Chapter 618: The United Center Tragedy

The Bulls went back to the Knicks' position, and they began to play cautiously, and the whole team cooperated to give Gibson a no-ball run.

Howard stuck Li Feng behind, Gibson scored two points on a shot, and the Bulls chased back two points.

The Knicks are now playing more and more relaxed with the lead, and after Shaun Livingston broke through to the bottom corner on the side, the guy even played a trick.

used a behind-the-back pass to pass the basketball to Thornton, who just shot a three-pointer and is now burning with passion, taking the ball directly to the Bulls' basket, flashing Howard's block on the baseline lateral lever, and then smashing the basketball into the Bulls' basket with a back dunk.

At this point in the game, the Bulls finally couldn't bear it, the Bulls scored two points, the Knicks threw a three-pointer, and you hit a mid-range and he dunked.

If you can't chase the Bulls like this, you can't get momentum, and the advantage of scoring and momentum will always be on the Knicks' side.

Phil Jackson called a timeout, and the Bulls still had to adjust.

The timeout came back with the Bulls' ball, and the Bulls played a lot more meticulously from the sideline, and the whole team made two cross-covers around the free throw line and the basket.

Gibson kicked off the ball on the sideline and passed to Paul on the outside, and the Bulls with the ball at the top of the Paul arc suddenly made a 45-degree cover for Howard, allowing Howard to get the basketball at the far waist, and Howard took the ball from the far waist to suppress the body and attack.

But at this time, the Knicks suddenly concentrated three people to Howard, and Howard passed a very good ball when he was trapped, and the base was directly sent to the hands of Iguodala who was empty on the baseline.

Iguodala was empty, he jumped directly and shot but the ball didn't hit, Iguodala pulled such a difference, but Howard made up for his teammates, desperately squeezed to the basket and clicked the rebound in the front court under the basket, and Howard took the ball in this position. Li Feng could only pay one foul on Howard's body.

Howard hit one of two free throws at the free throw line, turned around, Livingston quickly advanced the ball to the middle of the Bulls, pressed Paul to the free throw line, and then immediately passed the basketball to Li Feng, who had just run to the Bulls' three-point line at 45 degrees.

Li Feng took the ball and threw a three-pointer directly, and the three-point shot was like a knife, and it suddenly stabbed into the Bull's basket.

Li Feng hit another three-pointer, so that the difference between the two teams did not pull in but widened.

The difference between 53 and 75 points has been stretched to 22 points.

At this time, the Bulls were really scared, they played more cautiously, and they cooperated more, Iguodala broke through the middle and suddenly passed to Howard from the bottom line, and Howard wiped the bottom line and shot to get 2 points for the team.

The Bulls are also chasing points right now. But here the Bulls only got two points, Livingston came over, passed the basketball to Thornton, and he and Li Feng played another game of hide and seek on the side.

Livingston ran behind Li Feng without the ball, shook off Paul and then he suddenly reflexively ran towards the top of the arc, received Thornton's pass, and threw a mid-range shot with his body crooked, which was obviously out of balance and drilled into the Bulls' basket.

Livingston came again and suddenly the Bulls fighters were torn apart by the Knicks.

The Knicks' offense is endless, ball after ball, jumping out and scoring one person after another, without pause. This also makes the bulls have no way to fight at all.

The Bulls' side was out of control by the Knicks' continuous chasing points, and in the Knicks' half, Gibson clearly had a good opportunity to cut under the basket, and he didn't shoot the basketball, and he jumped out with too much force.

The Bulls made a mistake, but the Knicks were unrelenting. There is no panic either.

Shaun Livingston came over and passed to Cousins first, and Cousins dribbled and passed back to Li Feng, who followed up, and Li Feng took the ball in the penalty area.

The Bulls saw Li Feng's instinctive contraction, but when the Bulls players contracted back. Li Feng paused for a moment and waited for the other party to stick to him, and then Li Feng passed the basketball to J.R. Smith in the bottom corner.

At this time, Jr Smith was still empty, and J.R. Smith, who was in the vacant position, simply made another three-point shot.

Three points again! J.R. Smith also hit his third three-pointer, and he rewrote the score to 55-78.

The difference was opened by another 3 points.

The difference is 25 points. It's not a normal game anymore, it's already to the point of slaughter.

Although the bulls fell behind by a score of 0-3, everyone thought it would be a dragon and tiger fight, but the fight turned into a massacre.

Now that the Knicks are about to play Harlem basketball, all kinds of three-pointers have appeared, and the Bulls don't seem to be the Knicks' opponent at all.

Li Feng didn't shoot much today, and now he has scored less than 25 points in the third quarter, which is completely different from the previous Knicks relying on Li Feng to build bridges, and at this time Livingston scored 13 points, Thornton scored 9 points, J.R. Smith has scored 16 points, and today the Knicks are the team's big explosion!

As soon as J.R. Smith hit the ball, the fans in the bar in New York raised their glasses and celebrated.

Domestic fans are also shouting at home, and the old man Director Zhang, who is in the domestic cca.v studio, also hammered the table and shouted:

"This ball Knicks are completely crazy! The Bulls lost, they didn't have any chance. ”

Xu Jicheng in the live broadcast room saw that Director Zhang was so sure, and he hurriedly said:

"Coach Zhang, that's what you said? Aren't you afraid that the Bulls will also have a big reversal, and now it's only the third quarter. ”

When Director Zhang heard Xu Jicheng say this, he explained to the other party:

"Who's stronger on paper before this series? It's the bull. Who looked like Monroe and Jimmy Butler were injured just now? It's the bulls, but why are the bulls losing now! ”

"Because the momentum of the Knicks is stronger from beginning to end, the playoffs are a dead stumble between the two teams, at this time, whoever can suppress the other party with momentum will win, and now the situation is very clear that the Knicks have become atmospheric, the Bulls have gone, they can go home fishing, or be swept out to fish."

"The momentum is different from the score. Once the momentum is leaked, it will be difficult to get it back, now the Knicks have the momentum to have a 25-point difference and a tough defense in hand, what do the Bulls chase, at this time, the Bulls must have no hope in this series, they can only find a little dignity if they play hard in the rest of the game, you see, there are fans at the Chicago Union Center who have withdrawn, and the fans can't bear to watch the team lose so badly at home! ”

As soon as Director Zhang's words were spoken, Xu Jicheng was speechless.

The Bulls pushed back to the Knicks' half. Seeing that the Bulls' offensive formation was a little scattered, and the Bulls' players were scattered, Paul suddenly gave Howard a good aerial relay at this time.

But when Howard was holding the ball in the air, he actually put too much force, and the basketball rolled out all of a sudden.

At this time, Howard's hands were shaking and his heart was trembling, as the interior core of the team, he couldn't hold up such a big psychological pressure, the Knicks were too far ahead!

Howard's mentality is broken, and the rest of the Bulls' players are also a little bit broken.

When the Knicks pushed the ball forward again, Thornton covered Livingston. But Radmanovich, who was running, couldn't control his feelings, and suddenly crashed into Thornton in a daze, knocking Thornton into a big horse.

Radmanovic was also too anxious here, and he was so anxious that he didn't care about hiding from people, and ended up with a foul.

The ball was back in the hands of the Knicks. Now the Knicks have a bigger lead, and after a few passes, Thornton still wants to replicate the reflexive dunk just now, but the ball didn't hit the dunk and flew to the hoop.

The Knicks are now leading big and starting to play. But the Bulls are too far behind now, and they are too anxious to play, and they don't look at where Howard is in the Knicks' half. Paul slammed straight into the basket.

As a result, he was also pressed to the basket by the Knicks' collective defense, and the Knicks quickly advanced with the ball.

J.R. Smith took the ball all the way to the Bulls' restricted area in the middle, and suddenly passed the ball to Li Feng, who was 45 degrees from the Bulls' three-point line.

Li Feng took the ball with a slight feint, Iguodala and Radmanovic both pounced, and Li Feng saw the anxiety and eagerness of the Bulls now.

He was not in a hurry to make a move at this time, and flew the two of them, but Li Feng took a step forward to dribble and continue to seduce the Bulls' players.

When the Bulls' players wrapped up Li Feng, Li Feng passed the ball behind his back and went directly to the bottom corner again.

The bottom corner is still waiting for JR Smith, and there is no one in front of JR Smith two meters in front of the ball.

Radmanovic and Iguodala, who were shaken by Li Feng, didn't have the strength to pounce on JR Smith, so they could only watch as JR Smith adjusted for a second before shooting a three-pointer in the bottom corner.

The same action, the same angle, the same person, the result is the same as before, three points and then hit.

All of a sudden, the Chicago Union Center Arena collapsed, and the stadium was full of wails and sighs.

The Bulls' players straightened their eyes and legs together, and the bottom line of their fighting spirit was completely broken.

The Knicks are 28 points ahead of the Bulls, and with a nearly 30-point difference, what will the Bulls chase?

Now the Knicks are in this state of being a three-pointer and a three-pointer, and they are all playing with behind-the-back passing, playing basketball into fancy basketball, and the Bulls are trembling under the basket, and the state of the two teams is so different, how can the Bulls solve psychological problems?

Phil Jackson called a timeout when he saw this, but his players were shaking when they returned to the bench, and both Radmanovic and Iguodala were completely dumbfounded.

As soon as the main players on the Knicks' side came back, they laughed loudly with the bench players and high-fived their chests together.

The difference in state is so big, as Director Zhang said, the bull trend is gone.

After that, the bull made some adjustments, but it was like a mirror that shattered and couldn't be glued.

The bulls' courage was broken, and they could no longer come out with the fearless fighting spirit they had at the beginning.

After that, the Bulls never closed the margin to within 30 points until the end of the game, and the Bulls lost to the Knicks by as many as 33 points at 88-121.

In the fourth game of the Eastern Conference finals, the Bulls, who were already in despair, were completely desperate, and the Knicks played two consecutive waves of offense in the second and third quarters and killed them at once.

The Bulls lost quite ugly, and somewhat unimaginable.

On paper, the Bulls are not at a disadvantage, and even stronger than the Knicks, who are missing Dragic and Rose.

But. After seven difficult games with the Pacers, the Knicks completely transformed, and the Bulls were slaughtered at home, and a tragedy occurred!

The Bulls lost like this, and the United Center Arena in Chicago also ended early, and finally in garbage time, Charles Barkley and Kenny Smith were making the final defeat summary for the Bulls.

Charles Barkley put it simply:

"Today's loss of the Bulls started with Li Feng's convulsions in the second quarter, and when Li Feng played that wave, the Bulls couldn't integrate the whole team to respond because of the loss of Jimmy Butler, so that the Knicks extended their momentum to the third quarter. As a result, the Knicks played a team-wide explosion, which made the Bulls lose the ball! ”

"Then why can't the bulls make a big comeback! Like the Knicks did with the Pacers before? ”

Kenny Smith shifted the issue to the reversal, at which point Barkley said.

"The Bulls are a team that relies a lot on the whole, and they can't play a smooth offense without the support of the whole team, and Jimmy Butler, who was off the court before, is one of the most important pieces of the Bulls' overall basketball."

"So the Bulls losing Jimmy Butler is equivalent to losing the team's offense, and they can't chase the Knicks without a smooth offense, opening up a huge gap of more than 20 points."

"Before the Knicks were able to play a reversal, it was made by Li Feng alone, and the Bulls did not have an outside player like Li Feng who could score, although Paul had the will to fight, but he was taught a lesson by Li Feng. The Bulls as a whole have no individual and no individual, and it is completely unrealistic for Howard to expect him to score explosively. ”

"The Bulls lost this series, and in the end, they still lacked a player who made the final decision at a critical moment."

Charles Barkley set the Bulls for losing.

After the game, the Bulls' players also left the court in disgrace, and if they lost this game, their season would be over.

Herein lies the brutality of the playoffs. If you lose, get out of the game and go home fishing, and the winner advances to the next round to get all the praise and honors.

The loser was forgotten by everyone, and now that the Bulls have lost, the media that has been hyping up both sides has also forgotten about the Bulls. I didn't even do the interview, because the Bulls had disappeared from the game, and there was no point in interviewing them.

The Bulls did do it very simple at the end of the game, and everyone didn't say anything.

Even Paul, who was ambitious before the game, avoided reporters at this time. The game is obviously licking its own pain deep down.

After the game, everyone stopped talking about the Bulls, but instead talked about the great achievements of the Knicks today, what the whole team blossomed five-man doubles! What the smoothest offense ever! And so on and

The Knicks did win this game beautifully, the kind of team offense they rarely played.

At this time, after the game, everyone looked at the number of jΓΉ, Li Feng's score was less than 30 points, and some commentators wanted to attack Li Feng and said that the contribution of this game was not much.

But looking down, all those who wanted to attack Li Feng for not contributing much to the battle of life and death shut up, because after scoring, Li Feng still had 15 assists and 17 rebounds in this game, and 6 blocks were counting, which was another super triple-double.

Looking closely, in the third quarter, J.R. Smith's three three-pointers were all assists from Li Feng, Thornton's three-pointers were assists from Li Feng, and Livingston's consecutive two-pointers were also assists from Li Feng.

Li Feng delivered cannonballs to his teammates at a critical moment, and at this time, when everyone wrote Li Feng, they could only write Li Feng from an offensive arrow as a team player.

Looking carefully at the first three games of this series, Li Feng scored 39, 47, 44 respectively, plus this 27, Li Feng's average score was 39.25.

In addition to scoring, Li Feng also averages 11.25 points per game, 7.5 assists and 3.5 blocks, and no one can compare with Li Feng at all!

Such a number is definitely outstanding, and Li Feng led the team to two reversals and two waves to destroy the opponent, and Li Feng was a great contributor to the four games that the Knicks won.

At this time, various media are carrying out a series of propaganda on Li Feng, and Li Feng has become a god!

Domestic fans are also very proud of Li Feng, and some of them are indignant and make Li Feng a pride of China.

Now the outside world's praise for Li Feng is overwhelming, but Li Feng has been quietly avoiding the media after the game with the Bulls, and returned to New York to rest at home in a low-key manner.

Playing the Pacers and Bulls in a row, Li Feng was too tired, not only physically tired but also quite tired, on the one hand, he had to constantly face the opponent to make adjustments, and on the other hand, he had to leave his mind to deal with the war of words between the media and people.

When no one scores in the game, you have to stand up and score the game, and when you lack momentum, you have to stand up and improve your momentum.

The Knicks are almost Li Feng's one-man team, and Li Feng has taken care of the team, which will certainly bring great honor to Li Feng, but it also makes Li Feng physically and mentally exhausted.

And now even if the Knicks defeat the Bulls, the playoffs still don't stop, and the Knicks have to face a stronger and more perverted team - the San Antonio Spurs. (To be continued......)