Chapter 14: Impressed? (Part II)

Li Yang continued to perform well on the defensive end, but on the offensive end, he has not scored for quite some time against Leonard's defense and the bags of Eric Dawson, Justin Duntumon and others. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Leonard's way of defending Li Yang is very simple, let go of the shot without bursting, once Li Yang holds the ball, he can put Li Yang more than one meter.

If you are a player with excellent projection ability, you can directly use your shooting to put pressure on the opponent when you encounter such a defense. However, Li Yang's current shooting is indeed a bit bad, so if he still needs to attack, he can only choose to break through.

Although Li Yang has been improving his breakthrough ability while fusing and adapting to this body in the past period, Li Yang finds that he still needs to improve after facing a true NBA-level defense like Leonard.

Leonard focused on defending Li Yang's breakthroughs, and his excellent defensive awareness and good movement speed, coupled with those long arms, made Li Yang's breakthroughs repeatedly frustrated.

In the face of Leonard's interference, Li Yang obviously felt that his dribbling skills still needed to be greatly improved, which made his speed advantage often not play, and even with the help of his teammates' blocking and dismantling, it was difficult for Li Yang to break through to the basket under the bag of Leonard and other players.

When the initial offense is blocked, Li Yang can hand over the ball and then concentrate on defense, but Li Yang is not willing to just disappear on the offensive end.

Li Yang realized that even if he couldn't score, he needed to take the initiative to participate in the offense in order to get the opportunity, so when he launched the attack again, Li Yang, who fell outside the three-point line, took the initiative to pass the ball.

Glancing at Leonard, who was still far away from him, Li Yang beckoned Jermichael Green to step forward to block and dismantle, while dribbling the ball into the three-point line.

Coming to the area between the three-point line and the free throw line, when Jermichael Green just came to his side to block and pick-and-roll, Li Yang began to break through!

Knowing that Li Yang could not shoot directly even with the help of Jermichael Green's defense, Leonard bypassed Jermichael Green's behind, but although his movements were fast, after all, with Jermichael Green's interference, when Li Yang started to rush to the right side, he couldn't stop Li Yang directly in the first time.

Leonard's slight sluggishness made Li Yang find an opportunity, and after dodging to the right side, he suddenly accelerated, and Li Yang went directly to the basket.

Leonard's reaction was not slow, although he couldn't stop in front of Li Yang, he stuck sideways in front of Li Yang's left, preventing Li Yang from rushing directly to the basket along the shortest line.

That's when Eric Dawson also appeared.

When Jermichael Green came up to block and dismantle, Eric Dawson didn't step forward at all, and he was ready to wrap up when Li Yang broke through, and when he saw that Leonard couldn't completely stop Li Yang's forward rush, Eric Dawson didn't hesitate to step forward and attack.

Sure enough, it was a bag again, Li Yang was not surprised at all about this, and Li Yang was also prepared for all this.

Stop!

When Eric Dawson was about to rush to complete the bag, Li Yang, who was rushing forward, suddenly stopped, and the ball that was originally dribbling was already in his hand.

Li Yang stopped suddenly, and Leonard moved a small step forward slightly according to the inertia, which gave the two people who were originally close to each other a little gap.

Seizing this opportunity, Li Yang, who had already picked up the ball, quickly threw the ball out and passed it to Jermichael Green in the middle.

"Pass beautifully!"

While the ball rushed to the basket, Jermichael Green did not forget to praise Li Yang in his heart, with Jermichael Green's experience, Eric Dawson will definitely not shrink back to defend at this time.

What Jermichael Green didn't notice, however, was that Eric Dawson didn't shrink the defense under the basket, but two figures rushed to the basket.

With the ball in both hands, Jermichael Green, who took the second step, was ready to attack the basket, but at this time, Leonard appeared on his side.

Jermichael Green only thinks about Eric Dawson's inability to get back to the basket and defends, forgetting that there is also a Leonard on the opposing team who is more aggressive defensively and moves faster.

Leonard's appearance clearly surprised Jermichael Green's expectations, and completely disrupted his rhythm, his body collided with Leonard, and his layup was slightly stronger.

The basketball bounced off the rebound, slammed into the outside of the basket and bounced high, about to fall.

"Smack!"

A pair of yellow-skinned hands hugged the ball at this time, followed by Leonard who rushed into the inside and jumped up Li Yang!

"Go back!"

Holding the ball tightly with both hands, pressing down on the trend, Li Yang pressed the ball directly back to the basket!

"Damn, let this kid get ahead!"

Looking at Li Yang, who easily completed the dunk, Eric Dawson felt a little annoyed, when Jermichael Green shot, he had already begun to move towards the basket and was ready to scramble for the rebound, how could Li Yang still be one step ahead.

Li Yang's score also made Tyler Jenkins, who couldn't mention his offense for a long time on the sidelines, speak again: "Yang has a good rebound, although he is not very good at card awareness, but his rushing ability is great, and of course, his off-ball and air cutting awareness is also very good. ”

"Oh, isn't he good off the ball too?" RC Buford asked Tyler Jenkins, apparently interested in what Tyler Jenkins was saying.

"Yes, Young's off-ball awareness is good. Tyler Jenkins replied to RC Buford as he looked at Popovich, who he knew was a big fan of this type of player.

'Young's attack with the ball is blocked now and I think we'll have more chances to see him move off the ball in the future. ”

Tyler Jenkins went on to say that he is still confident in this, and Li Yang can often use off-ball running to cut to the basket to score in the game, which is why Li Yang can still score so many points in the Development League despite a relatively simple offensive approach.

Sometimes Tyler Jenkins even wonders how a person with such great basketball awareness and physical talent can be left unnoticed, and in the end, he can only boil it all down to one sentence, attitude is everything.

While a few people were talking, Kawhi Leonard had already beaten Li Yang with his back to complete an offense, because he came down to the Development League for rehabilitation, so Kawhi Leonard made a lot of shots despite the defensive resistance he received from Li Yang.

Li Yang's team launched an attack and came to the outside of the three-point line, Li Yang received a pass from Joseph, but he did not attack with the ball, but handed the ball to Jermichael Green, who mentioned the free throw line.

Passing the ball out, Li Yang quickly moved to the right side of the free throw line, and at this time, Joseph, who started from outside the left three-point line, had already crossed the baseline and circled outside the three-point line on the right.

Li Yang's appearance was not in Joseph's plan, he was originally going to throw Justin Duntmon away through the running position and pick up Li Yang's pass shot, but he had to admit that Li Yang's appearance was just right.

Joseph had already thrown Dun Temon away a little, and at this time, Li Yang's cover gave Joseph a chance to completely get rid of Dun Temon.

Rushing past Li Yang, Joseph rushed to the outside of the three-point line, as he expected, Deng Temeng was really disturbed by Li Yang's cover and couldn't follow directly.

Leonard showed his excellent defensive awareness at this time, and when he saw that Duntmont could not directly follow Joseph, he immediately switched defenses to keep up.

Opportunity!

When Leonard ran away from him, Li Yang knew that Joseph's chance to catch the ball directly was gone, but he immediately realized that his opportunity had come.

Taking a step to the side, Li Yang and Deng Temeng, who was about to flash from beside him, completely staggered and strode towards the basket.

Deng Temeng's previous vision was just blocked by Li Yang, and he didn't notice that Leonard had followed Joseph, and he was trying to get around Li Yang when he wanted to keep up with Joseph, and when he found that there was suddenly no obstacle in front of him, he couldn't help but be stunned, but then he realized what was happening.

"Not good!"

Turning around, Deng Temon rushed to the basket quickly, but he couldn't do anything except see Li Yang's soaring back.

Dodging out from Duntmon's side and running to the basket, Li Yang immediately stretched out his hand and pointed to the sky, motioning for Jermichael Green to throw the ball over.

Jermichael's pass was timely, and when Li Yang rushed to the perimeter of the three-second zone, the basketball flew right over.

With the help of momentum, Li Yang grabbed the ball with one hand......

The waist and abdomen were tense, and Li Yang's super strong stasis was once again displayed, except for his arm that grabbed the ball and slammed it towards the basket, the rest of his body seemed to be completely still in the air!

The strange visuals made it seem like time was slowing down at this moment.

"Yang's performance is here again, is it so shocking that this guy has to do every dunk?"

Despite the muttering in his mouth, Jermichael Green's eyes did not blink in the slightest, and he watched the aerial relay dunk performance with his assists and perfect visual enjoyment. He was joined by everyone on the field, including the likes of RC Buford and Gregg Popovich on the sidelines.

"Bang!"

When Li Yang finally dunked the ball into the basket, RC-Buford's eyes couldn't help but light up.

"The physical fitness of this young man...... Great!" R-Buford muttered, "Awareness of the off-ball air doesn't seem to be bad, either. ”