roccoschili Chapter 257
Chapter 257
The Wizards serve, and there are less than 10 minutes left in the game. After Hinrich dribbled the ball to the frontcourt, he still played a pick-and-roll with Li Kaiming. The rest of the Wizards ran without the ball. A pick-and-roll was made for Nick Young, and Hinrich made an inside pass to Nick Young who was running, and the latter threw the ball as soon as he caught it, making a crisp hit.
The opportunity for the ball actually came out. It was completely open. Li Kaiming blocked Ray Allen, who was chasing Nick Young, but the latter still missed.
The Celtics attacked, Rondo broke through to the middle distance with the help of a screen, and then passed the ball to Pierce on the outside with a wide range. Horn's Ray Allen.
Fortunately, Ray Allen didn't feel good tonight. The ball didn't hit. Garnett and Blatche competed for the rebound. The basketball was pointed out. Li Kaiming dribbled the ball and launched a fast break. Now the Wizards Need to break the scoring shortage, if this continues, the game time will almost run out.
When Garnett saw that Li Kaiming wanted to play with the ball by himself, he immediately followed up. Davis couldn't keep up 100%.
But even with a full-speed inside like Garnett, the former's follow-up defense is not enough for someone like Li Kaiming who has elite-level outside speed.
That is to say, Li Kaiming dribbled forward by himself, so his speed slowed down so that Garnett could barely catch up behind his ass.
The rest of the Celtics also quickly returned to defense. Ray Allen and Rondo were the fastest runners. They were waiting outside the three-point line early on, ready to directly help Li Kaiming to brake.
The rest of the Wizards lined up in three lanes to start a fast break. Hinrich ran to the bottom corner. Li Kaiming saw Rondo and Ray Allen standing at the top of the arc. Throw it to Hinrich in the corner.
Just when Hinrich was about to catch the ball and throw it by himself, he suddenly saw Li Kaiming wink at him, and then pointed his finger at the sky. Is this an alley catch?
Garnett, who was following behind Li Kaiming, saw Li Kaiming pass the ball out, and had just breathed a sigh of relief, but suddenly found that Li Kaiming in front of him had started again. He rushed to the vicinity of the free throw line. At this time, there was another Celtics player in the frontcourt, Pierce who ran to defend Hinrich. Before the latter could turn around, Li Kaiming kicked off directly one step inside the free throw line. up!
And Hinrich in the bottom corner also had a tacit understanding. Before Li Kaiming took off, he threw the ball directly towards the basket!
At this time, there was no one under the basket. After Li Kaiming glided in the air for a second, he blocked Hinrich's pass with one hand at a distance of one meter in front of the basket, and then his whole body bent into a bow in the air. Immediately afterwards, all the energy stored in his body exploded. Li Kaiming dunked with a tomahawk with one arm, and poured the basketball into the basket!
78:88.
"Damn it! Li Kaiming played three quarters without any rest, but he can do such a move. Isn't he tired? What a monster!" the commentator Braden exclaimed.
After Li Kaiming landed on his knees, he high-fived Hinrich, and the audience's emotions were mobilized again by the ball. His own star has not given up yet, and there is still hope for the game!
Next, the Celtics attacked. Facing the boos of the fans in the MCI Center, Garnett challenged Blatche's defense with his back. Li Kaiming got the ball, so Li Kaiming passed the ball to Hinrich, while he threw off his arms and ran forward desperately!
Li Kaiming's speed without the ball is the fastest on the court. It is estimated that only Nate Robinson, the little potato on the bench of the Green Army, can keep up, and the others don't even think about it.
Garnett panted heavily and gritted his teeth as he chased after Li Kaiming's back, while yelling at the latter in his heart, "You are playing wild, how can you run so fast, is there a wolf chasing you?"
This kind of tactic Hinrich has played against Li Kaiming more than once. Seeing that Li Kaiming ran ahead of everyone, Hinrich directly made a long pass through the audience and passed the ball to the position one step ahead of Li Kaiming. .
On the other hand, Li Kaiming accelerated a second time, caught up with Hinrich's pass, and was already at the three-point line. The moment Li Kaiming received the ball, Li Kaiming's speed slowed down because he had to adjust his speed. The rhythm of the basket is just less than a second. Garnett, who is chasing after him, has already followed. Li Kaiming made a decisive decision and directly combined the ball, starting from the three-point line for a three-step layup!
Victor in the commentary was stunned, "Hey, what is Li Kaiming going to do? Three-step layup from the three-point line?"
Garnett behind did not expect that Li Kaiming would be so straightforward, because as long as it was a little later, Garnett could directly pull the ball down with an understatement foul, but now he can't do it!
Li Kaiming took two strides in a row, like a triple jumper, each step can stride a super long distance, and then directly connect to a one-arm split buckle!
Take 2 more points, 80 to 88!
Li Kaiming returned the Celtics 4-0 alone, and the point difference returned to the 8 points at the beginning of the fourth quarter.
There are still 8 minutes until the end of the game, and 3 minutes before Li Kaiming's key shooter time.
The Celtics missed two rounds in a row, so this time they are going to play a success rate. They handed the ball to Pierce to single-hand Thornton and scored 2 points steadily. Thornton spent almost all of his strength to defend Pierce tonight, but Even this does not prevent the latter at all.
80 to 90.
The Celtics also made changes on the defensive end. When the Wizards served, all four players except Rondo returned to the backcourt to defend, just to prevent Li Kaiming from using a fast break to hit another one.
The two teams played like this until the last 5 minutes of the game. At this time, the point difference between the two sides was 86 to 95. The Celtics maintained the point difference steadily. Later, they simply started to restrict Li Kaiming from receiving the ball, so the Wizards The offense once again bogged down.
And when there were 5 minutes left in the game, Li Kaiming felt the familiar offensive badge effect again, so he took over the ball directly just like the last time he played the Bulls.
After he dribbled the ball to the frontcourt for the first time, he took advantage of Garnett not sticking up to defend, and directly pulled out a shot one step away from the three-point line!
It was too late for Garnett to reach out, and Li Kaiming scored a three-pointer!
89:95.
In the Celtics' offense, Rondo made a pass error and was intercepted by Thornton. Li Kaiming directly asked for the ball from Thornton's hands, and then dribbled it to the frontcourt. Garnett chose to defend closely this time. Li Kaiming made a super large change of direction. Shaking Garnett and breaking through the three-point line, after letting Garnett move inside the three-point line, he suddenly made a sudden stop and stepped back, retreated outside the three-point line, and then pulled it up and threw it!
Three more points!
92 is better than 95!
The audience at the MCI Center fell into madness, because the same scene happened at the Bulls' home court a few days ago. Will the same thing happen again tonight?
In the commentary seat, Braden and Victor originally planned to sign things to get off work, but now they sat up straight and stared at the field without blinking, "Could it be that Li Kaiming is going to create again at home?" Miracle?"
The fans at the scene wanted to see their home team make a comeback, and the commentators in the commentary booth were watching the excitement. Only Doc Rivers, who was on the bench for the Celtics, didn't want to see such a thing happen. .
He didn't want to follow in the footsteps of the Bulls, so he yelled directly at the players on the court, "Take the ball in a double-team, defend the rest if you can, and let them go if you can't!"
In order not to overturn himself, Rivers actually planned to let superstars like Garnett and Pierce lower their bodies to double-team Li Kaiming to catch the ball. It seems that he had watched the video of the previous Bulls game.
And Garnett and others actually did exactly what Rivers said, and didn't have any other ideas. It can be seen that the military discipline of the Green Army is still very strict.
The Celtics used this defensive method, and Li Kaiming had to pass the ball to other teammates. If someone double-teamed him, someone would definitely be open, so his passing also created some opportunities for his teammates, although his The teammates feel average tonight, but they are professional players after all, and they take a lot of shots, so they can definitely hit a few.
Under the frenzied defense of the Celtics, in the next few minutes, Li Kaiming was defended and failed to score a point. Instead, he got 3 assists for passing the ball to his teammates.
The Celtics double-teamed him and also paid for the standby. The Wizards chased the score to 30 points with 3 seconds left before the end of the game. Sanders used the last timeout and was ready to play this attack , as long as he can score this time, no matter where Li Kaiming is in the end, just hand the ball to him and it's over.
After the two sides prepared on the bench for 2 minutes, the Wizards served the frontcourt.
Li Kaiming served the ball out of bounds because he is tall, has good vision, and has a good passing technique.
Li Kaiming took the ball from the referee and passed it to Hinrich, who came out of the cover. Immediately, he rushed to the field, took the basketball from Hinrich's arms, and dribbled the ball straight into it!
The Wizards trailed by 3 points. If they wanted to win this game, they had to score within 6 seconds of the attack, and then defend against each other, so that the initiative returned to the Wizards.
Therefore, this offense must not shoot a three-pointer. The Celtics will strictly guard against his three-pointer, and if the three-pointer is too fast and does not make it, the outcome of this game is equivalent to a hammer sale.
Li Kaiming dribbled the ball and broke through the Celtics' outside defense. Garnett and Davis on the inside had already surrounded him. Li Kaiming didn't care, and directly joined the ball to the basket in three steps. basket.
Based on Li Kaiming's muscle memory in training, the ball should be scored, but just as he was about to take the ball, Garnett, who followed him, slapped him hard on the arm.
Li Kaiming has a deep understanding of the strength of the inside line in the nba. Even though Garnett's strength is not strong in the inside line, he still heard a loud "snap" sound, and then a burst of fire came from his arm. There is a hot feeling, you don't need to look to know it, it will definitely be swollen later!
However, the condition of the arm is secondary, because Garnett's slap directly destroyed Li Kaiming's layup, and the basketball hit the lower edge of the backboard, and all this happened in a flash. It looks like Garnett smashed the Wizards' offense directly with a pegboard cap!
Li Kaiming was knocked off balance by Garnett and fell to the camera area behind the backboard.
At the same time, Garnett thought his defense killed the game, stood under the backboard, faced tens of thousands of Wizards fans, hammered his chest twice, and roared at the same time!
The entire MCI center was silent. Everyone thought that Garnett's defense ended the game, but no one booed Garnett for a while...