Chapter 873: The Last Battle Song
Li Feng's first step was not blocked, so he gained unlimited potential energy next, he seemed to be a small truck into the grizzly bear's inner line, at this time Marc Gasol felt bitter in his heart, because he knew that there was Millsap behind him, but Li Feng in front of him broke through without hindrance.
At this time, Marc Gasol couldn't take care of it, there was Li Feng in front and Millsap in the back, there was no way on both sides, and in the end Marc Gasol still chose Li Feng, because Li Feng was in front of him, and Millsap was the crisis behind him was solved, when the crisis behind him was prevented, no one said that you were good, but if you connived at Li Feng, then everyone would think that they were not capable of defending Li Feng.
Marc Gasol pounced out helplessly, and at this time, Li Feng made a move that made Marc Gasol's heart ache, only to see that he sent the basketball out from behind Marc Gasol with a small move.
Behind Marc Gasol's own confidant was Millsap, but he had no choice, he had already pounced, and at this time, he saw that Millsap was loose and came with a two-handed slam buckle.
The easiest two-handed dunk under the basket to score easily is simply a joy for Millsap.
But on the side of the Grizzlies, it is extremely painful, at this time Robert Pera is thinking about who can defend Li Feng in rotation if he changes at this time, and the conclusion is no, if he moves James Johnson to defend Li Feng in the past, Li Feng will inevitably break through Ed Davis, and who he replaces here is a loophole, which is not a problem that can be easily solved.
Robert Pera was very annoyed walking around the sideline, he was thinking about how to crack it, but at this time, Prince, a veteran, gave Robert Pera a surprise, Ed Davis originally wanted to give Li Feng a little color on the inside, but after a fight, he found that this guy did not lose himself in strength at all, and there was no fight at all, but Li Feng's super long hands also had a strong interference effect.
Ed Davis couldn't play on his own, so he hurriedly passed the basketball out. In Prince's hands, Prince received the basketball, a quick shake, Oladipo was passed by Prince twice in front, when Oladipo made a slight mistake, Prince directly made a three-point shot, this three-point, Prince's space in the back half of his body, but Prince just relied on this space to throw the basketball into the Pelicans' basket.
The Grizzlies just made two three-pointers in a row that was so unreasonable. Let the cooperation of Li Feng and Millsap come to naught, at this time Van Gundy couldn't sit still, and if he wanted to recover the score, he first had to contain the opponent from scoring.
In Van Gundy's heart for a while, Oladipo has three-point ability, and as long as he is given a step of space to score, and Li Feng's defensive ability is very strong, now he needs to make a choice, he has to contain the opponent's score, but also score himself.
Van Gundy thought for a moment. Suddenly shouted at Li Feng and Oladipo:
"Next round, you exchange defenses, Li Feng, Oladipo, you call defenders."
Van Gundy had only one idea for doing this, and that was Ed Davis's three-point average. And he definitely can't defend Oladipo, these two people are blowing each other, Li Feng has a great chance of defending the crazy Prince, and he also has a great chance of continuing to explode Prince, which is a very simple topic. After Van Gundy compared, he switched Li Feng back to the defensive Prince position.
The gap between the Pelicans and the Grizzlies has become 7 points, and this score has not only not been recovered, but has continued to widen. At this time, the Pelicans still did not have a trace of panic from top to bottom, and the halftime was played in an orderly manner, and there was no sign that the game would rely on one or two people at the last moment.
This is a terrible thing, Oladipo suffered from Prince a few times, and he also found a chance to get back, he ran around the half court twice, received a pass from Li Feng, and then he quickly dribbled two steps, and then suddenly paused, using the rhythm of the dribble and his height, and easily shot to get two points.
After Oladipo reached two points in such a hurry, he immediately came over and hit Li Feng on the chest, and then said quickly beside Li Feng, be careful of that Prince, he is not a reckless hand.
Li Feng heard Prince say this, and his eyes immediately aimed at Prince, and today's game should be finished with defense.
When Prince saw that he was Li Feng in front of him, his pupils quickly shrank together.
Prince had seen what Li Feng was doing on the defensive end, and now he was very jealous of looking at Li Feng, Prince moved slowly, and then accelerated to try to use a pull-up jump shot to shake off Li Feng.
Although Prince got rid of Li Feng as he wished, when he shot by himself, he was in front of Li Feng's big hand, so that Prince had no shooting perspective at all, and Prince's shot suddenly went to the crosshair and fell to the edge of the basket and jumped out.
However, the Pelicans' players on the interior are a little too thin, and a combination of Millsap and Oladipo against Marc Gasol and Ed Davis is still very bad.
Millsap was in a hurry, and hurriedly clicked the basketball out in the air, and after Li Feng came back and got the rebound back, he turned his head and ran desperately towards the Grizzlies' half.
At this time, the Pelican's momentum is showing, and now the Pelican's speed is very fast, every player has speed, and they all have the advantage of singles, once Li Feng pounces, the whole Pelican has too many options.
On the Pelicans' side, once Oladipo runs, he left Ed Davis behind early, and in terms of speed, Arenas is much faster than Mike Miller, and James Johnson's footsteps can't catch up with Li Feng.
So the Pelicans came quickly, and formed an absolute advantage at halftime, 4 to 2, the Grizzlies ran back quickly, that is, Prince and James Johnson barely came back, and Mike Miller just reached the halfway line.
With such a big advantage, Li Feng made a long-distance pass with one hand, and stuffed the ball into the hands of Arenas, who ran the fastest on the side, Arenas dribbled forward two steps, and one son compressed the formation that the Grizzlies replayed back.
As soon as the Grizzlies' fast return defense shrank back, Arenas immediately passed the basketball to Li Feng's hands, and Li Feng resisted James Johnson's defense and forced a three-point shot again.
"Huh!" The Grizzlies' basket was immediately punctured, and the Pelicans fought back after changing lineups.
Kenny Smith said:
"The Pelicans' lineup right now is very versatile. This kind of fast lineup is very suitable for stepping, but at this time, Robert Pera does not dare to change to a small lineup, and after changing the small lineup, I am afraid that the Pelicans will immediately play a low-post offense. ”
"Well, the Grizzlies are now in a dilemma, one is to be singled by the opponent on the inside, and the other is to be quickly counterattacked, what is Gandy going to do."
At this time, Robert Pera also had an idea in his heart, he tried to control the rhythm and control the way his team played, which was a very dangerous thing. What I can do now is to focus on me, which is to turn the situation around with the Grizzlies' own rhythm.
Because of such a thought, Robert Pera immediately called a timeout, and in the Grizzlies' rest seat, Robert Pera repeatedly emphasized his tactics to let his players understand and implement their own ideas.
The game between the two sides reopened, and at this time it was the Grizzlies' possession, and the Grizzlies started very closely to open up the space on the inside, and the Grizzlies opened the space on the inside line just means that the Grizzlies want to play the inside. Hit your own offense.
Marc Gasol really took the main position on the inside, although Marc Gasol stuck the position first, but in fact, Millsap let Marc Gasol get stuck in the position. But the position given to Marc Gasol is very bad, a long distance from the basket.
That's Millsap's experience, I can give you a position, but it's definitely not the position you want. It's a position that I want you to get stuck in, so that Marc Gasol catches the ball and turns around and sees that he's a little far from the basket.
At this distance, Marc Gasol is not impossible to attack. It's just that the success rate is not very high, and with Robert Pera's tactical guidance, Marc Gasol makes him attack from a position a little far away.
After receiving the basketball, it quickly turned into a turnaround step, and then violently broke through to Millsap's body, although Millsap can't bounce with Makgasulbi now, but it's more defensive, more protective than the inside, and Millsap has a trick in this position that is some distance from the basket.
I saw that Millsap's whole body was pressed against Marc Gasol, and Marc Gasol's elbow moved outward slightly, and Millsap fell on his back and screamed.
Millsap's trick is a bit old-fashioned, but it's very easy to use, and just because Marc Gasol is in a hurry to attack, he is relatively large in his movements, giving Millsap the external conditions to use such a trick.
After Millsap faked a fall, the FedEx Center began to boo Millsap frantically, but Millsap stood up nonchalantly, using his own experience, using his own rules, there was no unsightly way to see people.
Marc Gasol reluctantly handed over the basketball to the other party, and the Pelicans immediately chased up, at this time the Pelicans' pursuit was very fast, almost instantaneously, the Grizzlies' half, fortunately, Robert Pera had already arranged the strategy of returning to the defense, and the Grizzlies' half-court defense here seemed to be like an iron bucket.
At this time, the Grizzlies' defense was obviously strengthened, and the same strategy as the Pelicans was used to push the Pelicans' line outwards defensively.
Li Feng moved, Arenas immediately laughed, and pushed the defense in the opposite direction, using teams that do not have strong low-post players in the defense, according to normal logic, the Pelicans do not have low-post players, because Millsap has been offset by Marc Gasol, usually Millsap can play two low posts, but on Marc Gasol, he is not enough.
At this moment, Li Feng jumped over, repeatedly in the high position, defending Li Feng was Ed Davis, he couldn't keep up with Li Feng at all, Li Feng ran fast, he could only jog, Li Feng suddenly turned around, Ed Davis was dizzy, so he could only watch Li Feng pout his ass and squeeze himself behind him.
Arenas saw that Li Feng was stuck in the position, and he was also very happy, didn't you Grizzly Bear push us, we are going to play the low post.
At this time, Li Feng was like a nail nailed to the grizzly bear's high position, and the space here was very open by the grizzly bear itself, and Li Feng had almost infinite offensive space here.
After Li Feng received the basketball, he quickly turned around and turned into facing the basket attack, and at this time both teams were pulled away. Li Feng's simplest offensive play is to dribble to the left and then make a stop-and-go jumper, which is where Li Feng himself hits a very high 45 degrees.
However, at this time, Li Feng's fingers were still a little numb, at this time he could only challenge Marc Gasol, he could only go to the inside line, Li Feng knew that there were tigers in the mountains at this time, but he wanted to go to the tiger mountains.
Ed Davis also received Robert Pera's instructions, he only needed to defend Li Feng's breakthrough, he took a big step back, and waited for Li Feng to collide with him. This Li Feng has already encountered the worst offensive moment
He pinched the basketball, and when he saw Ed Davis take a big step back, he quickly formulated another offensive plan, just Li Feng took a step towards the side and dribbled suddenly, and then when he saw Ed Davis coming over, he quickly turned around, and then turned around again, but these were not over, Li Feng continued to fake the action. After a few turns, Li Feng rubbed under the basket, and Riemac Gasol faced a huge problem again.
He knew that as long as he followed, Li Fengli would send the ball to Millsap's hands, but he didn't follow. But it was obvious that Ed Davisba couldn't keep up with Li Feng's footsteps.
This is a very important point, as long as one step can't keep up, Li Feng will have a lot of opportunities to come to a small hook or an opponent to make a layup.
Mark Gasol really guessed Li Feng's heart. Li Feng was about to use his left hand to end the attack with a hook hand, but when Marc Gasol hesitated, Li Feng suddenly threw out a left hook hand.
Millsapole on this side has already guessed what Li Feng is going to do because he often plays inside with Li Feng, and he has already pulled to the bottom line. just waited to run back, because Millsap knew that Li Feng's hook was very strange, others were good at shooting with the right hand, and the hook was also accurate, but Li Feng was the only one who shot with both left and right hands, but the hook hand under the basket was indeed accurate with the left hand.
Ed Davis couldn't keep up with his feet, and Li Feng came to hook this offensive method again, and Ed Davis basically could only easily get these two points with Li Feng.
And Robert Pera was dumbfounded when he saw this, and the strategy he originally formulated for the team was to use his strongest Mark Gasol to attack the Pelicans' interior line on offense, to open the Pelicans' first opening, and then use the outside tight defense to block the Pelicans' rapid offense.
But as soon as it came up, the grizzly two bases were all scrapped.
First, Marc Gasol also doesn't have a very stable trick to get Millsap, Robert Pera's so-called strongest point is limited, and Millsap's defensive ability is much stronger than Al Jefferson.
The second Grizzlies' outward tight defense also curbs the Pelicans' offense, because the Pelicans still have Li Feng, and Li Feng, Li Feng can wantonly Ling. Insulting Ed Davis, Ed Davis still really has nothing to do with Li Feng.
Robert Pera thought about it for a moment, and then immediately shouted at Mike Miller:
"Position 4, position 4."
After a little thought, Robert Pera realized that there is actually one point in his team that has an absolute advantage, but it is that both Prince and Mike Miller have enough ways to attack Oladipo.
Van Gundy left Oladipo on the court, almost giving the Grizzlies a way out.
After Robert Pera yelled like this, Ed Davis immediately prepared to receive the ball in the low post, and then began to attack, his biggest advantage against Oladipo was there, that is, physically, but just when he was about to implement the card position, Li Feng yelled at Oladipo:
"Don't let him catch the ball, go around the front defense, go around the front defense."
Oladipo was also depressed when the other party was about to shoot at him, he heard Li Feng's reminder to himself, and Oladipo, who understood it, immediately ran and detoured in front of Ed Davis, that is, around Ed Davis, that is, to prevent Ed Davis from receiving the basketball.
This made Robert Pera's plan fall through again, and Oladipo ran with Ed Davis like a fawn, and then stuck in front of Ed Davis like a rubber, not giving Ed Davis a chance to catch the ball at all.
Ed Davis has some bouncing ability, but he can't be too perverted, and can only be isolated from Oladipo behind.
Seeing that Robert Pera's second strategy failed again, and the Grizzlies could only have another way to attack, Prince received the basketball and tried to attack once, but was ruthlessly defended by Li Feng, forcing Prince to come to a three-no.
The ball was directly hung into Millsap's arms, which made Marc Gasol very dissatisfied, because Marc Gasol himself also knew that although the Grizzlies had no offensive or defensive advantage now, they were in rebounds when the Grizzlies had the greatest advantage.
The Pelicans' chase is particularly fast When Millsap White picked up the rebound, he immediately passed the basketball to Li Feng's hands, Li Feng received the basket and turned around and ran, and now this is a qiē for the Pelicans.
Li Feng ran two steps in front of Oladipo, the kid reacted quickly past the middle circle, he immediately passed the basketball to Oladipo's hands, and Oladipo ran with Prins, Prince is not slower than Oladipo, but he is not as strong as Oladipo.
Just watched Oladipo face Prince and go straight to the Grizzlies' middle, but when he got to the Grizzlies' free throw line, Oladipo immediately came to a stop-and-go jumper, and he didn't even give Prince a chance to foul, so he watched Oladipo easily drill the Grizzlies' basket.
At this time, it is obvious to feel and see that the Grizzlies' offense is very difficult, and they can't open any point in the half, and the master Pelicans are here, scoring is much easier, as long as they run, as long as the basket is passed, it becomes very easy to score.
One is difficult and the other is easy, so the fans of the FedEx Arena are very depressed.
The two teams clashed, Robert Pera changed the lineup several times, but failed to snatch the rhythm back from the Pelicans' hands, but then Robert Pera noticed the current Grizzlies' rebounding advantage, so he encouraged his players to shoot when they had the opportunity, and if they didn't score, Marc Gasol still had a good chance to grab rebounds under the basket.
In the last two minutes of the fourth quarter, the score between the Pelicans and the Grizzlies became 103-100, and the Pelicans led the Grizzlies by three points, and now it is time for the final decision.
Both the Pelicans and the Grizzlies were highly nervous, and in the commentary box, Barkley also said:
"Today's game was staggered, the outcome changed hands several times, and now in the final moments of the game, the Pelicans are still only three points ahead of the Grizzlies, and at this time, the outcome is really unpredictable."
Miller interface says:
"The Pelicans have more advantages in the team as a whole, whether it is the connection between the main force and the bench, or the team's overall tactical play, the ability to control the situation is stronger than the Grizzlies, but for the Pelicans, Marc Gasol's survival is the Pelicans' biggest pain, and they can't contain Marc Gasol's ability to do whatever he wants on the Pelicans' inside."
"If the Pelicans can't win the championship this year, maybe Al Jefferson and Millsap will change one, and it is impossible to rely on Li Feng to make a cameo on the inside."
Kenny Smith searches for pieces of the Pelican's puzzle.
Then Hardaway said:
"But the Grizzlies still have a lot of changes to make, and I think the problem with the Grizzlies right now is that they can't maximize Marc Gasol's power and actually connect with the outside."
Marc Gasol made another shot after the Pelicans made a series of shots, but unfortunately missed, and then the rebound was snatched in his own hands by Li Feng, who arrived from behind, and then the Pelicans began to advance towards the Grizzlies' half, at this time the Pelicans needed to do to pull the score apart a little bit, completely establish the victory, instead of continuing to tug of war with the Grizzlies.
To do this, the Pelicans need to make a few solid and effective shots, while at the same time tightly controlling the Grizzlies' outside line and not letting the Grizzlies' outside line shoot at will.
Millsap is a lot better defensively than Al Jefferson, but Marc Gasol has a height advantage, and if he gets close to the basket, Rice suffers.
So Millsap has a heavy task and must try to keep Marc Gasol away from the basket so that he can contain the Grizzlies as much as possible. (To be continued......)