Chapter 177: In the game
"Ahh Auden let out a loud cry and used all his strength to put the basketball into the basket with both hands. "Boom!" The basket was torn and shook by the beast-like power of Oden, but fortunately it was not rotten, in fact, after O'Neal dunked and dunked the rebound last time, all the rebounds in the whole league have been reinforced, even if O'Neal was at his peak, he had no way to dunk the rebound, let alone Oden.
Rao is like this, and a group of reporters and viewers around the bottom line also hurriedly put it away, watching the joke, in case it is really unlucky. Isn't it true that Oden can't even play? Why is he suddenly able to play, and it is so exciting, fans feel that it is not Oden who is standing on the court now, but Howard at the moment of Oden's dunk.
Gasol Jr. looked back at Oden's domineering dunk, and now his head is still a little unturned, he doesn't understand how Wang Meng passed the ball over, in that situation just now, even if it was Nash, Kidd, and now Paul, Rondo can't do it easily, even if he can barely do it, it is not as easy as Wang Meng.
How did little Gasol know that Wang Meng could still hang up? Even if you can't see people, once you open your eyes, you can't see who there is at a glance?
As soon as the game started, the Hornets taught the Grizzlies a hard lesson with two violent dunks and a block, as if to tell the Grizzlies, don't look at your strength on the surface, I'm not afraid of you.
Indeed, Grizzlies' small forward Guy is one of the few muscular strongmen in the league, but he was very unlucky to meet Wallace, who is the same muscle ** as him, for Guy, who is particularly dependent on his body and lacks offensive ability, it is difficult to break through Wallace's defense, and the Grizzlies' other spear Mayo met his old teammate Allen, Allen knows the bottom of Mayo's style of play and is equally handy in defense. Wang Meng of point guard, Gasol at power forward, and Oden with a miraculous comeback at center, for a while the Grizzlies seemed to have touched an iron plate, and they couldn't even say it.
With five minutes played, the Grizzlies scored six points on a mid-range shot from Mayo and Randolph on the inside, while the Hornets scored 14 points.
"Huh!" After blocking and dismantling, Gasol received a pass from Wang Meng, and in the face of Conley, who was misplaced and defending him, Gasol chose to ignore his defense and shoot directly in front of Conley, and hit the mid-range shot easily. As a defender, Conley could only look up and watch Gasol shoot the basketball.
This is already Wang Meng's fourth assist in this quarter. And the score between the two sides was also stretched to 10 points because of this mid-range shot.
The Grizzlies head coach finally called a timeout.
The players are at rest.
Wang Meng took a sip of Gatorade and found Auden sitting on a chair, panting and panting, sweating and looking very tired.
"What? Can't keep up with your stamina? Wang Meng handed Auden a bottle of Gatorade and asked.
Auden took Gatorade, took a big sip, and shook his head, "It's okay, I can hold it." "Just kidding, it's hard to be able to play, how can you be worthy of your healthy body when you're not older?
Wang Meng can see that Oden is indeed tired, due to injury, Oden has not done physical training for a long time, his physical fitness has decreased a lot, and his physical strength has not been able to keep up with the NBA's high-intensity switchback run.
"Oden, you'd better rest for a while." Thinking about it, Wang Meng said: "I know that you are very similar to playing on the court, but you need to think about it carefully, your body has not fully recovered, if you are holding on to play now, if you should be too tired and injured again, it will not be easy to treat." ”
Oden's body shook, he was already scared, it felt great to be able to play now, with this feeling, it would be better to let Oden go back to his wheelchair or crutches, it would be better for him to die. "Okay, then I'll rest for a while."
Monty has been sitting next to him, hearing Oden say this, he also nodded, he also means the same, although Oden's injury seems to be healed, but no one can guarantee whether it is completely well, if there are any sequelae, it is the easiest to show when the player is tired or overuses the body. For the sake of safety, Oden should not continue to play.
Monty arranged it, Tony Allen was replaced by Thorton, Jason Smith replaced Oden as a power forward, Gasol replaced the center position, Wang Meng and Wallace remained unchanged.
Although Thorton's defense is scummy, his offensive ability is several streets stronger than Tony Allen's, and he also has a good three-point shot, which also adds a very strong firepower point for the Hornets.
The Grizzlies didn't make any substitutions for any of their starters, and as the side behind in points, they had to do their best to fill in the hole dug in front of them.
Pau Gasol took over as a center forward, naturally opposite his younger brother Marc Gasol.
Maybe in the current NBA opinion, Gasol Jr. is much more bullish than Gasol Jr. The style of play is a typical tough guy, much stronger than his soft brother, but Gasol Jr. is inferior to his brother in many ways, first of all, his body weight is much heavier than his brother, correspondingly, the speed is much slower than that of Gasol Jr., and secondly, Gasol Jr.'s position and offensive means are not as rich as his brother Gasol Jr.
Although Gasol Jr.'s style of play is extremely tough, but to really talk about the lethality of status, his brother is undoubtedly much more robbed than him.
Little Gasol himself knows this, as a brother, little Gasol naturally knows big Gasol well, so little Gasol is also confident that he can defend his brother in his position.
But as soon as he came on the field this time, Gasol Jr. was a little at a loss.
As soon as he came up, Big Gasol ran over non-stop to block and dismantle Wang Meng.
Gasol Jr. instantly encountered the same headache choice as Randolph just now, his choice was to run over to defend his brother, Wang Meng relied on Gasol's blocking and dismantling to break into the interior, Randolph's defensive ability was much worse than Gasol Jr., Wang Meng scored an easy layup.
Thankfully, the Grizzlies replaced Oden and Allen, and their defensive ability dropped a notch, and they couldn't prevent the Grizzlies, Mayo received a pass from Conley in the middle range, looked up to shoot, Thorton immediately jumped up to block, Mayo directly took the ball back, dribbled a step to avoid Thorton's block, and shot when there was no one.
As a tanhua with Rose, Mayo is naturally not covered, and his beautiful shooting ability allows him to easily put the basketball into the basket.
Monty frowned again when he looked off the court, he couldn't stand Thorton's defensive ability Monty couldn't stand it, although he had good offensive ability, but with Wang Meng's existence, it didn't matter if he had this offensive ability or not.