Chapter 62 Matching up the Two-Time Shot-Blocking King

The Eagles play man-to-man defense.

Small forward Jackson adopted an up-line defense. After Marbury sent the ball, he secretly pushed Marion, and suddenly went up the line, cut off the passing line, and successfully completed a steal.

The ball changed hands instantly.

The failure of passing and receiving this time will be counted on Marion's head, because he was careless, and Marbury's pass has already deflected to the outside. With his wingspan, there is no chance of making a mistake.

The moment Jackson succeeded in stealing, Li Ba began to return to defense.

But his speed, not to mention the slowest in the audience, is about the same. It is about the same as the opponent's block king center. When he runs across the center line, he is already...

The steal was successful, and Eagles point guard Terry at the top of the arc immediately made a fast break, and Eagles second guard Dean Glover on the right-wing three-point line also quickly made a fast break.

Marbury stuck to the right of Terry, cutting him off from the left wing and now Jackson, who was speeding up the right wing.

Jackson was about to pass the ball because a slightly exasperated Marion was harassing him like crazy.

And Terry couldn't pass, so he could only pass to Glover, the shooting guard who was also fast on the left wing.

Dean Glover's opponent was Joe Johnson, known as the defensive black hole. He fell behind by a body and did not cut off Glover's receiving line.

Glover received the ball across the center line, did not slow down, and made a move directly to the basket.

Joe Johnson sped up to keep up.

Suddenly, Glover made an emergency stop at 45 degrees from the left-wing three-point line.

Joe Johnson was caught off guard and was knocked down by a sudden stop.

"oh!"

Seeing his shooting guard being knocked down, the audience in the Meixi Arena exclaimed.

The defensive player fell down, Glover took it easy, made a comparison, and then made a three-point jumper.

"Shua!"

The ball goes into the basket hollow.

3:0, the Eagles lead away.

"yeah!"

After scoring three points, Glover excitedly threw his fist at Joe Johnson on the ground and shouted, then looked back at his coach.

"I'm a shooting guard, and I'll let you know how I score!" he said to his head coach in his heart.

"Shet!"

Johnson thumped the floor angrily, feeling that he had to strengthen his offensive ability, and he wanted to throw the ball back.

"Fuck!"

Seeing the opponent score, Li Ba, who had just run to the center line, stopped depressed.

The Suns attack.

Li Ba wanted a position on the left wing. At this time, Marbury called a pick-and-roll from the top arc, but it was the bully on the right wing.

Compared with Li Ba, Xiaobawang's pick-and-roll quality is obviously higher.

The pick-and-roll tactic is one of the basic tactics of basketball. It is beneficial to pick-and-roll to seek short-term opportunities to break away from defensive players and seek open positions.

For inside players, it is not just a simple wall.

After the block, there is a dismantling. After dismantling, for the inside players, it is very likely that there will be vacancies. This requires the inside players to have a certain mid-range shooting ability, and even long-range shooting ability.

Like Li Ba, he doesn’t have mid-range shooting ability, not to mention long-range shooting. Let him do pick-and-roll, then he can only block. After the block is finished, the open space he forms is useless, and the quality of pick-and-roll tactics is not very good.

After the pick-and-roll, Marbury broke into the paint, the bully went down, received the pass from Marbury, and made a mid-range shot from the free throw line.

"boom!"

Two points strike iron.

The ball rebounded towards the right elbow, and Li Ba, who was in the low position on the left wing, could only look at the ball and sigh.

The rebound was taken by Raheem.

Eagles attack.

Eagles center Theo Ratliff started in the low post on the right wing.

The two-time shot-blocking king Ratliff is 208 centimeters tall and known as a gibbon with a wingspan of 225 centimeters, but weighs only 102 kilograms.

Therefore, in terms of absolute strength, there is a clear distinction between Li Ba and Li Ba at the moment of taking the position.

Li Ba's defense is very clean. This is a problem with the Chinese insiders. Without so many small moves, he squeezed Ratliff outside and kept him out of the paint by virtue of sheer strength.

Suddenly, Ratliff took the initiative to withdraw, entered the short corner parallel to the baseline, and reached out to Terry for the ball.

Li Ba didn't follow up immediately, but kept an eye on Terry.

Of course, he also has small steps to follow, but he keeps a step away from Ratliff.

In this behavior, he wanted to create a passing trap for Terry and Ratliff.

Usually on-line defense can cause such a pass trap, and then suddenly go on-line to steal after the ball holder passes the ball.

It's just that Li Ba's position is a little farther this time, one step, about one meter, and he usually stands next to the player he is defending.

Terry saw Ratliff's request. He knew that Ratliff had a shooting percentage from close range and short two points.

Terry is only 188 cm, and his hands are not big, so he made a parabolic two-handed pass. But he made preparations to prevent steals, and the direction of the pass was biased to the right line, away from Ratliff's defender Li Ba.

Li Ba stared at Terry closely, and at the moment the latter made a pass, before the ball was shot, he withdrew his gaze and quickly lowered his head to start with all his strength.

This starting action is similar to the previous standing 100-meter race start, without even looking up at the ball.

The first step is the only step movement training in fly catching training.

And the first step forward is also his fastest step.

One step later, he was leaning on Ratliff and Terry was out.

In the second step, a left swipe, Li Ba stuck Tra Rive behind his back.

At this time the ball flew to the peak of the paratrolic line and began to fall.

All eyes were on here.

"Who wins the contest between two inside defensive centers?" the Suns commentator shouted loudly.

By the time he finished speaking, the result of this round of contest had come to an end.

Ratliff raised his left arm high, stared at the ball in the air, and wanted to prevent Li Ba from coming, but he immediately realized that he couldn't stop Li Ba, and was distracted, he was stuck behind him, and the passing line was blocked.

The first reaction was to push Li Ba away.

But now he is in the short corner area. There are line judges on the sidelines and bottom line judges. They are all staring at this place. He has no way to make small moves and can only rely on absolute strength.

There was no way around this, he was squeezed here by Li Ba, and he was forced to push Li Ba away with absolute strength, unless he gained 10 to 20 kilograms of muscle in an instant.

"Snapped!"

Li Ba stuck Ratliff to death, didn't even jump, and successfully received a pass from Eagles point guard Jason Terry with his wingspan.

"Shet!"

Terry cursed, turned and ran.

Li Ba directly threw the ball to Marbury who rushed through the middle circle, and then started to run forward.

In the frontcourt, Marbury from the top arc passed the ball to Joe Johnson on the left wing under Terry's entanglement.

His opponent was Glover, but the Hawks made a switch and Jackson became his defensive player.

Facing Wu Sheng Jackson, who is already in place on defense, Johnson knew his defensive ability and was a little cautious.

He made a three-threat, and Jackson took a half-step back to defend.

Johnson suddenly broke through to the left, protruding his right foot, and Jackson immediately made a right interception.

At this moment, Joe Johnson suddenly withdrew his protruding right foot, took a step back, exited beyond the three-point line, and immediately took off.

When he raised his hand to shoot, he suddenly found that Jackson also jumped up, right in front of him.

It turned out that Jackson wasn't fooled. He intercepted the action to the right. He just tapped his right foot to the right, and then immediately turned into a step up. He jumped up and blocked the ball thrown by Johnson with his right hand.