Chapter 254: Ghost Pass
Falling behind so much at halftime, even Li Kaiming himself didn't expect that the Celtics did have some restraint on the Wizards team to some extent, and it was not that they had not encountered strong teams before, such as the Orlando Magic, Atlanta Hawks and Chicago Bulls, although these teams are not easy to play, but compared to the Celtics, the difficulty is obviously less.
The Celtics do match every strong point of the Wizards from the perspective of the lineup, Garnett is one of the most suitable people in the league to defend Li Kaiming, and the starting point guard who averaged close to a double-double per game in the previous game was directly defended by Rajon Rondo, and could only get a few points by playing the opposite bench when the latter was off the court.
Another Bradge, who averaged 14 points and 8 rebounds per game, met the inside combination of the Sharks and Garnett today, and he was immediately dumbfounded.
Bracchi has already had 3 fouls in the half, so in the second half, Sanders directly let Javier McGee start instead of Bradge, there are sharks on the opposite side, and the lineup that plays outside the five can't prevent the opposite basket attack at all, and the outside touch of the Wizards is also average.
At the beginning of the third quarter of the game, the Wizards put on the court the lineup of Hinrich, Nick Young, Trevor Booker, Li Kaiming and McGee, Alssoton also fell into foul trouble in the first half, he was made two fouls by Pierce in the first quarter, Trevor Booker temporarily went up, and Pierce made 3 fouls at halftime, it can be said that tonight's Pierce directly incarnated as a tutor, whether old or young, all of them could not escape his clutches.
The Celtics' lineup is more surprising, Rivers did not take the sharks, but let Garnett partner Davis, it seems that the sharks' playing time is strictly controlled.
The first offensive Wizards serve in the third quarter, after Li Kaiming arrived in the front court, he and Xinrich blocked and picked up the basketball, the Celtics still guarded Garnett to defend him, Li Kaiming handed over McGee to cover, Davis and Garnett did not hesitate to double wrap Li Kaiming, but the latter was quick and hit the ground directly, passing from the middle of Garnett and Davis to McGee's hand.
McGee was already at the free-throw line when he received the ball, and he picked up the basketball with one hand and dunked in three steps.
58 to 65!
Brydon and Victor, the commentators on the sidelines, looked at each other, and the former said, "It's the first time I've seen this kind of pass from a person who is 2.1 meters tall, and it's usually a short defender who can pass this kind of ball, because they are closer to the ground and have a much lower risk of being tackled." Lee's passing angle is just right, and I don't think this kind of ball is played by chance. ”
"He is now the league with the most triple-doubles this season, although the average assists per game is not the first in the league, but he also averages close to 8 assists per game, and I found that Li Kaiming's pass error ratio is very high, he now averages less than 4 turnovers per game, and even fewer pass errors, that is, he has the most balls in the Wizards, but not the most turnovers on the team! This guy is amazing! Victor sighed as well.
The Celtics attacked, their starting lineup began to run without the ball, Pierce and Ray Allen were using a few inside covers, as well as cross-covers between the outside lines, after the two went around from the baseline, Pierce went to the bottom corner of the opposite side, and Ray Allen came out to the outside 45 degrees to receive Rondo's pass, Rondo's ball quotient can make the Celtics' ball always appear in the hands of the person with the best chance.
Ray Allen received the ball and went straight to a standard jumper, but he didn't feel good tonight, the ball didn't go in, and McGee grabbed the rebound for Hinrich.
Rondo stepped forward to press, by the way to prevent the Wizards from launching a conversion fast attack, Hinrich's speed dropped down suddenly, and after being transported to the front court, the time was consumed again to 18 seconds, Li Kaiming stepped forward to block and dismantle, helping Hinrich to card Rondo behind him, and then immediately bounced out, opened up space for Hinrich to break through, McGee on the inside also pulled out, and Li Kaiming one after another, McGee blocked Garnett, Hinrich successfully broke through to the inside.
Davis had decent pace on the offensive end, but he couldn't move at all on the defensive end, and Hinrich scored two points with a low-handed layup.
60 to 65!
The Celtics attacked, and Rondo took a few steps inside the three-point line with the help of cover, and then gave the ball to Davis, who was stuck in the back position of the interior before the Wizards closed the ball.
Defending Davis is Li Kaiming, who was pushed by the former, Li Kaiming only felt like he was hitting a big meat ball made of muscles, full of elasticity, and at the same time, with his strength, he was actually pushed up a little space, Davis took this opportunity to turn around and wipe the ball in!
60 to 67.
After McGee served from the baseline, he helped Hinrich block Rondo's defense a few times on the way back to the frontcourt, allowing Hinrich to come to the front court smoothly, and the last round allowed Hinrich to successfully face Davis, this time he simply let McGee come up to cover, but the Celtics simply chose to delay, Rondo and Davis's long arm interference almost directly stole Hinrich, but fortunately, Li Kaiming went over in time to result in basketball, which helped Hinrich to clear the siege.
After such an operation, there are 10 seconds left in the offensive time again, and Li Kaiming is still in front of Garnett in pitch black, and the time for this 10 seconds to play a complex tactical may be relatively stretched, so Li Kaiming is ready to directly single Garnett.
So, for the first time since the opening, Li Kaiming did not call his teammates to cover, and directly faced Garnett to get off the ball, Brydon and Victor on the commentary bench saw this scene and instantly held their breath, "Li Kaiming didn't call for blocking this time, he faced Garnett and began to dribble, he wanted to single Garnett head-on!" ”
And when the hard guy on the opposite side saw Li Kaiming, who had "escaped" the whole game, he actually decided to play alone under his defense, and a trace of heat flashed in Garnett's eyes!
In the first quarter of the game, the scene of him almost making a mess in his single Li Kaiming is still vivid, and now he has a chance to regain face on the defensive end, if he can directly steal Li Kaiming or give him a block, then his momentum will completely overwhelm the latter!
Thinking of this, Garnett seemed to see Hua Guliang's neon devil, and he smiled and took two steps forward, "Rookie, come and show me your ability!" Let me test if you have any moisture in this scoring champion! ”
Li Kaiming didn't answer, he didn't like to talk on the field, he only liked to speak with his actions.
In the face of Garnett's serious defense with his center of gravity lowered, Li Kaiming also fully focused, slapping the ball with his right hand, and the basketball collided with the ground of the court with a thumping sound.
Both the live audience at the mcI Center and the fans in front of the TV set also focused on the two people in the stadium.
Li Kaiming dribbled a step forward, Garnett did not retreat, but saw that the distance was almost there, he directly stretched out his long arm to interfere in front of Li Kaiming, and Garnett's attempt to steal would not make him lose his defensive center of gravity at all, even if there was no steal, it would not hurt.
Li Kaiming immediately stopped dribbling with both hands crossed, turned into a right-handed dribble, and suddenly broke out in front of the right, Garnett had been beaten by Li Kaiming like this before, so he was well prepared, and directly blocked Li Kaiming's breakthrough direction with a sliding step, and Li Kaiming was not surprised to see this scene, if he could be given by him so easily, then Garnett's so many defensive lineups would be in vain!
So Li Kaiming took advantage of the situation to push the ball to the left with his right hand, and a huge one-handed push changed direction, and slapped the ball from his right to the left, because Garnett was in front of Li Kaiming's left after sliding in order to prevent Li Kaiming's first step, so when Li Kaiming completed this large push to change direction, the ball had come behind Garnett.
Garnett was amazed! Telling him that he could still achieve such a drastic change of direction during the breakthrough process reminded him of an old man!
But time waits for no one, Garnett played his biggest advantage over other traditional interior lines, his feet were flexible, and after taking a step back to the three-point line, he turned around directly and pushed to Li Kaiming's side again.
However, Li Kaiming's drastic change of direction was not done in vain, although he did not completely get rid of Garnett's defense after the change of direction, he was already half a body ahead of the latter, and Garnett also knew that this situation was not good for him, so he stretched out his arm to interfere with Li Kaiming on the side, and at the same time used his torso to push Li Kaiming outward, keeping the latter away from the basket.
Davis under the basket also paid attention to Li Kaiming at the moment, because Li Kaiming had broken through to the restricted area with Garnett and could go to the basket at any time!
Li Kaiming's core exerted force, completely blocked Garnett's horizontal push, then changed the ball to his left hand, straightened his arm to take the ball with one hand, and rushed towards the basket with fire!
Davis under the basket immediately stepped up, and Garnett surrounded Li Kaiming with horns, and Garnett also stretched out both arms and headed towards the basketball cover in Li Kaiming's hand.
Davis stood directly under the basket in a military posture, his arms naturally drooped, and his hands were close to the seams of his pants.
Garnett and Davis were on one side, and they were empty, and it seemed that they were directly blocking the path of Li Kaiming's attack on the basket.
The audience at the scene sweated for Li Kaiming, and many people even covered their eyes directly, for fear that Li Kaiming would be given a big hat by Garnett, or directly made an offensive foul by Davis.
Just when everyone thought that Li Kaiming had no way to go to the sky and no way to enter the ground, Li Kaiming, who was flying in the air, suddenly took back his left hand!
Brydon in the commentary booth exclaimed, "Lee, what is he going to do?" At this point in time, it's not okay if you don't go up! ”
Victor also shook his head and said, "Lee's attack this time is too careless, at least this is a mistake in step!" ”
Before the words of the two commentators fell, Li Kaiming's left arm that was withdrawn in the air directly made a big loop, and then with a flick of his wrist, he passed the ball from behind his back to the basket!
And standing under the basket is the completely unguarded Javier McGee!
Between the lightning and flint, the cameras on the scene didn't even capture what the situation was, Li Kaiming and Garnett landed almost at the same time, but at this moment, a person under the basket took the ball with both hands and pulled the onion on the dry ground, and then came a two-handed violent dunk!