king of defenders

Chapter 470 Anthony's Bad Taste

American Airlines Arena.

Today the Heat will play against the Knicks. Players from both sides have already played. Wade and Anthony embrace. Needless to say, the relationship between the Four Heroes has long been a good story in the NBA.

"Meng." Anthony opened his hands and smiled at Meng Yun: "Are you happy to see me?"

"Not at all." Meng Yun shook his head.

At the beginning when he was training with Wade and Anthony, Meng Yun was often abused by Anthony. Although Paul, Wade, James, and Butler also beat Meng Yun every time, Anthony seemed very interested in abusing Meng Yun. Every time he cared about it, Meng Yun felt helpless and wanted to stay away from Anthony.

Anthony didn't mind either, and hugged Meng Yun: "Hey, we are friends, you should be happy to see me? Just like Dwyane."

Meng Yun rolled his eyes, feeling very helpless.

Seeing Meng Yun like this, Anthony smiled even more happily, feeling very funny, and joked: "Are you worried that I will abuse you? Don't worry, I will show mercy this time."

"No need." Meng Yun pouted and pointed to Wade: "Your opponent is Dwyane."

"Haha." Anthony laughed loudly, and said, "You said that, so I won't show mercy. Oh, I feel itchy just thinking about it."

What kind of fun is this?

Meng Yun was speechless, and quickly bounced away, it's better to keep a respectful distance.

After some warm-up, the game officially started.

The Knicks have played 14 games this season and achieved a record of 8 wins and 6 losses. It is not particularly good or bad, but it can only be said to be fair.

Anthony has been in the Knicks for several seasons, but he has not been able to bring the Knicks to a new height. As time goes by, Anthony gets older and the voices questioning him are getting louder.

Especially this season, the Knicks selected Kristaps Porzingis from Latvia with the fourth overall pick in the first round. Zingis averaged 4 points and 14 rebounds per game, which can be said to be very good.

Seeing Porzingis play so well, the Knicks management began to have some other thoughts.

Of course, things are not there yet, but Anthony has felt some pressure, and he knows he has to prove that he is still in his prime.

Anthony has performed very well in the past 14 games.

Today's game was no exception. From the very beginning of the game, Anthony played very aggressively. First he made a strong inside shot, and then he made an outside shot, hitting Luol Deng with a three-pointer.In less than 3 minutes of the first quarter, Anthony made 2 of 2 shots, scored 5 points, and had a rebound.

"Luol Deng can't guard against Anthony." Joseph Young sighed.

"It's nothing. For a player like Anthony, no one can say that he will be able to guard him." Although Meng Yun said so, he also knew that Luol Deng was indeed not Anthony's opponent. A player with very comprehensive skills has many scoring methods. Luo Er Deng does not have the upper hand in terms of physical fitness, technology, and awareness. As a result, he can only be completely suppressed by Anthony and become a defensive loophole.

Next to him, coach Spoelstra was also frowning, his eyes fell on Anthony, and he saw Anthony taking the ball in the low position on the right, then playing with his back, carrying Luol Deng back twice, and then retreated abruptly. Pull out your hand.

Swish!
Enter again.

"I can't prevent it." Spoelstra shook his head and asked for a substitution, replacing Luol Deng with Green.

However, the effect of changing Green is not good, and it still cannot prevent Anthony from scoring.

On the Heat's side, Wade squinted his eyes, opened his hands to ask for the ball after coming to the frontcourt, then dribbled the ball continuously under his crotch, accelerated with a change of direction, quickly rushed to the inside, and jumped towards Porzingis.

Porzingis is tall and long-armed, and his arms dance, covering the sky.

"Drink." Wade drank softly, curled up in the air, and avoided Porzingis' block by virtue of his inertia. He had already reached the other side of the hoop and made a backhand hook.

Swish!
The ball goes in.

"nice shot."

"Wade is Wade."

The home fans rejoiced and applauded loudly.

Meng Yun couldn't help applauding. Whether it is Luol Deng or Green, I am afraid that there is no way to defend Anthony, so it is not feasible to rely on defense to limit the opponent. We can only rely on offense. Someone must stand up and score with Anthony Biao , and Wade is this person, the Flash is not in vain.

For a while, Wade and Anthony began to face each other. They didn't face each other directly, but they were facing each other in the air.

"beep"

The whistle blew, and the Heat requested a timeout.

At this time, halfway through the first quarter, the score was 16:15, and the Heat trailed by 1 point.

One point behind is nothing, but the inability to limit Anthony is a problem, so coach Spoelstra called a timeout and rearranged.

"Meng, go up and replace Green."

First it was a substitution, and then Spoelstra spread out the tactical board and ordered: "Meng, wait for you to defend Anthony, follow Anthony closely, don't let him shoot easily, and don't let him break through easily, yours Speed ​​is an advantage."

"Yes." Meng Yun nodded, and said, "But coach, what if Anthony chooses low post singles?"

At the beginning of the training with Anthony and the others, Meng Yun relied on his speed. Although he suffered a loss in experience, he had played heads-up with Anthony more times, and the defense could keep up, so that Anthony would not easily break through.

Later, seeing that it became more and more difficult to break through Meng Yun, Anthony changed his strategy. Every time he pressed down to the low singles, his strength was much stronger than Meng Yun, and his skills were better than Meng Yun. Can't prevent it.

Now that two or three months have passed, Meng Yun has improved a lot, and his confrontation ability has also increased a lot, but Meng Yun still doesn't have much confidence in defending Anthony in the low post one-on-one.

"You don't have to worry about this." Spoelstra looked at Bosh and Whiteside: "Once Anthony is pressed down to the low singles, you must immediately go up to help defend."

"Yes."

"Understood." Bosh and Whiteside Zizi agreed.

This is defense, and then Spoelstra made some arrangements for offense, mainly emphasizing fast counterattacks, emphasizing the speed of offensive and defensive transitions, replacing Meng Yun, Meng Yun, Dragic, and Wade on the outside Now, that is to play X tactics.

Not far away, the Knicks coach, also known as "Old Fish" Derek Fisher, also carried out a personnel rotation. The original starting five were Porzingis, Robin Lopez, Anthony, Aaron - Afflalo, Jose Calderon, the old fish replaced Afflalo and replaced him with Jerian Grant. Afflalo did not do a good job of restricting Wade in the first few minutes. Anthony won A lot of points, but Wade also got a lot of points.

(End of this chapter)