Chapter 344: Still Trying to Grab Seven
After the Trail Blazers took a 2-1 lead, they didn't just knock out the Lakers as they did last season. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 Info has to admit that although the core lineup of this Lakers has not changed much, it is much more resilient than last season, even if the opponent took the lead, they did not give up, but won two games in a row in the fourth and fifth games, pushing the Trail Blazers to the edge of the cliff, and if they took a step back, they would be crushed.
In particular, the battle of Tianwang Mountain in the Staples Center has completely become a stage for the top stars of the two teams to compete with each other. Unexpectedly, it was Ye Feng who won the data this time, but Kobe Bryant won the game. And the traits shown by the two in the game look like they are swapped, Ye Feng shoots desperately like Kobe, and Kobe Bryant drives his teammates while scoring points like Ye Feng.
Ye Feng also couldn't say it, he felt good alone in this game, after the few balls passed to his teammates were all iron, the mentality of his teammates quietly changed, and he didn't dare to shoot even if he was in a vacant position. This makes the Trailblazers completely become a single-core team, although they only took Ye Feng as the core before, but this time it is indeed a real single-core, and almost all the shots are concentrated on Ye Feng.
Ye Feng made 32 shots in the whole game, which was also the first time in his career that he made more than 30 shots, but the shooting rate was not very high, and only 13 of the 32 shots were hit, if it wasn't for 14 times on the free throw line, Ye Feng would not have been able to score as many as 48 points. In addition, Ye Feng also contributed 8 rebounds and 2 steals, and unexpectedly, he only had 3 assists in the whole game, which has set his personal record for a single game this season.
On the other hand, Kobe Bryant's shooting percentage is ridiculously high, shooting 15 of 22 from the field, which is already equivalent to the shooting rate of an interior player. In addition to scoring 37 points, Bryant also contributed 10 rebounds and 12 assists, a large triple-double that completely overpowered Ye Feng's 48 points. At the same time, under his marking, Matthews, who has been performing well, only scored 11 points and did not make enough contributions, so it can be said that Matthews was completely blown out by Kobe Bryant in this game.
In the end, the Lakers won 102-93 and won the very crucial battle of Tianwang Mountain. In best-of-seven games, the fifth game is sometimes no less important than the last, and under normal circumstances, as long as the team wins the fifth game and rewrites the score to 3-2, it has a certain advantage, and is even likely to win the sixth game directly in one go, thus eliminating the opponent.
The term "Battle of Mt. Tenno" originated in Japan, and in June 1582, the famous general Toyotomi Hideyoshi defeated Oda Nobunaga in Yamazaki at the foot of Mt. Tenno, and won a decisive victory. Later, the Japanese chess world used this allusion to describe the key game in the banqi, such as the second game in the three-game chess, which refers to the main point of the rise and fall of the two sides, which means that it is particularly important. Later, this allusion was extended, and many of the key games of the series were also described as "the battle of Tianwang Mountain".
However, the Lakers, who rushed to Portland, encountered stubborn resistance, and the Trail Blazers teamed together to spake physical strength on both offensive and defensive ends, resulting in the Lakers falling behind 22-35 in the first quarter. The Lakers' starting lineup only scored Kobe Bryant and Gasol in the first quarter, and Odom also contributed on the bench, but it was completely impossible to stop the Trail Blazers from fully blooming, as long as you look at Ye Feng's 4 points and 5 assists.
In this game, replacing Ye Feng as the core of the Trail Blazers' offense was the interior big man Aldridge, who unusually hit the basket frequently, showing extraordinary hardness. In fact, Aldridge doesn't know how to play inside with his back to the singles, it's just that he is used to playing mid-range jumpers and doesn't like to go to the basket very much. But as long as he presses him, he can completely dominate the basket with his nimble foot.
And Aldridge also played very aggressively, even grabbing the rebounds of his teammates, which was also rare in previous games. No one knows why he suddenly broke out, and Ye Feng doesn't know either, but he doesn't have a hobby to delve into the underlying causes, and he likes to eat eggs and has to understand how hens lay eggs. Aldridge's strength allowed him to be lazy, and three of his five assists in the first quarter were given to the interior.
The Lakers tried to fight back, and they did overtake the score at one point in the middle of the second quarter, but at this time Ye Feng stepped up. In this game, he did not obsess about controlling the ball, but turned to a no-ball style of play, most of the ball was concentrated on Miller, and what Ye Feng had to do was to run, catch the ball, and then hit the shot.
Miller's passing is unpretentious, and he's never been good at making the kind of imaginative passes, but there's no denying that his simple and even somewhat simple passes are very effective and can avoid mistakes as much as possible. Some point guards can always make some amazing passes, but often such balls are also prone to mistakes, of course, not because of the opponent's steal, most of the time because teammates themselves can't see where the ball is going.
Ye Feng pressed the Lakers' momentum back after four consecutive offensive successes, and led the team to maintain the advantage until the end of the game. Aldridge had a big double-double of 34 points and 15 rebounds in the game, and many of the balls were scored by him directly inside singles and layups, which was so different from his previous style of blindly using jump shots to score that fans couldn't believe their eyes.
Ye Feng scored a team-high 27 points, and also handed out 8 rebounds and 11 assists, and also completed the task brilliantly. However, the best player on the team should be considered Matthews, although this guy only scored 10 points in the whole game and left the court with six fouls left in the fourth quarter with 2 minutes and 26 seconds left, but under his full harassment, although Kobe Bryant scored a game-high 37 points, he was exchanged for 28 shots, and the shooting percentage was really not very high.
The final score was 112-105, and the Trail Blazers defeated the Lakers by seven points, dragging the series into a tiebreaker. This undoubtedly made the Trail Blazers fans rejoice, and when the team lost the battle of Tianwang Mountain, they even thought that the team's journey of the season was over, but they did not expect the team to pull themselves back from the edge of the cliff, which made them full of anticipation for Game 7.