Chapter 010: Amazing Performance
Soon after Li Chen left the court, taking advantage of a dead ball opportunity, the Lakers applied for substitutions, and Gasol and Fisher went off the court at the same time to replace Odom and Famar. Kobe Bryant and Bynum were kept on the court with three substitutes, and at this time, Li Chen finally saw the legendary omnipotent Kobe Bryant as he wished.
Quickly start to get rid of defenders and break through to score, catch the ball on the left side of the free throw line, turn around and hit a jumper, steal the opponent's pass, dribble and make a layup to make a foul...... In less than four minutes, Bryant scored seven points in a row, and he seemed to be omnipotent on the offensive end, scoring 13 points in the first quarter to lead the team into the second quarter with a 14-point lead of 33-19.
"Well, when will I have such offensive skills?" Li Chen sat on the bench and watched with envy as Kobe Bryant wantonly slashed points under the Trail Blazers' seemingly solid defense.
"You're also very good, at least your shooting accuracy is not as good as Kobe Bryant's, I haven't seen such a good non-draft player in the league for so many years, not to mention that this is your first game. Kobe's offensive skills have also been honed in so many training and games, as long as you are willing to work hard, you will definitely improve. It seemed that he had seen through Li Chen's thoughts, and Lao Yu enlightened him very sincerely.
Li Chen nodded, seemed to have made up his mind, and said to Lao Yu seriously, "Derek, thank you, I will work hard, from tomorrow, I will go to the team to train 20 minutes earlier every day." ”
"Dizzy!" Lao Yu held his forehead, he had never seen such a shameless one, even if it was 20 minutes earlier, judging from Li Chen's work and rest habits, he would still be the last few to arrive at the team. Gasol, who was drinking Gatorade next to him, almost didn't laugh when he heard this.
"Paul, what's wrong with you, why is your face so red." Noticing Gasol's weirdness, Li Chen asked strangely.
"It's nothing, I just think if you can improve 25 minutes earlier." Gasol pretended to be calm and acted like a senior who was sincere in persuasion.
"Come on, Paul, time is life for me, waking up early is suicide, 20 minutes early is already considered intentional injury in my opinion, and 25 minutes is first-degree murder." Sleeping lazily is a common problem between Li Chen and Cruz, and now, after 1+1, this problem is obviously greater than 2.
"Ah", the first time Gasol heard someone explain like this, he chose to shut up, he was afraid that if he continued to say this, he would be charged with intentional murder by Li Chen.
At the beginning of the second quarter, Li Chen was still on the bench, and now the Lakers' lineup on the court is Odom, Wharton, Ariza, Vujacic and Famar. Although it was a pure bench lineup, the Trail Blazers still left Roy on the court, and the young man had good physical strength, because of the score gap, the Trail Blazers coach did not replace Roy. The two teams played vigorously, and the clanging iron was constant.
Seeing that the five main players of the Lakers are all sitting on the bench talking and laughing, and then looking at their own side, although Roy is present, the Lakers still have the advantage on the field, the combination of Odom and Wharton and Famar makes the Lakers' offense still very smooth, and Ariza also relies on his defense to contain Roy's play to a certain extent. "This year's Lakers are even stronger, where did that rookie get it, such accurate shooting, and passing, the Lakers have made a lot of money." McMillan thought with jealousy.
At this time, the performance of the Lakers was also being discussed in the commentary booth.
"The Lakers are a lot stronger this year than they were last year. Look at their bench, Odom, Wharton, Ariza, these players can play as starters on other teams, and then look at the rested ones on the bench, you can see the power of this combination from the first quarter of today's game, it seems that this year's Western Conference champion is still the Lakers. "The big mouth makes a professional appearance, and the head is the way.
"Yes, although only one rookie has been added, the addition of Lee has made the Lakers' starting lineup offensive system more complete, a scoring guard with the strongest offensive power in the league, a small forward with accurate three-point shooting and can organize offense, and an All-Star power forward with comprehensive offensive means under the basket. Moreover, the Lakers have more than that, although the little shark is easy to be impulsive, but the strength is still there, and the experience of the old fish, the Lakers' next opponent has a headache. "What Smith said is very pertinent, we can find that Sun Dasheng at this time has been ignored by these unscrupulous middle-aged people.
But to digress, the recent Asian Championship Dasheng 8 games and 6 goals goal efficiency is really admired by my generation, I heard that Bayern is ready to introduce Dasheng Youmu You.
At this time, on the domestic forum, the lake honeys who saw the excellent performance of the Lakers swaggered in the chat room.
"Ha, my lake is really more powerful, look at the newcomer Xiao Qian, that shot, who just said that he was the outside version of James, Nima can compare your Zhan's face with my little handsome, how to write it to be ashamed?" This fan is very arrogant.
There are also voices of dissatisfaction, "The outside version of James really still lifts him, just that kind of small body, the defense is still so bad, but the shooting is okay, but he just played a game, no matter how good he is, he will come out to compare after playing." The fan's words are still very sensible.
Of course, there are also bored fans, and "rockets are real rubbish" is an eternal topic, but soon this boring evaluation is drowned in the spitting of the masses.
Li Chen finally ushered in the second play, just after 6 minutes in the second quarter, the old monk replaced Li Chen on the court, at this time the Lakers still had a 17-point lead, the benches played well, and the score of 44-27 made the Trail Blazers fans in front of the TV have a bitter face.
The Lakers, who have replaced all the main players, launched an attack according to the scheduled plan, and the old monk hopes to defeat the Trail Blazers in the first half.
Kobe missed the shot and was grabbed by Bynum for an offensive rebound and threw the ball to Li Chen. The latter faced Batum, who was standing far away from him, what was this for? I know you're a bench but you don't have to be so obvious, is my breakthrough more intimidating than shooting?
Although full of doubts, Li Chen still threw the ball out, "Huh", it would be a sin if he couldn't shoot the three points in the empty position.
"Haha, he's testing Lee's three-point accuracy, I think he definitely won't fall in love with youtobe, I guess this kid has to go back to the bench to calculate his playing time."
Barkley gloated, not caring at all about the feelings of the person concerned, and I really don't know how this guy was rated as the most popular commentator among the players.
Sure enough, McMillan quickly replaced Batum, and he wanted to save a little bit of the difference when the Lakers' main team didn't recover when he just came on the court, which was good, and gave away three points for nothing.
In the following time, Li Chen continued his excellent performance and handed out three assists successively. once gave Bynum, which made An Zhu deeply feel that the offensive rebound was not in vain, and a rebound was exchanged for an assist and an assist, and he made himself over. The other two assists Bryant hit a jumper from the free throw line, an assist on the top three-pointer of the old fish, plus three assists in the first quarter, and the Lakers' main force has a share.
In addition to the assist, Li Chen had two shots for the remainder of the second quarter, hitting a two-pointer and the other being distracted by Oterlo's defense. Throughout the first half, Li Chen scored 13 points, 6 assists and 1 rebound, and the Lakers also came to the second half with a nearly 20-point advantage of 61-43.
The best performance on the Lakers' side is Kobe Bryant, with 18 points, 4 assists and 3 rebounds, which makes people see his comprehensiveness, while Roy on the Trailblazers' side even scored higher than Kobe because the old monk always insisted on using Li Chen to defend him. 21 points and 2 assists, while showing his strong offensive power, he also told the public that although Li Chen's offense is good, his defensive situation is worrying.
Barkley even self-righteously commented that this was a tactical mistake by the old monk, and in his opinion, Kobe Bryant should be used to defend Roy's big killer. But everyone in the Lakers team knows that the old monk did this to test Li Chen's defense through Roy, hoping to drive Li Chen's enthusiasm for training, after all, he is usually the laziest person in the team.
"How's it going, old bird, am I better than that rookie?" Li Chen was a little proud.
Kobe Bryant said disdainfully, "Shit, look at your defense, Roy slashed 21 points on your head, if nothing else, the defense of the champion show is definitely better than yours." Looking at Li Chen's instantly depressed face, Kobe Bryant said funny, "But your offense is good, especially passing, definitely better than him, as far as I know, although he plays point guard, but more of Iverson's type, to be honest, for our bet, I'm a little unconfident." ”
"Hehe, wait to lose, old bird." Li Chen said with a smile, and then turned his head to discuss with Bynum how to make a more handsome air connection. Because the team took a big lead in the first game, the Lakers' locker room was very harmonious. The substitutes were happy because if they had gone into garbage time earlier, they would have had more time on the pitch.
Soon, the break passed, and the second half began, with both teams fielding the same starting lineups as in the first quarter. But unlike the first quarter, the Lakers began to slack off because of the big lead, while the Trail Blazers fought hard because they were behind.
It is not Roy, who performed well in the first half, who led the chasing tide, Li Chen, who has a certain amount of experience, has improved his defensive effect, and attacking Li Chen is not a good choice in Roy's opinion, which will consume more physical strength, the Lakers can afford it because of the deep bench, and the Trail Blazers can't.
At the critical moment, Aldridge stepped up, hit consecutive mid-range shots, and also assisted Bayless on the outside to hit a three-pointer, Oden also seized the opportunity to dunk inside, and the Trail Blazers played a wave of 9-0**, and the difference was instantly narrowed to 8 points.
The NBA game is like this, it is likely that if you relax for a while, the opponent will quickly chase after it with a few offenses, and there has never been a shortage of big score reversals in the history of the NBA, but today's Lakers are obviously unwilling to fulfill the dream of the Trail Blazers.
Lao Yu dribbled the ball steadily across the half court, and he knew that he had to control the rhythm at this time, as long as he started a positional battle, with the strength of the Lakers, the Trail Blazers wanted to reverse it was tantamount to a dream.
Suddenly, Lao Yu saw a figure, and he felt that he had a chance to stuff the ball over, Li Chen, who received the ball, did not stop, and without looking at it, he made a move that seemed to be a hook hand and threw the ball in the direction of the rebound.
Champion Lang Auden became his backdrop at this moment, and the audience began to cheer.
"Wow, it's so beautiful, have you seen Li look at people? I saw him get a pass from Fisher and throw the ball to the basket, I thought he hooked his hand to shoot, but I didn't expect it to be a pass, God, it's so beautiful, this will definitely be the best ball today. Barkley opened his mouth wide, shocked by Li Chen and Bynum's tacit cooperation.
There was also a commotion on the Lakers bench, Vujacic and Odom and others all stood up and waved their arms vigorously, even the old monk felt that this offensive coordination was very exciting, he had never taught the two of them this.
Because of Li Chen's excellent performance, Amy and Julie hugged each other happily, and the enthusiastic Julie even stood up from the bench and screamed loudly.
The ball was constantly replayed on the screen at the scene, and the slow motion showed that Li Chen did not turn his head to observe the situation over there after receiving the ball, as if he already knew Bynum's position, and the ball was very accurately stuffed into the air above Bynum, so fast that even the other players did not react.
Bynum gave Li Chen a big hug, in fact, this was a small cooperation that the two had just agreed on at halftime. He asked Bynum to pay attention to the fact that as long as he got the ball at the free throw line, he was ready to jump up and catch it, Li Chen asked Bynum to believe in his pass, and the doubtful Bynum was still ready when Li Chen received the ball out of trust in his teammates, so a five-best ball level cooperation came naturally.
The passion of the Lakers was completely ignited after Bynum's violent dunk, and after that, the Lakers attacked again and again, and Li Chen got consecutive offensive opportunities under Kobe's breakthrough, and he did not disappoint the boss when he seized the opportunity, hitting two shots and two shots, scoring 5 points.
Gasol also singled Aldridge under the basket in a row, avenging the shot just now, but Bynum, who seemed to be mediocre after the dunk just now, did his best to do a good job of defense to protect the rebound.
In the second half of the third quarter, Kobe Bryant, who felt hot in his hand, turned on the singles mode, and the Trail Blazers did not dare to wrap it up, and the lessons of the first few times had already told them that Li Chen's shooting was an anomaly, and the stability was terrible. Kobe Bryant played very easily, just one move, back single, turn around and jump, but the Trail Blazers just couldn't prevent it, so they could only watch Kobe score points. Even after 7 minutes of the third quarter, Wharton replaced Li Chen, and the Lakers still gradually widened the score gap with a smooth offense.
At the end of the third quarter, the Lakers had a huge advantage of 19 points, Li Chen got 5 points and 2 assists in this quarter, in addition to shooting, he also made a foul by breaking through the layup, but it was because of this foul that Li Chen's weirdness was completely shown in front of the public.
Barkley spared no effort to laugh at Li Chen's terrible free throws, "Wowhaha, let's look at Lee's stats, 7 of 8 shots, including 4 of 5 three-point shots, all two of two points, but two free throws and zero of them, how afraid of free throws is." ”
Indeed, even Phil Jackson was speechless, Li Chen's usual shooting he knew, and the accuracy made people speechless, but as soon as he got to the free throw line, the gap was immediately apparent, "Does his hand tremble when he stands on the free throw line?" The old monk really couldn't think of any other reason.
Li Chen was also very helpless, he knew that everything was caused by data, "I must practice free throws after I go back, Tai Nima is embarrassed, if I don't know who will give me a trick to cut Li in the future, then I will be completely tragic." ”
However, Li Chen's free throws are only a small part of the game, and they can only be used to entertain the public after all.