Chapter 460: Deathmatch
Livingston came up in possession and as soon as Bellineri took advantage of the cover to kick outside, he immediately made a pass.
Belineri took the ball to see that the defending Cowall was shorter than himself, and he immediately hit a three-pointer for color.
Belineri's three-pointer shot, smashed into the hoop, and was spit out again.
The Knicks also missed the three-point shot, the offense missed, and the Knicks immediately retreated.
Although Belineri didn't hit the three-point shot, there is a difference between missing and missing. The Knicks missed before, completely because of nervousness and the opportunity to not grasp, but now Belineri's three-point miss is because of a little bad luck. The mentality is completely different from before!
At this time, Belineri's offense has been mentally released.
In this way, Li Feng also shouted when he ran back:
"That's right! Just fight like this, and when you have the opportunity, you must give it a go. ”
Li Feng was still encouraging his teammates at this time, and his teammates immediately knew what to do. I have let go of my mentality a lot.
The Knicks' players are mentally relaxed, and their ability is not much worse than that of the other team, but they have less experience on the court. Now as soon as this link is opened, the Knicks' defense suddenly rises again.
The Hawks came over and were defenseed by the Knicks without a way, and at the end they could only pass the basketball to Toliver, who was inside.
But Tolivier only got the ball here, and the Knicks quickly wrapped him up. In the midst of the crowd, Toliver's lack of height is revealed. The other big guys can pass the ball from above when they are trapped. But he wasn't tall enough to pass the ball from above. You can only figure it out from below.
But at this time, the Knicks' defensive intensity was strong, and as soon as he passed the ball from below, he was immediately stealed by Livingston.
As soon as the Hawks saw that the Knicks had made a steal, Woodson hurriedly pressured the referee that the Knicks had fouled defensively, but there were a lot of people when the package was clamped, and it was not convenient for the referee to interrupt the flow of the game. He could only watch.
Woodson couldn't press, and then he saw the Knicks' fast break rush over. Many of the Knicks' players rushed in like a tide, as if they were a flood that burst the levees, and the Hawks were suddenly swept away.
Livingston came first with the ball, sprinted all the way to the Hawks' three-point line, shook slightly, and then got up and shot a mid-range.
Livingston also opened up at this time, and actually came to a pull-up jump shot himself in the middle of the fast break.
This choice was not expected by the eagle, and a lot of attention from the eagle was still on Li Feng! Here, Livingston's pull-up jumper has already scored.
"Brush!"
Livingston immediately after the score. Shaking his fist and shouting, Li Feng immediately came over and hugged Livingston vigorously, shouting in his ear:
"That's all! That's it, at our pace! Let go and fight. ”
Li Feng also encouraged his teammates to let go and play, and all the players of the Knicks were excited at this time.
Because with Livingston's shot, the Knicks led the Hawks by three points at 94-91.
The Knicks survived at a critical moment. Instead of letting the Eagles overtake the score in one go, they reversed it all at once.
At this moment, a large part of the Knicks' previous worries have gone, because they have been reversed once. After struggling back, you won't be afraid anymore. If it is reversed, we will struggle again.
If you have experienced something once, you will immediately look back and feel different. But the feeling on the Eagles' side is different. They had just seen a glimmer of hope, and then they were immediately beaten down by Li Feng and hit a fast-break jumper by Livingston.
The Eagles' massive counterattack momentum was lost in one fell swoop. One blow is the most ferocious, but the Hawks are interrupted by the Knicks all at once.
The momentum of the eagle is weak!
Livingston made a jumper to reopen the margin by three points.
Woodson's side was furious, and immediately commanded his team to resolutely eliminate the opponent.
Under Woodson's command, the Eagles turned back desperately, and Tolivier even came over and got entangled with Vucevic. As a result, because Tolivier was too desperate, he pushed Vucevic down at once, and in this way, the referee directly gave Tolivier an offensive foul.
The Hawks were overtaken, and now they were whistled for fouls, and Woodson jumped up and yelled. But the fans at Madison Square Garden were booing Toliver.
At this time, the foul count has not yet arrived, and the ball is back in the hands of the Knicks, and now the Hawks have lost their wife and broken the army.
If the Knicks use this wave of possession to hit another shot, the difference will be widened, and it will be even more difficult for the Hawks to chase!
So this time the Hawks are quite dangerous, Woodson is angry, but it does not affect him to immediately take advantage of this dead ball opportunity to change Teague and Carroll to the court.
When the Knicks were weak on the outside, Stevenson and Morrow's wild punches were effective, but now after the Knicks changed the outside line.
Stevenson and Morrow are not very useful, and at this time, they should be more skilled in skills and more organized Teague to drive the team's offense.
Carroll's open cut and Korver's off-ball run can support the team to get more space. That's what Woodson thinks on the offensive end, but the first challenge the Hawks face on the defensive end is that they have to defend the Knicks' offense.
The Hawks' task was tough, but when the Knicks came running, it was much lighter. Now the Knicks' mentality is a little more relaxed.
At this time, the Knicks also played Dragic, and Dragic came over and handed over the basketball to Li Feng to deal with. A ball just now made Dragic play with confidence.
At this time, Dragic came over to take a look, and Cousins was already in the basket to get the spot. He immediately made a ground-hitting pass to get the basketball into Cousins' hands.
At this time, Cousins, under the encouragement of the whole team, also had some small universes explode. Take the ball and immediately dribble horizontally, and then suddenly turn over and hook the hand, and clean up Horford.
Seeing that Cousins was about to score, Horford was also desperate, and came over with a foul to knock Cousins down.
Horford would rather foul than let Cousins hit the athletic game, and Cousins was reluctantly knocked down.
The Hawks fouled on his side just after hitting a good shot, and Cousins was helpless at this time. At the free-throw line, Cousins made one of two free throws.
The Knicks extended the margin to five points, 101-96. Seeing that the Knicks are steadily increasing their scores, the Hawks are really anxious at this time.
The Hawks ran over to Woodson's roar, and Woodson was really anxious this time, and they all ran to the Knicks bench to roar.
Tyberdeau watched Woodson play like this, and he was the one who didn't let go. He also ran to the sidelines and yelled at Woodson, and the two stood together and yelled at the court.
Where is Woodson roaring:
"Run, run!"
Taberdu shouted right next to him:
"Block the route and don't let them run."
Woodson continued to roar on the side:
"Cover better, be of high quality!"
Tyberdu shouted from the side:
"Squeeze through. Break their cover by squeezing through. ”
The two of them roared together on the sidelines, and then they were still running on both sides of the court! The two of them almost fought.
Woodson glared at Tyberdau here, and Tyberdu also glared at Woodson without showing weakness, and both of them were doing it against each other.
The coaches have reached this point, and the players of the two teams on the court are also physically colliding, and playing is completely between playing and fighting.
The Hawks are still more accustomed to this kind of play, but the Knicks are a little unaccustomed to it, and they suddenly have loopholes when defending. Let Carol seize the opportunity. Opened the back door under the basket and stole the chicken to score 2 points.
The Eagles finally have a score in the athletic battle, and they have also narrowed the difference a little closer.
Woodson looked at his team scored, gave Taberdeau a smug look, and walked back towards his own half. But he thought of it. As he walked back, Tyberdu chased the Hawks' bench and yelled at his team.
"Quick, push forward!"
Woodson was angry that Tyberdeau actually came to his bench and yelled, but when he saw that the Knicks were indeed coming quickly on the court.
His own team is about to be beaten into an offensive and defensive transition. He immediately shouted at the pitch as well: "Defend quickly, come back quickly!" ”
The two managers were yelling over there, and now they're running to this side and shouting together. This scene was recorded with great interest to the photojournalist. But the referee saw that these two men had gone too far. A warning was immediately issued for Tyberdu to go back on his own.
Tyberdu heard the referee's warning and immediately agreed, and quickly walked back on his own.
Because as soon as the Knicks ran over, the basketball passed to Li Feng, and Li Feng immediately took the ball and passed it to Cousins under the empty cut basket, Cousins came up and caught the Hawks off guard, and he also made an empty cut layup.
The Knicks' offensive and defensive transition has been completed, and Tyberdu naturally walked back satisfied.
The two teams still bit the point difference and did not relax, and the Knicks were actually more resilient than the Hawks at this time.
Woodson was angry on the sidelines, and when the Hawks attacked again, he ran to the Knicks bench to demonstrate.
The referee saw that Woodson was too unspeakable, and immediately went over to warn Woodson not to run to the opponent's bench. So Woodson is barely being honest!
However, on the court, the battle between the two teams was extremely stalemate and intense, and the Hawks were playing passionately and toughly like a fight, using all kinds of ferocious means to cheat points from the hands of the Knicks.
The Knicks played the rhythm of the whole team, and Li Feng kept making balls for his teammates in the center, so that his teammates could play more smoothly.
The two teams were completely together, entangled with each other, and fought with each other for almost three minutes after that. two
The teams were scoring with a very low efficiency, and the entire stadium became a wrestling arena for the players of both teams.
The Hawks' players are good at playing this kind of game, but they didn't take advantage of the Knicks by playing like that today.
The Knicks' players don't have to be as good as the Hawks, and they're all strong characters. And Li Feng can also rely on his absolutely superior body to accurately deliver the basketball to his teammates when disrupting the opponent's defense.
The Hawks didn't do anything about the Knicks in the field they were best at. The Woodson felt a little restless and yelled more and more at the court.
But the Eagles just couldn't catch up with the opponent's score, and the difference between the two teams remained at about 5 points. So. The game was played in the last 5 minutes of the last quarter. Woodson couldn't help it, even if he was as stable as he was, he couldn't sit still.
At this point, Woodson also began to deviate from his reasonable philosophy, and he called a timeout. Immediately gave Teague more freedom and allowed Horford to try to pick up the opponent on the edge of the three-point line. For Korver, he also gave more power to shoot.
Woodson is going to open up the three-point shot as a scoring weapon in the last few minutes.
Although Tyberdu didn't know what the specific strategy Woodson decided to fight back was, he knew that this time it was the last blow of the real Eagles.
Therefore, when arranging the tactics, he focused on the defensive side, requiring his players to better complete the team's cooperative defense.
Especially when it comes to defensive pick-and-rolls, Tyberdu requires his players to block and roll in the defensive high post. Be sure to change positions. When defending a 45-degree screen, be sure to squeeze through first.
The high cover can radiate the whole court in the middle, but it is far away from the basket and cannot form a threat to the basket as quickly as possible.
But the 45-degree block is different, in the wing position, the defender is a little careless, and the big man can take advantage of the situation and go directly to the basket. In the final stages of the game, Tyberdeau was still afraid of Woodson's pick-and-roll and misalignment tactics.
While the coaches on both sides were making arrangements, Bill Wharton was at this time. I also felt the crisis after the worst.
On the side, he said:
"Woodson is more rational, but he will never allow the team to lose so quietly! It's not his style, and the Eagles will definitely have a strong comeback next. Although I don't know where the Eagles started, this wave is definitely coming. ”
Barry also said on the side:
"Yes! This wave is sure to come. Especially in competitions. If the Eagles admit defeat at this time, leaving a tail to admit defeat, it will be difficult for the Eagles to muster up their fighting spirit in the next game. But it would be different if the last wave of eagles could fight! And maybe the Hawks can overturn the Knicks? ”
Bill Wharton also nodded to the side at this time. The competition is not only about technique and tactics, but also about will and morale.
In China, Director Zhang also had a faint premonition and said:
"The Eagles are definitely going to fight to the death for a few minutes. They're the kind of team and they're not going to make it easy for the opposition. ”
Su Qun also nodded with palpitations. Said:
"The Eagles were dirty and hard today, and they played very reasonably. With their style, the average team can't get over them, no wonder they are strong team killers. ”
"Yes! The Eagles are indeed a very distinctive team! ”
Everyone knows that the Eagles are the most stubborn and then counterattacked, and all the fans are also waiting! At this time, Knicks fans are anxiously waiting, but Hawks fans are waiting expectantly.
At the end of the timeout, the Eagles returned to the court. This time the Eagles are sideline balls. Carroll tees off on the touchline and the Eagles stand in a square. When the referee's whistle blew. Just look at all the players of the Eagles, they all run, and several players work together to cover Teague.
It looks like the Eagles are going to fall on Teague, and that's what everyone thinks. But Carol on the sideline made a powerful pass to the basketball, and the basketball flew directly over Teague's head.
The Eagles suddenly played a football-like trick that tricked everyone.
By the time the basketball passed over Teague's head and into the hands of Josh Smith in the back.
Everyone has only seen the Eagles go through a series of runs, and the last man who defended Josh Smith has become Belineri.
It's a huge dislocation, take a look at where this ball goes.
Tyberdu yelled "Shet" but it was too late, and Smith leaned forward slightly, spied, and then got up and threw a three-pointer.
Smith shot a three-pointer and smashed it into the Knicks' basket.
Smith hit a shot here, and the Hawks' bench immediately jumped up a crowd. Smith's three-pointer was a thirst-quenching shot.
All of a sudden, the difference between the two teams was back to 2 points, and with his shot, the Knicks only led the Hawks by two points at 101-99.
The Hawks opened the game with their own tactical goals, and the three-pointer opened, which was a good start for the Hawks.
Tyberdeau watched the Hawks hit such a ball from the sidelines, and he suddenly felt keenly that Woodson let go of the shot near the three-point line, which was definitely a challenge for the Knicks.
So he immediately ran to the sidelines and yelled at his players:
"Don't panic! Steady offense, pay attention to their three-point line when defending. ”
Tyberdu roared all the way to the Eagles' half. The Hawks hit a three-point shot, and at this time, they entered the defensive end and desperately pressed out.
Teague plays a high-intensity pressing defense against Dragic.
Dragic faced Teague's high-intensity defense at this time, and he had to pass the basketball to Li Feng to deal with it, but Li Feng took the ball here.
Several people from the Eagles swooped down on Li Feng together, and now the Eagles are afraid of Li Feng like a tiger, and the Eagles would rather let others shoot than definitely not let Li Feng touch the ball well.
This kind of super bag came out, but Li Feng did not pass the ball to his teammates who had a vacant space on the outside, but accelerated himself and passed through the crowd of Eagles.
Then in the crowd of Eagles, he pulled up and threw a mid-range pull-up jump shot. Li Feng's choice is a bit unreasonable.
He had the ability to pass the ball but chose to shoot it himself, and it was risky for Li Feng to do so. Once he succeeds, it will be a huge morale boost for the whole team. But once he didn't score, he wasted a chance.
Li Feng now chooses this way to give the eagle a head-on blow, but luck and feel are not always behind Li Feng.
This time, as soon as Li Feng made a shot, the shot was a little softer, and Li Feng wanted to give the Eagles a tough response. But I missed! (To be continued......)