Chapter 391: Not Interested at All
"Darko opened the scoring, got an assist from Wood, and I found myself getting more and more degraded." Bill. Wharton looked at his old partner Hoffman next to him, "I've also become more fond of watching Wood attack rather than passing, and I was a little disappointed just to see him pass the ball. ”
Hoffman's eyes widened: "Bill, maybe you should go to that guy Charles, it's his habit that has broken a lot of people." ”
Delon took Oku's serve and dribbled quickly across the half, and before the game, the Magic coaching staff arranged for Billups and Artest to defend Delon Delong.
The purpose of using Billups is to be able to keep up with his feet and at the same time, Billups is at the top level on the defensive line, which can avoid Lin Sen consuming too much physical energy on the defensive end, so as to liberate Lin Sen.
And with Artest, although the footsteps are not as good as Delong, but Liliang is undoubtedly a lot stronger than Loops, ensuring the defensive intensity while consuming Delong's physical energy, DeLong is the brain of this Jazz team, once Delong's physical fitness problems, then this team will have problems.
As the Detroit Pistons defeated the Los Angeles Lakers F4 and won the Finals MVP, Billups is experienced enough on both offensive and defensive ends, although he didn't completely stick to it, but he didn't leave Delon a safe space.
"Watch out for defensive cover, cover!" Stan, off the field. Van Gundy shouted at the field.
Even Stan. Van Gundy reminded that still can't be Carlos. Boozer completed the cover.
“1!” After Lin Sen shouted the hint of defensive rotation, Billups immediately gave up on bypassing Boozer to chase DeLong and ran directly to Ronnie, who was in charge of defending by Lin Sen. Brewer, while Linson chased Delon directly from the side.
Lin Sen has observed Jazz's pick-and-roll coordination countless times. DeLong is mostly sensible when it comes to passing the ball and attacking himself. And at this moment, the magic has Howard's presence on the inside. Although Howard's defense was criticized a lot by Mutombo and Rodman, Howard's deterrent to players who tried to attack the basket under the basket was unquestionable.
Boozer, who was covering for Delon at the moment, was followed by Milicic, who was chasing Howard in front of him, and if Delon made his own shot, then the most sensible option should be passing.
Thinking of this, Lin Sen immediately remembered Howard's defensive Oku, and Oku ran to the left baseline in the positive view, and if Howard didn't follow out, then Deron could easily pass over. Oku can make a three-point shot when he catches the ball.
Howard, who was staring at DeLong intently, didn't realize that Oku had secretly left, and Lin Sen shouted, "5! ”
Then immediately abandoned the pursuit of Delong, who at this moment had entered Howard's defensive zone.
Hearing Linsen's words, Artest immediately threw away Kirilenko and pounced on Oku's side, while Linsen turned and pounced on Kirilenko.
DeLong also chose to pass the ball as Lin Sen guessed, he didn't expect his passing intentions to be gambled by Lin Sen.
When the ball flew towards Oku, Artest, who is a master tackler, slapped the ball in his hand.
"Oh, Ron's steal, excellent anticipation, Delon and Menette's cooperation was interrupted by Ron. Orlando turned to offense. Hoffman said, looking at the field.
Lin Sen didn't ask for the ball, but turned around and ran directly to the front court, followed by Kirilenko behind Lin Sen, and Ronnie, who was in the same class as Lin Sen, who started the Jazz this year. Brewer even rushed ahead of Linson and turned to retreat.
Seeing this, Artest simply gave up the pass, and instead dribbled the ball along the sideline himself and quickly advanced forward to the court. Billups ran forward from the other side.
"Three-line fast attack, this is a good opportunity for three to two! Wood, Ron, Chauncey's chance! "Bill. Wharton's eyes followed closely on the fast-moving crew.
"I have to give a thumbs up to Ronnie's timely retreat, without him Orlando's fast break has been completed." Hoffman continued.
Artest's dribbling, although ugly and easy to break, is not slow, and with Billups on the other side and Linson in the middle, the Magic three-man fast break puts a lot of pressure on the Jazz.
When Linson was about to get to the three-point line, Ronnie. Brewer has been levelled by Linson, with Kirilenko behind him almost two positions behind.
"Ron!" Lin Sen raised his arms high.
Seeing Lin Sen's request, Artest hoisted the ball almost without thinking about it.
"Wood's request for the ball was a bit rushed." Hoffman offered his opinion.
Looking at the passing ball, Lin Sen suddenly made an emergency stop, and Brewer, who was following him, saw Lin Sen stop urgently, and at this time it was too late to stop Lin Sen from receiving the ball.
"Wood catches the ball, it's an opportunity!" Bill. Wharton shouted.
Kirilenko, who is chasing the defense, also sees the hope of supplementing Lin Sen, as long as Lin Sen is on now, he is absolutely confident that he will give Lin Sen a block.
Lin Sen didn't wait for Brewer to fully recover, and directly slapped the ball and forcibly leaned on Brewer to cut inside, and Artest, who passed the ball for Lin Sen, had already cut in from the 45-degree three-point line.
With his right hand, he pushed the ball towards Artest, and Kirilenko behind him and Brewer in front of him all reached out to try to interfere with Linson's pass.
"Excuse me!" Lin Sen shouted softly, and the right hand that grabbed the ball flew directly from behind to the place where the other side cut in.
Billups, who cut to the 45-degree three-point line on the other side, received the ball unguarded and easily sent the ball to the basket.
"Beautiful pass feints, Chauncy easy catch, nice layup, at least 60 percent of the ball came to Wood's pass, he completely deceived Ronnie and Andre to give Chauncey a chance to make a completely empty basket!" Bill. Wharton exclaimed, "But Wood was able to come on his own just now, but Wood gave up his personal choice of teammates, and sent two assists in the opening game to help Orlando lead Utah 4-0!" ”
"This ball is really deceptive, at least I just thought that the ball must have been given to Ron, and given Ron Andre may not be able to make up for it, but deceived Andre and then passed to Chauncey, so that the failure may only be Chauncey's own layup, this time the choice of Wood did a good job." Hoffman said.
was hit two goals in a row by the Magic, especially the second goal, which came from his own passing route was seen in advance, although it was Artest who broke the ball, but it was clearly heard that Lin Sen shouted 1 and 5, not surprisingly, it should be a hint of the Magic's defensive run.
"That accident just now!"
Delon glanced at Linson, who was standing on the three-point line, and whispered, then took Brewer's pass and immediately turned around and approached the three-point line.
Seeing Boozer and Milicic on the inside fighting fiercely to get into a favorable position, Delon immediately hoisted the ball over.
However, in the face of the tall and strong Milicic, Boozer failed to find consecutive opportunities, and in desperation, he passed the ball back to Delon, who was short.
With only five seconds left in the twenty-four seconds, Delon suddenly made a step-back jumper after facing Billups' defense, and the ball jumped high over Billups' palm and into the basket.
"Deron hit the first shot of this top-level matchup, Deron is really good in his step-back jumper, it seems that Jerry must have practiced a lot of Delon and Delon opened Wood?" Bill. Wharton looked at Lin Sen and said.
In the transition between attack and defense, Linson dribbled the ball past half court and immediately handed the ball to Billups, and then started running with Delon.
"Can't you stop?"
"Then you don't chase me." Lin Sen smiled at Delong, and then accelerated again from the horn area on the left side to the horn area on the right.
Milicic, who was originally standing on the right side of the horn area, directly crossed his hands between his waist and abdomen to cover Lin Sen and came to the strong side of the horn area, Carlos. Boozer hesitated for a moment and pounced on his own defender, Milicic, while the outside arc stared at Billups for Ronnie. Brewer burst into Linson and immediately followed.
"Wood is coming!" Bill. Wharton looked at Lin Sen who rushed to the inside line and shouted, Oku on the inside line was waiting for him, and it was Ronnie who was chasing after Lin Sen. Brewer.
Without thinking about it, Lin Sen slapped the ball at Igoskas and jumped up, looking at Lin Sen Igoskas raising his hands high, Igoskas, who was afraid that the league would blow a foul, didn't dare to move.
At the moment when the two were about to collide, the back of Lin Sen's head was like a pair of eyes, his right hand and wrist turned back, and his fingers flicked hard, and the ball that was originally in Lin Sen's hand quickly left his palm and flew to the top of the arc.
Ronnie. It was too late for Brewer to regret it, and he could only pray that Billups felt worse, but Billups couldn't make Brewer proud, and his three-pointer from the top of the arc drilled into the basket steadily.
"Oh, it's Wood again, three shots in the opening row, three great passes, is Wood going to assist tonight?"
"Bill, I dare say someone said that Wood didn't have the confidence to pass the ball today against Utah's outside three."
As Hoffman said, Linson opened with three passes to help his teammates score, which many people saw as a sign of Linson's lack of confidence in the face of the Jazz's outside defense.
And Linson's next performance was like confirming their words, Linsen only made two shots in the seventh minute of the first quarter, but failed to hit under strong defensive pressure, even though Linson had already handed out seven assists by this time.
Delon had six points and three assists on two of four shots, while Wood made two nil shots, one missed a mid-range step-back jumper and one shot when the 24-second was coming.
The fact that there are so few shots doesn't mean anything, but it gives the impression that this is not Wood. Lin but Jason. Kidd, Wood's traditional point guard who doesn't seem to have any interest in scoring at all, while Utah's perimeter defense is really tough, but Wood isn't like that? Could it be that Wood wants to break his own assist record? Hoffman said as he looked at Jishu Statistics.
Lin Sen looked at Brewer in front of him and looked at his teammates, Brewer saw all this in his eyes, he felt that Lin Sen still wanted to pass the ball more. (To be continued......)
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