lakers championship

Chapter 85 The Last Hope
Can play all day, this is to imitate Captain America's lines.

But to be honest, the fall just now still hurts a bit.

Tianyang wanted to comfort the coach and teammates not to worry, and at the same time not show timidity in front of the Duke players.

He took a deep breath and walked slowly to the free throw line.

The action of the shot was relatively slow, but the two free throws were hit steadily.

The teams played two more rounds, and the game entered a commercial timeout.

Johnny forced him to the bench, asked Shelfield to replace the shooting guard position, and then asked the team doctor to take him back to the locker room.

Without Tianyang, the game seemed to suddenly become less intense. Sequoia and Duke's offensive rhythms slowed down, and the tactics discussed by the two teams before the game were almost useless.

The fans relaxed, but the four bosses in the southeast and northwest couldn't stay idle.

All four of them were thinking about the same question, what if Tianyang got injured?
The owners of the 76ers, Celtics, and Timberwolves are okay. They just sent a text message to the general manager of the team, asking if they have a detailed preparation plan.

Jim was the most nervous. He put in a lot of effort to get Tianyang.

Not to mention that he had to watch every game from the knockout round, and he had a falling out with the family board of directors, and the family members were all on Jenny's side.And in order to make Tianyang happy and facilitate contact after the lottery meeting, he owed Nicholson twice.

It is true that Nicholson is a famous lake honey, but the interests belong to the interests, and the favors owed must be repaid.

He is a bit desperate now. If Tianyang cannot perform due to injury, his days in power with the Lakers will end early.

Just as restless as him is Nike President Eden. The moment the scene of Tianyang's injury appeared, the signing team who had a meeting with him gasped.

They are also afraid that SkyOcean will be injured. Although they signed a flexible contract, they are still very troubled. After all, the team is making in-depth plans every day on how to rely on SkyOcean to further expand China's market share.

If you spend a lot of time in vain, it is also a loss.

……

In a blink of an eye, the first half of the match between the two teams ended. The Sequoia team relied on the advantage established when Tianyang was on the court, only trailing by 6 points and not collapsing, which is considered a very good situation.

Johnny rushed straight into the player tunnel, without even saying hello to the Sequoia fans who came from afar, he ran and walked back to the locker room. The first sentence he asked was, "How is it? How is the injury?"

The team doctor didn't speak, Tianyang stood up with a smile, "It's okay, it was just a little pain just now, but it's gone now."

After finishing speaking, Tianyang turned around again, made a crotch dribble, and then jumped up on the spot to shoot an empty basket, "Look, it's all right!"

Johnny crossed his arms and looked directly at Tianyang, "Don't you lie to me?".

"Why am I lying to you?" Tianyang was angry and funny, "Don't you know if I hurt you or not?"

Johnny ignored it and turned to look at the team doctor, "Say, don't lie to me."

The team doctor seemed to be thinking about it for a long time, and finally choked out a few words, "It's just a slight bruise, you can hit..."

Johnny raised his hand to interrupt, "Just say 'but' what follows."

"But if there is another collision, it may cause injuries, and if it is serious, it will affect your career."

"Then you rest for the second half, Donyan, come here." Johnny turned his head and shouted.

Before Donian could answer, Tianyang shook his head, "It depends on the situation, if you need me..."

"No, losing 30 points won't let you go, don't think about it anymore." Johnny waved his hand.

"The championship is close at hand, how can I lose the chain and drag my feet?"

"Do you think Tianyang has lost the chain?" Johnny didn't argue with him, and turned to ask the rest of the Sequoia team.

"No, absolutely not, how could it be?" The rest of the Sequoia team said in unison.

"Did you see it?" Johnny spread his hands, "Don't feel guilty, take a good rest."

Tianyang lowered his head, remained silent for a long time, then raised his head again, "But I will feel guilty myself."

For a moment, Johnny didn't know what to say, and the others fell silent.

The air was a little quiet, and Sheffield coughed twice, walked to Tianyang, put his right hand on his shoulder, "Brother, life is much bigger than basketball, even if you don't win the championship, so what, we hope to see you in this year's draft I was the first one to walk up to the stage and shake hands with Adam Silver, don’t you think so?”

"Yes! In the final four, we are already proud enough!"

"The NBA won't look down on you just because you didn't win a championship."

"Have a good rest, don't pick sesame seeds and lose watermelon."

The teammates agreed, and Sheffield patted him on the shoulder, "See? Everyone doesn't want to think that you are injured. Besides, I have been playing for so long. If it weren't for Duke's perfect shooting percentage, we would not be behind."

The implication of these words is that there is still a chance to win.

After the teammates finished speaking, Tianyang shrugged and spread his hands, "Brothers, I am so touched by you, but did you make a mistake? What the team doctor said is that if I encounter a strong impact again, it will be over if I don't make a layup." ? Everyone else at Duke, they don't foul like Grayson does."

After Tianyang finished speaking, the team doctor nodded, and the other players of the Sequoia team were stunned, as if it was true.

"What you said is very good." Johnny clapped his hands, "but I am the coach, you should just rest."

……

The two teams continued in the second half.

Tianyang appeared on the bench and received applause from all the audience, including Duke fans.

The big stone in Jim Bass' heart finally fell.

But what is more shocking is that Grayson played again.

The old coach K was also afraid of losing. Without Grayson, Duke's defensive level dropped by at least a notch. This is why Duke failed to get a big lead in the first half without Tianyang.

With Grayson in charge, Shelfield has never been able to shoot as many threes comfortably.

Coupled with Grayson's defensive tandem, the performance of other Sequoia players was also affected.

Tianyang applied to play several times, but Johnny simply ignored it as if he didn't see or hear it.

Fortunately, Roscoe broke out suddenly, with 3 consecutive points on offense, layups, breakthrough fouls, steals Ingram on defense, helped Grant help defend Marshall, and saved off the field to save the ball.

After a wave of crazy operations, the point difference finally did not widen further.

But not expanding does not mean tying. In the last 3 minutes of the game, after Roscoe failed to score another layup, the Sequoia team was 72 points behind 80 to 8.

The person who defended Roscoe was none other than Grayson. He raised his hands arrogantly, showing off his muscles in front of Roscoe.

Roscoe wanted to retreat quickly, but he ignored it completely and went around directly from the side.

Unexpectedly, Grayson suddenly stretched out his right foot and hooked Roscoe.

Roscoe fell to the ground immediately, his brow bone was directly smashed, and blood flowed all over the right side of his face.

Without saying anything, Shelfield punched Grayson in the face.

The players on both sides immediately fought into a ball.

Coach Johnny rushed up to pull the man, but was hit by random punches, shaking a few times and fell to the ground.

Tianyang couldn't bear it, and wanted to rush forward to do it, Blount hugged his thigh.

"Don't be impulsive, you are the last hope!"

(End of this chapter)