Chapter 138 Interesting Competition (4/7)
"If I were you, I wouldn't be able to bear it."
As soon as Davis finished speaking, Xie Hou heard the sarcastic words of his teammates. The person who said this was not someone else, but the skill of saying sarcastic words was better than shooting three-pointers.
Hearing Miller's words, Xie Hou was not angry at all, but instead felt relieved (don't this just show that there is a level difference between him and Miller's cultivation?), so he picked up the ball and let Kirirenko serve.
After receiving the serve, Xie Hou dribbled the ball through the half as usual. After walking a few steps, he heard a harsh scream from the front row audience: "Arthur, blow up that shiny bald head!!!"
Xie Hou's way of distinguishing this sound was not the sharp sound that had broken, but the stuttering behind it.
"Look, even the eldest lady of Mustu can't stand it anymore." Another sarcastic remark was heard.
Xie Hou's will and game style are never diverted by the sarcastic words around him (of course, they are not diverted by the ball blind screams). The core of the Hornets is the outside line, but the most difficult thing to conquer is the inside line.
O'Neal Jr. locked PJ Brown's position toughly and was ready to do some big things here.
Xie Hou didn't think about it and went out to lob the ball.
"Why did he fight by himself?" Xuewei thought that the reason why Xie Hou could fight by himself was very simple, because Davis, who was defending him, was visible to him, was smaller and thinner than him, so why didn't he fight? Will the lion allow a hyena to swagger and mark its territory in front of it?
Just as the audience was holding the same idea as Xue Wei, O'Neal scored strongly from the inside.
5 to 2
Although Xiao Ao has the soft-footed shrimp attribute that automatically downgrades when encountering a strong team, the Hornets' inside line is obviously not yet at that level.
Strangely, they clearly have two star-level blue-collar insiders.
PJ Brown has been selected for the second defense three times. Magloyl has almost been selected for the All-Star this season. Although they are not the inside superstars who take both offense and defense in the 1990s, it is also good to use this era of extinction.
"You can't win the ball just by passing."
Davis thought his trash words could arouse Xie Hou's counterattack. They seemed to really think that King Arthur was the kind of gunpowder that his opponent was furious. In fact, Xie Hou had always been kind to others and didn't know why he had gained such a reputation. So he chose to raise his eyebrows at Davis' provocation and then control his breakthrough route with high-intensity defense.
Davis had the intention of attacking now and had no choice but to play the ball for his teammates.
George Lynch on the Hornets took the ball, and he was against Artest.
As the undisputed strongest defender on the wing this season, Artest's single defense is a lock-in defense. When a super strong star swinger meets him, his personal performance will decline significantly; ordinary people like Lynch who fade out of the NBA one day and don't care about it, if they meet the current Arte, they will usually be ruthlessly sealed.
The so-called zero seal, simply put, is zero performance.
Sure enough, Davis' passing was like a bun that smashed a dog, and he never returned.
Lynch lost confidence in being defended by Artest and missed the attack. Xie Hou grabbed the defensive rebound again, and the atmosphere suddenly rose.
"Fans all know what will happen if Arthur takes the defensive rebound!"
Xie Hou was in the middle, and Miller and Artest followed left and right.
The Pacers' third-line fast attack was very prosperous. Although their opponents retreated quickly, Xie Hou's pressure in the rotation counterattack was unparalleled among the active players (it was also a rare existence in history). Byron Davis tried to exchange his own sacrifice for a successful defense, and he wanted to create Xie Hou's offensive foul.
As a result, Xie Hou suddenly braked in front of him and smiled evilly. Davis didn't know what he was thinking about when he saw the other party hit the ball between his legs as if he was going to launch a terrorist attack on his 00.
The man's awareness of privacy made him spread his legs apart, letting the ball pass under him, hit the ground, and then bounced into Miller's hand (Xiehou was wrong, Miller's speed was 50 times faster than his defensive pace). Even Artest was shocked. He thought this was his performance moment, and he came to the frontcourt to watch Miller show the elderly layup?
7 to 2
"It's spread well," Miller shouted.
"Reggie, you're dunking!" Atai was very depressed, first of all, depressed that he could not run away from the elderly, secondly, depressed that he could not see a beautiful counterattack dunk after running for a long time.
Miller's words made him even more depressed: "Dunk and layup are all two points."
They retreated together, and Byron Davis thought he had avoided the terrorist attack, his eyes were staring like a cow egg, and he stopped receiving the ball. The tired work of dribbling the ball through the half-time was also left to his teammates behind him.
Xie Hou quickly winked at Artest, not knowing whether he understood.
What made him say the most was Davis' question: "Did you just want to attack me?"
Xie Hou looked behind Davis at a glance, and Wang's guard still understood his eyes and hints. In order to prove his worth, he secretly went to the frontcourt to press on Davis' unlucky teammate.
Then, Xie Hou replied to Davis: "Don't tell me that you have never played a crotch pass."
You know, he is a serious American, and the atmosphere of American streetball is very strong. It is common to use the ball to hit people in the face to tease the audience (this thing happens in China and is definitely going to be beaten). Now he doesn't cheer for Xie Hou's wonderful operations, but there is actually such a chilling question. Although Xie Hou does make a profit, it's not a loss if he can't finish a chicken attack.
"If I don't avoid it, you will succeed!" Davis decided that Xie Hou was the kind of person he imagined.
What's worse is that in order to argue with Xie Hou about this, he left the task of dribbling through half the game to his teammates who were not as good at controlling the transportation skills.
Lynch was once again entangled by Artest, and when Davis heard the call of his teammates, things were out of control.
He turned around and saw Lynch ventured to pass the ball.
Davis was not ready, and did not stop Xie Hou's position. He didn't expect Lynch to pass such a ball.
Xie Hou stared at the frontcourt and was ready to copy the ball.
"OK!"
Xuewei screamed, in stark contrast to the other socialites in the front row, and none of them would react to the game.
Xie Hou cut off Lynch's desperate pass, as if he had eyes behind him, and he saw Davis' movements clearly. He suddenly pulled the ball with his back and knocked Davis, who was preparing to make a tactical foul on the spot, and the first climax was coming to the scene - Artest was running. This time, no matter what, it was his performance moment.
"Come on, show time!"
Xie Hou passed Atae for a long time, and the beast roared, rushed into the basket, flew over half of the paint area, and completed a folding dunk with both hands.
9 to 2
"you!"
Davis glared at Xie Hou. Although not one of the 9 points the Pacers scored belonged to him, every one of the points came from his pass.
Not counting O'Neal's pass that was not counted as his assist after receiving the ball, the other three scores came from counterattacks, and they were all counterattack opportunities created by him.
"Don't be discouraged, I'm not as good as you in this area." Xie Hou disgusted Davis as if he was not angry enough.
At this time, Hornets' head coach Tim Floyd requested a timeout.
This coach with only five years of NBA coaching experience has spent the first four years in a bottom team. Taking over a bad team at the beginning is the worst script for coaches, because if they perform poorly (it is difficult for rookie coaches to perform well in a bad team), there will be no teams asking them to coach later.
Floyd's performance was not good either. In the past four years, Steady brought the team to the lottery conference every year at the end of the regular season.
The evaluation he received was neither good nor bad. This evaluation was the basis for him to get a second contract after leaving the bad team.
Now, his team was confused by the first hit in the Eastern Conference and forced him to make some changes.
"Byron, stop competing with Arthur anymore, don't forget your strengths," said Floyd.
As a guard who came out of UCL, Davis is not as good as other U-type guards to grab rebounds and triple-double (as an U-type guard, his rebound count has completely lost all his face to seniors and juniors). His advantages are the offensive end, the ability to create opportunities, and the ability to create opportunities for teammates in chaos.
Freud set up a tactical board and began to talk about tactics.
He clarified a few points: let Xie Hou make three-pointers, shrink the inside, and give up offensive rebounds.
Control the rhythm, do not give breakthroughs, and do not give comfortable low-selling singles. Give up offensive rebounds to control the rhythm. They cannot let Xie Hou run, otherwise it will be the result of the start.
"9-2, Arthur in the semifinals is still active," Leonard said. "He seems to have become a superstar who cannot be restricted."
The speech ends, and the pause ends.
On the Hornets, Davis called the pick-and-roll wall to break through the inside line, breaking O'Neal's assisted defense net, and making a layup in danger.
This ball stopped bleeding and helped teammates breathe a sigh of relief.
"Byron has won all the Hornets' current scores."
"This is his characteristic, he is strong and aggressive."
Xie Houru always controlled the ball, and then arrived at the frontcourt. What did he see?
Byron Davis' defense retreated above the free throw line, which was about two meters away from him. This kind of distance is difficult for even a god to break through.
Others of the Hornets also intend to shrink the space and maintain a state that can interfere with the opponent's shooting and can retract double-team in time.
In addition to Xie Hou, Xie Hou has a large open space where he can shoot three points anytime, anywhere.
In other words, the Hornets' current method of defending Xie Hou is similar to the method of defending Ben Simmons in more than a decade later.
Chapter completed!