against the front

Chapter 122 Weird
Drew Gooden is an experienced veteran and a relatively important part of the King's reconstruction plan. However, since the second half of this season, the importance of Drew Gooden has plummeted. However, Drew Gooden, who has been in this league for nearly ten seasons, will never be soft as long as he plays, so when the left bottom After Drew Gooden near the corner received Yan Hua's pass, he threw the first ball of the game almost at the moment of receiving the ball without the slightest hesitation.

Perhaps it was because the game had just started and he hadn't found the touch yet. Drew Gooden's first shot after the opening was obviously a bit short. After the basketball hit the edge of the basket, it bounced off.

The moment the basketball was released, Drew Gooden already had a premonition. Almost at the moment when he missed the shot, he rushed towards the landing point of the basketball. The ball he shot, the landing point can basically be judged It came out, but just after Drew Gooden took a step, Drew Gooden saw Yan Hua not far from the basket, standing up, grabbing the basketball in the air with one hand, without any After adjusting, he smashed the basketball into the basket through the Nuggets defensive player who was fighting for rebounds with him.

After Yan Hua grabbed the offensive rebound and scored a dunk, the cheers at the Pepsi Center stopped abruptly. The fans at the scene were now full of Yan Hua's dunk full of violent beauty just now.

Grabbed the offensive rebound, and then violently dunked. In the first offense after the opening, Yan Hua lit the king's bench on the sidelines. After Yan Hua dunked NN- Hilario, he just sat down. Before the chairs under their buttocks were warm, the king's substitutes jumped up from their seats, waved the towels in their hands, and rushed to the sidelines frantically.

"Yan, well done, how does it feel to score in the playoffs?"

When Yan Hua grabbed the offensive rebound and made a dunk, and was about to retreat to the backcourt, John Salmons ran over with a smile on his face, and patted Yan Hua on the shoulder, congratulating Yan Hua for hitting the backcourt. Scored his first goal in the playoffs.

Scoring the first goal of the playoffs seems to be an ordinary thing, but in fact it is not so easy. There are too many players who, in the first few seasons of entering the NBA, I don’t even know what the playoffs are like, let alone in his rookie season, he achieved zero points in the playoffs. Take John Salmons as an example. After entering the league for 7 seasons, this is his first time. Followed the team into the playoffs three times, but John Salmons scored a very poor 2 points in the playoffs. While playing for the 76ers, John Salmons scored twice with the 76ers Playoffs, and played nearly 10 games, but it was not until the seventh game that John Salmons scored his first goal in the playoffs and the only one so far Scoring a goal is as miserable as it needs to be.

"It feels pretty good!" Yan Hua, who has played in the NBA for a season, has long been familiar with the rhythm of the NBA game, but when the playoffs started, Yan Hua found that the same team, entering the season In the playoffs, the pace of the game and defensive intensity are completely different from the regular season, so scoring in the playoffs and scoring in the regular season feel completely different.

"Come on, let's teach these arrogant Denver people a lesson today." John Salmons could see Yan Hua's excitement after scoring the first goal of the playoffs. When he scored his first goal in the playoffs, it was definitely worse than Yan Hua, so John Salmons could understand Yan Hua's current mood.

When John Salmons and Yan Hua high-fived each other, the Nuggets had already sent the baseline ball and were ready to attack.

Although Yan Hua completed a dunk in the first offense after the opening, the Nuggets players on the field did not have any psychological fluctuations because of Yan Hua's dunk. After all, in terms of the strength of the two sides, They have an advantage, and in the regular season matchup, they and the Kings have a record of 3 wins and 1 loss. In addition to their second status in the Western Conference, they are at home, so psychologically, they It is also the side with an absolute advantage, and this advantage will not be changed by a dunk.

In the transition between offense and defense, Chauncey Billups quickly dribbled the ball past the middle circle, and before Yan Hua retreated to the basket, he directly launched an attack. As an organization that won the Finals MVP As a guard, Billups has never been the assist leader, and even the average number of assists per game has been hovering outside the top ten in the league all year round, but Billups is one of the best point guards in the league who are good at rhythm control. Looking at the overall situation, and the ability to read the game on the court, there are few players in this league who can wrestle with Billups.

Positional warfare is also a commonly used offensive method for the Nuggets, but in today's game, Chauncey Billups did not slow down to fight the Kings' positional warfare, but advanced to the frontcourt at an extremely fast speed. When they didn't reach the basket, they launched an attack directly, because Billups knew very well that when Yan Hua returned to the basket and then attacked, the difficulty of scoring for the Nuggets would undoubtedly increase a lot.

However, Billups underestimated the Kings guard Tony Allen who was facing him. Originally, in Billups' plan, when the Kings hadn't completely retreated, he directly rushed to the basket and beat them. One was caught off guard, but when Billups was about to break through with the ball, he found that Tony Allen's sense of smell on the defensive end was far beyond his imagination.

For two consecutive changes of direction, Tony Allen judged Billups' dribbling trajectory in advance and made a block in advance. After a few seconds of lag, when the corner of Billups' eyes swept When passing the paint area, I saw the Kings center wearing the No. 13 jersey, and he had retreated to the basket.

The king's rookie center moves very fast, Billups knows it, but looking at NN-Hilario who just crossed the three-point line, Billups clearly realized that this guy is not usually fast , NN-Hilario's mobility is already outstanding among all the current center forwards, but under the condition of starting at the same time, NN-Hilario only reached the free throw line, and that guy has already Backed to the basket.

After Yan Hua arrived at the basket, Billups gave up his plan to force a breakthrough. At this time, he broke through to the basket without thinking. , but directly gave the basketball to NN-Hilario who had reached between the top of the arc and the free throw line.

Yan Hua's retreat speed is too fast, but too fast retreat speed is not all a good thing, because NN-Hilario, who is facing Yan Hua, can't keep up with Yan Hua's retreat speed at all. , so the current situation on the field is equivalent to Yan Hua's quick retreat to dispel Billups's idea of ​​a fast break, but because Yan Hua's retreat speed is too fast, he ended up facing him. The NN-Hilaryo was left out.

NN-Hilario's mid-range shooting is still very good, so after receiving a pass from Billups, NN-Hilario, who was still in the open position, made a slight adjustment on the spot, and then tiptoed On tiptoe, he threw the basketball in his hand.

However, as soon as the basketball left his hand, NN-Hilario saw a white figure rushing towards him, and the basketball he just threw had disappeared.

"When did he come here?" NN-Hilario, who already knew the result, didn't care about the whereabouts of the basketball, but tried hard to recall in his mind how this guy made up his defense. When Hilario received the pass from Billups, Yan Hua was still 3 or 4 meters away. This moving speed was too weird.

(End of this chapter)