Defending champion

Chapter 67

Denver's Nuggets can achieve such good results this year and their defensive strengthening has an inevitable connection.Their return to defense was very timely, and the Hornets' chance to break fast was killed by the Nuggets.

Seeing that the fast break was not successful, Paul had no choice but to slow down the speed of the Hornets and play positional warfare.

If the Hornets' speed cannot be increased, the Hornets will suffer a lot from a team with excellent offensive and defensive skills like the Nuggets.Denver's interior is too strong.

Paul kept dribbling on the outside, looking for opportunities to attack, but unfortunately, 24 seconds have passed since the 18-second attack.Paul still didn't find a very good offensive opportunity.

Jack, who was on the inside, was also tightly entangled by Kenyon Martin, like a rubber band, tightly stuck to Jack's body.Not only that, Kenyon Martin's mouth is also very cheap, like a mad dog, buzzing in Jack's ear, "Rookie, you must not even score a point under my defense, I promise."

Hearing Jack's heart upset, suddenly, Jack had a plan, thinking: Since you are so clingy, right?I'll let you stick to it. After making up his mind, Jack pretended to run outside to receive Paul's pass.

Kenyon Martin, seeing that Jack wanted to escape, out of his own control, how could Kenyon Martin let Jack go?Kenyon immediately chased after him.Kenyon Martin yelled at the same time: "Idiot, idiot, you just run when you see me. If you have the ability, you have to hit me with a ball!"

Jack ignored him, and pretended to be outside step by step. Jack ran away, and the corner of his eye was always taking care of Paul and Kenyon Martin.Jack waited until he had almost the space to pull Kenyon Martin out, then made a sudden drive and cut inside.

Kenyon Martin hadn't figured out what was going on, and was directly shaken off by Jack.Jack has a big gap at the basket.

Paul's eyes are always observing the situation on the field. How could Paul not notice that Jack has such a large gap?Without looking at it, Paul stuffed the ball directly to Jack who was open under the basket.

Jack's series of actions from getting rid of Kenyon Martin to receiving Paul's pass are done in one go, without the slightest sloppiness.After receiving the ball, he used the offensive skill "Pull Onions on Dry Land".

Jack jumped up from the ground like a green onion, and completely stretched his body in the air.Jack's ability to stay in the air has also reached 70, and Jack took advantage of the short pause in the air to think about it.

In the end, Jack decided to show off. If he didn't show off, he would be too sorry for these days of hard training.

Jack chose a powerful windmill dunk. Jack's long arm was like a spinning windmill in the air. He spun a circle with one arm, and finally poured the ball with all his strength, slamming the ball hard. The ball hits the hoop.

With a sound of "Peng", the basket made a huge moan, and the basket was shaking violently.

"Oh... the top ten balls of the year have been produced!" Even Danny John, a loyal fan of the Denver Nuggets, also sighed sincerely. This ball is really pleasing to the eye.

The fans at the scene couldn't help but exclaimed, because this ball was so shocking.

The Hornets' substitute player couldn't restrain his excitement, and jumped up from the bench excitedly.Picking up the towel on his shoulders, he slammed it hard on the ground.Feeling that it was not enough, he stepped on the towel a few more times to vent out the excitement in his heart.

After Jack finished dunking, he didn't forget to spread his hands to Martin, then shrugged, his eyes were full of contempt.Sprayed, "Hey! How's that for a dunk dude?
Kenyon Martin was so angry that his teeth were chattering non-stop, but he had nothing to do with Jack.If it's a fight now, he can't wait to rush forward and fight Jack with all his might.However, this is a game, this is a basketball game, he can't do this.Kenyon Martin had only a dingy return to defense.

A dunk is really a good thing. Jack's dunk quickly raised the momentum of the Hornets.The Hornets also sounded the counterattack horn because of this.

On the contrary, on this side of Denver, the players appeared to be sleepwalking.The offense failed to score, and the defensive end frequently missed people.The Hornets seized this opportunity and immediately counterattacked.The Hornets chased for 6 points in a row and approached the score to 4 points.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the Nuggets hurriedly called a timeout to make adjustments.Taking advantage of this adjustment, the Nuggets took Kenyon Martin and replaced them with the main power forward Nene.Kenyon Martin's performance in these few minutes can only be described as D-level.

Whether it is on the offensive end or on the defensive end, he has not made any achievements.On the contrary, he frequently missed Jack on the offensive and defensive end. Strictly speaking, Jack got rid of him.Jack scored 4 points, 4 rebounds, and interfered with Martin's 3 shots.

Pause back, the game continues.

After Denver replaced Nene, Jack was not as relaxed as before.Whether on offense or defense.But Jack also made Nene very uncomfortable.In Nene's three 4-time singles on the inside, Jack only hit 1 goal.Under Jack Nene's defense, there was no chance of shooting.However, Jack's basketball was really good, with 3 rebounds over Nene's head.

How could Nene bear to see a rookie playing wild on his head?Moreover, he also said before the game that he could not let Jack get a rebound on his head.But the time for the three-pointer has not yet come, and he has already scored 3 rebounds.Isn't Nene slapping himself in the face?

The more Nene thought about it, the angrier he became. If he wanted the ball in the paint, he had to single Jack first. However, by coincidence, the whistle for the first quarter had already sounded before the ball reached his hands.

The game continued in the second quarter, but Jack didn't play, and Nene had nothing to do even if he wanted to take revenge.He could only vent his sulking on David West, who was facing him.

However, the most starting power forward of the Hornets is not a vegetarian.That's what Nene wanted to fight.

Nene didn't get any benefit from David West here.Under the defense of David West, Nene only hit 5 goals in 2 shots in the second quarter. As a power forward, this kind of shooting rate is really too low.Not only that, David grabbed 2 offensive rebounds on his head.

However, the Denver Nuggets still led the Hornets by 8 points at the end of the second quarter.

The Nuggets can lead so many points, mainly because of the performance of their core player Carmelo Anthony.Because the Hornets can't find anyone on the defensive end who can limit Anthony's performance, Anthony's offensive end is like no one's territory, breakthroughs, shots, and dunks are all played by him.

In the second quarter, Anthony scored 12 of 8 shots, and also made two successful three-pointers.

Carmelo Anthony was a second-quarter nightmare for the Yellow Front.

In the second quarter, Byron also tried to call a timeout to make adjustments, but it didn't work at all.Just like that, halftime ended, and the Hornets trailed by 42 points 50 to 8.

(End of this chapter)