Chapter 15 National Footwork, Alone in the World
When the Lakers attacked, Kobe Bryant still went his own way, relying on his super individual scoring ability, either making fouls or scoring directly. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info But the Lakers still don't have a good way to defend against the Suns, even if Li Du grabs it with all his might, it is often too late for others to switch positions.
In the case that no one can prevent anyone, Kobe Bryant is an individual offense after all, and the shooting rate is always much lower than the shooting rate of the Suns' entire offense, and in the past 7 and a half minutes of the first quarter, D'Antoni replaced Nash and Xiaosi, and the Zen master replaced Kobe and Li Du to rest.
Barkley took the statistics of the first quarter of the players on both sides and exclaimed: "Koeko is back to the top!" In the first quarter, he shot 5 of 8, including 1 of 1 three-pointers and 4 of 4 free throws, scoring 15 points! Kobe Bryant has a good chance to score 40+ today. ”
"Kobe Bryant's scoring ability is unquestionable, but the Lakers can't attack on his own," Smith said. The Suns have now relied on the efforts of the whole team to make the score 25-19. In other words, on the Lakers' side, except for Kobe, everyone else only scored a total of 4 points! If it goes on like this, it will be difficult for the Lakers to win! ”
"Not necessarily!" Barkley smiled mysteriously, "I'll read another statistic." Lakers rookie No. 19 Li Du, 0 points, 1 steal, 0 rebounds, 0 assists, haha, 0 fouls. ”
"This statistic doesn't show what Li Du is doing on the court, we can see that he worked very the defensive end and did a good job!" Smith thought that Barkley was going to count Li Du again, and began to defend Li Du.
Barkley smiled: "Old friend, don't worry, you look at Nash's stats again." 2 points, 2 assists, 3 turnovers! In contrast, Nash suffered a big loss on the Lakers, a rookie! He was very miserably restricted by Li Du! ”
Smith understood what Barkley was going to say: "You mean, this rookie from the Lakers can block Nash? Indeed, everyone knows that as long as Nash is banned, the Suns will definitely lose to the Lakers, but is just a rookie, can he do it? ”
Barkley and Smith are both veterans, and they are both paving the way for the next games, adding gimmicks and adding highlights to the game. There is no doubt that at this time, whether Li Du can defend Nash has become an important highlight of this game, and it has also become an important matchup between the two teams in this game!
On the Suns' bench, Nash lay flat in the rest area, his spine has always been injured and he can't sit for long periods of time, so as long as it's not a particularly urgent situation, he lies on the sidelines to watch the game when he rests. Nash was lying, but his eyes were not on the court, but at the Lakers' bench, where the Chinese who was No. 19 just now defended himself very hard, if it weren't for his youth and the Lakers were not good at blocking and dismantling, the game would have hung by itself.
Xiao Si walked over, sat down next to Nash, and asked, "Steve, what's wrong?" That rookie is really strong, but I've never seen you so tired. ”
Nash shook his head and said, "Amarai, you don't know. That kid is a monster! One-on-one defense never loses position, and it is also very pressing. If it weren't for our blocking Lakers who couldn't break it, I'm afraid I'd have to plant it in his hands in this game! ”
"I don't see any of this, but his physical fitness is too exciting!" Xiao Si still has lingering feelings about the shocking hat that Li Du gave him at the beginning of the game.
On the Lakers' side, Phil was directing the players on the sidelines, Kobe and Fisher kept their heads shut and didn't speak, and Li Du was also thinking about how to break the blocking of Nash and Xiaosi.
Finally, Kobe Bryant said to Li Du: "Li, after the play, you start running, we will help you cover without the ball, and when you have the opportunity, I will try to pass it to you!" ”
Li Du replied, "Okay, boss. But I think you played well in the first quarter, why do you have to pass the ball so quickly? ”
After the score was behind, Kobe Bryant was not in a good mood, but he still explained: "Because I want to save my strength!" On the one hand, I want to have enough physical strength to play at the end of the day, but on the other hand, I am worried about getting injured again. ”
Li Du shook his head and said, "Impossible." Don't worry, boss, my master will make a move, and there will be no more hidden injuries in your knees! ”
Fisher patted Li Du on the side and said: "Li, many player injuries are actually fatigue injuries, the season is so long, if you don't ensure sufficient physical strength, it is easy to get injured during games and training." It has nothing to do with the recovery. ”
"I see!" Li Du thoughtfully, "I have never been overly tired, and my physical strength has always been sufficient. And for me, even if the physical exertion is high, I can adjust it back. It seems that the cultivation of national art really can't be put down! ”
At the end of the first quarter, the Suns ended with a six-point lead over the Lakers at 33-27. During the break, the Zen master was a little disappointed with everyone's performance, and he said, "This is our battle of revenge, if it still works like this, we will just give up." ”
Without waiting for anyone else to say anything, he continued: "If we don't want to lose this game, we still need to keep our rhythm and let the other team follow us. ”
Next, Phil continued to instruct: "Kobe, the Suns are starting to wrap you up, you have to pay attention to the position of other teammates, and pass it out as soon as you have the opportunity." Seeing Kobe nodded, Phil secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and then said to Li Du: "Li, start running, ready to catch the ball at any time." Others, help Lee cover off the ball! ”
After everything was explained, the substitutes continued to play, and Li Du took the opportunity to ask the Zen master: "Coach, I can't put Nash's blocking and dismantling well, what should I do?" ”
The Zen master turned his head and looked at Li Du with a smile and said, "Actually, you have done a good job. But if you really want to defend against their blocking, there is a way, but it will be a lot of physical drain on you. ”
Li Du hurriedly said: "Coach, don't worry, my physical strength is fine." ”
The Zen master whispered to Li Du: "It may be difficult for others to do it, you have footwork and physical conditions that I have never seen before, maybe you can." Let's do this......"
In the second half of the second quarter, both sides changed their main forces. By this time, the Suns had a seven-point lead at 45-38.
Nash felt uncomfortable when he saw Li Du, but now that the Lakers were attacking, Nash ran to the other side to defend Fisher.
Kobe Bryant glanced at Li Du, and Li Du understood and began to run. The ball was still in Kobe's hands, and Rajabel hurriedly came up to the defense, and at the same time secretly gestured to let his teammates pay attention to preparing the bag and assisting in the defense.
Kobe Bryant still broke through Ragabel easily, and just when he was about to kill inside, Dio pounced, and Ragabel, who turned around, was ready to wrap Kobe.
Seeing the double coming to wrap up, Kobe Bryant still dribbled unhurriedly to find an opportunity to break through. Looks like he's going to go it alone again! Strengthened this belief, the two of them were more resolute.
Who knows, just when they were about to surround Kobe, Kobe suddenly shook his hand and passed the ball from behind to Li Du, who had already thrown off Barbossa at some point.
After receiving the ball, Li Du did not stop at all, and raised his hand to make a three-point shot. "Brushing" the basketball into the frame.
45-41, after Li Du scored a three-pointer, the Lakers only trailed by 4 points.
"Three points off the ball! He's still a shooter? Barkley cried out, and this Li Du gave him too much surprise.
Smith was also stunned, "Good defense, as well as a beautiful running and shooting skills, the Lakers really picked up a treasure this time!" With Li Du's three-point shot, the cheers of the audience were also enthusiastic.
Nash looked at the Lakers players who were back on defense with a calm face, and no one thought that the Lakers' rookie would still have this hand! Especially the way he ran just now, Nash had never seen before, it seemed to be running at full speed, and it seemed to be following the same step, and the front and rear feet followed through in a strange way, and Barbossa was thrown away by this strange pace and rhythm!
Quickly pushing to the frontcourt, Nash was looking for the best time to block with Smalls, as always. This time, though, Li Du moved closer, leaving little room for Nash to break through. Nash quickly saw that Li Du had intensified his pressure on him, trying to use this method to force him to move his blocking position backwards.
"You want me to go backwards?" Nash sneered in his heart, "I'm afraid you'll regret it!" With that in mind, Nash glanced up at Xiao Si. Xiao Si understood and immediately came up to prepare to block the demolition.
"Do you want to do this?" Li Du also sneered in his heart, just when Xiao Si was just lifting up the line and preparing to block and dismantle Nash, Li Du suddenly retreated two steps diagonally backwards and let go of Xiao Si, this change made Nash and Xiao Si, who were originally going to block and dismantle, become in front of Li Du together!
"Chance!" Nash saw Li Du retreating, and seemed to be blocked by Xiao Si, so he wanted to raise his hand and shoot three points. But when he looked up at the basket, he realized that he was standing three or four steps outside the three-point line. Shooting at this position, Nash didn't shoot very well.
"It turns out that he forced me to step back early in order to push me further away and shoot threes!" Nash immediately understood Li Du's intentions, and naturally had a way to deal with it.
When he used Xiao Si to block in front of Li Du, he suddenly moved sideways to the left, and Li Du just wanted to follow, but was blocked by Xiao Si. At this time, Kwame Brown finally came out of the inside, and he stood in Nash's way.
Nash didn't care at all, and directly accelerated past Kwame Brown, and went inside to score a layup. But he was just starting when he heard Dio shouting "Be careful! ”。 Without waiting for Nash to react, Li Du didn't know when, he had already jumped up with Nash, and a pair of slender and wide hands shrouded Nash's shooting route to death!
Nash glanced at Barbosa and found that Barbosa had cut in, and in the air, he immediately withdrew the basketball, flicked his left hand, and passed the ball to Barbossa, who had just cut in.
"Good shot!" This instantaneous change made both Barkley and Smith applaud!
Barbosa received a pass from Nash and was about to pick up a basket. But just as his hand was stretched out, and the basketball was just about to leave his fingertips, a big yellow hand grabbed it and grabbed the basketball directly in his hand! It was after landing that he took advantage of a kick and grabbed Li Du in front of Barbossa with his fist!
As soon as he grabbed the basketball, Li Du immediately passed the ball to Fisher, Fisher pointed his fingers, and the basketball flew to the frontcourt, where Kobe Bryant was already waiting! Kobe Bryant easily dunked the ball, and the score narrowed again, 45-43, and the two sides were only two points apart!
D'Antoni hurriedly called a timeout.