is no player who can close Meng Xu.
"The Heat's full-court pressing now looks like a complete failure." After Eric Spoelstra called a timeout, Kenny Smith on the commentary bench shook his head and pronounced a verdict on the failure of the Heat's full-court pressing tactics, Meng Xu has rich experience in full-court pressing, so the Heat's full-court pressing on Meng Xu is destined to end in failure, of course, if Meng Xu is a few years older, or his physical condition is a little worse, then the Heat's full-court pressing on him may have a little effect, and now, your uncle is still your uncle.
"Meng Xu's offense is really unsolvable, and it's normal for the Heat to not be able to defend against him, but I think it's very strange for the Heat to resolutely not contain Meng Xu's thinking, what's the difference between defending Meng Xu one-on-one and sending points?" Unlike Kenny Smith, Reggie Miller questioned Eric Spoelstra's defensive strategy, if at the beginning of the game, you had a little insufficient estimate of Meng Xu's strength, and there was still some vacillation on how to defend Meng Xu, but the game was played so far, Meng Xu should have been wrapped up a long time ago, but Eric Spoelstra in addition to trying to crack the Spurs in the first quarter, he sandwiched Meng Xu a few times, The rest of the time it was all Sean Battier or James who defended Meng Xu one-on-one.
"It's time for the bag." Seeing that Meng Xu's personal score has now risen to 23 points, Barkley, who looks quite calm on the surface, doesn't know how much of a wave he has set off in his heart, so Barkley is also a little expecting the Heat to wrap up Meng Xu after the timeout.
"Hahahaha..." Looking at Barkley's expression, Kenny Smith and Reggie Miller on the side laughed very tacitly after glancing at each other.