Chapter 850: High-level confrontation
Once the Grizzlies got serious, the Pelicans ran the basketball many times in the Grizzlies' half, but they didn't find a chance to tear through the Grizzlies' defensive circle.
As soon as Millsap saw that the Grizzlies were already serious, and his team had nothing to do with the other party for a while, Millsap, who was eager to eat the other party in one bite, began to have bruises on his head, and his eyes began to be bloodshot.
Seeing that his teammates couldn't score, Millsap ran from the baseline to the high post and shouted at Li Feng:
"Give me the ball, give me the ball."
At this time, Li Feng took the ball and looked at the time for 4 seconds, and as soon as he loosened his hand, he passed the ball to Millsap, who was not completely injured when he was not completely injured, and his characteristics were that he was accurate in the middle of the shot, fast rebound, and often able to face forced shots by others.
Now that the ball is in the hands of the red-eyed Millsap, Millsap immediately dribbles to the right and takes a big step, the action is extremely simple, but the simpler the action of the interior player, the more dangerous and efficient it is.
O'Neal's move to turn over and dunk, Abdul-Jabbar's move to hook his hand, Juliette Irving's move to break through, Da Yao's move to turn over and jump shot, and Garnett's move to shoot backwards are all extremely simple actions, but they often glow with amazing power when combined with their physical conditions.
The healthy Millsap's pull-up jump shot is also a killer move that can take people's lives, even if Zach Randolph judged Millsap's footsteps and movements, but he just couldn't keep up, and he couldn't block Millsap's eyes, so he could only watch Millsap force the basketball when there was only 1 second left.
Today's Millsap completely interprets a short power forward, no one can break the ice, in the team crisis, the team's leader can help the team through this difficult situation, just now the Grizzlies defense is very good. With just general tactics, the Pelicans couldn't break through the opponent's defense at all, and at this time, Millsap came up and forced the attack, and opened the door to the Grizzlies with his personal ability.
This is a very heavy blow to the Grizzlies, even if your defense is in place, I can still get points from you, the average team may be a little discouraged, but the Grizzlies will not, the Grizzlies are a monster team.
The entire team's starting five tigers are unusually stable and mentally very good, and they are not moved by the Pelicans' attack at all. As soon as Conley dribbled, Prince made a series of runs on the baseline.
The Grizzlies' tactical run for Prince is said, and the timing is very good, this time is only enough for Prince to run alone, and when the opposing team chases over, the Grizzlies have already opened the door for Prince to close.
So when Prince ran over from the bottom line, Li Feng was left on the other side again, Conley fed Prince again, and Arenas, who had just saved Prince, pounced again. Immediately, he fell for Prince's feint and was shaken out in vain.
Then Prince calmly shot, and the Grizzlies' parts began to run again after being attacked by the Pelicans.
Memphis' basketball machine is up and running. It's as if it can't stop at all, every move, every pass is so precise, and the five people on the pitch are rarely completely integrated. Even the most discerning coach will be raving when he sees such a team.
The Grizzlies' current table is simply the most incisive interpretation of the concept of team basketball, and the whole team is very perfect, if the Grizzlies embody the ultimate in team basketball. Then in the past 7 minutes of the first quarter, Millsap completely reflected the potential strength of the Pelicans.
Li Feng doesn't need to turn the tide by himself, Rose doesn't need to break through desperately, Arenas doesn't need to force his shot, and Al Jefferson doesn't need to resist Gasol Jr.
Of course, the Grizzlies played very holly and gave people a perfect airtight feeling, but the Pelicans' Millsap completely used one-man strength to resist the pace of the Grizzlies.
Millsap, who was red-eyed from the beginning, has now completely entered a state of madness, and the continuous singles have been successful, casting a good game for the Grizzlies, breaking again and again, with a strong offense, destroying the Grizzlies' overall counteroffensive plan, and in the last minute and 13 seconds of the first quarter, the Pelicans relied on Millsap's strong counterattack, and they were still 8 points ahead of Memphis.
When Pelicans head coach Van Gundy called a timeout for the substitution, and Albert, who was in the commentary seat, saw Millsap walk off the court, the veteran commentator also said with emotion:
"Today Paul Millsap played one of the most iconic games of his basketball career, almost single-handedly suppressing the Grizzlies' counterattack, and in this game Millsap completely explained the value of his million-dollar contract."
Albert's praise was also echoed by Derek Anderson, the veteran shooter, nodded and said:
"Paul's desire to win today is very strong, every action on the court is very decisive, such a mentality and decisive style of play, in the process of the game is easier to help the players to get higher points.
After Van Gundy replaced the main team, he immediately began to replace his substitutes, of course, Li Feng, who had not made much effort, stayed on the court, and the game so far, the Pelicans' start was close to a dream, if they added more strength to the bench lineup, and the score was pulled away, then the Grizzlies would fall into passivity.
With the Grizzlies' style of play, even if the Grizzlies want to chase points, it is a long-term job, and it is difficult for the Grizzlies to play a big wave of attacks together like the Warriors or the Thunder.
Van Gundy replaced Arenas with Ronnie Brewer, Rose with Oladipo, Millsap with Brand and Henson for Al Jefferson.
Walking onto the court, I found that the Grizzlies also sent their own team's bench to the court, and their lineup was point guard Jerry Bayless, shooting guard Mike Miller, small forward James Johnson, power forward Ed Davis, and center Kufors.
The Grizzlies' starters are flawless, but it is this team with perfect starters, and when the benches appear one by one, the team's weakness is completely exposed, and the Grizzlies are a five-man team. In the whole team, that is, the first few people can play and can play, and the rest of the substitutes are simply miserable.
Li Feng glanced at the Grizzlies' bench players, and he felt that as long as he strangled Mike Miller, during this period of time on the bench, his team had a good chance to make the Grizzlies look good.
Thinking of this, Li Feng quietly leaned in Oladipo's ear and said to his old buddy:
"Victor, you can help Ronnie guard that guy when the time comes."
Li Feng pointed at Mike Miller as he spoke, and Oladipo glanced at the other side and pulled up his red headband. Nodding his head:
"Okay, I'll take care of that guy."
As soon as Oladipo said this, Brand, who was on the side, immediately saw these two guys who were a little sneaky, stabbed Li Feng and whispered:
"Hey, what are you two doing?"
Oladipo casually glanced at Mike Miller on the other side and said:
"We're talking about giving that guy a little color."
"That's an interesting idea!"
Brand seemed to like this game very much, and continued to poke Li Feng and said, "I also want to participate in this game." ”
Li Feng naturally would not refuse him:
"I'm welcome to anyone if you like it."
At the beginning of the Pelicans' possession, Li Feng received the basketball from Oladipo, and James Johnson on the opposite side was really very steady, without any intention of adventuring, and he stepped back for a distance and pressed Li Feng to death.
Facing such an inactive opponent. Li Feng knew that he had an advantage in forcibly playing singles, but Li Feng felt that the good thing should not be in a hurry, but should take his time and choke the opponent's throat tightly. A little bit of him lose his strength, a little bit of loss of resistance is the most interesting thing.
encountered an opponent like James Johnson who did not take the initiative to provoke trouble, Li Feng was still really embarrassed to take the initiative to provoke others, but now it is really a very good choice for the two teams to take the initiative to take action by themselves in this situation.
Careful ball control. James Johnson didn't rush forward at all, and Li Feng dribbled forward with two consecutive steps, because Li Feng was known for his ferocity in breaking through before. So once Li Feng started to break through, he attracted a lot of attention from Housey and James Johnson.
The entire Grizzly Bear's defensive attention was involved in a large part of the past, although Li Feng's castration was ferocious, but this time it was a completely false move, just breaking through a step as if he slammed on the brakes, and stopped suddenly.
As soon as Li Feng stopped, there was a pull-up jump shot that shook James Johnson back a large distance, taking this opportunity, Oladipo, who was on the bottom line on this side, suddenly started, ran up quickly, and Li Feng had a face-to-face stagger, Li Feng quickly handed over the basketball in his hand to Oladipo.
After Oladipo received the ball, he took a small step forward to dribble, his step was not a big stride dribble, but a gentle, small step around Li Feng, so that Jerry Bayless, who was behind Oladipo, hit Li Feng's arms headlong.
Oladipo under the cover of Li Feng, light jump shot, this Oladipo is relatively tall, but the feeling of shooting and shooting is very light, the basketball obediently drilled into the Grizzlies' basket, after the Pelicans called a timeout, the Pelicans played a double brake in the timeout, and immediately joined forces to capture the Grizzlies' first city, Derrick Anderson, who was in the commentary seat, saw Oladipo's shot, and immediately said in surprise:
"How can his shot be so soft."
Albert, who has watched several Pelicans games, looked at Derrick Anderson with surprise and said:
"Did you see this young man's game, not only did he shoot accurately, but he also looked like he had a lot of power and footwork."
After hearing this evaluation, Derek Anderson's eyes lit up and said:
"Looks like I'm going to have to keep an eye on this guy!"
Derek Anderson is also a shooter himself, so as soon as he saw Oladipo's excellent innate condition, he immediately became excited and noisy.
The Pelicans took the lead in the bench lineup, James Johnson was the core of the organization opposite, and they also began to instigate offense.
After he came over, he immediately handed the ball to Mike Miller, who received him, and with a player like Mike Miller, the Grizzlies' ball, at this time, completely lost the sense of unity and pressure of mechanical basketball. As soon as Mike Miller got the ball, the Grizzlies became impatient in handling the ball.
After receiving the basketball, the Grizzlies' position on the interior has not been fully opened, and Mike Miller, who is eager to win, suddenly passed Ronnie Brewer in disguise, and Ronnie Brewer's footsteps can't keep up at all, so this time Mike Miller may have expected it a long time ago.
This Mike Miller is very fast, relatively speaking, Ronnie Brewer is the type that happens to be restrained by him, but De Fernocoding did not expect these people of the Pelicans at all. Then before the game, we discussed how to deal with ourselves.
He just passed Ronnie Brewer on this side, and Oladipo on one side immediately came up to help defend and forced Mike Miller to go to the middle, Mike Miller didn't expect it to be a ploy at all, he thought he was not like a fish in water when he entered the Pelicans' middle?
But just when Mike Miller felt a little pressure disappear, a character suddenly appeared on his way forward, and Brand suddenly stood a little bit earlier in the position outside the reasonable collision zone.
Brand's defense is anything but tough, but it's a brilliant step to get through, and he has the timing and position to score just right. Mike Miller can't dodge Brand and score the basketball unless he has the ability to change direction like Manu and Wade, but unfortunately Mike Miller doesn't have that kind of gifted weird ability, and he watched Brand appear. I just couldn't dodge, so I could only stupidly hit my head on Brand's chest without stopping.
Brand was stiffened and knocked by Mike Miller, and then fell to the ground horizontally like a blasted tower.
"Bang!"
With the sound of Brand falling to the ground, the referee's sharp whistle also sounded, "Force!" The referee waved his hand. Mike Miller hit the man with the ball, and the referee's decision has just been issued.
Brand walked to the free throw line, and Li Feng went over and reached out to pull Branda up. Brand didn't seem to have been hit lightly by Mike Miller, and he hummed and chirped Li Feng and finally stood up, and then whispered to Li Feng:
"I regret it now, that guy hit him so hard, my chest literally broke that guy."
Li Feng didn't expect Brand's ability to make fouls to be so superb, he looked at Brand who was holding his chest, and suddenly said with a little bad water:
"Hey, that guy really hit you in pain? If that's the case, how about you make one more foul on Mike Miller and I'll treat everyone to pizza tonight? ”
Brand was originally very afraid of colliding with the ground, but now when he heard Li Feng say this, he immediately came to his senses, patted his ass and said:
"Really?"
"Of course, I'm afraid you don't have that skill."
Li Feng really hopes that Brand is hitting Mike Miller with the ball, so that Mike Miller will basically be useless, and I am afraid he will not dare to break through in the future.
Brand walked to the free throw line at the referee's signal, and while taking the ball thrown by the referee, he grimaced at Li Feng, as if to say:
"It's up to you, I'm going to do it."
This time the Grizzlies suffered a big loss, did not succeed in the offense but gave the Pelicans two points, and the ball was also transferred to the Pelicans, Henson passed the ball to Li Feng, Li Feng in front of James Johnson The pressure on the ball is very small, almost negligible, James Johnson is not the kind of player who often gambles on defense.
In the Grizzlies' half, Li Feng did not force a breakthrough or use his body to press James Johnson, but chose to look for opportunities by pulling the Grizzlies' defense with little use.
Li Feng quickly dribbled back and forth in a large way, and moved inward along the Grizzlies' three-point line to the left, Li Feng pressed one side of the Grizzlies' defense like this, and the Grizzlies' internal defense was like a wave of oppression, and it also moved with Li Feng's tearing.
The Grizzlies' defense is unconsciously moving under the pressure of Li Feng, Oladipo in the bottom corner of the sudden upward run and Li Feng again to do cross cover, the last time Oladipo's shooting is still vivid, this time the Grizzlies' defense is inclined towards Oladipo, just look at Ed Davis on the inside line have taken a step out, just this step, Brand and Henson on the inside line did a little bit of tricks, Brand lightly blocked Coleman, Henson took a step forward, and found a vacancy on the inside.
With this kind of opportunity, Li Feng naturally will not miss it. Without the slightest hesitation, he took the ball with his left hand that had not yet been slapped on the ground, and suddenly his forearm flicked, his wrist shook, and a very hidden one-handed pass "whoosh" and shook James Johnson's ear.
As soon as Li Feng shot, Ed Davis knew that he was out of position, but the ball ran faster than people on the court, everyone knows this law, and when Ed Davis turned around, Henson here was already in the empty position under the basket to receive the ball.
Ed Davis and Coleman pinched Henson together, and it was ugly to see Henson's movements. With a quick brush of the ball on the rebound with both hands, the ball went in lightly, and Ed Davis and Coleman simply didn't have time to make up for it.
"Li Feng passed Henson, and he helped Henson score."
Albert saw Li Feng pass Henson, where he began to yell and scream.
It's a bit strange for Americans to say that it's normal for us to think that there is space there to pass the ball there, but Americans are not absolutely strange when they see a star pass the ball to an unknown player:
"Ah, look so-and-so passed the ball to so-and-so, they passed the ball."
Domestic affairs look at people and do not look at things. Playing and watching the ball and not looking at people, Americans on the contrary do things and don't look at people, and playing and watching people and not watching people? It's a strange thing, Albert is yelling there.
Li Feng gave Henson a thumbs up. Celebrating his team-mates, Henson is definitely a good helper for the future.
After the two teams switched to the bench, the Pelicans were significantly better off the table than the Grizzlies, and the veteran coach Rally Brown began to yell on the sidelines. He was unhappy with his substitute form.
Robert Pera was known as a strict teacher, and as soon as he yelled, the team began to grow hairy.
Ed Davis, who had just lost his position in the last round, reversed himself in this round and moved quickly after half the court. The running position between the penalty areas is very positive, James Johnson's autumn wind is steady, but he and Ed Davis are both old balls, and his eyes swept Ed Davis's move, and he immediately had a plan in his heart.
Seeing the opportunity, a very fast flat-chested pass quickly stuffed into the Pelicans' interior line from a large part of Li Feng.
At this time, Ed Davis happened to run to the front of the Pelicans' three-second zone, followed by Brand, and then Henson under the basket ready to fill in at any time, the Pelicans' interior defense is still well-trained, but James Johnson's pass is also a passing skill.
The angle of the pass is a little big, Ed Davis has to take a big step to the right if he wants to catch the ball, this big step forward, James Johnson's passing skills and Ed Davis once had fantastic footsteps, suddenly the combination of heaven and man together, I saw Ed Davis receive the ball a beautiful big turn, and rolled over on the side of Brand's body weirdly.
The power of this roll is far more than that, Ed Davis walked even backwards not in a straight line, but as if he had eyes in the back of his head, he walked a large diagonal arc, rolled past Brand's side, and then dodged Henson's block with great ease.
A slight backhand hook is a backhand layup, and the basketball is lightly hit into the basket.
When Ed Davis completed this action, the whole audience was stunned, Ed Davis's hand was so beautiful, this goal can be regarded as elegant and dreamy.
Even Robert Pera was stunned, such Ed Davis simply made people feel that he was not Zach Randolph's substitute, Li Feng saw clearly behind him, from Ed Davis's catch to the later turn and move, it can be said to be perfect.
The speed is not fast, but the choice of position and the final way of shooting can be called god-level, not to mention the death of Henson, it is Garnett, and Howard will definitely not be able to reach that ball here.
It seems that he wants to eat the Grizzlies in one bite, and the Pelicans seem to have an absolute advantage from the point just now, but now Ed Davis only scored a goal and seemed to completely turn the situation around with one move. (To be continued......)