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Chapter 791: The Enemy of a Lifetime

Updated: 2013-05-28

Even in the six-second offensive time, Coach Shashevsky replaced Carmelo Anthony, replaced Taian Shaprilins, replaced Dwayne Wade, and replaced Kobe Bryant to strengthen the defense.

Because if this ball is scored by the Chinese team, it will surpass the US team by one or two points. For the stars of the US team who are more determined, this is definitely a blow and a humiliation.

Although it may stimulate them to be more motivated, it is more likely that they will lose this team-based sanity and become solo fights. This is the biggest harm for the American team.

Now, except for Tyane Shaprils and Dwight Howard who was sent out, they are basically the bosses of the team. They are all the people who will take over the game at critical moments, but so many people gather together and let who will take over.

Fortunately, Kobe Bryant, the biggest card, has been sent out. Among the remaining players, the injured Jason Kidd is not counted, the pick-and-roll duo of Deron Williams and Carlos Boozer is not counted, and the remaining Chris Paul, LeBron James, Michael Reed, Dwayne Wade, Chris Bosh, and Carmelo Anthony are all the bosses of the team and the core of the offense.

If these people are excited, they will take over the game. The team has no one to suppress them now. Originally, Jason Kidd was the coach and commander of the team, but he was injured and could not play. Kobe Bryant's biggest card, and his qualifications are better than these boys. He just needs to hand the ball over to him at critical moments, but he ended up because of impulse.

The core theory on the field is LeBron James, but he does not have much authority among these people. At least Carmelo Anthony and Dwyne Wade ignore him. However, Chris Paul and Chris Bosh are very close to him.

So Coach Shaschevs will never allow the team to lose control, because once the team loses control, his authority cannot completely suppress these superstar players, although on the surface, these players respect him very much.

The ball was sent to Stephen's hands naturally. LeBron James stared at Stephen attentively. While taking care of Yi Jianlian, Tyane Shaprils swayed in Stephen's vision, maintaining enough threat to Stephen.

Stephen didn't dare to do too much, and LeBron James asked for a trick to deceive LeBron and James shook his body to the left. Stephen immediately took a big step and rushed over from his right side. Taian Shaprils rushed over to make up for defense. Stephen immediately raised his hand and made a move to pass the ball, threatening Taian Shaprils not to rush too close. Then he lowered his head and accelerated again, and rushed towards the basket.

Although Stephen's momentum seemed very scary, Chris Bosh bravely stood up and prepared to block it. Even if he was hit and flew out, it would be worth it as long as he could stop the opponent's attack. Chris Bosh's style of play is not tough, but it is definitely not weak. He is just an inside player in modern popular styles of play, but he is not the type of blindly avoiding collisions.

Chris Bosh can be said to be a weakened version of Kevin Garnett. His physical fitness is slightly inferior, but he is also extremely different. The difference is not big on the offensive end. He has the same external style of play and his support and organizational ability is not as good as Kevin Garnett, but he has the three-point ability that Garnett does not have. His defensive end ability is probably only two-thirds of Kevin Garnett, which is the biggest gap between the two.

The lack of weight and strength made him unable to defend at low posts, but he never retreated. Faced with Stephen's collision, many big muscles and stick players were a little scared, but Chris Bosh was able to meet him, which was indeed very brave.

Players like him may lose their current flexibility and bounce if they gain weight, or bring more injuries. More and more inside players are beginning to give up their base and turn to the outside, which means that the risk of injury caused by collisions at the basket is much greater than that at the outside.

This trend started with Kevin Garnett, and then Rashid Wallace, Dirk Nowitzki, Paul Gasol, and Chris Bosh are all players of this type. Although they are as center-shot, their style of play is more focused on the outside. Jermaine O'Neal has suffered frequent injuries early because of his tough style of play and many confrontations at the basket. It is a pity that Chris Webber, the representative of the gorgeous style of play, also often appeared at low posts at the peak.

Even Tim Duncan, except for the two towers, was responsible for low-post defense. After David Robinson retired, he partnered with Nestrovic, mainly assisting in defense. After Nestrovic left, the Spurs could not find a player who could guard the basket, so they could only let Duncan play this role. As a result, Duncan was injured in that season, until Oberto came to the Spurs and replaced Duncan at the basket. Duncan lost weight again, which resulted in a good performance last season.

Stephen was confident that he would knock Chris Bosh overturn the man, but it was not helpful to the attack. However, Stephen made up his mind to score a goal in this offense, so when Stephen was about to rush to Chris Bosh, he suddenly changed direction and rushed to the other side.

But Chris Bosh immediately turned around and continued to face Stephen, blocking Stephen and keeping Stephen away from the basket as much as possible, because the Chinese team only had six seconds of offense, and it took two seconds to dribble over the ball, and Stephen's move just now took another two seconds.

At the same time, LeBron James also hit the ball from the back. Because Stephen's current pass angle is very small, he can go in and double-team without worrying. He is under the double-team of two people, and the attack time is only one second left. Many people think that Stephen is likely to give up the last attack.

After all, the time was too short, but Stephen suddenly turned around at this time, from facing the basket to facing the basket to facing the basket. This was obviously going outward, but he still couldn't take it lightly. Chris Bosh took a step back half a step in case Stephen was a fake move, while LeBron James took a step forward to prepare for close-fitting defense against Stephen, but the ball suddenly flew out from behind Stephen. Chris Bosh retreated a little, and when he saw it, the ball had already flew over his head, completed the flyover from his head, and entered the basket.

LeBron James was helpless even when he saw it on the other side of Stephen, so he could only wave his hand in vain. Stephen's hand was dribbling suddenly turned behind and picked the ball behind his back. This kind of shooting point was very low. If Chris Bosh hadn't taken a step back half a step, and he had never expected Stephen to take action like this, just stretch out his hand to catch the ball.

The way of shooting behind the scenes and not looking at the basket is not a normal offensive method at all, but Stephen threw the ball at the same time as the last second, and the ball flew into the basket. Through the playback, it can be clearly seen that the game time was only completed simultaneously when the ball flew out of Stephen's hand and reached Stephen's shoulder position, so the referee immediately announced that the goal was valid, and the Chinese team ended the third quarter with a one-point lead.

This goal did ignite the fighting spirit of the players on the US team, especially LeBron James. With his full defense, Stephen made the last attack without any energy, just like when his defense did not exist at all.

Originally, he thought that Stephen had not played much in this game. It should be his own full defense that played a role, which had a certain limiting effect. Stephen's performance was indeed a bit low under the wheel defense of himself and Taian Shaprils. Of course, no matter how low he was, his scoring was second in the Chinese team. No, now he is second, rebounds, assists, blocks tied for first, steals, and many of these were first in the game.

But in such an important game, when the whole team cannot provide strong support, Stephen should perform better than this. As his biggest opponent in his life, no one knows Stephen better than LeBron James. He is equally strong and omnipotent, and the time to enter the league is not far apart. LeBron James has always believed that Stephen is the opponent arranged by God for himself, just to torture himself, and his greatest mission is to defeat the opponent.

If Stephen had been with the San Antonio Spurs, LeBron James might feel that this opportunity was not great, but he firmly believed that Stephen would never inherit the already very successful Spurs team step by step. Sure enough, Stephen left the Spurs after defeating himself and arrived at the already declining Supersonics.

However, Stephen's team-leading performance is better than LeBron James's overestimation. Although the endings are similar, LeBron James feels that Stephen will only bring the Supersonics into the playoffs at most. Stephen enters the playoffs with the record of No. 1 in the West, and also won the honors of the most valuable player and the best defensive player in the regular season, although he was eliminated in the second round as he expected.

So at the beginning of the fourth quarter, LeBron James posted to Stephen and said to Stephen in a voice that only two people could hear: "From now on, I will not give you such an easy opportunity to take action."
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