Chapter Eighty-Eight: Livingston's Counterattack
"There was a timeout, and the Nets chose to take a timeout." Kenny Smith said.
"Sean, you replace Delon." Although Jason Kidd is also a rookie coach who only became a head coach this year, he is a famous name for the Nets, and he is much more authoritative than other rookie coaches.
"Okay, Coach." Mok Wenwei, who was carefully observing the game on the bench, ah no, Coco Li, ah no, Livingston stood up excitedly and replied firmly.
Whenever you talk about Livingston, you can't help but mention his leg, his horrific injuries, his almost abrupt end to his career, and the success of his displacement.
No basketball player has ever suffered a serious knee injury like Livingston's, which means that there is no reference to his recovery process, and no one knows what the final outcome will be.
"I want to know how close I am to playing again." Livingston said, "No one can give me an answer." It's a hard question to think about, especially since one possible answer is "as far away as ever comeback." ”
After each fight, he had to remove the stagnant water to reduce the swelling in his knees. He also received a platelet-rich plasma injection, but the effect of this injection was only to allow him to continue playing on the court, and he could not regain his lost athleticism and could not keep up with the fast-paced game.
Li Mojie stared at Livingston, who was back on the court, and remembered that Livingston joined the Warriors in the 14-15 season.
He averaged 5.1 points, 2 rebounds and 1.8 assists in 17.7 minutes per game in the regular season while shooting an astonishing 55.1 percent from the field, and in the playoffs, those stats were 5.7 minutes, 5.2 points, 2.1 rebounds and 1.4 assists and 57.6 percent. He can play the No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 positions, he is excellent defensively, solid on the ball, quick to react, always looking for opportunities to cut to the basket, and this season, he has shot 76.8 percent from the field, which is hard to believe is a statistic for an outside player.
"yes, for me, you probably all know about my career, when people see you're not going to be there, no one trusts you anymore, I played in the Development League, I wanted a 10-day contract, I was away from the NBA, but now, I'm winning a championship with my brothers."
How many talented Tianzhizi left this league because they were addicted to nightclubs and did not want to make progress, and Livingston, until Li Mojie crossed, he was still playing in the league as a rookie in 04!
Li Mojie silently thought in his heart: I ran and ran just to catch up with the self who had high hopes, which is why I like the NBA.
The game restarted, although Livingston was 6 feet 7 inches tall, but his possession was still sharp, Bledsoe tried to press, but was thrown away by Livingston's change of hands, but Bledsoe still used his beastly athleticism to catch up, Livingston did not hit hard, but passed to Joe Johnson and ran into the low post.
Joe Johnson misses a three-point shot.
"Rebound!"
"Damn it!" The rebound was snatched up by the old hooligan Garnett again.
Hornacek on the sidelines sighed, in terms of height and arm span athleticism, the current Gobert is not inferior to the 37-year-old Garnett, but if you want experience in rebounding and standing, he still has to learn!
"Paul!" Garnett passed to Pierce on the outside, and the ball was tightly clung to Lee. "Hey, rookie, I'm not good at this!" Pierce teased.
"Old bird, are you afraid? Don't think about running. Li Mojie did not back down.
"This rookie has a lot of core strength and athleticism." Pierce thought to himself, if it had been 5 years ago, Pierce would definitely call him a man, but at this age, Pierce has passed the time of competitiveness, and he now wants the team to win, otherwise if the Nets lose again, their Big Four will really become a joke.
"Sean!" Pierce tentatively leaned in a few times and found no chance, and passed the ball to Livingston in the low post.
Livingston catches the ball with his back, turns to the right, then pulls back, pauses, then turns back to the right, lifts the ball above his head, takes his body into the air, and shoots "Boom!" "The ball obediently goes into the bag.
"Damn." Bledsoe cursed, the 185CM Bledsoe was helpless in the face of the 201CM Livingston's turnaround jumper, and he could only pray that he couldn't throw it himself.
The Suns attacked, Bledsoe dribbled a few times at the top of the arc with the ball and suddenly burst in, Garnett hurried over to help defend, Li Mojie cut in from the right side, and originally wanted to cut the basket directly, but after Bledsoe passed the ball, Li Mojie found that there was no place under the basket, and he had no room to shoot. The experienced Garnett has long since lost his position.
"Li Mojie has been forced into a corner, what do you say?" Buck Williams shouted with his eyes open.
"Good ball, that's what he passed too." Kenny Smith gave a thumbs up.
Originally, there was no position, but Li Mojie glanced at it with his spare eyes and found a figure wearing a white jersey of the Suns, and passed the ball from under his ribs without saying a word.
Middleton misses a three-point shot from outside the three-point line.
"Rebound!" Hornacek and Kidd shouted from the sidelines.
At this time, Gobert firmly resisted Garnett, Garnett has never been a power-type insider, and it feels very uncomfortable to be carried by Gobert, a stunned young man.
"Mine!" Seeing this, Li Mojie ran two steps, jumped high and took off the rebound, and Garnett immediately leaned over: "Boy, I heard that you have been very popular recently, right?" Do you think you'll be able to do anything in this alliance when I'm old? ”
"Oh, old fellow, do you think you old bones can handle me?" Li Mojie said with a disdainful face.
"Oh, that's interesting." After so many years in the league, I finally met a rookie who dared to talk trash to himself as soon as he entered the league! When Garnett was about to say something, Li Mojie suddenly turned to the right and rushed in without a feint, Robin Lopez hurriedly came up to make up for the defense, Li Mojie hurriedly threw a high ball, and the ball obediently crossed Lopez's head.
"Rudy!"
"Look at me!" Gobert yelled and slammed again!
"Pretty biography, new magician!" The Chinese audience immediately cheered!
"That's great!" Livingston on the side looked at Li Mojie with envy on his face, you must know that he was also a genius known as the successor of the magician! Livingston said to himself: If it weren't for that damn injury, I might have been able to, ah, no, I can't think about it now, I should play well now and get more playing time in the team.
"Johnson!" Livingston dribbled the ball past half-court and passed the ball to Joe Johnson, who ran to the low post, but Joe Johnson was unsure of the ball in the face of Middleton and passed it back to Livingston in the low post.
"Do you want to play low singles again?" Li Mojie thought to himself.
Sure enough, Livingston began to show off his low-post back-to-back skills again, and Li Mojie saw that Bledsoe couldn't cope with it, so he gritted his teeth and made up for it.
"Paul!" Unexpectedly, on the way to Li Mojie, Livingston had already passed the ball out, "Oops! "Although Li Mojie immediately used his amazing athleticism to rush back, for a player like Pierce, you just have to give him a little gap and he will be enough to shoot!
Pierce faced Li Mojie, who was rushing over, unhurried, raised his elbow, slightly outstretched his left arm, leaned back slightly, and shot the ball. "Hit.