Van Gundy groaned for a while and sent out his own bench lineup, in fact, now Van Gundy is also facing a very embarrassing situation, that is, no one is available on the bench after overusing the main force, and finally Van Gundy still put together his bench lineup.

Point guard DJ Augustin, scoring guard Brewer, small forward Elsan Watanabe, power forward Brand, center Al Jefferson, and Van Gundy's reluctantly patchwork bench lineup is really a bit shabby in the backcourt, but Van Gundy also made it clear before sending them on the court, they must defend desperately, defend at any cost, and use the example of Li Fengdi as circumstantial evidence to tell their own players, since they are not soft, then what do we estimate?

The bench lineup sent by the Trail Blazers is point guard Lillard, scoring guard Matthews, small forward Thomas Robinson, power forward Robin Lopez, and center Leonard.

This is a terrifying tall lineup, but his tall lineup is a combination type with no feet on the inside and no shooting on the outside, and the attack is obviously weak and slow.

In this way, in the final time of the third quarter, the Pelicans and the Trail Blazers played very closely, and everyone played very carefully, only Lillard tried to score high points a few times, but he is only in the second grade now, and his shooting is very poor.

In this way, at the end of the third quarter, the score of the two teams remained at 10 points, 90-80, and the Trail Blazers still relied on Lillard to get back 4 points.

At the end of the third quarter, Wesley, who was in the commentary booth, looked at him with a vivid expression of provocation and mockery, and Bill Wharton said:

"Well, my friend, do you still want to say how great the Trail Blazers are, and now whatever you say, I can describe our Pelicans with the same compliments,"

Wesley said a little smugly, but Bill rolled his eyes and said:

"Oh well. If I say the head coach of the Trail Blazers is a dwarf, do you say the same? ”

Speaking of this topic, Wesley glanced at Van Gundy on the court, and he said uncertainly:

"I don't think I'd be mad at me even if I said that,"

At the beginning of the fourth quarter of the game, the bench lineups of the two teams were still competing, and the score was also deadlocked at about 10 points, while the main forces of both sides were sitting on the court, recuperating, and they waited for the last 8 minutes or so of the game, which was the time to decide the outcome of the game.

The stalemate finally took a turn for the better, 2 minutes and 56 seconds. After Lillard beat Brewer in a row, the gap between the Trail Blazers and Pelicans finally narrowed to single digits.

99-90, the opportunity for the Trail Blazers came, and the Pelicans were ready, the two teams made substitutions almost at the same time, on the Pelicans' side they replaced point guard Rose, scoring guard Arenas, small forward Caron Butler, power forward Li Feng, center Millsap.

And Stotts really didn't disappoint Van Gundy, and his sharp knives were also put on the court, point guard Lillard, and shooting guard Jason Lillard. Small forward Michael Batum, power forward Dorrell Wright, center Aldridge.

This is the best of both teams, covering almost all types of scorers in the league, and in the Trail Blazers, there are more breakouts. and ball-handling singles, while the Pelicans' roster is dominated by wandering top shooters and low-post offensive players, and this difference in lineup dominates the difference in the Trail Blazers' style of play.

The Pelicans' possession of the ball at the opening time, at this time, all the Pelicans' main players have been fully charged after the break, and the Trail Blazers players have the same effect as the Pelicans players. In the half, their unexpectedly defensive was very sticky, very fast, and the simple low post and the coordination of the outside shooters were a little sticky.

So Rose made a quick pass to Li Feng. He hoped that Li Feng would use his strong breakthrough ability and impact to cut through the entire Trail Blazers' defensive system to form an opportunity, but Li Feng understood Rose's gesture wrongly, and he thought he was going to play alone.

So Li Feng, who received the basketball, immediately turned around and stood at a 45-degree position, in front of him was still Dorrell Wright, after a section of the contest Dorrell Wright had already recognized Li Feng's ability and characteristics, so as soon as he saw Li Feng turn around, he immediately took a step back to defend Li Feng's breakthrough.

Li Feng saw that Dorrell Wright had retreated, and the space in front of him immediately expanded widely, isn't this time a good time to shoot, when Dorrell Wright took a step back, Li Feng calmly raised his arm, looked at Dorrell Wright with a smile, and his lower body didn't move at all, just a little basketball with his fingers.

The basketball flew out, there was no arc at all, it was a straight straight line, and it smashed on the Trail Blazers' rebound with a powerful "bang", and then turned around and drilled into the Trail Blazers' basket powerfully.

This time Dorrell Wright is a little thundered, he saw this kind of shooting in middle school, and then he saw this kind of thing on Duncan's body, and now he was actually made a wipe shot by the big guy in front of him.

Dorrell Wright cracked his mouth, what else can he say, the Trail Blazers replaced Mo Williams, but this is completely different in rhythm, Mo Williams is a point guard, and his rhythm is faster, and even the rhythm of the entire Trail Blazers is even faster.

The two guards of the Trail Blazers are both two-way guards, and they are both offensive ones, one is good at breaking through, the other is good at shooting, and the two of them partnered in the fourth quarter, and the rhythm immediately became very fast.

Lillard and Mo Williams passed twice, and the Trail Blazers' double guards hit the Pelicans halfcourt, and the double ghost slapped the door, at this time, Lillard and Lillard didn't wait for the players behind to come up, and Mo Jr. pulled and immediately passed Lillard, and Lillard broke through.

Lillard's breakthrough belongs to that kind of purity, there is no amazing first step, there is no large-scale realistic feint, there is just unpretentiousness, there seems to be no break from start to finish, catch the ball and then seem to be a simple break on the left, one step squeezed Rose's side, the second step has been completely passed, and it is very simple and easy to lay on the Pelicans' head.

The main players of the two sides played for 3 minutes, and the Pelicans were chased by the Trail Blazers by 4 points, leaving only a 5-point advantage, 104-99.

Next, Mo Williams also relied on pick-and-roll break-through to score.

At this point, Van Gundy hurriedly called a timeout, and he replaced Rose. replaced Thornton, and pushed Li Feng back from the position of fake power forward to the position of small forward.

At this time, although Rose was a little dissatisfied, he really couldn't defend, Mo Williams's footsteps, Van Gundy quickly instructed Li Feng while replacing Rose:

"Li Feng, be careful of Williams's footsteps, you can give him appropriate space, but you must not let him enter our inner line."

Li Feng saved the truth, he nodded vigorously and ran to the court, when Li Feng started to dribble again, he began to observe the entire court, and played the Pelicans used many times in this game to misplace the single low post tactic.

The Pelicans' tactic is very focused on low-post coverage when running, and cross-covering high-post cross-cutting action. Running players often suddenly turn around and get stuck in a low post, and then others pull away, rather than the usual opening open, and one person obviously plays a low post.

After Li Feng ran out of the low cover, he quickly curled inward and cut in, and then turned around and stuck a position, Li Feng only took into account the tactical possibilities when he made the move, but what he didn't expect was that as soon as he turned around, Butler's left-handed one-handed pass was like a meteor and "whew" in front of Li Feng, Li Feng hurriedly reached out to catch the ball.

At this point, the Pelicans players around the ball immediately dispersed. Leave all the space to Li Feng, in the first three quarters of the game, Li Feng's performance was average, and there were not too many good opportunities on offense. The main thing is this low-post tactic executed by the Pelicans, and he has to face Batum, who does not take advantage at all.

Now that he has become Lillard behind him, Li Feng's advantage is too big. Dribble a step, then turn straight to the basket and eat Lillard to death physically. Angry Lillard was staring dryly and couldn't do anything.

The Trail Blazers attacked, just now Williams had already ignored Rose's breakthrough, he was used to coming up and blasting the opponent in front of him first, and it was like breaking through Li Feng after half the court.

But Li Feng was already prepared here, the distance of retreat, and the position between his feet, Mo Williams fell into his trap as soon as he broke through, and Mo Williams ran out in two steps Mo Williams did not pass Li Feng, but was squeezed by Li Feng with his body, and completely stuck to the left sideline.

When it comes to this defensive posture, it becomes Li Feng's complete initiative, because after physical contact, his strength advantage and body advantage are swung out, and the advance and retreat are not completely up to Mo Williams.

Squeezing and still struggling to move forward, the baseline of Caron Butler suddenly came up to Mo Williams to form a double attack, this time Mo Williams finished the sideline on one side, and the two defenders on the other side had no space at all.

Just when Mo Williams understood that he was in prison and wanted to pass the ball out, Li Feng attacked Mo Williams when he was most desperate, grabbed it with one palm, and forcibly pulled Mo Williams' ball into his arms.

Then he turned around and passed to Li Feng, and it was this time that Stotts slapped his thigh continuously, because at the moment when Mo Williams was broken, Stotts felt that the momentum of the Pelicans that his team had worked hard to accumulate that was about to overthrow was always broken by a steal by Li Feng.

You can not shoot, or you can't break through, but you are cut off and blocked, this kind of thing is the most demoralizing, and when the morale moves, the morale of the army is unstable.

Although Li Feng faced Lillard in the low post, he was immediately restrained by Lillard as soon as he ran up the court, and he could only control the ball and play half-court offense on the Trail Blazers' position.

As soon as the whole team ran over, Li Feng also stretched out his hand, and it was still a misplaced low-post single.

It's just that now Li Feng is like playing eagle and catching chickens, bypassing Millsap and Rose from the baseline in a row, and then cutting out to cover Crawn Butler and going straight into the Trail Blazers' interior line.

When he got to the basket and suddenly turned around, Li Feng's ball arrived, and a series of cooperation was almost the same as what Li and completed just now, in fact, the tactics ran to this time The Pelicans have already had a series of changes, Li Feng can pass the ball to the high Millsap jumper, the three points of Rose and Caron Butler on both sides, and the response of 45 degrees Thornton.

But at this time, the pressure on Li Feng's body on Li Feng was really weak, and he squatted the ground, and Williams disappeared like a steel ball that had been shaken open.

This time, Li Feng could perform, jumped up directly, completed the lever and 90-degree turn in the air, and smashed the basketball wheel arm sideways into the Trailblazer's basket, "boom"

This time, Liu Qiyu smiled in his box, and the stands were even more jubilant.

The Trail Blazers attacked after half court, Aldridge and Mo Williams blocked and dismantled high, but after the blocking, Aldridge did not face the small player as he wished, but against Li Feng.

Shoot, he sticks to his body like a dog skin plaster, break through, there is no advantage at all in footwork and against himself, just when Aldridge was a little hesitant, Li Feng's long hand was dispatched again, even if Aldridge put the ball in the back of his head.

But Li Feng's hand was still as silent as a ghost, as stealthy as a snake, through Aldridge's back, a little bit and then clicked off Aldridge's basketball, and hit the Trail Blazers' half again, and then a pass, Kaloon Butler's three-pointer.

Successive steals and strong defense suddenly stuck the Trail Blazers' just rising offense, and it was as if a person was always stuck with the upcoming high. The tide is the same, he is impotent after a few back and forth, and now the Trail Blazers are like this, in the following time, the Trail Blazers are getting weaker and weaker, and the Pelicans are steadily cooperating at halftime and again, and at New Orleans Arena, the Pelicans have mythically defeated the Trail Blazers, who have always been crazy in the past.

David Wesley summed up the game to the point:

"Li Feng was powerful, he limited Lillard and Aldridge alone, and then led the whole team, and winning was as simple as that, even if he was soy sauce for three and a half quarters ......" (to be continued......)