Chapter 147: Boiling Eagles!
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The reversal won the first game, and the Bulls were full of confidence.
However, Thibodeau knew what the Eagles would do in the second game, and he warned his disciples not to let their guard down.
"The Hawks did a great job defending Sun in the first half of Game 1, and Stevenson did a fantastic job of putting all the defensive experience he gained from defending James to Sun. Sun's outburst in the second half, in addition to self-regulation, Stevenson's excessive fouls were also one of them. So in the second game they will adjust, they will have other players to help Stevenson help defend Sun, so that Stevenson can stay on the court for a longer period of time. As long as he's there, Sun may be under pressure. ”
Sun Xiaotian also knows that he also needs to adjust, the second game Eagles will be desperate to cover and defend themselves, and what he has to do in the second game is to trust his teammates more.
As expected, in the second game, the Eagles had an unlimited package for Sun Xiaotian from the beginning, and as long as Sun Xiaotian dribbled, at least two people closest to him stepped forward to block and force him to pass.
The point of the bag is to block the opponent's offensive space and exert strong pressure on the opponent. When the opponent is holding the live ball, the person who needs to defend the front defender defends his strong hand, gives him a direction to break through from the weak side, and the other person who assists the defender stands in his weak position and stifles his start. When the opponent holds the dead ball, the two people seal it together and stick it to him, raising their hands high while compressing his space.
For such a "superstar treatment", Sun Xiaotian initially refused, and he was also unsuitable. Many times, Stevenson is not letting go, giving him a side, once Sun Xiaotian starts, a player will quickly come over, either reach out to break the ball, or pinch, causing Sun Xiaotian to stop the ball.
Sun Xiaotian has been quite passive during this time, but his ability to adjust is staggering. The Eagles' several pinching attacks, Sun Xiaotian connected through the inside and outside lines, and hung the inside line, allowing Noah and Boozer to play high, and after a few rounds, the Eagles' inside line did not dare to attack rashly.
But Coach Larry Drew took the initiative to adjust his strategy through a timeout. The Hawks replaced the Bulls by shrinking the line, effectively controlling the Bulls' inside pass, and took the opportunity to play a quick counterattack, and Josh repeatedly succeeded in the counterattack.
But the contraction of the defensive line has also completely opened up the outside space.
The Bulls' Belinelli, Lee, Butler and others received Sun Xiaotian's sudden points or inside balls, and they also hit them repeatedly, and the gap between the two sides widened for a while.
At the end of the first quarter, the Bulls had a 32-22 lead to double digits.
Sun Xiaotian performed well in the first quarter, dispelling out three assists, two blocks and three steals despite scoring only 2 points.
Entering the second quarter, although the Hawks scored 8 points in a row with super substitute Williams, once closing the score gap to 4 points, the Bulls relied on the overall cooperation and Nate's neurotic performance, and the Bulls instantly extended the score to double digits.
In the middle of the third quarter, Korver and Teague teamed up to help the Hawks play an 11-2 attack wave, but Sun Xiaotian, Ruer Deng, Noah and others immediately helped the Bulls respond with a 17-7 attack climax.
The opponent fought back again, and he responded.
It was the hardest part of the game, and I worked hard to get the score closer, but the opponent's series of response balls brought me back to the starting point, and I felt that all my efforts were in vain. It's also the most painful thing in a game where the side is behind.
It's like climbing a mountain, you're about to reach the top of the mountain, and you're pushed and rolled off the cliff, again and again, knowing exhaustion.
The Hawks are fully "boiled" by the Bulls, just waiting for his arrogant head underground!
A haughty and free soul, after a futile struggle, will eventually succumb to grief, hunger, fatigue, and fear, and become a taming tool for hunters to chase rabbits and birds. Anyone who has seen the tragic scene of boiling eagles will never forget it.
It was a newly-grown goshawk with a sharp, curved beak and iron-gray feathers, and powerful toe claws with sharp hooks, but its legs were bound by an iron chain.
At the beginning of the eagle boiling, the hunter lays a rope net around the eagle, and the tender lamb and water are placed on the outside of the rope net, which the goshawk dismisses. From the moment it accidentally crashed into the trap laid by the hunter and was bound, the goshawk showed a violent and wild temperament, and the two strong talons kept scratching, shaking the chains, and letting out a burst of sad and desolate howls from its mouth. The hunter sneered outside the net rope. The eagle angrily pounced on him again and again, but each time he was pulled back by the chain and fell heavily to the ground. Hit in vain, the eagle's physical strength was depleted little by little.
The Bulls saw the move, and all the tactical ideas of the Hawks about the second game after the first game were cleared by Thibodeau, and the Hawks were at a disadvantage from the beginning, although they occasionally resisted, but every time there were a few Bulls players to extinguish the flame.
After several tortures, the hunter wore out its wildness little by little in the process of confrontation with the eagle, consumed its will, and made it have a sense of awe for man. The hunter saw that after the middle of the night, surrounded by the boundless darkness, the goshawk's anger dissipated little by little, but the hunter did not dare to relax, he was afraid that the slightest carelessness would be wasted.
After repeated two or three times, the eagle's beak was already covered with black and hard blood scabs, and the blood even blocked the nostrils, the anger gathered in the eyes dissipated, the weak body seemed to be unable to drag the heavy iron chains any longer, and the eyes full of golden luster were half-narrowed from time to time, as if they would fall asleep at any time. The hunter has a stick in his hand and keeps teasing it (which has kept him from sleeping for days and nights). Unable to bear it, the goshawk's anger suddenly condensed again, but it was no longer sharp. Its hoarse cry lacks confidence, less deterrence, more sadness and helplessness. When the autumn wind blows, the eagle's feathers look old and disheveled, and it is no longer possible to find the expression of the proud son of the past - its strength and will are on the verge of collapse.
When the hunter uses another trick, a proud and free soul disappears.
The Bulls led by double digits heading into the final six minutes, and the Hawks, who were struggling to score a full game, had fewer and fewer options, and the two-point run seemed like a drop in the bucket. Looking at the offensive momentum of the Bulls, they did not slow down and slack off because of the lead. What they're going to do is give the Eagles a lethal blow.
107 to 95! Full Time Score!
The entire Eagles were hovering around 12 points, which became a hurdle that the Eagles could not cross.
Sun Xiaotian performed extremely well in the second game, and he was extremely versatile. Not only did he have 12 points, 10 assists and 11 rebounds, but he also contributed five blocks and five steals.
In the second game of the playoffs, he was able to contribute a triple-double or an all-around performance of "5+5+5+5+5", and no one could find fault with it.
2-0!!
The next two games will be played against Atalanta!
Ps. chasing more children's shoes, are there any free appreciation tickets and starting coins~ The countdown to the 515 red envelope list is over, I'll pull a ticket, ask for an increase and appreciation vote, and finally rush a handful!