Chapter 472: The Death Clasp Reappears!!
After the All-Star break, every team is holding themselves to tougher standards.
Teams like the Cavaliers and Warriors, who are firmly at the top of the Eastern and Western standings, have already begun to prepare for the playoffs, and they don't need to worry about the record, but they also need to pay attention to the health of the main players, and every core player is well protected, as long as the roster is in order, then they are the strongest contenders for the championship.
And teams like the Kings, Pistons, Celtics, Knicks, and Jazz who have a chance to break into the playoffs will definitely do their best in the next 20 games or so to win every game, and the competition between the East and West is particularly fierce this year, Xie Chen, who won the championship last year, has not yet entered the door of the playoffs, that is because Xie Chen changed teams and was banned for so long, but the Rockets led by James Harden have no excuses to talk about, and the Rockets once broke into the Western Conference finals last year to face off against the Warriors, But now it is only eighth in the West, and the ticket to the playoffs is not in the way.
In such a tense situation, fortunately, the Knicks' next opponent is not the above teams, but the Nets, who are ranked second to last in the East, the Nets' record is only better than the 76ers, and the team has long lost the determination to compete for the playoffs, so this matchup will not be too intense, and having such an opponent in the first game after the All-Star Weekend is also a chance for Xie Chen to buffer.
Five days after the All-Star Weekend, the New York Knicks came to the Barclays Center to challenge the Brooklyn Nets away, although it is an away challenge, but the Nets are no longer the New Jersey Nets of the past, and now they are in New York, Xie Chen grew up in New York, and he participated in the three-point contest here last year, so he didn't feel like he was away at all. Even the scene saw a lot of fans wearing Knicks No. 0 Xie Chen.
This city derby battle is destined not to be too intense, everyone knows that what the Knicks lack most now is victory, and will not give up any chance to win, even if the opponent is as strong as the Warriors Cavaliers, it is estimated that the Knicks will be won now, not to mention the Nets who have no desire to win and the strength is average. Many netizens have posted one after another, thank you day is coming, how many sessions can we last? The last time Kuri came to the day, the third section was defeated, but I hope that this time it can also last three sections!
Before the Nets moved to Brooklyn for the 12-13 season, they traded Joe Johnson as Deron Williams' backcourt partner, and then went even further to include two future Hall of Fame inductees, Kevin Garnett and Paul Pearce, three years later. With the team buying out Deron Williams for the final two years of his contract, only Joe Johnson is still on the roster, and his contract will expire at the end of the season.
In addition to gross wages, the Nets are burdened with a $120 million luxury tax, and the worst may not be yet for the Nets, as they have overdrawn their draft picks for the next three years through trades.
The loss of Deron Williams has left Xie Chen with one less-for-tat opponent, and this match will make Xie Chen play more easily. No one in the Nets can defend against Xie Chen.
And everyone's interest is still in Xie Chen's dunk, before the All-Star Game slam dunk contest. Xie Chen has never shown such a domineering dunk ability in any regular season game, this is Xie Chen's first official game after exposing his ability, people are curious about how many baskets Xie Chen will dunk in this game?
"Listen to me, that's right, it's absolutely right to come to watch the game today, Xie has been hiding his real dunk strength before. Now that he has finally been exposed to defeat LeBron in the slam dunk contest, this game, he will release all the abilities he has been holding back for a long time at once, and the Nets' basket is going to suffer tonight. A young man said confidently to his companion.
He guessed correctly, Carter's abilities have been exposed. Xie Chen no longer has to hide it, tonight, Xie Chen will use Carter's ability to the fullest, as long as he has the opportunity, he will show off a good time, remembering that Vince Carter also played for the Nets, Xie Chen can't help but worry that the legendary team he met tonight will be the Nets team with Vince Carter and Kidd?
The game started quickly, the Lopez brothers fought for the ball in the center circle, the twin brothers have very different hairstyles, one dreams of becoming a singer, the other dreams of becoming a cartoonist, and they never speak on the court, according to Robin, they usually rarely even text contact, however, their mother is also watching the game tonight, as a single mother, she must feel very proud at the moment.
At the beginning of the game, Xie Chen showed a super offensive desire, a three-pointer, another three-pointer, the Nets team had no power to parry, he wanted to crush the opponent in the shortest time, it was best if he scored less than 30 assists and did not have a double, and there would be no suspense in the game, so he would save the effort to deal with the legendary team.
However, the Nets were obviously not such an easy team to bully, and they quickly counterattacked and bit the score.
In this way, after a quarter and a half, the Nets always trailed by about 8-10 points, and at this time, the Nets' Lopez also suffered a slight injury, and the Nets replaced another big man center of two meters and one three, he has a name that can be compared with LeBron James, the top pick in the draft, three years later than James.
Bagnani's performance certainly didn't deserve the title of champion, and there were many excellent players that year, such as Rajon Rondo, Aldridge, Rudy Gay, Paul Millsap, Brandon Roy, Kyle Lowry, and JJ Redick, all of whom were much more famous and efficient than Barciani.
Bagnani is most criticized for his defense, and some even think he is a bit brainless, because once in the final moments, when the team was still leading by two points, this guy actually went to shoot a three-pointer, which scared all his teammates.
And defense, basically just standing still and letting the opposing breakaway player go to the basket or shoot, and sometimes the defensive action is hilarious, because the block is not going to pounce on the ball, but to the air.
After Bagnani came on the court, he had a chance to face Xie Chen, after Xie Chen's quick breakthrough, he was ready to go to the basket in Europe, and there was only one defender in front of him, that was Bagnani, although Bagnani didn't look strong. But the height is still very high, Xie Chen must be cautious, this kind of guy who is the same height as Hassan can block your layup even if he jumps slightly.
Xie Chen quickly took a European step to confuse Bagnani, relying on Xie Chen's speed like the wind. As long as Bagnani is deceived by his first move, Xie Chen is confident that he will make a layup next.
However, after Xie Chen's first swing, Bagnani didn't move at all! Xie Chen was immediately stunned, could he see that this was an action to confuse him?
Xie Chen continued to move, one left and one right and then went to the basket, when he made the layup, he was obviously a little weak-hearted, because he was afraid of being blocked by Bagnani. didn't expect Bagnani to still not move when Xie Chen made a layup!
Yes, I watched Xie Chen's layup swinging left and right from beginning to end, but Xie Chen was not afraid of you defending hard, because Xie Chen was used to being caught and used to difficult layups, and the ball that was too easy was not used to it, but it would not be able to score!
This time the layup really went wrong, and the layup missed. Slowly fell off the basket, and then. Bagnani finally got on the move, got the rebound with ease, and then passed it to his teammates.
Xie Chen was stunned on the spot, it looked as if Bagnani was an outsider, and he didn't care about Xie Chen's various changing layup moves at all, just getting the basketball that Xie Chen didn't make at the end. Xie Chen couldn't bear it!
Netizens also laughed so much that they couldn't do it.
"Bagnani responded to the situation and successfully defended the ball! Attaboy! ”
"In the face of a player like Xie Chen, jumping up and blocking will only give Xie Chen a 2+1 chance, and Bagnani did the right thing."
After that, Anthony saw that Xie Chen was very unhappy with the ball just now. patted Xie Chen and said, "You may not know this guy well, Bagnani used to be on the Knicks team, I was on the same team as him, he ...... In any case, it's not that he refuses to defend you, it's not that he disdains you, but he doesn't know how to defend at all! Can you believe it? As the team's interior player, he didn't even get a single foul in a game. ”
"Uh...... Is that so? Xie Chen smiled, such a person was in front of Rondo Guy Eroy, and he suddenly wondered if a few of them would feel aggrieved.
Now that he knows the characteristics of Bagnani, the next game will be better to play, Xie Chen can be more simple and direct, and just ignore Bagnani at all.
"Well, ignore him, wreak havoc on the inside, and just fight like that." Xie Chen regained his spirits.
In the next attack, Xie Chen received Anthony's second pass, slipped in directly from the bottom line, and was ready to sneak up on a layup or dunk, but he didn't expect Bagnani to block in front of Xie Chen again this time, Xie Chen was going to ignore the opponent's jump, but he didn't expect Bagnani to make a blocking move!
Yes, without jumping in place, the action of capping was made.
"What?" Xie Chen was stunned again, what is Bagnani doing? Xie Chen hasn't shot at all, who did he make a blocking move to show so early?
However, this action really frightened Xie Chen, the rhythm was all out of order for a while, I didn't know what to do, I just wanted to shake it again and try the footsteps of the big dream, but I didn't expect that at this time, it was blown away.
Xie Chen was so angry that he smashed the basketball directly on the floor, the referee actually went against Xie Chen, and blew Xie Chen a foul, Xie Chen was so angry that he just wanted to reason with the referee, Anthony pulled Xie Chen to avoid another foul from Xie Chen.
It was difficult for Xie Chen not to be angry, because the ball just now was Xie Chen's must-score goal, as long as he ignored Bagnani's interference and absolutely jumped directly, who knew that Bagnani didn't even dare to jump! Xie Chen was cautious again.
Netizens were also happy.
"Whoever says that Bagnani's defense is not good, I am in a hurry, Xie is a player who can cut more than 80 points in a single game, and he has been planted in the hands of Bagnani twice in a row."
"Don't underestimate the champion of any session, there is a reason why you were selected!"
On the field, Anthony pulled Xie Chen aside to calm down: "I told you earlier, don't care too much about his defense, no one knows what he's thinking in his head, how can he make those messy moves, don't play too complicated." ”
Xie Chen also nodded: "This time I will definitely not be deceived by him again, ignore him, I will completely ignore him, I want to see if he can really block me next time!" ”
Even if Xie Chen was blocked by Bagnani, he didn't want to ignore him and ignore him because of this anymore, Xie Chen kept repeating this sentence in his heart.
Gradually, Xie Chen couldn't see the person Bagnani at all, as soon as he saw it, he would immediately treat this person as if he was invisible.
The Nets found that Bagnani made Xie Chen look chaotic, and they all praised Bagnani and played more and more energetically.
However, after a serve, he was too careless, and was successfully tackled by Derrick Williams in the position of less than half court, Xie Chen was already ready to return to defense, and saw that the ball was in the hands of the Knicks again, as the team's number one attacker, needless to say, quickly killed back, Williams saw Xie Chen coming, and quickly passed the ball to Xie Chen.
Then, Xie Chen saw Bagnani again.
"I can't see it!" Xie Chen said to himself, this time, he couldn't be disturbed by this person who couldn't defend at all, just ignore him.
Bagnani didn't stand still this time, maybe it was the encouragement and praise of his teammates that made him more active in defending, and when he saw Xie Chen coming, he immediately moved a step to the right to block Xie Chen's way.
But after Xie Chen quickly took the ball, he couldn't see the Bagnani in front of him at all, facing the other party and jumping up!
Everyone's eyes widened, watching Xie Chen slowly leap into the air, this time Bagnani still didn't jump, like a pillar there, it could be seen that he looked very flustered, because he was a timid person, he was afraid that Xie Chen would hit him hard this time, Xie Chen was the one who dared to fight against James's body.
Bagnani's worries are too much.
Because, he didn't have the opportunity to have a physical confrontation or even contact with Xie Chen at all. The only thing that could come into contact with Xie Chen was Bagnani's hair.
This time, Xie Chen, who completely ignored Bagnani without distractions, jumped recklessly and recklessly used Vince Carter's dunk ability as if there was no one in front of him.
Then, I saw Xie Chen's whole person leap over two meters and one three!
"Oh my God!" Even the team's coach Fisher and the Zen master who were there to watch opened their mouths wide.
Bang!
After Xie Chen leaped over Bagnani, he completed the dunk!
Death Buckle!
The Death Buckle is back! And it's the first time in the NBA! (To be continued.) )