Chapter 447: They're Just
At this time, Li Feng was sandwiched by three people from the Pacers, and the best choice should be passing, and there will definitely be opportunities outside.
But Li Feng didn't, he grabbed the basketball, squatted slightly, and leaned all his weight on Hibbert's body.
In order not to let Hibbert crush himself, Li Feng actually grabbed the basketball with both hands and made a strong layup towards it.
Li Feng was challenging the dignity of West and Hibbert as an inside line at the same time, and the four big hands suddenly surrounded Li Feng.
Li Feng held up hard in the air, retracted the ball, and actually staggered a rhythm and sent the basketball out of West's armpit.
West couldn't have imagined that Li Feng could play such a thief in such a hard confrontation, and the basketball spun from his armpit and drilled into the Pacers' basket.
Li Feng single-handedly picked the defense of the Pacers' three, and still scored under the basket.
After scoring, Li Feng immediately shook his fist fiercely and walked towards his own half, Li Feng roared at his teammates as he walked:
"See! Don't be afraid of them, they're just. them hard, and we'll be the ones who win. ”
Li Feng's roar here was a little too loud, so that the Pacers on the sidelines could hear it clearly.
Suddenly Vogel, who was sitting on the bench, looked extremely ugly, and Lance Stephenson, who was also sitting on the bench, and DJ Augustin jumped on the bruises on their heads.
This Li Feng is simply arrogant.
Li Feng immediately angered a bunch of players from the Pacers.
In the Knicks, Li Feng is the first in terms of scoring ability, and Li Feng is still the first in terms of the ability to make people angry.
Inspired by Li Feng, the Pacers' defense on the court suddenly stepped up again, and the Pacers' defense of Li Feng changed from the original purpose of weakening to limiting the ball.
This change suddenly put Li Feng in a predicament, just when Li Feng was a little trapped.
Li Feng was even more restricted. At this time, Tyberdu saw that this was not good, so it was better to change people! The Pacers made a substitution. The Knicks, for their part, also started to make substitutions.
But today's Knicks' bench performance will not be, so in the bench period, Granger with a group of benches easily has an advantage.
By the end of the first quarter, the margin had stretched to more than 10 points, and at the beginning of the second quarter, Tyberdu saw that the team was a little unable to hold on.
J.R. Smith couldn't play alone, and a group of substitutes for the Pacers, so Tyberdu could only continue to squeeze Li Feng's physical strength.
Li Feng was sent to the court at the beginning, but at this time, a group of tricks of the Pacers played a ruthless game against Li Feng. Send one person to restrict Li Feng from receiving the ball first, and once Li Feng receives the ball, use two people to press it. Once Li Feng gets close to the basket, he uses three people to wrap the clamp. Once you can't stop it, simply foul it.
The Pacers punched out this combination, and Li Feng had nothing to do. It was hard to get the ball by the opponent, it was difficult to take the ball and attack, and there was a slightly better chance, and the Pacers also fouled themselves directly.
In this way, Li Feng has no offensive rhythm, he is very tired, and his efficiency is extremely low.
The Pacers pinned Li Feng vigorously, making Tyberdu think he had a chance at first. Immediately changed to the main player.
However, the Knicks' main players did not perform well on the court, and they did not have the full flowering style when they played a game against the 76ers.
By this time, a group of Knicks players had not fully recovered physically. They played seven games. I hurried to Indiana, physically and mentally exhausted.
Even when Li Feng encountered the bag, they contributed very little on the outside. At this time, the shortcomings of the Knicks who can't shoot three-pointers are magnified all of a sudden.
If the Knicks have a three-pointer, Li Feng is thrown out by the bag. Shoot a three-pointer directly from outside the three-point line. But the Knicks don't have three-point shots, and they need to dribble one step inside the three-point line to get the ball.
This step comes up, and the Pacers' defense comes back. There is simply no chance of a vacant seat.
So the current situation is that the Knicks can concentrate their forces to contain Li Feng while still being able to limit other people's shots.
The Pacers completely suppressed the Knicks on the court, and at this time, the Pacers were far ahead in terms of score and momentum.
Amid the constant cheers of Indiana, the Knicks became more and more dull as they played, and the Pacers stretched the gap to 47-32, leading the Knicks by 15 points.
The score difference was stretched to 15 points, and the momentum was getting more and more depressed, which made Tyberdu can't help it.
He knew very well that if he didn't get through it at this time, the Knicks might be doomed.
First of all, it is much more difficult to chase points on the Pacers than to play the 76ers, and the Pacers' defensive level is incomparable to the 76ers.
Tyberdu called a timeout and replaced Rose, who had just been playing on the court, with Bellineri.
Belineri and J.R. Smith are both bench defenders, but Smith has played well and dazzling in recent games. Belineri is very inconspicuous and has less time to play.
This situation made Belineri hold his anger in his stomach, and now his physical fitness is indeed good. More crucially, Belineri has been practicing his three-point shooting relentlessly lately.
He also knows that this is what the team is missing, so he is also changing himself, all-round himself, and making himself more suitable for the Knicks' system.
As he made the substitution, he asked the team to speed up the ball so that he could find a fleeting opportunity from the Pacers' tight defense.
After the pause, it was the Knicks' sideline ball, Li Feng desperately ran out to receive the ball, and as soon as he turned around, the two defenders of the Pacers immediately blocked Li Feng at a 45-degree position left and right.
At this time, Li Feng transferred the ball as fast as possible according to Tyberdeau's request, jumped up and threw the ball into the hands of Jones, who wanted to cut to the basket.
Jones had Hibbert waiting in front of him with a black face like a door god, and he didn't have a chance to attack, so he hurriedly threw the basketball in the middle of the march to the hand of Bailey, who had just played, waiting in the bottom corner.
Belineri received the ball in the bottom corner, there was no one in front of him, and the Pacers had to wrap up Li Feng and protect the basket. His place was completely empty. At this time, Belineri adjusted a little, and a three-point shot was completely unexpected.
The ball was shot!
Belleneri hit this three-point shot, and suddenly Vogel scratched his bald head in wonder, Bellenelli didn't have a three-point shot before!
Now that the Knicks are in the trough, what they need most is such a new force.
The Knicks hit a well-timed three-pointer and turned around with a morale boost, while the Pacers were a little slackened in their long-term lead. Hill came over and made a mistake in passing, sending the basketball to the Knicks for nothing.
With the opportunity to break quickly, Li Feng immediately seized it, ran over and made a stop-and-go jump shot to score 2 points again.
The Knicks are on a five-point run. The momentum has stabilized a little, and the Knicks have also found some ways to deal with the Pacers' crazy bagging, which is to speed up the pass, so that the team can play more integrally, and everyone will shoot whoever has the opportunity. In this way, the shackles on Li Feng's body can be untied.
The Pacers were also a little awakened by the Knicks' score, and then fell to the Knicks' position and played more seriously.
The Pacers also stretched the space very open, with Paul George and Granger all ambushing in the corner. Hibbert was left alone near the basket.
Hill came up and did a high pick-and-roll with West. After blocking for a while, West pulled outside, completely freeing up space in the penalty area. In this way, Hill was very resolute in controlling the ball and pierced the Knicks' basket.
Hill's short attack on the basket made the Knicks naturally shrink the defense, but at this time, Hill turned around and passed the basketball to West's hands.
West completely ignored Jones in front of him and took a lateral step with the ball. The face frame shot and the shot hit.
Jones' defense was still too weak for West. And although the Pacers' attack is simple, Hill's potential is reflected. Ciel's in the crowd. Very calm passing, passing opportunities are just right, he himself attracts enough firepower. You can also accurately separate the ball. That's what most point guards in the league can't do.
It's easy to say that you break through to attract attention and pass it to your teammates. But in the midst of the breakaways, you have to protect the ball, you have to threaten the basket, you have to see your teammates, and you have to pass the ball at the end. It's a lot of things to deal with in a split second, and it's a lot of skill that the average defender can't do.
The Pacers used another simple combination to score two points to contain the Knicks.
When the Knicks came back to the Pacers halfcourt, Li Feng still had a hard time receiving the basketball, even after getting the basketball through a cross screen by Goran Dragic. encountered a double bag, and at this time, Li Feng knew that Lu Dao couldn't rely on himself. As soon as he saw Jones passing the ball to the free-throw line, he saw the ball in the bag.
Jones took the ball, and Li Feng quickly inserted it into the 45 degrees of the Pacers, wanting to get stuck in the position of the owner's back attack, but at this time, Paul George defended Li Feng again and cut off the passing route.
Li Feng still had a hard time getting the ball, and just when Li Feng was being controlled by others, Jones gave Li Feng a reverse pass.
Li Feng hurriedly followed the ball and ran backwards, and at this time he suddenly saw West catching up from behind him, and Bailey ran to the bottom corner along the bottom line.
The situation is very complicated, and Li Feng has a thought in his mind at this time, he can't let the Pacers grab the ball. So Li Feng's body flew out of the corner sideways, desperately pointed the tip of his fingers at the basketball, and pointed the basketball directly at the bottom line of Belineri.
The basketball flew away, and Li Feng also fell sideways in front of Paul George and West, blocking both of them.
Belineri catches the ball and, with a somewhat obscene, non-stretching movement, throws the basketball out again in the same spot.
The three-pointer slid through an arc and fell into the Pacers' basket again with a "brush" sound.
Belineri hit two three-pointers in a row, and the Knicks players, who had been holding back on the bench for a long time, all jumped up waving towels. The Knicks finally let out a sigh of relief.
Li Feng waved his fist hard even if he was lying on the ground, the Pacers guys simply made Li Feng tired today, and now the three points of Belineri finally made them understand that they can't just wrap it up.
Belineri, who scored the goal, came over and pulled Li Feng up, without Li Feng's desperate scramble, and there was no three-point shot from him.
After Li Feng stood up, he also gave Belineri a bear hug, without Belineri's three-point shot, Li Feng didn't know how long he would be "bullied" by the Pacers.
The Knicks are now seeing that the mood is coming up. When the atmosphere of the team changed a little.
The Pacers, on their side, quietly played a no-ball run tactic from Granger, and Granger suddenly ran to the bottom line and staggered past West, and suddenly there was a split second vacancy.
Hill also seized the opportunity to brush up on the assist, and the basketball immediately went to Granger's hands, and Granger raised his hand for a mid-range.
The ball landed safely in the Knicks' basket. The Knicks' offense is not as good as the Knicks, and as soon as they come, the mountains are shaken and the wind is stormy. But the Pacers' offense, like their defense, is continuous. As pervasive as a spring breeze and drizzle, as long as you slack off a little and he hits one, you are a little careless and they hit another.
The Knicks were a little more emotional here, but Granger was as calm as an iceman, and when he saw an opportunity, he immediately hit back with a two-pointer.
Although the Knicks took a hit on the overall morale, Belineri was still immersed in his own fanaticism at this time.
In the Pacers' half, Li Feng had difficulty receiving the ball, and Goran Dragic passed the basketball directly to Belineri.
Belineri played quite aggressively at this time, breaking through with the ball himself and walking towards the Pacers' basket. Met West's defense and walked around the Pacers' court for half a circle. The Pacers couldn't do anything about him.
The main thing is that the attention of the walkers is focused on Li Feng, and Belle, who is like a-stirring stick, is completely unprepared and unprepared. When everyone didn't know how to deal with it, Belineri went around to the other end of the court. Got up and threw a three-pointer directly.
Belineri's current three-point range is still a little bit sure of the open position, but the shooting is still a little worse in the face of people.
The basketball didn't hit the shot, but at this time the Pacers were messed up in front of the defense by Belineri. All of a sudden, Cousins was in a good position under the basket, and the kittens jumped up to make up for two points under the basket.
After Belineri made a move to disrupt the situation. The Knicks finally stopped being unilaterally suppressed by the Pacers, and began to gradually start a tug-of-war with the Knicks. The Knicks are clearly on the upturn.
Now Tyberdu can also see it, except for Li Feng and Goran Dragic. The rest of the players had to play and surprise the Pacers so the team could carry it.
Thinking of this, Tyberdu immediately jumped into the stadium and shouted at his players:
"It's all like Mark playing like this, and they're all taking the initiative. You have to take the initiative to play. ”
Tyberdu's roar was an encouragement to Belineri, but it didn't matter to Cousins and Goran Dragic.
Belineri completely stole the limelight from the whole court, and this is when the Pacers pushed forward again. Hill also wanted to steal the limelight, and he came over and suddenly attacked the Knicks' basket directly in the transition between offense and defense.
However, the Knicks' outside line was not so good, Hill only broke through Goran Dragic by one step, and was blocked by Li Feng later.
Hill forced his shot, but it missed. Hill is mostly on the pitch and is fairly steady by the Big Three, but occasionally he still leaks the impatience of young players.
Hill missed, the Knicks immediately came on a fast break, and Goran Dragzic habitually passed the ball to Li Feng. Li Feng took the ball but immediately encountered the Pacers' double bag, and Li Feng immediately found Belineri at the first point.
Belineri is playing a little excitedly now, taking the ball and directly changing direction past Paul George, and directly hitting the basket.
Under the basket, West saw that this guy was coming up again, and immediately made a small block and swept it to the ball of Belineri.
The basketball was fanned down by West, smashed directly into Cousins in the back, and then actually bounced back into the hands of Belineri.
Belineri is in the crowd of walkers, and this excitement has not passed! took the ball directly under West's armpit, and came to an extremely weird wipe board, the basketball rubbed twice in a row on the rebound, and finally hit it.
All of a sudden, the Knicks players jumped up, both on the court and on the bench.
With the Knicks locked up by Li Feng, Belineri completely dominated the court, which the Pacers could never have dreamed of.
Amid the boos at the Consec Arena, Vogel stood up with a sad look on his face and called a timeout to the referee.
Walkers can't let a nobody go wild on their heads like this.
At the time when the Pacers called a timeout, the big screen at Consec Arena immediately showed Monroe being carried down with an injury in the last game.
At this time, Ao Fat also said:
"New Yorkers are really tenacious right now. Today, they lost their main power forward Monroe and Li Feng was firmly locked, but there were still players who jumped out to save the team. ”
"Yes! If there were no Belineri's three-pointers in the last two minutes, the Knicks would have lost more than half of them. ”
Johnson also said at this time:
"Belinelli is really timely rain for the Knicks." (To be continued......)