basketball hero

Chapter 365 The Flame in Heart

The Pacers have a strong defensive ability. The starting lineup has a defensive big center Hibbert with a height of 218cm. Granger and Paul George are also defensive champions on the front line. George Hill and Deng Tai are sitting on the bench. Jones is also the gate of perimeter defense.

The problem with this team is the offense. If the defense is 95 points, the offense can only reach 80 points or even lower.The starting lineup can basically reach the normal output standard after the introduction of David West, but the bench does not have a stable scoring point, which is a bit embarrassing.So watching the Pacers game, whether against a strong team or a weak team, the scene is always in a see-saw pattern, grinding and grinding, and there are very few hearty victories.

The game started, and Hibbert, relying on his height and jumping advantage, defeated the former No. [-] pick Bargnani in the jump ball stage.

Collison of the Pacers dribbles over.

Ying Xiong is defending against Granger, who has the strongest outside attack.Granger is a low-key man with good strength, outstanding shooting ability, and a certain offensive ability with the ball. He is an outstanding No. 3 player.However, nearly two seasons after he won the "Most Improved Player Award" and was selected as an All-Star in the 08-09 season, his performance has not been as good as before, and he seems to have passed his peak.

But even if Granger is no longer at his peak, he is still a small forward who can average around 20 points per game. In the entire Eastern Conference, he can be regarded as the top one.

Granger uses a screen, loops out from the left wing, and catches the ball.Ying Xiong's defense against such players who are good at shooting has always been close defense. With his excellent lateral movement, even if the opponent breaks through, he can't get any cheap.

From the very beginning of the game, the physical confrontation between the two teams was very intense, which gave the fans an illusion-is this a playoff game?
Granger was surprised that Ying Xiong, a yellow-skinned player, dared to play physical confrontation with him. In his subconscious, Asian players, especially East Asian players, were very poor in confrontation. They often avoided confrontation, but their flexibility was good.

Stereotypes kill people, because Ying Xiong is not an ordinary East Asian player!
After the Raptors coach Casey took over, the biggest change was not offense, but defense.In Coach Casey's coaching philosophy, if a player doesn't defend well on the court, he won't get enough playing time.For NBA players, playing time means everything, especially for those players who have not yet played their worth and have not signed a long-term contract.

The overall defensive ability and talent of the Raptors' starting players is not as good as that of the Pacers. Except for Ying Xiong and Amir Johnson, the other three players suffer from physical confrontation.As European players, Calderon and Bargnani are not good at defense. Before, they were often targeted by opponents as loopholes on the field.However, after the start of the game, the two were extremely devoted on the defensive end. Calderon even used some small moves to harass the opposing Darren Collison.

The Pacers still have a certain advantage on the offensive end. Hibbert is not good at offense, but he is quite sure against the poor defensive Bargnani, even if the opponent tries hard to defend.

2 minutes after the opening, neither side made a shot. Ying Xiong didn't attack much, and kept playing for his teammates, focusing on sudden points.

It was Hibbert who broke the deadlock. He hit Bargnani with a back in the paint and hit the first 2 points of the game with a hook.

Hibbert can bully Bargnani at the basket, but Bargnani can also bully Hibbert on the perimeter.As a big center, Hibbert needs to protect the frame, and his moving speed is not his advantage, so he rarely expands his defense to the outside.Bargnani, as a European big man capable of both inside and outside, is one of his characteristics in terms of outside attack. If he can't beat the opponent inside, he will naturally make a fuss about outside attack.

Therefore, the two centers of the two teams can't defend against each other, which is considered a exchange.

For Xiong, the first few rounds were a trial.He is observing the opponent's defensive strategy in order to know how to attack next.He has seen a lot of videos of the Pacers, but in the new season, the opponent has joined David West, and the lineup has changed. In addition, the videos are still videos, and they are still different from live games.

Here, Yingxiong received a pass from Calderon and picked and rolled with Bargnani.The quality of Bargnani's pick-and-roll is not high. The reason why he chose to pick-and-roll with him is to pull Hibbert out.

The Hibbert tiger didn't move, but retreated after a symbolic delay.And Granger quickly squeezed through the screen and defended in place.

Ying Xiong once again took advantage of Bargnani's cover, did not stop any longer, and went directly to the inside.The Pacers' defense was cunning, with David West cruising near the free throw line and sweeping for cover, while Hibbert sat at the rim and protected it.In this way, the opponent cannot get an easy mid-range shot even after the pick-and-roll.

Facing David West, Ying Xiong changed his dribbling rhythm and then changed direction, left handed, passed his opponent, faced Hibbert who was like a mountain, and faced him for a layup...

Hibbert dribbled the ball and knocked Yingxiong down from the air, and the ball hit Amir Johnson's leg and bounced out of the baseline.

Ying Xiong sat on the floor for a while, waiting for the referee's whistle, but the referee was indifferent...

Ying Xiong got up from the floor all of a sudden, and asked the referee why he didn't call a foul like this.What the referee meant was that the opponent took off vertically, and the arm did not deliberately press down. The block was aimed at the ball, not at the person, and it was an integral movement of the golfer, so it could not be considered a foul.

Of course Ying Xiong knows the rules of the NBA. The NBA encourages confrontation. Although there is a 3-second defense, the penalty area is also called the "reasonable collision zone", which originally encourages confrontation.But the problem is, this can't be an excuse for fouling and not blowing.

Coach Casey was even more excited than Ying Xiong. He who usually seemed calm was filled with righteous indignation when his disciple was rudely fouled by the opponent. He yelled at the referee, the arteries in his neck swelled, and his emotions reached the extreme.

The fans at the scene also began to boo the referee. For the fans, as long as the home team is judged to be unfavorable, they can boo. Anyway, the referee can't do anything to himself.

I don't know if the referee was a little guilty. He didn't give Ying Xiong or Casey a technical foul, but signaled the game to continue.On the contrary, Hibbert was dissatisfied with the referee's laissez-faire, and asked the referee why he didn't give Ying Xiong and others a T, but was ignored by the referee.

The game continued.In this attack, the Raptors not only failed to get the whistle, but returned the ball to the opponent.

This penalty also ignited the fire in Yingxiu's heart. After training for so long, it's time for him to try his hand with a team...

(End of this chapter)