Chapter 335: Great Basic Skills
When the Spurs were at home for the players, Li Kaiming also looked up at the top of the At&t center.
There are 4 championship flags hanging there.
And the Wizards have only one championship in team history, or in 1978, which will not be called the Wizards but the Washington Bullets.
In fact, the Spurs were also a non-championship team before selecting Duncan, and the Spurs also began to rise after selecting Duncan in 1997, and under the leadership of Dud, the Spurs won the first championship in team history in 99, and since then, the Spurs have become an evergreen tree in NbA, and after getting Duncan, the Spurs have never fallen out of the playoffs.
This is the terrifying strength of the number one striker in history, don't look at this person like a sullen old man off the field, when he arrives on the field, he can turn into a man-eating beast at any time.
Of course, Li Kaiming also wants to be like Duncan, who doesn't want to lead their team to win the championship? Does anyone like to change teams around and help other teams win championships? And it's not one, not two, not three, not four?
No way?
After Duncan's appearance, the fans at the AT&t Center erupted in minute-long applause and cheers, showing Duncan's influence in San Antonio.
After the stadium lights returned to normal, the starting line-ups of both sides were listed on the big screen above the arena.
San Antonio Spurs: Point guard Tony Parker, point guard Manu Ginobili, small forward Jason Richardson, power forward Tim Duncan, center DeJuan Blair.
Washington Wizards: Point guard Kirkshinrich, point guard Nick Young, small forward Sun Yue, power forward Kaiming Lee, center Andrey Blach.
Tonight's narrators are Craig Sag and Bill Sunen, veteran commentators from the At&t Center, and the mix of old and new looks very well balanced.
"Duncan II met the real Duncan tonight, Bill, what do you think of the showdown between Lee and Tim? Who do you think will have the upper hand? Sag was old and strong, and he took the lead in throwing out a question to test Shu Ning, the young commentator.
Shu Ning smiled and replied confidently, "Of course I'm optimistic about Tim Duncan, in the past ten years, he has shown his ability as a superstar countless times, whether it is offensive or defensive, he can complete the task well!" ”
"Remind you, Li Kaiming is the current league scoring champion, he averages 35 points per game, and his three-point shooting rate is as high as 45 percent, I think such a player is still relatively difficult to limit." Sag gave a warm reminder to Shu Ning.
However, Shu Ning didn't appreciate it, and still said in his own way, "In my eyes, Li may be a very good scorer, but in the face of such a Spurs, tonight's victory still belongs to San Antonio." We are not afraid of any one team or one person! ”
Sag nodded with satisfaction after hearing Shu Ning's answer, it turned out that he also thought so in his heart, just to test Shu Ning's reaction.
When you are older, you should train a successor as soon as possible.
While the two commentators were having a routine pre-match exchange, players from both sides of the pitch were already standing on either side of the center circle.
After the referee's whistle, Bradge took the lead and slapped the ball into Li Kaiming's hand with one hand.
Li Kaiming handed over the ball to Hinrich, and the Wizards won the ball on the first offense.
After halftime, the Wizards were still running tactics, Li Kaiming covered his teammates, and his teammates took away the people around him with the help of covering runs.
As soon as Li Kaiming turned around, Hinrich's pass had arrived.
And at the moment when Li Kaiming received the ball, the funny nerd before the game was already standing in front of him, but now Duncan no longer has the funny expression before the game, and the whole person is very serious.
He stood one step away from Li Kaiming, and stretched out his right hand to cover Li Kaiming's face.
This first offense could have run other tactics, but Li Kaiming couldn't wait to play one with Duncan to see how high the gold content of the legendary 8-time best defensive lineup was!
After he received the ball, he saw that Duncan did not come up to defend, but let him go, and it seemed that he was quite afraid of his breakthrough.
But in this case, Li Kaiming will choose to jump shot, and he is not the person who can only work under the basket at the beginning, such a big vacancy, is it difficult to kill the basket if he doesn't shoot?
But when he suddenly pulled up the shot, he understood why this man who looked like a nerd would make Cardinal Auerbach pull down his face and smash it!
As soon as he jumped together, Duncan seemed to anticipate that he was going to make a move, and the whole person instantly took a step forward, jumped up slightly at the same time, and stretched out his hand towards the basketball in Li Kaiming's hand!
Duncan's official height is only 211, which is not much different from Li Kaiming, but his arm span is 230, and his standing height is as high as 288!
With the blessing of this super static quality, Duncan can interfere with Li Kaiming's shooting without jumping very hard.
With a crisp iron sound, Spurs center Blair picked up the rebound.
Shu Ning and Sag on the commentary bench looked at each other and smiled, Duncan can really solve all opponents!
Tony Parker dribbled across the half, and in the face of Hinrich's defense, he called Duncan to come up to cover, and then made a small change of direction and directly shook off Hinrich and went inside.
Li Kaiming saw that Xinrich was passed, so he gritted his teeth and went up to defend Parker, he knew that Parker was fast, so he didn't dare to stick too tightly to the ground, took a little step, raised his arms high while shouting at his teammates to pay attention, and slid to defend.
But after Parker got inside, he scurried around like a mouse in a corner.
That's right, it's a mouse, mainly Parker's short stature, dark complexion but not particularly dark, and fast speed, which made Li Kaiming immediately think of the kind of gray rat scurrying around the city garbage bin.
Such a agile player, coupled with Li Kaiming's poor defensive lateral movement and too big a size, couldn't keep up at all, Parker took the opportunity to accelerate to the basket, faced Blatch's defense with a feint to point the latter, and then scored an easy layup!
2 to 0!
The crowd at Spurs' home stadium cheered, and their home team lost the first possession but won the first point, which looked like a good start.
Looking back, the Wizards attacked, this time Li Kaiming did not rashly choose to single Duncan, although the nerd is not young and his body is not so good, but the defensive awareness and physical hardware are here, and it is a bit stupid to choose to single Duncan.
So this time the Wizards played a tactic, Li Kaiming as a coverer, after blocking and dismantling, went down and attracted the Spurs' bag, Hinrich took the opportunity to break through to the inside, compressed the Spurs' defensive formation, and then gave the ball to Sun Yue on the outside.
This vacant opportunity is very good, but Sun Yue didn't grasp it, the Spurs can be regarded as the devil's home court, and the Texas people are fierce, and there is a lot of pressure on the away players.
Duncan protected the backcourt rebound, and Parker dribbled to the frontcourt and handed the ball directly to Ginobili.
Parker still prefers to play fast-paced, and when he is in a positional battle, Ginobili will step up and take on the task of dominating the ball.
However, the Spurs' pass was not for Ginobili to single Nick Young, after Ginobili got the ball, Li Kaiming suddenly found Duncan, who was doing nothing on the baseline, suddenly burst out with a powerful force, directly pushed him away, and then stuck him behind him with broad shoulders.
All these movements seem to have been tempered thousands of times, Li Kaiming didn't even have time to counteract, he was directly stuck behind Duncan, not to mention preventing Duncan from catching the ball, he couldn't even see anything in front of him, because Duncan's body was too wide!
The Spurs' cooperation is also smooth, after Duncan completed a series of card moves, Ginobili on the outside also seemed to have a heart, and directly passed a straight plug to Duncan on the inside!
After Duncan took the ball, he didn't make any fancy moves, and unpretentiously arched his back to the ball, and then leaned on Li Kaiming to turn around, raised the ball and hit the board, and the basketball fell into the bag!
4 to 0!
There were no bells and whistles and trash talk in the whole process, Li Kaiming only felt that it was dark in front of him, Duncan was stuck, and then a huge force came from Duncan's back, which made him take a step back, and then Duncan leaned on him very spicy and turned around and played cricket!
He didn't even react in the process, and when Duncan finally made a move, he wanted to jump up and block it, but found that his body was so suppressed by Duncan that he couldn't leave the ground at all.
So that's why, Duncan has some inside shots, the shooting points are very low, but the opponents can't block, is that the opponents don't want to block? That's not going to jump at all!
That's the basics!
The epee has no edge, and it is not skillful, which describes Duncan's style of play, all actions are in the service of the final goal, and in addition, he will not waste any strength on any gorgeous moves.
It's competitive sports in its purest form!
After seeing Duncan easily suppress Li Kaiming and score under the basket, Shu Ning on the commentary bench directly said, "The game is over!" ”
Even the best of you have been suppressed, what other waves can you make?
But Li Kaiming will not give up easily, if he surrenders after being beaten by the other side, then he is not Li Kaiming, besides, the first round is just a temptation, he has not shown his real strength yet!
The Wizards attacked the baseline serve, and after arriving in the frontcourt, Li Kaiming blocked and dismantled directly to the outside and ran outside the three-point line!
The Spurs must have known to defend Li Kaiming's three-point shot, so Duncan hurriedly followed, but this was a strategy for Li Kaiming to lure the snake out of the hole.
After the first round of the competition, he knew that it was quite difficult to score against Duncan under the basket, this guy's defensive position was too sharp, and he was afraid that if the ball didn't score at that time, he would make an offensive foul.
So there are only two ways to score points on Duncan's head, one is to throw three points outside, and the other is to pull them out first, and then suddenly cut them in the air, and hit Duncan by surprise!
Although Duncan's defensive position is very against the sky, after all, he is not young, and he has been injured, so his speed is definitely not as good as him!
After seeing Duncan's defense, Li Kaiming suddenly accelerated into the three-point line, and the front of Hinrich turned his head to look at the moon and gave the ball to Li Kaiming, who took the ball and took three steps directly, and Duncan was half a body behind to chase the defense.
As soon as Spurs' big center Blair saw this situation, he volunteered to pounce and vowed to shoot Li Kaiming with Duncan!
But Li Kaiming didn't look at the pass, and immediately made Blair a self-inflicted clown, and under the basket, Bradge faced the empty basket, pulled up his hands on the spot and abused the basket, and won the first point of the Wizards!
4 to 2!