Chapter 90: Fight Hard
Li Mojie sat on the bench and felt his breathing getting heavier and heavier, and he greedily absorbed oxygen like a fish caught ashore, adjusting his breathing between inhaling and exhaling.
When the camera was given to Li Mojie, he was still thinking: I thought that my father was a descendant of Foshan Kung Fu, and what real qigong was passed on to me, but I didn't expect it to be some tricks to adjust my breathing!
Other teammates didn't expect Li Mojie to still think about this, under the heavy pressure of the Nets' defense, the Suns will score every time it is extremely difficult, and everyone's physical exertion is very amazing.
The game continues on the field.
"Robin~~~~ Lopez!" Robin Lopez also had an outburst today, and he almost blew out Frye and Gobert alone.
The DJ on the scene re-announced the name of the scorer, and used an elongated tone to highlight the momentum of the Barclays Center, as if announcing that this is their territory.
When it comes to the bench strength of the two teams, the Suns are actually superior, with Marcus Morris, Rudy Gobert, Ramon Sessions, PJ Tucker, Gerard Green and others all in their singles years. Although the Nets are in the 11-man rotation, their bench lineup is obviously weaker, Mason Plumlee, Andre Blach, Jason Terry, Alan Anderson, Mirza Telitovic. The most famous of these is of course Jet Jason Terry, but he is no longer the best sixth man of the Mavericks, and now he is a 36-year-old veteran, and his strength is not as good as before.
It's like that, it's a league full of talented players, young blood is constantly being absorbed, superstars are getting old, and players are being eliminated that aren't up to par, and the average career of a professional player in the best basketball league on the planet is less than five years.
Today's Nets are strong, in order to get rid of the previous 2-5 record, these veterans no longer care whether they want to retain their physical strength in the regular season, and their suffocating defense does not know how many times stronger than the previous game.
Although Bledsoe still led the Suns players to fight on the court, he didn't have the smooth rhythm that Li Mojie had when he was on the floor.
"85 to 75. It's 10 points behind. Li Mojie stared at the scores on the screen. His face was full of worry. He glanced at Jeff Hornacek. Hornacek also did not look like a straight suit before the game, unbuttoned his shirt, and yelled on the sidelines.
Hornacek looked at Garnett and Joe Johnson, who seemed to have a second spring, and thought: These old fritters, who worked so hard in the regular season, can't they make the playoffs? Damn it! Do you just make a force when you encounter us?
That thought was a few minutes, and it was time for the end of the third quarter.
87-77, the two sides played iron frequently at the end, the score was not pulled away, and the Suns were still 10 points behind entering the final quarter.
"Originally, Deron Williams was not in good shape today, and I thought we would have won, but I didn't expect a Livingston to come out, if the opposite side is really 5 years younger, I'm afraid there will be no suspense about this year's championship......" Hornacek smiled bitterly.
Hornacek commanded to the crowd: "Listen, guys, there's still one last quarter, the game isn't over yet, we can still fight!" ”
In the fourth quarter, Sessions played point guard, Tucker played point guard, Li Mojie played small forward, Marcus played power forward, Rudy played center, Ramon stood about 2 steps away from the three-point line to hold the ball, and Marcus took the initiative to block and dismantle Mojie on the three-point line, and he must make a substantial blocking and dismantling action. Major Jie went straight to the free throw line to ask for the ball, received the ball and shot directly. Tucker started moving to the basket as Mojie moved, with Rudy standing to the left of the paint. Rudy, Marcus are in charge of fighting for rebounds, especially Rudy, even if you can't grab it, you can't be grabbed by the player opposite you, understand? ”
"Got it!" Everyone nodded and shouted.
At the beginning of the fourth quarter of the game, Li Mojie returned to the game, but the Nets still did not replace the Big Three except DeLong, only replaced Joe Johnson and Pierce, and the others were Shaun Livingston, Andre Blache, and Robin Lopez.
"Oh, rookie, you're playing again?" Pierce is still very concerned about Li Mojie, a junior who has been learning his own skills, and when he saw Li Mojie on the field, he immediately came over to say hello.
"I'm going to win this game." Unexpectedly, Li Mojie narrowed his eyes and replied.
"Oh my God, he's so uncute!" Pierce smiled and turned back to Joe Johnson.
"Dude, I don't think he's like you." Joe Johnson smiled.
"Oh? Who is that like? Pierce wondered.
"He doesn't admit defeat like that Bryant in Los Angeles." Joe Johnson said seriously.
Pierce smiled, looking undeniable.
Ramon Sessions received the ball on the sideline and advanced with the ball, and the Suns began to run normally after halftime.
Soon after Sessions arrived at the three-point line, Li Mojie obediently began to run, and Marcus immediately came up to cover Li Mojie from the ball.
Marcus is in good shape today, with a shooting rate of 71.4%, which is the highest shooting rate among the Suns, so Andre Blach did not dare to leave him half a step away, but Andre is a big man at 211CM after all, and the lateral movement speed is obviously not the opponent of Marcus at 206CM, so Pierce shouted "Change the defense!" ”
"It's done!" After Marcus successfully transferred Pierce away, Li Mojie easily changed direction with the ball, and Andre couldn't keep up at all, and threw the ball into the Nets with a light throw with his right hand.
"Wonderful small and big, the Nets' two interior Lopez and Andre defense are not very good!" Kenny Smith explained.
Switching offense and defense, Livingston passes the ball into the hands of Lopez on the inside, and Lopez's best is his low-post singles skills, and he has the best back-to-back offense in the league.
I saw him leaning against Gobert, and his back began to exert force.
Back singles are an essential part of every interior player's learning basket skills, and no matter which coach he will tell you the trick of back up singles is - when making physical contact, you should actively feel the defender's center of gravity and the strength of the force, which will help you make the next offensive choice. The defender has a small strength, so he can squeeze out of the position and gain offensive space, and the defensive force is strong, so he must make good use of the turn.
But everyone knows the truth, there are very few people who can practice the back body technique to the core, and Lopez is undoubtedly one of the few.
"Back hit, turn, small hook, hit again, Lopez has scored 22 points in this game, except for the poor defense, this guy still has a bright future!" Nets legend Buck William exclaimed.
"Damn it!" Gobert patted his thigh in frustration and scolded that he was almost blown up by Lopez's offense in this game, and if it weren't for the fact that the Suns really need a rebounding player at the moment, he would have guarded the water cooler a long time ago.
In retrospect, Sessions missed the shot, and the rebound was picked up by a shameful and courageous Gobert, who tossed it to Tucker, who passed to Lee Mojie.
"Oh, rookie, do you dare to single me?" Pierce deliberately came up and provoked.
"Why don't you dare?" Li Mojie asked rhetorically.
Li Mojie saw that Pierce deliberately pretended to be fearless, which was a little funny, Pierce is 35 years old this year, but he actually has more playing time than Li Mojie. "I don't believe you're not tired!"
Li Mojie reached for the ball on his waist and made a three-threat pose, with his right foot in front and his left foot behind, making a tentative step.
"Oh man, he's going to singled Pierce with a tentative step!" Barkley shouted in surprise.
Li Mojie lowered his center of gravity, held the ball on the right side of his body with both hands, leaned his body to the right, and made a breakthrough momentum, Pierce hurriedly came up to intercept, and then Li Mojie's body pulled back, and his hands raised to pose as a gesture to shoot, Pierce quickly pulled back his center of gravity, and his hands were about to block, "Break through!" Li Mojie slapped his wrist a few times, and the basketball "banged" on the ground to make a folded line movement, and then hit Pierce further to the right. By the time Pierce caught up, Lee Mojie had already aired his body and threw the ball. "Huh!"
"Marc Mojay, well done!" The fans cheered.
"Beautiful!" It seems that the Suns still have a chance to overtake! Kenny Smith shouted.