I just play ball

Chapter 332
After the words fell, Nick Yang nodded first. He didn't know if he understood. He just gave a thumbs up and said with a smile: "The wisdom and truth from the ancient eastern country can always sum up the essence of the development of things concisely and accurately..."

Now it was Li Yue's turn to be confused, and he subconsciously asked, "Where did you learn these political exam problem-solving routines?"

"A fan told me through Twitter comments, there is another sentence..." Nick Yang smiled and read in broken Chinese: "He shoots and he is strong, I, Nick, oxygen, tactical fuck, I am singles king."

The other teammates looked at each other with big eyes and small eyes, thinking what kind of plane are these two people doing?
"Awesome!" Li Yue gave a thumbs up, "Your fans are very friendly to you."

Nick Young threw his head back and laughed, "I know what that means, honestly, it's kind of funny, it's pretty accurate."

D'Antoni coughed deliberately, and the atmosphere suddenly became serious, "Since we want to win the series completely, then we will arrange the strongest lineup to play, Gasol will rest temporarily, Landry will switch to center, Kobe will switch to point guard, and Antoni will play point guard. Dere played as a shooting guard, and Covington played as a power forward, everyone showed [-]% cleanliness and strived to achieve the state described by Li Yue just now."

The four of them nodded in unison to express their understanding, the sound of the whistle that was about to end was suspended, and the team disbanded immediately.

Li Yue stepped into the court, looked up at the Rockets' bench, and found Terrence Jones coming on to replace Beverly.

As the announcer yelled to cheer, the audience rarely followed suit, and the referee walked to the bottom line with the ball.

The Rockets attacked, Jeremy Lin dribbled the ball to the right wing, then turned and threw it to the top of the arc.

Howard received the ball and divided it to the left wing. Harden got the ball and bowed in a three-threat posture, without determining the pivot foot.

Parsons lifts the wall from the left corner to make a side screen, and Harden immediately steps to the right.Li Yue saw it clearly and knew that Harden seldom used the cross step as a breakthrough movement, so he stood firmly in place in his heart.

Sure enough, Harden took a feint shot and immediately retracted his steps. Parsons disassembled and turned around, striding to the bottom line.

The first attempt failed. Howard, who was at the top of the arc, quickly moved across. He stood with both feet and set up a wide body, blocking Iguodala abruptly. Harden took the opportunity to break through the ball to the right. Landry seemed to have expected it. , The first to change defense interception.

After failing to break through, Harden immediately collected the ball and took off, bent his legs and rolled his head in the air, and assumed an extremely twisted shooting posture.

That thought, Landry still seemed to have expected it, and opened his hands first and shrunk his chest.

The referee, Brother Tony, failed to make a sound with the whistle that was already in his mouth. Harden failed to find a foul, but calmly turned his head in the air from the capacitor to look around, and then turned vigorously to the short corner on the right.

Parsons just made an air cut from the baseline to the short corner on the right. Seeing the basketball flying over, he raised his hands subconsciously to catch it, but Li Yue, who was closely chasing him, saw the basketball flying over.

In the blink of an eye, Li Yue chose to go all out, kicked off the ground suddenly, and spread his hands to cover Parsons' head.

As soon as he flew into the air, he heard a bang, and then felt the basketball hit the back of his hand. Unfortunately, before he could land and fight for it, Terrence Jones, who was closer to the basketball's landing point, caught the ball in advance .

Covington hurriedly stepped forward to defend. Jones first changed hands and swayed under his crotch, and then changed hands behind his back. Throwing the ball to the center line resentfully.

Harden received the ball at the LOGO, with only 7 seconds left in the attack time, the Rockets will spontaneously leave space.

The audience cheered and applauded. Harden dribbled the ball with his left hand, bent down and patted it lightly. After reaching the top of the arc, he suddenly changed hands and shook his crotch at a high speed. After three consecutive times, he suddenly took a big step to the left. To force a breakthrough.

Iguodala was unmoved, only twisted his hips and turned sideways, and did not rush to intercept laterally, but Harden didn't find such details in his panic, but as usual, he stopped and pulled the ball skillfully and retreated, and kicked off by the way. He jumped up and shot a three-pointer.

Iguodala jumped up almost at the same time, his hands raised like wooden stakes, blocking most of the space and sight.

when!The basketball hit the basket and hit the iron. Harden fell backwards, lying on the floor, spreading his hands flat, staring at the interview angrily, as if to say: "You don't brag about this? He can throw me to the ground, serious Foul!"

The sideline referee didn't even look at it, Li Yue jumped up high to catch the rebound, landed and led it straight to the frontcourt.

In a blink of an eye, he came to the left wing, handed it to Covington at the top of the arc, and strode over to take over the pass back. More than Terrence Jones.

Howard shrinks and intercepts, Li Yue stops abruptly and prepares to throw, but suddenly feels a gravity attack, as if two trains hit his body, and immediately realizes that someone has fouled, so he quickly takes advantage of the moment of falling to throw the ball shot.

Beep!The referee blows his whistle.

when!The basketball hits the hoop.

The referee gestured for two free throws. Li Yue took Kobe and Iguodala's hands and stood up, ignoring the frenzied boos of the audience, as if he was training in his own arena, and easily stood at the free throw line.

"I used to think that the Rockets just lacked specific tactics." Miller shook his head frequently. "Now it seems that they still lack the overall situation. With the Lakers' current lineup without an orthodox center, why don't they hand over the ball to Howard?"

"I'm also confused." Marvin said, "They paused just now, what adjustments did they make?"

"Maybe it's just encouragement, maybe it feels that being behind has little effect." Thomas smiled badly. "Of course, it's more likely that the new tactics and strategies are too complicated, and the Rockets players need time to adapt."

Marvin glared at Thomas: "Li Yue made two free throws, let's continue to pay attention to the game."

On the court, the Rockets attack.

Jeremy Lin quickly dribbled the ball to the right 45 degrees, stopped for a while to observe, with Howard's weak screen, strode to the top of the arc, and then stopped to observe again, while Howard continued to move to the right, setting up a human wall on the wing as a side screen, In order to rush to Harden head-on, block Iguodala, who is almost chasing close to him, and continuously move his position to strive for perfection.

Iguodala chose to bypass the interception, but Harden received the pass from Jeremy Lin, feinted a shot to attract Kobe Bryant at the top of the arc to intercept the interception, but actually kicked the ground to go to the bottom line. Landry and Iguodala quickly teamed up to wrap folder.

Howard hurriedly disassembled and went down, Kobe implemented a partial three-defense and two-defense strategy, Harden suddenly jumped high, twisted his body in the air and passed the ball towards the top of the arc, where Jeremy Lin was temporarily unattended, Li Yue gave up on Parsons S rushed up.

Kobe returned to the defense at the same time, seeing him rushing over, he decisively diverted to the left wing.

Li Yue happened to be in the front when Jeremy Lin received the ball, but Jeremy Lin immediately threw the ball to the left wing.

Parsons received the ball, facing Kobe who was rushing aggressively, he hesitated a little and forced a jump shot.

when!Basketball hits the basket and hits the iron.

Landry jumped up, put his head on Howard's chest, grabbed the ball first, and bent over to protect it after landing.

Li Yue ran sideways, saw Landry turn around and pass the ball to Kobe, and hurriedly raised his hands to ask for it.

Kobe didn't look at his position at all, and suddenly made a long pass while running, successfully deceiving all the Rockets players.

Li Yue received the ball from the center line and continued to run wildly. At the same time, he instinctively looked up to observe the positions of his teammates, and found that Iguodala followed along the right sideline, and Harden, who was in charge of defending Iguodala, followed him and decisively at the top of the arc. Emergency stop brake.

As soon as he stopped, Harden and Parsons also stopped, and Iguodala also stopped.

He hit the ground with a long pass, and after the basketball rebounded, it flew right to the waist. There was no need to bend down to pick it up, and there was no need to jump up to catch it. point.

Swish!Hollow into the net.

The Lakers lead 27-14.

"If time goes back to the beginning of this round of the series, and someone tells me that Harden ignores the people he should manage when defending the fast break, but chases the ball holder, I will definitely think that this person rarely watches the NBA. I have never even watched a Rockets game, but just now, I saw Harden make a defensive mistake that only elementary school students would make." Thomas expressed regret, "I can tell you with great certainty now that the one we are familiar with Harden is back."

"It's really a pity." Miller shrugged and spread his hands, "James Harden, who reached the super giant level on both offense and defense in the opening game, only lasted for 3 minutes. He seemed to tell the world 'I just play basketball', why so serious? "

"Ahem." Marvin patted the table lightly, "Let's take a look at the comparison of the current statistics of the two teams..."

On the court, Harden slowly brought the ball to the center line and threw it to the center circle without warning.

Terrence Jones, who was following up in parallel, was unprepared. Seeing that the basketball was about to return to the court, he quickly jumped forward, bent down and stretched out his hands to grab it. , so as not to walk illegally.

Seeing this posture, Covington pushed forward mercilessly, stretching out his hands wantonly to grab him.

The situation was urgent, McHale asked for a response, Parsons gave up his running position and rushed up, received a pass from Jones and then divided the left wing. After Jeremy Lin received the ball, he quickly moved towards the top of the arc, with his back against Kobe's return pass.

Parsons took the ball and moved, seemingly wanting to break through, but Harden, who was closest to him, did not move.

Iguodala moved laterally to interfere, Parsons had no choice but to stop the ball, and took a great risk to hit the ground and pass the ball.

Harden received the ball and walked to the right corner, sideways against Iguodala, and after a while, suddenly made a long pass to the left corner.

Li Yue looked dumbfounded, and the audience on the sidelines were also a little confused. Do you really think that the Lakers are like air?

The basketball passed over the heads of many people and flew straight to Terrence Jones who had already stood still, but Kobe made a steal halfway, turned around and distributed it to Covington in front of him, Covington caught it with his hands raised high, and threw a football style Quarterback long pass.

The basketball whizzed through the air and flew to the top of the arc under the gaze of tens of thousands of eyes. Li Yue wanted to jump to catch it, but Covington's handwork was not so good. .

In the blink of an eye, Li Yue came to the paint area. Li Yue saw the timing and landing point. His legs were spring-loaded and he jumped off the ground. At the same time, Parsons and Jeremy Lin were competing for the jump. He was a little helpless, but the Rocket duo failed to cooperate. With the cooperation, the basketball was fiddled with by the duo, and it flew to the backboard. After a bang, it miraculously rebounded and fell into the net.

Own goals!
The Lakers lead 29 to 14. According to the rules, these two points are included in Li Yue's personal data.

The audience was completely dumbfounded, and McHale was furious, pointing at Jeremy Lin's nose and roaring: "People who are optimistic about yourself, does this simplest common sense need to tell you? Do you really know how to play basketball?"

Jeremy Lin showed a dazed face, then smiled wryly and raised his hand, embarrassingly admitting that he made a mistake.

"It's unbelievable that the Rockets broke the scoring shortage in such a way." Thomas smirked, "I hope they can bring more exciting performances and add more laughter to this and this one-sided game."

"Coach Kevin should ask for a timeout," Miller said. "I personally suggest that he use the lineup at the end of the third quarter of G2, with Jeremy Lynn and Beverley dominating the backcourt. Maybe it will work wonders and keep the win." hope."

"Lady Luck seems to stay away from the Rockets tonight," Marvin said, "and she favors the Lakers more than before..."

On the court, the Rockets attacked, and Jeremy Lin took the ball to the left wing, then turned and threw it to the top of the arc.

Terrence Jones catches the ball and turns around and divides it 45 degrees to the right. At the same time, he strides forward to cover the side for Harden who catches the ball. Seeing that Covington and Iguodala team up to double-team, he quickly disassembles and goes down to make a free throw The line position receives a pass back from Harden.

Landry went up to intercept, and Howard raised his hands to signal that he was open, but Jones turned around and rushed to the basket on the left with three consecutive strides.

boom!The basketball hit the hoop and fell.

Covington, who followed up in the middle, jumped high and collided with Howard, who also took off in the air.

The referee blew his whistle and whistled Howard for a technical foul, and the Lakers won the power of one penalty and one throw.

The audience booed wildly, Li Yue clapped and ran to the basket with small steps, and joined forces with Landry to pull Covington up.

D'Antoni got up and walked to the technical table, loudly demanding that Li Yue execute a free throw for a technical foul, but Li Yue waved his hand and refused, telling Covington to take the penalty, because he fought hard for this opportunity, and he should execute it.

Covington nodded after hesitating for a moment, stood on the free throw line against the boos of the audience, and made a steady hit.

The referee retracted the basketball and it was the Lakers' turn to attack. Covington stood outside the bounds to catch it and threw it into the court.

Li Yue took the ball and slowly took it outside the 45-degree three-point line on the right. With the help of Landry's cover, he lowered his shoulders and forced his way to the left.

In order to seek speed, he led people with the ball, but did not protect it perfectly, and even exposed the ball.Parsons bypassed the cover to intercept, and his speed was also very fast. He chased after him in a daze, followed him for two steps, and suddenly attacked.

Such a scene caused Li Yue to flash a lot of Harden's fouls in Li Yue's mind. With a move in his heart, he joined the ball and raised his hand to shoot.

Snapped!There was a muffled sound of thugs, followed by another bang, and finally a bang.

The referee Tony Brothers blew his whistle and ruled that Li Yue's three-pointer was valid, and at the same time received an additional penalty.

Li Yue tried his best not to laugh, but in the end he couldn't help laughing, thinking that you have today too.

Parsons rushed to him with a frustrated face and asked why. McHale shouted 'NO' continuously on the sidelines. The audience shouted garbage referees in unison, but the Tony brothers looked calm and raised their hands to warn of further harassment and give technical fouls.

Parsons walked away helplessly, and Li Yue stood on the free throw line and made an extra penalty in a smart way.

The Lakers led 34 to 14, the Rockets requested a timeout, and the Toyota Center was gloomy.

"Just received the news that the league has notified the major media and teams that the results of the best defensive team votes have been counted." Marvin said, "Li Yue got all the first votes and was successfully elected. In addition, his teammate Iguodala Also selected."

"So now, he already has the MVP and the first team, and he is only half a step away from the No. 1 in the league." Thomas said, "I very much hope that in my lifetime, I can see him surpass Michael Jordan in terms of statistics and award accumulation."

"Well, I hope that too." Miller said, "He has a great probability of winning three consecutive championships and three consecutive FMVPs, which is enough for the second person under Jordan to launch a violent impact on the throne with the most powerful posture. "

...

After the timeout, the Rockets replaced Harden and Terrence Jones, and played Howard as the main player. Both offense and defense finally improved.

But the 20-point gap blocked their pursuit of victory like a natural moat. In addition, the Lakers did not have the slightest carelessness. The game continued until the last 3 minutes of the fourth quarter. .

And the Lakers won three games in a row to get the match point, Li Yue scored 48 points, and the team scored in double figures with five players.

After the game, major media and fans began to discuss whether Li Yue could be called No.1 in the league.

(End of this chapter)