I just play ball

Chapter 331

"Come again, come again." Harden was in a happy mood, and he didn't seem to take the previous two losses to heart. After he finished speaking, he turned around, waved to Howard who was standing outside the baseline, and then took the basketball and moved forward leisurely.

Li Yue followed up slowly in small steps, always maintaining a distance of more than half a step, able to press down and intercept in advance.

Harden brought the ball to the top of the arc, and Howard quickly raised it to cover, but Harden did not take the opportunity to break through at a high speed, but continued to dribble the ball leisurely to the right at 45 degrees. Consciously open up space.

In about two seconds, the large area from the 45-degree three-point line on the right to the basket was cleared. Harden began to change hands and shake continuously. The center of gravity became lower and faster, and the speed became faster and faster. Changing hands behind the emergency stop, the movement looks dazzling, gradually approaching the free throw line area, and the attack time is only ten seconds.

Suddenly, Harden jerked forward to the left.Harden's latest offensive highlights flashed through Li Yue's mind as if they were playing at 16x speed. In a flash, he decided to wait in place with muscle memory and observe patiently.

As expected, Harden turned around following the pull of the ball, and the whole person changed course and moved to the right, which was obviously a real sudden.

Li Yue decisively twisted his hips and moved horizontally, raised his hands and raised his chest, and intercepted him close to his body.

Harden's advance was blocked, he raised his left hand to rest on Li Yue's chest, and slowly retreated to the right wing position.

At this time, there were only six seconds left in the attack time. Beverly, who was guarding the bottom corner on the right, obeyed McHale's command and hurriedly started running along the baseline, trying to run out of a wide open space, but Hardang lowered his shoulders and put his right hand against Li Yue. , left-handed dribble strong inside.

Seeing this, Kobe shrank and intercepted from the left 45 degrees, and Gasol also intercepted from the front. Howard raised his hands under the basket to ask for the ball, but Harden stopped and jumped, twisted his body in the air, and threw the ball strangely to the temporarily unguarded Jeremy Lin.

The moment he received the ball, there were only 2.9 seconds left in the attack time. Jeremy Lin didn't have time to adjust his posture when he landed.

bass!The basketball is hollow into the net.

The Rockets lead 13-5.

Cheers and applause erupted in the arena. Kobe shook his head helplessly, and Li Yue also shrugged and spread his hands. The two of them were helpless when Jeremy Lin almost caught the ball at the buzzer and made a shot. The key was that Harden himself was lucky for 21 seconds. It's so embarrassing to choose to pass the ball. Generally speaking, it is difficult for teammates to hit in this situation. Jeremy Lin can only be said to be awesome.

The Lakers attacked, Kobe dribbled the ball to the left 45 degrees, hit the ground and passed to the left wing area, and commanded the whole team to move.

Seeing this, Li Yue started running from the right wing, crossed the free throw line and went straight to the left elbow area. On the other side, Landry caught the ball with his hands raised high. In the elbow area, the two formed an off-ball screen.

At the same time, Kobe dribbled the ball to get rid of Jeremy Lin with the help of Gasol's cover, strode to the right, rushed to the right wing in about two seconds, stopped the brakes suddenly, raised the ball with both hands to the direction of the basket, and Lan with the help of Li Yue's cover Derry, just rushed to the basket, caught the basketball and immediately jumped off the ground, ignoring the threat of Parsons and Howard, dunking and scoring.

The Lakers caught up to 7 to 13. Nick Young led the bench to stand up and applaud, and the audience chanted "Rocket!" to suppress it.

The Rockets attacked, and Howard served out of bounds from the bottom line.

Parsons received the hand, quickly advanced to the top of the frontcourt arc, and turned to Harden who followed.

The other four of the Rockets automatically left space, and Harden bowed and patted, and walked slowly to the left elbow.Li Yue didn't give any space, Harden resentfully retreated to the left 45-degree three-point line, suddenly lowered his shoulders, and walked left to force a breakthrough.

Li Yue didn't make up his mind to stop him, but Harden threw off his body in an instant. Unfortunately, all his actions were watched by the audience. Landry stood one step ahead of the reasonable collision zone, and raised his hands to show that he did not make any illegal actions.

boom!Harden knocked Landry head-on.

Beep!The referee blows his whistle and calls for an offensive foul.

The audience booed wildly, Li Yue trotted forward, pulled Landry up with both hands, patted his buttocks, and praised him for a great job.

The Lakers served in the backcourt, and Beverly got close to Blake, forming an angle with Parsons.

With such a formation, it is obvious that there will be a huge delay, and it may even turn into a full-court press.

The situation was urgent, but D'Antoni did not arrange for the Lakers players to respond. After the referee whistled, Landry served the ball as usual, then strode into the court, received a pass from Blake, and ran like a point guard with the ball.

Parsons chased after him, but his speed was slower. Landry rushed to the top of the arc like a tornado. Seeing this, Harden stepped forward to intercept. There are spaces available.

Landry heard the words and hurriedly hit the ball to the ground, Li Yue received it, adjusted slightly, bent slightly to avoid Harden's back defense fly, raised his hand to the basket, and jumped up steadily to shoot.

when!Basketball hits the basket and hits the iron.

"Yeah" The audience cheered and celebrated.

That thought, Gasol jumped high and caught the offensive rebound, turned around and leaned against Howard, and reorganized the offense.

Kobe stepped forward to respond, took advantage of his cover, got rid of Jeremy Lin, strode inside, and went straight to the basket.

Howard shrunk to catch up, Harden rushed in from the outside to intercept, and Li Yue was once again unguarded.

Kobe passed the ball without hesitation, and Li Yue received it in his hands, without making any adjustments, and directly pulled it out.

Swish!Hollow into the net.

The Lakers chased 10 to 13.

"I'm very happy to see James Harden showing a positive attitude on the defensive end, but it seems a bit too much tonight." Reggie Miller said, "He twice caused Li Yue to get a big open shot. You should choose to trust your teammates."

"I know why this happened." Isiah Thomas said, "Harden is the kind of person who is greatly affected by his emotions. Once he chooses to strengthen his defense, it is difficult for him to deal with it calmly every time. If he is forced Calming him down will most likely lead to him reverting to directing traffic at intersections and, in short, doing more harm than good."

"I think the problem is the backcourt pressing just now." Marvin said, "It's unnecessary, I can't understand why, even if it is necessary, it should be posted by Beverly and Parsons at the same time. Against Blake."

During the conversation, Harden received the ball at the top of the arc, and the other four Rockets stood below the free throw line, but did not make any movement, automatically defaulting to another singles show, but after Harden observed for a while, he beckoned to cover .

Parsons was stunned for a while, and hurried up to the top of the arc, setting up a human wall to block Li Yue.

Harden took the opportunity to go to the left and forcefully dribbled the ball to find space against Landry who was staying at the free throw line. At this time, Parsons just opened the screen and turned to the basket. The Rockets formed a classic pick-and-roll tactical formation .

Thinking about it, Harden suddenly jumped up and passed the ball from the top of his head to the right sideline for a long distance.

Jeremy Lin received it, raised his hand and shot Kobe away, and immediately lowered his shoulders and broke through.

Kobe suddenly posted it again, and Jeremy Lin lost his shot and could only continue to walk the bottom line.

Gasol and Landry also contracted interception, Jeremy Lin could only hastily pass the ball to the left corner.

Blake had been prepared for a long time and grabbed one with Beverly, and the basketball was forced to fly out of bounds.

The referee whistled and whistled for the Lakers to have the ball in the backcourt.

The audience booed wildly, and Jeremy Lin who McHale rushed back to the defense yelled, demanding that the number of turnovers must be controlled.

The Lakers attacked, Blake dribbled the ball across the center line, raised his hand and called for tactics.

Seeing this, Li Yue ran from the right to the top of the arc, preparing to set up a positioning cover for him, and Kobe also rushed over.

The two were too active, they met each other and laughed lightly, so they simply stood face to face and played a high double screen.

Blake was about to take the opportunity to break through, but saw that Harden and Jeremy Lin chose to go around the screen at the same time and prepare to intercept in front, while Beverly stepped back and passed through the crowd. Jump off the ground and shoot a wide open three-pointer.

Boom!The basketball crashed into the net and the Lakers tied.

"Lin, what are you doing?" McHale yelled loudly again, "Can't you defend against pick-and-rolls?"

Jeremy Lin smiled awkwardly, turned around and walked to the bottom line and raised his hand to ask for the ball.

Howard glanced at it and sent it to Beverly.

Beverly took it to the left side of the frontcourt at 45 degrees, turned and threw it to the top of the arc, and strode to the elbow to stand on the fixed wall.Howard, who followed up, received the ball and moved 45 degrees to the left, handing it to Parsons who came out with the screen, and continued to cover him by the way.

Parsons took the ball to set up a three-threat action, pretended to sway to the left, and then went to the right to make a strong breakthrough.

Landry was delayed and had difficulty catching up. Li Yue shrank his defense from the top of the arc and reached out to try to disrupt the rhythm, but he never expected that Parsons suddenly raised his hand with the ball and made an extremely distorted shooting action .

Snapped!The sound of handcuffs sounded crisply.

Beep!The referee blows his whistle, whistles the thug for a foul, and gives two free throws.

"I didn't expect you to learn badly with thick eyebrows..." Li Yue complained silently, shaking his head again and again.

The audience cheered, Parsons stood on the free throw line, hit the iron on the first free throw, and made the second free throw.

The Lakers kicked off in the backcourt, Beverly approached Blake again, and Parsons also formed an angle beside him.

Without hesitation, Landry threw the ball to Blake casually, stepped into the field to receive the pass back, advanced rapidly like before, who was entangled with Parsons like a strong wind, but this time Harden stayed honest and defended the bottom horn.

Seeing this, Li Yue kicked off the ground, rushed to the left wing in the blink of an eye, joined the oncoming Landry, took over the pass, stopped and jumped suddenly, ignoring Harden and Parsons' belated lunge Interference, two-stage action rush shot.

The basketball went into the net hollow, and the Lakers overtook 16 to 14.

"Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooette Will you allow it?"

"This is his coaching style." The corners of Isiah Thomas' lips curled up slightly. "Give the players maximum autonomy, cultivate players' understanding of the game, and not make specific tactical arrangements until critical moments."

Marvin gave Thomas a white look, "Maybe it's because there are too few cases, and you'll see why later."

While talking, Beverly dribbled the ball to the left wing, then threw it to Howard at the top of the arc, and strode to the elbow to stand on the fixed wall.

Parsons used the screen to come around and rushed to Howard, but did not catch the ball, but continued to run to the right, and Howard himself passed the ball back to Beverly, and ran to set up a wall for a side screen.

Beverly accelerated sharply and broke through on the left, Blake was chasing behind, Gasol intercepted in front, Howard followed to move inside, the four of them took consecutive steps, Beverly suddenly hit the ground to the right and passed the ball.

The movement is too obvious, the speed is slow and the strength is small, resulting in too low rebound rate and height. Blake quickly grabbed the basketball in his hands, turned around and lowered his center of gravity, and ran like a whirlwind.

Li Yue followed up from the right wing, came to the front wing in the blink of an eye, and took a closer look. Blake rushed to the short corner on the left and made an emergency stop behind his back to pass the ball, but Kobe received the ball from the bottom corner and did not make a wide open shot. Instead of shooting, he drew attention and went straight to the free throw line. Landry didn't make a shot after receiving the ball, but turned around and threw it to his side. Harden, who was in charge of defense, was already standing under the basket.

Li Yue caught the basketball and calmly raised his head to aim at the basket, as if calculating how much one plus one equals, he jumped up and shot easily.

bass!Hollow into the net, leading 19 to 14.

"The situation is not good for the Rockets." Reggie Miller said, "Since Jeremy Lin hit a three-pointer at the buzzer, the Lakers have played a 14-1 attack wave. If they still can't make it this time, they need to suspend Make adjustments."

Perhaps the on-site director deliberately caused trouble, and the camera on the large central screen immediately focused on McHale, only to see unwavering eyes, as if he was not touched by what happened on the field, and he didn't know whether he was confident or completely confused.

In a blink of an eye, Harden took the ball from the center line, used Howard to move the screen, and rushed in against Gasol who was changing defenses.

However, the speed advantage of playing small and big was not reflected. Gasol was always blocking the front. Harden had no choice but to divert to the baseline and rushed to the short corner on the left. .

There were only 8 seconds left in the attack time. Harden was still dribbling to find the rhythm. Parsons rushed from the top of the arc to respond, but Harden lowered his shoulders, raised his right hand to separate Li Yue, and walked left to force a breakthrough. .

Li Yue twisted his hips and moved laterally, chasing close to the short corner. Harden made a sudden stop, then withdrew and jumped to shoot.

Li Yue jumped up and raised his right hand to interfere with sight and space.

The basketball hit the basket, Gasol caught it, and passed it to Li Yue face to face, and the Lakers launched a counterattack.

Li Yue brought the ball to the right wing of the frontcourt, looked up to observe the defensive position, and found that the basket was unattended, immediately lowered his center of gravity and forcibly accelerated, took two strides to throw off Harden's interference, rushed to the basket like a tiger, and joined the ball Take off, gliding and snapping.

Beverly flew forward from the middle, and with a bang, he hit his arms in the air and landed straight.

Unaffected, Li Yue pushed the ball into the basket steadily, and the referee whistled and received an additional penalty.

The audience booed and interfered. He closed his eyes and scored the ball. The Lakers led 22 to 14, and the Rockets requested a timeout.

Li Yue raised his hand to celebrate with high-fives from his teammates, turned around and walked towards the bench, and inadvertently saw that the Rockets' bench was as bleak as a cloud of gloom. Harden was listless and lost the excitement at the beginning. McHale caught Jeremy Lin to blame, and Howard felt a little pain Staring at the ceiling, Beverly, who was like a mad dog, seemed to have lost his soul.

TNT commentary seats.

Isiah Thomas said with a smile: "I suddenly remembered the article boasting that Harden will become the first shooting guard after Jordan. Maybe there is a point of view in it. Have you read it?"

"Uh..." Marvin smiled awkwardly, "Please be cautious about the evaluation of coaches and players."

"I don't think it's nothing. Could it be that no one can see it if you don't say it?" Reggie Miller said, "The Rockets seriously lack specific tactics on the offensive end. First, Harden played consecutive singles, and then he couldn't touch the ball. beat?"

Lakers bench.

D'Antoni briefly summarized, and handed over the tactical board to Li Yue.

"In our country, there is a saying called one effort, then decline, and three exhaustion." Li Yue read it in Chinese, "It means that people's passion for most things is limited, the first time they will be very positive, and the second time they will be less so." Positive, the third time will completely lose enthusiasm, and now the Rockets are about to completely lose the enthusiasm for counterattack, we must seize the opportunity to win this round of the series."

(End of this chapter)