Chapter 610: The Sweep of Bad Jokes
Vucevic came around to defend Howard, and it was indeed a whimsical move from this guy. Now that he saw the effect, he suddenly became more enthusiastic, and he was unwilling to give Howard a chance at all, and he was entangled in front of Howard.
Howard was guarded by a rookie, and suddenly the center who thought he was the strongest in history felt that he had lost face, and he made a push behind Vucevic naturally, but unfortunately the referee happened to see it and gave Howard a foul.
After Phil Jackson got to Howard, not only did he not work on the offensive end, but instead made a foul and gave the ball to the Knicks.
Suddenly, Phil Jackson's face fell, but he hadn't waited for him to reprimand the team! It seems that the Knicks are swept up to their own position like the wind.
Now the Knicks are running fast on the outside, and Vucevic on the inside is also running fast with long hands and feet, and Jones is not high.
In this way, the Knicks' fast break is perverted fast, the Bulls have four people running back, and Howard is still behind! All five of the Knicks are in the frontcourt.
Vucevic has already carded Jimmy Butler, who is a head shorter than himself, and in this case, Li Feng saw that it was out of place, and immediately passed the basketball to Vucevich.
However, Vucevic took the ball on the defensive end, and immediately shot a three-stick ball without thinking, and the basketball fell directly to the other side of the basket, but fortunately Jones grabbed the basketball with one hand.
Seeing Vucevic's expression, Li Feng and Jeff Van Gundy were in a cold sweat at the same time, Vucevic is a good kid, but sometimes it is too unreliable.
Jones got the basketball and passed it to Li Feng on the outside, and at this time Howard ran back, and the Bulls' halfcourt position was finally normal.
However, because of Howard's presence, the Bulls' half-court defense is actually disjointed, because Howard and the other Bulls players in the sport are really two rhythms.
Li Feng also saw this, took the ball and changed direction with one hand, and then immediately squeezed Iguodala away in one step. Li Feng rushed directly under the Bulls' basket. Li Feng once again ignored the Bulls' outside defense and attacked the Bulls' interior.
At this time, if it is a strong defensive team, the interior line must have tied the pockets firmly, but the Bulls are not a strong defensive team.
Once Li Feng broke through, he saw that the Bulls' inner line was full of holes, and Howard also hurriedly came up from one side to pounce on Li Feng.
Li Feng faced Howard's feint action with the ball, shook off the European step, and suddenly skimmed to the bottom line. When he got here, Okafor also caught up, and Li Feng faced the bag of two people on the inside line of the Bulls and took off from the bottom line. got through the two people, and waited until he flew a long way past the basket before his body suddenly folded, and he actually dunked with both hands in the opposite direction, smashing the ball to the basket.
Li Feng is another C-shaped body movement, and this time the action is even more exaggerated than the last time. The range of reverse folding is even larger, and it is also a more difficult reverse deduction.
"Bang!" With Li Feng's button, the fans at Madison Square Garden couldn't help but jump.
Li Feng dedicated another wonderful dunk, and the atmosphere on the Knicks' court has reached its highest point.
Howard on the Bulls' side didn't play a role either. Instead, Li Feng deducted another one. At this time, Phil Jackson had a hard time riding the tiger, so he could only let the team run like this, because he had no way to change the current situation.
The Bulls came over and had to play the low post of the half, but Howard couldn't catch the ball. The Bulls' halfcourt position couldn't get up and running.
In the end, Paul had to re-play with Okafor, but when Paul dismantled the ball into Okafor's hands. Li Feng immediately formed a two-man defense with Jones and blocked Okafor.
After Okafor was blocked, he saw that Li Feng was in front of him, and he immediately took a step towards Li Feng's side. Then he got up and wanted to push Li Feng to dunk.
Okafor's explosiveness is quite strong, he thinks that he should be nine out of ten stable when he pushes a swing man, but Li Feng is different!
Okafor didn't pull it up all of a sudden. was resisted by Li Feng, and after withstanding Okafor, Li Feng stood on the ground and pressed the ball raised by Okafor with one hand, and forced the ball in Okafor's hand down.
Li Feng held down Okafor at once, and also pressed the ball, and JR Smith, who was behind him, immediately picked up the basketball and passed it to Belle, who was already running.
Seeing Paul catching up from behind, Belineri took the initiative to reduce his speed and stuck to Paul's body for a layup and scored 2 points.
The Knicks were crazy about playing the Bulls' fast offense in this section, and they did not hesitate to break through Howard at halftime. As a result, the Bulls couldn't defend and the offense couldn't open, and a wave of streamlined 9 points in the second half of the fourth quarter was eaten away by the Knicks.
At this crucial moment, the game came to a final minute, and the Bulls were in even bigger trouble, and in the final moments, whether they were confident to play half-court or play small ball. The Bulls still didn't understand how to deal with it, one time it was fast, the other time it was slow, and the Bulls themselves were swaying, which naturally gave the Knicks a chance.
Li Feng didn't care about the Bulls' life or death and hesitation, a series of fast breaks and assists came up, and the Knicks had a 7-point lead over the Bulls with 1 minute left in the game.
By this time, the Bulls had finally made up their minds and traded Howard, and they had enough excuses.
At this time, you need to chase points, what you need is the three-point ability of a small man, and Howard doesn't have a three-point shot, so he can only go off the court.
The Bulls saw that they were going to lose again, and they also fought hard in the last minute, with Paul, Iguodala, Hamilton, Jimmy Butler, Gibson all five players with long-range shots, and even Okafor Phil Jackson did not let him play.
The Bulls are back, and the Knicks' lineup is still Belineri, J.R. Smith, Li Feng, Jones, and Vucevic.
Bulls Gibson drove the ball from the sideline, and Paul took advantage of his teammates standing in a row to cover and come out in a big circle from the weak side to catch the basketball.
Seeing that Paul got the basketball, Belineri hurriedly desperately went over to keep up with Paul, Paul has never been a singles player, and the first thought of getting the basketball at this time was to immediately call Gibson's block.
Gibson moved quickly, but he brought another monster to the top of the arc. Vucevic strode to the top of the arc to keep up with Gibson, and Paul moved to the side without letting go of Vucevic's defense.
Paul, who is the best at playing small and big in the league, did not even drill into Vucevic's outside movement, and this scene made many commentators and coaches who pay attention to defense suddenly raise the level of Vucevic by several evaluations.
Paul's life has not passed. I had to turn around and throw the basketball to Jimmy Butler, who was playing against Jones.
After a series of changes of direction to shake off Jones, Jimmy Butler took the ball and raised his hand, and Jones immediately flew away, just as he was about to shoot a three-pointer with the ball laterally.
Jimmy Butler looked up and saw Li Feng flying over again, at this critical moment.
Old Jimmy Butler thought about it, since Jimmy Butler is here, then Iguodala should be vacant, Jimmy Butler's eyes swept and saw Iguodala running towards him in an empty position, Jimmy Butler immediately threw a long-distance ground-hitting pass in the direction of Iguodala.
This ball is impossible to intercept. But at this time, I saw Li Feng in a posture of inserting in large numbers.
The whole person spread his legs and fell low to the ground, while stretching his body forward as much as possible, Li Feng actually reached out to block the ball passed by Jimmy Butler with the action of a gymnast.
Li Feng, who got the basketball, knew that this kind of body was too easy to be stealed, so he immediately turned around and passed the ball to J.R. Smith.
J.R. Smith instinctively caught the ball, but he didn't pass it. Because at this time, Jr Smith was already a little stupid, not only J.R. Smith was stupid, but everyone on the whole court was a little stupid.
In the history of the NBA, or in the history of basketball. I haven't seen anyone finish a steal with this kind of jiu-jitsu move, and Li Feng has done it so neatly.
In this case, everyone is only surprised, and there is no time to pass the ball. 2 seconds apart. The Bulls players just remembered to steal J.R. Smith, and J.R. Smith realized that he wasn't making movies or writing novels, he was playing.
So he immediately passed the basketball out. The Knicks turned around and pressed steadily towards the Bulls' half. At this point, the Knicks had the ball in hand, and they could hold down the time to play.
It was only at this time that Jeff Van Gundy and Bill Wharton emerged from their shock.
At this time, Bill Wharton said in a joyful voice:
"Jeff, did you just see that! Li Feng: What kind of action is that, I think it seems to be Chinese kung fu, it's really great! You can also play basketball like that, the Chinese are simply too interesting and imaginative. ”
Bill Wharton shouted excitedly, while Jeff Van Gundy fell silent before he said:
"I told you before the game that Li Feng is the first person in the league!."
"If I remember correctly, Li Feng's physical flexibility level was average before, and he couldn't do Kobe's large-scale bending action, but just now, I saw that Li Feng's physical flexibility was very amazing, very amazing, which means that Li Feng has made progress again, rapid progress, and in terms of physical flexibility. He's a madman! ”
"Li Feng is a real madman, and the rate of his progress is simply terrifying. It's terrifying, and now his flexibility has improved, so I can't think of any flaws in you. ”
Just when Brown lamented Li Feng's rapid progress, the Knicks arrived at the Bulls' half.
Belineri handed the basketball to Li Feng again, Li Feng had just completed a wonderful inhuman steal, and now once he got the basketball. Madison Square Garden immediately began calling Li Feng's name.
"Li Feng, Li Feng, Li Feng, Li Feng!"
In the midst of the call of the whole court, Li Feng took the ball to face the Bulls' defender Andre Iguodala and waved his hand to signal the rest of his teammates to disperse.
Li Feng wants to be one-on-one, this scene is suddenly the fans in the audience are boiling, Li Feng gave the Knicks everything on the court, and now at the last moment, Li Feng has to do the last one-on-one with a fearless heart.
Now facing Li Feng, although Iguodala is still fearless in his heart, he feels that this Chinese has the same murderous aura as Kobe.
This kind of murderous aura, the slightest smell can make the whole body chill. The other party's will and body have been extremely focused, and they are also extremely condensed. At this time, only scoring can make such a killer feel satisfied.
And he had to resist these killers at such a moment, and Iguodala felt proud of his courage.
Indeed, any first-class defender has this kind of pride. Dare to stand up to the Alliance's most powerful killer, which is a kind of courage in itself.
Li Feng saw that the time was in the last 7 seconds, he suddenly exerted his strength, rushing forward, Li Feng in the impact seemed to be a heavy truck, Iguodala was ready to withstand this force, he straightened his chest and steadied the lower plate is preparing to exert force.
But at this time, Li Feng was like a bolt of lightning, and suddenly changed direction and threw away Iguodala and reached the outside of the Bulls' three-point line. Your feet are springing up from the ground.
Li Feng flew high, leaned back, his feet were naturally separated from the front and back, his arms were stretched out, his wrists flicked, and the basketball flew out, bringing out a beautiful arc.
"Huh!"
Li Feng's three-point shot fell into the Bulls' basket accurately, and the Knicks led the Bulls by 10 points at this time, and the clock was only 29 seconds left. The Bulls' chances are slim.
At the same time, Li Feng also used a three-pointer to break the Bulls' last confidence, in the last 29 seconds, although the Bulls tried hard to find that small opportunity, but neither the Knicks nor Li Feng were allowed to lose at this time.
When the game is over. Madison Square Garden exited the game with all the cheers, and the Knicks won against the Bulls.
After two games in the Eastern Conference Finals, the results surprised everyone!
The New York Knicks and the Indiana Pacers fought seven games before they advanced, and they once fell behind 1-3. Now facing the Bulls, who are stronger than the Pacers in overall strength, but leading the opponent 2-0, this result. It had to surprise people.
"After eliminating the Pacers, the Knicks have completed their transformation, if the Knicks can sweep the Bulls, I don't doubt it, because they have an invincible beast Tyrannosaurus Rex - Li Feng, maybe Howard became Bill Russell under the tutelage of Phil Jackson, maybe Okafor is the next Mutombo, maybe Paul can become a player like Magic Johnson, but in front of Li Feng, they still only have to be ruthlessly torn apart!"
-- The New York Times
As soon as this news came out, many people commented on it, and most of them were skeptical.
Are the Knicks really that strong?
Many people wonder if they are so strong that they are almost eliminated by the Pacers?
Even if the Bulls lead 2-0 now, it will be on their home court, and then the Knicks will go to Chicago, and the Bulls will lose two games on their home court?
Just kidding, is this possible?
"I recently heard a bad joke that even the chrysanthemums are laughing and blooming like sunflowers, and the Knicks can sweep the bulls, sorry, is it April Fool's Day?"
The Bulls' totem Michael Jordan sarcastically said.
"The Pacers can play seven games against the Knicks, and the Bulls can only play four? The world is crazy, forgive me for not keeping up with the times, the first two games of the Knicks, except for the home-court advantage, is that they played well off the bench, but they are all young, at the United Center in Chicago, they can continue to play well? Let's talk about the first two games, the Bulls are more like a team than the Knicks, it's just that their interior line was blown up by Li Feng, I believe that Phil will make adjustments in the next and will not disappoint the Bulls fans, four games? I don't think that's going to happen! ”
Collegiate veteran coach Larry Brown also doesn't think the Knicks have what it takes to sweep the Bulls.
"Sweep? Now the score is only 2-0, it's still far from the sweep, we really didn't play well in the first two games, but we also learned a lot in the two games, we waited for the New Yorkers in Chicago, we kept it in good shape, who the fuck told me to sweep, I shot him! ”
Now the absolute core of the Bulls, Chris Paul, is full of anger!
At this time, the other side of the matter, the New York Knicks, remained silent, and no one came out to speak.
Some people think that this is the Knicks themselves doubting their own strength, while others think that the Knicks are silently preparing to give the Bulls a good look!
The third game, a simple turning point, was given too much color by the media before the game, and it also attracted too much attention.
A big battle, waiting to be unveiled again! (To be continued......)