Chapter 922 Black Whistle(1/2)
Arenas stood on the free throw line and hit two free throws steadily.
"Deron has already committed fouls three times, and the Nets are really not alone."
Joanbarry shook his head.
"Yes, but I see Arenas playing basketball. He was not so powerful before. Please forgive me for saying this. I know him, know he is a general, know his domineering spirit, but seeing his performance now, how do you say that, I think he is now mature and more comprehensive?"
Bill Walton was praising Gilbert Arenas.
The Nets' Five Tigers committed three more fouls, and the Pelicans' torture tactics did not end. The Nets missed again on the offensive end, and the basketball returned to the Pelicans' hands.
At this time, not only the basketball was in the hands of the Pelicans, but the initiative on the court was also in the hands of the Pelicans. During the time when the Pelicans were having difficulty scoring, Li Feng helped the Pelicans survive.
Now that the Pelicans are getting up, the Nets are starting to decline, so the form is reversed.
The Pelicans swept over like a storm. Li Feng ran over and gestured to his teammates to play the pick-and-roll in the high position. Seeing this situation, Henson immediately stopped running further.
Instead, Li Feng made a cover when he came up. Li Feng used Henson's cover to easily set Anthony in the back. Li Feng dribbled the ball, and Anthony and Garnett both rushed towards Li Feng because Li Feng's offense threatened relatively strongly, and Li Feng's offensive efficiency was the highest in front.
The Nets teams were afraid of Li Feng's attack, but at this time, the two defensive players of the Nets came to Li Feng and gave Li Feng a chance. Li Feng jumped and attracted the two people completely. Then they made a fake pass and hung the basketball from Anthony to Henson who was cutting into the inside of the Nets.
Facing the old Garnett, Henson jumped up without hesitation. Then he smashed the basketball into the basket with one hand.
Henson's fierce dunk immediately made a call in the center of New Orleans. This dunk was a rare performance by Henson.
After Arenas started scoring, Henson also started scoring here, and the Pelicans really started to recover in their form.
The Nets began to have a common phenomenon that they had, intermittent offense breaks.
The Pelicans took advantage of this period of time to quietly rewrite the score until 6 minutes and 11 seconds in the third quarter, and the Pelicans widened the score to 7 points. This advantage and the pressure of the score were back in the hands of the Pelicans.
As the game continued, Kidd almost couldn't bear it and shouted loudly on the sidelines. He asked his players to focus on and focus to play the game well.
However, the Pelicans are still brave enough to play their high pick-and-roll. The Pelicans' high pick-and-roll is to keep breaking through and breaking through and passing the ball. This impact tactic will inevitably have a great lethality to the Nets' risk.
Li Feng rushed over with Brand's pick-and-roll, and the Nets' defense immediately flowed towards Li Feng like water waves, trying to wrap Li Feng in it, but Li Feng quickly divided the basketball into Arenas in the bottom corner.
Arenas' performance in this game was really perfect. He didn't shoot many shots today, but he was killed by moves. After defending his shot, Arenas immediately activated his other weapons to kill the opponent.
Now that Joe Johnson just went out to defend, Arenas broke through again, and now the Nets have also gained an understanding of Arenas' breakthrough. The defense is very good. He just stepped up and closed the door and locked Arenas outside the three-second zone.
Arenas himself couldn't enter the Nets' three-second zone. But the Pelicans should not be surprised. Arenas passed a very beautiful pass at this time, and passed the ball with one hand. The basketball quickly entered Brand's hand, cutting into the middle.
Brand received the ball, smashed the basketball on the floor with both hands, then jumped up and dodged slightly in the air to the Nets' basket. Brand was about to make a layup.
Garnett, beside him, finally reached out his hand. He finally fouled on Brand. The referee's whistle sounded. Garnett made 4 fouls and the head coach switched him off the court.
"Garnett has committed four fouls, but now the Nets need to be careful. Garnett has committed four fouls. Let's see who Kidd will switch to the court, and who else can save his team at this time?"
Bill Walton immediately became excited when he saw Garnett leave the court.
But he was not excited about Brand. Today he was abused by Garnett a hundred times and a hundred times. Finally, he finally got the opportunity to drive Garnett away. Today, Garnett taught this power forward who had been no worse than Garnett for a while.
Brand was willing to celebrate Garnett's departure. He stood on the sideline and watched the Wolf King walk away. It was David Lee who stood up on the bench. At this moment, Brand's heart sank again.
If this is the case, Garnett will have to deal with another guy, that is Brook Lopez, and that guy is not easy to deal with. Brand thought of Brook Lopez, and he kept shaking his head. After all, the other party's physical advantage is stronger than Garnett in terms of age.
The Nets' offense has been in a state of slump after a period of time. It is very, very difficult, or even absolutely impossible to strangle a team like the Nets offense.
Garnett took advantage of Brand's failure to follow, and he directly made a three-pointer and told the Pelicans that you still have a long way to go to defeat us.
The Nets wanted to survive this period of time, but the Pelicans did not give the Nets such a chance. The Pelicans' outside breakthrough was becoming more and more fierce, and they kept inserting fiercely into the Nets' inside.
Finally, Ross caught a chance. He dribbled the ball from outside and rushed towards the Nets' basket extremely fiercely. At this time, when Anthony came over, he was a little slower. When he took off, he needed to get up from the side to block the block.
There are many times when such a defense is not done, but the coach doesn't swear, but Rose's body lost his weight and fell down and sat on the ground. This time, Anthony's defensive foul was made solid.
He did not really get up from the front, but Ross' loss of center of gravity was not something that Anthony had hit. It was just that Ross himself did not master it well.
But the referee still gave the Nets a foul. Anthony was wronged and couldn't speak. He opened his mouth and didn't know what to say. He was so unlucky in today's game. At the beginning, the opponent deliberately found himself for trouble. He endured it for so long, and then he gave him two inexplicable fouls, but he did nothing, so he was at this point. This made Anthony feel that he was even more wronged than Dou E. If possible, he would even find a lawyer to fight with the other party.
But this is not a lawsuit at all. The referee said he could only admit it. Anthony walked to the sidelines with great depression. This situation occurred. Not only the players felt wronged, but even the head coach felt extremely wronged.
Kidd strode to the referee and shouted at the referee:
"Mr. Referee. Is this your criterion for judgment tonight? Don't you think the other party's behavior is suspected of deception? They are deceiving you."
Crawford looked at Kidd excitedly and said:
"I've never seen myself throwing myself from the air to the ground for deception, that's absolutely impossible."
At this time, Rose, who had been getting up from the ground, was still rubbing his elbows. The one I just took was really cruel, and Rose's elbows were still very painful now.
"But you didn't notice their conspiracy? Did you not notice that the Pelicans were not playing basketball but hitting people?"
Kidd didn't care about that anymore, he was screaming at Crawford.
The bald referee turned around and saw Kidd and said:
"But they are all within the rules. There is nothing that violates the rules. You did those fouls, right?"
At this time, Ross had already hit two consecutive goals. The Pelicans were withdrawing from defense, and Crawford lost his mind to Kidd, who was not clear, and shouted at Crawford:
"How much did you charge them for this black whistle? Are you another Donagy?"
A swear word came out, and Crawford immediately became angry and turned around and gave Kid a technical foul.
"Oh, the referee gave Kidd a technical foul, and he gave Kidd a technical foul."
Joanbari screamed when she saw this scene.
Now the competition between the Pelicans and the Nets on and off the court is gradually getting fierce. The Pelicans have just walked back and are back to free throws. Instead of the Pelicans, Arenas, who has a high shooting percentage, is the free throw.
Arenas stood on the free throw line and hit the free throw. At this time, Kidd dared not be disrespectful to Crawford. He was so arrogant that he changed Alan Anderson to the court. These were all unscrupulous.
Kidd is now beginning to resent himself, but he is still too naive and has not discovered these conspiracies and tricks of the Pelicans early, otherwise his team would not have to suffer these shames.
Van Gundy saw the opponent change to Alan Anderson, and he immediately changed to Oladipo and gradually replaced the substitute. Van Gundy is here to kill the Nets in the last quarter.
But here, because of the score and the substitute, the main players are not afraid to go so early, and they can only continue to consume the main team's physical strength. At this time, the Pelicans are still leading the score, but the potential advantages have been accumulated, including physical strength, foul numbers, and player configuration, and the Pelicans have an absolute advantage.
What I'm waiting for now is the last blow in the last quarter, and the Nets are also patient and constantly enduring. For the Nets, they must be patient at this time. If they endure, they will have a chance to win. Once they can't bear it, their situation will be even more dangerous in the fourth quarter.
At the end of the third quarter, the Pelicans led the Nets by 8 points. Although the Nets' substitute players were already desperate and they were all desperately trying to kill the Pelicans, Oladipo was like a wall erecting in front of them, motionless, constantly rising and falling Alan Anderson, constantly scoring with his simple means. If he wanted to stop Oladipo, the Nets had to accept the foul.
But the Nets are most afraid of fouls nowadays.
"The Pelicans have the advantage now. They are leading the scores and adjusting well in personnel. The rotation time between substitutes and main players is very reasonable, and everything is on their track."
Bill Walton kept shouting while everyone was resting.
"Then let's take a look at the Nets cafe. A tragic group of people, Delon made three fouls. Now it's 31 minutes on the court, but the fourth quarter has not started yet. Joe Johnson made two fouls and played for the same 31 minutes. However, considering that he was a long-distance running player, this kind of thing probably has little impact on him."
"Cameron Anthony made three fouls and only 19 minutes of appearance. He didn't play much in this game. Garnett made three fouls. He only had 14 minutes of playing time. Today he had very few playing time. Brooke Lopez made two fouls and 28 minutes of appearance."
"This is the current situation of the Nets. There may be players leaving the court for fouls at any time. For a long-term game, their physical strength and energy have reached a peak. Any mistake will push the Nets to the other side of the cliff."
Bill Walton's roar made Joan Barry feel sad. The Pelicans have established an advantage in this game now.
At the beginning of the fourth quarter, the Pelicans lined up all the main players, which was obviously forcing the Nets. You should know that in ordinary games, the main players will gradually return to the court after about two minutes of the game.
The Pelicans are not going to give the Nets a breath of time. If you want to take a break, there will definitely be no goal. Sandley wanted to wait for 2 minutes at the beginning, so he just let his substitute hold on for two minutes.
But after one minute, Kidd couldn't hold on. In this minute, the Pelicans fought desperately against the Nets' substitute players. These substitute players were beaten to the point where they were almost bare. They came up and contributed a 6-0 to others.
This is not possible. Kidd immediately began to prepare to send out his main lineup. Before sending out his main lineup, Kidd tried hard to encourage his players in front of his players.
"Guys, what happened today is so shameless that I can speak. We are the Nets of Glory, but look at how miserable we lost here, look at how we lost, we have no power to fight back, those guys think that we have assassinated us, and we have no choice."
"Guys, I want you to tell them with actions that they are wrong, they are outrageous. We can tear them apart at any time. Now you go, don't think about other things, any bullshit fouls, I'll guard them hard and then attack fiercely. That's all you should do."
Kidd motivated his players for a while, and then his main players began to board the court.
As soon as the Nets players came back, they played fiercely. Garnett ate Henson twice in a row at the low post. Garnett's comprehensive skills were all in one way to defend his opponent.
The Nets started to get angry when they came back in the fourth quarter. This situation immediately stimulated the Pelicans head coach Van Gundy. Van Gundy looked at the team opposite with disdain, and then shouted at Li Feng.
"Faster, faster!"
Maybe you can defend and attack slowly in the half, but my bombardment from the whole game, I won't let you rest, I won't let you feel comfortable, I see what you should do,
Those old men were already tired, and they might still be able to support them in the half, but at the time of the game, I don't believe you can continue the score. The Pelicans suddenly accelerated the speed. The old men of the Nets really couldn't catch up with each other, especially Delong's point ran a few steps with Li Feng, but was thrown away by Li Feng, and then watched Li Feng rush to the basket of his home, passing the ball outside, and Arenas made a three-pointer.
Delong saw it, was anxious, but he didn't have the energy to catch up with his opponent. At this time, Anthony hurried over to communicate with Delong, and he could hand over Li Feng to him in the next round.
He doesn't play much time today and still has a lot of physical strength. After the Nets came over, Anthony immediately attacked with his back, organizing the team while oppressing the Pelicans' inside, and then suddenly used a small hook and easily scored two points.
The Nets must chase points with all their strength in the fourth quarter. If the score cannot be caught up, the Nets will still lose the finale.
When Li Feng dribbled over, he immediately saw that the physically energetic Anthony let go. Li Feng didn't care about driving the rhythm as usual, and then deliberately passed the basketball to Rose's hands.
Isn't your physical strength unsupported? I'll just hit you at this point. Unfortunately, Ross passed Deron and did not score for the Pelicans, and he missed the jump shot after the emergency stop.
In this situation, Van Gundy also saw that Ross was not suitable to kill Deron on one side of the court. However, in the current situation, where did he find such a player? Van Gundy was searching everywhere, and finally he found this suitable candidate.
Caron Butler, there is no more suitable candidate than Caron Butler. If Caron Butler defends him on the court, the consequences will be huge. Caron Butler will make it more difficult for the Nets to catch up with him.
Deron's physical strength is really not good. He dribbled over very slowly, and the pace of stopping the team's offense was also very slow. Once Garnett returned to the court, he immediately used his own steps to tell Brand's forward that it was not so easy to do. He deceived Brand and then walked onto the free throw line by himself, making two free throws easily.
After the Nets succeeded in the offense, the Pelicans immediately substituted.
Joan Barry was surprised by the Pelicans substitution:
"The Pelicans replaced Caron Butler, and they actually replaced Caron Butler at this time. Why is this for? Why should I replace Caron Butler at this time? At the critical moment, his defense will bring huge opportunities to the Nets."
To be continued...