When they arrived at a high-end restaurant, the two sat down and continued to talk.

Reggie Miller introduced a lot of NBA things to Zhou Quan, including some interesting anecdotes, and talked about the past of the Bad Boys and Jordan.

"Iron Fist, if you join the Pistons, you will inherit the bad boy army and Jordan's holiday, so as long as you play a good role, you will definitely become a target for Jordan, that stinky braised egg has a very small heart and is very grudgeful, you have to be careful about this." Miller reminded.

"Now my strength is not good, far behind, I will not be his target. Isaiah will be back in a while, and Jordan is still targeting him. ”

"Of course, you're barely a second-rate point guard right now."

Miller nodded, and sighed again: "Now in the whole league, the only one who is qualified to make Jordan jealous and hateful is still the smiling assassin." The only thing that made him eat deflated was the army of bad boys. ”

The two chatted for a while, and Miller suddenly mentioned Zhou Quan's pass and said: "Iron Fist, in your past few games, I found that you like to go into the paint area and look for passing opportunities in the crowd.

But the breakthrough speed is not fast, and the other party can easily form a trap on the paint area. I've watched your games, and almost every time you get into it, you're going to get trapped. ”

Zhou Quan nodded: "My breakthrough speed is really not fast, I can go in, although I compress the opponent's defense, and the paint area will be full of people, but at the same time I also attract them to defend, which will give teammates close to the basket a chance, and after they get my pass, the shooting rate will be higher."

You know, we don't have any players on the inside who can play with the ball, they have a limited finishing ability, and if I give them the ball on the outside and they play on their own, it's going to be relatively inefficient.

Actually, every time I burst in, I usually don't go too deep, I don't go to the basket, just at the free-throw line or a little below to leave some space for my teammates. ”

Miller nodded, shook his head again, and said: "Passing the ball in a crowd is actually very high, it is easy to lose the ball, and it is easy to make mistakes in passing and receiving. ”

Speaking of this, he smiled again and said: "But I found that your error rate of passing in the crowd is relatively low, which shows that you are indeed very good at passing the ball like that, your vision is very good, and you also have good ball control, and you have a strong ability to integrate the ball with the ball."

Dare to rush in, you are good at playing tough battles, you are very imaginative in passing, you are creative. ”

"Normally, my assist-to-turnover ratio is not very good, but there are still a lot of turnovers. By the way, Reggie, how is your team going today? ”

Zhou Quan didn't talk much about himself, because his current strength is still weak, especially his ability to predict is not enough, he can only pass the ball to the position within his sight, that is, the ability to pass the ball without looking at people is relatively weak, and Reggie Miller's Pacers and Pistons are both in the middle of the East and are the main competitors, so Miller can't let Miller know too much about his strength.

At present, there are 27 teams in the league, 14 in the East and 13 in the West, each divided into two major regions, the East has the Central and Atlantic Divisions, and the Pistons and the Bulls, Pacers, Cavaliers, Bucks, Hawks, and Hornets belong to the same middle.

In other words, the Pistons have to play four games with the Pacers every season, so they can't let Miller figure out his old bottom.

This senior just said that after studying all his games, he must see the Pistons as an opponent.

Miller shook his head and said, "You guys are 2-7, we're not much better than you, 3-7, half a win." ”

"It's hard to be a brother!" Zhou Quan said with a smile.

Miller smiled wryly: "We are currently the first in the East in scoring per game and third in the league, with 112.2 points, which is higher than the Bulls, who only have 109.9 points.

But we are second in the East and third in the league in points conceded per game, with a whopping 110.3 points. Our defense is not good.

Iron Fist, I really want to get you here, Mitchell Williams doesn't defend as well as you. ”

Zhou Quan smiled: "I have noticed, your offense is really good, with an average of 29.2 assists per game, first in the East and first in the league." He is shooting 49 percent from the field per game, second only to the Bulls' 50.8 percent. ”

"If you can't defend it, you have to kneel to get into the playoffs." Miller shook his head.

After dinner, Miller and Zhou Quan went to the Pacers' home arena together.

By this time, it was six o'clock, and the Pistons had already arrived at the arena, and after he and the team had converged, they began to prepare for the game.

At half past seven, the two sides announced their starting lineups.

Pistons: John Cely, Orlando Ulrich, Dennis Rodman, Joe Dumas, Zhou Quan.

Pacers: Rick Schmitz, Dale Davis, Chuck Person, Reggie Miller, Mitchell Williams

At eight o'clock, the game officially began.

John Sely's height of 211 centimeters was not enough to see in front of Rick Schmitz at 224 centimeters, and the Pacers won the jump ball.

Zhou Quan is very cautious against Mitchell Williams.

He had a detailed understanding of this opponent, who was the same height as him, weighed 79 kilograms, was drafted by the Pistons with the No. 23 pick in the second round in '88, suffered a serious injury in his rookie season, and was traded the following year.

He was traded to the Pacers last season and became a starter in the second half of the season, averaging only 24 minutes per game and recording 11 points and 4.8 assists.

The point is, with so little playing time, he can still average 2.1 steals per game.

This season, he averaged 35 minutes per game, 15 points, 8.2 assists, 2.9 assists and 3 turnovers, and qualified to compete for the steal king, and the assist-to-turnover ratio of 2.7 was also close to an excellent level, and the passing was very stable.

Williams is a breakout point guard, without three points, and as soon as he gets to the frontcourt, he immediately bypasses Zhou Quan and breaks through from the right wing with the ball.

Zhou Quan quickly followed, blocking the opponent's left side, directly facing off, and squeezing the opponent out with his body.

Williams almost missed, had to make a right turn, pulled back to the three-point line, and failed to break through for the first time.

At this time, the big forward, Zhou Quan's annual show, and the No. 13 pick in the first round, Davis Davis, ran out and blocked Williams.

Williams borrowed the wall to burst into the flank again, changed direction, and then burst into the paint through the right elbow.

Rick Smith got into the basket and Williams threw a pass, who received the ball, a near-basket hook and hit a shot over John Sely's head.

Pistons offense.

Zhou Quan advanced with the ball, Williams retreated and defended in front, saw the timing, looked at the former's dribbling rhythm, suddenly grabbed the short body, and completed the ball in an instant.

"Damn!"

Zhou Quan hurriedly turned around to chase after him.

Williams took a few steps to the basket and jumped to the basket.

"Smack!"

Zhou Quan rushed up from behind, desperately flew to block and hit the ball on the rebound.

"Alas!"

It's a pity to get a layup after a steal, otherwise it would be a morale-boosting steal counterattack, and the Pacers' home court resounded with a big sigh.

"Be careful, he has a hand in the tackle, Isaiah also suffered on his hand last year."

Joe Dumas, who was urgently returning to defense, got the ball, handed it to Zhou Quan, and gave him a word of advice.

"Yes."

Zhou Quan summed up the lessons learned from being cut off just now, and believed that Williams' steal, desperate and sudden robbery, is a risky steal, and if the steal fails, the consequences will be very serious, and it can be arranged in a targeted manner.

He remembered what Reggie Miller had said that Mitchell Williams wasn't as good defensively as he was, and that should be the reason.