Chapter 178: Easy Victory
Fortunately, at this time, Wang Meng began to exert his might, Wang Meng, who had sufficient physical strength, first opened an instant explosion, easily knocked into Conley's violent and raging basket, and then hit a jumper shot one step outside the three-point line, scoring five points alone, directly stretching the score to fifteen points.
Whenever Wang Meng is like this, there is no head coach in the whole league who will not have a headache, and Wang Meng in this situation is simply incomprehensible, even if the bag and the whole court press cannot restrain Wang Meng.
The only consolation is that the Grizzlies still have a powerful Randolph, lacking Gasol's special care, Randolph is liberated, taking advantage of the big and small Gasol sitting on the inside to promote brotherhood "close" action, Randolph continues to attack the inside, and the shooting rate is not bad.
By the end of the first quarter, the margin between the Grizzlies and Hornets was 11 points.
"Auden, how are you resting?" In the second quarter of the game, Wang Meng Gasol and others naturally had to rest off the court for a while, and Wallace also had a lot of time on the court in the first quarter.
Oden immediately stood up, "I'm okay with the coach. ”
"That's good." Monty nodded with satisfaction, his subordinates finally had a working general, which was not easy. "I'll play hard later, and I'll let you attack as the main firepower."
As soon as the second quarter began, Monty replaced Oden.
At this time, Gasol Jr. was resting off the court, and the Grizzlies' backup center was a little frightened in the face of the murderous Oden, and he didn't know when this feeling arose, but looking at Oden's very old face and serious look, the Grizzlies backup center was a little scared unconsciously.
The Hornets guard on the court now is Pago, a qualified runner, as a runner, of course he has a sense of his trick, when he was on the court, head coach Monty had told him to pass the ball to Oden when he had the opportunity, as a runner, where did he dare to resist the head coach's order, as soon as he got on the court, he saw Oden standing in a good position to ask for the ball, he immediately passed the basketball to Oden.
Oden receives the ball with his back to the basket, but is surprised to find that the defender seems to be a little far away from him.
The opponent did not defend himself closely.!!
This was the first reaction in Oden's mind, and then Oden made his second reaction, which was a direct turnover jumper. The Grizzlies' backup center hurriedly stepped forward to interfere, but he was still a certain distance from Oden just now, and when he rushed to Oden, the basketball in Oden's hand had already shot, and the basketball slammed on the rebound, bounced into the basket, and wiped the board to shoot.
Oden is not Howard, his shooting skills are really good, although the shot is not beautiful, but it can definitely guarantee the shooting rate, the ball just now has a little bit of Duncan's 45-degree angle to shoot the board.
"You idiot! Defend him closely! He's just an injured player! You have to take the initiative to find a physical confrontation with him! "The Grizzlies head coach jumped straight to his feet on the sidelines.
"Physical confrontation?" Hearing the words of the Grizzlies head coach off the court, Oden smiled disdainfully.
The Grizzlies attacked, and Mayo finally shook off Tony Allen, who had just come on the court, but the shot bounced off the basket. Oden immediately rose high and grabbed the defensive rebound with ease, then he handed the ball to the point guard and ran non-stop to the Grizzlies' interior.
Seeing Oden's very aggressive request on the inside, Pargo continued to hoist the ball to Oden.
This time the Grizzlies bench center learned, and before Oden received the ball, a person immediately came up behind him, and one hand was still dangling in front of Oden.
Oden pouted his ass and pushed the Grizzlies bench center to take a step back, and Oden took advantage of the momentum to receive Pargo's pass. Then squeeze the inside line little by little with the big ass.
The Grizzlies bench center had a red face, and his hands were on Oden's waist, but his feet still involuntarily swiped to the back basket.
Oden silently counted the time for five seconds of backplay, and when it was the fourth second, Oden looked up slightly, and he had squeezed to the bottom of the basket, and Suo yelled, jumped up and scored a one-handed dunk.
Now the Grizzlies head coach is a little dumbfounded, mom, is he really injured? Are the Trailblazer bastards idiots?
In order to defend Oden, the Grizzlies head coach had no choice but to replace Gasol Jr. on the court again.
Gasol Jr. was also helpless, he pinched Oden at the beginning of the first quarter, and then changed to pinch with his brother Gasol Da in the back, and in the second quarter, he had to pinch Oden again.
That being said, Gasol Jr.'s play is indeed effectively limiting Oden's play, no way, although Oden has been in the league for 5 seasons, but when he really plays, he is only in his second season, and he can only watch the game off the court at other times, but no matter how you look at it, the effect is definitely not as strong as playing on the court, it can be said that Oden has been in the league for 5 seasons is actually about the same level as he was in the college league.
Fortunately, Oden is also the kind of player who is stronger in defense than in offense, although Gasol Jr. defended him, but he also made Gasol Jr. very uncomfortable.
As soon as these two people cancel each other out, it seems that the Grizzlies' lineup is stronger than the Hornets, but the three generals of the Hornets, Wang Meng, Gasol, and Wallace, are still watching the excitement below.
When you think about it, the Grizzlies head coach has a bitter look on his face.
Sure enough, the two sides fought for a long time, and the Grizzlies finally chased the difference back to ten points, and the Hornets came back directly from a timeout, replaced by Wang Meng, Gasol and Wallace, and the Grizzlies completely stopped, and the score was pulled away again.
Until the end of the game, the Grizzlies didn't once chase the score back to within five points.
In this game, the Hornets scored a total of five double-doubles, Wang Meng was no more, no less, just 20 points, not only that, Wang Meng also sent 12 assists, Gasol got 16 points and 9 rebounds, Wallace 14 points and 7 rebounds, the sixth man who came off the bench, Thorton, felt very good today, scored a team-high 24 points, but they are not the best, even Wang Meng, who has won two double-doubles in many consecutive games, is the same, because there is a giant rising strongly today.
Greg. Oden.
In this game, Oden made his debut for the Hornets and served as the starting center, playing 34 minutes in the game, 9-of-13 shooting, 3-of-4 free throws, scoring 21 points, he also grabbed 15 rebounds, and also handed out 4 blocks, including the one that flew to Gasol Jr.