Chapter 305: You'll Never Reach His Heights
"Peng", "Peng", ...... Noah's back and Humphries's men bumped into each other again and again.
In the face of Humphries' provocation, the eccentric Noah had no reason not to respond to his opponent, only to see him constantly stuck under the basket and gain offensive space by ramming.
Humphries was forced to take a step back with a hard blow from Noah, and that's when Bulls point guard Robinson got the ball into Noah's hands just right.
I saw Noah turn around in an instant with a nimble step that was extremely inconsistent with his figure, flashed Humphries, and attacked directly under the basket.
"Smack", but Humphries obviously won't let Noah score as he wants, and his head and face are a vertical slash from behind Noah.
The referee's whistle sounded, and it turned out that Humphries slapped Noah on the head while knocking out the basketball, and then the two were still unconvinced under the referee's gaze and whispered to each other.
Noah stood at the free throw line, stared at the basket for 5 or 6 seconds, and then shot the basketball in his hand with his ugly shooting stance.
The basketball was pushed out from the front of his face in a "three-eight" style, and with a "dang" sound, not surprisingly, Noah's first free throw bounced out of the basket.
"Hahahahaha, this shooting posture of yours reminds me of my 6-year-old cousin playing basketball" Seeing Noah's free throw miss, Humphries immediately laughed at Noah as best he could.
"Brush" but Humphries's ridicule just fell, Noah's second free throw hit, still the same ugly action, but this time, Noah's shot accurately passed through the center of the net.
"Hey. Silly bird, do you see it? I'm in," Noah said to Humphries, with a slight look of relief.
74:85
After Noah hit the free throw, the Bulls extended their lead to 11 points. And the game came to the third minute of the fourth quarter.
The Nets attacked, but the Bulls did a good job defensively, with Delon constantly waving his arms to direct his teammates while possessing the ball.
"There is not much time left for us" The tall man looked up at the timer, but at this time, Belinelli, who was standing in front of him, did not hesitate to cling to the tall man without the ball.
When Gao Dazhuang was thinking about how to get rid of the defense, Nets small forward Wallace ran over to cover Gao Dazhuang very tacitly, and Gao Dazhuang took the opportunity to brush sideways against Wallace's back.
Belinelli also reacted, and immediately accelerated, bypassing Wallace, but when he came to the other side of Wallace, he found that the tall and strong man was gone!
It turned out that the tall and strong killed a back carbine. After using Wallace to block Belinelli's view, he suddenly switched back and ran straight outside the three-point line on the wing.
At this time, Delong, who controlled the ball from the outside, immediately made a horizontal pass, and passed the ball to his hands almost at the moment when the tall and strong man was in place.
So the tall and strong received the ball, turned around, and without the slightest adjustment, immediately bent his knees and raised his head. Jump... Shot, the ball is shot!
With a "brush", the basketball accurately passed through the net, and the tall and strong three-point shot.
77:85
At this time, Gao Dazhuang made the first three-pointer of the game. But it was this three-pointer that sounded the clarion call for the Nets to fight back.
"When" in the next offense, Bulls point guard Robinson missed a wave shot, and the Nets immediately launched a counterattack.
Tall and strong quickly advanced from the back court to the front court. However, the Bulls were a defensive iron army, and soon Noah, Belinelli, Ruhr Deng, and Robinson had all withdrawn to their own half.
Among them, Lu Erdeng directly faced the tall and strong who was advancing at high speed. In the face of Ruhrdeng's defense, the tall and strong bent down violently after a series of false shakes and rushed to the three-point line. But just as Lu Erdeng retreated and was about to follow, Gao Dazhuang suddenly made a sharp stop, then stepped back to the three-point line, and made a decisive shot before Lu Erdeng pounced.
The tall and strong shot was quite fast, and the moment Lu Erdeng pounced, the ball had already crossed his defense, and then Lu Erdeng heard a very crisp sound of the basketball passing through the net, and then he saw the tall and strong in front of him holding a three-handed gesture.
Gao Dazhuang hit another three-pointer to chase the score to 80:85.
The referee blew the whistle and the Bulls called a timeout.
After the timeout, the Bulls made personnel changes, replacing Belinelli, who was suffering from physical problems with Jimmy Butler, who is 2 meters tall.
The energetic Jimmy Butler immediately bit the tall and strong like a "mad dog" after coming on the court, but in the case of the recovery of the tall and strong, this is definitely the Nets' first offensive option, so the Nets have also taken corresponding countermeasures against the Bulls' strategy.
With a "Peng", Humphries made a simple off-ball cover for Gao Dazhuang, who got rid of the defense and immediately ran to the bottom corner three-point line, and at this moment Delong's pass was also in place in time.
With this simple tactical cooperation, Gao Dazhuang was ready to shoot after receiving the ball, but the Bulls' new Butler was very fast, and the moment Gao Dazhuang turned around, he also slammed out and stretched out his arm to try to interfere with Gao Dazhuang's shot.
"Bang" Tall and Strong dribbled the ball very calmly, his body retreated to the left, his steps were delicate and fast, and a displacement quickly pulled out the offensive space.
After copying Curry's projection skills, Tall Zhuang's jump shot was also more concise, and as soon as the toes left the ground, Tall and Strong had already used the flick of his index and middle fingers to complete the shot while his body was still rising.
At the moment when the ball was shot, the tall and strong eyes always followed the projected basketball, his arms still maintained the posture when he shot, and at this moment his teammates on the sidelines were already nervously staring at the basketball in the air.
With a "brush", the basketball once again went straight through the center of the net, and the tall and strong once again showed everyone in the audience a perfect art of long-range shooting.
"Oh" The Nets bench erupted in huge cheers, and the "temperature" of the United Center arena suddenly dropped a lot, and many fans even slumped on their seats in a decadent manner.
83:85
In less than two minutes, the tall and strong three consecutive three-pointers quickly shortened the gap between the two sides to one goal.
The Bulls were also a little anxious at the moment, and Noah and Robinson also had a slight verbal altercation. They were originally a team based on defense, but they were caught off guard by three unreasonable three-pointers from the tall and strong. Now they have to re-establish their strengths, and it all starts with the offense that they are not good at.
"Squeak", "squeak", ...... The sound of sneakers rubbing against the floor kept ringing. Although the defense is not as good as the Bulls, the Nets' defense, especially outside defense, is also among the best in the league.
Noah played a pick-and-roll with Robinson in the middle, and Noah immediately turned and cut inside, but Robinson did not pass the ball to Noah, who was already targeted by Humphries, but a wide range of transfer balls, and passed the ball to Bulls power forward Boozer who asked for the ball on the other side.
Boozer threw his shot in a 45-degree angle, "dang", but Boozer was not in good shape today. This time, the shot also bounced out of the basket again.
"Slap" Under the bag of many players under the Nets' basket, Noah took the lead in grabbing the basketball, but Noah's basket forced a shot to bounce out of the basket again.
"Counterattack" At this time, Humphries of the Nets grabbed the basketball and yelled, and immediately passed the ball to Gao Dazhuang.
After receiving the ball, the tall and strong horsepower was full of power, advancing at high speed with the ball, and taking advantage of the Bulls' unstable foothold, he instantly entered the opponent's half.
"Drink" Butler was approaching as he tried to block the tall advance and buy time for his teammates.
In front of Butler's block, Tall and Strong uses his unique dribbling technique that is almost street ball. Dribble quickly left and right in high-speed motion, make continuous bogus, and change direction to break through Butler's side.
Butler hurriedly took a step, moving his body laterally to stop the breakthrough of the tall and strong. Nazhi suddenly slammed the ball and slammed it to the ground, and the ball went straight under Butler's step. It's like splitting the ball in soccer.
In an instant, the tall and strong broke through Butler's defense. At this time, the only person standing between the tall and strong and the basket is the Bulls small forward Ruhr Deng.
Ruhr Deng quickly turned to take a defensive stance after returning to the basket, and the tall man yelled the moment he stepped into the paint. And take advantage of the momentum to rise into the air, holding the ball in both hands and smashing the ball into the basket.
Under the watchful eyes of nearly 20,000 Bulls fans in the stadium, Ruhr Deng had no reason to retreat, and he also roared and jumped up to meet the game.
With a loud bang, the tall and strong man in the air bowed his waist, turned sideways, rotated 90 degrees, and after avoiding Lu Erdeng's block, he smashed the ball into the basket with one hand and a slam dunk.
"Ah!!h After the goal, the tall and strong roared excitedly, and slammed his chest with a fist with one hand, and pointed to the Nets bench on the sidelines with the other, and the Nets players on the bench also waved the towels in their hands excitedly and cheered loudly.
85:85
A stunning dunk from the tall man leveled the score between the two sides.
"You know what?" Humphries, who was still near the middle circle, pointed to the tall man with his finger, turned to Noah beside him, and said, "You will never reach his height."
"Hmph, I don't know what kind of height I'm going to be in the future, but I know I'm going to run from one side of the court to the other in every round, so you can't reach my height either," Noah said with a dismissive look at Humphries.
This is Noah's most simple understanding of basketball, getting a high-quality contract, some people choose to start mediocrity, some people choose to lead to greatness, money is the wrong start for many people, but for Noah, the stimulation of the material world is far from reaching the height of the spiritual world.
Sure enough, in the next game, Noah was still so passionate.
With a "snap", Evans' strong attack under the basket was slapped out of the bottom line by Noah's palm.
10 caps! The entire United Center arena resounded with huge applause and cheers, and with this block Noah also won the "triple-double" data.
However, the Bulls' offense still did not improve, Noah scored 20 points, Belinelli scored 19 points, but the Bulls' starting power forward Boozer shot 3-of-11, only 9 points and 5 rebounds, and starting point guard Robinson also had a low shooting percentage, scoring 13 points and 3 assists on 5-of-14 shooting.
The Nets, on the other hand, have crossed the quagmire under the leadership of tall and strong and are playing better and better.
The morale of the Nets is high, while the Bulls lack offensive ability and frequently play iron, and the score between the two sides is slowly being pulled apart.
"Brush" in the final moments of the game. With the tall and strong free throw, the Bulls also completely lost the possibility of turning the tables.
"Tut" is over at full-time. The score was finally fixed at 99:92.
The Nets, who were fighting back-to-back, suddenly came out of nowhere in the fourth quarter and won the game away from the Bulls. They have won three in a row and have overtaken the Bulls to move into fourth place in the East.
However, despite the loss, the focus of the game was the Bulls' starting center, Noah, who proved that he is the heart and soul of the current Bulls team with his excellent performance when Rose was reimbursed for the season.
The stats tell us everything, Noah scored 23 points on 10-of-15 shooting, which is for a defensive center who averages 11.7 points per game. Noaa nearly doubled his scoring stats today.
In addition, Noah was a big man on the defensive end today, grabbing 20 rebounds and 10 blocks, and although defense is his specialty, 20 rebounds in a single game is only the fifth time of his career, and the blocks are a new career high.
In addition, Noah's 7 assists in a single game also embarrassed many point guards.
When Noah hits this "triple-double" of points, rebounds, and blocks at the same time in a game, you can only feel that he is too strong.
In the last 27 years for which detailed data is available, only two people have accomplished such a feat: O'Neill and Olajuwon. But they're all super centers in the history of the league.
O'Neal had a terrifying 24 points, 28 rebounds and 15 blocks in the 1993 Magic vs. Nets, and in the 1989 Rockets vs. Jazz game, Olajuwon had an astonishing 24 points, 21 rebounds and 12 blocks in a single game, as well as five steals.
Today Noah has reached their heights. Although the loss of the game, the Bulls have fallen to the fifth place in the East, but I believe that Noah is there. They will never give up.
This season, Noah's scoring average has risen to 13.7 points per game, in addition to 4.2 assists. In addition, the number of rebounds and blocks is also a career-high, which is not surprising to Bulls coach Thibodeau. He believes that Noah has always had a lot of offensive potential, "and in his body, I think he will continue to improve himself, and I think he can do even better than he has now." ”
"Noah is ready, he's dominant on both ends of the floor, he's a leader, and I can't find a better center in the league right now" At the end of the interview, Bulls head coach Thibodeau once again praised his favorite player.
Bulls point guard Belinelli said of Noah's performance today: "His talent is actually far beyond what everyone expected, he can control the ball, he can pass the ball, he can score inside, he can break through people, I'm not surprised by his performance, he just has that ability."
Bulls small forward Ruhr Deng believes that Noah's current performance will give him his first All-Star trip this season, "I think he can achieve his dream of becoming an All-Star, of course, it depends on the votes of the fans, but I think when people talk about our team, when other opponents look at our team, they will definitely talk about Noah's energy, talk about his huge impact on us"
"It's a bad taste to lose, but we will definitely come back in the next game" Noah was surrounded by reporters in the locker room after the game, but Noah was very hard-mouthed, even if he lost the game, he still mocked his opponent "I think the referee blew me so many fouls, many of them are unfair, my opponent is like an actor, the bad thing is that the referee believes them"
So Noah didn't take the Nets as they won, and he said to reporters: "Except for Gao, no one else on the Nets team deserved to win today, they stole the win, I didn't have any other friends in that (Nets) locker room, I don't know anyone on their team, and I don't care, I just want to win the game."
When asked about the All-Star vote, Noah was confident that he would be an All-Star, "Yes, I have to be an All-Star, I have the quality, but I don't care too much, I don't play to be an All-Star, I just try to help my teammates and try to win"
When everyone was shocked by Noah's accomplishments today, the Nets' Humphries poured cold water on him, saying in an interview with ESPN: "I want to say that no matter how good the stats are, it's in vain to lose, right? However, given the constant clashes between Humphries and Noah during the match, his remarks are understandable. (To be continued......)