Chapter 268: You Can Enter with Your Eyes Closed
As a leading point guard, it is a shame to be continuously tackled by the opponent when there is no mistake in ball control and the opponent does not press.
This continuous interruption can only show one problem, the level of ball control is not up to par!
Not only did the fans question Russell's ball control level, but even Russell himself began to feel a little unconfident, is his ball control level really so bad? At least above the NBA average!
Russell, who has already spent his rookie year on a big stage like the NBA, feels that his face is hot at the moment.
Seeing that Russell was tackled twice in a row, even though Wharton Jr. was a very personable coach, he still saw some displeasure on his face, but he still forcibly suppressed a trace of emotion in his heart. At this time, instead of replacing or blaming Russell, it is better to give him more tolerance and opportunities, after all, he is the core player that the team focuses on developing, and these times are actually important moments to establish a good relationship with the general.
Russell knew that his performance was substandard, and glanced at the coach's seat, only to see Wharton Jr. pressing his hands towards him, signaling his peace of mind, and there were no other instructions, and he couldn't help but be a little grateful to Wharton Jr. for his generosity.
Russell came steadily to the front court with the ball, did not want to live up to the trust of Wharton Jr., and did not continue to play singles, but beckoned to Randle to call for a pick-and-roll.
The Lakers' center player at this time has been replaced by Randle, although Mozgov has a high salary, but the average time per game in the Lakers games is only about 20 minutes, and he is basically not there at the critical moments, but Randle, a potential player with faster speed, stronger athleticism and higher passing skills, is also a potential player with a higher passing level as the center of the five-small lineup, and his role is like Dream Green in the Warriors.
Randle is not a strict pick-and-roll, he has never been a blue-collar player, and splitting to the basket to catch the ball is his preferred way, and faster pick-and-roll often means better opportunities.
When the delay was not complete enough, Chen Zhi was able to quickly get close to Russell again.
Russell, who knew Randle's way of playing, took the ball with his left hand and tried it, and found an angle to pass the ball to the ball to Randle, who cut inside.
But in this way, the speed of his pass was not fast and decisive enough in Chen Zhi's opinion, and Chen Zhi immediately reached out to intercept the pass.
In fact, Russell's angle of the ball is indeed very good, if it weren't for Chen's super fast reaction speed now, I'm afraid it would be a beat slower, even after the high-level brain domain strengthening, the reaction speed soared to an unprecedented level, and it was just like pointing at the basketball with his fingertips, but this was enough!
Steal, another steal! Three steals in a row!!
The dribble was broken, the pass was broken, and Russell felt like he was being cut off by the ball!
"Oh, Chen Zhi is simply possessed by Stockton!" TNT ace commentator Kenny Smith immediately said that it seemed to be back in the era of being dominated by Stockton, the NBA's all-time steal king.
Stockton's NBA career is 19 years, and Kidd, who ranks second in history in steals, also has a 19-year historical career, but Stockton's 3,265 steals are nearly 600 times higher than Kidd's, and he averages 2.2 steals per game in his entire historical career! This statistic shows how strong Stockton's tackling ability is.
After the steal, Chen Zhi immediately launched a fast attack, and Russell saw that things were not good, so he immediately alertly fouled Chen Zhi first!
The referee's whistle sounded immediately, and at this time, the Lakers had already reached the cumulative number of foul free throws, Chen Zhi walked to the free throw line, patted two sneakers as usual, and hit two free throws steadily!
Chen Zhi's free throw shooting rate has still maintained a 100% shooting rate since the start of the game, and it can be said that it is meaningless to foul Chen Zhi.
However, Russell's foul may also have some significance for the Lakers, such as saving a timeout, because even if he doesn't foul, even if Walton Jr. is more tolerant and puts Russell on the court, I'm afraid that Lakers fans won't agree, and he has to call a timeout to let Russell reflect on the bench!
Before the game, Russell, who scoffed at Chen Zhi's defensive ability and claimed to beat Chen Zhi on the offensive end, never thought that he would be sent off the field by this Chen Zhi in the game! However, Russell couldn't get angry, the few broken balls just now were extremely clean, and there was no extra action, even if he wanted to use the opponent's steal foul as a fig leaf, it was impossible, so he simply faced it calmly.
Clarkson is also a two-way guard, although the passing vision is not wide enough, and the passing ability is also lacking in some fire, but the ball control ability, especially the speed of ball control, is above Russell, who is a little slow to control the ball, and it is not so simple for Chen to break the ball from his hand.
Clarkson, who was substituted on the field, looked at Kendall Jenner who was sitting on the sidelines, with a pair of eyes like stars and moons, but he turned a blind eye to his current boyfriend, and his attention was all on the Chinese man, which made Clarkson very annoyed!
In the face of Chen Zhi's defense, Clarkson's desire to attack is very strong, as a master of chaos, he usually has a very good single ability, and Clarkson is naturally no exception.
seems to be very brainless, without any tactical cooperation, absolute chaos and unreasonableness, but Clarkson just dares to shoot.
It is unrealistic for Chen to want to block Clarkson, who is about the same height as Russell, in front of him, how to say that people are close to two meters tall, not to mention that in the Lakers' home court, as long as the defensive end touches some corners, there is nothing wrong with the referee blowing a shooting foul.
After Chen Zhi tried his best to interfere with his vision, Clarkson, who had been hot in this game, still hit the shot!
There was no doubt that this was a beautiful shot, and the Lakers fans on the sidelines immediately gave warm applause and cheered for the boys of the home team!
Clarkson, who threw the ball in front of Chen Zhi, had a piercing look in his eyes, but he just scored a goal, but he seemed to have dominated the entire arena, and said to Chen Zhi, "You'd better stay away from her!" ”
Chen Zhi couldn't help but be inexplicable when he heard Clarkson's obviously unkind tone, "What are you talking about?" ”
"I said, stay away from her!" In the retreat, Clarkson glanced at Kendall Jenner, who was sitting quietly on the sidelines.
When Chen Zhi saw his action, he naturally understood the reason why Clarkson was a little impulsive, and it seemed that the exposed video caused the incident.
Chen Zhi, who knew the cause and effect, didn't say much, he had no obligation to explain to this Clarkson, who had nothing to do with him, and this Lakers young man was very angry, so it was necessary to lower his anger!
Advancing to the outside of the three-point line, Chen Zhi started directly and smoothly, Clarkson opened his arms and pasted up, although he knew that Chen Zhi was outstanding, he still stood up, which can be regarded as courage.
Sometimes, however, courage didn't work, Chen didn't stop at the slightest step in forcing overtaking, and Clarkson's defense was far from enough to give him the slightest stop.
The reason why Wharton Jr. lets the outside players defend Chen Zhi alone is mainly to use the help defense, especially the supplemental defense of the inside, as a means to limit Chen Dao, although Chen Zhi also has a good impact on the inside, but compared to his scoring explosiveness on the outside, it is obviously nothing.
Chen Zhi saw the reinforcement of the inside line, and did not speed up to rush in to seize the opportunity, but instead suddenly reduced the speed that had been raised after forcibly passing Clarkson.
Clarkson, who was chasing behind him, was caught off guard and immediately knocked down Chen Zhi, who had already been prepared, immediately jumped up at the moment when the two sides made physical contact, and his body was obviously violated by Clarkson, and Chen Zhi, who was already in the air, forcibly stabilized his body and made a throwing action.
This foul from behind is very obvious, the referee's whistle sounded without hesitation, and the basketball fell into the basket at the same time, 2+1!
Chen Zhi turned around and smiled at Clarkson, who was stretching out his arm to signal a foul, "Young man, you'd better stay away from me, too close will give points!" ”
"Humph! You get the ball in first! ”
Although Wharton Jr. gave a detailed introduction to Chen Zhi's ability in these games at the team meeting, Clarkson also knows that Chen Zhi currently has a 100% free throw shooting rate, but the number of games is still small, and the free throw shooting rate is not a few, which is not terrifying.
"Hehe, I can score the ball with my eyes closed!" Chen Zhi said without any joke.
After walking to the free throw line, he did the same, slapped his shoes twice as always, and after receiving the ball from the referee hitting the ground, Chen Zhi closed his eyes directly!
"Oh! Oh! What's he doing! What's he doing! He closed his eyes! Aha! "Big shark O'Neill's voice is naturally funny.
Barkley winked at his leopard eyes, "Oh, he's learning Michael Jordan's closed-eye free throw!" It seems that he has some conflict with the young man with Jordan in his name on the field! ”
"It does look like it's going to be a free throw with your eyes closed." Kenny Smith said the same, but soon he was even more shocked and said, "What! He had to close his eyes and dribble twice before he made a free throw! ”
Kenny Smith's shock was also a shock shared by the Lakers' entire audience.
It's really hard to close your eyes and make free throws, but if it's very difficult, it's a bit of an exaggeration, because many professional players can do it, because their muscle memory is far from comparable to that of ordinary fans, and it's enough to complete free throws in this situation, but the shooting rate is difficult to guarantee, and it's good to be able to ensure that your free throw shooting rate is five layers.
When one eye is visually impaired, the human body's sense of distance will be deviated, and when both eyes are closed, this distance deviation is even more outrageous.
If you look at the basket before closing your eyes, this sense of distance will still be a little remnant, but if you close your eyes and dribble twice before shooting, this sense of distance can really be completely disrupted, even if you are very close to touch something that you often touch, there will be a lot of deviation in this case, let alone standing in front of the free throw line to shoot!
The audience was amazed, so that Clarkson couldn't help but look up at the display equipment above Staples Field, where the state of Chen Zhi's eyes was clearly visible!
Clarkson couldn't help but feel a little swayed! I'm X, it's unreasonable to score this goal!
You must know that even Jordan, the ancestor of free-throw shots, just closed his eyes a moment after dribbling and before shooting, and even then, many shots are not hollow into the basket, but hit the board or toss a few times on the basket!
However, Chen Zhi in front of the free throw line is quite confident, and the high-level brain domain enhancement is indeed powerful enough, it is obvious that it is not only to strengthen the brain, but to strengthen the entire brain domain, including the cerebellum, which controls the balance of human movement, and the impact of closing his eyes on him is not as great as he imagined!
I saw that after Chen finished dribbling twice, the ball paused in his hand, as if sensing the distance of the basket, and then he shot very firmly!
After the basketball shot, Chen Zhi didn't open his eyes!
"Huh" A crisp sound of basketball entering the net came, and Chen opened his eyes!
At this time, how can you not listen to the shouts of the home crowd! Chen Zhi put his right hand to his ear!
Even on the road, Lakers fans can't help but chant at this moment! It seems that Chen Zhi is not an opponent who is here to challenge the Lakers away, but a core player of the Lakers!!
"Oh! I love kid! O'Neal saw Chen Zhili close his eyes smoothly and score the ball, and after imitating Jordan, he raised his hand to imitate Iverson's classic move, and immediately shook his head with a smile.
After witnessing this scene, countless reporters have rushed to convey this scene staged at Staples Stadium!!
"Jordan's Passing - Closing Eyes Passing Skill Returns!"
"Losing the draft is still another Jordan!"
"When it comes to closed-eye free throws, this person is not under Jordan!"
After this game, the soul power should skyrocket! Listening to the tsunami-like cry of Staples Mountain, Chen Zhi was very satisfied! Master Qiao's pretending skill is really a full score effect!!
Chen Zhi walked past Clarkson with his right hand in his ear, and he didn't even look at it, this non-donkey bin boy was really not enough to compete with him.
Clarkson looked at Chen Zhi's back, his face gloomy indescribably.
Randall walked over, patted Clarkson on the back, and said after a moment of silence, "Play well!" ”
The remaining half of the sentence was unspoken, "Don't fight him, you're really not his opponent..."
Although Wharton Jr. led the Lakers to a good record at the beginning of the season, it is obviously not so simple to replicate the success of the Lakers, because Curry, Klay, and three-pointers of that level, none of the Lakers are on this team, well, maybe Nick Young is half, but Randle is obviously far from the strength of Dream Green.
In the first half, the Lakers were still hot and only took a brief lead, and they were still behind at halftime, and after Chen Zhi's performance as a counter-guest, the Lakers completely lost the belief in winning the game, and after three quarters of the game, Chen Zhi was pressed to the bench by Carlisle.
Although he saw that Chen Zhi was still unsatisfied, he had to let Chen Zhi accumulate strength for the next battle against the warriors, which must be a hard battle.
Chen Zhi sat on the bench and entered the ball soul system, and found that the game was not over yet, and the amount of soul power collected had reached a terrifying one million! After the high-level brain domain enhancement, the amount of collection during the competition time is simply terrifying.