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Chapter 131 Is Chiseling

Following Gasol, Chen Xiao will meet another outstanding center defender.

Tyson Chandler, the best defensive player of last season, was selected to the second team of the best defense at the same time, and lost to Ibaka and Warcraft in the first defense.

The "fighting" of the two honors also confused many people. Some people think that he should not get DPOY and should be Howard for 4 consecutive times. Some people think that Howard robbed him of his first defense. How can DPOY not be the best first defense? reason.

But in fact, there are more than one precedents in history. A little further away is Erwin Robertson in the 85-86 season, DPOY second defense, lost to Moncrief and Cheeks.

A little closer is Uncle Mu in the 94-95 season, who lost to the general and Rodman in the first defense selection.

Both Big O and Uncle Mu lost in the team record, and the Mavericks' record last season was actually similar to the Magic's. There is nothing to say about the Thunder who are second in the Western Conference, so the entanglement lies with Howard and Chandler.

Chandler, nicknamed boxing champion, will be the key to the Knicks' victory in this game. After all, apart from Chandler in the lineup, New York does not have a serious center. We can't let the roaring Tianzun, who is nearly 40 years old, carry Chen Xiao. .

At the sound of the whistle, the referee Curtis Blair threw the ball into the sky.

Two tall men, both over 7 feet tall, extended their arms and catapulted up to reach the ball in midair.

A longer hand first touched the basketball, and with a hook, the basketball flew towards the Bobcats half court.

Another jump ball victory, hey, lonely as snow.

Chen Xiao, who is in a very excited physical condition this year, did not miss the jump ball and helped the team get the opening ball.

Just before and after the jump ball, Chen Xiao also observed the opponents and opponents in this game.

He has a round head and a long body, with a flat head and a big beard. At this time, the boxing champion has grown a beard, and he looks quite powerful. He should also be relatively tall with shoes at 2 meters.

Chen Xiao watched the video by himself, and always felt that the boxing champion was not too tall. He looked no taller than Duncan, but standing in front of him, the boxing champion was indeed not much shorter than himself, about 5 or 6 centimeters.

After thinking about it for a while, seeing that the ball was already in Walker's hands, Chen Xiao ran forward.

"Beep!" Not long after the start, under Felton's aggressive pressure, Walker, who was dribbling in the frontcourt, was blown by the referee for a walk, and the Bobcats had to give up the jumping ball.

It seems that Felton, who returned to Charlotte, is also very excited today. Before Chen Xiao, he was the strongest rookie of the Bobcats.

"Don't worry, OK? I ran into your senior, show him something." Chen Xiao, who returned to defense, patted Walker's back and said.

Anyway, Chen Xiao himself and Felton didn't have much chance to match up, so it wouldn't be possible for Felton to dare to challenge Chen Xiao inside with the same height of 6 feet 1 inch and 185 as Walker.

Then Chen Xiao is very welcome.

And the two small guards who are similar in height, both of whom were selected by Jordan himself, will face each other for a long time. Coincidentally, Chen Xiao is the 1st pick, Felton is the 5th pick, and Walker is the 9th pick. Exactly arithmetic progression.

This is not a big deal. There are too many high-ranking players in the lineups of both sides in this game. From the first pick to the fifth pick, Chen, Kidd/Fist, Deng/Gua, Hua, Fei , even No. 1 and No. 5 each have 2 places.

Knicks guard Felton dribbled the ball up half court, directing the traffic on the left wing and directing the dribble in place.

Chen Xiao kept an arm's length away from Chandler, who was standing on the free throw line, observing the Knicks players' off-ball moves.

Turning left and turning right, Chen Xiao watched Anthony run from the outside to the inside, then from the inside to the outside, and finally caught the ball at the right elbow. Middleton, who was chasing after him, was blocked by Chandler. Strictly, but it happened that Mullens was in place to help defend, Anthony caught the ball and swung to the right, Mullens returned to defense, and Middleton finally bypassed the defense and stood in front of Anthony.

While keeping Chandler out of the penalty area, Chen Xiao only saw Anthony make a threatening step, and then directly pulled out his hand. Looking back, he hit the first ball with a "swish".

Coming to the frontcourt, Chen Xiao was not in a hurry to ask for the ball in the low post.

At the top of the arc, Chen Xiao only felt a small steel cannon hitting him while he was picking and rolling for Walker, and Felton was quite strong.

Walker, who had already broken into the inside line, did not choose to layup directly in the face of the defending champion, but instead scored the ball to the bottom corner of one side.

Mullens responded with a three-point shot.

Looking back, the Knicks did not choose to continue to let the melon fire, but handed the ball to Chandler in the high position. Seeing Chandler holding the ball, Chen Xiao stretched out his hand and failed to get it. Le turned sideways to hand over the ball, and then Felton who got the ball came out from behind Chandler.

Walker on the other side was blocked by Anthony and was two steps slower.Seeing Felton catch the ball and shoot it, Chen Xiao took a step forward and raised his hand to interfere with Felton.

With a "bang", it seemed that the interference was in place, but Chandler, who passed the ball and went down, got an offensive rebound under the basket and succeeded in the second attack.

The current boxing champion has 2 points and 1 rebound, but Chen Xiao has nothing.

Chen Xiao blocked the boxing champion's trying to block the arm and came to the low position on the left side, leaning against Chandler behind him with the back of his shoulder, sinking his center of gravity, sitting down, and stuck Chandler behind him.

At this time, he raised his hand, and Walker's ball arrived.

After a while, Walker walks away from the defender in front of him and clears the left side.

"Last round, Chen Xiao made a pick-and-roll for Walker. This round, he returned to the familiar low post to catch the ball. Today, he faced Chandler, the best defensive player of last season. Let's see how Chen Xiao will choose." At this time, the fans, like the commentator, were looking forward to Chen Xiao's choice.

He dropped the ball and slammed back hard, hitting Chandler's chest hard with his left back.

The impact brought by the first collision surprised Chandler. Chen Xiao's strength was definitely higher than his own. At this moment, this idea came to his mind unconsciously.

Subconsciously pumping up his muscles to prepare for the second back kick, Chandler saw Bobcat No. 13 in front of him suddenly turn around and slip towards the baseline. He quickly moved his feet and stretched out his hands, trying to prevent Chen Xiao from turning around and attacking the basket directly.

After Chen Xiao turned around, he was going to start straight away, but he didn't expect the boxing champion to react very quickly, and his pace was not slow, okay, let's turn again.

First he turned around to the bottom line, and then turned around again to reach the front basket on the collision line. Chen Xiao was already only a few feet away from the basket. When he turned around, he raised his right hand and raised his hook at the same time.

At such a short distance and the defender was dragged by the first turn and could not interfere effectively, Chen Xiao's hook hit easily.

"Beautiful footsteps. Facing the best defensive player, Chen Xiao's skills still help him find space to shoot. Maybe he can shoot after turning around for the first time, but maybe he has more confidence in his right hand." See After turning around, Chen Xiao completed the hook with his right hand, the commentator analyzed.

This is not unreasonable. On the left side of the basket, Olajuwon likes to turn over and hook in the middle or turn over to the baseline.Both options rely on the right hand to make the shot.

The Knicks still had to rely on Melon to complete the finish. Felton held the ball at the top of the arc and dribbled to the left through Anthony's pick-and-roll.

Although Middleton returned to the front in time, but just like the first mid-range, Anthony, who ignored the defender's extended arm and pulled up directly after receiving the ball, hit the second shot of the field.

At this time, the Knicks took a 7:5 lead.

In addition to his own three-pointer, Anthony also provided an assist for teammate Brewer. Brewer made the Knicks' second three-pointer in this quarter against Sessions who was not back on defense in time.

By 7 minutes of the first quarter, the Knicks chose to replace the 40-year-old veteran Thomas with JR Smith. Obviously this is not a matchup substitution.

Knicks coach Mike Woodson may think that Mullens, as a big pitcher, doesn't need to put a counterpoint insider on the field anyway.Melon can go directly to the 4th position.At this time, the Knicks have a lineup of 1 big and 4 small. Except for Chandler, the others are all players who can score.

The Bobcats also replaced Henderson at the same time. Today, Henderson will have more playing time. He will replace Sessions and let Sessions and Gordon play as substitutes.

Brewer made another three-pointer and missed.

Chen Xiao, who occupies a favorable position, protects the defensive rebound in the fight with the boxing champion.

After handing the ball to Walker, Chen Xiao did not run away, but slowly ran across the half court. When the ball holder had settled on the outside line, Chandler was also waiting at the high position on the right side of the extended free throw line.

Entering the three-point line, Chen Xiao suddenly accelerated his speed and drove towards the penalty area. Seeing this, Chandler also slowed down Chen Xiao's speed while withdrawing to the inside.

When he got to the low position, Chen Xiao stepped on the ground with his left foot, and the sneakers bearing hundreds of kilograms of weight rubbed against the floor suddenly. He turned around while flexing his hips, pouted his buttocks, and the passive Chandler was squeezed behind him all at once.

Chen Xiao, who succeeded in taking the position, raised his right hand, firmly planted his feet on the ground, and pressed his back and hips against Chandler who was trying to grab the position behind him.

Chandler, who tried and found it was futile, could only sit back and watch Chen Xiao receive the pass in front of him.

The left hand puts the ball, the right hand blocks Chandler's possibility of underhanding the ball, and the right back shoulder exerts strength to continuously hit back.

The audience saw that Chandler was pushed from outside the paint area into the paint area by Chen Xiao's clearly defined back force one after another.

Entering the attack position, Chen Xiao used his right foot as a supporting foot, turned around and joined the ball, his shoulders, back, waist and abdomen moved horizontally as a whole, his body was like a rounded sledgehammer, smashing Chandler, who was at the end of his strength.

Facing the imminent basket, Chen Xiao grabbed the ball with his right hand and hooked it to the backboard, making a hit.

As Chandler, even the audience can see how fierce the back fight is this time. After the muscular boxing champion has endured several collisions in a row, the old strength has gone and the new strength has not been born before the final blow. Fully combined with inertia, he lost his position and let Chen Xiao score with his right hand.

After taking a few deep breaths, Chen Xiao regained his energy and stepped back to defend with his legs. This ball can be regarded as using old strength, just chiseling.

And Chandler, who watched the ball bouncing and falling on the ground under the basket, rubbed his left chest with his right hand, only feeling a little pain in his chest, and it was also a little uncomfortable to lower his head to pick up the ball and get involved in his chest.

Chandler couldn't help but think of his nightmare when he first entered the league. It was the early 00s, when he was thin and bullied by traditional centers such as Sharks and Yao Ming.

It's not that Chen Xiao's strength confrontation and back-up technique can already compete with these behemoths weighing 130 and 140 kilograms, but Chen Xiao's strength brought Chandler back to the illusion of 10 years ago.

No, what age is it, and you still put this hard chisel?Obviously you can turn around and hook directly.Chandler gave Chen Xiao an idea.

The past two years are still good, especially in the year of the Mavericks. In the finals, he guarded the inside. Even facing the flying James and Wade, Chandler was not afraid, and his inside defensive influence exploded.

Even many fans and many football critics believe that Chandler's DPOY last season was actually watery, and being able to get DPOY is mainly due to the defensive impression left by the 11-year finals.

(End of this chapter)