The Way of the Center

"Hello, viewers, welcome to TNT TV. I'm Kenny Smith. The two sitting next to me are Charles Barkley and Reggie Miller. Today we are bringing you the new NBA team, the Oklahoma City Thunder. The game against the San Antonio Spurs." A very familiar opening remark, the national live broadcast officially began!

"Charles, what are you watching?" Kenny Smith found that Barkley had been playing with his mobile phone since the live broadcast started. This is also the characteristic of the TNT commentary trio. They were never serious, but the audience liked it instead.

"Don't bother Kenny, the New York Giants are playing against the Dallas Cowboys. I bet the Cowboys will win." Barkley was referring to the football game.

"Charles, the live broadcast has already started." Kenny Smith looked at Barkley who was concentrating on his mobile phone with disdain.

"Oh! Hey! Hello everyone! I'm Charles Barkley. Today we bring you the Spurs and who is it?" Barkley looked at his partner with a confused look.

"Oklahoma City Thunder." Kenny Smith really has a headache, why is this guy so popular.

"That's right! The game between the Spurs and the Thunder! Reggie, don't you want to say something!?" Barkley pointed to his mobile phone, saying that he had to watch the football game, and asked Reggie Miller to pick up his words.

"We all know that the Thunder's three rookies have been in the limelight recently, and their Chinese center, An Jie, has frequently hit quasi-triple-double data." Miller also talked about An Jie with ill intentions.

"Stop mentioning Chinese center Reggie. I'm not afraid of him. There is only one Yao Ming in this league." Barkley still looked at his phone as if no one else was around.

"You're not afraid of him? So what are you betting on?"

"If this Anjie can score 20 points in one game, you just said that he has achieved quasi-triple-double data many times?" Barkley snatched the data from Miller's hand and looked at it carefully.

"Okay, I won't gamble anymore." After watching it, Barkley smiled awkwardly. If someone else explained it like this, he might have been fired a long time ago, but this is Charles Barkley, and this is what fans prefer to watch on TNT. The reason.

The fans laughed at Barkley's nonsensical commentary, but Anjie felt uncomfortable when he was warming up on the court. The big Spurs man in jersey No. 21 stared at him from time to time, with no expression on his face. A big man stared at him fascinatedly, even a normal person would feel hairy.

"Hey, when you played against Tim last season, did he do something to you?" Angie elbowed the team's power forward Chris Wilcox.

"It's nothing? Why, are you still afraid of being eaten by that guy?" Wilcox looked at Duncan, who also looked at them with a blank expression.

Suddenly, looking at the two of them, Duncan laughed! This kind of smile didn't make people feel friendly at all, and this horrible grinning expression gave Anjie and Wilcox goose bumps all over their bodies. No wonder Duncan was given a technical foul by the bald referee Crawford last season because he smiled on the bench. Who can stand such a ferocious smile.

Duncan was expressionless most of the time, but once he made an expression, it was absolutely powerful.

"Are you playing an ogre again?" Frenchman Tony Parker just saw everything in his eyes.

"Ha ha,

The Chinese rookie seemed intimidated. "After being disturbed by Duncan's "Smile", Anjie failed to make two consecutive shots.

As the fans cheered more and more enthusiastically, Anjie and Bonner finally stood in the middle circle, and the game began!

Undoubtedly, facing Bonner, Anjie easily won the opportunity for the Thunder to attack first. An Jie also rejoiced in his heart. Fortunately, he was facing this white center. If he faced Duncan, God knows what expression he would make.

Westbrook dribbled the ball into the Spurs' half, and the little French sports car immediately posted it. It may not be difficult for Westbrook to break through Parker, but he knows that the overall defense of the Spurs is the most terrifying.

Beckoning to Anjie for a pick-and-roll, Westbrook easily reached the inside.

"This zero

No. Defender is really fast! And the pick-and-roll quality of the Chinese center is even better! "**Vitch has to admit that, as first graders, these two kids are indeed very capable.

After Westbrook's breakthrough, Duncan immediately blocked his way, and Spurs small forward Mike Finley stood exactly in the path of Westbrook's pass to Durant. Westbrook broke through for the first time and was rounded up!

Pass it on? Ainger was too far from the basket, and Bonner was too defensive. Reluctantly, Westbrook had to pass the ball to Damien Wilkins, who was not strong offensively.

Although the offense was not completed, Westbrook believed that he at least kept the ball. Unexpectedly, the basketball passed out was intercepted by Tony Parker who suddenly rushed out! Maybe forcing Westbrook to pass the ball to Wilkins, this is part of Vicky's defensive strategy!

Parker immediately launched a counterattack after stealing the ball. The nickname "French Sports Car" is not for nothing. Of course, this does not mean that Parker's absolute speed is particularly fast, but because Parker can suddenly shoot or change at high speed. Towards.

Durant and Westbrook were the two who chased and defended in the most timely manner. Just when they were still thinking about how Parker would attack the frame, he suddenly made a throw without slowing down, and Durant Both Teddy and Westbrook were in vain.

"Westbrook's ability to read the game is still too poor. He fell into the trap set up by the Spurs on the first goal." Kenny Smith watched Parker's easy counterattack, and he also raised questions about the Thunder's strength. questioned.

But when the Thunder came over for the second time, the Spurs' defense was the real challenge.

"Sure enough, center forwards are still used to organize the offense?" **Vichitch held his chin. It's not that he has never seen this kind of tactic, but it's true that very few people use it. In addition, the skills of center forwards in the league have become more and more rough over the years. , and almost no one will use the center like this.

But Jeff Van Gundy is a coach who dares to use and can indeed use a center forward. In his eyes, letting Anjie organize offenses is as normal as eating and sleeping.

An Jie held up the basketball at the center point, and the Thunder immediately revolved around An Jie. Suddenly one point! Durant, who cut inside, got a chance!

Durant's drive caught the attention of Duncan, Finley and Spurs starting shooting guard Roger Mason, all three of whom shrank into the paint at the same time.

Unexpectedly, Durant's ability is not only reflected in scoring. With a glance from the corner of his eye, Durant passed the basketball to Westbrook who was in the open before the three of them completed the encirclement.

Westbrook pulls up and shoots, still the kind of jumper with more height and less touch. But this time, Westbrook scored the ball successfully.

"Beautiful, from the perfect cooperation of these three rookies! The three young masters challenged GDP for the first time!" Reggie Miller finally spoke, where is Charles Barkley? He was concentrating on watching the text live broadcast of football on his mobile phone.

**Weiqi was not wrong in his estimation. The Thunder, which was unanimously looked down upon by the outside world, actually possessed impressive strength. But fortunately, I have already arranged a lot of tactics according to the characteristics of the Thunder.

An Jie found that his organizational task on the offensive end was becoming more and more difficult to complete. Facing the off-ball pick-and-roll of the rest of the Thunder team, the Spurs directly adopted the method of switching defenses to deal with it. As a result, the Thunder's off-ball movement has few opportunities to open the floor.

An Jie played two consecutive games when the organization was not going well. The first ball faced Bonner's defense and An Jie made a tentative step and then broke through. Jay made it to the free throw line.

It is precisely because of this spirit of not giving up that Bonner is still loved by fans even though he can't play excellent statistics. Even in the face of the vicious "Wolf King" Garnett before, Bonner dared to knock him to the ground directly.

On the second ball, An Jie still couldn't pass the ball, but changed to a back-up state, wanting to play one-on-one with Bonner.

Under Anjie's strong push, Bonner was still defeated. With a slight chance, Anjie turned around and hit a short-range jumper, which almost became Anjie's signature move.

It doesn't matter if the organization line is cut off, An Jie's personal scoring ability is not weak either!

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"Do you want to use Tim?" **Vitch looked at Duncan, maybe only he can replace Bonner to limit the No. 16 rookie.

On the defensive end, Jeff Van Gundy took the lead in making changes. He yelled from the sidelines to remind Anjie and Joe Smith to switch positions, let Anjie defend Duncan, and Smith defended Bonner who was floating on the outside.

An Jie acted according to his orders, is he finally going to fight against the Spurs banner? ?

But to Anjie's disappointment, Duncan only made a cover for Parker in this attack, and he didn't continue to play. And Parker also used the tacit cooperation with Duncan to pick and roll, and made another throw.

"Hey, haven't you fallen asleep watching it? As long as the Spurs attack in this way for the entire game, the Thunder will lose. But what's there to watch about the Spurs' offense?" Barkley exaggerated into the microphone yawned.

"You still continue to watch your football and put Charles." Kenny Smith's commentary style to Barkley has long been used to it.

But it is true that the Spurs may be one of David Stern's least favorite teams. Although they have won championships many times, the Spurs' games always make the audience doze off. The finals with the Spurs , ratings are also very unsatisfactory. There is no gorgeous offense, only precise conduction and pick-and-roll, and only iron barrel defense that kills wonderful shots. This is the San Antonio Spurs.

But **Vitch doesn't care about this, as long as they can win, the audience can sleep how they like. His arrangement successfully restrained the Thunder, which was bursting with offensive talent, the kind of wonderful attacking frame after cutting in and breaking through, and the Thunder had not been able to stage it today.

But only about Anjie, there was nothing Bonner could do about it. In the end, **Vitch also shouted, Duncan and Bonner switched positions, and the number 21 still came to An Jie!

Duncan let An Jie take a step, and stretched out a big hand to An Jie's eyes to block An Jie's sight. Duncan has played against countless outstanding big men, and he is definitely the one with the most experience in defending inside players.

An Jie saw that Duncan let him take a step, but he didn't choose to break through. For a man like Duncan who has matured, it is easy to draw an offensive foul on An Jie.

Back to back, close to each other, An Jie wants to have the most primitive confrontation with Duncan!

Just when everyone, including Duncan himself, thought that An Jie was going to play back to him, just when Duncan had just adjusted his defensive posture, An Jie suddenly turned around and accelerated violently! After hitting back for only a second, An Jie turned around and broke through!

Duncan, who didn't have time to react, rushed forward with all his strength, and Anjie was facing the basket that was already unguarded. Apart from chasing Duncan with all his strength, he couldn't find a second way to prevent Anjie from scoring.

Unexpectedly, An Jie stopped suddenly after running halfway, instead of directly attacking the frame, he completed a close-range emergency stop jumper within the three-second zone.

Duncan rushed a little too far, but he immediately controlled his footsteps and stretched his arms to touch the basketball.

But at this time, the advantages of Anjie's height and wingspan were reflected. Duncan's defense almost touched the basketball in Anjie's hands, but there was no difference between the almost and the difference.

"Swipe!" An Jie successfully played Duncan on the offensive end twice in a row!

"Oh! When was the last time you saw a center with this skill? Breakthrough, emergency stop, shot! Ann's movements are done in one go, even Duncan can't stop him!" Kenny Smith's praise for Anjie also attracted Barkley's attention.

On the way back to defend, An Jie and Durant and Westbrook clapped respectively. The Thunder's playmaker is not so easy to defend!

Stone Buddha? Don't worry, no matter how hard it is, Anjie will bite a gap! (To be continued.)