Chapter 60: High-altitude interception!
"Audience friends, here CCTV Sports Channel, welcome everyone to watch the NBA regular season with us, today for you to broadcast the Los Angeles Clippers home game against the San Toonio Spurs, I am the host Yu Jia, today we invited the very familiar Zhang Gui ...... as usual"
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In the past two seasons, the Spurs and Clippers have seen an increase in their fan base in China, with the Spurs starting to shift from defensive to offensive style in the first two seasons, and their smooth offense has gradually become known to everyone, and the number of fans has also increased.
As for the Clippers, Paul and Griffin's playing styles are more popular with fans, and with the improvement of their records, fans naturally began to increase, so CCTV5 also picked this game to broadcast.
"The game is about to start, and the next thing we should look at is the starting lineup of both sides, first look at the home team Clippers lineup, center Andrew Jordan, power forward Blake Griffin, small forward Caron Butler, two guards Chauncey Billups and Chris Paul ......"
"Let's take a look at the Spurs' starters, hey, the starting small forward is Li Yang......"
When he saw that the starting small forward was Li Yang, the host Yu Jia was obviously a little surprised, but he still reacted quickly and continued to talk about the Spurs' starting situation: "Center Split, power forward Duncan, scoring guard Danny Green, point guard Parker. ”
It wasn't until after reading these that Yu Jia immediately asked the guests sitting on the side: "Coach Zhang, we see that the starting point of the Spurs game is Li Yang, which should be beyond the expectations of many people." ”
"Yes, most people should not have thought that Li Yang would start in place of Leonard before the game, I have watched his previous games, Li Yang is a good young Chinese player, and today is a good opportunity for everyone to watch his game. ”
In fact, Director Zhang has only watched one game of Li Yang, that is, the one against the Bulls, because Li Yang had officially signed with the Spurs at that time, and after the news report, Director Zhang paid attention to this game, and he knew that Chinese players would still have a high degree of attention in China if nothing else.
But at this time, in order to show that he was indeed familiar with the NBA, he casually said that he had watched a few games.
"Yes, let's also take this opportunity to get acquainted with Li Yang, Li Yang was at the University of Memphis when he was in college......"
Yu Jia quickly took over the topic of Coach Zhang, and then began to introduce Li Yang's situation, of course, these situations are also very simple introductions, which were temporarily prepared by the program team for this game, and they didn't have any detailed information.
While the two commentators in China were talking, on the field, the starters of both teams were already preparing to appear.
The Clippers were also a little surprised by Li Yang's unfamiliar face starter, they also knew that Li Yang had played well in the last two games, but they would not take Li Yang as a key research object, but they didn't expect that Li Yang would start in this game.
As for Clippers fans, most of them don't know who Li Yang is, and they can't help but be surprised that such a person suddenly appeared in the Spurs' starting lineup.
"Hey, who's that guy?"
"When did the Spurs start having an Asian player on the roster?"
Many fans have asked their partners next to them, and a small number of people have begun to use their mobile phones to check on the Internet, but most fans still asked, forget it, there are too many players in the NBA, and ordinary fans will not pay too much attention to the ordinary players of another team.
At this time, the game in the field also officially began.
Split and Clippers center Jordan Jr. stood in the center circle, and after the referee's whistle, both jumped quickly.
Andrew Jordan, known as Jordan Jr., has great physical fitness and excellent jumping ability, which Split can't compare, so the ball was dialed to the side of the Clippers by Jordan almost without any suspense.
Paul got the ball and dribbled steadily across the half.
On this team, Paul is the undisputed ball control and playmaker, even with Billups joining this season, when Paul is on the court, he initiates most of the offense, and the most common combination is with two interior players.
No, the game had just begun, and when Paul dribbled to the halfcourt, Griffin immediately fell to the three-point line and took a step to block for Paul.
As soon as Griffin blocked, Paul immediately slipped into the three-point line from the right side, Paul's speed was not fast, and after Parker followed, he even pressed the rhythm a little, attracting the attention of Parker and Duncan.
Griffin, who was on the side, quickly turned around and got rid of Duncan after blocking and dismantling, and rushed to the basket.
Seeing this scene, the Staples Arena fans suddenly began to cheer, Paul and Griffin blocked and dismantled, and after the block, Griffin went down to receive Paul's ball to complete the aerial relay, they have seen this scene too many times in the past games. When he first learned that Paul had traded to the Clippers, Griffin even shouted the slogan of the empty city in the streets.
"Coax!"
Sure enough, as Griffin rushed to the inside, Paul immediately pushed the ball out and sent it inside. At this time, Split had just rushed to the basket from Jordan Jr. on the right, and it was too late to stop it, and it seemed that the two were about to perform an aerial relay dunk, which made the cheers in the arena suddenly rang out.
If there was no Li Yang's appearance, everything seemed to be so smooth, but the fact is that Li Yang appeared at this time!
When Griffin and Paul blocked and dismantled, Li Yang, who landed near the bottom left corner to defend Butler, was ready to make up for the defense, and he was originally ready to make up for Griffin's dismantling and then receiving Paul's pass and shooting, but what Li Yang didn't expect was that the two directly wanted to complete the aerial relay.
When Griffin rushed to the basket, Li Yang also began to start rushing to the basket, of course Paul also saw this, but he didn't care, because Li Yang was behind Griffin, and it was impossible to stop Griffin from dunking.
It is true that the two rushed to the basket at the same time, and Li Yang was not able to stop Griffin from jumping, but this does not mean that Li Yang lost the opportunity to make up for the defense.
Rushing to the basket, Li Yang did not rush directly to the bottom of the basket, but rushed to the center of the basket, Li Yang's choice made him switch positions with Griffin after Paul passed the ball.
When Griffin jumped to the basket, Li Yang also happened to rush over, taking off from the back of Griffin, and when Li Yang jumped forward, he happened to appear in front of Griffin, that is, where the basketball flew from.
"Smack!"
Looking at the basketball flying towards him, Li Yang attacked with both hands, grabbed the ball in his hand steadily, and intercepted the ball in the air!