Chapter 13: The Lore
The score of the two teams is now 99-98 for the Bulls to lead the Lakers by one point, and the game time is only 40 seconds, and the Bulls have the ball.
The Lakers can choose to foul, make free throws from the Bulls, and then force a three-pointer, or they can prevent the Bulls from attacking this time and then use the final time to complete the kill.
Phil's decision was to let the Bulls attack, and as long as the ball was defended, then the Bulls would be the ones who were passive.
The Bulls obviously knew the situation as well, so they played very solidly and just wanted to put the ball in the basket.
To say that the most stable offense is, of course, to play the inside, the closer to the basket, the more sure you are, this is common sense, most of the centers in the league have a shooting rate of more than 50%, from which you can see the stability of the interior line.
Rose found an opportunity to give the ball to Boozer, who was in a good position, Boozer received the ball and resisted Gasol, and made a back-to-back jumper, although Gasol tried his best to jump and block, but the backward jumper was really difficult to cover, and the basketball played lightly into the basket. The Bulls scored more than 100 points while leading the Lakers by three points, and now the pressure is all on the Lakers.
The Bulls deliberately compressed the time just now, the offense took twenty-two seconds, and the Lakers had eighteen seconds left, Phil called a timeout, arranged a cover tactic, and let Kobe Bryant shoot at the three-point line, and if the ball scored, he could play overtime.
Wang Meng received the ball and stood at the top of the three-point line waiting for Kobe to run.
Finally, with six seconds left, Kobe Bryant followed Gasol's block and ran to the right side of the three-point line, and Wang Meng immediately passed the ball over. Kobe Bryant received the ball and shot, and although Ruer Deng, who was defending the defense, tried his best to block it, the shot was leaned back and flew to the basket without any interference.
"Bang!" This sound of iron is so pleasant to the ears of the Bulls, but it is undoubtedly the sound of defeat in the ears of the Lakers.
"Ahh Bydam roared, jumped to pull the rebound ball into his arms, and immediately threw the ball to the outside.
Wang Meng unexpectedly received this pass, he raised his head and saw that there was already a second left in the time, and he was not allowed to think too much, so he immediately jumped and shot.
Wang Meng jumped up and shot, but frightened Rose in front of him, although Rose scored a personal record in this game, but he was not happy at all, because Wang Meng, a little-known rookie, made him very unhappy. At this moment, if he was allowed to throw this ball and drag the game into overtime, it would make Rose even more unhappy, thinking about these situations that made him unhappy, Rose's mind was hot, and he pounced on Wang Meng to block.
Seeing Rose's block, Wang Meng was unhurried and put away the basketball in the air.
"Not good!" Ross suddenly felt bad, and hurriedly put away his hand, but it was too late, and he hit Wang Meng solidly. Such a clear foul that the referee immediately blew the whistle.
Being hit by Rose like this, Wang Meng suddenly lost his balance, if he opened the instant explosion, Rose couldn't hit him at all, but if he opened the instant explosion, the instantaneous increase in power would affect Wang Meng's hand in his eyes.
"Go ahead." Then with only a little bit left in the air, Wang Meng pushed the basketball out with all his strength, and then fell heavily to the floor.
Although the fall hurt, Wang Meng didn't care about those, and lay on the ground staring at the basketball that was still spinning in the air.
"Brush." Hollow into the net.
"Huh!" Wang Meng stood up excitedly, punching his chest hard.
Since time had stopped when the whistle was blown, if Wang Meng scored this free throw, then he would have killed the Bulls!
"How is that possible?" Ross stared blankly at the 0.4-second chronograph, speechless.
The free throw king scored steadily in the midst of the full-court boos, 101:102, and the Lakers overtook the Bulls by one point.
The Bulls used the last timeout to lay out the final offense. But what can 0.4 seconds do? The Lakers' old fish Fisher once staged a 0.4-second kill against the Spurs, but the Bulls didn't have Fisher, and even if there were, Fisher could really throw a 0.4-second kill code?
It's an unanswered question, and in short, the Bulls can't do it, and Rose just received the ball in 0.4 seconds before the whistle blew for the end of the game.
This is a game that makes Wang Meng feel incredible, he actually killed the Bulls, not only that, but he scored 21 points, eight assists, a block, no steals and no rebounds, and almost played a quasi-double-double.
Rose scored a career-high 43-pointer and nine assists, and in terms of performance, Rose seems to have completely exploded Wang Meng, but the hard fact is that Wang Meng killed the Bulls, just this simple point, even if Rose scored 100 points, it would be in vain.
After the game, Wang Meng received a notice from Phil to attend a press conference, this is Wang Meng's first time to attend a press conference, before all stars such as Kobe Gasole went, this time because of Wang Meng's superhuman performance, so there are many reporters who want to interview him.
Changing into a suit, Wang Meng followed Phil and Kobe to the press conference.
As soon as he entered, Wang Meng sounded a photo in front of his eyes, and the incandescent flash almost blinded Wang Meng, Wang Meng faintly felt a bad feeling in his heart, he had always felt that participating in the press conference was a status symbol, but now he regretted it a little.
At the beginning, as usual, the head coach was interviewed, and a reporter stood up and asked, "Hello, Mr. Phil, what do you think of this game?" ”
Phil said calmly, "It was a great game, we fought with the Bulls to the last one, no one thought about giving up, this is a kind of fun in sports, no one knows who the winner will be until the game is over." ”
The reporter interviewed Phil a few questions, and Phil is an old fritter, so naturally there are no questions to answer one by one.
Then the reporter pointed the microphone at Kobe, Kobe Bryant has been in the NBA for more than ten years, there are many ways to deal with reporters, and reporters are also interested in asking some official questions, after all, there have been reporters who have provoked Kobe's previous convictions, Kobe Bryant, no matter how the reporter asked, he didn't hear the answer clearly, which made the reporter very embarrassed.
Next it was Wang Meng's turn.
"Mr. Wang Meng, you finally won the game in this game, although the star of the Bulls got a quasi-double-double of 43 points and 9 assists, but still couldn't win the game, especially when you were killed in the face at the last moment. What do you think? And before Kobe Bryant missed the shot, you shot three plus one, what do you want to say. ”
"Murderous!" Wang Meng raised his eyebrows, this question is so tricky.
After a closer look, Wang Meng found that many of the media outlets here are local to Chicago.