Chapter 49: The First Battle (4)

Carlisle, as the head coach, naturally knows where the Pacers' gang of animals went last night, in fact, if it was in the regular season, he would have banned it. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

It's a pity that this is just a preseason game that is not enough to worry about, and he is not even prepared to let O'Neill Jr., Artest and other main players play more than 20 minutes of games.

In other words, it's showtime for the benches and rookies.

Seeing the outstanding performance of Yang Di and Wade before, he suddenly remembered that during this year's draft, the Pacers also selected a player in the second round.

"James." Carlisle whispered his name to the scrawny young player in his seat.

"Yes Coach, I'm here." James Jones immediately stood up, the 23-year-old is an older rookie, and he can't wait to see that Yang Di and Wade, who are younger than him, have already appeared on the stage.

"Let's play, come on." Carlisle wanted to say something, but when the words came to his mouth, he found that he really didn't know much about his players, in fact, Larry Bird invited him to coach the Pacers, and the real goal was to win the championship, and for young players, it can only be an occasional boost.

James Jones nodded delightfully and walked up excitedly.

After the timeout, the Heat became a five-man group of Alston, Wade, Rasol Butler, Haslem and Jandy, while the Pacers were made up of Fred Jones, Jamison Brewer, James Jones, Austin Crohill and Primoz Blazek.

So Yang Di saw that the player he was opposite was changed, a European big white bear of 2.18 meters and more than 116 kilograms.

Primoz Blazek, the 27th pick in the first round in '01, is a Slovenian basketball player who is in excellent physical condition and has the highest height and arm span in the NBA.

After coming on the court, the first wave of the Pacers' offense was finally transmitted to Blazek on the inside, and Yang Di was stuck behind him.

Blazek, dribbling low, hit Yang Di's chest with his back, and the bulldozer-like force overwhelmingly hit him.

Yang Di snorted, his body floating, and his center of gravity was unstable.

At this time, Blazek half-turned, his left foot was pumped for support, and his left hand hooked lightly, and the basketball easily crossed a trajectory and fell into the basket.

With 2 points, the Pacers trailed by 6 points at 33-39.

", why is it so heavy!" Yang Di felt that the opponent's strength was not strong, but the weight and height advantage was too great, and before his strength formed an absolute advantage, he couldn't withstand it at all, but Brezek was like a traditional European center, with delicate skills, soft touch, and close-range hook shots were as easy as drinking water.

"It's still a little bit off."

Stan Van Gundy has already classified Yang Di as a substitute supplement in his heart, at least the current Yang Di's ability can only be like this.

The Heat attacked, and Alston on the outside was given to Wade on the wing.

Wade beckoned to Yang Di, and after Yang Di saw it, he ran to Wade's left hand side to make a block and dismantle cover, and Jamison Brewer immediately stepped forward when he saw that Yang Di was going to block and dismantle, ready to find a favorable position before Yang Di blocked and dismantled.

At this time, Wade and Yang Di started at the same time.

Wade stepped with his right hand and dribbled to the right, and Yang Di didn't come over to block and dismantle, twisting and running back to the basket to cut into the air.

Jamison Brewer was momentarily stunned, and when the guard, who was also drafted by the Pacers the year before, turned around, Jandy and Wade turned into two arcs, skimming his defense and the Pacers' defense.

Big center Blazek followed a step, and Wade flew into the air in two steps, met Crohill, who rushed to make up for the defense, and hit a layup with a low hand.

At 41-33, the Heat led by eight points.

"You can still score in this kind of confrontation!" Crosildo glanced at Wade, the young guard is not only amazing physically, but also has a pretty high level of basketball, not like a rookie.

The Pacers attacked, Fred Jones turned to the right in the middle and passed back to Blazek in the high post, and Brezek made a hand-to-hand pass at the top of the arc to make a pick-and-roll cover for small forward James Jones. In fact, at this time, Rasol was blocked, Yang Di did not save, Jones had a chance to shoot, but Jones hesitated slightly.

The opportunity flashed by and Rasol reappeared in front of James Jones.

Jones then shifted to Jamison Brewer on the other side, who dribbled to the side to break.

failed to squeeze Wade, forced a layup in three steps, and the posture was very awkward, barely avoiding Wade's big hand and throwing the ball out.

Just less than ten centimeters away from his hand, Yang Di rushed over from the side and slapped the ball away.

"Good hat!"

"This kid did a good job!"

Odom and others on the bench applauded, and the blocks were always more exciting.

Yang Di and Wade clapped each other, and the Pacers had only 3.8 seconds left in their offensive time.

Then, Brewer served from the sideline, and Fred dribbled through two steps before hitting a high jumper, missed, and the rebound bounced high.

"Mine!"

Yang Di yelled, and just wanted to jump up the scrum, a black hand grabbed in front.

Haslem!

Krohill didn't mean to scramble for frontcourt rebounds, and Haslem didn't go to the card position and occupied a better position than Jandy, who couldn't grab the backcourt rebounds for the sake of the cardholder's tall Brezek.

"This ......"

When the game between the two teams was less than two minutes away from the end of the second quarter, Yang Di finally grabbed the second rebound of the game, but it was still a frontcourt rebound.

Yang Di passed back to Wade on the outside, and Wade made a gesture to press the rhythm.

Then it was the blocking and dismantling attack, one step passed the defender, and a wipe of the body entered the inside line, Yang Di made a receiving posture with both hands, and cut through the middle in small steps.

Wade hit the ground and passed, Yang Di received the ball and took a straight step, and when Blazek and Krohill, who had lost their positions, turned their heads, Yang Di had already stepped on the outside of the penalty area and took off.

"Bang dang", and completed a shocking one-handed split.

At this point, the Heat led the Pacers by exactly 10 points at 46-36.

The next few waves of offense failed to make it to both sides, and Yang Di finally grabbed a backcourt rebound before the end of halftime, and grabbed the technical statistics from his wolf-like teammates!

'Okay, our lads did well in the first half.

The local Miami television station that broadcast the game gave the home team a positive rating.

One host laughed and said: "The main thing is Dwyane Wade, who has been practicing in college for three years, and it is really extraordinary, he has an outstanding performance as soon as he gets on the court, scoring 14 points on 6-of-9 shooting in the entire first half, which is the best performance of all the players." ”

Another host then praised Yang Di's performance: "There is also the second-round pick we selected, he got 4 points, 3 rebounds and 1 block, although the statistics are decent, but I was impressed by his first slam dunk, like a tiger out of the gate, fierce." ”

"The point is that he doesn't fall behind in the confrontation with sophomores or juniors who are taller and stronger than him."

"Yes, although the defensive options in the low post were a bit poor on the whole, they were very good overall, and I'm looking forward to seeing them in the regular season."

"In comparison, the Pacers' rookie James Jones has been terrible, looking as thin as a bamboo pole, playing only switchbacks for six minutes on the court, unable to defend and contributing offensively."

The two hosts laughed and said that this was only the first inconsequential preseason game, but they had already begun to sing the praises of the Heat's golden operator, Pat Riley.