291 last moment
More than a year has passed since Zhang Chen met Anthony. Although De Anthony feels that he should know more and more about Zhang Chen, in fact, Zhang Chen can always surprise him unexpectedly. And his strength seems to be that he will never be exhausted. He always suddenly bursts out new technology when they think he is that strong.
Not only D'Anthony, but also several other teammates who have known each other recently also have that idea about Zhang Chen.
The game in the fourth quarter is about to begin. With Zhang Chen's efforts, the Knicks only entered the fourth quarter with a three-point difference. The three-point gap is nothing at all. A three-pointer can be solved. Today's game has been entangled from the beginning. The Knicks are always entangled in the dilemma of trying to catch the score but are suddenly pulled back the score gap again by the opponent. Many people think that this should include now.
The ball right of the first ball in the fourth quarter is in Zhang Chen's hands. He is not tight and slow to control the ball through the first half. His speed is maintained to a relatively uniform degree. Since the opponents have given up stealing, he will naturally not come up to trouble again. In this way, Zhang Chen controlled the ball and passed the half, came outside the opponent's three-point line, and Iguodala came out to defend again.
The two people have greeted one after another with attack and defense. Now they are very familiar with each other. He stands in front of Zhang Chen and maintains a posture that can not only defend his shot but also estimate his attack - even he knows that this may not make much effect.
Zhang Chen slowly put his shoulder against his chest and dribbled the ball. Then he took his left foot as the axis, and his body suddenly turned to the right.
"It's going to jump again." Iguodala quickly made a judgment in his own heart. He immediately raised his hands and moved across to Zhang Chen's left side, which made Zhang Chen's eyes more vaguely cover the sky. However, Zhang Chen made another fake move this time. Just as he did many times, it is like a ghost, flashing and swaying. In short, it will make the defender feel that every part of his body is real or fictional. Zhang Chen quickly turned around again during the moment when Iguodala blocked him to his right. His body turned to the left. At this time, it was completely too late for Iguodala, because Zhang Chen stepped a few centimeters away from the three-point line and let his body jump high with the help of the power of the floor.
Zhang Chen, wrapped in the wind, bloomed brilliantly in the sky. The basketball flew to the farther sky under the control of both hands. After a long flight, the basketball finally reached its final destination and plunged into the net.
"Good ball!"
The cheers of the audience sounded at the right time. Before this ball, every time the Knicks chased the score trend, they would always be cruelly exploited and ruthlessly suppressed by their opponents, which is why they have been unable to recover the score. Now it seems that this worry no longer exists. Zhang Chen decisively turned the score into a draw with a three-pointer, and also made the 76ers' head coach's eyes emit an unusually dazzling spark. This flame seems to want to directly ignite his guys.
Zhang Chen's three-pointer also raised his data to 36 points. This dazzling score made him full of confidence to step into the forty-point stage again.
"Attack, attack!" The head coach of the 76ers shouted at his players angrily. He didn't expect that he had led so many points today, and his opponent was still a half-baked team that was far from running over and had a long way to go. This season's 76ers are mixed with ambitions. If they lose to the Knicks today, a team that has just struggled out of the lotto area but is still in the muddy water of the fish brisket team, it will be a joke to achieve the goal they want.
The 76ers' attack was full of wind. They finally let the basketball smash into the basket in the roar of the coach approaching the critical command, and the Knicks' lagging score came again.
It is still Zhang Chen's control of the ball. At this critical moment, other people's control of the ball and Anthony are worried. Zhang Chen came directly to the three-point line. Relying on the ball right in his hand, he suddenly began to accelerate into the inside line one step outside the three-point line. Iguodala stepped out his left leg to block Zhang Chen's direction, but Zhang Chen only used a horizontal pull to change direction, which made him sigh.
Zhang Chen's body once again turned into the most perfect combination of lightning and fallen leaves. His body was so fright that he had completely shaken away Iguodala in a short moment, and then directly pushed the opponent's power forward with his strong force, and then he used his ability to control his body in the air. After gliding more than half a meter, he hit the low-handed layup.
Zhang Chen scored two more points. So far, his data record has become 38 points, 2 assists and 4 rebounds. Zhang Chen fell to the ground steadily and did not do anything to celebrate. He just looked up at the score that turned into a draw again, and then retreated towards the half while panting.
Zhang Chen's breakthrough, as always, is like a floating light and a shadow, like a dragon on the bright and dazzling court.
Zhang Chen's two balls opened the curtain of the Knicks' counterattack frenzy. In the next three minutes, first, Zhang Chen assisted Gallinari to hit a three-pointer, then Du Hong assisted Randov's successful dunk, and then Zhang Chen's jump shot was grabbed by David Li's rebound and directly hit a second attack. In short, the Knicks' internal and external lines opened fire, making these three minutes the most enjoyable three minutes of the Knicks this season. During these three minutes, they have been pressing their opponents, and their morale growth is like a snowball rolling.
In this way, with the last 8 minutes left before the end of the game, the Knicks have been three points ahead of their opponents. If they were three points ahead of the Suns before, it was just a little ahead. It's just that in the Knicks team, a three-point lead was quite rare, and everyone even had a tearful impulse.
Anyway, the morale of the Knicks is also fully mobilized by this score. When the Knicks are full of momentum, when each of them can move towards a common goal, their offensive and defensive loopholes can be perfectly covered up.
The Knicks finally found their own rhythm. Basketball kept flying among everyone, and finally played the momentum they wanted and the lineup that D'Antoni wanted.
At this time, the head coach of the 76ers looked at the court worriedly and immediately called out a timeout.
"SHIT!" D'Antoni heard a sharp whistle in the court and looked up at the referee who had signaled everyone to return to the bench. D'Antoni's eyebrows frowned and cursed involuntarily. In the situation just now, the cooperation of the Knicks was as close as silk and satin. This closeness was completely natural and unadorned, which was exactly the direction D'Antoni wanted them to move forward.
It's a pity that this closeness was interrupted by the opponent, which is the reason why D'Antoni was angry.
When Zhang Chen walked out of the court, his feet softened and he almost fell to the ground, but he was also full of resentment against the head coach of the 76ers - he had similar views to D'Antoni. In that situation, if they could continue to work hard, they could definitely maintain this flying momentum until it was completely extinguished. 76 people, but now it seems that they have missed the opportunity.
Zhang Chen sat depressedly on the bench and listened to D'Antoni. His physical strength reached a critical value again, and the game just consumed too much physical strength.
When he came to Du Hong, Zhang Chen patted him on the shoulder: "Chris, next you control the ball, you control it, I don't have the strength."
Du Hong nodded, and D'Antoni said at this time, "Guys, everyone has performed very well just now... Your cooperation is unprecedented. In fact, this is exactly what I want you to finally reach. I don't think a pause can stop our momentum, right? Next, we still need to find our own position, Chris, you need to pay more attention to your empty teammates, and you need to grasp their figures all the time. You just did that. I hope you can stick to it. Only in this way can we get stronger vitality!"
"Yes!" Everyone responded, and the audience was also cheering for their neat and uniform voice. The morale of a team is often closely related to the audience, and they can often look at the overall situation of the team they support before reacting. At least the Knicks played quite well just now.
Returning to the court again, each of the 76ers' guys had a fierce light in their eyes, which made Randolph and others have a burst of hair. Then the 76ers began to attack, and the ball was in the hands of the point guard, which was handed over to Iguodala after half-time.
Iguodala is also a little worried about Zhang Chen's defense. Zhang Chen's speed is too fast, his footsteps are too good, and his strength is too strong. In this case, it is undoubtedly difficult to find a gap before scoring.
Iguodala still summoned his teammates to block him. He missed the back of his teammates, circled to the other side of the three-point line and then jumped and fired. His eyes flashed with anger, which made his basketball trajectory extremely straight and bombarded into the basket like a cannonball.
The 76ers are only one point behind. The Knicks was slowly controlled by Du Hong after half. It took him 7 seconds to get beyond the three-point line. Zhang Chen used his own running technique that had not really been used since this season. Iguodala saw Zhang Chen's footsteps suddenly staggered, and the shaking of his shoulders also dazzled him. When he was confused, he suddenly thought about it. Wasn't Zhang Chen last season such a guy who could never think about it when he attacked without a ball?
Zhang Chen staggered two steps, and then his shoulders used a running fake action. Then he quickly came to the 45-degree angle of the left wing of the three-point line. Du Hong now just caught Zhang Chen's figure. After the basketball crossed an arc, he appeared. In Zhang Chen's hand, Zhang Chen may not have experienced this feeling for a long time, but seeing that the basket is empty in front of him, he can't wait to jump out.
"Oh no..." In the last moment of the jump shot, Zhang Chen's heart beat this idea, because just now his body suddenly fell off the chain, and there was a feeling of strength.
"Bum!" The basketball was not ambiguous at all. It proved Zhang Chen's speculation with an iron strike. The rebound was grabbed by the opponent, so their fast attack began.
The Knicks' defensive fast attack was quite difficult. The basketball was first in the opponent's point guard, but when Du Hong went up to defend, the basketball tore open the Knicks' defense and flew directly to Iguodala near the midfield. Before waiting for other players to come to defend, the basketball changed its owner again and came to the hands of the small forward who quickly cut down.
"Bum!" The slam dunk was extremely fierce, like the 76ers' angry breath, the basket swayed, and it was forcibly broken into by the basketball, causing the Knicks to be overtaken again.
Zhang Chen quickly raised his hand to signal that the ball was his responsibility, but now everyone doesn't care about him very much, because their top priority is to attack and don't let the score advantage be taken away by the 76ers. Du Hong passed the basketball to Randov, who was eager to try in the inside. Randorff began to spin left and right to make a layup, but the basketball was not fully controlled by him. The point guard of the opponent who was killed inside was quickly hit, and then another quick attack was launched.
The Knicks are three points behind.
The Knicks are starting to collapse again! The audience on the side of the basketball court soon experienced a process from quite happy to disappointed. The Knicks' fourth quarter was supposed to reach a level of free control after Zhang Chen's continuous blooming, but now their lead has collapsed again. The 76ers' offense and defense are like precise and sharp hands. A knife divides the lead of the Knicks with a knife.
The Knicks' offensive efficiency began to drop gradually, and the rapid consumption of physical strength and the lack of tactical literacy made their scoring quite difficult. On the contrary, the 76ers' attack is like an accurate scalpel, which can always find the weakness of the opponent and then attack it. In this case, the Knicks struggle to support the situation and become more and more difficult, while the 76ers are making the cracks and wounds of the Knicks bigger and bigger.
The Knicks began to collapse, and everyone's faces were sad. In fact, they had made all the efforts they could, but the score gap was still getting bigger and bigger in the opponent's attack and defense.
With 2 minutes left in the game, the Knicks were already 8 points behind, and the audience who had just cheered everywhere was already dead.
D'Antoni quickly called out a pause. Facing the panting players, although he was dissatisfied, he was embarrassed to say something serious. After a little thought, he said, "Guys, tell me, do you want to win?"
"I want it, of course I want it!" David. Li grabbed a total of 13 rebounds today, but the team's situation still worried everyone, so he was the first to say it out loud.
"Well, in this case... Let's bet... Next, we adjust all our offensive means to a three-point jump shot. We need to get back our lead as soon as possible. At the same time, the inside players must control the rebound, so that everyone's three-point shot is worry-free. Therefore, this is still the cooperation between the inside and outside, but we need to put the heavy burden of attack on the outside. Of course, Zack, you have the ability to score three points. You can also come out and throw three points when your teammates are locked, but it is better for you to ensure your own shooting rate. After all, every ball right now is for us. It is crucial."
Everyone nodded with a calm face. At this time, Randorff didn't want to say anything. Although it was mostly handed over to Zhang Chen to give the ball to the outside attack, at this time, if they play steadily, the 8-point score may not be catching up. You should know that there is plenty of time ahead, and everyone can play steadily. The 76ers can still lead so many points. Now that time is tighter, it is obviously impossible for them to win with two-pointers.
Standing on the court again, Zhang Chen took a look at the bright red scoreboard and shot his technical statistics. Now he has 41 points, 3 assists and 5 rebounds. Since the beginning of this season, he has exceeded 40 points in two consecutive games.
The ball right of the first ball was the Knicks. Zhang Chen controlled the ball for half. The time on the scoreboard began to jump rapidly after he received the pass. When Zhang Chen came to the opponent's three-point line, the time had jumped to 1:51, and there were only one minute and 51 seconds left. At this time, it seemed that the 76ers It has also been noticed that most of the Knicks are going to play three-pointers from the outside, so they are ready to take joint defense and other methods for Zhang Chen. After all, Zhang Chen will definitely be the most threatening outside shooter, which is beyond doubt.
Zhang Chen quickly found Gallinari to block it, and then he began to dribble the ball himself. Starting from the left side of Canary, he dribbled the ball around him and came to the right side of Canary. Iguodala was blocked on the left side of Canary because he was a little caught off guard for a while. Zhang Chen has come to another direction next to the three-point line.
However, Zhang Chen was far from happy, because the opponent's little striker suddenly bumped into him. When Zhang Chen came to the other direction of Gallinari, the other party's little striker suddenly rushed up and stuck to Zhang Chen's body, which made him unable to take action at all. However, this guy was obsessed and made Zhang Chen for a moment. I also feel a little anxious.
At this time, Iguodala also felt a little afraid to defend. He felt that he could no longer let Zhang Chen have any chance to catch the ball, so he also came to prepare to bag Zhang Chen. However, after Zhang Chen saw him, he suddenly thought that Gallinari should be in the vacancy now, so his left hand was one Shaking, the basketball passed behind Iguodala, hit the ground and passed the ball to the hands of Gallinari not far away.
Although this kind of ball is very important, Gallinari's shot is still unambiguous. He jumped high outside the three-point line and then shot.
"Wh!" The basketball hit the basket with a beautiful arc!
(To be continued)