Chapter 183: Who is Mr. Key?
At 92:94, as everyone expected, the game will likely be played until the end to decide the winner, until there are only 2 minutes left in the game, and the difference between the two sides is only 2 points, and the ball is still in the hands of the trail blazers.
“De-fence!” “De-fence!”
The fans shouted defensive slogans, and since the second half of the fourth quarter, the atmosphere has been extremely hot, and the enthusiasm of the Kings fans has been completely mobilized by this close game.
The Trail Blazers attacked, Lillard received the baseline serve, and Evans began to press from the backcourt.
When Lillard dribbled to the half court under Evans' interference, the time had passed 6 seconds, but Lillard was not in a hurry, two steps after crossing the halfway line, Lillard and Evans slightly distanced themselves to stabilize the rhythm, and then reached out to signal their teammates to implement which tactics, and then continued to advance to the three-point line.
Aldridge and Lopez covered, Batum and Matthews actively ran in the half to find opportunities to catch the ball and attack, but the two of them faced the defense of Iguodala and Li Tian, both players were very good at following the defense, the ball passed from Lillard to Batum and led to Matthews outside the three-point line, but still did not find an offensive opportunity, in front of Matthews, Li Tian has been completely defended in place.
Aldridge, who was standing on the right in the middle distance, ran over at this point, and the Trail Blazers still had to play a pick-and-roll strategy.
Next to Aldridge, he was followed by Cousins, and in the final moments of the game, Adelman chose to use Cousins to defend Aldridge.
Considering Aldridge's excellent mid-range shooting, Cousins also had to follow the opponent towards the three-point line at this time.
Coming to the three-point line at the top of the arc, Aldridge covered Matthews sideways, and Li Tian immediately pressed forward, ready to force a squeeze past Matthews from the top.
For different players to block and dismantle, Adelman requires players to adopt different defensive strategies, if Lillard holds the ball to block and dismantle, the defender will choose to shrink the defense from behind, because his breakthrough is very lethal, while Matthews is different, although he can also break through, but the lethality of the breakthrough cannot be compared with Lillard.
Taking a step forward, Li Tian was ready to use the flexibility of his body to reduce physical contact with Aldridge as much as possible. However, when he took that step, he found that his movement was very easy, and he was not disturbed by Aldridge at all.
"It's ...... Fake cover! ”
Li Tian found that Aldridge had disappeared from his side at this time, and Matthews didn't seem to have any intention of dribbling to attack, so he reacted immediately.
It was at this moment that Matthews raised his hand to send the ball out, and the target was to step forward to make a cover move, and then quickly cut towards Aldridge under the basket.
"Cut carefully!" While shouting, Li Tian turned his head sideways, and sure enough, he saw that Aldridge shook off Cousins and moved towards the basket at this time, and the ball fell into his hands at this time.
Half a step behind Aldridge, Cousins rushed to the basket, but could not stop Aldridge's layup.
"Tick!" At 94:94, the two teams were tied, and with Aldridge's two-point hit, the two sides were tied, and at this time, with 1 minute and 40 seconds left in the game, Adelman called a short timeout of 20 seconds.
The head coaches of both sides seized the time to arrange the next tactics, and the players on both sides quickly returned to the court, and the scene began to have a more tense atmosphere because of the draw between the two sides, and the Kings fans couldn't help but get up from their seats one by one.
"Tick!" "Coax!" As the referee blew the whistle that the king could serve, the shouts and cheers of the scene also began to sound.
Iguodala served the ball from the sideline, and the ball went directly to Cousins on the right side of the free throw line, and as soon as Iguodala entered the half-court position, the three Kings perimeter players immediately began to run in the half.
Li Tian, who stayed in the bottom left corner, moved along the baseline to the right baseline, Iguodala at the top of the arc ran to the bottom left corner, and Evans, who was originally on the right side, quickly came to the top of the arc.
Evans ran to the top of the arc to catch the ball, and then directly dribbled to break through, trying to break through Lillard's defense from the front, but at this time, Lillard's defense did a very good job, and he stopped tightly in front of Evans and did not lose position.
Seeing this scene, Li Tian, who had just rushed out to the right side of the three-second zone and was about to go to the bottom corner of the right side to receive Evans' breakthrough ball, quickly changed his direction, staggered his footsteps, and ran directly to the right side of the arc about 30 degrees outside the three-point line.
At the same time, Cousins, who stayed on the right side of the free throw line, also immediately pulled outside to cover for Li Tian.
Physically nimble around behind Cousins, Li Tian received Evans' pass from outside the three-point line!
Matthews hadn't been able to keep up at this point, and Lopez was a step away from behind Cousins, and Li Tian had a shot from beyond the three-point line.
Without hesitation, Li Tian jumped up decisively!
"Tick! Backbite! Backbite! Jumping up in the air and throwing the ball steadily, Li Tian suddenly heard the referee blow a quick whistle.
"Huh!" The basketball hollowed into the net, and cheers rang out from the scene, but the cheers had just begun to sound and then turned into violent boos.
Li Tian made a three-point shot...... Pregnant! What's going on, the referee blew the whistle and covered a foul, the referee blew for a covering foul on Cousins and the goal was invalidated? ”
Li Tian, who had completed his shot, landed, turned his head to look at the referee standing on the sideline making a gesture that the goal was invalid, and immediately rushed towards the referee in a hurry.
"No, I didn't move, it was the guy who hit me on his own!"
Cousins, who was doing the same thing as Li Tian, had already come to the referee first, shouting at the referee with an anxious face.
"Yes, referee, it's a great off-ball screen, it's a good shot!"
Li Tian was also talking, trying to change the referee's decision, but this was obviously difficult to do, the referee kept shaking his head, and then made a gesture to cover the foul and the goal was invalid, indicating that the attack was invalid.
"The referee insisted on his decision and signaled that this shot was invalid, but unfortunately, Li Tian was a three-pointer, and if Cousins had not been whistled for a foul, the Kings would have led by 3 points at this time."
"There should be a replay later, let's see if there is really a foul, but now Cousins and Li Tian should no longer argue with the referee, if they are whistled for a technical foul, it will be a real loss."
Looking at the scene on the field, the domestic commentators also felt a lot of regret.
"DeMarcus, forget it!"
And in the field, seeing that the referee was so resolute, Li Tian immediately stretched out his hand to pull Cousins away, this time the offense has been ruled invalid, in case Cousins said too much and was blown a technical foul by the referee, it would really be worth the loss.
At this time, Cousins was obviously not too willing to stop there, and he wanted to continue to say something, but fortunately, at this time, Evans and others also rushed up and persuaded Cousins to the sidelines with Li Tian.
"DeMarcus, be careful with the T!"
As he walked towards the basket, the Kings player reminded Cousins.
The Trail Blazers called a short timeout at this time, and with this offensive foul from the Kings, the Trail Blazers became active on the court, although this was only the fourth foul of the season by the Kings and did not require direct free throws, but the Trail Blazers had offensive rights.
There was a pause in the middle of the game, and the big screen was also replaying the ball just now, Matthews ran with Li Tian, and then crashed into Cousins's body, unable to keep up with Li Tian in time.
Judging from the replay, Cousins did have a hip movement at this moment, but it was not obvious, but he didn't expect to be seen by the referee.
"Defense, we need a good defensive ......" The Kings players didn't look at the big screen too much, they were listening carefully to Adelman's tactical set-up, while Adelman was drawing on the tactics board the offensive tactics that the Trail Blazers might use and the corresponding defensive arrangements.
When the timeout ended soon and the players from both sides returned to the field, the crowd once again shouted defensive slogans in unison.
“De-fence!” “De-fence!”
Li Tian followed closely next to Matthews, Lillard was dribbling outside the three-point line at this time, and the Trail Blazers players were constantly moving, and 14 seconds of offensive time passed, and so far, it is not clear what offensive tactics the Trail Blazers will use.
In addition to Matthews on the move, Batum is also on the move, and at this time, Batum is receiving Lillard's pass from outside the three-point line with the help of Aldridge's cover.
Batum received the ball outside the three-point line on the right side, and Aldridge, who was originally in the middle range, began to lean on Cousins and move towards the basket.
Cousins naturally did not want Aldridge to easily get close to the basket and clinged to the defense, and he constantly made physical contact with Aldridge to interfere with the opponent's movement.
At this time, Aldridge, who was originally squeezing to move to the basket, suddenly retreated, broke away from the entanglement with Cousins, and seized this momentary opportunity, Batum hit the ground pass and sent the ball to Aldridge's hands.
After receiving the ball, Aldridge jumped quickly, Aldridge didn't wait for Cousins to stick to the defense, and directly caught the ball and shot directly inside the three-point line!
Cousins also reacted at the first time to pounce, but when a big man like Aldridge pulls to the outside to shoot, it is really difficult to block, whether the ball is played or not depends entirely on his own hand, and today's Aldridge hand is obviously very good.
"Huh!" Two-point shot, 96-94, the Trail Blazers led by 2 points.
"Wow!" The Kings' home fans were in an uproar over the lead, but soon they were back cheering for their team.
“Kings! Kings!”
The king did not call a timeout, and when Adelman had just laid out the tactics, he had already arranged the offensive tactics of this round together, so after Aldridge completed the goal, Thompson on the bottom line quickly sent the ball out to Evans, and at this time, the rest of the king's players had already rushed to the frontcourt.
Fight back! The king chose the most efficient way to attack!
The Trail Blazers' retreat speed was not slow, and when Li Tian and others ran to the other half, their opposing players also followed closely. However, the Kings' rapid advance still achieved the results they wanted, and the Trail Blazers' retreat was indeed fast, but after all, it couldn't compare to the positional defense that opened up, and Cousins relied on Aldridge on the right side to get into position near the three-second zone.
Cousins' position is very deep, so Evans immediately handed the ball to Li Tian outside the three-point line on this side, and Li Tian also immediately hoisted the ball to the inside line after receiving the ball and handed it to Cousins.
Passing the ball out, Li Tian did not stand still, and suddenly started, he ran towards the bottom right corner.
Matthews subconsciously glanced at the inside line after Li Tian completed the pass, because at this time, apart from Aldridge, he was the only Trail Blazers player on this side, and he had to be ready to help defend when Cousins was so deep.
However, the Trail Blazers players don't know that whether it is Cousins' key position so deep or Li Tian's first pass, these are just confusing, Li Tian's excellent touch on the previous goal was favored by Adelman, and he is the real end point of this offense!
When Li Tian ran towards the bottom corner, Cousins, who had just received the ball, quickly passed the ball back!
"Oops!" Matthews' reaction was not slow, he turned his head to look at Cousins, and found that after the opponent received the ball, he immediately reacted and quickly rushed towards Li Tian.
But at this time, Li Tian had already received a pass.
"Li Tian received the ball outside the three-point line, had a chance to shoot, and made a ......"
Catch, Shoot! Li Tian did not hesitate or hesitate at all, facing Matthews who pounced on him, and made a three-point shot!
“Shoooot!” On the sidelines, the Kings players also shouted excitedly!
Immediately afterward, the shouts turned into a tsunami of cheers.
"Huh!" Three points, the ball in!
"Coax!" Detonate the audience!
"The ball is in! The ball is in! Li Tian hit a three-point shot, 96:97, and the king overtook by 1 point! ”
"Roar!" While the fans and commentators were yelling, in the field, Li Tian also clenched his fists and yelled excitedly! The previous three points were invalidated? Then another one!
The Trail Blazers called a timeout, and in the last 40 seconds, the difference of 1 point was unpredictable. Both teams still have attack, and the key is to see which team can take the opportunity and who can be the key man in the final moments of the game! ”
Regaining a one-point lead allowed the Kings to take the initiative on the court again, and the next Kings and Trail Blazers' offenses were guarded, and when there were only 40 seconds left in the game, the score of the two teams was still 96:97, and the Trail Blazers, who had offensive power, called a timeout.
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