Chapter 387: The Upper Edge of the Rebound?
Kobe Bryant rushed into the paint area, saw Griffin rushing up like a hungry tiger, reason told him that he could not be beaten, he could only outwit, although he had jumped in the air, Kobe Bryant still had the strength to return to find his teammates. It's just that Kobe Bryant didn't see Hougist, so he threw the ball to Jeremy Lin, who saw it at first sight.
Jeremy Lin received a Kobey ball on the weak wing and also raised his hand to shoot, because the Lakers attacked too fast, the defensive formation of the Clippers had been disrupted when they returned to the defense, and the defender in front of Jeremy Lin was Redick. Redick also reached out and jumped up to try to interfere with Jeremy Lin's shot, but he didn't expect Jeremy Lin's shot to be a feint, and when Redick jumped up, Jeremy Lin also broke into the interior with a short body.
In the face of Jordan Jr.'s supplemental defense, Jeremy Lin stepped on a European step elegantly, turned to the front and threw a shot, although the ball drew a towering parabola and crossed Jordan Jr.'s blockade line, but failed to fall into the basket accurately, the ball bounced back and forth on the basket's neck several times, and finally fell outside the basket.
Bamot took the rebound and distributed the ball to the fast Paul, Paul rushed to the front court with full power, and a simple change of direction shook off Randle, who was on the defensive back, and made a pull-up jump shot in the low post, but failed to shoot. Hougist, who returned to the defense, took the rebound, Paul quietly came to Hougist's side and prepared to cut the ball, Houggist did not notice that Paul had come to his side, but he did not rush to collect the ball after taking off the rebound, and always held the ball above his head to observe the situation on the court.
When Hoggist saw Paul leave, he immediately understood what he was trying to do, and couldn't help but rejoice that he had made the right choice. After dribbling to the frontcourt, Horgist used his body to cover to help Kobe Bryant block Redick's pursuit, and at the same time hoisted the ball from the head of Griffin who switched to cut Kobe, Kobe Bryant did not hesitate to hit the ball back to Horgist, Horgist caught the ball in the high post and jumped up, but he couldn't throw the ball in.
Paul actively accepted the rebound, but did not rush to go fast again, slowly dribbling to the frontcourt, enjoying the high double cover service provided by Jordan Jr. and Griffin for him, Bamot and Redick crossed and switched positions from the two bottom corners, Paul did not pass the ball to the shooter Redick, but gave it to Bamot again, and Bamot didn't seem to have any desire for the ball and the right to shoot, but after receiving the ball, he was also very confident, without any hesitation, and pulled up and shot directly into a three-point shot.
"Damn, what's the situation? Am I wrong in my judgment that this Bamot is going to step up and become a wonder soldier today? Haugist touched his chin and couldn't help but doubt his previous judgment, "Let's watch a few more balls!" I really don't believe that he can set off any big waves alone! ”
Hougist drove the ball to Jeremy Lin, ran to the front and moved forward at the same frequency as Jeremy Lin, blocking Paul for him, escorting him all the way to the frontcourt. Jeremy Lin split the ball to find Kobe, Kobe Bryant then borrowed Hoggist's cover to break through to the inside, and then concocted the ball back to Hougist, who did not shoot this time, holding the ball with a hesitant look.
Originally, Griffin felt that it was too late to pounce to defend Hoggist, so he gave up the defense and waited for Hoggist to make a move, but seeing Hoggist's hesitant expression, he suddenly felt that there was still a chance and hurriedly pounced. Hoggist saw him pounce, but his face instantly showed a smile again, and he directly hoisted the ball into the special area again to Kobe, who received the ball and made a layup easily.
At this time, Paul quietly pushed Griffin, signaling him to sneak down, and at the same time gave little Jordan under the basket a look, little Jordan will be fast, Paul took the ball and quickly advanced, Redick also outflanked from the side, came to the front court Paul jumped up and looked at Redick on the flank, as if he was going to divide the ball to him to shoot three points, but with a flick of his wrist, he gave the ball to Griffin under the basket to catch up.
This ball Griffin went down quickly, and Hougist was not ready to defend the empty catch, seeing Paul pass to Griffin empty catch, he secretly said that it was not good, but no matter how bad it was, he had to go up to defend hard, Hugist and Griffin were still two steps away, and the ball was about to fly over, and it was too late to block Griffin, so Hugist made a bold decision, in the words of Tiger Pounce, Horgist had the idea of punching the hole.
Haugist took another step forward and jumped high with all his strength, and he actually wanted to intercept Paul's high toss! Paul's empty catch was a chicken stealer, and in order to complete it as quickly as possible, the arc was not too high, but Rao was so arc was close to the height of the top edge of the rebound when it was above Haugist's head. Paul didn't expect Hoggist to want to intercept his pass directly, and he was very surprised, and couldn't help shouting, "I'll go, isn't it!" No kidding, is anyone really going to do such a stupid thing? ”
Griffin also felt that Hougist's behavior was indeed stupid enough, and it was estimated that the five embarrassments of the week were not running, just so that he could be the background of his empty dunk, and he could properly be the top of the top five balls today! So Griffin didn't hesitate to run and take off, ready to continue to complete the air connection as originally planned.
But Griffin couldn't wait for the ball, and in the exclamation of the audience, Griffin looked back and saw that Hougist's fingertips had actually touched the ball, although there was only one knuckle, but it was enough to change the flight path of the ball. Paul is also completely stupid, this TM is still human? You can get to the edge of the rebound, right? Although his arm span looks excessively long, he is only 6-foot-9! Dwight didn't even touch the top edge of the rebound, how perverted is his bounce power Haugist?
However, the expression on Hoggist's face was not very happy, although the ball changed direction after the interference of his fingers, Griffin should not be able to catch it, but he found that the ball was flying in the direction of the basket, "Damn, don't! In a hurry, Haugist couldn't help but shout out loud in Chinese.
Unfortunately, his sound waves could not change the trajectory of the ball's flight, and the ball bounced off the front board into the basket after his interference. Then the exclamations of the audience also turned into sighs, this ball is a pity, obviously destroying the empty catch, but it has become a "self-swinging oolong", but this goal is not a pity for them, no matter how the goal is, it is just for the Clippers to score two points, but the perverted physical fitness shown by Horgist through this ball is the biggest gain for the audience.
Through Hougist's "help", the Clippers pressed the score to 3 points again, and the assistant coach requested a timeout, Hoggist walked back to the bench with an inexplicable look, "Why call a timeout?" We didn't need to make any tactical changes or rotations. ”
"Well, we were worried that that own goal was going to affect your mentality, so we called a timeout to calm you down." The TA explained.
Howgist felt a little crying and laughing when he heard this, "How come, that ball without my interference also made Griffin score two points for nothing, if I have to be stabbed, I would rather stab myself than stretch my neck and let Griffin cut me!" I'm not going to be frustrated by this or even let such a small thing affect my state! ”
"That's right, you should listen to the fans, you don't understand what that ball just meant, look at the Clippers players! They have been frightened by the performance of Hogist, the overestimation that Hoggist just touched is almost the top edge of the rebound, which brings a psychological impact to the opponent is far greater than the damage of a 2-point own goal to us, it can be said that Hoggist's move just now is of strategic significance! Kobe Bryant interjected on the sidelines, and it was rare for him to praise his teammates so openly during the game.
Hoggist was a little ashamed when he was touted by Kobe, and said modestly with a red face: "Haha, was it that powerful just now?" I wasn't very prepared! ”
"Not enough to jump that high? If you're sufficient, you'll be able to put a coin on the rim of the rebound! Are you really being humble? This is really infuriating! Randall grumbled.
Although the Lakers did not make any arrangements for this pause, but through everyone's discussion, they unconsciously relaxed their mentality, and the situation on the bench of the Clippers was different, Coach Rivers was still talking, but Griffin was obviously a little sluggish, and the look on Paul's face next to him was also a little unnatural.
"Can humans really jump that high?" Griffin shook his head vigorously.
"He has long arms, so many violent dunks in the NBA, can there be few people who can jump so high?" Paul tried to comfort Griffin, but he didn't believe what he said.
Although little Jordan was also shocked by Hougist's perverted bounce, but he was not a witness to this empty pick after all, so his mentality was quite normal, seeing that the two bigwigs in the team were a little frustrated, and he also wanted to stand up and encourage them like a locker room leader, so he organized the language wording for a while, and little Jordan opened his mouth, "Don't pay too much attention to Horgist's bounce, what if you jump high, those who play volleyball also jump very high, the NBA earns a lot more than volleyball, why don't they come to play volleyball?" Haugist jumped high and didn't see him fly up and dunk every ball! A few years ago there was a man named James. White's, the bounce is also very good, but in the NBA, he is not even qualified as a substitute, and Haugist did not have any physical confrontation just now, so it is not difficult to jump so high! How many jumps can there be in the whole race without physical confrontation? If there is really such an opportunity, it can only be in the process of fast attack, and it has already entered the fast attack stage, even if his bounce ability is average, he will definitely be able to score the ball easily, so no matter how powerful his bounce is, his ability in the game will not be improved too much. ”
Paul and Griffin looked at him in surprise when they heard Little Jordan's words, not because of how correct Little Jordan's words were, which made Paul and Griffin enlightened, but what surprised them the most was that Little Jordan, who was privately recognized by them as being easy to fool, was able to say such a big set of theories at one time with a clear mind.
"Why are you looking at me like that? Doesn't what I'm saying make sense? Little Jordan scratched his head in confusion.
"No, we just didn't expect you to be convincing with reason!" Paul laughed.
"It's rare for me to see both of you being hit at the same time, it's really amazing. Are you coming to your senses now? Are you ready to go ahead and take them off? Little Jordan felt that he had indeed inspired his two teammates, and his blood boiled inexplicably, and he stretched out a hand, ready to bump fists with the two teammates.
"Alright, to hell with the reach!" Griffin gritted his teeth and stretched out his fist.
"Come on, we can't fall into the name of the city of empty connection!" Paul also stretched out his right hand and punched the two of them one by one.
After the pause, Horgist reached out and pulled Kobe Bryant, who was sitting in the chair, "Boss, it's time for you to break out next, right?" ”
Kobe nodded, "Just give me the ball!" ”
The Lakers opened the sideline ball in the frontcourt, Horgist drove the ball to Kobe Bryant at the top of the arc, and then immediately rushed into the court to set up a cover for Kobe, Kobe bypassed Horgist and immediately stopped the jump shot, and the ball passed through the net with an almost "crisp" friction sound.
Paul dribbled steadily to the front court, broke through the middle to the basket with Jordan Jr.'s cover, and pulled the edge to the low post after entering the paint area, trying to attract the defense to empty the interior line and create a space for Jordan Jr. to follow up the empty catch, but Jeremy Lin followed the defense very tightly and did not lose his position, so Turner on the inside did not come up to help defend and continued to stick to Jordan Jr.
Bamot, who was originally in the low post on the strong side, could only slip to the bottom line and move to the weak side in order to make way for Paul, but there were too many people under the basket, and Bamot could only step on the bottom line. Paul hit the ball to the ground and gave it to the basket, Jordan Jr. was stuck by Turner and couldn't catch the ball, Bamot stepped out of bounds and couldn't catch the ball, so he hurriedly jumped into bounds, ready to stand firm in the bounds and then reach out to catch the ball.
Randle, who was chasing the defense, hurriedly jumped back into bounds, reached out to hold the ball, and threw the ball to Kobe Bryant before losing his center of gravity and falling outside the baseline. Kobe Bryant dribbled to push the fast break, dribbled to the elbow area, suddenly stepped back and retreated to the outside of the wing three-point line, made a crotch dribble on the spot, ready to take advantage of the defense of Jordan Jr. to counterattack and shoot a three-point shot.
At this time, Hougist also took the lead in rushing into the paint area to grab the frontcourt rebound, Kobe Bryant saw that Hoggist had a good chance under the basket, and when he jumped up, he reduced his strength and changed the shot to a hanging pass, Hoggist was very surprised by Kobe's pass, but this time he was ready, successfully received the ball under the basket, pouted and jumped up to hit the layup, and this back-to-back action of the face frame also made Griffin behind him helpless, because if he pounced on the block interference, slight body contact may be blown foul.
"Why didn't you shoot a three-pointer! I went in to grab the rebound, didn't I just say that it was your turn to break out? Haugist asked.
"Then why didn't you dunk?" Kobe Bryant mischievously asked, "I want you to give them a hot air relay!" You're ugly enough for this layup! ”
Hogist proudly introduced: "I learned this trick from Brother Deng, this trick is very useful when you are stuck in the position but your height is lost, the other party doesn't dare to reach out to interfere, even if you can't hit, it's easy to rub the foul, drought and flood to protect the harvest!" ”
While the two were still slowly walking back and talking, Paul dribbled past the two, "Then why don't you go back to defense?" I'm going to fight back quickly! ”