Chapter Ninety-Seven
The game restarted and the Lakers possessed the ball.
This time, Yi Feng did not make any more tactical runs, and the Lakers' out-of-bounds serve found him as soon as possible.
It was so long before the second half started that he touched the ball for the first time.
While dribbling the ball, Yi Feng observes the Magic's defense.
Defending him was Oladipo.
Oladipo's choice of position is more about defending the passing route of Yifeng.
In other words, the Magic is still insisting on using the "Jordan Rule" against Yi Feng. Defend his passes, but let him play alone.
In this way, the outcome of the Lakers' game will be decided by Yi Feng.
After Yi Feng saw the situation clearly, he began to attack.
His dribbling suddenly became sharp, and his right shoulder slumped before two cross-dribbles before ......
The breakthrough on the right side is successful.
This is also too simple, Yi Feng is a little puzzled, the Magic's defense against him is really loose for him.
After breaking into the inside line, although the two big men of the Magic blocked up, Yi Feng deceived them with a random passing feint.
In the end, he made an easy layup.
This is the first time in the NBA that scoring has been so easy.
Yi Feng also thought that this was because the Magic players did not understand what their coach meant and did not clarify their defensive tasks.
But when he scored so easily many times, he realized that it was not a one-time or two-time accident.
He couldn't help but be a little surprised, the legendary "Jordan's Law" shouldn't be like this, right?
With Jordan's strong scoring ability, under the defense of such a "Jordan's Rule", how could it be that he didn't break through the Pistons for so long?
Even if the shot feels cold, he can easily burst to the basket to score.
With such defensive intensity, why do the Pistons think Jordan won't beat them on his own?
Yi Feng knows that this is definitely not the real "Jordan's Rule", otherwise he would not have scored so easily. Maybe the head coach of the Magic got something wrong and made a bit of a mistake.
But this is exactly what Yi Feng wants.
The defensive intensity was so poor, he scored too easily. As a result, he had an extremely high shooting percentage during this time, hitting almost every shot. However, the Magic could not guarantee that every attack of theirs would be successful, and the margin was widened again.
In the third quarter, Yi Feng turned into an offensive kaleidoscope, constantly showing his offensive methods. With the cooperation of the Magic team, he scored 22 points in a single quarter, and also helped the team lead the Magic by as many as 21 points at 91:70!
Yi Feng, who scored 45 points in the third quarter, did not play again in the fourth quarter.
And the Magic, on the other hand, seems to have given up resistance and accepted the defeat calmly.
Their head coach, Skels, was absent-minded throughout the fourth quarter. It seems that the failure of his big move in the third quarter, the so-called "Jordan's Rule", hit him hard.
At the end of the game, the Lakers ended their losing streak with a 119-108 win over the Magic on the road.
The first contributor to the Lakers' victory was of course Yi Feng, who clocked out in the third quarter of the game and scored 45 points, 4 rebounds and 5 assists. In addition, Hibbert scored 12 points, 6 rebounds and 3 blocks, Nance Jr. had 13 points and 4 rebounds, Randle had an economical double-double of 10 points and 10 rebounds, Williams scored 14 points, Nick Young scored 10 points, and Tzu Shiping also scored 9 points.
On the Magic side, the top scorer was Shabazz Napier who came off the bench, who played 30 minutes and recorded 25 points and 5 assists. In addition, Vucevic had 18 points and seven rebounds, Fournier had 17 points, six assists and five rebounds, Frye had 15 points and five rebounds, and Tobias Harris had a double-double of 11 points and 11 rebounds. It is worth mentioning that Payton scored an alternative quasi-double-double with 10 rebounds and 8 assists, and against Clarkson, he only made 1 of 13 shots and scored only 2 points.
In this game, many people only noticed Yi Feng's scoring performance of scoring 45 points in the third quarter, but did not notice the growth of Clarkson, a young man, especially on the defensive end.
Perhaps a player cannot be defined by the performance of just one game, so it is easy to fall into the one-sided understanding of "one game".
And Clarkson, the 2014 second-round pick, will definitely burst out with extraordinary energy in the face of Payton's 2014 lottery pick.
But Clarkson's growth this season is obvious to all, from last season's average of 11.9 points, 3.5 assists and 3.2 rebounds per game to this season's average of 15.7 points, 3.8 assists and 4.2 rebounds per game, his statistics have improved in all aspects. And his three-point shooting percentage has increased from 31% last season to 38% now!
Defensively, Clarkson's overall defensive efficiency went from 112 last season to 101, what a huge improvement!
The so-called defensive efficiency is the opponent's score every 100 defensive rounds.
In terms of personal data, his steal rate and block rate have improved.
And the Lakers' young people have grown up not only Clarkson, Randle, but even Nance Jr. and Anthony Brown, two rookies, have also grown up a lot.
They are on the right path.
Yi Feng took a shower and followed head coach Scott and boss Kobe Bryant to attend the post-game press conference.
The anger that was frustrated before the game has been vented in the game.
Now Yi Feng only feels relaxed. He can also smile when facing reporters.
However, the reporter's questions are still so sharp.
The Orlando Sentinel, as the authoritative local media in Orlando, was the first to get the right to ask questions.
The sentinel reporter asked, "Mr. Yi Feng, first of all, congratulations on your victory in this game. It is said that before the game you said that you wanted to win the scoring title this season, is this true? ”
In today's era of such advanced networks, news and information are rumored at a speed that people could not have imagined a few decades ago.
Yi Feng's bold remarks in front of the media before the game had already gone viral on the Internet before the game was over. While people criticize him for being too arrogant, there are also a few sane people who question the accuracy of this news.
Yi Feng nodded, "Of course it's true, otherwise why do you think I would cut forty points in this game." ”
"If someone doubts me, the strongest way for me to fight back is to play well in the game."
"Some people say I just played well before, just a brief outburst."
"So I kept doing this until I was the league's leading scorer at the end of the season. I believe this will be the most powerful response possible. ”
The reporter asked, "Don't you think it's too easy for you to score in this game?" This kind of performance is actually not very convincing, is it? ”
Yi Feng looked at the reporter carefully, medium height, short blond hair, blue eyes, typical white American, "You are a reporter for the Orlando Sentinel, I remember that a colleague of yours interviewed me before the game." ”
"His point is interesting, that if I can score high, it doesn't mean that I actually have the ability to score that high."
"It sounds awkward, but in fact, he means the same as you, that is, even if I score 40 or 50 points, it's not that I really have the strength to score such a high score, but that I'm lucky."
"But I think no matter how easy it is for me to score, no matter how strong the opponent is, 40 is 40 and 50 is 50. I did get it, and you can't deny it. And how can it not be convincing? ”
"Maybe you want to say that the defensive strategy that Coach Skels played against me in this game was the reason why I scored so easily. Then you should ask him why he did it, instead of telling me that my score was not convincing. ”
Yi Feng's series of answers made the reporters of the Sentinel difficult to speak, and they wanted to say something but stopped talking. (To be continued.) )