NBA: Since James left the Cavaliers

Chapter 125

In order to solve Long Rui's point, Phil Jackson is going all out.

After the timeout, the game continues.

The offensive end of the Lakers still hasn't improved much. After several unsmooth conduction of the ball, Odom completed a shot inside, but failed to score the ball.

However, when Long Rui accepted the rebound and was about to advance, he saw two defensive players blocking him.

Seeing this scene, he already guessed the opportunity for Phil Jackson to call a timeout just now.

"This old fox wants to deal with me..."

Long Rui thought secretly, and immediately handed the ball to Jeremy Lin beside him.

He originally wanted to continue to drive his teammates through unrestrained support, but he never expected that Phil Jackson's restrictions on him had reached the point of insanity.

Even though he doesn't have the ball in his hands, there are still two players staring at him, making it impossible for him to run out of opportunities.

The other four players of the Cavaliers on the field have obviously noticed this, and now that Long Rui is restricted, they must provoke the burden of offense.

Phil Jackson's extreme defensive strategy for Long Rui is a double-edged sword. The advantage is that it can completely limit Long Rui. The disadvantage is that they will always leak someone on the defensive end.

Phil Jackson is naturally aware of this loophole, but what he means is that the Cavaliers are not allowed to attack the inside. As for the mid-to-long distance, they can release shots.

To put it bluntly, this is a defensive tactic. To put it bluntly, it is actually a kind of 'gambling', betting on the feel of other Cavaliers players.

But this time, Phil - Jackson's luck does not seem to be good.

Jeremy Lin made a shot from outside the three-point line, and the basketball fell into the basket precisely after drawing a perfect arc!

28:29

Less than 3 minutes after the opening of the second quarter, the Lakers' eight-point lead was only one point left in an instant.

To make matters worse, they failed to score in the second quarter.

At this moment, the camera was given to Phil Jackson on the sidelines.

It can be seen that his expression is a bit gloomy, but he still has no intention of substituting. He wants the main players of the team to have more rest time.

As everyone knows, his idea directly ruined the advantage the Lakers established in the first quarter.

In the next round, the Cavaliers put down the Lakers' offense again, and with the cooperation of Paul George and Jeremy Lin, he hit a three-pointer again!

31:29

In the first three and a half minutes of the second quarter, the Cavaliers directly played a 10-0 offensive climax, overtaking the point difference in one fell swoop!

At this moment, the Cavaliers' bench immediately celebrated.

The corner of Ran Ruoxue's mouth also curled up. Although Long Rui was restricted in this quarter, she could see that Long Rui played a very good role in restraining the Cavaliers from overtaking the score.

"Overtake! The Cavaliers overtake!"

"I really didn't expect it at all. They played so passively in the first quarter, but suddenly broke out at this time."

"Perhaps many fans have guessed that the Cavaliers will recover some points at this stage, but they absolutely did not expect that they will complete the overtake so quickly!"

At this moment, Phil Jackson couldn't sit still anymore, he called a timeout again and replaced all the main players.

When Kobe and others entered the court, the atmosphere on the court instantly changed.

Long Rui could clearly feel the fighting spirit emanating from the 'Black Mamba'.

Gasol sent a sideline ball directly to Kobe's hands.

Kobe observed on the outside, and then began to attack.

Long Rui closely followed his footsteps and made his defense to the extreme. Kobe was always disturbed by a pair of long arms in front of him, which made him very unhappy.

However, the stronger Long Rui's defense was, the more Kobe's desire to attack could be aroused.

Gasol wanted to do the pick-and-roll for him, but was directly rejected by Kobe.

After several breakthroughs he tried, he failed to succeed, but he was not in a hurry.

Outside the three-point line, Kobe stopped. He signaled his teammates to pull away, readjusted, and launched another attack.

This time, he went straight to the right, heading straight for the corner.

Long Rui followed his footsteps and chased after him, only three seconds left to attack.

Kobe was close to the bottom corner, and he took off directly and shot elegantly!

The moment the ball was released, it was almost at a negative angle, but it just avoided Long Rui's fingertips.

"Shh!"

Big two hits!

The shot of this ball is extremely unreasonable, that is, Kobe dared to shoot such a ball. If it was replaced by other players, he might have been abused by Phil Jackson long ago.

"MVP! MVP!"

Throughout the Staples Center, almost all the fans were shouting MVP!

In their hearts, Kobe is the well-deserved MVP!

"It has to be Kobe!"

"Long Rui's defense has pushed him to the extreme, but even in such an extreme situation, he was still able to score the ball."

"Terrible! It's really terrible!"

"Sure enough, Kobe has no offensive corners on the court, and there is no ball he dare not shoot!"

In the CV-5 live broadcast room, Zhang Weiping and Yang Yi couldn't help admiring Kobe.

On the court, Long Rui couldn't help clenching his fists.

Kobe's ball is undoubtedly a challenge to him, and he must stand up and respond.

Because he is the leader of this Cavaliers team, if he is blown up by Kobe, it will be a huge blow to the morale of the entire team.

"Next, hand me the ball."

As soon as these words came out, Paul George and the others glanced at Long Rui and nodded immediately.

After the Cavaliers released the baseline ball, Long Rui quickly advanced with the ball.

He also signaled his teammates to pull away, and Kobe only had one-on-one singles.

This scene seems to have returned to the beginning of the game. The two also played heads-up for several rounds.

But no one would have thought that starting from this round, this game would become a battle of points between the two.

Facing Kobe's defense, Long Rui took advantage of his own strength to attack directly.

When he reached the free throw line, he suddenly pulled up a jumper and leaned back to shoot, making Kobe unable to block the shot.

This ball also hit!

"Good boy, I will convince you."

Kobe said coldly, and immediately threw himself into the next round of offense.

In the next few rounds, the two staged a moment of mutual explosion that made countless fans extremely excited!

Two people come and go, no one will let the other.

The score of the two teams is also leading alternately, and has been controlled within 3 points!

The confrontation between the two lasted for a full 4 minutes before they gradually stopped.

At this moment, Kobe's personal score has reached 23 points, and Long Rui also has 20 points in the account. From the data point of view, it can be said that they are evenly matched!