Chapter 274: Li Kaiming VS Arenas
As soon as the game came up, Arenas, who returned to his home court, was confident of winning, scoring 1 assist and 1 three-pointer in a row at the mcI center, and the Magic also led the Wizards 5-0.
But no one thought that the Wizards and Li Kaiming would sit still, and just when this idea first appeared in the hearts of the fans at the scene, the Wizards served to the frontcourt, and then Li Kaiming took the ball from Hinrich's hands.
"After Li Kaiming came to the front court, he didn't block or cover for Sinrich, he asked for the ball directly from Hinrich!" Hayward, the narrator, raised his voice slightly, and at the same time, the hearts of the audience in front of the scene and the screen were also raised.
Everyone wants to see how Li Kaiming will respond in the face of Arenas's menacing attack.
Under the gaze of tens of thousands of people, Li Kaiming used gestures to instruct his teammates to open up space for him, and in the face of Ryan Anderson's defense, the ball started to play alone from outside the three-point line.
Ryan Anderson is a very standard white No. 4 shooter who specializes in off-ball three-pointers, he was selected with the 21st pick in the first round in 2008, averaged 7 points per game last season, and shot 37 percent from three-point range.
Of course, Anderson, the common problem of this white big shooter, is also not left behind, the most typical is that he is not good at defense, especially players who are not good at defending fast.
Li Kaiming can easily play in the face of such a defender, he first got off the ball with a small change of direction in front of the body, Ryan Anderson barely followed, but there were already some stumbles under his feet, but this small change of direction was just an appetizer before Li Kaiming's breakthrough, and it was part of his breakthrough rhythm.
Just when Anderson breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, glad that he had not been taken by Li Kaiming, Li Kaiming suddenly exploded with full speed, and at the same time, his right arm was fully extended, and after levitating the ball, he used his arm span of two meters and twenty-six meters to directly come to an Allen Iverson-style super-large body forward change of direction!
Li Kaiming's top-level arm span, coupled with the speed and explosiveness comparable to perverts, super long stride, and did a feint like Iverson to swing his head and shrug his shoulders, after such a set, Anderson, who was already crumbling, was completely defeated by Li Kaiming on the defensive end!
His consciousness could only react, controlling his body to move in the misguided direction before Li Kaiming's change, and Li Kaiming's speed was too fast, he was simply directly shaken out by Li Kaiming for more than a meter!
So for the next time, he could only watch Li Kaiming break through to the three-point line, and then shoot directly from a small step inside the free throw line!
Because Howard was a little embarrassed by Li Kaiming's basket in the first game of the season, and he was also dunked, so before tonight's game, he deliberately watched a lot of videos of Li Kaiming attacking the basket, just to find Li Kaiming's weaknesses when defending.
At this time, in the face of Li Kaiming, who successfully broke through the online defense, Howard stayed under the basket and was eager to try, and this ball was the beginning of his revenge!
But what he didn't expect was that Li Kaiming at this time was no longer the person who only wanted to attack the basket and shoot three points before, he knew how powerful Howard's defense was under the basket, so he simply didn't go to the basket, and it was easier to find a random place to shoot in such a large area of the middle distance than to go to the basket!
So although Howard reacted immediately and pounced on Li Kaiming, Li Kaiming's mid-range still fell into the basket with a bang.
5 to 2!
The commentators on the sidelines, Hayward and Rose, both stretched out their arms at the same time to celebrate, "Oh buy it, Li Kaiming's change of direction is too big!" I really can't figure out why a player who is about the same height as a center forward can make Allen Iverson's moves. ”
In the face of Hayward's exclamation, Rose, who was sitting next to him, also shook his head helplessly, "Who knows what this is all about, it's not enough for God to create a Kevin Durant, do you still want to mass-produce one?" ”
"If I'm not mistaken, before Kaiming Lee entered the league, the template that the NbA scouts gave him was Tim Duncan, right?" Hayward smiled and asked Rose next to him.
Rose also thought of this question, and immediately said with a smile, "The scouts are really blind this time, except that Li Kaiming is closer to Duncan in height, he doesn't look like anything else!" If you say that his template is Kevin Durant, I think it would be more appropriate! ”
In fact, these two commentators misunderstood the scouts, and the NbA scouts are definitely the most vicious people in the world, and their judgments about most players can still be confirmed after many years, which shows their high professional standards.
The scouts' judgment of Li Kaiming is basically based on the latter's performance in NcAA, and Li Kaiming in the NcAA period and Li Kaiming now can be said to be a completely different person.
This change is like changing from a little Jordan to Jordan, originally a jumping man with excellent physical fitness who can only go without the ball and under the basket, and his defense in NcAA is also quite good, but after entering the league, he has become one of the best in the league, oh no, maybe you don't need to be a top scorer, this kind of anti-difference says NbA scouting, you invite the most accurate bad old man from the distant country, he has to overturn!
Li Kaiming responded to Arenas's provocation with a beautiful goal, and the fans at the mcI Center immediately began to cheer!
The Magic team served to Arenas, who dribbled to the front court with a gloomy face, faced Hinrich's defense, directly changed his body in front of him and led Hinrich by half a body, and then directly used the ball protector to break through to the inside line against Hinrich, and made a difficult shot against Blatch's frame, but did not score.
It seems that it was Li Kaiming's goal that spurred him on, and Arenas couldn't wait to respond to one.
Hinrich went to help defend Arenas, and naturally only Li Kaiming and Hinrich who followed up were left to protect the backcourt rebounds under the basket.
However, under the basket of long people, it would be good if Hinrich was not jumped up and trampled to death by a few big men, and he still wanted to grab rebounds?
Therefore, the battle for rebounds has become Howard VS Li Kaiming.
However, Li Kaiming's rebounding ability is still not enough, in the face of some interior lines who are shorter than him or have poor physical fitness, he can still rely on his physical advantage to pick up a few, but against Howard, the monster who has been the rebounding king for many times, the latter's physical fitness is not much better than him, and this rebound was naturally snatched by Howard.
Fortunately, Howard's strong ball-holding under the basket and Li Kaiming's rebounding ability are also half a catty, and this guy seems to be full of confidence in his offensive ability, and after winning the frontcourt rebound, he directly arched Li Kaiming and then shot.
Li Kaiming even stood under the basket with his hands held high, without even jumping, and Howard didn't move him, so he could only twist his body in the air and barely shoot.
The powerful upper limb muscles give the monster a strong confrontation ability, but it also makes his basket hand work rough to the extreme.
Fans always rely on his body to not rely on James's skills, in fact, Howard's roughness is much more outrageous than James's, so in the later stages of his career, after his body declined, no team was willing to want him immediately, and he couldn't even understand the Mindao League, so he could only do some activities to create new life with the hot girls there.
The result of Howard's missed layup was that although Li Kaiming lost a backcourt rebound, he successfully blocked Howard's strong undercourt shot, and then jumped in time to pick up the second backcourt rebound.
Hinrich came over to take the ball and dribble it to the frontcourt, Li Kaiming stepped forward to cover, Anderson had been broken through by Hinrich once before, so this time he defended more inside, wanting Arenas to squeeze cover.
But Li Kaiming's cover was very solid, and Arenas felt that his two lungs were about to be squeezed out, but he was still stuck by Li Kaiming.
In desperation, Anderson had to switch defenses with Arenas, and Hinrich did not choose to break through Anderson this time, and Howard's rim protection under the basket was too threatening, and he was not sure.
Therefore, after changing the defense, Li Kaiming directly pushed Arenas to the waist position, and at the same time, the rest of the Wizards team also cooperated very well to open up the space, leaving a position for Li Kaiming to single out Arenas.
The first time Li Kaiming got into the position, Hinrich, who retreated to the outside, passed the ball in.
Before the first quarter of the game started, the two protagonists of tonight's game had already faced each other, how could this not make the spectators excited?
On the commentary bench, the two commentators, Hayward and Rose, both raised their voices, "Li Kaiming, use the block to force the Magic team to change defenses, and he is against Gilbert Arenas!" Hinrich passes! The rest of the Wizards pulled away, and Li Kaiming wanted to single Arenas! ”
With the wonderful narration of the two commentators, the fans at the scene also stared at the stadium, and many people even stood up and stretched their necks to look at the big screen above the stadium, because compared to looking directly at the stadium, the big screen is clearer.
And the director of the scene is also very knowledgeable about camera movement, almost at the same moment, all the cameras on the field locked on Li Kaiming and Arenas, and even the expressions on the faces of the two people were not spared.
When Arenas saw that the enemy was in front of him, and that he was about to choose to score on his head, he immediately became angry.
All the muscles in his body were mobilized, this was the power of hatred, "Rookie, I'll let you know what cruelty is!" Arenas gritted his teeth and said a trash word.
"Oh? Is it? Li Kaiming smiled slightly, and at the same time as he got off the ball, the power of the next game exploded, and at the same time, his broad back was directly on the front door of Arenas!
Arenas only felt a huge force coming from in front of him, and the hatred on his face had not yet disappeared, but it was already mixed with some surprise.
How can this guy have so much power?
As early as when Li Kaiming was selected by the Wizards, Arenas had a heads-up with Li Kaiming, although he couldn't prevent the latter's back play at that time, but the power gap was not so big.
But what he didn't expect was that in just the past few months, Li Kaiming's strength has risen rapidly like a drug, according to Arenas's estimate, if the current Li Kaiming is purely fighting for strength, the entire league can be regarded as upstream, only worse than those super big centers!
As soon as the thought in Arenas's mind appeared, a force even greater than before came from the back of the mountain-like majesty in front of him, directly interrupting the former's train of thought, and then he was pushed back two steps!
After two efforts, Li Kaiming has successfully gone from more than one step inside the three-point line to the deepest part of the Magic defensive formation.