Chapter 955: Aggressiveness
Li Feng is also anxious on the court, the team must suppress the Nuggets now, and if they don't suppress it, I'm afraid they won't be able to.
Li Feng also realized that this was a turning point in the game, he ran over with this team, and when he was about to attack with the ball, he suddenly saw the Nuggets make a double defense and come towards him.
Li Feng pulled towards the top of the arc with a double defense, and looked inside to see that Gasol was unguarded in the middle of the basket, which was not a good time for an aerial relay, Li Feng immediately threw the basketball in his hand towards Gasol, intending to let Gasol relay in the air.
Gasol also took off in the air, seeing a beautiful, morale-saving air relay coming, but at the critical moment, Gasol actually dunked the hoop this time, and he dunked the basketball away.
Suddenly, even if this was the Nuggets' home court, there was a sigh, and to make matters worse, the Pelicans wasted the opportunity, and the god of fate immediately gave the opportunity to the Nuggets, and the basketball that flew out was picked up by Randy Foye.
Foye was fast, swayed left and right with the ball, and quickly chased to the Pelicans' half, Li Feng was about to go over to help defend, but saw Foye facing the three people who the Pelicans chased back inside, he jumped up all of a sudden, and flew in the air, Foye was sideways in the air, he deliberately fell to the ground.
In this posture, the fairy couldn't block him Fuye, only to see that Fuye was still not far from the ground, and with a hook of his right hand, he actually hooked the basketball into the Pelican's basket at once.
Foye fell to the ground and scored two points to cut the gap between the two teams to nine points.
The point difference became a single digit, which put a lot of pressure on the Pelicans, and Van Gundy immediately jumped out and yelled at the team to stabilize and score points no matter what.
At this critical moment, the Pelicans also immediately handed over the basketball to Li Feng to deal with, Li Feng took the ball and saw that the Nuggets were about to come to cover him at any time, and he called for cover 2 steps away from the three-point line.
Gasol ran out quickly. Outside the three-point line to Li Feng as a cover, Li Feng took advantage of Gasol's cover, two steps rushed to the Nuggets' free throw line, when the Nuggets' inside line was about to save, Li Feng stepped back laterally, dribbled a step, got up a mid-range shot, this time Li Feng finally shot.
Stretching the gap back to 11 points, the Pelicans and Nuggets battled it out.
Everyone knows that once this balance is broken, anything can happen, and at this moment the Pelicans' defensive intensity is also rising.
The Pelicans also began to desperately defend their victory, and in the face of the Pelicans' strong defense, the Nuggets finally missed another round.
The Pelicans defended the Nuggets. There was an improvement on the defensive end, and when he turned around, Li Feng took the ball and rushed to the basket to make a foul, and Li Feng walked to the free throw line.
After Chandler briefly launched a wave of offense, the Pelicans immediately led the counterattack led by Li Feng, and it seemed that the situation had been stabilized.
At this time, Brian Shaw was naturally unwilling, he knew that once this wave was suppressed, the Nuggets would be finished, so at this time, Brian Shaw worked desperately and replaced Farid. Replaced with small guard Nate Robinson.
The Nuggets' lineup suddenly became a big and four small, Nate Robinson, Randy Foye, Gallinari. Wilson Chandler, Mozgov pressed Begonia with a red pear, and Brian Shaw brought in the strongest attacking lineup.
When Li Feng hit the free throw, Bill Wharton, who was in the commentary box, took a look at Bryan Shaw's lineup. Immediately he laughed.
"The Nuggets look like they're going to be desperate, swapping all the players who can score, and the defense is basically gone. The next two minutes will decide the direction of the game. ”
Albert also looked at it on the side and said:
"This kind of lineup is probably the ideal of Brian Shaw, and I think Brian Shaw is definitely more suitable for coaching such a lineup."
Van Gundy looked at Bryanshaw's lineup on the side, and he was also weak in his heart, after all, he hadn't coached for a long time, and Bryanshaw's team would naturally have a strong lethality when playing this kind of lineup.
Van Gundy shouted on the sidelines to defend, the Nuggets came, the Nuggets came in the first wave, and the first to rush forward was Nate Robinson, who was bolder than his body, Robinson relied on his short body, a cover did not call, and came up to break through Corey directly.
Corey really can't bear this kind of mouse-like breakthrough, as soon as he turned around, Robinson rushed to the Pelicans inside, and the two big men on the Pelicans inside pounced on him together, Robinson's head was not completely dizzy at this time, and when he saw that the other party beat himself, he immediately passed the ball to Chandler on the side.
Chandler took the ball outside the three-point line, Li Feng could only rotate over, and as soon as Li Feng left, Chandler's ball immediately went to the hands of Foye, who was supposed to be defended by Li Feng.
Foye took the ball to meet the saved Eljefferson, and directly pulled out a three-point shot, Aljefferson's rhythm was too slow to keep up with Foye, and Foye's three-point accuracy seemed to have eyes.
"Huh!"
Falling into the Pelicans' basket all of a sudden, Foye pulled the margin back to within 10 points, and the margin returned to 9 points.
At this time, the Nuggets finally played the essence of Brian Shaw's small ball, and the Nuggets fans began to cheer for the home team.
Nuggets fans are very strange, basically no distinction between home and away teams, that team played wonderfully, they cheered for that team, and now the Nuggets are playing well, and suddenly the fans began to cheer for the Nuggets.
And Foye's ball also brought out the advantages of Brian Shaw's small-ball tactics to the fullest, with simple and effective attacks, many attack points, and every opportunity can be turned into a deadly three-point shot.
was played by the Nuggets, and suddenly Van Gundy yelled at the team again on the sidelines:
"Defend toughly, block them, be aggressive defensively."
Van Gundy knew that no matter how good the offense was, it would not be as effective as continuous defensive suppression, so at this time he hurriedly yelled at the defense and asked the Pelicans to strengthen the intensity on the defensive end.
Corey pushed over and passed the ball to Li Feng, Li Feng took the ball and found that the Nuggets' defensive enthusiasm became stronger after consecutive points, and the defensive rotation of the entire Nuggets was much faster, and they were all replaced by small men, which is also reasonable.
Since Li Feng found out that the opponent was not tall enough, he immediately passed the basketball to Al Jefferson, who just wanted to play with the ball. Just look at the Nuggets' bag and arrive, so Al Jefferson can only pass the ball out to Granger, but Granger hesitates a little to take the ball, and the Nuggets' defense arrives again.
After changing the small man lineup, the Nuggets looked like they were lacking in height, but they didn't suffer on the defensive end, because they were a lot faster and more aggressive, and in this case, Granger came up and forced Gallinari, although he had the advantage of size. But under the defense of the Nuggets wolves, Granger missed the mid-range shot.
The Pelicans couldn't bite the Nuggets' position, and just when everyone was exclaiming, the Nuggets, a small lineup that looked like they were all good, also had a problem, and the rebounds flew out and were easily grabbed by Gasol.
Gasol got the rebound and turned back to Li Feng, the small lineup is good, but the rebounding and interior protection are still weak, although the Pelicans are a little bulky, but the rebounding is still fully guaranteed.
Li Feng got the basketball again. Realizing that the Nuggets' basket was still flawed, Li Feng immediately called Al Jefferson to come up as a cover.
When Al Jefferson ran over quickly, Li Feng accelerated and wanted to hit the Nuggets' basket, but at this time, the Nuggets were really ruthless. It took three people to sandwich Li Feng in the middle of the bag in three positions.
In this case, Li Feng reasonably chose to pass the ball to Corey outside, and Corey made a three-point shot in an empty position, but this guy had a sloppy feel. I didn't throw the ball in.
This time the Pelicans wasted the opportunity, God didn't favor the Pelicans anymore, and Wilson Chandler protected the rebound under the basket. Then he immediately dribbled the ball towards the Pelicans' half.
At this time, it was Al Jefferson who was opposite Chandler, this misplaced Pelican was so uncomfortable, seeing that Al Jefferson couldn't catch up with Chandler's royal favor in the back, Li Feng could only pounce on the defense, but Li Feng only moved here.
But I saw Chandler throw the basketball into Foye's hands again, and after Foye took the ball, he faced Granger who came up to help defend him, he danced a back dribble, and then rushed forward, flashed past Granger at once, and came up to throw his right hand.
The basketball flew over the heads of several Pelicans and landed easily into the Pelicans' basket.
Just now Van Gundy arranged a desperate defense, but now in the first round, the Pelicans did not defend, which is not because the Pelicans don't work hard defensively, but because the Nuggets are too misplaced on the offensive end.
In this case, Fan is also reasonable and untimely.
When Van Gundy was a little sluggish, the Pelicans arrived at the Nuggets' half again, and at this time, seeing the Nuggets' large space court, even Li Feng scratched his head a little, because the Nuggets' position was actually not very easy to break.
Li Feng could only think of a hard rush at this time, and Li Feng took two steps back to two steps outside the three-point line.
This Li Feng called Gasol's cover, and then Li Feng was full of horsepower and ability, and an acceleration was like a train rushing towards the Nuggets' basket, at this time, the Nuggets' ruthless three-person bag was unable to be deployed in such a vast space.
And after pulling away the distance, the advantage of the big man who lacked padding under the Nuggets basket was also leaked, Li Feng rushed up and knocked away Chandler who came up to help defend him, and then the whole person flew up directly.
Mozgov, who was carrying it hard in the air, saw the moment the two people collided in the air, and it was not the smaller Li Feng who retreated, but the larger Mozgov, at the moment when Mozgov lost the confrontation in the air.
Li Feng was still flying high, flying to Mozgov's head, and then Li Feng slammed down with both hands, and the whole person seemed to be a big hammer.
"Bang dang."
smashed into the Nuggets' basket with a bang, smashing the rebound to a crumbling point, and Mozgov was even smashed by Li Feng and sat on the floor.
All of a sudden, the fans at Madison Garden rebelled again, and the audience began to go crazy for Li Feng, standing up and cheering, and Li Feng conquered Madison Garden with a dunk.
Brian Shaw was on the small man lineup, chasing points in a row and now finally beating the Pelicans to the bottom line, and Li Feng began to break out alone.
Li Feng's solo outburst is now the Pelicans' last bottom line and last resort, and now as soon as Li Feng makes a move, it is really easy to use, and he smashed the Nuggets and turned over alone.
Mozgov was knocked over by Li Feng, and when he got up, he complained to the referee that Li Feng was holding him with his arm in the air.
However, the referee ignored Mozgov's appeal at all, and Li Feng also yelled after the dunk. Then go back and encourage your teammates to defend hard.
At this critical moment, both teams are on fire, and if the score is caught up by the Nuggets, the morale of the Pelicans will be discharged, and if the Pelicans suppress the Nuggets at this time, the Nuggets will be finished.
When it came to the critical moment, both teams were desperate, and the Nuggets rushed over Nate Robinson to challenge Corey for the first time.
Corey was prepared this time, taking a half-step back to defend, and didn't let Nate Robinson rush up, so the Nuggets ball. It was transferred to the hands of Foye.
Foye took the ball to face Li Feng, did not choose to escape, but took the ball and swayed in front of Li Feng.
Foye's style is light and sharp, his ball control is light, he can shoot from a distance and break through, once he opens up the distance, he can greatly reduce Li Feng's advantage in confrontation, because Li Feng can't guess what Foye wants to do.
It's the same at this time, Foye lightly controls the basketball in his hand and under his crotch. Behind the back, crossing, Foye's body swayed together with the basketball, confusing Li Feng's defensive judgment. Li Feng tried hard to stand firm at this time, did not make wrong judgments, and waited for Foye to make the first move, and Li Feng was confident that he would complete the defense in the case of the latter move.
Just while Li Feng was waiting patiently. Mozgov suddenly came up to disrupt Li Feng's defense, and he suddenly stuck Li Feng in the back.
In such a momentary opportunity, Foye seized it. He shifted his direction to the other side, then pulled up for another mid-range jumper.
At this time, Gasol and Li Feng, who was barely squeezing over, came to defend Feye, but saw that Feye shot a very strange shot with a super high arc, under this arc.
Even Li Feng and Gasol, the two bouncing monsters, couldn't catch up with the speed of the ball, and could only watch the basketball fall from the top of the two people's heads into the Pelicans' basket.
Foye proved his scoring ability with two difficult shots in a row, especially in the attainment of shooting, Foye has become more and more perfect, reaching a peak state, and the feeling of shooting alone, Li Feng is also ashamed of himself in the face of Foye.
Seeing that the Nuggets' offense couldn't be suppressed, the Nuggets also shot impossible basketball in a row.
Van Gundy finally regained some of his killer instincts and immediately called a timeout, after which he began to revamp the Pelicans' lineup.
The first to be replaced was Corey, Corey's long-range shooting was unstable, and he suffered too much in this high-speed offensive defense, so he was replaced by Evan Turner, and then Van Gundy replaced Al Jefferson, although Al Jefferson's offense was very delicate, but the speed was not enough, and he replaced it with a white interior lineman who could shoot long-range shots and three-point shots, Ryan Kelly.
After changing two people in a row, Van Gundy immediately asked the team to increase aggression on the defensive end, and once the ball was broken, he had to quickly start the fast attack, and pay attention to opening up space in the half-court position, and now the Pelicans have changed four players with long-range shots, and the space is much better.
Van Gundy set up, the Pelicans returned to the court, and Gasol threw the basketball into Li Feng's hands at the beginning.
As soon as Li Feng got the basketball here, the Nuggets suddenly forced Li Feng to grab the double bag, just now Van Gundy asked the team to strengthen the team's defensive aggressiveness, and now it looks like the Nuggets actually have a similar arrangement.
Li Feng immediately strengthened his confrontation, and at the same time protected the basketball and threw the basketball into the hands of Al Jefferson on the side.
Kelly was holding the ball at this time to face Chandler, who was a head shorter than Kelly, which was too much of a disadvantage.
Kelly took the ball and sat back, then rolled over and squeezed under the basket to make a layup to score points.
The Nuggets strengthened the pressure on the ball and did not suppress the effective organization of the Pelicans, which was mainly due to Li Feng's ability to hold the ball too strong, and it was too difficult for Li Feng to steal, and almost no player Li Feng broke the ball without making a mistake.
The Pelicans quickly succeeded in attacking, and when they turned around, the Nuggets got the ball, and the Pelicans immediately launched a frontcourt steal.
At this time, Turner went up and harassed Robinson twice, Robinson was hot-tempered and harassed by Turner twice, and immediately hit him angrily and broke through wildly towards the sideline.
But Robinson just crossed the halfway, and Li Feng immediately sandwiched Robinson from behind, and the outside double sandwich formed by Li Feng and Turner suddenly sandwiched Robinson's bag at the corner between the midline and the sideline.
This position is a position of the bag clipper, you can't pass the ball back, you can pass the ball back to the line, you can only pass the ball forward, if the opponent gets the position stuck, you can't even pass the ball, and now Nate is suddenly caught in the bag.
And Nate is still short. He was short and took advantage of the breakthrough, and now he is caught in the bag, his arms are short, and he is not tall enough to pass the ball.
Li Feng came up and grabbed his ball, Turner also helped grab the ball on the side, Nate couldn't grab two people, and the basketball was snatched down at once.
Nate was intercepted by Li Feng and Turner, seeing that Li Feng snatched the basketball to go to the fast break, Nate is also a true temperament and can't tolerate his own failure. gave Li Feng a slap directly from behind, and directly beat Li Feng to stagger.
Nate Robinson directly stopped Li Feng with a foul, which can be regarded as a tactic, just when Li Feng went to the free throw line, Nate Robinson was still scolding over there, this kind of failure is simply unacceptable for him.
Li Feng made free throws at the free throw line, and Brian Shaw saw that the Pelicans were also putting pressure on the defensive end, and immediately he yelled at his players:
"Pay attention to protect the ball and move quickly when you protect the ball."
"Nate. Calm down, calm down. ”
Now that Bryan Shaw has used Nate Robinson as a point guard, he has to keep cooling down Nate Robinson.
Li Feng made one of two free throws, and Nate's foul was not in vain.
Nate Robinson came with the ball this time. Finally cooled down a little, took the ball without rampage, came over and passed the ball to Wilson Chandler, who had a mismatch advantage, and Chandler was still easy to advance with the ball.
But Chandler was not organized. Chandler's function is to attack, and now that he has the basketball, Chandler is also going straight to the Pelicans' basket without saying a word.
Chandler came with ferocity. The Pelicans' defense is also ferocious, and at this time the Pelicans are also desperate on the defensive end, Chandler came in, Li Feng, Granger, and Al Jefferson were surrounded by Chandler from three directions.
Chandler wanted to rely on his good health and forcibly shot at the heads of three people, where he thought that Gasol was better than him in the back, and came over to help defend the block.
"Smack~"
The basketball was pulled down by Gasol at once, and in the exclamation of the fans at Madison Garden, several Pelicans picked up the basketball under the basket.
Picking up the basketball, everyone was the first to find Li Feng and immediately passed the basketball to Li Feng, and Li Feng ran quickly towards the Nuggets' half court with the ball.
At this time, Nate Robinson came up bravely and took out Li Feng's ball below, Li Feng was not polite to Robinson, and directly turned around and protected the basketball with his body, and hit Robinson sideways.
Robinson's upper body strength is well trained, but there is no way to compare with Li Feng, and he was suddenly knocked to the side by Li Feng.
Li Feng quickly hit the Nuggets' half, but at this time, the Nuggets' lineup was a small lineup, and they also retreated quickly, and Li Feng didn't have a good chance to come over, so he could only shake his hand and give the basketball to Al Jefferson.
Al Jefferson has a really high advantage against Chandler, and just when Al Jefferson took the ball and was about to carry it in the low post, the Nuggets immediately came up.
At this time, Al Jefferson watched the game just now, and when he saw the Nuggets' counterattack, he immediately passed the ball to Li Feng outside, Li Feng took the ball and dribbled forward, attracting the Nuggets to pounce on him, and then he passed the basketball to Turner at the top of the arc.
Turner has been practicing hard three-pointers recently, but the effect is also remarkable, and Turner will shoot three-pointers quickly when he gets the ball.
Turner's three-point shot was clean, like a knife, and the "swoop" hit the Nuggets' soft underbelly at once.
Turner's three-pointer also hit, and in the process of the Pelicans and Nuggets launching a fast-paced battle, the Pelicans finally began to gain the upper hand, stealing a ball from Nate and blocking a ball from Chandler, and seeing the point difference widen again.
At this point, Brian Shaw's glasses were already wide on the sidelines, and both sides were using adrenaline-pumping fast-paced crazy offense, crazy defense, and in the process, the Pelicans took advantage of the better defense.
Van Gundy is right, defense, especially team defense, is definitely the quality of a team.
At this time, Bill Wharton also said:
"The Pelicans' better defense played a decisive role in the real battle between the two teams, and now the balance of victory has shifted in favor of the Pelicans." (To be continued......)