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Chapter 949 A Wonderful Change

Since the defender changed from Bai Jidong to Vashabek, Irving has completely let himself go, playing various singles with the ball.

Vashabek's defensive skills are not bad, the confrontation is not weak, and his physical fitness has declined slightly from the peak, but he is still far better than Irving.

Facing such an opponent, Owen can only take the trouble to use fake moves one by one to mobilize his center of gravity, so as to find opportunities to tear the defense.

Irving's game style is a typical box office star, highly entertaining, and every attack gives you a sense of "really handsome", but if you watch too much, you will also have "Why does he do it so complicated every time?" operation?" doubts.

The truth is actually very simple. Why doesn't Irving want to get rid of his opponent with a big change like Iverson? His physical fitness and explosive power are not enough to support him to do so, so he can only find another way.

With this ball, Vashabek pushed Irving into a dead corner, with no way to retreat, and even the passing route was blocked. It can be said to be an extremely perfect defense.

Irving stepped on the bottom corner, drifting out of bounds, and drifted for a three-pointer with a negative angle.

"too difficult!"

The commentator couldn't help expressing such emotion that the degree of difficulty of this ball is indeed too high.

"Duang!"

With an almost predictable strike, Butu jammed Loew, making it impossible for him to move.

But at this moment, Thompson squeezed Lopez away, occupied a more favorable position than Butu, jumped up and grabbed the rebound.

At this moment, Butu leaned forward to interfere with Thompson.

Thompson's position is too good, in this position, no one can stop him from scoring.

"This is what will happen to you bastards! I'm going to make steaks for you one by one!" Thompson roared, spitting.

Butu kept telling himself in his heart, calm down!calm!Be calm!
"Yes, your emotions are well controlled." Bai Jidong was very satisfied with Butu's self-control ability, which is what differentiates him from Rodman.

Rodman's time bomb never knows when it will detonate, but Butu can control himself, which is very rare.

"Cough, I'm so suffocated! That damn bastard!" Butu's temper really made it impossible to imagine that he was such a cowardly person when he was a child.

Bai Jidong said: "Butu, do you want to be a player like Rodman?"

Butu said: "I want to! I dream about it!"

Bai Jidong went on to say: "You are approaching him now, but you should not be him, you are his most proud apprentice, you should do better than him, he has been unable to manage his emotions, what about you? Can it be managed?"

"I" Butu didn't know how to answer.

"It's easy to get angry, but it's the best way to vent your anger in the competition, what do you think?" Bai Jidong asked with a smile.

Butu is not a child, he understood what Bai Jidong meant: "I will work hard."

"I believe you can do it." Bai Jidong ran across the frontcourt, got the ball from Butler, and faced James again.

With 5 minutes left in the fourth quarter, the Bulls had a 4-point lead.

"LeBron, it looks like you guys are going to lose tonight." Bai Jidong said confidently.

James said: "Losing? That's impossible."

Indeed, James has not lost in the Eastern Conference playoffs for six consecutive years, and he may have long forgotten the feeling of losing in the Eastern Conference.

However, today is different, I am back, so you will lose.

"There are eight seconds left in this round, and the White Wolf faced LeBron again!"

"I can't remember how many times they've played against each other."

In James' eyes, Bai Jidong is still an extremely dangerous opponent, and he must not be confused by his age.

While Bai Weidong's center of gravity was lowered, the ball was flapping back and forth under his crotch, James couldn't read his pulse, and couldn't see where he was going.

The result of the confrontation between the two soon came out, Bai Weidong took an amazing step with all the strength in his body, James retreated deliberately, as long as he can entangle Bai Weidong, the defense will be considered a success.

It was at the moment when James retreated, Bai Jidong stopped the attack, crossed his crotch and changed hands, stopped suddenly, collected the ball, pulled up and shot a three-pointer.

"Shh!"

"Goodbye! LeBron!"

"Goodbye! LeBron!"

"Goodbye! LeBron!"

"The audience at the United Center and White Wolf no, bid farewell to LeBron with Bye!"

"7 points! This is the biggest point difference since the opening!"

Irving holds the ball and James goes through half court empty-handed, which is not his style.

Based on Bai Jidong's understanding of James, he scored such a beautiful goal on the opponent's head just now, and he must have responded, but now it's good, with both hands empty-handed, as if throwing away the shopkeeper.

This is not an insignificant regular season, this is the Eastern Conference Finals.

He really wasn't going to respond?of course not!

Bai Jidong knew what was going on when he saw the Cavaliers' running positions. In the last few minutes of the game, James still wanted to stay and fight for the last 3 minutes, so now he can save effort if he can. He wants to score in the simplest and most efficient way.

"LeBron, you can't win by standing with your hips akimbo." Bai Jidong sarcastically said.

Suddenly, James started to move, and Bai Jidong was about to chase him, but was blocked by the protective wall of human body built by Love.

James walked to the basket and confronted Butu.

Although the opponent is a power forward, James is not afraid at all. When he was in the Heat, in order to cooperate with Riley's grand strategy, he took the initiative to gain weight and play the fourth position. It can be said that he has sufficient experience in the fourth position. Although he has lost weight now, It is impossible to stand in the fourth position for a long time, but it is no problem to deal with it temporarily like now.

Butu's defense is very good, taking advantage of his height and raising his hands high to maximize interference.

James is a veteran, Butu's defense is a textbook-like back defense, but James' position is too inside, and this defense is far from enough.

"Ugh!"

James pushed Butu away hard, slammed for a slam dunk, and got back 2 points for the Cavaliers.

"As expected of LeBron!" Wade sighed off the court.

Veterans like Carter can only worry off the court now: "Fuck, I really want to go up and play for a few minutes!"

Not only he thought, Wade also thought, but they couldn't keep up with the rhythm of this battlefield.

"What are you thinking? It's not like you to be so silent." James said.

Bai Jidong clung to James' body, ready to break free.

At this time, Butler stretched out his left hand far away, showing three fingers, and nodded—a very clear tactical instruction!

Seeing this gesture, Bai Jidong immediately gave up the attack, got rid of the high position status, and quickly ran to Butler's side to get the ball, and threw it to the low position Lopez.

During these few seconds, the Bulls' ball was running extremely fast.

As soon as the ball reached Lopez's hands, Butler got into the basket from nowhere, and made a hand-to-hand pass with Lopez on the spot.

Thompson is the last barrier for the Cavaliers to guard the rim. In order to help defend Butler, he ran over at the cost of giving up the penalty area behind him, and this is the ultimate goal of all running positions and all passes.

An open restricted area, everyone can enter.

Vashabek is the terminator who ends all of this. He runs like flying, rushes to the paint area in an instant, points to the sky, and takes off with all his strength.

Butler knew what he was going to do, calculated the time difference, and threw the ball into the air with both hands. From now to the end of the offensive round, it is time for performance!

Vashabek caught the ball in the air, and he flew over the basket. He took the ball with both hands and pulled the bar up and down twice in a row. With his back to the basket, he smashed the ball in with all his strength, expanding the point difference to 7 points again.

James has a sense of crisis, which is familiar, like
He couldn't remember it, but he knew that he had this feeling before, and he was sure that in the last match, the opponent was Bai Jidong's team.

So, what is it?James didn't know, he stopped staying strong and wanted the ball to play hard.

This is exactly what Bai Jidong wants to see. As long as James has the ball, he can selectively defend against James' offense. If he insists on scoring through tactical moves, it will be difficult to guard against.

He understands James' approach. There are still 4 minutes in the game and a 7-point gap. If he doesn't take over the game, he may have no chance.

On the contrary, Bai Jidong was relieved.

Although the Cavaliers claimed to have finished their run-in in the seventh game of the semifinals, the tacit understanding of the Bulls team is getting better and better, especially now, they know what the other is going to do through a glance.

James who went all out was hard to stop, but Bai Jidong was not alone, he had teammates.

When James broke through Bai Jidong's defense with the ball, Butler stepped forward to make the second gate.Just as James was about to continue attacking, Vashabek also came over to double-team.

The two of them can be said to be the two best defensive players in the Bulls. Under the double-team, even James is powerless, and the ball was intercepted by the opponent in a hurry.

Suddenly, the Bulls became a team of science, of reason, of efficiency.

After Bai Weidong's counterattack fast break scored, the point difference came to 9 points.

Finally, James knows what it feels like, and the memory hooks him back to the seemingly distant 2014 Finals three years ago, when they played against the Minnesota Timberwolves.

What kind of team was the Timberwolves at that time? The 37-year-old White Wolf is the leader and core. Vashabek is not as mature as he is today, and Medved has been destroyed by injuries. It is a team that is difficult to explain in words.

It happened to be such a team that sent them home in the finals with a clean 4-0, indirectly ending the James era in Miami.

Why?Why does he always come to bring about such a change?
The White Wolf in the 07 season was a monster that could destroy any team; in the 14th season, he was still the core of the magical Timberwolves team; now, he is 40 years old, and in this groundless Bulls, It took him just one season to make such a difference.

Am I really not as good as him?

James thought dejectedly.

I don't know what happened, the Cavaliers gave up resistance at the last minute and lost the first game of the Eastern Conference Finals.

The victory gave the Bulls even more momentum.

If you only look at the data, no one in the Bulls is particularly outstanding. Points, rebounds, and assists are all distributed to each player very evenly.

Bai Jidong is the one with the best statistics. He scored 19 points, 7 rebounds and 6 assists.

(End of this chapter)