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Chapter 516 The Denver Athletic Team with 5 consecutive visitors

Chapter 516 The Denver Athletic Team with 5 consecutive visitors

After defeating the lowly Phoenix Suns at home, the Raptors will head to the west to meet a wave of five consecutive away. The opponents are the Nuggets, Kings, Jazz and Trail Blazers.

On December 12, the Raptors visited the Denver Plateau and challenged the Nuggets away.The Pepsi Center Arena of the Nuggets is not as terrifying as the Jazz's home court in Salt Lake City because it is located on a plateau, but it is also one of the most difficult home courts in the NBA.Ying Xiong is very comfortable with this place, because he specially chose this place as his offseason special training place.

The Denver Nuggets are an amazing team. They don't have superstars, but they are a team that many strong teams in the league dare not underestimate.Known as the "Denver Athletics", the Nuggets have players with superb physical fitness such as "Little AI" Iguodala, "Orc" Faried, and McGee, with excellent athletic ability.And since Iguodala joined the team this season, the team's tenacity and offensive stability have improved to a higher level, and the overall strength is good. The existence as a spoiler in the West is extremely daunting.

In this game, the starting lineup of the Nuggets at home is: center - Costa Koufus, power forward - Kenneth Faried, small forward - Danilo Gallinari, shooting guard - Andre Iguodala, point guard - Ty Lawson.

The starting lineup of the Raptors in the away game is the same as the previous game.

The overall physical fitness of the Nuggets' players is superb, but there is also a problem, that is, there is not a stable shooter in the main rotation.In the starting lineup, needless to say, the two insiders, Iguodala at the 2nd position has never been good at shooting, and point guard Lawson is also better at breakthroughs than shooting, which leads to the most stable shooting point in the starting lineup. Forward Gallinari.But the problem is that Gallinari's shooting is not a strong point.So once the team's outside line is out of alignment and the opponent shrinks, their offense will be prone to constipation.

The Raptors' starting shooting ability is not particularly strong. Needless to say, Valanciunas, Jeremy Lin and DeRozan's outside shooting are also touchy, but their team's No. 4 Bargnani has a good outside shooting Ability, and the head star Ying Xiong's outside shooting ability is very strong.

In terms of the shooting ability of the substitute, the Raptors are stronger.Of course, the basketball game is not guaranteed to be won by whoever shoots the ball correctly, but as the league pays more and more attention to viewing, the space is getting wider and wider, and the attack speed is getting faster and faster.

Valanciunas and Koufus prepare for a jump ball near the middle circle.Koufus is a player who plays hard and has unpretentious skills. He is an extremely stable blue-collar insider.

Valanciunas beats Koufos with a jump ball and Jeremy Lin dribbles over.

Ying Xiong is cruising in the frontcourt, defending him is the former 76ers boss Iguodala who just joined this season.

Jeremy Lin and Valanciunas pick and roll, break through and pass the ball to DeRozan on the outside.After DeRozan received the ball and faltered, he continued to break through Bargnani from the outside.

As a big man inside, Bargnani has the ability to shoot, so the "half-orc" Faried dared not let him go, and actively expanded his defense to prevent him from taking easy shots.

But there is still a big gap between the heights of the two. Even though the half-orcs can jump well, they are easy to be overwhelmed.

Bargnani swayed the orc and killed the basket with the ball, but was interfered by Koufus' defense-missed.

——However, Ying Xiong suddenly pierced through the slanting stab, and succeeded in making a catch in the air!

Ty Lawson dribbled the ball and gave it to Iguodala on the right.

Iguodala launched a pick-and-roll and hit the ground to Faried who was running down. The latter forcibly attacked the frame and was ruthlessly blooded by Valanciunas!

Jeremy Lin grabbed the ball, immediately launched a fast break, and gave it to Ying Xiong to advance.

Ying Xiong pushed forward and made a second pass to DeRozan who followed up in the middle. The latter glided for a layup after receiving the ball, and the orc who was being chased directly fanned out of bounds!

Orcs are back!He beat his chest with both hands, passionate and heroic, so that the fans of the home team at the scene were infected by him, and their hearts surged instantly.

The Raptors made a throw-in, DeRozan received the ball, used the pick-and-roll to push inside, was interfered by Koufos, and the ball missed!

Iguodala received the rebound and advanced with the ball himself.

As a versatile swingman, Iguodala can hold the ball, organize and attack. During his years in Philadelphia, he proved himself to be one of the most versatile players in the league.Of course, it also proved that he is not suitable to be the head of a team.Because he does not have the scoring ability as the main attacker.

Ying Xiong believes that a player like Iguodala is a player that any coach likes-selfless, smart, tough, and defensive.

Iguodala held the ball to the top of the arc, and after a pick-and-roll with Koufus, he hit the ground and gave it to the follow-up Orc. After receiving the ball, the latter was about to dunk across Valanciunas, causing a foul by the opponent.

The Nuggets are worthy of being a track and field team. A striker in his early 2 meters is a big center with a dunk of more than 210cm at every turn.

The Orc missed a free throw...the second free throw was hit!

Jeremy Lin dribbled the ball across the half court and handed it to Ying Xiong, and Iguodala defended.

Iguodala's defense is very good. Although he is only 198cm tall, his wingspan exceeds 215cm. He is a famous gibbon.Very low body fat, great athleticism, and exceptional foot movement.So he can defend three positions on the perimeter, and even against that kind of heavy small forward, his physical confrontation will not suffer.

Defense requires talent, too, and Iguodala is one of those people who has it.His super high ball quotient and positive attitude made him a well-known perimeter defensive gate in the league.From the 76ers to the Nuggets, he is the best candidate for the team to defend the opponent's outside arrows.

Yingxiong and Bargnani pick and roll, but Iguodala is extremely flexible and cunning, quickly squeezed through the screen.Originally, the quality of Bargnani's pick-and-roll was poor. When encountering this kind of defensive expert, it doesn't matter whether he has a pick-and-roll or not.

Ying Xiong returned the ball to Jeremy Lin, who broke through to the free throw line and was forced to stop by Orc and Lawson, and the ball returned to Ying Xiong.

Facing Iguodala, Ying Xiong took a tentative step with his right foot, from the toes to the torso, he was making a trial, and the trial contained fake moves.He knows the opponent's defensive ability very well, knows the opponent's moving speed and the skill of cutting the ball with one hand.

Iguodala didn't dare to get too close. He had played against Ying Xiong many times, and he knew that the first step of this yellow-skinned Chinese young man might be the fastest among all wing players in the league.If you don't want to be completely wiped out, you can only give the other party a certain distance.

There are 8 seconds left in the attack time, and Iguodala is predicting which side Yingxiong will break through.left or right?

At the moment of prediction in Iguodala's mind, the No. 25 player in front of him has already stood up and made a 3-point shot...

Iguodala jumped up instantly and tried his best to block the shot!

(End of this chapter)