From sparring to superstar

Chapter 216 214. Shocking Big Hat, Attack Onslaught!
What is an excellent three-pointer?Take advantage of the opening opportunity when it presents itself!
Players with a three-point evaluation of 80 determined by the system can stably seize open three-point opportunities.

Li Ao's current three-point evaluation is 79. When running catch and shoot, relying on the full-level "catch and shoot expert", his three-pointer can be temporarily increased to 84, and he is also a leader among excellent three-pointers.

Although limited to catching and shooting three-pointers, he is a catch-and-shoot style of play. In the eyes of others, he has become an excellent three-pointer.

Leading by 4 points in a single quarter, Li Ao was not careless. If the opponent hadn't let him go just now, he scored a three-pointer, and the lead would be only 1 point.

The OK combination is invincible!

Kobe had 11 points and 3 assists in a single quarter, and O'Neal had 10 points and 2 assists. The two of them started the OK offensive and almost overtook the score.

In addition to this, there is another troublesome question. After returning to the bench, Li Ao said to Gentry: "Alvin, the Sharks rarely played singles in this quarter."

Gentry nodded: "Next, we will strengthen our offensive firepower."

Back from the intermission, Gentry continued to use the backcourt combination of Mike Bibby and Li Ao, and the frontcourt combination of Jordan, Matt Harprin and O'Neal was replaced.

The Zen master sent a combination of Fisher, Kobe, Richmond, Horry, and Medvedenko.

At the beginning of the second quarter, the Lakers took the lead.

On the opposite side, Horry, who has a wide shooting range and a large running range, is playing power forward. Jordan curled his lips, as expected of a Zen master.

He moved to the small forward position, defending Richmond, and Matt Harprin had outstanding awareness. He didn't need Jordan's signal, and he took the initiative to meet Horry and followed him.

Propelling point guard Fisher went to the frontcourt to give the ball to Kobe, and Kobe dealt the card from the top arc and passed it to Richmond.

Richmond is really bad at catching and shooting and cutting without the ball. His career 39% three-point shooting rate and the ability to average 1.5 three-pointers per game cannot be fully utilized in the preseason.

But for singles, the new season has just begun, and he has not degenerated due to the long absence of opportunities to play. Facing Jordan's defense, he made a two-pointer in singles!

With this singles ability, although Zen Master regrets that Richmond cannot complete the role transition in the later stages of his career like Glenn Rice and Horry, it is also a good choice to give ten minutes of singles time in each game to share the pressure for Kobe .

Anyway, the former star player who got the basic salary of the veteran just needs a little use.

Offensive and defensive transition, the Clippers attack.

The Clippers are now in full swing and want to take advantage of O'Neal's absence to widen the point difference.

Jordan catches the ball and hits Richmond with his back and singles, and relies on hitting one step and then turning around and retreating. Richmond can't jump back at all.

Jordan looked at Richmond with a contemptuous smile, jumped up, raised the ball and shot... "snap"... the ball was just lifted to his chest, a hand stretched out from behind him diagonally, and shot the ball down!

Jordan was too eager to respond to a shot at the second second shooting guard of his era to notice Fisher stalking him!
Fisher rushed to snatch the ball before Jordan, nimbly bypassed Jordan who was counter-robbing like a fish, and started a counterattack!
Seeing this scene, the Lakers players were very excited. The opponent wanted to start in the second quarter, and they wanted to too!

Fisher ran all the way, and when he turned around to start a fast attack, he caught sight of Spider-Man who was chasing up from behind.

Can't help but sneer, his counterattack, but even Iverson can't catch up!

He rushed all the way to the front court, to the free throw line, listening to the cheers and screams of the fans, he grabbed the ball, took off with two steps, and dunked with a three-step tomahawk...

"Snapped"

"bang"

Just as Fisher raised the ball to the highest point, he was slapped by Li Ao and hit the backboard!

Li Ao's chasing hat reappeared when he rushed to the audience!
"Hat Chaser Level 5" is triggered, chasing and defending a single player's fast attack speed +5, when chasing and defending a single player's fast attack frame to block, bounce +5!

Cheers broke out again at the scene, but a different group of people cheered.

Li Ao turned around immediately after landing, and chased after the ball that bounced towards the front of the basket.

Fisher fell to the floor in astonishment, the pain woke him up, and he quickly got up to catch up.

Li Ao grabbed the ball first and advanced all the way to the top arc. Facing Kobe who rushed up from the wing, Li Ao didn't stop and rushed into the three-point line, avoiding Kobe's attack.

Richmond also rushed forward, Li Ao stopped two steps inside the top arc, took off, and made a two-point shot...

'Stop level 5' is triggered, the core strength is greatly enhanced, and the impact of force exerted by the emergency stop is greatly reduced, successfully getting rid of Kobe who is defending, and the CIC is +3.

Li Ao made a two-pointer against Richmond's emergency stop!
From being intercepted and dunked by Xiaoyu to counterattacking and dunking by Spiderman after blocking the shot, the Clippers players felt like they were on a roller coaster. They thought they were going straight down to the trough, but they didn’t expect that the decline was just a sprint to increase their potential energy. Higher peaks!

"beep"

The referee blew his whistle and gave Li Ao a technical foul.

Li Ao shook his index finger at Fisher who was chasing him back. The referee hesitated for a second before blowing his whistle.

Gentry on the sidelines was speechless.

Jordan on the court also covered his face. Forget it, young players should be like this. When he was not young, he was still shaking his fingers at Mutombo. Besides, Spiderman even avenged him. Avenged two people.

This did not affect the momentum of the Clippers players climbing to the top, but instead gave them time to celebrate the chase and counterattack jumpers around Spider-Man.

The fans at the scene became even more excited because of this technical offense. The Clippers fans cheered frantically, shouting Spider-Man, and the Lakers fans responded with boos.

However, among the boos of the Lakers fans, there was somewhat unwillingness.

It's even more embarrassing!

The same goes for Zen Master, Spider-Man has actually developed the emergency stop jumper to look good... Wait, the Black Mamba seems to have mentioned this to him and he needs to be on guard, but he didn't take it to heart. He believed what the Black Mamba said, but thought At most, it started to develop like last season's back-up, but it just started to develop.

But this lonely afro doesn't mean that Spider-Man is already so proficient in jump shots!
Although the movement is simple and unchanged, but with that physical condition, given the space to charge up, the power forward may not be able to interfere with the defense.

Moreover, Spiderman's singles selection is very cautious, and he has no chance to resolutely not to play. No, it was in the second quarter, and it was the first time he used the ball to break through the emergency stop jumper, and he did not have a single when he was facing Kobe.

Zen Master always thought that time would dilute everything. After a year passed, he saw the talent of Spider-Man again, and he would calmly accept the regret of not being able to coach this genius.

But a year has passed, and he is even more unwilling!

On the other side, Kobe picked up the collar of his jersey and walked to the free throw line to execute technical free throws.

He is very calm now, the stage of hiding in the corner of the warehouse has long passed, and now he only has tonight's game in his eyes, only victory!
Kobe's technical foul made a free throw, and the score was 38 to 41, and the point difference was narrowed to 3 points.

Then it was the Lakers' offense. Richmond singled out Jordan. This time Jordan defended well and stuck.

Richmond did not make a strong shot and handed the ball to Kobe who responded.

Kobe caught the ball and turned around to get rid of Li Ao, broke into the inside, slid to the bottom line, and hit Jr. O'Neal's pull-bar throw!

Unable to prevent, the Clippers have already expected it.

The strongest personal offensive ability in the audience is undoubtedly the Sharks of the Lakers, and the second strongest is the Lakers player, Black Mamba.

When it came time for the Clippers to attack, Mike Bibby and O'Neal picked and rolled and sent the ball to Li Ao.

Li Ao received the ball from the flank and made a transfer, Matt Harprin cut in to catch the ball from the flank, and Horry made a layup against the supplementary defense!
Horry pounced on the defense, but he was almost overturned himself, and could only secretly curse "damn football player".

In the next few minutes, although Kobe played life-threatening offense, the defensive end also tried his best to chase Li Ao. Both of them did a good job. The breakthrough was unstoppable. Nice limit.

But the Black Mamba is fierce, and the Clippers have more firepower!

Spider-Man took away the opponent's best perimeter defense player. Jordan launched an offense in singles and Bibby launched an offense in a pick-and-roll. Although Li Ao didn't have good shooting opportunities, he had coping skills, outstanding height and vision, and first-class passing. Harprin and O'Neal, taking advantage of the momentum at the beginning of the second quarter, pressed the Lakers to play!

Zen master was calm, and the point difference was gradually opened. He still had no idea of ​​replacing O'Neal in advance. There were substitutions, but it was just a regular rotation of role players, and he did not call a timeout. At 7 minutes, the dead ball entered the official timeout before O'Neal was replaced.

The current score is 49 to 57, and the Lakers are 8 points behind.

After returning from the timeout, Zen Master, who was staring at the court, gradually narrowed his eyes.

Spider-Man was replaced, and although the Clippers' offensive firepower declined slightly, they were still fierce!

This is completely different from last season. The Clippers last season, when Li Ao was on the court and when he was not on the court, were completely like two different teams.

But Jordan's joining not only brought a strong personal offensive ability to the Clippers, but also formed a new offensive dual-core with Odom!

Jordan's main attack in singles, Odom's support and extra points, coupled with corner pitcher Piakowski, three-pointer Greg Anthony at the top of the arc, and a blue-collar center... Old Nelson once doubted in the last game of the preseason The Clippers are going to play a triangle offense, and they didn't guess wrong.

When Li Ao and Mike Bibby are not around, the Jordan + Odom dual-core tactics are the triangle offense!

Gentry doesn't understand the triangle offense, it doesn't matter, Jordan understands!
Although Odom's abilities are not as strong as Pippen's, he can do everything and know more things than Pippen. He has everything Jordan wants!What surprised Jordan the most was that Odom understood how to play the triangle offense almost after listening to it.

After O'Neal came on the court, the Lakers' defense suddenly improved, but the Clippers still scored 5 points in 12 minutes.

Although O'Neal scored 6 points in a row, he led the team to 5 points in 16 minutes.

At halftime, the Clippers still led the Lakers by 69 points 65 to 4!
...

Continue to maintain the lead, but Li Ao dare not be careless.

The rest of the Clippers did not relax, and the next quarter is the key!
The Lakers, who have won two consecutive championships, have long been thoroughly studied by their opponents in terms of their playing style and game rhythm.

After changing the boss, the Clippers, who regard the Lakers as their number one enemy, are naturally very clear.

The Lakers have a nickname for the third quarter—Kobe time.

But they were not afraid, but very excited.

Because they have Spider-Man, the god of basketball, and a left-handed magician!
All three performed well tonight!

After returning from the intermission, Gentry dispatched a core trio of Mike Bibby, Li Ao, and Odom, along with Big Q and Jermaine O'Neal.

On the Lakers side, Kobe and Lynch Hunter partnered in the back line, and Rick Fox, Samaki Walker and Medvedenko partnered in the frontcourt.

As the Clippers expected, Kobe started the third quarter with a full-on attack.

Li Ao defended very hard, but this is not a question of whether he worked hard or not. Compared with the first half, the performance of his teammates' supplementary defense and assistance defense has declined significantly.

It is almost impossible to limit Kobe, who is now focusing on breakthroughs, one-on-one.

科比单节9投6中，其中三分球1中1，加上2中2的罚球，狂飙15分3助攻！

O'Neal only played in the last 4 minutes, played 1 single, OK scored 6 goals, 1 points and [-] assist.

Coupled with Rick Fox and Horry's top arc support, the Lakers scored 36 points in a single quarter, which was higher than the first quarter!
However, as Jordan gave the ball to Li Ao, and Li Ao made a mid-range shot at the buzzer against Kobe's defense, the Clippers also increased their scoring in a single quarter to 30 points.

The Kobe team, who didn't let the fierce performance in the third quarter, opened up the point difference!

After three quarters, the Clippers were 99 to 101, only two points behind the Lakers.

Gentry actively called timeouts and substitutions, relying on excellent lineup rotation to ensure offensive continuity, and finally bit the score in this single quarter when everyone was weak and only Kobe exploded wildly.

In the fourth quarter, the opening stage, the Clippers have the advantage!

Kobe Bryant, who scored 31 points in the first three quarters, continued to play in the fourth quarter. Although his physical strength was superior to everyone, he scored more than a dozen times in the third quarter, and fell into a weak state at the beginning of the final quarter.

Zen Master made a response in advance. O'Neill only played 9 minutes in the second and third quarters combined, and currently only played 21 minutes. He came up in the fourth quarter as the main attack point and launched a fierce attack, which was unstoppable.

Jaron Collins tried to foul, and O'Neal also made two free throws, dispelling the Clippers' idea of ​​trying to kill the shark.

But at this time, in order to ensure the restrictions on Li Ao on the defensive end, Kobe on the offensive end propped up his knees and held his jersey to absorb sweat to replenish his energy.

At 3 minutes and 54 seconds of the fourth quarter, Li Ao came out around the baseline and ran to the top arc to catch the ball. Kobe was blocked by Odom and failed to bypass the pick-and-roll in the first time to follow. Mark Madsen slowed down again and couldn't follow. superior.

Li Ao received the ball, and Fisher made up the ball, sticking to Li Ao and restricting Li Ao from jumping.

Li Ao raised the ball to avoid Fisher's hand, and threw it to the right at a 45-degree angle.

Mike Bibby catches a [-]-pointer...hit!
At 3 minutes and 58 seconds into the game, Zen Master was finally willing to call a timeout!

The Clippers played a wave of 13 to 9 and overtook the Lakers by two points 112 to 110!
After finally overcoming the stage of O'Neal's main attack and overtaking the score, Li Ao just breathed a sigh of relief, and the task reminder came!
"...Mission: Trigger the number one combination in the world..."

(End of this chapter)