Legend of Tomorrow

Chapter 829 [One mistake, a painful sacrifice]

Soon everyone saw how Guo Xu abused Chris Paul when the black team was not double-teamed. \u003cщ

Paul was selected to the All-Defensive Team last season, relying on more steals, more small moves and physical strength. Statistics show that Paul did a very poor job of limiting his opponents' shooting percentage.

Limiting the opponent's shooting percentage is an important factor in measuring a player's defensive ability. Paul's dfg is 462, which is not much better than Guo Xu. The main reason is that Paul is only 18 in height. He is better defensive than Guo Xu because he does not let go and works hard on the defensive end in every game. If he is lazy, it will be difficult for the Hornets to win.

Guo Xu didn't hold the ball and made a strong breakthrough. When Paul got close to him, he protected the ball and looked for Bosh to cover. After getting rid of it, he lowered his center of gravity and tried to break through the big man for a layup. If Paul caught up, he passed it to Bosh for a mid-range shot.

Guo Xu is very skilled in this move with Stoudemire in the Suns, and Bosh is also used to it in the Raptors. Not only can he make a mid-range shot in the middle, he can also feint and break through with the ball, like a big swingman.

Although the Raptors were eliminated in the first round of this year's playoffs, they fought the Celtics for 7 games, which was surprising. Bosh's statistics in the series are not inferior to Garnett's, averaging 40 minutes per game, scoring 24 points and 9 rebounds, and shooting 475 from the field.

Because of his performance in this series, no one will underestimate Bosh. His playing style is very similar to Garnett.

After playing several pick-and-rolls, Paul did not follow Guo Xu from outside the three-point line in order to pursue defense faster. However, Guo Xu made it easier and directly held the ball from the outside for a one-on-one.

He faced Paul one meter outside the three-point line and made moves, back and forth in one move, dribbling under the hips of his left and right hands to take a step-back shot.

Guo Xu practiced this trick until he returned to his original nature, it is simple and effective.

Someone taller than him is the main defender. If his center of gravity shifts slightly, he can change direction and break through with speed. Players who are about the same height as him or shorter than him are the main defenders. He dares to take quick shots when facing people, ignoring the blind seal.

He took continuous shots against Paul and made 2 of 2 shots from beyond the three-point line. Coach K called a timeout again. Paul is the same height as Guo Xu. If his rhythm is slightly wrong, he will not be able to block shots.

This time the coach chose to make a substitution, and directly asked Guo Xu to put on a black vest, and switched to the black team that originally had one more player, with 9 players playing against 8 players. Paul and Kobe were switched to the white team together.

This is the result of the discussion between K and D'Antoni on the sidelines just now. If the game continues like this, it will not have the training effect, and it will also make the stars feel very bad. Because this is a public training session, there are many people watching. Although video recording is not allowed, the fans are mouthy and they will go online to talk about it.

Lao K began to feel that arranging public training sessions was a mistake.

They should fly directly to Las Vegas for closed training.

For years, there has been debate on the Internet about who is the best player in one-on-one matches, but no one has direct evidence.

There is no video of the stars playing one-on-one. The most famous video that can be found is when Alston and Francis played in Rucker Park, but that cannot be counted as one-on-one. When Ray Allen was with the SuperSonics, the Sonics lost to the Spurs. After the game, Ray Allen said he wanted to challenge Bowen for a duel, but there was no news later.

In fact, the league has an unspoken rule that restricts one-on-one duels between stars. The trigger was when O'Neal was in the Magic and was swept by the Rockets in the Finals. Ao Pang was angry and wanted to challenge Dameng to a duel to prove that his personal abilities were not inferior to his opponent. After the alliance found out about this, they stopped the two from competing.

If one star beats another too badly, it will affect the loser's commercial value and sponsors will be very depressed. Even if the perpetrator is Guo Xu, he often makes his opponents miserable during the season, and fans are used to it. The league still hopes that this kind of thing will happen less often.

Old K used this method to balance the strengths of both sides, so that the players of the black team would not be too embarrassed. He asked Guo Xu to sit on the sidelines and rest. It was best to cool down before playing again.

After Guo Xu took a break, the two teams became evenly matched, and they both began to cooperate. There was no star that stole everyone's limelight.

After 8 minutes of playing, the fans were unhappy and shouted Guo Xu's name from the sidelines, wanting to see him play. So Lao K replaced Guo Xu on the field, and his opponent was Deron Williams.

The effect of this substitution was immediate, and the black team immediately went crazy, counterattacking sharply and scoring consecutively. Delong's single defense was also unable to defeat Guo Xu, and his speed was at a disadvantage. Guo Xu's combination of sudden point shooting and shooting made Xiaopang feel helpless.

The white team's offense stalled. Bosh went to rest at this moment. The inside was blue-collar. After Deron joined the Jazz, he would play pick-and-roll. Once the pick-and-roll lost its power, it became one-on-one.

Guo Xu is very capable of launching fast breaks, and he can also cooperate well with Wade, James, and Anthony. As long as the opponent doesn't make a shot and the two of them go down quickly, Guo Xu's long pass success rate is astonishing, and he can pass it to his running teammates as comfortably as throwing a football with one hand.

It doesn't matter if there is no fast break. The center and Guo Xu can play a pick-and-roll in the positional battle.

If he is not double-teamed, he rushes in. If double-teamed, he will be thrown into the sky. Howard and James will fly up and make alley-oops. They can also pass to teammates and shoot. At worst, it will be like Anthony and Wade holding the ball in singles.

The organizational skills of other defenders cannot be compared with Guo Xu's. They play uniformly, but Guo Xu is now playing the same assists.

On the defensive end, Guo Xu's defense against the point guard is not a weakness. His defensive style is similar to Paul's, and he can resist and get close to him.

As long as he is serious, heavy point guard Deron will not be able to easily squeeze out his breakthrough. He can only take action when there is interference, and he will be flanked near the penalty area.

After a training session, Lao K's idea completely changed. Guo Xu can lead the team to win with just his personal abilities. They don't need to practice complicated tactics. They just make sure that Guo Xu is the core and give him the ball.

When Paul couldn't guard Guo Xu, international guards who were generally inferior to NBA players in physical fitness could be beaten to tears by him one-on-one. Defenders such as Calderon and Navarro from Spain, the United States' biggest rival, cannot defend better.

After the training match, everyone held a press conference to be interviewed by the media. They didn't say much about the training, but tacitly turned the topic to the spiritual baptism activity.

Many players said they understood what sacrifice meant to the country and expressed emotion. This is really hypocritical and painful. They just go to play basketball and sacrifice nothing.

The staff will book rooms on the 19th to 25th floors of Beijing's Platinum Five-Star Hotel for this group of wealthy people, and erect nearly 1,000 meters of barbed wire to surround the hotel to ensure their own safety. Preliminary measures have already been taken. Negotiate.

The Dream Team has never stayed in the Olympic Village, either on a cruise ship or in a luxury hotel. Starting from Barcelona in 1992, to Atlanta in 1996, Sydney in 2000, and Beijing in 2008, each generation of Dream Team will directly skip the Olympic Village and choose to stay in the most luxurious local hotels.

The 2004 Athens Olympics was the most extravagant event. The U.S. men's basketball team chartered a luxury cruise ship called the Queen Mary 2 and lingered in the beautiful scenery of the Mediterranean Sea. Then they had a shitty record. If they were representing the North Korean team, Larry Brown would have been thrown out of the boat and fed to the sharks.

Guo Xu casually said a few perfunctory words, lamenting the enthusiasm of the fans, without pretending to sacrifice.

In fact, after he arrived at the military academy, he had a thought and remembered a comedy movie The Arms Dealer, which would be fun if made. As for the sacrificial spirit of Americans stationed all over the world and the sense of freedom they spread, he could not understand it at all.

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