Chapter 975: Is Hammer's Defense Really that Strong?

James started to attack the paint area from the left wing. The long wing gave him the distance to accelerate. The Chinese team's stretched defensive formation gave him the space to accelerate.

As he rushed towards the paint area, Prince in the left corner also began to rush towards the paint area.

This is the so-called run-and-gun tactic suggested by Frank. Everyone cannot stop in one position and keep running to tear through the Chinese team's fragile perimeter defense.

Then there are two options, the first is to shoot from the outside, the second is to continuously attack the penalty area and attack the Chinese team's inside line, and the US team's extremely powerful outside impact to break down the Chinese team's inside defense.

Every American team player has the ability to make these two choices.

The first option is Dayao's best choice at the basket. This will weaken the Chinese team's ability to control rebounds and help the US team attack offensive rebounds.

The second option is Li Ba's best option under the basket to cause damage to him.

Now Li Ba is guarding Howard alone under the basket, James is attacking, and Prince is the second one, like a wave, attacking the Chinese team's penalty area one after another.

The Chinese team's defensive tactics adopted the one proposed by Li Ba. Dayao was in the high position, creating opportunities for Li Ba to help defend the top of the arc.

Li Ba had just reached the free throw line and took the next step, but when he reached James, he was staring at Paul. He "saw" someone on the left wing approaching the basket at high speed, and immediately retreated to defend the basket.

He looked and saw that it was James, followed by Prince.

With his stronger strength and physique, James held down the Arab League and took the lead by half a head. At this time, Paul passed the ball. He caught the ball and stepped on the edge of the penalty area.

As soon as Li Ba retreated to the basket, Howard started to move, trying to trap him and cover James' attack, but as soon as he turned around faster and moved sideways, he trapped Howard under the basket. At this time, James rushed to the front.

James saw Li Ba occupying a defensive position under the basket, took one step forward, changed direction upward, pulled towards the front of the basket, and then jumped up.

But the biggest goal of his change of direction and take-off is not to score, but to attract Li Ba to take off, and then pass the ball to Prince, who will hit Li Ba and cause Li Ba to foul.

UAE, who was half a step behind James, did not intercept the pass. He did not expect James to pass the ball.

After James passed the ball, he landed, turned around, and caught the A-Lian behind him, preparing to fight for the rebound.

Prince stepped into the penalty area one step behind James, leaving Sun Le who was guarding him behind.

At this time, he saw James jump up. According to the tactical requirements, he immediately stretched out his hands, prepared to catch the ball, and then took off.

Li Ba took off after James and saw the latter passing the ball backwards. He didn't have any unexpected thoughts.

Prince rushed in, there must be a purpose. Whether it was a second attack or he was the real attacker, Li Ba was mentally prepared.

The moment he landed, he took off a second time, moved his right arm, and pressed his right palm sideways.

The arms are long enough and the distance is just right.

Prince caught the ball and took off, but found that Li Ba did not move towards him, but took off in place, which made him unable to cause damage.

The next moment, he suddenly discovered that his ball was held down by a force.

"Snapped!"

Li Ba pinned Prince, who was hitting the basket with both arms, in the air with one palm, then applied downward pressure and directly pressed him to the floor.

With a bang, Prince fell to the floor with the ball, and the ball rolled out of the baseline.

"oh!"

Wu Kesong exclaimed, and then instantly burst into huge cheers, countless palms were shaking, and countless red flags were waving.

James was extremely surprised. This tactic failed?

Even the goal of scoring was not achieved, but Prince was stuck on the floor?

Is the Hammers' defense really that strong?

On the sidelines, in front of the U.S. bench, Frank shook his head helplessly.

He relied on Li Ba to win three championships and create a dynasty. It can be said that he knows Li Ba best, better than the coaches of the Chinese team, but now he still has a huge headache when dealing with Li Ba in person.

Calm, this was his evaluation of Li Ba's performance just now.

He felt that Li Ba was like a cold defensive machine just now, making no mistakes when dealing with the US team's offense.

"This defense is really beautiful! James can't escape the hammer's block even when he takes a shot." Yu Jia roared excitedly.

The Chinese team attacks.

"Pay attention, they may cause us a foul today. We must be decisive when we start, and don't give them a chance to play two plus one."

Sun Le served, and Li Ba controlled the ball himself, pushing forward against James while shouting to his teammates.

In the frontcourt, Dayao is in a high position. In order to save his energy, it is most appropriate for him to play high position tactics. This is also his main tactical position in the Lakers, and he is most familiar with it.

In the backcourt, Li Ba dribbled down, and Paul, who was waiting for an opportunity behind him, suddenly rushed up and made a steal.

But at this moment, Li Ba suddenly moved half a step very quickly. Paul bumped into Li Ba's back with a bang. He didn't hit Li Ba. He rebounded and fell to the floor. .

James in front twitched his face. He was sure that Li Ba didn't pay attention to the back at all just now, but his movement was so timely.

Ignoring what happened next, Li Ba continued to advance with the ball.

Paul got up amidst the laughter of the audience, feeling aggrieved by the cheap boss again.

At five seconds, Li Ba steadily advanced to the frontcourt, near the top of the arc, made a tactical gesture, suddenly moved his right hand, pulled the ball up from the floor, grabbed the ball with one hand and threw it towards Dayao.

This is the advantage of having big hands. The passing movement was so sudden that James in front did not react at all, and the ball passed over his head.

After seeing the tactical gesture, Dayao knew that Li Ba would pass the ball to him, so he took the ball steadily and raised his hands high.

Howard stood behind Dayao, preventing him from turning around smoothly.

At this time, Li Ba reached the top of the arc and when he was close to Dayao, he suddenly accelerated, passed James, and rushed into the penalty area from Dayao.

His action was to attract Howard and make the US team switch defense, which would give Dayao the opportunity to hit James in a misplaced position.

But the U.S. team has fixed James' position, which is to follow Li Ba, so Howard hesitated at this time and did not change defense in time.

After James was surprised, he turned around Dayao and was already more than one step late. His current turn and first step were still not as good as Li Ba's, and Dayao's pick-and-roll prevented him from keeping up.

As soon as Li Ba rushed past Howard's position, Dayao's ball came in.

This was a very concealed backward ground pass, chasing Li Ba's butt and passing it over. Howard behind him didn't react at all, or even notice.

Li Ba didn't stop for a moment, didn't look at it, grabbed the ball back with his right hand, grabbed the ball from below, jumped forward in an instant, then stood up, raised one arm, and smashed the ball in with a bang. basket.

0:2, the Chinese team takes the lead.