Chapter 258: Shoot and Have
With a 29-3 record, the Spurs entered January 2014, and Popovich made a decision to take a break. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
At home against the Trail Blazers, Popovich chose to put Leonard and Duncan on the inactive list to rest, the news has been released early, guessing that Li Yang will start this game, many Li Yang fans stayed in front of the screen early and waited for the game to start.
Because it was a live webcast, the signal was given relatively early, at this time, the live video broadcast signal was on the players of both sides who were warming up in front, and after seeing Li Yang's shot, Ke Fan and Shu Qun, who were commentating, immediately chatted.
"Li Yang has a good shooting hand today, he has scored four or five three-pointers in a row. ”
"Plus this should be six, and none of them are shot at one point, Li Yang's shooting has been more and more stable recently, and his three-point shooting rate this season has reached 36.1%"
When the domestic commentator said this, Li Yang, who was shooting the seventh three-pointer into the basket, was also very satisfied with his shooting touch.
From the start of the training camp in October to now, three months have passed, and in these three months, Li Yang has spent most of his training time on shooting, especially three-point shooting training.
After all, he is already very good at breaking through the technique, and he mainly practiced three-point shooting in the summer with two bottom corners, and the shooting percentage of other shooting points is not too high.
So in the past two or three months, Li Yang began to try to train three-pointers at more shooting points, and the effect was not bad, he found that his wrists were getting softer and softer, and he had the feeling of two bottom corners as the foundation, and the shooting of other points had improved greatly.
In the past two months, Li Yang's three-point shooting rate has reached 36.1%, although the gap between him and the top three-point shooters is not small, but such a shooting rate can already be said to be qualified.
Of course, this has a lot to do with the Spurs' style of play, Spurs players are used to finding open spots to shoot, so the overall three-point shooting rate is very high, reaching 39.7%, so Li Yang still dragged the whole team back.
However, for Li Yang, who barely made three-point shots last season, this shooting rate is very good, so although Li Yang still chooses to shoot three-pointers in the bottom corner most of the time in the game, if he gets an opportunity at other points, his shot is also unambiguous.
After the warm-up, Li Yang came to the sidelines with his teammates and listened to Popovich's pre-game tactical arrangements.
Today, Leonard and Duncan took turns to rest, so Li Yang and Dio replaced them into the starting lineup, forming a lineup of Split, Dio, Li Yang, Green, and Parker.
On the other side, the Trail Blazers are fully on the lineup, and they are fielded with the usual starting lineup this season, Robin Lopez on the inside with Lamarcus Aldridge, small forward Frenchman Nicolas Batum, scoring guard Wesley Matthews, and point guard Damian Lillard.
Lopez helped the Trail Blazers get the ball first, and the Trail Blazers played very simple and effective in the first round, with Lillard and Aldris blocking and splitting the ball, and the latter caught the ball and hit a two-point shot from mid-range, which is a very conventional tactic for the Trail Blazers.
The Spurs also started from the pick-and-roll offense, and unlike the Trail Blazers, Parker chose to attack when the opponent didn't press up after the pick-and-roll, and the ball also hit.
The first few offenses of both teams played well, with Parker, Split, and Green scoring on the Spurs' side, while the Trail Blazers on the other side, Aldridge and Lillard scored the first six points.
The Spurs attacked again, Parker controlled the ball until halftime and handed the ball to the high Dior, Danny Green began to run aggressively, but because he had just hit a three-pointer, Matthews followed Green very closely, and Green did not find an offensive opportunity.
Parker was also entangled by Lillard at this time, and Li Yang, who had not made a shot so far in the game, began to run.
Li Yang, who fell on the baseline to cover, turned around and cut into the basket, trying to directly enter the three-second zone to receive the ball and score, but Batum, who followed the defense, was very experienced, and Li Yang did a very good job of sticking to the defense, plus Batum's height and arm span were very good, and Dio did not dare to pass the ball easily
Finding that there was no chance to attack, Li Yang rushed forward along the baseline and ran to the left.
As soon as he took a step, Li Yang immediately made an emergency stop, making a move to rush back to the basket, so that Batum, who was following closely, was busy taking a step back, but then, Li Yang had already started to start and continue to rush forward again, and at the same time rushed directly to the three-point line with the help of Split's cover.
"Li Yang ran and shook off Batum, Dior passed, Li Yang's three-point opportunity!"
The domestic commentators and fans have been waiting for Li Yang's opportunity to attack for a long time, and when he saw this scene on the field, Ke Fan immediately shouted.
When Li Yang received the pass, Batum was still one step away, and Li Yang, who had always felt good during the warm-up, did not hesitate, and shot decisively outside the three-point line!
"Whew!" the ball goes through the net and hits the hollow!
"Yes, Li Yang's first shot after the opening, a three-point shot!" At this time, Ke Fan's voice couldn't help but become high.
The Trail Blazers launched an attack, and Batum tried to get an offensive opportunity in the same way, but Li Yang's follow-up defense was obviously better than him, and although Batum received a pass from outside the three-point line, he had to pass the ball under Li Yang's sticky defense.
Lillard picked up the pass and forced Parker's mid-range pullup jumper to pop up, and Li Yang rushed under the basket to grab the backcourt rebound.
got the rebound, Li Yang didn't hand the ball to Parker, and advanced with the ball, but the Trail Blazers' retreat was good, and when Li Yang rushed to two steps outside the three-point line with the ball, the Trail Blazers had basically retreated in place.
Li Yang is still two steps away from the three-point line, and Batum has fallen to the three-point line at this time and bent over to defend, although Li Yang's shooting has improved this season, but in the impression of most people in the league, Li Yang's breakthrough is obviously more lethal.
Li Yang, who was dribbling the ball, looked at Batum in the distance, looked up at the basket in the distance, and shook his head secretly.
From today's warm-up to the shot just now, Li Yang felt that his shooting felt very good, and at this time, Batum seemed to be completely defenseless about his shot, Li Yang immediately made a decision, shoot!
Continue to take a step forward, and near the three-point line, Li Yang pulled up and shot!
Batum, who stayed one step inside the three-point line, didn't expect Li Yang to shoot directly at three points without any adjustment, and he couldn't react at all at this time, so he could only watch Li Yang shoot in a daze.
"Li Yang dribbled the ball to the front court and directly grabbed three points! This is not Li Yang's style...... The ball is in!"
Ke Fan, who was still talking about this was not Li Yang's style, was busy changing his words after seeing a scene on the field.
Three-pointer, score!(To be continued.) )