At the end of the third quarter with four minutes left, the second-grade team was already tied with the first-grade team. This was the first tie since the second half of the first quarter. Although the score was catching up, James
But his face was frosty, and Bosh, who was sitting next to him, didn't even dare to say a word to him.
James has been the pride of heaven since he was a child. His talent has attracted more attention than others. Perhaps because of his extraordinary talent, he has always been invincible, but after arriving in the NBA, he suffered a setback in his first season.
The team failed to make the playoffs. Although he won the Rookie of the Year, to be honest, judging from the record and data alone, James is still slightly inferior to Anthony, and the teammates around James are also inferior.
Even more powerful than Anthony, Ilgauskas is a quasi-All-Star center, Carlos Boozer has also shown potential as a future All-Star, and there are also scoring masters like Ricky Davis.
Next to Anthony is Andrew Miller, who is pretty good, but his personal offensive power is still not very strong, so Anthony is shouldering the entire team's offense on his own shoulders.
At this time, James has not yet been recognized by everyone. Although everyone is full of praise for his 20+5+5 in his rookie season, the gap between him and the shoe-level star is still huge. Every time he meets Pierce, he will be frustrated.
People like Kobe, Iverson, Carter, and Tracy McGrady will all score high points on him. This is something that is difficult to accept for this young boy who refuses to admit defeat. He obviously shoots accurately when practicing off the court, but when he gets to the court
After that I couldn't find the feel anymore.
In this game, James tried to show off his strength to defend against Ben Gordon, the opponent's best offensive player. In fact, he also held his breath. Seeing that after the first quarter, although Milicic did not score, he still attracted all the attention.
On his body, James is guarding Ben Gordon. This has no advantage for his size. For a super shooter like this, as long as he has room to shoot, he doesn't care about the defensive area you cover.
How big it is, he only has eyes for the basket. As soon as his touch improves, even the great Jordan will be a little afraid of Miller.
James buried his face in a towel. The new sneakers for the rookie game were already on his feet, but obviously today was not the best day to promote it.
Milicic continued to play with Okafor and Howard on the court. Okafor was more difficult to deal with. To Milicic, Howard was like a child who had never played basketball. His basic skills and movements were not good.
It's very irritable. The main defense is to keep jumping up and trying to block shots, but real defensive masters don't jump up easily. NBA data sometimes misleads people, making people think that people with more steals are those with more blocks.
Good defense is not the case. Data such as Marc Gasol's blocks are not abnormal, but solid defensive positioning can make the opponent more uncomfortable.
Just like Bruce Bowen, he doesn't have any outstanding steals, nor does he cause offensive fouls to others. When it comes to blocking shots, they are negligible, but a good defensive player is constantly disrupting offensive players.
The rhythm has always made him uncomfortable. The average player can only use one or two unique skills that he is good at. Few people can use a variety of skills when facing different defenses like Jordan, Kobe, and Iverson.
Even players at that level will still be disturbed by the rhythm and feel very uncomfortable when trying to crack and try the offensive methods.
Howard's jumping made Milicic feel no discomfort. On the contrary, every time he lost his position, Milicic had a better passing opportunity. Anthony received Milicic's pass again this time.
After that, he hit the ball off the board very casually. Milicic's assist count has reached 9.
Barkley on the sidelines shouted: "If I were Howard, the only way I can do now is to pull Milicic's shorts after he gets the ball. Probably for a technical person like Howard, this is the only way to make Milicic
Qi made a fool of himself."
Kenny Smith said: "But you see Okafor's defense is still very tough. I started to think that the Magic made a mistake in choosing Howard. His basketball IQ and basic skills seem to be inferior to Okafor who has been tempered in college.
There are too many.”
Barkley shook his head and said: "That's not the case. Howard is much younger than Okafor. Being young is an advantage. We will see many guys who play well but because they are already in their junior year, they
His career itself started relatively late, so his draft pick will be lower. In addition, you must know that basic skills can be practiced. But running and jumping ability is innate. Howard can develop low-post defensive skills like Okafor.
But Okafor will never be able to develop the jumping ability of Howard in his lifetime. This is a very serious problem."
Sure enough, as Barkley said, Huo Tiaotiao's efforts were not in vain. When Anthony went for a layup again, Howard gave him a solid big block. Anthony had already scored a lot at this time, and the atmosphere on the court was relatively relaxed.
, he looked at Milicic with some disbelief, and said jokingly: This guy is not from Earth at all. I remember seeing the scene of him kissing the basket. I thought it was computer generated, but now it seems that this guy is
real.
Milicic smiled slightly and said: No matter how high he jumps, it seems that he has no chance to block me. Do you know why? Because I made a bet with James that I will not take any shots in this game. For a person like me
, even the best defensive players are in vain.
Howard and Okafor, who were next to them, almost had their noses crooked after hearing this. They were happy for a long time, one of them supported the other and kept jumping up and down. They had already discussed this before.
No matter what the game is, Milicic can't score more points, but who would have thought that Milicic didn't want to score from the beginning. This made the two of them just kindle a little bit of energy and now
All gone.
Howard looked at Milicic and said: You guy, I don't know what to say to you, but next time I will definitely give you a hard slap on the head.
Milicic shrugged and said with a smile: You are welcome at any time, but the prerequisite is that you must score. I will not give you so many opportunities. Now I want to tell you that my goal is to get a triple-double in this game.
ps: Yesterday, I came to shoot a commercial film. I followed him for dinner and drinks all night, and today I followed him until about four o'clock in the afternoon. I finally finished the material for the image film and could take a little rest. It was not easy!
