stadium ambition

Chapter 377 Sesame and Watermelon

NO.14 Evening, Staples Center.

The entire arena was crowded with more than 9000 spectators looking forward to it. Some of them wore Magician jerseys, some wore Kobe jerseys, and some wore Su Yang jerseys. They cheered and shouted from time to time, and even had occasional quarrels.

"We sincerely advise, fans, please be rational..."

Before the announcer Ralph Lawler finished speaking, boos and cheers rang out at the same time, and the audience seemed to ignore the shouting.

"Lakers fans get out, the Clippers are at home tonight..." an old curly-haired black man shouted towards the court.

A chubby white aunt retorted: "The Clippers fans should get out, you entered Los Angeles illegally..."

The two each gained a lot of their own fans, and the small-scale quarrel quickly escalated into a large-scale scolding.

As if it had been planned, the large central screen began to simultaneously play the support video of the Clippers fans, Jessica Alba, Jackie Chan and other stars cheering and encouraging images flashed quickly, and there were also huge photos of Su Yang made up of thousands of Su fans' heads , to zoom in for a close-up.

While the video was playing, big-name Lakers fans such as Snoop Dogg, Jack Nicholson, Escouber, and Mark Wahlberg shouted at the big central screen, as if mocking the stars in the video The click is too small.

Such a scene was immediately captured by the on-site camera, and the big central screen soon appeared. The Clippers fans booed wildly in unison, but the Lakers fans immediately shouted for help, and the entire Staples Center became like a huge vegetable market.

On the sidelines of the TNT commentary seat, the host Ernie John put away his smile and looked at the camera: "Good evening, welcome to the NBA 2010-2011 Western Conference finals, this game will be broadcast live by TNT TV station, I am Ernie John, I'm joined by Charles Barkley, and Kenny Smith, and a special guest…”

"Hi everyone, I'm your old friend Shaq O'Neal. I'm very glad to be sitting here tonight, together with Ernie, Charles, and Kenny, to bring you a perfect commentary experience. Please focus on TNT."

After O'Neill finished speaking, he turned his head to look at the trio, with a questioning expression of 'how did I go'.

Kenny and Barkley buried their heads in laughter, and Ernie suppressed his smile: "OK, welcome Shaq to our show again, and now I plan to personally ask you for confirmation, are you ready to officially announce your retirement after the free market starts? "

"Maybe earlier..." O'Neal shrugged, "My era is over. Now it's the era of Su Yang and LeBron. It's a pity that I didn't have more duels with him in his peak period, but I have a perfect enough career."

"For example, in the Eastern Conference semifinals that just ended, averaged 1 point and 2 fouls per game?" Barkley asked with a smile.

"Shut up, Charles..." O'Neill stared suddenly, "I have four championships, what about you?"

Barkley was stunned on the spot, Kenny clapped his hands and laughed, Ernie shook his head slightly: "Let's talk about the Clippers and the Lakers, which team do you support to win? Please tell me the specific reason. Shaq is here tonight. It's up to you to talk first."

O'Neal spread his hands: "Does this still need to be asked? Of course I support the Lakers to win. The reason is very simple. Although they lost to the Clippers in the regular season, they have now completely completed the run-in and swept the Trail Blazers and Spurs in two consecutive rounds. This is the best proof. "

"I support the Clippers..." Barkley said, "The reason is that they beat the Mavericks so steadily, and their control over the game has reached a level that regular teams cannot understand. If the Lakers want to win, they must be at their peak."

"I also support the Clippers..." Kenny said, "Because they have very few weaknesses and can avoid them through rotation. Of course Kobe can play like Dirk Nowitzki, but the Lakers' substitute lineup is a great hidden danger. ..."

Ernie nodded: "OK, the two teams' starting preparations are complete, let's take a look at the specific list."

In the arena, Su Yang walked slowly to the middle circle and stood still.

He wanted to say hello to the Lakers players, especially Kobe Bryant, but the entire Lakers team had a terrified expression on their faces, like soldiers about to enter a bloody battle, and they didn't want to interact at all, so they simply ignored each other. .

Considering the rest time in the past three days, the Lakers have no one to say anything, and can only guess that a storm is coming.

The short whistle sound followed, and the referee walked to the center circle with the basketball in his arms, gesticulating left and right to explain the precautions.

The quarrels from the audience stopped, and the referee held the ball with both hands and gently threw it upwards.

Snapped!Gasol touches the ball first and moves back.

Artest reached out to catch the ball, turned around and threw it to Paul, and the Lakers attacked first.

Boos and cheers exploded at the same time. Paul ran the ball across the center line and passed it to Artest on the left wing. Start and run to the baseline, leaving space for singles.

Gasol turned around with the ball and put on a three-threat posture. The Clippers' defensive center immediately focused on it, but Barnes took the opportunity to start from the right elbow, and with the help of Paul's cover, he ran across the free throw line to Gasol and took The ball took off and made a mid-range shot.

George jumped up and interfered almost at the same time, the basketball clattered, and Randolph jumped high to grab the rebound.

Sighs and cheers exploded, the Clippers launched a counterattack, Su Yang dribbled the ball across the center line, and suddenly raised his hand and made a long pass.

The generals of the Lakers were retreating quickly, several pairs of eyes were fixed on Su Yang, they did not expect this move at all.

George received the ball from the 45-degree three-point line on the right, swayed left and right to throw Barnes away, and started to rush to the basket, while Jordan blocked Gasol and Artest with his back, leaving the entire basket area empty. Scoring difficulty is greatly reduced.

boom!The basketball rebounded into the net and the Clippers led 2-0.

"The players of the Lakers are a little nervous..." O'Neal said, "They are too focused on retreating, and at the same time keep paying attention to the trajectory of the basketball, but they ignore that Su Yang may make a long pass. They are throwing watermelons to pick sesame seeds."

"I agree with this view..." Barkley said, "They seem to want to specifically target the Clippers, and they have made a special defensive strategy adjustment for this, but it has caused them to lose the three-position defense at the free throw line that they are best at."

On the court, offense and defense transition.

Su Yang stays on the bottom line of the backcourt, close to Paul, and defends possible fast breaks in advance.

Seeing his action, Gasol sent the ball to Kobe in the distance, and the scene suddenly sounded the shouts of "Go Lakers".

Bryant ran the ball across the center line, passed it to Artest on the left wing, ran straight past it, and then twisted his hips and rushed to the corner.

Artest raised his hands up to observe for a moment, then turned around and threw the ball to the team logo, while Paul caught the ball and flirted, turned around and threw the ball to the right elbow, and then rushed up quickly, looking like he was about to play a hand-off Cooperated, but did not catch the ball again.

Barnes took the ball to test for a while, and handed the ball to Kobe who circled to the top of the arc, but there was still no room for an easy shot.

The basketball passed to the left corner again, Artest took the ball and started, and played the simplest pick-and-roll cooperation with Gasol.

Simple is simple, but Gasol is extremely tough, carrying Jordan to the basket, forcing the basket.

Beep!The referee blew his whistle, whistled Jordan for a thug foul, and gave Gasol two free throw opportunities.

Cheers and boos rang out one after another in the arena, and Su Yang walked to the team logo and waited with his hands on his hips.

Kobe walked beside him silently, and said in a low voice, "Actually, I still have a lot of moves that you haven't learned..."

There are still techniques that have not been learned?

Su Yang was a little surprised, but he didn't care. He replied casually, "Oh? Tell me."

Kobe smiled lightly: "For example, in the state of being stuck on the back, after the non-dominant hand catches the ball, he catches the ball and turns over to shoot. Difficult to react in time…”

Su Yang shrugged: "Let's hold high and play high. Is it very difficult for a typical center player's skills?"

Kobe pouted: "Where can you try later, I bet you can't do it as fast as me."

Su Yang smiled and stopped responding. Gasol just hit the first free throw.

Cheers sounded, the players of the two teams were ready to grab the rebound, but Gasol also hit the second free throw.

In the transition between offense and defense, Paul also defended the press.

Su Yang raised his hand to signal to serve the ball to the right sideline, and Jordan immediately threw the ball to Gordon.

The two teams came to the front court in a blink of an eye. Su Yang first pretended to slip to the baseline, and then used the screen to cut outside to get the ball.

After finishing the screen, Jordan followed out again, and then set up a wall for the second screen, blocking Paul tightly.

But Paul immediately stepped forward and got stuck in the direction towards the top of the arc, and Gasol moved laterally at the same time and got stuck in the direction of the sideline. The two worked together to block all of Su Yang's advancing routes. suddenly became tense.

Su Yang hurriedly bowed to protect the ball, and after a while, he borrowed Jordan's horizontal cover, and made a sudden start to hit the top of the arc.

Paul reacted very quickly, but he was half a beat too late, and Gasol had no time to switch defenses and intercept.

In the blink of an eye, Su Yang reached the free throw line, and Kobe quickly moved sideways to assist in the defense.

Gordon was emptied at this point, Su Yang immediately stopped and turned around, raised his hand and threw the ball to the right 45-degree three-point line.

Kobe hurriedly raised his right hand to return to the defense, but Gordon dodged sideways, took a step to adjust the rhythm, and made a quick shot.

Boom!The basketball crashed into the net, 4 to 2.

Offensive and defensive conversion, Paul ran across the center line with the ball, observed for a moment, then turned and crossed to the right.

Kobe caught the ball and stood still, turned his face to align with the right elbow, and pointed to the floor to raise the ball.

Seeing this, Gasol started, but Jordan made strong tops one after another, which made him very uncomfortable.

Seeing this situation, Kobe weighed 0.2 seconds, turned around and threw the ball to the left elbow, and then started to run over.

That kind of running route, which is obviously to receive a pass back from the waist, and then launch a post-up single, is almost the primary treatment option for the Lakers who are difficult to launch an offense. The Clippers have played many times in the Lakers video in the past. .

Gordon directly blocked the space to turn towards the free throw line, while Jordan and others were preparing to shrink to the basket.

Amidst the cheers, Kobe caught the ball on the right waist, as expected, and turned around towards the baseline.

Gordon didn't try to intercept, he always stopped on Kobe's left side, raised his right hand to interfere with the shot, and Kobe rushed to the basket without hesitation, ignored Jordan's defense, jumped up, turned in the air, roared, and hit a backhand plate.

boom!The basketball hits the board and falls.

Randolph grabbed the rebound and threw it to Su Yang. The Clippers took the opportunity to launch a third-line attack.

Cheers and boos came one after another. George stood still on the left elbow, bent down and picked up the basketball that Su Yang hit the ground with a long pass. Without any temptation, he turned over and pulled up, facing Barnes' frontal defense, and forced a shot cast.

Boom!The basketball crashed into the net, 6 to 2.

Gasol picked up the basketball and retreated out of bounds, raised his hand and threw it to Kobe at the three-point line for a fast break.

Kobe took the ball all the way to the left wing of the frontcourt, took advantage of Artest's cover, and walked to the sideline with his shoulders lowered and his center of gravity lowered.

George quickly switched defenses and intercepted without delay for half a second, wanting to double-team with Gordon.But that once thought, Kobe pushed the ball through the gap, and then rushed over in a big stride, using a trick to split the ball and get rid of the double-team in an instant.

Randolph hurriedly cut diagonally from the free throw line and stood on the edge of the reasonable collision zone ahead of time, confidently preparing to make an offensive foul, but Kobe did not slow down, but jumped with the ball, jumping to the basket like using a flash skill.

Randolph subconsciously slid and moved sideways, and raised his right hand to try to interfere, doing what he could.

But Kobe kicked the ground to take off, leaned back to the limit in the air, and moved forward and pushed his elbow to shoot in a nearly flat position.

The basketball flew straight up like a rocket, changed its trajectory slightly at the highest point, and fell as if it had run out of fuel. It hit the front of the basket with a bang, bounced up, and fell into the net with a bang.

The cheers in the Sytaips Center exploded, and Kobe fell flat and slid to the sideline before stopping.

Su Yang felt a little shocked. He immediately took the basketball and turned around to watch the run. Before Kobe got up and returned to defense, he rushed straight to the top of the frontcourt, and then used Jordan's cover to shake off Paul. He strode into the paint and faced the Gasol took off and hit the board with a high throw.

boom!The basketball rebounded and was caught, 8 to 4.

Kobe stomped his feet and shook his head, as if he was very dissatisfied with the Lakers' defense, and raised his hand to signal to serve quickly.

Gasol picked up the basketball and retreated out of bounds, and made a long pass to the left-wing three-point line. Barnes caught the ball and ran forward.

The Clippers team retreated quickly, methodically putting up a 23-zone defensive formation, and resolutely did not give room for breakthroughs.

Barnes tried for a while in the left corner, but failed to find a chance to break through, but still bit the bullet and rushed in.The Clippers immediately shrunk to close the siege. Unexpectedly, Barnes hurriedly threw the ball to the 45-degree three-point line on the right, and was almost intercepted.

Bryant catches the ball, cross-steps, easily out of the way of Gordon, who is trying to steal, and strides into the paint.

Seeing his movement, the Clippers started double-teaming again, and Gordon also blocked the route to turn and pass the ball to the top of the arc.

Kobe could only stop, but immediately threw the ball to the backboard, and then shouted, forcing his way through the double-team. It seemed that he wanted to throw himself and grab it, but the rebound rebounded too high, and it was too late to take off to catch it. .

Players from the two teams huddled under the basket, the basketball flew out of the baseline due to force, and the referee whistled for a violation.

The Clippers got the ball, Van Gundy waved his hand, and Jordan immediately went to pick up the basketball and also played a fast break.

Amidst the cheers of the audience, Su Yang dribbled the ball to the 45-degree three-point line on the left, and used Randolph's cover to break through the sideline.

Gasol and Paul mercilessly double-teamed, Su Yang pulled the ball back, pretended to reorganize, but turned around suddenly, and then used Randolph to cover, suddenly threw away Paul, and rushed to the free throw with a few strides Line, like entering no man's land.

Barnes hurriedly moved laterally from the right side to make up the defense, George got a wide open at the same time, and Su Yang stopped and passed the ball.

Kobe hurriedly rotated to make up the defense, but George resolutely made a quick shot and hit the net with a three-pointer.

11 to 4, Phil Jackson got up and asked for a timeout, and various voices rang out from the Staples Center.

(End of this chapter)