Jim Bass Ambition

Chapter 297
Even if he followed the rules and stuck to the principles, Jeff Van Gundy knew that if he still had a [-]% hope of winning the game, his own slow-paced and defensive style of play would not work.

As soon as the third quarter came up, McGrady showed some performance. After receiving the ball, he forced Battier to make a layup, and scored two points and added a penalty.

With an innocent face, Battier spread his hands and stared at the referee, signaling that I was wronged.

This level of physical confrontation is usually not called a foul, but the referee said that the blown whistle cannot be retracted. If you complain again, be careful that I will slip my mouth and call a technical foul or something.

Rationality told Battier that it was useless to argue, that Madiga made a free throw and the Lakers had the ball.

Maybe it's because they lead too much, which makes the players a little bit unmotivated. They all want to clock in and get off work, and go home with their wives and children on the bed. The Lakers' offense is all standing still, watching Kobe singles against David Wesley.

It was still the iconic turnaround jumper, but this time he missed it and Yao Ming grabbed the backcourt rebound.

Bob Sura took the ball, chased the wind and electricity, overtook all the way, and forced a layup with Billups, but missed, but McGrady rushed to the ball afterwards, and lightly stretched the ape arm to score the ball.

Here, Garnett's screen was called an offensive foul.

Jim hastily called a timeout, the time is still long, just a wave, if the rhythm cannot be controlled later and the momentum is picked up by the opponent, it will not be fun.

"Okay guys, you have to know that this is a Christmas game, ending the suspense too early is not good for the ratings, so you must have realized that the referee's scale is different from the first half-"

Battier and Garnett nodded at the same time.

"—So what we have to do is to reduce the tempo and reduce turnovers. You can take turns to play singles. Since we are not allowed to use screens, then we don't need to. Just pay attention not to lose position when defending. We still have a big lead Advantage."

You Van Gundy wants to play slowly, so I will play faster and take the rhythm. Now you want to play fast to chase points, let's take time slowly.

The Lakers' defensive strength has declined, and Garnett no longer uses the energy-intensive defense of Yao Ming. When Yao Ming receives the ball, David West will come to help defend, that's all.

Juwan Howard got a lot of open shots, and Uncle Huo's half-block was his old capital for food, and he still had a certain hit rate.

For the Lakers, it feels like all the players have lost their aggressiveness. No matter who gets the ball, they just shake it casually on the outside twice, and then pull it out. Retreat for a while.

The Rockets gradually narrowed the point difference to about 20 points. During this period, Juwan Howard made the most of the contribution, hitting open mid-range shots consecutively, and Yao Ming continued to score points at the basket.

The audience on the sidelines watched drowsily. What the fans wanted to see was a wonderful matchup, not Howard's mid-range practice.

The Rockets fans rekindled their desire for victory. If the point difference can be further narrowed and enter the fourth quarter, because of McGrady's existence, everything is possible. After all, God was moved to tears just two days ago. What if God has been feeling a lot of sentimentality recently?
After 7 minutes in the third quarter, the score was 77 to 59. The Lakers led by 18 points. The Rockets have already erased the 13-point difference. According to this process, after the fourth quarter, the Rockets will overtake the score.

Jim replaced all the starters, and Wade led the way off the bench.

"The play is almost done, and the audience should feel that the ticket price is not in vain."

In practice, all Haslem and Varejao were told was: "You can be crude offensively, you can be lacking in talent, but you have to put all your energy on the pitch every moment, and once you Once you set foot on the court floor, you must focus 120%. There are too many talented players in this league. Only by working harder than them and loving the game more can you gain a foothold in the league.”

Being able to play on the stage of the Christmas game is also an excellent opportunity for many role players to express themselves. No matter what time it is, players who work hard are always likable.

Juwan Howard was still immersed in the confrontation at the preseason level just now. Suddenly, a vicious, wolf-like Haslem came up to press close to him. He was not mentally prepared for a while and passed to McGrady. The ball was a little hasty, and Deng Tai Jones flew to break the ball, and flew into the auditorium by himself, scaring a certain celebrity who was sitting there watching the game so beautifully that her face turned pale.

Wade did not disappoint Dengtay Jones's save, with sharp eyesight and quick hands, he grabbed the ball and started to charge with a foot of oil on the floor. David Wesley's more than ten years of experience at this time finally had It was revealed that he saw that Wade had already accelerated, and immediately got stuck on the starting line of Wade and stood still, trying to create a dribble charge.

Either stay out of bounds, or hit someone with the ball, two bottles of poison, choose one?
Wade said, I don't even want it, just drink it yourself!In the blink of an eye, at the moment when he was about to go out of bounds, Wade bypassed David Wesley with his right hand and shot the ball into the field, while he went around the field and avoided David Wesley's block. The ball was divided and Wesley was turned into a wooden stake, and then he caught up with the ball, took three steps to collect the ball, and pulled his body into a full bow, and dunked through Bob Sura's super brutal battle ax who returned to the defense!
The Staples Center, which was dull throughout the third quarter, became irritable again!
After Wade landed, he posed for the camera and spat a lot of trash talking, while Sura, who was tragically in the background, raised his fist and smashed the basketball to the floor.

The referee caught Sura's act of venting and gave him a technical foul. It is the basic cultivation of every employee to generate income for the league.

Wade walked to the free-throw line, bounced the ball a few times, and bounced in.

After being beaten into this super wonderful pseudo-2 plus 1, the Rockets' momentum was depressed.David Wesley's open three-pointer shot directly to the baseline.

Over there, Wade assisted Nocioni and made a positive three-pointer, and the point difference returned to 24 points.

"Originally, if the Rockets played these two offenses steadily, the opponent would not have such a good fast-break opportunity, and the point difference would be able to return to less than ten miles. Now it is six points from inside and outside..." Teacher Reasonable lamented Its misfortune, anger its indisputable.

The fourth quarter was completely reduced to garbage time. McGrady, who did not get a one-minute break in the first three quarters, was still left on the court by Jeff Van Gundy, as if to see if any miracle happened...

But God doesn’t seem to want to be easily moved today. Although McGrady scored 3 three-pointers, it didn’t help. The group of children bullied me to be old and powerless."

125 to 98, the Lakers used a big victory as a Christmas gift to the home team fans.

(End of this chapter)