Chapter 44: Zhang Kong's Method

Leaning on Howard, Zhang Kong was not ready to fight. He knew that he would probably have to play the full 48 minutes today, maybe he would have to play extra time, and for the sake of safety, he didn't want to consume too much energy at the beginning of the game.

Leaning on Howard, Zhang Kong slammed backwards, then turned his body half to the left, making it look like he was going to cut inside from the left, and then turned sharply to the right. Feeling Howard following, Zhang Kong immediately turned back with a large turn, at this time although Howard was still keeping up and preparing to block, but his center of gravity was already a little unstable, Zhang Kong calmly wiped it from Howard's side, and gently made a layup and put the basketball into the basket.

The basketball hit the hoop steadily, and the white waves appeared.

"Oh, wonderful footsteps." On the ESPN side, Olajuwon's eyes flashed with surprise, and he couldn't help but praise: "His inside footwork is so beautiful, crisp and coherent." ”

"yes." Abdul-Jabbar also said: "Zhang in our image is a tough defensive warrior, although he is also very powerful in attack, but he is a little young, but now it seems that he at least has very skillful footwork." There are really not many people in the current league who can master this kind of inside footsteps. ”

"Beautiful, wonderful, Howard has been passed like a stake!" Compared to Olajuwon and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's commentary, Barkley's commentary is never lacking in passion.

"Be quiet Charles, the game has just begun." Smith cautiously looked at the nearby Magic fans with fierce eyes, praying that they wouldn't hurt the pond fish later.

It's not for nothing that Howard is called a super blue-collar guy, he's extremely quick to react, and if there's any weakness to Howard, his poor touch and hook hand that never seems to be reliable are the biggest problems, and at the same time, he is slightly lacking in height when he stands in the center position. Although those long arms and big hands also make up for the lack of height. And his extremely fast reflexes give him a sensitivity that is completely inconsistent with his height, and his chasing blocks are extremely powerful.

However, the fast reaction speed also has the disadvantage of fast reaction speed, when he faces the face of people who like to play with technology, the bounce is too good, and the reaction is too fast, he is easy to be deceived into jumping, and once his bounce is deceived, it is very difficult to make up for it. This is also why every time Howard fights against Yao Ming, he will be beaten by Yao Ming. Height plus skill happens to be the type that can play with Howard at will.

Switching offense and defense, this time Zhang Kong never gave Howard any chance, but firmly blocked him out of the big penalty area, preventing him from entering his attack range. Howard has exceptional physical qualities, coupled with perverted bounce and explosive power, he is very agile under the basket, strong basket impact, frontal cut is extremely threatening, and his terrifying shoulder width, strength and reach allow him to ignore physical contact with defenders.

The vast majority of his points are in the restricted area, so he has a high shooting percentage, but at the same time, his mid-to-long-range shooting ability is very weak, and he can shoot some mid-range shots, but he is very unstable, and his long-range shooting ability is not at all, so as long as Howard is controlled outside the restricted area, his power is weakened by at least sixty percent.

It's obviously not easy for the league's average interior player to keep Howard outside the box, as his strength allows him to easily get stuck in the low post. But for Zhang Kong, pushing Howard out of the box is something he can do if he wants to.

Seeing that he couldn't get stuck in the position, Howard didn't fight Zhang Kong in the low position, but gave up the card position and ran. No one dared to let such a big guy run around the court freely, Zhang Kong could only follow him, moving left and right at the top of the arc in the three-second zone, and closely paying attention to the movement under the basket.

Nelson broke through Gibson's defense with Turkoglou's pick-and-roll, and Gru Gooden immediately rushed to make up for it, completely oblivious to Howard's footing on his side. Drew Gooden slammed straight into Howard, he blocked Drew Gooden's pursuit like a wall, Sasha Pavlovich rushed up to change the defense, but Nelson snapped a ground-hitting pass to the cleared Turkoglou.

Turkoglou, unguarded.

In desperation, Zhang Kong could only pounce to defend Turkoglou, but when Zhang Kong pounced, Turkoglu passed the ball, and the basketball flew high into the sky, and Howard's legs soared into the sky as if they had ignited bombs, grabbed the basketball flying from the air, and dunked vigorously!

Frame~~~~

The sound of the dunk boomed for miles!

"Damn!" Zhang Kong couldn't help but curse in a low voice, without James, the Cavaliers' outside rotation defense would be missing a core, and it was so chaotic that it was torn out of the gap so easily.

When he got to the frontcourt, Zhang Kong stuck Howard's request again, and Gibson didn't say a word and hoisted the ball over again. Catching the basketball steadily, Zhang Kong still tried to move backwards, and then began to shake, and after a few shakes, he moved Howard's center of gravity again, took a step to the left, and hit a mid-range shot before Shalad Lewis caught up to make up for the interference.

Howard played extremely violent and passionate, while Zhang Kong played as technically as possible, saving his physical strength as much as possible and leaving it for the later outbreaks.

There are offense and defense on the field, and no one can take advantage for a while, but the big Van Gundy, who was sitting on the bench, frowned fiercely.

"I can't imagine that it's so troublesome to deal with a Cavaliers team without LeBron, that rookie, damn it, those fools in management, actually let such a genius come out of the palm of his hand." Big Van Gundy shook his head helplessly, stood up and walked over to the tech desk to call a timeout.

The hottest topic in the league right now is Zhang Kong's draft pick. Now we have gradually come up with an answer that is acceptable to most people. Because Zhang Kong did not participate in any rookie training camp, did not perform in front of any NBA team, and even in the United States, he did not participate in any official games such as high school leagues and NCAA leagues, and his name has never appeared in his home country of China, the CBA league.

He was like a person who had come out of nowhere, and no one knew where he came from.

This is also used by all managers as an excuse to look away, after all, it is not one or two managers who are blind, but all managers in the whole league who are blind. Even Nelson Jr., the general manager of the Mavericks who selected Zhang Kong in the final round, admitted that he only selected Zhang Kong in the final round for the sake of the Chinese market, but he immediately abandoned the idea because the Mavericks had no room to sign Zhang Kong at that time.

The mainstream view in the league right now is that the Cavaliers took shit luck to pick up such a super center.

"Well done, Zhang." When Zhang Kong got off the field, Mike Brown first gave Zhang Kong a hug, and then said: "Just fight like this, don't be scared by that monster, he can't deal with you." ”

Now the score on the court is 18:14, the Cavaliers lead by 4 points, and Zhang Kong shot 4 of 7 and 3 of 3 free throws, scored 11 points, and also played a 2+1 on Howard.

James is also sitting next to him, his fever has subsided a lot, but he is still very weak after a high fever, if it is not necessary, he plans not to play in today's game. When you play sick, the chances of injury will increase a lot.

But to be honest, there wasn't much joy on Zhang Kong's face.

On the field, the Cavaliers now have the advantage, but Zhang Kong is constantly thinking about how to beat Howard to make it easier. As Zhang Kong just did, using his back footsteps and subtle feints to mobilize Howard's defensive center of gravity and then turn around and shoot jumpers are indeed very restrained by a center like Howard, who has explosive physical fitness.

But this style of play is too complicated for Zhang Kong, although he has that skill, but he doesn't have that experience, and he can feel that his feints are being familiar to Howard. An experienced feint master can make the opponent scratch his head with subtle adjustments, like Iverson, who shakes left and right every time he breaks through, and his defender is broken like a fool every time.

Is it just because Iverson's first step was too fast to react?

No!

Iverson, who had just entered the league, was in better physical condition and faster, but he did not reach the unstoppable 'Butterfly Walk' that was unsolvable in the late stage. On the contrary, after playing in the league for a few years, as his experience has become richer, his breakthrough speed has not changed much, and the breakthrough success rate has risen sharply.

Because Iverson's feints, although the final result is almost the same, the variation is extremely rich, and people are not sure what he is going to do next.

That's the terrible thing about experience......

It is impossible for Zhang Kong to accumulate enough experience in just one season, and what he wants to find now is to be able to solve the offensive style of the game without experience and only skill.

No experience required......

And that kind of technology, I completely mastered it.

Somewhat dazed, he looked up at the ESPN comment booth, where an old man who looked like an ape was babbling into the microphone.

Zhang Kong's eyes suddenly lit up......

That's right, isn't the best way to make the opponent have no way to defend and can easily score without exerting physical strength?