Chapter 54: Trash talk about Artest

Seeing Stephen's innocent look, Artest was angry and didn't make a fuss. He was bullied by a young boy. He would be laughed at when he talked it out. But when he got up, Stephen had already run away. Since both of them were players without the ball, the referee did not blew the whistle when such a thing happened, and the game continued.

Stephen's match in defense was originally Granger, but after Artest got angry, he would come to Stephen every time he attacked. **Vic immediately instructed him to exchange defensive positions with Ginobili, allowing him to face Artest directly.

"Boy, you really have the courage to beat you up and beat you all out." Artest immediately laughed happily when he saw Stephen standing in front of him, instead of needing to find him like he had just now, and licked his lower lip with his tongue, looking bloodthirsty.

"I don't think you don't have this ability. If you have this ability, why haven't I heard of your name?" Stephen was not willing to be weak and immediately took over and said. Seeing a rookie dared to bicker with a guy like Artest, everyone else was worried about Stephen.

"Is that right, let's try it." Artest is indeed famous for his defense, but in the past two years, his offensive ability has also improved greatly. Just last season, he had reached 24 points per game and became the team's second scorer. So when he heard Stephen laughing at his offensive ability, he was immediately furious. At the same time, his feet moved and squeezed hard towards Stephen's left, trying to use his strength to attack Stephen.

Although Stephen tried his best to push Artest, he still forcibly broke into the penalty area. Before Duncan could assist in defense, Artest hit a mid-range shot, turned around and grinned at Stephen, took a big step, and ran back to his half like a hernia.

"Nothing, you've done better." Duncan saw Stephen standing there for a while without movement, and came over to touch Stephen's head affectionately and comforted Stephen, but he didn't know that Stephen was not depressed by the breakthrough, but thought of himself through Artest's offensive method. Although he could not shoot like him, he could dunk two more steps forward. As long as his speed increased, who could stop him? Even if the opponent's inside player, as long as he was not O'Neal or Yao Ming, Stephen was confident that he would not suffer too much in the confrontation.

While running backwards, Stephen thought that he could not have no offensive ability at all, so he wasted a position on the court. At least he had to have a certain offensive ability so that the head coach would arrange roles for you in tactics according to your characteristics, and then he would try it.

Just as he became Stephen, Artest's efforts seemed to be vented a little. On the defensive end, he was no longer aiming for Stephen. With Stephen's offensive ability, he was a waste of his best defensive player, so he still went to defend Ginobili according to the coach's arrangement and left Stephen to Granger.

Ginobili held the ball in his hand and was about to call someone to come and roll for himself, but suddenly he saw Stephen inside secretly making a gesture to ask for the ball. He immediately moved his heart and made a fake move to break through. He immediately passed the ball to Stephen with a hit.

Stephen immediately turned around in one and a half after receiving the ball, just blocking Granger behind him. In this way, Granger would lose his defensive position. In front of Stephen was a road to the inside. Stephen immediately took a big step and went to the inside like an electric meteor. Two inside players of the Pacers were entangled with Duncan. Even if he wanted to come here, he was powerless, let alone Duncan was still blocking them for Stephen.

With one step or two steps, Stephen only took two steps and reached the edge of the penalty area. Stephen was about to jump and a dunk that was overwhelming, but was pulled down by Granger from behind. This was because Granger happened to be a little earlier, otherwise it would be too late to make a foul when Stephen got up.

The referee whistled and awarded Stephen two free throws. Stephen walked to the free throw line with a bitter face and was about to use the toilet-style free throw method, but after using this free throw method, some people always said that they would just use their own posture. Unfortunately, the ball sent out by such free throw posture hit the rebound directly, and the basket was not even next to each other, and laughter suddenly rang out of the entire court.

"I finally saw a guy who was more unreliable than O'Neal's free throw. Has this kid never practiced free throws? Or is he only has one strength and can't shoot at all." There was laughter in the broadcast room, but the story about Stephen's free throw has spread throughout the sports media industry. No one has ever made a bet on this anymore. No one imagined that Steve ran naked in front of the audience on the entire court like that.

"Don't you know how to hold a Masson free throw? Just use that." Van Exel came over and slapped Stephen's butt, muttered from behind. Stephen's eyes saw Brent Barry doing the toilet position on the bench.

When it was the second free throw, Stephen did make such a gesture, and now he laughed more people. Although it was a preseason, the broadcasting station was still quite powerful. He immediately gave a video of Stephen using this trick on the NCAA final on the big screen, and also released Rick Barry's posture back then, and experts also evaluated it.

However, even if you use this method, Stephen's free throw is still not scored. Now there are more people laughing. Artest sneered in Stephen's ear: "Even God's moves cannot save your free throws. Do you want me to teach you how to free throws?"

"Hmph." Stephen snorted with his nose, ignoring it. Breaking against others in such matters can only bring shame to himself.

"Look, I'll teach you how to shoot first." Artest suddenly pushed forward and Stephen stepped back a little.

In case of his breakthrough, who knew that this guy would retreat backwards and immediately lift the ball in the air and shoot it towards the basket.

"You laughed too early." Stephen immediately jumped high in the air, and stretched out his long arms and swung the ball towards the air. Although only one fingertip touched the ball, the ball path had been changed. Duncan behind him jumped high and held the ball in his arms.

"A defensive player cannot just steal, but also block shots." After blocking Artest's shot, Stephen was still talking witty words. Artest gritted his teeth in anger. His block was indeed not very good. His defense was mainly close to the body and the steal. Although he was not a floor player, his bounce was indeed very average. Even if he was shooting, he just jumped a little, otherwise Stephen would not have blocked it.

During the offense, after getting the ball, Duncan leaned back two times and found that the opponent was hitting it very hard. There was another player from the opponent who turned around. After transporting the ball twice, he was about to hand it over to the outside line. Suddenly, he saw a figure wearing a jersey on his face flashing by. There was no opponent's defensive player next to him. After making a fake move to pass the ball to the outside line, he passed the ball behind his head.

Although Stephen did not expect Duncan to pass the ball to his hand, when he saw the ball flying over, his body naturally took the ball into his hand. Before Granger behind him caught up with him again, Stephen immediately beat up on the ground, his body immediately soared into the air. After making a half-turning action in the air, the basket appeared in front of him, then waved his arms and poured the ball in his hand into the basket with a vast aura. A huge sound was made, shocking the audience's ears.

**Wich blinked habitually when he saw this. It seemed that this guy was not useless on the offensive end. Whether it was the tough breakthrough just now or the dunk that suddenly cut into the penalty area, it was a good choice for offense. Should we design a few sets of tactics specifically for him?

Although Stephen only played for a few minutes, in these few minutes, Stephen's performance was far beyond **Vic's expectations. He was not impulsive in defense. Although he lacked some experience, he had a good single defense effect and had the awareness and willingness to assist in defense. He was not at a disadvantage in the face of a player like Artest. His physical fitness was indeed excellent. On the offensive end, he cooperated very actively and ran without the ball. He was not only a defensive player. It seemed that this draft was worth it.

"Can you do this dunk? Can your bounce exceed 30 cm?" When Artest continued to attack again, Stephen said next to him, glaring Artest at him angrily. Although he could dunk, he could not say that a person like Stephen did not have a run-up and was so far from the basket frame. At the same time, he still jumped and dunked halfway to the basket frame. He was really unable to do it.

Artest shook for a while. After seeing Stephen not shaking, he was about to use his strength to attack Stephen, but he was squeezed tightly by Stephen so hard that he couldn't kill him. At this time, Granger suddenly passed by him and took the basketball from his hands. However, before Granger could leave, Stephen had already used his skillful move and grabbed the ball from Granger.

After receiving Stephen's pass, Van Exel immediately rushed towards his half-court, but Stephen ran left and right there, blocking Artest and Granger. Seeing that Van Exel and Ginobili cooperated and scored two points, Stephen stopped moving.

"How about my steal?" Stephen asked deliberately between the two of them, but they didn't know who they were asking, but they were both very angry. Granger was fine, so he glared at Stephen and left, but Artest turned his face, clasped his hands tightly, and his eyebrows were shaking. It seemed that he had plans to take action. At this time, the Pacers hurriedly sent Stephen Jackson to replace Artest. Artest was still in the observation period for one year because of the fight in Auburn Mountain Palace. If there were any similar actions, he would be in jail.

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