Chapter 146: An Unexpected Cap Show (Part 2)
Li Ming originally planned to deduct Cousins, but Cousins had already left the game, and if he wanted to deduct him, he would probably have to wait until the second half.
But since you've got Asik up, let's take an Asik first.
There were still three seconds left, and Li Ming's sudden dunk at the end of the day caused an uproar in the audience, and they didn't expect Li Ming to play so hard at the last moment.
What is the spirit of a king? This is called the spirit of the king. What's more, why do they think that in the last shot, Li Ming is rushing to make up the deduction? This guy is a little too excited!
The audience was silent, and the audience who booed Li Ming not long ago did not dare to speak out again.
As for the Bulls bench, under the leadership of LaVine, the whole team began to perform, and a group of players sitting in positions fell back en masse, with exaggerated expressions and words to show the shock of Li Ming's ball.
Dunn and Carl, on the other hand, were holding towels and fanning Li Ming - you are too excited and need to cool down.
In the last attack, the Pelicans missed, Li Ming walked off the court and high-fived his teammates one by one, and walked to the locker room very excitedly, he could feel that his current strength and bounce to complete a dunk is no problem at all. It's just that Cousins's reaction is still two notches better than Asik, but by collision in the air, he is not Cousins' opponent at all, and he is easily knocked away.
So after blocking Asik, he felt that if he wanted to detain Cousins, he had to be more unexpected than detaining Asik, otherwise he wouldn't have a chance.
In the third quarter of the game, Cousins returned to the court, and it could be seen that Gentry's decision to let him go off the court in the second half of the second quarter made him very unhappy, and the whole person's expression was unhappy.
At the beginning of the game, he actively stuck in position, and after getting to the ball, he was looking for physical confrontation, he especially liked to throw difficult backwards, that is, the mission rate was not high, and he was never tired of it, but today he was obviously in order to be angry, and looking for physical confrontation was put in the first place.
"Woohoo!" The ball collided with the floor, the muscles collided with each other, the sounds converged, and then Portis was knocked away with his face crying.
This scene came many times in the third quarter, and the Pelicans' steady scoring returned. As long as the inside twin towers get the ball, then basically their total score will increase in this round.
Tony Allen was also replaced, and Tony Allen, who is now a veteran, will no longer be able to play the full game as before, but it will be no problem to play his original strength in one quarter. In this quarter of the game, he and Holliday teamed up to limit the Bulls' outside shooting group, including Li Ming's shooting touch began to decline.
Of course, it's not just because of Tony Allen, constantly hitting the basket is also a key factor that affects Li Ming's shooting feel.
This is a certain thing, the shooting is very demanding, why shooters rarely dunk or impact the basket, in addition to physical fitness, there is also a very important reason is that dunks affect the feel, even if it is a top physical shooter like Ray Allen, in the middle and late stages of his career, he will no longer dunk when he gets the opportunity as he did at the beginning.
If there are too many deductions, the grasp of power will not be so accurate.
And after the interior giant Davis's body moved, he began to show his defensive range as a top assistant defender, and many times, the Bulls who had thrown off the defenders within the three-point line were directly interfered with by his sudden appearance.
In this quarter, the momentum of the two teams gradually reversed, and it became the Pelicans slowly chasing points.
Seeing that he couldn't open the gap, Hojberg replaced Li Ming off the court in the second half of the third quarter, and he had a rule with Li Ming, that is, if the game couldn't clock out in the third quarter, then he would take advantage of the lead to rest when there was still a period of lead, and then play the fourth quarter.
There is no way to do this, after the overall strength increases, the only person he can rely on is Li Ming.
When Gentry saw Li Ming go down, he immediately replaced Cousins, who ate another foul in the third quarter, and the cumulative number of fouls was already three, and if he ate another foul in the remaining time and entered the fourth quarter with four, I am afraid he would be very passive. In order to protect Cousins, Gentry chose to replace him, although the latter did not appreciate it and looked unhappy.
The Bulls replaced Lopez at the last moment of the quarter, although the Bulls Twin Towers are not the opponent of the Pelicans, but when there is only one Davis on the court, the interior package formed by Mirotic and Lopez still has a certain ability to influence, Davis was entangled by these two muscle sticks, especially Lopez, he did not play in the entire first half, and he was very energetic at this time.
In the final period of the third quarter, because of Lopez's activity, the Pelicans, who had only one tower, were restrained, and the scene was deadlocked again, and finally the Bulls led by five points into the fourth quarter.
A five-point margin in the fourth quarter did not guarantee a sure victory, so as soon as the fourth quarter began, Hojberg's chosen tactic was to slam the basket hard.
Cousins has already committed three crimes, if he can be forced off the court, it can play a key role in the outcome of the whole game, and this also fulfilled Li Ming's mind, but he is still holding back his strength to deduct Cousins!
Constant impact, Cousins's anger is getting bigger and bigger, but, for some reason, Cousins, who usually receives two fouls at every turn, actually defended very well in the last period of time and did not foul.
From Li Ming to Mirotic, he has almost taken the risk, and his career highest single-game block is 7, and in the fourth quarter he blocked four in a single quarter.
Plus the one that has been capped before.
In the final quarter, he only needed two more caps to tie his career single-game block record.
This made Hojberg a little dumbfounded, he didn't expect that the targeted tactics originally arranged to force Cousins off the court would unexpectedly become Cousins's block show.
The most exciting thing is undoubtedly Gentry, which is really a surprise for him, because Cousins's brainlessness is well-known in the league, and he is really afraid that Cousins will fall into a trap as soon as he starts.
Now it seems that Cousins did fall into the trap, but the problem is that he broke the trap! This.... Who would have thoughtγγγγγγ
Cousins was still unhappy, and there was a hint in his eyes that you were coming at me again.
"Smack!" There was another loud slam of the ball, and Cousins slapped Dunn's layup into the hands of his teammates with a smash smash, who slammed the ball in, and the audience erupted in enthusiastic shouts.
Another block, 6 blocks, one short of Cousins' single-game block record! The score difference at the whole time was also reduced to 2 points because of this goal.
What's more, the Bulls' morale was shattered by Cousins' back-to-back blocks.