Chapter 149: The Last Attack
80 ball control and 80 non-dominant hand dribbling are not high in the league, so it is easy to make mistakes in the CPPCC, but as long as Zhang Kong is very careful and does not take risks, there will be no too obvious mistakes.
It's like now, Zhang Kong's breakaway, breaking through Joe Johnson, if you play any tricks, it's very likely to be stealed.
But if Zhang Kong doesn't play any work, he just takes the ball and rushes inside, with his combination of strength, speed and explosive power, let alone Joe Johnson, even James, Howard has no way to completely block Zhang Kong.
Originally, Jim O'Brien and Larry Bird bought TJ Ford, mainly to let TJ Ford do this job, but TJ Ford is obviously strong and weak in offense and defense, and the organization is unfavorable, and the field of vision is too narrow, on the other hand, Zhang Kong's side. Now it is still in the stage of defending strong and attacking weak, and the organization of the attack is extremely sharp, although the passing has not yet reached that kind of too strong situation, but the vision is always the most perverted weapon of Zhang Kong.
It's like now that Zhang Kong has broken through directly into the inside line, Joe Johnson can only eat dust behind his ass, and the huge gap in strength makes him unable to squeeze Zhang Kong to the weak side even if he wants to, plus there is no Zhang Kong flexible in his feet.
I could only watch Zhang Kong rush to his own basket, Josh Smith under the basket was just about to come over to help defend, and I saw Zhang Kong glancing at Troy Murphy next to him, and the scared Josh Smith immediately rushed back, and when he rushed back, he found that the guy Marvin Williams next to him actually came to help defend, originally he thought that Josh Smith was going to defend Zhang Kong, so he gave up his defensive object and came to defend Troy Murphy, and the two were stunned face to face.
In the next second, the vacancy on Granger's side on the outside, Zhang Kong had already noticed it, and directly made a hidden direct pass, and handed the ball directly into Granger's hands, Granger felt good today, and he didn't hesitate after receiving the ball, and jumped up directly.
Good feel, plus it's an empty space, Granger doesn't score this ball to have a ghost! Watching the basketball arc in the air and fall straight into the net, the players on the Pacers' side cheered again, shaking the towel in their hands vigorously.
"It's beautiful!" When retreating, Granger also deliberately walked past Zhang Kong's side, and then shouted at Zhang Kong, Zhang Kong listened to Granger's words, just smiled, the game is still going on, and he still has to defend.
But we have to say that the Hawks are regular visitors to the playoffs after all, he plays in the playoffs, not only relying on one person, but more on his own team, Joe Johnson was particularly unhappy with Zhang Kong's defense today, he has shot 18 balls today, scored three, and scored a total of 9 points, of which six of these 9 points were scored in the first quarter when Zhang Kong did not play.
Even though Zhang Kong now divides his energy into the offensive part, he is still the best defensive player in the league.
At the end of the third quarter, the Pacers still led the Hawks by five points at 99-94, and the Hawks had much more bench depth than the Pacers.
After coming off the bench, the Pacers are obviously inferior to the Hawks when it comes to stealing points, so the score is slowly narrowing.
When there were 7 minutes and 11 seconds left in the fourth quarter, the main players on both sides came on the court, and the score was only 4 points apart, and with an assist and a block from Zhang Kong, the Pacers seized the opportunity and stretched the score to 8 points, 112-104.
With five minutes left in the game, Zhang had seven points, nine assists, nine blocks and three rebounds.
Zhang Kong's rebounds are not high now, mainly because his defensive rebounding rating is too low, only 48 levels.
A level 48 defensive rebound is similar to some point guards, and grabbing three rebounds is already a good level.
This time when it comes to the Hawks' offense, Mike Bibby didn't put the ball in Joe Johnson's hands after dribbling past half court, and now Woodson can also see that Joe Johnson is a little out of shape, and the empty defense is really unguardable.
He always appears in the position where he should appear, this summer's training, Zhang Kong's position is obviously much stronger than last season, and the training in China has made Zhang Kong's basic skills more solid! The more solid the basic skills, the taller and more beautiful the building built on this foundation in the future! Whether it is Kobe's training video or Jordan's youth training camp, the first important thing in it, and it is also what they highly admire, is the basic skills, because all the gorgeous tactics are from the basic skills, but practicing the basic skills is also very boring and boring.
But Zhang Kong just likes to do such things, when he was staying at home, he played games and did a task.
It's called killing 100,000 rabbits, because that game can't hang up, and this task will automatically disappear after going offline, so Zhang Kong sat in front of the computer and killed 100,000 rabbits with a mouse click...... In the meantime, except for drinking saliva and going to the toilet, there has been no rest, if you talk about paranoia, Zhang Kong is not counted, but when it comes to perseverance against boring things, Zhang Kong is not bad.
Joe Johnson is unlucky against Zhang Kong today, and if he is lucky, he may still be able to shoot one and score a double, but it is not easy to score from Zhang Kong's body.
The three points he got on Zhang Kong just now were because of Al Horford and Josh Smith's two-man blocking and pick-and-roll tactics, which allowed him to gain a little space on the outside and shoot the basketball even with bluffs, but the two-man blocking and pick-and-roll tactics are not easy to use every time.
After all, it is impossible for the Hawks to sacrifice four of themselves to protect him because of Joe Johnson alone, once is an accident, if there are too many times, it is impossible for the other members of the Pacers not to come up to cover the clip, unless they are brain-dead, so this sneak attack is okay, it is not within the scope of conventional tactics, and now Mike Bibby is facing Earl Watson, speaking of offense, Bibby is still more confident.
The ball was handed over to his right hand, looking at Earl Watson in front of him, Mike Bibby shook Earl's center of gravity to the left side after shaking it easily, and then Mike Bibby handed the ball to his left hand and broke through directly from the opponent's right side.
This is the difference between an All-Star player and an ordinary player, Mike Bibby's feints and shaking, are not something that Earl Watson can compete with, seeing Earl Watson being shaken away, Murphy on the inside glanced at Josh Smith behind him, and then moved his footsteps forward slightly, so that he stood in the center of Josh Smith in the basket, and he could either make up for the defense at any time, or retreat at any time to defend Josh Smith, this is the experience after playing in the NBA for many years.
Josh Smith's biggest threat is his bounce, this guy always likes to fly around in the sky, and now Murphy is standing in the right position where he is most comfortable on the jump, these experiences need to be learned slowly.
Mike Bibby didn't seem to have the intention of passing the ball after breaking through Earl Watson, but stopped outside the reasonable collision zone himself, and then changed direction, broke through the wood-like Hibbert, made three steps and made two steps (in fact, two steps), and went straight to the inside, throwing the basketball high towards the rim, and just when the basketball was out of his hand.
There was a loud shout outside! 'Be careful! But it's too late to be careful, a big hand appeared on the left side of the basketball premeditated, and he didn't give the basketball any more chance to fly, and directly slapped the basketball on the rebound, and the huge number 88 printed on the back of the jersey proves the existence of this guy, even if he starts to organize the offense now, his defense is still sharp.
"Attack!" After Zhang Kong jumped down from the air, he immediately jumped up again, this way of jumping is called a jump, which hurts his knees, but he snatched the basketball from Mike Bibby, who is not strong in jumping, and just landed, Zhang Kong shouted, and directly found Granger who was running in front, Granger took a step directly after taking the ball, and then flew up to be a violent dunk, after landing, Granger also deliberately put a poss at the camera behind the basketball hoop.
"Yes, it's Zhang Kong's block again, it's his pass again, after this block and pass, Zhang Kong's data has risen to the level of 7 points, 10 assists and 10 blocks, as long as he scores three more points, then he will have a triple-double! Oh my God, where the hell did this guy come from! The commentator at the Atlanta scene, looking at Zhang Kong's data, couldn't help but be a little dumbfounded, he hadn't seen Zhang Kong's performance like this, the current Pacers, as long as they opened, they didn't lack offensive firepower.
What they lacked was defensive strength and playmaking in the cross-game series, which was exactly what Zhang Kong could give them.
Although the Pacers' side is playing with momentum, but the Hawks are not moved at all, they are considered a league powerhouse anyway, Al Howard and Josh Smith are both on the inside, and now Al Horford has 28 points and 16 rebounds on the inside, and Josh Smith has 22 points and 8 assists, and the Pacers' interior is like this.
Murphy is strong in offense and weak in defense, and Hibbert is still a rookie, how can he bear these two All-Star level guys wreaking havoc on the inside?
The game was played in the final minute, with seven seconds left before the end of the game, and the Pacers and Hawks tied it 122-122.
The only chance the Hawks have now is to defend the opponent and then play overtime, because it's the Pacers' possession now!
The following monk from another world has already taken the Zen battle with a thick bowl mouth, and forced into Xiaofei's chrysanthemum step by step!
(To be continued)