Chapter 270 269. He actually used me as an experience bag!
The pre-match preparation time ended and the starting lineups of both teams came onto the court.

Bobcats: Felton, Zhang Yang, Hill, Okafor, Perkins,

Heat: Jason Williams, Wade, Ricky Davis, Haslem, O'Neal.

Ricky Davis was acquired by the wise man in exchange for Antoine Walker during the offseason.

The Timberwolves got Bynum, who didn't like Ricky Davis. The fortune teller saw that Ricky Davis' contract was expiring and he could get rid of the remaining three years and $3 million of Anthony Walker's contract. The Timberwolves saw that Anthony Walker could organize the offense and shoot from long range, so both sides got what they needed.

At 7 o'clock in the evening, Okafor beat O'Neal to win the jump ball, the game started, and the Bobcats attacked first.

Felton advanced to the frontcourt and passed the ball to Zhang Yang.

After receiving the ball, Zhang Yang immediately protected the ball, and Wade immediately pressed him with rough and fierce movements.

Thousands of Bobcats fans who came to the away game cheered, No. 3 VS No. 3, the two FMVPs of the same era faced off!

Although Wade has entered the Mesozoic era and is almost 26 years old, and Zhang Yang is younger than even the newest generation, the two were born in 03 and 05 respectively, and they are players who entered the NBA at the same time.

After it was confirmed that O'Neal had faded from the front line, there were still so many Bobcats fans who gathered in the South Coast to watch their game against the Heat, just for the matchup between the two.

In the last preseason game, Wade was scored on by Zhang Yang who took advantage of his height and wingspan. Tonight he stuck very close to Zhang Yang and did not give him space to jump and shoot.

During the confrontation, Zhang Yang switched the ball to his left hand and dribbled the ball and made a fake step-back move.

Wade guessed that Zhang Yang was faking a move, but he continued to press forward. He didn't dare to gamble. The No. 3 on the opposite side was too reckless. If there was only a little space to complete the shooting action, he would definitely make the shot.

Seeing Wade pressing forward, Zhang Yang stopped stepping back and moved forward. At the moment when he was confronting Wade, he pulled the ball with his left hand, turned around Wade, and rushed forward!
The sense of rhythm and timing caused the fans at the scene to exclaim in surprise.

However, Wade's physical fitness is not exaggerated. He braked in time, turned around and chased Zhang Yang. Although he failed to limit Zhang Yang's accelerated sprint, he blocked Zhang Yang's space to change direction and break through the middle, forcing Zhang Yang to go off the line and creating conditions for reinforcement defense in the interior, but!
O'Neal did not expand!

Wade had expected this to happen. He was always ready to block the shot and tried to block Zhang Yang from the side.

But Zhang Yang did not stop when he rushed to close range. Instead, he grabbed the ball and took three big steps towards O'Neal under the basket!

Cheek:?
Is this going to dunk over the Sharks?

O'Neal was furious. He didn't care about anything else and just pressed forward.

Zhang Yang took two steps and jumped, but he did not jump forward, but vertically. He did not jump forward much, and his right hand made a small loop in the air, turning the ball-lifting action into a throw... Perkins caught the ball in an alley-oop and slammed it with both hands to score two points!

Looking at Zhang Yang and Perkins who jumped up and bumped their butts to celebrate after completing the alley-oop, Wade said: Isn't this the way O'Neal and I cooperated back then?

It seems like a mindless dunk in the paint, but in fact it is to draw out the rim protector and create a chance for the center to dunk... In the first two years of partnering with O'Neal, Wade liked to cooperate with O'Neal in this way.

Well, last season when the Sharks were still able to fight, Zhang San didn't dare to act presumptuously. Now that he sees that the Sharks are old, he bullies them like this?
Wade was very angry when he realized what was happening. Although he was not generous enough to others, he was very loyal to his family.

As one of the 'four major No. 3 players' and both Finals MVPs, the two of them have been compared over the past offseason.

The point is that the media, experts, and fans’ evaluation of Zhang San is generally higher than his cheeks!
Everyone thinks that the current Wade is definitely better than the current Zhang Yang, but they also think that Zhang Yang is better than Wade.

This brings us to the 'youngest record' created by the Royal Media. Although the bad boy Jack does not have a good reputation, his talent and strength have skyrocketed as he continues to break the 'youngest record', even breaking Magic Johnson's youngest FMVP record.

As a result, Shai Bang privately complained more about KING. After all, the two of them were not "one of their own" yet.

Including the last ball, Wade's hostility towards Zhang Yang has reached its limit.

In the offense-defense transition, Wade just crossed the center line and hurriedly reached out for the ball.

Because he saw that the person blocking his path was not the brave Felton or the experienced Hill, but Zhang Yang!

Wade fans and Zhang Yang fans at the scene cheered and screamed at the same time.

Wade came to the top arc, faced Zhang Yang's defense who took a big step back, and broke through!

Zhang Yang controlled the defensive distance very well, and also judged the direction of Wade's breakthrough and moved in time... but still failed to defend it!

Wade broke into the paint, used the European step, took two steps in a row, found a gap, jumped in the crowd, withstood the resistance, and made a layup.

The Demon Sword's European step is ghostly and unusual; the bad boy's European step has a pleasing rhythm; the Flash's European step is extremely violent!

After scoring the goal, Wade pouted and retreated towards Zhang Yang.

Zhang Yang let out a "whoosh" and moved the left side of his chest which was hurt by Wade's shoulder.

There is really no way to defend against it! Even if I take two steps back, I can’t defend against it!
Wade's explosive start and impact are obviously stronger than Baron Davis and Francis who have similar breakthrough methods. Since Wade entered the NBA, there is only one person who can effectively limit him in one-on-one situations - Kobe Bryant, and he was only able to effectively limit Wade in the first two and a half years of his career.

从03-04赛季到05-06赛季前半段，两个半赛季，科比和韦德交手4次，有3次防得极好，分别把韦德命中率防得只有33%、38%、40%。

But in the second half of the 05-06 season, Kobe and Wade couldn't be defended. Although Wade found it difficult to have an explosive performance against Kobe, he was able to score 45 or points with a hit rate of about % in the subsequent matches, ensuring a stable performance.

Kobe's scoring was so high in the 05-06 season that people overlooked Wade's rapid progress in the second half of the season.

06年3月，韦德连续8场35+，其中3场40+，一举将场均得分拔高至27分……那个月科比连续4场40+、6场比赛5次40+，月末还来了一场51分，确实也没留什么风头给其他得分手。

In order to limit Wade sufficiently in a one-on-one match, defensive basics, awareness, judgment, decisiveness, physical confrontation, movement speed... all are indispensable, and Zhang Yang cannot do it at the moment.

However, it was not Zhang Yang's own request to defend Wade.

In offense, he will charge forward no matter who is defending him; in defense, he will be very cautious and will challenge the difficulty, but he will not actively challenge opponents with such exaggerated defensive difficulty.

This was arranged by Carlisle so that Zhang Yang could practice more when facing opponents like Wade.

Carlisle determined that the opponent would let Wade defend Zhang Yang, so he also let Zhang Yang defend Wade, practicing more on both offense and defense.

There is no one else on the opposite side. White Chocolate is not big enough and doesn't have enough confrontation. The remaining outside player is Ricky Davis?
You can't let Smush Parker defend Zhang Yang, right?

The Heat snatched Smush Parker from the Lakers for 2 million over two years, and before the new season even started, Pat Riley was dumbfounded in the preseason.

What the hell is this? Isn't he a quality role player who averages 11 points per game? When Wade broke through, Parker stood still on the left side of the top arc, not even knowing how to move with the breakthrough position.

Signing Smush Parker gave Pat Riley a new understanding of Kobe's personal abilities, so much so that the shadow of Jordan he saw in Wade faded a lot...

Not only him, Felton also has the goal of "training through competition" tonight, but he is just practicing offense. White Chocolate is now a main point guard with a simple playing style and solid defense.

As the game progressed, led by Wade's dual-playing style, the Heat played very well offensively in the early stages.

The Big Shark, who was originally unmotivated and lazy, became motivated after being teased by Zhang San's alley-oop. He seized the opportunity to squeeze to the basket and receive Wade's breakthrough pass.

Haslem did a good job in receiving mid-range shots, and White Chocolate did a good job in receiving three-pointers. However, Ricky Davis, who couldn't shoot and couldn't play without the ball, held them back from time to time.

But on the defensive end, the Heat's frontcourt trio has two defensive black holes, Ricky Davis... and O'Neal.

O'Neal's feet are too slow now. He can't get back to the basket even after he has reached the edge of the three-second zone. Facing the advancing Zhang Yang, he would miss people behind him if he expanded out, and he might not be able to stop Zhang Yang even if he expanded out. Once he didn't grasp the timing of expanding out, he would be passed by Zhang Yang's European step. Facing the advancing Felton, he simply squatted there and watched Felton make a close-range jump shot.

It was a little difficult for Felton to break through when playing against White Chocolate, but it was not big. Relying on the threat of his increasingly skilled step-back shots, he was always able to break through smoothly.

As for Zhang Yang, if Wade focused on defending against the breakthrough, it would be quite difficult for him to break through, but Wade had to stick to him. If Wade was a beat slower in sticking to him, he would just jump up and shoot the ball, and his shooting speed was very fast.

With Zhang Yang's character of daring to throw the ball more than 40 times, Wade really didn't dare to let go.

Ricky Davis on the wing is like a decoration on the defensive end. There is no help defense. He will pretend to shrink, but it is just a shrinking action and has no substantial effect at all.

Haslem is really good at helping out on defense, but he is on the other side of the three-second zone, so if he tries to help out, it would be like giving Okafor a wide-open shooting opportunity, so it would be better not to do so.

Wade played both the father and mother role, breaking through and passing the ball fiercely, scoring 9 points and 4 assists in a single quarter. However, at the end of the first quarter, he saw that the score was two points behind...

29 to 27, the Bobcats lead the Heat by two points into the intermission!
Looking at the score, Wade felt an unprecedented sense of powerlessness. Even in his rookie season, he did not feel so powerless.

His teammates at that time included Odom, Eddie Jones, Brian Grant, Alston, Caron Butler, Malik Allen, Rasual Butler, Samaki Walker... Even if they hadn't been traded for O'Neal at that time, they would have had the talent to break out of the East if they had grown normally for two or three years.

Last season, their defending championship season, during the training camp stage, Pat Riley saw that O'Neal's condition had plummeted. Instead of thinking about strengthening the team through trades or signings, he immediately reduced investment and began sending away role players in batches, leaving only veterans whose contracts were about to expire.

Now, the best player on their second team is a rookie, Daequan Cook, who was selected with the 21st pick in the first round.

They are so weak that they can't even beat the Timberwolves!
This summer, he saw that his own team was still selling off players who could compete, while on the other side, although No. 3 lost Gerald Wallace, the Bobcats management had been trying to poach free agents from other teams. In order to improve his shooting ability in the critical moments, they even asked for Cardinal's big contract back... Both were No. 3, both were FMVPs, and he felt the difference in treatment.

But at the moment, Wade didn't think about these things. After the feeling of powerlessness due to the score lag faded away, anger surged in his heart.

He discovered that the 19-year-old player No. 3 on the opposite side was using him to practice defense!

What annoyed him even more was that he could feel that Zhang Yang's defense was getting better and better!

At the beginning, Zhang Yang only showed his talent - the choice of defensive position and distance, the prediction of the breakthrough direction, the quick footsteps... Even with this, Wade didn't feel the pressure.

But as Wade played more and more, he felt that Zhang Yang's movement choices, timing for confrontation, and other details were getting better and better.

Although Zhang Yang's defense was still easy for him to deal with, and he was not afraid of being just a skilled defender, the feeling of being treated as an 'experience bag' made him crazy!
(End of this chapter)