139 Christmas War 13
Nick Young was a little nervous at this time, how could anyone hit every shot. As long as you can shoot the basketball, you can hit it, and you won't let people live.
But since he is in the NBA, he is not the master who shrinks his head when he encounters a little setback. Gritting his teeth, he stared at Wen Hao, just like Kobe Bryant's defense, expecting that the high-intensity defense could make Wen Hao's shooting rate drop a little.
This time, when Wen Hao got the ball, Nick Young spread his legs, spread his arms, and stared at Wen Hao's eyes. Under his highly focused defense, Wen Hao's success rate has to be discounted whether he is shooting or breaking through.
But Wen Hao's mind was not messed up at all, and when he saw Nick Yang defending like this, he immediately raised his hand and made a dry pull.
Nick Young is already a little nervous, and in his opinion, as long as Wen Hao shoots, he will definitely hit, so he will definitely not let Wen Hao shoot. He jumped high and sealed the top of Wen Hao's head. But at this moment, the ball that Wen Hao lifted was suddenly put down, and he dribbled past Nick Young, who was still in the air, and killed him to the basket. When the Lakers came to block inside, he threw it casually, and Da Yao, who was already empty next to him, received the ball in the air and smashed it directly into the basket.
"Teacher Yang, it seems that your worries are unnecessary." Ke Fan shouted "good ball" and said to Yang Yi.
Yang Yi showed a look of amazement: "Many players will have a hot brain after hitting the same way several times in a row, and they will continue to use that method like a bull's horn, which makes the opponent's defense easier." But after Wen Hao hit eight goals in a row just now, he didn't lose it, but after Nick Yang strengthened his defensive intensity, he chose to fake to shake Nick Yang away, and then hit the inside line to assist Da Yao. This makes his attacking style more diverse, and the opponent is more difficult to defend. ”
"It seems that after that setback, Wen Hao has indeed matured a lot." The beautiful Zhou Lingan said with a smile.
Nick Yang was about to cry at this time, originally he thought that he could easily prevent Wen Hao, but he was beaten by Wen Hao repeatedly, and in his feeling, this Chinese seemed to be unstoppable.
When Nick Young felt frustrated, the Lakers finally replaced Kobe, Nash and Gasol.
At this time, due to Wen Hao's outstanding performance just now, the Rockets led by 4 points to 98-94. There are 6 minutes left in the game.
McHale saw that the Lakers were all the main players, and for the sake of prudence, he replaced all the main forces of the Rockets back. replaced Wen Hao, who had performed well just now, and replaced scoring guard Harden.
Kobe Bryant glanced coldly when he saw Wen Hao of the Rockets off the court, but from his cold eyes, there was obviously some disappointment. However, he immediately moved his eyes to Harden, since Wen Hao is off, then his opponent is Harden.
For the first shot, the Lakers attacked.
In positional warfare, D'Antoni has no other good way than to let the others pull away, and Kobe Bryant will play one-on-one.
Although this is not the best way, Kobe's ability is really strong, facing Harden, he fell low first, pushed two steps inside with his back against Harden, and then turned his back to receive a step-back jumper, and hit a two-point shot steadily. Bryant scored, and the fans cheered.
Looking back, on the Rockets' side, although McHale didn't set it up, Harden let the others pull away, and he also singled Kobe Bryant one-on-one. He was a little younger than Kobe and a little quicker. But no matter how he changed direction, he couldn't break through Kobe's blockade. And Kobe Bryant has a good grasp of his characteristics, that is, he does not let his left hand go to the left hand, leaving his right hand to him.
Harden had no choice but to change left and right and then take a step back, slightly widening the distance from Kobe, and then hit a mid-range shot.
"Oh, and the best point guards in both leagues are starting to go head-to-head." Harlan, the ESPN's narrator, cried out excitedly.
"Yes, one of the highlights of this game is the heads-up between Kobe and Harden, the two barely played against each other in the first three quarters, and now in the crucial fourth quarter, the two finally began to play against each other. The fans are in for a treat. Another narrator, Reggie Miller, spoke.
"The alignment of these two people, in fact, is nothing to see. Although it is undeniable that Harden is the best of the young generation of quarterbacks, he is still much worse than Kobe," Lockley continued his big-mouth style, "Not to mention anything else, just from the perspective of temperament, Harden lacks Kobe's kingly spirit, and he is domineering at critical moments." So there is basically no suspense about the alignment of the two of them. ”
Miller and Harlan next to him shook their heads helplessly, this big mouth is also too big, they can say anything, dare to say anything.
But this time it was really right by Barkley, Kobe Bryant played against Harden, played three in a row, and made all three shots.
And Harden offense, except for the first hit, the other two hit iron. In desperation, he had to hand the ball to Howard inside, and Howard hit a good percentage in this section, hitting three goals in a row.
With those three goals, the Rockets have a seven-point lead over the Lakers, and there are only three minutes left in the clock.
D'Antoni had no choice but to execute the hacking tactic.
So the minute in between, from 3 minutes to 2 minutes, became incredibly long.
As soon as Jeremy Lin received the serve, Howard was fouled on that side. He stepped up to the free-throw line, and amid a boo from Staples, he miraculously hit both free throws to stretch the score to nine points.
Everyone on the Rockets bench stood up and applauded Howard, even McHale. It's not easy for this kid to be able to hit both punishments.
After Howard hit the free throw, he glanced at Kobe Bryant meaningfully.
Kobe Bryant glanced back at Howard coldly, took the serve, dribbled across the frontcourt, and took advantage of Gasol's outside blocking to raise his hand to hit a three-point shot.
Howard was not affected by this, and quickly went to serve from the outside, wanting the Rockets to play a fast break. But as soon as he sent the ball out, he saw that Blake was about to come over to foul, and in a hurry, he did not enter, but reflexively ran in the direction of the baseline player tunnel.
Blake ran over and hugged Howard. The referee was very cooperative and blew the whistle as soon as possible.
McHale protested on the sidelines: "The player hasn't entered yet, how can it be considered a foul, it's not a foul." ”
D'Antoni shouted at McHale from the side: "Absolute foul, even if he doesn't come in, it's a foul." ”
The head coach of the foul side rushed to say foul, but the fouled person shouted that there was no foul, such a strange scene really opened the eyes of the fans, what is this.
Howard stepped to the free-throw line again and hit one of two free throws to give the Rockets another seven-point lead.
But his free throw had just hit, and before it could be back, Bryant received the ball and ran all the way to the frontcourt. Outside the three-point line, pick up and shoot.
Harden chased after him and tried to chase the block.
But Kobe Bryant did not shoot immediately in the air, but stayed in the air for a second, and waited for Harden to fly over his head before he made a second effort and shook his wrist.
"Huh!"
Another three-point hit!
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