Chapter 48: Mo Ning, I have collected your basket!
It's the Hornets' turn to attack.
After a breakthrough, Boges made a quick stop jump shot and scored a goal.
Coming to the frontcourt, Lao Wang went to the basket again.
The Hornets switched defense on the outside, with shooting guard Kendall Gill defending Kevin Johnson. Although Johnson squeezed into the basket, the ball was not passed in time, so he could only leave the paint area and come to the low post on the left wing.
At this time, the ball was in the hands of Barkley on the right wing.
Barkley started to beat Larry Johnson, turned around and made a jump shot.
Next , because Wang Tiejun was too physically exhausted, he stopped pushing for the basket, and the Suns' offensive tactics shifted to Barkley and the backcourt, with the three players with the strongest offensive abilities in the starting lineup controlling the offense.
Although the center tactic has become one of the Suns' basic tactics, Wang Tiejun's scoring ability is too limited, his offensive efficiency in the two-point area is too low, and it is actually very difficult for him to get into the basket.
Because of the three-second time limit, it is impossible for him to squeeze into the basket every time, and even if he gets in, he does not have an offensive opportunity every time. If he squeezes into the basket in every round, his physical strength will not be able to sustain it for long, so this tactic can only be used occasionally, and his tactical position in the team is still very small.
Unless his close two-point offensive ability improves one day, his tactical position will not be truly changed.
Just like O'Neal, although he is a behemoth under the basket, most of his shots are in the near two-point area, ending the offense with hooks and floaters.
Next, Wang Tiejun mainly coordinated in the low post, pulled out for screens, grabbed rebounds, and did some defense.
Small forward Cedric Ceballos has almost no tactical position in the starting lineup, even lower than Lao Wang. He can only find open opportunities through frequent running. Whether he can get the pass depends on the mood of the three big brothers who have the ball.
In the seventh minute of the first quarter, when it was almost time for substitutions, Wang Tiejun regained his strength and squeezed into the basket again.
If he doesn't have enough physical strength to play like this, even if he can get the ball in, it will be very difficult and it will take too much time. Before the ball comes in, the three seconds of attack are over.
This time, his physical strength had recovered, and he advanced very quickly, carrying Mourning towards the basket.
At this time, there was at least one second left in the third quarter, and Kevin Johnson threw the ball in.
However, Larry Johnson lost Barkley and returned to the basket. When Wang Tiejun received the ball, he and Mourning double-teamed him.
The double team was formed, with four arms entangled on him and blocking his passing route. He could only force the ball on his own.
"snort!"
With an angry roar, his beast-like body was like a huge battering ram, shaking off demons on the left and deciding the gods and Buddhas on the right. With two consecutive ferocious side attacks, the shackles that Larry Johnson and Mourning had placed on him were broken. Mourning even fell to the ground, and Larry Johnson staggered back.
The next moment, the giant beast took off into the air.
"Break it for me!"
Holding the ball with both hands, he tucked in his abdomen and slammed his arms, then he slammed the ball into the basket with an absolutely ferocious attitude.
"boom!"
As an extremely violent explosion sounded, the entire transparent backboard suddenly broke and then exploded, turning into countless small fragments that fell on the floor below and on Mourning and Larry Johnson.
"Come down here!"
He pulled hard with both hands, and the basket instantly broke away from the rack and was caught in his hands.
"yeah!"
Nearly 20,000 Suns fans jumped up from their seats and cheered wildly.
“…”
After the baseline, Curly collapsed to the floor, he was hit.
At the same time, Rob Longger, who was driven away from the scene, was standing in front of a TV at a sales point in the stadium and was also shocked when he saw this scene.
"A beast!"
"terrible!"
In the TNT commentary booth, the two commentators looked at each other, speechless.
"Oh oh oh oh……"
In the commentary booth, after a series of weird screams, the commentator was roaring with great excitement: "See? This is our giant beast. He is King, Lao K. He is our low-post giant beast. He is destroying our opponents. Our opponents are only worthy of whimpering under his crotch. He is dominating our opponents..."
“Hoo, hoo, hoo…”
Wang Tiejun fell to the ground, gasping for breath. The sudden burst of energy consumed a lot of physical energy. The physical energy he had just recovered was almost squandered by this explosive attack.
His explosive power is not as good as that of the Great Shark, so this kind of work consumes more energy for him. He uses up every bit of his strength and has tried his best.
There were several bloody marks on his arms, which were scratched by Alonzo Mourning and Larry Johnson.
At his feet was a shocked Mourning.
Next to him was Larry Johnson, who was also shocked.
"You think you can stop me? I have confiscated your basketball hoop. It is my trophy. It will become my collection. I will carve your names on it as a souvenir."
He immediately started talking trash, continuing to undermine his opponent's confidence. At the same time, he raised the basket in his hand, looking very arrogant, which made the fans in the stadium cheer even more crazily.
"Old K, Old K, Old K..."
The whole audience roared in unison, shaking the heavens and the earth.
“Asshole!”
Mourning and Larry Johnson's eyes were almost bleeding. Their basketball hoop was taken away by someone and their names were engraved on it. Where could they put their faces?
At this moment, they wished they could kill Lao Wang and take back the damn basket.
"Old K, you did a great job!"
Barkley cheered and jumped onto Lao Wang's back from behind.
"Give it to me quickly, let the media take a picture of me." Kevin Johnson came around from behind and snatched the basket from Lao Wang's hands.
“Crack, crack…”
He took the basket, hung it around his neck, and ran to the baseline. The cameras of the reporters in the media seats were already flashing wildly.
"come together."
Lao Wang shouted with his hands, carried Barkley to the baseline, and allowed himself to be bombarded by the media's cameras.
He now likes flash lights more and more. They are very bright and make him feel very happy.
Not for the championship, not for any statistics, just for the money, for the flash lights, he will give it his all on this basketball court.
"I want to make a lot of money, let everyone know me, and I want to be a beautiful movie star, haha..." When he thought of the wonderful thing, he laughed heartily to the large number of flash lights.
Colangelo walked around the sidelines excitedly. When he first picked up Old K, he didn't have such high expectations.
Old K still has a lot of shortcomings now. Maybe a quasi-All-Star center can beat him on both offense and defense. He can't be invincible, but he really has the potential to sweep the league's paint area under the basket.
"Paul, K is gaining weight, right?" he asked head coach Westphal.
“Yeah, it’s been a while,” Paul Westphal laughed.
"Will gaining weight affect his mobility and explosiveness?" he asked with some concern.
Because he knows that K's athletic ability is just average, and if he keeps gaining weight, his athletic ability will probably decline. But now K's strength and tonnage are already top-notch in the league, and no center or inside player can suppress him in this regard, so there is not much need to gain weight.
Paul Westphal thought for a moment and said, "I have communicated with him, and he said that his weight gain was without affecting his athletic ability. This is indeed the case. After losing fat and gaining muscle, his athletic ability has not declined. His weight has reached 122 kilograms, an increase of 2 kilograms."
Nodding, Colangelo instructed: "Tell the trainer to pay attention and not let him gain weight at will. Monitor his tonnage."
Paul Westphal said with a headache: "But I'm not worried about him, but Oliver Miller. This rookie seems to have no control over his weight. But he is different from Old K. Old K gained muscle, while he gained fat."
Colangelo was stunned, looked back at Miller, who had become a little fat on the bench, and shook his head secretly.
Self-discipline is the most critical quality for an excellent athlete. Unfortunately, it is an invisible quality that cannot be reflected in data. Otherwise, many rookies who lack self-discipline will be eliminated in the first round of the draft every year, including Oliver Miller, whom he personally selected.
