Chapter 80: Stalemate
How to measure a superstar, the most important thing is to see if he can score at critical times, when his teammates can't score, and when he needs to chase points.
To sum up, it is to see if you can score anytime and anywhere.
The reason why Jordan is Jordan, Kobe Bryant is Kobe, and LeBron is LeBron is simply that when they are on fire, no one can stop them.
Superstars and superstars are one word apart, and this one word is worse here.
The former is fierce, the latter is unstoppable.
DeRozan is the former, of course, but in recent seasons, he has gradually moved closer to the latter, and the last two goals are the best illustration of this, and when he wants to score, he will prove that no one can stop him, at least today.
The enthusiastic cheers of the audience were also extinguished by these two goals, and they suddenly remembered that there was no Raptors core on the court just now, and the garbage brothers were there!
Can Li Ming continue to play with the Bulls? This thought involuntarily rose in everyone's hearts.
Li Ming quickly responded, in the face of Lowry, directly and forcefully broke through, the rest of the Raptors did not dare to come up to cover the defense, they also saw Li Ming's passing skills, so rashly forward, this is definitely a breakthrough point, so they would rather wait until Li Ming enters the penalty area, and then come forward to wrap the ball, after all, the error rate of large-scale transfer of the ball will be very high, the most taboo in the general vacancy is to pass the ball after jumping, the league dares to do this vacancy only Paul, all because his vision is really master-level.
There is no one to wrap it, and Li Ming's pressure is much less, and Lori's upper body strength is definitely enough, otherwise he wouldn't be called a small steel cannon, but his lower body strength is not enough, so Li Ming is not too strong to stand still.
Leaning on Lowry to lift the ball above his head, Ibaka in the penalty area thought he was going to shoot, and immediately pounced, seeing that his hand was about to slap the ball, who knew that the ball suddenly shrank.
Ibaka pounced, turned his head and looked, Li Ming made an easy layup with a big loop.
"Damn, I was tricked!" Ibaka clenched his fist in annoyance, Lowry was even more speechless, this kid is too thief to go to the basket, his hand was pressed the whole time, he didn't dare to move, and it was a foul if he moved.
Li Ming glanced back at the two in the defense, and Bowen's super defense brought him not only experience on the defensive end, but also some actions that were easy to be fouled.
These things are very useful.
To put it simply, knowing these habitual tricks of making fouls, he naturally understands how to use these skills of making fouls, just now he raised his hand one step ahead of Lowry, and then as long as Lowry stretched out his hand and touched Li Ming in the process, then he was a foul.
This is the current body hair whistle of the Union.
The reason for this is also very simple, that is, to standardize the actions of players, to avoid similar incidents in Auburn Hills, you must know that the influence of the NBA is not comparable to that of 04, not only in the United States, the influence of the NBA is gradually expanding, and it is no longer the existence of the tail of the four major ball cranes in the United States, and even outside the United States, the influence of basketball is gradually expanding and achieving globalization.
A large bunch of muscle sticks mixed together is really aesthetically pleasing.
But this system directly leads to more and more cases of referees dominating the game, and even many times the game has become fragmented.
Therefore, the advantages and disadvantages of it are not delved into.
Li Ming just took advantage of this new rule, pressing Lowry with his body, as long as the opponent's hand moved, it was a foul.
Lowry controlled the ball and came to Li Ming, and it could be seen that he was a little angry by Li Ming, staring at Li Ming's defense and not paying attention to his teammates, all these details are showing that Lowry is going to play by himself!
Kyle Lowry, the 24th pick in the first round in 06, can't say how talented he is, he played in the Rockets, and then traded to the Raptors to become the core, gradually becoming the top player in the league, and is a player who can't be ignored when talking about point guards now, his style is naturally breakthrough-oriented, can shoot but is not good at projection.
Li Ming is calm, he can go to the basket against Lowry, and the latter can naturally go to the basket against him, so he must lower his center of gravity to intercept his first step, so that he has no space to kill in.
But he dribbled for a long time, and suddenly with a flick of his wrist, the ball flew over Li Ming's head, turned around, and DeRozan scored a layup.
"Huh!" Li Ming was a little stunned, and immediately reacted, it must have been Lori who sensed DeRozan's opportunity, so he passed it directly.
This, sure enough, is a veteran of the league who has been playing for so many years, and he is absolutely not rash, and his teammates will pass it over immediately when they have the opportunity.
"Toot!"
When the whistle blew, Hojberg, who had never called a timeout, called his first timeout of the game at this time, and everyone in the Bulls walked up to him with some surprise, in fact, it was only a minute after the timeout that Casey called just now! What is the reason for the pause at this time? Although the scene is not as exciting as just now, it is good that it has not been crushed, so why call a timeout?
The puzzled expressions of the crowd fell into Hojborg's eyes, and in the eyes of the players, it was a bit inappropriate to call a timeout at such a time, but in his opinion, it would be a missed opportunity not to call a timeout.
Just a wave of scoring climax directly hit the Raptors, and Casey even had to take out the garbage brothers, which looks good, indicating that the other party is finally serious, but in fact, it is at this time that the real winner is decided.
Except for the garbage brothers on the Raptors, the other players on the court are still confused, if they are given time to come to their senses, then the game will be difficult to say, but if they can play another wave of climax, then the outcome may be decided.
That's where Hojberg's intention was to call this timeout, and he wanted to beat the other side with another wave.
"Portis, Mirotic, you two up!"
replaced Karl and Dunn, and replaced two outside players who are good at shooting three-pointers, an obvious strategy, which is intended to use Li Ming as LeBron.
Although in terms of breakthrough lethality, Li Ming is definitely not as good as LeBron, but in terms of passing, it is really not necessarily. In last year's game between the Warriors and the Cavaliers, Kerr's defense against LeBron was consumed by Durant, Iguodala and Green, and at the same time, the defense was dominated by single defense, mainly cutting off his passing lanes, and the Warriors defeated the Cavaliers 3-1 and won the championship trophy in the Finals.
This shows that LeBron's passing has a certain pattern to follow, and it is not impossible to find flaws, even if he finally averaged a triple-double per game, but he also has a record high of 4.4 turnovers per game in the Finals.
Although Li Ming is still not as good as LeBron, it is certain that the Raptors are not the Warriors of the 2017 Finals.