NBA opening draw to twilight Shaquille O'Neal

Chapter 1111 The three-point line dunk reappears, killing people

Heat coach Spoelstra hesitated for a moment, his brows were furrowed, he still didn't intend to call a timeout so soon, but chose to continue to trust the players on the field.

The Heat attacked, and Dragic moved continuously at the top of the arc, making a move to pass the ball in, but after finally throwing off Lillard, he suddenly made a mid-range step-back jumper.

This is an offensive method that Dragic likes very much in his career. In the past, due to his slow movement frequency and flaws, he rarely used it.But after continuing to improve in the past few seasons, his two-point shots from mid-range this season accounted for a career-high 18.7%, and nearly [-]% of his shots are enough to show his confidence in this technology.

"Shh-!"

Dragic hit a goal to help the Heat open the scoring.

2:5, the Heat are still behind.

"boom!"

At this time, the sound of the Heat's basket being blasted came from the field, and the cheers of the audience stopped immediately.

7:2, the Blazers lead.

"Beautiful fast break! The king's charge is unstoppable, and his charge makes the Heat's defense turn into nothingness..."

Yu Jia's roar sounded instantly.

Just when the ball entered the frame, Wang Zelin launched a fast break.

This time the Blazers stayed in the backcourt to receive the serve from everyone else. Batum reached the bottom line the fastest and implemented a fast serve. Instead of giving it to Lillard, who was entangled by Dragic, he gave it to Jokic. Jokic quickly passed to Wang Zelin to complete the fast break.

The Heat attacked, coach Spoelstra remembered Whiteside's lame offense just now, and shouted to him: "Hassan, remember your duty is to defend Wang Zelin!"

In this way, Whiteside can only give up the thought of continuing to ask for the ball to play singles, honestly prepare to eat cakes all the time, and lean directly to the basket.

His mobility is not as good as before, he is far away from the basket, and his shooting percentage is not high under Wang Zelin's defense, so simply getting closer to the basket can not only attract Wang Zelin's defensive attention, but also improve his shooting percentage.

Whiteside squatted directly under the basket, and Wang Zelin certainly couldn't ignore it, so the former only needed to catch the ball and step on his feet to dunk, and he had no time to return to defense.

As a result, Wang Zelin lost the opportunity to raise, and Whiteside was one step ahead, only close to him.

Seeing this, Spoelstra understands that the team's tactical goal has been achieved, and Whiteside's shooting percentage at the basket of more than 7% for three consecutive seasons is not blocked.

This season, without dropping too much efficiency, he also achieved an increase in scoring production, and successfully pinned Wang Zelin to a position close to the basket, greatly reducing the latter's chances of assisting outside defense.

But it doesn't matter, there are always some tactics that can limit some of Wang Zelin's abilities. Since he can't implement external defense, Wang Zelin can be a good patron saint in the penalty area, catch rebounds, and block the opponent's inside offense.

There are gains and losses. Although Whiteside can contain Wang Zelin in the penalty area, his movement is too slow to keep up with Wang Zelin's current movement in the penalty area. The overlord is far inferior to Wang Zelin in terms of the team's inside offensive screen and rebound control.

In this way, the Heat lost the inside offense and completely became an outside team.

On the other hand, Wang Zelin frequently grabbed rebounds and made fast breaks, which improved his efficiency. At the same time, in positional battles, he frequently made offensive screens in the low post, allowing Jokic and Lillard to easily cut in and score breakthroughs, making the Blazers' offensive efficiency far higher than that of the Heat.

Coupled with the control of rebounds, the proportion of shots was higher. After the first quarter, at 35:21, the Blazers firmly led by 14 points.

Zhang Lili was surprised and said: "You must know that the Heat are not weak. Dragic + Whiteside are dual-core, and there are so many role players who can shoot three-pointers. The strength of the lineup is definitely at the playoff level. Didn't expect to be so far behind the Blazers after one quarter?"

Yu Jia said with a smile: "The main reason is that the Heat's starting power forward Luke Babbitt's ability to protect the basket is worrying, and his career average rebounds are only a little over two. Whiteside can't grab the rebounds. The King grabbed 8 rebounds in the first quarter, the Trail Blazers had 15 rebounds, and the Heat had only 9 rebounds. This is the most important reason."

Then he added: "Secondly, there is too much difference in offensive efficiency between the two sides. The Blazers' overall shooting percentage reached 58%, while the Heat only had 43%. Including the number of shots, it is 14 points behind in the first quarter, which is actually reasonable."

Zhang Lili took a look at Wang Zelin's data and said, "Zelin's offense in the first quarter was relatively restrained. His scoring was mainly based on cutting into the penalty area or a few sporadic one-on-one strong shots. He made 4 of 4 shots and 2 of 2 free throws. He scored 10 points, 8 rebounds, 2 assists, 2 blocks and 1 steal. His offensive desire seems to be average today!"

Countless viewers in front of the screen couldn't help but roll their eyes, listen, are you speaking human words?
With 10 points and 8 rebounds in the first quarter, he almost had a double-double. He also said that Wang Zelin's offensive desire is average. If other centers in the league can get such data, I'm afraid they will be happy in their hearts.

But when they thought of Wang Zelin's average performance of 40+ per game in the season, everyone inexplicably felt that Zhang Lili's statement was true. Not only did it not contain the elements of Versailles, but it was quite convincing.

There is no way, the strength lies there.

Wang Zelin this season, no matter how much he praises him, he can't be overstated!

In the second quarter, Wang Zelin continued to play. Coach Terry also noticed some unfavorable remarks about the team recently, and he also felt a fire in his stomach.

So, is there a way to vent the fire?

There really are, and Coach Terry's tricks are quite simple and unpretentious, and it can even be said that he has eaten all over North Korea, that is-close the door and let Wang Zelin go!

As for the Heat, Whiteside was sitting on the bench. When he saw Wang Zelin play, he yelled angrily: "Damn it, that Asian guy came on the court so quickly? Could it be that he wants to collect data? How shameless!"

However, others could easily hear a sour taste from his words.

Thinking about it carefully, it's no wonder that he is sour.

Weight gain, of course, has further enhanced Whiteside's basket protection and penalty area domination, but the sacrifice is also not small.

So far, Whiteside, who is the starting center of the Heat, has averaged only 28.5 minutes per game, and he has not even been able to maintain 29.1 minutes last season.

You know, the 2016-17 season of Wang Zelin's previous life was the peak year for Whiteside. This year, he not only averaged 17+14+2 per game, but also set a career-high average of 32.7 minutes per game in playing time, which is almost 33 minutes.

However, another adverse effect of gaining weight on him is that the speed of physical energy consumption has been accelerated, causing him to have hardness now, but it is difficult to last.

After all, there is a full 28.5 minutes difference between 32.7 and 4.

4 minutes, really not too short!
Spoel frowned again, but in order to ensure that Whiteside got enough rest time, he could only refuse Whiteside's request to play early.

In his opinion, the game against the Trail Blazers was already difficult to win. If Whiteside was unfortunately injured because of such a game, it would be a big loss.

In the second quarter, due to the absence of Whiteside's restrictions, although Wang Zelin still did not attack much, his energy on the defensive end exploded completely. Even if the Heat were all shooting outside, he could still frequently interfere with outside defense.

Not only did the defense succeed many times, but the Heat's offense was forced to withdraw further, and the efficiency could only decline further.

单节，他拿下7分10篮板3助攻3盖帽2抢断的数据。

上半场结束，王泽林已经拿到了17分18篮板5助攻5盖帽3抢断的4×5恐怖数据。

Barkley immediately jumped out and yelled: "In my opinion, this kind of data is far from enough to show how good Wang Zelin is on the defensive end in the first half. Let me briefly talk about a few data now:

The first one, Wang Zelin, made his opponent Hassan Whiteside and the rest of the bench 9 of 2 shots in the first half, sending 3 blocks and 2 steals, directly locking the Heat's inside offense.

Second, Wang Zelin completed 8 successful defenses in the first half, including 2 blocks and 2 steals, which caused the Heat to make 4 turnovers outside, allowing the Blazers to have 4 more fast break opportunities, and scored 3 of them.

The last one, Wang Zelin was based on defense, showing his dominance at a glance, forcing the opponent to move away from the basket step by step, and his shooting percentage continued to drop. This is why the Trail Blazers had a total of 23 rebounds in the second quarter. "

Kenny Smith also expressed admiration: "Now halftime is over, the score is 41:75, and the Trail Blazers have already led by 34 points. Even though they are facing a team with the strength of the playoffs, the Blazers still scored the game into garbage time in only halftime."

Barkley said: "With Wang Zelin, we once again realized the strategic significance of defense to victory. When a person's defense is strong enough, he can really support a team's defensive system by himself."

Kenny Smith once again expressed his shocking emotion: "With all due respect, Wang Zelin's defensive performance has completely destroyed the balance of the league team. A 2-meter-high center has the speed and agility of the perimeter, coupled with top-level defensive awareness, creating an unprecedented defense monster in NBA history!"

Not just the TNT duo, during the intermission, basketball fans all over the world were amazed at Wang Zelin's ultimate dominance on the defensive end.

As Kenny Smith said, today's Wang Zelin is really too buggy on the court, completely destroying the balance.

Intermission is over and the second half begins.

The 15-minute respite time made Whiteside mistakenly think that he was fine, and frequently moved around the basket, holding Wang Zelin close to the basket, thereby liberating the outside line.

The Heat's outside line became active and ran wildly.

Second-year rookie Josh Richardson took advantage of a teammate's screen to shake off Batum and dive to the basket.

As the 2015th pick in the second round of the 40 NBA draft, Richardson showed outstanding athletic talent and speed in college, and had a very fast first step to break through. Although in the NBA, after encountering a series of flying beasts, his college skills were not enough to support him to launch an attack independently. However, under the patient training of the Heat coaching staff, he developed skilled ball-catching and shooting skills and excellent off-ball running ability.

The rookie's scoring average exceeded double digits in the second year, and many team managements called the Heat's management insightful.

Hong Kong, if it weren't for the status of a senior in the draft, this guy would definitely be worthy of a first round in the morning.

But a good meal is never too late. Richardson lived up to the high expectations given by the Heat fans and quickly grew into a member of the team.

At this time, Dragic was actively seeking opportunities on the outside, and when he saw Richardson's position, he immediately sent out the card!

Richardson took the ball, jumped up, raised the ball above his head with both hands, and kept accumulating power. He was ready to use some explosive dunks to announce the official start of the Heat's counterattack.

But at this moment, Wang Zelin arrived in an instant, came out from Richardson's right side, said "picking melons behind his head", and caught the ball.

Richardson was a little confused. He didn't expect that this kind of ball could be defended, but Wang Zelin immediately turned around and quickly played it.

Wang Zelin is not interested in telling this second-year rookie nonsense like welcome to the NBA. He will only use horrible defenses to let this group of rookies understand that the world of adults is not so easy to mess with, and the NBA is not so easy to break into!
Richardson reacted and chased Wang Zelin desperately.

His athletic talent is really strong, and his speed is so fast that he caught up with Wang Zelin.

The eyes of the surrounding Heat fans were brightened. Wang Zelin defended Richardson, which is called Ji Cao Wu Liu, but if Richardson can return the color next time and give Wang Zelin a nail-biting cap, that would be great news!

The second-round pick and the No. 1 in active service...Thinking about it makes people excited.

On the court, Richardson thought exactly so. His eyes were burning, and he stared straight at Wang Zelin in front of him. He was already fantasizing about himself defending Wang Zelin and becoming famous in a battle.

Of course, Wang Zelin didn't know the thoughts of the Heat fans and Richard Sheng. Even if he knew, he didn't care, because... Looking at the basket not far away, a powerful idea suddenly ignited in his mind.

It's time for you to experience the ability of the strongest dunk king in history!

Then there was an amazing scene, Wang Zelin received the ball as soon as he reached the three-point line, a big step, a second big step, and then...

It's a dunk!

"My God! Oh my god! See? Wang started dunking from the three-point line! This is really... Thai pants hot!"

Accompanied by the maddened roar of the commentator, the entire American Airlines Arena was stunned.

Richardson, who had been chasing after him, stopped at some point and stared blankly at No. 36 Blazers in front of him.

The opponent's sudden start dunk from the three-point line completely dispelled all his good wishes.

This, this guy, actually started dunking from the three-point line? !
Knowing that you are perverted, but did not expect to be able to become this level?

This is No.1 in the league, is this the strongest dunk king in history?
Although this is not the first time that Wang Zelin has dunked from the three-point line in actual combat, everyone was stunned watching the replay on the big screen!

This guy really took dunking to a whole new level.

There is also a discussion online.

"Oh my God, did you see that? Someone can dunk from the three-point line while being chased?"

"It's crazy! Is this the strength of the first dunk king of the yellow race? It's really crazy."

"I announced that the game is over, what else is there to play? The Heat surrender quickly."

"I really hope that Wang Zelin can participate in the slam dunk contest again. I won't watch the slam dunk contest next year without him!"

"Me too!"

"My minister agrees!"

"+1!!!"

……

……

In this game, the Heat were unable to pull back after all.

To be precise, after Wang Zelin's dunk from the three-point line, the suspense of the game was basically killed.

There is nothing more murderous than this!

After three quarters, Heat coach Spoelstra smiled helplessly, then withdrew all the main players and announced their surrender in advance.

(End of this chapter)