Chapter 389: Must Win

(Revised later)

The Nets attacked, Anthony pulled to the top of the arc to receive the ball, Li Feng defended, and David Lee pulled to the perimeter to cover.

Anthony dribbled the ball laterally to get rid of Li Feng, attracted Monroe's defense and passed to David Lee, who quickly retreated to block David Lee's breakthrough route. David Lee passed the ball out of the ball again, Anthony relied on his pace to get rid of Monroe, and Kirilenko switched defenses.

Li Feng ran towards Delong and quickly rotated to change positions. Anthony relied on his physical advantage to squeeze Kirilenko into the three-point line, turned on the left side and made a backward jumper, a point in both legs, his shooting accuracy was really good, hollow into the net. The Knicks attacked, and Smith brought it to the frontcourt and handed it to Li Feng.

Li Feng took the ball and turned to face the frame, and Kirilenko covered to block Anthony.

Li Feng broke through from the left side, Morrow changed defenses, Kirilenko was not physically fit enough and was easily bypassed, but Li Feng shot before Anthony came up to the pack, and made a jumper inside the three-point line, ignoring Morrow in front of him. Morrow's jump was half a beat slower, it didn't cover, and the ball was hollow into the net.

The Nets still handed the offensive ball to Anthony, and Li Feng followed closely, not leaving an inch. Two people of the same level have physical contact, and most of the referees can't blow it, Li Feng has seen this clearly, so the defensive action is very big. The comprehension of the game is not only to cooperate with teammates and implement coaching tactics, but also to analyze the entire situation, Li Feng has already reached this level, he even knows where the referee stands, and when to make small movements that will not be blown foul. Anthony couldn't turn around, so he had to pass the ball out......

The ball was passed to DeLong, Anthony ran to the low post, and Li Feng went into the low post to defend Anthony. Anthony received the ball and forced a backward jumper, although he dodged Li Feng's block, but the rhythm was not good, and Kirilenko grabbed the backcourt rebound in the frame and in the small-ball tactics, Kirilenko can make a cameo appearance in the No. 4 position, and his ability to protect the rebound is very reliable. Kirilenko passes to Smith's position to attack. The players slowly ran through the half, Li Feng covered Smith on the perimeter, Smith broke through with the ball, Morrow changed the defense from the side, and Anthony continued to follow Li Feng. This is the Nets' strategy against Smith, but Morrow's defense is not outstanding, Smith showed his speed advantage, changed direction with the ball, and one added Morrow, and hit a layup. The Nets attacked, and Deron broke through by covering. also relied on speed to pass Monroe and score basketball. Both sides have weaknesses in defense, David Lee and Morrow pull out the outside line together, it is very difficult for the Knicks to block and dismantle Monroe's lateral movement is the slowest in the game, but the breakthrough ability of the Nets players is very amazing, the Knicks offense relies on Li Feng, Monroe, Smith The combination of the inside and outside of Monroe's low-post offense, David Lee is not easy to prevent the score from rising alternately, three minutes later, David Lee suddenly became the focus of the court on the offensive end. He hit a jump shot after blocking and a low-post single Monroe turned and hooked, all of which maintained a high success rate, scoring 14 points and 5 rebounds in a single quarter. It's not that Monroe defends poorly, but that Delon and Anthony frequently use his point as a breakthrough through cover, attract defense and then pass the ball, David Lee misplaced Smith to get a chance, and the Knicks are similar to the Nets. Li Feng scored several misplaced jumpers, and also scored 12 points in the first quarter, and the two sides tied at 27. In the second quarter, Rose and Harden played against the Nets with their bench lineups. Li Feng sat on the court and rested, the two sides were still very anxious, JR became an important player for the Knicks, hit a three-point shot and two breakthroughs were successful 5 minutes later, the main players all came on the court, but the shooting percentage began to decline, coincidentally the Nets players also lost their hands, the score did not open before the end of the half, David Lee broke through and caused 2 + 1, although the free throw was missed, but the Knicks fell behind 52-55.

At halftime, TNT analyzed the data of Li Feng and Anthony to evaluate the performance of the two, as well as the ranking of the current star strength, Barkley is the current star strength Li Feng first, James, second, Durant third, Kobe Bryant fourth, Anthony fifth, Kenny Smith all agreed with him. Li Feng's shooting percentage in the playoffs reached 698%, ranking first in the league, how strong is this shooting percentage?

Since the 1977-1978 season, only Adrian Dantley in 1983-1984, Charles Barkley in the 19871988 and Stoudemire in 2007-2008 have played excessively high true shooting percentages, but none of them have won the regular season scoring title and have not averaged 30+ per game in the playoffs. Anthony and Durant are also very efficient, shooting above 50% from the field, only slightly inferior to Li Feng. In the second half, the Knicks no longer focused solely on outside offense, Cousins and Monroe began to attack the inside, and unless Li Feng had a chance to single out the opponent, he hoisted the ball into the low post.

He and Kirilenko both operate at a 60-degree angle on the left and right, and both sides can attack, and the Knicks' tactics are still aimed at Moreau, who attacks from whichever side Moreau is. Morrow was very good offensively, scoring 7 points in the first half, and was a key figure for the Nets to bite the score, but it was too difficult to defend against the Knicks' tall perimeter.

Three minutes into the third quarter, the Nets substitutions sent interior titan Reggie Evans to strengthen the defense, Joe Johnson replaced Morrow, the good times did not last long, the second half of the Knicks fouled four times, began to use the "shark slashing tactic", the object is Reggie Evans. It's not just Reggie Evans' free throws that are not accurate, before the Knicks fouled Lopez, his free throws are not very accurate, Lopez's free throws have always been a weakness, just to seventy, can't be said to be bad, but not every time the ball can be scored, which gives the opponent the possibility of blocking him After Reggie Evans was replaced, the Knicks finally forced Anthony to enter the low post defense, Li Feng faced Joe Johnson on the periphery, and unceremoniously began to attack. Li Feng is using a move, if Anthony is on the left, Li Feng will go to the right side to receive the ball, dribble to a low position to a 45-degree angle, and turn around and jump with his back twice.

Joe Johnson can't prevent this move, not only Joe Johnson, many people in the league have a headache Li Feng's turn shot, extremely accurate, once he finds the feel, he can't cover it to get into the present, his turn and shooting has almost become a magic skill, and every time he gets a high score, a large number of turn shots are indispensable. The Knicks' offense was impressive, but the defense was still full of holes, in the second half, David Lee sleepwalked, Anthony was tepid, and Deron finally stepped up, he found his shooting touch, and the breakthrough was sharp.

Whether it's Kirilenko or Smith. The defense is very difficult, after DeLong breaks through, whether it is playing by himself or sharing the ball, it puts pressure on the Knicks defense, with him threading the needle, Anthony's three-point shot also began to exert power, and when the main force is present, neither of the two teams can prevent anyone. The Nets saw that the Knicks were brave on the inside and Li Feng on the offensive end, and simply gave up the defensive strategy to fight for the offense, and Joe Johnson could withdraw the interior and let Reggie Evans play would not help the game. End of three sessions. The Knicks led 86-84. Li Feng scored 29 points, the fly in the ointment is to pay the price of 4 fouls, Anthony is not so good to defend, especially the breakthrough, a little slower will be fouled, Anthony's shooting is much stronger than James, if you don't pay attention to Anthony will also retreat and jump shot. In the fourth quarter, Tyberdu did not let Li Feng rest and risked staying on the court, and Li Feng went off the court with no one to replace him, even if the defense was weakened. is still the spiritual leader, the backbone of the offensive end. Seeing the number of fouls Li Feng, the Nets may want to make him foul and let him off.

Tyberdu showed his smart side again, changing the lineup inside Cousins with Ibaka. Kirilenko was replaced at the No. 3 position, Harden at the No. 2 position, and Li Feng as point guard. It is much more difficult to cause Li Feng to foul on the outside offense, and the Nets have also changed the lineup in order to strengthen the offense. Deron was the guest point guard, Joe Johnson played the No. 2 position, and Anthony, David Lee, and Reggie Evans were on the court, each with a player who was not good at attacking. The Nets still don't dare to relax their defense of the low post too much, and Reggie Evans can only focus on the outside line, so that the three outside line can complete the blocking and dismantling cooperation, and Li Feng is also a good strategy to defend the outside line. After the start of the game, Anthony was responsible for organizing the offense with the ball over the half, Li Feng defended, the two inevitably still had a lot of physical confrontation, the referee would not easily blow the foul at this time, if Li Feng was sent off for a reason such as pulling people, the game would not look good, not to say that the fans did not agree, even David Stern would not agree, the referees who can enforce the Eastern Conference Finals at this level are old fritters, and it is impossible to even see through this matter, so Li Feng is not as dangerous as it seems, even if he is prevented 5 times, it is difficult for him to be sent off.

Anthony was very sad to pass Li Feng without covering, and chose to attract his defense to pass the ball, let Delon and David Lee play blocking and dismantling with Li Feng on the perimeter, and the work of blocking and dismantling could only be handed over to Cousins and Ibaka, Delon's speed advantage was vividly played, and he broke into the basket again to score. The Knicks attacked, Li Feng dribbled the ball across the half court, and the Knicks no longer played individual offense, but double-blocking.

The Nets put Reggie Evans on to strengthen the defense in the low post, and disrupted their deployment by not attacking the low post, Cousins and Ibakla went to the perimeter to cover, allowing Li Feng and Reggie Evans to face each other.

Li Feng broke through the pull-up rod for a layup, stepped back to make a jumper, turned around and hooked his hand, and hit three consecutive balls The Nets had no choice but to get caught by others, Li Feng began to pass the ball again, Cousins's mid-range shooting was good, and the vacancy was very certain. In contrast, the Knicks' offense is good, and in order to retain the hope of winning, the Nets do not dare to let anyone else.

Li Feng was crazy in the last quarter, but Anthony became the organizer on the court, which was the coach's arrangement, but Delong's limelight overshadowed him, and within the Nets, Zhilu said that this was the coach's arrangement, which was good for the team.

But in the eyes of the fans, Anthony disappeared in the fourth quarter, and the offensive end was completely suppressed by Li Feng. At 4:26, Anthony sent a wonderful pass at the top of the arc and assisted Joe Johnson to hit a layup, and Anthony had 18 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists to complete a triple-double. However, without waiting for him to be happy, Li Feng broke through with Monroe's cover on the periphery in the next round, and made a one-step stop-and-go jump shot within the three-point line, scoring his 38th point, approaching 40+ again, and maintaining a consistent and efficient score Knicks 108-111 behind, which proves that the Nets' offense is still effective, and the suspense of victory and defeat is likely to remain at the end of the day, and neither side dares to relax in the slightest, and the last 4 minutes is the time to decide the winner

The Knicks were in possession and called a timeout. The players gathered around and listened to Taberdu's tactics.

"Li Feng, next you play the No. 3 position, Sergi rests, center DeMarcus, pay attention to the low post to receive the ball and attack, Greg pays attention to the help defense, James, Derek, you have to try your best to block the opponent's breakthrough on the outside. On the offensive side, Li Feng pulls to the perimeter to cover and then enters the inner line, and the outside players should increase their running positions and pull out the space! "Tyberdu is betting that the Nets will not let Reggie Evans play again, they have committed 4 fouls, and if they commit another offense, they will have to make free throws, and they have two minutes to cut Reggie Evans, and in order to avoid the "slashing shark tactic", the Nets will definitely start all the starts. Really. Avery Johnson also replaced all of his main players, and Lopez returned to the court, a substitution that hit the Knicks right in the way. At the start of the game, the Knicks attacked, and Rose dribbled the ball across the halfcourt.

Li Feng went to the perimeter to cover and blocked Delong, and Anthony and DeLong completed the encirclement in an instant, making Rose unable to break through with the ball.

Rose dribbled the ball backwards and was about to hoist it to Li Feng, who was running inside, but was blocked by Anthony and couldn't find the space to pass the ball at all. DeLong retreated and circled forward, blocking the breakthrough route. Rose couldn't see it and passed to Monroe on the side, who hoisted to Cousins in the low post on the left.

Cousins didn't pause, receiving the ball and throwing a jumper backwards to the baseline, Lopez didn't expect him to shoot so fast, so he could only jump up and seal his eyes to defend. The shot was hurried and popped out of the frame, but Cousins knew that Li Feng had gone to the basket on the other side. The defender is Delon, who can easily grab rebounds. Li Feng did not disappoint him, Delong was defending around the front, and Li Feng easily accelerated and jumped up.

Turn 180 degrees in the air and make up for the frame with one hand!

110 to 111. There is only one point separating the two sides. There was a small climax in the arena, and the fans were cheering. Li Feng scored 40 points, but Anthony reduced his shots in the fourth quarter. 2 shots and 1 hit, his mood was indescribably bitter.

to the forecourt. Anthony received the ball and suddenly hit a three-pointer from the perimeter. Li Feng misjudged and took a small step back, jumping up and blocking too late. Just stretched out his hand, but this ball Anthony missed, and Monroe grabbed the rebound.

The Knicks attacked, Li Feng pulled to the perimeter again, this time he did not cover Rose, but after receiving the basketball, he brought out two steps outside the three-point line to attack, the Knicks players all pulled away, and Cousins went to the perimeter to cover and block Anthony.

Li Feng broke through with the ball from the right side, and David Lee blocked his breakthrough route. Misplaced and switched defenses, Cousins immediately ran to the basket, and Anthony followed. Went around to block Li Feng's passing route, but Li Feng didn't plan to pass the ball.

He dribbled under his crotch to his left hand, attracted David Lee to defend and then dribbled behind his back and then handed over his right hand to break through, until it was brought to 45 degrees, stopped with his left foot as the axis, turned with his right foot to the middle and took a step, then turned to the bottom line, and threw a backward jumper. David Lee ate this feint and couldn't turn around and couldn't block it. The arc of this ball is very good, with a sound of brushing, it is hollow into the net!

112 to 111. "It's so stable."

Jeff Van Gundy exclaimed.

Li Feng scored 13 points in the fourth quarter. The more critical the moment, the more accurate it is, it's 42 points again, I don't know if he can continue? "Magic" Johnson exclaimed:

"Jordan's 38 playoff 40+ games are known as an impossible record to break, and I think if the Knicks play this tactic every season, they may be able to break the record before Li Feng retires. At his current age. At least another 10 years will have to be played. As the two spoke, Anthony passed the ball to DeLong, who broke through for a layup, and the ball spun around the basket with bad luck.

The rebound was easily picked up by Harden. Deron launched a counter-attack on the spot, and Harden passed to Li Feng.

Li Feng passed the ball to Rose again and stabilized the rhythm. The Knicks have a great offense, a sparse defense, and can always keep the Nets back.

Li Feng doesn't want the Nets to overtake the score at the last moment, and every goal must ensure a success rate. Li Feng did not play a pick-and-roll match, received the ball on the perimeter, dribbled horizontally to the right side, and made a gesture towards Cousins, who came out of the low post to cover.

Li Feng passed the ball to Cousins first, and then ran into the low post without the ball, Cousins received the ball and turned around, and the two seemed to switch positions. Li Feng leaned on Lopez's back in the middle to ask for the ball, and Cousins sent the ball in.

Li Feng pulled the ball up, turned to the left and lowered his hand to basketball.

114 to 111. The goal was too easy to score, without any feints, but Lopez didn't even make a block.

This kind of thing happened, just because the shot was too easy, Lopez never thought that Li Feng would directly turn around and make a quick shot, as long as the judgment is correct, this kind of shot is looking for a hat.

At the critical moment, it was simplified, but it appeared just right. From three points behind to three points ahead, it was all Li Feng's gain. The Nets attacked, Anthony received the ball on the outside, David Lee covered, Anthony broke through from the side with the ball, changed speed past Monroe, jumped into the basket and scored with both hands.

114 to 113. The Knicks attacked, Li Feng ran out of the outside to catch the ball, broke through with Cousins' cover, Lopez changed defenses, Anthony also came around from the side to form a bag, Li Feng retreated and jumped up with the ball, and passed the ball to Cousins who cut in the middle. Cousins received the basketball, and the man who made the defense was Joe Johnson.

Cousins had a clear height advantage, but he didn't play hard, and gave the ball to Harden in the low corner. If such an open opportunity is missed, Harden will not forgive himself.

He even had time to adjust his posture and hit a textbook shot!

117 to 113. (To be continued......)