Card Bishop of Basketball

Chapter 55
The owner of Philadelphia has always been troubled by the Battelle contract in the team. The price of 50 a year is not worthy of Battelle's current performance on the court.

Why is it reluctant, because O'Neal, who is currently in his peak state, is too perverted, and McCarty threw himself directly on him, but O'Neal still dunked successfully.

The Philadelphia owner's dilemma is that if he offers Battelle a high-paying long-term contract and later offers Iverson a max-salary long-term contract, there will basically be no salary space left, whether it is signing reinforcements or maintaining the team's current lineup. It’s hard to reach the sky.

As for Meng Yifan who learned about this matter, Shi Shiran said that he could solve this matter by himself, but he would need to pay more. The boss of Philadelphia happily agreed to Meng Yifan in view of the good cooperative relationship before.

After getting the money, Meng Yifan rushed to Philadelphia. First, after the game, he had a meal with the bus and the others. Philadelphia's recent record was still good. Second, he stopped by to solve the current problem in Philadelphia and make some extra money. .

It is said that it is difficult to guard against a fat man who is nimble and dead, but it is even more difficult to guard against a fat man like O'Neill who has both flexibility and strength.

However, in order for his players to learn to defend O'Neal's low-post killer, the old coach Thompson followed Meng Yifan's instructions, taking advantage of O'Neal's lack of help, and gradually adapted to his offensive routines. Meng Yifan really felt that if the bus If you adapt to O'Neal's offensive routine, it will not be very difficult to defend, and the two will explode each other.

At this moment, the camera is shown on the sidelines of Philadelphia boss Harris, who is muttering about plotting something with Meng Yifan...

After the third quarter, Philadelphia led the Lakers 97 to 85, but at the beginning of the fourth quarter, Fan Fan had a seizure again. After the timeout, he hit two unreasonable three-pointers, which directly stopped Philadelphia. Bobby... After Hurley suffered a serious injury, his athletic ability was average and he was just good at organization.

As for the old coach, he strictly followed Meng Yifan's instructions and did not allow the main players to play too much time. seats.

Replaced Bobby Hurley and replaced Jeff McGinnis. At this time, Philadelphia's lineup included McGinnis, Bruce Bowen, Ma Jian, Malik Rose and Big Z.

Today's old Ma Long continued his good form in the previous games. He is also an off-ball shooter. Ma Jian has a lot of rest time, interspersed with substitutes, and the effect is not bad.

Because Ma Jian can play without the ball, and can also play with the ball when the bench is misfired. In this way, the bench is equivalent to having double protection. The old coach Thompson seems to have discovered a new routine...

Although McGinnis is not very good at organization, it does not mean that he cannot organize. It is equivalent to saying that he is a little bit good at singles, a little bit good at organization, and he is good at everything but not very good at everything.

McGinnis, who is 193, has decent athletic ability. With the help of the pick-and-roll, he made a steady two-pointer. Iverson shook his head helplessly on the sidelines. The ball took a step back and it was a three-pointer. But they have to shoot two long points, and avoid three-pointers like snakes and scorpions.

On the defensive end, McGinnis covered Madman Fan with his long arms, leaving him with no room for a shot, but Madzi Fan got up and looked like a jr with enhanced firepower. He pretended to break through to the right after going down continuously. Bad luck kills from the left, shakes away McGinnis, and makes an emergency stop jumper against Bowen, who is coming to make up the defense.

(Bowen's inner os: You dare to shoot me in front of me, your road is narrowed, your feet are useless, young man...)
McGinnis held the ball and faced Crazy Fan, who was a head shorter than himself, and hit with his back. Although his back-up skills were not good, he mainly wanted to use his back-up to create a comfortable shooting space for himself.

Byron Scott stepped forward to double-team. The veteran born in 1961 is estimated to be retiring after this season. In his 14 years of NBA experience, the average score in a single season is less than 10 points. This year...

McGinnis passed the ball to Bowen, who was left open in the left corner. Bowen shot a three-pointer with a very positive trajectory, but because he hadn't touched the ball for too long, the ball bounced out of the frame.

Malik Roska pressed against his opponent, Big Z grabbed the rebound, glanced at Prest Lauderdale who was taller than him, and instead of making a direct shot, gave the ball to Ma Jian from outside. Ma Jian caught the ball and was about to shoot. After flying away from the defender, he shot a three-pointer and fell firmly into the box.

(Note: Lauderdale was selected by the Bulls, but because the Bulls found that he was not suitable for Lauderdale and the team during training, and the team already had many heavy centers, they sent him to the Lakers.)
Crazy Fan faced McGinnis confidently and pulled out a shot, but McGinnis interfered a lot with the ball, and Crazy Fan's convulsions did not always bless him with good luck. The ball was grabbed by the basket Lauderdale .

Lauderdale wanted to throw the ball into the basket with an easy throw as before, but he forgot that the matchup this time was Big Z, who was only two or three centimeters shorter than himself, and the shot was directly blocked by the big down.

Malik Rose flew to grab the rebound and passed the ball to McGinnis who was rushing forward. McGinnis made a fast break and didn't have a good shot. He turned around and gave the ball to Ma Jian. Ma Jian received the ball and rushed in The inside line is to smash Huashan with strength.

Well... I also discovered the advantage of Ma Jian bringing a substitute. Many teams' substitutes often change trades, so the running-in degree is average, and it is difficult to be at the same level as the main players in terms of tactical execution.

Too many mistakes lead to rapid offensive and defensive transitions, and Lao Malong faced the rapid offensive and defensive transitions, and his body couldn't bear it after a while. On the contrary, Ma Jian, in the rapid offensive and defensive transitions, seemed to be able to do a job with ease, like a fish in water.

The substitutes did not set off a wave of counterattacks, and the main players could not rush to grab points. In the final Christmas game, they beat the invading Lakers 117 to 108, and Philadelphia successfully defended its home court.

In this game, the one who scored the most points was still this year's No. [-] pick, Iverson, who was basically invincible at the No. [-] position, but what impressed people the most was Battelle, a yellow-skinned Big guy, really hard...

When Battelle was in the limelight, Philadelphia, on the morning after the Christmas game, suddenly announced that the team's starting power forward, China's 2 meter insider Battelle...

As soon as the news came out, all the Philadelphia fans rushed from all directions and surrounded the arena. They couldn't figure out that Battelle performed so well in the Christmas game. Is the boss blind or is he going to lay off people?

Contrary to the Philadelphia fans, countless teams flocked to them, and all the phone calls meant to invite the bus. Because the bus didn't have an agent, they went to harass Iverson's agent...

The entire league was shaken by Philadelphia's slapstick maneuver, and they cut off the stalwart who was hard-barred by O'Neal. I'm afraid they were out of their minds.

(End of this chapter)