Chapter 118: The Fourth Quarter Game
That's the reason, so Wei Shao's mistake is also right, and right is also right.
As for Paul George and Anthony, these two are foreign in the end, and their contracts expire this year, and it is not certain whether they will be with the Thunder next year, so it is a bit redundant to worry about them and complain.
Nobody cares, and they don't want to.
Fans in small cities are a bit like some small closed mountain villages, not only unreasonable, but also unanimously xenophobic.
In the fourth quarter, the two sides returned to the same running line, tied 72-72.
Li Ming's physical fitness in this game is very abundant, and there is still no fatigue yet, firstly, because the Bulls are mainly attacking the interior today, and secondly, Hojberg has done a good job in giving Li Ming the rest time and the allocation of rest time, and he is not as dead as the last game.
But the good news is that there is also bad news, and Westbrook has already brushed up a triple-double for the third quarter of the game, and then he doesn't have to deliberately score or assist.
This means that a guy who has put his heart and soul into the game is back, and there is no doubt that when Wei Shao has no distractions, his strength is definitely MVP-level.
The game has only just begun.
In the fourth quarter, the Thunder attacked first, Westbrook went to the wing and hoisted the ball directly to Anthony, obviously he also knew the strength of the latter's singles, and if he wanted to open up the point difference, he naturally had to hand it over to the safest point.
"If he could brush up on two assists for me, I'd just pass it to him!"
Anthony received the ball, pressed Mirotic hard, the two bumped flesh and flesh a few times, and when they were about to collide again, Anthony suddenly turned around and threw Mirotic's body behind him, slipped the bottom line and wiped the ball in.
Easy two points.
Li Ming also played one by himself, and the fourth quarter is the time when the success rate is most needed, especially when the opponent scores successfully, it is the best choice to let the most confident person play this ball.
Li Ming didn't go inside, he directly pulled to the right wing to shoot a three-pointer and scored the ball, which was his fourth three-pointer in this game.
In fact, shooting three points at this time is not the best choice, this is Hojborg's arrangement, he himself wants to go inside, because Mirotic and Lopes are in good shape today, one is five of seven shots, and the other is five of eight shots.
If he is in good form on the inside, if he hits the basket and encounters obstacles, there is also a second option for two interior players to score the ball.
But just now, Hojberg's gesture to him was to play three points, and asked for three points on the wing, although I don't know why, but the coach must have his reasons, and besides, the three-point shot is his forte, let him shoot, and there is no psychological burden at all.
Hojberg watched Li Ming score the ball and the score exceeded by one point, and he nodded again and again in his heart, and glanced at Donovan on the bench on the other side, he was stimulating the latter.
Because the latter also has a top defender on the wing sitting on the bench.
"Now it's up to you whether you want me to flank or slash tactics! Whatever you want, I can accept it! "Hojberg is also black-bellied, which shows that both roads have pitfalls, and only these two roads are given.
Donovan is also entangled, Li Ming will definitely not be able to throw it down like this, it is too easy, but the other party is holding this point and making it clear that he is inviting you into the urn!
Robertson went up to solve this matter, but the slashing tactics are probably already ready, right?
"Pause, substitution!" kept muttering in his heart, but in the end, Donovan still stretched out his hand to signal for a replacement, and Hojberg really caught the gap and didn't let go, not giving a chance to breathe, less than two minutes, Li Ming threw in another three-pointer, how can this work!
Hurry up and make a substitution.
But the people were replaced, and after a while, the Bulls also changed, and the shooting guard Nwaba replaced Holiday for Holiday again, another water cooler keeper who had not played in the previous game.
What he's going to do here, you really don't have to guess to know.
"Toot toot!"
The whistle blew incessantly, more explicit than in the second quarter, and Robertson made his first free throw in his life.
In the end, he lived up to expectations, making four free throws out of ten, which helped the Bulls stretch the margin to five points.
There are four minutes left.
Nwaba was sent off five fouls, and Hojberg allowed another player to come up and foul again, and it wasn't until Roberson was substituted again that he was content not to continue the slashing tactics.
There was a lot of scolding from the fans in the stands, but Hojberg looked at the score with great satisfaction, he had already done everything about tactics that could change the situation of the game, and then, it was up to Li Ming to see if Li Ming could lead the team to hold on in the last few minutes.
The reason why superstars are superstars is because the more critical they are, the more inexplicable their performance becomes, there are three such players on the Thunder team, Westbrook, Paul George and Anthony, and under the intersection, the Bulls have only one, or the rookie player Li Ming who is waiting to be proven.
In the case of a score difference of only five points, it is really impossible to say who will kill the deer.
At three minutes and fifty seconds, Westbrook broke through to the interior and scored two plus one, leaving the difference of only two points.
In three minutes and fifteen seconds, Li Ming Youyi scored at a 45-degree angle, and the difference was stretched to four points.
At two minutes and forty-eight seconds, Anthony singled Mirotic and hit a layup, and the difference returned to two points.
Two minutes and fifteen seconds, Li Ming attacked the inside, causing Adams to foul, hit two free throws, and the contrast was once again stretched to four points.
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In the last four minutes, the real three-British battle against Lu Bu began, and the Thunder Big Three shot in turn to narrow the contrast, but Li Ming stubbornly pulled the score back away.
One ball, two balls, one ball, two goals, the difference goes back and forth.
"Three-point hit! Three-point shot from Paul George!! At the Chesapeake Energy Arena, the live DJ broadcast again, this time it was Paul George's three-point shot, and the difference was only one point.
Once again, Li Ming succeeded, and this time Westbrook and Paul George both came up, and the bag was clamped! It turned out to be two giants at the same time!!
Li Ming's pupils shrank, but the expression on his face was still very calm, he didn't force himself too much, and passed the ball out, but the two still didn't leave.
"Shh Li Ming gritted his teeth, he probably knew what the other party meant! Instead of letting him shoot, let the rest of the Bulls shoot.
At the last critical time, it is a good choice in comparison.
"Ten, Nine, Eight, Sevenγγγγγγ" Li Ming didn't run out of a good vacancy for a long time, but the twenty-four seconds of offensive time was almost up, so he had no choice but to make a hasty shot by Holiday and the ball bounced off the rebound and didn't go in!
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Two chapters, one chapter owed, and I'll make it up tomorrowγγγγγγ Tomorrow is a total of four chapters.