Chapter 68: The Lone Warrior
In order to get rid of Kobe, he slammed his right foot on the floor and jumped sideways at an angle, an angle that was destined to not land smoothly. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Even if Bryant jumped up obliquely, he couldn't be completely parallel to Chamberlain, which gave Chamberlain room to observe the court. Parker, Ginobili, and Duncan all had people around them, leaving Devon Brown alone, and George went to mark Kobe's defensive target, Ginobili.
This neglected little man became Chamberlain's life-saving straw, and the ball was finally passed during the landing. Chamberlain fell heavily to the floor, and Bryant was only slightly unsteady in comparison, taking two steps back to unload the impact.
The two people who were still facing each other just now didn't pay attention to each other at this moment, and their eyes were fixed on Brown, who was holding the ball.
Devon Brown was finally not mentally disturbed, and he easily hit the ball in the open space. Watching the basketball fly into the hoop in his sight, Chamberlain breathed a sigh of relief, and then got up from the ground. At this time, no one realized that the early play of the two sides made a foreshadowing, because this shot quietly changed the fate of the two teams.
After all, people are not machines, and even if they are sixty years old, they will be frustrated and will have tempers. On defense, Parker clearly felt the strangeness of Payton's dribbling, with a deep twilight, not thinking that there was still leisure to deceive him, and stretched out his hand, fast and urgent.
Parker's hand caught the ball accurately, and the power of the forward rush also made it easier for him to accelerate, and in an instant he ran across the halfway line, no one went back to defend, couldn't catch up, and gave up. The Spurs clawed six points in just over a minute into O'Neal's departure, leaving them seven points behind.
Cheers and applause shook the center of the SBC, and the spurs at this time, like a torrent bursting the embankment, were unstoppable.
At the critical moment, the "Zen master", who didn't like to call a timeout, did not skimp anymore, he called a short timeout of twenty seconds.
Popovich wasn't idle either, with Bowen coming back on to replace Devon Brown.
There are still three minutes in the last minute, neither side has changed the substitution, and the king sees the king, and the bet is who can't hold it first.
"Zhang, don't go outside, catch the ball in the free throw area", before going on the court, Popovich stopped Chamberlain, and after saying this, he hesitated, "Make more shots".
If the regular season is a match, the playoffs are a fight, life and death will be decided in the fraction, Popovich's conservative nature makes him unwilling to gamble, but in the end he still gambled, there is no way, the Spurs are now facing the Lakers who have finished him, he must have to believe in this rookie, he must also believe.
The game resumed, and the Lakers started to attack first. Payton, who controlled the ball, moved to the half court and passed the ball to Kobe Bryant when he was close to the third division, and then Payton quickly cut into the bottom corner from the inside, and Kobe passed the ball back.
Malone moved quickly in the direction of Payton, Duncan, who has played against the Lakers countless times, is also familiar with this tactic, he tightly entangled Malone, and did not let Malone have a chance to catch the ball, but Payton passed the ball to Russell.
This revealed the evil plan of the "Zen master" and made Chamberlain one-on-one with Russell.
Jackson sees it very clearly, Chamberlain's back defense under the basket is very deadly, unless he gives up a foul, even if the foul Lakers win, Russell is not O'Neal.
The ball passed to Russell was intercepted by a color-changing hand, it was Chamberlain.
Payton's road to the championship is very uneven, in the years of the Lakers, he has not been integrated into the "triangle tactics", this time the rigid routine is too obvious, no matter how good the tactics, flexible use is the most important.
This break is Chamberlain's pure hunch, in the bottom corner of Payton, when Malone pulled Duncan, Chamberlain realized that the Lakers' offensive point would be on him, and when he confronted Russell on the inside, he kept pretending to be out of position, and waited until Payton passed the ball, Chamberlain decisively flashed out and broke the basketball one step ahead of Russell.
Then it became simpler, Ginobili, who had been cooperating with Chamberlain, was already fast, and Chamberlain, who grabbed the basketball, threw the ball vigorously to the frontcourt, which is also one of the important scoring methods of the Spurs' version of "small ball tactics".
The house leak happened to rain overnight, and the Lakers' first offense after the timeout died like this, but the Spurs seized the opportunity and closed the score again. The scene finally tilted in the Spurs' favor at the end of the second quarter.
Parker broke the ball, and the cheers in the SBC center swept in like a wave, with passion, with energy.
When the galloping Parker approached the basket, he faced the surging waves, as if he was out of the shackles of the earth, and turned around 360 degrees to slam the dunk, a rare performance for the Spurs.
So the cheers of the SBC center were even louder.
Under this cheer, the spurs are like a torrent that bursts the embankment, breaking through the wind and waves, surging and moving. The opposing Lakers are in great danger of meeting this flood peak. Qianjun's burden was on Kobe's shoulders, and he was destined to turn the tide if he was unwilling to perish.
Bowen's enthusiastic defense didn't stop him, his feet were unwavering forward, forward, forward, and Ginobili in front of him, overcoming obstacles and steps forward, forward, and forward, the three-point line, the free throw area, Kobe's eyes became hotter and hotter.
Is the fish dead? Is it a broken net?
Kobe Bryant jumped up, only less than a third of the usual jump, using all his strength, Bowen's hand on his waist, above, and a hand, covering the sky and the sun, the aging Malone failed to block Duncan.
Time froze at this moment, Kobe Bryant closed his eyes, he grabbed the basketball tightly, he slowly descended until he fell to the ground, the ball has not been shot, this is him, the Lakers, the last hope.
The fans in the audience laughed uncontrollably. Kobe Bryant stood up, calmly threw down the basketball in his hand, and his lips pursed as if they had not changed forever.
Chamberlain, who was standing on the inside, had been paying attention to Kobe, and had also noticed the various emotional changes that Kobe Bryant had experienced in a short period of time. He looked at Kobe's face, the anger when Payton lost the ball, the coldness when Parker dunked, the firmness when he held the ball, and the frenzy in moving forward, the gloom at the moment when he couldn't shoot, the dead silence lying on the floor, and finally the stubbornness that stood up from the ridicule.
"It was a warrior who was destined to be lonely." Looking at Kobe's upright and still upright back, Chamberlain sighed secretly.