Chapter 1345 Abandoned

Just as Paul took off, Li Ba took another step and jumped up. When he reached the highest point in the air, he made a precise move with his big hand and grabbed the ball.

"Beautiful!" Yu Jia shouted excitedly.

"This is the hammer at the fourth position. His range of activities can directly reach the three-point line. His defensive area has completely covered all the Lakers' offensive areas." Zhang Lili shouted excitedly.

At this time, Li Ba took advantage of the trend and made a fast break. No one could stop his fast break at the three-point line. No one dared to block it under the powerful impact.

"boom!"

The Lakers' basket was banged.

105;100, the Suns lead by 5 points.

"The Lakers are in trouble. They really don't have anyone who can deal with Hammer at the fourth position. Hammer also played at the fourth position in the regular season, but the strange thing is that when they played against the Lakers, he didn't play at the fourth position. This It should be intentional. The Lakers are very passive now, and their offense must be away from the three-point line or passed to the weak side," Barkley said.

"It should be that the Hammer is very cunning. His goal is only the playoffs and the championship." Kenny Smith said.

Next, the Lakers asked for a timeout.

When the game restarted, the Lakers strengthened the ball movement on the strong and weak sides.

At the beginning, Tony Allen, who was left open, was used as a strong side, allowing him to take the ball and attract Li Ba's defense.

But Li Ba is not a fool. Tony Allen's shooting is so bad. As long as he doesn't take the ball and hit the paint area, he won't go through at all, just let him shoot and he will return to the paint area to protect the rebound.

After several back and forths like this, with two minutes left, the Lakers found out that it was not working. Tony Allen's open shot did not help the team come back, and the point difference reached 9 points. Because the Lakers' rebounds were gone, Li Ba and Li Ba Drummond teamed up and completely controlled the rebound.

The Lakers called the last timeout and changed their tactics again. Paul held the ball on the strong side to attract Li Ba's defense. Then the ball was given to Kobe on the weak side, and Tony Allen was responsible for containing Li Ba.

This tactical change worked, allowing the Lakers to score two goals in succession.

But at this time, the Suns used outside fast break tactics. When Li Ba was outside the paint area, he personally launched a fast break. The Lakers were unstoppable, so the point difference still did not narrow.

With 42 seconds left in the game, 115:108, the Suns still led by 7 points.

At this time, Kobe completely took over the Lakers' possession of the ball and made consecutive three-pointers and a long two-pointer.

But Li Ba still launched an attack directly from the outside and played two fast breaks. The Lakers only narrowed the point difference by one point.

With 19 seconds left, the Lakers adopted foul tactics and fouled the ball holder.

But unfortunately, this tactic still failed. In the end, 123:115, the Suns won the G1 game.

Kobe made 17 of 28 shots from the field, 7 of 12 three-pointers, and 6 of 8 free throws. He scored 47 points, which destroyed the Suns' perimeter. However, under Li Ba's strong defense, he still scored a scoreless game. .

Li Ba scored 51 points, 27 rebounds, 6 assists, 10 extrapolations, 13 blocks, 3 turnovers and 4 fouls in the fourth quarter. The data of 50+20+4 doubles+5*5 was comparable to a five-double.

Zhang Lili said in the post-game commentary: "The victory in this G1 game shows the true strength of the Suns. It is definitely not the Suns that lost all four games against the Lakers in the regular season."

Xu Jicheng smiled and said: "The Hammer is so powerful at the fourth position! In fact, I think he will be stronger playing the one position against the Lakers. I don't know what everyone thinks?"

Yu Jia laughed and said: "No one on the Lakers at the No. 1 position can guard him, and Tony Allen can't guard the Hammers at all."

Zhang Liji smiled and said: "It is not impossible for him to play the No. 1 position throughout the entire series."

After the game, Li Ba accepted an on-site interview.

"Iron Hammer, the Suns lost four regular season games, but won the G1 game. Does this mean that the Suns did not try their best during the regular season?" a reporter asked.

"It can't be said that throughout the regular season, several young players in our team have improved and they are getting stronger and stronger. However, the average age of the Lakers is much greater than ours, and their physical fitness in the playoffs is not as good as ours. ." Li Ba said.

After answering a few questions, the on-site interview ended.

Not long after, Li Ba went to attend the post-match press conference.

"Hammer, what do you think about Nike?" the first reporter asked at the press conference.

Li Ba was startled, but immediately said: "Nike, as a sponsor, has acted recklessly in the league, and they will regret it. I think Nike is trying to manipulate the league, and the league should stop this immediately. This kind of behavior even directly prohibits players from wearing sneakers and products with Nike trademarks, otherwise it will make people think that Nike is the owner of the league.”

His words triggered a burst of exclamations at the scene. No one expected that Li Ba would suddenly attack Nike.

Li Ba didn’t care about Nike. Before the reporter asked, he retorted: “I think other sports leagues and sports brands should join forces to stop Nike’s behavior. They have crossed the line. If they are allowed to do this, sooner or later their hands will reach out to you. "

As soon as he finished speaking, the excited reporters started asking questions one after another without waiting for the cards to be turned over.

Li Ba's attack on Nike at the post-match press conference immediately caused an uproar.

The next morning, Nike headquarters held a press conference in New York, denying everything and not admitting that Nike was involved in this public controversy.

Nike is still very powerful, and most of the American media are on the opposite side of Li Ba, so those media immediately began to whitewash Nike.

But unfortunately, there are still some media that Nike cannot influence. They are still reporting news about Nike's manipulation of the NBA league.

Nike was in such disarray that it immediately convened a board meeting, where Philip Knight, the company's founder, chairman and president, came under intense pressure.

"Some media broke the news that the Hammers personally told Kobe that if the league introduces rules that restrict defense, then he will definitely withdraw from the league. If he withdraws from the league, what impact will it have on Nike? Mr. Knight, before you implement the plan , have you considered this issue?”

"This plan must stop, we cannot afford for the Hammers to withdraw from the league."

Several directors attacked Philip Knight one after another.

Philip Knight was a little worried. These directors were his opponents in the company. They opposed for the sake of opposition. He wanted to get rid of all these people, but unfortunately he did not have the ability.

"It was him who made our plan fail, and it was he who exposed Nike. He is a Chinese and should be a traitor in our company..."

So, he threw out his scapegoat and put all the blame on Locklin.

"What? It's over, I'm done! My more than ten years of hard work in the United States have been ruined! Damn Hammer, why do you want to retire? Why don't you just stay in the league? Why do you want to go against Nike? Keep your head down and do it Isn’t a dog bad?”

Locklin was notified by the Personnel Department that he had been fired. He was shocked and felt like he had been abandoned by his master. Why couldn't such a big United States tolerate him?