In the middle of the third quarter, Wei Xia began a mid-range shot show.

The person who wants to stop Wei Xia from performing is Leonard.

If someone in the league can limit Wei Xia, then the only reasonable candidate is Leonard.

Last season's DPOY took a step further this season. When it comes to Leonard's defense, people usually discuss his 221 cm terrible arm span, but that's just the edge of his defense.

Leonard's terrible defensive end—like any great defender—is in his lower set.

To be precise, it is pace.

Before the acl tear, Wei Xia was an extremely excellent defender. When he lost the speed of moving that could keep up with anyone and was forced to improve his defensive awareness, enhance his sense of defense, and predict, he became a great defender.

Leonard tends to be aggressive front-and-back foot positions: he adheres to the Spurs' always defensive thinking of "blocking the middle and putting the edges", so he can often be seen splitting his legs, front-and-back foot, pressing down the center of gravity, sticking to the opponent, and emptying one side.

Anyone who wants to pull it off on his head will have to weigh his arm span.

Even Wei Xia has to seek rhythmic dribbling before doing it.

Moreover, if you want to break through, if you don’t have absolute speed, you can’t do whatever you want. Leonard’s forward step and forward hand are eyeing him and preparing to harass Wei Xia’s dribble.

He lowered his body and copied the ball and hit the ball and dunked it was his specialty.

Therefore, Leonard usually only gives the other party one option - breaking to the bottom line. Wei Xia can use speed, but he wants to prove his skills. Therefore, he deliberately goes to the bottom line, suddenly stops and retreats, and things develop quickly, which is something that Leonard cannot foresee.

He watched Wei Xia take a step back and then take a backward jump shot, "Swish!"

Elegant, or heavy attack, appeared in front of his eyes.

Leonard looked at Wei Xia's landing posture familiarly.

This is not Kobe's move.

And he quickly recognized Wei Xia's shot just now was exactly like Michael Jordan in the old video.

"Kayah, I may have some more goals." Wei Xia reminded "kindly" and "your defense must be strengthened."

The Spurs' counterattack is also direct.

The most unexpected breakthrough hand - Danny Green broke through with his left hand, almost hitting a dead end, but knew how to turn back and pass the ball.

Aldridge catches the ball and shoots.

"Swish!"

This is considered a response.

There is someone to protect the offense, so Leonard is of course relaxed, but the real test is just about to begin. If Wei Xia cannot be restricted, no matter how many goals they scored, it will be useless.

"Kaishuai, I'll give you some advice." Wei Xia received the ball from the running position.

His right hand was holding the ball, and there was endless confidence in his eyes: "If you really want to defend me, you shouldn't give me any options."

The biggest feature of Leonard's defense is that he likes to put a hole - the bottom corner - to make people break through.

This does not mean that Leonard will let the bottom line break through at will. When the opponent's center of gravity changes, he will quickly change his gait.

Bathir, Pipen, Jordan and Kobe would also change their pace quickly in the early years, but Leonard often lowered the center of gravity and changed his steps in splits.

This is the evidence that he worked hard on the defensive end. A true master defender, relying on his feet rather than his hands, moving quickly, biting step by step, without giving him a chance to break free.

Wei Xia’s strength lies in the fact that if you give him a chance to break through and the chance to sprint from the bottom corner, he will have the ability to suddenly pull up in areas you think there shouldn’t be problems.

Just like what Leonard is facing now.

Wei Xia broke into the bottom corner, and Leonard didn't have time to catch up, so he stopped and jumped.

Even with Duncan's help, even if Leonard is by his side, no one can stop him from taking action.

"Swish!"

"You also watch MJ's game video?" Leonard asked.

Wei Xia knew that he could not hide Leonard from his technical details, and jump shots were specially trained by Jordan's trainer Facker.

Specializing in a family can only become a shadow or a fake, and only by gathering the strengths of a hundred schools of thought can you walk your own path.

"Don't care about this kind of details." Wei Xia left with a smile.

Leonard couldn't care if he didn't want to worry. The coaching staff originally asked him to learn from Jordan, and Wei Xia asked him to learn from Kobe. In fact, no matter who he learned, as long as he had enough understanding, he could be inspired.

The problem is that Jordan is more academic, Kobe has never been to college, so he went directly from the stage of being a self-respected high school student, and has always maintained his true character in the NBA.

It is precisely because he has become the image in the eyes of the public that so many people are crazy about him.

In terms of technical details alone, Kobe played in the era of playing basketball, the game video was clearer and he could see more action details. However, if he watched too much, his game tendency would be deviated.

So Popovich said at the beginning of the season that they wanted Leonard to do what Michael Jordan did, not what Kobe did.

Now Wei Xia suddenly used Jordan's method to teach herself a lesson, and the shock in Leonard's heart is imaginable.

He found that Wei Xia had too many attack forms. He could be as domineering as Kobe, as elegant as Jordan, and could also expose his creativity like Malawi.

Leonard's thoughts were influenced by Wei Xia and could not devote all of them to the competition.

At this time, Duncan tried his best to dribble from a high position and hit the basket and layup, and at least made the in.

"TD is already 40 years old and still attacks like a 20-year-old young man."

"The young Spurs should be inspired to see him playing like this."

It is hard to say whether the young Spurs were inspired or not, Wei Xia must have been stimulated.

His mid-range shot show is not over yet, and the offense he takes over is about to spread to higher-level confrontations.

What frustrated Leonard the most was that he satisfied Leonard's idea.

Every defender has ideas and will predict the attacking method of the ball holder.

Wei Xia satisfied Leonard, and in addition to being satisfied, he could also put the ball into the basket. Leonard achieved his goal in the rest.

Leonard seemed to have sufficient confidence to keep Wei Xia.

Seeing that Wei Xia seemed to be trying to break through forcibly, Leonard quickly followed him. Even if he felt that he had escaped from a free position on his shoulder and tried to raise his hand to shoot, the latter's 221 cm arm span would come back and wrap around from behind.

Even if Leonard's defense doesn't have a fatal impact, it doesn't matter, it makes sense for the Spurs to allow their opponents to go on the wing or bottom line - there is a weird guy in their penalty area, waiting for a replacement at any time.

Leonard and Duncan, the two defenders that the Spurs value the most, appeared in front of Wei Xia at the same time.

Wei Xia collected the ball and swayed with one hand. Leonard's defense loosened. When he swayed with both hands for the second time, Leonard jumped up. Then, he grabbed the time difference and jumped up. Even though Duncan was standing in front of him, he still jumped up, and his body showed a familiar and unfamiliar lying in the air.

Fans all know that the reason why Nash developed such an exaggerated shot is because he does not have the ability to shoot back jumpers.

Wei Xia's shot after shooting after the back is undoubtedly 99% similar to Nash's shot after the back.

He perfectly avoided Duncan's highest blocking point.

The ball flew high from outside the paint area on the left and hit the board.

At&t center is silent.

Three rounds and three types of shooting, only the first round is a good opportunity. In the next two rounds, Leonard's pursuit and Duncan's replacement were the best.

As a result, he was able to throw the ball in.

"How frightening? That's wish!"

"Steve Nash once said that what surprised him the most was not his leadership, not his combat power, but his incredible learning ability."

"What a difficult move, he can learn it by just watching it a few times."

"Sometimes, he doesn't even have to learn it, just keep those pictures in mind and improvise it in the competition."

The amazement from away commentators made fans' admiration for Wei Xia more than before.

In fact, they were right, just a lying shot just now was just an improvisation.

He hasn't learned this trick specifically.

Is this his strong understanding or his strong learning ability? No, it's not right.

The truth is that he already has the technical foundation that should be used to perform these actions, and then confidently display them in the game.

He believed he could do it.

As a result, he did it.

What he knew more was how sad it was to continuously hit opponents' defenses with different tricks.

The Spurs' internal and external defensive core were beaten so hard that they could not speak.

Considering that they are not talkative at all, it may have nothing to do with Wei Xia.

But the At&T center did get quiet.

The Spurs seemed to be knocked out by Wei Xia. The cooperation they could do was now at a loss.

Duncan hit his teammate's leg out of bounds with a high position.

The ball rights are back to the hands of the 76ers.

Wei Xia, who had defeated the Spurs with a shot for three consecutive rounds, was preparing to make a fourth consecutive shot.

The Spurs were like a frightened bird, and Wei Xia got the ball in the low post, but three people came to double-team.

When Wei Xia turned over, she saw three people in front of her, and she no longer had the idea of ​​shooting. She suddenly made a jump pass, but in fact it was a cover. Her real intention was to pass the ball from behind her out of the outside line.

Everyone who stared at him was fooled.

When the ball flew out of the outside line and came to Hayward's hand again, he didn't even keep up with the camera.

Too fast!

"Swish!"

Hayward's three-pointer made it happen and realized what was going on.

Facing magic    move under the three-man defense, Hayward finished with the most stable three-point jump shot.

The difference opened in an instant.

The Spurs requested a pause.

Wei Xia’s solo show in the past three minutes is as if "Avatar" had just been released back then, impacting the hearts of his opponents and fans.

"Are we really playing against humans?"
Chapter completed!