Chapter Forty-Six: Crazy Scoring

Zhang Kong's sky hook!

The amazing sky hook!

also fell off the sky hook of glasses!

But on the court, Zhang Kong, who completed this shot with historical significance, did not feel much, but waved his hand easily, which felt very good, and the moment the basketball was dialed out, he was sure that the basketball would definitely be firmly drilled into the blue frame.

"It seems that it will indeed be easy to deal with Howard with a sky hook." Zhang Kong looked at Howard's face full of disbelief, and couldn't help but smile at him, which immediately made Howard's face completely black, although his face was already black.

Stan Van Gundy, on the other hand, slapped his thigh hard with a look of disbelief on his face.

Sky hook?

How can it be!

This is not the time when he was forty years old!

And the sky hook is not without weaknesses, because the stretch of the action is very demanding, which requires a relatively large shooting space and a relatively long preparation time, and now that the league's offensive and defensive conversion speed is getting faster and faster, there are not many opportunities to give users such ample space and time, and more importantly, although the sky hook can make the front defender unable to defend, but for the side defender, it is easier to cover the sky hook.

Because the shot is relatively slow, those sporty big men who are extremely fast and have a superior bounce can cover the sky hook well from the side. This makes the sky hook somewhat impractical. At the same time, Tiangou has high requirements for the player's feel and ability to control the body, which also limits the possibility of those muscle monsters with poor hand feeling to master Tiangou.

This is also an important reason why the current inside players do not practice the sky hook, after all, compared to the sky hook, the small hook hand under the basket, the half hook hand can also achieve good results, and the shooting speed is much faster, and it is easier to master.

Although the range is shortened in this way, the center is originally fighting under the basket, isn't it?

In his heyday, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was really unable to defend, whether it was from the front, from the side or even from behind, no one could defend his hook shot.

Of course, the gradual extinction of Tiangou is inseparable from the current situation of the NBA.

In the current league, due to the introduction of a series of policies, the game is more and more conducive to breaking through the fast-paced guards and those who can go down quickly on the inside jumping men, especially the appearance of body hair-level foul blowing penalties, although this is also a kind of star whistle, but it is even more difficult for interior players to be tied up and almost difficult to play.

There is less and less space left for the traditional centre-forward.

can grab rebounds, can play some low-post singles, can hook hands under the basket, get an average of 20 + 10 per game, you can call for tens of millions of annual salaries, if you still have a stable mid-range shot, you can also ask for a big contract of 100 million yuan.

In this environment, the atmosphere of the entire NBA is impetuous, especially the interior environment. Now that the NBA's excellent interior line is becoming more and more scarce, any big man who knows a little bit of defense and can shoot will immediately be crowned as "the next interior ruler", "the cornerstone of the team", "the hope of the center", "the backbone of the team" and so on.

And Tiangou is another kind of difficult technique that seems very simple, but in fact it takes the most time to practice, and it is even very likely that it will not achieve results for four or five years, so naturally no one will be interested in this stunt that is about to be lost. It doesn't matter if it's inside or outside......

But none of this matters to Stan Van Gundy, the real question that matters to him is, how do you defend Zhang Kong now?

Obviously, when Zhang Kong showed his Tiangou stunt in the high post, he knew that his defensive plan had gone wrong. For a player who has mastered the sky hook, it is absolutely ineffective to defend alone, even if the opposite is the best defensive player.

A bag clip for two people may have some effect.

But Lewis was clearly not tall enough, let alone anyone else. What's more, if the two go to the high position, what will happen to the empty penalty area left?

Stan Van Gundy was anxiously scratching his ears and cheeks on the sidelines, and until the end of the first quarter, he couldn't figure out a suitable solution. At this time, his shortcomings in on-the-spot scheduling were revealed.

In the second half of the first quarter, Zhang Kong is almost omnipotent on the court, and the sky hook score cannot be stopped at all, if Shalad Lewis dares to rush up to the bag, the empty penalty area will become the Cavaliers' scoring bank, in fact, Zhang Kong sent six assists in the second half of the first quarter, Zhang Kong, who raised his position to the high position, can better observe the whole court, and it is easier to find the gap, the Magic's defensive trap has long been broken, and the empty interior line makes it as easy as a bag for other players to score.

And if Sharad Lewis doesn't come out, Howard alone will have no way to stop Zhang Kong's Sky Hook, even if others come up to wrap up, Zhang Kong's options will only be more.

Without Howard's guard, the Magic's interior line can't be defended by just one Shalad Lewis, all it takes is one response, and the goal will come immediately, and Lewis is not good at defense. Or Zhang Kong can ignore the defense's direct sky hook, and Lewis can't interfere with Zhang Kong's shooting, let alone anyone else.

Although it is extremely powerful on the offensive end, but on the defensive end, the Magic is not helpless with the Cavaliers' defense, and the fully active Howard often takes Zhang Kong away from the basket, which makes Zhang Kong finally even have to give up the defense of Howard and concentrate on taking the rebound.

As for Howard's jumper...... His jump shot still has a certain percentage of hitting, and if he can shoot it, let it be, it's always a little less successful than his dunk success rate when he cuts into the restricted area.

At the start of the second quarter, Stan Van Gundy finally came up with something good to do, replacing shooting guard Bogans with 205-centimeter Pat.

As a result, Howard is 210 centimeters, Lewis is 208 centimeters, Turkoglu is 208 centimeters, and Pat Garrity is 205 centimeters, and everyone in this group can shoot threes except Howard. The height advantage was even more obvious, and Van Gundy started to shrink the defense.

It did work, but in the third minute of the second quarter, steal king Larry Hughes hit three consecutive three-pointers, telling the Magic that the Larry Hughes nerve knife was out of its sheath.

Larry Hughes haunts, shrinking the defense needs to be cautious.

Hughes's nerve knife came out of the sheath at the right time, and his frenzy seemed to drive the feel of the Cavaliers' outside players, and for a while, the outside players fired one after another, and the three-point sword fell like rain. The most feared thing about shrinking defense is that the opponent's outside line is furious, because this is equivalent to giving the opponent's outside players the opportunity to stand on the court and do shooting practice.

No one can withstand such a severe blow. Without Big Van Gundy's instructions, the Cavaliers naturally spread their defensive range. It's just that in this way, the height advantage that Big Van Gundy wants is completely gone, Pat used to be a defensive giant, but successive injuries completely ruined his body, and now he is the slowest link on the Magic court, and has also become the center of gravity of the Cavaliers.

Although he has been working hard, his physical weaknesses cannot be compensated for by hard work. Five minutes after Pat came on, Stan Van Gundy replaced Pat and reintroduced Bogans.

The game went back to the rhythm of the first quarter, and the Magic always managed to score some goals, but there was no way to take them off the defensive end.

In the end, the game ended 104-97. Zhang Kong played the whole game for 48 minutes, scored 49 points crazily, 16 assists, but the shooting rate and rebounds, and blocks set a new season low, and the full-court shooting rate was only 48%.

And because Zhang Kong put too much energy into the offensive end, he naturally had to be a little slack on defense, with only 16 rebounds and 2 blocks, as well as Howard's 28-point score.

Back in the locker room, Zhang Kong first rushed into the bathroom and took a good shower, tonight he really consumed too much, running back and forth on both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, so that Zhang Kong consumed too much physical strength, this is the most tiring game Zhang Kong has played since entering the NBA.

After drying his body, Zhang Kong was about to get dressed, only to find that all his spare coats were in the locker outside. Li Lielong didn't put on any clothes after taking a shower, so he walked out of the bathroom directly, and then ...... The spotlight sparkled his eyes. He didn't know that after a game, there would be occasional reporters rushing into the dressing room to interview the players, something he had never encountered before.

So Zhang Kong didn't wear anything, and walked out naked.

It wasn't until Zhang Kong came out of the dazzling effect of the spotlight that he understood what had happened.

"Don't shoot, stop me!" Zhang Kong, who understood it, hurriedly grabbed a large towel to surround his vital parts, and at the same time reached out to grab the cameras in the hands of those reporters. But it was too late, and some reporters rushed out of the locker room with their gains after taking photos.

"Oops......" Zhang Kong can almost imagine that early tomorrow morning, his naked body will inevitably be published in various magazines and newspapers for the people of the United States to enjoy. This feeling is not good, quite bad.

"Why didn't you tell me?" With a painful look, Zhang Kong complained to his teammates around him, but he could see clearly, these guys were all dressed neatly, except for him, no one was like this, and it seemed that they had been prepared for such a battle.

"Hey, man, we thought you knew." Gibson patted Zhang Kong's shoulder with a wicked smile: "Ha, we're all used to it, but don't worry." Mr. Stern is obviously not going to use that reason to suspend you.

"yes, don't worry, Zhang." Ilgoskas likewise laughed and said, "Trust me, you'll be famous." Today's game, plus those photos, I guarantee you're famous. You'll be the star of the nation in no time, and you may even become the dream girl of the nation.

"You ......"

"Excuse me, Zhang, can I interview you?"

Just when Zhang Kong was furious and ready to go crazy, a voice suddenly interrupted his words, Zhang Kong turned around, but saw a female reporter in an orange top standing behind him, tight short-sleeved overalls, and the plump twin peaks seemed to be about to tear out.

"I'm in a bad situation right now." As soon as he thought that his naked appearance just now was actually seen in the eyes of a woman, he felt a burst of shame.

"It doesn't matter. Yes...... I mean, you're in good health. Licking his rosy lips, the man's eyes swept towards Zhang Kong's lower body with strange colors: "It's big, of course this sentence won't be added to the interview." ”

"I said I'm in a bad situation right now." Zhang Kong said in an unkind tone: "If you want to interview, it's best to change the time." ”

"Oh, really?" Frowning slightly, a smile immediately appeared on her face: "No problem, then ......"

couldn't help but say, she took Zhang Kong's hand and wrote down a line of numbers with a brush.

"Give me a call, I'll have time at any time." With a phone call gesture in her ear, the orange short-sleeved female reporter swayed out of the locker room.