Chapter 292: Fell twice in the same pit
O'Neal leaned on Duncan and forced his way up, hooking his hand, short. When O'Neal shot again, three and a half minutes of overtime had passed, and after scoring seven points in a row on 3-of-3 shooting and 1-of-1 free throws in the opening game, O'Neal missed two hooks in the next three offenses, and one was directly offended by Duncan. And Duncan has played 50 minutes in a row, especially most of the time in hand-to-hand combat with O'Neal, so Duncan is now a little out of strength, and in the offense just now, the shooting action has been obviously deformed. After O'Neal and Duncan went silent, both teams fell into a scoring drought at the same time, and the score is still 109-110, and the Lakers lead the Spurs by one point.
"It seems that it's time for my brother to make a move again." Meng Xu slowly dribbled the ball, standing below the center circle, and at the same time glanced up at the timer, trying to suppress the little resentment and sinful thoughts in his heart, victory above all else. Although in the tactics arranged by the coach, the current first offensive choice is Duncan, but Meng Xu also knows that when Duncan, when his teammates can't score points, it's time to stand up by himself. What tactics, what strategies, all go aside, and it looks like you're going to lose, and you need a P tactic.
So in the midst of the exclamation of the audience, Meng Xu directly knocked away Derek Fisher, who changed his defense, and began to accelerate the ball forward, and when Meng Xu rushed to the top of the arc and was still 1 meter away, Meng Xu instantly lowered the center of gravity of his body, and used his signature large change of direction and fingertip dribbling.
Seeing that Meng Xu's intention was very obvious to rush to the basket, at this time, Robert Holly and Rick Fox both gave up their respective defensive objects and came towards Meng Xu, when Meng Xu began to change direction for the second time, O'Neal, who was entangled with Duncan under the basket, also paid attention to Meng Xu's side, ready to move to Meng Xu's side at any time.
Seeing that Meng Xu had been blocked by Robert Hawley, and Rick Fox was sandwiched from the side of Meng Xu's body, at this time, Meng Xu's body center of gravity continued to be lowered, and the change of direction was a little larger than just now, and now Meng Xu's knee has basically reached the ground, even if the defender wants to make a steal, there is no chance.
As the basketball passed under the block of Fox immediately, Meng Xu also took the opportunity to squeeze through the gap between Robert Holly and Rick Fox, and after breaking through the blockade of Robert Holly and Rick Fox, only O'Neal and the basket were left in front of Meng Xu.
"Boy, I've finally found my chance." Looking at Meng Xu who rushed towards him frantically, O'Neill is also happy now, he finally found a chance to teach this bastard a good lesson, if you keep staying outside and shooting, I really can't do anything about you, but now you actually run under the basket to find trouble with me, since you want to find death, then I will fulfill you, by the way, I will give you a big hat, so that you know that sooner or later you will have to pay it back.
"Is Meng Xu going to single out O'Neal?" Seeing Meng Xu's offensive choice, Michaels on the sidelines also sweated for Meng Xu, no matter how strong an outside player is, when he faces an inside player of the same level as him, he is naturally in a slight position, Jordan and Olajuwon were like this back then, and now Meng Xu and O'Neal will not be an exception.
"Meng, pass the ball quickly, pass the ball quickly." When Popovich saw Meng Xu rushing towards O'Neill without hesitation, his heart was also nervous, and he rushed over like this, it was easy to get hurt.
And Meng Xu doesn't have any extra thoughts now, because he knows that he has to do it, when Duncan can't score, if he doesn't stand up, then no one can save this Spurs, although he can also choose to shoot 3 points outside, but now Meng Xu, whose physical strength is seriously reduced, cannot guarantee the success rate, although Meng Xu's shooting has a minimum 3-point shooting rate of 20% in any situation, but that is too low.
"It's going to crash." At the same time as there was an exclamation on the sidelines, Meng Xu completed the last change of direction less than half a meter away from O'Neal, and then raised his fingertips and used almost his last strength to throw the basketball towards the top of the basket.
"A beautiful layup, the Spurs overtook the score." Seeing Meng Xu, who was already lying on the ground after hitting the layup, Michaels shouted a little crazy.
"He actually succeeded? It's incredible. Compared with Michaels, who is already crazy, Magic Johnson is much calmer, although Meng Xu's success in singleing out O'Neal this time is also shocking enough for Magic Johnson.
"Meng, it's okay." After Duncan pulled Meng Xu up on the ground, he asked with concern, just now I saw Meng Xu rushing towards O'Neal, Duncan also pinched a sweat for Meng Xu, people are easy to get injured in a state of fatigue, not to mention Meng Xu's change of direction breakthrough, which can be called an ankle terminator, if he really can't dodge and collide with O'Neal, then Meng Xu will definitely be injured.
"Tim, I'm fine." Meng Xu, who was pulled up from the ground by Duncan, patted Duncan on the back, and then stood in place and moved his leg to confirm that he was not injured.
After the Spurs overtook the score, now all the pressure is on the side of the Lakers, the Lakers are still very determined to play O'Neal, although the Lakers have been wearing the coat of triangle offense, but the Lakers' offense is actually very monotonous, especially this season, basically O'Neal and Kobe Bryant's two big axes take turns to chop, and the remaining group of pitchers pick up a leak, so in the final moments of the game, the Lakers' offensive choice is nothing more than to give the ball to O'Neal or Kobe, so in overtime, O'Neal and Kobe Bryant are both enjoying the Spurs' key care.
"O'Neal hit Duncan again, David Robinson was clamped, O'Neal passed, Robert Hawley, Robert Hawley again, 3-pointer, and the Lakers overtook the score again." Just after David Robinson gave up his defense against Robert Hawley and went to cover O'Neal, Robert Hawley, who ran to the bottom corner, received O'Neal's basketball, adjusted, jumped, shot, hit, everything was so natural, and after the shot, Hawley was still calm, without the slightest consciousness after shooting the key ball.
"Mistake, how did you forget him." Looking at Robert Holly after shooting 3 points, Meng Xu is also annoyed now, out of vigilance against Robert Holly, a key gentleman, in this game, Meng Xu has been paying attention to Robert Holly when defending Kobe, but after entering the fourth quarter, due to the departure of Hores Grant, Robert Holly changed to play power forward, and Robert Holly shot 2 of 6 in the whole regular game, so after entering overtime, Meng Xu forgot Robert Holly, If David Robinson went to cover O'Neal just now, he would immediately go to make up for Robert Hawley or keep up, but just now Meng Xu ignored Robert Hawley and continued to follow Kobe.
"Spurs are dangerous now." With less than 50 seconds left, the Spurs are still 2 points behind the Lakers, and it seems that these players on the court, except for Derrick Anderson, have physical problems now, especially Meng Xu and Duncan, who are obviously gritting their teeth and insisting, but the Lakers are now similar, and like Meng Xu Duncan, O'Neal Bryant, who played the whole game, can now obviously see that they are very tired.
"I can only fight once." Meng Xu, who no longer has much physical strength, first paused slightly in place after passing the ball through the middle circle, and then faced Kobe's defense and Rick Fox who was ready to wrap at any time, Meng Xu began to accelerate and change direction again, when Meng Xu rushed to the basket and threw the basketball to the basket, Meng Xu, who was already exhausted, lay straight down on the ground.
113-113, the Spurs equalized again, with the last 36 seconds left, if they can prevent this attack from the Lakers and bring this score into the final 10 seconds, the Spurs have a hope of winning.
Although Meng Xu thought so and tried to do so, the result was a little different from what Meng Xu imagined, this time it was Robert Hawley, Robert Hawley hit a 3-pointer again after getting rid of David Robinson's defense, 113-116, and the Lakers led by 3 points again. In the last minute of the last game, Robert Holey hit three 3-pointers in a row to help the Lakers win the battle of Kings Mountain, and in the overtime of this game, it was Robert Holey's two key 3-pointers.
"Is it going to be a second overtime?" Looking at Meng Xu, who was already standing between the middle circle and the top of the arc with the ball, although the Lakers were still 3 points ahead of the Spurs, Michaels had a hunch that Meng Xu would definitely be able to shoot this shot, and with less than 10 seconds left, if Meng Xu scored this goal, then the Spurs and the Lakers were likely to play an overtime to determine the winner.
At this time, Meng Xu's legs were already a little numb, standing more than two meters away from the 3-point line, slapping the basketball on the spot, trying to calm his breath, looking up at the timer from time to time, when there were two seconds left, Meng Xu dragged his tired legs, took a step diagonally, and threw the basketball in his hand.
"What an incredible guy." When Meng Xu hit this 3-point again, not only the audience at the scene, but even the big bald head in the box had an expression of disbelief at the moment, and soon, the big bald man laughed inexplicably: "Perhaps, it won't be too late next season." ”
116-116, Meng Xu's 3-point helped the Spurs equalize again, but after Meng Xu shot this ball, he also left the Lakers with 0.4 seconds.