Defending champion

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After Billups received the ball, without even thinking about it, he dribbled the ball and rushed in.

The penalty area is a battleground for strategists, and the Hornets' penalty area cannot be trampled by Billups.

At this time, David West, who was in the restricted area of ​​the Hornets, rushed to defend Billups.Seeing David West pounced on him, Billups made an emergency stop.Then he hooked the ball with his right hand, and the ball flew quickly from behind to the empty Prince.

It seems that an open jumper is inevitable.Even if it is as an opponent.However, Jack still couldn't help but admire a few words: This pass is really fucking good.

Swish!
After Prince received the ball, he scored the basketball with a quick jumper. Billups turned around and wanted to give Prince a high-five to celebrate. The two clapped their hands calmly.But both of them saw the imperceptible heat in each other's eyes.

This season is Billups' contract year, and the next contract will also be Billups' last big contract.

Generally in the NBA, many players will break out in contract years. The most famous in recent years are former Seattle SuperSonics center Jerome James and former Kings forward Bunch Wells.

Jerome James can be regarded as an opponent of Yao Ming's early career. In Yao Ming's rookie season, James once made Yao Ming taste embarrassing.

As a backup center for the Seattle Supersonics, he singled out Yao Ming five times in a row that night, but Yao Ming missed all two shots under his defense, ending in embarrassment with 5 points, and attracted fans at home in the Compaq Center. Sigh.

2005年7月15日，纽约尼克斯队以5年3000万的合同签下超音速队中锋杰罗姆.詹姆斯，当时詹姆斯已经快要年满30岁，而这份大合同后来也成为联盟内多年传颂的“最烂合同No.1”。

The 7-foot-1 James averaged 2004 minutes per game in the 05-16.6 season, scoring 4.9 points and 3 rebounds, but in the first game of the playoffs against the Kings, James suddenly broke out and his average technical statistics soared to 17.0 points and 9.0 rebounds, which makes his worth soar.

But it turns out that this is the only explosion in James' career-after signing this contract, James quickly returned to his original level, and even became worse and worse, becoming a fat man who only thought about donuts.

Everyone knows Wells' deeds. He was sent to the Kings in the contract year, not only showing his power against the Spurs in the playoffs.And there was surprisingly little off-court news for Wells that year.If it wasn't for Wells himself and his agent being too greedy, he would have gotten a more perverted contract than James.

Since Jerome James has a mid-level contract, as the hero of the Pistons' summit in the 04 playoffs and the MVP of the finals that year, it is only natural that Billups wants a big contract. His previous mid-level contract It is an insult to "MRSHOT", but the Pistons did not renew the contract with Billups in advance. The delayed attitude and the fact that Big Ben went to Chicago this year made the brain of the Pistons, which has always been known for its calmness, go crazy.This season, Billups has strengthened his offense a lot in order to prove himself and get the big contract that he should have gotten long ago.

Because, Billups' assists helped the Pistons narrow the score to only the last 9 points.

Seeing that the situation on the court was very unfavorable to the Hornets, they requested a substitution on the Hornets side.

Jack, who had rested for more than 4 minutes on the sidelines, went into battle again.As soon as Jack came up, the Hornets took Jack as the point of attack.

McDyess' defense did cause some trouble for Jack, but McDyess could not prevent Jack from scoring.Back then, McDyess was a player of the type of Kemp and Si, and his defense was not good at it.Now his body is not as good as before. Although he has the advantage of experience, he was squeezed away by Jack and succeeded in dunking with both hands.

As soon as Jack came up, he helped the Hornets stretch the score to double digits.

It's time for the Pistons to attack again!

Billups holds the ball and slowly pushes it across the half court, directing everyone to follow his gestures with his right hand.

Seeing the gesture, the four other Pistons began to run more rhythmically within the three-point line, trying to find their position.

Peja Stockovic recalled Prince's previous performance, regardless of the slightest slack.

So he followed Prince's footsteps step by step, and he has been unwilling to relax easily.

Prince was not in a hurry, so he just led him around in circles. Anyway, Peja Stockovich would always relax.As a Prince who mainly uses open shots as his main scoring method.Scoring takes patience.

Prince has not changed much for a long time. Peja Stockovic finally feels that Prince should be a cover. He believes that the main attack points of the Pistons are Billups and Hamilton, and Prince is just a defensive player. , At most, when the Hornets double-teamed others, they missed and scored. After he noticed Prince, Prince was basically at the end of his rope, and there was no other way.

Indeed, Prince's main offensive method is still open shots, but with Prince's height and long arms, as long as there is a little space, Prince will not be soft.

At the same time, Hamilton, another outsider of the Pistons, brushed past Prince, and Prince took advantage of the opportunity to help Hamilton block Butler.

Peja Stockovic hurried to defend Hamilton. At this moment, Prince's right leg stomped on the ground seemingly inadvertently. After a short moment, his body pierced the air. , and ran in without the ball towards the other side of Butler who was misplaced to mark himself.

Butler saw that the situation was not good. He knew that the ball was likely to be passed to Prince to shoot, but he had no other tricks for a while, so he could only try to block Prince in front of him and prevent him from receiving the ball. .

In such an instant, Billups's pass was extremely precise, and it appeared in the hands of Prince just right.

At this time, Butler quickly turned around and chased after Prince where he was trying to run, but the place where Prince ran was now guarded by two elders. Sid Wallace's body.

Then I saw that Prince outside the three-point line had received the pass and was taking his time to shoot.

At this time, David West quickly grabbed Prince's ground at this time. Prince's shooting movement was interrupted all of a sudden, so he had to retract his slowly rising heels, stand still, and bend. He bent his waist and held the basketball around his waist with both hands.

David West stretched out his hands and started waving them to interfere with Prince's shot. After Prince faked a shot, he had to stop. He raised his hands high, but he didn't jump up either.

Prince made another fake move, still a fake shot. Of course, David West didn't jump up this time, but just stood up completely, like a wall blocking Prince's front. Lins has no choice but to dribble or pass.

In terms of Prince's current technical characteristics, he is most likely to be the latter.

However, what is surprising is that Prince chose to dribble. He took another shot fake and then silently retracted the basketball. He turned his body to face David West. After a spin, he dribbled towards the inside past.

"Breakthrough? The prince's breakthrough doesn't seem to be very good. Jack guarding the inside Prince is looking for death!"

David West felt a beating in his heart, but he followed Prince and rushed inside.

David West's current judgment is that Prince is going to break through from the bottom line, so his footsteps straddle two steps to block the only way for Prince to enter from the bottom line.At this moment, Prince's left leg kicked the ground, and then his right leg took a step back in an instant, and after he was firmly established, he kicked the ground again, and his body had already risen into the air.

David West was secretly annoyed, he was actually deceived by the quilt, and now he couldn't regain his center of gravity for a while. Fortunately, he still retracted his center of gravity at the last moment, and then jumped up directly, with a pair of big black hands facing He covered the basketball in Prince's hand.

Although he has used a retreat step to withdraw the three-pointer, Prince's choice is still a backward jumper. If he can use a backward jumper, it is best to make it an instinctive one. Habits, habits that are integrated into the bones.Because this can greatly reduce your chances of being blocked.

The same is true for this ball. Prince kept retreating, his body had even withdrawn from the three-point line before he reached the highest point of the parabola, and then the basketball flew out with the sound of howling wind, towards the distant basket.

David West was a step too slow in the end, his right hand couldn't even touch the lower edge of the basketball.

"Swish"

Prince, a surprise soldier, has played an unexpected effect. Prince usually focuses on defense, which does not mean that he has no offensive ability. For example, Artest, before going to the Rockets, many people thought that Artest was just a defensive champion. In fact, when Artest was in the Pacers, before the Auburn Hills Palace brawl, he averaged 25+6+4 per game that season. If he hadn't gone to the Rockets, Artest would have carried the impression of "just a defensive player" all his life. At the end of the third quarter, Billups and Prince cooperated continuously, and even with 3 minutes and 56 seconds left in the fourth quarter, the progress of the game that the Hornets thought was also overturned by the Pistons.

In the fourth quarter of the game, the two sides once fought to a tie, and the situation on the court is now becoming more and more chaotic.There was a lot of gunpowder between the two teams.

The ball for the Pistons!

Billups is the commander of the Pistons on the field and the brain of their team, but Billups' continuous assists made the Hornets forget his offensive ability.

(End of this chapter)