Chapter 638 Defending Jordan
Chapter 638 Defending Jordan
Shortly after Christmas, on December 12, the Warriors visited Chicago to challenge the Bulls, who have been in the limelight recently.
The record of the Bulls this season can be said to be low and high. After defeating the Pistons, they have won three consecutive victories, including the Lakers and other strong teams. The state is not bad.
In contrast, the Warriors did not give up much. With the return of Li Weisi and Malone, the team's state is gradually returning, and now it has won three consecutive victories.
Especially in the last Christmas game, facing the old enemy the Lakers, they won very simply in the end, which made a focus game that was thought to be a spark hit the earth, but it was a mess.
Therefore, the match between these two teams is far more attention-grabbing than the Christmas game, and even more eye-catching than the matchup between the East and the West.
There is no way, compared with the old generation of magicians and Bird, the popularity of the new generation of league cards, Jordan and Li Weisi, is really terrifying, and has far exceeded the popularity of the magician and Bird.
Since the end of the Christmas game, the All-Star voting officially started. In just one day, Li Weisi and Jordan received more than 20 votes, far ahead of other players.
As for No.3, Barkley, who received 7 votes, is far behind the two, while Magic and Bird didn't even make the top five.
Unknowingly, the older generation of stars has been gradually replaced by the younger generation of stars.
As the stars of the younger generation, the duel between Li Weisi and Jordan will naturally attract a lot of attention. In addition, although the two teams are ranked second in their respective halfs, they are regarded as the top two favorites to win the championship.
In the current NBA situation, the Celtics are too old, the Blazers are not enough stars, and the Lakers and Pistons always feel that they are short of breath. In the end, it is still the champion and runner-up of last season who are the most likely to win the championship.
In the opening game of this season, the Warriors defeated the Bulls through a change that was beyond everyone's expectations. Small lineups are easy to target.
Of course, they are also willing to believe that the so-called five-small lineup is just an expedient measure for the Warriors. With Malone's return, the Warriors have made up for their shortcomings, and facing the Bulls again, there is no need to risk using the five-small lineup.
The fact is also as expected, in tonight's game, the Warriors' starting lineup, Malone was indeed mentioned by Nelson as the starting position, it seems that he does not intend to go slanted, but to face the Bulls head-on.
In this regard, Jordan naturally wished for it. In his opinion, only by defeating the strongest warrior can other people shut up and no longer question their own strength.
But head coach Jackson was a little disappointed. After all, after the opening game, Jackson conducted careful research and analysis on the Warriors' five small lineups, and after discussing with the coaching staff, he initially designed a lineup to deal with it. Can take it out against the Warriors tonight.
Unfortunately, after seeing the Warriors' starting roster, he knew that this idea might be difficult to take shape.
Soon, under the witness of more than 18000 spectators, Ma Long and Cartwright jumped high and the score officially started.
The jump ball duel between the two veterans ended with Malone winning and the Warriors getting the ball.
For the Warriors who took the lead in attacking, Li Weisi handed the first ball to Malone who had just won the jump ball.
This is because, in the middle of a sports game at this time, the Bulls' defensive positioning has not yet been fully formed, and the Bulls' defense on the outside line tonight is obviously higher than that on the inside line, so Li Wei thought to attack the opponent's defensive weakness.
At the same time, I also hope that Malone can find out his status. If Malone is in good condition and opens from the inside, the pressure on the Warriors' outside line will also be relieved a lot.
Ma Long was not too surprised when he received the ball, because in the best games, Li Weisi would consciously let Ma Long attack first at the beginning of the game, and of course Ma Long knew the intention of doing so.
Therefore, facing Cartwright at this time, Malone only dribbled one step during the march, and then immediately collected the ball and turned around. Closer to the basket, intending to score a layup.
However, he never thought that even though he had passed Cartwright, Grant, who was defending against him, reacted very quickly. He actually sensed Malone's movement at the first time, jumped high, and planned to block Malone.
Fortunately, Malone's reaction was also very quick, speeding up the rhythm of the shot, which avoided being blocked by Grant. However, because the rhythm was disrupted, the basketball actually bounced out and missed!
Not only that, the rebound was also taken by Cartwright under the basket. As a result, the Bulls immediately launched a counterattack.
The Bulls' counterattack is also the best in the league, not worse than the Warriors. Moreover, compared with the Warriors' counterattack, although the offensive area is not as large as the Warriors, the impact is stronger than the Warriors.
The main reason for this is naturally because of Jordan.
I saw that Cartwright found Price immediately, and after Price got the ball, he found Jordan with a long pass.
Since it was Jordan who defended Li Weisi just now, this led to the fact that the person closest to Jordan at this moment is Li Weisi.
Seeing Jordan who had already got the ball and was about to start, Li Weisi didn't feel flustered at all, and carefully judged Jordan's offensive route.
After Jordan got the ball, he immediately dribbled the ball under his crotch, intending to break through from Li Weisi's right side and his own left side.
The first step of Jordan's breakthrough is not only relying on his extraordinary physical fitness, but also comprehensive skills.
Just a simple crotch dribble, followed by a connecting movement, the center of gravity is lowered, the right arm is stiff and bent as a block, the right shoulder is sunk, and there is a tendency to sideways, so that the body can further protect the basketball. At the same time, the left hand dribbles as straight as possible The arm keeps the basketball away from Li Weisi's defensive position.
This kind of ultra-low body breakthrough, coupled with Jordan's cheetah-like speed, made it impossible for most defenders to reach out, because reaching out in such a situation is a foul.
Li Weisi was no exception. He didn't reach out, but moved a step to the left in advance, his feet stood in place as if rooted, protecting his vitals, and then directly met Jordan's impact.
Immediately, the two fell to the ground at the same time, and the referee immediately blew the whistle. The two had no time to get up on the ground, and they would look at the referee at the same time.
"Offensive foul!"
"Nice!" Li Weisi clenched his right hand and shouted loudly.
And Jordan got up from the ground and came to the referee to argue, but the result was obvious, the referee would not change the sentence just because he was Jordan.
"Hush..." There was also boos at the right time.
(End of this chapter)