Chapter 209 The atmosphere is a bit cold

The Bulls kicked off again, Meng Jin positioned himself on the weak side to ask for the ball, and Grant passed the ball directly to him.

Brian Shaw let go of Paxson and double-teamed Meng Jin.

Meng Jin made a fake pass and successfully fooled Brian Shaw.

The two shots made by Paxson and Hodges just now were very important, which made the Celtics dare not shrink their defense to double-team Meng Jin recklessly.

Then Meng Jin dribbled the ball, pushed Reggie Lewis with his back, and immediately turned around and made a jump shot.

“Shh!”

After Meng Jin developed his mid-range shot, he became the biggest bug in the league. No one could block his turnaround jump shot, and it was even difficult to interfere, unless that person appeared from behind Meng Jin.

“You can’t defend me like this. You have to anticipate and jump in advance.”

Meng Jin’s mouth is a perpetual motion machine, torturing Reggie Lewis endlessly.

Reggie Lewis ran towards the frontcourt with his head covered, at a very fast speed, almost like a fast break.

Reggie Lewis’ idea is that as long as I run fast enough, Meng Jin’s trash talk won’t be able to catch up with me!

During the Celtics’ offensive round, Larry Bird went to the low post and got the ball. Bird had good low post skills, but his physical talent was far inferior to Meng Jin, and he was completely unable to beat Meng Jin.

In this situation, Bird didn’t dare to shoot rashly, but Bird’s killer move was not just shooting. He passed the ball to Brian Shaw who was cutting to the basket. Bird observed the running positions of his teammates when he was back-to-back.

Brian Shaw scored two points with a layup.

The Chicago Bulls attacked, and the Celtics put in a lot of effort this time to prevent Meng Jin from easily receiving the ball on the weak side.

Meng Jin changed his running direction and three Celtics players were attracted over.

Seeing this, Paxson passed the ball to Grant.

Grant took one dribble and went straight to the basket. After all, Robert Parish was getting older, and his rim protection ability had greatly declined. He could only watch this junior shoot the ball over his head and score two points.

Meng Jin played very smartly. After Pippen left the court, he did not just focus on individual singles, but tried his best to use his attractiveness to create opportunities for his teammates.

In the first quarter, the Bulls took the lead and led by 32 points with 26 to 6.

Meng Jin only took 8 shots in a single quarter, but made 6 shots efficiently, plus two free throws, scoring 14 points, 3 rebounds and 3 assists.

同时孟进把拉里-伯德限制的非常不错，首节打完拉里-伯德6中2拿到6分2助攻2篮板。

Meng Jin has truly achieved integrated offense and defense, but it is not time for him to be proud yet. There are still three quarters left in the game, and the one who laughs last will have the best laugh.

Meng Jin continued to play in the second quarter. In this crucial life-and-death battle, he would definitely play the entire game.

Although the Celtics played with all substitutes, they were led by McHale.

McHale is playing as a substitute this season not because of his strength, but because of injuries and physical reasons. In the previous seasons, McHale played too hard. In two seasons, his average playing time even reached 40 minutes. This season, McHale plays about 30 minutes per game on average, but his statistics have not dropped much. This season he averaged 18 points and 7 rebounds per game, and his shooting percentage reached 55%, which is still very efficient.

In the Celtics’ first offensive round after the start of the second quarter, McHale was surprised to find that it was Meng Jin who was defending him.

The Celtics’ live commentator was also amazed that Meng Jin not only took on the offensive burden again tonight, but also had to defend the Celtics’ key players on the defensive end. In the first quarter, he was mainly defending Larry Bird, and now that Bird is out, he has to defend the Celtics’ super sixth man McHale.

After McHale asked for the ball, he backed up and played against Meng Jin.

McHale’s idea was simple. Even if there was no chance to shoot, he had to consume Meng Jin’s physical energy. No matter how good Meng Jin’s physical fitness was, it was impossible for him to play like this for a whole game.

After continuous confrontation with Meng Jin in the interior, McHale suddenly turned around!
Then he used his signature footwork!

Meng Jin did not take the dodge. He was very confident in his athletic ability. He waited for McHale to jump and then jumped up to interfere with him.

McHale was helpless against this kind of defensive player, and after two fake passes, he passed the ball to Dee Brown, who missed the outside shot.

After Meng Jin protected the rebound, he did not pass the ball. He chose to dribble across half court by himself.

Meng Jin dribbled the ball to the 45-degree angle on the left side of the three-point line. Before the Celtics’ defensive formation was settled, Meng Jin suddenly changed direction and accelerated!
At the elbow, Meng Jin took a pull-up shot.

Basketball hits steadily.

This was Meng Jin’s 16th point in this game.

After Pippen left the game due to a headache, the Bulls’ strength on both offense and defense declined. In this situation, they must seize every opportunity to win.

In other words, Meng Jin not only needs to score, but also needs to score efficiently.

The Celtics attacked, and McHale took a tentative step after receiving the ball, then shot from mid-range.

Meng Jin failed to block the shot, but he did cause some interference to McHale.

After the basketball bounced out of the basket, Meng Jin grabbed the rebound and quickly launched a counterattack.

Meng Jin took his first step on the three-point line, then took the second step while receiving the ball and passing it over Ed Pinkney’s head.

Another inhumane and huge improvement!

The whole world knew that Meng Jin was going to take a step, but they just couldn’t defend against him. Meng Jin was too fast and his steps were too big, so Ed Pinkney could only watch him pass by him.

Meng Jin scored his 18th point of the game with a gliding one-handed slam dunk.

The Celtics’ on-site commentator said that giving Meng Jin this opportunity would be giving away points.

But no matter how tight the defense is, Meng Jin will still find such counterattack opportunities in a game.

The Celtics attacked, and McHale finally found an opportunity to get into the paint and caused a foul, but the foul was counted on backup center Will Perdue.

McHale made both free throws and the score came to 36-28.

The Bulls attacked and Meng Jin controlled the ball across half court.

In the second lineup, Meng Jin occasionally has to play the role of point guard.

Bulls fans all felt that Meng Jin was tired tonight as he had to do everything.

As soon as Meng Jin reached the top of the arc, the Celtics double-teamed him.

Meng Jin immediately passed the ball to Lewingston on the other side.

Passing the ball is an easier way to break a double-team. It is impossible for Meng Jin to use a lot of dribbling to break a double-team in every round.

After passing the ball, Meng Jin immediately ran towards Lewinston.

The two of them made a simple hand-to-hand pass. While passing the ball, Lewinston used his body to help Meng Jin block the defensive player. After Meng Jin got the ball, he cut inside. The Celtics failed to stop Meng Jin from speeding up, so it was difficult to defend him at this time.

Meng Jin received the ball one step outside the paint area and then made a standard three-step layup.

The Celtics deliberately sent out Croatian big man Stojako Frankovic with the aim of causing some difficulties for Meng Jin when he attacked the basket. As a result, the Celtics coaching staff found that Frankovic did not cause any difficulties for Meng Jin, but instead increased the difficulty for themselves.

After jumping, Frankovic put his hands on Meng Jin’s shoulders, trying to stop him from attacking the basket by fouling.

Meng Jin caught the ball in the air, then turned around and threw the ball sideways, making it 2+1!

As Meng Jin made the free throw, the atmosphere in North Shore Garden began to become a little cold, because Meng Jin had already scored 7 points in a row.

(End of this chapter)