Gary Payton is a very difficult player to mess with, that's one thing that everybody knows. His trash talk on the pitch is one thing, but it's not the most important thing. The most important thing is his terrifying defense.

Why did he have the nickname "Glove"? It's all because of his defense.

When an opponent is under the basket and is close to you for a jumper, the standard defensive stance that is usually taught by the coach is to keep the arms high and not leaning forward. That's right, so you don't foul or let your opponent score easily. But if the opponent is a head taller than you, that's not good, and the result is often to sit back and watch the opponent throw the ball in. This was often the case with Gary Payton as a young man.

In those days, point guards were responsible for passing and defending, unlike today's point guards, everyone is a two-way guard, and everyone has the right to attack. In that era, the offense was not the main job of the point guard, that was what the shooting guard should do, but fortunately, the scoring ability of the scoring guard in that era should not be underestimated. But at that time, the shooting guard so a lot of the time, a lot of the time, a lot of people didn't defend very well, they would defend, but they couldn't defend other players who were also on the shooting guard. So at this time, you need other players to help defend or defend. Generally speaking, this kind of thing will not be done by small forwards, although they have a height advantage, but it is tragic that a point guard can't prevent a small forward, after all, not everyone has the perverted consciousness and physical fitness of Joe's gang leader. So the general defensive task is given to the point guard (which is why there were very good point guards in that era, although only Gary Payton won the best defensive player).

Gary Payton is 1 tall. 93 meters. is a height that can play as a shooting guard. But most of the scoring guards in the league at that time were taller than this, especially like Joe, Reggie Miller, and the Jazz's Russell, who were all taller, especially Russell was 2.03 meters tall, which was the height of a small forward, which was a very big challenge for Gary Payton. Breaking through is easier to defend, and the hardest to defend is as mentioned above, and the close-up jumper is a nightmare for the shorter Gary Payton.

Generally at this time. Point guards will ask for a swap. After all, the height gap is there. But Gary Payton won't, and Gary Payton certainly won't sit still. He came up with a new way to deal with it, and what he did was "actively defensive" - the first to strike. When engaging in hand-to-hand combat with the opponent, wait until the opponent has not yet lifted the ball. In an instant, a big hand came out. Strike first to knock off the ball in the opponent's hand. Even if you can't beat it, you can interfere with the opponent's attack. Affects the opponent's hit rate. However, this move is easy to foul, and it is easy for the opponent to make a foul. But Gary Payton is not afraid of any of this.

Gary Payton has the courage and the courage to face this. What, you're going to make a foul? No problem. I'll let you make it. But you have to think about the consequences, you may be a person who can't take care of yourself in life, or you won't be able to shoot a ball in the rest of the game. Are you still going to make fouls? If you're still coming, that's no problem, I'll take good care of you again!

That's it, except for a handful of very strong shooting guards, few people dare to mess with Gary Payton. But Marbury didn't believe in it.

In this world, Marbury has never been afraid of anyone, even if he was taught a lesson by Alston on the street court, Marbury still got his face back. Now in the All-Star Game, how can you give up such a good opportunity to perform?

And on the other side, Gary Payton was also furious. It's okay for the opponent to be so serious in the regular season, but this is an all-star game, and the rest time is still provoked. Being slapped in the face and not changing it back is not Gary Payton's character.

So the contest between the two came.

Marbury used his inhuman explosiveness to get the first shot. Nothing fancy was used, and he was ready to force a breakthrough from Gary Payton's left. But how could Gary Payton's vast defensive experience be breached?

Directly forcibly moved his body and blocked Marbury's attack.

"This little gesture wants to break through me? , underestimate me. Gremlin! Gary Payton scoffed.

"Old man! You've been fooled! Marbury replied. And then there's the real action! ”

Of course, Marbury knew that Gary Payton was not easy to break through, so he chose the stupidest way, which was to rely on the breakthrough to close the distance with Gary Payton. That's a dangerous distance. Anyone who plays basketball knows that the closer the defender is to the defender, the easier it is to break through, especially when the opponent's speed, burst, and tricks are strong. Marbury had all three.

AT THIS TIME, WITH THE CROSSOVER HE IS MOST FAMILIAR WITH AND MOST ACCUSTOMED TO, HE CAN DIRECTLY PASS GARY PAYTON AND BREAK INTO THE INTERIOR. As for what will happen after entering the interior line, Marbury has not yet figured it out. Take it one step at a time.

JUST AS MARBURY TRIUMPHANTLY USED HIS BEST CROSSOVER TO GET PAST GARY PAYTON AND WAS ABOUT TO START SHOOTING, HE SUDDENLY FOUND THAT THE BALL THAT SHOULD HAVE APPEARED IN HIS OTHER HAND WAS MISSING.

"Rookie! You're still too tender! ”

"Not good!" When Marbury heard this voice coming from behind, he knew something was wrong.

When he turned his head, he saw Gary Payton running ahead of the curve and then rushing straight to the basket.

Gary Payton, who has always disliked acting, may have been trying to humiliate Marbury, or it may have been in line with the spirit of entertaining the public at the All-Star Game, and staged a one-handed dunk at this time, which won the screams of the fans in the audience. He himself was very happy.

"Damn it!" The opportunity to show himself was snatched away by Gary Payton. Marbury wants to get face back!

The Eastern Army attacked again, but Marbury still chose to fight alone. Then he was ravaged by Gary Payton.

This is the case several times in turn. The score is being pulled apart. Ray Allen didn't say anything, because on the field of play he only speaks with his actions. Mutombo didn't say anything, because he didn't have anything to do in the attack, and the most he did in the game was to switchback and run, and he got used to it.

But the remaining two are not easy to mess with.

Needless to say, Ratril Sprewell, the NBA's infamous throat lock coach incident was made by this guy. And one more thing that is very shocking. That was in 2005, when the Minnesota Timberwolves had asked for a request from Latril. Sprewell offered a three-year, $21 million contract. It was pretty good for him (he was 34 years old at the time). However, he directly rejected the Timberwolves' good intentions, and slightly sarcastically threw the reason that "no 10 million is not enough to support the family". He was so bold for his own reasons, and in the previous season, in 2004-2005, Ratrier was so arrogant. Sprewell is averaging 12.8 points per game and is making a very good contribution on the defensive end. But since then, the "madmen" have not waited for other teams to offer a higher price than the Timberwolves. The Pistons, Lakers, Rockets and other teams are only willing to pay an annual salary of about 1 million to hire Ratrier. Spreville. At that time Ratrier. In an interview with the prestigious American magazine Sports Illustrated, Sprewell's agent said: "An offer of only $1 million is simply an insult to him. "Eventually Ratril. Sprewell said, "I'd rather lie at home without a good contract!" After that disappeared from the NBA arena, and Ratrier. Sprewell privately addressed his friend Marcus. Camby said that not only will he never return to the NBA, but he also vows that he will never touch basketball again in his life. How could a player with such a personality put up with Marbury dominating the ball?

And what about the "big dog"? It's even more unbearable. In 1994, Robinson entered the NBA Draft and was selected by the Milwaukee Bucks as the top pick. After a period of stalemate with the team, he finally forced him to sign him to a rookie contract that had never been seen before or after the start of the season — a 10-year contract with a total salary of $68 million. The following year, the NBA introduced a rookie salary cap to avoid another Robinson. Later, he couldn't stand Lei Allen's seizure of power and even had a conflict, this is a gentleman Lei. Not being angry with anyone again, it's enough to show his temper.

After Marbury's multiple unsuccessful solo attempts and no passes, the two men finally exploded.

"What are you doing! Stephen, we're a team, why don't we pass the ball! "It's the "big dog". After all, my grades in college were very good, and my speech was still relatively elegant.

But Ratril, who was born as a commoner. Sprewell just started exploding. "Mr. Stephen Marbury, you are Tuo Xiang, a point guard who holds the ball and doesn't pass the ball, what do you mean!"

"Holy!" Marbury also has a bad temper, Ratril. Sprewell's words directly Marbury. Marbury went straight up. "What do you say? Are you saying it again? ”

"What do you ask me to say?" Ratrier. Sprewell smiled, and at the same time pushed up, "I said you are Tuo Xiang, what are you going to do?" ”

"Don't fight, don't fight, don't fight." The "big dog" on the side found that the situation was wrong and stood directly between the two to separate the two people, and the other players also found out that something was wrong and hurriedly came up to pull the two apart.

"Relax, don't get angry, it's not a big deal." Duncan persuaded Marbury to say.

"It's an exhibition match, don't take it too seriously!" Mutombo persuaded Ratril. Sprewell Road.

In the end, with the efforts of everyone, they were finally brought back to the bench. Marbury walked away in a huff.

Larry wanted to be angry, but he knew it wasn't the time.

Ratrier. Sprewell is now in a rage. It can't be used anymore.

Looking at the already small lineup, Luke thought about it and decided to send them on the field in advance.

"Aaron, Luke, go up and fight for a while!" (To be continued......)