You should cross the mountains like a brave man

Chapter 271 Old Friend (19)

"Wesha's physical fitness is very good. As we all know, it is his usual method to press the opponent all the way."

Heinsohn's partner, Mike Gorman, was completely unaware that he had mispronounced Versia's name.

West's control and speed are fine, and Wei Xia can't force him to death.

The confrontation between the two spread from the backcourt to the frontcourt, and West's first priority was to pass the ball to Paul Pierce.Under the tight off-ball marking of the Lakers, the opportunity could not come out, and the ball could not be passed. He had to temporarily change the target and gave the ball to Ryan Gomez.

Gomez faced Odom's defense, but his short body didn't take advantage of it, and he shot hastily.

"Too anxious, shouldn't be playing like this!" The commentator who is the most partial to the home team in history can't give any praise to the home team's reckless attack.

As soon as Heinsohn finished speaking, Gomez missed his shot.

Jerry Wayne shook his head, how did his beloved Celtics become like this?
Wei Xia caught up before the rebound went out of bounds.

Grabbing the ball, turning and looking ahead, he's pressing West, and West is pressing him.

It seems fair, unless there is a natural gap between the two people's stature.

Wei Xia couldn't force West to death, not because he couldn't do it, but because the rules didn't allow it.If the referee lets him do it at will and use his size advantage, let alone Delonte West, even Jerry West will die.

Okay, that last sentence is bragging, but you know what it means.

In the case of offensive and defensive transitions, West's advantage is not so great.

As a defender, he is also subject to many restrictions of today's rules, and Wei Xia, as an attacker, will enjoy a lot of convenience. His ball-handling ability and physical fitness, coupled with a physique of 196 cm + 97 kg, have brought him a strong physical confrontation.

West, who wanted to contribute on the defensive end, shattered Weisha.

"Delonte is really bad!" Wayne heard an old man beside him say, "Even the rookie of the Lakers can't defend!"

"Is it weird that you can't defend yourself? Felix is ​​the best sixth man in the league!" Wayne glared at him.

The other party even had a temper: "If you want to support the Lakers, then you should not sit in this position and sell your tickets! This position belongs to the most loyal fans of the Celtics."

"You want me to give up Felix for this shameful team, dream!" Wayne quarreled with each other like that.

He couldn't see the second goal scored by Weixia.

West was taken off in one step, and Weixia broke through directly, because no one from the Celtics switched over.Pierce just wanted to give up Kobe and come to defend, but he didn't expect that Wei Xia made a one-handed pass feint, fixed his body in place, and then held the ball to the basket above.

"Beautiful! What a good shot. Wesha changed the situation after he came on the field!" Geman said, "He is very energetic!"

Heinsohn saw Weixia continue to stay in the frontcourt to press West.His goal doesn't seem to be to win, but to exhaust himself to death.

The full-court press is a luxury tactic, but also a dangerous one.

Ordinary players don't make their own claims, only Wei Xia will frequently rush at his opponents to do so, but his head coach ignores it.

There is only one explanation for Jackson's reaction: he believed in Wei Xia.

He believes that Wei Xia's full-court pressing will not disrupt the defense.

This is exactly the case. Weixia pressed West all the way. In addition to giving sufficient physical confrontation and defensive strength, it also destroyed the tactical fluency of the Green Army.In the current game, to achieve this defensive effect without being called a foul, the energy and patience required are unimaginable.

Wei Xia is not impatient, he likes to defend, and it can be seen from his expression that he enjoys the process of pressing the whole court very much, and the physical energy consumed for this is not enough to worry about.

It takes West 7-8 seconds every time he dribbles across the court.

He jumped repeatedly on the verge of the eight-second violation, the speed of the ball was very slow, and the opportunity was not the best.

"It's Gomez again!"

The Celtics didn't want to see him get the ball, give him the ball, and there was only one result.

Everyone watched Gomez turn around and shoot with the ball. Odom's defensive interference was in place and he missed another shot.

The fans booed harshly.

That's right.How could this city, which has always had a tradition of racial discrimination, change its face within 20 years?

Gomez missed a shot, causing the rebound to fall into the hands of the Lakers again.

Odom protected the rebound and dribbled the ball across half court.Wei Xia didn't mean to ask for the ball, he ran empty-handed, and West posted it up energetically, trying to make the best off-ball defense.Sometimes, the meaning of running without the ball is just to disturb the opponent's sight and attention.

It is Weixia's strength and strength to run without significant meaning. Fans often watch him run continuously for 24 seconds in a round. Sometimes he can't run.Of course it's good to enter, but if you don't enter Wei Xia, you will have a headache.

On the other side, Kobe gently put his hand on the opponent, pushed hard, pushed him away, and then retreated to the three-point line. After winning enough shooting space, he received a pass from Odom outside the top three-point line of the arc, pulled up and shot a three-pointer.

Kobe's three-pointer was hollow, and the Lakers' lead came to 8 points.

Wei Xia suddenly stopped pressing West.

Just now, he ran for nearly 20 seconds on the offensive end but was not seen by anyone. He quickly returned to the defensive position and was supposed to wait for West to dribble over by himself.Suddenly, Pierce, who was defended by Kobe, went to the top of the arc to complete the hand-to-hand tactics with West.West also uses his small frame as an off-ball screen.Kobe hit it, and with a hard elbow, he knocked West down.Although West suffered a genuine elbow, he has no reason to complain.As far as he dared to hit Kobe's elbow with his flesh and blood, the referee did not call him an illegal pick-and-roll, which was disrespectful to Kobe.

Maybe Bryant was wondering why the referee didn't call West's body to his elbow foul. He knocked West and froze, but the Celtics' offense would not be paused.

Pierce faced Wei Xia.

Originally, Wei Xia had the opportunity to come up and face him, but because he played too much lip service, he played against Pierce, and the opportunity to listen to the fragrant "truth" was taken back by Kobe.

"You're the sixth overall pick like you are?" Pierce stopped with the ball, and spat a trash talk at Wei Xia.

Wei Xia's open hands were accompanied by a response: "It's true."

"Even if it's true, it must be a parallel import. I'll fuck you right now!" Pierce spat out a rude trash talk, then tapped with a tentative step that kaleidoscopes are good at, jumping in place, the height is not high, but it is a standard backward shot, and the arc of the shot is different from ordinary people.

The incident happened suddenly, Wei Xia jumped, although he didn't perform at a normal level - the jump height was less than one meter!But still much higher than Pierce.

Pierce's "truth" failed to increase the stability of shooting.

His tentative step fadeaway ended up missing.

"We should trade Paul!" said the old man who just had a fight with Wayne. "He can't even deal with the rookie of the Lakers!"

The moment Pierce missed the ball, Weixia, who had just experienced high-intensity offense and defense, was expected to be taken by his teammates for the rebound, so he was the first player on the field to rush forward.

When the Celtics player reacted, he had already rushed through the LOGO.

Kobe took the defensive rebound and threw a long pass.

Wei Xia received the ball inside the three-point line in the frontcourt, and he even skipped the steps of dribbling. He directly stepped into the paint with two long strides, ascending like a rocket and dunking.

Wei Xia and Kobe scored 9 points together, extending the Lakers' lead to 10 points.

The Celtics called a timeout, and Wayne excitedly stood up and said to the players around him: "You all look carefully! The No. 6 of the Lakers is my grandson, his name is Felix, don't fucking call him Wesha! He is the best sixth man in the league! It was absolutely wrong for us not to trade Paul to the Lakers for his signing right - now even if we want to change, the Lakers will not agree!"

"Yes, he looks much better than Paul! Paul just makes some fucking boring shots!" the old man who just had a fight with Wayne scolded. "He thought he was Larry Bird, but he wasn't!"

The old men in the front row started a campaign to criticize Pierce.

In the commentary, Heinsohn was surprised by Wesha's performance: "It's better to be famous than to meet. I always thought that Wesha was a bubble blown by the Los Angeles media. I didn't expect him to have a hand. Full of enthusiasm for the game and endurance like a perpetual motion machine on both offensive and defensive ends, he reminds me of an old friend, but his physical fitness is much better!"

⑴ Before 2008, Pierce had always been disliked by the fans and treated like a baby by the management in the Celtics.To give an unpopular example: Nine-Finger Dunk Wang Green (the same class as Wei Xia), a high school student who skipped college and directly participated in the election. Although his later development was not as expected, when he participated in the election, he was basically recognized as one of the most talented players in the current session.Perfect size and athletic ability, and the story of "being kicked to the second team by the high school team" exactly like Jordan.Before the start of the draft, in the mock draft, Green has always been in the top five. Many Celtics fans and Boston media suggested that the management use Pierce to trade the top five picks to win Green.This seems unimaginable to us today, but in the eyes of the Celtics fans at the time, Pierce was just a second-rate star who couldn't lead the team to ZTE.

(End of this chapter)