You should cross the mountains like a brave man

Chapter 854 Relive the nightmare
In the middle of the third quarter, Wei Xia started a mid-range show.

The person who wanted to stop Wei Xia from performing was Leonard.

If there is someone in the league who can limit Wei Xia, then the only reasonable candidate is Leonard.

Last season's DPOY has gone a step further this season. When it comes to Leonard's defense, people usually discuss his terrifying wingspan of 221 cm, but that's just the edge of his defense.

What's scary about Leonard defensively -- like any great defender -- is his bottom line.

To be precise, the pace.

Before the ACL tear, Wei Xia was an extremely good defender. When he lost the lateral speed that could keep up with anyone and was forced to improve his defensive awareness, enhance his defensive sense, and predict, he then became a great defender.

Leonard tends to aggressive front and rear foot positions: he adheres to the Spurs' consistent defensive thinking of "blocking the center and letting the side go". Therefore, he can often be seen splitting his legs, front and rear feet, lowering his center of gravity, sticking to the opponent, and emptying one side.

Anyone who wants to pull on his head has to weigh his arm span.

Even Wei Xia has to seek rhythmic dribbling before doing things.

Moreover, if you want to break through, if you don't have absolute speed, you can't do what you want. Leonard's forward step and forward hand are ready to harass Wei Xia's dribble.

It is his specialty to copy the ball with a low body and counterattack for a dunk.

Therefore, Leonard usually only gives the opponent one option-to break through to the bottom line.Wei Xia can use speed, but he wants to prove his skills. Therefore, he deliberately walked the bottom line, made a sudden stop, and retreated. Things developed so fast that Leonard could not foresee it.

He watched Wei Xia take a step back and catch a fallback jumper, "Shua!"

Elegance, or measured aggression, appeared right in front of his eyes.

Leonard looked at Wei Xia's landing posture with a sense of deja vu.

This is not what Kobe did.

And he recognized it quickly, Wei Xia's shot just now was exactly like Michael Jordan in the old video.

"Kawhi, I may still make these few shots." Wei Xia "kindly" reminded, "Your defensive strength needs to be strengthened."

The Spurs' counterattack was also direct.

The most unexpected breakthrough player-Danny Green broke through with his left hand, almost reaching the dead corner, but knew how to pass the ball back.

Aldridge catches and shoots.

"Shh!"

That's the answer.

There are people in the offense, Leonard is of course easy, but the real test has just begun. If Wei Xia can't be restrained, no matter how many goals they make, it won't help.

"Kawhi, let me give you a piece of advice." Wei Xia ran to catch the ball.

He holds the ball with his right hand, and there is endless confidence in his eyes: "If you really want to guard me, you shouldn't give me any options."

The biggest feature of Leonard's defense is that he likes to put a hole-the bottom corner-for people to break through.

This does not mean that Leonard will casually let people break through the bottom line. When the opponent's center of gravity changes, he will quickly change his footsteps.

Battier, Pippen, Jordan, and Kobe in the early years would also change their steps quickly, but there are very few people like Leonard who frequently lower their center of gravity and change their steps in the splits.

That's evidence of the hard work he's put in on the defensive end.A true master defender, relying on his feet rather than his hands, moves his feet quickly, biting down step by step, without giving him a chance to break free.

Wei Xia's strength lies in that if you give him a chance to break through, give him a chance to sprint from the bottom corner, he has the ability to suddenly pull up in areas that you think should not have problems.

Just like what happened to Leonard right now.

Wei Xia broke the bottom corner, and Leonard had no time to keep up, so he stopped and shot a jumper.

Even with Duncan's assistance, even if Leonard is by his side, no one can stop him from making a move.

"Shh!"

"You also watch MJ's game tape?" Leonard asked.

Wei Xia knew that he couldn't hide it from Leonard. His technical details were comparable to disciplines, and his jump shots were specially trained by Jordan's trainer Faker.

Specializing in one family can only become a shadow or a fake of someone, and only by gathering the strengths of hundreds of schools can we find our own way.

"Don't care about such details." Wei Xia left with a smile.

Leonard doesn't care whether he wants to or not. The coaching staff told him to learn from Jordan, and Wei Xia asked him to learn from Kobe.In fact, no matter who you learn from, as long as you have enough understanding, you can get inspired.

The problem is, Jordan is more academic, Kobe didn't go to college, he entered the NBA directly from a high school student who was the only one, and he has always maintained his true colors in the NBA.

It is precisely because he has become the image in the eyes of the public that so many people are madly obsessed with him.

In terms of technical details alone, when Kobe played, the game video was clearer, and he could see more action details. However, if he watched too much, the game tendency would be biased.

So Popovich said at the beginning of the season that they wanted Leonard to do what Michael Jordan did, not what Kobe did.

Now that Wei Xia suddenly used Jordan's method to teach himself a lesson, the shock in Leonard's heart can be imagined.

He found that Wei Xia has too many attack forms. He can be as domineering as Kobe, as elegant as Jordan, and can radiate his creativity like Maravich is alive.

Leonard's mind was affected by Weixia, and he couldn't fully devote himself to the game.

At this time, Duncan desperately dribbled the ball from a high position to kill the basket, hit a layup, and scored anyway.

"TDs are 40 years old and still attack like a 20-year-old."

"The young Spurs should be inspired to see him play like this."

Whether the young people of the Spurs have been inspired, it is hard to say, Wei Xia must have been stimulated.

His CIC show is not over yet, and the offense he took over is just about to spread to a higher level of confrontation.

What frustrates Leonard the most about Wei Xia is that he satisfies Leonard's ideas.

Every defender has an idea, and they will predict the offensive method of the ball holder.

Wei Xia satisfied Leonard, in addition to being able to put the ball into the basket after being satisfied, Leonard achieved his goal in everything else.

Leonard seems to have enough confidence to hold Weixia.

Seeing that Wei Xia seemed to force a breakthrough, Leonard quickly moved laterally to follow, even if he felt that he had got rid of a shoulder space and tried to raise his hand to shoot, the latter's 221 cm wingspan would come later and entangle from behind.

Even if Leonard's defense doesn't have a fatal impact, it doesn't matter, the Spurs make sense for allowing opponents to go out to the side or the baseline-they have a strange guy in the paint, waiting to fill at any time.

Leonard and Duncan, the two most valued defenders by the Spurs, appeared in front of Weixia at the same time.

Wei Xia received the ball and faked it with one hand. Leonard's defense was loose. When he faked the ball with both hands for the second time, Leonard jumped up. Then, he seized the time difference and took off. Even though Duncan was still standing in front of him, he still jumped up.

Fans all know that the reason why Nash developed such an exaggerated shot is because he does not have the ability to make a fadeaway jumper.

And Wei Xia's reclining shot is undoubtedly 99% similar to Nash's reclining shot.

He perfectly avoided Duncan's top block spot.

The ball flew high from outside the paint on the left side and hit the plate.

The AT&T center was silent.

Three rounds, three shots, only the first round is considered a good opportunity, the next two rounds, Leonard's pursuit and Duncan's cover are the best.

As a result, he was able to throw the ball in.

"How frightening? This is Wish!"

"Steve Nash once said that what surprised him the most about Wish was not his leadership or combat power, but his incredible learning ability."

"What a difficult move, he can learn it just by watching it a few times."

"Sometimes, he doesn't even have to learn it, he just keeps the images in his head and improvises them during games."

The amazement from the away commentators made the fans' admiration for Weixia more than ever.

In fact, they were right, the lie-back shot just now was just an impromptu performance.

He has not learned this trick specially.

Is it because of his strong comprehension, or his strong learning ability?No, neither is right.

The truth is, he already has the technical foundation to perform these moves, and then confidently displays them in the game.

He believes that he can do it.

In the end, he just did it.

What he knows better is how sad it is to hit the opponent's defense with different tricks in a row.

The Spurs' inner and outer defensive cores were beaten speechless by him.

Considering that they are not very talkative, maybe it has nothing to do with Wei Xia.

But AT&T Center did go quiet.

The Spurs seemed to be knocked out by Wei Xia, and they could cooperate well at ordinary times, but now they are helpless.

Duncan hit the ground high and hit his teammate's leg out of bounds.

The ball returned to the hands of the 76ers.

Wei Xia, who had defeated the Spurs with shots in three consecutive rounds, was about to shoot for the fourth time in a row.

The Spurs were like a frightened bird, Wei Xia took the ball in a low position, and three people came to double-team.

When Wei Xia stood up and saw three people in front of him, he no longer had the idea of ​​shooting. He suddenly made a jump pass, but it was actually a cover. The real intention was to pass the ball out from behind.

Everyone who stared at him was fooled.

When the ball flew out of the perimeter and came into Hayward's hands again, the camera didn't even keep up.

too fast!
"Shh!"

Hayward made a three-pointer, and the scene realized what happened.

Facing the Magic Move under the defense of three people, Hayward completed the end with the most stable three-point jumper.

The difference was opened in an instant.

The Spurs requested a timeout.

Wei Xia's personal show of nearly 3 minutes in the past, just like "Avatar" just came out that year, impacting the hearts of opponents and fans.

"Are we really racing humans?"

Wei Xia almost defeated the Spurs' defense by himself, and it reminded Spurs fans of how he averaged 39 points per game two years ago, causing them to lose in the Finals for two consecutive years.

(End of this chapter)