Chapter 898
In fact, Hilario can't do this, if he has more experience in the NBA, he won't care about Lamar's behavior at all. Josh Hilario's experience must have made him see that Lamar was just bluffing, but now Josh Hilario is too young and inexperienced, and he lacks experience in defending a superplayer like Lamar.
So Lamar's babbling behavior made Josh Hilario a little overwhelmed, and the way Josh Hilario could think of to deal with Lamar who was directly in third gear was to pray that Lamar would be stupid enough to bump into him.
How can it be so easy for Josh Hilario to make Lamar foul, not to mention that Josh Hilario's actions have long been expected by Lamar. Just as the two men's bodies were about to collide, Lamar changed hands behind his back with great ease, then made a deft turn around Hilario's side, and then went straight to the basket of the Philadelphia 76ers.
Josh Hilario is eliminated, and the rest of the 76ers are not to mention. While they also have a Diebeken Mutembo who has been named the Interior Defensive Player of the Year several times, Lamar simply won't give the opposition a chance to use the Djinn Magic Trick. After deceiving Mutembo with an extremely realistic back-to-back pass, Lamar got the ball in front of him.
"Boom!"
After the sound, Lamar was already dangling in the air with one hand in the hoop. The AI, who was still entangled with Billups at the three-point line, looked at Lamar and felt helpless in his heart.
The AI can see very clearly that in terms of defense now, no one in the 76ers team can defend Lamar in a one-on-one situation. However, AI will not admit defeat easily, and their team can't prevent the Knicks, so they can find it back on offense, and the big deal is to shoot one by one to see who has a higher shooting rate.
Before Lamar could land and stand firm, the Philadelphia 76ers quickly passed the ball to the AI. Cheeks had already explained during the timeout just now, and all the 76ers' offense during this time period had to be handled by the AI, and all the players had to do their best to cooperate with the AI.
After the AI received the ball, it also launched its speed, with beautiful butterfly steps, weird steps, and flashing and moving like a civet, which made Billups, who defended him, feel unbearable, and could only watch the AI easily pick the basket and score the ball.
Seeing that the ball was scored, the AI was about to beat his chest and pretend to be an orangutan to celebrate, who knew that the Knicks were just as unkind as them. This time, Hilario was even more ruthless, and threw the ball directly into the 76ers' half.
Lamar caught the ball and slapped it, raised his hand and threw it, and in an unguarded situation like this, he could shoot it with his eyes closed.
"Huh!"
The curtain of war has opened, and at this time, there is no lack of morality on the field, and Lamar and AI are also quite hilarious when they compete. Often, as soon as one goal is scored here, the other side immediately comes back. Recharge for a few minutes, and then it's time to release it all.
For a while, there seemed to be two lightning bolts on the court, one black and one white, constantly passing through, and the pace of the game was dazzling. The wonderful attack continued, and even if half of it was thrown in by the enemy Lamar, the fans at the scene couldn't care so much. Although it is impossible to openly oppose the water, but I am secretly applauding in my heart.
At the end of the first quarter, the game was tied at 38:32, with the Knicks leading by six points. It can be expected that if nothing else, this game will definitely be another high-scoring battle. Not counting the others, just those two demons who have gone crazy will not make this game too dull.
Lamar scored 13 points in a single quarter and AI scored 19 points in a single quarter, and it looked like AI had a slight advantage in the first round.
After the break, the game started again.
AI strikes first, the basketball seems to be given life in his hands, shuttling back and forth in front of and behind him, under the crotch, Billups is still at a loss for this, and he has no chance to break the ball at all, so he can only watch honestly, and he has been seeing the AI stop and turn around to shoot the ball in.
Lamar, on the other hand, was not to be outdone, and the outside line received Billups' pass and raised his hand to make an unreasonable dry three-pointer, which was easily hit.
After the first quarter of the game, both of them tacitly changed their strategies and began to use the more labor-saving way of shooting, which was also to prepare for the next decisive battle.
The game has been completely taken over by Lamar and AI so far, and the others can't intervene at all except for defense, grabbing rebounds, squeezing positions, and blocking and pick-and-roll, but there are a few times when they have better chances, and Lamar and AI have not chosen to pass. Even Lamar, who was a little calm in the first quarter of the game, ignored the important task of organizing under the stimulation of AI scoring.
The scoring battle between the two has entered a white-hot one, and the two of them are also red-eyed, and at this time it is a breath of fighting, and whoever can't support it first will lose! The two guys have similar personalities, they are both people whose hearts are higher than the sky, neither of them wants to bow their heads in front of each other, no matter what the situation, they can only bite the bullet.
The second quarter of the game was still the same routine in the eyes of everyone, even more crazy than the first quarter of the game, and there would have been a few sporadic assists, but there were no more at this time. The two people who have gone crazy, after getting the basketball, the only thing that can be seen in their eyes is the basket, shooting, layup, slam dunk, in short, as long as they can get the basketball in, all kinds of tricks are used by both of them.
Lamar made a three-pointer from the outside, while also defrauding Josh Howard of a foul, and scored four points in one fell swoop.
In turn, the AI immediately took advantage of its speed to break through Billups and hit Lamar to force a pick-up on the inside.
Lamar also failed to escape the referee's one-finger Zen magic skill and defensive fouls. Although the AI missed the free throw, the old and strong Mutembo grabbed the rebound, and the African mountains passed the ball to the AI again without waiting for both feet to land.
After AI got the ball, he hit a step-back three-point shot against Billups, scoring five points at a time, and forcefully responded to Lamar's provocation.
Lamar attacked again, this time with a strength advantage and forced a slam dunk after Josh Howard.
In the attack just now, Mutembo, who played the role of AI "accomplice", was directly hit by Lamar into the group of reporters behind the basketball hoop. The African Mountain, who struggled to stand up, rubbed his numb shoulders and looked at Lamar with resentful eyes, obviously in his opinion, Lamar was a bit too much.
His brother was bullied, and as the boss of the 76ers, AI naturally would not be indifferent. In the next offense, the AI suddenly played a stop-and-go jump shot in the process of high-speed assault, but Lamar's assistant defense blocked but fell into the trap of the AI, and the fighter fouled.
Lamar, who was stimulated by AI, began to fire on the outside in the next game, hitting four three-pointers in succession.
Lamar's super touch made the Philadelphia fans at the scene look straight, and the hatred for Lamar in their hearts naturally increased. In their thoughts, if Lamar had accepted AI's invitation to form an inside and outside partner with AI, the 76ers' dynasty might not have been on paper, and AI would not have fought alone like a lone hero now, and was riddled with injuries.
Lamar began to exert his power on the outside, and AI naturally did not let Lamar be beautiful alone. Although the AI's outside projection ability is not very good, it can't stand his breakthrough sharpness.
The AI relied on his own tricks to hit three points in a row, so that Hilario, who was responsible for the defense on the inside, was fouled four times at the end of the second quarter.
In desperation, Van Gundy had no choice but to use Anderson, who had an excellent defense, and as for Hilario, he could only be a water cooler keeper off the field.
Anderson's appearance immediately lowered the Knicks' interior attack power by a notch. But Anderson's defense has merit, with him sitting on the inside, even if he is as strong as AI, he can't be like before in a no-man's land, casually scattered.
Although the two of them fought fiercely, and the scoring data was even more vigorous, it was easy for a discerning person to see that the balance of the war between the two had begun to shift in favor of Lamar.
No matter how strong the AI is, he can't resist the trouble that the congenital aspect brings him, although he is short in stature, he can mix in the NBA where he grows like a forest, but the physical strength and energy consumed for this are definitely several times that of ordinary people. Coupled with the fact that AI has been riddled with injuries over the years, it is simply impossible to let him run as wildly as he did when he first entered the league. If the current trend on the court continues, AI may not last long.
At the end of the second quarter, the two teams were tied at 62-62, and Lamar and AI were tied at 32. Such super data made the fans at the scene exclaim, of course, the cheers were given to the Philadelphia hero AI, as for the boos, Lamar, as an enemy, naturally had to laugh.
The AI sitting on the bench obviously didn't have the sharpness just now, just sitting on the bench honestly, saving every bit of physical strength that could be saved, listening to Cheeks arrange the next tactics. As the leader of the team and the protagonist of this game, the AI is naturally the core of the team's tactics in the second half.
Looking at his slightly trembling hands, AI's heart suddenly flooded with a sad feeling. Once upon a time, he was a fighter on the court, and at that time, even if he ran all over the field and insisted on the end of the game, now his unyielding fighting spirit is still the same, but his physical strength can no longer withstand such consumption.
It's just that in a situation like tonight, especially if the opponent in this game is Lamar, the AI can't open his mouth to say a soft word, so he can only grit his teeth and insist.
Re-entering the game after the break, Lamar and AI, two good brothers off the court, and the rivals on the court collided once again to continue their unfinished battle. It seems that tonight's battle will not end until one person falls first.