I’m Really Playing Basketball - Chapter 890
On the evening of June 3, 2022, at the Milwaukee Fund Eagle Arena, the NBA finals are about to begin.
In China, on the other side of the ocean, I don’t know how many fans are sitting in front of the TV, sitting in front of the computer, watching the live broadcast of the game in their spare time.
Before the game started, the Chinese fans in front of the TV were shocked by the live broadcast on TV.
Especially at this time, the TV was showing a close-up of the statue outside the Golden Eagle Arena.
Three of the bronze statues outside the Golden Eagle Arena will face off in this game.
Chen Xiao, Curry and Durant.
At the same time, two of the top ten players in NBA history will face each other directly in this finals, Chen Xiao against Durant.
Before the start of the finals, the broadcast footage was constantly rendering the atmosphere of the game and the strength of the two teams.
Even before the start of the finals, CCTV did a show, which introduced the two teams’ progress in detail. Let’s just put it this way, the two teams’ progress can be called a high-ranking other team. Team a grade.
The Lakers, Heat, Bucks and Warriors, who were originally considered to be the four major teams, actually ended up with only two teams in the entire NBA season.
One of these two teams is the team that now dominates the NBA, and the other is the team that was brought by the first person in history who once dominated the NBA.
So, the significance of this game and its great.
Just like when Jordan met Magic in the finals.
When Jordan defeated Magic, he was crowned the first player in the league.
And now, that’s the same situation in front of Durant and Curry Antetokounmpo.
Although for the past three years, experts have said that Durant is now the first player in the league.
But Durant himself has not admitted it, because he knows that for him, the most important coronation ceremony has not been completed.
Jordan took over the authority directly from the Magician.
Chen Xiao grabbed the scepter from O’Neal’s hand.
And he needs to be like these seniors. Only by defeating these seniors can he truly become number one.
This is an inheritance.
And any player with dignity and self-respect will want such a legacy.
Durant is naturally not surprised.
So when the game started, Durant directly expressed his intention to Chen Xiao.
Chen Xiao just smiled slightly.
Both of them are no longer the middle two teenagers they used to be.
Chen Xiao is now 40 years old, and Durant is 33 years old this year.
Adults should be so direct.
Moreover, for Durant, who has taken everything, taking over from Chen Xiao is already his obsession.
As a disciple carefully cultivated by Chen Xiao, the first person in history, and Jordan, the second person in history, if he can’t take over the scepter left by his teacher in this way, Durant will feel very incompetent.
In fact, this is also the source of Durant’s pressure. When he was 18 years old, Jordan said that the one who surpassed him was Chen Xiao, and the only possible one who surpassed Chen Xiao was Durant.
Durant has always remembered the teacher’s words.
Now sixteen years have passed, and he has become a bubble to surpass Chen Xiao, but even if he can’t surpass his teacher, at least he has to succeed from the teacher’s hand.
Therefore, defeating Chen Xiao has now become an eternal festival in Durant’s heart.
This time in the finals, he wants to open the festival!
On the court, Marvin Bagley and Bobby Portis are jumping the ball.
In the end, Marvin Bagley defeated Bobby Portis and won the Warriors’ first shot of the game.
Chen Xiao, who was standing behind Marvin Bagley, received the jump ball, and instead of continuing to pass, he dribbled the ball and launched a fast break.
Chen Xiao dribbled the ball, Marvin Bagley took the lead, Wiggins on the left, Herbert Jones on the right and Morant behind him advanced across the board.
The Warriors’ fast-break advance When Chen Xiao dribbled the ball, it was really fast.
In the face of this tidal wave of attacks, as long as the average team is a little flustered, it is almost all opportunities.
And most teams, facing such a fast break, are a little flustered and confused.
But obviously, the Bucks are not your average team.
The Bucks’ five starters for this game, Jrue Holiday, Curry, Durant, Antetokounmpo and Portis, quickly found their defenders.
Power forward Antetokounmpo moved back to defend Marvin Bagley.
Center Portis took advantage of the situation to bully him and retreated to defend Chen Xiao.
Curry ding Herbert Jones, Durant ding Wiggins, Jue Holiday ding Morant.
In such a fast game rhythm, the defense can make such accurate defensive decisions. It can only be said that these people in the Bucks are strong, and Ray Allen’s pre-match preparations are also very good.
However, for this matter, the Warriors must have been well prepared. It is impossible to beat the Bucks.
Therefore, when Chen Xiao faced Portis, who was following suit and defending and retreating, Chen Xiao directly slowed down the rhythm, and the Warriors’ offense quickly changed from fast break to positional warfare.
After Chen Xiao slowed down, Morant came to Chen Xiao immediately.
Although Morant gave way to Klai in the last series against the Lakers, he had no other thoughts in his mind. Facing the Bucks, Morant was still very hardworking.
In other words, when he was playing against the Lakers, although he came off the bench, he was one of the biggest heroes of the Warriors, and he won a key game for the Warriors in g2.
In the series against the Lakers, when the Warriors were in such a bad state in the first three games, if the final big score was 0 to 3, it would be impossible for the Warriors to defeat the Lakers and finally advance to the finals.
By Chen Xiao’s side, Morant is very happy to accept any position.
To switch to another team, if Morant is used as a substitute, it will definitely explode.
Morant, who had a series of playoffs with the Lakers, had a pick-and-roll with Chen Xiao and exchanged Holiday for Chen Xiao. With the ball, he attacked Portis. That impact, that speed, He could literally eat Portis alive.
Portis is actually not slow, otherwise Chen Xiao will eat alone, but compared with Morant, one of the fastest guards in the NBA right now, it is definitely not good.
However, although the Bucks do not have a big center, the rotation speed is still very fast. In the face of a breakthrough like Morant, Durant quickly recovered.
Then, an opportunity arose.
In the face of Durant’s sheepskin shrinkage, Morant has no intention of passing the ball, but directly kills. In this case, Durant can only recover directly.
It was not until Morant and Durant confronted in the air that Morant twisted the basketball in his hand to Wiggins in the bottom corner.
Wiggins, absolutely vacant!
Looking at Wiggins’ huge gap, Bucks head coach Ray Allen was stunned for a while.
Morant, is it so reasonable now?
This little guy is now less and less like Westbrook, but more like Ross.
I have to say, Ray Allen still knows the ball.
These years have passed, although Morant’s data is not as explosive as historical time and space.
But Morant’s control of the game is definitely not comparable to that of Morant in historical time and space.
The Morant in history, he won’t win with his teammates, he won with his teammates and lost, as embarrassing as possible.
Although Morant in historical time and space is first-class in singles, he can always blow Curry up.
But the help to teammates and the game is not so great.
A defender with excellent control can use his singles restraint to help his teammates.
Such as Chen Xiao, such as Kobe, such as Jordan, such as Wade, such are the case.
Especially Wade is very obvious. Wade’s lightning breakthrough later became Wade’s deterrent, not lethal.
When Morant learns to turn his breakthroughs into deterrents to drive his teammates, he will really become a qualified superstar.
Obviously, Morant is degenerating now.
Morant’s attack can be said to have collapsed the Bucks’ defense.
Although it is said that every time the Bucks and the Warriors play, no one can guard against the other, but the defense collapses like this, and it is still broken by people other than Chen Xiao. This really makes Ray Allen a little unbearable.
However, Ray Allen also knows that the Bucks can’t blame Portis or Durant for this defensive failure.
Portis was defending Chen Xiao just now, and he had to defend Chen Xiao to stop the Bucks’ quick push, and he defended very well.
And just now, Durant was originally defending Wiggins. After Antetokounmpo was hugged by Marvin Bagley, he could only recover it. He couldn’t watch Morant dunk or layup, right?
So, it was an unacceptable defensive failure, but it was also a defensive failure without any means.
So very helpless.
Fortunately, Ray Allen is not entangled. It is still the same sentence. The Bucks have never been able to defend against the Warriors.
The Bucks played the Heat, did the Bucks defend against the Heat?
In addition to g6, in fact, in the first five games, Holiday did not defend Ross, and everyone was fighting against each other.
For the Bucks with the big three of Durant, Curry and Antetokounmpo, the Bucks are not afraid to attack any team at all.
Even in the face of the invincible offense that year, the lynx that Chen Xiao brought, Ray Allen was confident.
On the court, it was the Bucks’ turn to attack. Curry quickly pushed the ball past the half court and hit the ball to Antetokounmpo outside the three-point line. Antetokounmpo was ready to deal cards, while Curry was Running with Holiday, Durant was standing at the horn to get the ball, and Portis was ready to come up to screen for Antetokounmpo.
Just like the Warriors’ offense, the Bucks couldn’t defend, facing the Bucks’ attack that stretched the space almost to the extreme, the Warriors were helpless.
Marvin Bagley, who was defending Antetokounmpo, has worked very hard to concentrate behind him, and half-stepped back to defend Antetokounmpo.
However, Portis stepped forward, and after the card was on his side, Antetokounmpo got rid of Marvin Bagley’s defense and rushed towards Chen Xiao.
In the face of Antetokounmpo’s dislocation, Chen Xiao can understand it very well. This season, he stole Antetokounmpo’s MVP.
The most watched game of the regular season this season, the Christmas battle between the Bucks and the Warriors, Chen Xiao scored 103 points against the Bucks in a one-on-one singles.
In that game, Antetokounmpo even felt that he couldn’t beat 40-year-old Chen Xiao one-on-one, and he was instantly hit.
Of course, he felt that he was not as good as Chen Xiao, because he was not as good as leading the team. If he really wanted to attack Chen Xiao like this, he was still confident.
Back then, when he first debuted, his impact was like a rookie when he was defended by Chen Xiao.
And now, Antetokounmpo’s impact is really powerful.
Don’t call Antetokounmpo a slightly weakened version of James.
Except for the inconsistent shooting, the two of them are completely different.
Antetokounmpo does not stick to the ball and likes to attack without the ball.
James, on the other hand, is very sticky. After a long time of luck, it is called a pick-and-roll breakthrough.
Really more threatening than breakthrough, Antetokounmpo is even above James.
For example, this time, facing Chen Xiao’s well-prepared defense, Antetokounmpo immediately handed the ball to Durant, the card owner Wiggins. Chen Xiao and Durant’s passing came from the horns.
At his peak, Chen Xiao might still have a way to face this kind of tacit understanding on the pitch.
But now, that’s really no way out.
Can only watch Antetokounmpo dunk.
This is the disadvantage of not having a big center under the basket, and the basket is very easy to be penetrated.
The Warriors are like this, and the Bucks are actually like this. Didn’t the Warriors just attack the Bucks without a big center?
It can only be said that in order to attack, both teams have given up their big centers, which is definitely a gain and a loss.
And this is also the reason why the Bucks and the Warriors can’t defend their opponents after they meet each other.
At the basket, Antetokounmpo slammed a dunk and scored the Bucks’ first two points of the game, making the score 3-2.
Looking back, it was the Warriors’ turn to attack. Just now, Chen Xiao defended Antetokounmpo and was beaten by Antetokounmpo and Durant.
And this time it was the Warriors’ turn to attack, and the Warriors also took the initiative to find Chen Xiao.
Of course, Chen Xiao, like Antetokounmpo just now, did not confront Chen Xiao head-on. After Chen Xiao took the initiative to find Antetokounmpo, he used Marvin Bagley’s pick-and-roll under the basket to block it. After Antetokounmpo, a fake shot really suddenly, deceived Portis, and made a dunk under the basket!
Seeing the Warriors’ attack, Ray Allen on the sidelines also sighed, Chen Xiao’s ball intelligence is really high.
Although the Bucks are not as strong on defense as the Lakers, they are not a team that can easily find gaps at the basket.
But Chen Xiao, just took the initiative to find Antetokounmpo, took the initiative to the basket, completed the attack, and got two points for Antetokounmpo.
Then, the Bucks attacked.
Antetokounmpo repeated his old tricks, but this time Wiggins, who was defending Durant, took the initiative to retreat a little to help defend Antetokounmpo.
However, this time, Durant did not have a one-two with Antetokounmpo, but after Wiggins retreated a little, a standard Joe’s shot back from the free throw line, with a swipe!
Durant hit the mid-range, 5 to 4!
“This attack is so beautiful!”
“Being able to find the gap between such lightning and flint is the invincible tactical execution ability and game understanding ability.
In such a difficult offensive environment, it is an invincible personal ability to be able to hit such a steady hit.
And the two teams in this game, they have such players! ”
Chen Xiao is like this, so is Durant.
Compared with history, Durant in this time and space not only has no major injuries, but his body is much better. The biggest change is that, as a disciple of Jordan and Chen Xiao, his control and influence over the game has influenced Chen Xiao and Du. Rand at least 80%.
Durant in this time and space is definitely not the player in history who forced the pass and forced the hot hand to pass.
In this regard, this game has just defended Durant’s Wiggins twice, which is the most uncomfortable.
He thought that the Western Conference finals were against Leonard, and he felt that defending Durant should be confident.
But after these two rounds, Wiggins felt that he wanted to keep things simple.
Tonight, Wiggins and Antetokounmpo will definitely be the two most tired players!
Because everyone could see that, at the beginning of the game, the Warriors were frantically playing Chen Xiao, and Chen Xiao was frantically looking for Antetokounmpo.
On the other hand, the Warriors are using Durant to play the core Antetokounmpo and Curry to assist, and Durant is playing Wiggins crazy to respond to Chen Xiao.
“In this game, Durant and the Warriors told everyone with practical actions that they want to take over the scepter in God’s hand!”
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And in this game, in this series, Durant, Antetokounmpo and Curry will also do Chen Xiao together!
“Such invincible three players, this game is such a low-profile challenge to a 40-year-old player…”
I have to say that many celebrities, fans, experts, and media reporters on the scene were very shocked.
What’s even more shocking is that the forty-year-old uncle did not fall behind.
At least, in the first quarter, Chen Xiao didn’t lose half a point.
Because at the end of the first quarter, the score on the field was 38 to 38!
This first section can only be described in one word…
“Dream back to Christmas!”
Dream back to that night when Chen Xiao scored 103 points!