Chapter 103: Zhuang Shen

Ling Sisi didn't know why Yi Feng suddenly became depressed, she had been cared for by her parents in the palm of her hand since she was a child, and she couldn't understand the feeling of being alone in the world.

Yi Feng quickly put away his sadness, he couldn't tolerate that he had such a weak side. Especially now that there is an outsider present.

Although Ling Sisi kept saying that the two were brother and sister, even if this was true, Yi Feng felt that he and Ling Sisi were still strangers.

"What's wrong with you, why did you suddenly become like this?"

Facing Ling Sisi's somewhat curious inquiry, Yi Feng didn't answer positively, "It's nothing, it makes you laugh." ”

Maybe the beautiful girl in front of him is really his sister, but Yi Feng somehow just can't be enthusiastic.

"Let's continue with the topic just now, don't you want to know why you were inexplicably targeted?"

Although Ling Sisi was exquisite, after all, he was young and lacked the ability to observe words and colors, so he didn't find that Yi Feng was no longer interested in these things.

Yi Feng shook his head, "It doesn't matter if these are targeted, just target them, I won't lose two taels of meat anyway." What if you know the reason behind the scenes, anyway, I've been here for so long. ”

Since people are not interested in listening to it, Ling Sisi naturally will not say it to himself. She finally sensed that something was wrong with the atmosphere, and she found that she had not been accepted by Yi Feng and Tang Ya all along.

It made her a little embarrassed.

Because of the superior family environment, she has always been happy with everything. Only others will slap her, and there is no one who can't get the friendship of others. But Yi Feng's identity is so special for her, she can't afford to be angry.

In the end, she also knew that she was a little redundant here, and she didn't say everything she wanted to say in her heart, so she left and left.

Today's events, Ling Sisi's appearance and the words she said had a great impact on Yi Feng.

It took him almost a day to get his emotions back together. After returning to normal, I threw myself into basketball again.

On November 15, at 7 p.m. local time in Los Angeles, USA, the Lakers at home ushered in the challenge of the Detroit Pistons.

Pistons starting lineup: Reggie Jackson, Kentaveos Cardwell Pope, Marcus Morris, Ulson Iyasova, Andre Drummond

Lakers starting lineup: Jordan Clarkson, Yi Feng, Kobe Bryant, Julius Randle, Roy Hibbert

This game was the Lakers' first home game after five straight road trips. After getting the rest, they were at home to face the Pistons who had traveled thousands of miles. For the Lakers, this will be a big win.

Moreover, the Pistons, who are now 5-4, have experienced three consecutive defeats. Now is the time when their morale is low. This is another piece of good news for the Lakers.

After the game began, Andre Drummond jumped the ball by a wide margin, and the Pistons were the first to get the offense.

Drummond is a tall, athletic center with long arms, a combination of height, strength, mobility, athleticism and explosiveness, and is powerful on the defensive end and excellent on the top defense. Most notably, he's a real rebounding machine.

Over the course of several seasons, he's gone from a 2012 No. 9 pick with potential to one of the league's top centers.

And this season is the season in which he broke out.

Drummond has 136 points and 137 rebounds in his first seven games since the start of the season, becoming the first player since Welt-Chamberlain in 1970-71 to score at least 135 points and 135 rebounds in seven games.

On October 31, in the game between the Pistons and the Bulls, Drummond played 39 minutes, scored 20 points and 20 rebounds, and won the double twenty data for the fifth time in his career.

On November 2, he was awarded the first Player of the Week in the East and West with Yi Fengfen. It was also the first time in their careers that they won the Player of the Week title.

On November 3, in the Pistons' game against the Pacers, Drummond contributed 25 points and 29 rebounds, setting a new career rebounding record.

On Nov. 8, in the Pistons' game against the Trail Blazers, he played 36 minutes and scored 29 points and 27 rebounds, becoming only the third player after Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Wilt Chamberlain to score 20+20 in three of the first six games of the season.

On Nov. 9, Drummond was named the league's Eastern Conference Player of the Week for the second week in a row!

Consecutive Weekly Awards!

At this moment, he is the best performer in the league!

Neither Yi Feng, a super-rookie who temporarily ranked first in the scoring list, nor last season's MVP Stephen Curry, who led the team to consecutive wins since the start of the game, failed to achieve such a feat.

Perhaps with the addition of some form, Drummond has now gone from being a quasi-first-class star last season to a super-first-class star!

So far, he has averaged 18.7 points and 19.1 rebounds per game, which is close to the average of double 20 per game.

Therefore, such Drummond, in the face of "Gao Yuanyuan" Hibbert, easily put the basketball into the hands of his teammates.

As a result, the Pistons got the first offense of the game.

Reggie Jackson, Pistons' playmaker, holds the ball and plays the offense.

In the face of the Lakers' weak interior line, Pistons head coach Stan Van Gundy has set up a special tactic for them, that is, to let Drummond play alone.

Stan Van Gundy is one of the league's leading coaches, especially skilled in tweaking center players. Howard, the former No. 1 center, was trained by him. Now Drummond, under his tutelage, is also attacking the No. 1 center throne.

For the Lakers at the beginning of the new season, Van Gundy has long studied the Lakers in the league. Although many teams have a headache for the Lakers, he believes that the Lakers actually have an Achilles' heel.

The Lakers' lineup this season is extremely fierce on the outside, averaging 106.2 points per game, ranking among the top five in the league. But compared to the strong outside line, their inside line is simply extremely weak.

On the contrary, the Pistons' interior line has become their absolute strong point because of Drummond.

With your own strength, attack the enemy's short. Van Gundy has a lot of confidence in beating the Lakers. Although the Pistons have lost three in a row, morale is at a low ebb.

Because the disciple Drummond who trained him single-handedly is his trump card.

Although it is a trump card, Van Gundy does not intend to use it at the end, but shows the trump card at the beginning.

He felt that he should play a wave of offense at the beginning of the game, not only to give the Lakers a downward spiral, but also to build confidence and boost the morale of his own players.

After clearing one side, Reggie Jackson hoisted the ball to Drummond in accordance with the manager's tactical set-up.

Hibbert's slender figure, standing behind the stout Drummond, looked a little pitiful. Drummond leaned back as he was shaken back.

Drummond was not polite at all, and after there was no obstacle behind him, he turned around with a powerful and heavy clasp of his hands!

The hoop creaked as he dunked!

Hibbert, who was about to make a free throw under the basket, had palpitations when he heard these sounds.

Who can stop such a monster?

With just one attack, Byron Scott completely understood the intentions of the opposing head coach.

It was precisely because he understood the other party's intentions that Scott frowned.

He didn't expect Hibbert, who was an All-Star last season, to degenerate this season and completely become the team's defensive colander. And it just so happened that the opponent's inside line happened to have a super strong point.

This game is not easy to play!

Scott's bad premonition came true.

This season, Drummond seems to have evolved, not only on the defensive end, but also on the offensive end!

Although the technique still looks rough, he doesn't use too many delicate inside skills in the face of "Gao Yuanyuan", and after the back hit, he turns around and dunks!

It is precisely because of Drummond's deterrent power on the interior that several of the Lakers' attacks have been in vain. The layups of the Lakers players after breaking through were all interfered with by him.

And in retrospect, he singled Hibbert to eat and eat!

Within three minutes of the opening game, Drummond had three singles to distinguish between them, two of which were dunks! And Marcus Morris, who played as the Pistons' starting small forward, also hit a three-pointer from the outside.

On the Lakers' side, only Yi Feng scored another open battle, which was a three-pointer near the bottom corner after receiving a breakaway from Clarkson. Speaking of which, this is also his luck, because the bottom corner is arguably the least good at him.

Usually when he comes to the bottom corner, he slips to break through the bottom line. He rarely shoots from the bottom corner because it makes it difficult for him to get to the basket and his shooting percentage is inconsistent.

And the place where he shot most accurately was on the line at the left angle of 45°.

There is no scientific basis for this, it is simply a personal habit of playing on the court. It's more of a psychological influence.

Four minutes into the game, the Lakers had such strong offensive firepower that they only scored 3 points!

The home team is 9:3 behind!

Scott took advantage of a dead-ball time and called a timeout.

In the noisy Staples Center arena, Scott loudly laid out tactics for his disciples, as if he was hoarse and roared.

"The Pistons' No. 0 center is unscrupulous under the basket and does whatever he wants, and it will be the biggest obstacle to our win. Then we have to stop him, Julies, and after he has the ball, you come and cover it! ”

"Roy, you sink your weight and grit your teeth to resist him for me!"

Hibbert knew that the head coach was making it difficult for a strong man, but he had no choice but to desperately defend against Drummond.

Within minutes of the game, the biggest problem for the Lakers was on the defensive end, and the offensive problems were not serious. And Scott believes that Kobe Bryant and Yi Feng will handle the offensive problem. Therefore, during the pause, he gave his disciples an order to wrap up the defense of Drummond.

However, this is also a helpless move.

Scott knows that the Pistons' starting interior right now is partnered by power forward Ulson Iyasova and center Drummond. Drummond could often pick two on the inside, while the Turk Iyasova pulled to the outside to fly a kite.

The inside duo's skill sets complement each other, and if the opponent picks up Drummond, he will pass the ball to Iasova, who has good passing skills.

With a career three-point shooting percentage of 37 percent, Iyasova is a qualified big man shooter. If you dare to let him go, he will make you pay.

And Scott dared to give his disciples a bag order because he knew that Iyasova's shooting percentage was not stable, which may be something that the Lakers could take advantage of. Iasova shot almost 45 percent from three-point range in 2012-13, compared to just 28 percent from three-point range in 2013-14.

Scott is just betting that Iasova doesn't have a shooting feeling today!

The game continued, with the Lakers attacking first.

Yi Feng first undertook the task of tackling tough problems this time.

The Pistons' starting point guard is Kentaveos Cardwell Pope, a not-so-strong shooter-type guard.

Pope was drafted by the Pistons with the 8th pick in the first round in 2013, and after two years of growth, he has reached the level of the starting No. 2 pick.

However, he is limited by his weight and strength, and his confrontation is not very good, and defense is also one of his weaknesses. And the scoring is very dependent on the feel, and the ball holding technique is not good.

But fortunately, the Pistons have a defensive iron gate Drummond on the inside, the "Zhuang God" in the mouth of Chinese fans, can be a pillar of optimism under the basket, and any player must consider his presence when impacting the basket.

Pope knows that although his flexibility and speed are not bad, compared to the Chinese rookie with demonic physical fitness, his advantages are not worth mentioning.

Therefore, his defensive strategy against Yi Feng is to release the breakthrough and prevent shooting, and he has such a solid backing as Drummond behind him, so he is not afraid of Yi Feng's sharp breakthroughs.

Yi Feng's ability to read the game is also very strong, seeing that the defender is so forward, he instantly has to break the opponent's defense with a breakthrough.

With two back-dribbles, Pope's center of gravity was shaken, and Yi Feng saw the opportunity and burst on the right side.

Although Pope finally forced his center of gravity to stabilize and stick to it, he couldn't stop Yi Feng's breakthrough because he didn't have an advantage in weight and confrontation.

After passing Pop's defense, Yi Feng dribbled quickly into the inside.

This was a morale-boosting attack, so Yi Feng did not flinch in the face of Drummond, who was eyeing him fiercely.

Once he stepped into the three-second zone, he confronted Drummond.

The distance between the two was instantly shortened, but Yi Feng did not have the slightest intention of slowing down and avoiding.

Does he want to buckle me head-on?

Drummond saw Yi Feng whistling coming, and he couldn't help but think like this. Although Yi Feng has only played less than 10 games, his dunks have already made a name for themselves in the league.

Riding Rudy Gobert and dwinn Dedmon, the name of "Chinese Flyer" has received more and more recognition.

But Drummond was not afraid, but the whole person was excited. His path to the first center requires countless flyers! I believe that this Chinese rookie will also be one of these people!

With two steps left between the two, Drummond was poised to take the ball and Yi Feng was about to take three steps to get the ball away.

He still hasn't changed direction!

Drummond's pupils shrank, it looks like he's really going to squeeze me!

Hmph, how can I make you happy!

Drummond squatted to gather strength, ready to burst out to give Yi Feng a bloody cap.

And Yi Feng, who started after receiving the ball, suddenly changed direction in the first step and moved to the left!

Sure enough, I was still cowardly!

The thought flashed through Drummond's mind, and then he moved his body to the right, preparing to block Yi Feng.

And Yi Feng suddenly took a step to the right at this time!

It's-

European Step!

Drummond was shocked, but his body could not turn around for a short time.

In the end, Yi Feng, who made a layup with a European step feint, successfully scored two points.

At 9:5, the Lakers still trailed by 4 points at home. (To be continued.) )