Chapter Seventy-Four: A Strong Desire to Attack
"Li Tian is on the field!"
Seeing Li Tian on the field, the commentator told the Chinese fans in front of the screen the news for the first time.
"Li Tian is on the court, it should be against Kobe!"
With the shouting of the domestic commentators, the fans' attention was focused on the game, and at this time, Li Tian had already come to Kobe's side.
"Kobe!" Li Tian looked at Kobe Bryant in front of him, and his body suddenly surged with a strong desire to attack!
Bryant didn't care about the change of player next to him, his eyes swept over Evans who was dribbling, and when he withdrew his gaze, he found that there was no one in front of him. Looking up and seeing that Li Tian was running towards the inside line at this time, Kobe Bryant quickly reacted and quickly caught up.
Feeling his strong desire to attack, Li Tian immediately started running after Evans just dribbled to the halfcourt, and Kobe's carelessness gave him better space.
Finding that Li Tian was running, Kobe Bryant didn't care too much, he quickly kept up and prepared to defend, but soon he realized that he was thinking too simply, a sudden change of direction in Li Tian's running, and then there was a pass outside the three-point line, and at this time he was still more than a meter away.
Seeing Li Tian receiving the ball, Kobe Bryant immediately rushed forward, but he didn't jump, just raised his hand to interfere.
For such an opportunity, Li Tian of course would not give up, without any hesitation, after receiving the ball, he quickly jumped up and shot.
Li Tian ran to shake off Kobe's defense and shot a three-point shot...... The ball is in! The domestic commentator, who was still calmly commentating, raised his voice and shouted.
The basketball entered the basket in a beautiful arc, and rubbed against the net with a heartwarming sound: "Whew! ”
"Yay!" The steady hit on the first shot made Li Tian secretly clench his fists, and it seemed to feel good today.
The Lakers were not affected by Li Tian's goal, and came to the offensive end, replacing Steve Blake and putting the ball in Kobe's hands.
Bryant did not choose to attack on his own, but handed it to Gasol, who fell to the low post, and took advantage of his height to score two points on a hook over Thompson's head.
The Kings attacked, and Evans dribbled the ball to the frontcourt, making a breakthrough move, while his eyes were on Li Tian's position.
With the previous goal, Kobe Bryant did not despise Li Tian, and after seeing Li Tian start running, he followed as soon as possible.
But even so, Kobe Bryant still underestimated Li Tian's running skills, Li Tian's body accurately passed through the gap between the Kings and Lakers players' bodies, and when Kobe Bryant went around, he found that Li Tian had received the pass again.
Thinking of Li Tian's shot just now, Kobe Bryant jumped up decisively and pounced, but his movements were still a beat slower, and when his hand reached the top of Li Tian's head, Li Tian had already thrown the ball.
"Huh!" The ball fell into the basket again, cleanly!
Li Tian scored twice in a row, and finally Kobe's eyes began to focus on Li Tian's face, this Oriental man's face was very unfamiliar, he had never seen it. Although Li Tian has become a little famous recently, he obviously did not attract Kobe's attention.
But what puzzled Kobe Bryant was that he saw the shadow of the league's top off-ball runner in this Oriental, and there were not many players who could give him such a feeling, and the most impressive ones were Ray Allen and Hamilton. However, the person in front of him is clearly not.
Maybe it's just two coincidences, Kobe Bryant secretly said to himself that if there is such a player in the league, he can't be unaware that the battle-experienced Kobe Bryant knows very well what kind of change a good player can bring to a team without the ball.
Coming to the other end of the court, Kobe Bryant took Blake's pass again, but this time, he didn't rush to give the ball to the inside, and the other players of the Lakers saw this and moved to the left, they knew that Kobe Bryant was going to play alone.
Li Tian opened his hand in front of Kobe Bryant, maintaining extreme concentration, although his defense is not bad, but now facing Kobe Bryant is one of the top scorers in the league.
Kobe Bryant held the ball with both hands and made a feint to break to the left, and then suddenly started to the right, Li Tian was busy retreating to the right rear, and when Kobe took the second step, Li Tian just re-attached Kobe.
found that the two steps did not shake off Li Tian, Kobe Bryant's shoulders were close to Li Tian, affected by Kobe's strength, Li Tian's pace slowed down slightly, Kobe was keenly seized the opportunity of this moment, rushed out to the right again, and made a jump shot.
Li Tiangao, who had eased up, raised his hand and rushed over, but he couldn't interfere with Kobe, the ball flew out of Kobe's hand and fell into the basket with a not too high arc.
Watching Kobe Bryant easily score two points, Li Tian couldn't help but be a little envious, of course he had practiced the stop-up jump shot, but he was restricted by his body, compared to his fixed-point shooting, the hit rate of the stop-up jump shot was much worse, and the lack of physical fitness and strength made him always unable to flash out of the space.
But soon, Li Tian put this envy aside in his mind, Kobe Bryant is a super scorer, but now he is not useless.
"Two more points!" While running towards the frontcourt, Li Tian secretly competed, and being able to compete with a top star in the league like Kobe Bryant was a picture he had always longed for.
Feeling the fighting spirit on Li Tian's body, Kobe Bryant didn't feel too strange, in the years of the league, he has seen many people who have just entered the league with high morale when facing him, just like he faced Michael Jordan when he first entered the league.
However, not surprising does not mean that he doesn't care, in fact, Li Tian's two consecutive getaways have made Kobe Bryant begin to pay attention.
"Kobe Bryant pasted Li Tian, he used the sticker defense to stop Li Tian's first run, it seems that Li Tian's two consecutive attacks have made Kobe a little unhappy, Kobe is an excellent outside defensive player, see if Li Tian can score this time?"
Domestic commentator Director Zhang said with interest, however, this does not mean that the Lakers fans at the scene also think the same.
"That kid was just lucky enough to shoot two goals, and when Kobe Bryant starts to pay attention, he's going to be locked up, I promise."
In the field, Kobe's defense did bring some pressure to Li Tian, Kobe's choice time was very good, just when Li Tian was about to run, Kobe Bryant posted up, completely disrupting Li Tian's rhythm, and also forced him to stop.
Li Tian knew that he was not Kobe's opponent, so he didn't choose to squeeze through, and took a slight half step back to open up space with Kobe Bryant, Li Tian no longer ran towards the inside line, but began to run from the upper line, trying to bypass behind Evans at the top of the arc.
This time, although Kobe Bryant did not cling to it, Li Tian did not completely throw it away, Kobe Bryant followed Li Tian half an arm's length away, and also ran towards the right side of the half.
The two came to the top of the arc, Li Tian came behind Evans who dribbled, and at this time Kobe Bryant had to go around behind Blake inside the three-point line, and if he chose to follow closely from the line, he would be blocked by Evans and lose his defensive position.
In order to keep up with Li Tian in the first time, Kobe Bryant sped up his speed, only in this way can he ensure that he can keep up with the defense in time when Li Tian rushes out from behind Evans.
Bryant bypassed Blake, however, Li Tian's figure did not appear in his line of sight.
"Not good!" Kobe Bryant immediately realized what the problem was and immediately shouted, "Steve, make up the defense!" ”
Reverse run! Coming behind Evans, Li Tian did not rush directly, with the help of Evans' sight, Li Tian suddenly ran back to the left side, which allowed him to successfully throw Kobe Bryant away.
At the same time as Bryant shouted, Steve Blake also reacted, rushing to the left side to make up the defense, but his speed was not as fast as Evans' pass.
Catch, jump, shoot!
Li Tian's movements were coherent, and the good rhythm made him smile at the corner of his mouth when he threw the ball, and it felt like telling him that the ball was there.
"Huh!" Li Tian's feeling was not wrong, the sound of the basketball rubbing against the net sounded again, and the two-point hit was made!
"It's in again! Li Tian hit another shot! After playing the game, he made three shots and hit three shots! ”
In the domestic studio, the narrator shouted excitedly.
"This time the running without the ball is really beautiful, and the timing is also very good, after Li Tian hit all three shots in the face of Kobe's defense, he has scored 7 points! Li Tian showed a strong desire to attack today. ”