"Amare, your back skills are really poor, as an inside player, you don't have excellent back skills, but you can't do it, let me teach you now, how to play back singles." Offensive and defensive switching, Meng Xu appeared on the left side of the 3-point line with the ball, Hardaway, who was supposed to be opposite Meng Xu, did not defend Meng Xu this time, but Stoudemire rushed out from under the basket and wanted to defend Meng Xu in person, no matter what the reason, Meng Xu appreciated Stoudemire's courage and tenacity.

"Hmph." Stoudemire opened his mouth, ready to taunt Meng Xu, but when he thought of the coach's advice to him during the season, the words that originally came to his lips were swallowed alive. With Hardaway's current physical state, there is no way to take Meng Xu one-on-one, so in the defensive strategy formulated by head coach Frank Johnson before the game, as long as Meng Xu holds the ball and plays alone, Marion or Stoudemire who is on the inside line must have someone pull out to help defend Hardaway, and Frank Johnson also specially told Stoudemire and Marion that when defending Meng Xu's back singles, you must be careful, and you must not underestimate the enemy, a big man like Malone can't get Meng Xu's back, Not to mention Marion and Stoudemire.

Although Stoudemire doesn't say it, but in his heart, he still has some disdain for Frank Johnson's excessive caution, Stoudemire often watches Meng Xu's games, Meng Xu's back body skills are good, and he can eat most of the outside players in the current league just by relying on his back singles, but Meng Xu is an outside player after all, no matter how good his strength is, there is still a big gap compared with the inside players. In the last game between the Pacers and the Lakers, Meng Xu had an absolute advantage in the back-to-back singles Kobe, Payton, and Booker, but when he met Ma Long, Meng Xu couldn't take advantage at all, and in the end he could only rely on skills and use his back to turn around to get rid of Ma Long, and the aging Ma Long couldn't keep up with Meng Xu in terms of turning speed and movement speed, which led to Meng Xu's success rate being very high when he singled Ma Long with his back. And Stoudemire thinks that compared with Ma Long, he may be inferior in upper body strength, but it is more than enough to withstand an outside player, and his movement speed, reaction ability, and explosive power are also better than Ma Long, so it is impossible for Meng Xu to get rid of himself like getting rid of Ma Long.

"Damn, why is his strength so strong?" When Meng Xu dribbled the ball and began to lean behind him, although he had already prepared, Stoudemire still took a small half step back under the huge thrust, and Meng Xu's strength had greatly exceeded Stoudemier's estimate.

"Isn't that going to work? This is just the beginning. After the first temptation, Meng Xu also had a general understanding of Stoudemire's power, not to mention perverts like Marlon Duncan, even Jermaine O'Neal and Stoudemire were inferior. After pushing back twice in a row, Meng Xu directly used his greatest strength and sat down fiercely towards Stoudemire behind him, this time, Stoudemire was directly hit by Meng Xu and lost his balance, and his right foot took a big step back before he could barely support it.

At this moment, Meng Xu quickly completed the turn in front of Stoudemire, first made a move to break through to the right, and after shaking Stoudemire, Meng Xu immediately retracted his body and rushed towards the left side of Stoudemire.

"What a speed!" Just when Stoudemire came back to his senses and was about to rush towards the basket, Meng Xu was already hanging on the basket, the Sun didn't have a big guy like O'Neal sitting on the inside, and no one could stop Meng Xu who rushed to the basket.

Looking at Meng Xu, who raised his hands and accepted the cheers of the audience, thinking back to every fragment of the round just now, Stoudemire still has an unreal feeling, Stoudemire and Marion are both interior players, but they are different from those traditional interior lines with average movement speed, both of them are interior lines with excellent movement speed, and they are not inferior to Garnett's interior lines with guard skills, but in this attack just now, whether it is Stoudemire or Marion, They were all easily passed by Meng Xu with his back turned around, and by the time they reacted, there was no way to catch up with Meng Xu.

"Stoudemire can't stop Meng Xu's back singles? It seems that it is impossible to find an outside line in this alliance that can prevent Meng Xu's back. At this moment, the media, especially the reporters of the New York Times, who were waiting on the sidelines to see Meng Xu's jokes, kept shaking their heads and their faces were full of disappointment. The Suns themselves are a catfish, and they sent away the team's boss Marbury this summer, so this team really doesn't have much attention now, but today's game between the Suns and the Pacers, many media in New York still came to the scene, not for anything else, just to be able to watch Stoudemire's "revenge" on the Pacers, such a good show. What's more, some newspapers even have tomorrow's headline written, "Blind, arrogant, Pacers miss out on super inside!" "The worst trade ever, Stoudemire broke the Pacers' $20 million interior combination!" Anyway, it's just how to attract attention, and when the game started, Meng Xu and Stoudemire continued to one-on-one, these media wanted to add something, such as "the strongest rookie this season, beat the MVP" or something, but judging from the current situation on the court, their attempt is obviously going to fail.

"Meng Xu once again singled Stoudemire with his back, Stoudemire couldn't stand him at all, turned his back, and hit a board jumper, beautiful."

"Stoudemire received a pass from Hardaway and was ready to single Meng Xu, not good, Stoudemire made a mistake, Meng Xu's steal, the Pacers went down fast, a beautiful aerial relay." As the game progressed, the Pacers always suppressed the Suns, and Meng Xu also suppressed Stoudemire, whether it was on the offensive end or on the defensive end, Stoudemire did nothing.

"Jermaine, what's the matter with you? Watch your defense! In the face of Meng Xu's all-round suppression, from the second half of the first quarter, Stoudemire began to deliberately avoid Meng Xu, in this attack, taking advantage of the gap between Meng Xu being blocked by Hardaway, Stoudemire held the ball against Jermaine O'Neal. And watching Jermaine O'Neal, who was "bullied" by Meng Xu for most of the quarter, was also somewhat underestimated, an inside line that even Meng Xu could handle at will, Jermaine O'Neal naturally couldn't see it, but this time, Stoudemire taught Jermaine O'Neal a solid lesson, pretending to be a back-to-back single Jermaine O'Neal's Stoudemire, after Jermaine O'Neal began to stand, he immediately turned around and half, directly erasing Jermaine O'Neal, Stoudemire hit a mid-range jumper, Hit the first goal of the game for an individual.

Although in the previous time, he has been suppressing Stoudemire, but this does not mean that Stoudemire is a guy who is casually bullied, you must know that his state in this game is a demon, although Meng Xu has not inquired about Stoudemire's current strength value, but after all attributes +10, Stoudemire is at least not weaker than Jermaine O'Neal at present. The strength of two people is equal, and they may not be able to catch each other with all their efforts, not to mention that you still have the mentality of underestimating the enemy. Although some things can't be said clearly, when Jermaine O'Neal sent a baseline ball and passed by Meng Xu, Meng Xu still reminded Jermaine O'Neal with some dissatisfaction.

After hearing Meng Xu's reminder, Jermaine O'Neal also nodded at Meng Xu with some embarrassment, if he couldn't even get a rookie like Stoudemire, how would he go out to mix in the future, and how would he punch Duncan and kick O'Neal.

"It's me who underestimated this rookie, Meng, don't worry, I will fix him next time."

Stoudemire is a rookie after all, and even if he is outstanding, he will be greatly reduced due to his lack of experience, even if he is as strong as O'Neal, when he first entered the league, he was not repaired by the "three major centers" for two seasons before he could compete with them. Not to mention that Stoudemire's strength is not yet outstanding, so Jermaine O'Neal still has this confidence, after all, what Jermaine O'Neal says, is now also an All-Star insider, the second leader of a championship team, and it is not a matter of holding a handle if you want to repair a rookie.

"I'll go, this guy is not easy to deal with." Because Jermaine O'Neal had just been beaten by Stoudemire, so in this offense, after gaining a slight upper hand in the entanglement between the basket and Stoudemire, Jermaine O'Neal immediately stretched out his hand to Meng Xu and asked for one, ready to return one, in order to get back to the court, but after receiving the ball, Jermaine O'Neal, after hitting Stoudemire several times in a row, failed to find a suitable opportunity, not only that, but was also very uncomfortable by Stoudemire's close defense. Fortunately, Stoudemire still lacked game experience, Jermaine O'Neal made a half-turn feint to raise his hand, and he was picked up, and after Stoudemire was out of position, Jermaine O'Neal put the basketball into the basket calmly with a slight tiptoe.

"Hardaway's ground-hitting pass found Stoudemire very accurately, and after receiving the ball, Stoudemire shook off Jermaine O'Neal's defense and rushed directly to the basket, is he going to dunk?" Just when Stoudemire had already flown into the air, ready to use all his strength to dunk the basketball in his hand into the basket, he felt that something was in front of the basketball, and it felt as if he had slapped the basketball on the rebound.

When the frightened Stoudemire looked at it, he found that a big hand was impartially pressed on the basketball in his hand, Meng Xu, Meng Xu again, Meng Xu, who had obviously been blocked by Hardaway just now, appeared in front of him like a ghost at this moment, and blocked his dunk.

Almost instantly, Stoudemire felt a huge force from the basketball to his palm, and then spread to his whole body, and Stoudemire, who was still floating in the air, immediately lost his balance and fell directly from the air.

"Beautiful, pretty, beautiful cap, Meng Xu, Meng Xu again, this is the third time Meng Xu has blocked Stoudemire in this game." When Meng Xu and Stoudemire fell from the air one after another, the basketball that was shot out by Meng Xu rolled out of the sideline, looking at Meng Xu, who had already gotten up and stood under the basket and was sorting out his jersey, Michaels roared and stood up from the commentary seat.

"Actually, Amare's performance today is not as bad as the data suggests, whether it is against Mutombo or against Jermaine O'Neal, his performance is remarkable." Looking at Stoudemire, who was pulled up from the floor by his teammates, he was obviously a little overwhelmed, and Magic Johnson, who was holding technical statistics in his hand, was also a little regretful, with 2 points, 3 rebounds and 4 turnovers on 1 of 4 shots, this is Stoudemire's data in the first quarter. In the first quarter of the game, whether Stoudemire faced Mutombo or Jermaine O'Neal, in addition to the obvious lack of game experience, Stoudemire did not fall behind in the fight for the basket, or in the protection of rebounds, or even in covering for his teammates, but when facing Meng Xu, whether it was offensive or defensive, he was beaten by Meng Xu without temper. In several confrontations with Jermaine O'Neal, Stoudemire had obviously gained the upper hand, but in the end it was destroyed by Meng Xu, who rushed over to help defend.

"Erwin, you have to know that the most important part of the Pacers' defensive system is Meng's co-defense, as one of the few outside players who won the best defensive player, and also won the best defensive player in his rookie season, Meng Xu's defense has always been the top in the league, especially Meng Xu's co-defense, his defensive sense is unbelievable."

"Amare, I'll teach you another lesson, no matter when and where, whatever you want to do on the pitch, keep an eye on your back." Meng Xu, who was still standing under the basket, looked at Stoudemire, who was pulled up by Marion and Hardaway, and said with a serious face. Originally, Meng Xu was about to fall into the well and stimulate Stoudemire, but after seeing Hardaway's "sincere" gaze, for some reason, Meng Xu softened his heart at that moment.

Soon the first quarter of this game was over, 18-26, and the Suns who were fighting away were 8 points behind the Pacers after the end of the first quarter. Especially before the game, Stoudemire, who said that he wanted to blow up the Pacers' interior line, basically lost his fighting spirit at the end of the half, and Stoudemire, who played 17 minutes in the entire first half, only scored 5 points and 5 rebounds on 2-of-9 shooting, but the number of turnovers reached 7.