Chapter 182: All I Want is the O'Brien Cup
Lin Fei didn't have much confidence in his heart, Lin Fei deliberately looked for a video of defending Nowitzki after the first game, and it happened to let him find a video of Maddy defending Nowitzki, he and Maddy are of the same height, he believes that his current physical fitness is better than that of Maddy at the beginning, both in reaction and in all aspects, since Maddy has done it, Lin Fei believes that he can also do it after research, so he dares to ask for defense.
Looking at Kidd's appearance, Lin Fei knew that he was going to pass the ball to Nowitzki, and the best way to defend the big man was tantamount to defending around the front, Lin Fei used his footstep advantage to get stuck in front of Nowitzki, when Nowitzki tried to run away from Lin Fei's front line, he was surprised to find that Lin Fei's strength and foot movement were so good.
Kidd had to change his mind, if he forced the ball, the average height Kidd simply did not have the confidence to pass from the top of Lin Fei's head to Nowitzki, if it was too high, it was likely to make Nowitzki lose the best position to catch the ball or even cheapen other players, so he simply stabilized and handed the ball to Jason. Terry.
Terry was the only scoring point for the Mavericks compared to Nowitzki, and Terry faced Wilson. Chandler's defense kept dribbling, and the pace of the dribble was getting faster and faster.
Syllable!
Syllable!
The basketball kept hitting the ground, suddenly a bow accelerated and then a sudden stop and retreated, the small player always has a good performance in this regard against the big man, and after the retreat, Terry jumped straight to the shot.
Lin Fei, as a person with strong shooting ability, can feel whether to score or not to score at a glance at the arc of the ball, looking at the arc of Terry's throwing, Lin Fei directly leaned on Nowitzki and turned around and rushed to the basket.
"Bang!"
The basketball smashed on the front edge and bounced out.
Drew. Gooden jumped to his feet, ready to pick up the frontcourt rebound that was bouncing at him.
Just as his hands were about to touch the basketball, a yellow-skinned hand appeared in his field of vision.
With a slight pick, the basketball was spotted in the air, and after Lin Fei landed, he jumped again, and picked it again. Gooden could only watch Lin Fei quickly complete the third jump.
"Amazing speed, Lin made up for the height gap with his excellent physical fitness, and I could even see Drew's mouth in surprise to put down four eggs." Barkley exaggerated.
After Lin Fei landed, he made a long pass, and the ball immediately flew from Lin Fei's hand to the front court at lightning speed.
Although Jason Kidd did his best to get back to the defense, it was too late, and Jr. Smith, wearing a white jersey, slashed across the floor like lightning, took the lead in picking up the ball and sending it to the basket with an almost performative 180-degree twist with both hands behind the back.
Lin Fei, the impostor power forward, first stopped Nowitzki's catch with a professional loop, then snatched the rebound from Gooden's head, and then sent a precise long pass.
The Clippers fans in front of the TV waved their arms excitedly, and at this moment it seemed that all their doubts about Lin Fei had been withdrawn, even though Lin Fei had not done anything with Nowitzki at all.
"Good pass!" Jr. Smith excitedly ran to the backcourt and Lin Fei bumped his chest into celebration with passion.
The Clippers extended the margin to six points again, with at least a two-goal advantage.
Nowitzki was ready to catch the ball again, Lin Fei stuck to him like a plaster, Nowitzki had to signal his teammates to cover, with the help of Marion's cover, Nowitzki received the pass, and at the moment when he was about to shoot, Lin Fei bypassed Marion and stood in front of Nowitzki.
"Lin appeared in front of Dirk at the right time, can he keep this ball?" Barkley said expectantly, hoping too much to see the picture of Lin Fei successfully defending Nowitzki.
Lin Fei took a step closer, and his mind replayed the picture of Maddy defending Nowitzki and the picture of Nowitzki's shot.
Although the height difference is nearly six centimeters, Nowitzki is also a little jealous of Lin Fei's jumping ability, and after thinking for a long time, he is ready to use a backward jumper.
Seeing Nowitzki's inadvertently shaking shoulders, Lin Fei immediately had an idea in his heart, most people didn't pay attention to this subtle action, but Lin Fei summed it up, this was the prelude to Nowitzki's preparation to shoot directly.
The body was slightly staggered with Nowitzki, if Lin Fei knew that his jump time was not enough, Nowitzki really chose to shoot directly, and at the moment of shooting, Lin Fei's hand appeared in Nowitzki's field of vision.
Nowitzki had a look of surprise on his face, but his high arc made sure the ball jumped past Lin Fei's fingers.
Lin Fei was also a little annoyed, this was the first time he had not grasped the sense of defensive rhythm like this, and he could only hope that the voice of the Shaolin abbot after the 80s would shatter Lin Fei's thoughts.
A huge cheer erupted in the American Airlines Center, and in their eyes, Lin Fei's defense was undoubtedly a failure.
"You're just a joke, let's get back to where you belong."
"Next time it's going to score in your head and you're going to be shot into a sieve."
…… All kinds of sounds drilled into Lin Fei's ears, and the corners of Lin Fei's mouth hooked an arc.
"Charles, that's what you're looking forward to, right?" Kenny. Smith couldn't help but smile.
"The fact that Lin has done a good job of defending this time can only show that Dirk is lucky." Barkley retorted.
"According to you, Dirk's luck has always been good, and you should know that more luck is a sign of strength." Kenny. Smith said unrelentingly.
Lin Fei returned to the offensive end and looked particularly positive, Marion was a little at a loss, it stands to reason that Lin Fei is the object of his defense, but Lin Fei plunged into the inside line to find Nowitzki, if he defends Nowitzki, he must pull the outside defense, the defensive outside line is undoubtedly a huge test for Nowitzki, the Mavericks are likely to be used to break down, everyone knows how powerful the Clippers' outside line is, Marion can only hand over the task of defending Lin Fei to Nowitzki.
Lin Fei reached out against Nowitzki to ask for the ball, looking very professional inside action.
Miller gave the ball to Lin Fei with a direct hit, and Lin Fei stabilized his center of gravity first, which was the first time in his career that he played a low-post singles interior player.
However, for players who are taller than him, Lin Fei learned in the soul ring, but it is rarely used, after all, there are really few players who are taller than him on the outside.
"Lin ready to single Dirk in the low post? To be honest, I'm worried about Dirk's strength, everyone knows that Lin has terrifying powers, and I think I should have an advantage over Dirk. Barkley said seemingly casually.
Boom!
Boom!
Two hits in a row sent Nowitzki half a step back.
"Why is it so vigorous?" Nowitzki was quite helpless in the face of Lin Fei's impact, and a big forward was not as strong as a guard, and Nowitzki was unwilling to bear it, so he pushed up his chest again.
Lin Fei also seemed to have made up his mind to use his purest strength to deal with Nowitzki.
After another continuous impact, the pain in Nowitzki's chest became more and more obvious, but he still gritted his teeth and persisted, and suddenly Lin Fei grabbed the ball with both hands, leaned on him and took a step towards the middle, and then jumped and hooked his hand.
Despite his best efforts, Nowitzki took a beat slow and watched Lin Fei send the ball to the basket with a standard jump hook.
"Jump hook, perfect jump hook, look at this height, look at this prelude, Mike let Lin play the inside next time, height is definitely not a problem." Buckley can't wait to get to Kenny. Smith's ear.
And the Celtics in front of the TV were all taken aback, all of them didn't expect Lin Fei, who unexpectedly appeared in the power forward position, to show the potential of the standard interior line, which made Doug . Rivers frowned, everyone has seen how changeable Dunleavy is in the rankings throughout the playoffs so far.
Although Lin Fei was scored by Nowitzki in the next few defenses, Nowitzki became more difficult with each goal, and he was consumed a lot of physical strength by Lin Fei on the defensive end, and now it is only the third quarter, and there is still more than a quarter of the game, if he loses his physical strength, it will undoubtedly be a huge blow for the Mavericks.
"Dirk is putting on his scoring show again." Seeing Nowitzki catch the ball again, Kenny. Smith said smugly.
Barkley didn't speak, the first four defenses did end in Lin Fei's failure, so what about this time?
Lin Fei was no different from the initial defense of the previous times, while Nowitzki was backed by Lin Fei's sudden impact and turned directly to jump shots.
Syllable!
With a loud bang, the basketball returned directly at high speed, Nowitzki never imagined that such a situation would occur, he couldn't dodge at all, and the basketball smashed directly on his body, and his shot was a shot that lost its center of gravity, and fell directly to the floor under the blow of the basketball.
Rumble!
The sound of intimate contact between the ass and the floor made countless people feel pain for Nowitzki's ass.
"Nice cover, poor Dirk, eh." Barkley shook his head and sighed.
And this defense also injected confidence into Lin Fei, and Nowitzki's chest that was hit by Lin Fei under a fall appeared to be even more painful.
In addition, Lin Fei's entanglement hand is like being put into the bottom of the Arctic Ocean, and the continuous iron striking and the Clippers' counterattacks are wave after wave.
didn't get into the inside line, Lin Fei stopped on the outside line, received the pass, pulled it up and threw it.
Swish!
The basketball went into the hoop cleanly.
With Lin Fei's three-point hit, the Clippers once again widened the gap to double digits.
Carlisle had to call a timeout, but it didn't work well and Nowitzki almost endured the pain.
Nowitzki couldn't hold back the moment he turned around, and a tear slipped from the corner of his eye and dripped down the floor.
He is unwilling to be a loser again, very unwilling, since he came to this league, he has been fighting for the final trophy every year for more than ten years, but every time the reality is so cruel.
Although he was only 3-0 down now, he really didn't have any confidence, not at all, it seemed that his tears were only this one, and Nowitzki walked to the players' tunnel with his head held high.
Rivers turned off the TV, everyone in the Celtics immediately threw themselves into practice, and the Clippers once again gave them a huge shock.
The triple-double data can't hide Lin Fei's pseudo-power forward miracle.
In the second half, although Lin Fei only contributed 10 points, he grabbed 9 rebounds and sent 3 blocks, especially defending Nowitzki, contributing the most to the victory of the Clippers.
At the post-match press conference, Lin Fei only said one sentence in the face of everyone's questions, "I only want the O'Brien Cup."
(To be continued)