Chapter 273 - Fighting the Sun

With the referee's whistle, Da Yao and Amare . Stoudemire jumped at the same time to compete for possession of the ball in the middle circle flying in the air.

Although Da Yao has a height advantage, Xiao Si's bounce is too outstanding, and he was finally given the opening ball by the Suns.

Nash found the figure of Li Yao in front of him as soon as he took over the basketball, and couldn't help but stabilize his advancing figure.

Li Yao also played against Steve for the first time at this time. Nash, the point guard guru who has won the regular season MVP for two consecutive years, still has a little excitement in his heart.

You must know that Li Yao also played against the Suns once last season when he was still with the Heat, but in that game, Steve. Nash, the point guard master, was absent due to injury, and although the Heat won the game in the end, they were not able to play with Nash, which also filled Li Yao's heart with regrets.

After Li Yao transferred to the Clippers, what Li Yao didn't expect was that the Clippers' first home opponent this season was the Phoenix Suns led by Nash.

This also made Li Yao inevitably excited, and he could finally play against Nash, the point guard master, head-to-head.

Nash had to slow down the pace of the offense because of Li Yao's early position, and as a result, Li Yao kicked his nose in the face and directly approached Nash's side.

You must know that although Nash is the most perfect point guard on the offensive end, Nash's physical fitness is too much of a loss, so Nash is often limited when facing strong point guards.

Although Li Yao is not a strong point guard, he is still physically strong compared to Nash, and with the advantage of speed, Li Yao believes that he can limit Nash's offense.

However, it turns out that Li Yao is too young, although Nash's body is a little thin, but after all, he is the main one who has won two regular season MVPs, and he has not seen what kind of defensive intensity, for Li Yao's extremely impactful defense, Nash just smiled slightly, and did not have a trace of panic because of Li Yao's defense.

Gently pull the ball from behind, dodge Li Yao's pressing, and then leisurely control the ball on the outside.

Li Yao was not discouraged by this defeat, if a point guard master who can win two consecutive regular season MVPs was easily cut off by himself, then he would not be worthy of being called a point guard master.

While Lee was just staring at Nash's every move, Grant. Hill is using Channing. One of Frye's cross-screens managed to get rid of Al. Thorton's defense, in a split second, ran out of an open space.

And at this moment, the corner of Nash's eye also discovered this, just in the interval between dribbling and rising, the wrist flicked, and the basketball that was still in Li Yao's field of vision disappeared in an instant.

As soon as Li Yao saw this situation, he immediately knew that it was not good, and quickly turned his head to look. Hill was already jumping on the spot.

With a "boom", Grant. Hill hit a solid hit and a mid-range jumper.

Li Yao looked at Nash's interested smile and could only smile helplessly, the master is a master after all, and his Li Yao's defense just now can be described as very oppressive, but not only did it not cause a little trouble to Nash, but also allowed Nash to complete an assist so easily, Li Ya's admiration for this point guard master in his heart is also getting deeper and deeper.

However, Li Yao will not bring this emotion to the court, after all, it is still in the middle of the game, and Nash, the point guard master, has already taught Li Yao a deep lesson at the beginning, so as the focus of the Staples Center today, how can Li Yao just forget it?

Li Yao, who received his teammate's baseline serve, directly gave Da Yao a gesture, and when Da Yao saw Li Yao's gesture, the pace of progress slowed down.

This gesture was discussed with Da Yao before the start of this game, and he found out from yesterday's game against the Lakers that in the starting lineup, when Li Yao sometimes needs to go alone or lead the team to attack quickly, it will always cause Da Yao, a big man on the inside, to run back and forth with the team, which not only consumes Da Yao's physical strength in vain, but also makes Da Yao unable to play a role in the entire system.

In order to avoid the recurrence of this situation, Li Yao made the above decision, that is, when he decided to go it alone, he would give Da Yao a gesture as a signal to avoid Da Yao from running in vain on the field.

Li Yao quickly dribbled the ball to the front court, and when he was still a big step away from the three-point line, he directly and unhesitatingly used Nash's run and gun skills, and a three-point shot without warning was shot instantly, and the basketball slipped into the basket in Nash's surprised eyes.

Looking at Nash's surprised appearance, Li Yao shrugged, and the corners of his mouth hooked up a wicked smile, "Steve, it's really good to respond to you with your skills!" Li Yao thought in his heart.

Nash's surprise is not that Li Yao actually used his own exclusive skills when facing himself, because although each star has his own exclusive skills, it does not mean that others will not, so Nash is not too surprised that Li Yao used run and gun, he was surprised that Li Yao was so confident, and shot directly at a big step away from the three-point line, and began to retreat slowly after the shot, this kind of strong self-confidence, Nash seems to feel that he has seen it somewhere.

Kobe Bryant off the court didn't expect Li Yao to make such a fuss, he thought that Li Yao would respond to Nash's attack just now in the same way as he did yesterday, but he didn't expect Li Yao to respond to Nash's wonderful pass just now with a score that shocked everyone's eyeballs.

In the next 6 minutes, the two sides were even more aggressive, and the two teams seemed to have no defense, and the score of the two sides had come to 23-22 in the first quarter only 6 minutes, and the Phoenix Suns were still one point ahead of the Clippers playing at home.

At this time, a dead ball led to an official timeout, and what was unexpected was that neither side of the head coach took the initiative to stand up and call a timeout when the two sides were playing anxiously, and they survived until the official timeout.

"The Suns are in danger." When this official timeout appeared, Kobe Bryant, who was sitting on the sidelines, couldn't help but shake his head, he knew that the turning point of today's game was about to appear.

"What do you say, dear?" Vanessa, who was next to Kobe, of course, also heard Kobe's remarks, as Kobe's wife, she went to the Staples Center all year round to cheer for Kobe, even if you don't like basketball anymore, you will know basketball, not to mention that Vanessa is still the kind of woman who is quite interested in basketball, so when she heard Kobe Bryant say that the Suns were dangerous, she couldn't help but ask curiously, you must know that in her eyes, the two sides are not inseparable at this time, why is her husband not optimistic about the Suns in a blink of an eye?

"Honey, didn't you notice that during the offensive time just now, Lee spent almost the rest of the time feeding his teammates except for that three-pointer after the opening game? Especially Da Yao, who has already scored 11 points now, I don't need to explain to you what kind of offensive transition the Clippers will be next, right? Kobe said with a shrug and said to Vanessa beside him.

You must know that in their Lakers game against the Clippers yesterday, the two sides played the same inextricably linked at the beginning, but the watershed moment when the scores of the two sides were rewritten was when the two sides came on the bench, especially when Li Yao led the substitutes, that kind of high-intensity defensive counterattack made Kobe Bryant shine.

Coupled with Li Yao's appearance of constantly assisting his teammates before, Kobe Bryant already has a number in his heart, Li Yao is definitely going to be full of firepower in the next period of time, Kobe knows that in this bench lineup of the Clippers, except for Eric. Gordon can still be regarded as a bench bandit, and the rest of the offensive responsibility is bound to be placed on Li Yao.

When the timeout ended, players from both sides came back on.

Kobe Bryant couldn't help but smile secretly when he saw Li Yao's figure, it was really not unexpected by him, Kobe Bryant was also rarely focused, he wanted to see what kind of performance Li Yao would be in the next period of time.

The Suns obviously did not do a good job of investigating the Clippers, and they actually replaced a number of main players, leaving only Barbossa to stay on the court to lead the team.

When Li Yao saw the Suns' bench lineup, he couldn't help but chuckle, it seems that today is the time to teach the Suns a profound lesson.

Since the ball is on the Clippers' side, when the game starts again, the Clippers are the first to attack.

Li Yao, who had no worries, was once again under the watchful eyes of nearly 20,000 spectators at the Staples Center Arena.

Li Yao in the face of Golan. When Dragic defended, he directly forced a breakthrough through the Golan with the most direct and violent speed. Dragic's defense, in the face of the defender Earl. Clarke, forced to jump, facing Earl. Clark's defense just rushed up, and it was directly a tomahawk-style slam that forced Earl against him. Clark's defense pressed the basketball into the basket.

The whistle of "beep" made Li Yao's face smile, and his attack this time successfully made a 2+1.

As Li Yao made a steady free throw, the scores of the two sides were also reversed, 23-25, and the Clippers led by 2 points.

However, Li Yao did not make any celebrations for this wonderful attack, and after scoring the free throw, he directly called his teammates to start devoting themselves to the defense.