Chapter 847: Provocation is always 2 in a row 3

February 26, 2002
Detroit, Empire Axis Arena.
Tonight, the regular seats of the Imperial Axis Arena are full, and even emergency seats that are not usually sold are full of fans.
On the Spurs side, Kidd led the two younger brothers to the piston logo.
I saw Kidd holding Gasol on the left, Arenas on the right, standing in the middle by himself. It was strange to see the three wearing Spurs jerseys.
On the Piston side, Mo Mengchen and Hill stepped forward to welcome guests.
"I hope to have a wonderful game tonight," Kidd said.
"Then I have to ask you to throw in a empty ball." Mo Mengchen's words always carry a frowning thorn.
Kidd held hands with Mo Mengchen, and the person in front of him was no longer the rookie who had let him beat him.
Subsequently, Mo Mengchen and Hill turned back to their positions to warm up.
"Pistons and Spurs, Bill, who are you optimistic about?" Venier Johnson asked his partner.
The infamous Lambier is now one of the favorite commentators for the Pistons fans, because he is short-guarded, poisonous, and spit out the visiting team is particularly fierce. If there is a problem with his player, his comments are also striking, which makes people forget how he is. Bastard.
"Of course I want to support the league leader." Lambier shouted playfully, "Spurs will win!"
Johnson said: "The Spurs are currently 20 wins and 5 losses. Although the Pistons have a poor record in the opening stage, they have gradually caught up. They are currently 17 wins and 8 losses, ranking second in the league's fourth east."
"It's just that the Spurs are more mature than the Pistons."
During the talk, the two sides have finished warming up, and the starting players have changed their clothes and are ready to debut.
Tonight, the Pistons' starter is slightly different than before.
Magloire replaced Curry as the starting center.
On the Spurs, their starters have always been fixed: Kidd, Arenas, Kirilenko, Gasol, David Robinson.
Except for Arenas, this lineup has no particularly poorly defended players.
Kidd can defend three positions, Kirilenko can defend five positions, the young Gasol defends first class, Robinson is not old.
"Today's game must be a hard fight." Westphal thought.
However, he believes that good things will happen to the Pistons.
Since the beginning of the 1999-2000 season, the Pistons have greeted their opponents as defending champions each season. At the beginning, they will show their fatigue, but they will always find a state suddenly in the game, and they will be unstoppable and enter the defending mode.
Last year, a similar game took place in the Christmas War.
Now that it's Christmas War, Westphal hopes something good will happen.
Magloire came to the middle circle, his physical fitness is explosive, a pair of long arms over 230 cm let him defeat the old and strong admiral in the process of jumping the ball.
The moment Mo Mochen received the ball, the Empire Axis Arena burst into a screaming scream.
Kidd stepped forward, approaching, the height of 193 cm and the weight of nearly two hundred catties made him stand out in the No. 1 position.
His defense is a terrible nightmare for every No. 1 position.
Mo Mengchen raised his hand, called the pick-and-roll to his side, and accelerated the breakthrough. This is where Kidd is helpless. He can take care of most of the outside, but lightning guards like Mo Mengchen who run fast like winds are just the objects he is not good at defending.
No matter how good the defensive skills are, if you can't keep up, you can't use your skills.
The moment Mo Mochen broke in, a snowy shadow shrouded in an instant, so fast, so fast, so oppressive.
Why didn't we choose him?
Mo Mengchen's corner of the eye left behind Kirilenko, who spooked up, and the AK47's defense was impressed in the first round tonight.
Then, Mo Mengchen calculated the plan and attracted Kirilenko's assist defense. Without looking back, he hit the ground and followed Hill's catching jumper.
2 to 0
"This Russian defense is not bad." Rambis commented, "made the best response."
Kidd dribble forward, he wants to know what is waiting for him, the Pistons will certainly not be unprepared.
As soon as he reached the front court, he saw it.
Disgusting joint defense.
Mo Mengchen deliberately stepped back one and a half meters, just enough distance for Kidd to shoot, if he really shot, Mo Mengchen could react.
Kidd doesn't fail to shoot, it's just that he doesn't shoot well, and the Pistons make use of this flaw to irritate him.
Gasol recognized the Pistons trick at a glance. In Europe, every team will play a joint defense. The best way to crack the joint defense is to let the inside jumper from the free throw line.
Therefore, Gasol came to the free throw line decisively, but Kidd obviously did not want to end the offense in such a simple way.
Gasol had to pick and roll and let Kidd break through.
Kidd entered, the piston defense contracted, he immediately passed the ball outward, first to Kirilenko, then to Arenas, and then to Gasol...
The Pistons' defensive rotation is amazing, and the defensive tacit agreement between Mo Mengchen, Hill and Rashid made Lambir applauded.
However, after all, someone fell into a vacancy.
Kidd felt insulted. He retreated to the outside and was put into a few meters of space.
"I hope to play a wonderful game tonight."
"Then you have to put in the empty ball."
Now he knew what that sentence meant.
The Pistons don't expect to defend against the Spurs with a joint defense, they will selectively empty a certain Spurs player.
This man is not Arenas, Kirilenko, or Gasol, but Kidd, who can obviously shoot into the open ball, is always regarded as a meal guard who will not shoot.
Kidd shot angrily.
"boom!"
Kidd averaged 4.4 three-pointers per game, hitting 1.4 goals and shooting 32%. No matter how you look at it, the shooting rate is not very good. If you think about the three-pointers he throws, they are basically thrown by one meter. Or a two-meter three-pointer, so why did Lonzo Ball later use Kidd as a template? You have to admit that NBA scouts are indeed far-sighted. Both of them are good, they just don't shoot.
The difference is in an era of dark defense where it doesn't matter if you don't shoot threes, and an era when you don't shoot defensively without shooting threes.
Kidd missed a three-pointer and hit a long rebound. Mo Mengchen predicted the landing point. The moment he got the rebound, the counterattack had begun.
Kidd's speed prevented him from participating in the defense, but the rest of the Spurs' speed of defense was quite rapid.
Even Arenas retreated as quickly as possible, plus Kirilenko, the all-round fighter who supported the Spurs' defense, accurately placed.
"Ula!"
The Russians roared with excitement. If Mo Mengchen dared to step forward, he would definitely give the other a lesson.
"Come on!"
Fearlessly alone, the AK47 seems to be a contempt for his defense. He stretches out his spider-like long arms and encloses Mo Mengchen’s full field of vision. As long as the ball is thrown up, waiting for him is ruthlessly blocked. .
Mo Mengchen and Kirilenko took off together.
However, Mo Mengchen didn't take the shot, grabbed the ball with his right hand, didn't look at it, and gently pulled it back.
"Manu Ginobili backed up to keep up!"
"The eagle of Argentina flies!"
Ginobili took the ball and threw a heavy dunk over Kirilenko's head.
"It's not over yet," Mo Mengchen said sullenly around Kirilenko, "I will continue to explode your defense, which is not as good as sanitary napkins."
4 to 0
Kidd still had to face the joint defense. He told himself to analyze the situation calmly. According to the defense of the Pistons, he was the player who was shorted.
Kidd did not intend to sacrifice the opening to test the feel, so when Gasol came to the free throw line again, he decisively passed the ball.
"Uh!"
Gasol scored from the free throw line.
2 to 4
"He's really smart," Johnson said. "The Pistons initiated a deal for him, but the Spurs' asking price was too high and the deal had to be terminated."
Rashid went up high and supported himself as a shaft.
Mo Mengchen gave the ball to run to the right, Kidd kept up at full speed, but when he passed Rashid, he suddenly retreated and turned to the left.
Kidd didn't expect him to come in this hand, just wanted to keep up, Rashid's body had blocked people.
Rashid leaned against Kidd while passing the ball to Momo Chen's outside.
In the empty position, Mo Mengchen shot a three-pointer with his left hand in front of Kidd's face.
"Boom!"
"The left hand hits a three-pointer?"
"This guy really took the shot out of flowers!"
"What's the difference between a defender who can't shoot and an inside who can't defend?" Mo Mengchen spread his hands and asked himself, "They are all disabled on the basketball court."
7 to 2
Kidd's anger burst into flames, he dribble to the frontcourt, but Mo Mengchen did something that made him angry.
Mo Mengchen stood on one foot outside the paint area and put Kidd three meters directly!
Why don't you shoot this ball?
Kidd made a three-pointer in anger.
Popovich saw Mongolia on the spot. The team was the most calm and the most sensible Kidd was irritated by Mo Mengchen in less than three minutes.
"The legendary No. 1 killer..." Popovich said, "a well-deserved reputation."
The shots under anger will often carry an excessive spin. This is the case with Kidd. The ball is fast, hitting the back of the basket and popping straight.
Mo Mengchen once again predicted the rebounding position, and he noticed a cold wind rushing behind him.
Although he didn't see Kidd's action~EbookFREE.me~ but according to experience, he threw the ball into the crotch hard.
"Ohhhh!!!"
This is the voice of the audience.
The ball not only passed under his crotch, but also under the crotch of Kidd, Mo Mengchen turned around, waving his arm, and gave Kidd an elbow in confusion. Then, the ball was separated and the kid behind Kidd was picked up. The ball, in the continuous scream, came to the frontcourt, two meters away from the three-point line, and pulled up a three-pointer.
The ball is in the air and the man has landed.
Turning directly, the ball fell into the basket at that moment.
10 to 2
"Go crazy at the beginning!"
"Spurs request a timeout!"

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