Chapter 113: Overtaking
When night falls, the Phoenix West Arena is bustling with people.
In the earth-shattering cheers, time flies......
"Who would have thought? Who would have thought that the Toronto Raptors, who were completely unfavored before the game, would actually lead the Suns by 12 points at Phoenix's home court, and this is still the third quarter. Eddie Johnson said in an anxious tone.
"Yes, 65:77, the best performer was actually Markieff Morris, who scored 17 points and 8 rebounds, and the other top scorers were Bledsoe and Li Mojie, both of whom scored 9 points." Steve Albert sighed.
In the arena, there was a dead silence on the Suns' bench, and everyone fell into silence, staring blankly at the Raptors on the court with three shots on the outside.
“TIME UP,TIME UP。” Hornacek called a timeout again.
"It's time to call a timeout, our Suns and the Raptors on the other side are teams that win from the outside, and we can't play like this anymore." Eddie Johnson said.
"What's the matter, what did you do yesterday? Can you throw that damn basketball in for me? Well, can you? Hornacek shouted angrily.
Seeing that everyone lowered their heads and didn't speak, Hornacek hurriedly arranged: "Ramon, Rudy, you guys up, Green, you also watch that DeRozan, and Mo Jayer, you don't want to float outside to shoot today, do you know that you rush inside?" ”
"Well, I see." Li Mojie wiped his sweat and nodded in reply. In this game, Li Mojie's performance so far has not been satisfactory, with 1 of 6 three-pointers and many shots.
This shooting feel still has to be practiced, and the best way to practice is to practice in the game, but this wave is almost too much.
"The game started again, and the Suns served."
Ramon Sessions dribbled across the half, and Markieff Morris, who had a good hand in the game, responded with a high post.
In the elbow area, Markieff and Li Mojie, who came out of the circle, completed a hand-to-hand pass, and by the way, made a no-ball cover for Li Mojie, and Rudy Gay was blocked solidly.
After receiving the ball, Li Mojie did not stop, and rushed directly to the basket, Valanjonas hurriedly met him, Li Mojie had no fear in his eyes, and his speed did not slow down and leaned on Valanjonas to throw the ball up.
Although the ball didn't go in, it was "beep, foul." The referee quickly blew the whistle.
"That's right, that's how it should be." Eddie Johnson applauded.
"Yes, the Raptors have one on the inside, one is Valanchonas, the other is Steve Novak, and both of them are not good at defending the outside break, so they should rush inside." Albert nodded.
Li Mojie hit both free throws. “67:77”
"Well, Harden's performance in the last game still inspired me a lot." Li Mojie thought to himself.
"Give me, I'll come." Rudy Gay, who is still the core of the team for the time being, took the initiative to ask for the ball after half-time.
The Rockets abandoned Kyle Lowry naturally had nothing to say, and directly distributed the ball to him, DeRozan silently pulled away from the bottom corner of the position to ambush, but his body was tense, like a cheetah ready to attack at any time.
Rudy Gay's possession is excellent, and he is adept at using the crotch dribble and the dribble behind his back.
It's just that Li Mojie is very focused now, and after opening his arms, he observes the changes in Rudy Gay's shoulders and center of gravity, and is not confused by his other movements.
After a few bluffs, Rudy Gay brought in Steve Novakyan to do the pick-and-roll.
Novak is also not very strong, and the blocking effect is very average, but fortunately, Novak has mid-to-long-range shooting ability. Markieff hurriedly caught up and changed his guard. The two men were still entangled on the three-point line, and seeing that the ball had been in possession for a long time, Rudy Gay turned around and threw the ball into the hands of Novak, who moved two steps to the side outside the three-point line.
"Bang!"
"Novak's three-point shot, Li Mojie's arm span is good, interference is good, no, Gobert's rebound."
Switching offense and defense, Sessions passed back to Li Mojie at the top of the arc.
Li Mojie made another pass and handed it to Markieff Morris at 45 degrees on the left, "Don't think about it." Steve Novak hurried up to meet him, and even Valranjonas on the side was eyeing him.
"Rough, it's hard to perform well, is the defense so strict?" Markieff cursed.
So Markieff passed back to Li Mojie, who received the ball and jumped and went to the basket.
"Guard against him!" Dwayne Casey shouted from the sidelines, waving his hands.
"Don't try to rush in." Rudy Gay said.
Unexpectedly, Li Mojie took the ball with his right hand and threw it to the left, and Gerard Green just caught up, picked up the ball and dunked it to the basket.
"A wonderful connection between the two, from Marc Jacus and Green." Eddie Johnson yelled.
"Beautiful, kill them!"
"We're going to overtake!" The audience cheered.
Then after DeRozan received the ball and missed a one-step shot from the three-point line, the rebound was picked up by Li Mojie, and the Raptors hurried back to defense.
At present, the league has some understanding of Li Mojie, "Li Mojie's long pass is very powerful, once Li Mojie protects the backcourt rebound, you must run, because this may be a fast break opportunity for the Suns!" "The coaches of each team will say to the players.
Seeing that there was no chance, Li Mojie quickly advanced past half court, and held the ball at the top of the arc and made a gesture with Markieff.
Markieff Morris understood and ran to block and dismantle with Li Mojie, and Markieff, Marcus, and Freira on the inside came out to block and dismantle on the outside is a set of conventional tactics of the Suns, because several people on the inside have range, once you let the inside and outside two complete the blocking, the power is amazing.
This time, after completing the block, Markieff pushed it outside the three-point line, and after Li Mojie broke through two steps to attract the attention of Steve Novak and Rudy Gay, he directly and vigorously distributed Markieff.
Before the man reached the three-point line, the ball had already passed.
As soon as Markieff stepped beyond the three-point line, the basketball was in his hands, and there was not a single second of difference.
He bends his knees, jumps, and shoots!
Novak couldn't catch up, allowing him to get such a near-open shot.
As soon as Markieff made a shot, he felt that the ball was there, and that feeling of shooting was something that he had penetrated into his bone marrow after thousands of tempers in the training gym.
Sure enough, the other end of the parabola fell into the basket accurately!
70 to 77.
The ball was thrown, and as he retreated, Lee Mojie and Markieff high-fived in celebration.
"You're really good today, Morris, the whole team is driven by your thighs." Li Mojie said jokingly.
"Haha, I'll fly you today." Markieff replied with a smile.
"I'm going to attack!" The Raptors attacked, Rudy Gay continued.
Kyle Lowry was not happy at this time, obviously he had a higher success rate in playing the opposite Sessions, but this guy was going to play Li Mojie, he didn't want to give the ball a little, so he passed directly to DeRozan.
"This guy." Rudy Gay said angrily.
'Oh? Looks like you're not the boss of your Raptors anymore, right? Li Mojie said maliciously.
"Humph!" Rudy Gay grimaced and snorted coldly and didn't speak. This is related to the team construction of the NBA, generally speaking, the team construction is built in the mode of internal and external core, but now the Raptors have three cultivated star seedlings, all of whom are outside players, and this ball distribution is a bit difficult to deal with.
If one of the three outside lines is enough to subdue the other two with strong strength, it's okay, but none of the three have such strength, and the nominal team boss Guy leads the team to poor results, which inevitably causes the younger brother to think about it elsewhere.
Seeing the situation of the Raptors' outside three-bar gun, Li Mojie knew in his heart why the Raptors were now at the bottom of the East, glanced at Guy, and directly left Guy to wrap Lowry when he received DeRozan's return pass.
"Kyle Lowry catches the ball in the corner, do you want to shoot? When did Li Mojie come over to help defend himself, and how did Lowry vote now? Mistaken, out of bounds. ”
Li Mojie smiled, now he knows how to overtake.