Chapter 123: A Pillar of Optimus
Seeing this pass, Nowitzki was very anxious and hurriedly pounced, where can he still take care of helping to defend Chamberlain?
Nowitzki's defense has never been so aggressive even in the Finals, but the defensive desire and determination he showed today shocked Nelson Sr., a self-proclaimed person who knows him well.
Therefore, hatred is the greatest motivation for a person to move forward.
Seeing Nowitzki come up in time to make up for it, Petrus smiled, revealing a mouth full of white teeth, looking extremely hideous.
The ball flew back again, Chamberlain jumped up in the air to catch the ball, and when he landed, he staggered back with a muffled snort, and at this moment, Chamberlain turned around, jumped up and shook his wrist and threw the ball out of the air. At this time, he was under the basket, such a close distance, such a throw, if Chamberlain could still shoot, then don't mix in the NBA, this kind of fool has no future here.
Nowitzki's face turned pale, and after the switch between attack and defense, he immediately reached out for the ball. Chamberlain looked at him with his legs slightly bent one step away from him, Nowitzki looked at him coldly with an expressionless face, stepped out of the way, and went to the basket with the ball.
Chamberlain stepped back, his arms stretched out to block Nowitzki's path, and the German stepped back abruptly, facing Chamberlain with a mocking sneer on his face, kicking forward with one leg and jumping up to make a sharp mid-range shot.
"Huh!" With a crisp sound, the basketball went straight through the net. Seeing this, Cuban, who was sitting on the bench, stood up all of a sudden, and he clapped and shouted something, his face flushed.
Chamberlain swallowed, and Petrus smiled at him: "It's better to defend a little bit by the No. 1 center in the West." ”
"Fuck." Chamberlain muttered in a low voice, and Nowitzki looked at him with a sneer, which made him feel very uncomfortable, and said resentfully: "What's the matter, soft, don't you think you're invincible when you score two goals?" ”
Nowitzki gave Chamberlain a haughty look, left a sentence of 'I'm not invincible, but no one here can guard me' and chased after Petrus.
Davis hit Eddie Jones with his back, and the latter slowly backed away, and when he was about four or five steps away, he suddenly lunged forward like a hound. Chamberlain was in a hurry, he thought the ball was going to be lost, but Davis was obviously much stronger than he thought, Jones pounced forward, he felt the force with his back, turned quickly, and easily completed the breakthrough.
Chamberlain stuck Dampier and raised his hand high to ask for the ball, but Davis didn't look at him after breaking through, jumped up in front of the hoop, and firmly chose to shoot.
The basketball went around twice in the hoop and fell, hitting and the Warriors biting the score.
Although the team scored, Nelson Sr. frowned, he looked at Davis and Chamberlain, who were not on the sidelines, and sighed softly.
Harris dribbled the ball into halftime and passed it to Josh Howard, who played a defensive battle with Jackson today, and as soon as he got the ball, Jackson went up and pestered Howard desperately. There was no way, Howard didn't have a chance to break through or attack, so he gave the ball to Dampier on the inside.
Dampier got the ball and hit Petrus hard, turned around and jumped up on the dunk, Chamberlain shook off Nowitzki from behind and rushed up, like an eagle falcon spreading its wings, he jumped up in the air, Dampier raised the ball high above his head, was slapped on the ball, and nailed directly to the rebound.
Nowitzki also followed up from behind, catching the ball that bounced off the rebound, and with a flick of his wrist, he threw the ball into the hoop and hit it.
"Today's German desire for revenge is not ordinarily strong, and it seems that Don really broke his heart last season." Kenny Smith gloated, "That's right, show your masculinity, and show the opponents of the League that Germany is not a soft egg, and that he can't disgrace Hitler, Rommel, or Guderian." ”
Barkley said pityingly: "If I had gone crazy a long time ago, Black Eight, there have only been two times in the history of the NBA, and he has been on the table once, I really can't imagine how he spent this summer." ”
"Don't cry here, you better hurry up and find a beautiful female donkey, I can't wait, you're going to marry a female donkey next season." Smith laughed.
Barkley's face was a little unpleasant, but he had a stubborn personality, and belonged to the type of dead duck with a hard mouth, and shouted: "Is it just Chamberlain?" Can he grow into an attacking player? Don't be funny man, eh...... Shit! ”
Chamberlain's subsequent performance left him speechless, and the Warriors advanced quickly, Davis passed the ball to Ellis, who broke through and was caught by Howard and Harris, and in desperation, he distributed the ball to Chamberlain.
After getting the ball, Chamberlain unleashed his ability to hit the ball hard, he stretched out his right arm to slap the ball, and his left shoulder slammed into Dampier's chest like a siege engine. knocked back Dampier twice in a row, and the latter didn't dare to hold it up any longer, so he sank his weight and half-squatted on Chamberlain's side.
At this moment, Chamberlain turned quickly with the ball, took two big strides to get rid of Dampier, Nowitzki came up to make up for the defense, and Chamberlain was about to dunk with the ball in both hands. Nowitzki flew up to block him without thinking, but Chamberlain took the ball back and waited for him to fall before jumping up again to complete the dunk.
As the game continued, Harris took advantage of Nowitzki's cover to break through to the basket, and he was so fast that he passed Davis in one dodge. Chamberlain had to wipe his teammate's butt, and he had to abandon Nowitzki and follow him, and Harris rushed inside with him in a row, only to turn and pass the ball to Nowitzki.
Chamberlain was waiting for this, he didn't believe that this kid dared to shoot in front of him, and immediately shook off Harris and pounced on Nowitzki, who didn't stick to the ball after getting the ball, and in the face of Chamberlain, who pounced, passed the ball to Jones on the outside again, Jones shot from a distance and hit again.
"these guys are so accurate!" Petrus said helplessly.
Chamberlain smashed his right fist into his left palm, gritted his teeth and said: "They shot accurately, that's because our defensive intensity is too low!" ”
There was no chance to show in the opening period, and Ellis was in a hurry, and this time he got the ball and tentatively took a step in front of Harris, who stared at him vigilantly. Seeing this, Ellis was furious, isn't this a clear contempt for Lao Tzu? If you didn't say it, get you!
Ellis turned his tentative step into a strong sudden, leaning forward like a poisonous snake and rushing out. Harris has a reason for doing this, he has absolute confidence in his speed, and wants to use his speed to break through Lao Tzu? Dream!
Ellis's tried and tested fast break didn't work today, he has a similar style to Harris, but he fell to the second round in the draft and Harris was selected with the fifth pick in the first round in '04, the gap during this period is in defense, Harris's defensive career has been criticized, especially his gambling steals, which has been criticized.
But in fact, in the guard, his defensive level is still good, fast, good awareness, not easy to lose position, Ellis made two changes of direction and a feint in a row, and still did not shake off Harris.
Time was running out, and Ellis had no choice but to fish the ball inside.
Josh Howard was a true master of defense, and when Harris tangled Ellis, he was waiting for that opportunity, and when the ball was out of his hands, he rushed forward with lightning speed and snatched the ball out of the air. Seeing this, Harris immediately rushed forward, Eddie Jones broke through on the wing, the Warriors' defense was too slow, and Harris made a quick layup and easily scored two points.
Ellis has always been compared to Harris, and he doesn't take advantage of him very much, which makes him very uncomfortable, last season's Black Eight Miracle once satisfied him, which was regarded by everyone as him beating Harris, but judging from today's performance, the latter is obviously not so easy to defeat, so he gave birth to a competitive heart.
Ellis broke through again, this time picking up the pace and making a crotch dribble and turn on the way to get rid of Harris's jumper. As a result, he shot too fast, and the ball bounced off the hoop and flew again, seeing that Dampier and Nowitzki were stuck under the basket left and right, and raised their hands to grab the rebound.
Instead of getting stuck at the moment Ellis made a move, Chamberlain took two steps back, and when the ball bounced off, he began to perform, using the distance to sprint and jump, beating Dampier and Nowitzki to grab the offensive rebound in front of them.
After getting the rebound and landing on the ground, Chamberlain stomped the floor with both feet, his strong body roared and flew up, raised his hand to smash the ball to the basket, Dampier tried to block him, but only pulled his arm, but instead paid for a foul.
Turning around, Harris took the ball to the three-point line, he licked his lips, looked at the solemn Ellis and smiled strangely, the speed of ball control suddenly accelerated, the ball hit the floor 'bang', his figure flashed, like a sharp arrow into the three-point line.
Harris rarely uses tricks like turning left and right or dribbling under his crotch when attacking, for one simple reason: he only needs to take one step. He spends most of his time on the perimeter, dribbling and looking for opportunities, and his offense is mostly finished by others.
Just like the answer AI, once Harris starts to break through, the vast majority of the league can only run behind and watch him ride straight into the box. As the other two of the top three in the West, the Suns and Spurs have both suffered at his hands in recent seasons, and the two-point guard backcourt formed by him and Terry has a distinctive backcourt, which has caused the other side to take care of each other.
Ellis doesn't defend well, but he's afraid of rhythm control masters like Nash and Iverson, and Harris is just his appetite for breaking through purely by speed, you must know that his speed is not slow, and there is no problem keeping up with Harris.
Dampier helped Harris by setting up an ambush where the two of them had to go, letting go of Harris and jamming Ellis.
Harris burst into the box as fast as he could, only to look up and see Chamberlain staring coldly at him right in front of him.
Gritting his teeth ruthlessly, Harris rushed towards Chamberlain with the ball, and threw the ball on the rebound at will the moment he hit it, the meaning is very simple, Lao Tzu is going to make you foul this time!
But just as Harris put away the ball and hugged it into his arms, Chamberlain, who had been staring at him, suddenly turned around, so that Harris's impact lost its accuracy and fell out of the back against Chamberlain's back, and what was even worse was that Chamberlain rose from the ground and slapped his big hand on the basketball he tossed, adding a cover to his account again!