Chapter Seventy-Four: Accidents
When he came to the arena, Gu Fei began to practice his shooting, and there were still 20 minutes before the official start of the game, Gu Fei really stayed in the stadium until the game began!
"Hinrich, Gordon, Lore Deng, Ben and Noah start tonight, and you lead the second team tonight!"
After listening to Scott's words, Gu Fei couldn't help but be a little disappointed, he was still ready to defend Joe Johnson to show himself, so there would definitely not be many opportunities for Joe Johnson to play against him, and he didn't know if he could perform well.
At the beginning of the game, Noah defeated Al Horford by a huge margin to win the first offensive power for the Bulls.
At this time, Al Horford played as the Hawks center, the power forward was Marvin Williams, the small forward was Josh Smith, the scoring guard was naturally Joe Johnson, and the point guard was Anthony Johnson.
It is not difficult to see that the Hawks' lineup is strong on the front line, Horford, Williams, and Josh Smith are all capable of inside and out, and Joe Johnson is also a swing man in the second and third positions, so whether it is offensive or defensive The Hawks' front line is extremely powerful, but in this way, the Hawks' interior line lacks real height, and the highest altitude of the Hawks at this time is Al Horford, whose official registered height is 208, but in fact, it is about 205 at most, As a result, while Horford's rebounding ability is good, it can be a little difficult to defend against a really tall center, and the Bulls' center Noah happens to be that kind of player.
Hinrich brought the ball to the front court and directed the Bulls players to run, Lore Deng mentioned a block in the high post, Hinrich shook off Anthony Johnson, and gave the ball to Noah when Marvin Williams' defense arrived, and he himself went to the left baseline, Noah received the ball and pushed Horford to take two steps inside, and then shook his shoulders left and right to deceive Horford's center of gravity, and then Noah scored the ball with a step hook to the middle, and Horford, the rookie of the same rookie, was obviously inexperienced in defense, was easily deceived by Noah, who was a rookie in the same level, with a score of 0-2.
Looking back at the Hawks' offense, the Hawks played more simply, Anthony Johnson gave the ball to Joe Johnson after dribbling through the half, and Josh Smith also made a block for Joe, Joe easily shook off Gordon and pulled it directly from the middle distance, and Gordon, who was originally a little shorter, pounced on the defense again It was too late, and the ball also scored, 2-2.
Back to the Bulls offense, Gordon, who had just been beaten one, was unwilling to return one, he singled Joe Johnson with the ball, as mentioned earlier, Joe couldn't defend against fast and too strong players, and Gordon was obviously not strong, so he used his speed to break through Joe's defense, and after getting rid of Joe, Gordon didn't dare to go directly to the inside, but chose to make a stop-and-go jump shot two steps outside the penalty area, but his hand, which had just left, stretched out a big hand from behind him and directly fanned the ball out of the bottom line.
"Oh, Josh came out of nowhere, apparently it was a premeditated block that made Gordon's attack go nowhere." The game was broadcast live by ESPN, and they fielded a commentary lineup of Rejay Miller and Mark Jackson, and at this time it was former NBA super point guard Mark Jackson, the third-highest strongman on the assist list (who was later surpassed by Nash, but not in '07).
"Yes, Josh had already let go of his defense when he saw Gordon break through Joe's defense and go inside, and Gordon was ruthlessly blocked by Josh because he had been paying attention to what was going on in front of him and ignoring what was behind him, and it was a beautiful defense."
It's still a long time for the Bulls to play a tactic this time, and in the end the ball was still in Gordon's hands, but maybe it was the block just now that affected his feel and shot out of the frame.
The Hawks attacked again, this time the Hawks handed the ball to the inside, Horford asked to play Noah alone on the right side of the penalty area, and after trying to resist Noah's hopelessness to enter the inside, Horford began to feint, Noah was also deceived, and Horford, who saw this opportunity, obviously would not let it go, and made a turnaround jumper, but due to Noah's timely interference, although he did not block, he used his height much higher than Horford to make the arc of Horford's shooting suddenly change and the defense was successful, and Big Ben won the rebound.
Both sides played very smoothly, and every offensive tactic could run out quickly, but perhaps the players' hands were not good, so the scores of both sides were not high, until the last three minutes of the first quarter, when Gu Fei came on the court, the score of the two sides was 18-21, and the Bulls led by 3 points.
After entering the substitution time, the Bulls only left Noah in the starters, while the Hawks kept Horford and Anthony Johnson, so Gu Fei's idea of playing against Joe Johnson will slow down for some time.
At this time, the opposite player on the Eagles and Gu Fei was Josh Chaidris, this player was taller than Gu Fei in height, but his weight was not cheap, especially in Gu Fei's physical fitness improvement hand, so Gu Fei singled him three times in a row as soon as he came on the court, and two of them successfully scored.
At the end of the first quarter, Gu Fei made a total of three shots, all three of which were directly singled by Chaveris, and the Bulls entered the second quarter with a five-point advantage of 23-28.
At the beginning of the second quarter of the game, Noah also got off the court, the Bulls took Gu Fei as the absolute core on the court, Gu Fei also lived up to expectations and scored continuously, only three minutes in the second quarter, Gu Fei had already scored two three-pointers and one two-pointer, and the Bulls also played a 10-2 small ** in one fell swoop to expand the difference to 13 points, the head coach of the Hawks couldn't see that the lineup on the court was ravaged by Gu Fei and replaced Joe Johnson and Josh Smith in advance, so that Gu Fei beat Joe up with his own strength.
Hawks' offensive chance, Joe Johnson singled with the ball.
"Hey friend, I've been waiting for you for a long time."
Johnson was a little confused by Gu Fei's words, and asked, "What are you waiting for me to do?" ”
"Of course I'm going to defend against you, so that my defense is better than Gordon's!"
When Johnson heard this, he was immediately angry, "Boy, you are very arrogant, you have to pay the price." ”
While speaking, Johnson began his own movements, continuous tentative steps to the left, Gu Fei was unmoved, at this time Johnson suddenly changed his movements, or the tentative step is posture, the hand is still swinging to the left and the foot is stepping out, seeing this, Gu Fei immediately took a big step out and wanted to stop in front of Johnson, but then saw that Johnson put the ball away, completed a retreat step with the support of his left foot, and suddenly opened a distance with Gu Fei, and shot without hesitation. Gu Fei immediately leaned forward and jumped up to block it was too late, so he could only find a way to interfere as much as possible, but Joe Johnson was a little taller than Gu Fei in terms of height and arm span, so Gu Fei's defense was doomed to failure, 27-38.
"I didn't take precautions, it's one thing to look at it, and it's another thing to do it," Gu Fei thought with some annoyance.
In the next few rounds, Joe Johnson hit Gu Fei a few more times, plus the first Joe Johnson singled Gu Fei a total of five times, and Gu Fei only defended it twice, and these two times I don't know if it was the success of the defense or Johnson's own bad feeling.
The game came to the 8th minute, the score at this time was 35-42, the Bulls were still leading by seven points, although Gu Fei couldn't prevent Johnson's singles, but Johnson also couldn't prevent Gu Fei's breakthrough to him, Gu Fei also surpassed Qiao by a large cut in speed.
The ball came to Johnson's hands again after a few passes, and Gu Fei defended Johnson again at 45 degrees on the right side.
Gu Fei was not fooled by the continuous feints, and now Gu Fei has a certain immunity to feints, unlike at the beginning, as soon as the opponent made a feint, Gu Fei's center of gravity couldn't help but move, resulting in a defensive failure.
Under Gu Fei's preoccupied defense, Johnson suddenly couldn't find a good opportunity to pass the ball, and he himself ran without the ball, and Gu Fei immediately followed.
Johnson ran towards the bottom left corner, but halfway through the run, he turned around and plunged into the inside line, and Gu Fei also quickly cut to the inside, at this time, Horford, who had been on the court for a while, appeared in front of Gu Fei and blocked his way to continue chasing Johnson.
Gu Fei had already moved to the right to get rid of Horford, and saw Johnson again, at this time Johnson received a pass in one step outside the penalty area, and Noah, who made up for the ball with both hands, immediately jumped up, shook off Noah and was ready to shoot, and suddenly Johnson's afterglow found Gu Fei who was rushing towards him quickly, and the ball that had been raised was collected again.
Gu Fei also found out that Johnson had discovered his pursuit, but his body, which had already jumped with all his strength, did not listen to Gu Fei's command in the air, so Gu Fei rushed directly to Johnson's back who had already collected the ball and bent over, and the whole person had no way to adjust himself in the air, and his left arm was pressed under his body and fell to the floor.
"Ahh Gu Fei screamed
"Oh no, Gu couldn't hold himself and fell to the floor because of his hard defense, I hope he's okay." Jackson said with some concern.
"I seemed to hear Gu scream, his arm seemed to be pressed by his own body, if this was the case, he might have been injured. Although this defense realistically showed the quality of a professional player, it was indeed too dangerous, fortunately, when Gu was on Joe's back, Joe didn't want to make another foul and jumped up to shoot, otherwise Gu would have been more dangerous," Miller continued.
The game was paused, the referee signaled the Bulls' team doctor to go on the court immediately to check the situation, the team doctor came to Gu Fei's side and asked a few questions, looked at Gu Fei's situation, and preliminarily judged that his left arm was fractured, and the game must not be played, and the specific situation should be checked in detail in the hospital.
"It looks like Gu's arm should be fractured, I don't know if this injury will affect his future career, he is just beginning to emerge, I hope I don't want to accept anything." Mark Jackson said that obviously he also saw Gu Fei more.
After the team doctor carried Gu Fei down, the game continued, and the Bulls players were a little absent-minded, because there were many people on the team who had a good relationship with Gu Fei, and in the end, the Bulls also lost the game 92-85.