The Hornets' home win over the Lakers ended a two-game losing streak and stabilized their position at the top of the rankings.

That said, the Hornets players can't breathe a sigh of relief because the next game will not be easy.

On December 8, 12, the Hornets hosted the Grizzlies, the Grizzlies are not a weak team, especially the current lineup is almost perfect, the only drawback is that due to salary problems, the Grizzlies did not leave the 07-year-old Tanhua Oj. Mayo. That said, the top-tier configuration of McConley, Rudy Gay, Zach Randolph, and Marc Gasol also makes the Grizzlies have no fear against any team.

Interestingly, the title of the black and white duo that the Grizzlies relied on to become famous has recently been stolen by the Hornets' Pau Gasol and Greg Oden.

So far this season, the Grizzlies' black and white duo Randolph is averaging 18 points and 9 rebounds per game, while Marc Gasol has 17 points and 7 rebounds. The Hornets' Pau Gasol averaged 16 points and 10 rebounds per game, and Oden also had 13 points and 10 rebounds.

Many people think that the highlight of this game is the competition on the inside, and the degree of internal battle between the Grizzlies and the Hornets is even more fierce than the competition with the Lakers, after all, the Lakers' interior line is only Howard, a giant, and the collision between the Hornets and the Grizzlies is far less intense than the collision between the Hornets and the Grizzlies.

In fact, the protagonist of this game is indeed the inner line, even Wang Meng, under such a fierce collision on the inner line, there is also some invisible meaning......

The final result of the game was that the Hornets scored consecutive points due to Wang Meng's sudden outburst in the last quarter of the game, and finally narrowly defeated the Grizzlies 98-95.

The high-profile inside battle between the two sides in this match did make many people full of muscle addiction.

Pau Gasol finished the game with 24 points, 13 rebounds, four assists and three blocks, and was the best player of the game. And Oden cut down 18 points and 9 rebounds, which is slightly inferior to Pau Gasol, but also, although Oden's physical fitness is stronger than Gasol, his offensive means are far less comprehensive than Gasol.

The Hornets combined to score 42 points and 22 rebounds, and the Grizzlies were not to be outdone, Randolph 21 points and 9 rebounds, Marc Gasol 15 points and 16 rebounds, the performance of the Grizzlies Twin Towers was not inferior to the Hornets, but it was a pity that the Grizzlies' guard McConley was ruthlessly beaten by Wang Meng at the last moment, resulting in the final defeat of the game.

After winning two tough games in a row, the Hornets still couldn't rest, and on the day they played the Grizzlies, they flew to Miami to face the defending champion Heat.

The Heat have also had a great start to the season, losing only 33 games so far, ranking first in the East and second only to the Hornets who have only lost two games in the league.

The Heat, who introduced two veterans, Kidd and Ray Allen, instantly became the strongest three-point team in the league.

And because of the addition of Kidd, the Heat's starting point guard Chalmers decisively retreated to the second line, and the Heat's starting lineup became a small lineup of Kidd, Wade, James, Haslem and Bosh, and this lineup will play as a small forward a few minutes after the start of the game, allowing James to play the position of power forward. Turn into a pure crunchy ball storm.

This storm is not easy to guard, and the slowest player on the whole team, Bosh, is not much slower than the small forwards of other teams, which shows how fast it is, not only that, but the Heat also fully consider the physical problems of veterans, Kidd and Ray Allen's average playing time is only 30 minutes per game, and Chalmers, Kerr, Battier, Miller and other pitchers will be ready to replace them.

The Heat's small-ball storm can be described as endless, and under the leadership of Wade and James, they have killed all the league's top teams.

However, the Heat and the Hornets met for the first time this season, in fact, the Heat and the Hornets of the Western team as Eastern teams only played 4 games this season, two away and two at home.

Wade was very disappointed when he saw Wang Meng, because this game was at the home of the Miami Heat, not the home of the Hornets, and Wade still remembered that a group of them drank and bet during the Olympics, and Wade, as the final winner, would be entertained by them when he arrived at their home court.

"Come on!" Wang Meng glanced at Wade, "There will always be encounters at home, and there will be times when you are stuck." ”

After entering the rush procedure, the game between the Heat and the Hornets has officially begun.

The Hornets lineup has remained unchanged for 10,000 years, Wang Meng, Tony Allen, Wallace, Gasol, Oden.

And the Heat's starters are a little fresh, Kidd, Wade, Ray Allen, James, Bosh. The Heat actually sacrificed their strongest lineup at the beginning, which made the whole league a little frightened by the Big Five.

The Big Five, this is not a joke, Wang Meng looks at the ball so big, and he has only seen two teams with the Big Five. They are the Celtics who have Rondo, Ray Allen, Pierce, Garnett, and Rashid Wallace, and the Lakers who have Kobe, Artest, Odom, Gasol, and Bydam.

Of course, the so-called Big Five cannot all be strong at their peak, otherwise the salary cap alone will make the team anxious. The Heat's current lineup is the same, Kidd and Ray Allen are both in their 70s together, and they and the Heat are also signed with veteran-level salaries, about 3 million a year.

In comparison, although the Hornets' lineup is not as terrifying as the Heat looks on the bright side, but in terms of practical surname, it is a little higher than the Heat, of course, the main reason is that Wang Meng used the medical kit to cure Roy and Oden, the two players and signed them with a base salary, otherwise the Hornets' salary will be very high, not to mention the eye-catching Roy, just such a strong center as Oden, should be allocated a 10 million-level contract.

The two teams jumped the ball, and Boshby jumped the ball, Oden smiled when he looked at it, Bosh's body is similar to Garnett, but the bounce is much worse than Garnett, Oden easily used his excellent bounce to dial the ball to Wang Meng.

After Wang Meng received the ball, he found that it was Wade standing in front of him.

"That's right." Wang Meng smiled secretly, it is impossible for the Heat's Si Shuai to let a Kidd with old arms and legs defend Wang Meng, so the result is likely to be 50+60+ by Wang Meng.

"Hey." Wang Meng said to Wade, "I said that I would entertain you at home, but if it is an away game, there will be no such benefits." ”

Wade was stunned, a little bit unsure why Wang Meng suddenly said this at such a time.

At this moment, Wang Meng suddenly moved.

The standard Iverson butterfly wears flower steps, with this trick, Wang Meng can easily pass Kobe, of course, he can also pass Wade, the difference is that Wade's explosiveness is slightly higher than Kobe, and he quickly rises up after being shaken away.

Wade just caught up with Wang Meng, but found that Wang Meng jumped up to the left when he was quickly disguised, and his whole body was far away, and in the process of fluttering, Wang Meng made a very standard shooting move.

"Kobe Bryant's shot?" This sentence flashed in Wade's mind, and Wang Meng threw the basketball in his hand. Wade was a very large distance from Wang Meng at this time, and he couldn't even raise his hand to interfere, and the empty mid-range shooting was not the slightest difficulty, and Wang Meng hit it steadily.

"This is Kobe's move?" Wade looked at Wang Meng and asked with some surprise, "When did you learn this trick?" No, your use of this trick is obviously more threatening than that of Kobe. ”

Wang Meng smiled faintly and slowly retreated, but he was extremely proud in his heart.

Of course, there is still a threat than Kobe's, and the drift shot is generally completed by using the momentum made by the disguised breakthrough, how can Kobe's change of direction breakthrough be compared with Iverson's butterfly walk?

That's right, Wang Meng's move just now was to use the gap created by the butterfly through the flower step to shoot with Kobe's drift.

Iverson's butterfly through the flower step is awesome, but it is not a panacea, it will always be recognized by the opponent, but if you add drift shooting, even if the opponent sees through it and rushes up to defend, it will be powerless because of drift shooting.

Of course, this trick is not easy, using two techniques at the same time, the difficulty is very great, Wang Meng has been practicing for several days, and he still hasn't touched the trick, and the use of this trick is also ineffective, but obviously Wang Meng's luck just now is very good, and he has a relatively perfect whole action.

After the Hornets completed their team's first shot, they looked at a few players on the Heat court and were a little worried.

"Who's going to defend James?"

According to the man-to-man single defense, Wang Meng should defend Kidd, Tony Allen defend Wade, and Wallace defend Ray Allen, but who will defend James? Gasol? James can easily use his speed on the outside to get past Gasol, Oden? There is not much difference with Gasol, but if Wallace is asked to defend James, who will put the vacated Ray Allen? Gasol's speed can't keep up with James, and certainly can't keep up with Ray Allen.

In the beginning, the Wasp encountered a small problem.

Gasol does have a very important role to play on the interior as a big man, but on the defensive end, his speed has become his weakness.

After James held the ball on the outside and inside, Gasol didn't dare not go up to defend at all, and this season, James' three-point shooting rate was as high as about 40 percent, and the vacancy shooting rate was very high.

But as soon as Gasol came out, James immediately used his speed to pass Gasol and rushed into the interior to score a violent dunk.

"I'll it! This is too hob meat! Monty, who was on the sidelines, watched this scene and was a little dumbfounded, but he didn't worry much in his heart, because everything has to be gained and lost, and the Heat did sacrifice height to improve the speed of the entire team, but in this case, the Heat's rebounding has become a problem, and under the care of Oden and Gasol, the Heat want to grab a rebound.

Monty also paid special attention to this, the Heat's rebounding average is the lowest in the league, and the team's rebounding champion turned out to be James's 8 rebounds. You know, the Hornets' Oden and Gasol both average double-doubles in rebounds per game, not only that, but players on the team who are better at grabbing rebounds, such as Wallace, also average nearly 7 rebounds per game.

The Heat's rebounds per game, whether in the backcourt or in the frontcourt, are much worse than the Hornets.

"Hit the inside steadily, defend well, and make sure the rebound! Let's drag them to death! Monty yelled from the sidelines.

Needless to say, Wang Meng was also ready to do this at the beginning, in fact, in order to fight against the Heat, the whole Hornets team has done research on the Heat's offensive system, and Wang Meng certainly knows what the Heat are most afraid of.

The height of the inside line!

The Heat's current interior line, James is 2.03 meters, Bosh is 2.11 meters, and the Hornets' Paul Gasol and Oden are both big men of 2.13 meters, not only that, but Yi Jianlian and Milicic, who are sitting on the bench, are also 2.13 meters tall.

In terms of height, the Hornets are out of the way. On the inside offense, height is one of the very big factors.

After Wang Meng controlled the ball over half the court, he dropped the ball directly to Gasol, Gasol hit James with his back, although he had a disadvantage in terms of strength, but the height of 10 centimeters higher than James made Gasol handy in the face of James, not only that, Gasol is very good at inside footsteps, under several consecutive feint steps, James was finally shaken up by Gasol, and Gasol took the opportunity to score a layup with a low hand.

James has no way to do this, if he doesn't jump just now, I believe Gasol will definitely shoot in the first place, and shoot in such a close-range position under the basket, James doesn't have to think about it to know what the shooting percentage is. But after jumping, Gasol can flexibly take the ball back, which is the advantage of height. If Gasol is defending with a player whose height is not lower than Gasol, he can just reach out and interfere when Gasol shoots, and he doesn't have to jump at all.

"It's so comfortable!" Gasol scored this goal with ease, and a smile couldn't help but appear on his face, compared to the last game in the non-stop hand-to-hand fight and rebounding with Randolph on the inside, this game is simply heaven.

Gasol was still basking in the happiness that the offense was too simple, but suddenly found that James had run past him.

"Huh?" Gasol turned his head in confusion, and immediately made a clever move, pulling his legs and running wildly towards his backfield.

He just turned his head and saw that there were already seven players back in the Hornets half.

There are three players wearing the same team uniform as him, who are teammates on his side, and the other four, who are wearing red and white team uniforms, are obviously Heat players.

"4 to 3 in the front? Fast break? Gasol glanced at it and saw that Bosh was the only one in the backcourt for the Heat, while the Hornets still had Oden.

"It's too fast!" Wang Meng quickly retreated, while staring at Kidd who dribbled fast, Wang Meng didn't dare to step forward and press, because he knew that as long as he stepped forward, Kidd would definitely pass the ball out as soon as possible, and then he and Kidd would pull down, and the front court 4 to 3 would become the front court 3 to 2!

One step back to the three-point line, Wang Meng stopped, he knew that he couldn't retreat anymore, if he retreated, Kidd would definitely shoot at the three-point line for the first time, Kidd had average shooting ability when he was young, but the shooting rate at the three-point line was very impressive when he was old.

Seeing Wang Meng stop, Kidd also immediately stopped, holding the ball with both hands and holding it high above his head.

"It's about passing!" Wang Meng's heart tightened, and then Kidd passed the ball to James, who was plugged in from behind him.

James received the ball and immediately rushed towards the Hornets inside like a tank.

Wang Meng hurriedly went up to block it, but James, who had already rushed up, might not be able to stop it even if Wang Meng opened it and broke out instantly.

Seeing this, Wallace immediately came up to help defend, but at the same time as Wallace came over, James raised his hand and threw the basketball in his hand.

Wang Meng looked in the direction where the basketball flew out, and saw Lei Allen standing at a 45-degree angle of the three-point line, and made a move to catch the ball.

"Oops!" Wang Meng glanced at it, and immediately found that Tony Allen followed Wade over the right, and now the closest to Ray Allen are Wang Meng and Wallace, how can the two of them catch up with the speed of basketball?

"Huh!" Ray Allen's shooting speed is extremely fast, this is a special shooting skill he has honed over the years, and it can be regarded as his exclusive skill, super fast shooting, as long as there is a trace of space, give Ray Allen 0.3 seconds of time, he can complete the whole process from receiving the ball to aiming to shooting.

It wasn't until the basketball went to the basket that Gasol and Oden were just past the halfcourt line.

"It's too fast!" Wang Meng glanced back at the basketball that was bouncing on the ground, and his mind was still recalling the attack just now.

Gasol just threw the ball in, and the Heat players didn't seem to notice this, and quickly got down, Bosh immediately picked up the basketball and ran to the baseline to hand the ball to James, who immediately ran forward when he got the basketball.

Of all the Heat's players, James was the fastest in a straight line, and although he was the last of the four players to start, he quickly caught up with the three players in front of him and then handed the ball to Kidd to complete the fast break.

"How many seconds did this attack take?!" Wang Meng glanced up at the timer, and suddenly gasped.

5 seconds! It took only five seconds, including about two seconds for James to catch the ball from almost the free throw line and run to the Hornets backcourt to give the ball to Kidd, three seconds for other extra moves, and less than 0.3 seconds to shoot.

In 5 seconds, the Heat completed a three-point attack, which is much faster than the Suns at their peak, and much faster than the Knicks who now have Nash, after all, there is only one player like James who has physical height and is faster than many point guards.

"It's a bit of a problem!" Wang Meng frowned, as long as the Hornets go to play the inside, the Heat will have a chance to break fast, because Gasol on the inside is much slower than James, even if the two start at the same time, when James runs to the Hornets three-point line, Gasol may not be able to run through the half-court line.

The Heat is really fast!

(To be continued)