Chapter 176: Howard's Two Plus One
"Toot!"
Just two seconds later, Crawford called another timeout.
It's just that this time his expression is unclear, this Li Ming is really γγγγγγ I can't stop it! What is this? When you come up, you throw three points, and after throwing it, you go in!
Where is the reasoning on this!
Isn't this Curry?!
"Drag on the time to hit the shooting percentage, don't make three points, just get two pointsγγγγγ To Howard! Fortunately, he reacted, now is not the time to sigh about how Li Ming is, now it is more important to arrange tactics.
And at this critical juncture of life and death, he finally remembered that his interior line had the former No. 1 center in the league, Dwight Howard.
His presence will have the final word.
After all, on the inside, no one can stop him, and if he opens up a vacancy for him to attack, it is definitely the most certain point!
"However, at the beginning Batum holds the ball first and delays the time, and if they trap you, you pass the ball to Gilchrist! No matter what, you have to press the clock and give the ball to Howard until the last minute to solve everything! β
Crawford's tactical arrangement was detailed.
The Hornets teammates also listened carefully, this is the last moment, whether they can finish the Bulls, who are now the first in the league, depends on the last twenty-five seconds.
They are looking forward to... Create a big scene.
The buzzer goes off and the pause ends.
Howard served at half-court and it was Batum who got the ball.
According to Crawford, he didn't attack immediately, but dribbled to delay time.
The Bulls' Dunn and Li Ming really came towards him, there were twenty-five seconds left, although they were ahead by one point, but this point was too insignificant, layup shots or free throws, no matter what kind of scoring means, as long as they scored, the last time it was a tie, which means that the initiative was in the hands of the other party.
Therefore, they must force the other party to make a move as soon as possible, whether they can enter or not, they still have plenty of time to play the last attack, and it will be better to take the initiative in their own hands.
Seeing Li Ming pressing, Batum did not hesitate at all and passed the ball to Gilchrist, who continued to dribble and drag out time.
At this time, there were ten seconds left before the end of the game, and nine seconds left before the twenty-four second violation.
That means the Hornets are going to attack.
Li Ming and they were unsuccessful in the first time, so they hurried back to the players they were marking, and they couldn't easily leak people at this time.
"Eight, Seven, Six, Fiveγγγγγγ"
The timer began to count down, and Gilchrist's dribbling action also increased, and it looked like he was about to make the last attack!
Pound Dexter stared at him with open hands, and Li Ming was on the sidelines ready to make up for it at any time.
"Ho!" With a low shout, Gilchrist moved, and went straight to the right side of Poundexter, he didn't seem to know that Li Ming was waiting there!
"Is this too much nervousness?!" Li Ming looked at Gilchrist's abnormal choice and didn't think much about it, and motioned for Pounddexter to press towards the latter.
Apparently ready to close the door and beat the dog.
But just when these two formed a circle, Gilchrist actually pulled up directly, and seemed to be going to cast directly!
"I'll go!" Pound Dexter didn't react, but Li Ming jumped up.
But he found that Gilkris was clearly not going to shoot, because his eyes were not on the basket, but on the bottom right corner of the Nets.
There it isγγγγγγ
The ball flew out of Gilchrist's hand, and looking at the arc, Lee clearly passed the ball to the basket, and quickly turned around, and the ball landed right on the inside hand of the Hornets.
The man was γγγγγ Dwight Howard!
Before the Bulls' two interior lines could react to this sudden change, Howard didn't pause at all when he got the ball, didn't even shoot, and turned around to attack.
"Foul!" Li Ming shouted anxiously, and Mirotic suddenly came to his senses and stretched out his hand.
But at this time, Howard had already jumped and dunked with a powerful two-handed dunk, and Mirotic was fouled, but it didn't affect at all.
"Toot!" The referee's whistle blows, and the penalty is to be added!
"Woo wow wow wow wow~" The audience all stood up because of this ball.
"Howard, Howard, Howard!" Everyone called Howard's name at this moment, and Howard, who had worked hard for a whole section, also laughed heartily at this time because he scored a goal that overtook the score, and he became a silly boy!
"And the penalty!"
Howard slammed onto the free-throw line, and because he had already overtaken the score, he didn't worry at all and happily threw the ball in his hand.
With a "bang", the ball went into the basket!
In the last few seconds when the point was more precious than gold, Howard, who had always been criticized for making free throws, scored the free throws like a god!
The margin stretched to two points.
There were only three seconds left to end the game.
"Three points, the other party must be three points, remember! Be sure to defend their threes! "Crawford was very resolute, three points for sure.
"They don't have the stamina anymore, they can't want to play another extra time with us, so they're definitely three points!"
"Lock the outside line!"
I have to say that Crawford has some ability, because he guessed correctly!
On the bench at the other end, Hojberg was arranging a shut-out strategy, which was simple, handing the ball to Li Ming and letting him shoot that stunner-three.
"We're tired enough tonight! So we can't ask for two-pointers, we only have one way to go! That's to shoot a three-pointer in those last three seconds! β
"Li Ming has seen you!"
The timeout is over, and the final attack of the game finally begins!
The Bulls opted to bring Lopez back up to serve the boundary, as he has a lot of experience in the game and is not prone to show his back.
The referee's whistle blew, and the players on both sides began to run, and Li Ming was always followed by Gilchrist and Batum, and it was clear that even if the Bulls had a chance to make the last attack, they would not give Li Ming the last attack.
Others, whatever!
Li Ming ran a lap and didn't run out of the empty seat, but he was not in a hurry at all, and his eyes were full of calmness.
"Run back!" muttered something in a low voice, Li Ming suddenly stopped his steps and ran back, and the two members of the Hornets also hurriedly ran back.
But before he could run two steps, Li Ming turned the gun again and ran towards the original route.
Gilchrist and Batum were unexpected, the steps under their feet had already been taken, and they thought about coming back, but they stumbled and almost fell.