Chapter Eighty-Nine: The Old Spicy Nets
"At the end of the half, I didn't expect that the Nets, who had a 2-5 record before the game, actually led the 7-1 Suns at home." Kenny Smith said in surprise.
"Well, 57:54, it's mainly Livingston, Pierce, and Garnett that are unexpected." Buck Williams nodded.
"The halftime MVP was given, and sure enough, it went to Livingston, who is currently recording 11 points, 3 assists and 1 rebound." Barkley said, looking at the screen.
"Let's see what he says!" Kenny Smith continued.
"Sean, you came off the bench today and did a great job, say something!" Sarah Kustuk of Nets courtside reporters asked.
"Oh, interview me? It's amazing that no one interviewed me in a long time. Well, how to say it, today I was just normal pre-game training, prepare well, and then Coach Jason said to me, Sean, you go, and then I'll go, I'm just doing my job, that's all! Sean Livingston said modestly.
Intermission ends.
The two sides made substitutions, "Erik, you can't stop that Shaun, Tucker, you come, Mo Jayer, how about the second quarter break, go play point guard to defend Joe John, Markieff, Marcus, you two up, and Gerald Green, you also go up, let's run, you know Mo Jayer, play faster, play our Phoenix style!" Honasek arranged.
"Understood, Coach!" Li Mojie nodded.
Kidd's side also brought on a combination of center Mason Plumlee and power forwards Andre Blache, Joe Johnson, Paul Pierce, and Shaun Livingston.
Under Livingston's marking, Lee Mojie dribbled with one hand with his right hand and gestured with his left hand to his teammate's run.
"This kid, do you think you're the boss of the team?" Gerard Green looked like he was eating. But if you think about it this way, you still have to run.
Li Mojie watched from outside the three-point line for a few seconds before suddenly activating. "So fast!" Livingston couldn't keep up at all.
"Damn it!" Pierce had to come up to make up for it, and then Li Mojie passed the ball to Green, but Green's outside jumper missed.
"Green, kill in, you know? You don't have to float on the outside, you have to rush in. Hornacek shouted from the sidelines.
The Nets attacked, and Pierce's mid-range shot was interfered with by Green and missed.
"The third quarter has just begun, both sides have an average hand, who will break the deadlock first?" Barkley said with a smile.
Kenny Smith said: "Although this is the Barclays Center, the Nets don't have much home-court advantage, and you see that there are a lot of Chinese fans present." “
The camera cuts to the field, and Pierce takes Livingston's ground-hitting pass.
Before he could start dribbling, Green came over waving his arms, and Gerard Green, who had been teammates with Pierce for two years, knew how good this slow-looking Leather Uncle was, and he didn't dare to be careless.
Pierce took a small step back. Carefully control the ball and distribute it to Joe Johnson on the other side.
Lee Mojie, who was defending Joe Johnson, stepped forward, and Iguodala dribbled and dodged the defense's pull-up jumper and missed.
Suns offense. The two brothers, Markieff and Marcus, played inside and inside, and Marcus leaned on Andre Blach's body to hit the board and score a goal. Tang Wenlong nodded, thoughtful.
Switching offense and defense, the Nets were still slow, with Pierce and Mason Plumlee blocking and dismantling.
Joe Johnson was pinned down on the flank, and when he stood there, Li Mojie didn't dare to relax, after all, the name of the poor version of Jordan is still very loud when he singles Joe, and Joe Johnson is only 32 years old this season and is at the tail of his peak.
Pierce stabbed inside with the help of the pick-and-roll, and the Suns shrank the defense to wrap him.
As soon as he turned around, the basketball passed to Andre Blache, Marcus Morris was not tall enough, and Andre Blach scored a goal with his height of 5 centimeters taller than Marcus and his arm span hook shot. "Good shot!"
Buck Williams praised, "In addition to these old guys, the Nets still need other players to step up, a team that wants to win the championship, the bench players have to have a lot of strength." ”
"It's true, there's no championship team that doesn't have a good bench, and basketball is sometimes more than just a five-player sport." Kenny Smith nodded.
As soon as the words fell, Lee Mojie broke through Livingston and scored a low-handed layup before Mason Plumlee's defense.
The Nets attacked, Pierce, Johnson and others tried, and it took about 16 or 17 seconds for Livingston to ask for the ball with his back.
When it falls to the low back body singles, the restrictions encountered by the bag are very low, but PJ Tucker is not weak in terms of height and weight, and back body singles PJ Tucker is really not a wise choice.
Livingston held the ball with his back to him, hunched up, and tested the defensive intensity of PJ Tucker behind him.
Livingston grabbed the ball with one hand, leaned his back against PJ Tucker's curled arm, dribbled a step, and made a left turn feint.
Then he exerts force on the forefoot of his right foot, makes a turn with his right foot as the axis like a compass, and takes the ball and leans back.
PJ Tucker's large hand followed him, covering the top of Livingston's head.
"The turnaround jumper from Livingston hit, and he still hit it when he defended him like this!" Buck Williams shouted.
PJ Tucker glared at Livingston, he has defended this ball very well, this ball can be scored, and I don't know if this kid is lucky or has a good hand.
"Sure enough, people who eat in the NBA have their own unique skills!" Li Mojie, who watched the whole process on the side, sighed with emotion.
Offense and defense rotated, Markieff couldn't make a jumper, and Gerard Green hit the basket and made a layup.
After that, Joe Johnson missed a jumper, and the Suns were almost defended by the Nets for 24 seconds, and PJ Tucker made a strong shot that missed. After Joe Johnson won the rebound, he burst into the frontcourt, and after the basket did enough feints, he distributed the ball wide range to the bottom corner and ambushed Pierce.
During this time, the two teams fell into a scorching tug-of-war, and the Suns wanted to speed up, but the experienced old fritters of the Nets team obviously would not let Li Mojie speed up, and Li Mojie's ability to control the rhythm is currently only average, and he can only rely on his advantage of being young and running, and no one can help anyone.
When the Nets attacked, Robin Lopez, who had just come on the court, scored his 18th point of the game with another low-post basket, and the Suns trailed by seven points at 70-77 and went into the second long timeout.
I can't prevent it, I still can't prevent it, and I can't get up quickly. Hornacek shook his head, he was still young, and he still suffered when he met these old oilboys.