Chapter 735: The Aesthetics of Violence
went to the free throw line and took over the basketball, but at this time, the United Center Arena mercilessly gave Li Feng huge boos and countless swinging inflatable rods.
There was a boo in his ears, and in front of him was a white and dangling inflatable rod, but Li Feng's heart felt very comfortable because of his layup just now, my heart is immortal, the fierce soul will live forever, and the brave and the victorious will be distinguished in the toughest confrontation.
Now Li Feng felt that the murderous soul in his heart began to burn.
No matter what kind of ability he has, if he doesn't have a fierce soul in his heart, he won't have fighting spirit, and if he doesn't have fighting spirit, he won't have power.
Li Feng raised the basketball in his hand, leaned back, and gently threw the basketball out, and a high arc appeared, and the basketball easily drilled into the basket.
Li Feng started to attack, Li Feng really started to attack, in the last quarter of the game, the Pelicans' offensive focus really shifted to Li Feng, and now the Bulls' defensive focus should be shifted immediately, Li Feng didn't score crazy this season, but who dares to forget that he averaged 30+ per game last season. If you have 40+ in the playoffs, you are asking for yourself! ”
Bill Wharton saw that Li Feng was starting to attack, and he began to get a little excited.
But Phil Jackson didn't feel the slightest bit excited, such a pelican made Phil Jackson feel very dangerous.
At this time, Phil Jackson did not call a timeout, the Bulls came back to attack, and Howard, who had just been scored by Li Feng on the head, returned to shoot and began to feel out of order, and the basketball jumped out of the basket.
Al Jefferson grabbed the rebound, but Howard managed to interfere with Al Jefferson's pass and didn't let the Pelicans play the fast break, and Al Jefferson dribbled two steps to find Rose.
The Pelicans' offense began to come back, and at the beginning of the fourth quarter, the Pelicans played a small game to chase the score back, and now in this period, the Pelicans' game momentum has suddenly risen.
Once the momentum of the game is up. It's hard to hold it down, unless you also get up and make a wave to push the other person down. Now the morale of the game is here in the Pelicans, so the Pelicans' offense feels different as soon as it comes, as if no one is very confident in their movements, there is no hesitation and incoherence, Li Feng let go of the right to organize the offense in the last quarter and began to move empty-handed.
Although several of the Bulls' defenders didn't get instructions from Phil Jackson, they also chased after the defense Li Feng Li Feng got rid of Nick Young, ran over Hinrich, and finally met Paul
Suddenly, a turn stuck in the main position. This position is also at the angle of a big stride inward from the three-point line, which is not a very good position, but Rose still passed the basketball to Li Feng's hands.
Paul was behind Li Feng, and kept making small movements, this was in the United Center Arena, and the referee didn't see the small movements that hit Li Feng's arm, but Li Feng felt it himself.
This kind of small action made Li Feng a little annoyed, he turned his shoulders and buttocks, so that Paul couldn't figure out what Li Feng wanted to do to defend behind your back, your opponent didn't use his eyes, but felt his body. Everyone knows that
Li Feng's rotation and shift of center of gravity made Paul not know what to give birth to in the end.
Turning around suddenly, Li Feng didn't use any feints, but just twisted his shoulders fiercely at the moment of turning. This time Paul completely passed to the back, and the opponent behind the opponent who twisted the arm in the game was fouled, and he also fouled with the shoulder, of course, if the shoulder was used quickly. The referee can't see it at all, and only the defenders who come into contact with him can feel the power to twist themselves backwards.
Li Feng unscrewed Paul and rushed into the Bulls' three-second zone again. The Bulls look like they have a full lineup and are proud of their interior lineup, especially their defense.
But Li Feng Ling was not afraid!
Li Feng rushed up again, and at this time the Bulls' defense tightened, but when the Bulls tightened, Li Feng fluttered the basketball into the hands of Rose outside the three-point line.
Rose's hand was average in the middle of the game, but when it came to the most critical moment of the game, Rose's touch returned, and as long as Rose's touch came back, he was basically unstoppable.
The Pelicans hit another three-pointer, and at this time the Pelicans completely overtook the score and suppressed the Bulls in momentum.
The two teams were deadlocked in the first three quarters, and in the last quarter, Li Feng made a move, and suddenly snatched the opportunity to win the game, and he was about to win the game in one fell swoop.
At this point, Phil Jackson couldn't stand the pace and shape of the game out of his control, and he immediately called a timeout.
The Bulls' players were still fighting just now, and the Bulls' iron-blooded appearance only a few minutes passed, and they returned to the rest seat listlessly.
Phil Jackson looked at his teammates with a little coldness:
"Lift your heads, this is in Chicago, look at the jerseys hanging overhead, this stadium hasn't had a soft egg like you, the game is not over very early, we have 8 minutes to go"
Phil Jackson's words made all the Bulls players raise their heads. Phil Jackson is the soul of this team with the Bulls. None of the Bulls' players can represent the Bulls' tough spirit. Even Paul can't, there is only one person who can represent the Bulls, and that is Phil Jackson.
"What are the Pelicans, no matter what kind of strong team we go to, we have to believe that we can win, we can do it, if we don't have confidence, you are shit and you can't do anything!"
Phil Jackson began to reprimand his players a few words, and with too little timeout, he stopped his reprimand and began to lay out defensive tactics.
"The Pelicans are now starting to focus on Li Feng, and in the closing stages of the game, the Pelicans seem to be most accustomed to playing this point, so our most important task now is to contain Li Feng."
"Nick defends him all over the court, and as soon as he catches the ball, the people near him immediately come up and wrap him up, leaving no room for anything, and Okafor, Howard wants to cut off his running baseline, not let him move around the entire court, and confine him to the general area."
The Bulls are quickly arranging offensive and defensive strategies here, but on the other side of the court, the Pelicans' rest bench, it is a peaceful scene, and everyone is resting to the fullest.
Van Gundy didn't show any expression either, just sat there and watched the cheerleaders perform.
It seems that the game on the court has nothing to do with him, he just came to watch the game, and admired the cheerleaders of the Pelicans, and Phil Jackson was very sad to watch. When people have a good core, the coach is relaxed!
The Bulls' players returned to the court, and the Bulls' first and round offense was obviously carefully designed by Phil Jackson, with Howard covering on the inside again and again, and finally easily turning around and getting stuck to El Jefferson.
Howard was actually sure that he would hit Al Jefferson, but Al Jefferson, although he was more restrained, was also beaten out of his temper, and Howard flashed Al Jefferson's defense with three or two strikes and was about to dunk.
didn't expect this Al Jefferson to simply foul Howard, this time Al Jefferson was fouled 6 times. Sending Howard to the free-throw line as well would have been something that Phil Jackson could have accepted.
But when Howard was violated by Al Jefferson just now, he may have been beaten a little harder, and he didn't score two free throws in a row, and this time Phil Jackson was furious, and he completely messed up an attack that he carefully planned and didn't score two free throws, which was equivalent to pressing another layer on the Bulls' low morale.
Howard missed two free throws in a row, and this time Steve Kerr frowned and said:
"How did you get such a crucial ball, and you lost it like this"
Phil Jackson called a timeout. The tactics were set up to suppress the Pelicans' madness, but now Howard missed two free throws in a row, as if he was smashing the opponent with a rock, and instead smashed his own feet. In addition to being funny, the effect wasted all of Phil Jackson's arrangement.
The Pelicans are without Al Jefferson. Replaced by the veteran Brand, Rose doesn't bother Li Feng to receive the ball directly in the backcourt, as long as Li Feng does a good offense
Li Feng moves empty-handed, and empty-handed movement is a knowledge. Some people can't shake off their opponents no matter how they run empty-handed, but some people can throw off their opponents very lightly, which is more deceitful. It doesn't matter with the body, it only has to do with the dexterity of the mind and the role that the adaptability plays at this time is absolute
After Li Feng came over, he wanted to run around the bull's bottom line first, but when he arrived at the bottom line, someone immediately stopped Li Feng in front of him
It was none other than Okafor who stopped Li Feng, and Okafor didn't let Li Feng run over in the first gear of the bottom line
Okafor's action was a bit of a foul, but this was the home stadium of the Union Center Arena, so the referee didn't see it.
After Li Feng was blocked by Okafor for a while, he immediately circled around and wanted to go around Okafor's side, but this big man actually grabbed Li Feng in the move, so that Li Feng couldn't run freely.
Li Feng hurriedly turned around and ran back, which was considered an unexpected situation, but as soon as he turned around, Nick Yang squeezed himself to the edge of the bottom line.
At this time, Li Feng finally understood that these people in the Bulls wanted to limit themselves from the outside run.
At this time, Li Feng felt a little crying and laughing, it seemed that Phil Jackson hated himself deeply, and wanted to strangle his attack from the very edge.
I've heard of defensive shooting, defensive rushing, and defending around the front, but I haven't heard of Li Feng, who has to be restricted even to move empty-handed, and at this time he also enjoyed the treatment of a superstar.
Li Feng was limited by the Bulls from the beginning of the run, which was something that the entire Pelicans did not expect, thanks to Arenas's experience, he quickly passed the basketball to Millsap's hands.
Okafor, who defended Millsap, paid attention to Li Feng, and he didn't pay attention at all, Paul Millsap turned around and scored with a sneak attack.
Millsap scored so easily. Phil Jackson is going to scold
The empty-handed move is with a restricted, but very large range of motion attacker. It's quite difficult to defend against him empty-handed, and it's almost impossible to do so. Because the price you pay is too great.
Now the defense of Kobe Bryant Maddie in the league rarely starts with receiving the ball, and in addition to the center, the longest defense in the league from receiving the ball is Iverson.
Iverson was at his peak, with a razor-sharp offense that could break the ankle of any defender at the speed of the wind, and people were asking at the time to defend the little devil.
The only way to do that is to keep him from receiving the ball.
Only by not letting Iverson catch the ball can he defend Iverson, so every time I watched the 76ers play, I saw Iverson running out of the opponent's baseline in the opponent's half to get to the line to receive the basketball, so I couldn't defend this little ghost.
Out of so many games, the only one was the 76ers and Pistons playing Billups that year. This native who was destined to have a relationship with Iverson defended Iverson and followed the whole court. So Iverson barely had a chance to make a move
This is the first time these two people, a genius defender and a grassroots defender, gave birth to a little story, and the fate of the two people really had a big exchange, but that was a few years later.
Now Phil Jackson began to put so much effort into defending Li Feng, but his defense had a bigger hole.
After Phil Jackson finished arranging the offense, Howard missed two free throws, and was attacked by Millsap under the basket, which can be said to be a morale that was not beaten at all, and when the Pelicans attacked at halftime, the Bulls did not improve and had no chance to play inside and outside, and the Bulls' offense was also going to be unable to play
At this moment, Hinrich was in a situation that no one expected. Hit a three-pointer on Arenas' head
Rescued the bull at once, and Hinrich really played his role as a key gentleman and pulled the game back, and the bull did not sink completely.
At this time, Steve Cole took a long breath from the commentary seat and said:
"Thanks to us and Kirk, if he hadn't made a shot at the crucial moment, our team would have really been finished"
"Yes, that round was too important. The Bulls' offense has been experiencing problems continuously, and there is no way to stop the opponent defensively, and if the Pelicans continue to widen the difference, the Bulls will sink in morale. In the end, Hinrich's three-pointer was tantamount to pulling the Bulls back from the edge of the cliff, and interestingly, there are currently three players on the court. Both Hinrich and Rose were once leaders of the Bulls, and Paul was the pride of the city of New Orleans, and today, Hinrich and Paul are partnered. Ross and they were opponents. ”
Bill Wharton also praised Hinrich's watch.
Hinrich is one such player who can be obscure throughout the game and feel free to make you feel that this person is not in the middle of the game, but when it comes to the most crucial moment of the game. He was able to save the whole team with his actions.
Compared to Jamal Crawford, Hinrich is more low-key, in fact, the effect is not bad, Jeff Van Gundy saw that Hinrich was also bright-eyed, he used to want to get this guy when he was in the Rockets, and now it seems that there is a chance to get him, Van Gundy was distracted all of a sudden.
And Phil Jackson saw Hinrich's watch Xiàn before he fell silent.
But at this time, Li Feng already knew that Phil Jackson had to defend himself from the moving stage. With such preparations, Li Feng was completely different when he ran over again
He began to pay attention to the defenders around him, Li Feng ran down from above, giving people the feeling that he wanted to run a big lap, Okafor still wanted to intercept Li Feng on the baseline.
But this time Li Feng was careful, jumped into the three-second zone in front of Okafor, teased Okafor, and then grabbed Howard's clothes before Howard came up.
Pulling Howard. Li Feng got to the other side. Li Feng's empty-handed movement is also very difficult. Came out from the other side. At this time, Rose's basketball was in Li Feng's hands.
At about 45 degrees, he received the basketball and it was relatively close to the bottom line, and when he received the basketball, Howard looked left and right, and no one around him followed, so he had to rush up to defend Li Feng.
This is Phil Jackson's arrangement in advance, whoever is closest to Li Feng is going to come up to defend Li Feng, at this time only he is Howard pasted up, Li Feng pushed back with his shoulder against Howard.
At this point, Tyrone Boggs immediately said:
"Howard is defending Li Feng again, and Li Feng can use his first step to break through the opponent."
Li Feng's biggest honor guard against Howard is the first step, except for this, the two of them are almost the same, but at this time, Li Feng did not interrupt the first step to turn around, because Nick Young immediately stood behind Howard, and he was afraid that as soon as he broke through, he would make his own foul.
And today's Bulls' home whistle is obvious, so it will definitely fall into the trap of the other party, Li Feng shook his shoulders violently left and right, and then took advantage of Howard's looseness.
Li Feng quickly turned around and turned into an attack facing the basket, Li Feng turned left and right and turned into facing the basket, as if he really came according to what Tillone Boggs said, and was about to break through.
Nick Young was obviously prepared for this, and when he saw Li Feng facing the basket, he immediately took two steps forward.
Li Feng seemed to really come as he expected, and the first step of the fierce step stepped out, driving Howard and Nick Young to retreat violently together, as if they had been thrown into a pond of water.
But just when Li Feng provoked the fluctuations of the Bulls, he suddenly turned his whole body back and turned around, pulling steps to shoot, these two shocking changes from the back to the face frame, from the breakthrough to the turn to shoot.
After a few actions in one go, Li Feng's body flew backwards, and the basketball easily got into the Bull's basket.
After Li Feng completed this attack, Tyrone Boggs and Bill Wharton shouted together beautifully.
Indeed, Li Feng's hand is really beautiful. In the past, Li Feng's attack was like a wild bison frantically crashing into the opponent's inner line, but at this time, Li Feng seemed to be a swordsman with a sword, fluttering, and after a false shot, he loosened the opponent's head.
It's not just about violence, it's about the aesthetics of violence. (To be continued......)