Chapter 956: The Hand That Covers the Heavens
Just when Bill Wharton said this, the ball on the Nuggets' side came out again, and Nate Robinson, who had failed in a row just now, has now completely entered a state of madness, dribbling the ball like a small whirlwind towards the halfcourt, when Turner went up to make the first delay, Robinson dribbled behind him and threw Turner behind him at once, and when Li Feng went to make the second delay, he saw that Robinson was short, and his head was almost close to Li Feng's waist.
Robinson's stature is too short, once he completely lowers his center of gravity, Li Feng can't find a physical contact, and he can't find a physical contact, and he will hit Robinson with his legs when he goes forward, so he will foul himself, so Li Feng doesn't dare to move regardless of his monstrous ability, Robinson, a small man, also has his own unique advantages on the court, who said that there is no room for small people on the court, and the small man's storage zài also has its own unique role.
Robinson passed the Pelicans' two guards in a row, and drilled into the Pelicans' three-point line in one step.
The basketball "swooped" and fell into the Pelicans' basket all of a sudden, and the little Robinson was really a power boy, and when the Nuggets were about to finish, he came to give the Nuggets a blood transfusion again.
scored such a goal, Robinson was also very excited, Robinson was not only bold, but also full of passion, and now he played such a good ball, and immediately turned back to Li Feng and made a thinker's move.
Robinson provoked Li Feng.
This action was put on the big screen, and suddenly the Pepsi Center Arena was boiling, "Ahhhhhh The audience was full of boiling cheers.
At this time, both the fans over there like this kind of game, because the game is exciting, fast, crazy and full of challenges.
Nate Robinson challenges Li Feng. also gave Li Feng a problem, how to respond to Robinson?
But this is Li Feng's problem, at this time, the Pelicans players, the head coach, including the fans in the stadium all believe that Li Feng will call a satisfactory answer.
The Pelicans quickly followed the Nuggets' butt to catch up, Turner took the ball and passed it to Li Feng, and the moment Li Feng got the ball, everyone held their breath. All fans want to see how Li Feng responds to Robinson.
Fuye, who was in front of Li Feng, also lowered his center of gravity and stared at Li Feng's every subtle movement.
At this moment, Li Feng did not use any feints, he responded to Robinson's detective file 2 in the simplest way, Li Feng forced a breakthrough on the right side, and knocked Foye away with one shoulder.
Foye couldn't bear Li Feng's blow, and Li Feng forcibly squeezed it up.
Facing the Nuggets' two interior lines with insufficient height, Li Feng took off directly and pulled the rod in the air. The feint dodged the defense of the two men, then changed hands, and made a small circle in the air with one hand, another dodge in the air. Dodged Robinson's vicious little claws, and finally Li Feng turned his right wrist.
Gave the basketball a spin, made the basketball spin and flew in an arc, and grazed the rebound. Then it landed in the Nuggets' basket.
Li Feng dodged twice in the air, and then hit a layup, finally pushing today's game to the highest. Tide.
The scores of the two teams have been brilliant before. Now Li Feng uses the most gorgeous flying to interpret basketball.
Suddenly, all the fans on the sidelines stood up and cheered, the fans all over the stadium were cheering, whether it was the fans of that team who were excited now, the game between the two teams was so crazy, these wonderful goals could simply enter the highlights.
Bill Wharton and Albert also shouted excitedly at this time:
"The Pelicans and Nuggets played an offensive game today, and it was so exciting, so exciting, and I think it's going to be the best game of the week."
The emotions of the whole court are excited, and the emotions of the players on the field are also starting to be excited, and great moments are forged by great games.
Now the players of both teams are composing a great game together, with the Nuggets kicking off the line and Nate Robinson coming towards the Pelicans' half like a ferocious little shark.
At this time, the Pelicans' players also entered a state of enthusiasm, and at this time, Turner did not make a mistake, gave Robinson a certain amount of space, and retreated to the halfcourt to use the team to delay Robinson's offense.
Robinson was also killing just now, but now even if he saw a sea of people in front of him, he still stepped down and dribbled and stabbed forward, Turner was afraid of Robinson's breakthrough and retreated.
Robinson took the ball back at once, got up and threw a long-range three-pointer.
Robinson has three points, and his three points are still convulsive, and once he starts the draw, he is very brigadier flattering.
Now Robinson's round of competition with the Pelicans has also adjusted the state to the highest point.
Shoot a three-pointer "Whew! Immediately into the Pelicans' basket, Robinson took the atmosphere of the Pepsi Center arena to a higher level, and the audience cheered, not only for this one ball, but for this series of wonderful performances.
After Robinson scored, he also excitedly made a gliding action of the plane when he ran back, and then stretched out three fingers to greet the audience.
In this case, Van Gundy is crazy on both sides, although fans like to watch this state, but Van Gundy likes to let the team be in a controllable state, not now that both sides are uncontrollable, in this state, the Pelicans' originally more advantageous defense can not be played.
So now that the court is in full swing, the players on both sides feel as if they are about to burn, Van Gundy still called a timeout at this time, Van Gundy's philosophy is very clear, the key to playing an offensive team like the Nuggets is not how many points they score, but how many points the opponent scores.
Van Gundy is going to change the tempo of the game, and he's going to be the finisher of this beautiful basketball now.
So when he was on the sidelines, he deployed a more lethal defense, and Van Gundy also made careful preparations for the high-post blocking and pick-and-roll that the Nuggets are good at.
Van Gundy set up his tactics, readjusted the mentality of his players, and emphasized the importance of defending and limiting the opposition, and then sent his players back on the court.
The Pelicans returned to the court to open the first round. Sure enough, there was a change.
The Pelicans came back to the sideline to tee, Al Jefferson came up to get the ball, but Li Feng suddenly sank to the low post, and the Pelicans played a high and low post at this time.
Li Feng took the ball, defending behind Li Feng was Foye, Foye's body was too thin, Li Feng hit him too easily, Li Feng raised his elbow on his head, turned over and shot directly on the board, and did not encounter any obstacles.
The basketball simply got into the Nuggets' basket.
The Pelicans were in a good time. According to the number of roads just now, it should have been the turn of the Nuggets, but as soon as the Nuggets kicked off, the Pelicans pressed "Hula" in the front court and blocked the Nuggets in the second half.
The Pelicans hula suddenly surrounded him, and at this time Nate Robinson's uncool problem was repeated.
He fought hard with the ball, controlled the ball and played difficult moves to get past Turner, but Turner came prepared this time, and came up and suddenly stuck the main position and did not let Robinson pass him.
Li Feng followed, double bag. Caught in the middle of the Nate Robinson bag, Robinson barely managed to pass the ball out.
The basketball happened to be stolen by Al Jefferson, and the Pelicans steal the Nuggets ball in the frontcourt.
Al Jefferson took the ball and squeezed a hard step towards the basket, seeing the Nuggets' bag coming. He turned around and passed it to Li Feng, who followed up.
Li Feng took the ball and swam in the sky, flew up directly, spread his wings in the air, and smashed a violent dunk into the Nuggets' basket.
Van Gundy's timeout was not in vain. After the timeout, the Pelicans stabilized the rhythm of the half, and the aggression on the defensive end has become stronger.
The Nuggets were stolen by the Pelicans for a frontcourt ball, and Brian Shaw also saw that the Pelicans were about to change the rhythm again. He quickly stood up and directed the team to run.
However, when the Nuggets were fully prepared for this round and got the ball, the Pelicans did not defend all the time, but retreated all of a sudden, leaving Turner alone to lead the defense in front, not allowing Robinson to relax for a moment.
At this time, Robinson immediately handed over the basketball to Foye when he got to the frontcourt, and now Foye is the Nuggets' most consistent scorer.
Foye is still the same old way to get the ball here, and he immediately dribbles under his crotch when he gets the ball, and then sways left and right to get past Li Feng.
At this time, Li Feng adopted a side-by-side defense, standing completely vertically, standing on the right side of Foye to prevent him from going to the middle, and at the same time letting go of the left side to let Foye move to the sideline, with Li Feng's connivance.
Foye dribbled over in a few steps, and sure enough, it came towards the side, and Foye only started on the side here.
Li Feng blocked one side, and Gasol immediately killed from one side of the side, Li Feng and Gasol suddenly formed a horn-like defense, and Li Feng and Gasol blocked Foye at once.
At this time, Foye was blocked by two body monsters, his shooting was not good, and the offense could not go up, so he could only turn around and pass the ball.
However, the return pass was also interfered by Li Feng and Gasol, seeing that the basketball pass was weak and weak, and the quality of the pass was not high, in such a fierce confrontation on the court, a low-quality pass was simply a chance to give the opponent a fast attack.
Turner had been prepared, and he knew the trap, so as soon as he saw the basketball fly out, he immediately jumped over and clicked on the basketball, and then turned around and ran towards the Nuggets' halfcourt, at which time Nate Robinson chased Turner up like a bantam.
Turnama passed the ball to Granger, who was running wild on the wing, and Granger has been playing steadily in recent years, and now he is being carried by the Pelicans. Emotional, take the ball and dunk it directly with both hands.
Granger smashed the Nuggets on another fast break.
The Nuggets failed two offenses in a row, and then turned around and ate the fast break, and the Pelicans' tactical change has been very obvious, that is, it has strengthened the aggressiveness of the defense, and once there is an opportunity to break the basketball, it will form a fast break.
This should have been the ideal state of basketball for Brian Shaw, but the Nuggets' defense was not good and they couldn't play this kind of ball, and now they were hit by the Pelicans instead, and Brian Shaw was in trouble at this time.
At this time, he also wanted to fight with the Pelicans on defense, but he didn't have a defensive player in his hands, so in the end he could only fight with the Pelicans for a fast break, and Brian Shaw was really a wizard, and at this time he used Lawson to replace Gallinari.
In order to stabilize the control of the ball, he went on a double point guard and replaced it with a point guard.
Albert saw it on the sidelines immediately, and at this time he said directly
"The Nuggets have a point guard, they have to play offense, they have to strengthen their control of the ball, now it's up to the Pelicans to deal with it." ”
The Pelicans looked at the Nuggets with three point guards. I also feel a little troublesome, so it is more difficult to form a fast break and steal.
Nuggets Nuggets advanced with the ball for the third time, at this time Lawson began to control the basketball, Lawson's disadvantage is conservative, and his advantage is also conservative, with him holding the ball very steadily, the Pelicans pounce forward, he can also protect the basketball better.
And Lawson's tactical awareness is also relatively strong, he came over with the ball, and immediately asked Mozgov's high-post cover son, don't worry.
Mozgov pulled out. Lawson took the ball around him and walked sideways, turning back and passing it to Mozgov.
Mozgov hadn't had the ball for a long time, and just now the Nuggets had two crazy scoring guards, and he basically didn't have a chance to get the ball.
Now with the ball, his hands are itching, and his whole body is full of strength, and he is a little faster with the ball, Gasol flies all of a sudden, and Gasol is flying, and Mozgov takes a big stride into the Pelicans' interior to score.
At this time, Al Jefferson was in the basket and the league snatched it out, delaying Mozgov by a step. And then just when Mozgov withstood Al Jefferson's forced shot.
Li Feng ignored it from the side, flew up on the heads of two or three people on the inside, and slapped Mozgov's ball.
The basketball was fanned away by Li Feng all of a sudden, which is a good defense for the Pelicans. But today's Nuggets were not bad, the basketball that was fanned by Li Feng fell into the hands of Foye, and Foye took the ball and immediately shook it under the basket and was about to shoot. At this time, Turner quickly killed, and came up and stuck to Feye's body to prevent him from making an easy shot.
Foye used a high-tossing trick again to force a shot. But after the offense just now, Foye's hands were a little cold, and the Pelicans' high-intensity defense also disrupted his rhythm.
Foye forced a missed shot, and Gasol, who ran back from behind, flew up and grabbed the basketball on Mozgov's head.
grabbed the rebound, he immediately gave the ball to Li Feng, Li Feng saw that the whole team had experienced the fierce scramble just now and the rhythm was uneven, and immediately took the ball and yelled:
"Fight slowly, we have an advantage, steady, steady."
In Li Feng's roar, the pelican lowered its tempo this time before advancing.
After a fierce defense, the Pelicans successfully targeted the Nuggets' two shots.
At this stage, Bill Wharton and Albert said together:
"After the Pelicans changed Van Gundy to coach last year, the intensity and resilience of the defense have really strengthened a lot, which shows that this old guy has a hand in adjusting the mentality of players."
The Pelicans used to use offense to motivate their teammates, but now they are playing beautiful, tenacious defense, and the team's mentality has undergone some subtle changes, offense brings passion to these players, and defense brings more confidence to players.
Being able to defend the opponent, in this way, the player's heart will arise, I don't want you to score, you can't get this feeling of control, at this time the Pelicans also have such a little meaning.
Li Feng took the ball and advanced to the Nuggets' half, he did not take the ball but passed the ball to Turner, and then Li Feng immediately ran without the ball towards the Nuggets' 45 degrees, and suddenly stuck Lawson who was defending him behind him.
After Lawson, Foye went to the top three position, so that the one who defended Li Feng became Lawson, Lawson's height was shorter, Li Feng was easy and simple, once Li Feng's butt leaned on Lawson, Lawson couldn't move.
Turner saw that Li Feng was in perfect position, and immediately passed the ball to Granger from 45 degrees outside the three-point line, and Granger took the ball high and played high, and passed the basketball to Li Feng on the head of Foye.
The Nuggets have a small man lineup with a strong offensive and strong ball control, but they suffer a lot defensively.
Li Feng took the ball and knocked it lightly, then quickly turned around and broke through the bottom line, and Li Feng twisted his ass and gave Lawson over.
Lawson had the intention to kill the enemy and was powerless, so he could only watch Li Feng drill under the Nuggets' basket, and when he got to the basket, Li Feng held the basketball with both hands, resisted Wilson Chandler, who came to fill in the position, and then forced himself to make a layup.
Li Feng scored two points under the basket again.
At this time, the Pelicans' tactics were basically completed, the defensive end contained the Nuggets' offense, and did not let the opponent score points for three consecutive rounds.
After such a period of time, the difference between the two sides began to widen again, and seeing that there was not much time left in the third quarter, once this breath was released. The Nuggets couldn't slow down, and Brian Shaw also went crazy at this time, yelling at his players:
"Defend, give me a steal for them, and we'll fight for them."
Brian Shaw was sick and rushed to the hospital, he himself was never a coach who could put up defense, and his team was never a strong team on defense, in this situation, he went crazy and let his players fight defense, but there was no basic strategy. This is drinking to quench thirst.
Why was the Pelicans' defense so effective just now, first of all, Van Gundy came up and smoothed out some of the team's defensive relationships, when did he get on the pack? When is the front court pressing? What kind of defensive traps are created? How to make up for the rotation time, these Van Gundy has already made basic arrangements, so the Pelicans have a basic strategy when defending, and the effect of desperately working in this general direction will be twice the result with half the effort.
Now the Nuggets don't have a clear defensive strategy, come up and work hard, and it works. If you can't spell it well, it's messy.
Against this backdrop, the Nuggets pushed forward again, and the Nuggets had missed a series of offensive misses before, and now they are coming back again. The Nuggets' mentality became agitated, they didn't have the patience to look for opportunities, and they just attacked for the sake of attacking, and in this case, Nate Robinson took the ball from beyond the three-point line. As soon as Turner gave him a chance to take half a step, the guy got up and threw three points directly.
Turner had given Robinson a sneak attack before, and now he saw Robinson coming. He immediately came up and sealed it ferociously.
Defense is a thing that is very mental, the same action, if you do it with an indifferent mentality, the defensive effect will not be good, if he does it with fierce movements and eyes, it will give the opponent psychological pressure.
Now Turner is fierce enough, ruthless enough, and brave enough, so Robinson also distracts more attention to Turner when he shoots, so that his focus on shooting is not enough.
The basketball shot and smashed directly into the hoop, Robinson had another chance to attack, and under the basket, Al Jefferson firmly grasped the rebound in the backcourt.
The Pelicans ruined the Nuggets' offense in the fourth round, and continued to defend successfully on the defensive end, giving the Pelicans the pleasure of taking what they wanted, I let you score you can win, and if you don't let you score, you won't get points, this feeling makes the Pelicans extra proud and confident, at this time Li Feng finally realized the mentality of the old teams like the Spurs and Celtics, and they also have this kind of pleasure on the court.
Al Jefferson took the ball and passed it to Turner, who only got the ball on Turner's side, and Nate Robinson just missed it, and now he immediately pressed Turner.
In the face of high-intensity pressing, Turner calmly passed the ball to Li Feng, and when Li Feng took the ball, Lawson saw that Robinson had implemented the pressing, and he also rushed up to snatch Li Feng's ball.
Li Feng does not have the effect of Paul's ability to go wherever he wants, but Li Feng has a strong ability to fight.
As soon as Lawson came up, Li Feng immediately turned his ass and leaned on Lawson, Lawson was hit to the side by Li Feng's ass, and Li Feng instantly solved the Nuggets alone, so that Nairo Robinson, who followed later, hesitated a little in the face of Li Feng, whether to grab it or not?
Just when Robinson was hesitating here, Li Feng forcibly passed and gave Robinson from the left at once.
Li Feng passed the Nuggets' two guards in a row, and then reached the top of the Nuggets' arc in two steps, and at this point, the Nuggets shrank back inside, and Li Feng just passed the ball to Granger, who was unguarded in the empty corner of the corner.
Granger takes the ball and makes a solid three-pointer.
"Huh"
The Pelicans' three-pointer hit again, and all of a sudden, the Nuggets' confidence, the Nuggets' players, and the Nuggets' Qiē began to crumble.
When he saw this three-point shot, Brian Shaw, a Nuggets player, a Nuggets fan, and at the same time a cry sounded psychologically, "It's over!" ”
The Nuggets were successfully defended by the Pelicans continuously, and they continued to play into a half-court offense, and the heart of the beating was cold, and the previous blood has now become cold-blooded, and the Nuggets' players seem to have fallen into the ice hole at this time.
In this situation, the Pelicans are celebrating, completing such a high-intensity defense and executing the offense perfectly, which has benefited the Pelicans and other players a lot, and they not only tasted the passion today, but also felt the confidence.
In this case, seeing that the team collapsed, Bryan Shaw could only call another timeout. (To be continued......)