I’m Really Playing Basketball

On the evening of June 3, 2022, at the Milwaukee Golden Eagle Arena, the NBA Finals is about to begin.

On the other side of the ocean, in China, countless fans are sitting in front of TVs and computers, watching the live broadcast of this game.

Before the game even started, the Chinese fans in front of the TV were shocked by the transition of the live broadcast on TV.

Especially when the TV was showing a close-up of the statue outside the Golden Eagle Arena.

Three of the bronze statues outside the Golden Eagle Arena will face off in this game.

Chen Xiao, Curry and Durant.

At the same time, two of the top ten players in NBA history will face off directly in this finals, with Chen Xiao facing off against Durant.

Before the start of the finals, the broadcast cameras continued to exaggerate the atmosphere of this game and the strength of these two teams.

Even before the start of the finals, CCTV had a program that introduced in detail the promotion paths of the two teams. Let’s put it this way, the promotion paths of the two teams can be regarded as high-end. The team is on the same level.

The Lakers, Heat, Bucks and Warriors were originally considered to be the four major teams. In fact, in the end, there were only two teams in the entire NBA this season.

One of these two teams is the team that currently dominates the NBA, and the other is the team led by the first man in history who once dominated the NBA.

Therefore, the significance of this game is extremely important.

Just like when Jordan met Magic in the finals.

Jordan defeated Magic that year and was truly crowned the league's number one player.

And now, the same situation is facing Durant and Curry Antetokounmpo.

Although experts have been saying for the past three years that Durant is now the number one player in the league.

But Durant himself has never admitted it because he knows that for him, the most important coronation ceremony has not yet been completed.

Jordan took over the reins directly from Magic.

Chen Xiao snatched the scepter from O'Neal's hand.

And he needs to be like these seniors. Only by defeating these seniors can he truly become number one.

This is a heritage.

And any player with dignity and self-respect will want such a legacy.

Durant is naturally not surprised.

So when the game started, Durant directly expressed this intention to Chen Xiao.

Chen Xiao just smiled slightly at this.

Both of them are no longer the middle school boys they once were.

Chen Xiao is now 40 years old, and Durant is 33 years old this year.

Adults should be so direct.

Moreover, for Durant, who has taken everything, taking over from Chen Xiao has become his obsession.

As a disciple carefully cultivated by Chen Xiao, the first man in history, and Jordan, the second man in history, if he cannot take over the scepter left by his teacher in this way, Durant will feel very incompetent.

In fact, this is also the source of pressure on Durant. When he was still 18 years old, Jordan said that the one who surpassed him was Chen Xiao, and the only person who could surpass Chen Xiao was Durant.

Durant will always remember what the teacher said.

Now that sixteen years have passed, it has become impossible for him to surpass Chen Xiao, but even if he cannot surpass his teacher, at least he must succeed from the teacher's hand.

Therefore, defeating Chen Xiao has now become a permanent fixture in Durant's heart.

He wants to open this festival in this finals!

On the court, Marvin Bagley and Bobby Portis were jumping balls.

In the end, Marvin Bagley defeated Bobby Portis, giving the Warriors a chance to score the first possession of the game.

Chen Xiao, who was standing behind Marvin Bagley, received the jump ball and instead of continuing the pass, he directly dribbled the ball to initiate a fast break.

Chen Xiao dribbled the ball, and Marvin Bagley took the lead. Wiggins on the left, Herbert Jones on the right, and Morant behind him advanced across the board.

When Chen Xiao dribbles the ball in the Warriors' fast break, it's really fast.

Facing this tidal wave of attacks, as long as the average team panics a little, it is almost always an opportunity.

Most teams, facing such a fast break, are a little flustered and frightened.

But it's obvious that the Bucks are not an ordinary team.

The Bucks' five starters in this game, Jrue Holiday, Curry, Durant, Antetokounmpo and Portis, quickly found their defenders.

Power forward Antetokounmpo dropped back to defend Marvin Bagley out of position.

Center Portis took advantage of the situation and stepped forward to defend against Chen Xiao.

Curry dinged Herbert Jones, Durant dinged Wiggins, Jrue Holiday dinged Morant.

In such a fast pace of the game, the defense can make such accurate defensive decisions. It can only be said that these Bucks are strong, and Ray Allen's pre-game preparations are also very good.

However, the Warriors must have been prepared for this matter. It is impossible to defeat the Bucks quickly.

Therefore, when Chen Xiao faced Portis, who was following every step, defending and retreating, Chen Xiao directly slowed down the pace, and the Warriors' offense quickly switched from a fast break to a positional battle.

After Chen Xiao slowed down his pace, Morant immediately came to Chen Xiao with understanding.

Although Morant gave up his starting position to Clay in the last series against the Lakers, he had no other thoughts in mind. Facing the Bucks, Morant still worked very hard.

In other words, although he was a substitute when playing against the Lakers, he dared to play and fought hard and won a key game for the Warriors in G2. He is one of the biggest contributors to the Warriors.

In the series with the Lakers, when the Warriors were in such bad shape in the first three games, if the final score was 0-3, then it would be impossible for the Warriors to defeat the Lakers and advance to the Finals.

With Chen Xiao, Morant is very happy to accept any position.

In other teams, if Morant is substituted, it will definitely explode.

Morant, who had been holding back for a whole series in the playoffs with the Lakers, after playing a pick-and-roll with Chen Xiao and switching Holiday to Chen Xiao, he launched an impact on Portis with the ball. That impact, that speed, It could eat Portis alive.

Portis is actually not too slow, otherwise Chen Xiao would have taken it alone, but compared with Morant, one of the fastest guards in the NBA, that is definitely not enough.

However, although the Bucks do not have a big center, the rotation speed is still very fast. Faced with a breakthrough like Morant, Durant quickly took it back.

Then, the opportunity presented itself.

Morant faced Durant's pretense of shrinking and had no intention of passing the ball. Instead, he went straight down. In this case, Durant could only recover directly.

It wasn't until Morant and Durant were fighting in the air that Morant crookedly passed the basketball in his hand to Wiggins in the bottom corner.

Wiggins, absolutely available!

Seeing Wiggins' huge gap, Bucks head coach Ray Allen was in a trance on the sidelines.

Morant, is this reasonable now?

This little Wei Shao now looks less and less like Westbrook and more like Rose.

I have to say that Ray Allen still knows how to play.

After all these years, Morant's statistics are not as explosive as historical time and space.

But Morant's control of the game is definitely not comparable to that of Morant in historical time and space.

The Morant in history won if he didn't join his teammates, but lost if he joined his teammates. It would be as embarrassing as it is.

Although Morant in historical time and space is top-notch in singles, he can always beat Curry.

But the help to teammates and the game is not that great.

A defender with excellent control can use his singles containment to help his teammates.

Such as Chen Xiao, such as Kobe, such as Jordan, such as Wade, it is the same.

Especially Wade is very obvious. Wade's lightning breakthrough later became Wade's deterrence rather than lethality.

When Morant learns to turn his breakthroughs into a deterrent to drive his teammates, he will truly become a qualified superstar.

Obviously, Morant is already degenerating now.

Morant's attack can be said to have destroyed the Bucks' defense.

Although it is said that no one can guard the other in every game between the Bucks and the Warriors, the defense collapsed like this and was defeated by someone other than Chen Xiao. This really made Ray Allen a little unbearable.

However, Ray Allen also knows that the Bucks' defensive failure this time cannot be blamed on Portis or Durant.

Portis was guarding Chen Xiao just now, and he had to guard Chen Xiao to stop the Bucks' quick push at that time, and he defended very well.

And Durant just now was originally guarding Wiggins. After Antetokounmpo was hugged by Marvin Bagley, he could only recover. He couldn't watch Morant dunk or layup, right?

Therefore, this is an unacceptable defensive failure, but it is also a defensive failure without any solution.

So very helpless.

Fortunately, Ray Allen is not entangled. Again, when the Bucks beat the Warriors, no one can guard anyone.

The Bucks beat the Heat. Did the Bucks defend the Heat?

Except for G6, in fact, in the first five games, Holiday did not guard Rose. Everyone played against each other.

For the Bucks, who have the Big Three of Durant, Curry and Antetokounmpo, they are not afraid of attacking any team at all.

Even facing the Bobcats who were invincible offensively and led by Chen Xiao, Ray Allen was confident.

On the court, it was the Bucks' turn to attack. After Curry quickly pushed through the half court, he hit the ball to Antetokounmpo outside the three-point line. Antetokounmpo was ready to deal, while Curry was Running with Holiday, Durant stood in the corner to get the ball, and Portis was ready to come up and screen for Antetokounmpo.

Just like the Warriors' offense that the Bucks couldn't defend, the Warriors were also helpless in the face of the Bucks' offense that almost stretched the space to the extreme.

Marvin Bagley, who was guarding Antetokounmpo, had already tried very hard to focus behind him and took half a step back to defend Antetokounmpo.

However, Portis stepped forward and after being blocked by his side, Antetokounmpo got rid of Marvin Bagley's defense and rushed towards Chen Xiao.

Chen Xiao understands Antetokounmpo's behavior of hitting him out of position. This season, he stole Antetokounmpo's MVP.

In the most watched game of the regular season this season, the Christmas game between the Bucks and the Warriors, Chen Xiao scored a crazy 103 points against the Bucks in one-on-one singles.

In that game, Antetokounmpo even felt that he couldn't beat the 40-year-old Chen Xiao one-on-one, and he was instantly hit.

Of course, he felt that he was not as good as Chen Xiao because he was not as good as leading the team. If he really wanted to attack Chen Xiao like this, he still had confidence.

I recall that when he first debuted, Chen Xiao was able to resist his impact like a rookie.

And now, Antetokounmpo's impact is indeed powerful.

Don't call Antetokounmpo a slightly weaker version of James.

Except for his inconsistent shooting, there is nothing different between them.

Antetokounmpo doesn't stick to the ball and likes to run without the ball and then directly attack after receiving the ball.

James, on the other hand, is very attached to the ball. After a long period of dribbling, he can call a pick-and-roll breakthrough.

In terms of threat of breakthrough, Antetokounmpo is even better than James.

For example, this time, facing Chen Xiao's well-prepared defense, Antetokounmpo immediately handed the ball to Durant, the owner of Wiggins. After no need, Antetokounmpo accelerated and bypassed empty-handed. Chen Xiao and Durant's passes followed from the corner position.

Chen Xiao at his peak might still be able to find a solution when faced with this kind of tacit understanding of one-on-one on the court.

But now, there is really no way to do it.

I could only watch helplessly as Antetokounmpo dunked.

This is the disadvantage of not having a basket and a big center. The basket is very easy to penetrate.

The same is true for the Warriors, and the same is true for the Bucks. Didn't the Warriors attack just now because the Bucks didn't have a big center.

It can only be said that for the sake of offense, both teams have given up their big centers, which definitely has gains and losses.

And this is why the Bucks and Warriors couldn't guard their opponents after they met each other.

Under the basket, Antetokounmpo's slam dunk gave the Bucks the first two points of the game, and the score on the court became 3-2.

Looking back, it was the Warriors' turn to attack. Just now, Chen Xiao was defending Antetokounmpo and was beaten by the combination of Antetokounmpo and Durant.

This time it was the Warriors' turn to attack, and the Warriors also took the initiative to find Chen Xiao.

Of course, like Antetokounmpo just now, Chen Xiao did not confront Chen Xiao head-on. After Chen Xiao took the initiative to find Antetokounmpo with his back under the basket, he used Marvin Bagley's pick-and-roll under the basket to block it. After Antetokounmpo, a fake shot came out, deceiving Portis, and he dunked under the basket!

Seeing this offense of the Warriors, Ray Allen on the sidelines also sighed, Chen Xiao's golf IQ is really high.

Although the Bucks are not as strong defensively as the Lakers, they are not a team that can easily find gaps under the basket.

But Chen Xiao took the initiative to find Antetokounmpo, took the initiative under the basket, completed the offense, and got two points in response to Antetokounmpo.

Then, the Bucks attack.

Antetokounmpo repeated his old tricks, but this time Wiggins, who was defending Durant, took the initiative to retreat slightly to help defend Antetokounmpo.

However, Durant did not have a one-two with Antetokounmpo this time. Instead, after Wiggins retreated slightly, he made a standard Joe's fallback shot from the free throw line, and there was a swipe!

Durant hit a mid-range hit, 5 to 4!

"This offense is so beautiful!"

“Being able to find gaps between the lightning and flint is an invincible ability to execute tactics and understand the game.

In such a difficult offensive environment, he can hit the ball so steadily. This is an invincible personal ability.

And the two teams in this game both have players like this! "

This is true for Chen Xiao, and so is Durant.

Compared with history, Durant in this time and space not only has no serious injuries, but is much better physically. The biggest change is that as a disciple of Jordan and Chen Xiao, his control and influence on the game have influenced Chen Xiao and Du Rand at least 80%.

Durant in this time and space is definitely not the player in history who forced passes or forced passes with hot hands.

In this regard, Wiggins, who had just defended Durant twice in this game, was the most uncomfortable.

He thought that Leonard would be facing off in the Western Conference Finals, and he felt that he should be confident in defending Durant.

But after these two rounds, Wiggins felt that he wanted to be simple.

Tonight, Wiggins and Antetokounmpo will definitely be the two most tired players!

Because everyone could see that at the beginning of the game, the Warriors were frantically beating Chen Xiao, and Chen Xiao was frantically looking for Antetokounmpo.

On the other side, the Warriors are using Durant to play the core Antetokounmpo and Curry to assist from the side. Durant is playing crazy tricks on Wiggins in response to Chen Xiao.

"In this game, Durant and the Warriors told everyone with practical actions that they want to take over the scepter from God!"

Just like when Jordan and Pippen worked with Magic.

And in this game, this series, Durant, Antetokounmpo and Curry will also fight Chen Xiao together!

"Three invincible players are challenging a 40-year-old player with such a low profile in this game..."

I have to say that many celebrities, fans, experts, and media reporters present at the scene were very shocked.

What is even more shocking is that the forty-year-old man is not lagging behind.

At least, in the first quarter, Chen Xiao did not lose a single point.

Because at the end of the first quarter, the score on the field was 38 to 38!

This first verse can only be described in one word...

"Dream back to Christmas!"

Dreaming back to the night when Chen Xiao scored 103 points!