Basketball: starting from the nerve knife

Chapter 216: The Beginning of a Tight Match

The big screen gives the starting lineup on both sides.

The New York Knicks have not changed, and they are still the same starting lineup.

The starting lineup on the Lakers’ side is:

No. 1 Delon Williams, No. 2 Kobe Bryant, No. 3 Ariza, No. 4 Paul Gasol, No. 5 Bynum;

On the bench sat …

“Old Fish” Fisher, former “Cap King” Theo Ratree, “Wanderer” Joe Smith, Shannon Brown…

Li Wan looked at the past, once his teammates on the Lakers team actually left an “old fish” Fisher, and the others on the bench have changed greatly.

But in fact, if you look at the transaction records of the past few years, you will find that the Lakers’ presence in the trade market is not high. But even so, the Lakers’ roster has unknowingly changed dramatically.

And this is the NBA, some of which hit the eyes of fans, and some of which happen quietly and imperceptibly.

In just two years, the Lakers’ bench is already “old bottles of new wine”…

It’s getting less and less useful.

Well…… Apart from Shannon Brown, the only useful person in this lineup is the 37-year-old Fisher.

But no way, this season, the Lakers’ salary space is indeed a little embarrassing, starting five, none of them have an annual salary of less than 7 million, three of them, the annual salary is more than 15 million!

With the old Bass’s background, the only way to maintain this lineup is…

Suffer a little more on the bench, and the crime is borne by Kupchek!

Of course, the result of this is that even the starting lineup suffers.

Since the playoffs, the Lakers’ starting lineup has averaged more than 40 minutes per game. In other words, Bynum, who has a knee injury, averages a little less minutes per game, but also averages more than 37 minutes per game!

Against such a team, it is natural to attack people and physical ability…

D’Antoni read Spring and Autumn, and naturally understood this truth, and before the start of the game, he emphasized again: “Listen, guys, don’t be too anxious, just drag it slowly, as long as you bite the score to the end, then the winner is us!” ”

This is the 10th time he has said this today. Counting yesterday is the 20th time.

Since the team actually reached the finals, D’Antoni has unconsciously become a “repeater”, and he will emphasize it again and again in any regard, for fear of mistakes or unclear understanding of the players.

If you were to ask why…

Any idea how long he waited for this opportunity?

Since coaching the Suns in ’04…

7 years!

Exactly 7 years!

He is not trying to prove how great he is, but to prove:

Run and boom, you can also win the championship!

And now, it is still one step away from him proving this …

As long as he wins the next round of the series, then he can also wear the hat of “champion coach” on his head.

In this case, if D’Antoni does not change a little, it is not normal!

“Toot! ”

The referee’s whistle sounded at this time.

Paul Gasol helped the Lakers grab the first offensive rights.

Lee Wan vs. Upper Delon Williams.

“Little Fat” wanted to top Li Wan first, but after the confrontation, he found that this guy was indeed not the rookie who only had height but no confrontation.

It’s hard to get rid of…

DeLong quickly called Paulo Gasol’s blocker.

Li Wan chose to switch defenses with Lewis.

Lewis’s maneuverability is ok and there’s no problem keeping up with DeLong Williams’ movement speed.

But Delon Williams’ dribbling rhythm made him a little restrained, and one didn’t hold back to pounce, Delon Williams passed by him, and a mid-range jumper scored.

2-0！

Shooting from the middle distance after the singles is Delong’s unique skill, and it is said that Sloan forced it to practice. Very stable.

The New York Knicks fight back.

Li Wan went to the front court and faced no opponent Kobe, but DeLong Williams.

Delong is 1.91 meters tall, which is considered to have a height advantage in the No. 1 position, although there is still a big gap in the face of Li Wan, he can only beat Li Wan’s knee without jumping up.

Kobe Bryant wanted to watch on the side, but Ray Allen, who was running, did not agree, and from time to time there was a sudden run, so that Kobe had to focus on him at any time.

Li Wan relied on Ray Allen to open up space, watched Kobe move to a position that could not be defended in the first time, and quickly broke through Delon Williams with the ball.

Delong reacted quickly.

When he came to the Lakers, he had to prove himself again, and now he has a very good attitude on both the offensive and defensive ends.

Li Wan was one step away from him, and suddenly “Sam Gold”, Delon Williams reacted at the first time he was deceived, but when he wanted to correct his movements, the center of gravity of his body made him fall to the side and could not come back.

At this moment, Delong watched Li Wan rush past him, and secretly said in his heart:

Lose weight, I must lose weight!

But if he is now 5 pounds lighter, no, 10 pounds lighter, is this inertia so great that he can’t control himself?

Li Wan, who rushed to the free-throw line, faced only Bynum as a defender.

Before the “little shark” could make his own choice, Li Wan had already completed the choice for him, and a cricket trick him into turning around and giving way to the hard stuck basket position.

Da Yao, who had room to jump, held the ball and split it into the basket with one hand.

Bynum’s only defense throughout the whole process came from the look in his eyes…

Commonly known as “eye defense”!

This defense saw Kobe’s desire to attack skyrocket.

If he doesn’t hurry up and enter two more, this is the thing, can he win?

In the next round, just after half-time, DeLong took the ball from the latter’s hand.

Looking at DeLong’s appearance without saying a word, I know that this guy is indeed very good in the heart of the Lakers when he comes.

Li Wan was very disdainful of this, but he didn’t expect that this Delong was actually such a person, so he bullied and bullied the old man who loved him, why don’t you dare to fight with Kobe?

Kobe Bryant held the ball and posed, and Artest pressed up like a bullfighter with red eyes, looking like “if you dare to attack, I will fight you for three hundred rounds”!

If it were an ordinary person, he might be frightened by his appearance, but Kobe was “scared”? He hadn’t even gone to college, so how could he be afraid of Artest’s jerk, and the two were confronted together.

To say that the current “Black Mamba” in the field of technology, is really the first person in the NBA active team, but the problem is that now he basically uses confrontation plus technology to break through the opponent, simply relying on explosive power to break through the opponent, when he was young, it was not a signboard, and now it is even worse, just Artest, who has become slower in traversal speed, is now the only thing left is confrontation!

This can also be regarded as hitting the muzzle!

Bryant gradually felt Artest’s “fiery love” and managed to lose himself. In the ’09 series against the Rockets, Kobe averaged 27.4 points + 5 rebounds + 3.7 assists per game while shooting 45.5% from the field.

Both the shooting percentage and the points scored were below the average for that season.

This shows that Artest does have his unique characteristics for Kobe’s defense.

It’s like this “hot love” that is difficult for other people to have.

The ball bounced out and was caught by Pau Gasol in advance, and although Dayao squeezed away Bynum, the problem of his short hand was reflected in this moment.

Twisting, with a pretty hook, Gasol sends the ball into the basket.

This is his fourth year with the Lakers, and his age has ranged from 27 to 31, but his overall form is still stable, averaging 18.8 points and 10.2 rebounds per game, no different from when he first came to the Lakers.

Even Kobe’s form has declined a bit this season, and he is the most stable point for the Lakers.

4-2！

The New York Knicks played “Li Liu” this time to block the demolition.

Seeing Lewis move in the direction of Li Wan, Bynum instinctively felt a word:

Dangerous!

Seeing this, Kobe Bryant jammed in time and wanted to replace Li Wan after changing the defense.

Li Wan didn’t notice this for the first time, but a deft running position of Ray Allen passed behind him, allowing him to notice in time that the “snake” on the opposite side now did not know where to lie down.

Want to sneak attack?

What a little trash!

The dignified “black mamba” has now actually become “old six”.

Li Wandang threw the ball behind him.

Ray Allen takes the ball and throws.

When Kobe noticed that “backyard fire”, “backyard” was already “on fire”!

5-4！

“Hey man, people who are optimistic about themselves, how long have you been in this alliance? ”

Li Wan deliberately shouted at Kobe.

The smelly face of this “snake” is indeed visible to the naked eye, and it has become more smelly.

Refreshing!

He was cool, and Artest had a harder time guarding against it.

No matter how it is also the “little horse long” of the year, this “dark elbow” that riveted with full strength, even if it is a “beast”, it wants to find a woman to replace “Huhu”.

It hurts, it hurts so much!

But……

Artest looked at Kobe’s eyes and gradually changed.

If you want to play like this, I’m not sleepy!

The Knicks fought back again, and the difference between the two sides changed to 7-6 at this time!

Artest took the initiative to provoke Kobe to catch the ball.

Again, the “black mamba” is not “scared”, he has not gone to college, if you want to fight, he will fight, like a sand gull only seeking, heaven and earth fight.

At the same time that Artest exerted his strength, he immediately took the initiative to give him a hard blow.

This time it was very hard, and directly gave Kobe Bryant a soft fall to the ground.

The referee immediately blew the whistle and gave Artest a foul.

But I don’t know if the whistle stimulated the “beast”, and at the same time that Kobe fell to the ground, Artest actually continued to curse while moving sideways.

This is Li Wan has been a teammate with Artest for two years and has seen him “traverse”.

What is League Top 3D…

Stereo surround sound!

The emotions in the audience were also ignited, and the whole scene was also cursing. At this time, they don’t care if the person who fell is Kobe Bryant, and the scolding is over!

Who makes them the league’s most “loyal” home fans?

At this time, you must stand up for your own team!

When the referee saw Artest moving, he hurriedly rushed over, and when he found that this guy was just BB, he didn’t move, and the whistle spit out of his mouth.

Originally, he thought that Artest couldn’t help but rush up to wrestle with Kobe.

I didn’t expect it!

This age has also become a “strong mouth king”!

Well……

That’s not right!

The referee thought about it carefully, and this “beast” has always been a “king with a strong mouth”.

Kobe is also a pervert, under Artest’s “artificial” stereoscopic surround sound, after listening to a song “live diss”, after being helped up by his teammates, he smiled and applauded, and glanced at Artest with a face of “OK, you are like this, let’s walk and see”, and then held the ball again in the booing.

Artest immediately grappled up.

After the “dismount” just now, the intensity of the confrontation between the two people escalated again, and Kobe Bryant constantly elbowed to further provoke Artest.

In his opinion, since Artest just couldn’t help but deliberately take the initiative to foul, it means that he is already on the verge of violent walking, as long as he provokes again, this guy will definitely run away.

If this guy had been let out of the game with a “technical foul” earlier, today’s game would have been much easier.

Without Artest, Li Wan would have to guard against his presence!

However, just when he stretched out his hand again, ready to give him a look, and at the same time turned around, Artest, who had been clinging to him, suddenly turned his head to cover his face and fell to the side as if he had been hit hard at the corner of his mouth.

What the heck?

I haven’t even used my strength yet!

Kobe thought to himself, and when he shot the basket, he heard the referee’s whistle.

“The Lakers committed an offensive foul on No. 24! ”

I’m special!

When Kobe Bryant saw the referee’s signal, he almost couldn’t help but rush up to theorize:

Do I commit an offensive foul?

Was it actually my offensive foul?

When he subconsciously glanced at the replay on the big screen amid the cheers of the audience, he found that he didn’t know when, the offensive action was a little exaggerated.

Artest covered his face for a moment, as if he had been hit by his elbow.

Although he knew that it must be fake…

But just looking at it like this, even he feels real, let alone the referee!

“Nice, man, it’s okay! ”

Li Wan quickly ran towards Artest. But I found that this guy couldn’t hold back his smile. Seeing him like this, where did Li Wan not understand what was going on?

Good guy, this is difficult to achieve is the legendary “Zhang Fei embroidery needle… Thick and thin”?

Artest actually played this dirty trick!

“Li, this is all learned from you, remember our first game? Artest continued to frown at him.

Li Wan: …

Let’s just say such a clever defensive trick, how can ordinary people be?

It has to be me!

However, Li Wan was really a little surprised, at first looking at Artest’s such a violent defensive method, he also thought that today’s game is less than a technical offender can not run.

I didn’t expect it…

This was actually done by Artest on purpose!

The “Beast” defense began to use stratagem…

Now really…

Invincible!

Artest pretended to finish, and looked at Kobe again with firmness in his eyes.

When D’Antoni gave him the task of defending Kobe, Artest secretly said in his heart: This year must be better than the one in ’09!

Although the effect seemed okay to the outside world, Artest was not satisfied.

In order to make up for the decline in physical function, he has recently studied the defensive videos of other defenders, including Li Wan’s.

Everything has only one purpose:

Prevent Kobe!

Bai picked up an offensive round, but when Li Wan held the ball to the front court, the Lakers player defending him changed from DeLong to a defense-like Kobe.

It’s like asking:

Such a cheap trick, did you teach it?

Li Wan shrugged his shoulders and denied it.

This may be a hundred million points like my style, but it’s not…

It’s just that he denied it with a shrug, but Kobe thought he was acquiescing.

At that time, it was even more fiercely defended, and Li Wan almost blurted out:

Didn’t eat?

It’s good to endure!

Because he can feel that Kobe’s current state is indeed fierce enough, it is no longer appropriate to add some material to him.

Bryant is the same kind of person as Michael Jordan.

To spray garbage talk at them is to make yourself uncomfortable.

The only difference is that for Jordan, you can’t attack aggressively at all, and for Kobe, you can have a little active attack, but not too much.

The reason for this difference is that Michael Jordan is more dominant on the court than Kobe.

Of course, there is also a little difference that Li Wan was born in Kobe’s era, if in Jordan’s era, in terms of Li Wan’s character, there is actually no difference between watching Jordan and watching Kobe.

It is because he can’t play Michael Jordan on the court that Li Wan will have a little more respect for him.

However, it is not so much Jordan that respects Jordan as that respects the history of the NBA.

Without the past, there is no future!

As an NBA player, you especially can’t deny the past of the NBA!

Jordan’s brilliance is exactly what gives others a standard:

To what extent, you can be called the “god of basketball”!

Therefore, he Li Wan is willing to call Michael Jordan “Goat’s Horn”!

A quick twist, and then constantly elbow to force Kobe to back in order to get the fastest room to accelerate. But what Li Wan didn’t expect was that Kobe Bryant kept fighting with him as if he didn’t feel pain, and he didn’t have the idea of retreating at all.

Li Wan felt that he was about to be bald on his elbows, and Kobe was more energetic.

It made him think that Barnes later scare him with the ball when he served, but did not react at all. Although this is not the same thing, it is true that in some ways, this “snake” does not behave like a normal human!

Dayao quickly came out to make a block, Li Wan resisted Kobe to kill, and successfully used cover, rushed to the basket, Bynum desperately chased and defended, but could only watch Li Wan rush straight to the basket, injured several times, legs and feet really can’t keep up.

Paul Gasol couldn’t help but make up for it in the end, and Li Wan immediately sent the ball to Lewis at zero degree angle on the flank.

Almost the moment Gasol moved, he also moved.

Apparently always paying attention to Gasol, the “beautiful sister-in-law”.

Ariza hurriedly made up for it, but Lewis didn’t look at him, and hit a 3-point shot!

Speaking of which, Lewis is also a player whose personal fate trajectory has changed a lot because of Li Wan’s existence.

Originally, he was sent to the Wizards by the rebuilt Magic team in the 10~11 season, and also suffered a major injury, playing only 30 games a season, and was reimbursed for the season, averaging only 11.4 points per game.

This was also the last season in which “Mr. Billion” averaged a double-double in the NBA professional game, and he never recovered from injuries and left the league after only two or three seasons.

And now, although the performance is still not worth his current annual salary of 19 million, he is still at the top of the league in terms of outside projection.

Especially with Li Wan’s blocking and dismantling cooperation, since it was used in the 09 finals and shocked the four seats, it has always been a “killer” means, and to this day, it still makes every opponent painful.

It also changed direction to increase his value!

So……

It’s really important to follow the right people!

Or it’s really important to keep up with Li Wan, which is reflected in Kwame Brown, and it is also vividly reflected in Lewis.

10-6！

The New York Knicks’ lead came to 4 points…

It is said that 5 points a rhythm point.

The Lakers’ offensive results in this round suddenly became important.

Phil Jackson watched Delon Williams carry the ball to the front court amid cheers, but his hand still did not come out of his trouser pocket.

That year, he put his hands in his pockets, and he didn’t know what nervousness was!

As for the bottom line…

Delong Williams called Paul Gasol’s block with the ball.

Li Wan had noticed Gasol’s delay, but he still couldn’t get around when he posted it.

What a damn gentle country!

DeLong broke through to the free throw line, noticed that the Knicks’ entire formation contracted to the basket, and immediately gave the ball to the flank, Ariza took advantage of Artest’s contraction to the basket, pulled towards the top of the arc, at the moment the space is large enough, the shot is also very decisive…

“Ugh! ”

The three-point shot should fall into the frame.

9 to 10!

Once again, the difference returned to 1 point.

The cheers of the scene were extinguished by this ball.

For the first time in the game, the big screen gave Ariza more than three seconds of footage.

Instead of running the Rockets as a “tieza” as he originally did, he remained with the Lakers’ “Cobra” and continued to refine his three-point shooting and defense over the past two seasons.

Now, his results are on display.

Phil Jackson’s gaze showed satisfaction.

That’s where his strength lies.

In terms of offense, he is not targeting anyone, he just wants to say that this league has one to count, including the New York Knicks, he is not afraid!

There are really too many attack points!

And this was fully demonstrated in the rest of the first quarter, and although the New York Knicks were scoring all the time, the Lakers’ scoring momentum was equally ferocious.

At the end of the first quarter, the score between the two teams was 32-32…

Kenny Smith was shocked to see this scene, and in his impression, he really couldn’t remember who and which game was the last time the team tied with the New York Knicks after the first quarter.

Or…

Has there ever been such a game this season…

Now, of course, the answer is yes:

The Lakers did it!

Barkley, as Li Wan’s loyal “licking dog”, was also surprised by the fighting power shown by this Lakers team:

“DeLong’s arrival has indeed made this team have a lot of changes on the offensive end, as well as possibilities, plus Kobe now knows more and more when to stand up and when to be a supporting role, I have to admit that the New York Knicks are in trouble! ”

Please inform that tomorrow, January 1, the book will officially resume normal updates, and the number of words owed will be repaid as soon as possible.

I just counted it, counting today, I owe a total of 30,000 words, plus more than a thousand words owed by Yangqian, I count 2,000 words, a total of 32,000 words.

(End of chapter)

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