The NBA's opening sling against Chris Paul

Chapter 5 Los Angeles Was Never Just One Team
Crawford's steady output put the game in a stalemate, and just entered the official timeout while you were coming and going.

"Jamal, hurry up and drink some water, you have to continue in a while." Rivers came over and patted Crawford, who was sitting on the chair and gasping for breath. Make him tired.

"Andre, you have to push Zac out, don't let him get the ball easily under the basket, and force him to make long shots." Rivers yelled at Jordan while holding the tactical board.

"Okay, coach, I understand." Little Jordan got a full rest, which is already a lot of experience, and he will undoubtedly be the one with the upper hand in physical fitness in the next internal melee fight.

Rivers is still preparing to use a lineup of two point guards, but who to use with Paul makes him fall into a difficult problem.

The choice between Bledsoe and Randy Foye really embarrassed him. Both of them have strong bodies, one is more accurate in shooting, and the other is better at breakthroughs.

With the referee's whistle, the Clippers' five-man team came on the stage, Paul, Jordan, Griffin, Crawford, and another guard was Randy Foye. It seemed that Rivers hoped to open the field with three points Instead of breaking through the unrestrained and sharp Bledsoe.

"Did you see that Rivers actually took Crawford, Paul, and Griffin together." Shaq's eyes were sharp, and he was the first to catch this question.

It turns out that Crawford is a scoring explosive player, suitable for leading the second team to disrupt the game, but if he is in the first team, he will be timid, because almost all the balls are in Paul's hands.

And Crawford's biggest feature-and also his shortcoming is that he must have the ball in his hand, he can't play off the ball, and some people say he doesn't bother to play off the ball.In a word, he is invincible on the field, and he doesn't have to be worse than Jordan and Kobe. He belongs to the category of scoring brushes.

On the Grizzlies side, Conley played again, Li Ming and him formed the backcourt, Gay, Gasol and Arthur formed the frontcourt.

"It's strange that Zach is not on the field. Does Hollins have any deep meaning? He sent a stunned young man like Arthur, can he resist Andrew?" Barkley said incredulously.

The Clippers served the ball from the backcourt. Paul directed his teammates to move while taking the ball across the half court. In eight seconds, he got stuck.

It seems that he wants to hit the success rate and is not in a hurry to attack. Paul glanced at Griffin, who was already in position, but gave the ball to Crawford on the weak side.

Without hesitation, Crawford took a long stride toward Gasol and put the ball in the basket.

42 to 40, the Clippers overtook again.

"It's ok, this slick guy." Li Ming looked at him with admiration. Although he was on the court, even though he was an opponent, he still couldn't quickly enter the current state. After all, the man in front of him is a god-man who has fascinated many people.

"Lee, get down quickly." Conley looked at him with disgust on his face. He didn't even understand which side this guy was on. How could he applaud the opponent's ball, and he was short of high-fiving the opponent.

Paul faced Conley, and Conley was depressed all night. A fake move tricked Paul into giving the ball to Gasol inside.

Gasol took the ball in the three-second zone and turned sideways. Paul and Jordan rushed at the same time, but he inserted the ball from the gap to Conley. Conley hit the board high and the ball was firmly in the net.Tied again.

The two had a tacit understanding, and Hollins on the sidelines also showed a relieved smile.

The pick-and-roll combination of Conley and Gasol is his focus. It is completely built according to the Mavericks' championship lineup. Although Conley's three-pointers are not as sharp as Terry's, Gasol's coping ability is worse than Dirk Nowitzki. , and Gasol also has long-range ability, it can be regarded as a weakened version of the Triedek combination.

Paul took the ball and made a long pass to the frontcourt. After getting the ball, Griffin strode through to absorb the double defense and then threw the ball to Crawford outside the three-point line. Crawford didn't touch the ball and then passed it to the already dropped When Paul entered the bottom corner, Li Ming rushed to him and stuck to Paul.

"Come on, didn't you say I'm a rookie? Come and beat me up." He kept teasing Paul, but Paul ignored him.

A 360 spinning top hit the ground and gave the ball to Griffin, who had thrown off the defense and leaped high...

"Wow, that's atrocious, welcome to the city of free pick-ups to Memphis, Tennessee." Barkley pulled the earphones off his head excitedly, like a 300-pound child.

Gasol looked frustrated, and he became the background board for the lob again. The Clippers used two simple pick-and-rolls to hang him, and won the half-second shot time for Griffin.

"Sure enough, I used to watch it on TV. This little short hand turned out to be so powerful and able to jump like this."

Li Ming quickly sent the baseline ball and wanted to hit the Clippers quickly, but the opponent ran back to the half court in a hurry. Conley had just led the half court, and the Clippers had already settled down.

Conley also has the demeanor of a general, and soon overcame the trouble of three fouls, and began to calmly examine the situation on the court, pouring the ball back and forth outside without rushing, looking for flaws.

"Mike." Guy yelled and ran past him, with a simple hand-to-hand, Guy had already circled around the weaker defensive bottom line, and he shot quickly.

However, under the interference of Randy, the ball still missed. One crossed the bridge and was caught by Jordan under the basket. Jordan glanced at Paul and threw a long throw.

"Not good." Li Ming didn't know for a second, and desperately chased after him, but Paul still got the ball before him and continued to throw a high toss. The unguarded Griffin showed a 360-degree windmill.

"What the hell, these grandchildren all grew up eating gunpowder, so it's so fast. They can't catch up at all, not only the body, but also the prediction of basketball has lost a lot."

{Ding. } While he was thinking, the screen in his mind lit up again.

{The host has successfully completed the preliminary test, and the commodity city is opened for you. You can use the gold coins in your hand to freely choose props and skills in the commodity city. }
Li Ming glanced at his balance, and there are already 1300 props, which should be obtained from his previous tests.

"Wow, just a top-level shooting bag is 1300 gold coins, [-] is a ghost. Isn't this playing me?"

{Dear host, you have a chance to open the blind box at any time. }
"Yo, there is also a blind box. Open it." Li Ming replied affirmatively.

{Congratulations on opening the blind box, you have obtained the Invincible Hot Wheels item card, and the time limit is 150 minutes. }
"150 minutes..." Damn, it's a one-off, and it's only 150 minutes, which happens to be the time of a game, and there can't be too many timeouts in the middle, let alone overtime.Damn, just to be on the safe side, it can only be opened in the second half of the first quarter or the beginning of the second quarter to maintain the entire game.

And now, it's time. "open."

A warm current poured into Li Ming's legs, and he suddenly felt light and immortal all over his body.

Li Ming ran past Conley and gave him a look. Conley immediately took the ball, and Li Ming took the ball and broke through the inside and returned to the three-point line.

After going back and forth a few times, Randy Foye on the opposite side was already out of breath, but he didn't change his expression and his heart didn't beat.

"Time is running out, what are you doing?" Conley on the side was very dissatisfied.

"Oh." Only then did Li Ming realize that he was so excited that he completely forgot the time. He looked up and saw that there were 6 seconds left, and he strode into the three-second zone, leaving Randy Foye behind. Seeing this, he immediately rushed forward.

"Not good." Just when everyone thought the ball was going to be blocked, Paul yelled and ran towards Gasol.

It turned out that Li Ming was just mobilizing the defense to pass the ball for himself. Gasol was about to jump up with the ball, but Paul beat him to the ground.

"Red number three foul." The whistle sounded, and Gasol got two free throw opportunities.

Li Ming stared at Paul with a mean smile on his face. Yes, he won this time, not only beating Randy Foye in speed, but also causing Paul to get a foul.

More importantly, he got two free throw opportunities for Gasolbo inside, which is very important for his confidence recovery. After all, he has just been dunked and his morale is low at this time.

Gasol made two free throws, taking advantage of the dead ball, the Clippers took Crawford and replaced Caron Butler.

Wow, this guy hasn't retired yet. Li Ming looked at Butler in front of him with a dazed expression. Isn't he the Three Musketeers from the Wizards era, and then he went to the Lakers, and now he's back to the Clippers?Damn, the money of this moving company is saved.

When Gasol made a free throw, the director's camera showed OJ Mayo on the bench, who was unable to play due to injury.

What does it mean that the camera is cut to him at this time?Could it be that Mayo can rest assured that we already have a perfect replacement?The live camera is so annoying, it's so cute.A flower bloomed in Li Ming's heart.

Paul gave the ball to Griffin, Griffin slammed in twice without squeezing Gasol, and gave Jordan a back shot.

Jordan clumsily made two fake moves and directly stuffed the ball to Randy Foye who came in through an air cut.

Guy has quick eyes and quick hands, and when he was about to dribble the ball to speed up a beautiful steal, Paul counter-stealed and shot an arrow on horseback against Conley's defense. Conley might have been a little apprehensive, and stopped his movements in the air, watching the ball hollow into the net.

Gao Luo raised his right arm and ran back to the backcourt shouting all the way. Yes, he didn't let the opponent have a chance to break fast, and he called his teammates to run almost at the same time as the goal.

"It's interesting, it's getting more and more fun." Li Ming greeted Conley to serve the bottom line.

"Wow, what the hell, you, a rookie, dare to direct me to serve the baseline ball?" Thirteen thousand grass and mud horses galloped past Conley's heart. If he had been scolded before, Conley is the soul of the Grizzlies. It's like someone directing Kobe to serve himself the baseline in the Lakers.

Conley gritted his teeth and gave the ball to Li Ming in the face of everyone's surprised eyes. Li Ming didn't wait for his teammates to completely settle down, and flew across the frontcourt like a puff of smoke.

Randy Foye and Griffin have formed a human wall waiting for him at the top of the arc, ready to give him a sandwich biscuit.

But he was not afraid at all, swaying from side to side like a loach, deftly bypassing the defense of the two.

"Boy, you can't pass me." Griffin's reaction speed was not too slow, he quickly turned around and entangled Li Ming, "Hehe, this position has no angle at all. You can't have a chance to make a move, just wait for a mistake Griffin said silently in his heart.

At the same time, Jordan also turned around to face Li Ming. Li Ming just smiled and did not stop the ball. He jumped with a cat waist and stretched to the limit almost perpendicular to the basket. He flew in the other direction and backhanded Hook the ball in.

"Impossible, this is impossible, Incredible!!!" Barkley shouted, at this time he also became Li Ming's little brother.

"Shaq, this ball reminds me of Francis. Francis in his prime can make such a move, what a strong waist and abdomen." Barkley kept shaking his head.

"It's okay. It's just a coincidence, don't be fooled, don't be influenced by him." Paul came over and patted Griffin, who was stunned, and he really looked like a big brother. As soon as the Grizzlies showed signs of gaining momentum, he cheered up the players.

Li Ming opened his arms and made a low-altitude flight celebration that Jason Terry used to do in the 90s. The audience on the sidelines gave him high fives, and even a few girls threw away their Coke and popcorn in order to high five with him. The scene was once crazy.

"Damn, where did this No. 7 come from?" Rivers frowned, staring at the assistants around him.

"We don't have any information about him for the time being. We only know that he is a Huaxia player. He has no previous league records or college records." An assistant coach wearing glasses said reassuringly.

Randy Foye made a quick move, Paul took the lead and plunged into the Grizzlies' encirclement without waiting for all his teammates to settle down.

"One on four? This is not Chris' style, this is Kobe's style."

Li Ming stuck close to Paul to prevent him from turning around, but he still squeezed a gap into the interior and jumped against Randolph's long arms.

"The opportunity has come." Li Ming shouted loudly and flew the fan out of bounds from behind.

"White No. 7 fouled." This was Li Ming's second foul.Li Ming held his head tightly with his hands in disbelief, jumping on the spot.

"Damn it, this ball is very clean. It must be the star whistle. I touched the ball first, and I just hit it." He cursed bitterly in his heart.

"Actually, it's hard to say about this ball. From my point of view, it's a good cap." Shaq Nunuzui said.

Paul made two free throws steadily. Li Ming glanced at the bench. Hollins didn't mean to replace him, but just made a quick gesture.

Conley got the ball, and with a long swing, Guy rushed across the half court like the wind, but there was a figure faster than him. The moment Guy caught the ball, he caught a glimpse of a white figure cutting into the basket in the opponent's half court, without hesitation Pass the ball.

A clean empty call, when the white shadow landed on the ground, everyone noticed the number behind him, which reflected "7" impressively.

Dunk!!
"Oops, not bad, a striker throws a lob pass to the No. [-] position. Shaq, that's interesting."

Barkley began to appreciate this Chinese player a little bit, and even couldn't restrain the desire to praise him.Otherwise, what do you think he is doing with so much money? Isn't it just relying on that mouth.

For the rest of the time, the two sides went back and forth like this, and no one could beat the other to death with a stick.

Soon, the first half ended with the whistle of the referee, the score was 54 to 51, and the Grizzlies at home were three points behind.

On the way back to the locker room, Li Ming felt the enthusiasm of the home fans, and someone even handed him hats and jackets for him to sign.Li Ming walked back to the locker room amidst the sound of "Beat LA".

(End of this chapter)