Chapter 241: See you next year
There were 5 minutes left in the game, and Zhang Feng's phrase "the second point guard in the West" was too loud, not only the players on the court, but also the audience off the court could hear it very clearly. This made Wei Shao lose face, so he carried anger on this fast attack, and he slapped the ball hard every time, as if he wanted to smash the ball into the floor.
Such an angry Wei Shao is exactly what Zhang Feng expects, anger will make Wei Shao lose his mind. Wei Shao, who lost his mind, stopped the ball at the top of the arc and forced three points against the defense of Zhang Feng and Bogdan, completely ignoring Paul George, who was unguarded in the bottom corner.
The explosive physicality and the anger of the explosion made Wei Shao's hoop buzz this time.
Seeing that the shot was missed, Willy took a step across to block his body in front of Adams, and Skar jumped lightly to grab the ball.
"Pass the ball out first", seeing that Skar was caught by Anthony and Adams, Zhang Feng raised his hand to remind loudly, but fortunately, Skar reacted quickly, he raised the ball above his head with both hands, held his strength and threw it to Zhang Feng.
Zhang Feng took the ball and turned around and rushed to the front court at high speed, he stopped the ball on the side, fixed his eyes on the inside line and saw that there was no one to defend the inside, and immediately feinted to deceive Wei Shao, took three steps and made two steps to go straight to the basket, and made a strong layup against George, but George jumped high and flew the ball off the court.
"Beep", the referee blew the whistle to signal that George's block was invalid, and the ball was ruled to interfere with the ball, and the king added 2 points.
"Damn, *******", George erupted into foul language, he spent the entire second half of the switchback, the offense couldn't touch the ball in the big gap, and the defense relied on him to wipe his ass, which made him almost want to throw the basketball off the court.
Wei Shao, still slowly and leisurely walked to the basket and stood on his back, and nodded to George. George was stunned for half a second before he reacted, he picked up the basketball and walked out of bounds, threw the ball to the ground at random, and ran to the front court by himself.
Wei Shao picked up the basketball and took it across the half court, and Adams stood on the horns in advance and stretched out his hands. The implication was obvious, Adams wanted to play the horn position, but Wei Shao ignored it and threw the ball straight to Anthony, and then stood at the top of the arc.
Giving the ball to Anthony was also a good choice, but after all, there was no tactical cooperation in the singles.
With three minutes left and the Thunder trailing by seven points, they called too many timeouts in the first half, and there was only one timeout left, and if Anthony couldn't score this goal, the situation would be very passive.
Under pressure, Anthony showed his housekeeping skills - hitting Scal in the low post. Seeing this scene, George immediately set off to detour to the outside line, his hands stretched out in a half-squat position. And Zhang Feng waved his hand to signal Willy to prepare to assist in defense, and at the same time, he quietly turned around and bent over to set up a lunge.
Just when Skal was crumbling and people thought that Anthony was about to roll over and jump, Anthony passed the ball out, and Zhang Feng started to lunge at his feet to pounce on George.
Anthony's pass was towards George, because George had already run back and shook Carter, just to get the space to shoot, but Zhang Feng's sprint made up for the defense, making George's scalp numb who received the ball.
There are two reasons for the numbness, one is that he feels that his shooting is easy to hit under strict defense, and the other is that Wei Shao did not block Zhang Feng at all. Thinking of this, George stopped shooting and distributed the ball to Wei Shao, who was in a big vacancy.
Wei Shao caught the ball and pulled it out, the three-point clatter, Adams grabbed the rebound in the front court and rose on the spot, and Willy fouled.
Zhang Feng chose to defend George to let Wei Shao go because he estimated that Wei Shao would not break through with a high probability, as long as it was not a breakthrough, then he would not have to worry about Wei Shao, who had 15+ iron hits in this game, and was glad that Wei Shao really did not break through.
The first free throw missed, which made Adams a little nervous, since the timeout, except for two three-pointers, the Thunder has not scored for 3 consecutive minutes, if this second free throw is not hit, it will be a black 3 minutes.
Adams rubbed his sweaty palms, touched his pants again, and took a deep breath before he lifted the ball and threw it, and with a clang, the second free throw was still ironed.
Willy grabbed the rebound and turned around for a long pass, Zhang Feng, who was fast in advance, received the ball steadily, the Thunder seemed to choose to give up, they had no one to chase and defend, Zhang Feng closed the ball and jumped at the three-point line, and hit another 3-point shot, and the audience got up and shouted.
With 2:55 left in the game and the Kings leading by 10 points, Donovan called a final timeout.
"Congratulations to the Kings for winning the game, and congratulations to Zhang Feng for being promoted to the second point guard in the West," O'Neal said quickly.
"It's close to 3 minutes, aren't you afraid of blowing up?" Barkley asked, wide-eyed.
"I also think that the Thunder lost, they have lost their fighting spirit, and they didn't do a tactical defense that can't make free throws, it doesn't look like an NBA-level team," Kenny said, shaking his head.
"No, no, Kenny, pay attention to your words, it's obvious that Zhang Feng beat the Thunder, don't say anything like the NBA team, the Thunder is strong, but Zhang Feng is stronger" O'Neal knocked on the table and emphasized.
"I have to say that in this matchup, Zhang Feng completely exploded the power of the ........"
"Really? Then you are admitting Zhang Feng's identity as the second point guard in the west? O'Neill interrupted Barkley's speech, he knew what Barkley was going to say, it was nothing more than Zhang Feng winning something like normal Wei Shao.
"Of course not, Curry, Paul, Wei Shao, Lillard, how can you shoot Zhang Feng" Barkley was anxious and directly listed a list of point guard names.
"Let's continue to watch the game", O'Neill succeeded in his plan and hurriedly changed the subject.
The trend of the game was indeed what O'Neal and Kenny said, the Thunder who returned to the court after the timeout still did not play, and after Willis missed a few shots, Anthony also failed to cause damage on the inside, and the Kings seized the opportunity to fight back a few times, and the game completely went into garbage time.
In the end, the King defeated the Thunder 102-88, ending a two-game losing streak, and Zhang Feng won a 32+10 double-double. For the Thunder, the whole team was out of sorts. Especially Wei Shao, who shot 4 of 22, this is still a situation where he did not play in the second quarter, and this amount of iron is simply terrifying.
After the game, Zhang Feng just finished greeting George, Wei Shao suddenly ran over, "This thing is not over, next time I will cut 40 points on your head", after saying that, Wei Shao turned around and left, Zhang Feng, who had already stretched out his hand, could only smile awkwardly, but when he thought that the next time he played Thunder, he would have to wait until next year, Zhang Feng also said loudly: "I will be stronger next year, and I can't prevent it if you want to."
When Wei Shao heard this, he turned around and glared at Zhang Feng. No way, this is too hurtful, Zhang Feng alluded to Wei Shao's lack of defense in this game.
As the best player of the match, Zhang Feng was scheduled for a post-match interview.
"What's the secret to winning tonight?"
"Don't get caught up in singles, if you can only hit less than half of the 22 shots, then the game will definitely be lost", Zhang Feng laughed and joked with less data.
"So you had 12 assists tonight?" The reporter followed the question.
"Of course, if my teammates are always running back and forth, then we can't win even if they are all Jordans", Zhang Feng made fun of George's inability to catch the ball.
"Last question, what did you talk to Wei Shao about just now?"
"He told me to see you next year, and I agreed."