ATPnovel Chapter 78 The Battle of Tianwang Mountain
Chapter 78 The Battle of Tianwang Mountain
Chapter 78 The Battle of Tianwang Mountain
At Yao Ming's invitation, Su Yi sat next to the Rockets' bench.
Watching the Game [-] of the NBA Western Conference Finals in this place can be said to be an excellent movie-watching experience. In terms of the ticket price alone, it is equivalent to Yao Ming gifting a house to Su Yi.
"Hello, Sue!"
"Morning, Sue!"
Sean Battier and Lewis Scola greeted Su Yi politely when they saw that Yao Ming's friend had come to the scene.
Su Yi kept smiling and came to his seat.
He found that the other players were quite at ease.
Maddie enjoying a massage from his trainer.
Artest was lying on the bench alone, closing his eyes and trying to calm himself down.
After a short break, players from both sides went to the court to find their hands.
Amidst the roaring cheers at the Staples Arena, the referee blew the whistle to start the finals.
In the previous game, due to McGrady's absence, the Rockets let Artest play shooting guard to defend Kobe. As a result, Artest's iron-blooded defense played a miraculous effect.
Su Yi looked in the direction of the court. Ten players had already entered the court. McGrady started again and would have a direct dialogue with Kobe Bryant.
Rockets: Aaron Brooks (PG), Tracy McGrady (SG), Shane Battier (SF), Lewis Scola (PF), Yao Ming (C)
Lakers: Derek Fisher (PG), Kobe Bryant (SG), Ariza (SF), Pau Gasol (PF), Andrew Bynum (C)
What Su Yi is most concerned about must be McGrady's competitive state and the direct dialogue between him and Kobe, because this will determine the outcome of the game.
The intensity of the tiebreaker in the Western Conference Finals has naturally risen to an unprecedented level.
In the first round of offense, as soon as Yao Ming took over the basketball from the low post, Bynum stepped up directly, and Gasol immediately came to double-team.
Yao Ming threw the ball directly to McGrady outside the three-point line.
Facing Kobe's defense that blocked his eyes, McGrady immediately stopped and straightened his back when he caught the ball, and made a ecstatic jump shot.
The basketball flew out with an almost horizontal trajectory, bounced off the back edge of the basket, and refracted neatly into the net.
After switching the offense, Kobe decided to come over to the basketball and go one-on-one with McGrady.
After two tentative steps, Kobe sprinted at a high speed, suddenly stopped and leaned back, straightened his waist in the air, kicked his legs, and used the air to avoid McGrady's block, and the basketball went into the net hollowly.
Su Yi also cheered along with the audience. From the beginning, the two stars came hard, and the atmosphere on the scene was raised to the extreme.
He likes the flowing wheat and knows that Kobe will never be soft in this kind of game.
The angle of view turns to the inside line, and Yao Ming faces Pau Gasol on the baseline around the screen.
Yao Ming punched hard twice, Gasol softened a little, turned around lightly, dunked hard with both hands, and then slapped McGrady hard.
Su Yi smiled slightly. This was exactly what he was expecting. The former Yao Mai was back, and this match with the Black Mamba would be a feast no matter who wins. He liked this feeling very much.
The arena of the decisive battle is full of gunpowder.
As expected, Battier and McGrady double-teamed Kobe with two defensive masters.
Bryant gave the ball to the weak side Fisher, who made a three-pointer.
The score came to 5:5.
In the second quarter of the game, the two sides began to enter the period of strength.
Tracy McGrady is already off, Artest came off the bench.
Su Yi noticed a detail. As soon as the game started, Su Yi noticed that he bumped into Kobe without the ball.
The defensive champion who had broken Jordan's ribs was looking at Kobe Bryant with a fierce look.
Kobe, of course, slammed him back hard.
Su Yi felt that he was not watching a basketball game, the scene was a bit like the direction of WWE.
Yao Ming took advantage of Brooks' pick-and-roll and cut into the paint. He directly prepared to split the dunk with one hand.
In the confrontation full of gunpowder, the hit rate of both sides began to decline, and every point was difficult.
At the end of the second quarter, the Lakers 37:34 the Rockets. .
The third quarter begins.
Maddie re-enters.
Su Yi remembered that Kobe told himself that he understood McGrady's weakness.
Sure enough, as soon as McGrady came on the field in the third quarter, Kobe put an iron hand on his waist.
McGrady stood up and made a shot. Ariza quickly launched a counterattack and made a layup.
Kobe's death entanglement restrained McGrady's fiery touch in the opening game.
The main point of attack has changed. Yao Ming faced the double-teaming of Bynum and Gasol every time he attacked.
Su Yi watched the audience silently. The weakness of the Rockets is that they add more icing on the cake than give charcoal in the snow. Once they fall behind the outside line, they will misfire.
Under such circumstances, Yao Ming could only fight hard alone and helplessly.
But the Lakers' triangle offense is more than capable.
Although Yao Ming scored 16 points alone in the third quarter,
However, the Lakers still opened up the point difference with 67:56.
In this game, McGrady was injured after all, and scored 9 points at the end of three quarters under Kobe's defense.
Back on the bench, Yao Ming sat in front of Su Yi, panting heavily, his jersey already soaked in sweat.
"Come on, Yao!" Su Yi handed Yao Ming a bottle of water.
Yao Ming has been exercising his physical fitness, and now he has reached his physical limit.
Competitive sports, strength speaks for itself, but Su Yi still stands on a neutral point of view and hopes that Dayao will be the last one and play a classic decisive battle with Mamba.
"Fuck, fight them!" Dayao wiped his face with a towel indiscriminately, and walked into the arena again.
McGrady only made 5 of 1 shots in the third quarter. After re-entering the court in the fourth quarter, he took a step from the three-point line to face Kobe and hit the net.
The Lakers attacked, and Gasol hit Yao Ming back from a position on the right side of the penalty area, turned around and shot a jumper.
Dayao jumped over with all the strength in his body, a loud big hat was raised, and the domineering roar resounded through the center of Staples.
Once in the BJ Olympics, Gasol's younger brother was in the same position and in the same way, shooting the ball and leading Spain to a tie and China's reversal to win.
This time, Yao Ming showed no mercy!
Even Mamba couldn't stop McGrady with his touch, and hit two three-pointers one after another.
In a short period of time, the Rockets set off a 9:0 offensive frenzy, and the score was once forced to close to 2 points.
Staples was dead silent, just when everyone thought the balance of victory began to tilt towards the Rockets.
Before his inside position is settled, Mamba calmly shoots against Battier from outside the three-point line.
After hitting the bull's-eye, Bryant returned to the defense blankly, as if someone else scored the goal.
Facing the defense, McGrady signaled that Yao Ming didn't need a pick-and-roll. The league's fastest first step was to eat the Mamba raw.
Gasol, Odom jumped into the air together to intercept.
After everyone hit the ground, Tracy McGrady was still in the air, a picturesque drawbar around the basket.
However, the basketball hit the edge of the rim and missed.
Su Yi patted his thigh, feeling sorry for this beautiful drawbar. This was a must-go goal for McGrady before. At this critical moment, the injury affected him too much.
Switching offense, the Rockets defended perfectly. Just when the 24 seconds were about to run out, Kobe stepped on the three-point line and forced McGrady to take a shot.
In this most unreasonable area, the basketball is still hitting steadily.
In the last 3 minutes and 47 seconds of the war, the Lakers led by 7 points.
Su Yi watched everything on the field intently. This kind of intensity of offense and defense was the most exciting basketball game he had ever seen.
(End of this chapter)