Chapter 875: Relay in the Air
Conley told the matter again, and at this time Robert Pera knew that Conley was not all right, but for this kind of guy who had already had the idea of going, Robert Pera was still kind to persuade Conley and explain with a pleasant face
"Conley, it's really their fault for Prince to isolate you today, I've criticized them, now our team is at the most critical moment, what is needed is the efforts of all of us, what is needed is for all of us to focus our strength on one side, now is not the time for us to contradict each other, at this time we should instead impose contradictions on each other."
Robert Pera was bitter here, but it didn't impress Conley much, and then Robert Pera finally began to say what Conley cared about.
"It's the playoffs, there's a lot of teams and scouts watching every game here, and if someone is good, they're definitely more sought-after than the players who are good in the regular season, and now it's time for Conley to prove himself, let's put everything aside and play well, so that we all have a good side, the team can advance, and you Conley can earn a place in the whole league."
Robert Pera's words moved Conley, who held back his heart and said to Robert Pera:
"If Marc Gasol and Prince, if they're willing to stay with me and keep the game going, I'm willing to do that."
As soon as Conley said this, Robert Pera was a lot more relieved, Robert Pera made a series of phone calls, he put the phone down, and he didn't see that the team had such a big problem in today's game, and he was the biggest sinner today.
If his team is integrated on the outside, his team will not fail so easily, Robert Pera thought to his chagrin, Robert Pera, who has experienced many playoff battles, knows what it means to win the playoffs at home. Winning a game is more expensive than the opponent.
Robert Pera sighed, then thought about things in his heart, and felt that when he trained tomorrow, he still had to unite the team.
The Grizzlies looked very relaxed here, but when they arrived at the training hall in the afternoon of the same day, the Grizzlies looked gloomy, which made people know at a glance that something big was going on in the team.
Robert Pera had been preparing for the meeting all night, and after explaining the team's tactics a little, he cut to the conflict in the locker room.
"I've heard everything that happened in the dressing room yesterday. This is quite a bad thing, our team in the playoffs this life-and-death battle of the matter of Kuran infighting, this is simply self-defeating, the next game, I don't care who is right or wrong, everyone must unite, everyone must unite, otherwise our destiny is at our own doorstep. After two wins by the Pelicans and then to the Pelicans' Conseca Center, we were going to be under pressure. β
"By that time, whatever it is. We have to pay a heavy price for the whole team, and you have to pay a heavy price for it, because all the managers will see your incompetence in the course of the game. It's not alarmist to see your non-professional players, and you know that I'm telling the truth. So for the next competition, I have only one request for everyone, and that is unity. β
Robert Pera said this at this time, Prince and Ed Davis, and Marc Gasol thought that they had to listen to Robert Pera, and what the team needed was to win, and at this time Conley was also reflecting on himself.
It was only by this time that the Grizzlies players began to put all their mental energy together.
The fourth game between the Pelicans and Grizzlies is still being broadcast by T.N.T., and T.N.T seems to have a lot of interest in the Pelicans-Grizzlies game.
The start of the game between the two sides, except for Randolph's return looks almost the same as the previous game, the Grizzlies' starting lineup is point guard Conley, shooting guard Tony Allen, small forward Prince, power forward Zach Randolph, and center Marc Gasol.
However, the Pelicans still sent their main lineup, point guard Rose, scoring guard Arenas, small forward Li Feng, power forward Millsap, and center Al Jefferson.
The Pelicans didn't make any changes to the main lineup, the Grizzlies sent the returning Randolph jump ball, Al Jefferson and Randolph stood in the center circle together, the referee blew the whistle, and the referee threw the basketball into the air.
The fourth game of the round began, and after the opening of the game, Randolph grabbed the rebound on his side with his strong posture, and Prince received the basketball and immediately passed the ball to Conley.
The Grizzlies did not play as hot as the first game at the beginning, but played very gloomy, Conley dribbled to control the rhythm, Tony Allen took the ball and passed to Prince, Prince passed to Marc Gasol, and finally Randolph received the ball on the inside and started to play inside singles.
After the opening, Randolph obviously had a good hand, and easily scored the basketball into the Pelicans' basket, and so the game between the Pelicans and the Grizzlies began.
The Grizzlies played steadily, and the Pelicans also attacked steadily, 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 Grizzlies once again opened the formation and wanted to play inside singles.
Since the strategy formulated by Van Gundy is the strategy of defending alone first and then flanking the attack, no one came up to help Millsap, and let Millsap carry Randolph alone, and Millsap could only carry Randolph's attack by himself.
The two of them strangled together on the inside, and if Millsap wanted to defend Randolph, he first had to control Randolph and not let him get in a good position in his place, and then he would not let Randolph catch the basketball well.
In this way, Randolph's power in the low post can be contained, so Millsap and Randolph are competing very fiercely in the low post.
Randolph moved left and right without getting stuck in the main position, so he turned around continuously, hoping to get a position, Millsap in order to stop Randolph can only use his hands to push and pull Randolph, this kind of physical contact on the Cheng dΓΉ, generally will not be blown penalty, but here Millsap just made a move, and immediately blew a defensive foul on Millsap in the referee.
The blow simply overwhelmed Millsap and Van Gundy. The Pelicans seem to be a normal defense, how could they foul, so Van Gundy went over to reason with the referee, but at this time, the referee didn't want to listen to what Van Gundy said, and gave Millsap a foul, and fouled the Pelicans so early, which will directly shake Millsap's playing time in the following games, and this news is too bad for Millsap.
Li Feng smelled a hint of conspiracy from Millsap's foul so early.
Sure enough, after Millsap fouled, the Grizzlies' side immediately stepped up their interior offense and breakthroughs. Once Randolph was contained on the inside, Randolph immediately passed Tony Allen, Tony Allen forced a breakthrough, breaking through halfway, he did not break through to the end as before, but when facing the pressure of the Pelicans defense, he passed the basketball to Conley outside, so Conley continued to attack towards the Pelicans' half.
This is clearly that after seeing a crack in the Pelican's inner line, he urged his outside line and inner line to desperately start to hit the inside line. Hope to beat Millsap.
Conley's breakthrough was also unsuccessful, but he gave the Pelicans' defense back, and also tore the Pelicans' defensive system apart, and Prince gave him a huge space when he shot again.
The Grizzlies are so clearly going to wash Millsap away. Van Gundy didn't have any way at this time, because Marc Gasol couldn't be unguarded, and it was impossible to call the slower-paced Al Jefferson to defend against Randolph, so Van Gundy could only use Millsap to resist Randolph. After the Pelicans missed a mid-range shot in the Grizzlies' half, they watched the Grizzlies come back immediately and start attacking the interior.
At this time, the Grizzlies are playing the same way as the Pelicans played the Grizzlies in the low post in the last game, and if you don't change the lineup, we are just playing one of your weaknesses endlessly. Although Randolph is definitely not a weakness here, it can only be said that there is a crack in the egg, but the grizzly bear still grasps this crack and desperately wants to turn this crack into a huge crack and completely push the pelican to it.
Seeing this situation, Arenas hurriedly returned to more defense, intending to delay this rift, as long as this rift was delayed, the game would be absolutely easy.
Just when the Grizzlies were frantically rushing towards the Pelicans' interior line, Tony Allen suddenly shot towards the Pelicans' interior line in the process of impacting, and threw the basketball towards the Pelicans' interior staff.
After Tony Allen threw the basketball out, the Pelicans' interior line immediately went haywire, and Millsap, Al Jefferson, Marc Gasol, Zach Randolph, and all four jumped together.
This Tony Allen thought that the Pelicans basket was not a basketball at all, but a bomb, so it was seen that Randolph was still extremely active even under the attack of Millsap and Al Jefferson, and pointed the ball into the air with one hand, and then it was a continuous click, so that the basketball continued to beat.
In the end, after several clicks in a row, Randolph finally received the basketball into his arms.
Randolph's task on the interior at this time has completely changed from scoring to destruction, destroying the Pelicans' interior is much more powerful than scoring, and now it's only the first quarter, if Millsap is scrapped in the first quarter, then Al Jefferson will also be involved in the next game, and in the end, the entire Pelicans' defense will collapse.
Randolph, who also vaguely had this kind of thought in his heart, after getting the ball, he didn't care about jumping directly to create the most direct dunk attack under the Pelicans' basket, which the Pelicans would never allow, and Al Jefferson wanted to take a shot instead of Millsap.
But Millsap's hand is also very fast, seeing that he can't stop Randolph, he is about to let Randolph dunk, Millsap's hand immediately went over and knocked down the basketball in Randolph's hand.
Randolph's basketball was indeed beaten, but it also allowed Randolph to achieve his goal.
The referee on the other side immediately blew the whistle: "Force! Suddenly there was another foul on Millsap, and now the game is less than five minutes into the game, and the Pelicans' main power forward, one of the few people on the interior who can play with Randolph, has blown two fouls.
At this time, Van Gundy stood up helplessly and began to make substitutions, Van Gundy could only replace Millsap at this time, and then replace Foster, and now it is still a little too early for the Pelicans to play a complete small man strategy in the final quarter of the first game.
Millsap couldn't see much on the pitch. He doesn't show much offensively, defensively it's about defending Millsap, but once the Pelicans lose Millsap.
Immediately became vulnerable, by the 8th second of the first quarter, the Pelicans were already 10 behind the Grizzlies, and the score between the two sides became 27-17, the Grizzlies were on their home court, and the Pelicans were completely pressed behind in the first quarter.
At this point, the Pelicans finally couldn't hold on, and Van Gundy immediately called a timeout. Started to swap their own bench players, and the Grizzlies are now ahead of the Pelicans, and the Pelicans are replaced by substitutes, and the Grizzlies are all coming off the bench immediately.
The Grizzlies' bench lineup is the lineup led by James Johnson, and the five people replaced by the Grizzlies are, point guard Nick Karasis Loyer, scoring guard Mike Miller, small forward, James Johnson barely plays power forward. The center is still Ed Davis,
The Pelicans bench lineup left Li Feng, and the other four were all substitutes, point guard Oladipo. Scoring guard Caron Butler, small forward Li Feng, power forward Henson, center Brand. With this adjustment, the Grizzlies are not only faster, but also very effective against Henson at the power forward position.
Li Feng returned to the ring. Loyle's defense is not very tight, just keeping an eye on Li Feng's movements.
Just like James Johnson has an advantage over Henson, Li Feng also has an absolute advantage over Loyle, and there is even better news for Li Feng that his fingers have recovered a lot today.
Li Feng arrived at the half of the Grizzlies, in the surprised gaze of Loyle, he suddenly started quickly and broke through, Li Feng attacked now, completely unexpected by Loyle, and could only follow Li Feng's footsteps behind him, and quickly retreated.
Li Feng was going to fight the Grizzly Bear's bench lineup at this time, so he exerted all his strength and broke through inward frantically, Li Feng launched a madness like an angry bison on the grassland, and killed directly from the middle.
The Grizzlies team saw Li Feng kill at this time, and hurriedly gathered in the middle, intending to shoot Li Feng to death in the middle, Li Feng also saw that the Grizzlies were obviously prepared for themselves a long time ago, so after Li Feng arrived near the Pelicans' three-second zone, he suddenly turned around and leaned against Nick Carathys beside him, and then stuffed the basketball into the hands of Caron Butler behind.
Caron Butler, after receiving the basketball, immediately came to his heart, and sent the basketball to the hands of Brand, who pulled the space for Li Feng of the evening newspaper, and then Caron Butler himself ran towards Brand.
Brand understood the little caution of Caron Butler, and after he got the ball, he immediately passed the basketball to the oncoming Caron Butler, who received the ball and shot, perfectly performing his shooting art.
The Pelicans play very nimble and brisk, and the Grizzlies are not weak here, because now the Grizzlies are also a standard lineup with four small ones, and these four small men also have a certain offensive ability, just look at the Grizzlies' running very fast, to the Pelicans' halfcourt, and then the Grizzlies players quickly transfer the basketball.
The basketball is passed quickly in the hands of the blue players, although the Grizzlies are very beautiful, but they lack a little something, which is the power to kill the inside, a team in the outside of the ball is like but can not hit the basketball into the opponent's inside, can not take the initiative to cut the opponent, no matter how can not play much role.
When the Grizzlies realized this, James Johnson immediately turned around and pouted his ass and squeezed the Pelicans' inside, James Johnson is the only person in the entire Grizzlies who has the ability to control the basketball now, so he has to play this time.
The Grizzlies couldn't get a shot with a quick reversal on the outside, but as soon as James Johnson was embedded in the Pelicans, he created an opportunity, and Mike Miller on the outside finally moved quickly out of position, and James Johnson hurriedly passed the basketball inside.
You must know that it is very hard for him to carry Henson by himself, the ball to the hands of Mike Miller was originally a very good three-point opportunity, but the ball was smart but was clever and mistaken, 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 Cronbutler had already caught up with Mike Miller from the side.
Caron Butler came up with his claws outstretched and shook in front of Mike Miller. In the end, it was Mike Miller who lost to Caron Butler's magic and lost the two points.
The basketball jumped on the basket, and after the basket was firmly in place, Brand and Henson took the rebound into their arms.
Then the Pelicans immediately began to counterattack, at this time the characteristics of the two teams replaced with small players showed that the back and forth offensive and defensive rhythm was very fast, the basketball reached Li Feng's hands, Li Feng immediately passed the ball to Caron Butler, and Caron Butler received the basketball dribble and immediately passed to Oladipo who came up behind.
In the process of rapid movement, the Pelican's continuous passing of the ball is very pleasing to the eye and very powerful. Because the Pelicans' continuous passes in the middle of the Grizzlies completely attracted the Grizzlies' attention to the middle lane, and at this time, Li Feng had slipped down the left wing quietly but extremely quickly.
Oladipo dribbled in the middle and suddenly stopped to shoot, but when he jumped up, he immediately found that Li Feng had reached the bottom line of the Grizzlies, so Oladipo's basketball changed from shooting to passing, and it was thrown lightly to the route where Li Feng was running.
Li Feng moved rapidly along the bottom line, and then jumped directly, leaning forward in the air Li Feng's body. Grabbing the basketball in his own hands, he shrank in the air before slamming the basketball into the grizzly basket in a half-turn.
The Pelican's series of inverted balls and fast runs made Li Feng smash the basketball on the grizzly bear's head so lightly.
Robert Pera jumped straight up at this point. This is indeed a huge flaw in the Grizzlies' own defense, and it is so simple that such an important person as Li Feng has been missed, how can it not make Robert Pera angry.
"The cooperation of Li Feng and Oladipo, the relay in the air. It's a good combination, we've seen a lot of breaks and then pass to Oladipo to shoot threes, and now we're finally seeing Oladipo's wonderful pass to Li Feng. It's an absolute thing. β
Barkley laughed and said when he saw the goal.
"Yes, Van Gundy saved Li Feng's strength, and when the main lineup appeared, he didn't let Li Feng play too much, but let Li Feng play with a substitute, so that Li Feng actually sacrificed a lot, just like Ginobili was in Spurs, of course, the difference is that Li Feng will never appear on the bench."
Miller is still familiar with the Pelicans' situation, and he has seen Li Feng and Oladipo's praise very much.
Li Feng actually didn't expect Oladipo to suddenly make such a pass, you must know that this guy used to only look at the basket, I don't know why he actually saw himself today.
So Li Feng jumped up from the grizzly bear's basket, and then hit Oladipo in the chest and said:
"Hey, Victor, you're not going to shoot completely off, how did you think of passing the ball to me."
Oladipo smiled and said:
"I'm just going to give you a taste of your bouncing ability, it's that simple."
The Pelicans' bench players played extremely fast and fast when they came up, and the Grizzlies' bench was weak first, and the rhythm of the last game seemed to be repeating itself at this time, the Grizzlies had an advantage in the first quarter, and then the advantage gradually disappeared after the Pelicans' bench, and even narrowed, and finally disappeared completely, but was defeated by the Pelicans' players.
It seems like that, but those who really know the game know that this game is definitely fundamentally different from the previous game, and the damage caused by Randolph to the Grizzlies in the first quarter today was too strict, Millsap fouled twice, Al Jefferson once, Brand once, and Randolph got 8 free throws on these guys alone.
Now even if the Pelicans recover the score, the damage caused by the blue fat man to the Pelicans' interior line cannot be recovered at all. (To be continued......)