pinnacle swinger

Chapter 303 Gliding
Tang Wenlong stepped to the free throw line and made two free throws.

His overall free throw percentage this season is as high as 90.4%. In the entire NBA, Durant and Curry are currently making free throws a little higher than him. Of course, this is except for those who only made a few shots. marginal bench.

4 to 2, Tang Wenlong felt that the ball was a good one. Not only did he stop the clock to score, but he also made Artest a foul. You know, the game has only just started for 1 minute.

The Lakers attacked at halftime, and Duhon gave Kobe a high position to hold the ball.

Howard asked for the ball in the low post and squeezed desperately inside.And his upper body core muscle strength is really terrifying, Gasol didn't notice it, and he asked him to go to a deeper position.

Howard put his hands together and grabbed the basketball that Kobe gave him.

"Turn your back?"

Gasol stuck Howard's legs in the lower plate, put his arms against his back, felt the opponent's body as strong as a monster, and thought about the correct way to defend in his mind.

Howard's offense was simple, he stopped the ball and came back directly, and bumped into Gasol head-on.

With a muffled snort, Gasol stood firmly on the spot by virtue of his huge advantage in weight.

However, Howard half-turned around as if nothing happened. While turning around, he moved his feet and drew a semicircle along the center axis. He grabbed the basketball with his big right hand and turned sideways with a small hook.

The basketball fell into the basket after hitting the rebound. With the small hook in this position, his hit rate is very high, because he has practiced it thousands of times.

4 to 4, Lowry made two crotch dribbles and organized an offense after halftime.

The high position was handed over to Gasol Jr., Lowry ran to the bottom corner to ambush, and Iguodala came out and completed a hand-to-hand screen with Gasol Jr. The quality of the screen was very high, although Kobe, who was chasing him, pursued him persistently , But in order to help him delay Iguodala's breakthrough, Ebanks also shrunk the defense.

After Iguodala interspersed, he was assigned to Jimmy Butler who was open outside the 45-degree three-point line on the left!
The latter took off and shot a three-pointer, but missed.

Howard turned around and rushed inside, easily grabbing the backcourt defensive rebound.

Then when he turned around, the 76ers had retreated across the half court quickly, and the speed of returning to defense was in stark contrast to the Lakers.

Kobe held the ball in the half court, Howard just scored one, and this ball came out to serve Kobe as a pick-and-roll.

The effect of the pick-and-roll was mediocre. Iguodala caught up with Kobe after a circle. Kobe took the ball to the inside to attack, and distributed it to the outside Duhon to reorganize at the free throw line.

After Duhon received the ball, he saw Kobe come out again, asking for the ball with both hands.

He passed it back again. Kobe took a tentative step to the right with the ball in both hands, and then changed direction to break through to the left. His pace was not fast, and he had a strong sense of rhythm.

Kobe took two steps, half turned and drifted a jumper, and Iguodala sealed the block tightly, forming a general interference.

The ball missed, but the rebound flew off after being clicked by Howard.

Tang Wenlong stuck with Ebanks, but the rebound didn't fly towards him, but Butler on the other side just came in, grabbed the rebound with his long arms.

Fast attack!

At that moment, the 76ers team quickly advanced like clockwork!

Tang Wenlong abandoned the inside line and ran forward. His explosive power ensured the start speed of a cheetah. He immediately took the lead and formed a fast down situation with Iguodala.

This wave of Lakers retreated quickly. In addition to Kobe, Duhon and Artest, Howard and Ebanks also struggled to rush back.

After Tang Wenlong made a gesture, Butler stopped outside the three-point line and stopped fast breaking again.

The 76ers stabilized the situation, the whole team changed from moving to quiet, and immediately stood outside the three-point line of the Lakers' half court, waiting for all the Lakers to turn back and run back.

"It's too insidious!" D'Antoni, as the running and bombing coach of the Suns back then, should not be too familiar with the 76ers' routine. , when Yao Ming, Ao Pang and others encountered the sun's style of play, they were miserable.

Fortunately, Howard is a superman, and this physical exertion is nothing to him.

Butler passed the ball back to Tang Wenlong at the top of the arc, Tang Wenlong turned right again, and gave it to Iguodala at 45 degrees. Butler and Lowry crossed positions and switched positions at halftime. Sol's screen ran to the left bottom corner, and Gasol Jr. took advantage of the opportunity to continue to the high position to screen for Iguodala.

The Lakers doubled the ball holder, Gasol Jr. cut to the basket, and Iguodala moved to Tang Wenlong in the left corner.

At this time, Artest, who had only run halfway back to the defense, turned back again. After Tang Wenlong took the ball, he directly made a breakthrough with a big stride. This back and forth change made Artest unable to maintain his center of gravity at all, and watched helplessly. With Tang Wenlong entering the inside line.

The hinterland of the Lakers was empty, and Howard wanted to go inside to help defend, but was stuck in the main position by Gasol.

At this time, Tang Wenlong took one step from outside the three-point line, and took three big steps with the ball held flat with one hand, stepping on a point outside the paint area, and took off like flying, holding the ball high in the air with one hand , stabilized the basketball with both hands, and at the same time raised his left foot slightly to balance his center of gravity.

Both hands turned into one hand again, taking the ball and smashing it into the basket with a "bang".

The basketball fell through the net and hit the chest of Tang Wenlong, who was still in flight, and flew out. His body shook violently, and he took a space walk to change the position of his left and right feet back and forth, and then bent his knees to buffer the falling ball. With strength, step firmly on the floor.

"My God, the 76ers' two slam dunks in the opening game are more exciting than the first!" Barkley swears, but he didn't expect the 76ers' morale to be so strong at the beginning.

Smith is quite worried about the Lakers, "This will definitely be a difficult away game. The Lakers are facing the strongest enemy in the league. The whole world knows that their young players are talented, and their veterans experience Rich, against such an opponent, you must play [-] points!"

Tang Wenlong didn't feel that it was a big deal when he dunked the basket. He looked at Gasol from the corner of his eyes and silently awarded a little gold medal to thank his teammates for their hard work.

Kobe had a strong desire to attack. As long as Howard didn't take the initiative to ask, he would basically attack with the ball on his own. If the 76ers didn't double-team, he would increase his personal shots, mostly mid-range and long-range shots.

He is in excellent form today. Iguodala's many ball defenses are already in place, and he still scored. He made 9 of 4 shots in the first quarter, scored 13 points and 2 assists, and was very efficient.

For the 76ers, Tang Wenlong scored 5 points on 3 of 8 shots. After Artest's defense, he didn't call a foul. Maybe the referee knows that if the Lakers' slightly more reliable perimeter iron gate is punished Go on, the Lakers will have nothing to start this game.

Therefore, after the two teams competed in one quarter, although the 76ers had many dunks and the momentum was overwhelming, the score was only 29 to 26 ahead of the Lakers by 3 points.

(End of this chapter)