Chapter 1084: Love and Hate
The game was hot from the start of the fourth quarter, and it continued until the end of the game with 2 minutes left.
The Warriors are still attacking like crazy, Li Feng just missed a three-pointer, Livingston, who grabbed the basketball, immediately launched a fast attack, of course, Livingston could only launch the first half of the fast attack, and he passed the basketball to Oladipo's hands.
In the past, Oladipo was the craziest player, but today he can only be one of the craziest, and the craziest in front of him is the Warriors' scholar-type player Thompson, who is completely crazy today, and has fully exerted his scoring stability, flexibility of footwork, and some basketball wisdom.
He dominated the offensive end of the game, and if Oladipo played well, this domination could have been a wave, two consecutive waves coming towards it, but Thompson was not the same guy who was steady, and saw the basketball from his hand continuously throwing into the Pelicans' basket.
At this time, Oladipo finally found an opportunity to attack, Oladipo came with the ball, immediately called a cover for Xiao Si, and went straight to the Pelicans' basket, but when he got to the Pelicans' basket, he made a counterintuitive move, he broke through and paused for a moment, and then jumped backwards and threw the basketball to the basket.
Oladipo's move was definitely unexpected, but I have to admit that Oladipo must have been crazy today, so he also threw the basketball into the Pelicans' basket.
Oladipo scored, Li Feng gritted his teeth and rushed towards the Warriors' basket at this time, and was stunned to bump out a foul, Li Feng walked to the free throw line and hit both free throws, which was considered to bite the score of the Warriors.
At this time, the score of the two teams has become a terrifying 114-115.
The difference between the two teams is only one point.
The Pelicans relied on their willpower and fighting ability to maneuver the Warriors, but the Warriors are now in a state where they seem to have found their rhythm on offense.
Everyone can find that feeling on offense, every run and every pass that looks ridiculous but becomes completely seamless in the hands of the Pelicans.
The Warriors were still playing so fast, and the whole team broke through.
There was a sudden pause, and then Livingston immediately passed the ball to Thompson near the three-point line, and now the Warriors are playing at that pace, fast, then suddenly, and then immediately again crazy offense.
Sure enough, after Thompson got the basketball, he chose an unconventional breakthrough.
Thompson, who got the basketball, actually broke through directly diagonally, and then passed the basketball to Xiao Si on the inside.
Xiao Si stood under the basket, and Xiao Si, who got the basket, immediately went to the basket a little, and Al Jefferson immediately jumped lightly and blocked Xiao Si.
But Xiao Si didn't finish, he continued to take the basketball and hit the basket again, and clicked twice in a row, Al Jefferson was a little numb, and at this time Xiao Si didn't click, and simply threw the basketball into the basket.
Xiao Si played like this and also scored the basketball, and Al Jefferson was very helpless.
Whether this ball is his own dereliction of duty, or Xiao Si is too bold, this is not good.
In short, today's warriors are like this, a qiē is very reasonable, but to be able to justify itself.
The exchange between the Pelicans and the Warriors continued, and the two teams bit to the death, and the Warriors turned back and immediately Al Jefferson reciprocated a turnaround jumper from Smalls under the basket.
This is the overall strength of the Pelicans, the Pelicans are desperately biting their opponents, and the Warriors seem to have no reason to withstand such a strong steel-like pressure resistance of the Pelicans.
But on the Pelicans' court, the miracle happened again.
Livingston called Chandler to help him on the outside dribble, and Livingston immediately circled around and rushed to the basket after Chandler came up.
Li Feng knew that Livingston was going to force a breakthrough.
So he moved over quickly, and Li Feng's prediction was not wrong.
He really blocked Livingston, but Li Feng's legs stretched out a little longer and tripped Livingston!
This time Livingston lost his center of gravity, as if he was about to fall, his whole body rushed forward and threw himself under the Pelicans' basket, in this weightless state, Livingston could still fight Gasol, throwing the basketball higher than the rebound into the basket.
At this time, the Warriors' bench was cheering, but the Pelicans' players were helpless, and the Warriors could even score this kind of ball!
Then there was nothing to stop them, the two teams went back and forth, and there were only 39 seconds left in the game, and the score of the Pelicans and Warriors was still deadlocked at 122-123, with the Warriors leading by one point.
At this time, it is the Pelicans' ball possession, the Pelicans have the right to dispose of the ball, Li Feng controls the ball at the top of the arc and consumes time, waiting for time at this time, this time belongs to Li Feng.
Now that the team is behind, Li Feng is sitting on his own choice, watching the time decrease, Li Feng finally moved by himself, and quickly inserted it under the Pelican's basket, Li Feng hit Livingston, he has played a whole game with Livingston, and he won overall, but he didn't organize Livingston to do a lot of actions, and he didn't try his best in today's game.
When he reached the side of the three-point line, Li Feng suddenly took a step horizontally to the right with the ball, and then directly shot three points.
Livingston couldn't straddle Li Feng's thick body on one side, and the basketball fell into the Warriors' basket, which was a three-pointer, and suddenly the center of New Orleans was cheering, everyone stood up, and the Pelicans finally took the lead, and the Pelicans finally led the opponent by 2 points at the last minute.
Everyone believed that the Pelicans would hold on to those two points and win, but at this point the Warriors were promised, and they didn't even call a timeout, and the basketball came out from the baseline, and the Warriors players were racing as if they didn't want to spoil some of them, even if it was only the last round.
Oladipo took the ball at the last moment, he dribbled outside the three-point line, Li Feng came out at this time and blocked in front of Oladipo, at this time only Li Feng was the strongest defender, Van Gundy believed in Li Feng, and the entire New Orleans Center believed in Li Feng.
Reggie Miller swore on the commentary seat: "Li Feng will definitely be able to complete the task!" ”
Time passes little by little.
Suddenly, Oladipo called Xiao Si's cover, Oladipo started from outside the three-point line and rushed straight up, and Li Feng's whole body went around and blocked in front of Oladipo.
At this time, Oladipo couldn't make a move, and Li Feng thought that he had won, but he didn't expect Oladipo to come directly to a horse archery that fell forward regardless of it.
Like all of the Warriors' balls, this time Oladipo lost his center of gravity, his whole body leaned forward, and he could only push the basketball to the basket with one hand.
Oladipo's posture is funny and hard to see the extreme, but the result!
It's an absolute irony for the Pelicans that the basketball fell into the hoop with a thud.
The Warriors hit the final three-pointer.
The pelican is killed!
At this time, Li Feng was stupid, Van Gundy was stupid, and the entire New Orleans Center was stupid, they were dumbfounded, but they saw the Warriors' players cheering.
Really lost?
Li Feng stiffened and looked at the scoreboard.
From the scoreboard, Li Feng clearly saw that his team really lost.
And he lost completely, Oladipo, who hit a difficult three-pointer, jumped in front of him, he was shouting and reveling, he collided with his teammates, they were celebrating the victory.
And all Li Feng could do was to walk towards the front in a daze, but Li Feng himself didn't know why he had to take these few steps forward.
They all went to the basket.
Al Jefferson patted Li Feng's shoulder hard, and Li Feng reacted that he and his team had really lost.
At this time, the audience on both sides of the New Orleans Center was also dumbfounded.
"It doesn't matter, there are seven games in the playoffs."
Al Jefferson, who had experienced more wind and rain, comforted Li Feng.
At this time, Li Feng really believed that his team had lost from the inside, and he really believed that they had really lost.
Shaking the head, shaking the head constantly, what happened tonight?
His own team walked into the center of New Orleans with high spirits.
I thought they would win easily, but look at what is happening now.
The team played reasonably well in the game.
It's a very formal Pelican-style game, but the final result is very regrettable.
They were overturned by almost insane warriors.
They were defeated by the warriors for some reason, and the defeat was bearable, but they didn't know why they were defeated, which was the real reason for Li Feng's pain.
The Pelicans, the losing players, they looked for each other, they comforted each other, walked arm in arm to the side of the court, and just behind them, the Warriors players who had won were hugging each other, but they were cheering, cheering wildly.
The two teams of the Pelicans and Warriors are now in stark contrast, the Pelicans were laughing before the game and the Warriors were frowning, but now that the game is over, the Pelicans are frowning, but the Warriors are laughing.
The fans of the New Orleans Center also left the court with deep regret, the Pelicans coaching staff and staff all bowed their heads and left the court, looking at the sad atmosphere that permeated the entire court, Li Feng had a deep self-blame, all because he didn't defend Oladipo's shot, all his own fault, he thought he wouldn't shoot at all in that state, but now the situation is not like that.
Li Feng recalled what happened in the last few seconds, at that time he had the opportunity to defend, but he really didn't do it, he could defend.
With remorse, Li Feng returned to the locker room, and the atmosphere in the Pelicans' locker room today was also extremely bad, and every Pelican player had that deep regret on his face, and he had that expression of remorse.
In today's game, the Pelicans lost unjustly, and the overall strength was above the opponent, but they lost, and no one could accept this result.
"Danny, with a long sigh, what a game today. Fuck it, it's fucking up! ”
Granger was squirting expletives and slamming the locker door with a towel.
Pierce also punched the locker and said loudly, "The most important thing is, I'm." I don't know how we lost today's game. ”
As soon as these two old guys spoke, there was a mess in the locker room, and all the Pelicans players complained today.
One by one, these guys were talking about how they felt about the game today.
Although these guys are all talking, what they say is two words, womb, this game is really womb.
Just when there was a lot of noise in the locker room and no one was going to take a shower, the door to the locker room was suddenly pushed open.
At this time, the locker room was quiet, because the person who had been in the locker room lately was none other than Pelicans head coach Jeff Van Gundy.
When Van Gundy came in, he smelled the fire in the locker room, and then looked at the posture of these guys, and Van Gundy knew that they must be having their own locker room complaint.
At this time, Van Gundy pulled a folding chair and sat at the door of the locker room.
Then Van Gundy didn't speak, and motioned for his team to sit down first, and waited until all the team members were seated.
Van Gundy suddenly stood up and bowed deeply to the players in the room.
The Pelicans' players were confused by Van Gundy's moves, but at this point Van Gundy was back in his chair.
He began to speak: "I know, before I walked into the dressing room, you must have been discussing why you lost today's game. ”
"Now I want to tell you that the biggest problem in today's game was me, that I didn't do what a manager should do, and that the loss had nothing to do with you, before the game. I didn't pay attention to the warriors and made the mistake of underestimating the enemy. ”
"At that time, I only saw that it was the finals, and I made the mistake of underestimating the enemy. And I have passed on this pride to you, and the pride will be defeated, and I have made a mistake, and I have passed this mistake on to you. ”
"I'm so proud that I forgot that every game of the playoffs was a bloody fight, and I apologize for that!"
Van Gundy said here.
There was silence in the locker room, and Al Jefferson immediately said, "Coach." It's not your responsibility alone, and I didn't play a veteran's role today. I didn't get everyone to focus on the key moments. ”
As soon as El Jefferson began to reflect, Li Feng immediately said: "It's all my last defense that I didn't do well, if I did it well!" The previous qiē is no longer a problem, it's all my fault. ”
Pierce also said: "I didn't block Thompson's offense, I let him score too many points!" ”
One by one, the Pelicans players talked about their mistakes, and at this time, Van Gundy decisively stopped everyone's meeting to recover their mistakes.
"If we lose today, we have to admit defeat, but tomorrow we will never lose, we will never leave any mercy on the warriors, even if they are weaker than us, we will run over them like a train!"
Van Gundy said this with a vicious glint in his eyes, and the Pelicans' locker room was also full of this light, and the Pelicans lost really miserably today, which stung the nerves of the Pelicans, who had been accustomed to winning for a long time.
"Li Feng, Al, take a good bath, I think the people of Auckland are waiting for us!"
Van Gundy finished speaking and left the locker room.
Li Feng and Al Jefferson glanced at each other, yes, it's still a press conference, it's easy to say that the usual press conference is good, but today's press conference is not easy to do.
Today's press conference is like letting the pelicans face the mistakes they have made, or even the second tender wound, this is to dig the pelican's wounds, and in the face of the huge mistakes they have made, what does the pelican have to say!
Although they were reluctant to face it, they still had to attend the press conference, Li Feng and Al Jefferson took a shower, changed their clothes, and came to the press conference hall with Van Gundy, which was already full of people at this time.
Warriors head coaches Kerr, Oladipo, and Thompson have long been sitting in the press room.
As soon as the Pelicans walked in, the press conference hall was noisy, and by the time Van Gundy and the others were seated in their chairs.
The press officer finally announced that he could ask questions, and the reporters couldn't wait, and they looked at the problem in a completely different way than the Pelicans or the Warriors.
If the Pelicans had won, this press conference would not have been so enthusiastic, and if the Pelicans had won, it would not have been news, and that would have been predictable and imaginable by almost anyone.
But now that the Warriors have won, it's different.
This is a big upset, with a big upset, there is saliva, there is attention, this is the value of the news, so the Pelicans lost.
Instead, the reporters got excited.
There were countless arms raised in the press conference hall, and the press officer pointed at random, and immediately a reporter stood up and couldn't wait to ask: "Mr. Van Gundy, did you expect you to lose before the game, and now that you have lost, what do you feel in your heart?" The reason why you think you're losing is there. ”
"I thought before the game that we would lose, but I didn't think we would actually lose.
Van Gundy's first words came out and the reporters immediately laughed: "Now that I have lost, my first feeling in my heart is to tell me that it is not true, and then I thought silently for a while, only to realize that my feeling was wrong." Our team really lost, and the first feeling of losing was, really unlucky! And then I thought, we're really out of luck tonight. ”
'As for the reason for the loss, I think my players have done well enough, it was because I didn't command well in the game that I lost, it was my fault and the responsibility for the loss was on me.
Van Gundy used a bit of humor and teasing.
He admitted his mistake, and then asked the reporters not to think how abrupt Van Gundy's admission was.
The reporters laughed and found that the questions they wanted to be sharp had been blurred by Van Gundy.
That's not what journalists want.
It's not what they want, they want something violent, and then something that can go straight to the front page and do something eye-catching.
"Mr. Cole, today you beat the Pelicans, who are the first in the West, how do you feel about winning against such a strong team? If you want to say, do you want to play as a dark horse to defeat the Pelicans? ”
Kerr beat the Pelicans today, and to say that there isn't a little bit of getting carried away is a fake.
Won the Pelicans, won the mighty Pelicans.
How could Cole not be a little bit proud.
Speaking from his position, he said: "Today we won and I think we won because our players were braver. More daring to fight, our players put all their enthusiasm into the game, they showed all their enthusiasm in the game, so that our team was proud to win, we won with passion and desire to win. ”
"As for whether we can make it to the finals, it depends on Mr. Van Gundy, and if he can make us the champions of the West, it will be the best."
Cole did get a little carried away, and he couldn't help but look like his eyebrows were fluttering when he spoke.
However, when it came to the Western Conference championship, the Pelicans' players, including Van Gundy, were cast a shadow on their faces, as if they were deliberately aggravating this layer of frost, and a reporter continued to ask Oladipo below: "Oladipo, you gave a lot of wonderful three-pointers today, especially the last one, which is even more exciting, how does that kill feel, and what do you think of your performance in the game today, you beat your old club." ”
Oladipo killed the Pelicans today, and it was inevitable that he was a little arrogant, and grinned and said: "My luck today is so good, I actually hit the ball at that time, it was a shot that I didn't expect the most, at the last moment I almost thought that I couldn't send the basketball to the rebound, so I increased the shooting power in my hand, but what I didn't expect was that I actually shot the basketball, which was completely my luck, we completely defeated the Pelicans, and the final victory belonged to us." ”
'As for the goal in front of me, I admit I had a good hand today, but it was the result of our desperate desire to win, we were chasing for the win, we were hungry for the win, so we got the win.'
Oladipo's argument made Li Feng and Al Jefferson very unhappy, and this unhappiness came from the heart, not only about victory, but also about dignity.
Although Oladipo is Li Feng's favorite little guy, this is too unpleasant.
In fact, Oladipo has been holding his breath, although he is not like James Harden, but the deeper his feelings for the Pelicans, the more he has to make the Pelicans regret it, love and hate, extremely complicated.
(To be continued)