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Chapter 129 Fingertip Dribble, GET!

Chapter 129 Fingertip Dribble, GET!

In the days when DeWeese was in the system space to receive special training from Isiah Thomas, the Magic played two more games and the record was 1 win and 1 loss.

他们97-91客场战胜了萨克拉门托国王，迪威斯16分7篮板9助攻表现平平，因为风头都被奥尼尔抢走了。

奥尼尔拿下27分17篮板5助攻4盖帽，使得“岩石”里奇蒙德空砍32分。

In the game against the Lakers at home on the 21st, the Magic lost unexpectedly.

The Lakers' second-year rookie Doug Christie broke out suddenly and scored a career-high 32 points, catching the Magic by surprise.

Although DeWeese scored 27 points, he contributed 5 turnovers, especially when he passed Horry back one and a half minutes before the end of the game and was intercepted, which completely ruined the Magic's hope of overtaking.

Fancy passing has such a disadvantage that it is too easy to make mistakes. Although a successful pass is very eye-catching, it is too easy to make mistakes.

Even if he is as strong as "Magic" Johnson, he often makes passing mistakes. Don't look at the gorgeous passes in the "showtime" in the collection. Johnson averaged 3.9 turnovers per game throughout his career. . . .

After the game against the Lakers, Davis didn't have time to blame himself, and continued to come to the system court at night to fight Thomas one-on-one.

Because the Magic still has one game left, to be precise, Davis still has one game left, and is about to usher in his "midterm exam".

On December 12th, the Christmas game, the Chicago Bulls will host the Orlando Magic at home!

On the system court, Davis was lying on the floor, regretfully thinking about the details of the bullfight just now.

"Come on, Michael, you almost won. Speaking of which, your three-pointer skills are really good. You almost succeeded in a sneak attack."

Davis rolled over and stood up.

"Come again!" He stared at the smiling Isiah Thomas, and started his last challenge today.

This time, Davis resorted to his seldom-used weapon-post-up singles.

After he caught the ball, he went straight in against Isiah Thomas, regardless of whether he was still outside the three-point line.

Although Thomas is not at a disadvantage in terms of strength, the gap in physical condition makes it impossible for him to interfere with Davis' backs.

He was pushed back by Davis little by little.

Just as Thomas was thinking about what move Davis would use next, Davis turned around directly, squeezed Thomas behind him, and made an easy layup.

Thomas, who was suddenly attacked by Davis, just stood there laughing.

"Is this the only move in your back punching technique? Then you won't have that chance next time. This time, I was just careless."

He didn't feel any back movement from DeWeese, thinking that DeWeese was just trying to use his back to score.

Davis laughed too.

For the second time, Thomas paid special attention to Davis' turning intention, but after Davis entered the three-second zone, he began to shake left and right.

Thomas was a little surprised, even he had a little difficulty defending Davis' post-up singles.

Just now Thomas, who said that Davis' back hit would only turn around, was slapped by reality.

A couple of feints from DeWeese shook Thomas' center of gravity, and he turned, faded, and shot a jumper.

The ball got into the net softly.

"If it weren't for the fact that hitting you face-to-face was too difficult, I would have almost forgotten my trick."

After broadening his mind, Davis recalled a lot of tricks from his previous life, and those technical moves that he had spent countless days and nights sweating on the training ground all came back to his mind.

On the next ball, DeWeese pretended to break through to the left, and after Thomas retreated to follow up, he made a super-large retreat.

DeWeese, who deliberately retreated beyond the three-point line, opened his hand and shot.

The ball is still in!

DeWeese is already leading 4-0, and as long as he scores another three or two twos, he will win the bullfight against Thomas for the first time.

But the next time, Davis was going to continue to hit back, but was pushed forward by Thomas, and was directly intercepted by Thomas when his center of gravity was unstable.

Then. . .

Thomas hit Davis five times in a row, all of which were face-up breakthroughs.

"His frontal breakthrough is so strong..." Davis looked at Thomas who was smiling and dribbling in front of him, and expressed such emotion for the Nth time.

"It's about to end!" Thomas finished speaking, and it started instantly. Davis was already prepared, and he firmly blocked Thomas' breakthrough route.

Thomas unhurriedly changed direction and walked in the other direction extremely fast.

"Where's the ball?" Thomas was shocked.

"After so many days, it's time for me to make a steal."

Davis lay on the ground and said to Thomas with the ball in his hand.

Just now he shifted his entire center of gravity to the direction of Thomas' breakthrough purely for gambling, and then he threw himself at the basketball that Thomas was dribbling extremely close to the ground.

Fortunately, he succeeded.

Offensive and defensive conversion.

Thomas looked a little dignified.

He was considering whether to be farther or closer to Davis, and when he handed over the ball, he didn't find that Davis was receiving the ball farther than usual.

"Not good!" When he saw Davis jumping high in front of his eyes, he wanted to interfere, but found that Davis was about half a step away from him.

He looked desperately at Davis' shot.

He rushed forward vigorously, but his fingertips only touched the air.

"Shh!"

"I won, Isiah."

Isiah Thomas had his trademark smile back on his face.

"Yes, you won, and you can take one thing from me."

"Isiah Thomas in the 85-86 season, ability score: 94, with special skills: fingertip dribble, master of small movements, tenacity."

Davis looked at Thomas's three special skills and found that these three special skills basically completely summarized Thomas' characteristics.

The first is Thomas' exclusive fingertip dribble. Although he has been training crazily these days, he feels that he still has a long way to go before he can truly learn fingertip dribble, and he has also fully felt the power of fingertip dribble these days.

It can be said that without his gambling steals, he still has no way to dribble with Thomas' fingertips.

Master of small moves, as the name suggests, as the leader of the bad boy army back then, his defensive skills are mixed with a lot of small moves, which is annoying and very hidden, basically undetected by referees.

tough. . .This skill reminded Davis of a past event about Thomas.

As the only player who led the team to kill the Lakers led by "Magic" Johnson, the Celtics led by "Big Bird" Larry Bird, and the Bulls led by "God of Basketball" Jordan in the playoffs in the 80s, Thomas not only possesses superb skills, but his tenacity is even more commendable.

In G88 of the 6 Finals, the Pistons played against the peak Lakers.

At that time, the Pistons led 3-2 and had already won the match point. At the end of the second quarter, the Pistons trailed the Lakers by 46 points 53-7, but Thomas accidentally injured his leg.

In the third quarter, Thomas went into battle with an injury, dragged one leg, scored 25 points in a single quarter, and successfully overtook the score.

Although the Pistons regrettably lost the game by one point, the Lakers also won the final championship.

But Thomas' performance in G6 has become a classic in the playoffs, and people have a higher evaluation of this small man who is only 1.8 meters tall.

And the game between Davis and Thomas also gave Davis a deeper experience of this characteristic of Thomas.

Obviously exhausted physically, he was able to rush into the paint time and time again like carrying a pack of dynamite, scoring on O'Neal's head.

In the end, he threw such a ball desperately. . . .

Just as Davis was thinking about it, Thomas cut him off.

"Boy, don't smoke, my other two skills are not suitable for you."

"Nani?" Davis didn't react, and a system prompt came from his ear.

"Congratulations to the host for getting the special skill: fingertip dribbling. Skill level: A. Skill effect: A special dribbling method that allows people to dribble with pure fingers, which can effectively reduce the risk of being intercepted, and at the same time allow CROSSOVER to evolve into CROSSOVER-DRIBBLING. Dribble +5, and get the derivative skill CROSSOVER-DRIBBLING."

"CROSSOVER-DRIBBLING, a lower center of gravity, faster dribbling action, a derivative skill of fingertip dribbling."

DeWeese only felt that the fingertip dribble he had practiced in the last frantic training suddenly became mastery. He looked up and looked at Thomas.

"So you still have this privilege."

Thomas just smiled: "Then, from now on, I will be a member of your lineup."

After finishing speaking, the Pistons jersey on Thomas turned into a Magic jersey. He waved to Davis and walked towards the Magic stadium.

Davis looked at Thomas' back and said thank you in his heart.

In the system panel, after Davis was equipped with the fingertip dribble, his ball-handling attributes, which had not changed for a long time, jumped from 89 to 94. He patted the ball in his hand and felt that he was truly integrated with the ball. Many dribbling movements learned in his previous life were similar in appearance but not in spirit. Now, he can fully use these dribbling movements.

Then he picked up the ball and began to experiment with the feel of the dribble after getting the fingertip dribble.

The basketball dexterously jumped up and down only a few centimeters from the ground, and kept beating in front of and behind Davis. The frequency of Davis's two hands was so fast that it almost seemed like a phantom.

He looked at his hands with satisfaction, and had more expectations for the upcoming Christmas battle.

As for the opponent on the 23rd?

Just think of it as practice.

On the 23rd, Davis and the team sat in the Orlando Stadium, ready to meet the challenge of the New Jersey Nets.

During the warm-up before the game, Davis dribbled the ball calmly, but gradually, more and more people focused their attention on him.

"Look, what is Michael doing?"

"The way he dribbles is weird, but it feels so good."

The team members whispered beside them.

"Isn't he practicing this kind of dribbling a few days ago?"

"I don't understand it, but it looks amazing."

Rodman lazily came to the court to warm up. When he saw Davis warming up before the game, his eyes froze instantly.

"This is Isiah's dribbling, Michael, how did you learn it?" He came to Davis in surprise, watched Davis skillfully dribble with his fingers, and asked.

"I've been practicing for the past few days."

"Have you learned it so quickly? It doesn't look any different from Isiah's. No, you are taller than him. It is more difficult to fully master this kind of dribbling than him."

Satisfied, DeWeese stopped acting aggressively.

"No way, in terms of dribbling, I have always been a genius. I don't know how much better than some people who are known as magic dribbling masters." He laughed and teased Rodman.

This refers to the story of Rodman forcibly pretending to cause a sprained ankle. On the training ground last year, Rodman forcibly showed his dribbling movements, and ended up spraining his ankle. . .

After the warm-up with talking and laughing, the players began to officially enter the stadium.

Magic starting lineup: Center: Shaquille O'Neal, Power Forward: Dennis Rodman, Small Forward: Latrell Sprewell, Shooting Guard: Nick Anderson, Point Guard: Michael DeWeese.

Nets starting lineup: center: Benoit Benjamin, power forward: PJ Brown, small forward: Derek Coleman, shooting guard: Kevin Edwards, point guard: Kenny Anderson.

Davis found that there are more and more flesh-shielding centers like Benoit Benjamin in the league. They are generally over 210 tall and weigh over 125KG. Skills are not required, as long as the inside line can stand up to others.

He knew that after the four major centers reached their peaks one after another, this is an inevitable trend. Although Jordan now dominates the league, there is only one Jordan after all. If he wants to compete against the four major centers, including Alonzo Mourning, Doherty and other first-class centers behind him, he can only use this kind of center that can stand up to people.

However, with the exception of the four major centers, most of the other meat shield centers are pure blue-collars who move slowly and have no sense of autonomous attack. Their only role is to grab rebounds, top people, and block positions.

Having said so much, I just want to say that O'Neal won the ball without a doubt, and then Davis started his performance.

On the court, Davis couldn't wait to see how powerful the combination of fingertip dribble and his own "master" could be.

The dribbling with an ultra-low center of gravity and the ability to know the position of players outside your field of vision basically means that the passing route will basically not be discovered, but another problem brought about by this is: Davis must pass from the bottom to the top. . .

Ever since, Davis made three turnovers in the first quarter. . .

O'Neal said to Davis with a dark face: "Hey, Michael, can you pass the ball higher, you can't catch it at all."

Anderson, who was hit by the basketball directly in the face because he didn't see the ball passing, passed by and silently nodded.

Davis smiled awkwardly, and decided to stop the experiment. He was afraid of being beaten to death by his teammates if he continued. . .

Davis, who got back to normal, immediately raised the operation of the Magic to a normal level.

The normal Magic team is unstoppable by the Nets.

(End of this chapter)