Chapter 552: Roses in the City That Never Sleeps!
The situation was not good, 73-67, with a six-point lead, and the home fans were a little nervous, while the Knicks fans in front of the TV were excited.
When I think of last season, it was still a bad team, but after a big makeover this year, the simplicity of the effect is incredible.
I don't know why, Derrick Rose feels like he is full of physical strength, and after almost a quarter of attack, his hands holding the ball still can't help but want to move, but this may not be a good thing, the price of overdrawing his physical strength in advance......
Seeing Xu Xuan posted it again, Derrick Rose felt a defense with greater action.
However, he was unmoved, turned sideways to protect the ball, and observed the situation in the penalty area for a while, Derrick Rose suddenly turned around quickly, always breaking through one step faster and directly throwing off Xu Xuan, in the face of Yang Shaoxia's supplementary defense, Derrick Rose even passed Yang Shaoxia with a very fast change of direction, rushed all the way to the penalty area, and gently jumped up to complete a dunk!
"With two more points, the 'Roses of the City That Never Sleeps' have broken the Los Angeles people's defense, and this battle between the nation's No. 1 city and the No. 2 city in the U.S. may have been decided! No one in the Lakers can solve Derrick Rose, he is already a supergod! ”
New York is the largest city and the largest port in the United States. Also known as "Apple City" or "City That Never Sleeps".
Los Angeles is the second largest city in the United States. It is also the largest city in the western United States.
These two cities are also a number of giant teams in the league, but the Knicks are giants, but in terms of heritage and achievements, they are definitely not as good as the current Los Angeles, originally they had the opportunity to catch up with or even surpass Los Angeles, and really established their name as the "No. 1 giant", but unfortunately, they failed to keep Xu Xuan...... Xu Xuan became their opponent.
This is the deepest pain in the heart of every New York football fan.
The thought of this makes them want to dismantle some old fellow......
Thinking about the original chips, the Pacers only used Solomon Hill + 2015 first-round pick + 2016 second-round pick three almost white chips to get Xu Xuan from the Knicks!
Who is Xu Xuan?
The most popular "fried chicken" in the league today, the superstar who led the team to win the championship in the second year and won the FMVP in the second year, was actually replaced by the old guy with these three LJs...... It really hurts to think about it.
I don't want to be in pain, but the more I think about it, the more it hurts, and it hurts so much that I can't breathe......
Especially thinking of Xu Xuan leading Indiana, a dilapidated little place, to win the championship, their hearts felt like they had been pricked by a needle, this championship was originally theirs!
But now that the matter has been decided, no matter how anxious they are, they can't go back against time.
Simply, they really gained a lot this summer, Rossanoah, the super combination of the Bulls after coming to the Big Apple, it seems to be working well, especially Rose, Rose in this game even made them feel ....... It doesn't seem to hurt......
And Noah's performance is handicap, but there is Porzingis, who can be the perfect replacement for Noah.
......
Back to the game.
Xu Xuan came over with the ball and pushed it in.
This time, it's still with Zubac.
Zubac blocks Rose.
After that, go down.
Hernangomez was slow to make up for it.
Xu Xuan had a flash of inspiration, and Bai Qiao's talent was launched again, directly hitting the ground with a precise shot, and the ball bounced off Hernangomez's crotch and passed through.
Gave it to Zubac.
Zubac received a pass in the three-second zone and it was another angry dunk.
After landing, the young player Zubac blushed, and it was obvious that he had a good dunk today, and there were not so many dunk opportunities in the past.
73 to 69, Xu Xuan successfully fed the cake again.
"Oh."
The audience was once again surprised by Xu Xuan's spiritual pass.
"Xu, well done."
The applause of the audience was not late, and they indicated 66666 with the warmest cheers.
You have Ross, we have Xu Xuan, and no one will coax anyone!
Convert offense.
It's still Derrick Rose, he dribbled quickly to the front court, these few rounds, although Xu Xuan's defense against him was not all defended, but the effect was not, at least Rose can obviously feel Xu Xuan's difficulty now, he began to pay attention to Xu Xuan's defender, he has found that Xu Xuan's defense seems to be stronger than everyone else in the Lakers.
This time, Derek Ross still decided to come by himself, he would not be frightened by Xu Xuan, it was still the first step that was a second faster, Xu Xuan was thrown away by Derek Ross first, and then caught up with his acceleration against the sky.
Derek Ross didn't panic this time, he calmly rushed forward and took another step, followed by a coherent retreat, followed by a rapid change of direction, and shook Xu Xuan again.
And Xu Xuan couldn't have been shaken like this, Xu Xuan directly made a rapid lateral move while Derek Ross changed direction, and he actually blocked Derrick Ross first.
"Huh?" In a matter of seconds, Derek Ross was surprised that Xu Xuan seemed to be better defended this time than last time!
"Do you think that's all it takes?"
However, Derrick Rose was not prepared to break through Xu Xuan's defense with only one change of direction.
At the same time that Xu Xuan rushed to him, Derek Rose turned around again and changed direction again!
With the huge physical exertion, an exclamation sounded on the sidelines, because this continuous change of direction was really too rebellious!
Derrick Rose buries his head in the breakthrough, this breakthrough? That Asian shouldn't be able to catch up, right?
But, in the next second, a pair of long arms wrapped up, and Xu Xuan came again!
"The ghost of China's Xu is not gone, he is like a haunting ghost, Derek Rose is entangled by him!"
Kenny Smith exclaimed.
In the face of Xu Xuan's sticky defense, Derrick Rose couldn't get rid of it, and this ball, he forced it again, and two changes of direction brought him closer to the basket, so this time he chose to grasp the bigger throw.
Xu Xuan still interfered with the ball solidly, the basketball flew out, shook on the basket, and finally fell down.
This time, Derek Ross even used two consecutive change of direction against the sky, but Xu Xuan still prevented it!
"Nice defense! It's down! Xu Xuan is down!! ”
Barkley exclaimed.
Not easy!
Relatively speaking, Xu Xuan's defensive talent is not as strong as his offensive performance, which is why many people say that Xu Xuan is not as good as Kobe and LeBron James.
No way, the other two are good at defense in addition to offense, and Xu Xuan was not famous for defense before, even if he practiced hard with Kobe Bryant this summer, but this thing is not something that can be learned in a day or two, it takes talent and time.
However, judging from the games that the Lakers have played, Xu Xuan's defense is really good, whether it is from awareness or skill, Xu Xuan's defense is not a day, at least it is no problem to act as the opposing defender.
But now, Xu Xuan's defensive ability once again gave them a surprise, Ross was blocked by the ball, it was not simple or easy!
The word "spirituality" popped into everyone's head.
Rose was also a little surprised, he knew that the No. 23 on the other side was playing very aggressively.
But I didn't expect his passing accuracy to be so high.
Ground-to-ground passing is a great test of a point guard's fundamentals.
Angle, strength, and judgment of the direction of the inward teammate must not be deviated in the slightest.
The slightest deviation is a mistake.
Looking at Xu Xuan's daring to use this bold passing, he is obviously full of confidence in his personal ability......
Of course, it is the five best balls that are shown in front of the camera.
Crotch piercing in sports is undoubtedly another humiliation of the person being crotched.
The game continues.
The ball went out of bounds, and the Lakers had the ball.
After Xu Xuan brought it over, it was handed over to Yang Shaoxia to make another three-point shot-
"Bang dang!"
Or not.
Frank frowned on the sidelines and beckoned to Russell over there, ready to make a substitution.
Porzingis took the rebound.
In the frontcourt, Xu Xuan faced Rose again.
Derrick Ross directly called for pick-and-roll, which was not common in the past, Derrick Rose is better at breaking through the opponent through the speed of the first step, plus high-speed change of direction, as for the pick-and-roll, Derrick Rose still uses relatively little.
Now facing the pressure from Xu Xuan, Derrick Rose has to use the help of blocking.
Porzingis pulled out and directly made a high-quality block for Derrick Ross, while Xu Xuan stepped forward and quickly bypassed Porzingis, but he didn't expect Derrick Rose, who was one position ahead of Xu Xuan, to choose to shoot directly.
After blocking the pull-up jump shot, this goal actually went in!
"Hey, it's a pity, Xu Xuan didn't defend Derrick Rose this time, of course, it's not Xu Xuan's fault, because he was blocked by Porzingis, in the final analysis, it's the Lakers' other players who don't make up for it in time." Zhang reasonably analyzed.
75 to 69.
"Beep!"
The Lakers just sent the ball here, and before they could get lucky, they heard the referee blow the whistle.
Frank called a timeout.
Substitutions.
Nick Young is down, Russell is up, Larry Nance Jr. is down, Randle is up, but Zubac, who was hot just now, is still on the court, and now the Lakers lineup on the court is Xu Xuan, Russell, Barnes No. 3, Randle and Zubac.
On the Knicks' side, Coach Jeff also started to make substitutions after consideration, and now it's Rose, Cornet Lee, Melon, Hernangomez and Porzingis.
Holiday is off and Cornet Lee is back.
The game resumes.
Xu Xuan held the ball and organized the whole team to attack.
Russell, Barnes and Zubac and others won one after another.
And the Knicks are also in full bloom, with Cornett Lee, Melon, and Boshen all scoring points.
Again, the scores of the two teams were always very close, but one side could not extend the lead, and the other side could not tie it.
At the end of the third quarter, the score was 91-89 and the Knicks led by two points.
Although ahead.
But Ross still didn't dare to relax on his face.
He kept his eyes on the situation nervously after he left the game.
The two-point lead was spelled out in the third quarter, otherwise according to the Lakers' scoring rhythm, the difference would have been caught up long ago.
In the third quarter, the precious physical energy is used to the limit, how to play the next game?
Ross was not afraid of Xu Xuan.
He is not afraid of Xu Xuan in terms of scoring and organization, but in terms of physical fitness, he really can't compare.
And in the process of entanglement with Xu Xuan, he could obviously feel that his physical energy was consumed very quickly, especially in the old injury before, and now he was in a faint pain......
However, the top priority is the game, in the fourth quarter, Derrick Rose suddenly became smarter, his current approach is actually to exchange space for time, open up more distance with Xu Xuan by blocking and dismantling, and then shoot directly, this style of play is actually very limited, because Derrick Rose can only stop and jump shots, and other offensive methods, Derrick Rose is estimated to have not made a shot, Xu Xuan has arrived.
Therefore, Xu Xuan is still not too worried, just a pull-up jump shot, how many points can Derrick Rose get?
The game continued, on the Lakers' side, Russell ran several times, and finally ran out of an empty space, and the man also arrived at the ball, made a three-point shot, and successfully hit.
Switching to the Knicks offense, Derrick Rose continued to hold the ball, he was really not satisfied with a simple pull-up jump shot, Derrick Rose also knew that if it was just a pull-up jump shot, the success rate of the offense would not be very high, and more importantly, Derrick Rose's leading role in the Knicks' offense was gone.
So, it was still a block, but after the block, Derrick Rose rushed straight into the Lakers' restricted area, and Xu Xuan quickly bypassed Hernangomez and chased after him.
Derek Ross glanced back, Xu Xuan was already close at hand, and this attack failed again.
As soon as Derrick Rose rushed to the free throw line, Xu Xuan chased after him, of course, Randle's defense is also very important, after Xu Xuan caught up with Derrick Rose, Rose knew that this attack could not continue, he chose to pass, hoping to reorganize the attack.
Reorganizing the offense, Derrick Rose played without the ball, but the Knicks really didn't have any good playmakers, Porzingis took the ball and looked for a chance, but he couldn't find it, so Porzingis came by himself.
One of the strengths of Porzingis is that he can handle the ball properly and can also shoot from the outside.
This is one of the characteristics of centers in the new era, even Jordan Jr., a famous rough man, dribbles the ball properly, at that level, not to mention compared with others, and even better than some pure point guards in the domestic league......
Porzingis had a good chance and hit a mid-range perfect net.
103-99, with more than five minutes left in the game, the Knicks extended the margin to four points.
"Speaking of which, this game was still beyond my expectations, the Knicks can force the Lakers to this point, I always thought they would be vulnerable under the Lakers' strong attack, but I didn't expect them not only to hold on, but now they are still leading." Kenny Smith sighed.
"It's all hard to survive, look at Derek, although the last quarter has changed the style of play, the physical consumption is still very large, and he is sweating profusely, and what about Xu Xuan, who is opposite him? The clouds are light and breezy, as if they don't feel anything at all...... Before he could exert his strength, the other side was already tired......" O'Neill pointed to the game off the field.