Chapter 237: Fierce Battle
Before halftime, the Hawks and Magic were tied at 44. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
The fierce and undivided competition took the fans away, and whether it was live or in front of the TV, there were always exclamations from the fans from time to time.
In the third quarter, the confrontations became more frequent, and you could feel the tooth-aching muscle collision between the players on the TV set.
Li Dong turned his back to the low post and reached out to receive the pass from Jennings.
"Why do you like to carry your back so much, you don't look like a young man at all." Seflosha opened his mouth to talk trash talk, but what he said was quite reasonable, among the 20-year-old scorers, few of them used back-to-back singles as often as Li Dong, even if it was Jordan or Kobe, who were the masters of individual offense, they were mostly face-frame offenses at this age.
Li Dong did not respond to him, and his style is to attack or defend with his head down.
The eagle didn't come to wrap up, Li Dong bent up after taking the ball, like a huge bow that was pulled out, he stabilized his lower plate, and squeezed his upper body backwards with great effort.
He put his toes on the floor, his heels slightly floating, his arms spread, he took the ball to his chest, and then suddenly, his left foot turned around.
The speed of turning is very fast, and the chic is incomprehensible.
However, Besefolosha is like a picture scroll destroyer, after taking a diagonal step with his left foot, the whole person will be stuck in the position where Li Dong continues to turn, if Li Dong turns again, he will inevitably hit him.
Li Dong had already expected that the tip of his left foot was on the floor, and his right foot was the axis, and he instantly completed a turn in the opposite direction.
The basketball smashed on the floor and rebounded, Li Dong twisted his body, and his waist board floated backwards.
"Can't make it!" Sephorosa shouted loudly, and rose up with all the strength to pounce, wanting to cover up Li Dong.
Li Dong's legs naturally formed scissor feet, and he grasped the most natural sense of balance in the air. With a slight push of the wrist and a fingertip flick the ball out, the basketball spun and flew up, and then plunged headlong into the hoop.
"What a ball!" Hawks coach Budenholzer on the bench had an eye lit up. Li Dong's shot looks very familiar, just like Tracy McGrady in the past.
"It's a pity, it's not me who coaches." Budenholzer has some regrets in his heart, such a talented player, if he can be trained well, will inevitably be the brightest star in the future.
A few minutes later, the two teams entered the second mandatory timeout of the third quarter.
The Magic led by one point at 58-57 with less than three minutes left in the third quarter. During this time, Li Dong strengthened his personal offense and hit several mid-to-long-range shots.
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Air Canada Centre Arena, Toronto.
The entire Raptors team watched the Hawks and Magic game together in the arena's large lounge, head coach Dwayne Casey and several other assistant coaches turned on the big screen and watched the Hawks and Magic game together.
Whether the Hawks advance or the Magic advance, neither team will be as good as the Hornets they met in the first round.
As the game progressed, the Raptors players exclaimed from time to time, and head coach Casey carefully analyzed every offense and defense of both teams, and his commentary was much more exciting than the commentator, and the technical jargon was endless.
"Demar, this Li Dong is really terrifying, tall and long-armed. The shot is accurate. Demarley Carroll saw the scene of Li Dong turning around and hitting a jumper, and said to DeRozan.
DeRozan raised his eyebrows and asked rhetorically, "What?" Even you don't have the confidence to defend him? ”
"How is that possible!" Demarley Carroll looked disdainful like a cat that had been stepped on by its tail. "I just think he's tricky, but it's not to the point where I can't solve it, and I can definitely limit and defend."
DeRozan gave him a blank look, Carroll is obviously talking big again, after the playoffs and the Hawks, Li Dong has been proven to be the league's most difficult new star to defend. Just like his own breakthrough, Li Dong's step-back jumper, combined with his dribbling breakthrough, has become the signature skill with the most unpredictable rhythmic changes.
"Wow, this Li Dong is really crazy!" Patterson, who was sitting in a chair, was amazed, and Li Dong hit the last goal of the third quarter for both teams with a three-point shot.
"The Hawks are in trouble," Carroll gloated a little, and at the end of the third quarter, the Magic led by five points 65-60, and that was the biggest point difference between the two teams so far.
Casey looked at Li Dong's shot point in this game on the screen, and his eyes narrowed slightly.
"There are still more shots on the right side than on the left, there are more shots from mid-to-long range than from close range, and the proportion of layups is not high, but the efficiency of the breakthrough is amazing." The assistant coach analysed the data and immediately came to a conclusion.
Casey immediately thought of joint defense, but when he saw Li Dong's back level, he immediately vetoed this defensive strategy in his heart. He could see the Eagles' strategy, that is, to defend Li Dong alone and cut off the connection between Li Dong and other players, but the latter was difficult to complete.
If it were him, he would rather be like the Eagles did in the first game, Li Dong would wrap up as soon as he got the ball, and use good rotation defense to break Li Dong's lethality.
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"Beep~" whistle sounded, and Li Dong stood up from the bench again.
He rested for two minutes in the fourth quarter, and Skyles sent him back to the court, and the Hawks' bench chased the score fiercely, and Oladipo was lonely and was immediately tied and even overtaken.
As soon as Li Dong came on the field, Oladipo breathed a sigh of relief, he was so tired, and it was very painful to be chased and intercepted as soon as he got the ball.
"The real NBA is not 2K, if it was a game, I would have just shot directly." Oladipo was talking about a ball that was just released, and he didn't choose to shoot because he didn't feel good, but after breaking through, he was caught by the eagles and then missed.
"It's okay, take your time." Li Dong comforted Oladipo instead, the two are now attacking and defending, complementing each other, and no one can operate without them.
Jennings served from the sideline, and Hoyce pulled out for Li Dong to cover off the ball.
With the last 9 minutes left, the Hawks led the Magic by 3 points 72-69, and both teams shot around 40% in this game.
After double covering, Li Dong received the ball at a 30-degree position, turned his back and dribbled the ball, broke through to the baseline position, and then came Horford, who rotated to defend.
Li Dong held the ball in his right hand and stepped out with his left foot to the left, and at the moment he faced Horford, he changed to holding the ball with both hands, and striding out with his right foot to the right, which was an instant completion of a European step in such a narrow place on the bottom line!
After all, Horford is still an inside player, and he can't keep up with Li Dong's pace when he is big and small.
Li Dong dodged Horford's blockade, the whole person floated past the basket, pulled the outstretched ball down in the air, and then sank his waist and shouted, the big windmill seemed to pull the rod on a super large rebound!
Humphries, who rushed to make up for the defense, saw that his eyeballs were about to fall out, is this still an earthling?