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Chapter 265 On Record

Yang Ke looked at JR Smith calmly, took a step forward with his right foot, stepped back with his left foot naturally, and made a dribble to the inner crotch.

When the catcher behind his back held the ball firmly, Yang Ke did not choose to break through to the right, but took advantage of the opportunity to catch a dribble behind his back and make the basketball return to his left hand.

The rapid and coherent movements made JR Smith think that Yang Ke was preparing to change direction and break through, so he couldn't help but quickly adjust his defensive posture.

Yang Ke ignored JR Smith's defensive changes. His center of gravity was very low, and his hands were lower than his hips throughout the movement.

Jumping slightly, Yang Ke took a big step with his left foot straight to the left, retracted his right foot for half a step, and instantly moved to the side of JR Smith.

Although he has opened up the shooting space, Yang Ke is very clear that he has not completely got rid of JR Smith, and this opportunity is fleeting.

Stepping on his feet and bending his knees, Yang Ke used the strength of his legs to jump up.Straighten your back when rising, straighten your arms naturally, lift the basketball above your head, flick your wrist, and throw the ball towards the basket.

Seeing that the ball had already flown, JR Smith, who had just moved laterally to keep up with Yang Ke, knew it was too late, so he didn't rush forward again.Standing on the floor, looking back at the basketball that crossed a very high parabola.

Swish!
Watching the basketball go into the net, JR Smith shook his head depressedly.He now has a little understanding of how those defensive players felt when he went crazy.

"Di!"

Just when Madison Square Garden was suddenly quieter, the referee on duty blew his whistle, but it was Mike Woodson who called for a short timeout.

Before the players all walked back to the bench, seeing the helpless JR Smith and Woodson standing on the sidelines early, they couldn't help criticizing: "JR, what do you think! Facing Yang Such a shooter, why not just paste it?!"

Taking the towel from his teammates, JR Smith wiped the sweat from his head with it, and at the same time argued: "His shot is too fast, which means that no matter how tight I stick to him, it is impossible to prevent him."

Woodson was obviously dissatisfied with this answer, his face sank, and he asked, "Then as a pitcher, how can you effectively restrain him?!"

"I don't know, this guy is unbelievable, he's completely different from the others. I mean, he's able to shoot fast and still have a high level of consistency."

JR Smith was very excited, but also a little helpless. Yang Ke's performance made him dumbfounded.As a fairly capable shooter, he can see Yang Ke's shooting movements clearly, which is why he feels incredible.

Not to mention the Knicks again, on the bench of the visiting team where the Spurs are, Yang Ke sat in the center, holding his own plastic bottle in his hand, and poured Gatorade, which didn't taste very good.

Since it was only a short timeout, Ginobili didn't take a small bench, just stood in front of them, holding a tactical drawing board, and quickly analyzed: "After the timeout, the Knicks should replace one or two main players to stabilize the situation. Depending on the situation and the score, it is likely to be Anthony and Chandler."

Stoudemire is just recovering from injury, according to his on-and-off injury history.Ginobili has great confidence that Woodson will not send him on the field.After all, with the Spurs' current combination of insiders, Chandler alone is enough to take advantage.

As he was talking, Ginobili saw Leonard taking off his coat, and instantly understood his thoughts, and couldn't help but stop him with a smile: "Kawhi, don't take it off, you don't have to play yet."

Leonard was taken aback when he heard the words, nodded, but said nothing, and silently took off his coat, which was half taken off, and put it back in the cage again.

Hearing that Leonard would not be replaced, Yang Ke was surprised. He put down the bottle, looked at Ginobili, and asked, "Manu, if Kawhi is not on, then who will guard Cameron?"

The entire Spurs lineup, currently only Leonard can rely on the advantage of a pair of long arms, causing some troubles for Anthony, and it is not effective to switch to other people to defend.

Ginobili seemed to have known that Yang Ke would ask such a question, and without thinking about it, he said directly: "Stay as it is, you should try your best to avoid too much entanglement with them on the defensive end, we will fight against them!"

Ginobi used his toes to figure out that once the Knicks replaced the main force, they would definitely implement the offensive strategy of misplaced singles against Yang Ke.

Not to mention that Ginobili hasn't thought of a way to deal with it yet, even if there is, he won't arrange it.After all, the more targeted the defensive strategy, the more energy-intensive it will be. For Yang Ke, who is the core, increasing energy consumption is not a good choice.

Borrego, who had been listening, instantly understood the meaning of Ginobili's order.Then, based on his own tactical literacy, he suggested aloud: "Why don't we play a penetrating shot?"

Ginobili was taken aback for a moment, then figured out the mystery, and said directly: "This is a good strategy, just do what the coach said!"

Ginobili's previous arrangement was almost equivalent to giving up defense and launching a head-on attack with the Knicks. Judging from the current situation, there are too many uncertainties.

With Borrego's move, the controllability has been greatly increased.After all, a three-pointer is one point more than a two-pointer, and except for Splitter, the other four in the Spurs can shoot a three-pointer, and the accuracy of Green and Yang Ke is above the horizontal line.

After the timeout, the game restarts.The Spurs did not adjust the lineup, but the Knicks really replaced Anthony and Chandler, and also replaced JR Smith with Iman Shumpert to strengthen the defense against Yang Ke.

In the Knicks' offensive round, after Davis pushed the ball across the half court, he stopped at two strides beyond the three-point line and slapped the basketball slowly.

At this time, the other Knicks players began to move and cover. Since the Spurs did not deliberately target, Anthony quickly formed a dislocation and found Yang Ke easily.

After receiving a pass from Davis, Anthony frowned slightly while looking at Yang Ke who put his palm in front of his vision.

This dislocation came so smoothly!

Although he was a little puzzled by this, Anthony was very confident in his ability, so he didn't think too much about it, and directly started to break through.

After a few feints in a row, Anthony found a defensive flaw, broke into the inside line from the left side of Yang Ke, took a big stride to the basket, and directly forced up to complete a one-handed dunk!
Madison Garden cheered instantly!The DJ at the scene began to shout with a long tone: "Carmelo...!!"

As the protagonist, Anthony didn't have many smiles on his face when he landed, and his brows were still furrowed.To be honest, he was a little puzzled.

The Spurs' defensive intensity this round was very different from the first half.It is no exaggeration to say that it feels to Anthony as if he has been replaced by a poor team.

Looking at the Spurs slowly walking towards the frontcourt, Anthony suddenly realized that the Spurs coaching staff seemed to have made a bold strategic adjustment.

(End of this chapter)