Chapter 405: Battle Lakers (4)
In fact, only Chen Jiyuan himself knows his physical condition, just now, although Chen Jiyuan has no way to accurately feel whether his body is fractured or not, but Chen Jiyuan's body does feel uncomfortable, that is, every time there is a violent impact, every time he and Gasol have a violent physical collision, there will be a pain in the nose, and if you shoot at this time, the feeling of the opponent will be slightly affected. The ball just now was, when he shot, Chen Jiyuan could feel it, and the pain in his nose made Chen Jiyuan a little reluctant to shoot this time.
However, even so, Chen Jiyuan did not plan to take a break. Chen Jiyuan felt that the pain was still bearable. For the victory of this game, Chen Jiyuan still has such an awareness.
The Knicks attacked here, Chen Jiyuan held the ball again, and when the Lakers players were about to step forward to wrap up, the Knicks shook their hands and gave the ball to Sessions on the outside, and Sessions raised his hand to shoot this three-pointer, and the ball went in. It's been a long time since the Knicks made a three-pointer. Stephen Jackson's three-point shooting didn't feel good today, and he didn't make any of the previous three-pointers. At that timeout, Thibodeau had to bring Sessions on the court again in order to deal with the Lakers' defense, while Starkey had to rest off the court. Even though Starkey's scoring ability is strong, the shortcomings on the outside are irreparable. Because Starkey's outside scoring ability is really too poor, let alone three-point shots, even large two-point shots, in fact, Starkey is not very good at it, but Starkey knows his weaknesses, so he is very self-aware and rarely shoots large two-point shots and three-point shots, Starkey often rushes to the inside, and then after entering the inside, Starkey's goal rate is still quite good, otherwise, in the case of Chen Jiyuan occupying a lot of shots, how can Starkey average more than 20 points per game, Although it is an indisputable fact that Starkey's score skyrocketed during Chen Jiyuan's absence. 47:56γ
Kobe Bryant broke through with the ball this time. A horizontal change of direction, please Tony Allen's defense, but not completely please, but just lead Tony Allen in position, Kobe rushed into the inside, Chen Jiyuan stepped forward to make up the defense, Kobe controlled the ball with one hand, ready to come to a violent dunk, but Chen Jiyuan was not willing to be the back. Jing people, although not without being a back. Jing, but I believe that no one wants to be back. Scenery.
Chen Jiyuan also jumped up, ready to block Kobe's ball, and Tony Allen behind Kobe also jumped up, wanting to try to block Kobe's dunk.
In the air, Kobe Bryant's ball was still pressed by Chen Jiyuan. Chen Jiyuan pressed the ball, and he will never let you dunk it in, Chen Jiyuan exerted force in the direction of Kobe, and forced the ball down, not horizontally, but straight to cover Kobe alive. However, after all three people landed, the referee blew the whistle. Bryant's ball was deemed a foul by the referee, and the moment he heard the whistle, Tony Allen quickly raised his hand and signaled that he accepted the foul. This is also to protect Chen Jiyuan, after all, in terms of importance, it is obviously Chen Jiyuan who is more important to the Knicks. So Tony Allen raised his hand without hesitation and received this resolutely and firmly. Succeeded in grieving himself for a foul. Including this foul, Tony Allen is also the third time. But it's only the second quarter of the game. And it's coming to an end soon. Thibodeau decided not to replace Tony Allen at this time, and continued to keep Tony Allen on the court, and the matter of defending Kobe Bryant was handed over to Stephen Jackson. Just because the Lakers quickly passed the half, Stephen Jackson and Tony Allen temporarily changed their defenses. Now Stephen Jackson is the first foul. The foul count was far from being reached, so if it had been Stephen Jackson, that ball would have been no problem at all.
Bryant hit both free throws again. 47:58γ
During this time, the Knicks did not be able to guard against Kobe, which is the reason why the Knicks have not caught up with the score so far, but Thibodeau is obviously not in a hurry about this situation at all. No one knows where Thibodeau's faith comes from.
The Knicks' offense this time was Sessions dribbling the ball in the high post, and then slowly looking for opportunities, Chen Jiyuan was entangled by Gasol and Rademanovich, there was no good opportunity to catch the ball, Chen Jiyuan had to be raised to the high post to do a block for Sessions, Chen Jiyuan's blocking and demolition only delayed Farmar's pursuit, Sessions ran up from the left side, however, Chen Jiyuan took the opportunity to quickly get off the inside line when Famar and Gasol's attention were on the other side. Sessions threw the ball into the sky, and after Chen Jiyuan jumped up, he received the ball, and Sessions passed the ball a little low. After Chen Jiyuan received the ball, he adjusted it in the air and made a move similar to a pull rod, and successfully dunked the ball into the basket. Grabbing the basket with both hands and swaying around, Chen Jiyuan fell to the ground, mainly because the inertia was too great, and it was easy to have problems when he landed directly. 49:58γ
In this attack of the Lakers, Kobe Bryant did not find a good opportunity to shoot under the tight defense of Stephen Jackson and gave the ball to Ariza on the outside, but now Ariza is not the one in the 2014 season, who can score 14.4 points on 45.6% shooting per game, and has 6.5 rebounds and 2.5 assists. The current Trevor Araza is still the same blacksmith who can only average 8.9 points, 4.3 rebounds and 1.8 assists per game. Especially in the next season, Alazza will be playing with an all-out second iron. Although he averaged 14.9 points, 5.6 rebounds and 3.8 assists per game, the price paid was also very heavy, and the average playing time per game skyrocketed from 24.4 minutes to 36.5 minutes. So you can't just see the ascension of Ariza's number jΓΉ. It depends on the regression of other aspects of Alaza.
Ariza received a pass from Kobe, and now Ariza is already cold to the touch. After all, in the first two quarters, Ariza, let alone shooting, touched the ball only a handful of times, and Kobe Bryant did play this game. So crazy to shoot by himself, sometimes he took the ball directly from the second half of the court, and then shot himself, no one else touched the ball in the whole process, and now Alaza has not touched the ball for so long, and he has long lost his sense of the ball.
So, this ball, after Alaza directly shot a three-pointer, Ariza knew that it was a bad dish. Although Ariza didn't know what kind of touch could score, he knew very clearly that the goal just now would never go in.
Sure enough, they didn't score, Chen Jiyuan and Gasol grabbed rebounds inside, and now the Lakers' lineup on the court is not without weaknesses, because Odom is still off the court, so the opponent's lineup is relatively small and the rebounding ability is relatively weak. Now the Lakers' nominal power forward, Vladimir Radmanovich, is 2.08 meters tall, but averages only 2.5 rebounds per game. Vladimir Radmanovich's style is somewhat similar to that of Rashad Lewis. It's the kind of guy who floats on the outside and shoots three-pointers. Vladimir Radmanovic has often been able to take advantage of his height advantage and shoot his opponents out of position. Three-point shooting is Vladimir Radmanovic's forte. However, how can such a three-point shot catch the rebound.
As a result, Lefu and Chen Jiyuan, two rebounding masters, Gasol wants to grab the rebound in the front court The possibility is less than or equal to zero. As a result, Gasol rarely wastes too much of his body and energy on grabbing frontcourt rebounds, unless it's the kind of rebounding that jumps far away. But Ariza's three-point shot is not the kind that stretches very far, because Ariza's three-point shot is directly a three-pointer, and it was directly received by Lefu This ball, people who don't know think that Ariza passed the ball to Lefu. At this time, Chen Jiyuan just wanted to say a word to Ariza very seriously: "Child, the Q coin has arrived." β
This ball is so joyful, like a match-fixing.
After Lefu grabbed the rebound, uh, no, it was after "catching" the rebound, and passed the ball to Sessions, who was standing near the halfway line at this time, and after receiving the ball, Sessions didn't dribble a single step, and threw the ball directly to the big front, and Stephen Jackson, who was running in the front, received the ball and dunked with both hands. Ended this fast break. 51:58γ
By the time the break was over, the Knicks had narrowed the gap to seven points. Phil Jackson saw that something was not quite right, as if the wind was changing direction, and immediately asked for a timeout. If you make a decision on the spot, you will definitely change your tactics.
During the timeout, Thibodeau made a little judgment about who Phil Jackson would be fielding. It should be that Odom will be played, and Odom's rest time is long enough. Instead, Kobe Bryant should be given a break. Today, Kobe Bryant not only played for a long time, but also has been doing high-consumption work, and Kobe Bryant is basically in the offensive aspect. It's normal to be tired, Kobe Bryant is no longer the twenty-three-four young man he was back then. Kobe Bryant is also 30 years old. Although he has entered the peak of his competitive state, and all aspects of his skills have grown to the peak, his body is no longer the Peter Pan who can still run around the whole game. Bryant's rest time is now a must. In the three seasons from 2004 to 2007, Kobe Bryant's playing time was above 40 minutes for three consecutive years, and the team only relied on Kobe Bryant at that time, but now it is different. Although one of the twin towers in this game could not play due to injury.
Because he thought that Kobe Bryant would be off, the new word Thibodeau replaced Tony Allen and replaced Starkey as the team's scoring guard to strengthen the offense. It's also about protecting Tony Allen,
Sure enough, after the game restarted, the Lakers let Kobe Bryant rest. On the field were Odom, Vladimir Radmanovic, Trevor Ariza, Josh Powell, Jordan Famar. Such a pure bench lineup, thinking that the diagnosis of Namu Namu, the Lakers' interior players are slightly insufficient, so every game Gasol and Odom have to have a person to the center position at a specific time, which is also a big reason for the Lakers to affect the record. However, with a deep bench advantage, the Lakers' current record still has no downward trend, at least there is no sign of being surpassed by the second-place Spurs.
On the Knicks' side, it is almost the main lineup, only Love is resting off the court, Landry still continues to stay on the court, center Chen Jiyuan, and the other three are Ramon Sessions, Rodney Starkey, and Stephen Jackson.
Although there are still 2 minutes left in the second quarter of the game, 1 minute and 57 seconds to be exact, the strength of the players on both sides is a bit bigger than the real thing. Isn't Phil Jackson worried about his players being blown up?
It quickly turned out that this lineup was a mistake by Phil Jackson. It was this small mistake that allowed the Knicks to quickly recover the score.
The main reason is that Famar was originally a substitute, and he didn't have a chance to shoot after he got on the court in the second quarter, Kobe Bryant was almost all his own alone, and Kobe's solo effect was still quite good, and now the half game is not over, but Kobe Bryant has scored 32 points. And the price that Kobe Bryant paid for getting that score was that the team's chemistry was a little wrong. Because of Kobe's crazy shots, Gasol made a few shots, and the rest of the people made very few shots, which is pitiful. Famar is a poor representative, he didn't have a chance to shoot, and Kobe didn't dare to give the ball if he wanted it. It's a living tragedy. If Fisher had done this, Kobe Bryant would have done this, Fisher would definitely not give Kobe the ball and give the ball to others, although Kobe Bryant's hand is good and there is no problem with making more shots, or it is completely correct, whoever has a good hand should let whoever shoots more, but Kobe Bryant's number of shots is a bit too much, and everything is too much. If you shoot too much, then there will be very strict consequences.
The tragedy was not only Famar, but also Ariza, Vladimir Radmanovic. These three people were basically running back and forth just now, and these three people didn't have rebounding masters, and the Knicks did a good job of protecting backcourt rebounds. So these three people have very few opportunities to touch the ball. It's so pathetic.
So, in the last two minutes of the second quarter, the Knicks played a crazy wave of 10:2 small climax. Successfully chased the score back, and also entered the second half with a lead of 1 point, today's game, the scores of both sides are relatively high, the Knicks are the reason for the collective power, and the Lakers are Kobe's unprincipled cut points. It's simply inhuman.
In the final two minutes, only Vladimir Radmanovic hit a two-pointer on the Lakers' side, and that was when Vladimir Radmanovic faced Starki's defense. Taking advantage of the height advantage to force a shot. The rest of the time, the Lakers' players were all kinds of shots, all kinds of nothing, and the Lakers players lost a little confidence after that. I hesitated when I was shooting, and I didn't shoot when I didn't have a particularly good chance. Even the confidence has been lost, how can such a shot be scored.
And on the Knicks' side, Chen Jiyuan is crazy on the inside, facing Odom's defense, Chen Jiyuan doesn't take it seriously at all, Odom is the kind of skinny interior player, Chen Jiyuan is still very easy to arch Odom, Odom's defense is Odom's problem. Defensive power forward, Odom suffers in strength, defensive fast small forward, Odom suffers in speed, this kind of indiscriminate defensive style, so that Odom's role on the defensive end has been very limited, and now Odom is defending the league's scoring champion Chen Jiyuan, is he the kind of player who can defend with the meaning of stretching out his hand?
So, under Chen Jiyuan's attack, Odom successfully helped the Knicks narrow the point difference. Chen Jiyuan scored six of those 10 points, Starkey scored three points and Sessions scored one.
In this way, the Knicks completed this two-minute reversal and successfully recovered the previous lost points.
In fact, both the Knicks and the Lakers are teams with good defense, and their defensive efficiency this season is among the top few. But it's those two teams that can give the opponent 60 points at halftime.
The Knicks' defense has done a good job, but Kobe's personal ability has exploded in full swing, and there is no way to do it. As for the Lakers, it is because of the Knicks' strong explosive ability in a short period of time, whether it is Starkey or Chen Jiyuan, the main scorers of these two teams are the kind of guys who will go crazy to score points in a short period of time once they have a convulsion. Such two accidents in a sense made these two defensive powerhouses each score 60 points under the opponent's defense.
At the end of the second quarter, Barkley was very awesome and began to taunt Kobe.
Barkley said, "Hey, Kenny, I promise, the Lakers' locker room won't be quiet for a while. Kobe Bryant must have pointed at the players who were on the court again and yelled, 'You idiots, throw the ball in the hoop.' 'Hahaha'
Barkley's commentary always dares to say anything. Moreover, when explaining, not only the mouth is moving, but the whole body is moving very comedicly.
Kenny Smith and Barkley always had this kind of situation when they were talking about it, and he had to "wipe his ass".
Kenny Smith had to sing a back song with Barkley. "Phil should make a little change to the game during this time."