Chapter Eighty-Nine: Like Kobe Bryant Playing Spurs

The two didn't discuss for long, and the staff began to enter, and Kobe patted Zhang Feng's shoulder to signal to cheer.

"The Celtics seem to be menacing today, and the Kings may not be good," Barkley sighed.

"It's useless, no one can guard against Zhang Feng, he is as invincible as Kobe" O'Neal said with a glance as he hammered the table.

"To be honest, I've come to a conclusion from past Celtic games, as long as Stevens starts with his hands clasped around his chest, then it means that he feels that the enemy is at the moment, and he values Zhang Feng very much, maybe we can see Zhang Feng's true strength from this game," Kenny also said with extra seriousness.

The referee blew the whistle and signaled that the game started, and when the Celtics players came on the court, they all looked at Zhang Feng with strange eyes. Although this was a bit abnormal, Zhang Feng didn't care, and there were more people staring at him.

Papajanis and Zhižić jumped the ball, and after thinking about the whistle, the two jumped almost at the same time, but in the end, Papajanis flicked the ball, and the ball flew directly to Zhang Feng's hand.

The tactics discussed by the Kings last night about playing the Celtics today were very simple, and the others all covered Zhang Feng and Buddy, focusing on the outside. The Celtics' main players in this summer league are Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown, both of whom are forward players, and Kings forwards Justin and Giles do not have to bear offensive responsibilities, except for open layups, all the rest of their energy is spent on defending these two.

Zhang Feng hovered around the three-point lead with the ball, and saw that there was no good breakthrough opportunity, Zhang Feng called Justin's blocking, Tatum's blocking delay did not follow, and Zhang Feng scored three points with the trend.

The Celtics attacked, they did not focus on the two fronts as the king imagined, but played team basketball, running without the ball and cooperating with the blocking, the Celtics found an opportunity to give the ball to the inside line Zhiriqi, Zhizhiqi directly dunked, Papajanis shook his head helplessly.

Several rounds of offense, except for Dmitry's close defense, Zhang Feng did not encounter other defensive pressure, which is a very unusual situation, in this case Zhang Fengfeng shot quite high, at the end of the first quarter he was 9-7, including 4 3-pointers, scored 18 points, except for Zhang Feng, only Justin scored 2 points through an open dunk, Papajanis scored 2 points on free throws, a star scored a high proportion of points is no problem, but the biggest problem is that the Kings are behind by 3 points, and the Celtics scored 25 points in the first quarter. No player in the Celtics played better than Zhang Feng, but basketball is not a one-man game.

There is a 5-minute break at the end of the first quarter. Zhang Feng put on a towel and held a glass of Gatorade, he was listening carefully to Turner's review and analysis of the first quarter of the game, and Turner finally came to a conclusion:

"It's okay to attack, it's okay to defend, but I always feel weird."

The whole coaching team discussed it, and they didn't see anything wrong, and it was nothing to be three points behind, so they decided to continue playing according to their previous tactics.

At the beginning of the second quarter, the Celtics played a beautiful combination, Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown completed an air-receiving combination, and this scene was one of the scenes that the fans at the scene were very much looking forward to.

The king attacked, Zhang Feng was still unstoppable, and when he reached the three-point line, he didn't think about it for more than two seconds, but the ball still went in, and this feeling was as hot as divine help.

After a few rounds of this performance, Zhang Feng's shooting rate was super high, the Celtics team was invincible, and the score never opened.

After a dead ball, Stevens called a timeout, whispered a few words to the Celtic players before ending the reprimand, which looked like a wasted timeout to outsiders.

In the TNT studio, Barkley slammed the table, ignoring Kenny and O'Neill's surprised eyes, and said:

"I know Stevens' familiar strategy, this timeout comes back, and the Celtics will start to contain Zhang Feng"

"It's useless, Zhang Feng will blow them up" Barkley didn't care.

"Then wait and see, Stevens' tactics are not known for boasting," Barkley confident.

On the field, the situation was as Barkley said, and the Kelles players who returned to the court fought against Zhang Feng with a trap tactic.

The trap tactic is not to have two defenders leaning on the attacker to be a pack, but to block all the options of the attacker - whether it is breaking, shooting, passing, moving.

The Celtics' approach to Zhang Feng was very rough, Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum used their height advantage to block Zhang Feng's advance, shooting, and route on the left and right, while Tmitry stood behind Zhang Feng to cut off Zhang Feng's retreat.

For a time, Zhang Feng was outnumbered and embattled.

But Zhang Feng is Zhang Feng, after being stunned for a second, Zhang Feng thought of a countermeasure - fake casting and real passing, but this requires the cooperation of his teammates, because the line of sight is blocked, he has no time to communicate with his teammates to make them ready to respond. He can only be strong and hope that his teammates understand what he means.

Zhang Fen jumped directly, and Tatum and Brown jumped up after him. Yu Guang found that there were no teammates to answer, Zhang Feng had no choice but to choose to make a strong shot, but because he didn't want to shoot, plus there were two people interfering, Zhang Feng threw a three-no-stick.

The audience immediately laughed, Zhang Feng was not angry, nor annoyed, nor hesitated, and directly called a timeout.

Stevens was surprised when he saw Zhang Feng call a timeout, and he thought to himself: Could it be that Zhang Feng discovered his tactical intentions so quickly?

Stevens' last timeout to explain to the Celtics players was that the defensive strategy against Zhang Feng changed to "put it once, clamp it once", and the core of the tactics was still to let Zhang Feng disconnect from other teammates.

Zhang Feng called a timeout not because he saw through Stevens's tactics, but because he had to communicate with his teammates in advance: if he was caught in the bag to see the situation, he would express it through his voice, and if Zhang Feng shouted that he needed them, he would answer, and if he didn't shout that he needed it, he would not answer.

At the end of the timeout, Zhang Feng held the ball past half court, this time the Celtics did not choose to wrap Zhang Feng, and faced Temitry's single defense Zhang Feng directly pulled out a three-point shot.

Immediately afterwards, the Celtics skillfully used the tactic of "putting a clip once", which was not simply a simple last time to pack and clamp the next time, but to choose whether to put a shot or a package to see the opportunity. Zhang Feng faced the bag clip, although he called his teammates several times in advance to respond, but the effect was not ideal.

At the end of the second quarter, the Celtics led the Kings 48-37.

Zhang Feng was ready to take advantage of the halftime break to discuss with his teammates and coaches how to deal with it next. At this time, Kobe Bryant walked over, he walked next to Zhang Feng, and asked:

"Do you have a solution?"

"Not for the time being" Zhang Feng told the truth, this is admitting that he is in trouble and doesn't know how to solve it.

Kobe Bryant put one hand on Zhang Feng's shoulder and whispered to him:

"Beat them like I play spurs, no matter how they wrap you, you just have to do whatever it takes to subdue them, until they feel that the bag is useless, sometimes on the field, the cooperation is not as lethal as a single person."