Chapter 308: Gliding
Tang Wenlong walked to the free throw line and hit two free throws.
His overall free-throw shooting percentage this season is as high as 90.4 percent, and in the entire NBA, Durant and Curry are currently shooting a little higher free throw than him, of course, this is in addition to those fringe benches who have only served a few shots on 100 shots.
4 to 2, Tang Wenlong felt that the ball was simply earned, not only stopped the table to score points, but also made Artest a foul, you know, the game has only just started for a minute.
The Lakers attacked in the half, and Dujon gave Kobe Bryant a high post to hold the ball.
Howard asked for the ball in the low post and squeezed desperately inside. And the strength of the core muscles of his upper body is indeed terrifying, Gasol didn't notice it, and he was asked to a deeper position.
Howard clasped his hands together and grabbed the basketball that Kobe Bryant had given him.
"Turn your back?"
Gasol Jr. played the card owner Howard's leg bend, his arms against his back, feeling the opponent's monster-like body, and thinking about the correct way to defend.
Howard's offense was simple, stopping the ball and coming straight to his back and colliding with Gasol Jr.
Gasol Jr. snorted, and with the huge advantage in weight, he stood firmly in place.
Howard half-turned around like no one, and while turning around, he moved his foot and drew a semicircle along the central axis, grabbed the basketball with his big right hand, and hooked his hand sideways.
The basketball fell into the basket after hitting the board, and the small hook hand in this position, his shooting percentage was very high, because he had been tempered thousands of times.
4-4, Lowry made two crotch dribbles and organized the offense over the half.
The high post was handed over to Gasol Jr. to respond, Lowry ran to the bottom corner to ambush, Iguodala came out and Gasol Jr. to complete the hand-to-hand cover, this cover was of very high quality, although Kobe Bryant, who was chasing him, perseveredly chased up, but in order to help him delay Iguodala's breakthrough, Ibanks, also shrunk the defense.
Iguodala interspersed Jimmy Butler on the left 45-degree outside the three-point line!
The latter jumps and shoots three points and misses.
Howard turned and rushed inside and easily grabbed the backcourt defensive rebound.
Then when he turned around, the whole 76ers team had already retreated from half court, and the speed of returning to the defense was in stark contrast to the Lakers.
Kobe Bryant held the ball in the half, Howard just scored one, and this ball came out for Kobe to block and dismantle.
The effect of the pick-and-roll was average, and Iguodala followed Kobe Bryant after a circle, and Kobe Bryant attacked the inside with the ball, and distributed it to the outside Dujon to reorganize at the free throw line.
After Dujon received the ball, he saw Kobe Bryant come out again, asking for the ball with both hands.
He passed it back again, Kobe Bryant held the ball in both hands and took a tentative step to the right, and then changed to the left to break through, the pace was not fast, the rhythm was very strong, and he hit Iguodala with a center of gravity offset, a little bit out of position defensively.
Bryant dribbled two steps, half-turned and drifted jumper, and Iguodala tightly sealed the cover, forming a general interference.
The ball didn't go in, but the rebound was clicked by Howard and flew up.
Tang Wenlong carded Ebanks, but the rebound ball did not fly to his side, and Butler on the other side just came in, wrapped his long arms, and grabbed the rebound.
Aggro!
At that moment, the whole 76ers team advanced quickly as if it were clockwork!
Tang Wenlong gave up the inside line, spread his legs and ran forward, his explosive power ensured the same starting speed as a cheetah, and he immediately took the lead, and formed a fast situation with Iguodala.
This wave of Lakers retreated quickly, in addition to Kobe, Dujon and Artest, Howard and Ibanks also struggled to catch up.
After Tang Wenlong made a gesture, Butler stopped outside the three-point line and stopped attacking quickly.
The 76ers stabilized the situation, and the whole team turned from movement to quiet, and immediately outside the three-point line of the Lakers half, waiting for all the Lakers to turn back and run back.
"It's too insidious!" D'Antoni, as the coach of the Suns back then, is not too familiar with the 76ers, turning back and running back and forth, really fast attacking if he doesn't defend, and dragging down the interior alive when he defends.
Fortunately, Howard is Superman, and this physical exertion is nothing to him.
Butler passed back to Tang Wenlong at the top of the arc, Tang Wenlong turned to the right and gave Iguodala at 45 degrees, Butler and Lowry crossed the running position and switched positions with each other in the half, Tang Wenlong ran to the bottom left corner with the help of Gasol Jr.'s cover, and Gasol Jr. continued to the high position to cover Iguodala.
The Lakers wrapped the ball man, Gasol Jr. cut to the basket in the air, and Iguodala moved to the left bottom corner Tang Wenlong.
At this time, Artest, who was only halfway through the defense, turned back again, but after Tang Wenlong got the ball, he directly broke through in stride, and this change made Artest unable to maintain his center of gravity at all, and watched Tang Wenlong enter the inside line.
The Lakers' hinterland was empty, and Howard wanted to help defend inside, but Gasol Jr. was stuck in the main position.
At this time, Tang Wenlong was from outside the three-point line, and after one step, he directly held the ball with one hand in three steps, stepped on the spot outside the paint area, took off like a ******, put the ball in one hand and swung it into the air, stabilized the basketball with both hands, and at the same time raised his left foot slightly to balance his center of gravity.
Turning both hands into one hand, he slammed the ball into the basket with a "bang".
The basketball fell quickly through the net, hit Tang Wenlong's chest who was still flying, and bounced out directly, his body shook suddenly, spacewalked and changed the position of his left and right feet back and forth, and then bent his knees, cushioned the force of the fall, and stepped firmly on the floor.
"Oh my God, the opening 76ers' two dunks are more exciting than the other!" Barkley burst into foul language, but he didn't expect the 76ers to start with such a high morale.
Smith is quite worried about the Lakers, "This is definitely going to be a tough road game, the Lakers are facing the strongest enemy in the league, the whole world knows that their young players are talented, their veterans are experienced, and against such an opponent, you have to be up to 12 points!" ”
Tang Wenlong didn't think it was a big deal to dunk the basket, and the corner of his eye skimmed to Gasol Jr., and silently awarded a little gold man to thank his teammates for their hard work.
Kobe Bryant has a strong desire to attack, as long as Howard does not take the initiative to ask, he basically holds the ball and his own offense, and the 76ers do not contain it, so he will increase his personal shots, mostly medium and long-range shots.
He was in excellent form today, and Iguodala was already very good at defending a lot of the ball, and he was still scored, scoring 13 points and 2 assists on 4-of-9 shooting in the first quarter, which was very efficient.
On the 76ers' side, Tang Wenlong scored 8 points on 3-of-5 shooting, and Artest did not blow fouls in his defense after that, maybe the referee also knew that if the Lakers' slightly more reliable outside iron gate was punished, the Lakers would have nothing to start in this game.
Therefore, after the first quarter of the game between the two teams, although the 76ers had many dunks and momentum, they were only 29-26 ahead of the Lakers by 3 points. (To be continued.) )