Jim Bass Ambition

Chapter 99 No-fly zone

The disadvantage of lacking a real point guard is undoubtedly exposed by the Magic. It is not a problem for McGrady to be a guest guard when playing against a weak team, but facing a strong team like the Lakers, it is a bit difficult to rely on McGrady to launch an offense. After playing for about 7 minutes, the Lakers have already led by nearly double digits.

Mike Miller is just a relatively reliable pitcher and doesn't have much autonomous offensive ability, while Sean Kemp doesn't have to count on it at all.

The only one who can share the pressure with McGrady is Stephen Jackson.

To the boos of the Staples crowd, Jackson caught the ball on the wing, not far from where Jack Nicholson and Jim sat.

As the number one Lakers fan, Nicholson was of course very dissatisfied with Jackson's behavior of bombarding the team. When Jackson was holding the ball, he sprayed trash talk loudly.

Jackson is not a good person either. Hearing someone yelling from the sidelines, he immediately ignored Artest in front of him, turned around and sparred with Nicholson: "Shut up, fuck you... (Shut up, you motherf...)”

No one has time to chat with the crowd against an elite defender of Artest's caliber, and Stephen Jackson is no exception.Artest took aim at the gap, succeeded in stealing with a ghost hand, and blocked Jackson's half-swearing swear words back into his mouth.

Jackson hurried back to chase, but Artest had already thrown the ball to Billups, who was going down quickly, and the latter scored an easy layup.

"As expected of a man surnamed Jackson, he even has the same catchphrase. It's a pity I forgot to ask him what his relationship is with Samuel Jackson." Seeing Jackson's embarrassment, Jim and Nicholson joked.

"You can ask him now, maybe he lost the ball when he was happy." Nicholson laughed while applauding the team's score.

"That's not okay, he's already promised the Lord that he won't talk to me again." Jim spread his hands in a helpless gesture.

On the court, McGrady was double-teamed again near the baseline. This time he did not choose to risk passing the ball. Instead, facing Kobe's close defense and Ben Wallace's help defense, he forcibly pulled out his hand and missed the frame.

Garnett jumped high to accept the backboard, glanced around, and finally decided to do it himself.

I saw Garnett flicking the ball forward, striding forward and rushing towards the magic penalty area. Sean Kemp dragged his fat body and tried to catch Garnett with his hands to disrupt the fast break from behind, but it didn't Success, the scene is very funny.

Garnett only dribbled the ball four times before rushing to the Magic three-point line, receiving the ball, taking a step, taking off in one step inside the free throw line, gliding and dunking, all in one go.

Thinking back to Kemp back then, this was considered a routine operation. Now Kemp, who just ran to the midfield, can only look at the backs of others.

Seeing that the game was likely to be played, Magic coach Doug Rivers hurriedly called a timeout.

After returning from the timeout, Stephen Jackson appeared more on the left wing, far away from Jack Nicholson. Obviously, Rivers was afraid that Jackson would continue to fight against Nicholson and affect the normal game.

McGrady faced Kobe with the ball, and suddenly pulled out his hand in two steps outside the three-point line. The ball was very fast, and the arc of the cannon shot straight to the back frame.

The sound of entering the network is always so crisp.

When it was the Lakers' turn to attack, Garnett stuck Kemp with his back at the corner and reached for the ball.

Billups lobs the ball to Garnett and runs to the weak side to drive the defense away, while Artest in the corner stands still.

Garnett made two gestures in a row, and Artest reacted, slipped away from the baseline, and made an off-ball screen for Kobe who came from the other side.

But Garnett stayed in the three-second zone for too long, and the tactics failed, so he had to turn over and force a jumper, but missed.

McGrady jumped up and grabbed the rebound, dribbled the ball along the right wing, and when he ran near the three-point line, he used De Klerk's cover to directly pull up a three-pointer.

Hollow into the net, two consecutive kills, the point difference was pulled back to 8 points.

This time it was Kobe's turn to trap McGrady in the low post and reach out for the ball.Billups stopped the ball on the wing, trying to find Kobe, while Tracy McGrady continued to interfere.

Billups couldn't pass the ball, but found that Mike Miller, who was defending him, was too far back, so he directly pulled up a 3-pointer.

The rhythm was obviously wrong, the ball was missed, but an explosive head flew up from the basket and took the offensive rebound from the top of De Klerk's head.

After Big Ben grabbed the ball, he handed it to Artest on the weak side outside.

Stephen Jackson knew that Artest's three-pointer was unreliable, so he let him go two steps, and kept prodding Artest: "You shoot, I won't guard against you."

In a rage, Artest shot out a three-pointer and shot directly out of the bottom line.

McGrady continued to dribble from the backcourt. This time Kobe learned his lesson and started to delay the defense as soon as the ball was sent.

McGrady, who had no chance, handed the ball to Stephen Jackson.

Facing Artest's defense, Jackson also confidently made a three-pointer.

The ball hits the board head-on and goes into the basket.

The Lakers requested a timeout.Jackson stretched out his hands to meet the boos of the audience, and he didn't forget to cut his throat to Jim next to the Lakers bench.

"Oh my God, referee, did you see this? What kind of behavior is this? He should be sent off the field and accepted a suspension!" Before Jim could speak, Nicholson was already in a rage, grabbing the referee was just a complaint.

This is the exclusive privilege of Nicholson.

Of course the referee saw Jackson's inappropriate gesture and gave him a technical foul.

Jackson replaced the hot-headed Artest with Gerald Wallace.

There is no way, Artest's understanding of the triangle offense has always remained on the surface, and many times he will stand still and forget to move, thus hindering the team's offense.

Billups made a free throw for a technical foul.

The Lakers continued to attack, and Kobe took advantage of Ben Wallace's off-ball screen to catch the ball and make a steady shot, opening the point difference to 8 points.

Facing Gerald Wallace, Stephen Jackson, who was full of confidence, used De Klerk's pick-and-roll to directly break through and hit the inside for a layup.

The next second, he regretted it.

He didn't forget what kind of terrifying existence was entrenched in the Lakers' penalty area, but he just ignored for a moment that that person was now standing on the opponent's side.

Ben Wallace's dragon came to the world to give the ruthless hat.

The ball was slapped hard on the backboard, but it happened to fall into the hands of De Klerk who followed up, and De Klerk took advantage of the opportunity to throw a shot.

Gerald Wallace arrived, slammed the ball down with a crisp sound, but jumped so hard that his head almost hit the backboard.

The ball flew in the direction of De Klerk again. He got up and grabbed the basketball, dribbled it hard to the ground, pushed Gerald Wallace, who had just landed and was not steady, with a shoulder, and made another layup.

Before the ball left his hand or his feet off the ground, De Klerk felt a mass of dark clouds hanging over his head, and in the next second, the world was spinning.

"Too brutal!"

All those watching the replay on the big screen have only this feeling.

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