Super all-around point guard

Chapter 477 So I Can Be This Strong!

Derek Williams is used to being a role player. Unless someone keeps stimulating him, he will not always maintain that offensive desire. The team has three giants, and he is used to relying on them.

Therefore, in order for Williams to score high points and break his personal single-game scoring record, opponent DeRozan is a very important catalyst.

The 26-year-old DeRozan also played the best season of his career. It's just a pity that the Raptors have a good record in the regular season in the past two years, but they don't seem to be competitive at all in the real playoffs.
The media has long reported that the Lakers are interested in recruiting DeRozan, and are willing to give a maximum salary contract of 2500 million US dollars, hoping that he can succeed Kobe. DeRozan himself grew up watching Kobe's games. Kobe is the player who has the greatest influence on him, so DeRozan may switch to the Los Angeles Lakers next season.

Under Xie Chen's instigation, DeRozan quickly started Kobe-style individual singles. The success rate was not high, but the momentum was terrifying. More importantly, after scoring a goal, he would always look at Derek Williams intentionally or unintentionally. Finally, after another dunk, he challenged DeRozan: "You are far behind, man, you have no qualifications to compare with me."

Williams felt baffled, and wanted to fight with the other party in a rage on the spot. He didn't know what Xie Chen said to DeRozan, so he didn't understand why DeRozan targeted him so much, but Williams is not a coward. Since DeRozan pestered him endlessly, let's fight!
In halftime, Williams scored more than 20 points, the highest in the team. He didn't realize this at all, and focused all his attention on confronting DeRozan.

During the halftime break in the locker room, Derek Williams was still out of breath, which shows how much pressure there is on a slightly bigger opponent.

After Metta World Peace saw it, she patted Derek on the shoulder and said, "I said, buddy, do you have any personal grievances with that DeRozan guy? I saw that you were fighting tit-for-tat throughout the first half, but don't just focus on fighting him and forget about the outcome. We are now at the critical moment when we need to win. You scored 20 points in the first half, more than anyone else."

When he heard that he had scored 20 points in just one half, William was startled: "What? I already scored 20 points?"

Williams had no idea that he could score so many points in the halftime. He felt a little embarrassed. Maybe it was because of his matchup with DeRozan that Xie Chen and Anthony didn't get too many possessions. He looked at Xie Chen and Anthony and apologized slightly: "I'm sorry, I occupied too many possessions."

Anthony smiled and said to Williams: "We are a team. The ball does not belong only to me and Xie. Everyone on the court is entitled to control the ball. Derek, Xie and I didn't feel good today. You are in good shape and should continue to help the team by scoring. And DeRozan has always wanted to challenge me and Xie. If you can beat him, doesn't that make our team stronger? You know, your halftime score is already 5 points higher than his."

Xie Chen also meant the same thing. DeRozan is an All-Star player and a top player who may succeed Kobe Bryant and get a top salary. If Derek Williams can defeat such a strong opponent, it will definitely boost Williams' confidence.

Metta Shiping also laughed at this time: "Haha, it would be interesting if DeRozan was beaten by Derek. DeRozan is not even the top four players on our team, but DeRozan is the leader of the second-ranked team in the Eastern Conference!"

Speaking of this, everyone is also looking forward to this scene. The only players who specially helped Williams are Xie Chen and Anthony, but then, I believe others will do the same.

However, the pressure on Derek Williams has become even greater. He is used to being a role player, but he can't bear the sudden pressure on him. Now Xie Chen and Anthony are forcing him to grow up and become even better. In this battle, Williams is bound to tap his full potential.

After the start of the second half, DeRozan took a new look and found his best attacking state. He even hit two three-pointers in a row and quickly surpassed Derek Williams in scoring!And start to increase the score.

DeRozan became elated, and the entire Raptors bench cheered, because it was not easy for DeRozan to hit two three-pointers in a row. Three-pointers are not DeRozan's good attack method, but mid-range shots. This made him no threat on the outside, but during the summer offseason, I heard that he practiced hard on three-pointers, but after playing for so long in the regular season, he didn't see any results from his practice.

"Hahaha." DeRozan was so excited, he looked at Xie Chen proudly, as if he was provoking Xie Chen.

"Are you eligible to challenge me if you hit two three-pointers in a row?" Xie Chen ignored him at all and let the younger brother take the shot.

However, Derek Williams is not a singles master, especially he is not used to scoring points like this, two consecutive attacks, one shot hit the iron, and once in a low singles, DeRozan directly cut the ball off, causing Williams to make a mistake.

It can be seen that Williams is a little frustrated. If this game can't give Williams confidence, but makes him feel useless, then Xie Chen and Anthony's plan has failed too much. Xie Chen must stand up and help him at this time.

DeRozan has already started to be arrogant, and he even started to say wild words to Xie Chen: "I really hope to beat you in the first round. In this case, we can advance to the next round in a maximum of five games."

This time Xie Chen and Anthony did not show their due competitiveness, so DeRozan and the others did not feel the pressure.

Before the next attack, Xie Chen said to Williams: "Follow me."

Then, first let Williams cover him in front, and Xie Chen used the cover to quickly get inside!
Xie Chen suddenly started to speed up, this was his fastest time in the whole game!The speed shocked all the fans in the audience.

"Are you coming?"

Is the "Xie Chen Moment" that everyone is looking forward to coming?
DeRozan was also shocked when he saw Xie Chen passing by quickly. He also believed that Xie Chen was really going to start playing seriously, not to mention the Raptors defender Valanciunas on the inside. Before the game, the Lithuanian center was always worried that he would be dunked by Xie Chen today.

Xie Chen rushed very hard, everyone thought Xie Chen was going to dunk, Valanciunas was no exception, he didn't want to confront Xie Chen head-on, although he was not afraid of Xie Chen, Xie Chen is a guy who plays desperately on the court, he is not.

Therefore, Valanciunas intended to let Xie Chen dunk the ball. Xie Chen flew in the air and had a chance to dunk directly, but unexpectedly, when he was close to the basket, he suddenly played a behind-the-back pass and passed the ball to the back.

"what?"

Everyone was shocked, and then they saw Derek Williams who was also rushing over. It turned out that Xie Chen was making a wedding dress for Williams this time, and it was not Xie Chen who was going to dunk, but Derek Williams!
After Williams got the ball, he jumped up and sprinted for a dunk. Valanciunas saw that it was not Xie Chen dunking, but another person, and jumped up to block the shot, but was dunked abruptly by Williams who was fully up!
boom!
Derek Williams beat Valanciunas and dunked the opponent!

"Good shot! The dunk is so beautiful! Xie's pass is really amazing!"

The scene erupted, and all the substitutes jumped up. Xie Chen looked at Valanciunas who stumbled after landing and laughed secretly. I really don't know what this big man is thinking, hiding from himself, but not hiding from Williams who is stronger than himself.

This dunk greatly boosted the momentum of the team, especially increased the confidence of Williams, and then continued to score points. Finally, not long after the opening of the fourth quarter, he scored 32 points, breaking his career scoring record in a single game!
Xie Chen looked at Anthony with a smile, Anthony also smiled, and said to Xie Chen: "This kid really didn't disappoint us. Next, it's up to us, otherwise the Raptors really thought we were a team on the fringes of the playoffs."

Xie Chen nodded. The Raptors have always led the score, and everyone played very easily. Now that the Knicks are 10 points behind, the point difference is not too big, and there is plenty of time to chase points. Now the task of helping Derek Williams score has been completed, and it is time to get down to business.

The next time, Xie Chen held the ball again and rushed into the paint again. This time, Valanciunas was not so flustered, because the previous few times, Xie Chen was thunderous and rainy, and looked menacing. When he really reached the basket, he passed the ball. Valanciunas thought that Xie Chen would not dare to break into the territory he guarded.

However, this time, Xie Chen leaped in the air, but went straight to the basket without passing the ball to anyone.

boom!
The domineering Carter's dunk ability was activated, and Xie Chen faced Valanciunas and staged an amazing dunk!

Valanciunas reacted a little slower, as if hesitating whether to take off or not, but by the time he took off, it was already too late, and just as his whole body was about to rise, Xie Chen pushed him down.

"Ah! Riding buckle! Xie is going to abuse people again!"

"It's too domineering! Valanciunas is the second center to be tortured by Xie, and there will be a third and fourth in the future...God knows how many people Xie will ride on the head to complete the dunk in his entire career!"

Everyone was very excited, just excited, not surprised, because this incident was something that should happen in their eyes, if there is the first, there will be the second, and Xie Chen will continue to do such actions in the future.

Of course Xie Chen was also very happy, but he was happy. With the lesson learned from last time, Xie Chen didn't want to cause any trouble for dunking, so he gave Valanciunas a friendly pat on the spot: "Sorry, buddy, are you okay?"

Valanciunas naturally felt extremely embarrassed, but when he thought about it, it was not as embarrassing as Bargnani's. It was the whole person being leaped. This level of dunking was considered normal in the NBA. After Xie Chen dunked, instead of shouting and showing off like Westbrook and others, he apologized friendly to his opponents. Valanciunas felt a little warm in his heart.

He just shook his head and didn't respond. Lowry and Xie Chen weren't good friends, but they had a good relationship, and they didn't come forward to do anything to Xie Chen. DeRozan wanted to push Xie Chen to save his teammates some face, but seeing Xie Chen being so polite, he gave up.

Xie Chen thought of Navarre who was pestering him in the hotel room, and was still a little worried, so he asked Valanciunas, "Are you married? How is your wife's personality?"

Upon hearing this, DeRozan quickly pushed Xie Chen away: "You are too much, thank you, you still have to inquire about his wife after riding a buckle. His girlfriend is very beautiful, don't try to get her idea."

Another player with a good-looking girlfriend was deducted. I hope his girlfriend will not follow him to find his own trouble like Nawal.

The Knicks gained momentum quickly, Xie Chen and Anthony shot one after another, finally tying the score.

It wasn't until this time that DeRozan realized what was going on in this scene.

"Damn it, Xie and Cameron deliberately allowed Derek Williams to score when they came up, and they didn't play seriously until now. If I had known that they cared so much about Derek's statistics, I should have guarded against that guy! Now he has scored more than 30 points. The damn thing is, this game may still be lost!"

In the last few minutes, the Raptors finally saw the strength of the Knicks team. Xie Chen still fed the ball to Williams from time to time, because Williams had already felt the touch, was confident, and had a high success rate.

After that, the Knicks narrowly beat the Raptors 110:108 and won another victory.

And in this game, Derek Williams set a new personal scoring record in a single game, scoring the highest score of 37 points in the game, completely blowing out the opponent's top scorer DeRozan.

At the end of the game, Lowry looked at Xie Chen, who was not exerting much effort, and thought to himself: "It's too scary. He obviously wanted Derek Williams to be the protagonist in this game, but under such a premise, they still won. Are they too strong, or are we too weak?"

The Raptors were hit hard from top to bottom. If Xie Chen and Anthony teamed up to defeat them, they would have nothing to say. After all, the two are the most terrifying combination in the league, but the one who defeated them turned out to be Derek Williams, whom they had never heard of. How could they accept this?
In the locker room after the game, Williams jumped up excitedly.

"Oh my God, I actually scored close to 40 points in a game! I also defeated a strong team like the Toronto Raptors! So I can be so strong!"

(End of this chapter)