basketball hero

Chapter 395

Chapter 395
The last time the Bulls started the season with a record of 5 wins and 0 losses at home was in the distant 1996.That's right, the "flying man" Michael Jordan was still in this team.The Bulls are in full swing in the new season. If they win this game, it will not only end the 9-game winning streak of the Raptors, but also experience the feeling of the glory days of the year again.

Rose's breakthrough is different from that of Iverson. He does not have such a large crotch piercing and Crossover, but is more direct and violent.Although the beauty is not as good as Iverson or Irving, it is even more explosive.

Rose made two free throws and scored the first for the Bulls.

Calderon dribbles over.As a point guard, his assist-to-turnover ratio ranks among the best in the entire NBA.But in today's league, a guard with insufficient personal offensive ability like him is somewhat out of line with the trend of the times.Of course, none of that would be a problem if he was required as a role player.

It was not easy for Ying Xiong to catch the ball. I don't know if the Bulls coach Thibodeau told Deng not to ignore him. Anyway, Deng's defensive aggression and confrontation intensity are obviously not at the regular season level.This kind of physical energy consumption from the beginning without the ball is huge.But for the Bulls, it is clear at a glance who loses and who wins when Deng and Yingxiong "exchange sons".

Ying Xiong received the ball in the corner with the help of a screen.After catching the ball, he feinted a shot, shook Deng's back, took a step laterally, and shot directly-missed, and the rebound was accepted by Noah.

The Bulls' offense doesn't have much complicated coordination, it's nothing more than a "two-person turn" between Rose and Noah, or Boozer's waist singles.As a defensive insider, Noah doesn't have many offensive means, but he has a support that many insiders don't have.So after helping his teammates pick and roll every game, he went down to the free throw line, and then responded to the ball in various ways.With Noah's support in the middle, the Bulls don't need to rely too much on Rose's sudden points, and can make their tactics more rich and three-dimensional.

After Deng defended Yingxiong to death, he returned to great physical fitness. As a price, his touch on the offensive end plummeted, and his participation was much, much less than before.But for the Bulls, if Deng scored points and restricted Yingxiong to choose one, there is no doubt that he would choose the latter.

I don't know if it's because of the exhaustion of the away game or the impact of the hand-to-hand fight with Deng, Ying Xiong's outside shooting percentage in the first quarter was the lowest in recent games.The Raptors' starter originally had a stable scoring point of 3 points on the offensive end, but now that Bargnani is on an indefinite truce, Yingxiong feels cold, and DeRozan is the only one left.The Bulls didn't choke DeRozan the way they defended Yingxiong. They defended him with the thin Ronnie Brewer.So in the first quarter, DeRozan was the player with the most points in the Raptors.

But relying on the firepower of DeRozan alone, it is impossible to match the opponent Rose and Boozer.When the official timeout of the first quarter came, Ying Xiong and other main players were replaced, and the two sides began to compete for the second team.

In this game, the Raptors' rotation lineup rarely performed abnormally. When facing the opponent's rotation lineup headed by Korver, Gibson and Asik, they were completely out of shape.Not only is the offensive play relatively simple, but the defense is not as dedicated as the previous games.

In this way, when Yingxiong and other main players returned in the second quarter, the point difference had been widened to double digits.For the Raptors, falling behind by 2 points is not the end of the world. They have encountered it more than once before, but today's opponent is the Bulls, the top three defenders in the league. It is not so easy to chase points.

The fans at the scene began to boo. Of course, they were not booing their own players, but Ying Xiong, the opponent's number one star.In the eyes of Bulls fans, a person who can score 50 points in the Kings and win the Eastern Conference Player of the Week by beating the two MVPs LeBron James and Derrick Rose for two consecutive weeks, is actually so mediocre in front of the strong defense of the home team .

Most of the fans are not professional. They judge whether a player is good or not, and many of them rely on statistics.In this game so far, Yingxiong has only scored 5 points.But they didn't know that Ying Xiong didn't take many shots. He had sent 4 assists and grabbed 4 rebounds.

Coach Casey seemed very calm, he has always believed in Yingxiong.Ying Xiong is not a person who does not have any effect on the court if he does not score.On the contrary, he thought that it was not his scoring ability that made him settle down, but his defense and all-around skills.In this game, his outside touch is not good. The Bulls' defense is very strong and targeted, and it is indeed very difficult to deal with.

——However, Ying Xiong is not someone who can't score points if he doesn't feel good...

Here, Ying Xiong came out to catch the ball with lightning speed. Facing Deng, with the help of Ed Davis' pick-and-roll, he suddenly took a cross step and accelerated to cut inward.

At this time, Deng couldn't completely let go of Ed Davis who was going down; and Noah didn't dare to completely double-team Yingxiong with Deng, because he was afraid of being hit by the opponent as an alley-oop.

Noah's sense of position is very good. His position makes Yingxiong neither dare to give Ed Davis an alley-oop, nor can he force a layup by himself.

Noah is waiting to see how Yingxiong chooses.Offense and defense are often a game, and it is far from a simple wrestling of strength.

Ying Xiong used his weak hand to toss lightly, and the basketball slowly went towards the basket, passed Noah's fingertips, and finally hit the board into the basket!
Here Deng Qiang suddenly Yingxiong, received the ball and was about to force a layup, but Yingxiong cut it off.

Ying Xiong copied the ball and counterattacked, and scored quickly to the open Calderon.

After receiving the ball, Calderon made adjustments to make a 3-point shot - he missed, Ying Xiong rushed to the basket, and made 2 tip-ins at the basket!
Ying Xiong scored 4 points in a row and successfully stopped the Bulls!

Back from the timeout, Rose suddenly caused a defensive foul by the Raptors.

When it was the Raptors' turn to attack, Ying Xiong also forced a layup after the pick-and-roll and caused the opponent's defensive foul.

The game, starting in the second quarter, seemed to turn into hand-to-hand combat.The outside touch of the main generals of both sides is very bad, so making kills and hitting the basket has become the main offensive method.

Ying Xiong and Ross both have mid-range shots, so even if they really can't shoot from long distances, they can still make some gains in the mid-range.

At halftime, the Raptors trailed the Bulls by 7 points.

Yingxiong only scored 5 points in the first quarter, but scored 2 points in the second quarter, and had already scored 11 points at halftime, which made the fans who booed him before had to shut up.But even if he played well, the team was still behind. It wasn't because the opponent's offense was so good, but because his own offense had been unable to open up, and it felt like it was completely contained by the opponent.

For the Raptors, who played back-to-back games on the road, trailing into the second half, the situation became more difficult.

(End of this chapter)

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