Chapter 100: Come Yourself!

No team has been able to maintain consistency throughout the long regular season, and the Indiana Pacers' red-hot form began to slip after a seven-game winning streak.

The Pacers have had very strong opponents before, and the Seattle SuperSonics they face today are the bottom teams in the league. It's normal for the Pacers players to unconsciously have a hint of underestimating the enemy. And they have encountered strong enemies all the way before, and today they encounter weaker opponents, and it is inevitable that there will be some relaxed thoughts in their hearts.

After the opening, to everyone's surprise, supersonic took the initiative on the field.

"The Pacers are a bit out of shape today, they've been playing against strong teams in Texas and Cleveland, and now they're playing against weaker opponents than them, and their morale is going up and down."

"Not only is their morale at a low ebb, but their physical fitness has also fallen into a trough, and they feel a little unable to run on the field."

The enthusiastic cheers of the fans at the scene gradually subsided, and now that the Pacers were suppressed on the sidelines, the fans were a little excited.

Li Cheng failed to score the ball twice in a row, and he clearly realized that his teammates were in a bad state today.

glanced at the scoreboard, and the score of 10 to 4 above told Li Cheng that if he didn't exert his strength, the team might collapse.

"Then I'll do it myself." Li Cheng sued himself in his heart.

Li Cheng is no longer the substitute of the dark day, and he no longer needs to seize any chance to score to prove himself. Now what he needs is to help the team win, or even help the team win the championship. And if you want to win the championship, you must not go it alone. Even if he is as strong as Jordan, he needs a Pippen.

Therefore, what Li Chengyi thought about when he came up was to find opportunities for his teammates to score, rather than holding the ball himself to score. He is also flesh and blood, and even if he has the supernatural "top of the basketball system", he can't guarantee 82 games and stay at the top of his game.

However, now that he has proven that his teammates are not in good shape today, he can only solve the problem on his own.

After Li Cheng hit the first shot, the person who marked Li Cheng became Durant, and his long arms were the nightmare of almost all pitcher-type players in the league. His height and reach are terrifying enough to block almost all shooting angles.

After Li Cheng hit a ball, he didn't make any achievements, and the SuperSonics players and coaches thought Durant's defense was successful, and he restrained Li Cheng. But too many teams have proven that if you want to limit Li Cheng, it is by no means a one-on-one single defense that can solve the problem.

Durant was stuck to Li Cheng, his eyes were fixed on his shoulder, and his brain kept predicting where he would run next.

Li Cheng stepped forward with his left foot, but his body quickly retreated, and Granger jumped up and turned after bursting to the bottom line, smashing the ball out in an instant.

Now the cooperation between Granger and Li Cheng is like a complete circuit with a complete structure, with a signal output here and a feedback signal output there, and there is almost no gap.

Li Chengyi controlled the ball with his right hand, and immediately rushed forward again. Durant's brain reacted, but his pace was a beat slower after all. When Li Cheng passed by Durant, his shoulder also bumped into him covertly, and Durant instantly lost his center of gravity. Li Cheng seized the opportunity, raised his knife and fell, and cut two more points.

This series of actions once again aroused fierce applause at the scene. Li Cheng waved his arms, stirring up the atmosphere of the scene.

"Lee—that's how it feels!"

"those guys, our Lee is the best rookie!"

Li Cheng's goal seemed to be a shot in the arm, which made the atmosphere of the scene lively again.

Li Cheng is also very satisfied with his goal. He could already clearly feel that his body had become stronger, and with his previous body, he could not complete such an action.

Now he has a clear feeling that he can be faster when he changes the pace back and forth, but he is afraid that the hand in control of the ball will not be able to keep up with the speed of his body.

"You must learn the skill of 'dazzling' quickly." Li Cheng said secretly in his heart.

Durant stared at the big screen and saw the replay of Li Cheng's goal just now, and he secretly gritted his teeth. "We must not let him score so easily."

The Pacers had a bit of a slump on the team today, and the SuperSonics were originally playing with Durant, so there was a scene of these two scoring points in the next long game.

Durant's long arms are his weapon for grabbing points, and his shots are almost impossible for anyone to cover, not because he jumps high, but because his arms are too long. If you look at it casually, you can clearly feel that Durant's arm is one section longer than the average person. This is a gift from God to him, and others cannot envy it.

And after continuously relying on his feet to shake off the defense and shoot the basket, Li Cheng's large-angle step-back jumper also appeared. He leaned on Durant, forced a turn after asking for the ball, and as soon as his waist and abdomen were closed, the whole person seemed to be on the ground, and in this case, he threw the ball.

Durant is really powerless in the face of such a goal. He could only sigh that Li Cheng's control of the step-back jumper was really outrageous. It may not be scary to see him shoot like that in the video, but after experiencing it firsthand, you will definitely have a new understanding of that kind of step-back jumper.

However, Durant will not back down like this, he will continue to exert his full strength on offense, and at the same time, he will continue to spare no effort on the defensive end.

The fluidity of the game was very good, Li Cheng and Durant took turns scoring goals, and the scores of the two teams also took turns to rise.

Lee scored all 16 points in the Pacers' next seven minutes, shooting 7-of-9 and adding two free throws, and his insane shooting percentage foreshadowed his insane scoring.

Similarly, Durant almost swept the supersonic scores. However, his shooting percentage could not reach Li Cheng's ** Cheng Dù, and he scored 12 points on 6-of-10 shooting.

Subsequently, the managers of the two teams also seemed to have a tacit understanding, and they replaced the two at the same time in the 11th minute and 39 seconds of the first quarter. For the remainder of the first quarter, neither team scored again. The score of the first quarter of the game between the two teams was fixed at 22-20.

Li Cheng's performance in the first quarter of the game made O'Brien praise it a lot. This is not to say that Li Cheng scored 18 points while maintaining a 7 percent shooting rate, but Li Cheng was able to stand up decisively when the team needed him, which is what O'Brien values the most.

For such a player, O'Brien's idea of pushing him to the core leader is becoming more and more determined.

PS: One hundred chapters! In the face of such an integer, there must always be some emotion. The slow update of this book is mainly due to my laziness, which is my own problem, and I will overcome it little by little. In addition, for the previous episode, I think this is also some setbacks. The protagonist doesn't have any twists and turns on the field, and it's normal to encounter some setbacks off the field! Maybe there is a little problem with my arrangement, and there is a little bit of abuse. I will adjust myself, I will also adjust the plot, and save some drafts, so that the interruption will never happen again.