Chapter 91: Pertinence

In the 76ers' visiting locker room, Wall silently tightened his shoelaces.

"The outside world is really biased, they don't understand your strength at all, John." Rashad Lewis said indignantly.

Wall shook his head, his expression was flat, and his hands were pillowed on his thighs, "Anyway, the 76ers' record is an indisputable fact before us, and the overall strength of their team is indeed relatively balanced." I saw Tang Wenlong when he was in college, and he wasn't that powerful, but I didn't expect him to explode as soon as he entered the NBA. ”

"Maybe some people are the kind of rookie who is the pinnacle?" Nick Young, who had an explosive haircut, leaned over and said jokingly. "You know, like Emeka Okafor, OJ Mayo or Damon Stodmar."

John Wall didn't speak again, just silent, silent like a killer in the dark

The spotlight shone on the floor of the Wajovia Center, where the 76ers and the Wizards pulled out to catch each other.

At the beginning, Iguodala had to pull Tang Wenlong to dance a mechanical dance together, saying that it was to break the bad luck of two consecutive defeats. Where would Tang Wenlong do this, he swayed left and right a few times, and the audience in the front row of the venue burst into laughter, which made Tang Wenlong even more embarrassed.

It didn't take long for the starters of the two teams to take the lead on the field, and Tang Wenlong shook Wall's hand, feeling very powerful.

"Tonight's game is going to be exciting." Wall smiled suddenly, but his tone was cold and emotionless.

Tang Wenlong chuckled in his heart, this girl is giving him a tactic! His eyes narrowed, and he responded without showing weakness, "I think so, the people of Philadelphia have been waiting for this game for a long time. “

The sound of the scene was too noisy, and there was no live sound of two people in the camera, but the audience only looked at the silent footage, and they already smelled the strong smell of gunpowder.

The game started with a jump ball lost to Durham Porter.

It was Javier McGee who won the jump, and when this guy with long arms like King Kong picked the ball away, Tang Wenlong was also taken aback, "It's really talented, it's like hanging up." “

Wall stood with the ball outside the three-point line, and the Wizards followed his organization and began to run in a regular game.

Starters: Point guard John Wall, shooting guard Nick Young, small forward Rashad Lewis, power forward Andre Blatche, center Javier McGee.

It's a tall roster, and Lewis was traded to the Wizards just last month, and was a hero in helping the Magic reach the Finals when he was with the Magic. Just as the Kings traded Hellam Porter away, Wall's stellar play allowed Arenas' status and role in the team to decline, and eventually he and Lewis swapped owners.

Lewis is 2.08 meters tall, which is definitely tall at the small forward position.

After thinking about it for a long time before the game, Collins still let Tang Wenlong, who has a better arm span, defend Lewis, while Iguodala will defend Nick Young, the first shot on the outside of the Wizards now, who is averaging 17.8 points per game so far this season and has just played 30 minutes.

This is a targeted defense, and in the first wave of the Wizards' offense, Nick Young felt the power of the NBA's top outside defenders today.

Dribble and dribble but don't dribble, and then pass back and dribble

After nearly ten seconds of entanglement, Nick Young's face turned from blue to red, then from red to purple, and finally helplessly rolled over and stepped back to make a jumper, and Iguodala was like a maggot on the tarsal bone, and his big hand almost didn't shoot the basketball down.

The basketball was naturally outrageous, hitting the basket and being hit by Daimporter and McGee at the same time, flying out of the baseline.

The referee awarded the ball to the home team, which caused a round of applause from the audience.

Lowry beckoned, Tang Wenlong ran over to serve the baseline ball, after he fell to the small forward position, he belonged to the frontcourt player, and sometimes he would run to serve a baseline ball or something.

Then Tang Wenlong and Lowry pushed the ball through the half.

Lowry ran to the left 45-degree position and gave a pass to Tang Wenlong, who was following in the middle, and Tang Wenlong turned again and handed it to Iguodala on the right.

Tang Wenlong took advantage of the situation to cut from the middle to the baseline, and ran to the bottom corner with the cover of Hellam Porter, while Lowry completed a cross move with Thaddeus Young, and Thaddeus Young ran to the outside to receive the basketball. At this time, the slow-paced Brache couldn't keep up with Thaddeus Young, and there was a certain distance between the two.

Thaddeus Young received the ball and tapped it to make a gesture to shoot, and Blatche's center of gravity subconsciously floated upward.

Thaddeus Young then twisted and broke through, and the rhythm was so good that Blatche didn't have time to adjust before the 2.03m "big man" rushed inside.

Once inside the line, the lethality went up to another level, with Thaddeus Young and McGee confronting him in the air, and the shaking caused McGee's thug to foul.

The referee's whistle blows, free throws!

What?

Big McGee's facial features were all distorted together, the corners of his eyes were bent down, his hands were spread out, his face showed a super innocent look, and an embarrassing word was almost printed on his brow.

The referee gave him a blank look and blew it, can it still be changed?

Thaddeus Young made two of two free throws. 2 to 0.

Wall didn't speak, and after receiving McGee's serve, his eyes flashed, and he suddenly accelerated, his straight line advance speed was amazing, and Lowry, who had short legs, almost didn't keep up.

Outside the three-point line, he stopped his high-speed rush again, and suddenly waved his hand outside the three-point line, and started the normal organization of the offense again.

Tang Wenlong shook his head and organized the defenders and champions

McGee ran to Wall to do a pick-and-roll, near the 45-degree three-point line, which is the best place to launch a pick-and-roll strategy, Wall directly faced Dareham Porter with the help of the pick-and-roll, and his ass was pouted, desperately resisting the indomitable little steel cannon Lowry behind him, and flicked the basketball back and forth a few times.

Suddenly, Wall passed the ball and with his usual unpretentious, downhill McGee received the basketball.

McGee is overjoyed, just about to take three steps!

Suddenly, a dark shadow flashed before his eyes.

And then—

"Smack!"

He suddenly felt a pain in his fingers, and subconsciously let go of his hands in pain, and the thick basketball was like a treasure that had been enchanted, and it disappeared out of thin air~

"It's a dog!" McGee's eyes were red, and the back of White Number 1 looked so hateful at the moment!

Tang Wenlong and Iguodala easily completed the frontcourt two-on-one, and the basket creaked with a "clang".

"Wow!"

The crowd cheered and raised their hands, and the 76ers' fast-break this season has become an appetizer at the Wajovia Center.

Iguodala giggled and high-fived Tang Wenlong in celebration, "It's a good break!" ”

"You're doing a good job!"

The empty dunk after this break seemed to ignite the excitement in the hearts of the 76ers players, and for a while, the whole team turned into a bulldog, full of aggression.

The Wizards, on the other hand, are stuck in a swamp and are struggling.

Wall kept moving the ball, constantly organizing his teammates, and constantly cheering everyone on, but found that it had little effect, and the 76ers' two swing guards took turns to impact and take turns to break through the ball, like a player carved out of a mold, and neither Nick Young nor Lewis was the kind of player who defended well.

Half a quarter later, the Wizards used up a short timeout, used a long timeout, but 9-18, trailing by nearly ten points.

Then, the Wizards, who returned to the court, gradually regained a little touch, and Nick Young hit a strong three-point shot to make the score difference look less than that.

And in one of Wall's offenses, he completed a wonderful crotch cross step, and completed an aerial relay slam dunk with McGee on the head of Durham Porter!

McGee spat out viciously, and the master is not easy to mess with.

14-18, seeing that he was chased by the Wizards by 5 points in a row, Collins decisively used the regular timeout, anyway, even if he didn't use it, this timeout would have to be forced sooner or later.

Collins said that the two teases on the opposite side were too intense, and called a timeout to cool them down. What we have to do is cut off the connection between the inside and outside of the Wizards and do a good job defensively. After all, the Wizards' defense is obvious to all in the league, the outside line can't be defended, and the inside line can't bear it.

After returning, Tang Wenlong strictly implemented the cutting work arranged by Collins, using his movement speed to form the sharpest defensive scalpel with Iguodala on the court, as long as Wall sent the ball to the inside, there will always be an active figure of the two of them.

And with McGee and Brache's ability to respond, it can only be said about it.

Zhuang Yuanlang was very helpless, and he actually had a feeling of "having the intention to kill the thief, but he was powerless to return to the sky".

Compared with the active Tang Wenlong, his eyes showed envy for the first time, and he suddenly entered a team like the 76ers that is enough to compete for playoff spots, and there are few players on the team who don't like to defend, and the combination with Iguodala looks like a poor man's version of Wadega James, compared to a mess of Wizards, I don't know how many times better