Chapter 384: Another Away Victory
The Staples Center, which had become quiet because of Yi Jianlian's dunk, was completely quiet after Yi Jianlian's scolding to the audience.
Yi Jianlian shook his fist sharply and began to defend back.
In fact, before scolding, Yi Jianlian had already thought that he would be fined for his next move, but he didn't care, what he wanted in the finals was momentum, for momentum, in order to win in the end, he was willing to pay 25,000 US dollars, anyway, as long as he won the championship, the money would be compensated in a few seconds.
There is another reason why Yi Jianlian decided to continue scolding, because he has been scolded for more than half an hour since he entered the stadium, and he has long been holding his breath!
The whole team of the Bucks really did not surprise Yi Jianlian, driven by his ball, the entire Bucks team collectively became excited, and took the ball to the Lakers' interior line.
Throughout the first quarter, the Bucks dominated the game, 29-24, leading by five points into the second quarter.
Yi Jianlian only scored 6 points and 2 assists in the first quarter, which was almost useless.
However, this also shows more that the excitement of the Bucks players in the first quarter does not need Yi Jianlian to take any responsibility on the offensive end, it is completely a spectator watching the play on the side, just watching them suppress the Lakers in the first quarter.
"The Bucks are full of strength, but it must be said that if it weren't for the dunk at the beginning of the game, and a series of actions after the dunk, this team would not have been able to get up so quickly, and it is easy to use another way to ignite the passion in the hearts of the Bucks players, and offset the Bucks' discomfort with the away team to the greatest extent!"
"Yi's ability as a leader once again impresses me!"
The second quarter of the game began.
Because the state of all members of the Bucks team is very good, the Lakers changed their defensive strategy and put all their defensive energy on other players except Yi Jianlian, as for Yi Jianlian, Artest is a single defense, they believe that with Artest's defensive ability, no matter what, the result will definitely be better than the first quarter of the game when the Bucks are full force!
Yi Jianlian noticed a change in the Lakers' defensive strategy after assisting his teammates a few times and finding it more difficult to give the ball, and he did not hesitate to start playing more singles with the ball.
Artest is a player who relies on his body and enthusiasm to defend, of course, his defensive sense and defensive judgment are also among the best in the league, but this league top must be preceded by three words - once!
Artest's ability on the defensive end has regressed very significantly in the past two years, especially this season, it took him too much energy to forcibly integrate into the Lakers' "triangle offense" in the early stage, and when he regained his positioning, the whole feeling was already wrong.
In addition, his footwork has degraded significantly this season.
Yi Jianlian noticed these problems after a few attempts to hold the ball, and began to use his footwork and dribbling rhythm more to get rid of his defense.
Artest could barely follow at first, but he couldn't keep up at all in the back, and even a foul couldn't stop Yi Jianlian from attacking the inside.
With less than 3 minutes left in the second quarter, Yi Jianlian's score in the second quarter had reached 15 points.
Phil Jackson had no choice but to re-wrap Yi Jianlian.
Well...... It only took Yi Jianlian 7 minutes to make the Lakers' coaching staff realize that Yi Jianlian's scoring ability seems to be more terrifying than the Bucks' scoring ability when all the players are excited!
But in this way, the rest of the Bucks players are liberated again, although they are not as excited as in the first quarter, but the whole body has been active, as long as there is an opportunity to shoot, they can basically grasp it, just like that, the second quarter of the game, the Bucks still have the advantage on the court, 59-51, with an 8-point lead into the second half.
"Now there is a very obvious choice question in front of the Lakers, including Yi Jianlian, or putting the defensive focus on the other players of the Bucks, although the results of these two options are not good, but the Lakers have to make a choice!"
The Lakers gave the answer as soon as they came back in the second half, and they chose to continue to wrap Yi Jianlian, and then use their ace Kobe Bryant to play the rest of the Bucks players.
Kobe Bryant's scoring ability is undoubted, even Yi Jianlian is inferior to him, such as the highest score of his career, Kobe Bryant's 81 points in a single game, second only to Chamberlain in NBA history, it can be said that as long as he wants to score, no one can stop him at any time.
With his firepower, he really suppressed the firepower of the other players of the Bucks, and the score was recovered little by little.
Little K called a timeout at this point.
"You don't have to be so careful about scoring points, you can't compare to Kobe Bryant combined, you have to take out the weapons you are best at!"
What weapon is best for Courtney Lee, Channing Fry and Mo Williams? Needless to say, it's definitely a three-point shot.
However, after Xiao K finished speaking, the Bucks were a little hesitant, Kobe Bryant just chased the score to 4 points in a row, and they really didn't dare to shoot three points at this time, what if they couldn't score?
"I'm going to help you pull the whole line apart, you just have to move the ball and find the three points! Don't forget, we just broke the record for the number of three-pointers made in a half of the Finals in the last game, and we have the quality! Yi Jianlian followed, and his words made the faces of these guys a lot better.
Obviously, Yi Jianlian's words are more effective than Xiao K's words now.
"In short, it's not the fourth quarter yet, even if you shoot, even if you fall behind, I will chase back the difference in the fourth quarter!"
Yi Jianlian added another sentence, which completely dispelled the concerns of several other players on the Bucks, and their self-confidence returned.
The suspension ends.
The Bucks, who returned to the court, began to run the three-point strategy according to the tactics arranged by Xiao K.
Facts have once again proved that these guys feel very good, but they are easily disturbed mentally, and they hit all three points in a row, and the score difference caught up by Kobe Bryant was opened up again in this three-point rain.
Looking at these guys' confident shots, Yi Jianlian was even more glad that he did what he did after the first goal of the game, fortunately it aroused the passion of these guys at that time, otherwise this game would be really difficult to play!
In the end, the Bucks relied on this advantage to press the Lakers until the end of the game, 107-99, the Bucks won two consecutive victories, and the big score was overtaken to 2-1!