For professional basketball players, players who are less than 190 cm tall can basically be defined as "short", while those who are less than 180 cm tall are "short" among "short".

In the vast history of the NBA, there have not been many short players. In the past 40 years, there have been only 55 players under 6 feet (183 cm) tall, and 12 players under 5 feet 9 inches (175 cm) tall.

However, although the number of short players is small, there are only a handful of short stars in BA history, including the 178-centimeter "Little Squirrel" Damon Stoudemire, the 177-centimeter "Little General" Avery Johnson, and the 175-centimeter "Pocket Rocket" Calvin Murphy; There are also 170 cm "Potato" Webb and 174 cm "Little Potato" Nate Robinson, two NBA dunk kings; There are even super-short players like the 165-centimeter Boykins and the 160-centimeter "Bug" Tini Boggs.

Thomas Jr., who is 175 cm tall, is also a standard short player, and he also affects the draft ranking because of his short height, and he has also been looked down upon because of his short height.

Born in an ordinary family, Thomas Jr. has been a short man since he was a child, since he started playing, he has always been the shortest player in the game, but the disadvantage of size did not make Thomas Jr. give up his love for basketball, with the encouragement of his father, he practiced basketball day after day, and finally through hard work, he trained the shortcomings of height into his own advantage, and he mastered the breakthrough speed of the thunderous ball and the superior shooting accuracy.

For other people's doubts, for those who underestimate him, Thomas Jr. likes to use his strength to fight back and slap him in the face. He loved to play streetball, preferring to play streetball with people who were older and taller than him, and at the age of 14, Thomas Jr. beat all the adults around the community, and it was at that time that he learned his "mouth cannon" stunt.

After entering college, Thomas Jr. was even more unstoppable, his ball skills not only improved by leaps and bounds, but his verbal skills also improved rapidly. During his days at Washington State University, he was able to turn almost every training session into a real game, and because of his foul mouth, even his teammates would like to beat him up.

In college, he learned the routines of small players to play: fast passing, accurate shooting, and fierce defense.

"Fast, accurate, and ruthless" is the only way for short players to gain a foothold in the NBA. Fast is naturally easy to explain, run fast and shoot fast, and speed is the only means for short players to defeat big and tall; Accurate, short shots must be accurate, without a crosshair, the role of short players is basically wasted, in the end, no one will expect short men to grab rebounds and blocks; Ruthless, short people must be ruthless if they want to survive in the NBA, and they must be ruthless in defense.

"The strongest 175 on the surface" Thomas Jr., as the pinnacle of today's short players, naturally knows how to deal with those big men. More than 80% of his defense function is in his ferocious breaks, so he hopes that Roy, who is two meters tall, can break through, he is not afraid of tall people breaking through him, the higher the person, the worse the ball control skills, this is common sense and common sense. Except for a genius like "Magic" Johnson, it's hard to see a big man over two meters in ball control skills beat a player who is more than one meter eight.

Under normal circumstances, no tall man would attack with the ball like Thomas Jr., but Roy was different at this time.

Roy is on fire, and Thomas Jr.'s three attacks he can't prevent make Roy very annoyed, Thomas Jr. is not a super guard at the level of Harden, Wall, and Irving, he is just a small guard with a height of only 175 cm and a comprehensive ability of 82.

Why can't I do anything about him? Why can't you touch a ball that can be covered? The more Roy thought about it, the more angry he became, the more angry he became, and he was ready to face up to little Thomas to vent his anger, and this was exactly the situation that little Thomas was happy to see.

Truth be told, Roy's ball handling skills are good, at least for a player of his height, and his speed is top-notch. It stands to reason that Roy's offensive ability with the ball is very good, but these two skills did not play as much as expected in the face of Thomas Jr.

Height is indeed a major problem that restricts dribbling skills, the higher the center of gravity means the lower the frequency of dribbling, and the lower the frequency of dribbling, the greater the possibility of being broken.

In the eyes of Thomas Jr., Roy's seemingly excellent dribbling has flaws, and it was Roy's little flaw that was caught by Thomas Jr., and his fast hand saw the opportunity and stabbed it, and the basketball in Roy's hand slipped out instantly.

Oh no, by the time Roy reacted, Thomas Jr. had already got the ball, only to see Thomas Jr. dribbling and running wildly, while Roy was chasing after him.

The speed of the two is comparable, but Thomas Jr. is faster in the end, Roy is about to catch up, but Thomas Jr. over there shot early, a lightning-fast low hand layup, Roy saw it really, but it was still a little short when it came to the block.

The ball went in, the whistle blew, and Coach Hornacek called a timeout when he saw that something was wrong.

Why is this happening? Roy was stunned, little Thomas's speed was not top-notch, at least he could catch up, but even so, he just couldn't cover him.

Seeing that Thomas Jr., who scored four goals in a row and felt "hot", was there to mock himself "Your actions are like a puppet", Roy was furious......

"Roy, you can't cover little Thomas like that." At the timeout, Rost came over to give Roy a temporary lesson, "The most important thing for a small player who defends fast is to catch his rhythm, just like others can't guard me before, except for my super speed, more importantly, no one can judge my rhythm, I can shoot at any time, of course, I may make feints at any time to deceive the opponent." Thomas Jr. is fast and a thief, and if you can't find his attacking rhythm, it's hard to keep him alone. ”

I see, after listening to Rose's words, Roy suddenly had an epiphany, like Harden, Thomas Jr. also plays rhythm, but Harden plays "three steps slow", and this "strongest 175 on this table" plays "three steps faster".

It seems that it is difficult to deal with Thomas Jr. with his current defensive ability, so do you want to temporarily increase a little defensive ability, in the end, there are still more than 3,000 attribute points, or directly find a skill that can suppress the opponent?

By the way, skills are more important than any attribute.

It occurred to Roy that he had a privilege that Thomas Jr. did not have - the "King of the Ball System", and there must be stunts in the "King of the Ball Store" to suppress small players.

Roy guessed right, although there is no exclusive skill for dealing with small speed players in the "Ball King Shop", there is another powerful defensive skill - "Chase Hot Pot Master".

Skill "Chasing Hot Pot Master" (Level 1):

●Expiration date: Permanent;

●Acquisition conditions: "Block" 70 or higher, "Speed" 70 or more, "Defensive Awareness" 70 or more;

●Effect: When chasing a block, there is a 50% chance that the opponent's timing will be completely judged and the "speed" will be increased by 5; Overall capacity increased by 1 point;

● Price: 1000 attribute points;

●Next Level Effect: When chasing a block, there is a 60% chance that the opponent's timing will be completely judged and the "speed" will be increased by 5; Overall capacity increased by 2 points;

●Next level acquisition conditions: "Block" 80 or higher, "Speed" 80 or more, "Defensive Awareness" 80 or more;

● Next level price: 1500 attribute points.

"Shorty, I'll try it later." After restarting, Roy took the lead in a war of words.

"Okay, rookie, I'm happy to oblige, anyway, it's as easy as shopping for you." Thomas Jr. did not show weakness, in fact, he was a little surprised to hear Roy provoke himself, where did this rookie have the confidence to continue to challenge himself.

The ball was immediately in Roy's hands again, Roy was smart this time, he couldn't compete with the short player in the next three ways, and he didn't think much about it, a triple threat feint went straight to the three.

"Can't get in!" Thomas Jr. let out a loud shout, and the ball slammed into the basket.

What a mouthful to defend.

"Attack!" Thomas Jr.'s duck voice is everywhere, and Zeller, who got the rebound, understands it, and it will be a long throw immediately.

The scene of Thomas Jr. and Roy chasing me was formed on the field.

The fans at the TD North Shore Garden Arena in Boston were in a daze at this time, and they seemed to have seen Thomas Jr. lead the team to play a wave of small climaxes.

"Kill him, Isaiah!"

"Run, Thomas (the name of a toy train)!"

"Forward, Celtic!"

Amid the shouts of the fans, Thomas Jr., who was fast and fast, had already run into the paint zone (three-second zone), and the rest of his eyes told himself that Roy hadn't caught up.

It seems that he gave up? It's really useless, it turns out that I only have the ability to play tricks, but it's normal, in the end, there are few people in this alliance who have run away from me.

Although Thomas Jr. is full of confidence, he is not the kind of guy who gets carried away easily, and he still maintains his pace in the last two steps to the basket.

As Thomas Jr. did every night, as soon as the ball hits the rebound, it's an easy two-point getaway.

"Smack." The ball hit the rebound, but it didn't bounce to the basket.

In the midst of a burst of exclamation from the audience, Roy suddenly struck Thomas Jr. in the back like a bolt of lightning, and this time he completely saw the timing of Thomas Jr.'s shot, and an impartial pegboard hat was offered.

No way! When the ball hit the rebound, Thomas Jr. was stupid.

"That's strength, Isaiah." Roy smiled, he finally got it back......