Basketball Dragon

Chapter 59 Fierce Battle

Lenny Wilkens called a timeout and replaced Lehi.

You can look forward to Li Hai when you encounter difficulties. Nix has slowly formed this kind of thinking.

"Take one point off their defense and we're going to have a lot of chances, like in the first half, play your game, lads."

How to disrupt, can only score, find ways to improve the success rate of the attack.

If the shot is missed, the Knicks are likely to collapse. They are not like the Pistons. Ben Wallace grabbed offensive rebounds several times, which made the Pistons players' shooting mentality easier.

They have to withstand the pressure and actually put the ball into the basket.

Li Hai received the ball, and Prince left a distance of more than half a step between the two to prevent Li Hai from breaking through.

In this position, if Li Hai breaks through, the Pistons' inside help defense will be in time, and if he shoots directly, Prince's long arm can also interfere.

However, it was just interference, Li Hai jumped up resolutely.

His jumping ability, as long as the opponent leaves him a little space, he can shoot at a height that the defender cannot reach.

The basketball draws a beautiful arc in the air and falls steadily into the basket.

The Knicks had a scoring shortage in sports games, and Li Hai made a strong breakthrough as soon as he came up.

The Pistons' defense is based on points and faces, with Billups on the outside, Prince in the middle, and Ben Wallace in the inside. Li Hai broke one of them, and the Knicks' offense came alive again.

The Pistons' attack is still strong. Except for Ben Wallace, who can't attack, the other four points have been opened.

It is not easy to feel this thing, to close it when it is opened, or to open it when it is closed.

In order for the Knicks to stabilize the score, in addition to trying their best to defend, there is also the continuity of scoring.

Relying on Li Hai's mid-to-long distance alone is not enough, even if the inside line cannot be helped, the outside points must be fully opened.

He kept running without the ball, just like Hamilton, trying to tear the opponent's defense.

Li Hai slipped from the bottom line to catch the ball, and a fake shot changed Prince's defensive center of gravity, and rushed into it as soon as he got short.

Rasheed Wallace bared his teeth, "Tyshaun, let him come here, he can't make a move when he comes in."

Lehi squeezed past Prince and jumped up to meet Rasheed Wallace. Rasheed Wallace grinned and blocked Lehi's shot.

But at this time, the basketball was no longer in Li Hai's hands.

While jumping up, he flicked the ball back and put it in the hands of Kurt Thomas. Without the interference of Rasheed Wallace in front of Kurt Thomas, he jumped up and hit a mid-range shot.

Breakthrough, shooting, passing, these are Li Hai's current offensive methods, which are simple and practical.

Then in the Knicks' offense, Crawford, who had a good touch in the first half, also scored, and Marbury also scored from a mid-range shot. Their restricted offense came alive again.

The Pistons were not to be outdone. Hamilton hit two consecutive points. He shot very fast. As long as his teammates' pick-and-rolls created a little gap for him, he could hit a jumper.

The two sides have reached this level, which is completely more stable than the offense.

If that team squanders the opportunity it desperately created, it will lose in the stalemate.

73:71, at the end of the third quarter, the Knicks' lead was only 2 points, and the two sides were almost on the same starting line again.

At the beginning of the fourth quarter, the Pistons used McDyess to rotate inside. In the first half, the former All-Star insider performed well, but after all, his physical fitness has declined due to injuries.

Not long after he came up, Li Hai rushed in front of him and grabbed an offensive rebound. After a while, the Pistons were forced to replace the main force.

At this time, because the Knicks saw hope, they only let Marbury go down to rest for 1 minute, and the others didn't let them go off at all, and the Pistons also kept Hamilton on the court, constantly creating threats.

Both sides bite the ball very tightly, and the scene is getting more and more intense.

Li Hai also gradually felt a lot of pressure. The Pistons were acting like machines. They felt that no matter what happened, they couldn't defeat them. As long as the Knicks made a small mistake, the game would be lost.

"It's Hamilton again, the timing of his runs is so good."

"Crawford also hit the mid-range shot, and his running ability is also very good. In this game, he and Hamilton are also rivals."

"Billups handed the ball to Rasheed Wallace very steadily. Rasheed's classic straight-arm shot, Kurt Thomas couldn't interfere at all."

"Li Hai broke through and caused a foul by Prince... He made two free throws, and he kept the Knicks in a 2-point lead. The Pistons have never been able to pass this point."

"Billups made a mid-range shot. Can the Knicks seize this opportunity to expand the score...Unfortunately, Li Hai's shot is also a little bit off. At the last moment of the game, the physical strength of both sides has reached a critical point." .”

The time for the end of the game is getting closer and closer. Li Hai uses physical confrontation to weaken Prince's role in the offense. Part of his attention is also on Hamilton. If he can prevent Hamilton from scoring, the Knicks will It's more secure.

Hamilton's touch in this game was great. Just now Crawford completed a drop shot, and Hamilton immediately completed a mid-range shot in a similar position.

The 2-point advantage is not safe at all, and Marbury's mid-range shot missed, but they almost used up the offensive time, and there were more than 30 seconds left in the time.

It would still be Hamilton. When he ran towards the two Wallaces of the Pistons, Li Hai knew that Crawford, who was following him, would be blocked by one of the two. He saw the time and moved his steps.

However, he was wrong this time, and Billups shot directly from beyond the three-point line.

Billups made the first three-pointer of the game and directly overtook the score by 1 point.

After the timeout, the Knicks served in midfield. After Marbury received the ball, Li Hai covered him. Marbury bypassed Billups and came to the direction of the basket at 45 degrees, and Li Hai went straight down.

Marbury made another mid-range shot, and the moment he made the shot, Li Hai jumped up.

He is too familiar with the way Marbury shoots. If he misses the shot at 45 degrees, it must be because of his lack of strength. Regardless of whether the ball goes in or not, he chooses the position and jumps up.

Missed, Ben Wallace also accurately judged the landing point.

The opponent's huge body squeezed over, and Li Hai only had time to use his fingertips to move out a little.

Marbury, who just missed the ball, rushed over, picked up the basketball and threw himself on Ben Wallace.

(End of this chapter)