Chapter 438: Velociraptor
Back on the court, the Knicks players did play more resolutely, but the Pacers adopted a decisive trap strategy.
It is to sandwich Li Feng, JR Smith and Rose, and the remaining two blue-collar workers don't care at all because they don't have attack power. As a result, the Knicks' resolute offense was extremely ineffective, and they still couldn't open the Pacers' position.
When it came time to defend, the Knicks were desperately defending, pressing outside, although it seemed to make the Pacers a little hectic. But the Pacers are all old fritters, seemingly busy, but they can always find the weaknesses of the Knicks, and they can always find the weak points of the Knicks' defense, and the offensive opportunities are easy to find.
In this case, the Knicks are still at a disadvantage, and it is still difficult to open up the situation offensively, although the defense is desperately expanding the defense, but the effect is not very obvious.
In this way, the rearrangement of Tyberdu did not change the condition of the court, from the middle of the second quarter to the end. The Pacers still firmly controlled the rhythm of the game, and the Knicks couldn't escape from the palm of someone's hand when they rushed left and right.
At the end of the first half, the Pacers led the Knicks by 14 points, 58-44.
At this time, the half was over, and the Knicks players were all depressed, they played aggrieved in this game, they couldn't play at all, and they couldn't defend the other party.
Joan Barry made his point again at half-time:
"The Knicks claimed before the game that they were going to have a tough game with the Pacers. But now in terms of strength comparison, they and the Pacers are not at the same level at all. Today the Knicks simply can't win, and we all overestimate the Knicks. ”
"Yes! It's a two-tier team, and today's game is a must-win for the Pacers. ”
Magic Johnson also held the same opinion on the side.
At the same time, in the voting on the Internet, the two teams were originally about the same, but after the first half, the Pacers suddenly far surpassed the Knicks. That is, no matter where you are, through the first half of the game. Everyone felt that the Knicks were lost. The Pacers have to win!
At this time, David West, who performed very well in the first half today, also said freely in an interview:
"Today we are very well prepared. So everybody's playing really well. The first half was very smooth for the whole team and I just went with the flow. ”
David West gave a pacer-esque answer to his own play, and it was all down to team collaboration.
But when the reporter asked, "David West, what do you think of the Knicks today?" ”
When answering this question, David West seemed to be a lot more relaxed.
"The Knicks are a young team and they are very energetic. The future is limitless, but today they are too simple, they are inexperienced, they are young. They will achieve something in the future. But now it's ours. ”
David West's words seem correct to others, after all, the Knicks have shown in the first half today that the Knicks are no match for the Pacers at all.
But when Li Feng heard such words, he felt extremely tired in his heart. David West's words are obviously praising the Knicks, but in fact, he is saying that the Knicks are far from being on fire now, and they are far from being the opponents of the Pacers.
Others can agree with this point of view, but Li Feng disagrees. The Pacers did perform well in the first half of today's game, but Li Feng didn't think the Knicks had any chances.
Li Feng also doesn't think that simple means you can't win. In the world of basketball, any style is extremely powerful.
Li Feng was not convinced, and Taberdu was also quite unconvinced at this time, and was so praised and degraded by David West. The powerful Tyberdu was very unhappy.
So at halftime, in the dressing room, Tyberdu was furious again. The whole locker room was buzzing.
The enraged Tyberdu even uttered such words:
"I don't want you to win the Pacers, but I ask you when they win, and let them lose a layer of skin, and they won't be able to make up for the loss of stamina in two weeks."
Tyberdu said all this. It's like I'm trying to pull the walker to death.
The head coach made such cruel words, and the Knicks' players suddenly felt the crisis, and they were all gone. They all have a will to die, and even if they lose, they will make the Pacers unhappy.
The Knicks are going crazy here!
On the Pacers' side, after the first half of the game, back in the locker room, these old people feel more comfortable.
Before the game, the Pacers were very well prepared and they thought it was going to be a tough game. When I arrived at the court today, I found that the Knicks were hard, but they lacked flexibility, and such a team was not too difficult to play. It's just a little more troublesome! The Pacers went through the first half of the game and instead didn't take the Knicks seriously.
After the half-time break, both teams had a change in mentality.
When he came back in the second half, Consec was not completely full, and there were still many fans who did not finish eating and drinking outside at this time.
Johnson, the magician who was in the commentary seat, did not adjust from the rest, he came over and said:
"At the start of the second half, I think the Knicks should adjust their offense first, they need some consistent scoring methods. Defensively, they will have a hard time keeping the Pacers at bay. ”
As soon as Magic Johnson finished speaking, the Knicks advanced with the ball from the baseline. Dragic passed the basketball to Li Feng.
Li Feng took the ball and moved slightly, and suddenly turned on the instantaneous speed and broke through to the Pacers' basket.
Li Feng broke through this time, fiercely, fast, and ruthlessly, completely treating himself as a cannonball of human flesh and smashing it under the basket of the pacers.
At this time, the Pacers and their guys were just on the court, and their hands and feet were not yet hot. There was no preparation at all, although Paul George was good in terms of physical fitness, but Li Feng smashed it too suddenly.
Paul George was his feet and didn't react at all, and Li Feng had already jumped to the Pacers' basket.
When Li Feng arrived at this position, David West subconsciously reached out and pulled it on Li Feng's arm.
At this time, the referee's whistle sounded, but Li Feng's movements did not stop, and Li Feng jumped forward according to inertia. After a slight suffocation in the air, he adjusted his flying stance and put the basketball into the walker's basket.
Li Feng came up and directly forced a breakthrough and scored 2 points!
The action was sudden, but it didn't alert the pacers, who thought it was an uncontrollable accident ball.
But when it came time for the Pacers to attack, they were suddenly attacked by the Knicks' powerful sniping.
At halftime, Tyberdu asked his players to skin the Pacers, and now he's back after halftime. One by one, the Knicks' players were full of energy, and they stepped up their defense against the Pacers.
was attacked by Li Feng on the defensive end, and now on the offensive end, the Pacers have encountered the Knicks' crazy pressing.
Under the high-intensity defense, the Pacers still did not react. They are not mentally prepared and physically not fully warmed up.
As a result, the Pacers' skillful offensive tactics were not brought into play at all, and they almost made a mistake. In the end, Granger shot in an extremely difficult situation, but he also missed.
In the first two quarters, the Pacers' successful suppression of the Knicks was a combination of offense and defense, the high offensive efficiency made the Knicks have no chance to play fast break, and the defense was targeted so that the Knicks could not play. Now the Pacers have problems on the offensive end.
let the Knicks get a backcourt rebound, and this time the Knicks' offense played the fast break.
Monroe got the backcourt rebound and passed the ball directly to Dragic, who took the ball and Li Feng had already run to the Pacers' three-point line.
After Li Feng used his instantaneous speed. Reaching the strongest peak in running, Dragic saw that Li Feng had reached this position.
simply made a long-distance pass directly to Li Feng's head, Li Feng took the pass, and only George Hill chased it back on the Pacers' side. But Li Feng is not afraid. got up and smashed the basketball into the Pacers' basket with a two-handed slam dunk.
Li Feng scored two more points, and now the third quarter has only started for less than a minute, and the Knicks have chased four points in a row.
The Knicks have changed. Vogel should have called a timeout right away. But today's game didn't just make the Pacers players look down on the Knicks. Even Vogel didn't take the Knicks seriously in his heart.
Through the first half, he saw that Taberdu's coaching level was just the same. It's still a line away from my own level.
In terms of players, the Knicks' players are not as good as themselves, the players are not as good as themselves, the coaches are not good, and they are not good at playing on the spot. This made Vogel also arrogant, so although the Pacers are now experiencing some "small troubles", Vogel still believes that his players can adjust themselves.
The Pacers' players, after conceding 4 points, also didn't take it seriously.
The Pacers have always had the habit of exerting force in the third quarter, they were originally a slow team, and now they have lost 4 points unpreparedly, and the Pacers are not messy, but they are more careful.
Pushing back in, George Hill first handed the ball to David West in the high post, and ran away to the right side, while at the same time on the right side Granger covered Paul George, George got rid of Li Feng through Granger's cover, and then used David West's cover to receive the ball.
The Pacers' series of tactics are executed extremely standardly, like a textbook, but Li Feng has now also turned on the ability of instant speed, super fast at his feet, and Paul George just got the ball Li Feng set his eyes on him again.
The average team ball dies when it comes here, but the Pacers are even more spicy, and David West, after covering Paul George, immediately went down to block Rose and gave Granger a chance.
Granger just took advantage of the move and got on the ball for Paul George, who was completely open in the horn position.
The Pacers' series of moves is indeed extremely good, and it can be said that the tactical aspects of basketball have been played to the extreme.
The continuous running, the continuous running, the continuous transfer, completely achieved one, and the empty position of Granger after the most was the result of all the efforts.
Granger took the ball, adjusted it a little, and shot straight away.
But at the moment when he made a move, he found that Li Feng ran back as if it was a gust of wind.
As soon as Li Feng came back, he spread his body in the air, grabbed his hands directly in the air, and grabbed the ball thrown by Granger at once.
Li Feng actually grabbed Granger's ball with both hands.
At this time, about sixty percent of the fans who had only returned from Consec had suddenly erupted into a huge exclamation.
"Boom, boom!"
The stadium was full of exclamations, but Joanbari in the commentary seat exclaimed:
"Why is Li Feng so fast!"
Indeed, Li Feng was too fast this time. He went from the right three-point line at 45 degrees, almost instantaneously to the left corner, and grabbed Granger's open shot. The speed at which it moves is magical.
At this time, I have to say that the ability of instantaneous speed makes Li Feng unstoppable when he breaks through, and he is also super strong in defense. Fang Granger's almost inevitable goal was snatched away by Li Feng in a very unreasonable way.
On the field, on the commentary bench, on the bench, there was a moment of shock. Li Feng won the basketball, but suddenly came to a back dribble, went around in front of Granger, and went straight to the Pacers' halfcourt.
Li Feng came again, and this time Granger reacted, and reflexively chased after him, but he couldn't catch up.
Li Feng opened the instantaneous speed, and he couldn't catch up with Glengela in two steps, and the court seemed to shrink all of a sudden for Li Feng, and Li Feng seemed to be on the Pacers' three-point line in two steps.
One more step forward. Li Feng flew straight up, gliding through the air and slamming into the Pacers' basket.
Li Feng's original jump height was amazing enough, but now he has an instantaneous speed boost, and he flies up all of a sudden. It's really like walking in the air. Seeing that Li Feng was moving almost sideways in the air and flew directly to the basket, Li Feng suddenly turned over and came to a dunk behind his back.
"Bang dang!"
Li Feng smashed the basketball into the Pacers' basket at once. After landing, Li Feng roared.
Then the entire Consec Center came to its senses from the shock, and the fans suddenly shouted, jumped and screamed.
Joan Barry shouted even more:
"Li Feng dunked! Li Feng dunked! He's just too fast. It's so fast! ”
At this time, everyone was shocked by Li Feng's speed, and the big screen in the Consec Arena was also replaying a series of actions of Li Feng flying to catch the ball, and then turning back to attack quickly. In the camera, just look at Li Feng's series of actions, in terms of rhythm, he is completely two levels faster than others.
Li Feng scored 6 points in a row with such a dunk, and the original 14-point difference between the two teams was instantly shortened to 8 points, which was already within 10 points.
What's more critical is that after Tyberdu finished arranging tactics in the second half, Li Feng scored 6 points in a row, as well as such a wonderful steal and dunk. At this moment, the Knicks' momentum rose.
Seeing that a young team like the Knicks was going crazy, even if he was as arrogant as Vogel, he quickly jumped up from the bench to set up an offense.
At this time, the walker must be stable, as long as it is stable, everything will be easy to say, and stability is overwhelming.
When the Pacers seek stability, they always look for David West first, and today David West played particularly well.
So the Pacers came over this time and immediately pulled David West into the low post, and then George Hill hoisted it into David West's hands.
In the first half, David West gave the Knicks a lot of damage, and at this time, David West got the ball again, and Monroe fought hard. Below the impression of a top, and then the whole person towards the front of the look.
In this way, David West received the ball and landed, and was almost knocked down by Monroe, and the whole person staggered forward for a while to stabilize the center of gravity.
But this time he was too far away from the basket, and he saw that the position was gone. Although David West was annoyed that Monroe was playing "dirty", he couldn't help it, and passed the ball back to George Hill first. George Hill holds the ball at the top of the arc, and the Pacers' side has a plan and a plan. David West was in trouble, and Granger immediately pretended to cover at the free-throw line and resisted Li Feng with his body, and when George Hill came, he suddenly stepped outside the three-point line.
At this point, George Hill understood that the back-to-back pass was also in Granger's hands, and the Pacers wanted to play such a simple little match to score points.
Li Feng was blocked by Granger, and when Granger stepped back, he pushed Li Feng again, which Li Feng was a little far away from Granger. And at this time, Li Feng's first instant speed ability was also exhausted.
Seeing that Granger was about to make a move, Li Feng understood that he would kill someone if he hit someone, and he would fight to the death when he had the opportunity, and he couldn't delay, so Li Feng immediately turned on another instantaneous speed ability, slammed forward, and directly got up to intercept Granger's three-point shot in the air.
Li Feng tried his best, but the previous disadvantage had been formed, and he just rubbed a little bit of the skin of the basketball.
Li Feng came up and interfered with it so much, Granger's three-point shot, still missed, and suddenly smashed into the basket and was grabbed by Dragic.
Offense and defense have always influenced each other, and now once the Pacers have problems on the offensive end, the Knicks' fast offense will immediately kick in.
The Knicks were desperate on the defensive end, and now they are running desperately on the offensive end, and a group of people flew to the Pacers' half court like a smoke, and the Pacers really couldn't catch up, and at this time Dragic passed Rose.
Rose's mid-range shots, the position is good, and the rhythm is good, but Rose's shooting touch has always been bad.
As soon as he shot the basketball, he missed, and when he saw that Rose's shot was missed, the fans at the Consec Center suddenly let out another burst of exclamations. (To be continued......)