The Way of Basketball: Never Talk Shit to Him!
Chapter 66 - 64: Feeling Sick Again_2

Chapter 66: Chapter 64: Feeling Sick Again_2

Finally, Su Wan jumped up; he had subconsciously followed the leap.

It was only after he had jumped that he realized, he could only see Su Wan’s armpit hair filled with hormones.

"Bang!"

Another slam dunk.

This time Su Wan executed the dunk right over Prince’s head.

The tremendous impact knocked Prince down, and Su Wan strode over arrogantly, stepping over his lower leg, and looking provocatively at the Pacers fans who were desperately shouting at him, nodding and saying, "That’s right, just like that, keep up that enthusiasm, I can get even more fired up!"

Little O’Neal and Reggie Miller had also rushed over to him by then, passionately slapping his strong arms and chest muscles.

Behind Su Wan, was a group of Pistons who had rushed over to try and pull Prince up, and a bewildered Prince who let his teammates lift him.

Erin had captured this expression on Prince’s face. She thought of a perfect headline:

Mom, where is this?

Barkley’s butt had somehow left his chair, and he suddenly slammed the table, shouting at Kenny Smith, "Apologize!"

Because Kenny Smith had said during the halftime break, "Prince’s defense on Uncle is not bad."

You call this good?

Kenny Smith didn’t have time to worry about that; he was more concerned with the fact that right after Su Wan completed his dunk, he thought he heard the referee’s whistle.

This meant that Su Wan’s play was a "2 plus 1," with another free throw opportunity, and if the free throw hit, that would bring Su Wan’s score for the game to 10 points... that would be bad!

And sure enough, his hearing was quite good, as the referee indeed blew the whistle following Su Wan’s dunk.

At the last moment of his defense, Prince’s whole center of gravity had shifted, and so his lower body had made contact with Su Wan’s, violating Su Wan’s "cylinder."

"Swoosh!"

He successfully made the free throw, once again provoking cheers from the entire audience. Su Wan returned on defense with a determined expression, holding out his palm and lightly tapping his chest several times, signaling to all the Pacers fans:

Leave it to me, I’ll break them down!

Su Wan had been waiting for the opposing defense to stretch out.

After all, he was well aware that originally in the ’05 Finals, Manu Ginobili’s breakthroughs became the "X-factor" of the Finals. Moreover, unlike ordinary "X-factors," many media considered him a strong enough contender for the Finals MVP.

His strength was one aspect; on the other hand, it also showed that the Pistons could be broken by wings.

Manu Ginobili’s threatening breakthroughs relied on Tim Duncan alone holding back both Wallaces.

Little O’Neal wasn’t on that level, so the Pacers relied on the distribution of a double-threat from the mid to long-range outside, forcing the Wallaces to help out. As long as their attention was scattered, Su Wan could play the role of Manu.

The fact proved this point.

Both Wallaces, who were unable to occupy an advantageous position under the basket from the start, couldn’t make it in time to cover for Prince.

Without the two of them, Prince’s restrictions on Su Wan weren’t so apparent any longer.

Under this system, you can think of Prince as Chris Bosh’s defensive role on the Heat after 2011. Mainly it was his job to help others cover, and then others to cover for him, to compensate for each other’s issues.

Once the defense couldn’t be coherent, the problems Bosh couldn’t resist would be exposed, and Prince... the same.

Larry Brown finally frowned; he hadn’t expected Su Wan to really become a threatening wing player.

Why are other teams’ rookies so fierce?

He glanced at someone on the substitute bench...

Is the Pistons’ rookie that useless?

He tried to change the player defending against Su Wan.

But Prince was already the only one among the Pistons’ three perimeter players who could match up with Su Wan. Hamilton couldn’t compete with Su Wan, and Billups, being only 1.90 meters tall, lacked the height and size.

Could it really be about shrinking the defense?

But just thinking about his recent decision to stretch out the formation to deal with the Pacers’ shooting, and now because of a rookie’s breakthrough, forcing the Pistons to shrink their defense again, seemed a bit too... complimentary to the rookie, right?—If you can’t understand such thinking from Larry Brown, go see the replay of the Athens Olympic "Dream Six Team" games, watch Carmelo Anthony, Wade, LeBron sitting on the cold bench, and you’ll understand.

He didn’t "racially discriminate" against rookies; he looked down on all of them.

Prince continued to defend Su Wan, as for how to restrict this rookie...

"Ben, and Rashid, let me see your defensive enthusiasm, move it, move it, the basketball court is only so big!"

He chose to motivate the infinite kinetic energy of the two "Wallaces."

"Swish!"

Billups seemed to truly find his form during a crucial moment, hitting another mid-range shot, easing the pressure of the point deficit for the Pistons.

Su Wan, with the ball against Prince, after that dunk over him, had the absolute upper hand. Prince didn’t dare to make any careless defensive moves, afraid that he wouldn’t be able to recover his balance in time, lending Su Wan an opportunity.

Su Wan noticed this.

In "the zone" mode, his unusually clear thinking rapidly processed, and he became even more dominant with the ball, making an aggressive breakthrough.

Sometimes, the more you worry, the more distracted you get. In this situation, Su Wan’s more forceful direct breakthrough immediately left Prince behind.

He never expected Su Wan to go for it.

Ben Wallace did what Larry Brown had hoped for, returning to defend more quickly than before, but since Prince was beaten so fast, his help defense couldn’t form any disturbance.

"Swish!"

Another one in!

Su Wan scored 7 points in a row.

Especially with that last shot, it was so easy that Kenny Smith began to wonder if some of the Pistons were throwing the game.

Did they also want to see me kiss the donkey’s ass?

In the CCTV-5 studio, Yang Yi offered a seemingly reasonable explanation: "They’re just stunned. Anyone who gets dunked on by Su Wan like Prince just did would be dazed for a while. Their minds are still floating around in outer space!"

Seeing his most trusted Prince in such a state, Larry Brown called for another timeout, rather helplessly.

If he remembered correctly, this was already the second timeout called tonight because of that Huaxia rookie.

In the end, he adjusted the defensive formation, pulling the entire lineup back, but this allowed Reggie Miller and Little O’Neal, who had rested for a few plays, to continue "shooting" again. The Pistons were pushed into a difficult situation where they were damned if they did, damned if they didn’t.

The only thing left for them was four words:

The game was lost!

The Pistons’ tenacious resistance continued, but the cheers and shouts from the crowd only grew louder.

With 7 minutes and 45 seconds left in the fourth quarter, Su Wan once again scored at the hoop, bringing the point difference to 15.

"Come on, Afro, it’s your turn to perform. Push me like you pushed Ron, and you can get me suspended too!" Su Wan, having just scored, didn’t leave but instead taunted Ben Wallace under the basket. The fans nearby couldn’t help but feel delighted.

Talk more if you can, man!

Ben Wallace almost couldn’t hold back, but thank goodness "Rasheed Wallace" held him back again.

Su Wan had always noticed Rashid Wallace’s peacekeeping actions and couldn’t help but mock, "With the way you’re breaking up fights, you might as well rename yourself ’Peacekeeping God’ instead of ’Rasheed the Angry God.’ Jesus might come down from the cross to nail you up there."

Fuck me...

Rashid Wallace couldn’t take it anymore.

At this point, the referee came over, giving Su Wan a look that said if he kept yapping, he’d get a technical foul. Su Wan immediately put on a "wholesome smile," turned his head, and incited the crowds to curse the referee for "rigging" the game.

Meanwhile, a wail of despair came from the TNT studio, courtesy of Kenny Smith.

With that play, Su Wan’s score for the game reached 20 points.

His shooting percentage was an exaggerated 60%! ƒгeeweɓn૦vel.com

Also wailing was a certain "Little Emperor" from Cleveland, who, watching Su Wan’s stats on the TV screen, instantly sounded the alarm in his mind:

It’s going to be sickening again!