The No.1 Anti-Fans in Basketball-Chapter 391 - 204: The Strongest Team and The Strongest Player_3
Chapter 391: Chapter 204: The Strongest Team and The Strongest Player_3
The atmosphere was restless.
The strongest teams from the East and the West, you only know which is stronger when they clash.
It was proven that the Heat Team was not just strong on paper, but their performance indicated they were indeed the strongest team of the season in the League.
A short whistle sounded from the sidelines, and Hansen stepped onto the court early, replacing Guy.
At this point, Joerger didn’t have a choice. If they allowed the Heat Team to continue widening the gap, there would be no so-called clutch moment tonight.
The fans in the stands were also full of anticipation.
The strength of the Heat Team was beyond question, and all they could hope for now was Hansen.
Before going on the court, Hansen also patted his chest; he knew he had to step up.
After he came on, he received the ball at the high post and then posted up Allen.
The Heat Team had a spacing lineup on the court, and the Grizzlies’ bench was the similar in transition.
Jamison served as the stretch four, providing much more effective spacing than Speights.
As for posting up, even though Hansen had yet to redeem any post-up Talent, when he had gone to Houston to learn from Olajuwon, it was said to be about footwork, but more precisely, it should be described as post-up footwork.
He jumped to catch the ball and reset his pivot foot, then made a spin move with a pump fake, followed by a step-through that took him into the paint for a bank shot that scored.
With a series of post-up moves, Hansen dazzled once again.
"Is there anything he can’t do?" the commentator couldn’t help but exclaim.
However, after scoring, Hansen realized he needed to hurry up and redeem some post-up Talent.
Because the moves he just made were nothing like the effect Olajuwon had demonstrated in Houston; the only reason he shook off Allen was that Allen was older and slower on his feet.
Or to put it in a more visual way, once Olajuwon received the ball, it was as if he was rooted to the ground, whereas he clearly felt a bit more unsteady.
Durant wanted to respond with his own high post isolation, but his shot veered off the mark under Battier’s hand-in-the-face defense.
Faried secured the defensive rebound, and then saw Hansen already sprinting beyond the three-point line.
He threw a long pass directly.
The Grizzlies’ starters played a slow half-court game, but the reserves could speed things up.
Hansen, receiving the ball and facing Allen’s defense, quickly broke into the frontcourt past the three-point line, then took a big three steps, leaping from just inside the free-throw line for a gliding tomahawk dunk that slammed the ball through the hoop.
Allen tried to contest, but he wasn’t high enough.
Durant scored on an isolation play to continue scoring for the Heat Team.
But an excited Hansen, after a fake drive that made Allen retreat, fired and hit a three-pointer.
In just over a minute, he sliced through the defense to rack up 7 points.
The camera panned to Allen, who was shaking his head with a somewhat helpless expression.
He could handle Guy’s slower penetration, but he really had no answer for Hansen.
Seeing this, Spoelstra quickly called for Wade to get ready.
Hansen’s ability to stagger his playing time was ridiculously strong.
Spoelstra reacted quickly, but while Wade was still waiting at the scorer’s table, Battier stole away Cole’s pass intended for Durant.
Once again, the fast break maestro Hansen was the first to dash down for a layup.
to 39.
In just a few minutes, the Grizzlies had closed the gap to just a single possession.
And the ball hadn’t stopped play yet.
"Defense! Defense!"
The fans’ excitement surged, and their chants of defense were deafening.
Durant, after receiving the ball, was trapped and passed to Cole, whose open three-pointer veered off!
Not everyone had the fortitude for crucial moments.
Battier held the ball at the top of the arc, and after getting set up from Hansen, he passed the ball to him and moved to the weak side.
Spoelstra, frantically waving from the sidelines, signaled Durant to double-team Hansen.
At that moment, Hansen didn’t opt to pass; feeling hot-handed, he kept his back to the defenders to evade the double team while moving towards the baseline.
When he saw a trap coming from the baseline as well, he spun along it for a fadeaway.
By the time he turned around, his position was close to changing direction, and after the spin, his foot was beyond the three-point line.
This was a fadeaway three-pointer.
Allen lunged desperately, but Hansen’s fadeaway made it impossible for him to effectively contest.
The ball flew over his head toward the hoop.
"Swish!"
Straight through the net!
Spoelstra couldn’t wait for Wade’s entrance and immediately called a timeout.
Hansen, who had stumbled into the Heat Team’s bench after the fadeaway, was helped up by the spectators behind him.
When the camera focused on him, he shook the bear head logo on his jersey with his hand.
The arena erupted with thunderous "MVP" chants.
Hansen scored 12 points in succession after coming on in the second quarter!
The Heat Team was indeed the strongest, but Memphis had their own strongest player!
