Chapter 142: Three-Point Kill, Overall Champion!
"In the fourth quarter of the game, the two sides still couldn't distinguish between high and low, the score has been rising alternately, and because of the defensive strength, the scoring efficiency of both teams in the fourth quarter is very low, at this time the game is already halfway through, and both sides have not scored more than double digits in a single quarter."
In the CCTV sports studio, Director Zhang and Director Yu wiped the sweat on their palms and said nervously: "The current Magic and the Lakers are like two people who are in a tug-of-war, both sides are on the verge of the limit of physical fitness, and they are completely supported by tenacious willpower. ”
"Come on, hold on! As long as you survive the last 5 minutes, you can win the game and get the final victory! I've worked hard all season for this final victory, but I can't let up! ”
Not to mention the two commentators, even the audience in front of the TV seems to be able to feel the urgent pressure on the field, which makes people can't help but hold their breath and be nervous.
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As Coach Zhang and Coach Yu said, the high-pressure defense has caused the shooting rate of the players on the field to drop significantly.
Kobe Bryant has shot 2 of 6 in the fourth quarter so far, and the Magic team is also half a pound, and even Wang Chao, who has always been known for his stability and efficiency, only made 1 of 4 three-pointers in the first few minutes.
Of course, the main reason for Wang Chao's poor hitting rate is the excessive use of bullet time in the previous game, which leads to his poor state, but there is no way, the referee deliberately blows the whistle in favor, and Wang Chao must support the team's offense in front, otherwise falling behind in such a critical game will make the whole team fall into a restless mood, and then it will really be over!
Now in this way, although Wang Chao's state has been affected, at least the score is not behind.
In the last 5 minutes, Wang Chao was like a year, and his head was so dizzy that he felt that he could fall asleep at any time, so he could only continue to play.
At the most critical time, he must be on the court, even if his state has been affected, but as long as Wang Chao is on the court, the deterrent power is enough to make the Lakers constrained, and a lot of defensive energy must be invested to deal with Wang Chao.
Fortunately, it is not only Wang Chao's side that has problems.
At 8:14, Bynum fouled Howard defensively, ate his sixth foul of the game, and left the court with a full foul.
Even Howard, who lacks offensive ability on the inside, is based on super offensive rebounding ability and deterrence under the basket, which still puts the Lakers' twin towers under great pressure, and Bynum's departure also puts the Lakers inside at a complete disadvantage.
The referee has nothing to do about it, the referees of the Stern era are far from being as blatant and shameless as they will be in the future, even if there is a biased whistle, but it will only appear when dealing with those more controversial fouls, Bynum's foul on Howard is too obvious to be blown from the perspective of a professional referee.
With Bynum being blown off the court, Howard continued to attack Gasol, who replaced Bynum as a center, and scored consecutive points to help the team overtake the score and establish a five-point lead.
But in a desperate situation, Kobe, who had a bad hand before, broke out.
Facing Petrus, Bryant hit a difficult drifting three-point shot from outside the three-point line, and then broke through the offensive frame with the ball to cause damage and walked to the free throw line, hitting all 4 free throws in a row.
The Magic's hard-won score advantage was overtaken in the blink of an eye, falling behind by 2 points again.
The Magic called a timeout, because before they knew it, there was only 1 minute and 13 seconds left in the game.
The last few rounds of offense will directly determine the outcome of the game!
At this most critical moment, Stan. Van Gundy still decided to hand over the burden of the attack to Wang Chao.
Tekoglu serves in the half.
Wang Chao ran back to shake off the defender and received the pass, came to the top arc position and slowly dribbled the ball, and then used Howard's blocking and dismantling to cover the three-point shot.
"Damn it!"
As soon as Artest was blocked by Howard, Garnett made up for it, but his movements were still half a beat slower.
"Brush!"
Wang Chao, who was only 1 of 4 three-point shots in the past, still lived up to the trust of his teammates at this most critical moment.
Watching the basketball hollow into the net, the hearts of the Lakers players sank, while the Magic home fans suddenly erupted in cheers that seemed to be able to tear down the ceiling.
77:76, with Wang Chao's key three-point hit, the Magic team surpassed by 1 point!
There are 50 seconds left in the game!
The Lakers' offense, by the same token, at the most critical moment, what the Lakers can rely on is definitely Kobe.
Defended by Petrus, Bryant turned his back to the basket and rolled over for a jumper.
Moments before Kobe Bryant's shot, the Magic team had two players who stepped forward to form a circle with Pirruth.
But in the case of the three-man bag, Kobe Bryant still made a decisive shot, and the basketball was padded twice on the basket, and then fell into the basket.
77:78!
The atmosphere was so heavy that it almost thinned out of the air, and everyone watching the game held their breath and didn't dare to let out the atmosphere, for fear that something big would upset the balance of the game.
The Magic team attacked, Wang Chao continued to block and dismantle tactics with the ball on the outside, Howard quickly went down after blocking and dismantling, and successfully received Wang Chao's pass and dunk and was blocked by Gasol's foul.
Howard, who walked to the free throw line, made everyone's hearts cool with his first free throw.
"Bang ——!"
The basketball bounces off the hoop and flies out.
Another major weakness of Howard is the inconsistency of free throws, although not as exaggerated as O'Neal, but not too much, and his career free throw shooting rate of 56.5% is only 5 percentage points higher than O'Neal.
Fortunately, after Howard took a deep breath and adjusted, he hit the second free throw steadily, and the score of the two teams came to a 78-78 tie.
"Defend! Defend! You must guard against this attack! ”
Stan. Van Gundy no longer cared about his image at this time, and stood on the sidelines and shouted loudly.
There are 28 seconds left in the game, and if the Lakers compress the offensive time to the 24-second limit, there will only be 4 seconds left for the Magic to attack!
Therefore, this ball must be defended no matter what, so as to maximize the chance of winning!
Under the uniform "defensive" shouts of the fans, the Lakers held the ball across the half court, and then Fisher passed the ball to Kobe.
Seeing Kobe Bryant holding the ball, the hearts of Magic fans couldn't help but hang.
So far in the game, Kobe Bryant has scored 41 points, and no one on the Magic team can stop his offense.
Bryant waited quietly with the ball in his possession, and soon there were only six seconds left for his 24-second offensive time, and he began to kick in.
Crotch dribble to hand the basketball from the left hand to the right hand, Kobe accelerated to break through to the right side, Petrus hurriedly followed, and at the same time raised his hands high to not give Kobe any space to shoot, he knew that there was Howard on the inside, as long as he could prevent Kobe's shot! If the opponent forcibly bursts into the basket, Howard will naturally solve it!
But Kobe Bryant obviously understood this, so he did not break through to the basket, but moved diagonally to the right side of the basket under the top defense of Pirruth, and then jumped directly, his body drifted in the air to aim at the basket, and shot at a super difficult shot!
At this point, Bryant's position was almost close to the zero angle of the basket, and he was 18 feet away from the basket!
Watching Kobe Bryant use his signature breakthrough drift jumper in the silence of various videos, Wang Chao's heart skipped a beat.
The next moment, the basketball fell into the basket after two laps of the hoop.
In an instant, the audience was silent, and the home fans of the Magic team were stunned, looking at Kobe Bryant who was screaming in the sky after landing on the ground.
The ball is in!
78:80!
There are only 5 seconds left in the race.
Van Gundy called a timeout, but he was already a little dispossessed.
There are only 5 seconds left to attack, whether it is a 2-point shot or a 3-point shot, there is only one chance to attack, and it is too difficult to block and dismantle the cover at this time, and the player must start attacking immediately after receiving the serve.
It's hard, it's so hard!
When the players returned to the bench, Van Gundy was a little unsure of what to do for a while.
At this moment, Wang Chao spoke.
"Last shot, I'll come!"
He glanced at everyone, his voice calm. "Just pass the ball to me and I'll take care of the rest!"
At this moment, Wang Chao's heart was already boiling.
What kind of fairy script is this? Whistle to kill Kobe?
Wang Chao is very sure that if he can do it, this scene will forever go down in history and become the most classic and memorable picture in the NBA!
How could he miss such an opportunity? Even if you don't hit the lore, it's worth it.
"Pay attention to Wang Chao! Be sure to pay attention to Wang Chao, there is a 99% probability that the opposite side will give Wang Chao the last chance to shoot, and it must be a shot outside the three-point line, no matter what, you can't give him this opportunity! ”
On the other side, on the Lakers bench, Phil. Jackson told him again and again, very solemnly.
In the final moments, it was not only the Magic team that was nervous, but also the Lakers.
After a short timeout, all the main players from both sides returned to the field.
Then Wang Chao found that Kobe Bryant and Artest actually surrounded him on the left and right, and this kind of treatment is simply no one.
"Are you so nervous that I'm afraid I'll catch the ball?"
Wang Chao looked at Kobe and Atai, and couldn't help but taunt.
"But if you want to prevent me, you're still underestimating me!"
While speaking, Wang Chao suddenly moved, he first ran towards the outside line on the left side of the court, but just took two steps and suddenly stopped, and the next second accelerated in the opposite direction!
The first layer of the long-distance runner (upgrade) feature increases the agility of reverse running by 10%.
Artest was directly thrown away by Wang Chao's reverse run, and Kobe Bryant was also thrown away a little distance because of his high speed and agility, but he still followed closely behind Wang Chao.
But before he could take two steps, Howard's dark, thick body appeared in front of him.
No ball screen!
This scene made Phil. Jackson couldn't help but shout on the sidelines, just like Van Gundy, regardless of his image.
"Defense! Hurry up! Don't let him catch the ball! ”
But by this time it was already too late.
Wang Chao, who was out of the line, successfully received a pass from Turkoglu, and then he did not pause at all, standing a distance of one meter outside the three-point line and raising his hand directly to shoot.
"Don't think!"
Kobe Bryant roared angrily, and his whole person, who had already gotten rid of Howard, jumped high and tried to block Wang Chao's shot.
But when Kobe Bryant saw Wang Chao take back the raised shooting posture, his heart suddenly cooled.
Wang Chao calmly dribbled the ball on the spot, moved a step laterally, and then jumped again to shoot.
Fake Pitcher Talent: Make the player's fake shots more realistic, and increase the fluency of connecting shots by 30% after using fake shots!
With a perfect shooting action, the basketball flies to the basket under everyone's gaze.
In order to control the time, Wang Chao's three-point shot deliberately increased the arc, making the basketball slide in the air longer.
Basketball under the desperate gaze of everyone on the Lakers, "Brush! The thud fell into the Nets.
"Boom ——!"
In an instant, the entire Amway Arena seemed to explode, and the cheers of tens of thousands of players resounded in the sky.
"The ball is in! Three-point lore! ”
At this moment, Director Zhang, who was commentator, couldn't hold back his excitement and shouted along. Wang Chao's time control was just right, the red light lit up the moment the basketball fell into the net, and there was no time left for the Lakers to be even 0.1 seconds, 81:80! With Wang Chao's three-point shot, the Magic defeated the Lakers and won the NBA 08-09 championship!! ”
After landing on the ground, Wang Chao was instantly surrounded by the swarming team members.
"King! You did it! It's so strong! ”
Howard was happy like a 24-year-old child, bouncing around Wang Chao's neck, and at the same time kneading Wang Chao's flowing hairstyle like a chicken nest.
"We are champions! We are the champions! ”
The Lakers will be stunned, Kobe Bryant looked at Wang Chao in a daze, and he has not yet recovered from the scene just now.
Wang Chao hit a three-point kill in front of him, and in this way took away his fifth championship trophy in front of him.
In this game, Kobe Bryant did everything he could, scoring 43 points in the whole game, but he didn't expect to lose the game, and he was killed by the opponent in person.
Looking at Wang Chao, who hugged his teammates and celebrated, Kobe Bryant, who came back to his senses, couldn't help but shake his head.
Wang Chao...... This guy's future is limitless! ”
Although Kobe Bryant was very unwilling to lose the championship, he still stepped forward to hug Wang Chao, Howard and others to congratulate him.
When hugging Wang Chao, Kobe Bryant said softly: "Don't think it's over like this, next season, I will take revenge on me!" ”
Wang Chao was stunned, and immediately laughed, this is Kobe, a paranoid who will never admit defeat.
"Okay, we'll split up when the time comes."
Just looking at the results of the seven games in the finals, Wang Chao and Kobe Bryant can only be regarded as a fight, Kobe Bryant averaged 36.7 points per game in seven games, and Wang Chao averaged 36.1 points per game.
And in addition to averaging 36.7 points per game, Bryant also has 5.6 rebounds and 8.4 assists, 1.4 blocks and 1.4 steals.
In contrast, Wang Chao's average of 4.4 rebounds and 4.9 assists per game is not particularly bad, but it is still a little worse than Kobe.
(End of chapter)