Li Feng dribbled from the backcourt, not only savage, but also flexible, the Spurs players did not catch Li Feng's shadow with a lot of effort, but let Li Feng twist into the Spurs' three-point line.

Li Feng is really dangerous when he arrives in this position, the Spurs' defense suddenly shrinks back, Leonard has been completely left behind by Li Feng, and now only Parker is standing in front of Li Feng.

Facing Parker, who was so much shorter than himself, Li Feng didn't waste time and opportunity, jumped directly, shot at Parker's head, Parker could only jump to seal Li Feng's eyes, this was the only defense he could make.

But this couldn't stop Li Feng's wipe shot, and the shot hit the upper right corner of the small black frame, and then refracted into the Spurs' basket.

Li Feng scored 2 points again, and when he got here, the Pelicans took less than a minute to chase 7 points in a row, and according to the speed of this score, the Spurs couldn't help but be nervous.

The gap was huge, and the wine glass was almost instantaneously closer, and Popovich stood up at once, and he glanced at Parker hesitantly, and sat down quietly.

At this time, Magic Johnson also said in amazement:

"The Pelicans are finally starting to fight back now, and it looks like the Spurs' good days are coming to an end, and Li Feng has finally shown his amazing strength."

Parker fully saw the Pelicans' counterattack routine at this time, which is to use defense and fast break to make a combination of punches, the first use of defense, dense defense and local pressing in the half, and let his team make mistakes. Or a broken ball.

Then there is a quick counterattack, using Li Feng's weight and speed to press directly to create opportunities to score or pass.

The Pelicans' defensive counterattack is entirely about using the mentality of their own side, and if they have the ball, Parker believes that the Pelicans will never get such a smooth scoring opportunity.

After Parker made such a judgment, he immediately gave up the plan to pass the ball in the Pelicans' half, and controlled the ball himself in the Pelicans' half. Don't let Parker get a shot.

Parker walked around the Pelicans' interior with the ball. Brought the basketball out again, although the basketball was not lost and there were no mistakes, but he also did not find a good opportunity to pass.

Time is running out for another round. Parker was left to solve the problem on his own at this point. With the ball, he directly thought about Li Feng. But Li Feng didn't give him such a chance at all, and made up for it by moving quickly.

Parker was suddenly blocked on the sideline by Li Feng, and it seemed that time was running out. Danny Green was about to run over to catch the ball, and at this time, Parker couldn't get Li Feng himself, so he could only pass the basketball to Danny Green's hands.

Danny Green receives the ball in the team's most critical moments, and then catches the ball and shoots, and the shooter is like that, without too much skill, without too much trickery, more often than not, just faster and more accurate than anyone.

Danny Green took the ball and shot, Arenas came from behind and got up to block, this time Danny Green was also in trouble, and Arenas' theory was just right to restrain him.

The basketball shot was slightly wrong, and the ball smashed into the hoop and flew directly.

Henson, who was waiting for the rebound under the basket, protected the rebound smoothly, and Split also wanted to interfere with Henson's pass, but Henson was not the kind of simple-minded windy man, and with one hand, he quickly pulled forward from Split's armpit, and the basketball reached Li Feng's hand with a diagonal line.

Li Feng took the ball and rushed to the Spurs' half, and at this time, the Spurs players were a little scared when they saw Li Feng rushing up again.

Such a small truck, how can you stop him, when Li Feng rushed up, there was a feeling that he couldn't stop it, and sure enough, Li Feng rushed directly into the Spurs' interior line and disrupted the defense again, and turned back to Oladipo, who easily hit a two-point shot.

In this way, the momentum of the Pelicans chasing points is even more ferocious.

At this time, Popovich really couldn't stand it, it was okay to be scored once or twice by a player or a team in the same way, but now his team has lost points for the fourth time in a row.

At this point, the team had to make adjustments, Popovich called a timeout, and the Spurs players were relieved to take their seats.

Li Feng also walked to the pelican's rest seat, and at this time the pelican finally saw a little bit of light, and with this little bit of dawn, there was hope in his heart.

After the timeout ended, the game between the two teams resumed, and Popovich added another guard Mills to his lineup, sent a two-guard formation, strengthened the control and protection of basketball, and replaced Leonard, who was not good at controlling basketball.

And as soon as the Spurs returned to the court, they immediately controlled the tempo, Parker and Oladipo kept passing, while the rest of the players were doing quick off-ball runs.

This change makes the Pelicans' local pressing not know when it will take effect, and the Spurs' own players can't adapt to this offensive method.

The Pelicans grabbed the rebound here, and as soon as Li Feng got the basketball, he immediately faced the double bag, although the Spurs did not get the score, but they also controlled the momentum of the Pelicans' madness.

The two teams began a tedious stalemate that lasted until the end of the third quarter, and the two teams battled to 74-55, and the Pelicans still trailed by 19 points, but finally chased some points.

The players of the two teams returned to the sidelines to rest, but at this time Bill Walton said: "We have 12 minutes now, and the Spurs are still nearly 20 points ahead of the Pelicans. ”

"Yes, although the Pelicans have a good record, no team can't lose, and the Pelicans looked terrible today. It's normal to lose, but I'm sorry for that, I was supposed to come to see the Pelicans' table. ”

Magic Johnson also said with a little regret at this time.

After returning to the rest seat, Li Feng felt that today's game was really difficult to support, and he was at a disadvantage throughout the first half, and no one could curb Duncan's madness.

When he wanted to chase points in the third quarter, Danny Green began to play, leaving no space for his team, and if he wanted to win, he could only chase nearly 20 points in the final quarter. It's no longer a matter of play and tactics that can be solved. If you want to win, you need more luck.

At this time, Li Feng shook his head very depressedly, but there was no way, the next game still had to continue to work hard.

Van Gundy saw his teammates slumping, and he walked over quickly. The team members were anxious together.

"Lads. The situation is terrible. It's not a playoffs, it's not a Christmas game, but if we want to win. There's still a chance. ”

Hearing that there was still a chance to win, the Pelicans players immediately focused their eyes on Van Gundy's face.

"The lads are the quickest way to score."

"Three points."

Arenas thought first, and then Oladipo said:

"Free throws."

Van Gundy was pleased with his players, he looked at the two men and said:

"Yes, now we don't have any more time, in such a short period of time, we still need to gamble, at the beginning of the fourth quarter, we execute three-point tactics, whenever we have the opportunity, we have to shoot threes, if we don't have the opportunity, try to make fouls, because free throws don't count time, only then can we win, let's surprise the Spurs."

Van Gundy's purpose is very clear, that is, in the final time, knowing the difficulty of the game, he simply gambled with the Spurs and had a three-point strategy, if his team had a high shooting rate, he might chase the score back and pull it back, but if his team's shooting rate was not good, he would simply lose the game.

It's so simple, gambling on luck, Popovich of the Spurs, didn't think of these at all, at the moment he was still arranging his tactics in the half, compared to the Pelicans who had made the final bet, the Spurs' style of play was much more pragmatic, suppressing the rhythm, pursuing the shooting rate, curbing the opponent's fast break and simple scoring, it can be said that the Pelicans did not play the rhythm of the game from all aspects, and did not open the score of the two teams.

If everything is done as Popovich thinks and says, the Pelicans really have no chance of chasing back the score.

But in the fourth quarter, when the two teams returned to the court, and when Li Feng controlled the basketball and quickly used a high cover to pounce directly, Popovich realized one thing, if he couldn't control Li Feng, he would not control the rhythm of the whole game in his own hands.

Li Feng struggled to squeeze into the Spurs' half, and the moment he came in, there were still two questions lingering in his mind, whether he was on or passing.

But when he saw Arenas's quietly waiting hands inside, Li Feng knew what to do, raised his hands high, jumped up and threw the basketball at Arenas, Li Feng stiffened in the air like a plaster statue.

But when the basketball entered Arenas's hands, the basketball seemed to come to life, and Arenas felt that the blood vessels in his hands were closely linked to the breath of the basketball.

The whole game was not playing well, and the sense of loss in his soul was suddenly filled up by the arrival of basketball, and Arenas could realize that Danny Green on the side was rushing towards him, and he could even realize the slight flow of wind in the court.

Hands were raised, wrists shook briskly, like silk, without a trace, and the basketball was thrown high, flying over Danny Green's fingertips and into the sky in the heart of New Orleans.

Because of the excessive leaning back when shooting, Arenas fell into the audience, and he even closed his eyes because he could feel the basketball flying in the trajectory he wanted.

"Huh!"

The sound is light and relaxing.

After Arenas hit the basketball, he ran to the other side of the court without hesitation.

The Spurs were suddenly hit by the Pelicans with a three-pointer, Popovich's players were trying to control the tempo, and it took 20 seconds to complete an offense, and Duncan slyly covered his teammates in the waist of the three-second zone. Then he suddenly turned around and stuck the position of the waist in the three-second zone.

Behind him is Kaloon Butler, who is inferior to Millsap in tonnage, which is really an important point to break, and in Popovich's tactics, it is also a tactical focus for Duncan, who is hot today, to take Karon Butler.

Duncan is holding a basketball and observing the court, and it is rare to play directly with the ball on the inside, and the general situation is to observe first to see if the opponent is not pinching him, whether there are players who cut into the middle and weak sides, and players who are responsible for pulling away the position. Is there any space to pull away.

This is something to be aware of. After reading the game, your team will implement the tactics and what kind of course they will follow, and then start to choose. Duncan saw the upline man coming at him. The space is completely opened.

He just started dribbling backwards. was about to eat Caron Butler in a single, but when he dribbled for the first time, Li Feng pounced directly from the upper line. The double attack formed by Li Feng and Caron Butler caught Duncan's bag at once.

In a hurry, Duncan didn't panic, and hurriedly passed the basketball to the upline, but the quality of his pass was not very good, and when the pass was crooked into the hands of Parker on the line, Parker grabbed a step before catching the basketball.

With such a short moment, Li Feng had already run back and stood in front of Parker.

All of a sudden, Duncan's interior singles couldn't be played, and the Spurs had to change their strategy and reorganize their offense.

Parker himself was suppressed and quickly passed the ball to Mills, who was also a scoring maniac with a nerve knife, and was really a sharp guard player in his prime.

After getting the basketball, he dribbled two steps arrogantly, and directly leaned back to shoot, singled Oladipo, but after all, this made an individual single without any tactical cover unable to enter a complete and personal feel.

The basketball smashed the hoop and jumped out, and Duncan still wanted to rush for the frontcourt rebound, but he found that his arm was grabbed by Crumon Butler, and the basketball fell into Henson's hand.

Li Feng got the basketball, turned around and saw Parker standing in front of him, he began to be a little surprised, thinking that Popovich had let him go, but what he didn't expect was that when he arrived at the Spurs' half, he immediately met Danny Green, who was helping to defend on one side.

It turned out that Popovich didn't want to let himself go, and Li Feng glanced at one or two defenses formed by Parker and Danny Green.

In all fairness, Danny Green and Parker are not good defensive players, nor are they players who pay attention to defense, and the defense formed by these two people still has great shortcomings.

Li Feng saw this, and immediately called a Henson cover, Henson came up and quickly stood in a high position, Buck used Henson's cover to suddenly accelerate and break through.

Normally, when I break through after using cover, I cover on the left, and I break through to the right, but Li Feng's time is that the cover is obviously on the left, and he still breaks through to the left.

He didn't stick to Parker's defense at all, but found a gap between Henson and Parker and drilled straight in.

Li Feng had such a large weight and strength, Parker was unprepared, and directly let Li Feng drill over from the middle, crushing Parker behind him, Danny Green, who was also on the other side, saw Li Feng actually drill in from this position, and hurriedly assisted!

But Danny Green was completely out of the delicate work of assisting defense, so Li Feng went up to the middle again, and Li Feng suddenly became a thorn in the flesh of the Spurs again, and he couldn't stabilize it.

The defense line was in chaos all of a sudden, and Li Feng was in the midst of the chaos, and his eyes saw Arenas standing in the bottom corner again, Arenas was waiting for his basketball with his hands open in front of his chest at this time.

Li Feng's speed is very fast, Arenas is far away, he shouldn't have seen Arenas so clearly, but now his face is so clear, as if there is endless confidence on that face.

The basketball flew over, the Spurs players were still in a panic, in the panicked crowd, Arenas received the ball, and then jumped, the details of each action were so calm, without a trace of panic.

He was calm and elegant, as if he was the only one in this court, no one could stop him, and there was not a single hustle and bustle.

The body trembled slightly in the air like a bowstring, turning from a taut arc into a reverse fold. The basketball was like a red arrow that pierced the sky.

"Brush"

The voice was still so quiet that the Pelicans rewrote the score to 61-74 almost instantaneously, not more than a minute before and after.

The difference between the Pelicans and the Spurs became 13 points, and it seemed easier to chase those 13 points with the remaining 11 minutes.

Immediately, the entire New Orleans Center cheered, and Arenas, who shot the basketball, just coldly put on the posture of a gunner, a three-point shooter's explosive power in scoring is always the strongest, and they can instantly increase the score. You can also shorten the gap with your opponent in an instant.

Bill Wharton exclaimed from the commentary bench:

Arenas hit two three-pointers in quick succession. He hit two three-pointers in one go, and now the gap between the Pelicans and the Spurs is no longer out of reach, and now the Pelicans finally see hope, but I think in Popovich's eyes. There must be a sense of urgency to be chased. ”

Popovich's eyes did widen. He felt that this matter had become unpredictable and out of his control. If you want to control the rhythm, you need to control Li Feng, if you don't talk about Li Feng's control. He'll be endlessly looking for trouble for himself.

At this time, Popovich decisively executed the substitution plan, and now defense is more important than scoring, and controlling the Pelicans' scoring and rhythm is much more important than scoring two points himself.

Popovich was not wrong in his thinking, and according to an NBA saying, I will play whoever plays the best.

The Spurs possessed the ball in the half, and surprisingly did not hit Duncan again, but directly let Leonard start to eat Arenas alone in the low post, Leonard looked shorter than Arenas, but really got to the basket.

Leonard is like a fish in the water, jumping around, no one can control this guy, he is alive, his body is full of explosive power, although his offensive methods are rough.

But he couldn't help but use his body to impact violently, Arenas was pushed away by Leonard two or three times under the basket, and then it was seen that Leonard was directly a one-handed throw, the posture was not very standard, and the movements were not smooth.

But the explosiveness of getting up was very strong, and Arenas, who really had no choice under the basket, could only pounce hard, and as a result, he got a foul and sent Leonard to the free throw line

Leonard, who went to the free throw line, hit one of two free throws, and Arenas's foul was not in vain.

Arenas was beaten by Leonard, and Popovich just wanted to follow this effect and silence Arenas, but what he didn't expect was that he arranged for Leonard to come back to control Li Feng.

Li Feng controlled the ball and saw that Leonard was here, and it was really not easy for him to break through after his temptation, but Li Feng saw an interesting thing, that is, because of the position, the person who let go of Arenas now has become Mills.

There is a huge difference in height between these two people, this is the Pelicans' chance, Li Feng passed the basketball to Arenas with a malicious smile, and Arenas received the basketball and saw the opportunity.

Just a step towards the left side of the dribble, and then directly a two-point jumper, Mills wanted to defend, but there was no chance, the ball was completely dependent on Arenas' hand.

And now Arenas just hit two three-pointers, and it was when the hand was hot, the basketball easily fell to the Nets, scored two points, and once again approached the score, and the score gap between the two teams went from 19 to 12 points.

At this time, Popovich suddenly felt that he was very funny, he seemed to be a child playing a game, blocking one side, but letting the other side flow to his heart's content, blocking Li Feng's point, but making Arenas's point start to exert power.

Things got bigger, Popovich couldn't afford to pace next to the touchline, he quickly made his choice, he immediately made a substitution, replacing Mills with Simmons, and the Spurs now need more height and more defensive intensity.

Popovich made another substitution, and the Spurs continued to use Leonard to single Arenas, and this time Arenas also learned to use the help of his teammates, but Leonard's final shot was simply off, and the basketball did not enter the hoop at all.

At this time, although Leonard had a physical advantage, the rough technique made him not take advantage of the opportunity, lost the opportunity to score, and left the rebound to the Pelicans. (To be continued......)