Basketball boy, starting to shine from the slam dunk

"Pull away."

Zhuang Yu made a gesture and his teammates moved away to leave space for him.

Brown's heart sank. He took a deep breath and stared at Zhuang Yu's movements. After all, Zhuang Yu was a super star and the scoring champion. He felt under a lot of pressure.

The next moment, Zhuang Yu started, dribbled the ball between his legs, and then accelerated suddenly.

This move was incredibly fast. Brown was immediately shocked and quickly retreated and moved sideways, trying to block the breakthrough route first, but failed.

"too fast."

Brown soon discovered that Zhuang Yu was too fast.

By the time he retreated and moved sideways, Zhuang Yu had already passed him by most of his body length. He could no longer stop him and could only watch Zhuang Yu pass by him, feeling an inexplicable sense of powerlessness in his heart.

Scoring champion, is this the strength of a scoring champion?

Although Brown is already a second-year player, he was just a substitute last season, averaging only 17 minutes per game and having no tactical position. So when facing the Lakers, his playing time was very limited and he had no chance to face off against Zhuang Yu.

Now that he has become the team's starter, and is playing against Zhuang Yu, Brown is very excited. He is very excited to think about playing against Zhuang Yu, and even has a little expectation and ambition that is not known to outsiders. If he can...

However, within a minute of the game starting, his fantasy was shattered - the scoring champion was too strong.

After passing Brown, Zhuang Yu rushed to the basket.

"Take up defense."

someone shouted.

Horford stepped forward quickly. He was experienced and had fought with Zhuang Yu more than once or twice. He was mentally prepared and knew that Brown probably could not defend against Zhuang Yu. Therefore, he had already prepared to provide backup defense and stepped forward to block Zhuang Yu as soon as possible.

However, Zhuang Yu did not go towards him. When the two were still a little distance apart, Zhuang Yu suddenly stopped and jumped up.

"Yes."

Horford's eyebrows jumped, and he quickly jumped up and flew forward.

He is 208cm tall, cm taller than Zhuang Yu, and he is mentally prepared, so he is confident that he can defend the ball. It would be better if he can block Zhuang Yu's shot, but if he can't, he can definitely interfere with Zhuang Yu.

However......

"What?" Horford jumped up but found that the basketball was getting farther and farther away from him. He stretched out his arms but couldn't reach it. "Fade away."

This ball is not just a simple pull-up jump shot, it's also a fade away.

Zhuang Yu leaned back, holding the basketball in his right hand, and then with a flick of his wrist, the basketball flew out from his fingertips, drew a beautiful arc, and flew towards the basket.

Swish!

A slight sound came from behind him, and Horford knew that the ball must have gone in.

But he was not surprised at all.

He knew it just by looking at Zhuang Yu's movements, which were so beautiful.

The score was 2:0, and the Lakers took the lead.

"Zhuang Yu, Zhuang Yu..."

In the audience stands, the home fans shouted Zhuang Yu's name excitedly and cheered for him excitedly. This fadeaway was truly beautiful.

Horford shook his head, but saw that Brown's expression was a little dull. He was moved and patted Brown on the shoulder, saying, "It's okay. He's too strong. Just try to defend him. You still have to be careful about his three-pointers. It's better to let him break through than let him shoot three-pointers. I will move forward to help defend later."

Brown nodded heavily.

......

The Celtics attack.

Irving pushed forward with the ball, and after reaching the frontcourt, he gestured to his teammates. Horford mentioned the pick-and-roll, and Irving took the opportunity to get rid of Holiday and was about to break through. But Lopez immediately went up to delay him, and in just a moment, Holiday had already pounced on him.

Holiday also heard when Coach Scott was making the pre-game arrangements just now, that he wanted to return to the style of play before the All-Star vote.

In other words, he had to give the ball back to Zhuang Yu.

Holiday didn't think there was anything wrong with this, as Zhuang Yu had already helped him a lot.

So Holiday quickly adjusted his mentality and position. He would put more energy and concentration on the defensive end. He was responsible for defense, and Zhuang Yu was responsible for offense.

"Ok?"

Irving raised his eyebrows slightly. He didn't expect Holiday to pounce on him so quickly, but he didn't intend to pass the ball. Instead, he signaled his teammates to move away.

The next moment, Irving played one-on-one, dribbling the ball between his legs continuously, his shoulders shaking, and suddenly his center of gravity raised, making a gesture of worshiping Buddha.

I have to say that Irving is indeed a super singles master.

He is also one of the few players who can deceive Zhuang Yu with fake moves, because his moves are so beautiful and deceptive.

Holiday was also fooled, and subconsciously took a step forward, standing on tiptoe and raising his hands.

As a result, Irving suddenly accelerated and passed Holiday in an instant. Not only were his movements beautiful and deceptive, but his speed was also very fast.

This point is easily overlooked. Many people see Irving's juggling-like dribbling skills and always think that he relies on these moves to pass others.

Yes, but not entirely.

He relies on skillful technical moves and amazing speed to dribble past opponents. His first step is very long, and especially when the defensive player is confused, he can be dribble past in one step.

Irving passed Holiday and went straight to the basket. Lopez quickly stepped forward to defend. Irving did not pass the ball. He jumped towards Lopez, folded in the air, changed hands, switched the ball to his left hand, stretched it under Lopez's arm, avoided Lopez's block, and then lightly picked it up.

Swish!

The ball goes in.

"It's so beautiful." Zhuang Yu couldn't help but admire it.

In this All-Star voting, Irving ranked first among Eastern Conference backcourt players, and received more than 800,000 votes more than DeRozan, who was second. His amazing popularity is inseparable from his gorgeous playing style.

The score became 2:2.

Turn around.

After Zhuang Yu reached the frontcourt, he got the ball again. Brown subconsciously wanted to step back a little because he had just been passed by Zhuang Yu in one step.

But thinking of Horford's instructions, he took another small step forward and secretly told himself, it doesn't matter, the opponent is the scoring leader and a superstar, it doesn't matter if I can't defend him, but I am taller than him, as long as I can defend his shot, it will be a success.

Brown is 201cm tall and has an excellent wingspan. He is a swingman who can play as a guard or a forward and is also excellent at defense.

Originally, he thought that he had height, wingspan, excellent physical talent, and good defensive awareness, and might be able to defend against Zhuang Yu, but after that ball just now, he realized that he was too naive.

Now, he just hopes to limit Zhuang Yu's shooting.

Unfortunately, this is just a beautiful fantasy for him...

laugh!

Zhuang Yu suddenly started and tried to break through to the left. Brown's heart skipped a beat and he quickly moved sideways. However, Zhuang Yu immediately changed direction, retreated, further increasing the distance, stepped back to outside the three-point line, and jumped up to take a three-point shot.

Brown rushed forward, but it was too late.