Chapter Twenty-Six: The Barrel of My Gun Is Hot (Part I)
As the first quarter is coming to an end, both teams are ready to start rotating their lineups.
"Li, is your body okay?" O'Brien asked.
Li Cheng was stunned for a moment, he didn't know why O'Brien asked this, but soon a burst of ecstasy flashed in his heart, O'Brien's question showed that his status in the coach's heart was getting higher and higher. He quickly replied: "Coach, I won't have any problems with my body if I play for 48 minutes straight." ”
Since entering the NBA, Li Cheng has been insisting on hard training, and his physical fitness is no problem at all.
O'Brien nodded, and he continued: "Next our offense revolves around Lee to play and cover him. As long as he runs out of chance, there is no need to hesitate to throw the ball at him. Daniels will wait for you to come up, and you should not be soft either, give me their inside line. As long as you can open up space, you can create a chance for our inner line. ”
The game soon resumed, Li Cheng was not replaced, and LeBron remained on the court. On the court, Li Cheng and James' eyes met in the air, and there was a burst of sparks of battle.
"Kid, you weren't replaced? You will continue to be ravaged by me, and it will be torture for you. James's muscular body was close to Li Cheng.
Li Cheng pursed his lips and said, "After saying that your mother knows my ability, you can go back and ask her if I can beat you with my ability." ”
After the timeout, everyone noticed the change in the Pacers, and their offense actually revolved around Li Chenglai.
Judging from Lee's runs, the Pacers' offense turned out to be around Lee. Now that Lee is no longer running on his own and seeking cover, now the other players of the Pacers will take the initiative to cover for him and pull space for him. ”
The Pacers made two off-door covers, James was completely blocked, Lee received the basketball on the right side of the free throw line, and he raised his hand to hit the shot again. With 6 of 7 shots, Lee had an astonishingly high shooting percentage. ”
James gritted his teeth and scored again with a ferocious individual attack. The little emperor's competitiveness is no weaker than anyone else's, and every genius is paranoid. Kobe Bryant's paranoia is notoriously known in the NBA, but James' paranoia isn't too bad either.
Lee Cheng is ready to continue to respond to James, but he will not ignore his team-mate's save for the sake of his own goal.
He drew the defense on the weak side, the distance from the free throw line to the basket was completely empty, Li Cheng passed the ball between James and Shannon Brown, Daniels immediately started after receiving the ball, rushed to the basket and dunked.
Daniels completed his first dunk since returning from injury, and after landing on the ground, he gave Li Cheng a grateful look, and he high-fived Li Cheng as he returned to the defense.
For the remainder of the first quarter, neither Lee Cheng nor James scored again, and the two teams ended the first quarter with a score of 30-26.
"It wasn't a big deal before, but it was a great game. China's Li didn't fall behind against James, scoring 12 points on 6-of-7 shooting in the first quarter, while the Emperor Jr. scored 15 points on 7-of-9 shooting. Both of them have an amazingly high hit rate, and I'm looking forward to their next appearance. ”
At the beginning of the second quarter of the game, Li Cheng and James did not play, but after James took the initiative to ask for the game and was replaced three minutes later, Li Cheng also said to O'Brien: "The coach let me go up!" ”
O'Brien was a little worried that Li Cheng would lose confidence by James, who was in good shape today, but thought that Li Cheng was also in hot form today, so he nodded. "As long as you're not physically fit, and in this rotation, you have unlimited firing rights."
"Unlimited right to fire?" Li Cheng never expected O'Brien to give him this right, even if it was only an unlimited fire right in the rotation lineup.
He was grateful for O'Brien's trust in him and nodded firmly.
At this time, the score of the two teams was 37-30, and the Pacers played the Cavaliers 7-0 before, and James scored four points in a row after coming on the court to stabilize the situation.
After Li Cheng came on the court, James immediately ran to his side. James is in love with Li Cheng today, and he and Li Cheng are like conjoined babies, sticking together.
Under James' pressure, Li Cheng forced a goal with a step-back jumper. And James immediately scored the response goal.
Li Cheng actually played a scoring battle with James, his off-ball running made James very uncomfortable, and James's strong body and increasingly mature skills made Li Cheng not participate in the defense of James at all.
"Boy, don't you dare to defend me?"
"Tell me this when you win the game today."
In terms of defense, Li Cheng is indeed inferior to James, and it can even be said that he is far behind, but after all, Li Cheng has just entered the league, and James has been an "old fritter" who has been in the league for 3 years.
Li Cheng and James' individual scores are growing rapidly, while the scores of the Pacers and Cavaliers are also rising alternately.
Until the final moment of this game, Li Cheng and James have scored 47 and 51 points respectively. The score of the two teams also stayed at 101-100, and the Pacers temporarily led by one point.
With two minutes to go, the visitors were timeout, and Li Cheng sat on the bench hunched over, his elbows resting on his knees, a towel around his neck, and a bottle of Gatorade in his hand. Sweat flowed down the tip of his nose and chin like a column of water, and his chest was like a bellows pulled.
Li Cheng's physical strength was close to the limit, and if it wasn't for holding it up in one breath, he would even want to lie on the ground and sleep immediately.
James's condition is much better than Li Cheng's, and the difference in physical fitness between the two of them is already obvious.
"Li, can you still hold on?"
Li Cheng turned his head to look at O'Brien, who was talking to him, and opened his mouth, but he didn't speak, just nodded firmly.
O'Brien didn't want to replace Li Cheng on the court again, but if Li Cheng could fight with James who fought him all night today, it would be very helpful for Li Cheng's growth. Thinking of this, O'Brien still decided to let Li Cheng continue to play.
After the game resumed, Li Chengqiang endured the chest cavity that seemed to explode and continued to run. Now he just wanted to run faster, because the wind from running fast would make him feel better.
In the final 1:51 of the game, Granger missed a layup, and Murphy scored the ball with a layup, giving the Pacers a three-point lead at 103-100.
At 1 minute and 32 seconds, LeBron scored 3 points from the outside, equalizing the score and refreshing his personal score in this game to 54 points.
At 1:07, Li Cheng's jump shot missed, and the Cavaliers had a chance to counterattack. After James broke through, he assisted Gooden for a dunk and overtook the points.
With 55 seconds left, Tinsley made a layup and was blocked, but the Cavaliers didn't hit the ball either, and they missed the chance to extend the score.
In 34 seconds, Murphy scored a strong basket, and the score was levelized again. At this point, Mike Brown called a timeout and the two teams were tied 105-105. The atmosphere at the scene was suffocatingly tense, and the tense atmosphere seemed to condense water.
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