As soon as he rushed into the inner line, Wang Meng immediately suffered from a very tight defense on the inside, which caused a lot of interference to Wang Meng.

"What a hassle!" Wang Meng said secretly in his heart, and at the same time passed the ball to the outside, in this case, if you want to score smoothly, you can only use the skill of instant explosion, but Wang Meng is still a certain distance from the basket now, and it is not realistic to rely on the instant explosion to rush into the inside to complete the dunk.

"I can only pass the ball!" Thinking of it, Wang Meng immediately passed the basketball in his hand to the outside, and it was Tony Allen who received the pass on the outside, Tony Allen's outside projection ability can only be regarded as average, unless it is a completely empty state, he basically will not shoot three points, so as soon as he receives the ball at the three-point line, Tony Allen hesitated, and did not shoot, but chose to stop the ball to choose whether to attack.

Then, Tony Allen still chose to pass the ball out.

This time it's a big problem. Paul, who had been playing soy sauce on the side early, rushed out like a mouse, snatched the pass directly, and then rushed to the Hornets backcourt non-stop.

Wang Meng and the others hurriedly returned to the defense, but it was too late, Paul rushed to the basket, and then passed the ball to Jamison, who was closer from behind, and the latter directly used his height advantage to gently send the ball into the basket.

Paul and Jamison high-fived each other excitedly to celebrate the attack.

"You're going to assist, right?" Wang Meng paid careful attention to it, and discovered that his heart eye skills had been refreshed.

With skills as a backer, Wang Meng controlled the ball unhurriedly across the half court, and then smiled maliciously at Paul, and instantly stepped out of the butterfly through the flower step.

Paul's dexterity is one of the best in the league, but this does not mean that he can be more capable of the speed of butterfly walking, after all, the offense and defense have the advantage of being a first-mover, Paul must judge his defensive actions according to Wang Meng's actions, which is a lot slower, in the NBA, where everyone is a sports strongman, this slowing down gap has already determined the effectiveness of this defense.

Wang Meng smoothly shook off half of Paul's body and rushed into the inner line.

"Heart's Eye!" Almost at the same time as rushing in, Wang Meng turned on the Heart Eye Skill.

In an instant, the entire floor plan of the stadium and the positions of the 10 players on the court, including himself, all appeared in Wang Meng's heart.

"Here!" Wang Meng, who was quick with his eyes, instantly found a gap, and the basketball under his hand disappeared instantly.

Immediately afterwards, Yi Jianlian was stunned to find that the basketball had somehow appeared in his hands when he cut in. Fortunately, Yi Jianlian and Wang Meng have not been playing for a day or two, and they have become accustomed to Wang Meng's unpredictable passing skills, and then the speed of cutting, Yi Jianlian directly jumped a split dunk to dunk the basketball into the basket.

"This ball is so beautiful!" As a legendary point guard, Magic Johnson couldn't help but admire, "It's a pleasing feeling to watch two of the league's top point guards compete. ”

"What's so beautiful about this?" O'Neal pouted, "I can dunk like him with my eyes closed." ”

"I'm talking about passing! Not a slam dunk! Johnson said with a look of decayed wood: "Paul and Wang Meng, these two players can already be counted as the two best passers in the league besides Nash and Kidd, compared to Rose, Westbrook relies on his own breakthrough to find a passing assist after the package, and this method of relying on passing skills to hand the ball to the best position player is the most effective." ”

"The most interesting thing is that these two people's passing styles are completely different, Paul is a bit like me back then, the basketball is penetrating and imaginative, while Wang Meng is more like Stockton, his passing efficiency is higher, the purpose is very clear, and at some point, his passing imagination is even stronger than Paul." As soon as Johnson said it, it was like opening a chatterbox, and he kept talking.

"Okay, okay, I don't want to listen to your point guard theory, I'm just a superficial inside, I want to see, a bloody fight on the inside, not a fist-embroidered pass!" O'Neal shook his head and began to get impatient, "I was a little disappointed by Howard's performance, I thought he would be another great center for the Lakers after me, but now it seems that this guy is obviously not up to the task." See what he's doing? Throughout the first quarter, he seemed to be focused on grabbing rebounds with Gasol Oden, and he made few achievements on offense, scoring only 12 points, which was too little. ”

O'Neal's words made the audience in front of the TV roll their eyes in unison, this girl, obviously in black Howard, was able to score 12 points in the first quarter under the wrapping of Gasol and Oden, which is already a very good performance.

Johnson rolled his eyes as well, and sat aside as if he hadn't heard O'Neal's words.

But then O'Neal's words almost made Johnson burst into laughter.

"Especially his terrible serve, what's that called? Shooting less than 50 percent from the free-throw line? Are you sure it's a free throw and not another three-pointer? O'Neill looked like he was making a fuss, but everyone couldn't stop laughing.

"Dude!" Johnson really couldn't help it, you girl, just don't hear you brag, you dare to spray Howard's free throws? His free throws are indeed a bit scum, but it's still better than you, a dead fat man, so please see if you're doing a good job in this area before hacking others?

It seems that he heard O'Neal's professional black off the field, and Howard, who was originally a little tired from taking turns fighting with Gasol Oden, suddenly broke out a little.

Howard first received Paul's pass on the inside, completed the dunk on the inside, and then, he grabbed an offensive rebound on the offensive end, and immediately made a layup to make it 2 plus 1, which is not over, throwing free throws, Howard then caused a defensive foul on the Hornets inside, and surprisingly, Howard's two free throws were also scored.

O'Neal, who was still criticizing Howard's inaccurate serve, suddenly felt uncomfortable to death as if he was stuck in his throat by a fish bone, and turned his head to look at Johnson, only to find that the other party was looking at him with a smile, and O'Neal's face suddenly turned into a bitter gourd face.

"I'll rub!" Howard suddenly broke out, making Wang Meng extremely depressed, Howard scored 7 points in a row, although in the process the Hornets also successfully scored a three-pointer by Wang Meng, but the score of the two sides still did not pull away, but less than before.

"No, didn't I come on to open the score? Why is the score getting closer? Wang Meng thought about this question very depressedly.

At this time, Monty shouted from the sidelines, "Gasol, Oden!" You two show me dead Howard! Don't let him rush for rebounds so easily on the inside! ”

"What a difference! Score difference! Wang Meng was extremely resentful of the ball and stood outside the three-point line, facing Kobe, who had just been replaced by defending himself, although he wanted to pull out the three points on the outside line to recover the score advantage, but Wang Meng also knew that in this case, it was easy to bury the team's hard-to-accumulate point advantage, and it was not even too much to lose.

"Gasol! Pick-and-roll! In order to ensure the hit rate, Wang Meng still needs the cover of blocking and dismantling.

Then Gasol's block, Wang Meng successfully broke inside, and then hit a two-point pull-up jump shot before Howard came out to make up for it.

The game between the two sides has entered a difficult pulling battle, the tactical essentials of both sides are very obvious, the Hornets play is a blocking tactic, except for Wang Meng and Gasol, the two main tactical implementation players, the other players are doing irregular and no-ball running waiting for opportunities, and the Lakers are still in the mysterious triangle offense.

Although the offense of both sides cannot be completely restrained, but on the whole, the achievements of the Super Big Three on the offensive end are higher than any player of the Hornets, including Wang Meng, after all, Wang Meng is just one person, and the Lakers have 3 strong players at the same level as Wang Meng.

With Kobe Bryant in shooting, Paul in breakthrough assists, and Howard in rebounding defense, the Lakers' Big Three combination is much more reasonable than the Heat's Big Three.

Towards the end of the second quarter, the Lakers finally struggled to equalize the score.

"At halftime, the score was 63:63, which is a bit scary." Looking at the half-time statistics of this game, Johnson said: "The main reason is that both sides are shooting very well, so the defense and rebounding of both sides will be the most critical factors in winning." ”

"Don't worry, the scores of both sides in this game will definitely not be very high." O'Neal said on the sidelines: "In the second half, whether it's the Hornets or the Lakers, they will be more effective on the defensive end and won't be so good at scoring. ”

Johnson nodded in agreement, this was the first time he agreed with O'Neill's words in this game, "If the first half is still a precursor to these two masters testing each other, then the second half is the battlefield where these two teams really fight with bayonets!" ”

What happened next was as Johnson and O'Neal expected, and after a halftime timeout, both the Hornets and Lakers showed almost suffocating defense at the beginning of the third quarter. The Hornets' man is 1v1 single defense, the Lakers are 1 defense on the outside, and Howard is active in supplementing the defense, although there are slight differences in defensive tactics, but the effect is obvious.

At the beginning of the third quarter, the two sides did not score a single goal for a full four minutes and had to rely on free throws to score. At this time, the Lakers were tragic again, and they were tricked, who made Howard's free throws so scummy? Even Oden, who the Hornets are the least good at serving, can beat Howard in terms of service percentage.

Looking at the score that was gradually about to be pulled away due to the small number of free throw goals, Kobe couldn't help but be anxious, and Kobe Bryant was in a hurry and immediately showed terrifying firepower. Two three-pointers in a row, one of which was a shot after blocking and dismantling, and the other was a jump shot directly in front of Wang Meng, but both of them were hit.

Kobe Bryant is mad here, how can Wang Meng be willing to show weakness?

couldn't be sure that it had such a good effect in the feel, Wang Meng simply exploded at the moment of opening on the outside line, relying on his speed to rush into the inside line and forcibly dunk.

Three consecutive impacts, Wang Meng easily broke through Kobe's defense, one of which was a point guard shooting score, and the other two were defensive fouls by the defenders, although the way was slightly different from Kobe, but the hole that Kobe dug was filled.

In this way, under the tight defense of both sides, the shooting rate of the Hornets and Lakers plummeted, and finally only scored 18 and 20 points in the third quarter, respectively, compared with the super high score of 63 points in the previous two quarters, this score is much inferior.

"Whew, whew!" Wang panted violently, sat on the bench and watched the start of the fourth quarter, and couldn't help but have a smile on his face, in order to ensure enough firepower, the Hornets only let Roy play for 2 minutes in the third quarter, that is, in the fourth quarter of the game, Roy will be able to play for a full 10 minutes to provide enough firepower support for the Hornets. Now, it is estimated that the score gap will be widened.

Sure enough, at the beginning of the fourth quarter, Roy came on the court, and the Lakers immediately had an unbearable feeling again, and Phil Jackson made urgent adjustments to let Kobe Bryant and other main players play in advance, but the Hornets also sent all their main players accordingly.

The two sides engaged in a very fierce score battle in the fourth quarter, with a three-pointer and a dunk on the inside, and by just five minutes into the fourth quarter, the two teams had already scored more than 15 points. It's almost comparable to a single quarter score in the third quarter.

"As the players got used to it, it didn't seem to be as effective as it was at the beginning in the third quarter." Johnson was the first to notice this, he said.

"That's right, this is the time to test the strength of the stars on both sides." O'Neill suddenly came to the spirit. "Now the Hornets' offense depends on Wang Meng, and the Lakers' offense depends on Kobe. Wang Meng's performance this season is in everyone's eyes, and the league's No. 1 point guard is naturally not a problem. And the pillar of the Lakers is Kobe Bryant, an old guy, he has been in the league for so many years, and the strength he has shown does not need anyone to evaluate, in the playoffs, when the two teams meet, Wang Meng has the absolute upper hand, I don't know who is stronger between the two of them in the playoffs? ”

"I think Kobe Bryant is more reliable." As a fan of the Lakers, Johnson is of course the first choice for the Lakers.

"I think the Hornets have a good chance." O'Neal naturally chose the opposite option of Johnson.

(To be continued)