At this time, Zhou Quan turned off the screen and noticed that Payton's expression on the opposite side was a little strange. He couldn't help but asked curiously: "Gary, what's wrong with you?"
"nothing."
Seeing Zhou Quan speak, Gary Payton felt relaxed, the pressure in his heart was gone, and his mentality returned to normal.
"Rookie, I heard you are good at fighting?" Sean Kemp said eagerly.
"Rainman, you want to try?"
Zhou Quan turned to look at Kemp and touched his trouser pocket.
"Don't throw the gloves, I'm just asking." Kemp shouted quickly.
No matter how crazy he is, after all, he is only crazy on the court. The cases of the postman and Laimbeer are there, and talking about fists with Iron Fist, how can he dare to try it easily?
Zhou Quan actually took out an ice hockey glove from his pocket, shook it in his hand, and said: "It's okay, I won't throw this thing around. Even if I throw it to you, you don't have to pick it up, and I won't. It’s impossible to force you.”
Everyone is playing basketball with a black look on their faces. Why are you wearing hockey gloves all day long?
Shawn Kemp also had a bad face. I could refuse to answer, but wouldn’t that make me a coward? I would rather get beaten than become the next Ranbir.
At half past eight, the game officially started.
Jump ball, Sonics offense.
At the top of the arc, Zhou Quan stood in front of Gary Payton, pressing his right hand against his opponent's waist and making a false block with his left hand. He also made sudden moves to poke the ball from time to time to distract his opponent and prevent him from fully organizing the offense.
Payton is very strong and has good confrontation ability, but it depends on the opponent. Against other point guards, he has confrontation and physical advantages, but against Zhou Quan, he only has a height advantage.
Unable to attack from the front, he immediately changed his tactics and suddenly dribbled to the right wing.
But he only moved two steps. At the top of the arc, two meters to the right, he raised his left elbow to resist Zhou Quan. At the same time, he suddenly changed direction downwards, leaping past the former and heading towards the right elbow area.
His breakthrough with the ball attracted the Pistons' inside defense. At this time, Rainman Kemp took the opportunity to enter the paint area from the right low post.
Payton threw the ball to the right of the basket.
The next moment, Shawn Kemp flew up.
At this moment, he showed all fans what explosive power is, what jumping is, and what historical talent is.
"boom!"
After the alley-oop dunk, a violent explosion of the basket suddenly sounded, extremely violent.
"Damn beast!"
"Shet!"
Countless curses instantly erupted from the Palace of Auburn Hills.
After succeeding, Shawn Kemp was wildly excited, bursting with adrenaline, and filled his brain with blood. According to his habit, he began to provoke.
But this time he did not provoke the inside players. Instead, he ran in front of Zhou Quan, pointed at Zhou Quan with both hands, his whole body was shaking, and his mouth was like a machine cannon: "Oh, oh oh oh oh..."
"Go away! You retard."
Zhou Quan took a step forward, pushed hard with both hands, and pushed Kemp to the ground.
"Oh oh oh……"
In the commentator's seat, the bearded John Rowes shouted angrily: "Rain Man actually dares to challenge Iron Fist. Their positions are completely different. This is wrong. Iron Fist, show your fists and tell him that you cannot be provoked." .”
"Fuck him!"
In the audience, Isiah Thomas stood up, pumped his fist and shouted.
"Fuck him!"
Under his leadership, the entire Palace of Auburn Hills roared.
Arousing public outrage, Shawn Kemp was stunned, quickly shut his mouth, got up and hid behind his teammates.
"Let's go!"
Payton pushed Kemp and told him to leave quickly.
Zhou Quan did nothing more and signaled his teammates to serve.
The Palace of Auburn Hills was a little disappointed, but they now understood Zhou Quan. He was a tough guy who dared to wave an iron fist at Ranbir and the postman, but he was not a villain. They guessed that maybe it was Rain Man's provocation. Break through Iron Fist's bottom line?
They guessed it right. Faced with such a provocation, Zhou Quan would definitely take out his gloves and throw them at him if it were on the ice hockey rink. But this is the NBA and violence on the court is not allowed. He must try his best to comply with the rules of the NBA. As long as it is not Push his boundaries and he'll solve problems the basketball way.
But if his bottom line is exceeded, the examples of Laimbeer and the Postman are there. Whether on or off the court, he will not hesitate to use his fist to solve the problem.
Pistons offense.
Zhou Quan took the ball to the frontcourt. Facing Payton's defense, he did not use Jordan's hybrid breakthrough that combined the three breakthrough methods. He only used one, which was a crushing breakthrough.
There is no distinction between these two kinds of breakthroughs, only the difference between which one is more suitable.
Jordan's tonnage is greater than him. Although his strength is not as good as his, the effect of crushing breakthrough is not very good.
Facing Payton, he has great advantages in tonnage and strength. A crushing breakthrough is the most suitable. The simpler the method, the more effective it is.
"Bang bang..."
While dribbling, he pushed Payton in with his left elbow.
While advancing, he glanced left and right from time to time. Except behind him, everything on the left and right wings instantly established a perfect visual model in his brain, and then updated it continuously.
Although Payton's defense is good, he is only a sophomore after all. Like Zhou Quan, he is far from Jordan's level. If he is forced to retreat, there is no good way. He can only defend and retreat and wait. Double-teamed by teammates.
At this moment, as Zhou Quan advanced to the free throw line, the SuperSonics' defense was compressed and began to attack the penalty area.
At this time, the Pistons' perimeter got a chance.
When Rodman and Joe Dumars were in the penalty area with their respective defenders, the former rushed into the paint area to grab rebounds, and the latter got a small opening outside the right three-point line.
"Whoosh!"
Zhou Quan advanced another half step in, and then suddenly exploded the ball. The moment the ball was quickly pulled up, he grabbed it with one hand and swung outward, and the ball flew directly towards Joe Dumars.
Ricky Pierce, who was two steps away, quickly returned to defense, but it was already too late. Joe Dumars, who was very comfortable catching the ball, did not need to adjust his posture at all, and took off directly after receiving the ball.
"brush!"
The water splashed and he hit a three-pointer.
"Damn it!"
Payton couldn't help but curse.
The defensive failure was because he failed to withstand Zhou Quan. Zhou Quan advanced into the penalty area and compressed the team's defense, allowing the Pistons to get open from the outside. Therefore, the goal conceded was not Ricky Pierce's head, but his. question.
"Ricky, Joe Dumars is the Pistons' No. 1 offensive point, you can't let him go." SuperSonics transition head coach Jones shouted loudly.
Taking a look at the sidelines, Ricky Pierce nodded.
2:3, SuperSonics offense.
Payton held the ball close to the top of the arc, and Zhou Quan took a step to defend, preventing breakthroughs but not shots.
He knows that Payton has not developed his three-pointers now, averaging only 0.3 three-pointers per game and shooting 17%, so he can let it go.
Payton took a look and didn't guard my three-pointer?
He jumped up decisively and shot a three-pointer.
Zhou Quan was well prepared and immediately took off to block the shot. Although he was not as tall as Payton, his wingspan made up for his height disadvantage and affected the opponent's shooting angle. After forcibly adjusting, the ball passed two centimeters above his fingertips. The height flew past.
"boom!"
It was a little short, and the basketball bounced off the basket and was caught by Rodman.
Payton shook his head in disappointment. His shot was still a little affected by Zhou Quan's block. It seemed that three-pointers still couldn't be easily attempted.
