There were two fouls, and while there was no need for much fuss, it made Thibodeau have to be 200 percent careful.

Thibodeau has more or less clearly seen the strategy of New York today -- guarding the inside and letting go of the outside. Once this is the case, Sun Xiaotian, as the team's top soldier, is the key to opening the opponent's internal floodgates.

If Sun Xiaotian spends less time on the field, it will be tantamount to giving New York a chance.

In addition to this trouble, an even bigger trouble came quietly.

The New York lineup rotated, and JR hit the ball beyond the three-point line with his first touch after coming on the court, and then the Bulls' Butler responded.

But JR, who scored the goal, seemed to feel different, and he felt that the rhythm of the goal just now was like playing with a trainer.

"My time is up!"

To be honest in the first two games, JR Smith's performance was not good, although he scored a lot, but his proud three-point shot did not play as well as it should, which may have something to do with the Bulls' outside strategy!

It is precisely because of Smith's poor outside feel that the Bulls were able to decisively shrink and decisively wrap up Anthony.

Feeling that he had a good hand, Smith took the initiative to ask Kidd for the ball in the attack, and took the initiative to ask his teammates to cover for him.

"This is a period of time for JR to control the ball and handle the ball!" That's what Woodson said to Kidd at the beginning of the second quarter.

Kenyon Martin used his thick body to keep Smith's Lee firmly in front of him, and Gibson, who came from the defense, covered Smith with a pair of big hands and used his feet to force the delay as much as possible.

Smith changed hands under his crotch and started quickly. Almost through the armpit of Gibson's left arm. Just passed him. Lee immediately came over to make up for it. But the footsteps are a little unsteady. Smith didn't hesitate, a change of hands, Lee was directly shaken by Smith due to the unstable chassis.

Smith stopped the ball outside the three-point line, prepared for 2 seconds, adjusted his posture, and shot!

"Huh!"

The ball goes into the net!

"Good shot!" When the teammates on the field saw the goal, they gave a standing ovation. Look at Smith again. He just smiled slightly, stretched out his hands, and made a shooting gesture.

……

Smith holds the ball outside the three-point line, and his left and right hands dribble are very balanced, and the back and forth are seamless.

Lee spread his hands and kicked one behind his back, especially guarding against Smith's breakthrough, and Lee didn't want to make a fool of himself twice at the same time on his home court.

Smith is very good at playing emotional balls, and once he gets emotional, he changes a lot from dribble to dribble. When he shakes, he has a lot of feints and changes of direction, which is very difficult to prevent.

Facing Lee's defense. "Believe it or not, I can clean you up!"

There was a provocative meaning in Smith's words.

After a few crotch dribbles, he suddenly took a big step to the right with the ball in his right hand. Then he dribbled the ball behind his back with his right hand and his body suddenly paused in place.

"Hey! This dribble is beautiful! Director Zhang couldn't help but explain it.

Although Li was fully prepared, he was still stunned at the first time, mainly because he was too jealous to tell whether to stay where he was or move his center of gravity.

Between this hesitation, Smith "snapped" his left hand to his right hand to control the ball, and changed direction sharply in front of his body, instantly passing Lee's defense and shaking into the basket. At this time, Gibson let go of Martin and took two steps forward to block in advance, waving his big arms at the same time. At this time, Butler, who was paying attention to the defense, also came in and flanked Smith back and forth.

"It's not reasonable for this ball to be hard!" Director Zhang exclaimed.

Unfazed, Smith moved position with a sliding step, dribbling the ball to Martin from Gibson's armpit and quickly backing it to the bottom corner.

Gibson and Butler both thought Martin was going to make a layup, but Martin threw the handball and flew towards Smith.

Smith dropped his knife in his hand, and the three points fell into his pocket.

"Hey! This ball makes sense! Director Zhang explained.

The Bulls then responded with an open connection from Butler and Gibson.

However, Smith's state has been a flurry of states.

Smith swooped Lee again, and this time Lee learned the lessons of the first two times, defended very well, and did not lose his position and clinged to Smith.

Smith stopped the ball and passed the ball to Martin, Martin handed his hand back to Smith, and Smith took a step to the right on tiptoe and then suddenly turned sharply to the left, directly opening up space with Lee. That wasn't the end of it, Smith took a step-back step, stepped back beyond the three-point line, and shot straight away.

"Hey! Don't want two points, you have to have three points! This doesn't make sense! ”

This time, the action was too difficult, but the action was perfectly connected and smooth, and Li did not interfere with it, and the ball hit steadily.

The Bulls served the baseline ball quickly, and Nate ran fast with the ball at this time, trying to play New York with an unstable foothold.

At this time, the three players in New York had returned to the halfcourt, but Nate only had the basket in his eyes, in fact, New York did not form a fast retreat in time as fast as he would.

"Little Potato" was like a spring on his feet, and he bounced up with a "poof" and wanted to go to the basket, but at this time, a black figure burst out like lightning, like a flying eagle descending a mountain.

It's Smith again!!

The ball was pinned straight to the rebound.

"Nate is just." Zhang directs the voice of the sidelines.

Nate was covered, New York won the rebound, all the players flew down, and Kidd dribbled steadily, observing the situation on the court.

"!! here"

By this time, Smith had reached the bottom right corner.

"It's so fast! What time has passed? Including Sun Xiaotian was impressed off the field.

Kidd made a long pass, and the ball reached Smith like a precise guide, and then he took a shot.

"Still!! JR is crazy, right? ”

Thibodeau couldn't take it anymore and called a timeout.

During that time, Smith hit five three-pointers in a row. Looking at the bench in New York, the pot has already exploded.

At the end of the game, Smith said to himself, "You can't prevent the three points, accept the reality!" ”

With Smith going on a rampage, New York was already leading the Bulls by as many as 11 points at 38-27.

The Bulls replaced Sun Xiaotian after a timeout, wanting to solve the team's offensive problems, but also to put pressure on Smith......

But Smith, who has found his touch, is still full of vitality after playing, and this time he is doing whatever he wants, no tactics, no tactics, completely entered the self-mode, all kinds of unreasonable three-point points.

By the time the quarter was officially suspended, Smith had thrown in seven three-pointers, scored 21 points in a single quarter, and to make matters worse, the Bulls had fallen behind by 15 points at this point. (To be continued.) )