Chapter 318: The Awakened Lakers

Li Kaiming used a rhythm change to shake off Odom and hit the basket in one step.

At this moment, Artest next to him immediately pounced, with a fierce light in his eyes, ready to pour all the energy accumulated in his body into Li Kaiming's body.

Li Kaiming seemed to have not seen Artest coming from the defense, and directly combined the ball and started a three-step layup, and when he took the last step, Artest also happened to catch up with him.

Artest's face flashed with excitement, and he stretched out his palm and pushed Li Kaiming's waist hard!

Li Kaiming in front of him responded with an ouch! Then the whole person lost his balance and fell to the ground in a posture of eating.

Such an obvious action, of course, the referee will not be invisible, and directly blew Artest for a push foul!

The fans at the mcI Center began to boo Artest, but the latter seemed to enjoy the moment, not only did not have any shame or nervousness, but instead opened his arms to the audience and greeted the crowd with a big grin!

Artest only thought that his slap was successful in revenge, and did not care that he had committed his fifth foul.

So Phil Jackson on the sidelines took advantage of the timeout of Li Kaiming's free throws and directly replaced Artest.

The latter came off with some surprise on his face, but he was still very excited.

Li Kaiming was helped up by his teammates, and after the Lakers rotation players came on the court, he stood on the free throw line, received the ball from the referee from the baseline referee, and then hit both free throws steadily!

The Lakers served, and after arriving in the frontcourt, Fisher and Gasol played blocking and dismantling tactics, Fisher took advantage of the misposition to break through Brackey, missed the layup, and the rebound was protected by Li Kaiming to Hinrich.

The Wizards launched a counterattack, and after quickly getting to the frontcourt, the ball was guided around the outside and had no chance, and finally it was given to Li Kaiming.

Li Kaiming faced Odom's defense, crossed dribbles outside the three-point line to find rhythm, and then suddenly broke through from the right side.

Odom barely followed, but Li Kaiming only took one step to make a stop, then dribbled behind and changed the direction of the breakthrough from the right to the left.

Odom lost his position, and was directly turned around by Li Kaiming in excitement, and finally found Li Kaiming's breakthrough direction.

However, this is not the end of this attack, after the end of the dribble behind Li Kaiming did not close the ball and shoot directly, nor did he push the ball forward to break through to the basket, but hovered the dribble and waited for Odom.

After Odom found the direction after a circle, Li Kaiming's suspension dribble was just over, and his left hand suddenly exploded the ball and retreated with a jump, and he retreated outside the three-point line in one step!

Before Odom had the next move, after the retreat was over, Li Kaiming did not hesitate to close the ball and throw it with three points!

With a bang, the basketball went into the net!

The fans at the mcI center exclaimed, this is already the third three-pointer that Li Kaiming has hit in a short period of time!

Could it be that tonight is another record-breaking night?

The Lakers attacked, Kobe Bryant asked for the ball on the outside, Nick Young desperately defended and finally affected the latter's vision, and Kobe Bryant turned over in the middle distance and hit the iron on his back.

Blatch protected the backcourt rebound to Hinrich, and after the Wizards dribbled past half court, Li Kaiming caught the ball and attracted the Lakers' outside bag, and then distributed the ball to Hinrich on the outside.

Hinrich had the right rhythm when he received the ball, and he hit it again with a direct shot!

80 to 64!

For a period of time after Kobe Bryant opened up the field, the Lakers briefly approached the score, but then they were blocked back by the Wizards led by Li Kaiming with a wave of three-point waves.

Phil Jackson decided not to call a timeout this timeout.

Among these people on the court, except for one 205 who was beaten down by the opposite side and was still complacent, the rest of the people were the strongest players in every position on the Lakers.

He's already set up the team's operating system for the players, and it's up to them to do the rest.

The Lakers attacked the baseline serve, and found that after they scored 5 points in a row, the point difference was opened again, and even Kobe Bryant's face changed a little!

When did this Wizards get so strong?

It can make a championship team fall behind after the boss is on fire!

What kind of offensive firepower is this? It's scary to think about!

In addition to Kobe, several other players who have experienced the Finals have also become serious.

Because they finally found out that the last time the Lakers lost to the Wizards was not accidental!

The goal of the championship team is to win consecutive championships, and the goal of a two-time championship team like the Lakers is to win three consecutive championships and establish their own dynasty!

If you want to become a dynasty team, in addition to luck, your strength must also reach the top league!

Losing to the same team in a row would be a devastating blow to the team's confidence!

So from this moment on, the Lakers, who had been sleeping for half a season, woke up......

Championship teams like the Lakers are basically made up of top superstars or veterans who have a lot of experience in the regular season.

They know how much energy they need to put in to deal with their opponents in the regular season, so that they don't lose home-court advantage by paddling too much, and they don't get exhausted by pushing too hard and don't have enough energy to make the playoffs.

So the previous Lakers were all Lakers in a half-dreaming state, which didn't even need to be reminded by head coach Phil Jackson, the Lakers players themselves made the best choice.

The Lakers served to Fisher, who dribbled to the front court and began to direct his teammates to run.

And Kobe Bryant also let go of the previous attitude of playing every ball by himself, and began to participate in the team's tactics.

The Lakers significantly kept the pace of the game down, and there were times when they actually created chances, but Fisher didn't pass the ball.

They are waiting for the best opportunity.

Bryant ran to the other side of the 45-degree after making a big circle from the outside, and Fisher made a through pass to Kobe.

Bryant ran sideways to catch the ball, and the moment he received the ball, Gasol's cover was also in position.

Kobe Bryant used Gasol's cover to break through to the Wizards' three-point line.

The Wizards' interior line immediately contracted, Gasol went down after the block, Kobe Bryant jumped up and passed the ball to Gasol, who received the ball and went directly to the basket, at this time the attention of Li Kaiming and Bracchi under the basket had already been attracted by Kobe.

Gasol dunks with three hands!

Kobe Bryant waited at the three-point line for Gasol to come back and high-five in celebration, and when the Lakers got serious, even this celebration ceremony was essential!

The Wizards attacked, and Hinrich dribbled to meet a seriously defensive Fisher.

Although Lao Yu is not very good at biting opponents, he is physically strong and strong in confrontation, and it is no problem to give Xinrich a confrontation.

Hinrich was a little uncomfortable by Fisher's sudden tough defense.

He only felt that the opposite side suddenly became tighter, and he almost lost it when he couldn't hold it!

Fortunately, Li Kaiming appeared in time to relieve Xinrich.

He received the ball from the outside to face Odom's defense, stood up and took a look, and the Lakers' entire formation shifted a little in his direction.

If there are fans in a relatively high position at this time, a closer look will show that the Lakers have formed a triple block against Li Kaiming with Odom as the apex!

Although Li Kaiming on the court can't see how the Lakers' defensive formation has changed, he only needs to know at a glance that this defense is not easy to blast!

Odom in front of him is also extremely serious now, and his boss Kobe has already taken the lead and set an example, so he naturally has to show some serious attitude.

Li Kaiming commanded his teammates to pull away, since he couldn't see the details of the opposite defense, let's try it first!

After the other four pulled away except for Bradge, Li Kaiming dribbled directly and forced a breakthrough through Odom.

With his speed, if Odom defends alone, he can also create opportunities, and he chooses such a simple way of attacking, just to see how the Lakers' formation will change if he breaks through!

Odom was thrown off half of his body, and Li Kaiming broke through to the three-point line and found that something was wrong!

He felt as if he was caught in the encirclement of the Lakers, and he was all on the opposite side!

And this encirclement is still a layered kind, Odom is a speed bump, and the two layers behind are the killer features that can make him fall into the quagmire!

In this case, if you break through further, the scene will definitely not be very good.

Li Kaiming didn't want to make trouble for himself, so he made a long pass to Sun Yue who was on the outside!

Matt Barnes, the Lakers bench player against the latter, is a mediocre guy on the defensive end, and his defense can be said to be non-existent compared to Artest.

But it is such a player who can pounce on Sun Yue without hesitation after losing his position, and he is not afraid of being passed by the latter at all.

It's because the rest of the Lakers will help him with defense!

After Sun Yue got the ball, he shook Barnes with a feint, and then dribbled to break through a step inside, and found that the opportunity was not good and passed it again.

In the end, the ball returned to defender Hinrich, who passed through several times but did not find a chance, and Hinrich decided to come on his own.

He beckoned Li Kaiming to come over to block the demolition, and then dribbled to the middle distance to face the blindfolded defense and forced a shot.

The shot hit the iron, and under the basket Gasol protected the rebound to Fisher.

The Lakers launched a fast break, the players performed their duties, and during the fast break, Kobe Bryant attracted most of the attention of the Wizards, but he didn't expect to be suddenly accelerated by Odom, and after receiving the ball, he caused a foul!

Li Kaiming stretched out his hand to signal that he had committed a foul, which was his second foul in the game.

Odom walked to the free throw line and hit both free throws.

The Lakers' sudden change of form made the players of the Wizards unbearable, not to mention others, even Li Kaiming had a lot of trouble against such a defense!

In the second half of the third quarter, the Wizards played very bumpy, with a low shooting percentage, high consumption, and the most important thing is that they couldn't defend the opposite side.

The triangle offense also showed fangs!

So after the end of the third quarter, the Lakers managed to overtake the score and entered the fourth quarter with a 3-point advantage of 94-91.

And what is visible to the naked eye is that the balance of victory and the momentum of the game are tilting in favor of the Lakers......