Basketball: starting from the nerve knife

Chapter 19: Do You Have to Hit the South Wall to Turn Back?

After the change, the players on the court of the Lakers are point guard Fisher, quarterback Li Wan, small forward Radmanovic, power forward Turiaf, and center Bynum.

The New York Knicks’ online lineup is: No. 1 Marty Collins, No. 2 Jamal Crawford, No. 2 Wilson Chandler, No. 4 Jared Jeffries, and No. 5 Eddie Curry.

The score was still scorching, 18-17, and the Lakers led by one point after Bynum hit all two free throws.

Originally, whether it was the New York Knicks or the Lakers at this time, there should be no substitutions, but this is the preseason, and this stage belongs to players who are fighting for playing time and staying on the team.

Ball possession for the New York Knicks.

Marty Collins holds the ball, as Rashid Wallace’s junior brother, he gradually became mediocre after entering the NCAA at a young age, and was finally selected by the Knicks with the 29th pick in the first round last year with the fame he accumulated. It’s just that at the end of the entire rookie season, he didn’t play any impressive scenes, and he belonged to the younger brother of the little brothers in the team.

Commonly known as “little brother”.

Fisher was successful wrapping around the defense, and the “little brother” was tricked, caught a glimpse of the Knicks’ jersey in a daze, and quickly passed the ball.

He caught a glimpse of Crawford going back and forth from the left three-point line, but Li Wan was standing in front of him, his long arm stretched forward to intercept with precision.

Crawford secretly said in his heart: It’s so long!

It’s a steal that comes up.

There was a big exclamation at the scene.

Li Wan held the ball and attacked quickly, making their exclamations louder and louder.

They found that the speed of this Huaxia newcomer holding the ball under the fast attack…

So fast!

“Phew! ”

The ball smashed heavily into the frame, and at the same time screamed and cheered from the audience.

Phil Jackson and Phil Handy looked at each other, and their faces couldn’t stop the joy.

Li Wan’s kind of defensive steal prediction was seen many times in training camp.

It’s not surprising anymore.

But the training ground is the training ground, and the actual combat is the actual battle.

But!

If Li Wan can really bring the things in the training camp to the stage of actual combat one by one. Then they just want to say: the show has just begun!

Excellent defensive anticipation, or a fast attack with a lot of horsepower…

These are just part of Li Wanneng showing.

Thomas’s eyes flashed a little stunned, fast attack and physical fitness under the ball, these aspects should be his weakness!

How now…

He just saw clearly that Chandler really tried desperately to chase, but he still couldn’t catch up, and he didn’t even close the distance.

Is this guy getting stronger again?

Chandler once again felt the improvement in Li Wan’s physical fitness.

In the summer league, Li Wan made a layup last, and he could still keep up with the interference.

This time, when he jumped up and reached out to interfere, the ball had already fallen into the basket.

Offensive and defensive conversion, Li Wan came up to make meritorious achievements, Chandler did not want to be compared, the running position was very positive, when he found that Radmanovic could not keep up with his footsteps, his running position was even more fierce, full of offensive desire.

The Knicks’ ball ran into Crawford’s hands and stopped.

However, when Chandler ran out of the open position, Crawford passed the ball in the first place.

When it comes to Crawford, the first impression of him is often the nerve knife, who has played 50+ in a single game on all 4 teams. But in fact, his assist ability is good among singles, averaging 5.1 assists per game in a career-high year.

Including this season, he originally averaged 5 assists per game.

Chandler’s shooting feint tricked the slow-paced Radmanovic and took the ball inside, Li Wan made up for it at the first time, and the two clashed at the free throw line.

Chandler holding the ball swayed slightly, his footsteps paused, and then he controlled the ball, compared to Crawford, his passing vision is very average, and he averaged less than 1 per game in his rookie season.

After a forced confrontation, Bynum protected the rebound.

Li Wan noticed that with Chandler’s breakthrough, the entire Knicks’ formation shrank within the three-point line, and while the ball hit the board, he walked in front, but unfortunately Bynum did not give the ball, and a quick attack opportunity was gone.

Tilting his head, Li Wan didn’t care.

Phil Handy in front of the bench on the sidelines smacked his lips a little regretfully, and Phil Jackson next to him frowned slightly and did not say anything.

Fisher held the ball through the half, Bynum wanted the ball, and Eddie Curry, although short, was a normal No. 5, so crowded that he couldn’t catch the ball.

In the Lakers’ tactical running, the ball fell into Li Wan’s hand, and the feint of opening his hand to shoot tricked Crawford who pounced, took a step forward, and Eddie Curry came up to intercept and hit the ball into Bynum’s hand from under his crotch.

There was a low cry from the audience, and the common “soul crossing” of street ball touched their nerves.

Looking down, he suddenly found that there was no one under the basket of Bynum with a ball in his hand, dunked with both hands, reached two points to his hand, took the initiative to stretch out his fingers, and signaled to Li Wan.

Li Wan nodded, not enthusiastic.

He could see that Bynum was unwilling to cooperate with him just now, for many reasons, and he didn’t want to think about it, in the final analysis, he just looked down on him.

In this case, he also passed the ball to this guy because the optimal solution at that time was to pass the ball to Bynum.

He is fundamentally different from Bynum.

Bynum is already the absolute core of the Lakers, and standing with Kobe, he can be willful.

Li Wan can’t do it, he is still on the way to prove himself, not to mention tonight’s game, he was originally running to win and perform well.

Miaochuan is also a kind of behavior that behaves well.

Didn’t you see Thomas raise his eyebrows because of his handsome pass?

The first quarter ended quickly.

Li Wan 2 points, 2 assists and 1 steal, the performance is significantly better than the opposite Chandler, playing for so long, he shot 1 shot, 1 shot 0, did not get any useful statistics.

“Lee, I’ll put you in the third position later, directly opposite Wilson, do you have confidence? ”

During the intersection break, Phil Jackson ran to argue with Li Wan for advice, Li Wan did not hesitate, and said crisply: “Yes!” ”

Directly in position, it was exactly the opportunity he couldn’t ask for.

“Sasha, get ready to play! ”

Phil Jackson beckoned, and Vudjasić, with long flowing hair and a “mouth-shaped” beard, got up, and his expression was a little more decisive.

Over the past month, the Lakers coaching staff has increasingly placed him in the No. 3 position to play practice games, and he can’t ignore such signals.

Now competing with Li Wan, he has to play some performance in the number two position he is good at to prove that he is most suitable for this position.

As long as the coaching staff uses Li Wan, behind him, then his position as the first substitute in the No. 2 position is still solid.

The question is…

Can he play better?

Li Wan just played, but as soon as he came on the field, he played a brilliant performance.

No, it definitely will!

“What’s wrong, Sasha, are you so nervous? ”

Stand still on the court and wait for the New York Knicks to dribble through the half.

Li Wan looked at Wu Jiasiqi, who was standing next to him, and the whole person swayed left and right, with a very uneasy expression.

This guy has already entered the league in 04, and after playing for two or three years, he will actually be nervous?

“It’s okay, it’s just a pre-season game! ”

Li Wan encouraged.

Vujasić was a little speechless, when it was your turn as a rookie to persuade me to calm down, and the tone of his mouth was as peaceful as possible: “Well, I know, I’m not…”

“Here, get ready to defend! ”

Collins held the ball halfway through, and Li Wan interrupted Vújasic’s words to draw attention to Crawford’s running position.

There was also half a sentence choking back in the stomach of Vujasić was very uncomfortable.

Li Wan’s voice sounded faintly behind him again: “If Crawford plays singles with the ball, you try to drive him to my side…”

Crawford’s signature move, “dribbling behind the back, jumping step”, is difficult to limit by relying on one’s defense alone. Whether it was Li Wan himself, or Vujasić.

Letting him “left and right be male” is the best way to do it.

Vujasić did not want to be dominated by Li Wan, pretended not to hear, stared at Crawford who received the ball, controlled the distance between him and him, Crawford dribbled in place to observe, in an offensive posture, first a back dribble, mobilized Vudjasić’s center of gravity to shake with it, another back dribble, the ball from behind to the other hand.

“Snap! ”

After a quick clap, he jumped towards the right front, easily passed Vujasić, stopped the jumper and the ball simply fell into the frame.

Completely unpreventable.

This unlucky child!

Do you have to hit the south wall to turn back?

Li Wan looked at him stunned, and once again proposed his own defensive plan.

Vujasić nodded after hesitation.

Compared with cooperating with Li Wan, being led by him seems to be more serious consequences for not being able to prevent Crawford.

Seeing Wu Jiasiqi nodding, Li Wan said again: “But before that, I have to trouble you to cover for me outside the three-point line.” ”

Vujasić: …

“Okay! ”

After a second of silence, Vujasić nodded, just agreed to follow Li Wan’s defensive tactics, and now he had no reason not to follow Li Wan’s offensive tactics.

(End of chapter)