Chapter 766: The Invisible Li Feng
The team was in such a big trouble, Rose saw the ball coming back and hurriedly defended Lillard, Rose noticed Lillard but he forgot that there was a Batum on the other side!
Lillard easily passed the ball to Batum, Batum fired steadily outside the three-point line, this guy didn't even dribble forward to shoot two points, nor did he break through for a more confident layup, but caught the ball and shot three points, which was somewhat unreasonable and unusual, but that's it, Batum's three-point shot was still sharp and effective into the Pelicans' basket.
In less than 30 seconds of the opening game, the Trail Blazers made two three-point shots and a steal, and immediately the 11-point difference was close to 5 points, and the atmosphere of the entire court became cold in an instant.
This is the real offensive powerhouse in the league, and in that lineup full of scorers, there is huge scoring potential and scoring power, and this lineup needs an instant to completely destroy the opponent.
And Stotts discharged this lineup at this time, to use the scoring explosion of this lineup to destroy the Pelicans, he just wants to divide the game up and down in the third quarter, win is king, lose everything, he is a big gamble, an absolute big gamble!
After thinking about this, Li Feng suddenly felt that his blood was also boiling, and it was a very happy thing to be able to participate in this kind of big gamble.
But the other Pelicans players on the court were a little blindsided, and Millsap once again gave Rose the ball on the baseline, this time Rose was more careful, if he was serious about protecting the ball, it would be difficult to trap him again.
Although Rose looked a little difficult, he still dribbled the ball to the Trail Blazers' half, at this time the Pelicans still tried to play steadily, looking for someone to find Millsap first, but in the second quarter Millsap swung well!
As soon as he received the ball, it was wrong, the Trail Blazers had a change in their defense, and as soon as Millsap received the ball, he saw three opposing players coming up towards him. So Millsap had no choice but to pass the ball to Al Jefferson.
However, at this time, Al Jefferson was the only one of all the players on the court who did not have three-point attack power, and he had to find his teammates first when he got the ball from a distance, and he was not capable of handling the ball.
At this time, Aldridge, who was out of order in the second quarter, suddenly stretched out his hand and dropped the ball from Al Jefferson's hand, although there were some fouls in this ball, but Aldridge was a star player, and this kind of ambiguous punishment would not be given to him.
I saw Aldridge cut Al Jefferson's ball like lightning, and immediately passed the ball to Batum, Batum knew it himself, and Batum immediately found Matthews after receiving the ball.
The ball is in Matthews' hands. The degree of the Trailblazers has been raised by a notch, and all the players wearing red jerseys of the entire Trail Blazers are rushing as fast as cavalry, and now the Trail Blazers' lineup is really fast, fast to the point of sharpness!
However, Van Gundy's Pelicans were not slow to return to defense, and when Matthews arrived, they had already returned three people, and they did not occupy a disadvantage locally, at this time Matthews could only stop his steps and observe the battlefield.
Aldridge and Al Jefferson, who finally ran to the position, Al Jefferson has always been on the inside, and he forgot that he is now defending Aldridge, and he just walked into the three-second zone. But now that there was no one around him, it occurred to him that Aldridge would not enter the three-second zone.
But he was already done when he went back, Matthews' ball passed into the hands of Aldridge in the open space, and Super Ard fired as if it were a machine. A three-point shot blew the Pelicans basket open.
What is the explosive power of scoring, and this is what the Trail Blazers made in a row in less than a minute of the opening minute of the third quarter. All of a sudden, the scores of the two sides were pulled into the only
At this time, both the fans at the New Orleans arena and the players on the Pelicans court were a little blind, and they couldn't believe that they were watching the game, could it be that we played so well in the second quarter. In front of the pioneers, it was all in vain.
This is an extremely deep blow, the hard-earned advantage is instantly wiped out, and it is very easy to beat the morale of the other party, seeing that his teammates are a little depressed, even Li Feng can't help but ask himself.
Are we really inferior to each other, are our efforts in vain, no, absolutely not, Li Feng instinctively immediately denied this statement, this is unreasonable, so what is the hand that has played the balance of fate and let his team bear this blow.
It's the shooting rate, Li Feng thought of this word in an instant, three three-point shots, this is too accurate, too abnormal!
This level of shooting rate will definitely not last long, even if the Trail Blazers can maintain it for a while, and this kind of shooting rate will definitely not last long.
At this time, Li Fengyi shouted on the field:
"Portland boys! Go ahead and score three points! Go on! I see how many of you will enter, and I don't believe that every single one of you will enter. ”
Li Feng roared again and again, so that the Pelicans players woke up!
The Trailblazers look fierce and fierce! But how long can they hold on to this kind of 300% hit!
This is something that will never last long, and if the Trail Blazers can maintain this state even for ten minutes, they will be able to dominate the league, and when you think about it, everyone's state of distraction is completely gone.
Instead, Rose received the ball, turned and rushed towards the Trail Blazers, the white New Orleans representing the immovable power, and the red Trail Blazers representing the sharp edge.
After a brief period of panic, the Pelicans' style of play began to inherit, the rigor and precision of the second quarter!
As the commander of the field, Rose was keenly aware that the Trail Blazers had problems with their average height after switching to such a sharp formation, and his team did not break through perfectly, so he immediately made a gesture to ask his teammates to join him in a misplaced low post attack.
The misplaced low-post offense was originally in the pre-game, and Van Gundy's focused training tactics were used to hit the outside of the Trail Blazers, and when the Trail Blazers exposed their sharpest side, the vulnerability of this sharpness was also revealed.
After Li Feng understood Rose's thoughts, he quickly ran out of the low post to do a low cover, and then continued to do a cross cover with Rose at 45 degrees, and Millsap, who had just done a low cover on the baseline, also ran to the high post with Guò and Al Jefferson.
A series of runs and covers, empty and counter-runs, the Pelicans applied more tactical details in this round than the Trail Blazers used in the entire quarter, and as soon as Rose ran to the low post, Li Feng immediately knocked the ball into Rose's hands.
Through Guò's complicated positioning, Rose stepped into a good guy's deep position, where Lillard's superiority in mobility, skill and degree had all been wiped out.
Rose's advantage over Lillard was infinitely magnified, and Rose seemed to be very casual after receiving the ball and chased back two points with a small hook to the rebound.
The Pelicans' offense with a high chance of injury at halftime gave the New Orleans Arena fans who were already feeling a lot of pressure a glimpse of hope, no matter how tough the opponent was, we just fought back in our own way, and in the panic, the New Orleans Arena finally came peacefully.
And seeing this pelican pampered and unfazed, Wesley also breathed a deep sigh of relief, and Wesley, who had experienced many winds and waves, naturally had a deep understanding of the situation on the field:
"At the beginning, the Trail Blazers' attack was very ferocious, which was the most unreasonable and ferocious offense I have ever seen, and it wiped out the Pelicans' advantage at once, which can be said to be the strongest offense of the Trail Blazers, and it can also be said to be the strongest offense in the league!"
"If it was a normal team that suffered this kind of blow, I think the confidence would have completely disappeared, but now the Pelicans are dealing very well, they are unmoved, they are still playing their own basketball, look at their team just now! The Trail Blazers' offensive didn't affect them at all! ”
Wesley couldn't help but make a lot of praise for his disciples, and the book made Bill Wharton a little unhappy:
"Are you saying your Pelicans successors will be eyeing this wave of attack by the Trail Blazers? Do you think the Trail Blazers' defense will leave the Trail Blazers helpless? Hum! That's something that a champion team in the league might only do. ”
Bill's contempt was so obvious that Wesley was still fed up with Bill, so he said:
"No matter how good a team the Trail Blazers are, isn't he still behind New Orleans! And you've seen everyone's table just now. I am convinced that the Pelicans are a good team that is definitely not inferior to the Trail Blazers! ”
"Not inferior to the Pelican?" Bill said with a strange squeeze of his eyes
"Mr. David Wesley, the Pelicans are definitely inferior to the Trail Blazers!"
"The question of who is stronger is definitely not something that can be discussed with words, it depends on actual actions! Mr. Bill, "
Wesley's big mouth will never bow to anyone, even his ball skills, his mouth will never bow to anyone.
Tristotts looked at this still firm pelican, and also tightened his teeth, the first wave of attacks, did not break their confidence, so what about the second wave, the third wave!
Now that the sword is unsheathed, you must drink the blood of your opponent! Without the blood of the opponent, then it may be himself who dies, thinking of this, Tristots clenched his teeth tightly and shouted loudly:
"Damn, do you want to keep them laughing at us! Boys, you're really disappointed that a team like this is 100,000 light-years away from a championship? ”
Stotts yelled at his players, and the entire Trail Blazers heard Stotts yell. As soon as the championship was mentioned, the Trail Blazers' eyes immediately filled with excitement as if they had been beaten with chicken blood.
By the time of the Pelicans' half, the Trail Blazers, who have always tended to play infinitely simple, also began to seek cooperation, Aldridge and Lillard did high blocking and dismantling cover, Aldridge received the ball knocked back by Lillard, he did not choose to play alone, but played the role of a big axis that connected the whole team, and immediately passed the ball to Lillard on the weak side after receiving the ball.
The Trail Blazers' changes all showed that they had completely treated the Pelicans as a league powerhouse, and as soon as Lillard received the basketball, he immediately started to dribble two steps to the right side in a row.
Now it is Ross who lets Lillard go, and he was dumped by Lillard in two steps. That way, Lillard easily jumped up and hit a mid-range shot.
This time, Lillard finally found a little bit of the feeling of the game, in the first half, he was too tight by Li Feng, and now when facing Rose, he feels completely relaxed and comfortable.
The Trail Blazers hit again, and the pressure was back in the hands of the Pelicans. As soon as Rose received the basketball in the backcourt, it was seen that Lillard and Batum were caught together, and now the Trail Blazers have also seen that the opponent's cooperation on the half-court is very organized, and the opponent must not be allowed to easily play a half-court offense, so Rose received the basketball. It was pressed by the opponent's defense.
Lillard and Batum were sandwiched, Rose was like an elf holding his little pet, and the left rush was not given a chance to the two people under the pursuit and interception of the two people, so Rose was stunned by his excellent ball control skills, and dribbled to the Trail Blazers' half under the attack of the two people.
At this time, although Rose's ball control skills are commendable. But even so, Ross still delayed the offense by 7 seconds, and this delay still affected the Pelicans' lineup at a certain distance.
Corresponding to the Trail Blazers' high-post blocking and pick-and-roll tactics, the Pelicans still played a small man attacking the low post with a misplaced offense, but this time it was replaced by Arenas' main offense.
This time there was a little problem in choosing the main point of attack, Arenas's corresponding Matthews was not much inferior to Arenas in terms of confrontation, even if Arenas played hard, but the goal was lost in the end.
After conceding a goal, the Pelicans immediately stepped back, Van Gundy saw clearly from the sidelines, and he was the clearest of all the alignments, at which point Van Gundy yelled at Rose on the sideline:
"Find the strongest point to fight! Let's find out the strongest point! ”
Rose heard Van Gundy yelling at this point. He immediately realized that this was his lack of adaptability on the court, and now it is not advantageous to use Arenas to play Matthews, if you want to play fiercely, you must use your most sure and the opponent's weakest point to grasp the play, and now in all the positions of the two teams, only the misalignment Millsap vs. Dorrell Wright is the strongest point, which is a weakness in the current lineup of the Trail Blazers.
The Pelicans are planning the Trail Blazers, and the Trail Blazers are not planning the Pelicans, Tristotts has long heard Van Gundy yelling something, and he also knows what Van Gundy means, but this does not make Stotts feel the slightest fear, but makes him sneer and weakness!
After the Trail Blazers entered the Pelicans half, Dorrell Wright suddenly ran sharply along both sides of the baseline. As soon as the amplitude and degree of this kind of running came out, Millsap couldn't keep up at first, and he was left behind by Dorrell Wright's pure running position, but at this time, Dorrell Wright easily received Lillard's pass, and then jumped directly outside the three-point line.
The fourth three-pointer. As soon as Dorrell Wright made a shot, everyone in the New Orleans Arena immediately watched the ball with wide eyes, and if the Trail Blazers scored again, the game would be really dangerous, and Dorrell Wright's ball was a sleek arc after the shot. Walked through the entire New Orleans arena and then broke into the Pelicans basket.
Three again, three again, and the other way around. It's so simple that it's the other way around! Although Li Feng knew very well that the Trail Blazers could not maintain such a high shooting rate for a long time, he was still a little surprised at this time.
What he didn't expect was that the Trail Blazers would be so quick to fight back, and now it was just over three minutes before the start of the third quarter, and the advantage that the Pelicans had worked so hard to accumulate in the second quarter was all in vain, so the game was really nerve-wracking.
At this time, the pioneer is completely a sword with a full bloom, and it is even impossible to stop him! I could only delay him as much as I could, waiting for his sharp light to fade completely.
The Trail Blazers were even more crazy in the half-court pressing, and as soon as Rose received the basketball, he suffered a more intense half-court press, at this time he also knew that he couldn't waste time like just now, and quickly threw the ball into Rose's hands, Rose dribbled two steps, and also encountered Lillard's tight defense, dealing with this kind of tight defense is not Rose's forte, he hurriedly passed the ball to Li Feng, who ran up from behind, and after Li Feng held the ball steadily, the Trail Blazers still consumed nearly 10 seconds of Pelicans' time.
After Rose received the basketball, Millsap, who wanted to play his strongest point, was a little short of time tactically, and in the end, even Rose reluctantly passed the ball to Millsap's hands.
When Millsap shot again, the position and timing were not very good! In this shot, Millsap also missed, and the Pelicans' offense failed again.
Two consecutive offensive failures gave the Trail Blazers a new chance, Lillard dribbled quickly to the Pelicans' half, this is a very critical offense, if this time the Trail Blazers attack again, the game will be reversed, and the Trail Blazers will completely reverse the form of the game, on the contrary, if the Pelicans defend this ball, the rhythm of the game will still be in the hands of the Pelicans, which is a very critical game to control the right to fight.
So at this time, all the members of the Pelicans were very alert to defend the Trail Blazers, seeing that the atmosphere was close to solidifying, Lillard, who was dribbling the ball in his hand, suddenly let out a smile, this is the game of the Trail Blazers, now is the best time to crush this stubborn team, only one offense, the Trail Blazers' edge will pierce a stubborn physical defense, as well as the psychological support of the opponent. (To be continued......)