Chapter 142: Consecutive Score (1/3)
As the whistle blew for the start of the fourth quarter, Li Yang stepped onto the court, and in recent times, he has become accustomed to staying on the court at the end of the first and third quarters of the game, as well as at the beginning of the second and fourth quarters. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Joining Li Yang are Ginobili, Joseph, Leonard, and Dio, while on the other end of the spectrum the Warriors are also a short lineup, with Draymond Green, Carl Landry, Harrison Barnes, Klay Thompson, and Jarrett Jack.
The ball belonged to the Warriors, and after Jack took the ball to the halfcourt, Thompson began to run aggressively, and beside him, Li Yang followed very closely.
Knowing that Thompson is the main offensive point in the Warriors at this time, Li Yang naturally will not let the opponent easily get offensive opportunities.
Under Li Yang's defense, Thompson went around in the half and found that there was no good opportunity, and then began to take the initiative to attack the ball.
Thompson is a good pitcher, but he's not a pure pitcher, and in fact he has a certain level of offense with the ball.
However, Li Yang is still more worried about the opponent's shooting, although Thompson's shooting touch today is not very good. After Thompson started dribbling, Li Yang didn't retreat and still stuck very forward.
Li Yang's defense, the best choice is undoubtedly to break through, Thompson naturally knows that a simple shaking change of direction, Thompson dribbles from the left side to break through.
Choosing to start the breakthrough from the left baseline, Thompson was naturally worried that the other players of the Spurs would come forward to attack.
However, it turned out that Thompson was completely overthinking, and the Spurs players had no intention of stepping forward to attack, because Li Yang had been closely following Thompson's side.
Thompson, who found the space to break through, accelerated to the basket, hoping to get rid of Li Yang, but his speed did not have the slightest advantage over Li Yang.
Seeing that he rushed into the three-second zone and was unable to throw Li Yang away, Thompson naturally did not dare to make a layup easily to avoid being directly blocked by Li Yang.
Taking a step forward, Thompson jumped up until he was close to the bottom of the basket, then got out from under the basket and made a backhand layup.
Thompson chose to make a layup from the backhand, in order to avoid Li Yang's block, but he didn't expect that Li Yang didn't jump up to block at all at this time, and when Thompson jumped up to the basket to defend the layup, Li Yang took a step up and was still close to him.
Thompson's air and waist strength are not very outstanding, coupled with the interference of Li Yang's body contact, Thompson's shot in the final moments was obviously affected, and the ball hit the rebound and fell out on the outside edge of the basket.
Jumping quickly, Li Yang took off the rebounding ball above his head, and then quickly pushed the ball out and sent it to Ginobili's hands.
The Warriors' retreat was fast, the Spurs' counterattack did not come out, Ginobili also suppressed the rhythm in the half, Diorti went up to the high post to receive the ball, and the next moment, the Spurs players were running quickly.
Li Yang is also actively running, while taking the initiative to create cover opportunities for Ginobili and Joseph, Li Yang is waiting for opportunities to cut to the basket.
Running outside the three-second zone on the right, Li Yang stood for Ginobili as cover.
Ginobili's running, like his breakthrough, the route is always unpredictable, for example, at this time, Ginobili did not purely use his running speed to shake off Thompson, but kept running back and forth near Li Yang.
Run to the left, stop and run, stop again, get up, stop and run again!
Ginobili's running is not fast, but his sudden stop and reverse running movements are very agile, at first Thompson can still keep up, but after Ginobili ran several consecutive feints, he suddenly couldn't keep up with the pace.
Seizing this opportunity, Ginobili quickly turned, ran towards the high position, and was about to go to Dior's side to receive the ball.
Seeing this, Thompson hurriedly accelerated his speed and rushed up, but Ginobili's running route was extremely tricky, and Thompson's acceleration directly hit Li Yang and Barnes.
At this time, Thompson didn't care who was in front of him, he stretched out his hand and pushed.
Stepping on the line of the three-second zone, Li Yang turned around and was about to shake off Barnes and cut to the basket when Ginobili rushed past him, and he was surprised to find that Thompson actually pushed Barnes away.
Even the defenders were pushed away, if Li Yang didn't know how to seize the opportunity, then he would be too stupid, he quickly took a step forward after completing the turn, turned his head to look at Dior, and jumped up directly.
Dio was originally going to pass the ball to Ginobili, but after seeing the opportunity of Li Yang on the inside, he immediately threw the ball over.
The ball came a little late, Li Yang's body had already begun to fall, and the basketball came to the top of his head, and the dunk could not be completed, but this did not affect Li Yang's goal.
With both hands taking the basketball and gently pushing it upward, Li Yang pushed the ball into the basket!
Thompson, who came to the half, still couldn't find a direct opportunity to shoot directly from Li Yang's follow-up, and Jack didn't pass the ball to Thompson, after all, Thompson just held the ball and attacked Li Yang, and the effect was not very good.
Jack's attack is really good, but he likes to stick the ball and doesn't pass the ball to Thompson to attack, Jack decided to do it himself, and he dribbled beyond the three-point line for more than ten seconds before starting to rush forward and hit the three-point line.
"Bang!"
A mid-range pullup jumper, Jack's shot bounced off Joseph's shot, and Dio grabbed the rebound inside.
The ball was handed over to Ginobili, and at this time, Li Yang had already rushed to the other half. Seeing that Li Yang had already played a fast attack, Ginobili quickly sent the ball to Li Yang's hands.
Because the Warriors didn't fight for the frontcourt rebounds, the retreat speed at this time was very fast, and when Li Yang rushed to the frontcourt, except for Draymond Green, who was still behind, the other four players had already retreated to the halfcourt.
However, Li Yang did not give up the offense because of this, and the Warriors' players retreated quickly, but the defensive formation did not fall well.
In a dribble rush that changed direction, Li Yang flashed a chance from Barnes's side and dribbled to the right.
Li Yang's speed was too fast, and with this change of direction, Barnes was directly left behind, and seeing this, Landry was busy making up for the front defense.
The center of gravity was short, the speed increased sharply, and the direction remained the same, Li Yang suddenly took a step towards the right, and he dodged to the side of Landry.
Landry still wanted to defend sideways, but Li Yang didn't give him such a chance at all, and with the help of excellent explosiveness, he rushed directly past Landry's side!
"Bang!"
Taking advantage of the fact that other Warriors players did not go to the basket to make up for the defense, Li Yang jumped up and dunked, and at 70:70, the two sides tied again.