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Chapter 51 Did this kid take medicine?
"What kind of medicine did this kid take?"

On December 2008, 12, at the Energy Solutions Arena in Salt Lake City, the Jazz's home game against the Kings had just begun. However, the Kings' first offense shocked Jerry Sloan, who is known for his rigorous .

It wasn't because the Kings were playing pick and roll in front of the Jazz, and it wasn't because of the [-]-pointer that John Salmons just made. Okur and Carlos Boozer grabbed three offensive rebounds in a row in front of the two big insiders.

Although Mehmet Okur and Carlos Boozer are not big insiders like Howard and Yao Ming, they can barely be regarded as first-line and quasi-first-line insiders in this era of insider fading, but the two of them In the offense just now, they couldn't even defend a single rebound, so the king's rookie insider repeatedly snatched offensive rebounds from them. In one offensive round, they grabbed three offensive rebounds. How can they play like this? of.

"Yan, well done." Yan Hua, who had finished his attack and was retreating quickly, passed by John Salmons, just received an assist from Yan Hua and hit the first goal of John Salmons. Ermengs gave Yan Hua a thumbs up.

Not to mention Jerry Sloan on the sidelines, even John Salmons, Yan Hua's teammate, was overwhelmed by the scene of Yan Hua grabbing the offensive rebound just now. In the middle, after Yan Hua completed the pick-and-roll with Kevin Martin in the high position, he rushed directly to the basket, and Kevin Martin, who got rid of the defender through the pick-and-roll with Yan Hua, took two steps with the ball in the horizontal direction, He shot directly, but Kevin Martin's shot was a little shorter this time and hit the front edge of the backboard.

After Kevin Martin missed a three-pointer, John Salmons subconsciously prepared to retreat. However, just as Salmons took a step back, Yan Yan who cut towards the basket after the pick-and-roll ended Hua, took the lead and scored this offensive rebound over Mehmet Okur's head.

As Kevin Martin shot the ball, Jazz players had already rushed over to cover the defense, so after Yan Hua grabbed the offensive rebound through Mehmet Okur, he threw the basketball to the right place because of the retreat. In the hands of John Salmons, who distanced himself from the defender.

John Salmons, who was not mentally prepared at all, didn't think about it after receiving Yan Hua's pass, but jumped up and shot without any adjustments, unprepared, and There was no adjustment, so John Salmons' shot was also shot, but before John Salmons was embarrassed, the basketball was passed to him by Yan Hua again, because in John Salmons Ermons missed a shot, and Yan Hua grabbed an offensive rebound over Mehmet Okur's head.

And John Salmons missed the shot very embarrassingly. Just when John Salmons felt sorry for Yan Hua and his teammates, Yan Hua miraculously grabbed the offensive rebound. And this time, the rebound was grabbed when Mehmet Okur and Carlos Boozer were abruptly stuck.

John Salmons, who has missed two shots in a row, did not expect Yan Hua to pass the ball to him at all, but Yan Hua still passed the basketball to him when John Salmons missed two shots. It was given to him, and this time, John Salmons, who had been aiming and meowing, finally made a shot. After the shot, John Salmons not only did not have the slightest excitement, but instead looked relieved, shooting After the end, John Salmons found that his palms were full of sweat.

After John Salmons gave Yan Hua a thumbs up, Yan Hua nodded to John Salmons, and then shouted in his heart, just the day before the king left for Salt Lake City , Yan Hua finally learned his strongest skill from Steven Adams under Kwame Brown's aggressive method, the god-level skill that combines card position and rebounding.

In Yan Hua's opinion, Kwame Brown's sense of rebounding ability is already very good. Yan Hua can now average more than 7 rebounds per game. In addition to his height and arm length, that skill is also indispensable. However, after learning the skill of "Jafeng", Yan Hua has the feeling that people are more deadly than others, and the feeling of throwing things when comparing goods is different from the skills that are basically reliable for short rebounds and basically depend on long rebounds. After the "Jack Front" skill, Yan Hua can judge the approximate landing point of the rebound the moment the basketball touches the basket. , The ultra-long rebounds 4 meters away are basically in Yan Hua's pocket.

The king's attack after the opening game greatly stabbed the Jazz players on the field. From the resentful expression on the face of Mehmet Okur standing next to Yan Hua, Yan Hua had a hunch that this guy Already fighting myself.

After only staying near the paint area below the free throw line for a moment, Mehmet Okur left the spot and ran towards the top of the arc. Unlike the Kings, which play pick-and-roll halfway, the pick-and-roll is the Jazz's symbol and Culture, since more than 20 years ago, when the Jazz gathered two historical superstars, John Stockton and Karl Malone, the pick-and-roll has become a common tactic for the Jazz, although Stockton and Malone have already It has been several years since he retired, but the Jazz did not lose the pick-and-roll tradition, but after some operations, they have a new Utah Shuangsha, Deron Williams and Carlos Boozer.

But this time, it's not Carlos Boozer who is cooperating with Deron Williams in the pick-and-roll, but Mehmet Okur. As a center, Mehmet Okur can cover three points Outside the line, the three-point shooting rate even reached 44% this season, so when facing teams with traditional big centers, the Jazz will let Mehmet Okur keep pulling out, pick-and-roll, and three-pointers. Points, so that the opponent's big center is exhausted, just like Karl Malone played O'Neal in the past.

Although Yan Hua's weight and size are somewhat different from those of traditional big centers, Yan Hua's style of play is a real traditional center type. In addition, Yan Hua's height of more than 2 meters after wearing shoes, and more than 16 The wingspan of 2 meters allows him to stand under the basket all the time. It is also a very big threat to Deron Williams' breakthrough, so Jerry Sloan hopes to pass Deron Williams and Mehmet -The pick-and-roll between Okur, pulling Yan Hua out, leaving enough room for Deron Williams to break through.

(End of this chapter)