Chapter 224: Desperate Leader

Zhang's 17th assist was too easy to come by, and the 18th assist in the future seemed even more real. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info twice in a row, Zhang Fu's pass to his outside teammates failed to achieve anything, and it was a bit unwise to score by long-range shooting at the end of the game.

But when Zhang Qi breaks through, usually only outside teammates have the opportunity to shoot directly, and if he wants an assist, he can only pass to them, otherwise it will be difficult to get an assist if he scores.

The Rockets players didn't know that Zhang Fu was obsessed with passing again in order to complete the task, and they just made the most reasonable choice based on experience.

At this point, any experienced team will stick to the mid-range range, letting the opponent go to shoot inefficiently, and will be even more inefficient in the final moments of the game.

Zhang Qian still feels that his passing makes sense, since people are stubbornly guarding the penalty area and the middle, he rushes in and dies, is there something wrong with his brain?

So, there was no problem with his passing options, and the blame was on his teammates who started to play iron at critical moments.

What, you say to stabilize and play tactics slowly?

I'm sorry, but I can't get an assist that way, so I don't choose the ranks anymore.

When the game time came to the last 36 seconds, Zhang Qi glanced at the score and could only sigh secretly.

The Lakers now only lead by one point at 113-112, and he can't afford to indulge in assists anymore and must look for opportunities to score.

At this time, if you recall the whole game, is Zhang Qian addicted to assists and can't extricate himself? Or have you been making the right choices?

In fact, the answer has been there for a long time, the Lakers played so easily today, because only by playing simple, he can have more opportunities for direct assists, and he only needs to reflect a little to know his own problems.

This time is likely to be the Lakers' last offense today, but Zhang said that he should really pass the ball this time, because the Rockets in addition to defending his Drexler, Olajuwon and Barkley all surrounded him, at this time not passing the ball is really a head problem, Zhang Zhu in the crowd with a "throw" action to throw the ball to the bottom corner.

Mason had an average performance today, but this time he moved to the baseline in time, there were no defenders within two meters in front of him, and he raised his hand to throw an awkward-looking mid-range shot, but the basketball landed firmly in the basket.

"18th assist! But I need 19 assists to get the job done, and by 'breakout' I mean exceed, and he's not done the second most difficult task yet. ”

What Zhang Yu was thinking about at this time was not that he was three points ahead, but that he regretted that his second difficult task would not be completed, unless the game could be played in overtime.

Well, it's problematic for Zhang to think so, but he doesn't deliberately release water in order to break the record.

Still, there was a chance for him to complete his mission, because Barkley actually scored a three-pointer in his last offense, can you believe it?

Not to mention Zhang Mao, even Barkley himself doesn't believe it, today he has made 3 three-pointers, and the shooting rate is 50%, which is a bit extraordinary.

The Lakers' previous offense took 20 seconds, the Rockets' offensive time was not sufficient, Tang Shuai used the tactics of the last long timeout to arrange the last attack, but he drew the tactics on the tactical board for a long time, but he didn't play any role on the court, and the Rockets were almost so defended that they couldn't even send the ball.

Harris replaced Mason again, put Starks up, played a big and four small lineup, and made it clear that he wanted to defend the three-point shot, and the Rockets couldn't win the game if they scored two points anyway.

The Rockets' offense was passive from the start, and the Lakers knew they were going to shoot threes, and everyone was so entangled in their own alignment that they almost made the Rockets serve for a violation.

Barkley finally gave Zhang a dark elbow, which finally led to the basketball.

"Fuck your uncle!"

Zhang Qi was angry, how long has he not been overshadowed, can he bear it?

However, this emotion made him misjudge, and when the Rockets player passed the ball for a long time and didn't find a chance to shoot, and the basketball was passed back to Barkley in the last 3 seconds, Zhang Yu thought that this guy was definitely going to shoot, and wanted to take off the cap, but he didn't expect Barkley to dare to make a shooting feint in the last 3 seconds, and he was directly shaken away.

Barkley was experienced, leaned on Zhang Mao in time, threw the basketball out, and the referee's whistle blew at the same time!

Zhang Zhu looked back at the basketball in the air with some horror, this Nima is 3+1!

"Wow"!

Barkley's random basketball actually went in, and Zhang Yu almost turned into a Yao Ming face after he landed, isn't he going to become a sinner who loses? ?

The face of the big ass glows with the look of picking up the soap, and the words "3+1 lore" keep circling in his mind, is it going to complete a career masterpiece today?

Barkley thought too much about this, because a thousand words ago spoiled the "overtime", then his free throw was obviously missed.

After Mutombo grabbed the rebound that Barkley missed, he didn't even have time to throw it to the front court to hit a big luck, and the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game, and the game in regular time was over, overtime!

"Awesome, overtime is acceptable, I haven't made a force yet!"

Zhang Qi said that the overtime game is fantastic, not to mention his current physical strength, not to mention playing one overtime, even if he plays two overtimes, it is no problem!

At this time, I looked at Barkley again, the face of the big ass has turned purple, this guy has played 48 minutes now, and it is too scary to play an overtime, when he made a free throw just now, the big ass was because he wanted to score too much, but he didn't hit it after aiming for a long time.

Rockets fans also think it's not good, the Lakers' average age can be ranked at the top of the league, and the Rockets have to be found from behind, and it's really bad for them to play overtime, which is the rhythm of playing eggs.

The Lakers' age structure is indeed reasonable, and a team is not the younger the better, nor the older the better.

The interior needs to have enough experience and at the same time the athleticism can't be too bad, and Mason is 29 years old, and Mutombo is 30 years old is the peak of the interior line, and both have enough playoff experience, one is the first Black Eight creator in NBA history, and the other has Finals experience, and has achieved the perfect balance of athleticism and experience.

It's better to be younger on the perimeter, because perimeter players rely heavily on athleticism and experience second, so 25 to 30 years old is the peak of perimeter players.

The Lakers' outside line is a little too young, but fortunately, Zhang Yu is young, Van Exel is at his peak, Finley is also an older draft, and the 31-year-old Starks playing the sixth man also makes up for the experience problem, so the Lakers' outside lineup is not lacking in experience, but it surpasses almost all teams in the league in terms of athleticism.

Zhang Yu will have 22 points, 13 rebounds, 18 assists, 2 steals and 2 blocks, this data makes people have to think that this little beast will not get a 20+20 super luxury performance today, there are few players in NBA history who have won double 20, especially the combination of scoring + assists.

Random Mission (2): [Two-pronged] Start -

"Complete Double 20 Performance", Status: Unfinished, 10,000 Arena Points, 1,000 Fame.

Zhang Fu received another task before the start of overtime, this is a task with only one option, and it is indeed the expected reward of "double 20 data", although the name of the task is a bit evil, but it does not prevent the greed in his eyes from being heavier than before, and now he doesn't even have a trace of reason, because the reward really drives him crazy!

Today, as long as he gets 21 assists, he can get at least 60,000 competition points, not counting other additional rewards, such as triple-doubles or something, all of which add up to 70,000 competition points.

Get 60,000 or 70,000 competition points in a game, it is impossible to say that such a reward is not greedy, if you really want to pay for the loss of a game, Zhang Fu thinks it is worth it, it is a full 60,000 or more competition points!

Zhang Fu had a plan in his heart, so he naturally had to start working hard for the "assist", this time he really put his personal data in front of the team, and he couldn't afford to lose to the Rockets.

Therefore, after the start of overtime, Zhang Zhu really didn't shoot when he had a chance, which was very rare in him, Zhang Fu completely left the victory behind him at the moment, and now he only has competition points in his eyes.

Van Exel's catch-and-shoot misses......

Finley hit a three-pointer......

But it doesn't matter, Zhang Yu is still stubborn to pass the ball for his teammates, and the third time he received the pass was Mutombo, this time he used the spinning top mastery, broke into the encirclement of Olajuwon and Barkley, and forced the two superstars to pass the ball again......

Uncle Mu was a little confused, because he didn't know how the basketball got to him, but that didn't prevent him from scoring the ball in an open position, and the Lakers finally scored a minute and a half after the start of overtime.

"The 19th assist, one assist left, I can get at least 20,000 competition points!"

Zhang Wei only has assists in his eyes now, although he also found that the score has become 117:119, but this does not prevent him from continuing to work hard for assists.

30 seconds later, Zhang Mao's pass finally hit the wall and was directly stealed by the Rockets.

The Rockets players are not stupid, Zhang Yu is obviously bent on brushing assists by playing like this, and many people are aware of his thoughts at this time, so Olajuwon's witty feint is a bag, but in fact, he pays attention to the broken ball.

Zhang Wei didn't realize that he was being targeted, this pass was successfully stolen by Da Meng, and the Rockets completed a fast-break counterattack, and the score came to 117:121 in a blink of an eye.

The cheers of the Rockets fans finally reached Zhang Mao's mind this time, making him a little sober.

However, when I think that he has done it without doing it, he is just one assist away from it, and it would be really bad to change his mind at this moment, and since he is wrong, he will be wrong to the end.

Two and a half minutes later, Harris frowned on the sidelines, and then could only sigh secretly because he couldn't replace Zhang, even if he had almost done so a few times before, but he still couldn't really change Zhang.

Harris sighed because the Lakers didn't score again for the previous two and a half minutes, during which Zhang had four passes, one that made the Lakers almost 24-second foul, one was stealed by the Rockets, and the other two failed to create a proper shot, Mason and Finley had to force a shot, and the result was missed.

Now that the whole world has seen his intentions, the bastard clearly wants to get the double 20 stats, so even Drexler no longer looks at Zhang Qi's shots, but focuses on his passing, in which case it is too difficult for him to get assists.

At this moment, there are 46 seconds left in the game, the score is 117:128, and the Lakers only scored 2 points in overtime, and now even Lakers fans don't know whether to complain about Zhang Mao's selfishness, after all, this kind of behavior rarely appears in superstars, so most people can't accept Zhang Mao's performance in their hearts.

The reporters on the sidelines will be the happiest, now they finally have a chance to hack Zhang Zhu, some reporters are even thinking: Zhang Zhu's behavior, I don't know if I can put on the hat of "race"?

The hearts of the Lakers players are also half unhappy and helpless, throughout the overtime, the Lakers players almost did not communicate, Zhang Fu's play is too demoralizing, but they can't criticize Zhang Fu, they have never seen him so irresponsible before, even if you want to question him, it will have to wait until after the game.

Harris glanced at the time and score at this time, and simply asked for a timeout, specifically designed an assist strategy for Zhang Mao.

You're going to farm data, right? Well, now that the game has been lost, Harris decided to simply help his wayward disciple complete 20+20, and as for the reckoning matter, leave it after the game.

In fact, this is already venting dissatisfaction, which is equivalent to putting Zhang Fu on the shelf and roasting, and there will be more black spots in the media after the game.

Zhang Qi is really embarrassed now, he never thought that the last two assists would be so difficult.

Harris's timeout finally made him understand what it means to be "unstoppable" and what it means to be "hard to ride a tiger". Every time he failed to pass before, he told himself that "you must not be cowardly, since you have done it, you will do it to the end". But this pause let him know that even if he made a mistake, he now had no chance of accomplishing his original purpose.

To make matters worse, he saw in the angry eyes of his teammates that his prestige was disappearing, and he also saw the fans and media lashing out at him after the game, and this game threatened to lose most of the prestige and fame he had accumulated in a year.

Thinking about it carefully, this is not something that can be bought with 60,000 competition points, and now he can understand what it means to "lose his wife and lose his soldiers".

", I seem to have messed things up, why am I so brainless?"

Zhang Yu knew that he was on top, he was like losing his mind today, how could he fight like this?

Harris was still arranging passing tactics for Zhang Fu in a frustrated manner, and Mason slapped his seat hard to vent his dissatisfaction after listening to it, and almost cursed.

Mutombo shook his head as well, and then without saying a word, he covered his face with a towel.

The other players of the Lakers didn't react much, after all, Zhang Zhu's prestige was still very high, and they didn't dare to make more moves, but they must be complaining about Zhang Zhu's irresponsible performance.

Zhang Yu had calmed down in his heart, he took a panoramic view of the reactions of these teammates, and secretly screamed a fluke in his heart.

At this moment, if Mason and Mutombo, or Starks, three veterans, openly express their dissatisfaction, then he is truly tragic. Fortunately, although the three of them fully expressed their dissatisfaction with him in terms of body movements, they finally didn't say it, and Zhang Wei knew that he still had a chance to make up for it.

46 seconds, 11 points behind.

Zhang Wei knew that there was little hope for him to turn the tables now, but he had to make a show of it, at least to make the storm after the game lighter, and this time he finally stopped thinking about the word "assist" in his mind.

"Boy, don't give up easily, your Double 20 still has a chance, you still have 46 seconds."

Barkley was almost tired, but he felt that his efforts had not been in vain, and now that the outcome was decided, he was finally in the mood to speak up and mock.

"yes, what a great achievement Double 20 is!"

Drexler played a white face on the side, usually he doesn't talk much trash, but today he was suddenly slammed by Zhang Fu, and he couldn't help but laugh at the moment.

"That's no way, he's better take the 20+19 data and go back to Los Angeles."

Olajuwon is also not good at stubble, but Da Meng has always played the role of red face, and today it is rare to voluntarily play a black face.

Zhang Yu laughed when he heard this, but don't think that this is pretending to be forced, or preparing to fight back, at this moment he is really just forcing a smile, because he is not qualified to fight back at this time, so he can only laugh.

The three of them didn't talk back when they saw Zhang Mao, and they didn't taunt anymore, because the game started again.

Harris set up a passing tactic for Zhang Mao during this timeout, which is also fresh enough.

But when the whole Rockets team knew that he couldn't shoot, it didn't seem to make a difference, and this time it was the Lakers' turn and they almost couldn't serve the ball.

Mason was indignant off the court, Harris in order to increase the outside firepower, once again used the outside lineup of Van Exel, Starks, and Finley, Zhang Zhu naturally wanted to be promoted to the fourth position, then Mason could only come down to watch the play, at this moment he already had a little regret in his heart to come to the Lakers, if Zhang Zhu came so nonsense in the future, he really wanted to hold a player meeting......

"Hiss......"

Before Mason's thoughts fell, he heard the collective inhalation of 15,000 home fans, and you can imagine the scene of more than 10,000 people gasping collectively.

"What's wrong?"

Mason didn't see what was happening on the court, looked up at the big screen on the court, and saw that after Zhang Qi received the ball, he dribbled and broke through as before, and then made a one-handed pass, which immediately made Drexler rush out......

However, Zhang Zhu's pass this time was just a feint, or a very fake one, but the whole Rockets team, including the Lakers players, didn't expect that Zhang Qiu would not pass the ball? I saw Zhang Yu pull the basketball back slightly, jump back to the three-point line, and quickly shoot the ball, and the basketball drew a beautiful arc and fell into the net!

3.5 seconds! Zhang Fu's attack took only 3.5 seconds, from his catch, breakthrough, emergency stop, passing feints, to the final jump shot, the whole action was done in one go. But the most annoying thing was that after the goal, he didn't celebrate with his two signature moves, but shook his head to himself, and then leaned over and put it on, ready to start defending from the front.

The Lakers players didn't rush over to celebrate, the ball just recovered the three points, what is there to celebrate?

But this three-point at least gave them a little motivation to chase the score, and the three outsiders followed Zhang Yu to start a full-court rush.

"...... Uproar"

Mason saw what was happening on the pitch this time, and he also heard the collective exclamations of the 15,000 home fans in the stadium!

I have to say that the Rockets' backcourt is really bad, and the Lakers have not used full-court pressing today, but they didn't expect to receive miraculous results for the first time.

Van Axel successfully tackled Emmanuor, and then heard Zhang Yi shouting for the ball not far away, and Van Crazy immediately passed the ball over.

After Zhang Qian received the basketball, in front of him was Drexler, who was close to him, Zhang Fu's face even turned red at this moment, and he was about to jump up and shoot the basketball when he pulled the basketball to the right.

Drexler didn't think much of it, and immediately jumped off the block, and then he knew he had been fooled!

How to say it, Zhang Fu's face turned red the moment he shot, such acting skills are really realistic, Drexler jumped into the air only to find that he was actually being played by a 15-year-old kid.

After Zhang Yu successfully deceived Drexler, he immediately touched the opponent's body, and the basketball was thrown out by him, and the referee's sharp whistle sounded at the same time, and the audience was full of Rockets fans' exclamations.

"Hey, it's a pity!"

Zhang Yu sighed, the basketball finally smashed on the basket, although the three free throws have been in hand, but if it is 3+1, then there is really a chance to turn the tables.

However, this goal was enough to boost morale, and the Lakers players finally cheered, and the four of them rushed over with shouts and high-fived Zhang Fu!

Zhang Wei quietly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, what he thought was: If these two attacks didn't work, he didn't know what he would be scolded after the game, but fortunately, he was lucky, and he must not play like this again in the future.

This time he finally left the data behind, but don't get me wrong, Zhang Mao didn't feel that he was wrong to brush the data, but that he felt that he was wrong because he was hot-headed, and he didn't grasp the strength of "brushing", and he didn't stop when he should have stopped, which is the problem.

Coincidentally, this attack only took 3.5 seconds, and Zhang Fu felt incredible when he found out.

Three free throws, Zhang Mao embodied his big heart, and three consecutive hollow balls made the crazy boos of the home fans have no effect.

Rocket fans are a little panicked now, there are 39 seconds left in the game, the score has come to 123:128, and the original 11-point difference is only 5 points, which seems a bit dangerous.

Tang Shuai hurriedly asked for a timeout, although dribbling from the back court can delay time, but if the ball is cut off again, it will be all over. Now it's imperative to score a goal, even if it's just a two-point goal, and that's going to seal the win. Otherwise, it would be really dangerous to let the Lakers score another goal to narrow the difference.

The timeout was timely, and after the game restarted, Olajuwon showed his two-time Finals MVP style at a critical moment, he used two turns to fake a flaw in the heads-up with Mutombo, and then used a dream step to fly Zhang Zhu, who made up for the defense, and threw the ball in a 1-on-2 attack.

"Compaq Center" instantly turned into a vegetable market, and the hearts of Rocket fans who were scared by Zhang Zhu's two attacks were about to fly out, especially when Olajuwon made the last shot, Mutombo had returned to the defensive position, and Da Meng was forced to adjust the height and arc of the shot, and the people were also crooked in the air, but fortunately, the basketball rolled on the basket several times, and still fell, which was really a big breath of relief.

Rocket fans were finally relieved that the entire "Compaq Center" was filled with cheers from home fans and mocking Mandarin.

The offense took 15 seconds, with 24 seconds left in the game, and the score was 123-130, and they didn't believe the Lakers could bounce back.

"Bang!"

This time it's the sound of basketball and hoops colliding passionately!

After receiving the serve, Zhang Fu first knocked down Drexler, who was stuck in front of him.

This move is very controversial, because even in this era, Zhang Mao's action has a high tendency to foul.

However, NBA referees have always been reluctant to dominate the game in the final stages, and as long as it is not a foul that is too bad, such actions will probably not be awarded.

The Rockets were shocked, and as soon as Drexler was knocked down, there was no one to restrain him, and once he rushed up, Barkley couldn't stop the heavy tank even with his ass.

As a result, Rockets fans saw Zhang Fufei go to the front court and get rid of Mario Elie with a change of direction, while Barkley and Big Dream were still eating dirt in the midfield.

Zhang Yu didn't have time to slow down and adjust, so he jumped up and threw the ball out, and the basketball smashed into the basket like a cannonball......

That's right, the basketball is indeed smashed to the basket, who called Zhang Yu rushed too fast on this long-distance run, he jumped up when he was one step away from the three-point line, but his body had already rushed into the three-point line when he shot.

It is conceivable that with such a big momentum, Zhang Qian couldn't aim at all, he didn't aim, he threw the ball completely with his body instinct, and he shot out this ball completely by feeling, so the basketball used the huge momentum to draw a flat and straight arc in the air that was very different from his usual shooting, and then smashed into the basket with a "bang"!

Rockets players and fans made the same head-hugging action at this moment, and many Houston fans were even more shocked and shouted: "CNMB, another 3.5 seconds!?" ”

Zhang Wei still didn't celebrate after scoring the goal, but showed eagle-like eyes, a little pretending, as if to say, "I'm going to eat you".

But even he didn't pay attention to himself, the most annoying thing is that this attack only took 3.5 seconds, and it was from the back court to the front court to complete the score, which is almost the limit time required for an attack.

The score was 126:130 with 20.5 seconds left.

Zhang Fu's three attacks combined took only 10.5 seconds, and he had already made two three-pointers in a row, and those three free throws could also be regarded as a three-pointer, which means that he scored 9 points in only 10 seconds?

At this moment, no one feels safe to have a 4-point lead of 20 seconds anymore.

Tang Shuai was even more frightened and quickly used up his last timeout, but this was a short timeout, but he thought it was a long timeout, which shows that even Tomjanovich, who has experienced despair, can't stay calm, Zhang Mao's three attacks are too buggy!

This really can't be blamed on Tang Shuai for not being calm, Zhang Yu's momentum is clearly about to turn the tables.

Tomjanovic and the Rocket players all had a thought in their hearts that "Zhang Fu is unstoppable now", they have been suppressed by Zhang Zhu in terms of momentum, and there is a strong premonition that the other party will definitely be able to turn the tables!

"Does he want to?"

"He won't be?"

"How is that possible?"

“…………”

Rocket fans also have the same hunch, Zhang Mao's momentum is too strong, they don't dare to think about the word "win" now, let alone the word "lose", the originally high morale instantly turned negative, and there is no way to explain how this happened.

But both the players and the fans, they did go from being "winners" to desperate leaders in just half a minute.

A wave of despair rose in the hearts of Rockets fans, which is strange because they are still leading by 4 points and have only 20 seconds left, and it is the Lakers who should be desperate no matter how they look at it.

Tang Shuai thought he was calling a long timeout, but as soon as the tactics were halfway through, the game was about to start again.

This was embarrassing, Tang Shuai felt that he had made the stupidest mistake in his life, and this mistake made the Rocket players look confused, and they could only return to the court with half of their tactics at the urging of the referee. The result can be imagined, in the end, in order to delay time, the Rockets were made another steal by Zhang Fu.

"Don't let him ......"

Barkley originally wanted to say "don't let him rush up", but halfway through the words, Zhang Qi had already rushed up.

Drexler tried to follow, but his calves went limp, and he stumbled and threw himself on the floor, his strength exhausted.

Zhang Qian still had a lot of strength, and after rushing to the frontcourt, he found that no one could keep up with him, so he immediately slowed down and threw three points......

"Huh!"

You don't have to think about this goal, as soon as Zhang Yu made a shot, he knew that it must have been scored.

Even if he didn't score a three-pointer, he could rush over to grab the rebound, and the exhausted Rockets, who had just chased after him when he shot, really couldn't grab him.

3.5 seconds! Another 3.5 seconds! Zhang Yu still only took 3.5 seconds to complete the score this time!

The Rockets players all look like they're lost in their souls, isn't that a dream?

The home fans are also an idea, what are you kidding, "Slam Dunk" is not so hanging, right?

After scoring this goal, Zhang Yu finally began to pretend to be forced, only to see him rush to a camera on the sidelines, and yelled a little hideously: "Tremble, despair, mortal!" Destruction has come! ”

With a score of 129-130, the Rockets said they had no idea what was going on, and that they were only leading by one point now anyway, and maybe destruction was really coming......