After the confession failed, I went to the NBA to play and lose weight

Chapter 168

The situation changed suddenly in the second half, and the Green Army seemed to wake up suddenly like a dozing tiger, and the offensive and defensive momentum changed all of a sudden.

This is actually predictable. First of all, the Magic's offensive state in the first half was obviously a bit unconventional. As soon as it came up, it directly overwhelmed the Celtics in the away game.

Moreover, these youngsters in the Magic can run and jump, including Li Chengming, who had a rare dunk in a few games, dunked one out of nowhere.

These cores of the Celtics were a little slow to enter the state because of their age. There were more strikes in the first quarter, and the Magic is one of the teams that are best at counterattacks. Fast break, that's how some of his assists come from.

This dug a huge hole for the team. Even if they recovered a little in the second quarter, they couldn't stop the Magic from playing aggressively, so they opened up a huge point difference in the first half.

But after returning from a halftime timeout, the state of the two teams has also changed.

The Green Army's "warm-up" ended, and the touch began to recover. On the contrary, the efficiency of the Magic team began to decline. Turkoglu, Lewis, and even Howard began to enter the iron state.

This actually involves a so-called "equilibrium" problem, which means that both individual players and the team will hover around an average value, and rarely stay completely fixed.

Then this combination of top and bottom is the real strength of this player. It cannot be said that a player who can score 50+ in a regular season, or a player who only scored 8 points in the finals, thinks this is their full strength.

One or several games are not acceptable, after all, as strong as Jordan, Kobe will also have downturns.

And in a single game, there are also situations where the hand feels cold due to too long a break. For example, if you replace the substitute with a lead of more than 20 points, the result is that the opponent catches up with the score, and then you can switch back to the main force. It may be the same. .

In this case, the defense is actually the most reliable, so when they were beaten 10:2 at the beginning and caught up to only 17 points, Van Gundy called a timeout and asked them to stabilize their rhythm. The offense is still unfavorable, but the retreat must be fast.

The fast break is easy to play because the defense is not stable, but if they retreat and defend the first line, they may not be afraid of the opponent in the position.

He was not in a hurry to take Li Chengming to improve his offense, and felt that he had to see the situation.

Next, the Magic took a little control of the situation, but it was really difficult to prevent the Celtics from playing well.

If you can't defend alone, there will be opportunities for assisting defense or double-teaming, and Rondo will start stealing chickens again at this time.

Fortunately, the Magic also recovered their offense. After a few minutes of confrontation, the difference between the two sides was still 16 points.

At 6 and a half minutes, Van Gundy took advantage of the dead ball to get Li Chengming back.

As a result, within 2 minutes after Li Chengming came on the field, a sudden change occurred.

After he came up and immediately scored one, he ran back and forth for several consecutive rounds because he had no chance to catch the ball.

The Green Army defended him very tightly, and there was always a person by his side to entangle him, and the person next to him might entangle him at any time, just to cut off the connection between him and his teammates.

Even if Li Chengming wants to play off the ball, it is not so easy. Whether it is a catch and shoot or an air cut from the baseline, he must first catch the ball.

Li Chengming didn't force it, but chose to make himself a bait, including passing down after the pick-and-roll to attract the defense, and he didn't choose to force up to cause damage.

The teammates can only say that it was a good opportunity to live up to his expectations, but they didn't make it all the way.

Su Qun felt a little pity about this, and felt that it was unnecessary for Li Chengming to help his teammates with the ball for two rounds, and he should have played by himself.

Yang Jian said with a smile: "This should be an important reason why Li Chengming was able to integrate into the environment of the Magic team so quickly. In fact, there is no player in their team who averages a lot of shots per game, and the core ball possession is relatively average."

This may be a good thing, or it may be a bad thing, it depends on how the results are played.

At least for now, there is nothing wrong with this kind of egalitarianism, because they are not averaging for the sake of being average, but they perform their own duties, and then create scoring opportunities for each other. If the offensive opportunities are better, they can go directly.

However, Li Chengming really felt that he should fight more, because as time went by, the opponent's defense would gradually become less focused with physical exertion, and the defense against him would also relax. This was his opportunity.

So in this round, Li Chengming directly asked for the ball in the low post. At this time, Garnett just switched to Li Chengming's side.

Although he didn't want to defend, the little brothers couldn't defend him. As one of the big brothers and the core of the defense, he couldn't shirk this burden to others, and it was necessary to stand up and set an example.

And compared to others, Garnett still has some ways to defend Li Chengming. His way is to harass Li Chengming with some hidden small moves as much as possible, so that he must always be careful from receiving the ball to posting singles. One is that Garnett's long arm behind the ball is a must, and the other is that he may be called an offensive foul.

Then judge the timing of Li Chengming's shot, and cover it with his body in time, so that he can't make a shot easily.

If Li Chengming raised the arc of his shot or let off steam with his first hand, then the defense would be considered a success.

At least today he faced Li Chengming a lot. In several defenses, he always succeeded once. It is jokingly called "Li's field".

Li Chengming's state today is even more god-blocking and killing gods and Buddhas. Every time Garnett defends him, he can bring a morale bonus to the Green Army.

But this time, after Li Chengming leaned back for a while, he patted the ball and was about to start bulldozing back, but suddenly the whistle sounded, and he felt that there was no obstruction behind him. Garnett fell to the ground.

Everyone thought that he "removed the stool" this time, and the referee probably judged Li Chengming's offensive foul based on this, but soon found something wrong.

Because Garnett sat slumped on the ground and clutched his abdomen and didn't stand up for a long time. Even if he was acting in a full set, there was no need to be so devoted, right?
And because the number of previous fouls has been accumulated, so this time Garnett had to go to the free throw line to make a free throw, but the referee came and called and didn't get a response. Now everyone realized that it was not good.

The green army quickly surrounded Garnett. Li Chengming frowned and wanted to step up to take a look, but Pierce immediately stood up and stopped him.

Pi Shishidao glared at Li Chengming, his eyes were full of warning, which made Li Chengming a little aggrieved.

What the fuck is wrong with me?
He was very sure that he hadn't bumped into Garnett just now, and if he flopped, he would think he was smart and admit it, since his injury couldn't be blamed on him.

Then the referee also confirmed that the situation was special, stopped the game, and the team doctor of the Celtics also came to Garnett's side. Suddenly, the injured wolf king attracted everyone's attention.

When the scene just now was replayed on the big screen, many Magic fans thought that Garnett was flopping, but now he is not pretending. It would be bad if there was some injury without confrontation.

After all, Garnett is the defensive core and spiritual leader of this Green Army, and his importance is beyond doubt.

Although with the cards of the Green Army, it can be regarded as a not weak team without him, but it will definitely not go far in the long run.

Su Qun also mentioned Garnett's previous injury problems, which can be regarded as helping Li Chengming get rid of the suspicion, so as to prevent Garnett's fans from attacking Li Chengming.

Seeing that Garnett was about to leave the field, Yang Jian returned his attention to the field, and sighed: "This game is even more difficult for the Celtics, it really makes things worse..."

Su Qun said: "Karnett should go back to the locker room to rest first, and then do further examinations, I hope it's not a big problem."

Seeing Li Chengming's face again, Yang Jian said: "It seems that Li Chengming is also very worried. Although this matter is not his business, no one on the field wants to see such an accident happen. They all hope to be healthy and healthy." Kang’s statement shows that horses and chariots are fighting with real knives and guns.”

Seeing Li Chengming looking at Garnett's back with a serious face, Turkoglu next to him was also a little worried, and hurriedly comforted him: "Don't think too much, it really has nothing to do with you, he went into battle with injuries..."

Unexpectedly, Li Chengming shook his head, but he put his chin on his face and said in thought: "I just doubt, is he cheating?"

"..." Turkoglu was silent for a moment, patted him on the shoulder and walked away without saying a word.

Li Chengming looked at him strangely, not knowing what he meant.

Hey, you should give some advice and answer, you, a senior, should be very experienced in this matter?

In the end, he could only curl his lips. In fact, he knew in his heart that Garnett couldn't be cheating, but it was not so easy for him to suddenly turn his mind to worry and sympathize with the other party.

And immediately, even the slightest awkwardness in my heart disappeared——

Although it was an accident and not a real foul, the referee still did not change the penalty, and the ball was given to the Green Army.

Li Chengming was very upset. He Garnett was only injured, but I, Li Chengming, paid for an offensive foul!

Of course, he also knew that this had nothing to do with Garnett, and it was not easy to scold the referee directly, so he could only greet them silently in his heart.

The fans at the scene were also very dissatisfied with this. Everyone didn't want Garnett to be injured, but the replay was clearly caused by him, and it had nothing to do with Li Chengming.

Why is it that in the arena, whoever hurts who is justified, and takes care of the "vulnerable groups"?

So until Ray Allen scored the goal and it was the Magic's turn to attack, the boos at home didn't stop.

In any case, Garnett's end is good for the Magic. Even if it is not because of him, he has made an alternative contribution to the team.

Of course, it’s a good thing that we are now at the home court of the Magic. If it were at the TD North Shore Garden Arena, although anyone with a brain knows that Garnett’s situation has nothing to do with Li Chengming, those Bostonians will definitely use their most terrifying Li Chengming's voices came to boo Li Chengming.

However, this didn't affect Li Chengming. Originally, he wanted to take care of his teammates' emotions and play as reasonable as possible, but at this time he was in a bad mood, so he began to focus on attacking regardless.

Then as soon as the ball is in his hands, he doesn't even want to adjust and just throws it out.

Today, his hand feels really hot, even if it was only piecemeal before, it is not affected now, as long as he avoids the interference, the shot will surely hit.

The rest of the Magic team also began to find ways to pass the ball into his hands. This kind of thing is mutual. Before Li Chengming did not deliberately pursue his own average data, but often used his restraint to help his teammates create. After breaking the 30-point mark, seeing that Li Chengming has a good chance to score high points, his teammates will be happy to help him.

The green army had already loosened the restrictions on double-teaming Li Chengming, but now it seems that they can't do without double-teaming.

With Li Chengming's hand feeling like today, if he doesn't limit his shots, something will definitely happen, because his scoring efficiency is very high. On the contrary, the Green Army's offensive state is not good today. Now there is one less big three, which means that only Pierce is in the game. I struggled to support it.

Of course, it is impossible for Pierce to easily score 30+ every night as Garnett said, but his sacrifice is certain, because he was able to average 25+ per game in the first two seasons.

However, he doesn't have Kobe's scoring explosiveness, and he looks stable throughout the game, but he may not even be as good as Ray Allen in trying to support the team for a certain period of time.

This is determined by his personal style of play, with more persistence than explosive power.

And let Li Chengming continue to play like this, if Li Chengming scored high points on their heads and won the game in the end, it would be a shame and a shame.

So high scores in a single game are actually not that easy to get, because a player, even if he was originally a role player and scored 25 or 30 points in a sudden burst, will inevitably usher in targeted defenses from the opponent.

This is actually tearing down the east wall to make up for the west wall, and it will definitely leak other people out, but sometimes it is better to let the opponent bloom more than let one person kill himself. This is a matter of the face of the team and the stars.

For example, even if the Celtics lost to the Magic in four games in the regular season, it would not be as impressive as letting a first-year rookie score 40 or even 50 points in the last game. If it is a collection, they may often appear.

But I didn't expect that Li Chengming would force himself to throw the ball under the double-teaming of two or three people for the next two consecutive rounds.

Without Garnett, none of the remaining players can give enough restrictions one-on-one, and it is also very problematic to choose the timing of double-teaming.

Of course, they couldn't blame them, because Li Chengming's shot selection was too weird, and he didn't know when he suddenly shot.

And his size, long arms, and big palms also played a role at the same time. The wide palms can ensure that he can always hold the ball firmly in his hands. Help him open up space for jumping and shooting.

Despite the weight loss, Li Chengming's skeleton just looks "leaner" when placed there, but the overall look looks shriveled rather than directly shrunk, so he can even use his own strength in a three-man double team. Shoulder width supports a certain amount of space to come out, and this is enough for him to shoot.

"It's another 2+1! The third quarter is not over yet, Li Chengming has already scored 35 points, and the Celtics can't stop him!"

(End of this chapter)