Chapter 465: Pursuit
As a player from the Spurs, Li Yang knows the importance of teamwork in basketball, Li Yang will stand up when the team needs him to score, and he will force a few more shots because he feels good, but he is not the kind of ball bully, he knows that sharing the ball is more conducive to the team's victory. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
So after the start of the third quarter of the game, Li Yang's crazy performance on the scoring end immediately subsided, and he began to use his breakthrough more to attract the defense as he did in the first quarter, and then pass the ball out.
In this quarter of the game, Li Yang only scored 2 points and sent 2 assists at the same time, although neither the score nor the assists looked high, but in this quarter of the game, Li Yang successfully revitalized the Celtics' offense, and invested a lot of energy on the defensive end, so that the Celtics successfully withstood the Bulls' counterattack.
In the third quarter, the Bulls started from defense and caused huge problems for the Celtics on the defensive end, but in this case, after the third quarter, the Celtics widened the gap by 8 points.
67:75, 8 points difference, the two teams entered the final quarter of the game.
Because the team led by 8 points, Li Yang rested for 2 minutes in the third quarter, but still sat on the sidelines in the fourth quarter of the game.
At this time, the Celtics lined up Olynyk, Green, Turner, Thornton, Smart on the court, Stevens did not arrange Whiteside on the court, at this stage, Whiteside still needs to match with Li Yang, so that Li Yang can feed the ball to be more powerful, except for Li Yang, the passing ability of other people in the Celtics team is not good.
For example, in this lineup, although everyone can pass the ball, except for Turner's organizational and offensive ability, the passing ability of the rest of the players is undoubtedly very ordinary.
At this time, the Celtics' ball control was in the hands of Turner, and Turner, as Li Yang's replacement, was also used as Li Yang's substitute in his tactical position.
Turner and Green played blocking and dismantling, Turner's lethality was not as great as Li Yang's, and it was naturally impossible to cause the Bulls players to be caught at this moment, taking advantage of this opportunity, Turner took the ball to the basket.
Although Li Yang is not on the court at the moment, the defensive strategy adopted by the Bulls is still the same as when Li Yang was on the court, which is still to shrink the defensive line. Turner's impact is obviously not comparable to Li Yang, he just rushed outside the three-second zone and was stopped by the Bulls' defense.
Favored by Stevens as Li Yang's tactical substitute, although Turner's organizational ability has not been concerned, but in fact his passing is very good on the forward line, at this time, seeing that he was forced by the defense to stop the ball and fell into a sandwich, Turner suddenly threw the ball out, and actually passed the ball out and sent it outside the three-point line.
The ball fell into the hands of Thorton, as the only shooter in the team, Thorton is the player with the highest three-point shooting percentage in the Celtics team, Turner's choice is not bad, the Bulls also know that Thorton's three-point ability is good, so although they shrink the defense, they have not relaxed at all against Thorton.
Thornton catches the ball and shoots, and the Bulls defender is already jumping high in front of him.
"Bang!" Thorton's shot smashes into the basket with the defender's interference.
The Bulls grabbed the backcourt rebound, and Rose launched a counterattack after getting the ball, although Rose seems to be far from the peak of the 10-11 season after returning this season, he is still a scorer who can contribute about 17 points per game, and his counterattack is still efficient.
In the face of Rose's impact, the Celtics' defense line was not able to organize well at the first time, and the Celtics at this time lacked two experienced defensive players on the outside, Li Yang and Bradley, and there was no excellent basket protector like Whiteside on the inside, so they were not able to build a good defense line to prevent Rose's killing.
The Bulls played an excellent offense and defense in the first round after the opening game, and the Bulls did the same for the next two minutes or so.
The Bulls' defense is really good, especially after the fourth quarter of the game, their defense was further strengthened, without Li Yang on the court, the Celtics' offense was completely blocked.
On the defensive end, the Celtics couldn't stop the attacks of Ross and Gasol and others, and in less than three minutes, the difference between the two teams had narrowed to only 2 points.
"Yang held the ball, the Bulls started to pinch outside the three-point line, and the Bulls' pinch attack on Yang expanded to outside the three-point line!"
Unlike the first half of the game, the Bulls changed their strategy again, perhaps knowing that the Celtics would hand over their first offense to Li Yang after they came on the court, the Bulls directly chose to pinch outside the three-point line.
The Bulls' pinching is very decisive and very tight, under the Bulls' pinching, and it is a step away from the three-point line, even Li Yang has to pass the ball out to find offensive opportunities again.
Li Banshu handed the ball to the nearby Jeff Green, and after passing the ball out, Li Yang also took advantage of the Bulls' two defenders to quickly run away and prepare to receive the ball when the two Bulls defenders were a little relaxed.
But at this time, Green did not choose to pass the ball back to Li Yang, after getting the ball, Green immediately rushed into the three-point line with the ball himself, and at the same time went to the basket.
The Bulls' previous defense was indeed all attracted by Li Yang's defensive attention, and when Green rushed to the basket with the ball, the Bulls' players didn't have time to stop it, so Green went straight to the three-second zone.
However, after all, the Bulls have built a mature defensive system for several years, and when Green jumped to the basket in the three-second zone with the ball, Noah appeared on Green's side in time and hit a big hat to instigate Green's layup directly.
Gasol, who followed closely, won the rebound, and the ball was thrown into the hands of Rose, who had already started to run on the outside, and Rose also quickly hit the other half after getting the ball.
In the previous few rounds, Rose relied on such offensive and defensive transitions to score consecutive points and help the Bulls catch up with the game, so at this moment, he wants to repeat his old tricks.
However, Rose obviously forgot that the Celtics had adjusted their lineup at this time, and the defense at this time was not comparable to the previous lineup, which had ...... Li Yang!
When he saw Rose rushing forward with the ball to counterattack, Li Yang immediately ran towards the other side!