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Chapter 103 Greetings from Duncan! (4000, please subscribe)

Huo Song didn't expect that he could successfully defend Duncan with the defensive method Duncan taught him.

Of course, for another person, without Huo Song's physical condition, there may be no way to prevent Duncan.

But in any case, this wave of defense is still very exciting.

Huo Song blocked the shot, held the ball firmly, and dribbled the ball quickly.

The Spurs outside players returned to the defense in time, but Huo Song first made a big change to pass Bowen, followed by a European layup, and finally took off and Kottegrew scored the ball.

"2+1! Very exciting offense!"

"Huo Song has fully demonstrated his physical talent! As long as Huo Song is not affected by injury factors, he must be the top No. [-] pick in history!"

"As long as Huo Song rushes forward, no one can guard against Huo Song!"

"Huo Song can play fast break like a defender! He also has the physique and strength of a center forward!"

"I can't even imagine how Huo Song will play when his body grows to his peak in another five or six years. Perhaps, Huo Song can play like this every round!"

"The last inside player who played like this was David Robinson of the Spurs!"

While the live commentary was praising Huo Song endlessly, Popovich's eyes widened on the sidelines.

"It's too similar, it's too similar!"

After Huo Song defended this time, he dribbled the ball and played a fast break, which was indeed exactly the same as the Admiral.

Although Duncan, who just entered the league, can also play like this, but Duncan only played for one year and stopped playing like this.

In Popovich's memory, it was the admiral who fit Huo Song's style of play and image.

"What an incredible rookie!" Seeing Huo Song's excellent athletic ability, Popovich also had to sigh with emotion.

Next, the Pistons still maintained their lead.

Billups slowly found the feeling, using the threat of shooting from outside the three-point line to help the team open up space.

In order to limit Huo Song's point, the Spurs shrank tighter at the basket.

After all, being beaten to death by Huo Song, a rookie, is too embarrassing.

At this time, Prince continued to catch the ball, opened up space through his teammates, broke through one-on-one to the basket, scored layups and close-range shots repeatedly.

Not long after playing, Popovich called a timeout.

The Spurs re-adjusted the defensive layout, allowing Bowen to limit Prince.

In this way, Hamilton was also liberated.

Although the Spurs' defense speed is relatively fast, there are no players with frequent small movements to pester Hamilton. As long as Hamilton runs out of space and receives the ball, he can immediately pull out from the middle distance.

When Hamilton suddenly stepped forward and shot 3 of 2 mid-range shots, Popovich had to call a timeout to rearrange his tactics.

At the same time, Larry Brown readjusted his offensive strategy and let Huo Song let go of his hands to attack inside.

Since Huo Song is in good condition and even suppressed Duncan in today's game, why not continue?
It's not that Larry Brown didn't see that Popovich was targeting Huo Song.

But the leading star can often perform wonderfully even when he is targeted.

Of course, if the defensive intensity is too high, it is also possible to play a ghostly game.

However, today's Spurs are already tired like a soft-legged shrimp because of back-to-back.

Therefore, Larry Brown will let Popovich take a look. He also has a reliable head player, and he also hopes to beat the Lakers, beat O'Neal, and win the championship.

Huo Song has this potential, and he must also have this ability.

It is true that Huo Song needs time to grow. As a rookie who just entered the league, his body has not yet reached its peak.

The average NBA player must be at least 25 years old at the peak of his body, and the precocious star must be 23 years old.

The best state of a league star is usually to end his rookie contract and only after he has won a second contract can he truly enter the peak period.

However, being young is not all flaws.

In a seven-game series, youth is an advantage.

O'Neill is injured, but Huo Song is healthy, don't be too healthy!

Huo Song has not yet entered the peak period, but O'Neal has begun to enter the late peak period.

Even if the Pistons can't win the championship this year, there is still hope for the next few years.

Just like Duncan, taking advantage of O'Neal's poor state, defeated O'Neal, defeated the Lakers, and won the championship.

Now Huo Song can take advantage of Duncan's bad state and the Spurs' back-to-back team is out of state, and beat the dog in the water.

That also means that one day in the future, such a victory can be reproduced and shine in the finals.

Closer to home, after the timeout, the offensive strategies of the two teams are actually similar.

The Pistons handed the ball to Huo Song and asked Huo Song to challenge Duncan one-on-one.

The same is true for the Spurs. The team is behind and needs someone to lead the team out of difficulties, and that person can only be Duncan.

After the timeout, the Spurs fought a positional battle as soon as they came up.

The ball continued to be handed over to Duncan. Even though the Spurs made mistakes in the outside pass, the Pistons immediately converted after stealing and easily scored 2 points, but the Spurs still chose to play this way.

Before backing up Duncan, the Pistons had to invest more energy on the defensive end, limiting Duncan's performance on the offensive end.

Fortunately, Duncan is really not in a good state today, Huo Song has experienced the previous offense and defense, and has accumulated a lot of confidence.

"Duncan is great and powerful, but not invincible! I want him to be my background board!"

Defensive success is mainly due to talent and enthusiasm.

Huo Song's type of player is already suitable for defending Duncan.

Duncan hit Huo Song a few times, and he really felt tricky, not to mention, Da Ben was not idle.

Once Duncan tried a little more, Big Ben double-teamed.

Basically, Duncan has to take the shot within two seconds of stopping the ball.

Due to the rush of offensive time, Huo Song and Daben's defense did not leave many opportunities for Duncan. Duncan could only play with his strength.

And without some simple chances, Duncan's shooting percentage was actually not as scary as Huo Song imagined.

With less than half a quarter left in the second quarter, Duncan went all out, making 6 of 3 shots and 2 of 2 free throws. It looked really good.

But in fact, Duncan's shooting percentage at the basket has exceeded 70% all year round.

In the second quarter, Duncan's singles against Huo Song basically hit the basket.

It can be clearly seen from the matchup that it is not so easy for Duncan to beat Huo Song.

5% shooting rate is not bad for other inside players, but playing so hard against a rookie like Huo Song who is not known for his defense, there must be something wrong with it.

"Huo Song's defense is not as simple as everyone imagined!"

"Most rookie post players, especially those who are good at offense, tend to represent poorer defense.

But Huo Song is not like that!You must know the player who taught Huo Song, but Ben Wallace!

Even if Huo Song didn't master Ben Wallace's superb defense, he was still trustworthy on the defensive end. "

"Through this game, we are sure that Huo Song can play his due role in higher-level games."

"Yes, against a great legendary star like Tim Duncan, Huo Song can still not fall behind and play evenly. It is really not easy."

Not counting the points scored during the period before Duncan's main play, Huo Song scored 4 goals in the contest with Duncan alone.

Huo Song took the initiative to attack Duncan 7 times during this period, and his hit rate was actually higher than Duncan's.

At the same time, with the help of Billups' excellent performance, the Pistons found a chance to hit three three-pointers in the second quarter.

Huo Song and Billups blossomed internally and directly defeated the Spurs.

However, after the intermission, Duncan, who returned in the third quarter, still played at the level he should have.

Although it is still against Huo Song and facing the double-teaming of Big Ben, Duncan can use ordinary small hits, small hooks, and small throws to help the Spurs narrow the point difference and stabilize the morale of the army.

But after the third quarter, instead of narrowing the score, the Spurs could only watch the rest of the game as garbage time.

Huo Song, who played in the third quarter, knew that his work today would basically end in this quarter, so he played harder, leaving no room for it.

Although compared with usual, he was sweating profusely, but there was no problem in the third quarter.

Huo Song is young, and being young means having capital.

What's more, in the past month, it was just a phone call with Kat Dennings.

Huo Song didn't have any symptoms of weak legs, and the energy in his body was also continuously providing positive energy to his body.

At the beginning of the third quarter, Huo Song, like a tiger, threw himself directly in front of Duncan, roaring continuously.

Huo Song didn't spare his physical strength, and kept beating Duncan on his back, and Duncan couldn't take it anymore.

Originally playing back-to-back away games, Huo Song was heavier than him, and insisted on playing for three quarters, who could stand it?

After Huo Song made 5 of 3 shots and repeatedly scored on Duncan's head, Popovich also felt sorry for Duncan, took the time to find a dead ball opportunity, and replaced Duncan in advance.

It is precisely because of this that the Spurs who hit the third quarter suddenly couldn't hold back.

Duncan is gone, how can the others still have the confidence to continue?
In this way, after the garbage time in the fourth quarter was over, the Pistons defeated the strong team again and won a victory worth celebrating.

"You're great, Huo Song, the old schemer of Throwing Lei." After the game, Duncan approached Huo Song reluctantly, and took the initiative to greet Huo Song.

Received this wave of greetings, Huo Song was also stunned suddenly.

"What's going on? Is Duncan speaking Cantonese? And he's still scolding me?"

"Duncan is angry? Does he lose his temper? Doesn't it look like it?"

When Huo Song was surprised, Duncan was also surprised.

"Every time I tell Battelle that, he is very happy. Why doesn't Huo Song smile? He doesn't talk!" Duncan thought Huo Song was "weird" and not very polite.

"Tim, did you speak Cantonese just now?" Huo Song scratched his scalp and finally asked.

Duncan didn't understand the word "Cantonese", but he probably understood what Huo Song was asking.

Duncan said blankly: "I don't speak Chinese? That's how I communicated with Battelle before."

"What?" Huo Song's eyes widened with disbelief.

Isn't Battelle a prairie man?How can you still understand Cantonese?

Good guy, is it Battelle who called you to greet people like that?

Isn't this as deceitful as the first sentence taught to a foreigner, which is "a horse lying on grass and mud"?
However, this is actually Huo Song's intention to divert.

Duncan said later that when he heard the news that Battelle was going to join the Spurs last year, he was worried that Battelle was alone in a foreign land, and he would not adapt and not fit in with the group.

So I specially found a Chinese teacher to learn for a month.

This sounds outrageous. The head of the team deliberately learned a foreign language for a strange bench player.

What's even more outrageous is that Duncan hired a Chinese teacher who immigrated from Xiangjiang...

Maybe people looked at Duncan in a daze, so they deliberately tricked Duncan.

The same is true for Battelle, maybe because he couldn't understand Cantonese at the beginning, he could only giggle with Duncan, making Duncan mistakenly think that Battelle would be very happy after hearing this.

Of course, it is also possible that Battelle understood it and thought that Duncan looked down on him, so he insulted him as soon as he came, and then pretended to be stupid and apologized.

During the training period, he used O'Neal-level monster power against Duncan, and made great contributions to the Spurs beating the Lakers to win the championship...

Huo Song said that he probably guessed the truth, but he didn't help Duncan correct the problem.

If you misunderstand, let him misunderstand!

You can't let him be scolded alone!
In the future, when Duncan meets domestic fans, let the domestic fans also feel the cordial greetings from Duncan!
In other words, the Pistons just defeated a strong enemy like the Spurs.

The next step is to accept the worst case scenario.

On the night after the Spurs game, the Pistons immediately took a bus to Indianapolis next door.

The Pacers were originally the worst team in the Eastern Conference of the Pistons, and this time they played back-to-back away games again.

Although the Pacers are also back-to-back, but after all, it is a home game, playing more vigorously.

Besides, the Pacers played the Eastern Conference team-the Atlanta Hawks in the previous game.

Who are the Pistons' opponents?The defending champion, one of the best teams in the Western Conference-San Antonio Spurs!

Although the Pistons easily defeated the Spurs, the process was still very strenuous.

In the first three quarters of this game, the Pistons did not relax for a moment. They basically punched to the flesh.

"Today I have only one request!
Regardless of whether we win or lose, we just need to do a good job of defending and limit the opponent's scoring!

We have to limit them, this has to be done.

So, please be sure to stay defensive and stay aggressive!
We can lose on offense, but not on defense! "

Before the game, Larry Brown emphasized.

Back-to-back two races are strong opponents, Larry Brown is not unacceptable to lose the game.

However, even if the Pistons lose, they must play with the demeanor and level they should have.

Both sides are strong defensive teams, and if you want to win, it really depends on each other's defensive level.

In back-to-back games, players often have problems with lax defense due to lack of physical strength.

And this is also a problem that is prone to occur when playing in the next few games in the playoffs.

In Larry Brown's view, today is a preview of the playoffs.

Larry Brown expects better performance from his players, especially Huo Song, who showed good defensive potential yesterday.

"Huo Song, you can try to defend Jermaine O'Neal!

You beat Tim Duncan head-on yesterday, try to beat Jermaine O'Neal head-on today!
Believe in yourself, you are unique.

Believe in yourself, you are invincible to all! "

Come on, Huo Song was just entrusted with a heavy responsibility yesterday to confront Duncan head-on, and today he has to take responsibility again to defend O'Neal.

"Where's Rasheed Wallace that we agreed to come? When will he come?" Huo Song was very depressed.

(End of this chapter)