The world of basketball

Chapter 13 Victory in the First Battle
At the beginning of the second quarter, the players for the Lakers are Rondo, James, Stephenson, Beasley, Mu Xiaobei, and the Nuggets are Murray, Clegg, Lyles, Millsap, Pratt Mli.

Mu Xiaobei was facing tall center Plumlee.

The Nuggets get the ball, and Plumlee's scoring is basically through air cuts or pick-and-rolls to score at the basket. There are also mid-range and three-point shots, but they shoot less and are not as effective as Jokic. Therefore, Mu Xiaobei chose to take a step to defend Plumlee to ensure that he could keep up with his pace.

Mu Xiaobei's current weight is actually a bit embarrassing, because it is at the stage of neither fat nor thin, well, I mean, his current defensive speed suffers a bit, and his defensive strength suffers a bit. But now the league's centers are either status alone, or they are fast. It seems that there are not so many who are neither fat nor thin.

Wharton also customized a plan for Mu Xiaobei—muscle gain and weight loss. It seems contradictory, but it is not. Muscle gain does not actually affect speed, and Mu Xiaobei's [-]% body fat is indeed a bit high , This is unavoidable, after all, the diet and training of domestic players are indeed not that strict.

If Mu Xiaobei's body fat percentage can drop by two percentage points, then his speed and strength will probably increase a lot.

Back then, Yao Ming's body fat percentage was only [-]%, which was terrifying. It required extremely strong self-discipline to achieve this, because he had to control his diet and train strictly.

Mu Xiaobei's defense is really effective. Although Plumlee is tall, his strength is average. When Plumlee enters the paint area, no matter whether he has received the ball or not, Mu Xiaobei will give him a physical confrontation, and even secretly use some Stephen. The little trick Sen taught him.

Small tricks are small moves. Mu Xiaobei didn't have the opportunity to learn these when he played in China, but his teammate Stephenson is an expert in this area. These moves were summed up when he defended James back then.

Of course, although it is not accurate, Plumlee still has a certain shooting threat, but Plumley does not play a final role in the helpless tactics, so when there are 7 minutes left in the second quarter, End with Mu Xiaobei.

此时，木小北已经得到了12分6篮板2助攻2盖帽的数据，而普拉姆利得到5分6篮板的数据。

By the end of the second quarter, Mu Xiaobei hadn't played again. The function of the preseason game was to let the players find out the feeling of the game and let the team get used to it.

But it is also impossible to allow each player to play for a long time, because we must pay attention to the protection of the players. Basically, each player plays for about 10 minutes.

When Mu Xiaobei played again in the third quarter, with 4 minutes left before the end of the third quarter, the score came to 66:67, and the Lakers trailed by one point.

What Mu Xiaobei didn't expect was that the coach put him and McGee together on the court this time, saying that it was to test the new possibility of the lineup.

Since the team has James, Rondo, Brother Qiu and even Stephenson, etc., playing a small lineup and counterattack is very suitable for this Lakers team.

So the current lineup on the field is Stephenson, Beasley, Kuzma, Mu Xiaobei, McGee.

Mu Xiaobei played the [-]th position, and thanks to Mu Xiaobei's frequent watching of Porzingis' videos, he had a relatively good understanding of how to play the [-]th position at this height.

Coach Wharton played this lineup because of the impact of Mu Xiaobei's shooting ability and McGee's running and jumping ability.

Stephenson is definitely an underrated offensive ball handler and passer. If this lineup is used for the team's transition lineup, I don't know what effect it will have.

More importantly, even if there are two tall centers on the field, these two tall centers can run, and there is no disadvantage in speed if they counterattack.

This lineup is a big lineup, with Stephenson holding the ball, Kuzma and Beasley in the bottom corner respectively, and Mu Xiaobei and McKitty coming up to pick and roll for Stephenson.

Finsen walks to Mu Xiaobei's side on the right, Mu Xiaobei bounces to the top of the arc, McGee walks to the basket, Kuzma walks to the bottom line and cuts to the basket, McGee does an off-ball pick-and-roll for Kuzma.

The Tunneling team defended well, the basketball was passed to Mu Xiaobei, and it was Plumlee who defended Mu Xiaobei.

Mu Xiaobei passed the ball back to Stephenson, Kuzma went to the top of the arc to make a pick and roll for Mu Xiaobei, and Mu Xiaobei fell on the left side of the paint area, and had already withstood Barton who was originally defending Kuzma. Good location.

Stephenson passed the ball over.

Mu Xiaobei pushed back against him with his back, and then began to sit in. After hitting him twice, he didn't come to the defense. Only Barton was behind Mu Xiaobei and pressed his elbow against Mu Xiaobei's waist.

Generally speaking, it is still a very effective defensive method for the small defense to resist the waist, because if a person's waist is supported, it will be difficult to use all his strength.

"Don't bother, rookie, it's impossible for you to survive in the NBA with such weak strength." Barton's trash talk came as promised.

But Mu Xiaobei pushed back again, suddenly turned his back and slipped to the baseline position, then dribbled the ball, swiped his arm out, and got rid of Barton's defense. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw McGee's air cut, With a flick of the wrist, the basketball was thrown into the air.

Boom! ! !

McGee dunks Button!

The stadium was boiling, and the original purpose of many fans who drove to the San Diego Arena was to see James' first show and see the Lakers running in.

The cooperation between Mu Xiaobei and McGee also made Wharton nod. It seems that Mu Xiaobei also has the ability to cope, especially when Mu Xiaobei turned his back and passed Barton, he was indeed a bit like a point guard. do.

On the defensive end, the Nuggets' three-pointers and pick-and-rolls are relatively important scoring methods for the Nuggets.

The Nuggets' conduction is very patient, Morris, Button, Plumlee, Beasley, Lyles.These people, including Plumlee, all have shooting ability, but Plumlee doesn't shoot much.

After a pass, there really wasn't any good chances. Morris asked for a pick-and-roll to break through by himself. Time was running out, so he could only challenge McGee's defense.

Morris pushed McKee away and made a hasty shot.

However, McGee's bounce and wingspan determined that this struggle was useless. A big cap covered the ball into Mu Xiaobei's arms. Mu Xiaobei saw Beasley running towards the basket in the frontcourt. With a flick of the big hand, the ball was thrown out.

Beasley took three steps straight after catching the ball. There was no one in front of him, and he dunked directly to score two points.

In the following games, including the fourth quarter, this lineup was used a lot. I mean the lineup where McGee and Mu Xiaobei were on the court at the same time.

In the fourth quarter, Mu Xiaobei and McGee didn't need to play at all, but Wharton head coach let Mu Xiaobei and McGee play for 5 minutes in order to test the effect of these two people playing a big lineup.

At the end of the game, the Lakers won their first preseason victory 112:100.

此战木小北出战25分钟，获得了20分14篮板6助攻3盖帽，这六个助攻有五个都是送给了贾维尔麦基。

But when the reporter wanted to find Mu Xiaobei to interview him for a few words, they found that Mu Xiaobei had disappeared.

(End of this chapter)