Chapter 1093: Is the championship still far away?
It was a game without a fourth quarter, which was exactly the Pelicans' show time, the Warriors' garbage time, and even Tyson Chandler, who didn't use another foul, just hugged his head with a towel and sat on the edge of the court, waiting for the game to end.
Almost all of the Warriors' players are like this, they are a little blank looking at the court, dazed, confused, as if they are a little stupid, and they actually want to leave the court at this time.
Because it's the last few minutes of their season, it's already an end of the season, but they still can't leave, and they still have to watch the Pelicans make fun of their own corpses.
Now they can only look at the court blankly without any expression.
Looking forward to the end of the game, looking forward to the end of the game, the Warriors want to escape, but the Pelicans want to celebrate, and there are already fans in the stands in the New Orleans Center waving towels to celebrate their Finals playoffs, and they believe that they will still be the ones who will win the Finals.
When the whistle blew at the end of the game, the Warriors' players and uniforms turned around and walked to the locker room without saying a word, but at this time the New Orleans Center cheered, the whole New Orleans Center cheered, they jumped up, they raised their arms on the sidelines.
The Pelicans players rushed to the middle of the court to greet the fans who loved them, and Li Feng also stood up from the sidelines at this time, looking at the streamers flying into the air, looking at the fans in the audience at the New Orleans Center, and cheering teammates.
Looking at this qiē, he turned his head and saw Al Jefferson's small face.
"It wasn't easy for us to win the first round!"
Al Jefferson said with a smile.
"Especially in the mouth!"
Li Feng said casually, it is true that this series is not very difficult, their opponent is not strong, but it is this not strong opponent that creates trouble for the Pelicans is that they won the Pelicans' first home game, and then they have hope. They have the right to speak.
And then the media and other players also felt that they had what it took to beat the Pelicans, and that they could beat the Pelicans.
Now the Pelicans have put an end to this qiē and are using the Pelicans' own way, and they have responded to everyone, including the Warriors, in the most furious way possible!
"Now we are looking forward to the finals, and this is Pierce who also walked over quickly, patting Li Feng and Al Jefferson on the shoulder with an excited expression on his face.
"Today we won, and you two don't look very excited."
"It's exciting to win against a team like that."
"We're just the champions of the West!"
Li Feng and Al Jefferson gave Pierce two answers at the same time, but Pierce's face full of resolute lines smiled brightly.
"It's a winning start, a Western Conference champion. Will the championship be far away? ”
With the Western championship, will the championship round be far away, Li Feng chewed on this sentence, and it seemed to make sense.
It's just that what needs to be repeated is just victory, Li Feng turned his head sideways and smiled at Al Jefferson, a little playful! This kind of expression appeared on Li Feng's swarthy and rough face, and it had a little cute feeling, and Al Jefferson thought like this at this time.
Then they laughed and hugged with the other players on the pitch. Winning together, winning is always exciting, that's the best part of sports, but there are people who welcome the best part. There will be people who will meet the darkest part, such as failure, miserable failure.
For example, the current warriors.
Li Feng roamed the court in the heart of New Orleans as if the king were patrolling his land. Enjoying the cheers and feeling a little safe, it was at this time that the reporter rushed in front of Li Feng.
Li Feng looked at the reporter's face. Then he grinned widely, and now it is estimated that the reporter can only interview himself, and the Warriors guys have gone back to the locker room to taste the failure.
"Li Feng, you defeated the Warriors in today's game, and now you have advanced to the Finals, do you have anything to say about this, I am looking forward to the Finals, do you hope that the Cavaliers will still be the Nets at that time!"
The reporter continued to ask, Li Feng didn't want to go back to the locker room right away today, he hadn't enjoyed enough of the atmosphere of victory on the court now, and he wanted to use every pore to absorb this atmosphere in his body.
"We did what we had to do against the Warriors, I'm looking forward to the Finals, and as for the opponent I want the Pistons because we still have a lot of grudges to settle and the playoffs are the place to know about them!"
Understand the place of grievances, after saying this, Li Feng himself smiled, I am really looking forward to your arrival in the finals!
The Pelicans' rest only lasted three days, and another spot in the Finals came out, the Brooklyn Nets finally defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers, the Cavaliers' James count is very good, but the Nets are a team, and Lopez on the inside broke the brush of Kevin Love, and Deron also broke the European pass, and finally the Nets and Pelicans met in the Finals.
The Nets and Pelicans play the same Finals opponent as last year, and the NBA rarely has a repeat Finals opponent like this in the past two years.
The first game of the Finals between the Pelicans and Nets was broadcast by TNT, and TNT TV seemed to have a lot of interest in the Pelicans-Nets game.
Miller sat behind his chair and looked at the sparse crowd of spectators coming in behind him, and he sighed that the first game was on the Pelicans' home court, and the Pelicans would give the Nets a hard time coming.
Just as Miller was stunned, Barkley walked in from behind, and Barkley was smiling nervously as he walked.
Miller's originally somewhat sad feelings were also affected by Barkley, and he turned his head and smiled and said to Buckley:
"Hey, Buckley, what are you doing to make you so happy?"
Barkley lifted the newspaper in his hand, then put it in Miller's arms, and said:
"I really didn't expect that Li Feng actually had a little potential as an entertainment star, and his posture in the water is simply beautiful."
Miller picked up the newspaper that Barkley threw over, looked at the picture and laughed:
"This guy is not in good shape, and he will compete tomorrow, and he will go out to play."
The photo shows Li Feng and Natalie playing in the water together the day before the finals.
Miller's words are reproachful. But there is no sense of reproach in the tone. On the contrary, he smiled very happily, which is a unique expression.
Barkley smiled and said:
"I knew it was going to be like this, that guy Li Feng has a potential, that is, the ability to make it interesting.
Barkley and Miller were chatting when Kenny Smith and Hardaway walked in. Barkley and Miller stopped together, and Kenny walked in with a smile and said:
"Hey, Barkley, I didn't expect you to come so early. Can't you wait today? ”
"Of course."
Buckley says:
"It's going to be a great game today."
When Barkley said this, the DJ on the scene began to yell about the players who were introduced.
At the start of the game, the Nets lineup was point guard Delon, scoring guard Joe Johnson, small forward Anthony, power forward David Lee, and center Lopez.
Brooke Lopez averaged 27.4 points, 9.2 rebounds and 2.5 blocks per game in the series against the Cavaliers, suddenly jumped to the top center in the league and beat Kevin Love.
And the Pelicans still sent their own main lineup. Point guard Corey, scoring guard Granger, small forward Li Feng, and power forward Al Jefferson. Center Gasol.
The Pelicans did not make any changes to the main lineup, Wang Teng sat at the bottom of the court, watching the Nets players arrive on the court, their expressions were solemn. Then on the rest seat, Hollins' face was also iron-blue.
Al Jefferson and Lopez stood together in the center circle when the referee blew the whistle. The referee tosses the basketball into the air.
The first game of the finals began, and after the opening game, Lopez grabbed the rebound on his side with his strong and powerful posture, and Joe Johnson received the basketball and immediately passed the ball to Delon.
The Nets game, at the beginning of the game, was as hot as the Cavaliers, but it was very gloomy, Deron dribbled to control the rhythm, Anthony took the ball and passed to Joe Johnson, Joe Johnson passed to David Lee, and finally Lopez received the ball on the inside and started to play inside singles.
After the opening, Lopez obviously had a good touch, and easily scored the basketball into the Pelicans basket. And so the game between the Pelicans and the Nets began.
The Nets played steadily, and the Pelicans also attacked steadily one by one, from the beginning, it didn't look like a battle of life and death at all, but this situation didn't last long, and when the first quarter was 11 seconds old, the Nets once again opened the formation to play singles inside.
The strategy formulated by Hesitant Van Gundy is the strategy of defending alone first and then flanking the attack, so no one came up to help Gasol, let Gasol carry Lopez alone, and Gasol could only carry Lopez's attack by himself.
The two strangled together on the inside, and if Gasol wanted to defend Lopez, he first had to control Lopez and prevent him from being in a good position in his own place, and then he would not let Lopez catch the basketball properly.
In this way, Lopez's power in the low post can be contained, so Gasol and Lopez are competing very fiercely in the low post.
Lopez moved left and right without getting a position, so he turned around in a row, hoping to get a spot. In order to stop Lopez, Gasol can only use his hands to push and pull Lopez, which is a kind of physical contact. Normally, you don't get a penalty, but here Gasol just made a move, and immediately blew Gasol for a defensive foul at the referee.
This blowing penalty simply overwhelmed Gasol and Van Gundy, and the Pelicans seemed that this was completely a normal defense, how could it be a foul, so Van Gundy went over to reason with the referee, but at this time, the referee was not willing to listen to what Van Gundy said.
Gave Gasol a non-foul, and giving the Pelicans a foul so early will directly shake Gasol's playing time in the following games, this news is too bad for Gasol.
But Li Feng smelled a hint of conspiracy from Gasol's foul so early.
Sure enough, after Gasol fouled, he immediately strengthened his interior offense and breakthrough on this side of the Nets. Once Lopez was contained on the inside, Lopez immediately passed Anthony, Anthony forced a breakthrough, and the breakthrough was halfway through, he did not break through to the end as before, but when facing the pressure of the Pelicans' defense. Passed the basketball to Deron outside, so Delon continued to attack the Pelicans' halfcourt.
This is clearly that after seeing a crack in the Pelicans' inner line, he urged his outside line and inner line to desperately start attacking the inside line, hoping to beat Gasol.
DeLong's breakthrough was also unsuccessful, but it gave the Pelicans back the ground defense and tore the Pelicans' defensive system apart.
Joe Johnson gave him a huge amount of space when he shot again.
The Nets are so obvious that they want to rush away Gasol, but Van Gundy has no way at this time, because at this time he still has a task in his hand that can let go of Lopez is Al Jefferson, but Al Jefferson still has this scoring task on the ground, which is also a task that can be placed on Al Jefferson at the beginning of the game.
Henson was barely able to let go of Lopez. But Henson's own loss in size and strength is too great.
So Van Gundy could only use Gasol to resist Lopez, and after the Pelicans missed a mid-range shot in the Nets' half, they watched the Nets come back immediately and start to continue to impact the inside.
At this time, the Nets are playing the same way as the Pelicans played the Nets in the low post in the last game, if you don't change the lineup, we will endlessly beat one of your weaknesses, although Lopez is definitely not a weakness here, it can only be said that there is a crack in the egg. But the Nets still grabbed this gap, desperately trying to turn this gap into a huge crack and completely push the Pelicans to.
Seeing this, Granger hurriedly returned to help defend more. The intention is to delay this rift, as long as this rift is delayed, the game will be absolutely easy.
Just as the Nets were frantically rushing to the Pelicans' interior from the outside, Anthony was in the process of impacting. Suddenly the shot towards the Pelicans' interior line, and threw the basketball towards the Pelicans' interior personnel in the densest place.
After Anthony threw the basketball out, the Pelicans' interior line immediately went into chaos, Gasol. Al Jefferson, David Lee, Lopez. The four of them jumped together.
This Anthony thought that the Pelicans basket was not a basketball at all, but a bomb, so Lopez was still extremely active even under the attack of Gasol and Al Jefferson, and pointed the ball into the air with one hand, and then clicked continuously, so that the basketball continued to beat.
In the end, after several clicks in a row, Lopez finally received the basketball into his arms.
Lopez's score on the inside at this time has become a sabotage, and the destruction of the Pelicans' interior is much more powerful than scoring, and now it's only the first quarter, if Gasol is scrapped in the first quarter, then Al Jefferson will also be involved in the next game A lot of energy will be involved, and in the end, the entire Pelicans' defense will collapse.
Lopez, who also vaguely had this kind of thought in his heart, after getting the ball, he jumped directly regardless of the Pelicans, just to create the most direct dunk attack under the Pelicans' basket, which the Pelicans absolutely did not allow, and Al Jefferson wanted to take a shot instead of Gasol.
But Gasol's hand is also very fast, seeing that he can't stop Lopez, he is about to let Lopez dunk, Gasol's hand immediately went over and knocked down the basketball in Lopez's hand.
Lopez's basketball was indeed beaten, but it also allowed Lopez to achieve his goal.
The referee immediately blew the whistle on the other side to "force" Gasol to foul again, and now the game is less than five minutes into the game, and the Pelicans' main center, the only person on the inside who can play with Lopez, blew two fouls.
At this time, Van Gundy stood up helplessly and began to make substitutions, Van Gundy could only replace Gasol at this time, and then replaced Henson, and now it is still a little too early for the Pelicans to play a complete small man tactic in the last quarter of the first game.
Gasol can't see anything on the court, he can't show anything offensively, and he is defending Lopez defensively, but once the Pelicans lose Gasol, they immediately become vulnerable, and by the 8th minute of the first quarter, the Pelicans were already 10 points behind the Nets, and the score between the two sides became 27-17, and the Nets gave the Pelicans absolute pressure on their home court, and completely pressed the Pelicans behind.
At this point, the Pelicans finally held up, and Van Gundy immediately called a timeout and began to replace his bench players, and the Nets now lead the Pelicans. After the Pelicans replaced the bench, the Nets immediately replaced the bench players.
Now after David Lee entered the main lineup, the Nets' bench lineup is the lineup led by Bogdanovic, and the five people replaced by the Nets are, point guard Jack, scoring guard Alan Anderson, small forward Karasev, Bogdanovic barely plays power forward, the center is still Mason Plumlee, and the Nets have a backup center like Mason Plumlee. It won't be as urgent as it is now.
The Pelicans' bench lineup is point guard Knight, scoring guard Granger, small forward Li Feng, power forward Kelly, and center Henson.
Alan Anderson saw that Li Feng barely played today, so his defense was not very tight. It's just staring at Li Feng's movements.
Just like Bogdanovic has an advantage over Kelly, Li Feng also has an absolute advantage over Alan Anderson, and there is better news for Li Feng that his fingers have recovered a lot today.
Li Feng arrived at the half court of the Nets. In Alan Anderson's surprised gaze, he suddenly started quickly and broke through, and Li Feng was attacking now, which was completely unexpected by Alan Anderson. He could only follow Li Feng's footsteps behind him and retreat quickly.
Li Feng came up to play this time, and the Nets' bench lineup was not safe, so he put in a lot of strength. Crazy to break inward, Li Feng went crazy like an angry bison on the grassland, and killed directly from the middle lane.
The players of the Nets saw Li Feng kill at this time, and hurriedly gathered in the middle, intending to shoot Li Feng to death in the middle of this section, Li Feng also saw that the Nets had obviously prepared a long time ago and prepared a set for themselves, so after Li Feng arrived near the Pelicans' three-second zone, he suddenly turned around and leaned against Karasev beside him, and then stuffed the basketball into the hands of Knight in the back.
After Nate received the basketball, he immediately came to his heart and sent the basketball to Henson, who had pulled the space for Li Feng from the evening newspaper, and then Knight himself ran towards Henson.
Henson understood Knight's little caution, and as soon as he got the ball, he immediately passed the basketball to Knight's hand, who was running towards him.
Knight, catch-and-shoot, is a perfect interpretation of his shooting art.
The Pelicans play very flexibly and briskly, and the Nets are not weak here, because now the Nets are also a standard lineup with four small, and these four small men still have some offensive ability. Just look at the Nets' very fast movement, it will be the Pelicans' halfcourt, and then the Nets players quickly move the basketball.
The basketball passed quickly in the hands of the blue players, and although the Nets were beautiful in the pinch shot, they lacked a little bit of something, which was this
West is the power to go inward, a team's inverted ball on the outside is like this, but it can't hit the basketball into the opponent's inside, can't take the initiative to cut off the opponent, and can't play much role in any case.
When the Nets realized this, Bogdanovic immediately turned around and pouted and squeezed the Pelicans' inside, Bogdanovic is the only person in the entire Nets who has the ability to control the basketball now, so he must play this time.
The Nets couldn't get a chance to shoot with a quick reversal on the outside, but as soon as Bogdanovic was embedded in the Pelicans, he created an opportunity, and Jack on the outside moved quickly and finally ran out of position, and Bogdanovic hurriedly passed the basketball inside.
You must know that it is very hard for him to carry Kelly to play, and the ball in Jack's hands was a very good three-point opportunity, but Jack hesitated.
After receiving the basketball, he had to dribble forward with a big step, and only shot after entering the three-point line, but at this time, Knight had already caught up with Jack when he ran from the side.
Knight came up and stretched out his claws and shook in front of Stephenson, and in the end, Jack was defeated by Knight's magic grasp and lost the two points.
The basketball jumped on the basket, and Henson and Kelly under the basket took the rebound into their arms after taking solid positions. (To be continued......)