Chapter 64: Dunk the Little Emperor
Since everyone is a substitute, Robert Horry, Brent Barry, and Van Exel are familiar with him, so Stephen is not afraid of being unhappy because he stole the right to take action. However, these big brothers are quite taking care of his younger brother. Seeing that Stephen's willingness to attack is so strong, Van Exel simply handed the ball directly to Stephen as soon as he came over.
As soon as Stephen received the ball, James forced him over. Robert Horry came over to block Stephen. Stephen passed the ball to Brent Barry and cut down. Drew Guden could keep up with Stephen's pace. After receiving Brent Barry's pass, Stephen jumped and slammed with one hand. [bsp; The new Cavaliers coach Mike Brown stopped wiping his glasses of $1,200. He was difficult to understand Stephen's appearance. How could the teacher find it out.
Such an unreliable guy, based on his understanding of the Spurs, Stephen's current playing style does not conform to the teacher's system at all, but he doesn't know that **Vic is thinking that the team's substitute lineup is a bit lacking in impact and vitality, and is about to put Ginobili in the sixth position and bring Finley to the gentleman, but Stephen's appearance suddenly makes him lit up. Although this kid's offense is a bit unreliable, his mobility and impact are exactly what the team needs.
Although Van Exel appeared with crazy play and unreasonable shooting when he was young, he always strongly believed that his three-point shooting percentage was higher than that of two-point shooting percentage. Although it could not be reflected in the data, so even when it was free throws, he took two steps back and then made a penalty. This is also a unique posture in the entire league.
But after arriving at the Spurs, it seemed that he was influenced by the overall style of the Spurs. His style of playing suddenly changed. Although he still had unreasonable shooting, he was much less, and he was more like an orthodox organizational guard. Correspondingly, he also reduced the number of times he used his left hand to hit the basket. Brent Barry was the same. He played very well when he was young, but now he basically focused on running without the ball and shooting after receiving the ball, so when these people were on the court, they did lack such a player.
Stephen is still facing James' defense. When James starts to pay attention to Stephen, it is difficult for Stephen to get the same opportunity as before. However, when James focuses on Stephen, he will not care about his teammates' assisting defense. In this way, the Spurs' offense is still very sharp, but they have changed from Stephen to other people.
In the past few minutes of playing against James, Stephen has indeed felt that James' strength is not his body or his skills, but his entire energy. Whether it is offense or defense, he can be seen everywhere. He is the support of all the tasks of the Cavaliers. Isn't he tired of playing in this way even if he is not tired of physically physically, his heart is not tired? Stephen was very suspicious.
The Cavaliers need too much to do. Although this guy has an old face, he is actually the youngest among the three masters in the 2031 class. Finally, when he was more than halfway through the second quarter, Mike Brown replaced him and saw him walking off the court. Stephen was very moved. The Cavaliers have never been a strong team, without the temperament of a strong team and the background of a strong team. The team's lineup is also very unreasonable. However, as soon as James arrived here, he immediately put the Cavaliers to a new level. I wonder if he had the chance to support a team alone like this.
Stephen shook his head and threw this mentality aside for the time being. Although doing so makes people achieve great things, it is too tiring. Besides, he does not have such comprehensive ability. After James left the court, the Cavaliers suddenly became headless, with poor offense and weak defense, and the score was quickly pulled apart. Stephen also took this opportunity to get five points.
**Vicci did not replace Stephen because James was not present. Since the team played well, it would just give the main players a rest. Duncan is a little older and Ginobili is too tired. But these two people, in the team's system, are ranked first and second. If it does not affect the record, **Vicci wants them to take a few more games.
During the break, **Vic did not propose a substitution, so Stephen was still on the court at the beginning of the third quarter, but James returned to the court at this time. Moreover, because of the team's backwardness, he showed great power from the beginning. He first made Stephen's foul and then hit a three-pointer from the outside.
Stephen had no choice. After resting for a while, James returned to his vitality. He really didn't know where this guy's energy came from and how to support such a high-intensity whole game. When James shot again, Stephen tried his best to jump up and block, his hand almost reached James's eyes, and he still hit a two-pointer.
Stephen was a little anxious. If he kept asking him to commit this way, wouldn't the coach want to replace himself? But the defense is indeed not an urgent matter. Stephen was almost fouled by James because of his anxiety.
Stephen couldn't help but look down below, but found that coach **Vic was still sitting there expressionlessly, without any intention of moving. His nervous heart suddenly felt a little relieved. If the coach was dissatisfied with him, he would arrange for Bruce Bowen to stand in front of the technical stand.
In fact, at this time, Bruce Bowen was ready to play in his heart, because in just two and a half minutes, James chased the score to a gap of only two points with his own strength. The coach should not have to wait until he was overtaken before he could play.
But Bruce Bowen was wrong. Even though James assisted Larry Hughes to make a three-pointer, he scored one point, **Vic still did not order him to play, because **Vic felt that Stephen's defense had not made any mistakes. James in this state was simply a god-blocking killing god. Buddha-blocking killing Buddha. Even if Bowen was replaced, there would not be any change. It would be better for James to vent his anger.
Under Stephen's full defense, James successfully broke through again. However, because Stephen has been chasing behind him, James did not force himself to take action. He passed the ball to Donniele Marshall on the other side. Marshall was about to raise his hand to shoot, but Robert Horry racked the ball out of his hand. Brent Barry caught the ball and launched a fast attack, running towards the front court like Van Exel, flying left and right.
Stephen was blocked by Ilgoskas. When he started running, James was already chasing behind Van Exel. Stephen was chasing behind James, and the four people were shooting like four sharp arrows.
Brent Barry heard the extremely heavy footsteps behind him. Although he didn't see who it was, there would be no one except James. The shots of James chasing his body and blocking the shots are often seen in various top ten shots. Brent Barry has no hobby of serving as a background. Moreover, because he was controlling the ball, his speed was naturally a little slower than Van Exel. Seeing that Van Exel was approaching the basket, Brent Barry slapped the ball and passed it to Van Exel with a hit.
After getting the ball, Van Exel took off and held the ball high with his left hand. The whistling wind blew past his ears. Van Exel felt as if he was back to twenty years old. When he tried harder, he also made a dunk that broke through a thousand pounds. But he didn't expect that the wind was not caused by himself. After all, his speed was slow. While jumping into the air, James also jumped high behind him, stretched out his super long arm span and slapped the ball in his hand. At the same time, Van Exel was also knocked out by James and lost his balance in the air, and his body flew to the side involuntarily.
The ball was slapped by James with a palm, hit the rebound quickly, and then rebounded back. James had already started to fall at this time. Although his jumping height was very high and the air stagnation time was particularly long, because he jumped earlier than Van Exel, he flew in the air for a while before catching up with the ball and hit Van Exel. He had no time to catch the ball that rebounded. However, James still tried to turn his head and watch the landing point of the ball.
The scarlet ball enveloped all his sight, but soon he found that behind him, there was also a figure flying in the air, and he flew higher. The ball fell directly into the opponent's hands. James didn't need to look carefully at it, and he knew that the players of both sides combined, Stephen was the only one who could jump so high.
Sure enough, while James jumped and blocked, Stephen also jumped behind him. From the back, the two men looked like an overlapping figure. From the side, Stephen was like an illusion caused by James' flight. When James blocked the ball to the rebound and rebounded, although Stephen felt that his body was also beginning to fall, he still thrust his waist and abdomen after grabbing the ball, and his body was like a breakthrough and soaring by a few centimeters, and he pushed up again.
Stephen yelled loudly, and the ball in his hand swung back first, then used all his strength to smash it down suddenly. With a "bang", the violent collision between the ball and the basket frame suddenly rang throughout the center of the SBC, and the basket rack also made a squeaking moan, as if a little overwhelmed. At the same time, because Stephen's upper body was blocked by the basket frame, the lower body continued to fly forward with inertia, colliding with James, just like Stephen kicking James out with his legs. James fell directly to the ground, his face just looked at Stephen, who was still spinning on the basket frame. It was rare that a trace of confusion flashed in James' eyes.
This shot is almost the same as James's dunk Duncan, but the process is more tortuous and the scene is more popular. However, the scene like James was detained and flickered has never appeared. Elliott has already shouted in the commentary seat that this is the top ten goals of the whole season. The young emperor who has always been arrogant was detained to the ground. Such shots are really rare.
The fans at the scene kept screaming and screaming. The little Emperor James was just the emperor of Cleveland and the darling of the league. However, for other teams, there is only one identity, that is, the enemy, especially for civilian teams like the Spurs.
Chapter completed!