The Fifth Point Guard

Although Shentong is very young, he has high prestige in the team.

Some people are born with leadership qualities, and teammates will naturally surround them.

For example, Michael Jordan conquered a lot of teammates with his strong personal strength and court charm, making the ambitious Scottie Pippen willing to become his second-in-command.

For example, Jason Kidd connects the team with precise passes, and has the strength and overall vision to dominate the rhythm of the game, allowing the players to form a whole around him.

For example, Tim Duncan has become a well-deserved dull commander of the Spurs with his calm and steady performance and head-touching skills.

Like Ricky Davis.

Led by Shentong's outstanding personal performance, the entire Cavaliers team played very excitedly.

However, under the dispatch of Rick Carlisle, the Pacers changed their defensive strategy in the second half.

Aren’t you able to invest in STO?

Then put Artest, the best defensive player in the league, on the outside to curb your performance.

As for other players, they can let you shoot, but with a 2-2 zone defense inside, you will never be allowed to break in.

This is a bet on your shooting percentage, because in the starting lineup, only Shentong's three-pointers are truly trustworthy.

This tactic caused the Cavaliers to fall into a scoring drought at the beginning.

Facing Artest's close defense, Shentong had no space to take action.

If he breaks through Artest, he will encounter a defensive barrier composed of four players on the inside.

Although STO's "Nebula and Flowing Water" has worked and can always find players in open positions on the court, whether it is Wagner or James, their shots always come out of the basket.

The irony on the court seems to be contagious, and even Shentong missed twice in a row on the outside.

The Pacers hit an 8-0 spurt, and the point difference between the two sides narrowed to 7 points.

Conseco Arena is buzzing again!

Artest held his head high, with a confident expression on his face. As he walked to the bench, he was still bragging to Tinsley: "Once I get serious, there is no one in this league that I can't guard. See STO." Are you done? We didn’t score a single point in the second half.”

Tinsley became more and more anxious as he listened, and hurriedly whispered: "Hey, Ron, keep your voice down, and don't make Shentong anxious. I have already summarized this guy's characteristics. The more you press him, the more he will To unleash his potential, what can really guard him is rainbow farts, not defense."

Artest was unhappy when he heard this and said in a joking tone: "Jamal, are you scared out of your mind by Shentong? I'm not afraid. If you look at me for a while, I will definitely target him to death. I want him to know , Mr. Artest is the master of this court!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Tinsley caught a glimpse of O'Neal looking this way.

This guy is really stupid.

The score was close, and it would be absolutely false to say that Paul Silas was not nervous at all.

In front of the Cavaliers bench, Silas squatted on the ground and kept drawing and erasing on the tactical whiteboard.

After the timeout, players from both sides reappeared.

The Pacers' lineup has not changed, while the Cavaliers have taken the initiative to seek changes.

Drew Gooden comes off the court, James takes up the fourth position, and Miller serves as small forward.

Carlisle felt terrible when he saw this change of formation.

Miller, who was hot in the first half, got a chance as soon as he came on the court.

Shentong's breakthrough was once again encountered by a double-team. This time, Shentong "sensed" Miller's position and gave the ball to Miller.

After Miller got the ball, he pushed it directly and passed through the net.

This is a three-pointer!

But it was more than just a three-pointer.

Miller's appearance added a firepower for the Cavaliers on the outside, instantly disintegrating the Pacers' 2-2-1 zone defense tactics.

The Pacers, under Carlisle's direction, were forced to change their defensive tactics.

The Pacers tried to put out the visiting Cavaliers twice in this game. Both times, Reggie Miller came on the court, which immediately changed the trend of the game.

I'm afraid neither team thought that one day Reggie Miller would become the Cavaliers' substitute ace weapon.

This is like Sheringham and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer sitting on the bench at Manchester United.

At the end of the third quarter, the Cavaliers continued to lead 88-74. STO will score 8 points in this quarter and currently has 33 points.

The biggest difference between the Cavaliers this season and last season is the depth of the bench.

Last season, although the Cavaliers were fully staffed with 15 players, there were actually not many available. Even rookie Kapono became the team's main rotation player.

This season, the Cavaliers' substitute spots require competition within the team, which is a happy trouble for Silas.

Just when the Pacers were dizzy by the Cavaliers' dazzling rotation, STO suddenly exerted force at the right time.

Successful pull-up jump shots after consecutive breakthroughs made Artest and Jackson shake their heads.

The shots from beyond the three-point line and dunks in fast breaks stimulated the nerves of Indiana's home fans over and over again.

When the score difference between the two sides widened to 20 points, there was less than 5 minutes left before the end of the game.

Silas was very friendly and replaced all the main players, leaving only Gooden in the starting lineup on the court.

Carlisle also replaced all the Pacers' main players very wisely.

On the Pacers bench, Artest and Tinsley sat next to each other.

Tinsley muttered: "Ron, what am I talking about? You shouldn't have said such big things so early."

Artest defended: "I wanted to use a psychological offensive to make him fear me."

"Get out of here, Ron, you're the only one who's still engaging in psychological attacks."

Stephen Jackson on the other side quickly comforted him: "Ron, this is not your fault, you are just out of shape today."

When Artest saw that it was Jackson who was comforting him, he immediately pulled away.

"Hey, Ron, hold on! It looks like he's dying!"

After saying that, the anxious Jackson leaned down and prepared for artificial respiration.

Artest woke up immediately.

For the Cavaliers, assistant coach Jim Boylan sent the technical statistics of this game to Paul Silas.

Silas glanced at it, immediately raised his eyebrows, then turned to look at Shentong and gave a thumbs up.

"Let me take a look." James quickly grabbed the statistics in his hands.

"Wow, 50 points!"

In the live broadcast room, Barkley also shouted: "Although Shentong ended the game early, he still scored 50 points! It's incredible. After winning last season's scoring king again, it seems that Shentong's offensive desire has not diminished at all, and he is scoring 50 points." more efficient.”

Smith said: "Yes, Shentong's high score in this game was not achieved through high shots. Judging from the game scene, the stability of Shentong's offense is stronger than last season, and the variety of scoring methods also makes the Pacers hard to guard against." , What surprises me even more is that, with Ron as the best defensive player, Shentong seems to be faster than last season."

Barkley said: "Let's take a look. According to the director's prompts, STO set a record in this game and ranked fourth in history."

Smith was surprised: "Wow, fourth in history, what kind of honor is this? Oh, damn, why did I see Michael Jordan's name again?"

Barkley explained: "STO is on the 50-point ranking list in the NBA's opening game. According to time, STO's time to score 50 points ranks fourth in history."

Smith couldn't help but assume the role of "praising".

"Then who were the first three times?"

"Those are all great people. The first one is Lakers legend Elgin Baylor."

"Wow, it turns out to be Lord Belle."

"Yes, in the Lakers' first opener of the 1959-60 season, Elgin Baylor made 22 of 34 shots and scored 52 points and 21 rebounds. Unfortunately, the team lost by 1 point. piston."

"Oh, this is really bad." Smith shook his head. "In my opinion, once the team loses, any achievements or honors it gets will be greatly reduced. For example, the Bulls led by Michael Jordan won 72 games, even if there are For the team to be able to break this record, it only makes sense if they win the championship. After all, the Bulls' record is 72 championship wins. Even if you are the runner-up with 73 wins, it doesn't count as breaking their record, so in my opinion Come on, Elgin’s record is actually not as valuable as STO tonight.”

"Well, I think what you said makes sense. Then the second one is Wilt Chamberlain who once scored 100 points in a single game. This guy scored 56 points, 29 rebounds and 4 times in the opening game of the 1962-63 season. With assist data, he became the player with the highest points + highest rebounds in a single game in the opening game in NBA history. This record has not been broken yet."

"This guy is really a beast. No wonder there is a saying that beauty loves beasts. It seems to be true. The shelf life of women around Wilt is only one week at most."

After Smith finished sighing, Barkley continued: "Then there is Michael - he is everywhere - Jordan. This guy not only reached the record of scoring 50 points in the opening game, but also did it twice."

"twice?"

"That's right, twice. Although this guy and I were rivals in that era, I have to admit that this guy did set various records (interrupted)"

"Hey, Charles, you've got a match? Are you sure you won't blush?"

When Barkley heard what Smith said, he immediately blushed, stretched his neck like a fighting cock, and said: "Why are you blushing? I have a reason to say this. After all, in his time, I once won the league title." Regular season MVP!"

"Okay, you continue."

"Back to Michael, this guy scored 50 points, 6 rebounds and 8 assists in the opening game of the 1986-87 season, which is very close to STO's 50 points, 4 rebounds and 11 assists today. But this is only the third season of his career, and Shentong has already played in his fourth season. As for the second time, it was the 1989-90s, the season when Jordan won the fourth scoring title of his career, in the first game In the opening game against the Cavaliers, Jordan scored 54 points, 14 rebounds and 6 assists. He is also the only player in NBA history to score 50+ points twice in the opening game."

"Well, as for the fourth one, it was Shentong in the 2004-05 season. I really didn't expect that someone as young as Shentong would enter the top four of a certain historical list so quickly. He really has unlimited potential."

"I told you so a long time ago." Buckley's eyebrows danced involuntarily.

At the end of the game, the score was fixed at 120-99.

The Cavaliers beat the Pacers on the road by 21 points and got off to a good start.

Shentong won the MVP of this game, scoring 50 points, 4 rebounds, 11 assists, 3 steals and 2 blocks.

James also performed well, scoring a near-triple-double with 21 points, 10 rebounds and 8 assists.

Miller came off the bench and scored 17 points, including 5 three-pointers, which boosted morale.

In any case, being able to continue to beat the Pacers in last year's Eastern Conference semifinals makes the Cavaliers players very happy and excited.

After the game, Shentong came to the bathroom to take a shower and entered the basketball god's space.

He couldn't wait to complete this task and receive the reward.

In the Basketball God Space, the task "run-in! Run-in! Run-in!" has been completed, and STO's data in this game met the requirements for completing the task.

STO holds the main line reward "Random Growth (1cm)" in hand.

A line of small words appeared next to the reward props.

{

Props: Random growth (1cm)

Details: Sponge growth from the dimensional world can be integrated into the body of an ordinary human body, achieving 100% fusion.

It can be used on body parts such as height, arm span, penis, etc.

Although the props are good, don’t be greedy!

}

Shentong took this hot potato and lowered his head first.

"Little brother~~~ Do you want to grow taller?"

"No need, brother, I'm already 20 centimeters tall and I don't want to grow any taller, otherwise I won't have a little sister suitable for me."

"."

"By the way, brother, don't make me vomit in the future, especially the kind that is just imaginary."

"."

Shen Tong, who was exposed, said quickly: "Okay! Don't say any more."

After being rejected by his younger brother, Shentong took another look at his height and wingspan.

His wingspan is a bit shorter, and there is room for growth in height.

what to do?

It’s so confusing!

In the end, STO adopted the method of throwing notes. One note wrote about wingspan, and the other note wrote about height.

When Shentong opened the note he picked, he immediately knew what part he wanted to increase.

It's the wingspan.

A height of 2 meters is enough to play on the wing, but an increase of 1 centimeter in wingspan brings not only length, but also a series of changes in breakthroughs, dunks, shooting, steals, blocks, rebounds, etc., and perhaps all attributes. The upper limit may be greatly increased due to the growth of wingspan.

After deciding, Shentong used the "random growth" prop on his wingspan.

As he expected, just by increasing his wingspan by 1cm, the upper and lower limits of single defense and steal attributes immediately increased by 1 point.

This is much more affordable than training very hard to improve by 1 point.

After defeating the old rival Pacers on the road, the Cavaliers had no time to celebrate.

They will leave immediately for Miami for the second game of a back-to-back.

Waiting for them are the big sharks traveling eastward and Wade after hard training.