Chapter 259 Hitting Hedo at the Opening
Li Ba won the jump ball with the fastest speed, started it immediately after landing, rushed past Duncan on the opposite side, and pushed the latter with his left hand, causing the latter's speed to drop suddenly, but he rushed to the frontcourt with all his strength.
Seeing Li Ba's speed, the Spurs players immediately accelerated their positioning, especially the center Rasu, who chased after Li Ba.
But how could Lasu outrun Li Ba? After Li Ba rushed past Duncan, only Xidu was left in front of him.
Of course, Bowen and Parker were also in front, but they stayed on the two wings and had no time to stop him.
"Stop him!" Popovich yelled from the sidelines.
At the top of the arc, Xidu was forced by Li Ba's advancing speed to take two steps backwards, then gritted his teeth and moved sideways.
Xidu didn't stand still and was still moving. Li Ba didn't have the ability to change direction like a defender, and even if he did, he wouldn't change direction at the risk of breaking his ankle, so he just accelerated and slammed into it. .
"Boom!"
Xidu groaned in pain, and his 100-kilogram body flew in response, then fell heavily to the ground and slipped several meters backwards.
"Flute!" The whistle sounded.
"Offensive foul, this is an offensive foul!" Popovich's assistant shouted.
Popovich on one side is applauding for Hedo, he is very satisfied with this defense.
"Hush!!!!!!"
The American West Arena immediately gave him a burst of violent boos.
"Huhu...cough cough..."
Xidu lay on the floor and didn't get up for a while, his chest heaved violently, he felt that his chest was about to be smashed, this damn devil!
"Fortunately, it's Lasu who is facing him, not me, not me!" He could only comfort himself in this way.
Li Ba looked at Xido who was hiding under his feet, and felt that this was the normal Spurs, a team known for its tough defense.
Blocking foul, the referee gave a penalty.
The Suns continued to attack and served from the sideline.
Li Ba was in the low position on the left wing, and Lasu defended him.
He started asking for a seat.
"Boom!"
Before he could catch the ball, he began back-butting Rasu.
In the last game, Lasu got six fouls and played for 27 minutes. He was almost crushed to death by him. This match continued, and he felt that after this match, Lasu should not be able to fight anymore.
"Well!
For the first time, Lasu felt that his chest was unbearable, it was too painful.
This meant that Li Ba didn't make small moves. If he moved his elbow, Lasu, who weighed less than him, would not be able to hold on.
After Cheng Lasu was knocked back, Li Ba suddenly turned around and rushed into the paint.
Rasu didn't dare to make a foul directly, because Li Ba didn't have the ball in his hand, so it's not worthwhile to send a free foul at this time. His foul tactics can only be used when Li Ba is attacking.
But today seems to be a little different. The Hammer guy didn't catch the ball outside, but went straight into the paint? Wasn't he attacking and he was just running the screen? It must be like this, the Hammers attract the defense, and the other Suns players attack.
The answer came out quickly, and Rasu's guess was wrong.
The moment Li Ba turned around, Marbury passed the ball and directly connected to the basket, slightly close to Li Ba's left wing.
"Ba's empty pick-up?"
When Duncan saw Marbury pass the ball to the basket, the word immediately popped up in his mind, and then he immediately squeezed Marion away and rushed to the basket with all his strength.
But no matter how fast he reacted, it was too late.
Li Ba stepped into the paint area in one step, jumped up in the second step, and raised his right hand upwards. At this time, the basketball just flew over the sky in front of him, and then his right hand just caught up.
For this simple cooperation, he and Marbury have trained countless times this season.
This, that is, his offensive routine.
In his opinion, this routine is okay to use occasionally, but if it is used too much, the opponent will definitely find a way to deal with it, and it may be very fast.
"boom!"
With a one-arm dunk, the audience erupted in jubilation instantly.
"Oh, the hammer dunks with one arm, Ba's alley-oop reappeared in the American West Arena!" The roar of the Suns' on-site commentator immediately sounded.
Li Ba was hanging on the basket, and when he lowered his head, his eyes met Duncan who had just rushed to the basket.
One is as fierce as a beast, and the other is as calm as a mountain, neither backing down from the other.
"Boom!"
Li Ba landed, too lazy to talk trash, that was of no use to Duncan, so he went back to defend the backcourt.
"This move? It's hard to guard against!"
Duncan grabbed the ball on the ground, walked to the bottom line and served, still thinking about Li Ba's goal just now.
This extremely flexible and highly concealed offensive method, not to mention Lasu, even if he is facing up, it is difficult to defend against, the suddenness is too strong.
In this case, can foul tactics still be implemented?
Hammer, is this your solution to foul play?
The Spurs attack and Parker advances.
"Mr. Zhang, look at the attack of the hammer, the Spurs should be difficult to defend against, right?" Yu Jia asked.
"This is called Ba's empty catch. The hammer has not been used much. I guess he did it on purpose. Look, play another dozen. If it is purely a direct connection between the inside and outside lines, the chance of the hammer cutting in is only With such a short opportunity, the Spurs only need to guard Marbury strictly, without cutting off the passing line, and just delay the time to solve the problem." Zhang Reasonable said.
"That's right, delay for a while, and if there is no suddenness, Lasu will follow." Yu Jia said.
Duncan asked for a position in the low post on the left wing, and Li Ba followed directly.
In the last game, he did the same thing, but Duncan didn’t take the move. He either took him to run around on both sides, or pulled him out to keep him away from the paint. Through these methods, he destroyed the Suns’ inside defense. Can return to his position, let Marion face Duncan, and help defend himself.
This time he still wants to try and see Duncan's reaction.
Duncan's reaction was simple, and he took two steps out, leading Li Ba away from the paint and into the left wing area.
Here, it belongs to the two-point area, which is still his scoring area. Although the shooting rate has dropped, there are still 40%, which is not much lower than the nearly two-point area.
"What the hell!"
Li Ba cursed secretly.
Here, away from the rim, his control of the rebound has dropped dramatically, which is certainly not what he wanted.
Duncan hit back, swayed left and right, then turned left again and made a shot. Li Ba was shaken under his feet. Finally, the former turned right again and shot a jumper.
It was too late for Li Ba to block the shot, so he turned around and rushed to the basket.
"boom!"
The basketball hit the board and hit the basket, and jumped to the right wing.
The ball was indeed missed, but Li Ba moved away from the basket, lost the rebound, and was snatched by Lasu on Marion's head.
This is Duncan's way of switching defenses against Li Ba. I don't agree. It's useless for you to force a defense switch. I'll let you lose the entire paint area directly.
"Shua!"
Rasu grabbed the rebound, took off again, and hit a near basket.
2:2, flat.
Sun attack.
"Duncan played on the defensive end, and he still has at least 40% shooting. But the Hammer is very passive. His rebounds are absolutely impossible for the Suns to lose." Yu Jia sighed.
"Marion can only defend. The departure of Stoudemire has had a great impact on the Suns, and there is no real power forward." Zhang Lili said.
"Actually, Mr. Zhang, Stoudemire's defense is just that way. It's not as good as Marion. Without a 100% defensive attitude, he can't defend Duncan. Have you forgotten that the Suns played the Spurs in their first regular season game?" Yu Jia road.
"Oh, that's right, after that game, Hammer got angry at Stoudemire in the locker room." Zhang Lili laughed.