Chapter 164: The game is underway
"Drink!" Hitting two plus one successfully, Wang Meng couldn't help but roar loudly, although this time Howard used enough strength to hit Wang Meng's arm and it hurt, but it was worth it.
"Good guy, Wang Meng's waist and abdomen strength and ability to stay in the air are really strong." Barkley couldn't help but admire, "I remember when I first entered the league, Wang Meng was still a rookie with poor physical fitness, and he would be eaten by his body when he encountered any point guard, but this is only the second season, Wang Meng has already tempered his body very strong, and now he will not suffer physically in the face of any No. 1 position in the league." ”
was beaten two plus one at the beginning, and Howard's face was green. The unhappy Howard couldn't find Wang Meng, so he could only take Okafor off at defending him.
Two consecutive forced singles on the inside, Okafor was very helpless, although his strength is not worse than Howard, but he is weaker than Howard in terms of footwork and explosiveness, as long as Howard receives the ball on the inside, he can easily blow himself up.
This makes Okafor want to cry without tears, who am I recruiting, you are not happy to find the person who makes you unhappy, why do you come to trouble me?
If the NBA could use a pistol, Okafor would have wanted to shoot Howard in the head.
Howard stirred up trouble on the inside of the Hornets alone, West was very cooperative to pull the outside, Gasol had to go out to defend, and Kobe Bryant and Paul were also happy to drop the ball to Howard inside singles.
All four balls in a row fell to Howard, who threw two and caused Okafor to be fouled.
Monty's brow furrowed again.
Two minutes into the game, the Lakers led the Hornets by four points at 11:7. Monty hesitated and handed over a timeout, and in the face of a thousand-win coach like Phil Jackson, he didn't dare to slack off a little.
"After a while, Paul (Gasol) and Emeka (Okafor) will switch defenses, Paul will guard Howard, don't let him run so rampage on the inside, Emeka will watch West on the outside, don't let him easily catch the ball and shoot." Monty pointed to the sticky mouse board and said: "Let's focus on blocking and dismantling tactics, Gasol and Wang Meng will cooperate more, if they focus on Kobe's shop, Ariza will change defenses with Belinelli, understand?" ”
The Hornets will nod their heads, Monty really wants to win this game, and winning against Phil Jackson is definitely very exciting news for him as a rookie head coach.
The game continued, and Huang Feng had the ball.
This time Wang Meng did not choose to play Paul alone, Wang Meng must admit that Paul's defense is very dangerous, and if you want to break through Paul's defense, you must use very much energy, which is not cost-effective, Wang Meng is now the first scoring point of the Hornets, and you can't say that a lot of physical energy is spent on entanglement with the opponent.
With a slight wave, Gasol immediately ran over to block Wang Meng, Gasol's wide body easily blocked Paul's small body behind him, Wang Meng took the opportunity to pounce on the inside, Howard hesitated, how can this girl defend? It's easy to break through when you go up, and if you don't go up, you can shoot again.
Just as Howard hesitated, Wang Meng had already jumped up, his wrist flicked slightly, and the basketball hollowed into the net.
Offensive and defensive conversion, Howard's status is single Gasol, although Howard's physical fitness is far beyond Gasol, but he has always had nothing to do with Gasol, sometimes it is not just good health that can solve the problem, Gasol's attitude is very clear, you yearn for the inside line to squeeze it, but don't want to make a move. Gasol's long arms swirled around Howard, causing Howard a lot of trouble.
Howard is not afraid of strong strength, even if the strength is strong, it can't just be himself, but when it comes to this kind of play similar to Tai Chi, Howard has no choice, his hook has not been fully developed, let alone shooting, the offense is all based on the inside line, once facing a player like Gasol, there is a feeling of having nowhere to go.
Sure enough, Howard squeezed two steps with his back, but was almost stabbed off by Gasol, seeing that the five-second back time was coming, Howard could only turn around and jump, Howard's jumper, there was no doubt that Gasol didn't even jump on the jumper, watched Howard shoot, and then turned his back to grab the rebound.
Seeing this, Wang Meng immediately ran forward, for such a long time, Gasol and Wang Meng already had a very good sense of cooperation, after grabbing the rebound, Gasol went to Wang Meng as soon as possible, and threw the basketball to the front court.
Wang Meng received the ball and attacked non-stop, only Paul and Kobe Bryant defended in front of Wang Meng, and Kobe Bryant had to defend Belinelli on the other side, it can be said that there was only one Paul who kept retreating to defend Wang Meng.
In just three steps, Wang Meng increased his speed to the maximum, while Paul was equivalent to going backwards and backwards, and the speed was naturally not proportional to Wang Meng. Before reaching the Lakers' three-point line, Paul met Wang Meng.
Paul's eyes are quick, and he shoots quickly, aiming at the basketball in Wang Meng's hand, which is extremely tricky, aiming at the running route of the basketball, if Wang Meng still maintains such a speed, the basketball will definitely be snatched by Paul.
Wang Meng naturally wouldn't be so easily stealed, and as soon as the dribbling hand slapped the basketball, he immediately changed the angle, letting Paul continue to rush inside.
Although he let go of Paul, Wang Meng's speed inevitably slowed down, and just like that, he caught up with an Artest behind him.
Wang Meng knew that he couldn't stop at this time, and once he stopped, he would be surrounded immediately, and it would be difficult to pass the ball at that time.
"Heart's Eye!" Wang Meng secretly shouted, and the floor plan of the entire stadium immediately appeared in Wang Meng's mind, the best distance and easiest to attack was of course Belinelli, but this guy was stared at by Kobe, even if the pass was not cut off by Kobe, it was difficult for him to score in front of Kobe.
"So be it!" Wang Meng must have stopped at the three-point line in his heart.
Artest behind him, no, it should be called Ci Shiping now, when he saw Wang Meng stop, he was immediately overjoyed, and hurriedly greeted him, cooperating with Paul to defend Wang Meng to death.
Wang Meng bent down to hold the ball, protecting the basketball from being snatched away by Ci Shiping or Paul, while waiting for the opportunity, which was a very short time. Although Ci Shiping's wide body squeezed Wang Meng very hard, he still waited.
"It's now!" Wang Meng's eyes lit up, and he immediately threw out the basketball in his hand, but the target was that Wang Meng, even Paul and Ci Shiping had a blind spot.
"This ball!" Johnson's eyes widened, "How did he see this?" It's amazing, I'm sure even Stockton or I in my prime, can't do this kind of passing, it's really a no-man pass! ”
On the other side, Ariza had just run to the three-point line, and before he could say anything, there was immediately a round thing in his hand, and he looked down and saw the basketball lying quietly in his hand.
"Yay?"