Chapter 177: Obligations of a Leader
After Andre Miller received the ball, he handed over a long pass to Lin Fei who rushed in front again, almost the same as that attack.
Seeing such a scene, Carlisle on the sidelines immediately yelled, "Go up, watch him, watch him, watch him." ”
Stevenson also wanted to press Lin Fei step by step, but it was obvious that his speed could not be compared with Lin Fei, so he could only do his best to chase Chen Hao, and Caron Butler, who was the fastest to return to the halfcourt, pressed up from inside the three-point line, attacking one after the other, trying to force Chen Hao near the midfield.
Wilson on the other side. Chandler also ran to the front court as quickly as he did the air relay.
"Caron, keep an eye on him!" Nowitzki, who was behind him, shouted at Butler, he would definitely not be able to catch up with Chandler, but Butler had this possibility, and Nowitzki simply ran towards Lin Fei by himself.
Butler immediately changed direction and pursued Chandler.
Without Butler chasing from the front, only Nowitzki and Stevenson behind him undoubtedly had a lot less pressure on Lin Fei, and one changed back away from Nowitzki, although Stevenson behind him was able to get closer to him, but Lin Fei didn't care, and rushed directly to the three-point line.
Butler nervous with a passing motion with both hands, while Stevenson behind him breathed a sigh of relief that it wasn't his responsibility, and couldn't help but slow down.
Who knew that Lin Fei's pass was just a feint, and when he took back the ball, Lin Fei immediately jumped up and watched the basket throw the ball.
The basketball smashed into the basket cleanly.
"Didn't you eat? Don't want to play the game for me down. Carlisle can tolerate Lin Fei blowing up Stevenson's defense, but he can't tolerate Stevenson's attitude of not giving his best on the court.
Stevenson had a cold face, he didn't want to be replaced so quickly, but on the defensive end he continued his powerlessness, height disadvantage, speed disadvantage, strength disadvantage, so he had to often need Butler's supplement, and the result of Butler's supplemental defense was to make Wilson. Chandler, a guy who is good at cutting off the ball, gets good shots.
And once Butler defended Lin Fei, Stevenson had to face Wilson. Chandler's height and strength advantage, Carlisle's tragic finding himself on Stevenson was a complete tragedy, and substitutions were the most Carlyle wanted to do, but before that he wanted to ask for a timeout to reset.
"Carlisle can't sit still, and it turns out that sending Stevenson was the wrong decision, does he want a player like Sean to sit on the bench and watch the game? Sean plus Caron's defense is definitely comparable to the Clippers' Wilson Garroen. Hoffman questioned Carlisle's set-up.
"Stevenson, you come down and rest." Carlisle didn't care about Stevenson's embarrassed face, turned to Marion and said, "Sean, you play, I need you to keep an eye on that guy, it's really not okay for you and Caron to cooperate, try to be alone, once you are thrown off the other person, immediately go to help defend, and if you are thrown away, immediately change the defense, don't leak people, Drew, you replace Eric, the team needs your offensive and interior impact......"
Mike Dunleavy also apparently guessed Carlisle's next arrangement, "Lin, if nothing else, they're going to send Sean. Marion: You should know not to be careless and pay attention to the reasonable distribution of the ball. Although Dunleavy took special care of it, he began to set it up simply.
"Yes, Carlisle has been replaced by Sean, Sean's defense is a big help for Dallas, they continue Sean to bring new defense, and the forward defensive line formed by Sean and Caron is undoubtedly at the forefront of the league, how will Lin face such a defense?" Bill. Wharton looked at Lin Fei on the field with some expectation.
After the timeout, the Mavericks' offense quickly turned on, but with the Clippers' defensive interference, Drew Gooden jumped up and took the defensive rebound down steadily, and immediately passed it to Jason. Kyd.
Kidd seemed to be rejuvenated, and quickly pushed forward to the frontcourt. Chandler and Rashid. Before Wallace could get into position, Andre Miller caught up with Kidd behind him, but just then Kidd's eyes swept over Marion as he ran to the three-point line.
"Sean!" Kidd yelled at Marion, and just after halftime, he pushed the ball to the basket with both hands!
"Not good!" Lin Fei shouted.
But he was still a long way from Marion, and he couldn't come forward to defend at all, so he could only watch Marion soar.
"Bang!"
The Clippers' basket was heavily dunked by Marion's hands.
"This is Shaun, the Sean of Phoenix back then, Sean retrieving his hacking shadow with the help of Jason." Hoffman sighed as he watched the replay on the big screen.
However, the mentality of the Clippers up and down still seems to be very stable, Andre. Miller dribbled steadily past half-court and gave a thumbs-up to his teammates for quick runs.
Wilson. Chandler and Lin Fei immediately started running, constantly tugging at the Mavericks' defense, trying to find gaps.
However, the Mavericks' defense doesn't seem to have changed at all, still using a joint defense, with Gooden and Nowitzki guarding the interior in the middle, Butler and Marion guarding two 45 degrees, and Kidd at the top of the arc.
When Lin Fei received a pass from Miller, Marion caught up as soon as possible.
Sean Marion's ultra-long arm span covered Lin Fei tightly, this is not the first time Lin Fei has faced Marion, but the Marion he faced is not at his peak, Lin Fei can't imagine how terrifying Marion's defense was at his peak, but now Lin Fei deeply feels the confidence exuded by Marion.
Butler and Marion's perfect switch will be Tyson. Chandler and Rashid. Wallace's two consecutive blocks and dismantles were resolved.
Seeing that the 24-second attack time was about to expire, Lin Fei gritted his teeth, and after a shake, he immediately forcibly accelerated and rushed to Marion's right side, and suddenly retreated and jumped out, but Marion's extra-long arms still interfered with Lin Fei's vision.
Lin Fei felt terrible the moment he shot, and in the end, Lin Fei's ball smashed into the front of the basket and bounced out, and Nowitzki jumped up to pick up the defensive rebound.
After Lin Fei glanced at Marion, he turned around and ran towards the backfield.
The game continued, and the pressure on the Clippers from Marion and Butler's defense was not ordinarily huge. Marion plus Butler's co-defense brought a lot of pressure to Lin Fei, and Carlisle's defensive formation was very targeted, that is, he could let go of other players to intercept Lin Fei as soon as possible, no matter how Lin Fei ran, the Mavericks did not relax, just like five tied up a big pocket, which made Lin Fei feel extremely uncomfortable.
Although the strength of the Clippers is very strong, Lin Fei's role is undoubted, once Lin Fei is frozen, it is equivalent to freezing half of the Clippers' body. Dunleavy is considering whether to replace Lin Fei, or replace J.R. Smith and let Lin Fei play the guard position.
Lin Fei held the ball in both hands, and his shoulders swayed, feeling a firm defensive belief coming from Marion behind him.
With his right foot as the axis, Lin Fei suddenly pulled his right hand to the right and turned around, raising the ball with both hands to make a prelude to shooting.
Ordinary people had already jumped up, but Marion didn't jump easily, but took another step forward when Lin Fei turned around, further squeezing Lin Fei's space.
Seeing that the feint was ineffective, Lin Fei slapped the ball with his left hand, bowed his body, and forcibly leaned on Marion to squeeze inside.
Marion looks thin and weak, and his strength is indeed not as good as Lin Fei's, but years of hard work in the power forward position has given him his own way to defend the power player, taking a small step back, but his hand is still dead against Lin Fei's waist, and his right hand is still held high in front of Lin Fei, and his feet are slightly staggered back and forth.
Marion's defense was unusually in place, which greatly stimulated Lin Fei's competitiveness, and after forcibly turning around one and a half, his left foot withdrew, and the basketball passed through the crotch to the left hand and right foot to kick the ground and withdrew, and the whole person jumped in the air, with an obvious backward body.
Marion was obviously unwilling to give up easily with a low roar, stepped forward with his right foot, and jumped up with all his might, reaching out to interfere with Lin Fei's vision, although Marion's bounce was not as good as at his peak, but it was still very good.
The extra-long arm is Marion's best weapon, watching Marion's right hand getting closer and closer to him, Lin Fei gritted his teeth and leaned back even more, almost forty-five degrees from the floor, watching the basket slowly reappear in front of him, Lin Fei threw the ball with firm confidence.
The Clippers fans in the stadium couldn't bear to celebrate, and they believed that Lin Fei could throw the ball in.
"Bang!"
The basketball bounced on the inside, rolling around and around the basket, Lin Fei's eyes showed a trace of disbelief, he thought he could go in, but the basketball finally fell off after two turns on the basket.
Gooden grabbed the defensive rebound again, and Lin Fei immediately collected his mentality and quickly ran to the backcourt.
"Lin is in trouble, obviously he needs to readjust himself, maybe going down and taking a break is a good option." Hoffman's suggestion is a good one.
Mike. Dunleavy was also ready to replace Lin Fei, but when he saw that Lin Fei was still running back and forth on the court as always, and defending at any cost, Dunleavy chose to let Lin Fei continue to stay on the field.
Maybe everyone felt that Lin Fei was a little stuck in self-obsession, but Dunleavy knew that Lin Fei was still sane at this moment.
When the game came to the first quarter with two minutes left, the Clippers chose to make substitutions, but still retained Lin Fei, Lin Fei came to the position of playmaking guard, obviously Dunleavy wanted Lin Fei to use his ball-holding power to let his teammates get more opportunities.
Lin Fei took the ball directly from the backcourt into the half, Marion came up again, did not press directly, but retreated little by little as Lin Fei advanced, until he retreated to the three-point line, and Marion stopped.
Lin Fei glanced at it, waited for his teammates to settle down, and looked at Sean again, who had brought him huge defensive pressure in the past few minutes. Marion.
Not only was Lin Fei unable to score in the past few minutes, but even the touch of his teammates seemed to disappear into the Mavericks' defense.
"I have to score!" Lin Fei roared inwardly.
As the leader of the team, he has to step up when the team is in a scoring drought, and that's his obligation.
Lin Fei slowly bowed down, protected the ball with his right hand, and made a gesture with his left hand to signal that he wanted to play the ball alone.
(To be continued)