Chapter 82: Lost
There is an old saying that is called shame and courage.
The hard power of the Bulls is still a lot inferior to the Raptors, even if Li Ming is added, it still can't make up for the gap in the lineup.
The biggest reason why it can lead by ten points is that the TNT commentary team has pointed it out, and no one thought that Li Ming would pass the ball.
But such a change can make the Raptors uncomfortable for a while, but it is impossible for them to be uncomfortable for the whole game.
What's more, by doing so, they made the garbage brothers hold back their anger.
Everyone knows the core of the Raptors, the king of the north, who is as fierce as a tiger in the regular season and as bad as mud in the playoffs.
This is the question of their two brothers in recent years, and this skepticism is getting louder and louder, and because of this, no matter what the Raptors' record is, no one will talk about them in the playoffs.
It is precisely because of this contempt that they are very unhappy, and now the Bulls, who are aiming to rebuild, dare to kick their ass.
It's really unbearable for uncles, but unbearable for aunts.
As soon as the third quarter came up, two people took turns to exert their strength, you cast one and I burst one, and you burst one and I threw one, as if they were unstoppable, and they wanted to pull back the backward score difference every minute.
Fortunately, Li Ming did not go out to rest, and he was on the court as soon as he came up in the third quarter, although he couldn't respond to every goal, but when he saw that the score difference was about to enter within five points, he immediately scored and pulled the score away.
It was just five points away from the point difference and entered the fourth quarter.
Li Ming is already tired of being a dog, and the taste of being a father and a mother is really uncomfortable, Hoiberg glanced at him, and wanted to say Why don't you have a while? ,
But I can't say such inhuman words.
In the end, Hojberg still ran to the referee's bench and said: "Substitution, No. 1 for No. 32!" ”
No. 1 is Li Ming, No. 32 is Dunn, originally he was supposed to partner Li Ming on the field, but his style was more inclined to the No. 1 position, so he was asked to be Li Ming's substitute.
To tell the truth, this is a talented player, and the original Timberwolves also had high hopes for him, if it weren't for the injury, he would have started to improve by now, but unfortunately the final result was that he was abandoned by the Timberwolves.
Injuries are fiercer than tigers, which can make Rose from MVP to base salary player, and can also make Roy retire from yellow mamba to his prime.
No matter how talented Dunn is, he can't be higher than these two, so naturally he has also become an ordinary person.
His style is based on sudden points, in fact, he is a weakened version of Lowry, but Lori is stronger than him in addition to the strength of his upper limbs, as well as the three points that are smart enough to explode.
The reason why Hojberg let him play was not expected to do anything to him, I just hoped that they would not make mistakes and give Li Ming a little more rest.
Of course, this can be said to be Hojberg's wish, the wish is good, but unfortunately the reality is always crueler than hoped.
"Raptors Lowry hit a three-pointer!"
"Raptors DeRozan broke through to make two plus one!"
"Raptors Ibaka dunked it!"
Before Li Ming finished drinking the Gatorade in his hand, the score on the field was reversed in an instant, from a seven-point lead to a three-point deficit. Hoiberg's face turned unusually bad, and the stuff began again.
It's hard to imagine that there are Robin Lopez who has played for 9 years, Holiday who has played for 4 years, and Mirotic who has played for 3 years, but the situation is completely out of control.
Holiday and Dunn's guard line was like paper paste in front of DeRozan and Lowry, and it broke with a single stab.
There was no way, Hojberg could only put Li Ming, who had just been off the court for three minutes, back on the court.
The audience erupted in enthusiastic cheers the moment he got up.
"Wow! Can you imagine? This is Li Ming's first game, and he has received such a big cheer, wow! This kid is so different! ”
"I can imagine it! I was the same back then! ”
"Yes, yes, yes, so do I!"
“。。。。。。”
Kenny looked at his two partners speechlessly, and only then did he realize that these two such greasy uncles were actually players of the top 50 superstars in the history of the league.
Shaq O'Neal, who was selected by the Magic with the first pick in '92, was offered as a savior, and in his first season in the league, he smashed the basket three times, and the cheers he received were indeed no less than that of Li Ming.
And although Barkley is not as beautiful as O'Neal, he is also a bull figure who averaged two doubles per game in his rookie season, and cheers are naturally indispensable.
Kenny Smith, by contrast, was saddened.
Although Li Ming stabilized the situation on the court, the score difference could not be exceeded for a while and a half, even if the score difference was only three points, it was only a three-point gap, but the problem was that DeRozan and Lowry, who had already played the feeling, did not give him a chance to overtake at all, just like the situation when the Raptors chased the score just now.
The score difference can't be narrowed.
In this way, the game gradually came to the final moment, and with one minute left, the Bulls trailed the Raptors by five points.
Theoretically, it's not that there is no hope of winning, to put it mildly, this game has actually just begun, Li Ming watched the loss of time minute by minute, and his mind flashed one by one famous star names, Jordan's last shot, Miller's Miller moment, and Maddy's 32 seconds and 13 minutes.
But I thought so, but it turned out that no miracle happened.
Casey adopted a trap tactic at the last moment, Lowry and DeRozan wrapped Li Ming at the same time, not allowing him to have any chance to catch the ball, but Hojberg arranged a perfect cross cover, but the garbage brothers were like a bar, and the others didn't look at it, just pestered Li Ming, and finally the latter did not receive the ball.
In the final moments, it was Holiday who threw the final shot, and the ball bounced out of the frame, and the Bulls lost the opening game by two points.
Hojberg sighed and shook his head, but looking at the player stats, Li Ming cut down the stats of 25 points and 11 assists, and for a rookie, you can't ask him to do more.
"This game, to this point, is already the limit!"
Li Ming looked back at the score again, he was a little annoyed, if his running position could be better, maybe he would have won this game, so his mood was not very good.
When he went off the field in despair, the audience responded with warm applause and cheers, and the fans could understand that this rookie, who was already a little drifting under his feet, had done his best and finally lost, and only the team could be blamed.
Because if there is another point of possession on the court, it is impossible for Casey to be so unscrupulous in containing Li Ming.