Chapter 867: Save the World
Prince is a good man, and he was afraid that Conley would disturb the atmosphere of the team, so he comforted Conley and said:
"Mike, we didn't play well in the front, but in the next games we will chase the score back, we use Makgasol and so many good teammates."
Prince came to comfort Conley, but how did Prince himself know that Conley actually had the biggest opinion of himself.
When he heard Prince say this, Conley said rudely:
"It's going to be good later, how can it be good, it's like you're hiding somewhere, Prince, you didn't shoot much in the first half, you didn't even think about helping the team, what basis do you have for saying that the second half will be good now."
Conley confronted Prince here, although Prince is a humble gentleman, but he is not the kind of person who allows people to be mermaids, and when he heard Conley's duties, a cold light immediately appeared in Prince's eyes.
Prince is a dusty sword, he was injured and broken when he was at his sharpest, this is the regret of his life, he didn't shoot much today, just for the sake of the team's overall situation.
Just when Prince's eyes were cold.
Mike Miller, who was the oldest qualifier on the Grizzlies, stood up and roared:
"Enough, Mike, we're still fighting, and if there is infighting at this time, it's the Pelicans, our enemies, who are the happiest."
Mike Miller is not a big figure in the Grizzlies, but he has been with the Grizzlies for a very long time, he is the old man of the team, and he is also the most authoritative in the locker room, whether it is Mark Gasol, or Prince, Tony Allen, or even Zach Randolph, they are very convinced of Mike Miller.
Mike Miller roared, and Marc Gasol also came out and said. Marc Gasol stood up and glanced at Conley and said.
"Conley, you were very good in the first half, but you didn't blame all your team-mates with all your might, they did their best."
"Just Prince's tight 3 shots are the best they can, just Tony Allen's 3 points are the best they can, without me, now you don't know where to go."
Conley thought he had done his best for the team's plan, and he was talking in the locker room just to make the team's performance better, but he didn't expect him to think for the team. On the contrary, everyone on the team was against him, and Conley himself offended people, and then he felt very wronged.
"If that's the case, don't shoot in the third quarter, let you see how we make a shot."
Prince, who had just kept his face calm and didn't speak, suddenly said this, Conley was stunned, and saw that everyone in the locker room was staring at him, even his friend Tony Allen looked at him with resentful eyes.
Conley himself felt powerless. I was thinking about the team but these people started to hate themselves, and Conley felt that he was right, but he didn't want to think about it, he didn't have the right to blame others. He's not the captain of the team, he's not the core, he's not even a respected locker room boss, he's just playing a little better at half-time and blaming others. Naturally, others can't say yes.
As soon as Prince's words came out, he looked at Conley coldly, and now Conley was getting up and down on the ground. answer
It's the enemy of most of the team, and if you don't agree, you're soft.
So Conley also said a little wittily:
"You don't involve everybody else, the second half is just how we scored, and no one else counted."
Prince smiled contemptuously and said:
"You said this is the playoffs, how can I waste the team's opportunity to compete with you, how can I shamelessly surround and prove myself like you and sacrifice the team, I will only fight with everyone, and will never compete with you to test their scoring ability."
Conley was really a little unable to fight Prince at this time, Conley looked at Prince's provocative eyes, Marc Gasol's disgusted appearance, and Ed Davis's attitude of wanting to drive himself away now.
He felt that he really didn't mean anything in this team, playing was meaningless, he played desperately, these people complained about themselves, said something to motivate them and blamed them for their shortcomings, and they attacked themselves en masse.
So Conley himself suddenly laughed weakly:
"Hahahaha, hahaha."
"Okay, I'll watch you die at the hands of pelicans, they won't spoil you soft eggs."
Conley pointed the finger at all the Pelicans, and after saying that, he sat in his chair, and now Conley didn't want anything else, he was thinking, hurry up and end the Grizzlies playoffs, just find a team to change places, and he can't play with these people.
The Grizzlies' locker room is very unpleasant, and this unhappiness is not good for the team, because the people are scattered, but it is not necessarily a good thing for the Grizzlies, who now hate Conley's singles, and their own fighting spirit has been aroused.
The Grizzlies' locker room is going through a big fight, and Li Feng walks into the locker room and is caught by Van Gundy.
Van Gundy grabbed Li Feng's first sentence and said very frankly:
"Li Feng, I'm sorry for you today. If it weren't for you, we would have lost more in the first quarter, and what I said at the time, don't hold a grudge against me. ”
Li Feng has basically forgotten all the words at that time, and he stretched out his big hand boredly and said:
"Now that you know you're wrong, let me play to my heart's content, hide it like this, and I'll be suffocated."
Arenas didn't know how to hear this, he heard Li Feng ask for playing time and immediately shouted:
"No, Li Feng, you have too much time to perform, if it's all for you to play, we'll just see what you plan alone."
Arenas yelled abruptly, Li Feng and Van Gundy both laughed, and Van Gundy continued to say to Li Feng:
"Li Feng, you have a long-term vision, I don't have to worry, if we win the championship, I will definitely get out of class, and you will only exert your strength when you are needed, so that the other party will find that most of the time is wasted by defending you with heavy troops, but at critical moments, you can save the world."
Hearing the always old-fashioned Van Gundy say that he could "save the world", Li Fengleng was stunned. He looked out the window a little dumbfounded at this time, feeling that the world didn't need to be saved by himself, because as long as he let go of the fight, there would be no crisis in the world at all!
The game started immediately, the Pelicans made a little adjustment to the lineup, Van Gundy felt that he held down the Grizzlies in the second quarter, and the third quarter should be the time to close the net, so he replaced Rose with Oladipo, ready to prepare for the next game.
Seeing Van Gundy's arrangement, many people couldn't believe it. Is this still the conservative Fan Bald?
On the Grizzlies' side, they have not made any adjustments, or point guard Tony Allen, scoring guard Conley, small forward Prince, power forward James Johnson, and center Mark Gasol.
The opening game was the Pelicans' possession, and the Pelicans' lineup changed after counting Oladipo. Because Oladipo's running position is very active and the range is also very large, the Pelican's original hoplite step by step progress, it has become a colorful sitting position.
Prince after receiving a stimulus from Conley. Regardless of his injuries, he desperately chased Oladipo, and there was no chance to chase Oladipo, but at this time, Arenas couldn't wait so much.
He and Li Feng quickly crossed the cover outside the three-point line. Then he gave the basketball to Li Feng, and although Al Jefferson was not strong in attack on the Grizzlies' interior, he was very active in the position. Because he knew that he was going to get to the position, although he couldn't attack it, he was the beacon of the whole team.
When the basketball is in his own hands, he can achieve the purpose of redistribution, so that a large range of transfers that are difficult for small guards to do, and his teammates also believe in him, and Al Jefferson is stuck in the position on the inside.
Li Feng's pass really went to El Jefferson's hands immediately, and before El Jefferson received Li Feng's pass, he saw Oladipo run to Arenas to cover.
So the ball went into Al Jefferson's hand, and he immediately flicked the ball into the bottom corner on the right, where Arenas picked up the ball, took a small dribble forward, and then suddenly hit a jumper to score two points with ease.
The Pelicans are now more fluent in the whole offense with Oladipo, and Miller, who was in the commentary seat, said happily:
"After the Pelicans enabled Oladipo, they were on offense, and they could also cooperate with each other, although Al Jefferson didn't need much inside scoring in the game, but it was definitely enough as a containment and passing, and the Pelicans really wanted to get back to the team."
The Pelicans didn't rejoice for long, and they certainly didn't rejoice for long, and when the Grizzlies started attacking, Van Gundy and his Pelicans showed that the Grizzlies had become a different team
They were very different from what they had just been, thanks to Conley, and even to Conley, who had brought them together because of their hatred.
The Grizzlies' Tony Allen didn't even look at Conley and passed the basketball directly to Prince, who had just run to the Pelicans, and Prince was as silent as ever, as if he was observing something, as if he was looking for the same thing.
This look made Oladipo a little confused, I don't know what it means, but Prince himself knows in his heart that he represents destruction, impact, and riposte, maybe Prince didn't show it on the surface, but in his heart, the former superstar began to struggle hard.
He wants those who question him to see what he is capable of, and at least for Conley to see what he is capable of.
Swinging with the ball, as if passing, Oladipo only vaguely remembered who Prince was, he just remembered the guy who kept passing the ball in the first half, he thought it was a safe, quiet guy, and he could take it easy.
Just when Oladipo wanted to relax a little, as if he had imagined it, Oladipo suddenly moved, he moved as fast as the earth was falling, and in that moment, Oladipo didn't even notice Prince's footsteps.
Prince's damaged muscles and bones burst out with tremendous energy, pushing Prince out at once, and accelerating in a straight line like a cannonball, throwing off Oladipo.
Oladipo turned around, only to see the blue back, and the wind rushed into the Pelican's inner line.
This was a blow that no one expected, Prince was like a blue lightning bolt, just a flash, and rushed into the Pelicans' interior line, but at this time Millsap and Al Jefferson were really not ready.
By the time he moved, Prince was already jumping, and by the time they touched the ground in the air, Prince had already made a layup. In an instant, just in an instant, Prince cut off the pelican's head directly from the outside to the interior.
Swift and calm, the layup was as sharp as a knife and chilled.
At this time, several people on the commentary table had even forgotten to explain that Van Gundy had grown his mouth, and although Prince was a little prince and an All-Star, it was ten years ago.
In fact, any professional footballer, as long as you keep training well. Basically, you can play until you are forty years old, and your state will not decline too much before you are thirty-five years old, and it is normal to play soy sauce for one or two games most of the time.
Robert Pera smiled suddenly, he thought that Prince would not perform like this after the injury, but at this time the smile was stiff on Conley's face, he never thought that Prince could score like this, much lighter than himself, more awe-inspiring than himself, and I don't know how many times stronger than himself.
Conley's heart shook like waves. He never thought that he would challenge the ground guy with such strength.
However, when Prince met Conley, he just smiled contemptuously at Conley, as if to say that this is the score. What did you just do, that's so naïve.
"Wow, Prince's breakthrough just now was so fast, it was amazingly fast. That back reminds me of when he first entered the league, when he could be like this, it looks like he blocked Miller back then! ”
Barkley reminisced with some fascination. Reggie Miller also said:
"yes, the way Prince looked just now, it just stunned me, at that time I thought I had gone back in time, and if I had gone back in time, I would have been willing to fight him again."
But Hardaway said:
"Prince broke through in a straight line, and it was crazy with the speed of the first step, and in that instant, he cut into the Pelicans' interior like a knife, and now Prince is also driving like a rush, and the Grizzlies are starting to have a good life."
Van Gundy was surprised, but he definitely didn't think Prince could play so well every time he attacked, and he still believed in his team.
However, the Pelicans have failed Van Gundy's trust, and Arenas is comfortably dribbling Tony Allen, who has been doing this for so long that the two don't think it hurts them in any way.
Then just as Arenas was about to pass the basketball to Jackson rashly, Tony Allen, who had a short arm, suddenly clicked off the basketball in Arenas's hand like a mouse jumping up.
completed the ball in an instant, and quickly galloped towards the Pelicans' half, there are many people who are dissatisfied with Conley, but the most dissatisfied with Conley, and the one who has endured for the longest time is definitely Tony Allen.
Since today's game, Conley has kept asking Tony Allen for the ball, Tony Allen can't play by himself, even if he can't even control the basketball, when he gets the ball, Conley yells at himself, and it is a great sin not to give him the basketball.
Now that Tony Allen has the ball again, Conley is starting to break his promise, he stretches out two hands behind Tony Allen, and shouts anxiously:
"Give me the ball, give me the ball, give it to me, give it to me."
But Tony Allen didn't pay attention to him at all, and he didn't think that he would dribble and run forward without hearing anything, Conley didn't expect that Tony Allen had been giving him the ball in front of him, but this time after getting the basketball, with how he shouted, Tony Allen just ignored himself.
This made Conley think of the locker room, Tony Allen's cold eyes when he looked at him, his heart jumped, and at this moment, Tony Allen, who was moving fast, suddenly returned his hand and passed the ball out.
Conley instinctively thought it was him, so he stretched out his hand, but he couldn't touch the basketball at all, because Tony Allen didn't pass it to him in the first place, and Prince received the basketball in the back.
Prince seemed to be a blue elf, dribbling the ball around Conley as an obstacle, and then went straight to the Pelicans' basket to kill, at this time Conley suddenly froze, even though he was angry in the locker room, he thought that when he got to the court, those guys would still rely on him, because he was the strongest.
But now it is clear that he has been excluded from the team, and has even been used by his teammates as an obstacle to get around.
Just as Conley was on the ground, he saw Prince dribble to the Pelicans' free throw line, and suddenly made a sharp stop, and suddenly dodged Oladipo, who was catching up from behind. Then Prince made a quick shot.
Conley even hoped that Prince would miss, but his hope was disappointed, and Prince's shot was extremely accurate and effective, hitting the Pelicans' vital point with one shot, and the FedEx Arena was jubilant, after all, no one in this world hates humble gentlemen.
Now Li Feng is a little suspicious that Van Gundy deliberately designed to make Conley soar in the first half, and it was too coincidental to use Prince and Grizzlies in the second half. The outside attackers take turns to attack, which is simply a set of wheel attacks in flowing combat.
If you see a player score in a way at a time, it can be said that it is his personal swing, but if you see a player twice in a row and attack in the same way, then it is very likely that it is the coach's arrangement.
This rule definitely does not apply to Prince's layup today, Prince's layup and scoring today are really carried out by himself, when that frustration accumulates to a certain extent. When some anger reaches the point where it cannot be unraveled.
You need a relief, a way to really free yourself, and Prince is eager to get back on the court after a long period of suffering from injury. After all, this is where he wields himself.
And then when I came back to the ring, I couldn't fully use my body because I was injured again, but it was nothing. It wasn't these that made me sadder the most, but Conley's insults, his contempt. Conley forgot about it, Prince was a better attacker than him and Conley before he was injured, and Conley really forgot about it.
A lot of people have forgotten about this, so when Prince once he explodes, they forget about everything except for the stunned unexpected.
Prince exploded continuously, and Conley felt cold in his heart, because he could see that Prince scored more easily than himself, and Prince's every time he scored was very, and it seemed that the score was natural, which was completely different from Conley's forced score.
At this time, the Grizzlies are facing a tipping point, on the verge of an explosion, behind the edge of this explosion is the anger of all the Grizzlies, sometimes anger seems to be a double-edged sword, he can make the team out of control, can also make the team into a crazy situation.
The Pelicans were careful this time, and Tingley was also very careful, and the tactical discipline of the whole team was also very good, but the ball dribbling thing is like a circle, and if there is more on one side, there will inevitably be less on the other side.
When the Grizzlies were in a big way, even if the Pelicans had a good chance on their side, Li Feng still missed the three-point shot.
At this time, the Grizzlies seemed to be crazy, and as soon as the ball arrived, they rushed towards the Pelicans half-court injury, and the fast-paced basketball was what the Pelicans originally pursued, but in this moment, the Grizzlies seemed to suddenly forget that they still had a center like Marc Gasol, and they pounced on the Pelicans like a pack of wolves.
The frenzied Grizzlies both made Van Gundy hot and happy, and made Van Gundy feel anxious, he was afraid that his players would not play well, he was afraid that his players would play in the wrong direction, but at this time he did not call a timeout.
Because there was a glint of excitement in Prince's face, in Tony Allen's face, even in the face of Marc Gasol, who didn't score at all, and in the face of Ed Davis, who was sitting on the sidelines.
Robert Pera completely didn't understand where this excitement came from, and he didn't want to understand it, but he didn't want this excitement to be stopped, a passionate player, a team that can strictly abide by tactical discipline is somewhat contradictory, but in the sport of basketball, everything that is missing is missing, even if Shi Buddha won so many championships, it is because of the passion he lacks, so the United States, And fans all over the world didn't give the great striker the more respect and love he deserved.
The title of Shifo was even replaced by the No. 21 rookie, which is certainly a compliment, but it is also saying: Duncan has been retired from rookie for so many years, and he is still so dull! (To be continued......)