Chapter 338: I bet you don't dare to close your eyes and make free throws
"Iron Fist, how's it going tonight?" In the hallway, a TNT reporter asked.
Zhou Quan replied with a smile as he walked forward: "I slept well last night and rarely dreamed. ”
"Ahh
The reporter was stunned and couldn't understand the meaning of Zhou Quan's words.
"Michael, how are you feeling tonight?"
On the other side, the same TNT reporter was interviewing Jordan.
"I'm going to blast the Iron Fist." Jordan said firmly.
The interviews between the two were broadcast in real time on a hanging screen outside through TNT's camera.
"Jordan is going to blow up the iron fist, I understand that, the state is not bad. But Iron Fist said that he had less dreams last night and slept well, what does this mean? Larry Bird said confusedly.
Magician Johnson shook his head and said, "Oriental people are eccentric, they have their own unique way of thinking and expression. ”
"Zhou Quan must mean that he is in good shape, and he is in good condition if he sleeps well." Zhang Li said with a smile.
Xu Jicheng nodded excitedly and said, "Then the chance of winning the championship tonight is great." ”
At 10:00 a.m., Zhou Quan and Jordan led the team to the players' tunnel almost at the same time, and both of them glanced at the championship trophy outside before their eyes met.
"Jordan, even if you hide in Lady Luck's crotch and kneel and lick it, I'm going to kill you tonight." Zhou Quan said with a smile.
When Jordan heard this, his face trembled wildly, and then he said fiercely: "We have decided to grab seven." Boy, the one who wins in the end must be me. ”
Zhou Quan smiled: "Winning this championship, by the way, sending this team to the shelves collectively, it must make me very happy." ”
"The bull is going to collapse, haha......"
Rodman immediately burst out laughing.
This sentence made Michael Jordan unable to fight back, and he couldn't swallow back the words he released, so he could only stare at Zhou Quan fiercely.
"Your Bulls are becoming a part of history, and I'm making history." Zhou Quan finally dropped a sentence, and then walked out of the player's tunnel.
"Shh
An earth-shattering shouting sounded, and a strong psychological pressure, like a tangible object, tried to impact Zhou Quan's psychology.
He smiled again and waved to the fans.
After all, there were also some Chinese and international students at the scene, holding huge cardboards with his name written on them, wearing his supersonic No. 1 jersey, and he couldn't go without a response.
"Hey, Fliggy, Big Dream, since you're here, learn a little harder, you have to have something to gain." He went to say hello to his friends and when he saw Barkley and Olajuwon.
"What's the catch?"
"Learn what?"
Barkley and Olajuwon asked with straight faces.
"Learn how to win the championship, don't you want to win the championship? You'll see how I won a second championship in a short time, so don't waste this learning opportunity. Zhou Quan smiled.
"Poof!"
Abdul-Jabbar and Bill Wharton burst into laughter at the same time.
"You bastard!"
Barkley and Olajuwon began to roll up their sleeves.
Zhou Quan glanced at David Stern and said with a smile: "Don't say that you can't beat me, if you dare to do it in front of him, I will definitely write you a word." ”
"Humph!"
The two snorted coldly, turned around and sat back in their seats.
"Hello, Mr. Stern." Zhou Quan walked towards Stern.
"Zhou, work hard, you will achieve great success in the United States, and I believe you have the ability." Stern said with a smile.
"Thank you, I will."
……
At 8:30 a.m., the game began.
"Bull! Bull ......"
"Supersonic! Supersonic......
The shouts of the fans on both sides were entangled, and in the end, it was the overwhelming home fans who suppressed the voices of the away fans.
Jump ball, Bulls attack.
Tony Kukocchi pulled up to the right wing and crossed the screen with Jordan, and Rodman defended Will Perdo under the basket.
Zhou Quan chased Jordan closely, his condition was really good, his reaction was very fast, no matter whether Jordan ran back or blocked, he was not thrown off, and always maintained cutting off Jordan's receiving angle.
Pippen was holding the ball on the left wing, and saw that Jordan was targeted by Zhou Quan, and there was no chance for a while, and at this time, Wilperdo stuck Rodman under the basket, and when he got to the position, he passed in.
Perdo received the ball and leaned sideways on Rodman to play a hook hand, but unfortunately his strength was limited, and he didn't hit the basket, and Rodman hit the ball with one hand in time to Zhou Quan, who pounced on the defense.
Zhou Quan came to the right wing with the ball, and Kendall Gill went to the top of the arc.
"Huh, changed the offensive position?" Xu Ji became a Taoist.
"Zhou Quan doesn't have a fixed offensive position at all, he can play on either side of the left, center and right." Zhang said reasonably.
"Don't go to the top of the arc, it's farther away from Pippen, this should be trying to break through." Xu Ji became a Taoist.
"It should be." Zhang Li nodded.
Zhou Quan dribbled outside the three-point line on the right wing and was in no hurry to attack.
Jordan judged that Zhou Quan attacked from the right flank, and he definitely didn't want Pippen to attack, which was different from the past, and Zhou Quan even deliberately looked for Pippen's bag to create an empty opportunity for Schramf.
So now there should be only one purpose for doing this, to break in and fight by yourself.
After judging clearly, he was a little annoyed, because Zhou Quan was sure that he couldn't prevent his breakthrough?
The next moment, Zhou Quan suddenly started the tentative step, and at a very fast speed, dribbled to the right side and took a step.
Jordan was mentally prepared and quickly retreated backwards.
But the next moment, Zhou Quan withdrew his tentative step, and then jumped up with the ball.
The moment the basketball was shot, he had no distractions, his attention was highly concentrated, and the full-level panoramic sight made him tightly lock the spatial position of the basket, and he threw the basketball out according to a fixed trajectory.
"Damn it!"
Jordan knew he had been fooled, but he couldn't come back.
"Three points?"
"Fake and real?"
When Zhou Quan jumped out, Zhang Reasonable and Xu Jicheng were very surprised.
"Brush!"
The water splashed and hit the three-pointer.
"Congratulations, flyer, you misjudged." Zhou Quan's trash talk came.
Jordan ignored Zhou Quan, this bastard tried to hit his self-confidence with trash talk, with sinister intentions, he would not be fooled.
Bulls attack.
Pippen attacked with the ball on the left wing, Jordan suddenly ran to the top of the arc from the right wing, and BJ made a block to block Zhou Quan.
At this time, Pippen passed the ball, and Jordan immediately jumped after receiving the ball, ignoring Kendall Gil, who switched defenses.
Zhou Quan bypassed BJ and was already one step behind, and Kendall Gill jumped to block, but Jordan made a step-back jumper and didn't have enough to hit it.
"Three points too?" Zhang Li shouted urgently.
"Brush!"
There was a splash and a three-point shot.
"Boy, have you been on a tour, why don't you come and defend me?" Jordan's trash talk is also coming.
"Well, I went to Lady Luck's, and now it's Michael who stays under her crotch...... Tyson. Zhou Quan replied.
"Shet!"
Thinking of Tyson, thinking of that pair of terrible fists, and Tyson's terrifying and murderous eyes, Jordan burst into foul language.
"Is it another three-point fight today?" Xu Jicheng asked nervously.
"Possibly. I heard that Jordan has been practicing three points, and he learned from Zhou Quan, and Zhou Quan used three points more than him before. Zhang said reasonably.
3:3, supersonic offense.
Zhou Quan held the ball to the right wing again, and after making a tactical gesture, he gave the ball to Kendal Gil at the top of the arc first, and then took it back after a transition, and then put on a three-threat pose.
One step away, in the face of Zhou Quan's three threats, Jordan is like a great enemy.
At this time, Gilliam, who was in the low post, suddenly rose up and ran to the high post to block and dismantle for Kendall Gill, and Gill took the opportunity to cut inside to the basket.
BJ is already one step behind bypassing Gilliam.
Just as Gil was cutting, Zhou Quan suddenly raised his hands upward, and at the same time his feet also flicked upward, making a shooting motion of getting up and starting the ball.
He just shot a three-pointer, where did Jordan dare to put his three-pointer, the feint was too realistic, and he jumped directly.
The next moment, Zhou Quan retracted, dribbled to the left and took a step, and the moment his left hand pulled the ball up, both hands pushed down to the basket, and the basketball suddenly flew straight to the basket.
"Smack!"
Gill crossed the free-throw line just right, received the ball, made a layup two steps later and hit an easy shot.
"Beautiful!"
Larry Bird couldn't help but admire: "The passing and cutting tactics after the high block, the precise passing of the iron fist scalpel broke through all the defenses, and the inside cut of Gil was also beautiful, and the combination was quite successful. ”
"Flyer, you're wrong again." Zhou Quan's trash talk is here again.
Jordan snorted angrily, "You're just lucky this time." ”
Zhou Quan couldn't help laughing and said: "I'm not you, I don't want to drill the crotch of Lady Luck, I will only let her take the initiative to lift her skirt to me." ”
"Humph!"
Jordan is extremely angry.
Ten seconds later, Jordan was outside the three-point line on the right wing and also posed a three-threat pose to Zhou Quan.
"Michael, hit him."
"Michael, him!"
Countless Bulls fans shouted excitedly.
"Come on!"
Zhou Quan leaned down in one step, his right hand covered the face of Jordan, who was also leaning over, and provocative trash talk came casually.
"Tony Kukoczy?"
Just then, he heard the sound of sneakers rubbing against him.
The next moment, he suddenly moved and took a step forward to the left with his left foot, blocking the angle from which Jordan broke through from the outside.
"Flank!"
At the same time, he let out a big shout and stabbed his right hand into the basketball in Jordan's chest.
Almon Gilliam, who came out, heard Zhou Quan's shout, and immediately bypassed Kukoc in front of him and made a pinch action to cut off Jordan's breakthrough to the left elbow area.
After Jordan let go of Zhou Quan's right hand to stab the ball, the breakthrough direction on the left and right sides was cut off, and in front of him, there was only a two-foot-wide passage between Zhou Quan and Tony Kukoc, or a direct jump shot.
He can only choose to break through with the ball, Zhou Quan has moved to his right front side, even if it is a backward jumper, it is difficult to escape the block, in addition to stealing, he is also very concerned about Zhou Quan's block.
The next moment, he smashed the ball to the floor in front of him and broke through.
But all this is a trap laid by Zhou Quan's active defense, the passage in front is a pit, and when Jordan's ball just left his hand, he quickly completed the turn, grabbed Jordan, and broke the ball.
"Break the ball! The ball is broken! ”
In the next moment, Zhang Cheng roared excitedly.
"Oh!"
Countless Bulls fans erupted in exclamations.
"Bastard!"
Jordan quickly moved sideways and blocked Zhou Quan, who was about to go down.
Looking at Jordan who was glaring angrily, Zhou Quan was lucky, changed hands to control the ball, burst through from the left side, and then rushed forward against the left sideline.
Stopped at the three-point line, and when Jordan stopped, he was back again, changed to his right hand to control the ball, and at the same time changed to the right to break through.
Jordan reacted quickly, and when he kept up, Zhou Quan made another emergency stop and took a big step back from the dribble, this time, Jordan couldn't keep up and was pulled away by two meters.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Zhou Quan jumped out with the ball.
"Three points again!" Xu Jicheng shouted.
"Hit again! Zhou Quan hit another three-pointer and hit two three-pointers. He's in good shape tonight! Zhang Cheng shouted excitedly.
"Flyer, you misjudged the third time, and we have all three attacks." Zhou Quan's trash talk is here again.
Jordan took a deep breath and knew very well that Iron Fist was taking advantage of his defensive failures to blow his psychology and morale, and he couldn't be fooled.
At 8:3, the Bulls attacked.
Jordan received the ball in the backfield, quickly advanced to the right wing, stopped without stopping, changed direction, broke Zhou Quan, and killed the penalty area.
Gilliam threw Tony Kukoc to bolster Jordan.
Jordan didn't split the ball, changed direction again, and hit the bottom line.
Zhou Quan has been chasing after him, and there is no chance of going there.
"Bang!"
"Tick!"
Jordan landed on the right side of the basket and snapped from under Rodman to the left side of the basket in two more steps, then burst into a backhand dunk that dunked Rodman and caused his thrashing foul.
"Oh roar!"
The entire United Center erupted in loud cheers.
Magic Johnson excitedly said: "Oh, haha, this is Michael Jordan, he can blow up the supersonic as long as he wants." ”
Larry Bird laughed, "This attack did make Iron Fist a little disgraced. ”
"Hey, flyer, you bet with Mutombo, you might as well bet again this time, I'll bet you won't miss this shot with your eyes closed."
Staring at Jordan at the free throw line, Zhou Quan suddenly said.
"Huh?"
Jordan looked at Zhou Quan and was very moved.
Zhou Quan smiled: "My free throw shooting rate is ten percentage points higher than yours, and I don't dare to close my eyes to make free throws, and I don't dare to bet on you." ”
"This kid wants to provoke me?"
Jordan's heart moved, it was the regular season with Mutombo, and it didn't matter if he missed the penalty, and this is the finals, every point is very important, and it may determine the victory of this game, and even the championship.
"Hmph, boy, you don't have any ghost ideas."
After thinking clearly, he suppressed the strong competitiveness in his heart and rejected Zhou Quan.
Zhou Quan regrets that this old boy was not fooled?
"Brush!"
That's when Jordan added a free throw.
8:6, supersonic offense.
Zhou Quan changed his attacking position again this time, pulled to the left flank, and deliberately found Pippen's bag to create an empty space for Schramf.
"Bang!"
Unfortunately, Schramf missed the open three-pointer.
"Mine!"
Rodman anticipated the ball, moved to the left waist position first, and grabbed the rebounding offensive rebound.
Losing the backcourt rebound, Phil Jackson on the sidelines shook his head helplessly.
Jerry Kraus also said that he has no responsibility, the rebounding ability of the interior is obviously inferior to the supersonics, and in the first five games, the Bulls averaged 4.5 fewer rebounds per game, which is not a big difference in a single game, but the average data per game is a big weakness.
And the SuperSonics was the opponent of the Bulls in the finals last year, Iron Fist is Jordan's strongest competitor in terms of strength and influence, and the general manager strengthens the lineup, and the SuperSonics must be the most important reference team, which is his responsibility.
If this Finals series ends up losing, then rebounding must be the most important reason for the loss.
Zhou Quan received the ball thrown by Rodman outside the three-point line and organized the offense again.
This time, he managed to share the ball with Schramf again after breaking through with the ball on the left flank and attracting Jordan and Pippen.
"Brush!"
This time, Schramf didn't ask for three points for insurance, but two points from afar, and hit.
"Damn it!"
"Shet!"
The pinching couldn't prevent Zhou Quan's pass, and Jordan and Pippen exploded at the same time.
This made them realize that if Iron Fist fought like this next, how could they defend themselves? It definitely can't be wrapped.
Not knowing what to do, they all glanced at Phil Jackson standing on the sidelines.
Phil Jackson was very helpless, and his mood was the same as Jordan and Pippen.
The bag can limit Iron Fist's scoring, but not his passing.
If you don't wrap up, even Jordan can't stop the iron fist from breaking through with the ball.
Dilemma, there is no way to do it both ways.
At 10:6, the Bulls attacked, calling the first timeout.
(End of chapter)