Jim Bass Ambition

Chapter 150 Desire
During the Timberwolves period, Brandon, who was not injured, was an unshakable starter. As for Chauncey Billups, even if he was the No. [-], he had to play Brandon as a substitute.

Fortunately, Brandon, who has experienced ups and downs, knows how difficult it is to be able to play in the NBA. He spares no effort to help Billups who is depressed and homeless.Under Brandon's guidance, Billups has changed a lot from his fondness for wild shots, and his judgment on the situation on the field has become more mature. The starting point guard also played impressively.

Although he is full of gratitude to Brandon in his heart, Billups has only one purpose in the finals at the moment, to defeat the opponent standing in front of him and help the team win the championship.

In the starting lineup of the Lakers, Kobe and Garnett are extremely talented, Ben Wallace and Artest are fierce, only Billups looks mediocre, there is nothing special, if you have to say, he played calmly and made mistakes Less, if the defense is not good at shooting, there is nothing left.

But Brandon has gradually discovered in the duels of these few games that his former little brother has grown into an outstanding player who can compete with him quietly.

The Pacers' tactic is still to give the ball to O'Neal, force Brad Miller inside, ignore Garnett's help defense, force dunks and score, and detonate the slightly quiet Conseco Arena.

Yes, we have the most dominant basketball player on the planet.This is the voice of every Pacers supporter.

O'Neal walked the bully step to show off his power, and Brad Miller had already sent the baseline ball to Billups, who quickly dribbled across the half.

Brandon, who was prepared, was close to Billups this time, preventing him from speeding up and playing a transition attack to score easily.

Seeing no chance, Billups turned around, used his strong body as a barrier to protect the basketball, waited for his teammates to get in position, handed the ball to Kobe, and started running by himself.

Since entering the league, Kobe has been carefully polishing his offensive skills. Although he himself does not admit it, Jordan's shadow can be seen in many of his technical actions.

Due to O’Neal’s departure from the team, Kobe Bryant’s percentage of outside ball-holding offenses has decreased this season, and he has more low-post back-up attacks. After two 45-degree post-ups, the flip-back jumper has become his regular weapon. .

After Billups drove the defender away, Kobe calmly hit Bowen with his back, using his strength advantage to create a shooting space and hit it easily.

Carlisle's pupils shrank. This is not a good signal. In the previous two games, under the interference of Bowen's small movements, Kobe's mid-range shooting percentage could only be said to be average. This is also one of the keys to the Pacers' victory in the first two games , but in this game, Kobe has hit 3 mid-range shots and only used 4 shots, which is very efficient.

In the history of the league, there are countless scoring masters, such as Skywalker David Thompson and Iceman George Gervin who scored crazily in the last game in order to compete for the scoring champion. For example, they once scored 57 points on Jordan's head. , Dominique Wilkins, the human film elite who averaged 42 points per game in 30.1 career matches with Joe Gang.Their common feature is that it doesn't matter if you score one, as long as I score more points than you on the offensive end.

But Kobe does not belong to this category. To some extent, he inherited Jordan's glorious tradition-not only to score on your head on the offensive end, but also not to let you score on the defensive end.

Under Kobe's marking, veteran Reggie Miller had no good chances. In fact, since the Lakers changed their tactics in the third game, his scoring dropped to about half of the previous two games.

In the finals, every goal must be contested, and there can be no mistakes. The Pacers can only find the most certain point, O'Neal.

But O'Neal is not omnipotent, he can't guarantee every goal is scored, this time, under the interference of Brad Miller, O'Neal's small hook missed.

The rebound from the backcourt popped up, and Mason tried to grab it, but Garnett took a quick step, flying in the air and stretching out his long arms to grab the rebound.

Mason's current situation is a bit embarrassing. In Phil Jackson's system last season, he served as an important transfer station between O'Neal on the inside and Kobe on the outside. Combining inside and outside, in a shooting system, Mason, who has poor shooting ability, can only do his old job in New York, blocking shooters, rushing for rebounds, and helping top defense...

Garnett catches the ball in the high post, he will not choose to fight hard with Mason who is full of flesh, that is what Artest likes to do, Garnett prefers to use his skills and flexibility to kill opponents.

Kobe and Billups cut in turn, but the chances of passing the ball were not very good. Garnett simply stepped back and made a free throw jumper from the top of the arc and made a hit.

The Lakers led by 3 points, Carlisle requested a timeout, replaced the extremely depressed Mason, and replaced Al Harrington.He hopes that Harrington can pull Garnett out of the three-point line to create space, and at the same time use his autonomous attack ability to share the excessive scoring pressure on O'Neal.

Al Harrington, as one of the representative figures of nonsense, possesses fairly comprehensive skills. He usually likes to use his height and weight to ravage small forwards, and bully power forwards with range and flexibility.

But in the face of Kevin Garnett, who has won the top three votes for the best defensive player for three consecutive years, Harrington's height, weight, and flexibility are all useless. The first attack came after Garnett's sudden close pressing. Down, walking violation.

Kobe hit the fourth mid-range shot of the game. Bruce Bowen said that he had tried his best. Kobe's receding range was so large that Bowen's crippled feet couldn't even reach Kobe's feet.

Larry Bird in the box had a gloomy face, and stretched out his right hand to wipe his huge hooked nose.

It seems that the Pacers want to end the series at home, and it is not easy.

Reggie Miller, who had been silent for a whole quarter, finally shot his first three-pointer. Although he did not completely get rid of Kobe's chasing defense, and the opponent's blocker's hand even blocked his sight, he tried hard The touch still ensures that Miller hits this three-pointer as he has done countless times in his career.

He has fought for this city for 16 years, fought with Larry Bird, Isaiah Thomas, Patrick Ewing and Michael Jordan. He has failed countless times, but he has also killed countless heroes. Now Miller, who has entered the twilight years of his career, only hopes to wear the championship ring that symbolizes the highest glory before retiring.

With 5 seconds left in the first quarter, Artest's out-of-bounds ball was a little risky, Miller suddenly started, grabbed the ball before Billups received the ball, and returned to the three-pointer with a light step back Outside the line, raise your hand.

The basketball draws a rainbow, and the end point is in the middle of the basket.

The Pacers once again overtook the score, and Larry Bird's frown was relaxed again.

　The [-] holiday is over... I didn't have time to spend time...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)