Chapter 58: Caps
Yang Di laughed dryly, thinking to himself, it's not good at all, the best result should be not to score and then he grabbed the rebound in the front court, and then he dunked vigorously. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
"It's okay to make a basket." He then added another sentence to himself.
At 20-15, the Celtics led by five points and were more than a minute into the end of the first quarter.
Marcus Banks dribbled over the half, the 22-year-old was the 13th pick in this year's draft, and then was sent to the Celtics by the Grizzlies, standing 1.88 meters tall and weighing 93 kilograms, the best defensive player at the University of Las Vegas, and the traditional point guard that the Celtics want to seriously develop.
He was traded by the Grizzlies along with a player named Kendrick Perkins, the 27th pick in the first round, but the latter is still working in the Development League and is not on the team's roster.
Banks held out two fingers and pretended to be a tactical command, and distributed it to Eric Williams on the flank, and Odom spread his arms in front of him, and Eric felt guilty.
The ball in the low post was handed to Tony Barty, who took a step outside the three-second zone and singled out Yang Di with his back.
"Back to Yang Di?" Spoelstra covered his mouth and snickered, under Yang Di's strength bonus, it is obviously not a good choice to force him with his back, basically according to Yang Di's current defense, attacking with a face frame is the right thing to do.
It's a pity that Tony Barty doesn't know, he just thinks that Yang Di is very strong, and he lost a game by his card just now, and he should find his way back to the field at this time.
"One-on-one!"
To show you how good I am, Barty stepped on his toes and his body tightened.
"Bang"
Barty bumped into Yang Di's arm, and Yang Di easily resisted, "Bang!" The second time he hit it, Yang Di still didn't move. There is not much time left, and the other players of the Heat have no intention of wrapping up, which is more embarrassing.
Barty turned around and barely hooked his hand, and Yang Di "rubbed" the ground and jumped up like a rocket.
"Why is this bullet so fast!" Tony Barty was taken aback, subconsciously choosing a more backward hook position in order to avoid Yang Di's block, and the ball left his hand a little faster.
The basketball smashed out of the frame, and when Yang Di landed, Odom rushed in and snatched the rebound.
In 50 seconds, Odom held the ball in the front court to press the rhythm, and in 40 seconds, Odom hooked his hand at Yang Di, Yang Di ran to the line, and Odom motioned for him to stand on the right side of the blocking position.
"On the right, boy!"
Yang Di happily swung his hands and made a blocking and dismantling posture to protect the vital point, and then Odom pulled the ball with his left hand, and strode out with his right foot, which actually took the breakthrough on the left side.
It turned out that it was just a pretended block-and-tear for Yang Di.
Eric Williams reacted immediately and kept up with Odom in the breakaway.
Odom hit the baseline position, took a step back, raised his hand and made a mid-range jumper, the opponent's interference was not high, but the ball was not thrown, and Jandy had no chance to grab the rebound, and Tony Barty stuck him to death.
Protected by Banks, the shortest player on the court, he rebounded and advanced to the front court with 33 seconds left on the clock.
The Celtics head coach signaled not to rush the offense and slow down, so Banks controlled the ball and stood on the Celtics' floor mark, and without stepping forward, the Heat dispersed the team's marking.
pressed the rhythm, and the audience cheered loudly.
Yang Di squinted his eyes, staring at Tony Barty who was defending himself, and also paying attention to Banks, who was holding the ball, and was very focused.
Marcus Banks took a deep breath and with 20 seconds left, it started!
In the end, it was a rookie with the 13th pick, and the speed was really amazing, and he stepped out in one step, and the man and ball were one, and he rushed to the right hand side of Eddie Jones in an instant.
The left side broke through, which happened to be the place where Yang Di was guarding, and Yang Di's eyes were brighter.
Eddie Jones is a well-known defensive stalwart in the league, and he has been averaging about two steals per game in the first few years of his career, and he has always been active and hardworking. Banks wanted to force Eddie Jones and hit the latter's hand, carrying him inside and drifting away from the basket.
Banksy secretly exclaimed, it was better not to break through like this, he gritted his teeth, toe a little to the floor, his sneakers made a violent friction sound on the floor, pulled the ball back with his left hand, and the whole person stopped in place.
It was a very dangerous move, and Eddie Jones was not thrown away, and the long arm was already pulled over and aimed at the basketball that Banks' right hand dribble was exposed.
Banksy had a flash of inspiration, and at that moment it seemed that the god of basketball possessed him, and he actually changed his center of gravity again in violation of the laws of motion, took a step with his left foot, grabbed the ball with his right hand to avoid Eddie Jones' steal, used his left foot as the axis, and drew a circle with his right foot on the ground, and the whole person turned clockwise, and suddenly passed Eddie Jones's defense and circled Eddie Jones's back!
"Oops!"
Eddie Jones glanced at Banks, but was powerless to stop it.
Stan Van Gundy, who could see it clearly on the side, was also nervous, but he didn't expect that at the critical moment, the Celtics' rookie actually made such a subtle pass!
Banksy held the basketball in his left hand, his fingertips flicked slightly, and his heart felt very wonderful, after adjusting the center of gravity on a large scale, he could still feel the specific position of the basket, Banks enjoyed the feeling of the wind blowing in his ears, he seemed to have expected that the basketball he shot would keep spinning, crossing a wonderful arc in the air, hitting the rebound on the left side of the basket, simply falling into the basket, rolling up the white net flower, and then, the scene cheered.
"It's that simple!"
The red figure of No. 8 suddenly appeared, shattering his illusions.
Yang Di stepped heavily on the floor, his long arms raised high, and he leaped in an instant with an exaggerated bullet speed, and the whole person was like a huge mountain shrouded, blocking the spotlights hanging high and sprinkling black shadows on the ground.
"Smack!"
The big hand hit the basketball, Yang Di shouted, pressed his wrist down, and slapped the ball out with all his might!
The basketball flew back at a faster pace, a line of light in the air that grazed the side of Banks's face, hit the floor, bounced, and went out of bounds.
A drop of cold sweat fell from the linesman's head, and Banks, who was unsteady in his center of gravity, fell to the floor and rolled out of bounds as well.
Eddie Jones, who turned his head, was taken aback and didn't know what to say.
The North Shore Garden Arena was instantly divided into two groups, one group applauding for this wonderful cap, and the other group booing, inexplicably not knowing why.
The Heat bench was in a boil, Wade stood up and punched Yang Di, and then Alston, Haslem and others stood up one after another, following Wade's example. Van Gundy and other coaches maintained their demeanor, smiling and applauding the wonderful help defense.
After Yang Di saw it, he also hugged his fist at the bench, feeling comfortable.
It's just that the Celtics players are unhappy, and with the last 2.8 seconds left in the offensive time, the Celtics head coach simply called a timeout to arrange this wave of tactics.
Yang Di walked off the field and clapped and bumped his chest with Wade and others.
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After the timeout, the Celtics replaced Pierce, and the Heat also replaced Wade with Rasol, and the coaches of both sides thought about the last ten seconds of the other party.
Then the Celtics, who served on the sideline, gave Pierce to the pocket without any surprise.
Pierce dribbled and stepped back to shoot a three-point jumper, and it was Odom who defended him, who was tall and long-armed, and the basketball was very off, and the basket didn't hit the rebound.
Yang Di effortlessly raised his hands high to grab the rebound and put it in his arms.
Wade advanced to the front court and counted down to 12 seconds.
In 5 seconds, Wade and Odom played a block and dismantle, and Jandy covered Eddie Jones' counterrun without the ball, and Eddie Jones went out of the three-point line, but there was actually an open opportunity.
But Wade didn't pass, but instead broke through in stride, passed the defender, and then passed back to Odom on the outside.
Odom misplaced the defender and tried a three-point shot.
"Bell!"
The crisp sound of striking iron made Van Gundy's face darken.
When the basketball was still in the air, the red light turned on, and the first quarter of the game was over, at this time Yang Di forced himself to jump behind Tony Barty to grab a rebound, and he really clicked the rebound with one hand, but unfortunately the time was up, it didn't count.