Anthony the Reborn

Chapter 250 Volleyball Game
The next few possessions, the Nuggets struggled. Compared with the previous freewheeling game, they are now showing the opposite.

There are reasons why the Spurs' overall defense is strong, but more reasons are because facing Parker, who has the same speed and experience, Nash's ability to drive the team is not as smooth as before.

Anthony is on the court at this time, and most of the time is running back and forth. The Spurs are not relentless in his defense. Bowen adopts the defense that only defensive centers use around the front, which makes it difficult for him to run out of open opportunities. , and at this time D'Antoni did not arrange his singles tactics accordingly, so he was out of the offensive system during this period.

"Shh!"

Duncan misplaced Nene in the singles, used his footsteps to move, successfully got the shot space, turned around and leaned back and scored 2 points. These two points also brought the Nuggets' trailing point difference to double digits. It started more than half a quarter.

D'Antoni called a timeout, but the lineup adjustment after the timeout left Anthony speechless for a while. He replaced Anthony and Brand with Diaw and Korver, a state of completely giving up defense.

During the game at this moment, Anthony's every move will be captured by the cameras on the sidelines. He is not on the field at the moment and can only look at the field.

D'Antoni's lineup, in Anthony's eyes, is almost exactly the same as the Suns in history. After changing to this lineup, the offensive end relies more on outside shots, and the inside line is more devoted to rebounds. After going up, the team's offense has improved a lot, but it has not been able to change the decline of the Nuggets on the court, because their performance on the defensive end can be said to be terrible, especially when Nash is off the court. Just like an amateur team.

Fortunately, it's an away game. If it's at home, there might be a lot of boos from the home fans.

After this period of time, when both sides played their main players in the second half of the second quarter, the Nuggets had fallen behind the Spurs by nearly 20 points. This was a state they had never encountered since the start of the season. D'Antoni was also unprepared for the change in time.

At this time, Anthony felt a "thump" in his heart, because what he was worried about still happened. D'Antoni's current bombardment tactics rely too much on the point guard. Almost all tactics are initiated from this point, and almost Abandoning defense, the stability of the team is not as good as last season, which is very obvious in this kind of tough battle.

It was only because the previous opponents were not strong enough to create an illusion, an illusion that the Nuggets were invincible. Now, it is time for this illusion to be broken.

With 5 minutes left in the second quarter, D'Antoni himself seemed to have given up on his tactical attempts and switched to the main players. However, what has not changed is that he still arranges to launch the offense with Nash as the center of the offense. .

Anthony looked at this situation and smiled wryly. Regarding the team's offensive selection, he had already approached D'Antoni before. Many, is also useless.

Anthony shook his head bitterly, then walked towards the field, looked up at the score on the field, 42:62, 20 points difference, this half has not yet finished, the team has already lost 60 points. With too many points, the defense is as empty as the main road in the early morning.

"No, something has to be done." A thought flashed in Anthony's mind, and then he looked intently at the field.

Back on the court, it was the Nuggets' offense. Nash controlled the ball and Brand made a pick-and-roll and gave the ball to Anthony on the outside. , Throwing the ball directly to Brand under the basket.

After Brand received the ball, he turned around and shot directly.

But at this moment, Duncan, who had already reached the free throw line, suddenly took a big step, and at the moment Brand made a shot, he slapped him directly from behind and slapped his shot away.

Duncan didn't jump high, but his judgment was really good, and Brand's easy score just disappeared.

Brand also looked a little frustrated. He kept shaking his head when he saw the ball being blown away.

The ball is still owned by the Nuggets, but there are only 5 seconds left in the attack time. After Nash catches the ball, he uses the pick-and-roll to kill directly inside, and directly throws a shot when he is 2 meters away from the basket.

The angle of Nash's shot is very good, almost avoiding all the defense of the Spurs, the ball draws a parabola and flies towards the basket.

But at this moment, a hand suddenly appeared above the ball without warning, and before the ball flew to the highest point, it slapped the ball hard and flew out.

Blocking Nesterovic, the inside big man used his height to successfully block Nash's throw.

This time the ball did not fan out, but was directly photographed on the Nuggets players, but before others could react, the red light on the sidelines was already on.

The Nuggets' offense once again came back without success.

The fans at the scene let out a roar of shouts. You must know that the Nuggets have the best record in the league now, coupled with the grievances and hatreds of last season, but now they are hanged by the Spurs. For the fans, It is when they are most excited.

The Nuggets' offense was unsuccessful, and it was the Spurs' round. Anthony was retreating at the moment, and his mind was racing. He had to do something to reverse the decline of the game. The bout inspired him.

The starting point of the Spurs' offense is still Ginobili. He and Duncan pass the ball to each other, and then use the pick-and-roll to break through in a snake shape and successfully shake the two of them away.

This ball, shot from a very tricky angle, can be said to be difficult to defend, scoring is almost imperative.

But at this moment, a figure suddenly came out from the oblique side, completely caught off guard, very suddenly, no one even expected it, but it was blocked precisely.

The fans at the scene were in an uproar. You must know that Ginobili's breakthrough attack is very difficult to defend, and it is even more difficult to block the block, but unfortunately, someone did it, and this person is naturally Anthony.

Anthony's understanding of Ginobili, coupled with his fight against the Olympics last season, can be said to have a very good understanding of his offensive style, so in terms of defensive judgment, use the shadow of his teammates to hide himself, and wait until Ginobili After Billy successfully broke into the inside line, he broke out from the diagonal side unexpectedly, and then successfully blocked the opponent.

This cover can be said to have been premeditated for a long time, and it had a very good effect.

After the ball was blocked, it bounced directly into Nene's hands, and Nene immediately handed the ball to Nash. At this time, the third-line fast break that the Nuggets are best at was formed in an instant.

Nash controlled the ball and quickly advanced to the frontcourt, Bell and Brand quickly ran from the two wings to the frontcourt.

Soon, Nash broke through, and after noticing Bell, he threw his hand over.

Bell didn't feel good in this pizza. The previous three shots from outside the three-point line were all in vain. Now he hesitated instinctively after receiving the ball, but just this time, the Spurs' defense immediately fell apart. up.

However, Bell seized the opportunity after all. He continued to make a three-point jumper. After the Spurs defensive player pounced, he feinted and went directly to the basket.

At this time, only Parker, who followed Nash to defend, was left under the basket.

After Bell saw Parker, he rushed to the basket with all his strength. He was taller than Parker and had a higher shot point, so the ball seemed to be an inevitable situation.

Parker could only raise his hands in front of Bell. At this time, he could not jump, as long as he jumped, it would be a defensive foul, so he could only block Bell's shots as much as possible at this moment.

Bell has already jumped up, but maybe he didn't control his body weight very well in the off-season, so after jumping up now, the starting point is not too high, and after jumping up, he seems to have some strength to keep up with On the ground, the hands that were originally raised were retracted halfway, which happened to be swept by the tip of Parker's hand.

Then what came out was that Bell took off, Parker didn't move, Bell gave a cap directly, and Parker capped Bell while standing.

The ball fell off Bell's body and was directly picked up by Bowen, who returned to defend in the backcourt. Bowen gave it to Ginobili, and the two quickly ran towards the Nuggets' frontcourt again.

The offensive and defensive transition was completed in this instant.

The fans at the scene let out a burst of excited shouts.

At this time, all the players of the Nuggets had arrived at the Spurs' half. Only Anthony had blocked Ginobili's shot before, so he was just past halftime. After seeing Bell being blocked, he directly Just run back, so it's almost Ginobili and Bowen running back in parallel.

Ginobili and Bowen ran forward almost in parallel, while Anthony was sandwiched between the two, and the three quickly retreated to the half court.

Ginobili and Bowen pass the ball back and forth to attract Anthony's attention. After entering the three-point line, Ginobili controls the ball and quickly kills to the basket. Out of shooting position.

Anthony jumped out straight away.

At this moment, Ginobili suddenly passed the ball to Bowen from the sideways. After seeing Anthony being attracted, Bowen directly chose a one-handed layup, but at this moment, let Bowen, Ginobili, and everyone in the audience did not expect that Anthony used his abnormal physical fitness to kill back abruptly, and then slammed towards the ball that Bowen shot.

"Snapped!"

With a crisp sound, the ball was viciously slapped out of the field, and the fans at the scene were in an uproar.

It was literally a volleyball game.

(End of this chapter)