Chapter 67: Two consecutive away wins
The third quarter began, 41:50, with the visiting Suns behind. "Substitution." Jazz head coach Taylor Carbine saw that for the entire quarter of the game, Li Mojie did not fight hard with Hayward, but ran around flexibly, and he shouted off the court to pay attention to defense and it didn't do much, so he finally remembered to make a substitution, and replaced Richard Jefferson with Hayward, who had played a full two quarters. At this time, Hornacek also replaced Jeffrey Lee, who had run for most of the second quarter, with Gerard Green, and the point guard with PJ Tucker.
Sessions' two-man block with Frye on the outside, Sessions' play was okay today, using Frye's cover to successfully get rid of the Jazz's backup point guard George Lucas III, and then a cross-step dribble, a small hit and a big successful breakthrough Enneskant for a layup. 41:52
Enneskant smashed the ball to the ground at this point and stared at the Suns everyone fiercely.
And then, George Lucas III was quickly dribbling to the front court at this time, he did not take the initiative to attack, but handed over to Eneskant near the left free throw line, the moment Eneskant held the ball, Frye stared at Kanter, Frye did not dare to stick to Kanter, who knows if Kante will break through, after all, Kanter's height and arms are outstanding, if Frye is likely to go directly to the basket.
But Kante resisted Channingfrye and then made another small hook shot, but Kanter's hook shot missed the basket.
But Frye's rebound today was clearly blown up by the No. 3 pick of 11 years, and Kante missed it, and immediately jumped up in the air to control the rebound in his hands.
The moment Kante grabbed the rebound, he smashed the ball into the basket without thinking. 43:50
"Well done, let these Suns softies know we're awesome."
"That's it, man's dunk."
The Jazz fans in attendance immediately cheered.
Then the Jazz seemed to be ignited by this slam dunk and began to fight back. When the Suns attacked, everyone passed the ball to each other, and it almost ran out of 24 seconds, and finally Marcus missed the iron.
George Lucas III dribbled left to right for several seconds without finding a chance, giving the ball to Richard Jefferson, who also couldn't find a chance against Gerard Green. Jefferson passed the ball to Alec Burks on the wing, and Berks missed a defensive jumper in the face of PJ Tucker, but the rebound was still grabbed by Kanter.
"Damn." Honacek yelled off the pitch.
Kante took the ball and unhurriedly put Freika behind his body, and then passed the ball to Burks on the outside, and Jefferson used the cover of power forward Derrick Favors to get rid of Gerard Green this time, "Alec, ball!" ”
Seeing this, Burks immediately split the ball, and Jefferson, who had been elected the dunk king twice, smiled contemptuously at Frye under the basket after receiving the ball, and took two steps into the air, "No! The basket made a reluctant sound of branches. 45:50
"Great job!"
"Richard, that's it!"
Jazz fans were in high spirits and dancing.
"Oh no." Abby anxiously put down the camera and looked in the direction of the Suns' bench.
The powerful dunk ignited the enthusiasm of the crowd and the morale of the team, and Hornacek's timeout did not work, and the Jazz completely suppressed the Suns, and the score was tied at 49-50 in less than five minutes
Hornacek had no choice but to call another timeout. "Mo Jayer, Gobert, I already sent you the message yesterday for that Jefferson, it's not easy to deal with." Hornacek admonished.
Li Mojie smiled, since facing Batum and Hayward to play their own advantages, Li Mojie also began to show his self-confidence.
Bledsoe handed the ball to Gobert, who picked it up and handed it to Li Mojie, who ran into the bottom corner.
"Come on, rookie, what are you capable of?" Jefferson played well in this game, spitting at this year's No. 1 pick.
"Get out of the way, don't squirt your dirty saliva on me." Li Mojie bent over, lowered his center of gravity to hold the ball, and observed Jefferson's center of gravity.
Suddenly, Li Mojie quickly straightened his back and made a shooting posture with both hands, Jefferson immediately chose to jump up with his excellent bounce ability, and then Li Mojie didn't look at the retraction action, and dribbled the ball with his right hand, easily broke through Jefferson, and made a layup.
"Damn, don't fucking jump!" Taylor Carbine watched from the sidelines as Li Mojie played Jefferson with ease, and yelled anxiously. Hell, how can this rookie be so mature, this kind of fake shooting and real sudden shots, I can only see it often in Jordan's highlights.
"Huh." Hornacek on the side smiled mockingly when he heard this sentence, this Jefferson is 33 years old this year, if he could change this problem, he would have changed it a long time ago, if he couldn't change it, would it be useful with your words?
"More pressing" Taylor Carbine roared from the sidelines.
The Jazz's offense was handed over to Kanter again, the difference is that this time Kanter received a pass near the baseline, only to see Kanter's general baseline back, but he found that this year's 27 rookie is much more difficult to deal with than that Fry, whether it is height, arm span, tonnage, athleticism, he actually has any upper hand?
"Be careful!"
"What?"
When Kante was at a loss on the inside, Li Mojie didn't know where to wrap it up, cut the ball from Kanter's hand, shouted "PJ" and then passed the ball hard to the Jazz half.
PJ Tucker took the ball and quickly counterattacked, and the score was stretched to 49:54 again.
As soon as Zhuangyuan Xiu came up, he contributed 2 points, 1 assist and 1 steal.
Seeing this, Taylor Carbine still replaced Hayward, and thought to himself: Now this rookie has no strength to run.
The two sides then formed a tug-of-war, but both sides required the cooperation of team offense and individual attack, and the defense of both sides was extreme, and the scores of both sides remained very low, and the score was only 62:66 at the beginning of the fourth quarter
"Don't pinch the inside players, give the outside players to help defend and feint, don't let the opponent's inside players attack too easily, and Bledsoe will increase the defense of Lucas in the next defense, let him shoot, don't give him a chance to break through."
Middleton looked at Burks and stopped letting him shoot, he had 10 points. Frye, Markieff, then you have to focus on the defense, the opposing interior scored a total of 39 points, so I don't ask you to attack, I just need you to defend Derrick Favors and Kante. Hornacek patiently admonished.
And the first offense was the Suns' possession, Li Mojie did not control the ball, but handed it to Bledsoe, and Li Mojie was still in the half-court non-stop running.
After half time, Bledsoe faced Jamal Tinsley, Bledsoe scanned the position of his teammates, and saw that Li Mojie suddenly came to the bottom left corner of the three-point line, and Bledsoe immediately handed it over to Li Mojie.
Li Mojie controlled the ball and turned to face Hayward, "I know you can't stop me." ”
Hayward stared at Li Mojie's body and didn't say a word, he has only scored 10 points and 2 assists in this game so far, and Li Mojie's statistics so far in this game are 13 points, 5 assists, 4 rebounds, 1 steal, 1 block, and 3 turnovers, and Mojie's points do not include three-point shots. So Hayward is now ready to defend Lee Mojab's breakaways and split the ball.
Li Mojie looked at Hayward's defensive position, and suddenly pulled out a three-point shot, Li Mojie's dry pull was beyond Hayward's expectations, and he could only watch Li Mojie make a three-point shot, and Li Mojie's shot was also accurate.
"Oh!" Li Mojie put a pistol in the posture and roared angrily, this was Li Mojie's fourth three-point shot in this game, but only hit this one. 49:57
"Well done!" Abby on the sidelines also clenched her fists and shouted excitedly, but suddenly felt that something was wrong, and withdrew her fist stupidly.
Then the two sides fought again, and the score changed from 51:57 to 53:60 and 55:62......
With 5 minutes and 32 seconds left at the end of the game, the score was 74:78, and the Suns still led by 4 points.
The Suns' offense was handed over to Li Mojie, who had the best hand in these four quarters, this time Li Mojie and Frye's blocking and dismantling cooperation, Hayward did not keep up in time, and Frye's cover quality this time was very good.
With a "swish", Li Mojie felt up.
"Do you want to stick it up, I can only let him shoot easily when I defend him like this, and now he feels good, but what if I paste it and he divides the ball?" Hayward hesitated.
At this time, Jazz head coach Tyro Carbine had already reminded Hayward, and he could see now that Li Mojie's shooting touch was very good, and he had to choke Li Mojie at this time.
However, Li Mojie's speed is really not slow, and he is very flexible, continuing to play blocking and dismantling tactics, not only Frye, but even big forward Markieff also came up to cover, Hayward did not keep up, although Kante made up the defense in time, but Li Mojie was very dexterous with a small throw, Kanter's block did not play a role, and he threw it into the frame with a "bang".
This throw completely dispelled the Jazz's desire to overtake, and the next game was tepid, and the Suns defeated the Jazz 90-84 on the road, making it two consecutive wins on the road without being favored. Li Mojie once again scored 22 points, 6 assists and 5 rebounds.