Chapter 619: Inseparable
For the Guangxia team, this first away game is also very crucial.
If they can win this one, the next match point will be the match point, and one more win will be able to enter the finals, which will undoubtedly reduce a lot of pressure for them.
So in this game, the two sides can be said to have worked hard.
As the referee announces the start of both sides.
Guangxia's side sent a regular starting lineup, namely Fortson, Lin Zijie, Li Huan, Su Ruoyu and Hu Jinqiu.
However, the Xinjiang provincial team did not use double foreign aid at the beginning, but still used Fan Ziming, Kelan Baike, Abdul Salamu, Feld and Yu Changdong.
Because there have been instances in the last game, if Li Huan can't be restrained well, it is estimated that he will be beaten at the beginning, so the Xinjiang Provincial team still adopted a two-man defensive strategy against Li Huan, in order to minimize the threat brought by Li Huan.
Of course, the Xinjiang provincial team pays the most attention to their own scoring this time.
On both days, several shooters were working on three-point shooting.
Maybe it's back at home, or maybe the hard work of the past two days has shown some effect.
At the beginning of the first quarter of the game, Abdul Salamu hit a three-pointer with a jumper under the cover of his own team.
In the face of the Xinjiang Provincial Team's strong defense, Li Huan did not choose to play strongly at first, but handed it over to his teammates in the vacant position.
Lin Zijie received the ball in the bottom corner of the left side, but unfortunately the three-point shot was short.
The Xinjiang provincial team got the rebound and began to counterattack, Fan Ziming took advantage of his height advantage and received the ball and made a layup directly in front of Su Ruoyu.
Attacking again, Guangxia's Fortson broke through the basket and was covered by Yu Changdong.
Guangxia started a bit passively.
At this time, the Xinjiang Provincial Team Kelan Bai could once again use Su Ruoyu's defensive loophole under the basket on the offensive end and make a layup.
The Xinjiang Provincial team hit three goals in a row, and beat Guangxia 7-0 in the opening game.
Li Chunjiang on the sidelines frowned slightly, but he wasn't too worried, Li Huan hadn't made a move yet.
Sure enough, at the critical moment, Li Huan was surrounded by Abdul Salamu and Kelan Baike, and made a super long-distance jump shot, although the sight in front of him was all blocked before jumping, as if he couldn't see the basket, but after jumping up, Li Huan's vision became very good.
He has a strong ability to stay in the air, and he can jump up and then aim, and with his three-point shot, only to hear a swish, the Nets flip, and the three-point shot is accurate.
The score on the field was 7:3, and the Guangxia team finally increased its score.
Li Chunjiang's slightly furrowed brows stretched, as long as Li Huan scored no problem, he would be able to drive the atmosphere and rhythm of the whole court, so that the players would have strong confidence to continue to shoot.
And the Xinjiang Provincial team's opening shooting rate is simply a bit against the sky, as if whoever votes has it, Kelan Bai can hit a three-pointer when he turns around, rewriting the score to 10:3.
Cheerleaders and fans in Xinjiang Province began shouting for defense.
At this time, if they want to expand the score, they have to suppress Guangxia's attack.
Neither of them had prevented Li Huan before, so the three of them went to attack each other, and the other two big men were responsible for blocking the restricted area under the basket, otherwise Guangxia would easily break through, and as for the three-point shot, it seemed that others were thrown.
At the critical moment, the veteran was still very stable, and Lin Zijie did not dare to shoot because of the first three points, and still shot again in the bottom corner.
Swish!
This time the three points are finally there.
In other words, the role of the Xinjiang Provincial Team in restricting Li Huan became ineffective.
The score was 10:6.
The Xinjiang Provincial team's shooting could not always be 100% hit, and then Felder's three-point shot was missed, but their interior Fan Ziming grabbed the rebound in the frontcourt.
After Fan Ziming grabbed the rebound, he turned around and wanted to go to the basket, but at this time, Li Huan, who was quick-eyed, took the ball out of his hand at once.
After taking the ball, before the others could fully react, Li Huan passed the ball to Fortson.
He himself ran briskly empty-handed.
Fortson followed after receiving the ball, while a group of players from the Xinjiang Provincial Team chased after Li Huan in the back.
It's a pity that Li Huan's sprinting speed is at the level of international athletes, how can they catch up, they can only watch Li Huan pull down a few of them and run to the basket, and Fortson's pass is also very timely.
Li Huan yelled, jumped high, and directly pressed the basketball passed by Fortson into the basket with both hands.
This ball is very beautiful, and it is full of power, showing that Li Huan not only has speed, bounce, but also strength, such a perfect three competitive states appear in the same person, it is difficult for him to be strong.
At this time, the players of the Xinjiang Provincial Team looked helpless, this Li Huan is simply too strong, as long as he is given the opportunity, it will be a violent deduction.
The audience on the sidelines was very enjoyable, although many people were home fans, but at this time they couldn't help but exclaim to express their shock at Li Huan's dunk.
And those who came to watch Li Huan play had already called out the god of dunk, but unfortunately these cries were quickly drowned out by the cheers and drums of the home cheerleaders.
The score was 10:8, and the Xinjiang provincial team still led by two points.
But they all have a sense that they are at stake.
Felder missed a three-point shot before, and this time he faced Fortson's defense and hit a slightly closer two-point jump.
As mentioned before, although Felder is only 175 cm tall, he has a pretty good bounce and a good shooting ability, otherwise he would not have become an NBA player.
His weakness may be defense, he doesn't have the physical fitness of Li Huan, and the second bounce, the reaction is not as strong as when he was young, and it is normal to be cut by the NBA.
Let's say that after the Xinjiang Provincial team hit two points, Hu Jinqiu of the Guangxia team faced Yu Changdong and also hit a mid-range shot.
Li Huan was very restricted during this time, he was not in a hurry to ask for the ball, as long as his teammates could score, then the defensive strategy of the three-person pinching was self-defeating.
On the defensive end, Li Huan did not exert any special strength, mainly in the away game, he paid attention to fouls, his defensive intensity in the first quarter would be lower, and his defensive intensity would not rise until the second quarter or the second half.
The main thing is to avoid fouls, this is the head coach's arrangement, many teams will adopt the tactics of creating fouls, if there are too many fouls in the first two quarters, the next will not be good to play, it is better to loosen first and then strict.
On Guangxia's side, after Lin Zijie hit another empty three-pointer, the score exceeded by 1 point.
However, at the critical moment, under the cover of teammate Yu Changdong, Abdusalam narrowly missed a three-point shot, and was almost blocked by Li Huan.
The scores of the two teams were staggered, and it was a bit difficult to separate in the first quarter.
The main reason is that the Xinjiang provincial team returned to the home court, and the shooting rate was extremely high, especially the three-point shooting, which was 5 of 7 shots, while the Guangxia team was 8 shots and 5 shots, and the three-point shooting rate of both sides was very high.