Chapter 826: Reservoir Dogs
The winner has one qiē, the loser dies, and one qiē is red. Bare. Naked, at this time, the media was also busy with their own affairs, and the next day various reports appeared in various media, whether it was newspapers, magazines, or websites, all reporting on the Celtics' upset defeat of the Pelicans.
Because this matter is enough to attract everyone's attention, and to attract attention is to buy something, and buying point is money, and the media is running the printing press and collecting money from the public.
The mainstream view of the media on this matter is to scold the Pelicans for their terrible performance yesterday, and even Bill Simmons, who has always supported the Pelicans, wrote in his column.
"Last night's game the Pelicans played a Summer League game, and the Celtics played a Finals tiebreaker, so the Celtics won and the Pelicans lost."
Even Hubby Brown, who was watching the game live, gave an interview after the game, in which he bitterly criticized the Pelicans.
"At that time, a group of proud guys, those guys thought they were kings, proud to be able to continue in the game, and now they have been hit."
Hubie Brown's statement is polite but pertinent, and the words of some guys who don't like Pelicans in the first place are even more difficult to hear.
"The Pelicans don't have a desire to win at all, they're not playing at all, they think they're going to win, those teams that don't have the desire to win at all, losing is a matter of course."
Most of the people who carry this vicious argument are the Boston media, or the remnants of the Celts, who are still holding their ground.
Losing this game, near the end of the regular season, the Pelicans suffered a five-game losing streak, and they suddenly went from first in the league and first in the West to third in the league and second in the West, which undoubtedly gave the Pelicans a slap in the face.
No matter what. The shape shì is very bad for the Pelicans, and if it continues, not to mention the championship, maybe the first round of the playoffs will not be passed.
The 5-game losing streak also stimulated Li Feng, and the Pelicans will usher in another tough battle against the Brooklyn Nets, who have ranked second in the East and fifth in the league.
Although Carmelo Anthony, the core of the Nets, will not play in this game with an elbow injury, the Nets have won 11 consecutive games recently, and the fighting spirit is high, and this game will definitely not be easy to play.
Before the game, Li Feng kept thinking about these things in his mind. Then Van Gundy walked in and he was going to have a routine pre-game meeting, and as soon as Van Gundy came in, he gathered all the players to his side:
"Guys, our opponents today, give us a lot of chances."
"The Nets' current interior defense is weak, although there are a lot of outside players, but they can't be combined in one qiē, we have to grasp two key points to win, defense. Then the success rate is guaranteed, and the victory belongs to us. ”
After Van Gundy said this, he immediately turned his head to Li Feng and said to Li Feng:
"Li Feng, today's game is steady. Especially on the defensive end, especially on the defensive end. ”
The game is about to start, and Van Gundy is still very worried about Li Feng's current state.
Li Feng nodded, then walked out of the locker room after a while. There were many more reporters in Brooklyn than usual, and as soon as Li Feng walked out of the locker room, there were many reporters surrounding Li Feng. They raised the microphone in their hands and fired at Li Feng.
"Li Feng, the Pelicans' grades have dropped quite a bit recently, and the outside world has commented that it is caused by your unstable state, do you think this statement is correct?"
When Li Feng heard such a question, he smiled and let himself bow his head and admit his guilt? Forget it.
李峰 says:
"Recently, our team has been a little unstable, but this is nothing, we are too stable in the front, we also need to adjust, if we talk about my table, you will see my table tonight."
"So, Li Feng is hard to understand, do you have any plans for tonight, is there any kind of goal?"
Journalists are quick to react, very smart, and sometimes hateful.
Li Feng smiled and said:
"I don't have any plans, my plan today is to play according to the format."
Li Feng said goodbye to these reporters and walked towards the players' tunnel, in the player's tunnel stood the old Bland, who was such a player, although he almost got the MVP, but now he is not at all conspicuous in the team.
But at other times, he was so important, and Li Feng stood next to Brand, looking at the Brooklyn crowd inside the court, who were already waiting on the sidelines to watch the game.
Brand glanced at Li Feng, and then the veteran said in a deep voice:
"Boy, your cousin has been very unstable lately."
Li Feng smiled, and then said:
"It's okay, I'm just taking a break."
"Don't rest for too long, now you are not your own Li Feng, you belong to the whole team, you also belong to me, I am still waiting for you to take me to the finals? I haven't experienced the finals yet, have I? ”
Brand was muttering there, and Li Feng listened to the veteran's voice.
It is true that I don't belong to myself anymore, I belong to the whole team, and now everyone is waiting for myself, all the hopes are in myself, all the hopes of everyone, the team, everyone.
"There are a lot of people who want to go to the finals, and I'm really tired."
Li Feng said with a grin, and then Brand turned his head to look at Li Feng and said:
"Li Feng, you are in the best time now, you are in the right situation, you should know that there are many players who give up when they can afford to take responsibility, how much they regret it in the end, you go and ask Arenas and Rose, how much they missed, when you can bear the responsibility and don't, you will stay where you are forever and watch others move forward."
"But if you push forward desperately, with all your responsibilities and eventually win, you look back and find that what you have experienced is actually easy, it is really easy, it just needs you to get through. You will sing with good memories and the joy of success, instead of crying sadly for your contempt at the beginning, Li Feng, what you need to stop is just a while, and then what you want to get is the happiness of satisfaction. ”
The Barclays Center began to perform, but Li Feng was chatting with an old man in the players' tunnel.
Li Feng knew what Brand was talking about, he wanted to move forward under pressure, withstood the pressure, and when he looked back, he regretted getting better.
Li Feng knew that what Brand said was right. Those who are slack, can't withstand the pressure, in the end can get all is failure, to succeed, they can only strive forward, even if the road ahead is difficult, even if the journey ahead is difficult, but also grit your teeth and hold on, because the gap between victory and persistence is a little bit.
Li Feng nodded. For the sake of victory, for perseverance, persistence is victory.
At this time, there were more players walking into the players' tunnel, and Brand smiled himself. Then he said in Li Feng's ear:
"Li Feng, in fact, I really want to ask you to smoke a cigar, I believe it must have been a good feeling at that time."
The Pelicans players waited in the tunnel until the Brooklyn DJ started calling out their names. They just ran out of the stadium.
But they were Pelican players, and whoever ran out was greeted by all those noisy yellings. This is a contest between mortal enemies.
Facing the New Orleans Pelicans, the Brooklynns fielded a lineup of point guard Deron Williams, scoring guard Joe Johnson, small forward Paul Pierce, power forward David Lee, and center Brook Lopez.
Brooklyn's lineup is luxurious, and this lineup is just luxurious.
Compared with Brooklyn's luxury lineup, the Pelicans' lineup is more simple with point guard Rose, scoring guard Arenas, small forward Li Feng, power forward Millsap, and center Al Jefferson.
Al Jefferson and Lopez stood together in the middle circle, and with the referee's whistle, Al Jefferson easily clicked the basketball, and the basketball went directly to Li Feng's hands.
At this time, Li Feng's mind still recalled Brand's words, persistence, stick to the past, everything is fine, what he needs to do is to carry his own responsibilities and beliefs to continue to move forward, and when he turns back on the other side, he will become incomparably beautiful.
Li Feng dribbled over and glanced at the Brooklyn lineup, Li Feng immediately laughed, because the Brooklyn lineup looks very complete, but in fact it is not complete at all, there are so many people in Brooklyn, there is no defensive lineup and mode.
This is his own opportunity, playing such a team, Li Feng is the favorite, the opponent's defensive ability is generally when he performs at will, and then Li Feng glanced at Pierce, who was defending himself, and his ideas were even more.
Pierce is not what it used to be, and although it is a little sad to do so, it is true, Pierce has been deteriorating physically and in shape since he left the Celtics, and Pierce's form is really gone.
Li Feng actually has another way to play Pierce, that is, to use his height to make a mid-range pull-up jump shot, although playing like this will reduce the time for his teammates to shoot, but since he is ready to start again, he should surprise his opponent.
After Li Feng thought about this, he immediately dribbled and made two feints towards Pierce, Pierce didn't know that Li Feng had already started to play his own idea, and he was still simply defending.
But while Pierce was still quiet, Li Feng received a pass from Rose and suddenly dribbled towards the Brooklyn court.
Li Feng's speed of pressing is very fast, the action is very fierce, Pierce beside Li Feng hurriedly followed Li Feng to defend, Brooklyn does not have the kind of full-time outside defenders, nor the kind of assistant defense players who take care of the upper and lower levels, and there is no qualified defender in the entire Brooklyn outside defense.
One Pierce, one Joe Johnson, one DeLong, these three people are scary to say, but they don't make sense.
In this way, Li Feng broke through very comfortably, very smoothly, and suppressed Pierce, who was shorter than himself and thinner than himself, Li Feng pressed to the vicinity of the three-second zone in two steps, at this time, David Li was also very vegetable, and did not press to Li Feng's side according to the dynamics of the defense, and let Li Feng jump up directly in front of Pierce.
Li Feng's posture of this pull-up jump shot is not very good, and his body leans forward a little. The main reason is that he didn't control the center of gravity, Li Feng smashed the basketball towards Brooklyn's rebound, Pierce was pressed by Li Feng's non-standard shooting posture and got up, and could only watch Li Feng shoot the basketball.
In fact, Pierce is a person with a very good body among the forwards, but the guy he met today is not the body of an ordinary striker at all, but the body of a big forward, so Pierce has no choice.
He didn't have the support of his teammates yet, so he could only watch Li Feng come up and shoot a jumper with an ugly position.
The commentators on today's game are the Brooklyn Nets' veteran players Dr. J, Julius Irving and Buck Williams, both of whom are veterans of the seventies and eighties, and for Brooklyn fans, the two of them have a lot of memories about the Nets.
After Buck Williams saw Pierce completely pinned down by Li Feng, he immediately shouted in his position:
"Pierce's defense was really speechless. He didn't block Li Feng at all, he didn't do anything in the face of Li Feng's attack, so he let Li Feng shoot in such a dangerous position. ”
Today Owen went to the commentary bench and said very calmly:
"Brooklyn today is not that defensive team anymore, we don't see any defensive players in them, we don't see any signs of defense, Brooklyn is a team full of stars, but their stars are not used to play, but only to increase the appeal of the box office."
Julius Irving is right that Brooklyn does seem to have this habit, and other teams buy star players to get good results. Winning the championship, but here in Brooklyn, their big-name players seem to have only one role, which is to print posters and buy tickets. That's how Brooklynians use stars.
Li Feng scored by himself at the beginning, Van Gundy looked at him from the sidelines Li Feng, and he was also a little incomprehensible, this situation was rare in the past. Li Feng always responds first, and then attacks by himself, but why did he attack by himself for no reason today.
DeLong dribbles over. Pierce asked for the ball, Delon gave PP a face, he himself began to dribble around Li Feng continuously, Li Feng watched Pierce dribble there fancy, but he himself lowered the center, stretched out his hands, and did not give Pierce a little position, and finally Pierce couldn't help it.
quickly broke through, but as soon as Pierce broke through, he immediately stumbled under his feet, and a mistake came, Pierce made a mistake, Li Feng picked up the basketball and quickly passed it to Arenas behind him.
Arenas dribbled the ball against Joe Johnson's quick dribble, and Li Feng ran up from behind to ask for the ball directly towards Arenas.
Arenas knows Li Feng's ability, and the ball in his own hands can't speed up the team's tempo at all, but in the fast break, the basketball is in Li Feng's hands, so the Pelicans' offensive power will be greater.
Arenas quickly passed the ball to Li Feng's hands, and after Li Feng got the basketball, he immediately ran quickly, which was the feeling that Li Feng liked, and ran desperately towards the sparse half of the opposing defenders with the basketball.
At this time, Li Feng felt that his whole body was full of strength all of a sudden, and he really wanted to experience the joy of playing freely, and put aside the responsibility of organizing the team and adjusting the team's rhythm on himself, just wanting to experience the happiness that really belongs to basketball.
Li Feng dribbled desperately, Joe Johnson hurriedly ran back to intercept in front of Li Feng, Deron Williams also hit Li Feng from the side, Li Feng dribbled quickly, he had already made up his mind to do it himself, but Li Feng still glanced back at Arenas when he was dribbling the ball.
So Brooklyn misunderstood Li Feng's thoughts, Li Feng himself rushed directly to Joe Johnson and Richardson with the basketball, Li Feng's body was tightly attached to these two people, and both of them were trying their best to stretch out their palms to block Li Feng.
But Li Feng, who was running wildly, flew up, put the bull in his left hand, pulled it away behind him, and his head was completely under the basket, Li Feng used his left hand to still put the basketball towards the basket.
The basketball wiped the rebound, and then shot lightly, after Li Feng scored the ball, he waved his arms very happily, playing for fun is really great, you can completely let go of all your own.
Li Feng scored again, and Buck Williams beat his chest in the commentary box and said:
"The Brooklyn defense is there, I can't see it, are they conniving at the opponent like this, this is a shame for Brooklyn, thinking about what kind of defense we used to make all the teams scared when we were in Brooklyn, our defense at that time."
Buck Williams is still bragging about how solid their defense was when he was in Brooklyn, a topic that disgusted Nets coach Jason Kidd, even if that solid defense didn't make the Lakers beat, it didn't make the Lakers unable to raise their heads.
Jason Kidd is frowning tightly now, he keeps looking back at Van Gundy on the other side, he has long heard that Van Gundy has been very cunning recently, so that all the old handsomes are on their heels.
Today, the Pelicans played very abnormally than usual, and Li Feng would not attack first like this, could it be that Van Gundy still wanted to use any conspiracy against himself in Brooklyn? Kidd was speculating about it. (To be continued......)