Chapter 839: The First Round of Key Battles

When the final whistle blew, the whole stadium was cheering, and Li Feng walked quickly towards the players' tunnel excitedly, but the fans in the New Orleans arena were still chanting Li Feng's name.

At this time, Millsap, who was walking beside Li Feng, suddenly reminded:

"Li Feng, leave something for them, otherwise they won't be reconciled."

"Ahh At this time, Li Feng thought of something, quickly took off his jersey, and threw it to the stands with a hard throw, and the fans in the stands grabbed Li Feng's sweat-soaked jersey before being quiet for a while.

And Li Feng also walked into the player's tunnel quickly, and when Li Feng walked into the player's tunnel, Ray Jimiler said in the commentary seat:

"Today, we came to explain this game, originally wanted to see how Li Feng's state fluctuated, but we didn't expect that what we saw was a player rising in adversity, and a player awakening at a critical moment."

"Yes, today Li Feng did play his iconic abnormal game, I think I have watched this game, and I will have that kind of shock in my mind for a long time, this is Li Fengdi's game, I don't know if this is Li Fengdi's accidental explosion, or a long-lasting beginning."

"If it's an outburst, we're going to congratulate the Pelicans on getting a really convulsive scorer, and if it's going to start steadily, we're going to hate the Pelicans because they're going to be incredibly scary."

Joan Barry also admired and sighed at this time, this game is not dramatic on the field, but it is full of drama in real life.

With the strong return of Li Feng, the Pelicans also ended the 2013-2014 regular season with a five-game winning streak, and they retained the first place in the West and the first place in the league in the end, and the final record was locked at 65-17.

The regular season standings are, with the New Orleans Pelicans ranked first through eighth in the West. San Antonio Spurs, Golden State Warriors, Oklahoma City Thunder, Memphis Grizzlies, Los Angeles Clippers, Portland Trail Blazers.

The first to eighth places in the East are the Chicago Bulls, Brooklyn Nets, Indiana Pacers, Miami Heat, and Toronto Raptors. Washington Wizards, Atlanta Hawks, Charlotte Bobcats.

The Pelicans' opponent in the first round of the playoffs is the Portland Trail Blazers, the Trail Blazers and the Pelicans have met a lot in the regular season, most of them are won by the Pelicans, but the game is very difficult, the Pelicans after some time ago ups and downs now dare not underestimate any opponent, as a result, they won two games in a row at home, and the third leg moved to Portland. As long as you can win this game, there will hardly be any suspense in the first round.

The game soon began, and players from both sides took to the pitch.

The Pelicans' starters remain unchanged, Rose. Arenas, Li Feng, Millsap, Al Jefferson.

Let's look at the Trail Blazers' lineup. Damian Lillard, Wesley Matthews, Nicholas Batum. LaMarcus Aldridge, Robin Lopez.

The Trail Blazers are not bad, they are just a little less starry than the Pelicans, but the players are definitely practical.

Today's game commentary is ESPN's Bill Walton, and the other is Hubby Brown, who will shoot 30% more than just two Coach of the Year awards, even if you sit next to him.

In fact, Hubbie Brown's life, his contribution to basketball is universal, it is very deep and extensive, many, many, even generations of players, in their college days, and even high school, they have listened to Hubbi Brown's lectures on basketball knowledge popularization in the United States, and his lectures have even influenced many people's lives.

The reason why Hubi Brown is respected is not because he has a cardinal's ring, and his domineering personality, nor because he has the Zen spirit of a Zen master and plays Indian war drums in the locker room, but because he has been committed to the popularization of basic knowledge of basketball, and as a commentator for ABC, Hubi Brown also let all the audience understand the wonder and fun of the basketball world.

It can be said that with Hubi Brown it has aroused many people, and the sincere love for basketball is what makes Hubi respectable.

The big TV screen was shifted, and when the commentary seat was on the ground, Bill Wharton and Hubbie Brown sat on the commentary seat, which made Wang Teng feel a little strange, because these two people were white, and they both had white hair, and they looked like two white wax heads, sitting on both sides of the commentary seat.

The referee blew the whistle and the game began, with Millsap and Aldridge in the scrum, and the result was a victory for the young Aldridge.

Lillard passed the ball to Batum, Li Feng continued to mark the opponent's arrow Lillard today, Batum handed it to Rose, Batum passed Rose in one step, followed Al Jefferson's defense, and hit the Pelicans' inside.

"It's the inside, it's the breakthrough inside," seeing such a clear tactical intent, Van Gundy tightened his brow, today the Trail Blazers are really going to attack their team's interior, which is expected, but it is still the most feared thing for the Pelicans right now.

Batum's breakthrough was like a whistling bullet, violent, powerful, and even on Aljefferson's side, he jumped up without hesitation, ready to fight for a layup.

Al Jefferson, who had just played two games, immediately realized that he was making his own fouls, this was forcing himself, and since Al Jefferson thought of this, he held back a little bit in his hand

Let Batum jump up and make a difficult hook shot on the rebound, and the basketball rubbed the rebound and easily fell into the Pelicans' basket, although the Pelicans looked bad today.

Rose dribbled the ball to Li Feng, Li Feng was caught in the bag, and the ball was distributed to Arenas, Arenas shook quickly a few times, which overwhelmed Matthews, and then the Ragers immediately disrupted the Trail Blazers' half-court defense after they beat Matthews Williams.

In fact, Arenas passing Matthews alone will definitely not cause such a big riot, the key is that the Trail Blazers are definitely not Magic, Mitchell is not Big Van Gundy, the backcourt of the Trail Blazers can be described as three black holes, and Matthews Williams' defense can't keep up. Rose's injuries and footwork are also gone, and Batum has been criticized for his defense, which has not only dropped a notch for the Trail Blazers' defense.

As soon as Arenas got in, the Trail Blazers' interior line was chaotic, and Arenas was actually very good at messing around, and he was more suitable for stealing chickens and dogs in the chaos, sending the ball to the basket or passing it to his own hands.

Now that the Trail Blazers are messing up on their own, Arenas is giving Arenas just the chance to pass the ball to Millsap with a short ground-and-hitting pass in the gap. Millsap stepped up and slotted the basketball with one hand.

In the first round of the opening game, both sides attacked each other successfully, but it was only one round, and some characteristics of both sides were revealed, not to mention strengths, because weaknesses are actually easier to leak out than strengths.

The Pelicans' weakness is that they are short on the inside and slow on the inside. can't stand the attrition, and the weakness of the Trail Blazers is also obvious, the two backcourt guards are extremely stiff and can't drive the rhythm of the game. It's a big colander on defense.

Van Gundy hugged his shoulders and glanced sideways at Tristotz on the Trail Blazers' side, but my team had weaknesses and was indeed a little slower on the inside. But your team is no better than me, and even more teams than me in terms of shortcomings.

The two sides open to each other, attacking each other's weaknesses. No one lets go, just like watching a boxing match, two boxers beat each other in a row, and the one who lets go first will inevitably suffer, depending on who can grit his teeth.

The game went on in the first quarter, in the 7th minute, when the Pelicans were still tied with the Trail Blazers, and the key was that Aljefferson seemed to be very scared today, and he didn't dare to reach out at all, allowing Batum and Aldridge to score a lot of points.

Van Gundy noticed that Al Jefferson was playing a little too nervous today, and the rhythm of the game was not out of the imminent control, Van Gundy planned to change to the bench a little earlier to adjust Al Jackson's game state, at this time Van Gundy called a timeout.

replaced his four substitutes, leaving only Li Feng alone.

The lineup became Oladipo, Ronnie Brewer, Li Feng, Bidelins, Henson.

In the entire lineup, although the interior line is still very weak, the offensive system composed of Li Feng, Ronnie Brewer, Oladipo, and Biedrins' mid-range shooting is completely impossible to do in the general team's bench lineup.

Biedrins passed the basketball from the sideline to Li Feng's hands, Li Feng took the basketball, and immediately shook Matthews away with a swing of his hands, Li Feng didn't even use his full strength, and passed Matthews.

After Li Feng passed Matthews, Batum's supplementary defense arrived slowly, this is the difference between a defensive team and an offensive team, Li Feng believes that if Oladipo is so defensive, Van Gundy must have scolded over there.

Li Feng didn't care too much about Batum's arrival, but the French Maddie defense was really good, and there was a huge amount of power hidden in this body that didn't look very strong, and he didn't squeeze out the opponent at once with his own size.

Li Feng, who has always been very sensitive to position, immediately knew that the challenge was coming, so he continued to squeeze inward, Batum's body seemed to be made of iron, and he resisted himself with a "bang".

This time Li Feng didn't dare to hold it up, Aldridge on the other side also hunted up, let's take this opportunity to pass the ball, Li Feng, who was rude on the outside and slippery on the inside, simply threw it into the hands of Biedrins who was waiting on the bottom line.

The former Golden State Bandit Interior Pillar received the ball and then shot, hitting a two-point shot with ease.

Biedrins can only be regarded as average in other technical aspects, but the shooting percentage of the baseline is still amazing, basically close to 5 percent, Thomas Robinson reacted to see Biderlins, Biderin's shot has been drilled into the basket of the Trail Blazers.

The Pelicans' group of substitutes, not only are they not weaker than the Trail Blazers, but they are not messy at all when they play, and they play very clearly, that is, they use the shortcomings of the Trail Blazers' outside weakness to break through, and then go in to shoot the ball, the tactics are very simple, but Li Feng is too easy to break through these two old outside lines, and the collective defense of the Trail Blazers is not very strong, so the pass that breaks through is also very calm, and there are many choices.

At this point, no one for the Trail Blazers realized that they were actually at a disadvantage, and they were still playing indiscriminately when they attacked, and Wright opened fire uncontrollably in the half.

But Ronnie Brewer faced Dorrell Wright, and both of them played very relaxed. So Dorrell Wright came up and threw such a ball.

The "bang" ball didn't go in, hit the basket and bounced back, and after Biedrins and Henson protected the rebound, they immediately handed the basketball to Li Feng.

Li Feng dribbled very steadily, and wanted the Trail Blazers to advance in the half, Oladipo just ran to the inside line of the Trail Blazers, and saw Li Feng raise the gesture in his hand, Oladipo's little face immediately showed a thief smile, from the Trailblazer's inner line, he suddenly turned around, and ran out in the direction of Li Feng quickly.

And Li Feng also ran quickly in the direction of Oladipo, and the two of them completed a cross cover with a stagger. Batum switched to Li Feng's side, and Oladipo switched to Matthews' side.

tugged, the defensive pressure shifted, Li Feng relied on Batum to break through Batum, but Oladipo on the other side slipped and guided Matthews to run inward, and then he suddenly ran back and ran out.

Li Feng didn't plan to break through at this time, and hooked the pass with his left hand. The ball was passed right into Oladipo's hand, and Oladipo received the ball and shot, but Matthews' turn was not yet turned.

Oladipo opened fire, and Oladipo's performance in the last playoff game was very amazing. Accurate and terrible, 6 of 8 three-pointers, this game, Oladipo seems to continue this form. The shot was very decisive, and the basketball flew out and fell into the Trail Blazers' basket.

Hubbie Brown nodded approvingly in the commentary table and said:

"The future of the Pelicans. It will be very brilliant, with such a young but dominant Li Feng, with Oladipo's elegant projection ability, the future of the Pelicans will be very bright."

"You're interested in this guy too?" Bill Wharton's eyes widened, he looked at Oladipo, blinked vigorously, and didn't see any difference in Oladipo's face at all.

"It's just a guy who shoots well, I don't think it's any different,"

Hubie Brown now knows that Bill Walton has an unknown bias against Pelicans players, but he still said patiently: "First of all, we see that Oladipo's height is 193cm, for point guards he has enough height, but he does not have the general inflexibility of tall shooters, on the contrary, his feet are very light, as long as he is given a cover or running cooperation, he can use his soft wrist to carry out a lethal attack,"

"And his shooting touch is very soft, if he does a little bit of breakaway offense and interior low-post offense, he's a complete All-Star caliber character, well, he has the same shooting talent as Nowitzki, but he's more flexible than Nowitzki, just doesn't have Nowitzki's all-around,"

"If you don't have a solid shot spot on your team, it's going to be a good idea to bring him to your team for the next few years,"

Once Hubby Brown began to speak, the words became a little too much, and they extended far away, after listening to Hubby Brown's praise, Van Gundy didn't have time to be happy for his disciples, you must know that Li Feng's example was in front of him, and now Van Gundy was most afraid of someone praising his disciples.

After two rounds, the players of the Trail Blazers also found that something was not quite right, and after these Pelicans came off the bench, they played more patiently than their main players, played tactics a little bit, meticulous, and very calm.

That kind of adrenal eruption, attacking the team that comes up wave after wave like a tide, the outbreak is certainly terrifying, and a few attack waves can knock a team to the ground.

But compared with that kind of team, the Pelicans' current team that is not moved at all and seems to be as cold as a machine, such as the Spurs, makes people feel not terrible, but terrifying.

Batum shook his head that was very similar to the gang leader, forcibly driving out that terrifying feeling, afraid that such a group of guys would not make trouble, watching Matthews send the ball to his own hands, Batum held the ball and glanced at the inside, Thomas Robinson carded Millsap, it seemed that this guy wanted to kill Millsap.

Thomas Robinson understood what Batum meant, and suddenly turned around and made a look of wanting to cut into the air, and Millsap could only turn around and chase after him, but just when Millsap turned around, the Pelicans also showed his vulnerable side inside.

Batum forcibly broke through Oladipo, compared to explosiveness and speed, Batum and Oladipo are no longer on the same level at all, but to Batum's surprise, the big man on the other side seemed to have predicted his movements, jumped over and stood in front of him, Li Feng appropriately blocked Batum's offensive line, just a big step, as if blocking the gate of the dam, locked Batum out of the door.

Seeing a footstep movement of Li Feng's genius pen, Hubi Brown couldn't help but exclaim, "Wonderful!" ”

Batum didn't panic after the front road was blocked, his left hand stretched out from the gap, and the basketball went a few extremely narrow angles, directly to Thomas Robinson, who was already in the bottom corner. (To be continued......)