Chapter 219: The Chrysanthemum Boy's Challenge
After the Christmas game, the Knicks were unstoppable, running wild with a broken roster until the week before the All-Star Weekend, when they tasted eight defeats this season, by which time they were firmly in the first place in the East and the Los Angeles Bulls were in the first place in the league.
After the All-Star break, James Harden returned from a suspension, Cousins was not far away, and the Knicks welcomed the challenge of the Chicago Bulls at home.
This year, although the head coach of the Bulls is not Tyberdeau, but a guy that Li Feng has not heard of in his previous life, the Bulls have now surpassed the Miami Heat, Boston Celtics, and Orlando Magic to become second in the East.
The Bulls and Knicks also have deep grievances, Jordan is an eternal pain in the face of New Yorkers, and fans who are strict with their own players naturally do not have a good attitude towards the Bulls' players.
Rose and others were abused by the fans when they entered, especially Rose and Boozer.
As Rose passed through the players' tunnel, a local New York fan stood up and shouted:
"Rose boy, you should be stuffed in my asshole and turned into an asshole boy".
Rose went from being a rose boy to a chrysanthemum boy...... As for Boozer, it was even worse, and when he entered, the voice of the "guy with a bone in the back of his head" was incessant.
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"I'm going to beat you guys in this fight!"
Before the game, Rose walked to the Knicks' half court and said to Li Feng and others.
Li Feng walked over with a smile and patted Ross on the shoulder and said:
"Didn't you say the same thing in your last game? In fact, you are no match for us at all, our team is now the strongest team in the league, and you are not! ”
Ibaka smiled and nodded, but Lori and Monroe next to him shook their heads together.
"No matter how much you say, it's useless, in fact I've set my sights on the championship this season and no one can stop me"
Rose said proudly, he shook his shoulders and shook off Li Feng's big hand. Proudly and resolutely left here, leaving only a hard back for the Knicks players.
Li Feng said loudly to Rose:
"I forgot to tell you. We have set our sights on the championship this season as well, not just this season, but every season in the future! ”
Monroe shook his head again at Rose's figure, and he sighed and said:
"Derrick is a terrible guy, but the Bulls aren't a terrible team, and it's good that Tom is here instead of Chicago, otherwise he would have been disappointed."
Li Feng shrugged. smiled and rushed into the penalty area with the basketball in his arms and turned around and dunked, this kind of dunk that is difficult for others is easy for him.
The lineup on the Knicks' side is: center Greg Monroe. Power forward Sergi Baka. Small forward Li Feng, shooting guard is Marcus Thornton who returned from injury, and point guard Kerry Lowry.
The lineup on the Bulls' side is: center Joakim Noah, power forward Carlos Boozer, small forward Lore Deng, scoring guard Ronnie Brewer, and point guard Derrick Rose.
"Look. Our jump ball is still better than yours. ”
Monroe teased at Rose, who was standing across from him, and he used his bounce and reach to grab the ball before Noah.
Lowry caught the ball and quickly took a step back to open the distance between him and Rose, he knew that Dowros's steals generally did not shoot, but once he shot, he could basically break it.
Li Feng and Thornton cut in one left and one right.
Lowry passes the ball to Thornton, who receives the ball just out of space. Taking advantage of Brewer's failure to catch up, Thornton threw up a three-pointer.
At the beginning of the game, everyone's hands were not yet warm, so there was no doubt that the ball was ironed.
"Alas," the fans let out a sigh of disappointment. …,
Noah just rushed inside and picked up a rebound. It made him happy. Good luck today. Isn't it?
But you can't just play basketball.
Noah lifted the ball above his head, and Monroe reached out from behind to slap the ball in his hand, and the basketball was slapped down with a thud.
Seeing that Noah grabbed the rebound, Rose hurriedly went up to answer, while Lore Deng and the others turned around and went down quickly. It's just that they haven't run half the court before the basketball is cut off by Monroe.
With no one on the inside, Monroe picked up the ball and took advantage of the situation to dunk it, and Noah was still stunned behind him.
"Oooo
This tough steal and violent dunk ignited the cheers of the fans in the stadium. Now Monroe also has a lot of fans, hundreds of people are waving Monroe's jersey and looking excited.
After Monroe jumped to the ground, he smiled at the ugly Noah Da Lang:
"Welcome to New York. Joaquin! ”
Li Feng, Thornton and others clapped their palms with Monroe, Monroe's steal and dunk were too beautiful. From the beginning, it played with the momentum of the Knicks.
And Monroe's words made Li Feng and others even more excited, Monroe, who has always been a little dull, is now more and more confident, in this era, it is very satisfying for a team to have an excellent big man, but the Knicks still have Li Feng and Cousins, who can stop such a Knick?
Rose's face was a little embarrassed, he glanced at Joaquin and said in a deep voice:
"Hold your elbows, Joaquin, get your elbows up when you grab the rebound, and give me a tougher shot."
Noah wanted to go to the referee to accuse Monroe of beating just now.
But looking at the referee, it was obvious that he didn't mean to help him, so he could only give Rose a little bit of the ball.
Rose's offense was strong, and his body shook a few times in a row, and Lori, who was good at defense, immediately lost his position.
Easily broke through Lori, Rose found that there was no one in front of him, he glanced in the direction of Lore Deng, and suddenly copied the ball in his hand, so that Lori and others thought he could pass the ball, but he jumped and shot himself.
The basketball fell into the hoop, and the fans let out another sigh of disappointment.
Li Feng was about to go to basketball, and he watched Luo Erdeng start to slowly move his feet and make attempts.
Luo Erdeng was unmoved, just bent down and stared at Li Feng's eyes, Li Feng's shoulders kept shaking. It's obviously unrealistic to judge the direction of his breakthrough by his shoulder.
The basketball was beating slowly on the ground, and when there were ten seconds left in the attack, Li Feng's left hand suddenly increased his strength and rushed towards the right side of Luo Erdeng .
Luo Er Deng hurriedly moved his body to jam Li Feng. As soon as the two bodies met, Li Feng's right leg suddenly inserted between Luo Er Deng's legs, his waist and abdomen twisted, his body slid away strangely, and he circled around Luo Er Deng, and rushed directly past Luo Er Deng's side. His first step was a big one.
And Lore Deng moved on his back. The speed couldn't keep up with him at all, so he could only let Li Feng rush in.
Bursting into the box, Ibaka had already pulled Boozer out and Monroe jammed Noah. In this way, Li Feng had no one in front of him, but he easily chose to dunk or shoot.
Li Feng apparently chose to dunk, and out of the corner of his eye, he glanced back and saw Rose chasing after him.
He deliberately paused and adjusted his steps so that Rose would follow him when he jumped.
Li Feng held the ball with both hands and pulled it behind his head. Rose's big hand directly covered it, and just as his hand was about to touch the basketball, Li Feng spun his hands around. His arm collided with Rose's. Only then dunk the ball into the hoop.
Rose shook his fist hard as he landed. His eyes were full of incredulity and abomination.
I was tricked by this guy!
I was deceived by this guy for a foul!
The referee blew the whistle and made a decision to score a valid score and add a free throw, Rose was blown and the thug was fouled. …,
Looking at the referee staring at him, Rose had to raise his hand reluctantly, shit. If it weren't for the league's participation in the "zero tolerance for referees" policy, then I would definitely go up to the referee theory.
He thought angrily in his heart.
Li Feng steadily hit the penalty to score, and the fans began to laugh loudly again, "The chrysanthemum boy was exploded" The sound of "Chrysanthemum Boy was exploded" became loud and left in the stadium.
Li Feng and Ibaka made a cross screen, Lloris threw the ball to Ibaka, and when Li Feng cut inside from his side, Ibaka immediately passed the ball in.
Lore Deng was blocked by Ibaka, and although Boozer followed Li Feng, Li Feng pressed his body and shook his arm and threw the basketball into the hoop.
"If you want to score, I'm not afraid of you!"
Li Feng said to Rose with a smile.
Rose glanced at him. A sneer appeared at the corner of his mouth, and he looked back at Li Feng and said in a deep voice:
"Men are responsible for what they say."
"Then you're going to let me take on the responsibility."
Li Feng shrugged his shoulders and said arrogantly.
Lore Deng also heard the conversation between the two men, and knew that the two were going to be in a wrong position, and he saw Rose waving to him, and immediately passed the ball to him.
Rose leaned on Li Feng's chest and slowly squeezed in, only to see that suddenly his shoulder was pulled to the left, and his left leg was quickly pulled over.
But when Li Feng's body moved, his body suddenly moved to the right, and his calves jumped high. With a bend back and a press of the wrist, the basketball flew into the hoop.
"Aren't you afraid?"
Rose looked at him and smiled.
Li Feng shrugged. He laughed and said:
"Of course I'm not afraid, I'm just surprised. Your luck is good today. ”
Rose shook his head, and he sneered:
"Boy, you're arrogant."
Lowry saw that it had become Lore Deng in front of him, and Rose was also misplaced to defend Li Feng, and passed the ball to Li Feng, he saw that Rose was going to be with Li Feng in this game, although Lori was not qualified to compete with Li Feng in his heart.
Li Feng received the ball and made a dry pull posture directly.
But Rose was not fooled, he just took a step forward to jam Li Feng's back waist, so that he had no chance to move his body.
Li Feng did not have a gap breakthrough and jump shot at this time.
He had to pull his body back to get the gap for offense, Rose saw that he was forced out of the gang and didn't press anymore, Li Feng is now farther away from the hoop.
However, this distance is only a matter of one step, Li Feng stepped back with his right foot, and then rubbed his left foot on the floor, and his body turned into a whirlwind to break through from Rose's left side.
This couldn't break through Rose, Rose was still firmly against Li Feng's body, and the moment the two bodies met, Li Feng's shoulders pushed forward.
With the force of this backlash, he took half a step back. As soon as he opened the distance, he jumped the ball and threw it out.
"Nice step back!"
Ibaka exclaimed, but unfortunately the ball didn't go in, otherwise the admiration would have been even louder.
Boozer grabbed the rebound and threw it to Rose, who ran wildly, but Li Feng's pace was not slow at all, he followed behind Rose, waiting for him to jump and give him a big hat that he would never forget.
Rose took a step forward and threw the ball on the rebound. Then his legs shook off Li Feng, Li Feng knew what he wanted to do, he tried his best to catch up with Rose, as long as he blocked his body, this attack would be considered a failure.
But how easy is it?
Rose expected him to block himself, so when Li Feng ran forward, he used his body to hit him backwards, receiving force from Li Feng to further increase his speed, and then jumped in the air to catch the ball and buckle it with both hands. Dunk the ball into the hoop as fast as you can.
The fast break gets in the way, and Rose doesn't stop. He just turned his head to look at Li Feng, and then sneered and ran back to the Knicks' half. …,
This dunk is indeed beautiful, this kind of fast-break self-throwing and self-stealing dunk is rare in official games, but today Rose showed fans in this kind of high-intensity game.
"Isn't it the young player who claims to be the strongest? Come on, you can give me a look. ”
Ross said in that mocking tone. On the court, no matter what he says, he is almost always expressionless.
Li Feng took the ball from Lowry, and he took a step into the three-point line. Seeing Rose make a breakthrough move, Rose subconsciously stepped back, Li Feng immediately jumped up and projected again to shoot a spin into the basket, hollow into the basket, this shot is beautiful and crisp.
"Don't you dare to break through me? Coward! ”
Rose sneered and said, he didn't look back to see the direction of the basketball, from the cheers of the fans in the audience, he knew that the goal had been scored, but what was it, this shot was far worse than the fast-break dunk he had just made.
Li Feng smiled and shook his head, and Boozer picked up the ball and handed it to Rose. The latter casually raised his hand to catch the ball, but when he turned his head, he saw a black figure flash in front of his eyes, and the ball that was about to arrive was also shot out of the air.
It was Li Feng, who was standing behind him, who grabbed the ball.
Li Feng slapped his big hand on the basketball, and his arm was retracted back at will, and Rose, who pounced on and wanted to grab the ball, was directly deceived.
The basketball hit Li Feng's right hand on the ground, and he inserted it directly from the baseline, and Rose was out of position, but fortunately, Boozer reacted. He hurriedly took steps to catch up with Li Feng, and even if he couldn't block him, he played to block his dunk.
Li Feng handed it out with his big hand, and the basketball was passed to Ibaka's hand with a straight line, and Ibaka easily entered it. The basketball is picked into the hoop.
"It's not a breakthrough either, is it?"
Li Feng said to Ross with a smile.
……
Boozer leaned against Ibaka and tried his strength. Feeling like he was squeezing and not talking to open the outside line, Ibaka moved his feet up.
It's just that Boozer jumps as soon as he steps back.
The basket jumped a little on the hoop and eventually fell into the hoop with the hope of the Bulls players.
Ibaka picked up the basketball and stretched out his hand to slap it on the ball, he exited the court to serve to Li Feng, who handed it to Lloris and signaled to take his time.
Li Feng took Rose to the inside line, and when Rose followed, his knee twisted against Lore Deng's body and cut over, and Rose blocked Thornton.
Lore Deng targeted Li Feng, and as soon as he shook off Rose, the ball in Lori's hand passed to him, but Li Feng did not stick to the ball, he jumped up and passed the ball to Ibaka.
Grabbing the ball with one hand, Ibaka arched his shoulders hard, knocked into Boozer and stepped into the penalty area with a roar, Noah came out to make up for the defense, Ibaka stepped on the floor with his powerful legs, stretched out his arm against Noah and jumped up, his right wrist shook, and the basketball fell into the hoop with a semicircular arc.
"Joaquin, you're still optimistic about Greg!
Ibaka watched the ball go in and warned Noah.
Noah's face is full of grievances, why is it that whoever catches him now bullies himself? Originally, he still looked down on Monroe, a rookie. But the latter taught him a lesson with eight rebounds in a single quarter, as the head coach said during the first quarter break.
"Do you want that guy to get forty-eight rebounds in this game!
"Don't listen to what he says, Joaquin, well done, just come out and make up for it!"
Boozer patted him on the shoulder and encouraged him, and Noah smiled at him and nodded vigorously.
Despite his bad reputation, Boozer was still good, and Boozer ate well with the Bulls, and soon he won the friendship of the players.
Seeing Boozer there to encourage Noah, Ibaka grinned and sneered: ...,
"Carlos, you softbend better take care of yourself now, you're about to be blown up by me."
Boozer disdained to argue with him, although he was telling the truth, but who didn't know that Carlos Boozer ate on his feet and agility?
How can you be able to prevent Madara from having the ability to do more than his footsteps every time you attack, of course, he is not embarrassed to say this, if he says it, he will really become a soft egg.
Rose turned around and shook off Li Feng, and Thornton immediately made up for it, his strength was exhausted at this time.
He had to pass the ball to Lohr Deng, who quickly slapped the ball to the ground with his left hand, and rushed into the inside with the ball and jumped high.
Lore Deng jumped together and Monroe pounced at the same time.
Lowe Deng slammed his wrist up, the basketball avoided Monroe's outstretched hand and flew to the hoop, and Noah jumped up to catch the ball and slammed it into the hoop.
It's easy for Noah to do this kind of aerial relay, he has the physicality to become an inside superstar, but of course, he doesn't have the skills to become a superstar yet. The dunk made Noah excited, and after landing on the ground, he yelled at Ibaka, who came up next to him.
Ibaka didn't react for a while, and Noah's dunk was a bit sudden!
However, this was not the case for the reporters, who seemed to have a stunned look on Ibaka's face with surprise and blankness, and the reporters "crackled and pressed the shutter to capture the expression on Ibaka's face."
Tomorrow will be written, the Chicago reporter secretly rejoiced.
As if to prove that he is the best young player in the league, Li Feng and Rose were carried from the beginning of the game, and the war between the two lasted until the end of the first quarter.
Li Feng's dunk and breakthrough, Rose's backward jumper and passing throw. The two of them used their tricks all over again.
At the end of the first quarter, the score was 28-27, and the Bulls led by one point, but of course only by one point.
Among them, Li Feng scored 17 of the team's 27 points. And Rose is even more fierce, he directly got 20 of the team's 28 points, but Li Feng still has 4 steals, 4 assists, 5 rebounds and 1 block, Rose only has 2 assists, 1 rebound and 2 steals.
The confrontation between the two ace players in the first quarter made all the fans fascinated, and Li Feng used his strength to prove to the league that Rose could not catch up with him, although Rose was a year ahead of Li Feng in the league, although Rose was the champion Li Feng was just the eye. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )