Chapter 66: Dunk!
At the Charlotte Time Warner Center Arena, Li Tian, who was sitting on the sidelines, glanced at Michael Jordan, who was sitting on the bench on the other side, and then fell on Gilchrist, who was on the court.
Because Gilchrist's performance this season has not been great, many people have thought that the Bobcats were wrong to select Gilchrist with the No. 2 pick. For Li Tian, questioning Jordan's draft vision is just incidental, and Gilchrist is what he really wants to hit.
While Li Tian was looking at Gilchrist, the other party also looked at Li Tian from time to time, and it seemed that he couldn't wait for Li Tian to play.
In fact, not only that, because of Li Tian's remarks before the game, many people are waiting for Li Tian to play, such as Bobcats fans, and then Bobcats owner Michael Jordan.
Gilchrist didn't have to wait long, and after only five minutes of play, Li Tian was substituted, and in these games under Jim Ain, Li Tian has performed well, which makes him the first substitute in Jim Ain's eyes.
"Shh Because of the remarks before the game, Li Tian was obviously not very popular with Bobcats fans, and when Li Tian was on the court, the Bobcats suddenly heard a huge boo at home.
Almost at the same time as the boos rang out, the cameraman's camera quickly captured the expressions on the faces of Jordan, Gilchrist, and Li Tian.
Jordan's expression has not changed much, it is obvious that for Jordan, who is used to seeing the ups and downs in the arena, such a regular season battle is just a small thing, and he still has the usual signature smile on his face at this time, if he has to say that there is any expression, it is that he looks at Li Tian with a little curiosity.
Gilchrist's expression was relatively richer, and after seeing Li Tian on the field and the scene was booed, the smugness in his expression was undisguised, as if to tell Li Tian that this was his home stadium.
Li Tian's face did not have too much expression, after Jim Ain called him to play, he calmly walked to the halfway line to replace Isaiah Thomas, although he had no interaction with Isaiah Thomas, he also turned a deaf ear to the high boos on the scene, as if he didn't know that the boos were aimed at him.
Not only that, as if it was a Bobcat fan who was stimulating the scene, after walking on the field, Li Tian walked straight towards Thorton and Gilchrist's position.
"Lee, he's yours." Thorton was obviously also very aware of the pre-match war between Li Tian and Gilchrist, and before and after Li Tian walked up, he immediately walked away with a smile.
"Shh The scene where Li Tian took the initiative to find Gilchrist suddenly made the boos at the scene increase a few points, and Gilchrist in the audience couldn't help but sneer: "Boy, are you so eager to come to find abuse?" ”
"Abuse me?" Li Tian smiled slightly and said proudly: "You can't do it!" ”
"Tick!" The referee blew the whistle for the restart of the game, Gilchrist and Li Tian both looked at each other, both smiled coldly, but did not speak again, the two sides had said enough before the game, and now, it is time to use the game to speak.
At 10:10, the two teams were tied at this point on the court, but the offense was in the hands of the Kings, and Jason Thompson sent the ball to Evans on the sidelines.
"Ball!" Seeing Evans receive the ball, Li Tian, who was originally standing on the left side outside the three-point line, immediately ran to the right side of the top of the arc, and at the same time reached out to Evans to ask for the ball.
Gilchrist had already arrived, and Li Tian didn't look like he had a good opportunity to attack at this time, but out of trust in Li Tian's previous performance, Evans still chose to pass the ball.
While receiving the ball, his body turned to face the basket, Li Tian's knees were slightly bent, and the ball was lifted at the same time, making the action of shooting.
"Don't think!" Seeing this, Gilchrist immediately stepped forward and raised his hand to defend the interference. On this day, he didn't watch Li Tian's game video, and naturally knew that Li Tian's shooting was indeed quite lethal.
"Poor fellow!" At this time, Chris Middleton, who was sitting on the sidelines, shook his head secretly, two days ago, he was like this, and then ......
In the field, seeing Gilchrist's movements, the corners of Li Tian's mouth were raised, his body was short, and the ball that was originally going to be lifted smashed to the floor on the side, and the person immediately rushed to the right side.
With mental arithmetic or not, coupled with the speed that had reached the A-level at this time, there was almost no hindrance, and Li Tian rushed past Gilchrist.
"Oops, cheated by that guy!" Seeing that there was no figure in front of him, Gilchrist immediately realized that something was wrong, and quickly turned around, and he followed Li Tian to the basket, trying to make amends.
However, that momentary hesitation had already made Li Tian completely rush up, and at this time, the other players of the Bobcats obviously did not react, and their inside players even stayed on the outside and did not return to the penalty area, which made Li Tian's breakthrough no one to stop him at all.
Quickly entered the three-second zone, Li Tian grabbed the ball with his right hand and jumped up, and easily made a layup!
"Hmph, boy, you're not so lucky next time!" Chasing the three-second zone, Gilchrist just watched Li Tian make a layup, and suddenly snorted coldly, obviously, in Gilchrist's opinion, Li Tian's ball was completely tricky shit luck.
Li Tian didn't refute either, since one ball can't hit the other party, then two, three...... But before that, what needs to be done is to defend against Gilchrist's attack, Li Tian believes that the opponent will definitely choose to attack by himself.
Li Tian was right, and when it came to halftime, Gilchrist asked for the ball from Kemba Walker, the starting point guard of the Bobcats.
Standing in front of Gilchrist, Li Tian was one step away from the opponent, Gilchrist's outside shooting was extremely unstable, and his three-point shooting rate was only in his early twenties, which allowed Li Tian to concentrate on defending Gilchrist's breakthrough.
Gilchrist was well aware of this, and after a slight tempo from beyond the three-point line, he slammed forward and sprinted to the left.
took a quick step to stop in front of Gilchrist, and with a good buffer position, Li Tian easily stopped Gilchrist's breakthrough route.
"Want to stop me? Don't! Secretly shouting in his heart, Gilchrist gathered his strength and squeezed towards Li Tian fiercely, he knew very well that in terms of physical confrontation, Li Tian was not his opponent at all.
"It's been almost a year since you entered the NBA, and you still haven't grown." At this moment, Li Tian secretly sneered in his heart, did not dodge the impact of Gilchrist, nor did he gather strength to resist the other party, Li Tian just stood with his feet and let Gilchrist crash into him.
With him already clearly one step ahead, Li Tian was not afraid of Gilchrist's collision at all, because then the opponent could only get an offensive foul.
Li Tian is not even afraid that Gilchrist will make a pull-up jump shot or change direction or something like that, he knows that the opponent has always been very confident in his impact, and Gilchrist has a big shortcoming is that he is obsessed with impacting the basket.
"Porphyry!" Li Tian's guess was not wrong, and in the next moment, the bodies of the two collided fiercely.
His feet continued to be fixed on the floor, and Li Tian's upper body fell backwards with the impact.
"Tick!" At the same time, the referee's whistle blew.
Lying on the floor, Li Tian looked at the referee, and after seeing the referee's gesture, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, attacking foul!
Gilchrist rushed to the referee to try to explain something, but the result was naturally nothing, which made him glared at Li Tian fiercely, after getting on the court, he was first shaken away by Li Tian to complete a layup, and now Li Tian made an offensive foul, which was not what he expected before the game.
The Warriors attacked, this time, Li Tian did not take the initiative to attack the ball, and after Evans dribbled to the half, Li Tian began to run actively in the half.
Gilchrist naturally knew that Li Tian's off-ball running was extremely good, so he had been prepared, but after really playing against Li Tian, he realized that Li Tian's running was far better than he imagined. Seeing Li Tian rushing out of the crowd and rushing to the bottom corner, Gilchrist, who was already two steps behind, rushed over in a hurry.
Li Tian has already received Evans' pass in the bottom corner, which is exactly where he excels in shooting, which can't help but make Gilchrist wary.
To Gilchrist's surprise, Li Tian did not shoot after receiving the ball, but leaned his body to the left to make a breakthrough action.
Receiving the ball, his body leaned to the left, and when Gilchrist moved his feet to block, Li Tian's body flashed to the right side quickly, and at the same time, the ball in his hand had already smashed into the bottom board, and it was a breakthrough!
The speed of the A-level was once again fully displayed, Li Tian's body rushed from the direction of the baseline direction, and when Gilchrist reacted and moved his feet, Li Tian had already killed the basket.
Hasten! Rushing past Gilchrist, Li Tian accelerated again and completely threw the other party away.
When Li Tian received the ball just now, almost everyone thought he was going to shoot, so at this time, although the Bobcats' interior player Bimax Biyombo was under the basket, he was entangled with Jason Thompson and couldn't dodge the defense, and there was a smooth road between Li Tian and the basket at this moment.
You don't seem to have dunked in the NBA? Rushing to the basket, looking at the basket in front of him, a thought suddenly popped up in Li Tian's heart, and then, this thought began to grow wildly, and he couldn't suppress it anymore.
Slam dunk! Feeling the desire in his heart, Li Tian couldn't suppress it anymore, in the NBA, he hadn't completed the dunk yet, and now, such an opportunity was in front of him.
Raising his speed to the limit and calculating the distance is already appropriate, Li Tian's left foot stepped heavily on the floor, and with the help of the inertia of the impact, he took off into the air!
"What is Lee going to do? Slam dunk? ”
At this time, the Kings players on the sidelines couldn't help but be surprised after seeing Li Tian's actions, even in the team's training, Li Tian rarely dunked, and now, did Li Tian actually want to dunk in the game?
In the middle of the field, Li Tian, who jumped high, had already glided to the basket at this moment, his body was slightly paused in the air, and Li Tian grabbed the ball with his right hand and pressed it to the basket!
"Bang!" A loud sound was heard through the loudspeakers throughout the stadium.
Li Tian's first dunk in the NBA arena was successful!
"Oh!" At the same time, the Kings players, who had barely seen Li Tian dunk, jumped up from the bench one after another, waving towels and shouting.
"Lee, well done!" "Cool!"
"I dunked? I dunked! Landing on the ground, stabilizing his body, Li Tian, who came back to his senses, immediately realized what he had done, and his right hand grabbed his fist and smashed it into the air, and Li Tian let out a roar in his throat:
"Roar!"