Chapter 954: The Great Reversal

Lawson controlled the ball to the Pelicans half, and the pass was quickly given to Gallinari, but Gallinari did not have too strong independent offensive ability, and it was Li Feng who defended him.

He only passed the ball to Avrado, who had good ability and good health, and when he was young and vigorous, he got the basketball and stabbed it directly to the Pelicans' basket.

Young players are generally so unstable that they can't help but rush to the opponent's basket, regardless of whether the opponent's basket is full of troops.

At this time, Gasol and Al Jefferson stood under the basket under the Pelicans' basket, how could he get into it lightly alone, Gasol came up to help defend, Afrado was not convinced, and forced the shot to miss.

Al Jefferson easily picked up the rebound under the basket, and then turned around and threw it to Li Feng, who quickly dribbled the ball to the Nuggets' half.

When he got here, Li Feng immediately found out that there was a problem with the Nuggets' retreat, the Nuggets, who were known as playing small ball, ran back with 3 people when they retreated, and the Pelicans who chased up ran over with 5 people.

At this time, the Pelicans are running much faster than the Nuggets, which means that the Pelicans have two more offensive points.

Li Feng threw the basketball directly to Al Jefferson who ran to the free throw line, and Al Jefferson couldn't shoot from this position at a steady distance.

Catching the ball and shooting, Al Jefferson finished as smoothly as water, and the basketball simply fell into the Nuggets' basket.

As soon as the game started, the Pelicans beat the Nuggets a 6-0, and it was faster than the Nuggets, the interior line was more ferocious, and the personnel were more complete.

"Pass the ball more, be bold, and shoot when you have the chance."

Brian Shaw dislikes the team's lack of courage in shooting, which is a shame for the Nuggets players, and won't he make a shot?

So when the Nuggets pushed in again, Gallinari wanted to take the lead the first moment he got the ball.

But when he raised his hand, he found that Li Feng's defense had arrived, and he really couldn't shoot casually. Such a casual shot can only lead to himself being blocked, and Gallinari doesn't want to be the background of being blocked, so he can only pass the ball to Mozgov on the inside.

As a result, Mozgov wanted to make a shot in the face of Gasol pulling out, but there was no chance to shoot.

After Van Gundy laid out a new defense, the Pelicans paid a lot more attention to defensive details than before, which made it more difficult for the Nuggets to shoot.

The Nuggets came over and it was really hard to even shoot in the end, and at this point they had to hand over the basketball to the team's best singles JJ Hixon.

Hickson had a good chance, but Hickson himself was reluctant to play, took the ball and spied a step, and then immediately got up and still had a very irresponsible long-range shot. Hickson's long-range shot was haphazard, and the basketball barely grazed the basket a little before it fell into the hands of Al Jefferson under the basket.

Al Jefferson took the ball and passed it quickly to Cory, who advanced the ball to Li Feng.

When Li Feng received the ball, he happened to be near the Nuggets' three-point line, and when he arrived at this position, the Nuggets players didn't care about Corey when they came to pounce on Li Feng.

Li Feng made a ground-hitting pass at the opponent's feet and stuffed it to Corey, who smoothly took the ball and cut it into the air.

Jumped up and dodged Mozgov's block with a lever in the air, then easily scored two more points.

At the beginning of today's game, the Nuggets let the Pelicans score points under the basket in a row, which shows how bad the Nuggets' defense under the basket is today. How irresponsible Hickson was.

Seeing this, Brian Shaw couldn't help it, and immediately called Farid to get up and replace JJ Hixon.

The Nuggets traded Hickson so early, and Hickson doesn't care. Hickson really doesn't want to stay with the Nuggets right now.

Farid came up and didn't actually help the Nuggets' offense, and Farid was a defensive player.

After Lawson controlled the ball and blocked Mozgov, the Pelicans delayed Lawson a little. Then the wheel immediately changed positions, and the speed was very fast, and the position was changed back very emotionally.

After Van Gundy highlighted some of the details of the defense. The Pelicans' defense is really much better.

The Nuggets played their trademark high-post pick-and-roll, but they didn't tear up the Pelicans' defense, and Lawson, although he is a conservative guard, couldn't help but shoot on the outside at this time.

At this time, Lawson had some feelings of despair, because the Pelicans didn't give them a chance.

In this case, Corey still rushed out to defend Lawson, but Lawson's shot missed.

Now it has been more than 2 minutes since the start of the game, almost three minutes, and the Nuggets still have no points, and at this time, the mentality of the Nuggets has naturally been greatly affected.

A team that wins by scoring doesn't score in the first three minutes, which is really bad luck.

Just when the Nuggets were in an anxious mood, the Pelicans pushed forward quickly again, and Li Feng took the ball and passed it to Granger on the baseline.

Granger turned around and broke through, tricked Mozgov into a feint under the basket, and then stepped up to make a layup, both creating a foul on Chandler who came with him, and the ball hit again.

Granger also created a 2+1 for the Nuggets when the Nuggets were about to collapse, and this time the Nuggets couldn't collapse, and Brian Shaw immediately called a timeout, at this time he had to adjust, and the team had to score.

And after the Pelicans got off to a dream start, the whole team cheered back to the bench.

Although Bill Walton satirized the Nuggets before the game, he didn't expect this to happen, the Nuggets came up with a bald head, and they couldn't get a point, and the Pelicans were defending the Nuggets to the death, looking like they were going to play in the Finals.

At this time, he also guessed some of the situation, so he said:

"The Pelicans changed their head coach today, and sure enough, the situation is different, the Pelicans have a very high intensity today, and the defense is very good, and the Nuggets haven't been able to adapt to this kind of defense?"

Albert also said on the side:

"yes, today's pelicans look so fierce."

Brianshaw yelled on the sidelines, and then replaced two players who could score, one was Randy Foyer and the other was Nate Robinson, and Brian肖 replaced two nerve knives in one go, and it seemed that he would not stop scoring.

Bryan Shaw not only replaced two scoring players, but also tactically asked Mozgov and Farid on the inside to cover them when they had the opportunity, and told Afrado to play hard when he had the opportunity.

Brian Shaw is asking the team to serve the offensive players as a whole. Only then did the players return to the pitch.

This time back, it was not the cautious Lawson who got the ball, but Nate Robinson, who was bolder than his height, Nate Robinson was less than 180 centimeters, but he was playing vigorously and energetically on the NBA court, and once he hit it well, this kid was full of nerve knives, and he was a character who could change a game once he had a nerve.

Now he's got the ball, and Bryan Shaw had given him the Holy Decree before. As long as the score can be played casually, this kid suddenly came up and was very active to play Corey with the change of direction action of street ball, Corey immediately came up and entangled with Robinson, Mozgov on one side is a player from Europe, and he came up to block Corey in the back, giving Nate Robinson a chance to face Gasol.

Nate Robinson is less than 1.80 meters tall and Gasol is 2.11 meters, and there is a half-meter height difference between the two of them, and Gasol's arms are as long as Robinson's legs. The two of them are completely players on two planets, with completely different rhythms.

This is misplaced, seeing that he wants to fight such a big man, Robinson also came to the spirit. Robinson is small in stature, but bold, he has blocked Yao Ming and secretly deducted O'Neal. The slam dunk contest leaps over Howard, and it can be said that the bigger the man, the more he has to challenge it. Now that he has met Gasol, he is back in the driver's seat.

Nate accelerated and rushed towards Gasol's arms, Gasol was okay with the defense, and now he met Nate Robinson's feet and immediately didn't know how to move, the rhythm of the two people was too different, Gasol's feet were mixed with garlic, Robinson drilled Gasol's thigh at once, flew straight to the basket and came, Al Jefferson came to help defend, Robinson in the air changed hands to dodge, and then a beautiful pick-up basket scored the first point for the Nuggets.

The Nuggets finally got the points, Brian Shaw, who was on the sidelines, breathed a sigh of relief, and Nate, who scored the first point, was excited all of a sudden.

This little man got such a point, as if he had killed the Pelicans, and he was beating his chest and roaring on the sidelines.

Nate's passion also infected Madison Garden at once, and many fans cheered and shouted on the sidelines.

'I like players like Nate, it's unimaginable to be a player without passion, and this little man has a lot more passion than usual, and it's easy to get excited to watch him play.

"yes, Nate is a good backup defender and I like a guy with a good personality like that, if he can grow 10 centimeters taller, I'm sure he'll be the next Francis."

Bill Wharton also praised Nate.

Nate Robinson is very good in the eyes of fans and ball critics, and Nate himself is also a player with a very good character, but it is said that Nate's personality is not very easy to get along with, which makes him not too popular among his teammates, so it also makes Nate's career very drifting after that.

The Nuggets finally scored points, the Pelicans turned around, and Li Feng took the ball in the backcourt and immediately yelled at the whole team twice.

'We still have a nine-point advantage, so we have the attack, we have the attack.

Li Feng yelled twice, he took the ball to the Nuggets' half, turned around and knocked Foye twice.

Foye was thin and leaned near the penalty area by Li Feng twice, although the Nuggets did not wrap Li Feng at this time, their attention was on Li Feng.

In such an instant, Li Feng sent the basketball to Granger, who cut in from the air, and Granger threw the ball through Farid and easily scored two more points.

Although the Nuggets themselves scored, their defense was still not good, and they couldn't stop the Pelicans from continuing to score.

The Nuggets' current lineup is not without defensive potential, and now the Nuggets are not good at defense or not in terms of mentality and defensive tactics, which is similar to the Nuggets in the last game.

The Nuggets came back and Foye also hit one from mid-range with a screen, and Randy Foye was one of the Nuggets' most consistent points.

The Nuggets' offense began to basically enter a relatively normal situation, and the Pelicans' offense did not stop at this time.

And today's Pelicans entered a very team situation, Li Feng made a basket in the first quarter and scored 2 points, and the rest of the time was organized, in this case, the other players of the team also had sufficient firepower, scoring points again and again, and there was no intention of letting the Nuggets surpass at all.

When the first quarter ends. The Pelicans still led the Nuggets by 10 points at 32-22.

The Pelicans led by 10 points in the first quarter, and when the second quarter hit the third minute, when Nate and Foye went off, the Nuggets' offense ran into problems again, and the Pelicans seized the opportunity of this line, and Al Jefferson who came off the bench cut three three-pointers in a row to extend the difference between the two sides to 20 points.

The Pelicans led the Nuggets by 20 points in the first half, and Li Feng still scored 2 points in the first half.

The situation feels as if the Pelicans and Nuggets are two divisions. The Pelicans' absolute core doesn't have to play much to lead you by 20 points, and the Nuggets are all dejected when they go to the locker room at halftime when they suffer this humiliation on their home court.

Van Gundy saw that the team slaughtered the opponent in the first half, he was proud of the defensive effect he had arranged, and on the other hand, he was secretly vigilant, he could not be satisfied with this, and he could not be careless because of this, Van Gundy had seen too many reversals, and 20 points were nothing for 24 minutes in the second half.

Van Gundy is an old man. It's a boiled old ginger, but the Pelicans' group of players are all young people, and they are arrogant at an age, and they slaughtered the Nuggets by 20 points in the first half. Naturally, I looked down on the Nuggets in my heart, and felt that the Nuggets were a team lower than them, and everyone laughed and laughed when they returned to the locker room.

Li Feng played lightly and comfortably in the first half today, and he didn't sweat. Basically, the teammates solved the problem.

Li Feng likes this kind of competition, when he encounters an opponent who is not first-class, his teammates can solve the problem. Isn't Li Feng a lot easier? So Li Feng was also very happy at this time, sitting in the locker room and joking with his teammates.

At this time, Van Gundy came in, Van Gundy had experienced the storm and now he was happy in his heart, but he was silent, and after coming in, he knocked on the tactical board twice and said:

"Boys, you had a good first half."

"For this I congratulate you, but another thing you have to remember, we can win so much against each other, relying on defense, so even if we win the opponent by 20 points in the second half, we still can't relax in the slightest, my request is to let you lead them by 30 points in the third quarter, you must beat the opponent to death in one breath, and you can't turn over, so that we can relax, otherwise we can't relax anyway, and in the third quarter, we will kill them."

When Van Gundy viciously said that he was going to kill the Nuggets, in the Nuggets' locker room, Brian Shaw was angry and scolding his players as if he were a hair dryer.

Brian Shaw was originally a gentleman, but the Nuggets played too badly in today's game, so Bryan Shaw didn't scold, Brian Shaw scolded here, but there were still people in the locker room who were dismissive of Brian Shaw, which weakened the effect of Brian Shaw's scolding.

The Nuggets are still alive and dead, according to common sense, at the beginning of the second half, the Nuggets should have been killed by the Pelicans to lose their armor.

But at the beginning of the second half, the script did not develop in this direction, and the Pelicans, who wanted to kill, ran into trouble as soon as the second half began.

In the first half, they shot smoothly from the outside, and their shooting percentage plummeted, and by the beginning of the second half, the Pelicans missed three shots.

The so-called closing the door and beating the dog, the Pelicans lost their own offense, and finally gave the Nuggets a chance to breathe.

Mozgov, who had been silent for a long time, saw an opportunity and hit two mid-range shots in a row to bring the difference between the two teams closer.

Seeing that the score was being pulled closer, the Pelicans also increased their offensive and defensive efforts, but the luck was gone.

Looking back, Li Feng made a jumper at the free throw line, but the shot missed, Li Feng was cold in the first half, and now he wants to score points, and he suddenly has no feeling.

Li Feng missed a shot, the Nuggets immediately rebounded, Farid on the inside quickly passed to Afrado, Chandler took the ball and rushed up, trying to use a feint in front of Li Feng to pass Li Feng.

Li Feng went up and accurately clicked Chandler's ball, but Chandler's luck was really good, Li Feng touched the basketball in time, or pointed the basketball to a position in Chandler's favor, Chandler went up to grab the basketball, and faced Li Feng with a super long-distance low-handed layup.

Li Feng harassed him in the past, but he didn't play a defensive role, and the basketball wiped the rebound and fell into the basket.

The Nuggets have been silent for so long. Wilson Chandler finally gave the team a brilliant goal.

At this time, the morale of the Nuggets finally eased a little, and Van Gundy noticed the situation on the court from the sidelines, and he immediately noticed that the Nuggets were about to pick up again, so he immediately called a timeout.

Returning to the sidelines, he began to seriously arrange the team's rhythm with a more stable rhythm, and Van Gundy hoped that Guò's half-court offense would stabilize the rhythm and let the game re-enter the Pelicans' control.

After the timeout, Li Feng teed the ball on the sideline and threw it to Gasol, who got the ball at the free throw line, Gasol took the ball, and Al Jefferson was in a horizontal position and stuck in the basket. However, Gasol did not seize the opportunity to pass the ball, and could only pass the basketball horizontally to Granger, who pulled it out on the other side.

Granger took the ball again, Al Jefferson repeatedly asked for the position, and finally stuck the position to the owner, Granger passed the ball to Al Jefferson's hands, El Jefferson took the ball and played Mozgov, the action was clean, dribbled and then immediately turned over and threw a right hand to send the basketball to the basket easily.

Van Gundy redesigned his tactics for the half, and he came back to stabilize the situation. Al Jefferson scored two more points in the low post.

The Nuggets immediately played back, the Nuggets played small ball, the tactics were loose, and there were no good opportunities to push in.

Lawson came up and Mozgov blocked the pick-and-roll high. Caught the Pelicans' attention, and immediately passed the ball horizontally to Wilson Chandler on the side.

Chandler had just hit Li Feng with a ball, and now he was already confident, taking the ball to face Granger, and Chandler hit the opponent with his shoulder. Then he sped a step, stretched out the distance, and then got up and threw a middle distance.

Chandler took a shot against Granger's defense. The ball went in.

Seeing Chandler's state coming up, Van Gundy, who was on the sidelines, hurriedly shouted at Granger:

"Look at him, watch him, you must defend desperately."

Van Gundy started to give orders to Granger, and then Chandler was not so good at defending, Chandler was a very good player with a lot of physique, and he was very versatile in defending Wilson Chandler.

Seeing that the Nuggets' offense was improving again, the Pelicans, who were in the lead at this time, came over and began to seek stability and began to play the team's interior advantage.

This time, Corey took control of the ball and immediately passed the ball to Li Feng on the side, Li Feng took the ball and watched Granger and Corey run up as a cross-cover without the ball, and he passed the ball to Granger.

Then he went down quickly, and at the same time, Granger broke through and came in, and passed the ball to Li Feng, who received the ball near the baseline.

When Li Feng got the ball, it was not far from the penalty area, and the Nuggets' defense was not very close, so Li Feng took the ball with his back and dribbled a step, turned over and jumped into the Nuggets' penalty area, and directly threw a throwing dragon spur.

This trick was originally a trick of Li Feng, but as soon as he shot today, Li Feng felt bad, and the basketball rubbed one side of the basket and fell directly.

Li Feng missed the basket? That's enough to annoy the Pelicans.

Farid was firmly protected with a backcourt rebound and immediately made a short pass to Lawson, who quickly advanced to the Pelicans' half and looked back to see Mozgov cut up and open again at 45 degrees.

He immediately passed the ball to Mozgov, who saw that Al-Jefferson was one step away from him to defend himself, and he immediately got up and threw a long-range shot.

The long-range shot missed, but the position that flew out fell right into the hands of Gallinari, who raised his hand with the ball, Li Feng was in front of him, so he sent the basketball directly to Chandler who came up in the bottom corner.

With half a step from the three-point line, Chandler picked up the ball and threw a three-pointer.

Chandler's three-pointer got into the Pelicans' basket like a bomb, and Chandler scored seven straight points.

Suddenly narrowed the difference between the two teams to 11 points, at this time Van Gundy was really anxious, the Pelicans players were also a little hairy, so the Pelicans were going to lose, the 20-point advantage was lost by 10 points in a blink of an eye, this speed is not too fast, I can't imagine that the Nuggets seem to be going to stage a big reversal they are used to. (To be continued......)