NBA: I just want to play soy sauce, you let me win the championship

Chapter 217 Falling step and dry pull

Standing in front of McGrady this time, Lu Yuanzhi had a completely different experience from the last time because he had practiced dribbling.

Lu Yuanzhi can understand the techniques used by Tracy McGrady!

McGrady made a "drop" on the spot and received the ball into the "pocket position".

Lu Yuanzhi knows that this "falling step" adjusts the body shape, lowers the center of gravity, and has a hip rotation movement. What follows may be a rapid breakthrough, or it may be a sudden stop jumper when he sees you retreating. Tracy McGrady does Come out with his signature "dry pull".

Why is Tracy McGrady's pull-up so difficult to guard against?

Why do so many people seem to be enchanted and pinned in place when they are defending McGrady, and can only stand on the ground and watch McGrady pull out his hand?

Because everyone is afraid of Tracy McGrady's quick and terrifying first breakthrough!

Lu Yuanzhi is now encountering the same problem.

He knew McGrady wasn't going to pass, which was good and eliminated a false option.

But the problem is, he doesn't know whether McGrady is shooting or shooting.

Clark on the inside has good defensive skills and has a certain ability to protect the basket. He seems trustworthy, but Lu Yuanzhi wants to see how McGrady feels under his defense first.

Seeing McGrady doing the falling step, Lu Yuanzhi turned sideways, took a small step back, and shifted his center of gravity slightly. McGrady saw Lu Yuanzhi's defensive action in front of him, jumped directly, and used his signature pull-up. .

Lu Yuanzhi was also nailed to the spot as if he had been cast by magic. Like a dumb goose, he watched helplessly as McGrady took an easy shot and scored two points.

Lu Yuanzhi couldn't even jump a little or reach out his hands.

The moment his center of gravity shifted back, McGrady took off.

When Lu Yuanzhi forcibly interrupted the inertia and adjusted his center of gravity back, McGrady had already taken action in the air.

This falling step technique is not complicated, and Lu Yuanzhi can roughly do it in training, but combined with McGrady's keen observation and quick flight, it makes Lu Yuanzhi difficult to defend.

"How about it, boy, are you bewitched too?"

In the first quarter, Lu Yuanzhi laughed at Christie's defense. He didn't expect this sinister guy to return the favor so quickly.

Lu Yuanzhi spread his hands and had no choice. This is the method of the league's top attacker. You can count on yourself to be able to completely restrict such a top player.

However, Lu Yuanzhi decided to adjust his defensive strategy.

Is it too difficult to do such a dry pull?
I, Lu Yuanzhi, want to give Tracy McGrady more strength!

In the next round, Lu Yuanzhi started to move. After McGrady caught the ball, he continued to give McGrady physical strength.

McGrady can still perform technical moves, but under Lu Yuanzhi's entanglement, every move consumes a lot of energy.

Lu Yuanzhi went from being a sandbag being beaten by McGrady to becoming a Wing Chun wooden stake dummy. If he was not careful, the rotating wooden stake could give him a severe blow.

Lu Yuanzhi was giving McGrady strength while savoring McGrady's footsteps.

This kind of actual combat experience is completely incomprehensible if you have never practiced basic movements.

But when you have practiced similar footwork techniques, you will have a better understanding of the techniques through actual combat.

Of course, Lu Yuanzhi was not beaten unilaterally, and began to exert more pressure on the offensive end.

Garrity, who was originally guarding Lu Yuanzhi, could no longer keep up with Lu Yuanzhi's offensive pace. As a last resort, McGrady also switched to guard.

If we don't change defense, Garrity will be beaten to a pulp!

Although McGrady is not active defensively, his excellent size and athletic ability give him certain defensive abilities on the defensive end.

Unexpectedly, McGrady's defense is not bad!
After all, when he was with the Raptors, he won the trust of the head coach with his defense, gradually increased his playing time, and won the starting position.

However, once McGrady puts a certain amount of energy into the defensive end, his physical fitness on the offensive end will be restricted.Sure enough, in the NBA, if you want to completely restrict a player, it is not enough to only exert strength on the defensive end. You must also consume him on the offensive end.

It's just that some teams protect their core very well and give them lighter defensive tasks so that they can still maintain firepower on the offensive end.

And some teams, due to staffing problems, have to let their core players defend the opponent's core players, which consumes a lot of energy on the defensive end, resulting in the inability to maintain firepower on the offensive end.

However, Lu Yuanzhi's offense is a bit simple. He just keeps running on the court, wearing down Tracy McGrady, and then receiving passes from the opponent, or directly attacking the basket with air cuts, or making jump shots from outside the three-point line, or pretending to shoot three-pointers, and taking two steps straight. Driving to the basket.

The routine is very simple, but Lu Yuanzhi's breakthroughs and three-pointers are too threatening. McGrady has to follow Lu Yuanzhi's footsteps, which consumes a lot of money on the defensive end.

68: 64.

Even though McGrady was firing on all cylinders on the offensive end, the Kings still maintained the 4-point advantage won by the substitutes until the end of the first half.

However, in the second half, the Magic came to their senses. They replaced Pat Garrity, who had a defensive vulnerability, and replaced him with Mike Miller. Miller guarded Lu Yuanzhi, freeing McGrady on the defensive end.

McGrady finally no longer has to shoulder the responsibility on both offense and defense.

Miller's appearance also caused the Magic's inside height to drop again.

After going around in a circle, Clark was the one who gained in the end?
In the second half of the game, Lu Yuanzhi desperately defended Tracy McGrady, while the Magic had nothing to do with Clark, who was wreaking havoc in the paint.

The Kings are determined to collect statistics for Clark. Everyone's first choice when rushing to the basket is not to attack the basket, but to find where Clark is.

Whenever Clark had the slightest chance to follow up with a dunk, the Kings players would pass the ball over.

In the end, the Kings defeated the Magic 125:121 on the road.

With the support of the whole team, Clark also performed brilliantly in the fifth game of the new season, scoring a super double-double with 30 points and 20 rebounds, including 5 in the frontcourt.

30 points is also Clark's career scoring high.

Similarly, both teams played very fast, with more than 110 offensive rounds each. Although McGrady only scored 7 points in the second quarter under Lu Yuanzhi's defense, he still scored 41 points in the game, becoming the new leader of the team. Lord.

Tracy McGrady was in hot form, and Lu Yuanzhi was unable to get free attributes on him. However, he faced off against Pat Garrity at the end of the first and third quarters, giving him enough matchup time and beating his opponent on both offense and defense. , get 2 points of free attributes.

In this game, Lu Yuanzhi focused on defending Tracy McGrady, but still scored 13 points, 3 rebounds and 8 assists. The 8 assists were a new high in Lu Yuanzhi's career, and he got an additional free attribute point.

However, assists are still rare. Although Lu Yuanzhi practiced passing the ball hard for several afternoons in the summer, he can pass the ball quickly and accurately, which is a long-term improvement compared to last season.

However, his lack of ability to hold the ball also restricted Lu Yuanzhi's progress in passing.

Most of Lu Yuanzhi's assists are from rushing to the basket to feed Clark, and some of them.

Well, to be honest, Lu Yuanzhi didn’t know how he came about.

The NBA calculates assists very loosely.

Maybe Lu Yuanzhi and Bibby were in a pick-and-roll, and Bibby passed the ball hand-to-hand. Then Bibby dribbled the ball twice and hit a jumper, and the assist would be counted to Lu Yuanzhi.

Lu Yuanzhi counted over and over again in this game. He only had 5 assists. He didn't know where the other 3 assists came from.

Maybe, this is how you make money for nothing!
After the Kings played the Magic in Orlando, they played back-to-back away games and flew to New York overnight.

The straight-line distance of more than 1500 kilometers and the nearly three-hour flight made the Kings players complain endlessly.

Lu Yuanzhi played as a substitute last season and could basically maintain sufficient physical strength after each game. But at the beginning of this season, he took the main position and played more than 30 minutes in each game. Especially this time, defending Tracy McGrady consumed him. A lot of physical fitness.

He also gradually understood why it was impossible for NBA players to maintain good condition every game during the long season.

I haven't gone to bed yet, but I have to get up to play the game. Who can stay in good condition all the time?

(End of this chapter)