Anthony the Reborn

Chapter 261 The Flash

The coach's farewell is only temporary. For the players, they must learn to adapt to this league. Whether it is teammates or coaches, their departure is a common thing, and they even have to learn to face being traded. As players, they have no other choice but to adapt.

So after Coach Cooper announced two major decisions, as Nuggets players, they must control their emotions, and then get ready to meet the challenge of the Miami Heat at home.

The Heat this season is a very important season for them to hit the championship trophy, because in this season, they used Odom, Butler, etc. as chips to trade for the league's number one center, "Shark" O'Neal, Although O'Neal is 30 years old, it is obvious that his dominance in the league is still unmatched. His rampage inside is still unstoppable, coupled with the increasingly mature Wade , This is a team worth looking forward to.

Anthony knows that in history, such a team, at this time next year, they are already on the way to the championship, and they also won the championship that season.

But now everything in history has changed. Even though the Heat are very strong now, Anthony knows that the championship is his goal this season, and it is also the goal that the Nuggets must strive for this season.

Now, D'Antoni has resigned as the head coach. Anthony must re-do the big heart of last season, and the crazy player, he must take responsibility on his shoulders again. He has the ability and the obligation to lead in the game. his teammates.

Soon, the players entered the arena from the player tunnel, and now the DJ's shouts resounded through the arena, causing the fans at the scene to let out waves of shouts and tsunamis.

But Anthony knows that although the current attendance rate in the arena is not bad, it is obviously not at the same level compared with last season. In the second half of last season, the arena can be said to be full. , What a crazy thing this is in a small city, and all of this, from the beginning of this season to the present, seems to be gradually becoming a kind of history, and now, Anthony is obliged to turn this history into reality again.

"Our King of Denver, our MVP, our Melo, Carmelo Anthony!"

The DJ at the scene let out a roar of shouts, and Anthony rushed out of the arena suddenly, stretched out his hands, and waved his fists twice vigorously at the fans at the scene.

Because the team's record is not going up or down, and his shooting power in the team has decreased, although Anthony didn't say anything, in fact, his performance in some details can be seen more or less, For example when playing.

Last season, Anthony always maintained a high level of excitement when he played, allowing fans to feel his enthusiasm for basketball, but after this season, his movements became less, and even when he played It didn't seem so exciting. The fans were puzzled at the beginning and then gradually adapted to it. But today, when they saw Anthony wield his explosive pair again and appeared on the court in an extremely aggressive way. , The fans at the scene were once again brought back by that familiar feeling, and they cheered for Anthony wave after wave.

Anthony looked at the fans at the scene, and secretly made his next decision. He wanted to let the fans see hope again in this game!

The players were all introduced and entered the field, followed by warm-up time, and soon, all the starting players from both sides appeared on the field.

Today's game is a brand new game for the Nuggets. Although the team's new head coach, George Karl, has not yet joined the team, Cooper, who started as a defender, is in this temporary coaching game. Obviously, he will abandon D'Antoni's offensive thinking of completely giving up defense, and it is likely to play a defensive-based tactic.

For the Nuggets, the two newcomers did not start the game. Hinrich and Chandler were still sitting on the bench, and the starting lineup was the same as the previous game, Korver and Nene.

Soon, the two-handed players all appeared on the field under the signal of the referee.

It was Nene and O'Neal who jumped the ball, and it was O'Neal who jumped to the ball. O'Neal returned the racket to the Heat. After a few passes, the ball reached Wade's hands. Killing in the backcourt will lead to the frontcourt.

This is Wade's second season. Compared with the first year, his shooting is still limited, but his breakthrough is getting sharper and sharper. This season, Coach Riley let Wade serve as the team Damon Jones, who is good at three-point shooting, is the team's starting shooting guard. It seems like a small change, but it has completely released Wade. He no longer has to be the same as before. Keep running tactics, keep scoring in the air, he now has the right to control the ball, he can choose to break through quickly, or choose to score the ball after breaking through, but it is obvious that his offensive style , are driven by the breakthrough.

Under normal circumstances, to defend such a breakthrough guard-based player, you only need to block his breakthrough route, but now, Wade's name "The Flash" is not for nothing, you have to defend his breakthrough, At the very least, you have to meet two conditions. The first and most basic point is that you have to have enough speed. Otherwise, when you are defending, you will be confused by Wade's big stride, and you can only look at him. back, watching him score.

Secondly, you have to have a strong enough body. In this league, although Wade claims to be extremely fast, in fact, there are many people who can keep up with his speed. For example, he and Anthony were teammates in the rookie draft. TJ Ford, such as Iverson, the speed of these people can definitely keep up with Wade, but their physical speed seems to be at a disadvantage in front of Wade.

Wade is not the kind of player who concentrates on rushing. A large part of his success comes from his golf intelligence. When he rushes up, he can judge his teammates and analyze his opponents. This is what makes him different from others. The place.

So at this moment, he got the net and dashed forward, and after realizing that Nash was always following him, he immediately stopped the offensive rhythm, and then waited for O'Neal to settle, and he directly stuffed the ball in.

Facing Nene at this moment, O'Neill didn't have any emotional changes. After sitting down, he directly started to hit the inside.

Nene has been the team's starting center since he was traded to Brand. He is used to playing power forward, and he has to face all kinds of centers every night. But everything needs to be exercised. After nearly a season of baptism, he already has his own experience and experience against center forwards, and he has gradually adapted to this role. When fighting against ordinary centers, he can slightly gain the upper hand, but obviously Yes, with O'Neill, he still doesn't have the slightest advantage, so when O'Neill pushes in, he can only be pressed in little by little.

"Nene, hold him!" Coach Cooper on the sidelines saw O'Neal squeeze into the penalty area so easily, and he didn't want to use double-team tactics at the beginning of the game, so he could only loudly encourage Nene to take the initiative to defend.

Seeing that O'Neal was about to enter the penalty area and was about to score, Neneil took a deep breath, and pushed O'Neal to the outside with all his strength.

O'Neill looks so big, but in fact, he is not only a player with very delicate skills, but also has a very high basketball IQ. When he felt that Nene was going hard, he actually fell forward. With the same body, Ne Nei pushed her forward several steps, staggered and nearly fell to the ground.

Seeing the scene in front of him, Coach Cooper on the sidelines looked dumbfounded. He didn't know when Nene had such great strength. When Nene made a defensive foul, they suddenly came to their senses, and then unceremoniously booed O'Neal.

But it was obvious that O'Neill had already been mentally prepared, so he smiled without any emotional change, as if he was indeed pushed out by Nene just now.

In a team, the center is the last gate of defense, so when defending, on the one hand, the center needs to delay and block the opponent's breakthrough personnel, but at the same time, the team also needs to defend through the perimeter. Protect the center, because the center, especially the starting center of the general team, will play a decisive role in the game when fouling in the game.

At this moment, Nene's first foul was sent out at the beginning, which is obviously not good news for the Nuggets.

Nene made a foul, but it wasn't a foul while shooting, so there was no need for free throws. It was still the Heat's offense.

This time, Wade on the outside wanted to pass the ball to O'Neal again. Nene directly chose to go around and ooze out his two hands to pass the pass line of the interferer. Wade looked for a while and couldn't find a suitable opportunity. Finally passed the ball to Jones, and then began to slip from the right to the left. In the process, Haslem on the inside pulled out to pick and roll, and after blocking Nash who was following Wade, Jones directly gave the ball to the inside running Wade, after Wade received the ball, facing Brand, who was supplementing the defense, he suddenly accelerated and passed through his defense, and then jumped up, gliding from the side with his whole body, and then slammed The ball went into the basket.

"boom!"

With a muffled sound, Wade scored a gliding dunk.

(End of this chapter)