Chapter 404 Provocation From a Rookie
The Suns attacked, Marbury broke through, and using Li Ba's containment, he succeeded in a layup.
Knights attack.
Big Z gets the ball in the high post.
Li Ba defended closely.
On the left wing, James moved erratically, ran back suddenly, and cut into the paint.
Battier was fully focused this time, and reacted a little faster, only half a step behind, barely following up.
But he still couldn't stop James from cutting in. Few of the league's forward players can stop James who is rushing up.
Gooden tried to set the screen again, but this time he didn't quite succeed and was blocked by the faster and more agile Marion.
At the moment James cut into the paint, Li Ba suddenly let go of Big Z and took a step.
"good chance!"
Seeing the hammer take a step back and prepare to return to the basket, Big Z instinctively took off.
As soon as Li Ba took a step back, he immediately jumped up following Big Z, stretched his right arm upwards, and sealed the basketball with his right hand.
It turned out that taking a step back was just his active defense, giving Big Z an illusion that he was ready to return to defense, and you can make a move.
"Snapped!"
Li Ba grabbed the basketball with his right palm and held the ball firmly in his hand.
Although his take-off is a bit slower, he has a faster bullet speed. This time, he succeeded in blocking the shot.
"Yeah yeah, nice catch, defensive performance from the Hammers, this is his unique Shoe Time!"
The Suns on-site commentator yelled again and again.
"ah!"
The scene also burst into cheers, and countless palms were shaking vigorously.
"This is the pit king's pit-digging defense. Big Z was fooled. He thought he had a chance, but it turned out to be a trap." Zhang Lili laughed.
The Suns went down quickly, and Marbury passed the ball to Barbosa, who made a layup.
2:4, the Suns lead at home.
In the next few rounds, the Suns continued to control the game defensively. In the sixth minute of the first quarter, at 9:15, the Suns led by 6 points.
After the timeout, the Cavaliers put on Varejao again.
Knights attack.
Big Z fell to the high position again, and Marion defended closely.
With James moving on the left wing, Battier guards the route between the former and the basket, preventing him from cutting quickly into the paint.
Varejao first went to the low post on the right wing, trying to bring Li Ba to the right wing.
But Li Bali ignored it, and went directly to the low post on the left wing, eyeing James.
At this time Varejao suddenly rushed down to the basket and reached out to Big Z for the ball.
"good chance!"
Big Z passed the ball.
"Seeing" the ball flying towards the backboard, Li Ba turned around instantly and rushed to the basket.
"Snapped!"
Varejao catches the ball.
The so-called newborn calf is not afraid of tigers, not to mention that he is a player with a strong style of play. Varejao saw Li Ba rushing over, but still bit the bullet and jumped for a layup.
Li Ba jumped up and pressed his left palm forward.
"Snapped!"
The basketball froze for an instant, and was directly caught by Li Ba.
"This is the Hammer's third blocked shot..." the Suns' on-site commentator shouted excitedly.
After landing, Li Ba was about to pass the ball, and Varejao immediately came up to grab the ball.
Smashing the ball with both hands in front of his chest, Li Ba took a step forward with his left foot, followed the right side of his body, and swept his left elbow on Varejao's chest.
"Has the rookie show started again?" Barkley joked.
But there was no whistle and the game continued.
Li Ba passed the ball to Marbury, who had already reached the center line, and the latter advanced with the ball.
"He had an elbow, why didn't he foul? Why?" Cavaliers coach Paul Silas jumped up on the sidelines.
Marbury took the lead, but when he got to the basket, he had a chance to miss a layup, and then passed to Barbosa who followed him and got an assist.
"Stephen is so bad, he swallowed my assist again." Li Ba complained.
Under his feet, Varejao had already got up, stared at him viciously and shouted: "You did it on purpose, on purpose..."
"Rookie, I forgot to give you something." Li Ba glanced at Varejao, and said coldly: "In my paint area, the more realistic the acting skills, the higher the chance of broken bones."
Hearing this, Varejao's expression froze, and suddenly he stepped forward again, and directly pressed his chest against Li Ba and said, "I won't give up... Ah!"
"Go away!"
Before Varejao could finish speaking, Li Ba suddenly pushed with both hands. The former let out an exclamation and fell backwards. He fell directly two meters away, and then slipped two meters backwards.
"Oh! Shhh!!!!!!!!!"
The audience exclaimed, and then the boos rose steeply.
"Is there a fight?"
Barkley said excitedly.
"There is a conflict!" Zhang Lili shouted.
"He was beating our players, did you see that villain, he was beating our players..." Cavaliers coach Paul Silas roared angrily.
"This idiot, who will care about you?"
Seeing Varejao provoking Big Hammer, Barbosa muttered.
As he said, the bottom judge didn't respond to this conflict, as if he didn't see it.
The referee signaled the Cavaliers to serve from the opposite side, and turned a blind eye to the matter here.
"It's not fair!"
Cavaliers coach Paul Silas yelled extremely dissatisfied.
"idiot!"
Frank next to him sneered.
What the hell is Varejao? A rookie who has just entered the league and is a Brazilian, does he think that he has the right to challenge the Hammers for an offensive foul?
The Hammer is now one of the most well-known basketball superstars in the world, with a very large global influence, more influential than 99% of the active players in the league. Can a rookie challenge this?
How does the alliance survive? rookie? Regular role player? No, they are superstars with huge influence.
So how could the alliance not maintain such a superstar and allow a rookie to provoke wantonly?
At this time, the Cavaliers served.
Varejao also got up in disgrace and returned to the basket in embarrassment.
"I will not be weak, absolutely not!" Beside Li Ba, he still muttered.
"Go away!" Li Ba cursed angrily.
"I know that you are the biggest pest in the alliance, so to speak, I am not afraid of you, come and hit me!" Varejao took half a step back, but still yelled in his mouth unwilling to admit defeat.
"Ah!"
The rookie is too tough, Li Ba is speechless.
In the 6th minute, the Cavaliers attacked.
McGinnis had the ball at the top of the key, and James suddenly ran up from the left wing to ask for the ball, and then took the ball and rushed directly to the paint.
Battier followed the defense and bumped into Big Z who was covering the high pick-and-roll. James entered the paint with the ball, bumped away Marion who was defending Big Z, and rushed to the basket.
Li Ba was desperately entangled by Varejao, and it was too late by the time he came to defend him.
"boom!"
James slammed his arms violently, and the Suns rim trembled violently.
"Hammer, where are you?"
As soon as James landed, he yelled at Li Ba. He couldn't help it, he was so excited.
"Come on, you'll lose your shape after just one buckle?" Li Ba scolded angrily.