Chapter 982: MVP Showdown

Li Feng has been very popular recently!

A few consecutive 40+20 games, and then a fierce response to McCarvey's provocation.

The Pelicans also won all of them in January, with a 13-game winning streak firmly sitting at the top of the league.

The Pelicans' 13-game winning streak and Li Feng's fiery form naturally make them public enemies of the league again.

In addition to Li Feng, LeBron James has also been doing well recently, although his Cavaliers have not fully run in, and Love has not integrated into the team at all, but they have also occupied the second place in the East, only behind the first Nets.

LeBron James is even only a little worse than Li Feng in the MVP rankings, if it weren't for Li Feng's miracle count of 28.5 points, 12.4 rebounds, 7.1 assists, 4.2 blocks and 2.4 steals per game this season, LeBron James's average of 25.8 points, 8.1 rebounds and 6.2 assists per game would be too good.

The starting lineup of the Cavaliers is center Tristan Thompson, power forward Kevin Love, small forward LeBron James, and point guard Kelly Irving.

The Pelicans' starting lineup is center Al Jefferson, power forward Li Feng, small forward Danny Granger, scoring guard Stephen Corey and point guard Evan Turner.

Van Gundy continued his rotation policy against the Cavaliers, who are second in the East, and Pau Gasol will not play on the sidelines in a suit today, and he is on the injury list without injury.

The jump ball was still undoubtedly won by Al Jefferson, who easily gave the ball to Turner, and Corey was active in running and jumping outside the three-point line, like a monkey, and made a few breakthrough feints, seeing that Kelly Irving was unmoved,

Corey didn't care, he got the ball and started it directly, like the cold wind sweeping the fallen leaves on the ground, this guy twisted his ass after getting the ball. The whole person had already flown out, and it was by Owen's side that he had broken through.

Irving was worried that the guy was passing back to Turner and didn't switch guards.

Corey played shooting guard today, Van Gundy gave him unlimited fire, and after he got the ball, he only had the basket in his eyes, only to see him rush into the box with all his might, and jump is to throw.

A domineering figure suddenly came out from the flank, and a blood-colored robe printed with the number 23 flew like a banner, and the little emperor came.

It may be that this season's Shun lì has created the illusion that Corey, he thought that the opponent's defense was so vulnerable, and the little emperor gave him a thunderbolt with a big hot pot. directly sent him out with the ball.

To add insult to injury, Tristan Thompson grabbed the ball.

The Pelicans can only be defended, Corey goes to guard Irving, Turner vs. J.R. Smith, Granger is the one who really defends the little emperor, this is the defensive layout of the Pelicans now, Corey's defensive shortcomings really give Van Gundy a headache, and what makes Fan Shuai even more headache is that this guy is so talented on the offensive end. It would be a shame if he was to be the bench.

There is no doubt that the Cavaliers chose to let the little emperor play alone, and there are not many people who can help him when attacking, and Love has good offensive firepower, but this is not in the Timberwolves. Without four teammates sacrificing to make the ball for him, he was almost stealed in the face of Li Feng, so he could only pass the basketball in a hurry.

As for Tristan Thompson, if only he could give opponents a headache on the offensive end. Then he wouldn't have gotten bogged down in trading rumors?

James winked an eyebrow at J.R. Smith, who helped him block it, and the little emperor broke through to Granger's side. And he didn't hit the basket, and after getting rid of Granger, he jumped out and made a mid-to-long shot.

It turned out that his choice was correct, because Li Feng made up the defense after a second, but the little emperor shot too fast, Li Feng's blocking was ineffective, and the ball still went in.

2-0, the little emperor fans at the scene let out sparse cheers, LeBron James still got a certain amount of support from the fans, after all, the game has just begun.

Li Feng reached out for the ball in the penalty area, Lefu appeared behind him, using his body to block him, and Tristan Thompson appeared on his flank, these two people gathered height and strength of the two difficulties, Li Feng tried it, but as soon as he turned around, Thompson closed the door and wrapped him up.

A humanoid sandwich appeared, seeing this, Turner was very anxious, but the reality turned out to be even more cruel than Turner expected, Thompson reached out and snatched the ball from Li Feng's arms, and then threw it to James.

James slapped the ball and rushed forward like an angry bull, but there was no moo in his mouth, Corey went up to block, this guy finally had a little defensive enthusiasm, but then this enthusiasm was extinguished by James, the two collided, James didn't seem to be affected at all, and Corey flew out.

Granger went up to chase the defense, but it was useless, his speed was a street worse than the little emperor, and he watched the opponent play a long-distance run dunk, Turner chased after him, but he didn't do the useless work, because he knew the end.

James glanced at Corey disdainfully, and spat out a word with a pout:

"Trash!"

Compared to James Corey, it is indeed not good in body, but this does not mean that the latter can insult him at will, so Corey's eyes flashed with flames.

Li Feng was still asking for the ball on the inside, and Love and Thompson wanted to close the door to wrap him, but when the two surrounded him, Li Feng threw the ball to Al Jefferson with a flick of his hand.

Al Jefferson shook off the door and ran out of the three-point line, and when he got the ball, there was no one around him, and the guy comfortably adjusted his gesture and then made a jumper.

However, he was a little far away from the basket, and the basketball bounced directly on the basket, Thompson jammed Li Feng, and Love grabbed the rebound.

Li Feng was depressed and yelled at Al Jefferson:

"You are really my own brother, what are you doing running so far away? Can you die if you get close to the basket? ”

James looked at his opponent playfully and said with a smile: "It seems that you are carried away by thirteen consecutive wins, how is it, how does it feel to meet a strong team?" ”

Li Feng responded with a sneer:

"Cleveland has a strong team too? Are you kidding? It's really rare, I slept in 2010, and now I wake up, I didn't expect you to be still a knight, what a loyalty! ”

The Cavaliers got off to a beautiful start, with the Pelicans' first four offenses all missing, while James led the team to all four offenses with an opening score of 8-0. Pelicans fans couldn't sit still and began to stand up and chant slogans for their beloved home team to motivate them.

Glancing at the scarlet score, James looked at Li Feng with a smile and said:

"How's the team in Cleveland?"

Li Feng didn't speak, the team had a crisis, as the core of the team's single-minded cultivation, he had to stand up, and he did the same.

In fact, except for the first four balls, which were blocked by James by Korrey, the last three were no problem.

All three balls were played by Li Feng to attract the opponent to pack and divide the ball, but the three balls did not hit, and it can only be said that the Pelicans felt too bad.

The teammates developed the inertia of the tailwind. Now that the rhythm is out of order, I am not used to it, and I have to stand up.

This time Li Feng no longer divided the ball, and he did not run to the restricted area to play the pile, but helped Turner in the high post to make a block, the latter successfully shook off Irving's entanglement, and quickly killed the basket from the left wing, while Li Feng followed closely behind, moving forward from the middle.

Seeing the Pelicans appear in the pick-and-roll, Thompson's heart tensed. He hurriedly rushed to the middle to block Li Feng, and at this time, Turner was met by Lefou's supplementary defense and passed the ball back to Li Feng.

Li Feng got the ball and Thompson also posted it, and he took his left foot as the core of his body and spun half a circle quickly like a windmill, directly bypassing Thompson and still hitting the basket with his feet. The Cavaliers players didn't expect Li Feng to play this kind of streetball-like tricks, and Love didn't care about continuing to defend Turner, so he hurriedly waved his arms to defend Li Feng.

Seeing this, Li Feng did not hesitate, and sent the ball to Turner with a ground-hitting pass.

Seeing the vacant space, Turner stepped into the box. The cold sweat on Lefou's forehead came out, and he could only stop and pounce on Turner, because the latter had already put away the ball and shot.

Turner did make a move. But instead of shooting, he threw the ball high.

A giant eagle-like figure flew high from behind, Li Feng shouted, his front was open, both hands caught Gao Fei's leather ball arm pulled back of his head, and then smashed it down, just like those workers who opened up oil fields in the Texas wasteland, and smashed the ball into the basket.

The dunk was violent enough, and the fans in the arena in New Orleans Center swept away the evil breath held in their chests and screamed and cheered.

James continued to organize the offense, since the Cavaliers wrapped Li Feng, then Van Gundy did not pretend to be high, he made a gesture to his men on the court, and then Corey pounced on James from the side, and the Pelicans also wrapped the Cavaliers' ace.

Although Corey's defense is average, he is fast, and James' advantage against Granger is speed.

Van Gundy sent Corey to the trap, not really hoping that Corey could defend James, that was unrealistic, Van Gundy expected him only to stop James for half a second and give Granger time to reorganize the defense.

But even this expectation, Corey can't do it, Van Gundy let Corey play shooting guard is actually not impossible, the key is not to be muscular on the outside.

James was so strong that he flicked his shoulders in a change of direction stance and took advantage of Granger's hesitation to break through the opponent's defense with one step. Corey went up to make up for it, James bent over and slammed his steel missile shoulder into him, and Corey flew out again.

Li Feng felt that this qiē was really unbearable to look at.

After connecting the two, the little emperor jumped up again after killing the vacancy, and he felt hot today, and hit the mid-range jumper again.

Li Feng was anxious, but he couldn't help it, he couldn't change his guard to deal with James, because Lefou's range was good, if he left the penalty area, the short and stout Al Jefferson would be beaten into a sieve by the opponent, and he had to guard the inside.

Since there is no way to defend it, let's take revenge on the offensive end.

Li Feng followed Turner to the frontcourt, just reached the inside line and reached out to ask for the ball, after getting the ball, facing Lefu with teeth and claws, Li Feng raised his arm to make a jumper, Lefu didn't believe that he would give up his physical advantage to really jump shot, so he stood still unswervingly.

Then, Li Feng turned this feint into a real attack, and made a jump shot from close range!

Seeing the snow-white basketball net swinging out of the basketball, Lefu scolded in a low voice, he withdrew from the court and threw the ball at Irving, but when the ball was shot, the little emperor was suddenly anxious, as if someone had exploded a chrysanthemum, and he shouted miserably:

“noooooo……”

Li Feng, who was jogging, turned around suddenly, like a leopard attacking, he rushed over with lightning and rushed in front of Owen in one step. The ball thrown by Lefu happened to fall into his hand, Li Feng grabbed the ball and slapped it on the ground, quickly stepped into the penalty area, and jumped wildly at the basket!

Lefu also reacted quickly, seeing that his carelessness had caused such a mistake, facing Li Feng with a hideous face, he gritted his teeth and greeted him fearlessly, jumping up and trying to block Li Feng.

Lefou's reaction was already fast, and his defense was reasonable, facing Li Feng and jumping. If the two collided, with his height and tonnage, he would be enough to block Li Feng's dunk.

But Li Feng didn't dunk, in the face of Lefu's defense, he smiled slyly, and with a shake of his raised right wrist, he turned out to be a throw.

The basketball arced gracefully through the air, then flew past Lefou's fingers and landed lightly into the hoop.

After the attack was successful, Li Feng made a gesture of shooting at the little emperor. The latter asked proudly:

"Are you provoking me?"

Li Feng shrugged and replied:

"No, man, I want to kill you!"

James laughed angrily. He simply didn't use Owen to control the ball, took the ball with his own hands, gritted his teeth and said:

"It seems that the current guy doesn't know how thick the sky is, let me teach you how to be a person, idiot!"

Granger did everything he could to pester the little emperor. The latter lunged inside without hesitation, attracting Turner to the bag and immediately distributing the ball to J.R. Smith.

J.R. Smith is one of the league's top scorers, and his scoring tools aren't limited to projection. He's not just a spot shooter, but he's happy to show off his shooting skills when he's in the open spot.

The Cavaliers had a high shooting percentage at the beginning, hitting several mid-to-long-range shots, which is not normal, because the player's hand is not a microwave oven, and it is impossible to become a marksman as soon as he gets on the court, and the Cavaliers are so smooth, it can only show that God is on their side today.

But I am a warrior of the devil, and I am destined to fight God, Li Feng thought through gritted teeth.

Seeing that his teammates were a little sluggish, Li Feng carried the offensive banner without hesitation, he wanted to turn over and jump on the ball on the inside, the ball did not hit but bounced on the basket and jumped high, Love and Thompson wanted to grab the rebound, but Li Feng jumped up from behind and reached out to grab the falling ball and pressed his wrist hard, and he grabbed the rebound and dunked with the trend.

Seeing this, the little emperor began to be annoyed, and he shouted to Love and Thompson:

"Man, you're two people, he's only one person, why can't you look down on him? Damn it, you have to show your worth, two people can't look down on one person, don't you feel ashamed? ”

Then he broke through the blockade of Granger and Corey again, found a gap between the two and hit a long-range shot, and so far in the opening game, he has not missed a single ball, and the shooting percentage is terrible.

James's words both blamed his teammates and mocked his opponents, everyone is unruly, James's words make them sound really harsh, aren't the two of them the same and can't prevent James alone?

Li Feng didn't care, he could see that it was not God on the side of the Cavaliers today, but James was drumming up to clean them up today.

Although the little emperor is very strong, if he does not exert all his strength, it will not be easy to break Granger's defense.

Turner frowned when he noticed that Thompson and Love had strengthened their grip on Li Feng.

Then, Turner sideways against Irving to the inside, when he reached the free throw line, he suddenly accelerated and took a step, Irving followed back, Turner ran two steps laterally, and Granger was on his way, just blocking Irving.

Throwing off Irving, Turner squeezed hard inside in the face of James' defense, while Li Feng ran outside at this time, as if to vacate the penalty area for Turner to single out James. Love and Thompson also followed, and they were confident in James' defense.

As a result, the two turned around and took a step, and Li Feng turned around again and rushed directly to the basket under the basket.

Turner saw the stitch and passed the ball out with James's hand, which happened to fall into Li Feng's hands.

Li Fengfeng inserted between Lefu and Thompson, and when he got to the basket, he bent his legs and jumped high like a spring, grabbed the ball with one hand and slammed it to the back of his head, and simply made a violent dunk.

That's the value of a strong center, where the defender is tasked with putting the ball as close to the basket as possible, and they'll take care of the rest.

Li Feng dunked again and again, James couldn't stand it, he slowly dribbled the ball outside the three-point line, Granger stared at him vigilantly, and James passed the ball to J.R. Smith who came out to pick him up. He ran to the penalty area with Granger to return the ball again, then raised his arms high in a dry pull-out motion.

Granger stepped forward, and then he immediately retreated, he judged that this was James's feint, and the opponent could not shoot, because his hand could not be hot all the time, and he wanted to respond to Li Feng's provocation before.

Sure enough, James saw him step up and immediately pulled down the ball that was lifted over his head and sank his center of gravity and rushed inside, although Granger guessed his plan correctly, but the defensive effect was not good. James shook him off with a turn, then took two strides to the basket.

Li Feng pushed away Lefu who was sticking to him, and the two cores of the two teams met at this moment.

With the continuous collision of Li Feng and James, the two teams launched an attack, the Cavaliers felt hot, and the Pelicans played resolutely, the two sides went back and forth, and at the end of the first quarter, they played a high score of 34-30. The Pelicans trailed by four points.

In the last two minutes of the first quarter, the head coaches of both teams invariably changed the bench lineup, and the Pelicans' bench depth has been commendable compared to their opponents, but they did not take advantage of it today. The Cavaliers are not easy to deal with, and Shambaugh is like a sharp knife, leading the Cavaliers to crisscross the Pelicans' territory all the time.

Van Gundy clearly didn't want to lose the win and he deployed a new tactic on the tactical board. After the start of the second quarter, the main lineup of Li Feng, Turner and Corey, who had just sat on the bench for a few minutes, came back to fight.

Jordan Hamilton, who has been playing bravely lately, sat on the bench and was eager to give it a try, and James and Shambaugh scored unbridled scores. He was looking forward to being able to play a lesson to these guys, but Van Gundy didn't even look at him, and he obviously didn't trust him very much in this kind of crucial event.

This made Jordan Hamilton extremely frustrated, but this is normal, after all, the Pelicans still have Pierce, Marshall, and Thornton on the bench, and these are all people who can play shooting guards.

The Cavaliers' lineup changed slightly, and the point guard was replaced by Iman Shambot, a great point guard with strong scoring ability, speed and talent, and a wide field of vision, and a pull-up jump shot that always gave the opponent a lethal shot.

Now on the Cavaliers, Shambaugh is James' best helper, and the Cavaliers' head coach Irving has positioned him similarly to Ginobili to the Spurs, generally starting very little, but is responsible for coming off the bench to charge, and Shambaugh has always done a good job at this.

Seeing Li Feng, Shambaugh was in good spirits, he quickly advanced to the frontcourt, faced Turner's defense, hesitated and passed the ball to James.

"It's your fan, man, you have to be kind to him."

Lee yelled at Turner as he got into position with Thompson.

Turner smiled and said meaningfully:

"Of course I'll treat him well."

James slowly slapped the ball, his eyes scanning the front court like a knife, looking for an opportunity to break through. Granger was scared, and he had a hard time in the first quarter, but he was already the best man on the Pelicans at limiting James.

J.R. Smith stepped forward to cover, James lifted the ball and took a step back when his teammates came up, and Granger immediately followed without hesitation.

However, James's retreat was not to open up the distance to shoot, but to create a zào buffer for the charge, and he took two steps back and then accelerated suddenly, 'rumbling' forward like a high-speed tank running at full strength.

Granger stepped back, J.R. Smith blocked him, and James rushed hard to the inside, and there was a smooth road in front of him.

Li Feng was entangled by Thompson, who used his terrifyingly strong upper limbs to frantically entangle him, in a vain attempt to jam him behind him, Li Feng was unwilling to be stuck and naturally resisted, two men as strong as iron warriors began to compete in the narrow penalty area, and for a while, muscles and muscles collided, bones and bones collided, and the wind and clouds in the forbidden area surged.

Although Li Feng has the upper hand when he is entangled with him, it will be difficult to easily release his hands to deal with James. (To be continued......)