Start punching from this is slam dunk

Chapter 232

The Suns' starting lineup remains unchanged. In fact, compared with the Raptors' two-point guard lineup, the Suns can also be regarded as a two-point guard lineup. After all, Jiang Bei's suitability for the No. 1 position is also very high.

Moreover, Jiangbei and Paul of the Suns also have higher scoring ability. Judging from the overall lineup of both sides, the strength of the Suns is far greater than that of the Raptors, which is indeed the case.

With the whistle of the referee, the players on both sides find their positions and the game is ready to start.

Ayton and Siakam faced each other and jumped the ball in the middle circle. As the referee threw the ball up forcefully, the two also jumped up one after another to compete for the ball.

After all, Ayton has the advantage of height, and as expected, he turned the ball to his side, and Paul got the ball.

According to the old rules, after Paul took the first ball for halftime, it was still passed to Jiangbei to solve it.

Jiang Bei, who had a big goal in this game, did not hesitate after receiving the ball and directly broke through with the ball.

Facing Van Fleet's defense, Jiang Bei faltered, and then passed the opponent in one step. Although Van Fleet's defense was not bad, it was not enough to face Jiang Bei.

Anunobi came to defend Jiangbei in time, and Jiangbei didn't make any extra moves. When he saw Anunobi coming, he stopped immediately and made a jumper from behind. He scored two points very neatly!

"Good performance, but the defense needs to be strengthened!" Jiang Bei said to Van Fleet when retreating.

"Boy, although you won the AMVP, you don't seem to be qualified to teach me a lesson!" Van Fleet said very unconvinced.

Although Jiang Bei was successfully selected as an All-Star and won the AMVP, there are still quite a few people in the league who don't recognize Jiang Bei, thinking that he is just lucky. This is the prejudice that Chinese people receive in the NBA.

The reason why Jiangbei wants to work so hard in the NBA is not only to fulfill his basketball dream, but more importantly, to change the status quo of Chinese players in the NBA and to determine the status of Chinese basketball in the world.

"Whether you are qualified or not, you can guard against me first!" Jiang Bei shrugged indifferently and replied.

Van Fleet seemed to be trying to save face with Jiangbei. As soon as he served the ball, he asked for the ball directly and found Jiangbei directly.

Seeing Van Fleet coming directly towards him, Jiang Bei hooked his fingers at Van Fleet, signaling him to let go.

Seeing Jiangbei's provocation, Van Fleet directly accelerated and killed the inside line. Jiangbei did not retreat but advanced, directly pressing up, relying on his agile lateral speed, entangled Van Fleet tightly.

Van Fleet staggered a little under Jiangbei's defense. Seeing that it was difficult to break through, Van Fleet simply retreated to the three-point line again and directly pulled out his hand.

But he underestimated Jiangbei's reaction speed. Jiangbei quickly followed and successfully interfered with Van Fleet's shooting.

Van Fleet's three-pointer hit the iron directly, and Ayton scored a defensive rebound.

After finishing the defense, Jiangbei didn't care about Van Fleet, let alone whether Ayton got the rebound, and ran directly to the Raptors' half court, because Jiangbei had full confidence in his teammates.

And Ayton did not live up to Jiangbei's trust, and successfully won the defensive rebound. After landing, Ayton directly threw the ball to Paul vigorously.

Paul, who had just run near the half court, just played a transition role. As soon as the basketball passed in his hands, he flew towards the Raptors' basket again.

When the ball arrives, Jiang Bei soars into the air and makes an alley-oop back dunk to complete the score.

The Suns lead the Raptors 4:0.

This time, the Suns played a beautiful defensive counterattack very smoothly, and the three of Jiangbei's cooperation was also very tacit, which was simply pleasing to the eye.

"This is really a textbook-like defensive counterattack. Everything is flowing smoothly. The tacit understanding of the Suns' three-person combination is getting higher and higher!" Even the Raptors' on-site commentary couldn't help but admire.

Van Fleet also knew that the current situation was caused by himself. He was too confident in himself, and at the same time underestimated Jiangbei too much.

"Sure enough, it is impossible to get the AMVP by luck!" Van Fleet sighed in his heart.

For Van Fleet's courage to admit his mistakes, the rest of the Raptors also expressed forgiveness. After all, the game has just begun, and everything still has room for reversal.

After serving again, the Raptors began to play the role of dual point guards, allowing the team's ball to run fully.

The Raptors, who played steadily, finally stabilized the situation and were not taken away by the Suns.

It's just that they are still in a backward situation. Jiangbei, who is aggressively attacking, can be said to be able to take anything from Van Fleet. Van Fleet has nothing to do with Jiangbei.

After Jiangbei made another three-pointer, the Raptors immediately applied for a timeout. They had to make some tactical adjustments to Jiangbei, otherwise the game would lose suspense soon.

The head coach of the Raptors is Nick Nurse. He was born playing basketball, but because of his physical talent, he couldn't mix in the NBA at all, so after graduating from college, he took off his jersey and became an assistant coach at the university.

He does not have a consistent coaching philosophy. He always makes his most agile judgments based on different personnel arrangements and different forms on the court.So he is also called a "tactical wizard".

Nice's coaching style is a bit like that of Dugu Nine Swords, that is, it is never static. It always finds the flaws based on the opponent's first move and then strikes first.And Nice can have such ability, and it is also inseparable from the actual combat experience he said he found in different competitions in European leagues, college leagues, and development leagues. He has coached too many players with different styles, so as to find the best team combat mode.

Facing Jiangbei's strong scoring, Nice has yet to come up with a better solution. After all, Jiangbei has already played a role similar to that of a star. He can only temporarily arrange two people to double-team Jiangbei to see how the effect is.

In fact, double-teaming is the best solution to this situation, but it is necessary to choose the correct double-teaming candidate, otherwise, double-teaming cannot well limit the scoring efficiency of these top scorers.

Just like Kobe was the strongest scorer in the league in the past, in order to limit Kobe's scoring, opponents often used various double-teams and fierce collisions between various limbs.

Just like the Celtics at the time, in order to defend Kobe, they specially trained a defensive expert named Tony Allen. Of course, someone who can defend Kobe alone should not have appeared in the league, but a Tony Allen plus other players' pinch defense also caused Kobe to suffer.

(End of this chapter)