Chapter 71: Besieged

72:66! Li Kaiming's layup once again stretched the difference to 6 points, and there was another chance to add free throws!

Standing at the free throw line, Li Kaiming closed his eyes, feeling the noise of the whole court, the heavy wheezing of his teammates, and the feeling of fatigue from his central nervous system, he took a deep breath, let his chest expand to the maximum, and then slowly spit out.

The referee on the bottom line saw Li Kaiming open his eyes and immediately gave the ball to the latter.

Li Kaiming, who received the ball, concentrated and slapped the ball three times tentatively, then bent his knees slightly, his toes inward, and his legs were in an inward posture, while holding the ball with both hands and lowering it vertically along the right arm above his right knee.

After a slight pause, Li Kaiming held his breath, and the power was transmitted from the soles of his feet along the knee joint to the hip joint, and then with the force of hip extension, it was transmitted to the shoulder joint, one ring after another, and finally, all the accumulated power exploded at his fingertips.

The basketball flew off his palm with the flick of his thumb, index finger, and middle finger.

Under the watchful eye, the basketball spun in the air for about a second, and finally slammed into the front of the basket!

Li Kaiming's face changed! Are you so tired that you don't even score free throws?

Pastner's face was also a little depressed, and if he couldn't make any free throws, the game would be really dangerous......

But God favors Memphis, and after the basketball was bumped in the front frame, it didn't fall directly at the first time, but under the eager attention of everyone under the basket, it fell into the basket after bouncing on the basket three or four times!

Hit 2+1 successfully!

On the big screen, Memphis's score was added by 1 point again, and it came to 73!

Pasterner let go of his palm, he only felt a faint pain in his palm, it turned out that when he was holding the tactical pen hard, he didn't even realize that the tactical pen gave him such a great reaction force.

And his hands are completely wet, all his hands are sweaty!

A free throw can make a coach nervous to such an extent!

Tennessee's offense was still unusually sharp, with Meiz calmly controlling the ball to the frontcourt, and Cunnington's physical strength ensuring that he could keep running around the pile in the half, and the pile was naturally his teammates.

Williams, on the other hand, had no physical strength to run with Cornington, so he had to ask his nearest teammates to help him change the defense.

Although this can prevent Cunnington from throwing open spots on the outside, another more troublesome thing arises.

Changing the defense can prevent the opposite shot, but it can't prevent the misplaced back play of the opposite inside, Williams at this time, although he did not face Connington, who kept running, but he faced Tennessee's center Chim!

And Li Kaiming was taken to the outside by Tennessee players because he helped Williams change defenses, so he could only watch Chim score on Williams' head.

At 73:68, Chim roared angrily after the goal!

At this time, he has scored 16 points, 8 rebounds and 2 blocks, and is the biggest contributor to maintaining the point difference!

In two consecutive rounds, Tennessee used Williams as a breakthrough, even if Pastner was unwilling, he had to change the formation at this time!

If the lineup is not changed, the timeout will have to be saved for next season, so Pastner, who dared to make drastic changes, immediately signaled to the referee to take a timeout.

"Memphis used up the last timeout, and there were less than two minutes left before the end of the game! It seems that Pastner has made up his mind that he doesn't want overtime! The next moment the referee's whistle blew, the commentator spoke into the microphone to all the spectators.

Bruce Bohr was also ruthless, although they had a physical advantage, but so far, Tennessee has not led once, which makes him very dissatisfied!

What is the use of a so-called advantage if it can't be converted into a score lead?

He was on the bench and yelled at the players gathered around him, "Damn, cheer me up, after this time, if there is still Elliott on the other side, then hit him for me, if the opposite side replaces Elliott, then you can play other tactics." But remember, on the defensive end, don't let Li Kaiming score! Even if I put his teammate in the vacant seat, he won't be allowed to shoot! ”

The critical moment has arrived, and Bohr, who has been immersed in the position of coach for many years, naturally knows that in the final time, it is necessary to let the opposite star shoot as little as possible and leave the right to shoot to the role players.

Role players can't talk about the ability to work under pressure and celebrities, and when the pressure is so high, 99 percent of role players miss.

So we must not let Li Kaiming score again, there is still more than a minute before the game is over, let that guy score one or two more, and the game will lose suspense!

Pastner, on the other hand, was worried, he looked at his disciple with concern, and said to Williams, "Elliott, there is still the last minute, your state is too bad, let's change someone!" ”

Williams wiped the sweat from his forehead, "Coach, is it really okay without me?" ”

Pastner was about to speak, and Li Kaiming next to him hugged Williams, "Elliott, believe us, we will win the game!" ”

Seeing that Li Kaiming said this, Williams stopped talking, after all, this guy was something he looked at soaring.

At the last moment, defense is much more important than offense, and offense can directly hand the ball to your superstar, but no matter how strong a person is on the defensive end, it is impossible to defend one.

So Pastner asked Coleman to replace Williams on the court, so that in addition to the first and second positions, the remaining two forwards and centers are all above 205 in height, which is a real super-sized lineup in the NCAA!

Because Coleman was so tall and didn't shoot, he had to swing to the No. 4 position, with Daniel Mac taking over Williams' point guard and Weatherpens taking over the small forward position.

In this way, Memphis ushered in the last minute and a half of the Midwest Regional Finals with this strange lineup.

Kemp's control was still calm and spicy, and when he came to the frontcourt, he directed his teammates to run and blocked the defender's intrusion with his other hand.

Everyone knows that by this time, there is only one point on the Memphis court that can be forced!

The teammates brought the Tennessee defenders to the other side, emptying the right side of the court for Li Kaiming to go head-to-head.

Seeing that the time had come, Camp also took a few steps back and stood at the top of the arc after passing the ball to Li Kaiming, while opening his hands and preparing to catch the ball.

There is still 1 minute and 20 seconds left in the time, the right waist position, Li Kaiming vs Chim!

Li Kaiming, who got the ball, took his left foot as the axis, and after turning around, he changed the back basket into a face frame, and at the last moment, he naturally had to choose the most confident offensive means.

His advantage over Chim is speed, and the frame can play to his speed advantage.

Chim's mouth was not idle while interfering with Li Kaiming with his pitch-black arm, "You can't get this ball in!" That's the end of your good fortune! ”

Li Kaiming directly ignored this guy's trash talk, suddenly started to the right, and stepped to the right side of the penalty area in one step!

Chim was taken aback, "It's been a whole fight, why is he still ...... so fast"

Tennessee's defensive rotation was also set in motion at the same time, with Negdu and Wallic, who were taken to the left by the Memphis players, directly letting go of their defenders and blocking them to the basket.

Li Kaiming was instantly surrounded by three big men and died on the bottom line!