The strongest unicorn in basketball

Chapter 281 Restricting Li Pu
"Yesterday's NBA game was an unpopular night! The fifth-ranked Wizards in the East actually defeated the No. 102 Pacers in the East by 96:[-] in the first game..."

The Wizards this season are definitely underrated.

Under the leadership of 10-year No. 12 pick John Wall and 4 No. 1 pick Bradley Beal, the team achieved the fifth record in the Eastern Conference and eliminated the league's No. [-] defensive Bulls [-]:[-] in the first round.

In the second round of the playoffs, facing the Pacers who had reached their peak this season, the Wizards snatched a victory from Indiana.

"...In addition to the upset in the East, there is also an upset in the West, and that is the newly promoted MVP Prince, who led the Kings to a 122:105 victory over the defending champion Thunder. The field is suppressing..."

Seeing this, Cousins ​​turned off the TV.

The broadcast content of the morning news made him not in the mood to continue watching.

"I'm afraid that guy is complacent at this time?"

Unknowingly, the hot man's smile appeared in Cousins' mind again.

"Crazy! Why would I miss him?"

Cousins ​​shook his head quickly, trying to drive the image of Li Pu out of his mind, but no matter how he tried to drive it away, the image of Li Pu was still lingering in his mind.

No way, since entering the league, Cousins ​​feels that he has been living in Li Pu's shadow.

It seems that from the day he met Li Pu, he started to "recite".

Except for the joint trial training, almost every time I met Li Pu, I belonged to the side that was deflated.

And every time Li Pu defeated himself, he would mock him.

Over time, I have actually made defeating Li Pu my goal in life.

Looking at Li Pu's complacent look at the beginning, he even cursed in front of Li Pu: "Don't you just have good teammates? Without Kevin and Russell, you are nothing!"

Unexpectedly, the circumstances of life are so miraculous that Li Pu and Cousins ​​switched clubs not long after.

The Li Pu teammate Cousins ​​once envied is now his teammate.

However, this was the beginning of his nightmare.

Because since he came to the Thunder, he has inevitably fallen into comparison with Li Pu.

Not as smart as Li Pu in playing, not as good in defense as Li Pu, not as interesting as Li Pu, not as handsome as Li Pu...

Cousins: No, I won’t talk about the previous ones. What’s the matter with Li Pushuai?Where am I not as handsome as him?
Everyone: What do you look like, do you have no idea?
In short, Cousins ​​is not happy in the Thunder, because people keep comparing him with Li Pu, the key is not comparable!

Therefore, Cousins ​​has been accumulating anger for a long time, and he intends to vent his anger against the Kings in the playoffs, and use a clean 4:0 to tell Li Pu that your strength is nothing more than this, you can do it, I can do it too!

However, things don't always go as Cousins ​​expected.

They actually lost the first game, and it was a disastrous defeat!

what is this?Co-author Li Pu is the thigh, and Durant and Westbrook are just pendants on Li Pu's lap?

Don't tell me, such an argument actually appeared on the Internet!
An angry Durant kept refuting such remarks on the Internet, well, of course he used a trumpet!

But no matter how you justify it, if you lose, you lose. This cannot be justified!
Putting these aside, what they have to consider is, what should they do in the next game?

With such doubts in mind, Cousins ​​drove out of the villa and went to the Thunder's training facility.

The team's coaching staff formulated a tactic to limit Li Pu this time, and they need to hurry up to train today.

Time flies in a flash, and soon, a day has passed.

The time soon came to May 5, the second game of the two-team series, which will be held at the Chesapeake Energy Arena.

When Li Pu walked into the arena again tonight, he was treated completely differently from last time!

The Thunder team staff in the previous game didn't pay attention to the Kings, so everyone can greet Li Pu magnanimously.

But now that the king has won, Li Pu has immediately become the biggest enemy of the Thunder team's advancement. How can the staff of the Thunder team give Li Pu a good face?
At 7:30 in the evening, the game was held as scheduled.

Lip still won the jump ball in front of Cousins.

The Kings took the lead, and when Bledsoe dribbled to the frontcourt and delivered the ball to Lip at the top of the arc, he headed for the corner.

At this time, he suddenly discovered that the Thunder's defensive lineup had changed tonight?
Li Pu looked at Ibaka in front of him, and was very puzzled in his heart. What kind of rules is this?
Ibaka seemed to be aware of Li Pu's doubts, so he defended harder, and almost snatched the ball from Li Pu's hands.

Although Li Pu didn't understand the Thunder's thinking, it didn't stop him from attacking.

Ibaka, who is not seriously injured now, has no slower lateral movement speed than Li Pu, so it is impossible to use the face-up singles to play this set!

But Li Pu didn't just have this set of offensive methods.

Li Pu gave the ball to Butler on one side, then turned his back to Ibaka, sat inside, and then reached out for the ball!

That's right, Li Pu intends to back Ibaka!

Ibaka's help defense is very good, but his top defense ability, limited by his size, is still a bit worse.

Butler handed the ball back to Lip.

Then Li Pu began to punch Ibaka on his back.

With just two strokes, Li Pu has already taken two steps inside.

But at this moment, before Li Pu could turn around, he found a player from the Thunder double-teaming him.

Li Pu immediately passed the ball back to Butler. At this time, Sefolosha, who had just assisted in defending, returned to Butler again.

But Butler soon also appeared to be blocked in his breakthrough!

Now, Li Pu finally came to his senses, the opponent actually used zone defense!

In order to restrict Li Pu, the opponent resorted to the tactics of zone defense, in order to block Li Pu's internal route.

And when Li Pu got the ball on the outside, they asked Ibaka to match up, and Ibaka's movement speed could keep up with Li Pu. In this way, Li Pu's three-point shooting would be interfered.

This tactic is very simple, but the restrictions on Li Pu are indeed obvious. The key point is that this tactic has a problem, that is, the defense on the outside will be relatively weakened.

Especially when Li Pu faced Li Pu with only a few perimeter defensive forces, there were a lot of opportunities for other players of the Kings!
No, Butler split the ball after breaking through and passed the ball to Middleton who moved over.

Middleton pulled up directly and made a three-pointer!

"Duang!" But the ball missed!
The basketball bounced out of the basket, Cousins ​​protected the rebound, and the Thunder defended successfully!

(End of this chapter)