pinnacle of basketball

Chapter 378
Looking at the glorious history of the Heat and the Celtics, the team building models of the two teams are somewhat similar, both based on defense. The stars in the team have strong personal abilities, but they can also play admirable team basketball.

The similar style has led to a stalemate between the two teams. In the past five seasons, the two teams have played a total of 27 games, and 25 of them have won or lost in single digits.

It is difficult for a game based on defense to be as exciting as an offensive game on the screen. That is because there is no good opponent. The Heat and the Celtics performed the defensive battle to the extreme. The two teams made the defense a highly entertaining game.

The super high shooting rate is not the real level of the two teams. The reason why they have such a high shooting rate is because the players have not fully devoted themselves to the game at the beginning of the season. No team can maintain a "abnormal" shooting rate, especially teams like the Heat and Celtics. High shooting rate is not abnormal.

As the game continued, the shooting percentages of the two teams began to decline and gradually stabilized.

Although Hilton's shooting percentage from beyond the three-point line is close to 10%, his average number of three-point shots per game is not many. He averages about 5 shots per game, and these shots are evenly distributed in the four quarters of the game. In the first quarter of this game, he has taken 3 shots and hit 4 of them. outside the line.

Standemire and Garcio are also gradually getting used to the impact of the Celtics inside. After Hudson made two hooks, his offensive space was compressed, which made his shots extremely difficult. He also scored later, but his shooting percentage dropped significantly.

When the team can't start the situation, it is when the stars play a role.

Gaia took over the offensive ball from Hilton and Hudson. In the low post, he possessed terrifying strength. He relied on playing Barrett in the low post.

"Barrett is really powerful, even the "lower king" Gaia can guard against it."

"No one has been able to guard Gaia in the low post."

As soon as the words fell, Gaia changed his attacking style. Instead of rushing towards the basket, he turned around and took a step back, pulling away Barrett's body. Barrett hurried forward to defend, but the ball left his hand. The basketball passed Barrett's fingertips and went into the net.

This ball was a response to Barrett's "2+1". Although it was a bit late, it was finally a response.

"Response ball" is the exclusive skill of the star. When someone challenges his authority, the star often responds to such a ball in the subsequent rounds. Some attack in the same way, and some use other methods. No matter how the goal is scored, as long as it can be scored, it is all a response ball.

"The lowly king?" Barrett looked at Gaia with the same eyes, thinking in his heart.

Wade understood Barrett's thoughts very well at the moment, so he handed the ball directly into his hands.

"Being bullied to the head, I must be very angry." Wade joked.

"Thanks." Barrett dribbled the ball forward.

"This is?" The audience was a little surprised when they saw Barrett's position. His position was exactly the same as Gaia's attack position just now, but he was changed to the other side of the field, and the identities of the offensive and defensive sides were also exchanged.

"He wants to play in the low position?" Someone said in surprise, "Showing off the low position skills in front of the low position king, isn't this just playing tricks?"

"That's right, no one understands low-post skills better than Gaia. Could it be that Barrett was hit by the shot just now?"

"Captain, what do you think?" Felix asked James seriously.

"What do you think?" James didn't answer directly, but asked back.

"I think it's [-]-[-]," Felix said.

"Yeah." James just made a slight nod and squeezed out a word from his throat.

Gaia deserves to be the player with the most comprehensive low-post skills in the league, and his comprehensiveness is reflected in both offensive and defensive ends. He not only knows how to attack in the low post, but also knows how to better defend in the low post. Barrett is not a player who is good at low-post skills, so his low-post skills are not proficient, which is nothing compared to Gaia's skills.

Of course, this gap is limited to low-position skills, and Barrett's skills are slightly better in other positions.

"This is my field, how could I lose?" Gaia said confidently to Barrett.

"You're overconfident." Barrett said coldly, and then showed off his low-post skills.

"Huh? What, that's it?" Barrett's skills are worthless in Gaia's eyes, and it's even hard to tell whether his skills are really low-level skills.

"Don't worry, take your time." Barrett slowly moved his body close to Gaia. The moment he approached, Gaia left and retracted the mocking words just now.

"What's the matter with this power?" Gaia felt a powerful force emanating from Barrett's body, pressing towards him, and he was always in a state of being suppressed, and his position was constantly being crushed towards the basket.

"I told you not to be so confident."

Gaia previously underestimated Barrett's low-post skills so much that he was not fully prepared for defense. When he was about to mobilize his whole body to defend, it was too late. Barrett had already crushed into the penalty area, to a position that Gaia could not guard against.

"How does my technique compare to yours?" Barrett's body once again "impacted" Gaia, and Gaia was completely repelled by this impact, and Barrett got the chance to make an empty layup.

"Don't even think about it!" Just as Barrett was about to make a shot, the Celtics' big center rushed towards Barrett, and his huge palm just blocked Barrett's shot line.

Barrett stopped his shot and quietly watched the big man flying in the air. A change in rhythm successfully resolved the crisis of being blocked.

Dodging the block, Barrett completely cleared the obstacles in front of him, jumped lightly, flicked his wrist lightly, and the basketball turned into the basket with a gentle spin.

"Respond to the ball! Respond to the ball exactly!" The auditorium erupted.

In the game, it is not difficult to hit the response ball, but it is not easy to hit the "exactly the same" response ball. This requires very high requirements for the attacker, and Barrett still responds in the field that Gaia is most "proud and good at", which makes him completely overwhelm the opponent in terms of momentum.

"Timeout!" Seeing that the momentum of the game was not right, the coach of the Celtics left and applied for a timeout, giving the players some time to adjust.

(End of this chapter)