I just play ball

Chapter 231 The Great Awakening

After the timeout, the Grizzlies replaced Tony Allen with Quincy Pondexter, changed to Prince to defend Li Yue, voluntarily gave up the frontal interference from the outside line, and changed the side to force the Lakers players to break through the inside line, and the offensive end gave priority to returning to defense. Leng is to slow down the pace of the game.

The Lakers will use their tactics. Li Yue, Iguodala, and Landry made various shots in various shows, and they always maintained a 9-point lead until the end of the first quarter. Lack of that, the lead was gradually eroded by the Grizzlies led by Tony Allen, Mike Miller, and Costa Koufos.

This time Li Yue was not in a hurry, he sat leisurely on a chair and chatted with Kobe about how the team should improve.

When the game reappeared in the second quarter, he continued to turn on the mid-range shot mode, making consecutive hits, and the Lakers regained the lead.

After halftime, the Lakers led 56 to 51. He scored 19 points and 6 assists with only 2 turnovers.

Going back to the locker room during the break, Kobe shared his defending experience from 09 to 10. He hoped that the whole team would have a good rest during the road trip, stay away from social media as much as possible, and avoid being disturbed by off-court factors.

Gasol and Walton, as teammates who had experienced together at the time, also shared some of their own views. The 15-minute break soon had only 6 minutes left, and the whole team returned to the court talking and laughing together.

Perhaps because the game was too exciting, all the spectators returned to their seats ahead of time to wait. The players of the two teams conducted shooting training under the watchful eyes of more than 8000 people. The atmosphere was quite strange and lasted for a full 4 minutes.

"Wow!" Rick said excitedly, "We have the best fans in the world. The players will definitely feel their enthusiasm. I hope the third quarter can play the Grizzlies' own style."

"Coach Joerger said in an interview at the end of halftime that we will make great changes in the second half." Morty said seriously, "The fans almost saw a brand new Grizzlies."

The long whistle sounded, and the players of the two teams entered the field and used the starting lineup uniformly.

According to the result of the opening jump ball, the Lakers attacked first, Li Yue received the ball and pushed forward. When he reached the center line and saw that Tony Allen was still delayed in advance, he raised his hand to signal 1 high and 4 low positions. randolph.

The formation was set up in a blink of an eye, and Nick Young went to the bottom line and used the cover to go around the right wing.Li Yue passed the ball, strode to the free throw line, set up a wall to block Gasol, and the screen was speeding up to the left 45 degrees to Gasol.

After Li Yue finished blocking, he immediately disassembled and continued to sprint in. He set up a wall at the short corner and blocked Randolph sideways. Landry took the opportunity to rush to the elbow area, and the basketball flew from Nick Young to Gasol at the same time. , Randolph is difficult to catch up.

Gasol passed the ball to Landry, and Li Yue cut sideways to the basket at the same time. At this time, the Grizzlies had no defense at the basket, but Tony, who was in charge of chasing and defending, suddenly switched to defend Landry, but Landry took After the ball, he did not hesitate to throw a high pass.

The timing is perfect, but the height is too low, Randolph takes a step across and steals halfway.

The audience cheered and applauded. The Lakers turned around and retreated. They never thought that Randolph held the ball with both hands and made a long pass. Prince caught it in the middle circle and rushed forward. Just being thrown away, Iguodala was still in the right corner, and the Lakers could only watch. Prince finally scored an easy layup.

"Interesting, the Grizzlies also play fast break." Li Yue muttered in his heart, trotting towards the backcourt.

He received a pass from Nick Young and moved forward. He was intercepted by Tony just two steps away.

Li Yue used the cover to throw off the defense, took two steps to the free throw line on the right, Gasol squatted in the three-second zone, Tony Allen also caught up, decisively stopped and jumped to shoot two points.

The basketball hit the basket, Randolph grabbed the rebound and handed it to Conley nearby, and the Grizzlies launched an offense.

Conley took to the top of the arc, broke through to the left with the cover of Gasol, faced the Lakers' attack, jumped up and passed the ball in the air, dismantled Gasol who went down and caught it at the free throw line, Iguodala and Landry The two immediately shrank to the basket.

Gasol was stunned for a moment, then raised his hand and passed the ball to the unguarded Tony Allen. The audience immediately cheered and encouraged, and the Grizzlies players off and off the court also shouted their support, and coach Joerger even clapped their hands. Cheer.

But just like "Once bitten by a snake, ten years afraid of well ropes", Conley did not shoot, but lowered his shoulders and wanted to rush to the hoop, jumping against the interference of Iguodala and Landry, Twisted in the air and struggled to hit the board with the rod.

After such an operation, those who didn't know it thought Tony was a master of the rod, and the basketball miraculously rebounded into the net.

Li Yue was slightly surprised, and walked to the bottom line with a smile to catch the ball. The audience stood up and shouted for defense.

The Grizzlies went 4-0, and the Lakers led by only 1 point. Thinking of this, Li Yue decided to play a single. He took the ball to the right wing, passed it to Gasol at the top of the arc, and rushed to the elbow to hold it sideways. Tony, reach for the ball again.

He took off to catch the ball, turned his head and glanced at Tony's position, took advantage of the trend with his left foot as the axis and extended his right foot backwards to face the hoop, then lowered his center of gravity to sweep the ball in front of his body, kicked his right foot on the ground, and made a gesture of crossing Change to the bottom line.

The movement was big, fast, and full of momentum. Tony hurriedly turned sideways and moved laterally.

Seeing this action, Li Yue stopped and combined the ball in a hurry, turned forward with his right foot on the axis, and made a layup in three steps.

The pace was too fast, Tony was deceived and lost the opportunity to catch up, and Li Yue picked the basket with low hands.

The basketball slowly lifted into the air, and it was hollow when visually inspected. Just as he was feeling happy, Gasol slapped the basketball with his big hat.

"Interfering the ball!" Li Yue shouted loudly, but the referee ignored it, and Tony picked it up and rushed forward.

Li Yue had no choice but to chase after him, but this time he also lost the opportunity, and Tony rushed to the center line and made a long pass.Conley received the ball from the left sideline of the frontcourt, changed directions ahead of time and swayed away from Nick Young, and rushed to the three-point line to make a dry shot.

The basketball crashed into the net and the Grizzlies took the lead 58 to 56. The cheers in the FedEx Arena climaxed one after another.

D'Antoni ran to the technical stage to appeal to the referee, but he still failed to get heeded, and was booed by the audience instead.

Li Yue catches the ball in the backcourt, finds Landry as a cover in advance, throws off Tony, and rushes to the hoop like lightning.

With only a one-second advantage, he still made an emergency stop at the free throw line. Facing Gasol's interference from the front and Randolph's threat from behind, he forced a two-point shot. The basketball crashed into the net and the Lakers tied at 58. .

He landed and ran back for a while, suddenly rushed to Conley who was advancing to catch the ball, and called Landry to double-team. The other three teammates understood, and immediately passed the ball around the front defense.

The big weight advantage of Randolph and Gasol has turned into a disadvantage, but the height still exists. In addition, under the command of Joerger, the basketball flies in the air, left, right, front, back, and four directions. After a lot of twists and turns, it finally lands on the left wing. Tony's hands.

Because Iguodala deliberately let go, Tony once again got a perfect shot, and the audience encouraged the shot again, and the other four Grizzlies ran back and forth, implying 'we believe you can hit'.

Tony hesitated for a moment, jumped out awkwardly, and hit the net with a three-pointer. Applause and cheers resounded throughout the arena.

"After waiting for a long time, it's finally today!" Rick said excitedly, "Tony also started hitting three-pointers."

"This is a symbol!" Morty held up his hands, "The Grizzlies' sleep at the beginning of each season is officially over, and we are awakening!"

(End of this chapter)