Chapter 1117: Granger
At this time, the Nets' defense was obviously strengthened, and the defense also used the same strategy as the Pelicans to push the Pelicans' line outward, just when Corey kept retreating, Li Feng suddenly moved laterally in the high post of the Nets.
Li Feng moved, Corey immediately laughed, will push the other side to defend, use and defend the team without strong low-post players, according to normal logic, the Pelicans do not have low-post players, because Al Jefferson has been offset by Lopez, usually Al Jefferson can play two low posts, but on Lopez, he is not enough.
At this moment, Li Feng jumped up, repeatedly in the high position, it was David Li who defended Li Feng, Li Feng couldn't keep up with Li Feng at all in his footsteps, Li Feng climbed fast, he could only jog, Li Feng suddenly turned around, David Li was dizzy, so he could only watch Li Feng pout his ass and squeeze himself behind him.
Corey was very happy to see that Li Feng was stuck in the position, didn't you Nets push us, we are going to play the low post.
Li Feng is like a child at this time, nailing the high position of the Nets, and the space here is very open by the Nets themselves, and Li Feng has almost infinite offensive space here.
After Li Feng received the basketball, he quickly turned around and turned into an attack in the face of the basket, at this time both were pulled away Wang Optim's offensive play, which is to dribble to the left and take a big step, and then stop the jump shot, where Li Feng himself hit a very high 45 degrees.
However, at this time, Li Feng's fingers were still a little numb, at this time he could only challenge Lopez, he could only go to the inside line, Li Feng was knowing that there were tigers in the mountains at this time, but he wanted to go to the tiger mountain.
David Li also arrived at Hollins's entrustment and only needed to defend Li Feng's breakthrough, he took a big step back and waited for him to collide in the back, this Li Feng had already encountered the worst offensive moment.
He pinched the basketball and saw David Lee take a big step back. He quickly formulated another offensive plan, Li Feng took a step towards the side of the dribble, and then when he saw David Li coming over, he quickly turned around, and then turned around, but these are not over, Li Feng continued to fake a few times Li Feng rubbed under the basket, and Lopez faced a huge problem again.
He knew that as long as he followed, Li Fengli would send the ball to Al Jefferson's hands, but he didn't follow. But it was obvious that David Li couldn't keep up with Li Feng's footsteps.
This is a very important point, as long as one step can't keep up, Li Feng will have a lot of opportunities to come to a small hook, or something.
Lopez really guessed Li Feng's psychological side, Li Feng was about to use his left hand to end the attack, just when Lopez hesitated, Li Feng was not easy to make a difficult move, and suddenly a left hand hook hand was thrown out
Al Jefferson on this side has already guessed what Li Feng is going to do because he often plays inside with Li Feng, and he has already pulled to the bottom line, just waiting to run back. Because Al Jefferson knows that Li Feng's hook is very strange, others are good at right-handed shooting, and the hook is also accurate, but Wang is the right-handed shooting. But the hook hand under the basket is indeed left-handed.
David Li Ben couldn't keep up with his feet, and Li Feng came to hook this offensive method again, David Li basically could only rely on Li Feng to easily get these two points, and Hollins was dumbfounded when he saw this. His original strategy for the team was to use his strongest Lopez to attack the Pelicans' interior on offense, to open the Pelicans' first opening, and then use the outside tight defense to block the Pelicans' rapid offense.
But this comes up. The Nets' two main points are all scrapped.
First, Lopez doesn't have a very stable trick to get Al Jefferson, Hollins' so-called strongest point is limited, and Al Jefferson's defensive ability is much stronger than Ed.
The second Nets' tight defense also curbs the Pelicans' offense, because the Pelicans still have Li Feng, and Li Feng, Li Feng can wantonly David Lee, and David Lee still has no way to take Li Feng.
After thinking about it for a moment, Hollins immediately shouted at Karasev:
"Position 4, position 4."
After a little thought, Hollins realized that there was actually one point in his team that had an absolute advantage, but it was that both Joe Johnson and Karasev used enough methods to attack Granger.
By keeping Granger on the court, Van Gundy almost gave the Nets a way out.
After Hollins yelled like this, David Lee immediately prepared to receive the ball in the low post, and then began to attack, his biggest advantage against Granger was there, that is, physically, but just as he was about to implement the card position, Li Feng yelled at Granger:
"Don't let him catch the ball, go around the front defense, go around the front defense."
When Granger was also depressed that the other party was going to shoot at him, he heard Li Feng's reminder to him, and Granger, who understood it, immediately ran and detoured in front of David Lee, that is, around David Lee, that is, to prevent David Lee from receiving the basketball.
This made Hollins's plan fall through again, Granger ran with David Lee like a fawn, and then stuck in front of David Lee like a rubber, not giving David Lee a chance to catch the ball at all.
It would be fine if David Lee had some jumping ability, but David Lee didn't have this kind of power and could only be isolated from Granger behind.
Seeing that Hollins' second strategy failed again, the Nets could only have another way to attack, at this time Joe Johnson received the basketball and tried to attack once, but was ruthlessly defended by Li Feng, and forced Joe Johnson to come to a three-no.
This ball was directly hung into Al Jefferson's arms, which made Lopez very dissatisfied, because Lopez himself also knows that although the Nets have no offensive and defensive advantages now, they are in rebounds when the Nets have the greatest advantage.
The Pelicans' chase is particularly fast, when Al Jefferson Bai picked up the rebound, he immediately passed the basketball to Li Feng's hands, Li Feng received the basket and turned around and ran, and now this is a qiē for the Pelicans.
Li Feng ran two steps in front of Granger, the kid reacted quickly, and he immediately passed the basketball to Granger's hands, and it was Joe Johnson who ran with Granger, Joe Johnson was not slower than Granger, but he was not as tall as Granger.
Just watched Granger face Joe Johnson and go straight to the middle of the Nets, but when he got to the free throw line of the Nets, Granger immediately came to a stop-and-go jumper, and he didn't even give Joe Johnson a chance to foul, just watched Granger easily drill into the Nets' basket.
At this time, it is obvious to feel and see. It's that the Nets' offense is very difficult, and they can't open any point in the half, and the master Pelicans are here, it's much easier to score, as long as they run, as long as the basket is passed, it becomes very easy to score.
One is difficult and the other is easy, so the fans at the Barclays Center have been very depressed.
The two teams met, and Hollins changed the formation several times, but failed to snatch the rhythm back from the Pelicans' hands. But then Hollins noticed the Nets' rebounding advantage, so he encouraged his players to shoot when they had the chance, and if they didn't score, Lopez still had a good chance to steal rebounds under the basket.
In this way, in the last two minutes of the fourth quarter, the score between the Pelicans and the Nets became 103-100, and the Pelicans led the Nets by three points, and now it was time for the final decision.
Both the Pelicans and the Nets were highly nervous, and in the commentary box, Barkley also said:
"Today's game was staggered, the wins and losses changed hands several times, and now it's the final moment of the game and the Pelicans are still only three points ahead of the Nets, at this time. It's really hard to predict the outcome or outcome. ”
Miller interface says:
"The Pelicans have more advantages in the team as a whole, whether it is the connection between the main team and the bench, or the team's overall tactical play, the ability to control the situation is stronger than the Nets. But for the Pelicans, Lopez's survival is the Pelicans' greatest pain, and they can't contain Lopez's doing whatever he wants on the Pelicans' inside. ”
"The Pelicans need to pick a great big man in the draft market this year, and that's a top priority for Pelicans management this summer. They need a big man with an attacking punch, and John Henson won't be enough for Van Gundy to take Al Jefferson, Gasol and Millsap to give him more chances. ”
Kenny Smith searches for pieces of the Pelican's puzzle.
Then Hardaway said:
"But the Nets still have a lot of changes to make, and I think that's the problem for the Nets right now. You can't maximize Lopez's power and make a real connection to the outside. ”
Lopez made another shot after the Pelicans' consecutive hands, but unfortunately missed, and then the rebound was snatched in his own hands by Li Feng from behind.
Then the Pelicans started to move towards the Nets' half, and what the Pelicans needed to do at this time was to pull the score apart a little bit and lay the foundation for the win, rather than continue to tug of war with the Nets.
To do this, the Pelicans needed to make a couple of solid and effective shots, while tightly controlling the Nets' outside line and not letting the Nets' outside line shoot at will, and Al Jefferson tried to delay Lopez as much as possible.
Corey is now running desperately to the Nets' half, but the more the Nets and the Pelicans play, the more cautious they become, shrinking very quickly, and after halftime, they are also very active in defense.
Because David Lee and Bogdanovic are very slow, they are weak in defensive break-through ability and defensive cover ability on the outside line.
Corey and Li Feng just grabbed a point, and with a quick cover in the high post, Corey cut to the middle of the Nets at high speed.
Although the Nets are really average on the outside, but on the inside, they have Lopez, David Lee, and Joe Johnson, and they are very strong on the inside.
But at this time, the purpose of the steper to compress the Nets formation has been achieved, so Corey quickly passed the ball out, giving Li Feng the intention to let Li Feng come up at 45 degrees to wipe the board of a small mid-range shot, seeing the basketball flying over, Li Feng hesitated, he jumped up and did not catch the ball, but slapped the basketball with one hand, as if playing volleyball, and slapped the basketball that flew 45 degrees from the inside directly to the bottom corner.
Li Feng's shot, the speed is very, when Granger is preparing for three points in the bottom corner, no one here in the Nets can run in front of Granger, but if Li Feng catches the pass, there will be no such absolutely good shooting opportunity.
Glen Jue squatted slightly and then shot easily, today Granger played well in front, and there was a bit of a problem with hitting in the middle, but in the final quarter of the game, Granger was more confident.
Basketball is in his own hands, he controls the rhythm, and he shoots easily, although it is an extremely important finals, but once he gets deep into the game, he has more ideas in his head, and now Granger has only one thought in his mind, and that is to score.
Granger's three-point shot was very soft, his wrist movements were unusually agile, and the basketball was thrown out like a scimitar, and he pierced all the Nets' defenses with a brush pull to get a three-pointer.
There was 1:41 left before the end of the game, but the Pelicans led the Nets by six points.
The Nets were really in a hurry, Lopez savagely pushed Al Jefferson on the inside, and many of his actions were on the verge of fouling, but at this time, the referee at the Barclays Center didn't mean to blow the penalty at all, allowing Lopez to brutally abuse the Pelicans' inside.
When Bogdanovic passed the basketball to Lopez's hands, Lopez was already stuck in a deep position, and at such a deep position, even Al Jefferson was difficult to stop Lopez's shot, just watch Lopez jump up and get two points with a direct hook.
At this point, Barkley said:
"Li Feng's passing speed just now directly led to Granger's three-point shot, but Nets Lopez used the simplest way to shoot back."
"You mean, it's a contest of wisdom and brute strength?"
Kenny asked quips.
"But Li Feng is also a brute force guy."
Hardaway said, shaking his head.
No matter how the three commentators are about the game, he is also outside the game, and only in the game can he feel the tension, and now Hollins is extremely nervous and yelling at his teammates, which is very similar to what Van Gundy did when the game first started today.
When the Pelicans began to attack the Nets' half, they really felt the crazy Nets and began to defend desperately, and every player of the Nets grabbed the Pelicans' players like crazy people and didn't let the Pelicans make any moves. (To be continued......)