Chapter Forty-Six: Carrying the Attack
At the beginning of the third quarter, Wang Meng did not play immediately, playing on the court was the lineup of Fisher + Shannon Brown + Barnes + Odom + Gasol, while the Celtics were Nate Robinson + Daniels + Pierce + Davis + O'Neal lineup, the double shot was hot, with Gasol's excellent play, the Lakers scored four points in a row at the beginning, chasing the score gap back to 5 points, and now the two sides are behind the Lakers 46:51.
Wang Meng silently watched the game on the court, thinking about how to win, Gasol faced Garnett like an angry little daughter-in-law, small forward Artest can limit Pierce, but his offensive ability is too single, basically no contribution, the scoring guard is even more finished, without Kobe, Shannon Brown wants to let Ray Allen play to death, although the center Baidam is good, but he is just afraid of a defensive center like Perkins, because his current offensive ability is still too single, and he can only rely on his strength to squeeze to the basket to score, Perkins's tonnage and strength are not much smaller than Baidam, although Baidam can squeeze in, but he can't squeeze a few into it, and the effect is naturally not good.
Thinking about it, Wang Meng feels that if the Lakers want to win, it still depends on their own performance, and if they want to play well, then they must save their physical strength and try to use as little as possible to explode instantaneously. But in the face of Rondo's defense, how can Wang Meng successfully save his physical strength?
"Wang Meng, you will play as a point guard in a while." Phil's words suddenly made Wang Mengmao pause.
Wang Meng almost didn't pounce on Phil and kiss him.
is really worthy of being a famous coach, the Lord of the Rings, the brain is flexible, Wang Meng is 1.93 meters tall, and he can barely play a scoring guard, and now the Lakers lack offensive points, so it is not unintentional to let Wang Meng play a scoring guard, so that Wang Meng can concentrate on attacking and don't have to worry about organizing offense.
Taking advantage of a penalty dead shot, Wang Meng replaced Shannon Brown and Artest replaced Barnes.
Seeing Wang Meng on the court, Rondo immediately stared at it, but Wang Meng did not catch the ball, but ran directly to the Celtic backcourt, and the ball was controlled by Fisher and ran to the backcourt.
Rondo was stunned, some didn't know who to defend, Wang Meng had never played a point guard before, because there were too many people in the position of Lakers scoring guard, Kobe Bryant naturally needless to say, occupied most of the playing time, Kobe Bryant was Shannon Brown most of the time after he got off the court, and Wang Meng played point guard a lot of time, so there was no need to grab playing time with the point guard.
"Rondo, you go to defend Fisher, and Wang Meng will hand it over to Aaron." Rivers shouted from the sidelines.
"We see that Wang Meng is now playing as a scoring guard." Smith said: "It's just that the shooting guard Celtics' Ray Allen is also very good defensively, and every time he defends Kobe, Kobe Bryant can effectively limit Kobe Bryant's scoring. ”
"Wang Meng and Kobe Bryant are not the same type of players." Barkley shook his head and said: "Kobe Bryant tends to shoot more now, and Lei Allen has a good set of defensive shooting, but Wang Meng is a breakthrough player, and it is much more difficult for Lei Allen to keep up with Wang Meng's pace, after all, he is old and can't run." ”
What Barkley said is indeed correct, Ray Allen has passed the peak of his body, and all qualities are declining except for experience, although Kobe Bryant, who is also in the decline period, does not show much, but once he faces a young and energetic player like Wang Meng, he is somewhat powerless.
Wang Meng ran two laps inside the Celtics, and Gasol made him a no-ball cover, which allowed Wang Meng to shake off Ray Allen.
Wang Meng, who ran out of the point guard, received the ball and jumped at the three-point line, and the basketball hollowed into the net.
The audience immediately burst into warm applause, this is already Wang Meng's 20 points in this game, only five minutes after the third quarter of the game, Wang Meng has already scored 20 points plus six assists, of course, because of Rondo's defense, he also has four mistakes.
The Celtics held the ball, Rondo passed the ball to Ray Allen, and wanted Ray Allen to rely on his height advantage to single Wang Meng, but Ray Allen's height was only 1.96 meters, not much taller than Wang Meng, plus Wang Meng's defense is very strong now, and Ray Allen's shooting was interfered with by Wang Meng and did not score.
Bydam grabbed the rebound, the Lakers once again gave Wang Meng a no-ball cover, Wang Meng only needs to run inside, whether it is Gasol or Bydam, he has to find a chance to block Wang Meng, poor Ray Allen was blocked by the two big men The lights were invisible, Wang Meng received the ball again and shot before Pierce ran over to make up for the defense.
"Huh." The crisp sound of brushing the net sounded, and Wang Meng was in the middle of a three-point.
The Celtics were forced to call another timeout.
Wang Meng's two three-point shots are called comfortable, but he knows that he can shoot two shots so easily, and the Celtics will definitely make due adjustments after the timeout, and will not let him shoot so easily.
Sure enough, the Celtics came back on the court, and a two-pointer was shot by Pierce.
Wang Meng still wanted to learn to run like he had just done, but as soon as he started running two steps with Gasol's block, he had to stop, because there was Garnett's tall figure standing in front of him.
"Kid, where are you going?" Garnett laughed very evilly, but he stood there motionless, Wang Meng couldn't get past at all, and when he bypassed Garnett, Ray Allen had already followed Wang Meng closely.
Seeing that the time was almost up, Fisher had no choice but to pull out his shot from the three-point line and shoot a three-pointer under Rondo's defense.
"Why don't you pass the ball to Gasol? Garnett blocked me just now, and Gasol should be empty. Wang Meng asked Fisher puzzled.
"I can't pass it on." Fisher shook his head and said, "As soon as you started running, Rondo immediately pounced on me and interfered with me, and there was no way to pass the ball out. ”
"That's right." Wang scratched his head violently. "Ya's reaction is pretty fast." This kind of defense is generally unusable by other teams, because the big forward generally can't keep up with the running speed of the guard, and it is basically difficult to block in front of the guard after the guard starts, but it just so happens that Garnett is one of the few big forwards whose speed can barely keep up with the guard, Wang Meng can't avoid Garnett after Gasol's blocking, and Fisher can't pass the ball out in time under Rondo's pressure, and when he passes, the defenders on both sides have recovered.
Perkins served outside, Rondo hoisted the ball high to Garnett after controlling the ball to the Lakers backcourt, Garnett leaned on Gasol's backward jumper, although Gasol tried his best to jump up and interfere, but the backward shot was difficult to block, especially Garnett's backwards, I don't know if it had been blocked, anyway, Wang Meng had never seen Garnett's backward jumper blocked.
Looking at Garnett's backward jumper, Wang Meng's heart suddenly moved, and an interesting idea emerged in his heart.