Chapter 878: No Pressure
Li Feng came over and heard Van Gundy yelling at him there, Li Feng knew what Van Gundy meant, he rhythmically controlled the basketball, stopped a little farther away from the three-point line, saw this, Robert Pera immediately jumped and yelled at Conley:
"Go back to the three-point line, go back there."
Robert Pera's intention was very simple, that is, when he saw that Li Feng had no three-point shot, he wanted Conley to shrink on the three-point line to defend, but in such a big court, his voice was still too small, and he could only watch Conley follow Li Feng stupidly and chase after him.
At this time, Robert Pera really wanted to scold twice, but before Robert Pera could scold, Li Feng had already taken a big step and pounced in one step, Li Feng's first step was so fierce that even a guy like Conley who was definitely not slow could not keep up.
After Li Feng screwed in one step, the Grizzlies' interior line immediately moved to the line as if facing a big enemy, and the players who were defending on both wings also went to the interior line, just when the entire Grizzlies were ready to concentrate in the three-second zone.
Li Feng did not go deep into the Grizzlies' interior here, but twisted his body and began to move to the right along the Grizzlies' three-second zone.
As soon as Li Feng twisted it, although this action was very small, it immediately made Robert Pera's eyes widen, if Li Feng did this action in Robert Pera's tactics, then the entire Pelicans' style of play would be completely changed.
The entire formation of the Grizzlies became chaotic, Li Feng relied on his body in the Grizzly Bear lineup, rolled out in a daze, and then pulled out Tony Allen in the Grizzly Bear formation.
Li Feng saw that there was another one behind his buttocks, and he pulled it out and immediately at 45 degrees, as soon as he raised his hand, he sat on a shooting feint.
Tony Allen saw Li Feng raise his hand inside. He immediately jumped up to block Li Feng, but after Li Feng clicked it, he immediately passed the basketball to the high position of Al Jefferson.
Li Feng just cut into the Grizzly Bear's interior line and compressed the Grizzlies' interior back, and now the basketball is in the hands of Aljefferson in the high position, and the only one who can come up to defend Aljefferson is Prince.
Al Jefferson didn't put any pressure on Prince, and the rhythm was very good.
Such an easy shot, the shot hit, after Al Jefferson scored such a goal.
As soon as Conley received the basketball at the baseline, Robert Pera was there to beckon Conley and yelled at Conley:
"Step on the three-point line to defend Li Feng, step on the three-point line to defend Li Feng."
Conley understood what Robert Pera meant. He nodded, dribbling toward the Pelicans' halfcourt.
Everyone knows that the Grizzlies have a Randolph, and everyone knows that Randolph is a strong player on the inside, but the Grizzlies also have a very strong player on the outside outside in addition to Randolph, whether it is Prince or Tony Allen, they are very capable players on the outside, and when Tony Allen and Prince are combined, the Grizzlies suddenly glow with a crazy offensive ability on the outside.
Tony Allen and Prince became horns. Staggered on both sides to pull the Pelicans' outside line very wide, and then took turns trying to break through and squeeze the Pelicans' space, so that the Pelicans' defensive pressure was very huge.
After the merger of the Grizzly Bear's outer swords, it was really unusual. Tony Allen easily shook off Jackson and then went deep into the Pelicans' high post before turning and passing to Prince, who took another step away and then made a pull-up jumper.
Although the combination is simple, Prince and Toni Alenko are both strong defenders with great scoring ability. After a simple combination, Prince had a chance here and made a shot. Got two points with ease.
After the Pelicans dropped two points here, Li Feng turned around and continued to attack the Grizzlies' position.
After Li Feng made a gesture towards his teammates at this time, his teammates immediately dispersed.
Al Jefferson quickly ran out of it, and stepped by Conley's side, Li Feng just saw that Conley didn't pounce, he stood on the three-point line to defend himself, and he was not easy to break through, Li Feng called Al Jefferson to come out to help him, after Al Jefferson ran out, Li Feng had no worries, and used Al Jefferson's cover to get into the Grizzlies' interior line in one step.
When Li Feng came in, he was swift, and Max Gasol, who also came out, quickly called for defense with Conley, and suddenly became a big defense and a small defense, and followed by Li Feng to catch up and defend.
After the normal concept is caught by the big man, the small man will generally squeeze the route to deviate from the range he expected, but Li Feng killed it in this step, and really cut it directly against Marc Gasol.
Seeing that Li Feng was about to enter the Grizzlies' basket directly, Randolph under the basket also hurriedly intercepted it, blocking Li Feng on both sides of the front and back, and at this time, Li Feng quickly stuffed his hands between Marc Gasol and Randolph in the crowd.
As soon as Marc Gasol and Randolph saw Li Feng's hand stretched out, they immediately looked back, because at this time, both inside lines were aware of the impending danger at the same time.
Behind Randolph, Millsap received the ball from Li Feng, he jumped up directly and thought that there was a touch on the basket, Millsap did not have a perverted body like Randolph, nor did he have dexterous steps, but Millsap had his own unique concept, although he came up to wipe this inconspicuous, but it was very fast, and he completed the end of the final attack in an instant.
In the attack, finishing ability is a very important word, many players can not effectively complete the attack after they have created an offensive opportunity at the end, while some players have a very high efficiency in the final attack, and can easily complete the final offensive action.
It's like the same under the basket, when there is someone behind him, Randolph can jump up and dunk directly, and the opponent will either pay a foul or let Randolph score, and if Henson is there in the same position, he may not be able to shoot at all, this is the difference, and it is also a reason why Randolph is still so popular in the league without effective offensive skills. It is because as long as Randolph gets a position or a gap, he can complete an attack that ordinary people can't complete, and a complex and difficult attack is very likely to be turned into a simple attack directly in Randolph's hands.
Millsap doesn't have Randolph's perverted ability to turn complexity into simplicity, but his position is sufficient, and with a little quick shot, it can also be very easy to finish the attack.
By the time Randolph turned around, Millsap had already scored very easily, and the big man seemed to have a special feeling for Randolph, who was such a usually wooden person. He actually made a grimace at Randolph.
"Now the Pelicans' style of play has completely changed, and the core of the whole team has changed."
Kenny Smith's broad jaw twitched twice and said:
"If the Pelicans' tactics were based on the inside line before, then now the entire Pelicans' tactics are on the outside again, initiated by Li Feng alone."
"Yes, this is very clear from the game, in front of Li Feng alone lateral pull disrupted the Grizzly Bears' formation, and now it is Li Feng's breakthrough point, all of which are very simple, much simpler than the original Pelicans. But it made the Grizzlies very uncomfortable, and after getting used to the Pelicans' almost stiff attack from the inside and complex covers, the Pelicans suddenly changed in the face of it, and the offense from the outside seemed to be unconnected at all. ”
Miller's eyes were shining. Now he's also staring at the Pelicans lineup, watching carefully.
There was a new change in the pelican, and at this time Robert Pera swallowed a mouthful of saliva, which was bad news for the grizzly bear, and it was still very bad news for the grizzly bear at this time. Because now the Grizzlies have lost one game on their home court, and this one can't be lost again, if they lose again. The Grizzlies are almost ready to fish, which is not what Robert Pera wants to see.
But what to do now, Robert Pera thought with this question mark in his mind, and didn't even look at what was happening on the plug?
The Pelicans are playing simpler, but the Grizzlies are also changing here, and after it became clear that the Pelicans had changed their play, he also gestured to his opponent here with Conley.
After Conley's gesture came out, it was seen that the formation of the Grizzlies had also changed dramatically, and Tony Allen and Prince, who were originally horns, suddenly appeared on one side at the same time, Tony Allen appeared at the top of the arc, Prince sank to the bottom corner, and the most terrifying thing was that Randolph suddenly squeezed into a low position at this time.
There were three strong scorers on the same side of the Grizzlies, which is the so-called absolute strong side, and the three most powerful players of the Grizzlies gathered on the Pelicans' side at the same time, concentrating all the defensive forces of the Pelicans at once, and then greatly pulling away the weak side of the Pelicans at the same time.
Standing here on the weak side is Conley, who can see the stitch and break through to the Pelicans' inside line, and Mark Gasol, who has the ability to project, and the two weak side of the Grizzlies are also very good, although they have flaws in their abilities, they can complement each other, and both have their own characteristics.
Seeing the grizzly bear swing out of the full strong side, Hardaway immediately widened his eyes and exclaimed:
"Absolute strong side, the Grizzlies are also going to start early."
With a strong scorer, you can arrange different times for them to take turns to come up and play singles, so that you can continue the attack and ensure the quality of the attack, or you can like it is now, and at the same time the players are discharged, showing an absolutely strong lineup.
In the strong-side formation of the Grizzlies, the Pelicans will face almost overwhelming pressure and an all-pervasive offense, with Tony Allen dribbling the ball from the three-point line at this time.
He was very strict and did not attack rashly, raised the basketball in his hand, and wanted to pass the basketball to the hands of Randolph inside, and it took a lot of effort to send the basketball to or Randolph's hands.
Randolph rushed to receive the basketball, the Grizzlies' offense, immediately pressed to a very dangerous moment, just see Randolph in the interior once he received the basketball, immediately violently attacked Millsap, today Randolph was really angry with Millsap, this kid hurt himself behind his back, not to say, but also angry with himself. Randolph had been looking for an opportunity to repair Millsap, but he couldn't find a chance.
Now the opportunity finally came, he slammed Millsap hard, and at the same time blamed Millsap with his elbow when the referee was not looking, Millsap resisted expressionlessly, but secretly Millsap's and Randolph had his knees to hit the opponent every time he hit.
The two big men wrestled on the surface, secretly playing black hands, and after a few hits, Randolph couldn't bear it at first, turned around and jumped to attack.
At this point, Randolph's position was not very good, and he was able to pass the basketball to Prince for a pick-up. It would be better if it came in, but today's Randolph was hit by the joint efforts of Millsap and Brand in front of him, and he forcibly suppressed this evil fire in the back, and this evil fire was not vented in his stomach at all.
Now I finally met Millsap, if you don't fix Millsap, Randolph simply feels that God is intolerable, Randolph turns around and shoots, and Randolph's body has been studied for a long time, and Millsap still has 2 fouls. Randolph couldn't be allowed to do it now, and Millsap's hand slapped unceremoniously on Randolph's forearm.
"Smack!" , Millsap shot it really hard, and the basketball was directly filmed. Randolph's arm also flicked, and his revenge battle was a failure.
When Randolph, who had been fouled, landed on the ground, he yelled in annoyance.
"Boy, you only have six foul chances. But I've had a lot of chances. ”
"How I didn't see it."
Millsap spread his hands indifferently, which made Randolph even more angry, and he turned and yelled at Millsap:
"Boy. I'll make you regret it. ”
"I'm looking forward to it."
Millsap was stuttering very sharply at this time and counterattacked Randolph, who was quite angry, so depressed that he almost wanted to jump, but he couldn't do that.
I could only walk to the free throw line with an abnormal atmosphere, and I missed two free throws in a row.
"Randolph's free throws today were very poor, not even 50 per cent."
Barkley shook his head as he spoke.
"That's because his mentality is so uncalm, and he can't calm down."
Hardaway shook his head helplessly, he had been watching the game before, he saw the Pelicans attacking Randolph continuously, so that Randolph's mentality could not maintain a normal mentality for a long time.
The Grizzlies put on their most powerful attacking stance, but after Randolph's attack missed, the Grizzlies' entire offensive strategy completely failed.
Van Gundy saw that Robert Pera had prepared such a big killing move, and in the end it was a flop, and he was happy from the bottom of his heart, and now he gave himself a chance to fight back.
Now the Pelicans' tactics are all on Li Feng, Li Feng alone is the source of all the tactics, and Tony Allen also feels this by virtue of his own instinct.
When Li Feng showed up in the Grizzlies halfcourt, Tony Allen immediately caught up and wanted to join forces with Conley to defend Li Feng, but since Van Gundy dared to tie the Pelicans' tactical foundation to Li Feng, he had a certain confidence in Li Feng's ball control and basketball protection.
Conley saw that Tony Allen came to help him defend Li Feng, and he immediately put it on Li Feng's body very actively.
But in such a forward that Conley pounced, Li Feng pounced on Conley in the opposite direction, and the reverse breakthrough was the easiest, because the defender pounced forward, he couldn't stand it, and the attacking player could calmly stagger the defense.
Li Feng took advantage of such an instantaneous opportunity to brush and pull from Conley's side is to cut over, Li Feng stiffly these forces are quite large, even if Conley wants to resist Li Feng, there is nothing he can do, he can only watch Li Feng cut over from his side.
Once Li Feng broke the Grizzlies' two-man defense on the outside, the Grizzlies' interior line was immediately empty, and it was all blank in front of Li Feng.
This time, instead of controlling Li Feng, the Grizzlies made Li Feng have a big advantage, Li Feng got such a cheap at this time, and it was completely unreasonable to take advantage of it, Li Feng rushed towards Randolph's body with the ball, Randolph was already planning to fight for a foul and repair Li Feng, but Li Feng was about to meet Randolph when he was about to pull away from Randolph with the ball.
This is just a stroke, but Randolph is facing a dilemma, he can either follow Li Feng in the past, or stay in place, and follow his own behind, and if he doesn't follow Li Feng, there will be many opportunities to attack.
Randolph was stunned for a moment, and saw that Li Feng had already jumped up diagonally, Li Feng's body was jumping to the side, and Randolph could only rely on his footsteps to move sideways at this time.
At this time, Li Feng stretched out one hand, and a right-handed throw was thrown out briskly, and the basketball fell into the Grizzly Bear's basket before Randolph could move.
This is Li Feng's first self-shot score after breaking through the Grizzlies defense twice in a row, and Li Feng's shot this time is very low-key, but he uses Randolph's rhythm to play extremely simple and without pressure.
But Randolph felt extremely cowardly, because he was maliciously fouled by Millsap and Brand in front of him, and he didn't get any advantage from Millsap, this Li Feng still scored on his head twice and three times, which made Randolph extremely depressed.
The Pelicans use Li Feng's breakthrough and strong body to disrupt the opponent's defense line and then wait for an opportunity to make a move, this move is extremely simple, but it just hits the Grizzlies' death hole, the Grizzlies' group of people are good at defending individually, but they can't do it in the connection, because Randolph is large, Marc Gasol's size is also slow, and the Grizzlies' outside players are short enough, so once the defensive formation is messed up, Al Jefferson has an advantage over the small man in the high position, and Li Feng has an advantage over the slow-paced big man.
The Pelicans relied on Li Feng to disrupt the Grizzlies' defense, but the Grizzlies relied on the super strong side composed of Tony Allen, Prince, and Randolph, and on the side of consecutive singles, the three of them took turns to shoot and put pressure on the Pelicans.
This made the Pelicans chase several balls in a row, and by the end of the third quarter, the Pelicans were stunned to completely tie the score, so that the Pelicans and Grizzlies fell into a state of tension and stalemate.
At the end of the third quarter, Hardaway worriedly said:
"Now that the Pelicans and Grizzlies are back on the same starting line, it's completely unpredictable to decide what the outcome of today's game will be."
Hardaway is really nervous, because now the Grizzlies are the side that is being caught up, and the side that is caught up will always have more pressure than the side that is chasing.
But as soon as the fourth quarter began, there were only ten seconds of tightness, and Hardaway was not nervous, because after the opening, because Al Jefferson was actually sent off.
In the opening ten seconds, Marc Gasol, who had not been able to show anything today, received a pass from the outside, and then he seemed to help Randolph attract attention.
Dribbling the ball near the baseline step by step with his back against Al Jefferson to play, the Pelicans saw this situation and no one thought to help defend it, because everyone thought that Al Jefferson was not easy to defend Marc Gasol.
Al Jefferson also thought so, and he didn't come out to defend Marc Gasol with all his might, so Marc Gasol seized the loophole and passed Al Jefferson as soon as he turned around.
Al Jefferson is now carrying two fouls on his back, and he doesn't care too much, thinking that he won't let you pass, and he can't make it too easy for you, so he flew up directly in the back and prepared to give Marc Gasol a block.
Millsap played so vigorously, and Al Jefferson didn't want to be completely reduced to a supporting role. (To be continued......)