I just play ball

Chapter 362 The Empire Collapsed?

"Whatever, what's his situation?" Nick Young shrugged and spread his hands, "Even if he suddenly becomes the peak Michael Jordan, because we have you, enough to defeat any opponent, you are the spokesperson of basketball..."

Li Yue nodded with a smile, and took Nick Young to stand next to D'Antoni, avoiding the flood of rainbow bragging.

D'Antoni briefly summarized the gains and losses of the first quarter, cheered for the whole team, and urged the Heat to take advantage of the fact that the Heat fouled more often to make a breakthrough, grasping the Heat's weaknesses and fighting to the death, remember not to feel that the advantage is too great, and because of this cause negligence.

The inter-section break ended soon, and the match between the two teams continued, and the two sides tacitly arranged for the second team to play.

In this way, the defense of the two teams is fairly normal, but the offensive efficiency is low, with various shots and mistakes.

As Jodi Meeks went out of bounds with a three-pointer, the referee temporarily stopped the game to make arrangements, and the two teams adjusted their players accordingly. With 9 minutes and 55 seconds left before the end of the second quarter, the Lakers led 44-23.

Li Yue walked to the court and stood still, looked up and found that the Heat players besides LeBron, there are Wade, Ray Allen, Bosh, Anderson, and besides himself, the Lakers also have Livingston, Mick S, Gobert, and Covington.

Strictly speaking, the Lakers are still in the second team. The Heat are already considered the main lineup because the Big Three are present at the same time. Kobe and Gasol should return to the game soon, otherwise the Heat may play a wave.

Just thinking about it, the referee whistled, the Heat launched an offense in the backcourt, and LeBron dribbled the ball forward.

He came to the 45-degree three-point line on the left in a blink of an eye, and the Heat's team settled down, while Ray Allen made an emergency stop from the right sideline and rushed to the top of the arc to catch the ball with the help of Bosh's cover, then turned around and used Bosh's cover again , rerunning to the right sideline.

Perhaps considering Ray Allen's high efficiency in emergency stop three-pointers, Meeks and Livingston teamed up to attack, and Bosh took the opportunity to disassemble, raised his right hand to hit the rim, and shouted to pass the ball loudly, never thought that Meeks and Livingston Livingston retreated to defend at the same time.

For a while, Ray Allen, who was unattended with the ball, took off calmly with the ball and made a steady three-pointer with a wide open.

The basketball was hollow into the net, and the Heat caught up to 26 to 44. All the players on the bench waved towels to celebrate.

Such a low-level mistake is unbelievable. Like the audience, Li Yue was dumbfounded.Meeks and Livingston rushed to raise their hands to signal that they made a mistake, and D'Antoni smiled and shook his head on the sidelines, as if saying that there was no need to be nervous.

The referee's whistle sounded immediately, and the game entered an official timeout. D'Antoni didn't make too many adjustments. He only arranged for Blake to replace Livingston, and still let the two veterans, Gasol and Kobe, stay on the court to rest.

Li Yue deliberately proposed to let the two veterans appear on the stage, because the low-level mistake just now was entirely due to the lack of communication between Meeks and Livingston. If one of them was a veteran, it might be possible to avoid it. With an indifferent expression, he suppressed his thoughts. Maybe Kobe and Gasol just want to rest and exert their strength.

The official timeout ended, players from both teams returned to the game, and the Heat arranged for Lewis to replace Anderson.

The Lakers attacked, Blake dribbled the ball across the center line, and the team settled in a V-shaped formation.

Gobert caught the ball from the right elbow to the left 45-degree three-point line, and waited with his hands raised high. At the same time, Covington also used the cover to lift the left elbow to the left 45 degrees. People work together to open up a large area of ​​​​running space.

It's a pity that the Heat's defense was in place, and Meeks and Blake's off-ball screens didn't work.

The attack time ticked away, and it seemed that there were only 11 seconds left. Li Yue started running with a bow, rushed to Gobert, received the hand-off pass, turned around and saw Blake go around with Gobert's cover, and ran over immediately. Do hand-to-hand cover.

Blake dribbled the ball to the top of the arc, facing Wade's defense, after a moment of hesitation, he chose to go right and make a strong breakthrough.

Everything was going well until Wade pulled the ball low in front of his body to change direction. Bosh stooped to grab the ball, got up and put his hands straight to Wade. .

Li Yue followed to the free throw line and saw Wade bowing his knees, as if intending to single-play in the short corner on the right. He immediately gave up guarding the three-point line, quietly moved half a body inside, and fixed his eyes on Wade's hand. basketball.

As expected, Wade quickly pulled the ball to change direction and successfully swayed Meeks.

But unexpectedly, that movement was too big, and Wade also shook himself to the ground.

How could such an opportunity be missed, Li Yue leaned down decisively and grabbed the ball in his hand.

LeBron stepped to grab it, Li Yue quickly stood up and twisted his hips, and quickly passed the ball to Covington.

At this time, there was no one in the frontcourt. Covington took the ball and ran wildly, single-handedly rushed to the paint area, and faced Bosh with a strong layup.

The audience cheered loudly, but Bosh faced a big cap, followed by Ray Allen, grabbed a rebound, turned and moved forward.

Two consecutive rounds of offensive and defensive transitions, the defensive formations of the two teams were chaotic, Ray Allen sprinted without slowing down and raised his hand for a long pass, Wade received the ball from the left sideline, took advantage of the trend and raised his hands to face the right half, and there was an empty cut in the middle LeBron.

The Lakers focused their attention on the basket, Wade made a long pass, and the basketball flew across the half court to the right sideline. Lewis, who followed up, caught it, jumped high and directly shot a three-pointer, but it was a three-pointer. Nonstick.

Gobert picked up the rebound, the Lakers launched a counterattack, Blake rushed the ball to the right wing of the front court, used Covington's cover to throw off Ray Allen, walked towards the top of the arc, and forcibly passed through the pinch of Lewis and LeBron, facing the wave Even intercepted a layup.

Li Yue stood at the top of the arc, put down the hand he just raised, and thought to himself, what the hell, why did everyone suddenly like singles?

While thinking about it, Blake made a low pass through Bosh. Gobert was completely unprepared, and the basketball rolled to the outside.

LeBron grabbed his hands and ran forward. The Lakers were completely unguarded in the backcourt. Li Yue chased after him from the LOGO position, but his speed was still too slow compared to basketball. Wade caught the ball and rushed into the paint for an easy layup. Score.

The Heat caught up to 28 to 44, the Lakers requested a timeout, the central big screen camera was aimed at the bench, D'Antoni was angry, Kobe stood up with a serious face, and Nick Young put away his cynical smile.

"Strange!" Zhang Lili was full of doubts, "Why did the Lakers suddenly become messed up on both offense and defense? Except for Li Yue and Gobert, the other three seem to be sleepwalking. Could it be that they are leading too much and recklessly?"

"I think it's about it." Yang Yi smiled, "There is still a lack of veterans to sit in charge, and Li Yue has a good temper, is too easy to talk, and almost never blames his teammates. These guys are all crazy when they get angry. .”

"It may also be that they want to prove themselves too much." Zhang Lili said, "The second team played for so long before and only scored 4 points in total. The efficiency is worse than that of Li Yue alone. They probably have a lot of energy in their hearts."

"You said that," Yang Yi clapped his hands with a smile, "Then I have to mention that there are several players in the Lakers lineup at this time who will enter the market in the summer, and the Lakers probably don't have that much room left. them."

"I hope it won't be like that." Zhang Li shook his head again and again, "The collapse of an empire often starts from within, and the only way for the Lakers to lose the game is in this way."

(End of this chapter)