Chapter 231: Strong Inside
In the next ball, Zhang Kong did not pass the ball, but came directly by himself, because his recent pass made the Eagles' position a little outside, which also gave Zhang Kong the opportunity to play a spirit snake breakthrough directly, directly broke through Bibi's defense and began to rush to the inside, Josh Smith on the inside was very timely, but unfortunately he paid attention to the pathos.
Zhang Kong was like a ghost, and he just floated past Josh Smith's side, with the silence of the audience, coupled with Zhang Kong's coldness and grim face...... If you add the song 'The road of life, the dream is like ......a long road' to really have some feeling of filming ghost scenes, Zhang Kong just floated past the opponent and rushed directly into the inner line, Josh Smith didn't have time to react at all, Zhang Kong had already jumped up directly on the inside, and gently dunked the basketball in his hand into the basket.
Now he wants to buckle, and he doesn't have that physical condition...... Seeing Zhang Kong chasing the score back to one point, a cold glint flashed in the eyes of everyone on the Hawks' side, Woodson on the sidelines touched his beard, and then secretly pressed his nose, this is a tactic! Seeing the tactics given by the coach, the Eagles immediately began to implement the coach's intentions.
After getting to the opposing half, the Hawks settled the court, glanced at the Pacers' setup, and smiled.
Because the Pacers are not using zone defense right now, just ordinary man-to-man defense inside and outside the three-point line.
This gave them a chance, and Mike Bibby took a look at the inside and hoisted the ball straight into the inside and into the hands of Horford, who, after receiving the ball, was ready to come and eat Milicic in front of him.
In his impression, Milicic belongs to the kind of existence that eats strongly, and everyone else pulls away.
Handed over to Horford and Milicic to play alone, looking at this situation, Jefferson, who was guarding Josh Smith next to him, wanted to help, but let Zhang Kong stop it, seeing that Zhang Kong, the veteran, did not say anything, Jefferson took back his steps a little embarrassed, looking at the situation on the inside, in his eyes, this ball has some meaning that it must be scored.
"Want to score? Then give it a try! Only Zhang Kong knew the details of this Milicic in front of him, and couldn't help whispering.
Hearing Zhang Kong's words, Mike Bibby next to him couldn't help but snort coldly, this ball seemed to have an eighty percent chance of going in.
In Horford's view, the goal probability of this ball accounts for ten percent, and it is impossible for a player like him to be killed by a player like the opponent, after receiving the ball, Horford held the ball in both hands and gently squeezed it back, which allowed him to try out Milicic's strength, Milicic's strength is not too strong, after all, he is still a little too thin in terms of size.
In the face of a pure man from Africa like Horford, he was still a little overwhelmed, and took a small step back, which also gave Horford a chance, and Horford turned around directly and ran towards the Pacers' basket.
Milicic followed him very steadily, knocking him lightly to the outside of the basket, but unfortunately neither of them was very dominant in strength, and the distance was a little close, so Milicic did not knock Horford too far.
Finally Horford rushed to the basket, his right hand lightly blocked, ready to block Milicic, and then his left hand directly sent the basketball to the basket, he did not choose to dunk, but chose to go to the basket, it is precisely because of his choice that Milicic, who has become a famous guy, when the basketball has just been detached from his hands, a big hand has been thunderous and the bell is ringing so that the world is full of love You are not negotiable...... I took a picture of the basketball in the air.
"Suck ......" looks at the ball, and if you don't look at the color of the hand, it is very likely that you will suspect that the ball is empty.
Because it is too similar to Zhang Kong's hat, it is so accurate and so cool, this is not an ordinary cap.
And this block also blinded Hoford, he turned his head and looked surprised, when did Zhang Kong return to defense?
But after glancing outside, Zhang Kong is still there, and he is grabbing this ball with Mike Bibby at this time, so who covered this ball?
When Hoford turned his head to his right, he saw who the guy who was covering himself was, a handsome white guy...... Although he successfully blocked the ball, he did not show even a smile on his face, a pair of big eyes stared at the situation on the field, ready to block again at any time or a quick bottom attack...... "this ......" saw Milicic's movements on the field, and all the fans didn't know what to say again.
But when the applause of the first die-hard fans rang out, the home court of the Pacers instantly burst into applause.
No matter what happened to this player before, and what will happen in the future, at least now he is at this moment, giving the Pacers players a good block, and this block is just the beginning, as Zhang Kong passed the basketball player to Dunleavy, who hit the shot, the Pacers overtook the score again at home, seeing Milicic's performance just now, Zhang Kong smiled.
It looked like the guy was ready, and Jim O'Brien, who was off the field, was stunned when he saw Milicic's performance.
Then he drew a big circle on Milicic's name in his notes, and after this game, he wanted to take a good look at the real skills of this player, and his intuition told him that this guy was definitely not as simple as his previous reputation.
It wasn't just the crowd that blindfolded the crowd, the players on the Pacers' side, and the Hawks guys at the same time.
Hoford had always thought that the ball was just Milicic's luck, so he was going to be in the deep position again on the second attack, and Mike Bibby had just heard Zhang Kong's words, but he also had some disbelief.
still passed the ball to the inside, and this time Horford was not blocked by Milicic, but his turnaround jumper smashed on the basket and bounced down, and Josh Smith, the interior beast who was originally going to be on the inside, forced to grab the rebound with his own bounce, was actually stuck by Milicic who was still on the ground in advance, and then he jumped directly and gently put the rebound into his arms.
"It's incredible, it's ...... Is this still the lazy bug? When did he change his surname? Looking at Milicic's performance on the court, the commentators on the sidelines were also surprised, a pair of eyes were bigger than bull's eyes, and the big mouth couldn't be closed, Milicic's performance was really a little surprising, and when he grabbed the rebound, he handed it over to Zhang Kong's hands, Zhang Kong didn't have this basket of blind Milicic this time, and deliberately waited for the big worm in the offense.
This time after he ran out of the air, Zhang Kong sent the ball over as soon as possible, the big worm did not panic as he did this time, and hit Horford behind him after receiving the ball, and with the power of the shock, he jumped directly and gently sent the ball out of his hand.
"It still feels as soft as before!" If there is any use value for Milicic in the past, it is his hand, this guy's offensive talent is indeed quite amazing, and he almost pulled James off the top spot back then, which shows that before he entered the NBA, this guy did have good merits, but unfortunately he lost everything.
But fortunately, the prodigal son turned back, and it was not too late, and when Milicic hit the ball, everything would start all over again.
In this land called Indianapolis, he will start his career anew.
The previous six years or so will be a thing of the past, provided that this guy will maintain the same fighting spirit as he does now.
The Pacers' interior is a shortcoming, before the game began, all of Woodson's tactical configuration in this game was carried out according to playing the interior, and in his opinion, among the new players recruited by the Pacers, only Al Jefferson was not bad.
However, he has a problem with his height and the fact that he can't defend against two interior players alone, so he has long been prepared for Josh Smith and Al Hoford to bombard the interior, a tactic that worked very well in the first half.
In the first quarter, Horford got a double-double, but no one expected that just when they thought they had the chance to win, the inside line came out with a Cheng Biting Gold, and in the second half of the third quarter, Milicic, who suddenly came on the court, instantly disrupted their pre-game arrangement.
The interior line is under the defense of Milicic and Jefferson, although it can be called impregnable, but at least the opponent wants to break through such a defense, which is almost an impossible task, and the new offense and rotation of the defense line are formed in Jim O'Brien's mind.
At the end of the third quarter, the Pacers, who specialized in restraining the Hawks, led the Hawks by 7 points, and the score was slowly opening up at the beginning of the fourth quarter, even if they changed their offensive strategy in the fourth quarter, but the outside firepower on the Pacers' side finally woke up.
After Hyde scored five straight points on a back-to-back layup and a three-pointer, the Pacers' outside line blew the horn of bombing.
Artillery is always very important in wartime, because they can hit targets from a distance, and now the outside line of the Pacers is suddenly like Katyusha with full ammunition, and round after round of outside bombardment is finally coming.
Amidst the exclamations and exclamations, the Pacers' shells nearly leveled the Hawks' half.
Not only is the Eagles' Woodson's face white and scary, but even the rest of the Eagles are scared.
I've seen three points of rain, but I've never seen such a three-point rain, the last quarter only took half a quarter to end the battle, and the remaining half of the quarter is Jim O'Brien's time to practice, he now has to see how the interior line on the court should be configured!
The Pacers' side finally attacked the balance, it's not easy, it's rare to have such a thing as a king's air, hehe.
(To be continued)