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Chapter 85

Fouling twice in one quarter is a very rare thing for Lin Yi. The Miami Heat's thin inside personnel reserve makes them have little capital to carry out rotations.In many cases, Lin Yi, a rookie, needs to play for about 25 to 10 minutes. Sometimes the situation is relatively stalemate, and Lin Yi will play 7 to [-] minutes in the first two quarters.

In order to avoid the difficulty of personnel rotation due to his excessive fouls, Lin Yi has always paid more attention to fouls on the defensive end.However, no matter how strong or weak the opponents in the previous games were, they all had a certain ability to attack inside. Lin only needed to attack and defend against them in the inside, and he didn't need to be distracted to look after the outside players.

But now facing such a team that mainly attacks from outside and almost gave up the desire to attack inside, Lin Yi found himself in a relatively passive situation.Especially due to the absence of Banks and the lack of an experienced perimeter defender, the entire defensive line is even more lacking in thickness. Letting Chalmers, a first-year rookie, to mark, there will always be omissions.

Maybe a mature team can change this unfavorable situation by relying on its perfect tactical quality and technical and tactical arrangements, but now the Heat have two players on the court who are first-year rookies, and the other is a player who transferred last year. Marion who will come, including coach Spoelstra on the sidelines are all new faces in this league.What they lack now is a relatively mature offensive and defensive system, which cannot be established overnight at all. They still rely more on the personal qualities of the players to solve the battle.

Regarding the situation he faced in the 2 minutes after the first quarter just now, Lin Yi felt a little depressed in his heart, the kind of depression that cannot be overcome by strength.

Continuously being intruded into one's own penalty area by the opponent, this situation is the most troublesome thing for a defensive center. Now the league's invincible defensive regulations basically encourage offensive players to break through.As long as the defensive players have a little physical contact with the opponent in the defensive action, they will be called a foul. The withering and sluggishness of the inside line is largely caused by the league's biased rules.On the defensive end, no one dared to block shots recklessly. More than half of the six fouled players are inside defenders. This is the rule of invincibility that has made the center weak.

A rookie and a veteran, when the two have physical contact in the air, the rookie is definitely at the biggest disadvantage. This is an unspoken rule among referees in the league, especially when the rookie is on the defensive side. There will never be soft hands at the whistle, not to mention that this is the home court of the New Jersey Nets.

"Damn rules! Damn home whistle!" Lin Yi cursed secretly in his heart, but this was a fact he couldn't change. Referees are not machines, so you can't expect them to be fair.

Scolding is all about scolding, but Lin Yi still can't avoid the problem he has to face, how to solve the two sharpest knives of the New Jersey Nets.

When a small forward faces a center forward, he can have more than ten thousand ways to torture the opponent's nerves. Few centers can react when the opponent accelerates sharply.

Lin Yi is not a god either. Although he can rely on his footwork advantage when facing other centers, he needs to use this level of flexibility to block small forwards and shooting guards who rely on speed and impact. , it is still very difficult.

Distance, Lin Yi is now thinking about how to shorten the sprint distance of Carter and Harris when they break through to the inside, but the three-point rain from the opponent's outside line has greatly expanded the Heat's outside defense, and the entire three-point line must be deployed. After all, the opponent Now there are three pitchers in existence.In this way, it is difficult for him to grasp this sense of distance, and he dare not easily advance to a high position, because the coolie center behind him is not a wooden man after all, so he has to be careful.

Not only Lin Yi was thinking there, Wade, who is the absolute core of the team, was also thinking about how to limit the opponent's footsteps from breaking into the penalty area. If this continues, Lin Yi may not last until the second half, and he will have to play six fouls.That was a scene he didn't want to see. Now Lin Yi's offense and defense at the basket have become an important pawn for the Heat. Without the barrier of the penalty area, the Heat will fall into a more passive situation.

Wade quietly exchanged opinions with coach Spoelstra. Now only he is qualified to discuss with the coach about the team's style of play. After all, this is his team. Wade's opinions sometimes even Riley must seriously consider, let alone a Spoelstra who has no qualifications.

After Spoelstra and Wade compared each other for a long time, they began to adjust their tactics. Power forward Haslem stepped down and guard Daquan Cook replaced.

The entire lineup has become one big and four small. Since the opponent has given up the offensive point of the inside, it is better to play this kind of man-to-man defense that specializes in defending the outside with the opponent, expand the defensive area, prevent the opponent's three-pointers from being effective, and deal with it. The opponent's breakthrough, his man-marking strategy hopes to work.

"Lin Yi, you continue to stand on the inside. I need you to block the breakthrough from the outside, but don't foul recklessly. In the second half of the first quarter, we didn't protect you enough. Now the defense on the outside The system is built for you, and I will set up the first line of defense for you on the outside to defend against the opponent's breakthrough, and I hope you can give me a satisfactory answer." Spoelstra pointed to Lin Yi and said.

"Dwyane, you change positions to mark Vincent Carter. Now we have only your footsteps on the outside to limit the speed of the opponent's breakthrough. Follow him and don't let him attack our inside like in the first half." Wade After hearing it, there was no comment. This was originally the method he proposed.

"Sean, you go and stare at the big pitcher from China. You don't suffer from your height. I don't think you will let him continue to score so easily, right?" Spoelstra looked at Marion and asked .

"Mario, that Simmons is handed over to you, look at him to death, don't waste your stealing effort, and make his organization pass not smooth, this is your task." Chalmers also nodded, and in the first quarter he Since he started for the first time, he hasn't completely let go. He doesn't want to waste such a precious opportunity to start. In the second quarter, he has to bite that Simmons to death.

"Da Kuian, you use your height advantage to block Harris's position for me. Even if you can't completely block him, you must follow his footsteps. Don't relax for a moment. Don't let them continue to threaten our inside defense." Poelstra's intention to replace Cook is to allow him to use his height to put pressure on Devin Harris, so that the opponent's breakthrough threat can be minimized.

Lin Yi listened carefully to the coach's arrangement. He also knew that this arrangement was to reduce the possibility of the opponent's breakthrough. As long as the score was bitten, when the opponent's shooting percentage began to drop, it would be the beginning of New Jersey's defeat.

When the New Jersey native returned to the court and Carter and Harris were about to continue attacking the yellow-skinned kid, they found that the situation on the court had changed.

In front of Carter is no longer Marion who is slightly slower than him, but replaced by the black lightning Dwyane Wade. When the two trapeze people meet, sparks are bound to fly.

Facing Cook, who was five or six centimeters taller than himself, Harris was no longer as comfortable as when he singled Chalmers just now.

As for Tian Tianyi, who felt hot from the outside, he found a guy who looked like an alien standing in front of him. His long arms kept waving in front of his eyes, and his strong body stuck tightly to him. He lacks the strength to fight against the advantage, and he is once again restricted in terms of shots.

Carter will not have any scruples because he is facing the most powerful defender of the new generation. He has never been afraid of this kind of challenge from the younger generation. No matter who he is facing in front of him, he also uses a method to subdue the opponent.

Carter suddenly began to sink his shoulders and accelerate. Wade's footsteps have always been moving very fast. He directly stuck to it. He would not let the opponent have a comfortable way to accelerate.Carter dribbled the ball with his right hand, and supported Wade's body with his left hand to prevent the opponent from suddenly stealing the ball, but the pace under his feet has been weakened by Wade's sticking defense.

Feinting, feinting, Carter began to change his attack direction at the moment his acceleration was restricted, and Wade also had to lower his center of gravity to intercept the opponent's breakthrough route.

The outcome of the duel between masters is judged at this moment. In a basketball game, the side attacking with the ball is always in an advantageous position. Carter's continuous fake moves still made Wade's center of gravity unstable.

breakthrough!At the moment when the two were entangled with the bottom line, Carter successfully broke through Wade's marking with his continuous change of direction, leaving only the unguarded basket in front of him. There is no better opportunity than this.

The Canadian trapeze never let go of this opportunity to ravage the rim. The moment his foot stepped on the three-second zone line, Carter charged in the air like a full bow, and his iconic windmill slam dunk was about to be staged.

When Carter's hand holding the ball was only one hand away from the basket, a strong pressure came from Carter's side and rear, and suddenly there were two more hands on the basketball with his right hand.

The huge thrust caused Carter, who was soaring in the air, to lose the direction of his flight. The sudden force caused his whole body to move horizontally in the air. Before his right hand was removed from the basketball, he was directly caught by those hands together with him. The basketball hit the backboard together.

The huge pain in the phalanx made Carter scream in the air, the dull impact between the basketball and the backboard, and Carter's painful screams were transmitted far along the microphone, and the powerful impact and screams were mixed together It made the hearts of many fans tremble.

"Beep" The referee whistled decisively, because Carter, who was curled up under the basket and hugged his right hand, had an extremely painful expression, which made him realize that the situation could easily get out of control.

Players from New Jersey and the Heat quickly surrounded Lin Yi, cursing and shoving each other. The tension in the scene reached a critical point in an instant, as if it might explode at any time.

As the person involved, Lin Yi was also a little confused. He didn't intend to hurt anyone when he chased and blocked the shot from behind. He only thought that this was his territory, and he didn't allow anyone to invade his airspace.

When Wade entangled Carter, he was already hiding on the side like a cheetah. The moment Carter soared into the air, he launched his own attack, and Carter's rounded right hand became his target.The moment he rose into the air with Carter behind his back, he used the strength of both hands to stop the attack. He was worried that the strength of his one hand could not completely block the power of the opponent's dunk, so he used both hands to the maximum. He used all his strength to press down on the basketball, but he didn't expect that the opponent's right hand could not be withdrawn in time due to a sudden change, and he was directly pressed to the backboard by him.

Only Lin Yi knows how strong that force is. Maybe that thrust is not less than the force he pushes a dumbbell in the gym. The huge collision sound between the opponent's fragile fingers and the backboard and the painful expression are telling him that this force The damage caused is very serious.

All three referees tried their best to separate the entangled players from the two teams. No one wanted to see violence happen.

The chaotic scene finally calmed down after a few minutes. The New Jersey Nets doctors seized the time to carefully examine Carter's injuries. He turned and rushed to the Nets coach Lawrence Frank and shook his head, although he didn't know the specific situation. How bad it was, but he knew that Carter would not be able to fight this game.

Frank felt that something was wrong when Carter yelled in the air, but the team doctor's diagnosis directly made him feel desperate. He managed to find an opportunity to win, but because of that damn yellow-skinned guy, he messed up the game. The blocked shots directly caused him to lose one of the generals. This is really fucking luck like shit!

He had no choice but to replace Carter with Trendon Hassell, which almost declared that they had completely lost their chance of winning this game. Difficult.

Lin Yi looked at the painful expression of Carter who was helped out of the stage, and he was also a little embarrassed. After all, this was not his original intention, and he did not expect that the matter would have such a consequence.

In the subsequent games, the pressure Lin Yi encountered was suddenly much less. Because of that injury-causing defense, he almost became a dangerous figure in the eyes of the Nets. Be extremely careful, no one wants to have what happened to Carter just now.

"Uh, now I'm really the same as those senior brothers, I've completely become a villain..." Lin Yi thought helplessly, but at a certain point deep in his heart, he found that sometimes this kind of deterrence is really a bit of a threat. Plant good things.

Alas, simple children are always gradually deteriorated under the influence of the environment, poor Carter, sorry!
Throughout the second half of the game, the Nets could only rely on Harris' breakthroughs and blind shots from the outside line. Whether it was inside or outside, Frank couldn't see any chance for his team to win.The fourth quarter was also completely reduced to garbage time. Now he can't wait to run to the court and kill that damn yellow man.

Lin Yi scored 21 points and 11 rebounds in this game, but the biggest news about him was the appalling block. "The Butcher of the Basket" was the nickname given to him by the New Jersey media.

Holding the newspaper, Lin Yi shouted speechlessly in his heart, I am a good person! ! !It's over, this time it's completely famous, and it's not a good reputation, alas. .

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