Chapter 587: Choice and Action
Once the Knicks missed the shot, they gave the Pacers another chance, and the Pacers were in the groove at this point.
Now chasing over, the Pacers immediately played a trademark offensive tactic, Hill and Hansbru crossed the screen at 45 degrees, Hansbru took the ball and rushed into the basket, and when the Knicks blocked the breakthrough route, Hansbrough threw the basketball into the hands of George on the outside with a long pass under the basket.
George is still half a step away from the three-point line at this time, and J.R. Smith, who is defending him, is still half a step inside the three-point line, and with this step away, George can do almost anything. Now he's even more handy just for catching the ball and jumping shots.
George jumps up and throws another three-pointer! "Huh!" George's three-pointer also hit.
As a result, Madison Square Garden suddenly resounded with a tsunami of cheers from Pacers fans, and the Pacers smashed down consecutive three-pointers. The score was rewritten to 101-83, and the Knicks trailed the Pacers by 18 points after calling a timeout.
That's a nearly 20-point deficit, and there's only half a quarter left before the end of the game.
Before the game, everyone thought that this was a strong conversation, but no one expected that in the final quarter, the Knicks actually suffered a big collapse, and the Pacers opened up an 18-point gap in one breath.
18 points, this point difference is already very shocking!
At this point, Tyberdu wanted to call a timeout, but even if he did, he didn't know what to say.
Gary Payton also began to chant the decay spell at this time:
"It's over! Finished! This time the Knicks are finished! β
Pacers fans at Madison Square Garden were cheering, and some Knicks fans were cheering. The Pacers' bench was in full swing of celebration, and the Pacers literally turned the arena into a casino. Of course they are the protagonists, and the Knicks become the supporting characters who are ravaged by them.
The morale of the Pacers reached a high point at this time, the whole court was cheering, and the Pacers' players were also high spirits at this time.
In such an unfavorable situation, the player's feelings were naturally affected, and Li Feng was not able to do it today because of the previous table, and the shouting at this time could not have the effect of the past.
Seeing that the Knicks are on the verge of death, no one can imagine how the Knicks can turn over at this time.
Li Feng asked Livingston for basketball again at this time, and Livingston saw that the situation was so bad. He can only believe that Li Feng can create a miracle.
Li Feng took the ball at this time. The Pacers suddenly put on a strong defensive lineup that they hadn't seen before. George was up against Li Feng in front, Hansbrough was ready to come over and pack behind George, and the Pacers' interior players were also looking to this side.
The Pacers let Li Feng go when he was feeling good, but now it's the end of the game. Instead, he came up with a strong defensive lineup to suppress Li Feng.
Li Feng looked at the Pacers' lineup. He suddenly figured it out. The Pacers are taking advantage of their bad hand to give themselves a defensive shadow. They want to leave themselves with bad memories all the time.
This feeling of being manipulated made Li Feng very unhappy, extremely unhappy. Facing the Pacers' tight defense. Li Feng is as hot as fire here.
The ball shook, and then Li Feng slammed into the Pacers' basket like a missile, and the Pacers' defense really came in time.
Several people rushed in front of Li Feng together, but at this time, Li Feng did not flinch, but suddenly rose from the ground and flew above the heads of a group of walkers.
Li Feng flew high, but the Pacers' defense seemed to be like layers of mountains and forests, with overlapping arms and no gaps for shooting at all.
In this case, Li Feng could only dodge and dodge in the air, and he simply insisted, Li Feng almost paused in the air for 2 seconds, and when he was about to land, a gap was finally revealed on the Pacers' side, and Li Feng shot with his left hand.
The basketball finally fell into the Pacers' basket, and Li Feng finally forced a breakthrough to score 2 points.
Getting these 2 points means a lot to Li Feng, just when Li Feng roared to be clear, and Reggie Miller wanted to praise Li Feng with beautiful words.
The Pacers, for their part, didn't give the Knicks a chance to breathe at all, and they didn't even let the Pacers celebrate, and the Pacers pushed forward quickly.
George held the ball at 45 degrees, saw Pendegraf follow up, turned around and passed to Pendegraf, Pendegrav was half a step away from the three-point line when he received the ball, but his shooting rhythm was maintained well, receiving the ball, adjusting at the feet, bending the knees, jumping, shooting, Pendegrav's shot was melodious like a ballad, but the deadly one seemed to be poison.
"Brush!"
The Pacers' three-point shot hit again, Li Feng only scored two points with high difficulty, and the Pacers chased after the butt with a three-point shot.
This three-point shot hit the Knicks was heartbreaking, and it smashed Li Feng's wonderful goal.
The Pacers were so strong that they unleashed a three-point storm in the fourth quarter, destroying the Knicks' young hearts with one three-pointer after another.
At this point, Gary Payton just shook his head on the sidelines, the Knicks' bench was completely silent, and Tyberdu was also silent on the sidelines. The Knicks players on the court are even more withered, and they are completely unable to concentrate on their fighting spirit.
At this point, Tyberdu looked at the time and called a short timeout. If you don't call a timeout at this point, the Knicks could be kicked out of garbage time by the Pacers.
But after calling a timeout, Tyberdu couldn't come up with constructive advice, he still encouraged the Knicks to attack freely, defend tenaciously, and fight for dignity!
Tyberdu's set of tactical commands without substance also made the Knicks' players smell a bit of a rout.
Now that the game was played, Vogel finally got up from the sidelines, and he began to slowly move along the path of realization.
In today's game, the Pacers won a bit of a trick. The current state of the Knicks is not the normal state of the Knicks. Vogel is well aware of this, because everything that happened to the Knicks at this time was in his plan.
In the second quarter, he angered Li Feng and let Li Feng exert his strength early, at that time, he not only saw Li Feng's strength, but also summed up some useful experience in defending Li Feng. As for the disappearance of Li Feng's hand in the second half, it was additional interest.
After that, he curbed the Knicks' interior tactics, so that the team tactics that the Knicks were used to couldn't play, the rhythm was completely wrong, and Li Feng also lost trust because of a period of dumb fire.
And so it goes. The Knicks lost their rhythm. Losing confidence, they become a toothless tiger. Even if Li Feng comes back, his defense is prepared, and the most important thing is that Vogel actually sees that the Knicks' defensive weakness lies on the outside.
The Knicks themselves are a big man and a good team. But they're also afraid of big men who can project. For example, Pendegravel. Even the Knicks, who are not too bad forwards, are more difficult to deal with, such as Hansbrough. And their own team is not short of this type of player, Hansbru and Sam Young will cause a lot of problems for the other side.
In the Knicks' seemingly strong lineup, there is a lack of a second scoring point from the outside. Once Li Feng is strangled to death, the Knicks will have difficulty breathing.
Summing up these weaknesses of the Knicks, Vogel suddenly shook his head with interest, the Knicks did not have Ross and Dragic, Li Feng was alone, and the inside line could not be opened, many of the Knicks' regular season victories were completely based on Li Feng's crazy play, and it can be seen from Li Feng's number jΓΉ that Li Feng was more lonely than Garnett, the wolf king in 05.
There were only about 6 minutes left in the game, but the score on the scoreboard was impressively 104-85, and the difference in points was huge and huge.
The fans who had high hopes for the Knicks were also disappointed, and some fans whose homes were far away from the arena actually began to leave the court early!
The media on the sidelines also became a little interested at this time, the expected big battle did not happen, the Pacers easily defeated the Knicks, and it can even be said that they slaughtered the Knicks, and the 19-point difference was already a bit bloody.
At this point in the game, these guys of the Pacers are also a little slack, and in their eyes, the knicks and these pathetic young people have become a joke.
George was also a little sorry, because it was too easy to win the Knicks today, so there was no way to say cruel words after slaughtering the opponent, which made George a little complacent.
There is a subtle feeling spreading on the court, it seems that the Knicks have lost, and theoretically the Knicks are indeed defeated.
Even the Knicks' players were dejected at this time, and these young men almost lost a qiΔ today. The team tactics of the past have lost their effect, and Li Feng, who was omnipotent in the past, has also lost its role, and they have nothing to rely on, so now they are in the most difficult moment.
This atmosphere made Li Feng extremely uncomfortable!
Li Feng likes to come to basketball and is willing to fight for this game. It's because this game is full of excitement all the time, and the charm of creating a miracle, definitely not because of depression, but also because of depression.
If Li Feng likes these loves, he can go and see the ghost's bitter love films.
Li Feng doesn't want to lose, or he doesn't want to lose like this! Even if you die, you have to die vigorously, just like the overlord of Chu.
It's an easy thing to do, but what you need to do is not just courage, but also a certain amount of pathology.
Li Feng doesn't like the word pathology, but he likes the kind of stubbornness that can't be reversed and changed.
In his bones, Li Feng is very stubborn, so Li Feng decided to continue to be sick when everyone else went with the flow.
Li Feng wants to use his own pathology to raise others with his own attitude, or Li Feng just wants to be sick.
At the end of the timeout, the Knicks kicked off in the backcourt, and at this time the Pacers' defense was naturally a little lax. The Pacers have some of the league's most paranoid stars, but their own team's temperament isn't paranoid at all.
However, at this time, the Knicks also suffered bad luck, and their table on the court began to loosen.
Livingston came up and passed the ball to Monroe, but Monroe took the ball but unintentionally attacked and passed the basketball to Cousins.
Cousins was willing to play hard, but he didn't have any advantage against Roy Hibbert, so he could only pass the basketball to Li Feng, who was still one step away from the three-point line at the top of the arc.
Li Feng took the ball at this distance and watched his group of teammates cower. There was a nameless fire in his heart.
This nameless fire tore at his heart like a poisonous snake, and the moment he got the basketball.
Li Feng didn't make any feints, directly squatted deeply at such a distance, and then got up and threw an ultra-long-distance three-point shot.
Li Feng used great strength to shoot, which was almost all his strength. The basketball thrown out by Li Feng smashed onto the rebound with a "bang" like a cannonball, and the smashed rebounds shook a little.
Under this huge rebound force, the basketball was reflected into the basket at once.
Li Feng's heavy cannon-like shooting suddenly attacked, and the whole court was stunned. No one knows what kind of nerve Li Feng is doing.
After a three-point shot. Li Feng ran back with a calm and cold face. Looking at Li Feng's cold face, countless people speculated that this was just a vent for Li Feng.
The Pacers came over again at this time, but they were playing a little freely. David West took up the position under the basket with ease.
Holding the ball and pressing a step, the feint continued to shake. Suddenly turn over and jump shot. It was also free to get two points.
Monroe's defensive style has never been ferocious. Now the team's morale is low, and once his morale is low, David West's defense will not be in place.
David West is the kind of player who kicks his nose in the face, and if you give him a little sunshine, he can shine. This is when the game enters this delicate moment. David West immediately played with ease.
The Pacers finished attacking just as Cousins was listlessly preparing to throw the basketball to Livingston on the baseline. Li Feng suddenly appeared on the other side of the bottom line and yelled at Cousins in a hoarse voice:
"Give me the ball!"
Cousins heard the great anger in Li Feng's voice, and as soon as his hand shook, he involuntarily passed the basketball to Li Feng's hand.
After Li Feng got the basketball, he turned around and flew towards the Pacers' halfcourt, at which time the Pacers were already so far ahead of the Knicks.
On the defensive end, they are naturally lax, at this time it is still Hansburu who is responsible for defending Li Feng, and when Hansburu is defending in the position, it is a good choice to defend Li Feng with his height and long arms and sufficient strength.
But now once he expanded to defend all over the court, his pace and speed immediately began to suffer.
Li Feng came over and broke through in two steps, and then passed Hansburu with a simple change of direction. Hanspur, once the first barrier is lost. The Pacers' loose overall defense was immediately presented in front of Li Feng.
The Pacers had a big lead at this time, so naturally the defense was lax, and Li Feng accelerated and stabbed towards the opponent's basket.
The Pacers' defense at this time was completely unprepared, and Li Feng seemed to be a bolt of lightning, suddenly plunging into the Pacers' basket. When David West came to defend, Li Feng changed hands slightly in the air and knocked the basketball towards the opponent's rebound, and the basketball went in, causing David West to foul.
When the whistle blew, the fans at Madison Square Garden gasped in for breath. Li Fengtong's own practical actions, one big three points at a time, one dragon at a time, showed an attitude to everyone.
This is an attitude that is unwilling to give in, and this is an attitude that must be conquered. As soon as this attitude came out, the atmosphere on the court that had been waiting for a loss changed completely.
Li Feng is unwilling, and the Knicks still have a glimmer of hope, although that hope is close to a miracle. But Li Feng has created too many miracles, and it seems that there are no less than this time.
Even Reggie Miller, who was on the commentary seat, said at this time:
"Li Feng, this guy! He's really not a bastard who is willing to fail! β
Although Miller admires Li Feng very much, he is the totem of the Pacers after all, and he still hopes that the Pacers can win the championship, even though he has retired.
Li Feng used two consecutive goals to remind everyone that the game is not over. The Pacers, for their part, immediately put away their previous negligence. And the Knicks' players looked at Li Feng, although there was still doubt in their eyes, but they also had a little more hope.
Li Feng was sent to the free throw line and hit a free throw.
Li Feng, who succeeded in the free throw, still ran back with a gloomy face, but at this time everyone had different opinions on Li Feng's gloom.
When the Pacers came over again, it was much more formal, the team set up a formation, and then ran rigorously.
George was in possession at 45 degrees, and David West used a cross cover to get down to the waist and immediately stuck Monroe.
Got the position, David West waited for George to take the defender in front of him away, and then faced Monroe with a dribble and two steps, and suddenly a turn hook, David West still got two points. In the process, Monroe's defense was almost ineffective.
The Knicks are already so far behind, and now there are still such holes in the defense, and it is impossible to catch up with the score like this.
So when Monroe continued to defend poorly, Li Feng immediately went over to communicate with Monroe.
"Greg! You can write defense further forward and put more pressure on him! β
"I will!"
Monroe's answer obviously made Li Feng not satisfied, but this was not the time to care about this.
Li Feng took the ball in the backcourt again and chased it towards the Pacers' halfcourt, and Li Feng was still quite unreasonable this time.
Although Hansbrough tried his best to defend, but Hansbrough was still too weak after all, and Hansbrough finally broke the gong at a position close to three points or so, and was passed by Li Feng in one step, after passing Hansbrough, Li Feng immediately plunged into the Pacers' basket, and fearlessly made a fake move in the face of the Pacers' twin towers.
Li Feng made a fake move, even if it was fake, the Pacers' twin towers also had to make defensive moves. When the two towers of the walker raised their arms together, Li Feng stepped under his feet, squeezed it in raw, and then paid a little attention to Roy Hibbert on one side when he turned around.
Li Feng also fell down immediately, and directly deceived the other party's foul, Li Feng's deception foul was polite and courteous, and the walker didn't give it.
Li Feng went to the free throw line, still hit both free throws, and got back two points. In this way, Li Feng scored 8 points in a row, rewriting the score of the two teams to 93-108, and the difference between the two teams was shortened to 15 points, with 4 minutes and 28 seconds left before the end of the game. (To be continued......)