Chapter 611: Hand-to-hand Bloody Combat
The United Center Arena in Chicago is a well-known name, and there are a lot of fans watching the game tonight.
When it comes to the Eastern Conference Finals, especially teams like the Knicks and Bulls, fans must be indispensable, and the difference today is that the game hasn't started yet, Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, Dennis Rodman, Steve Cole...... A series of former Bulls players appeared next to the court.
The Knicks are not far behind, with Walter Fraser, Earl Monroe, Dave Debusschel, Willis Reid, and Patrick Ewing all showing up.
Before the start of the game, the local commentator introduced the two teams to the audience, and then the lineups of the two teams were lined up.
On the Knicks' side, point guard Belineri, scoring guard Parsons, small forward Li Feng, power forward Monroe, and center Cousins.
The lineup on the Bulls' side is point guard Chris Paul, scoring guard Jimmy Butler, small forward Andre Iguodala, power forward Emeka Okafor, and center Dwight Howard.
At the beginning of the game, Cousins and Howard competed, and this time Cousins scrambled to point to the basketball first.
The Knicks started to attack first, because of the big lead, when Belinelli came over and wanted to pass the ball to Li Feng casually, as soon as he shot the ball, Paul came sideways and stole the basketball at once.
Li Feng was still in a state of chaos here, and he didn't react much, Paul had already passed Jimmy Butler on the sideline, and Jimmy Butler took the ball and flew up for a dunk.
Back on his home court, the Bulls gave the Knicks a resounding slap in the face, and Tyberdu immediately stood up to remind his disciples when he saw that his disciples were so careless.
Focus! Focus!
In the back roar of Tyberdu, Belineri finally took the ball steadily, and then saw that Monroe on the inside was stuck in the position, and he immediately passed the ball to Monroe on the inside.
Monroe got the basketball on the inside and was about to start playing singles, but Okafor was very serious about blocking behind Monroe.
Pick up the ball and see Okafor. Monroe also turned lightly, accompanied by a feint, and then the delicacy of his footsteps, and threw a fluttering small throw.
Swish!
Don't look at Monroe, these two times don't seem to have much strength, but the feet are good and the feel is good, although Okafor desperately defends outward, but he still can't prevent Monroe.
Monroe made a move to help the team save face, and just as the Knicks were running back, the Bulls suddenly hit a quick serve.
Paul came up with the ball. Fiercely broke through frantically towards the Knicks' half.
In this state, the Knicks are not prepared because the Bulls have always been a slow-paced team. Phil Jackson's tactical system is as immutable as a 10,000-year-old turtle.
But today they suddenly went berserk and rushed to a fast attack, and the Knicks hurriedly organized themselves to defend after a moment of scramble.
Paul didn't use absolute speed, but he had a super good sense of rhythm and a change of direction. Then he turned his back and shook from side to side, and in one fell swoop he got past Belle.
Paul got past Belineri and Paul came up with a throw to score two points in the Knicks' head.
The Bulls opened with such a rush and roared a fast break. It's not like their style.
Tyberdeau, who was on the side, shook his head, it is impossible to say that Paul suddenly went crazy, Paul is a player who is calm to the bone, this kind of player has no coach's arrangement. You don't play like that.
Just as Tyberdeau's head was messing up and asking what Phil Jackson was thinking.
The Knicks also turned around and played a fast break, and the Knicks were originally a team that admired fast play. Once you have a chance to go fast, it's like smelling a bloody shark. Immediately rushed back.
The Bulls' fast break is led by Paul, and the fast break on the Knicks' side is led by Li Feng.
Li Feng took the ball in the backcourt and began to rush towards the Bulls' half, and the main rhythm leader of fast offense and defense was still a small player.
After all, a big man can't get through the court quickly with the ball, and Li Feng shook the ball twice at this time to shake Iguodala away.
Then with a big wave of his hand, he threw the ball into the hands of Cousins, who ran to the frontcourt, although Cousins was a big man, but like Howard, he had fast legs!
A lot of the time on the fast break is like a small man, Cousins takes the ball and dribbles a step, and then he is about to go to the basket, and the referee's whistle blows! It turns out that this kid is walking.
Cousins is really walking!
Looking at the innocent expression of the kitten Cousins, Li Feng wanted to laugh! This brother is good everywhere, but he has to be brain-dead once in a while.
The Knicks themselves cut off offensive opportunities and formed a dead ball, in which the Bulls magically made such an early substitution, replacing Iguodala with Nate Robinson.
This substitution is magical, just as magical as the Bulls playing fast break. Both Tyberdu and Li Feng were wondering what the bull meant.
The Bulls actually had another fast serve, and the basketball was suddenly in the hands of Nate Robinson, who had just come on the court.
Nate Robinson is purely a demon king who kills people without blinking, and when he sees a living person, he will drink blood and eat flesh, he is a demon king of the mixed world.
took the ball and rushed directly to Li Feng's side, and sent it with all his might, Li Feng was not paying attention to it, allowing Nate Robinson to rush past him, and Li Feng chased after Nate Robinson.
With Li Feng's defensive level and pressure, it is enough for many people to take care of it a little before making a shot, but Nate Robinson is not, even if Li Feng is next to him, even if he doesn't have too good room to shoot.
Nate Robinson still leaned on Li Feng's body very hard, and his body twisted and threw a throw towards the rebound.
Nate Robinson is so strong that he relies on Li Feng to play, Li Feng's action is a foul if he moves a little bigger, and if Li Feng can't touch the ball cleanly, it is easy to foul if he doesn't touch Nate Robinson's body.
Li Feng was annoyed here, and got up and stretched out his hand to intercept it, and sure enough, Li Feng's side moved for a while.
The referee's whistle sounded immediately, and the referee gave Li Feng a defensive foul!
Li Feng helplessly stretched out his hand to the referee, but this was the home court of the Bulls, and people didn't pay attention to Li Feng's pressure at all.
The Bulls reopened the sideline, and the basketball went straight to Okafor's hands on the inside. Okafor took the ball and pressed two steps towards the middle, then turned and turned to flip and step back for a jumper.
Okafor made two low shots. It should be regarded as his only achievement on the offensive end so far.
Monroe's low-post singles were acceptable, but the defensive end was not fierce, so Okafor turned over and scored two points with ease.
At the beginning of today, the Knicks did not take advantage of it at all, but were taken by the Bulls to take the lead and score points in a row, and the opening game was already six to two, in this situation.
Tyberdu also vaguely felt the smell of the bull's conspiracy, but what exactly. He doesn't know yet.
Li Feng was fouled by Nate Robinson for no reason, so he was naturally a little angry, and he was going to give Nate Robinson some power to see after coming over.
Li Feng got the basketball here. Before he put on a three-threat pose, he saw Nate Robinson, who was more than 30 centimeters shorter than Li Feng, jump up and swept directly to Li Feng's arm, hitting Li Feng's hand with a snap.
This action can already blow the foul, but the referee didn't blow it, Li Feng suddenly became angry, hit Nate Robinson sideways with his shoulders, and knocked Nate Robinson into a stumble all of a sudden, and then Li Feng went deep into the basket. Resisted Howard, who pounced, and scored two points with a right-handed hook layup.
The Knicks' group of youngsters were angry again when they saw Li Feng, which is a good show. The magic was so arrogant before, and Li Feng suppressed them.
Now the Bulls' Nate Robinson wants to find trouble with Li Feng, is this step to find death?
Li Feng at this time. After more than a few seasons of growth, it already has absolute prestige. At this time, the murderous aura on Li Feng's body was already in a state of seeing God killing God, and seeing Buddha killing Buddha.
This kind of player is often born once in ten years. They are characters who change a game, or even a series, with the ability of one person.
So as soon as they saw that Li Feng was going crazy, the other players of the Knicks wanted to be lazy.
Nate Robinson was hit hard by Li Feng. It was also unselfish to turn around, and the bull opened a quick counterattack in an extremely strange way.
The Bulls, an old team, are actually chasing the Knicks to play today, what kind of plane are the Bulls going to do.
Just when the Knicks were surprised, Paul and Okafor blocked and dismantled in the high post, and the Knicks' defense naturally shrank.
Paul and Okafor's high blocking, the follow-up offense changed too much, and the Knicks had to defend, and at this time, Paul suddenly passed the basketball to Nate Robinson outside the three-point line.
Nate Robinson took the ball and broke through to the inside line, Li Feng hurriedly pounced to defend his own people, the two of them instantly staggered, Li Feng wanted to use his body to card the other party, Nate Robinson was desperate to attack, so as to come.
Nate Robinson was hit by Li Feng and fell directly on the court, and both Li Feng and Nate Robinson were suspected of fouling.
However, the referee gave Li Feng another defensive foul based on the principle of offensive advantage, so that Li Feng was fouled twice by the Bulls at the beginning.
In this way, Tyberdu could only replace Li Feng. At this point, the bull's conspiracy finally emerged, that is, Tong Guò kept beating Li Feng to create the effect of beating Li Feng down.
Everyone knows how important Li Feng is to the Knicks, and now the Bulls have taken Li Feng down with a few thunderous attacks in the opening game.
This is simply the best start for the Bulls. When Li Feng went down, the Knicks also reacted, things were a little bad, and there was something uncontrollable in such a game.
Because the Knicks have always been a top-heavy team, there are a lot of accumulated talents on the inside, but there is a lack of talent on the outside.
With the loss of Ross and Dragic, the Knicks' outside line has always relied on Li Feng alone, and without Li Feng all of a sudden, it is like losing a pillar for the Knicks.
Without Li Feng's outside support, in the next game, Nixton lost control of the tempo and halfcourt.
In the previous Knicks game, Li Feng has always been the team's controller, but now without Li Feng, the Knicks' half-court position cannot be played, and the efficiency of offensive and defensive conversion is also greatly reduced, in this case.
By the end of the first quarter, the Knicks had let the Bulls score 31 points, while they only scored 23-pointers.
Li Feng was tricked by the bull for no reason, and he was angry when he sat on the sidelines.
In the second quarter, Li Feng came back to the court, and he also made up his mind in his heart to give the Bulls, the guys who provoked him, look good.
The opening was the Knicks' ball, and Livingston knew Li Feng's ball well and passed it to Li Feng, who was receiving at 45 degrees.
Li Feng took the ball over. Iguodala, who came back, immediately came up and blocked in front of Li Feng.
Iguodala has the potential to be a top-tier defender, tall enough, with a long enough reach and fast enough movement. This kind of defender is the defender with the fewest weaknesses from all angles, and it is difficult to deal with.
Li Feng faced Iguodala and lowered the basketball, and then suddenly started to break through to the right, and the crusher Iguodala took a step back, and then Li Feng quickly dribbled the ball under his crotch and took a big step back. Then raised his hand and threw a mid-range.
Li Feng used a mixture of footwork, speed, and skill to crash away from the opponent, and then shot the middle distance himself.
Iguodala had no choice but to watch Li Feng shoot and hit these two points.
After Li Feng hit these two points, he also eased the resentment in his heart a little, the game is still long, and there is time to settle accounts with you.
The Bulls came back immediately after dropping points, and now the Bulls' point guard is Marquestig. He also played well in the Knicks' half, Rodriguez patiently watched his teammates run, and saw that his teammates opened up the space before passing to Gibson who pulled out outside.
At this time, he received a pass from Marquistig, and Gibson hit a solid two-point shot. Gibson was rugged though. But the mid-to-long-range shooting is still relatively accurate.
On the offensive end, when the Knicks still wanted to pass the ball to Li Feng, they encountered some difficulties, and Iguodala blocked Li Feng's receiving route.
At this time, Li Feng could only run without the ball. Go around the pitch in a circle.
Livingston could only hand over the basketball to Jones, who was on the side, and it was much easier for Jones to get the ball.
Although he is a rookie, he has been nurtured by the semi-finals Pacers. He has adapted to the big scene, took the ball, lowered his body and pressed it two steps, suddenly turned around and squeezed to the basket, and scored two points.
Jones's table is getting better and better, more and more like a general, on the court Jones not only has long-range shots, but also can play under the basket, and is extremely good at rebounding, and the defense is not ambiguous.
Phil Jackson is also good at on-the-spot scheduling, so once he found out that the Knicks were uncontrollable, Li Feng came back, and he immediately began to adjust the lineup, replacing Nate Robinson, who was very comfortable with Li Feng, and replacing Paul and Okafor together.
The Bulls' lineup immediately turned into a strong mixed lineup, and then it was seen that the Bulls' ball was also in Paul's hands.
Okafor came up to Paul, who accelerated and crashed into Livingston.
Livingston broke the ball, Paul immediately lowered his crotch, stepped back, and used almost the same move as Li Feng to easily dodge Livingston, and then shot this mid-range.
When he shot the middle distance, Paul reached out and loudly signaled to his teammates: This is our home field, everyone steady!
This Paul does have the style of a general, scoring points, taking the atmosphere, and turning back to command his teammates is also calm.
In this case, Li Feng naturally became interested in Paul and looked at Paul with his eyes. Then entered the Bulls' position, at this time the Bulls were still defending Li Feng in front of him, and Li Feng had difficulty receiving the ball.
So Li Feng could only run without the ball, and at the same time sent the basketball to Jones's hands from the outside. Jones had just played Livingston with ease, and now he looked at the opposite side for Okafor.
Jones is also intent on challenging the other side, because Okafor is now also the league's top defensive player, and if Jones can cut off his head, his own confidence and external evaluation will certainly skyrocket a lot.
So Jones took the ball and immediately put on a three-threat posture to attack, he is shorter than the opponent's height, so it is the right way to use the face frame.
Okafor came up to defend Jones cautiously, and Jones probed at his feet, and saw that Okafor's steps were a little slow.
Jones took a small step to the left, then rolled over and smeared under the Bulls' basket with a throw-up to score two points.
Jones proved his potential with his clean shots that doesn't have to be Okafor.
Li Feng ran half a lap on the side, and seeing that Jones had solved the problem, he suddenly felt a lot more relaxed.
Li Feng didn't put too much effort into the offensive end, so naturally Li Feng focused his attention on the defensive end.
At this time, the Bulls were in possession of the ball with Paul, who took the ball over and suddenly passed it to Nate Robinson. Nate Robinson was still opposite Li Feng at this time, and this guy actually wanted to hit Li Feng alive when he got the ball.
But at the first moment he got the ball, Li Feng stretched out his hand, and it hit Nate Robinson's ball very quickly and violently.
Nate Robinson didn't finish the first move, and the basketball was ordered by Li Feng, and then Li Feng went up and grabbed the basketball.
Nate Robinson rushed from behind, and Li Feng deliberately slowed down his speed and then slammed his ass to the back.
Bang!
Li Feng hit Nate Robinson on a big heel with his ass, and then ran over with the ball and handed the basketball to Jones again.
At this time, when Jones was in good shape, he should have handed over the ball to Duoduo, and Jones also held up the triple threat posture with the ball.
One kick stretched Okafor open, and Jones raised his hand to shoot another shot while Okafor's feet were moving.
Okafor was beaten twice in a row by Jones, and he couldn't hang up, and it was normal to be beaten one coldly, but if he was beaten twice in a row, he was treated as a bank.
So when the Bulls pushed in, Okafor immediately asked Paul for the ball.
Paul naturally understood Okafor's situation and passed the basketball to Okafor's hands. At this point, the game turned into a war between a new generation of interior players, and Okafor took the ball far further than the older generation of interior players.
This is the need of the times, and the current basketball rules have destined an excellent interior line, which can have no low-post ability, but must have a range.
Jones was also obviously motivated to go head-to-head with Okafor, and came up to block Okafor's back.
Okafor controlled the ball with one hand and hit Jones hard, and the two inside lines competed against each other in a tough stance.
The two men collided near the penalty area in two steps, and Okafor paused slightly, which was a signal.
At this point, Okafor can roll backwards, shoot directly, and even feint.
Just as everyone was looking at Okafor, Okafor suddenly strode forward to control the ball and made a small hook that jumped.
Okafor was already taller than Jones, and when he hooked his hand again, Jones had no choice but to watch Okafor score.
Okafor finally fought back, and finally gave Jones a little bit of a look.
This scene was in the eyes of the managers of both sides, and the managers of both sides nodded their heads. (To be continued......)