Chapter 115
Let's go back to the game.
Kobe is not here, Lakers scorer Nick Young finally has the opportunity to release his desire to attack. Li Qiang defends on the right, and Nick Young breaks through the left and scores two points. There is another sentence in the league: "Never break through from the side where Li Qiang stands." This seems to have become a hidden rule against the Timberwolves.
83:82
After passing the midfield, the "assistant defender" Noel handed the ball to Li Qiang. The Timberwolves' point guard level is relatively poor, which has always been a problem that bothers Li Qiang. Fortunately, Noel also knows this and usually shows his good side in front of the boss every bit, so Li Qiang still leaves a gap in the main position.
This time, Atai didn't dare to let Li Qiang shoot three-pointers outside, and the distance was two steps away tightly.
Li Qiang seemed to have a harmless smile on his face...
Li Qiang took the ball and made a move to break through, and suddenly put the ball on the spot, as if he was about to jump to the three-pointer again.
This action is too realistic, even Atai, who has rich defensive experience, can't help but raise the focus. However, Li Qiang moved at this moment, and passed Atai in a lightning step.
In fact, with Li Qiang's strength and speed, he can take a step forward without making fake moves and then use his strength to force Atae. However, Li Qiang has become more and more fond of all kinds of fake moves recently, because it is beautiful.
The United States. This is the biggest gap between the little emperor LeBron and James and Kobe, Jordan and others. In terms of strength, the little emperor is not worse than Kobe. On the contrary, his passing vision is more prominent and has a greater view of the overall situation. But "ugliness" is also an inevitable part of him.
In the past, Li Qiang, including the first two years after joining the NBA, many people used LeBron as his template. Their positioning is indeed very similar. They are all swingers who can play from No. 1 to No. 5. They are all extremely powerful and like to rely on their physical fitness to force others. Therefore, they often look a bit ugly, or a little nicer, and domineering.
In fact, subconsciously, Li Qiang once used the little emperor as his template. A single fight with the little emperor in the Nike youth training camp was also widely reported by many media. Li Qiang was also complacent with his domineering aura.
However, it was not until Li Qiang came to the Timberwolves that Li Qiang realized that the audience likes beauty. To be the basketball emperor recognized by everyone, you cannot play in autumn and look like a beast. The smooth attack is what the audience really likes. Jordan's movements, whether it is the bounce flying in the air or the elegant backward jump shot, satisfy the audience's expectations 100%.
Therefore, he finally became the God of Basketball. Instead of some of his predecessors who are not weaker than him. Only when you watch Jordan's playing basketball videos do you know why he is the God of Basketball, because you will fall in love with basketball just by watching his videos.
It's that simple.
Kobe is known as "the closest person to Jordan in history" because his playing ball is also beautiful, and watching him play ball is also a pleasure. However, due to the gap in physical fitness, he is less elegant than Jordan.
At that time, Li Qiang's second year in the NBA league playoffs just started. When the Timberwolves who missed the playoffs cheered and finally had their holidays, Li Qiang had already started to continue training in the basketball court. Missing the playoffs was a blow to him. Although it was a helpless transfer that led to no playoffs to play, Li Qiang's attitude became no longer impetuous. He began to carefully find out Jordan's video, analyze and see his own problems. After several days of observation, Li Qiang finally discovered the importance of "beauty".
Since the third year of NBA, the audience in Minneapolis were surprised to find that the new wolf king Li Qiang finally played his unique style, playing more and more elegantly and smoothly. The more this happens, the more they like the new wolf king. After winning the championship last year, Li Qiang finally replaced Garnett and became the new wolf king recognized and accepted by everyone in the city.
By the way, after Li Qiang passed Artai like lightning, Bynum, the Lakers' inside gate, had stretched out his hands and stood in one step outside the reasonable collision zone.
Of course, Li Qiang would not be so stupid that he would jump immediately and take one to hit someone and make a foul. Without any hesitation, Li Qiang stopped the mid-shot and took the knife and fell, and two copies were made.
85:82
This is the benefit of Li Qiang's weapon library having too many killing weapons.
However, with the physical fitness of ordinary people, it is absolutely impossible to achieve such sudden stops like Li Qiang after a lightning breakthrough. Wade fell from the peak of his career because of too many sudden stops, but Li Qiang didn't have to worry at all. This level of emergency stop would not cause any damage to his knee joints after strengthening the Tensile Refining Art.
"squeak--"
Kobe couldn't help but finally got on the court.
After the rest, Kobe seemed to be very powerful. Since this time he was the third-year rookie No. 1 pick Brack defending Kobe, Li Qiang and Kobe, who were in a rare stage of a scoring battle.
The Li Ke combination of the Seismic League back then is now splitting the two teams in the first round of the playoffs.
95:94
There are 8 minutes left in the fourth quarter.
Kobe was in excellent condition these few minutes, making Brak who defended him a hole. He rarely bit the Timberwolves' score while Li Qiang was present. However, Kobe's good luck ended here.
"Brack, go and guard Atai. Kobe is left to me." After saying that, Li Qiang walked towards Kobe with a harmless smile.
"Hi! Kobe, I did a good job just now!" Li Qiang praised.
"I will beat you up!" Kobe said viciously. On the field, he will always be like this.
"Then I'll wait and see." Li Qiang had no intention of refuting, and there was no need for this. The gap between the two people was there, and Li Qiang was not worried at all.
Suddenly, Kobe jumped without warning. He was still two steps away from the three-point line.
"Swish"
Li Qiang was careless for a moment and actually let Kobe make an extremely long three-pointer.
95:97
"Never underestimate the heart of a strong man!" Li Qiang secretly warned himself to be serious.
After Li Qiang received the ball from outside the three-point line and forced a breakthrough, he handed it over to Pores, who was freed up. The latter lived up to expectations and easily scored two points.
97 square meters.
In the next round, Kobe took the ball and pretended to break through Li Qiang, but passed the ball to Nash. Nash quickly passed the ball to Bynum in the inside. The Lakers scored two more points.
Li Qiang took the ball and came outside the three-point line. Facing Atai's pressure defense, he suddenly turned over and jumped back again, and overtook the score, 100:99.
Fisher came to the three-point line with the ball and gave it to Kobe. Kobe didn't even think about it and passed it directly to Nash in the bottom corner. Nash took the knife and fell, and the Lakers led again 100:102.
In the next few minutes, the Lakers actually maintained an extremely high shooting percentage, and with 3 minutes left, they still led the Timberwolves with a three-pointer with a 110:113 advantage.
"You can't lose in the first game of the playoffs!" Li Qiang thought to himself. It was really careless to let Kobe score in that period just now. Kobe's feel is hot now. Once Kobe feels hot, it will be difficult to defend against it. Even under Li Qiang's super high-intensity defense, he also relied on the Lakers' pick-and-roll to shoot three goals. This is the most normal but even good result for anyone in the league who defends Kobe, but it is already a shame for Li Qiang.
Let's make a big effort! In the first round of the playoffs, I can't tolerate my team losing.
Chapter completed!