Chapter 82: The Final Stage (Part II)

Chen An doesn't have many options, the old AK still needs to rest, Green and Turner's vacant three-point certainty is not high, and after Harden used singles to disrupt the opponent's defense, Chen An needs to have a three-point certainty player on the floor, so he chose Zhu Fangyu.

Fortunately, Luo Erdeng had not come up at this time, and Zhu Fangyu faced Butler on the defensive end, and there was no single defensive pressure, just follow Butler and not let him have a chance to shoot in the open space.

Facts have proved that Chen An's substitution worked, under the Bulls' strategy of still maintaining the strategy of attacking Harden in advance, Zhu Fangyu quickly got the opportunity to vacate the position and hit a three-pointer, but the good times did not last long, Thibodeau's reaction was extremely fast, he re-replaced Rohr Deng and Noah, at this time, there are still eight minutes before the end of the game, and these two will definitely not move again after coming up, which means that these two will play more than 40 minutes in this game.

The effect of Thibodeau's substitution was also immediate, it was still Hamilton and Butler who sandwiched Harden, but the person who let go became Beverley, and Noah and Rolle Deng are extremely tough defensively, the speed of the defensive rotation and the help defense is extremely fast, and the opportunity to vacate is only a moment, and it will not even give you too much time to adjust.

In this way, Beverley's offensive grasp is naturally not very good, and Beverley obviously knows this, after missing a three-pointer, he chose to hold the ball and kill inside, but with Noah, what can Beverley do with the ball, which is not good enough to attack?

In two rounds in a row, the Magic team's offense had no effect, and on the contrary, Luo Er Deng's singles were won one after another, one was directly singled by Zhu Fangyu, and the other was through a feint attack without the ball, finding the opportunity to misplace the single Beverley, and directly turning around to score two more points.

The advantage of 6 points was eroded to 2 points, Chen An couldn't sit still for a long time, and kept standing on the sidelines, holding his hands in front of his chest and trying to make a calm appearance, but the tension in his heart almost exploded his chest.

Seeing that the momentum of the bulls turning up became ferocious, nearly halfway through the fourth quarter, the official timeout came, and Chen An immediately made adjustments.

The offensive end had to be opened, so he took Beverley and replaced him with Lillard, and he had to give Harden more support on the offensive end, two tactical starting points, and Lillard himself to open up, so that the Bulls would not dare to unscrupulously pinch Harden.

Chen An is very clear that he can't tear up with the Bulls on the defensive end at the moment, he must use offense and initiative to overturn the Bulls, because he believes in the magic ball theory, three points are one more point than two points, and impacting the basket and three-point shots are more efficient ways to score than low-post singles.

So, he left Anderson on the court, and Hickson was taken off by him and replaced with the old AK.

The small-ball lineup, emphasizing conversion, emphasizing speed, even if the whole game was limited by the Bulls and failed to mention the speed, and did not make a conversion, but at this last moment, Chen An still chose to use the most fundamental thing of the team to defeat the opponent, and he also firmly believed that the Bulls' physical strength had reached the bottleneck stage.

The Bulls naturally have a physical crisis, first of all, the 34-year-old Hamilton can no longer hold on, so Thibodeau replaced him with Hinrich, and the others did not move, this set of Hinrich, Butler, Rohr Deng, Boozer and Noah is the lineup with the best defensive effect on the Magic in the whole game, and Thibodeau also chose the most fundamental thing of the Bulls at the last moment to fight.

Spear and shield, this time is the time when the bayonet is really red, hand-to-hand combat, and it is also the time for Chen An to verify whether his small ball idea can work.

Magic serves, Butler is still staring at Harden all over the court, Lillard holds the ball and pushes it steadily across the halfcourt, he also didn't want to cover, and came directly to the right wing, the entire right side was vacated, the old AK was in the high post, Anderson due to the left bottom corner, Zhu Fangyu was on the left wing, Harden was two steps inside the left three-point line, and the four formed a flat triangle, and eight people were crowded together in a small area.

This is the Magic's typical singles tactic, in order to partially empty and leave enough space for singles, Chen An handed over the team's winning key to the offense in the final stage, and in the offense he chose to let Lillard and Harden solve the problem, and let the star use his individual ability to finish the game.

Lillard was not in a hurry, until 24 seconds left 10 seconds, before sinking down and approaching Hinrich step by step, facing the 31-year-old Hinrich, Lillard was full of confidence, he first shook his shoulder to the left, and made a posture of going straight to the inside from the left side, Hinrich did not dare to relax and immediately adjusted his center of gravity, but when his center of gravity moved, Lillard immediately changed direction in front of the body, and actually killed it along the sideline.

From this angle, no one from the Bulls could help defend him, and Hinrich didn't have time to fly to block, facing the empty front, Lillard shot confidently, and then only listened to the sound of 'smack', and the basketball went into the net.

Lillard scored his 27th point of the game and blew the Magic's final offensive horn.

Thibodeau understood Chen An's strategy, his reaction was very timely, and he changed the key defenders, Rohr Deng went to defend Harden, Butler went to defend Lillard, as for Zhu Fangyu, in his eyes, he did not have the ability to attack independently, and he could use Hinrich to follow closely.

However, Thibodeau still has to deal with the offensive end of the pitch as his side is now five points behind.

Thibodeau also chose to let the star solve the problem on the offensive end, repeating the initial routine, Boozer singled, Rohr Deng singled, facing the defense of Zhu Fangyu and Anderson, the two showed their ability and attacked one after another.

But Chen An did not make a substitution, this time is the time when the bayonet is red, he can't make more choices, because once the substitution is not strong enough on the offensive end, he may be directly released by the Bulls, so as to encircle Harden and Lillard in advance.

Since he chose to use offense to solve the game, at this time, the two teams are like two people each holding a knife, you cut me, I cut you, it depends on who can't support it first.

Harden did not disappoint Chen An, in the face of Rohr Deng's defense, Harden still played very resolutely, forced breakthroughs, stepped back for three points ** or made fouls, Harden used the greatest certainty to ensure the continuity of the offense, his personal scoring grew rapidly, Lillard led by him, and the offensive end also played bloody.

In this way, until there was 1 minute and 20 seconds left before the game, the score of the two sides was 94:90, and Thibodeau did not change his defense, because Chen An put the twin stars and two shooters and the old AK on the field, he didn't dare to wrap it casually, but seeing that the game was in the end, he had to change his strategy, or take a risk!