Chapter 292: Cat and Mouse
18 to 14.
Eight minutes or so into the first quarter, the Bucks trailed by four points.
Artest's entanglement with Yi Jianlian and Kobe Bryant's singles at the low post brought a lot of trouble to the Bucks.
In fact, Artest can't prevent Yi Jianlian.
Yi Jianlian has scored 9 points on 3-of-4 shooting and 2-of-2 free throws.
If this is Artest's defense, it would be too unwilling.
But this guy is like a fart, no matter what Yi Jianlian does, as long as it is the offensive round of the Bucks, he will always follow, Yi Jianlian got rid of it a few times, and this guy just kept up again.
Yo, this is still a fart worm with intelligent tracking function.
It was also Artest's perseverance in winding, Yi Jianlian's touch rate in the first round was greatly reduced, and Mo Williams had the ability to pass, but it was also very limited, relying only on him to drive the attack, and he couldn't revitalize all these people on the field at all.
However, fortunately, Yi Jianlian has been entangled with Artest for so long now, and he is becoming more and more experienced in how to get rid of him, which is just a small problem.
The real problem is in the No. 2 position, where Danny Green was beaten in all sorts of ways, even worse than the last game when Tygibson was taught by Zach Randolph.
It's not easy to be a rookie these days!
Yi Jianlian was quite sympathetic.
I remembered the sadness of my rookie years, uh, well, not sad.
Well, I'm sorry, but to have strength is to be able to do whatever you want.
Let's play idiom solitaire!
Do whatever you want, do whatever you want, do whatever you want...... For you to be paralyzed, play like this, you can't play until you die?
It's just that Little K can't help it, Courtney Lee is not there, Crawford is not there, the second position is dwarfed, and Danny Green is not allowed to play, and the rest of Charlie Bell is actually not much different from him.
Let's make do with it!
"Create more space for Yiyi!"
In the last four minutes of the first quarter, Xiao K called a timeout, rearranged his tactics, and decided to focus on Yi Jianlian to score points with Kobe.
Since we can't stop you from scoring, let's improve the success rate of our attacks.
***
Coming back from a timeout, the Bucks possessed the ball.
Mo Williams carried the ball to the frontcourt, Artest still followed Yi Jianlian closely, even if the latter had no intention of going up to catch the ball, he did not let his guard down.
Yi Jianlian has never been so closely attached to a man for such a long time.
You're not a gay, aren't you?
Mo Williams moved, and the moment he moved, Yi Jianlian also suddenly moved, and went to the bottom line, Artest's attention was on him, and he reacted very quickly.
You really don't give up!
Artest muttered in his heart, but Channingfrye suddenly appeared in front of him.
Delayed!
Artest hurried around, his steps had not yet degraded, very quickly.
Hey, what about people?
Artest walked around only to find that the bottom corner was empty.
"This way!"
It's Yi Jianlian's want to be a ball!
Artest followed the prestige, Yi Jianlian actually ran back to the three-point line, broke through to the free throw line near Mo Williams looked back at the moon, and a through ball was given to Yi Jianlian in time.
Raise your hand and shoot!
“bang!”
Brin said excitedly: "This is Yi's second three-pointer in this game!" ”
Bryant continued to drop the low post to single Danny Green, this time it was a breakthrough after the footwork was shaky, and the basket was pulled again.
No one can make up for this ball, Kobe Bryant can come up directly, but if the guy who can pull the rod doesn't pull the rod for the layup, he will always feel that something is missing.
Yi Jianlian still continued to open the position, this time it was a reverse run after running the baseline on the right side, Artest was delayed by Bogut, and Yi Jianlian once again received the ball outside the three-point line and threw it.
20 to 20!
With Yi Jianlian's two consecutive three-pointers, the Bucks tied the score between the two teams.
Kobe Bryant continued to play in a low position, but this time his strength was a little worse and he didn't score!
Well, it's impossible to score every time.
That's not Kobe.
Yi Jianlian ran back again, but Artest was fooled twice, this time he didn't chase in the same direction, but ran directly back, this time he caught up, and Yi Jianlian just received the ball.
Hey!
Artest was a little proud, predicting success for himself.
Yi Jianlian was about to shoot as if he hadn't seen him.
Don't treat me like a human being like this?
Artest was a little angry, and added a bit of force to his feet.
But when he pounced in front of Yi Jianlian, he suddenly found that he had been fooled.
"Toot!"
Artest, who couldn't contain his strength, crashed into Yi Jianlian, who had just thrown the ball, and the defense fouled, and Yi Jianlian made three free throws.
Artest looked at Yi Jianlian's back as he walked to the free throw line, and muttered in his heart: This guy did it on purpose!
“MVP!”
“MVP!”
“MVP!”
There was a shout at the scene, Yi Jianlian's sense of presence during this period of time was too strong, and he had already scored 6 points without two minutes, and when he scored all three free throws, it would be 9 points.
And with Yi Jianlian's free throw shooting rate, how could the free throws that had just started in this game not be scored.
"Huh!"
"Huh!"
"Huh!"
No accident, Yi Jianlian hit all three penalties.
"Without two minutes, he scored 9 points, and Yi's scoring ability is really ...... Wow, unbelievable! Brin shook his head and looked at Yi Jianlian, who hit the third ball and began to return to defense, and was amazed.
Artest's defense is very good, this is well known, otherwise he would not have won the Best Defensive Player Award, but in the same way, his temper is very short-tempered, he is a very emotional player, Yi Jianlian is to seize his characteristic, and chose to shoot head-on, a guy with a character like Artest will never allow anyone to ignore him, as Yi Jianlian expected, Artest was fooled and was successfully fouled by him.
The Bucks took a three-point lead.
Lakers offense.
Kobe Bryant didn't ask for the ball in the low post this time, but chose to hold the ball directly outside the three-point line.
Yi Jianlian scored 3 3 points in a row, he fell into the low post and could only score 2 points each time, which is undoubtedly a slow death, although Yi Jianlian can't score every three points, but it is obvious that Artest can't prevent him.
In that case, Kobe Bryant will have to play a little more aggressively.
Holding the ball in the face of Danny Green, Kobe Bryant made a breakthrough feint, and while deceiving the latter's center of gravity, he immediately adjusted his center of gravity, jumped on the spot, and hit a three-point shot!
The posture is beautiful, and the entry is easy.
The score was tied.
Yi Jianlian continued to run without the ball, and took advantage of his teammates' cover to get Artest out of it again, but this time he did not choose to run back, but cut into the inside line, and hit a rebound after winning the ball.
Artest was teased again.
"Is this a game of cat and mouse? That Yi is a little too smart, isn't it? "You can play the best defensive player like this.
Phil Jackson slowly woke up from the "Zen", as if he had just noticed that Artest was very uncomfortable with the defense, and arranged a substitution, but instead of replacing Artest, he replaced Pau Gasol and pulled Odom up to play the fourth position.
Yi Jianlian can take advantage of his teammates to get the opportunity to get a vacant shot directly from Artest, one is that his teammates cover well, and the other reason is that Pau Gasol's movements are too slow, and after changing defenses, he can't keep up with Yi Jianlian's speed.