basketball boulder

Chapter 438

Under such circumstances, local reporters in Memphis quickly surrounded the Hornets who came to Memphis one day earlier.

The subject of the interview is naturally Paul.

Reporter: "The fans say that your passing ability is better than Stone's. Do you think so?"

Paul thought for a while: "Stone is a perfect player. He is omnipotent, scoring, passing, and defending...he is my goal. But if it is only about passing, I am naturally stronger."

Paul is smart.

He didn't directly say that he is better than Li Lei, which would make him appear arrogant.

He also didn't say that he was inferior to Li Lei, which would make him appear cowardly.

Although his answer was a bit long-winded, it was the most perfect answer. It did not offend Li Lei and his fans, but also expressed his confidence.

Again, competitive sports require self-confidence.

The reporters were a little disappointed that Paul actually jumped out of the trap they had dug.

So they asked a lot of questions.

Paul, who is very good in golf and emotional intelligence, resolved them one by one without giving the reporter any loopholes.

until the last question.

Reporter: "So who do you think will be the winner of this game, the Grizzlies or the Hornets?"

For this question, Paul didn't think at all, and just blurted out: "Wasp!"

With Paul's answer, the reporters found Li Lei again.

Naturally, Li Lei would not leave any openings for the reporters, and easily resolved every question they had.

Until the end, he was asked the same questions as Paul.

Reporter: "So who do you think will be the winner of this game, the Hornets or the Grizzlies?"

Li Lei said decisively: "Grizzly!"

This is actually a stupid question.

The core of a team will of course say that he is the final winner. If he thinks his opponent can win, then his brain has probably passed its shelf life—broken!
Ben came here and the interview is over.

But no one expected that the reporter finally added another sentence: "But in the last game, you lost."

All of a sudden the audience fell silent.

Everyone looked at the beautiful reporter who asked the question.

Li Lei also subconsciously looked at the protruding chest of the beautiful reporter... the job badge on it.

"FOX!"

Hehe, I knew it was you.

If it were a rookie year, Li Lei might not be happy.

But now, Li Lei is a mature star, he won't lose his temper at will, and can control himself.

So, Li Lei turned the recording pen away and said loudly, "Let's see!"

After the words fell, Li Lei simply stopped talking to the reporter, turned around and left.

……

On the night of the game, Li Lei arrived at the FedEx Center and entered the locker room.

The locker room, which was originally playful and lively, suddenly became quiet.

Lowry asked, "Boss, you don't look very happy?"

Li Lei asked without answering: "Kyle, is my passing ability bad?"

Lowry shook his head: "Of course not bad, much better than me."

Li Lei's face suddenly became paralyzed, and he said sullenly: "Hey, my passing ability has been reduced to compare with yours, so there is no hope."

Lowry: "..."

Who the hell am I messing with.

Although Lowry is a point guard, he is not a traditional point guard, but an emerging combo guard. His offensive ability is stronger than his organizational ability, and he is better at long-range shots and breakthroughs. His passing ability is far inferior to that of Nash, Paul, and Deron ...

Warm up time.

Players from both sides came to the midfield to say hello again.

Li Lei and Paul exchanged greetings with smiles on their faces, but what they said made the teammates on both sides jump.

If it weren't for them being by my side, I would never have thought of the two guys with smiles on their faces, but MMP in their mouths.

Paul: "You loser, are you ready for the second defeat?"

Li Lei: "A loss doesn't affect me. But if some people lose, I don't know if they can't accept it and cry like a baby."

Paul: "You must be the last one to cry!"

Li Lei: "It's not me who jumped up and hit someone's knee!"

Li Lei was mocking himself in front of Paul, who had nothing to do.

This trash talk war ended in Paul's failure.

Young people, your temperament is still a bit weak!
Li Lei smiled triumphantly.

Paul couldn't keep his smirk anymore, and looked at Li Lei angrily, determined to kill the Grizzlies again in Memphis.

On the other side, Zhu Fangyu was also hugging Yi Jianlian.

"Brother Zhu, how are you doing recently?"

"It's miserable!"

Thinking of the set of fitness equipment that Li Lei gave him, Zhu Fangyu wanted to cry but had no tears.

However, Yi Jianlian found that Zhu Fangyu was excited in distress, and he was a little confused.

It wasn't until the DJ introduced the starting players of both sides that Yi Jianlian understood.

The visiting Hornets play first.

Chandler, Yi Jianlian, Peja, Peterson, Paul.

Compared with the previous game, the Hornets' lineup has not changed.

This is also normal, the winner only needs to remain unchanged.

The Grizzlies, however, made adjustments.

Milicic, Gasol, Li Lei, Zhu Fangyu, Lowry.

"Hey! Dazhu is starting?"

Zhang Weiping and Su Qun, who explained the Chinese Derby, were shocked.

After the five-match suspension ended, Zhu Fangyu gradually got more playing time.

Just as Li Lei predicted, the old Jones' condition was getting worse and worse, Hill needed to control his playing time, and the Grizzlies' positions 2 and 3 suddenly became tense.

Logically speaking, Rudy Gay should have started.

Coach Carlisle did the same in the first few games.

However, the effect of hitting it was not satisfactory.

With Gay starting, the Grizzlies' starting lineup is naturally the strongest, but the rotation lacks scorers.

The substitutes Warrick, Tylen Lue, Glenn Davis, and Jones Sr. hardly have the ability to attack independently.

Every time the rotation time comes, the Grizzlies will play a little passive.

So after a few games, coach Carlisle made bold adjustments and let Zhu Fangyu enter the starting lineup.

It just coincided with the meeting and met the Chinese Derby.

So Zhang Weiping, Su Qun, and many domestic fans immediately set their sights on Zhu Fangyu.

"I don't know if Zhu Ba can stand it?"

"NBA starters and backups are two different things."

"I'm a little worried! Coach Carlisle is too aggressive, and he put Da Zhu in the starting line-up all at once. It's best to take it slowly. Step by step is the best."

……

Most fans are negative.

After all, Zhu Fangyu didn't perform much before.

It is even said that when mentioning Zhu Fangyu, the first thing everyone thinks of is a villain who is one against two, not how he is playing.

It was Zhang Weiping who guided the mature and prudent.

"Don't worry everyone, Carlisle is an excellent head coach. Since he made Da Zhu the starter, he has his reasons. In addition, there are stones. If there is any problem, there are stones for him."

These words immediately reassured everyone.

Although I am still worried, I can only calm down and watch the game.

Drip!

As the referee blows his whistle, the game begins.

Milicic jumped up and narrowly beat Chandler to flick the ball into the Grizzlies halfcourt.

Lowry pushed forward with the ball and tried to break through in the frontcourt, but was entangled by Paul very uncomfortable, and immediately handed the ball to Li Lei.

Li Lei raised three fingers up.

Tactic number three!

Li Lei's low post tactics.

Milicic pulled beyond the three-point line, Gasol raised the free throw line, Zhu Fangyu sank to the bottom corner, and Lowry also hid on the weak side.

The four of them pulled apart and handed over the low position to Li Lei.

Li Lei received the pass from Gasol, leaned back against Peterson in the low position, lowered his center of gravity, and dug in hard.

Guarding Li Lei was the Hornets' best wing defender, Maurice Peterson.

Morris is 201cm tall and weighs 99kg. He is a relatively tall wing player, but he is still one size smaller in front of Li Lei.

While digging, Li Lei felt Peterson's position with his legs.

In the low position, without further ado, he turned over and shot a jumper, fighting for the advantages of height and wingspan.

Peterson defended well, did not lose his position, and even put enough pressure on Li Lei.

But in the face of Li Lei's last turnaround jump shot, he couldn't block it at all, so he could only block Li Lei's line of sight with his hand, trying to interfere with Li Lei.

The result is... Shua!

"This is absolute talent suppression!"

Director Zhang Weiping said with emotion.

Su Qun added: "Of course, it is also inseparable from Shitou's own efforts. He has hardly rested all summer and has been learning low-post skills from Kobe, Yao Ming, and Gasol, so that he can improve so quickly."

2: 0.

"Hoohoho!"

There was a burst of jubilation at the scene.

Memphis fans celebrated wildly.

Don't look at it as an ordinary goal, but in Memphis, whenever Li Lei touched the ball, the fans would scream.

Hornets coach Byron Scott shook his head helplessly.

The former Grizzlies player doesn't have much affection for Memphis. After all, when he retired from the Grizzlies, the Grizzlies were still called the Vancouver Grizzlies.

Today's Grizzlies only give him a headache.

Peterson is already the best defensive sign in his hands, but he still can't restrain Li Lei.

"Maurice, with all your might, he's nothing to fear."

Coach Scott can only give Peterson spiritual encouragement.

Because even if Scott was allowed to defend Li Lei himself when he was young, the effect would not be better than Peterson.

Hornets attack.

Paul advanced to the frontcourt and keenly noticed that the Grizzlies had a small adjustment.

Defending Peja became the rookie Zhu Fangyu.

Li Lei is defending Peterson.

Paul was really smart, and he understood the significance of Carlisle's adjustment in an instant.

Peja's off-the-ball movement is very frequent, which will consume a lot of energy for the defender. In the last game, Li Lei wasted too much energy defending Peja.

On the other hand, Peterson's offensive ability has degraded more seriously, leaving only fixed-point shooting.

Li Lei defending Peterson can save a lot of energy on the offensive end.

"What a clever Carlisle."

thought Paul.

"But, do you think that rookie can defend against Peja?"

It's not that Paul looks down on Zhu Fangyu, but that Peja's ability to move without the ball is too strong.

I dare not say that he is the number one in the league, but if you choose three players who can run without the ball from the NBA, there will definitely be Peja.

Even Li Lei will study Peja's game video in private and learn his running position.

Paul quickly made a judgment and signaled his teammates to play off-ball running tactics, and the others cooperated with Peja.

Peja received Paul's instructions, looked at the top of the arc subconsciously, and turned his shoulders to the top of the arc, as if he wanted to get close to Paul to catch the ball.

But in the next second, Peja suddenly turned around and ran towards the bottom line in the opposite direction.

"Damn it, old fox, you really can't believe a single strand of hair."

Li Lei cursed in his heart, worried that Zhu Fangyu would be tricked.

That's right, Zhu Fangyu was really deceived.

But in the next second, Zhu Fangyu accelerated with all his might, desperately chasing after her.

Really hard!
Unfortunately, one step is wrong, one step at a time.

Peja got the upper hand and has mastered the situation.

During the running, Peja stopped suddenly and turned around flexibly.

On the other hand, Zhu Fangyu pursued with all his strength, his inertia was too great, and he couldn't stop the car at all.

Peja took the opportunity to get rid of Zhu Fangyu.

Paul's pass was immediately in place.

Peja catches the ball, pulls up and shoots.

Snapped!
However, at this moment, a big hand came over.

Li Lei!

Seeing that Zhu Fangyu lost the opportunity, Li Lei was already ready to help defend, and this slap directly slapped Peja's shot out of the sideline.

There was another round of warm cheers.

However, in the CCTV studio, Zhang Weiping and Su Qun bluntly pointed out that there was a problem: "Da Zhu is still too young, and he was completely manipulated by Peja. If the stone didn't make up for him, the Grizzlies would lose points."

Zhu Fangyu naturally knew this, and she was a little downcast, thinking that she was not yet capable of starting.

Li Lei pulled him over and whispered to his ear: "Remember! Don't look at his eyes and shoulders, this old guy is full of tricks. Just look at his feet! No matter how he runs, he still relies on his feet. Don't think too much about the game, I don't have time to think about these messy things."

Zhu Fangyu nodded repeatedly.

The Hornets serve a throw-in.

There was not much time left, so Paul took the ball and did it himself.

Lowry went straight to the intensity, and under his restrictions, Paul missed the shot.

Bang!

The score is still 2:0.

The Grizzlies attack.

Li Lei continued to drop down.

Peterson drank coach Scott's chicken soup and tried his best to defend, but it didn't help.

Li Lei dug in steadily, then turned over and scored the ball with a jumper.

Swish!
4: 0.

At this moment, Li Lei deeply understood the sentence: The closer to the basket, the higher the shooting rate!
As long as he has enough strength, Li Lei can guarantee that he can maintain a [-]% to [-]% hit rate in this way, far exceeding his mid-range or near the three-point line.

Director Zhang Weiping couldn't help but marvel: "Shitou's low-level skills are too proficient, it doesn't look like he just studied for a summer."

But only Li Lei knew about this.

Don't forget, he is a man with a system.

Starting in June, he practiced low-post skills for 6 months.

But his system evolved to a time flow rate of 1:5.In other words, Li Lei has been in contact with the outside world for 6 months, but Li Lei has actually been in contact for 30 months.

So Li Lei is not a basketball genius, he just spent 5 times the sweat and effort of others.

Hornets attack.

Paul continued to direct Peja to move.

Zhu Fangyu got Li Lei's true biography, and was no longer easily deceived by Peja's whole body of fake movements, and followed Peja tightly.

In terms of defense, Zhu Fangyu is immature.

But the most important thing in defense is attitude.

Zhu Fangyu put all her efforts into it, clinging to Peja like a piece of brown candy, although sometimes she was a little embarrassed by Peja, but the effect was visible to the naked eye.

Peja didn't get a bad opportunity until the last few seconds. He caught the ball against Zhu Fangyu's block and shot out of the frame.

Bang!

"Very good! Not bad, that's it."

Director Zhang Weiping commented with satisfaction.

On the sidelines of the court, on the bench of the Grizzlies, Coach Van Gundy Jr. was also applauding for Zhu Fangyu.

clap clap clap!
"That's it! Show your attitude! Lock down your opponent!"

Gasol jams Chandler and helps Milicic get the rebound.

The Grizzlies fast break.

However, the Hornets' retreat speed was really fast, and they all retreated to their home half in an instant.

The Grizzlies could only be forced to switch positions on a fast break.

Li Lei continued to drop down.

But what surprised him was that the Hornets continued to use Peterson to defend Li Lei alone.

After Li Lei ate Peterson alone twice in a row, Coach Scott did not make any adjustments.

He stood on the sidelines, arms crossed, overlooking the field.

Quite a bit of the style of "Zen Master" Phil Jackson, who seems to be saying: Let the players solve the problems on the court by themselves.

But in fact, Li Lei knew that Scott was really slow to react and had poor on-the-spot skills.

Some people will say, how is it possible, Scott was the Lakers' scoring leader and the best helper around Magic Johnson when he was a player.

It can only be said that playing well does not mean that the coaching ability must be excellent.

So Li Lei lowered his center of gravity and continued to dig in. After getting close to the basket, he deftly turned over and shot a jumper, sending the basketball into the basket for the third time tonight.

Swish!
6: 0.

Until then, Scott finally moved and called a timeout.

After returning from the timeout, the Hornets attacked.

Peja continued to run without the ball, but couldn't get rid of Zhu Fangyu.

Zhu Fangyu's movements were a little messy and awkward, but it showed his desperation even more.

Zhu Fangyu cherishes the opportunity to start for the first time in his career.

Seeing that Peja ran out of opportunities.

Paul moved on his own, he broke through the other side and went to the basket.

It's a pity that Milicic guarded the basket and interfered enough to make Paul's layup come back in vain.

Bang!

But at this moment, Chandler jumped up, snatched food from Milicic and Gasol, and grabbed an offensive rebound abruptly.

Chandler's first instinct was to hand the ball to Paul.

Paul stood on the baseline, obviously surrounded by a group of giants, but magically sent the ball out.

Yi Jianlian catches the ball at the top of the arc, adjusts it, pulls up and shoots.

Swish!
6: 3.

in!

The taciturn Yi Jianlian also clenched his fists and roared excitedly when he scored the goal.

This ball is very important, and finally broke the embarrassment of zero points for the Hornets.

Director Zhang Weiping also said: "UA Lian's three-pointers are really accurate!"

Su Qun nodded: "That's right. After all, the number one shooter in the NBA is in China. Why don't others have the nerve to practice?"

The number one shooter in the NBA naturally refers to Li Lei.

This is Li Lei's influence on Chinese basketball.

In the streets and alleys of China, basketball courts have sprung up like mushrooms after rain.

Basketball seems to have become the most popular sport in China, even comparable to badminton and table tennis.

The three-pointer has become the technique that everyone is most keen to practice.

ps: 5000 word chapter

Thanks to Qiujiu for the 1100 starting coins.

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