Chapter 487 Rebirth, the Best Sixth Man!

When the ball reached Lin Dong, the Lakers were all stunned. This time, he looked back and shot too accurately...

Luck? Coincidence?

In the blink of an eye, Lin Dong had already rushed forward.

Although Kobe blocked the ball at the first time, he was near the front three-point line. When Lin Dong's speed had already increased, defense had already lost its meaning.

The two arrived at the basket almost at the same time, Lin Dong in front and Kobe behind. They jumped up at the same time, but Kobe was obviously a beat slower. When Lin Dong's hands had already dunked on the basket, Kobe's big hand just came over to block the shot.

12:10!

When the two landed, Lin Dong smiled at Kobe, but Kobe Bryant's eyes flashed with a trace of fear.

The defense of the two balls just now was so perfect that he forgot how terrible Lin Dong was...

This is Lin Dong, the man who has actually surpassed God.

If you want to stop him, you must not let him run first, otherwise even if you are in full condition and even if you already know Lin Dong well enough, you can't stop this guy's impact.

It's not that the consciousness can't keep up, but the speed can't keep up!

Kobe licked the corner of his mouth and grinned at Lin Dong.

Don't worry about physical strength, don't worry about blocking Lin Dong for four quarters, and don't be complacent because of two or three occasional successes, thinking that you can really block the opponent completely.

Live in the present, block the present!

Every time you block a ball of Lin Dong, the Lakers take a step towards victory!

A gleam of light flashed in Kobe's eyes.

Defensive intensity-upgrade!

At the stadium, the fans were stunned and became much quieter, but then there was a wave of counterattacks.

——It's our turn!

——What's going on? !

——Hit one! Hit one! Hit one!

——Play inside! For Yao!

Although the belated cheers were a bit late, they finally helped the Lakers regain two points of momentum.

Nash held the ball and stood in the offensive position.

Looking at the young No. 11 in front of him, Nash's eyes had become completely different from before.

I thought he was a rookie...

It was not until the defense of the ball just now that I saw the opponent's skills.

The basic skills of defense are quite solid and the speed is very fast. More importantly, his defensive awareness is quite strong. Not only can he predict his own movements to a certain extent, but he also devotes a lot of energy to blocking his passing route to Yao Ming in the interior.

This is at least a qualified defensive main force level. Perhaps defense is his specialty.

As for the two 3-pointers just now... The first one was because Lin Dong pulled his attention and the defense was distracted, and the second one was purely luck.

It's not that no one has done this kind of thing in the NBA. Even every few years, you can always pull out a 10-pointer highlight of alley-oop 3-pointers.

But this is not a regular play. It often appears in the last moments of the game when you rush to win time and gamble on luck.

This is a magical shot, to put it bluntly, it is a lucky shot that cannot be replicated. Everyone can throw it like this. Whether it goes in or not depends on luck. There is no question of 3-point ability... Of course, you can't be too careless, after all, this guy's position on the offensive end is an outside shooter.

It's not a big problem.

The real trouble is Lin Dong, the guy who will lure you into a trap once he reveals a flaw. Unless he is three steps away from Kobe, you must not pass the ball to Kobe.

Nash locked his eyes on Yao Ming and Chandler in the interior, and still had to find a breakthrough from this direction.

He had to break in and pass the ball, but there was no need to fight hard with this guy who had already proved his defensive ability...

Nash raised four fingers and made a tactical gesture.

Kobe had already taken Lin Dong to the bottom of the right three-point line. Lin Dong's steal just now really made the Lakers a little scared. It was really dangerous to put that guy on the Lakers' offensive side.

Odom moved to the right free throw zone, seemingly in the same half as Kobe, but in fact he was helping Nash and another partner to open up space and strengthen the defense under the basket.

Doug Christie rushed towards Nash with Payton.

Pick-and-roll?

Payton's eyes suddenly condensed, and his experience showed the Lakers' tactical intentions at a glance. After all, Odom and Kobe's positions had already vacated the left side.

Two on two!

Is Nash trying to play against him in a mismatch?

Payton felt a little headache just thinking about it. Nash is a speed-type player on the offensive end, and he is the type he is most reluctant to face now.

If the opponent is strong, he can use small moves. If the opponent is experienced, he has more experience than the opponent. But if the opponent is faster than him, it is really difficult to keep up with Payton's body that is no longer at its peak.

It would be best if he and his partner could cross the court without switching defense after the opponent's pick-and-roll, but his current partner is Rukawa instead of Sakuragi. In the split second of the mismatch, if the two of them have a little bit of inconsistency in their awareness, it is easy to make a switch error.

Payton thinks that Rukawa may find it difficult to judge the correct choice at the first time. Even with his defensive awareness that has been criticized by the whole team, he may not be able to react to the opponent's pick-and-roll at the first time, right?

In a flash, Doug Christie had already blocked Rukawa's side, and Nash suddenly accelerated and slid towards the left corner. Payton could only honestly choose to switch defense at the first time, but he didn't expect that when he switched defense, Rukawa had already seen Doug Christie's pick-and-roll early, stepped back in advance, and continued to block Nash who was sliding to the left.

This was obviously a communication problem between the two defenders. The two chose to block Nash at the same time, but Doug Christie was left empty. When Payton and Rukawa realized this, they both thought that the other party would fill in the position, delaying the reaction time of half a second, so that the vacancy became larger, and such an empty hole would naturally not be missed in Nash's eyes.

Swish!

Whoosh!

The ball was in Doug Christie's hands. With the experience and intuition of the veteran, Doug Christie realized that this was his opportunity as early as when the two people followed him.

Adjusted and prepared mentally in advance, he jumped up without hesitation when he received the ball.

It's over!

Although the distance was only two steps, with his current physical condition and speed, it was impossible for him to rush forward to cause any interference. He could only watch the guy shoot.

Payton felt cold in his heart.

MD, who would have thought that the team's defensive loopholes could actually correctly realize the mismatch and not switch defense this time?

It could be said that he underestimated Rukawa Kaede, made the wrong choice, or that there was a problem with the tacit understanding between him and Rukawa Kaede. In short, the ball had already been missed, and...

Huh!

Before Payton's thoughts were finished in his mind, he already felt a flying figure pounce on Christie from behind him.

Payton turned his head suddenly, and in a glimpse, he saw a huge No. 11 jersey.

Rukawa Kaede!

The reaction was as fast as his own? No... Looking at the height and angle of the jump, Rukawa Kaede's reaction to the ball was even faster than his own!

If Rukawa saw Nash's pass at the same time as him, it would be impossible for him to jump so fast, unless...

Christie's pupils shrank suddenly. The sudden block obviously startled him, and the push at the moment of shooting no longer seemed so soft and natural.

Fuck, was he shocked, disturbed... I guess this ball didn't happen!

Bang!

There was a sound of the basketball being touched.

Christie was thinking this.

But Rukawa jumped up very high like a god, with his arms stretched out, and the maximum height reached at least 350 cm.

And Christie was completely open. When she received the ball, she only cared about adjusting the direction and speed. The height when she jumped up was not high, so the arc of the basketball was naturally not high enough. Facing Rukawa's extreme block, the ball, which was not high enough, was still forcibly touched after the shot, and the original shooting route changed instantly, and it bounced straight into the air.

Block!

Doug Christie, who is one centimeter taller than Rukawa and an absolute All-Star, was blocked by a substitute!

The fans at the scene were speechless, while the Sonics bench suddenly cheered.

——Hahaha! Rukawa is great!

——Oh my god!

Boom!

He and Christie landed one after the other, and the basketball had already reached the end of its rise in the air and was about to fall.

At this time, there was no third person around the two of them, and they had to fight for the ball.

But the problem was that Christie didn't jump high before, and landed before Rukawa, and the second jump must be faster than him.

And if he couldn't grab the ball, then this block would be meaningless.

A gleam of light flashed in Rukawa's eyes.

The whole stadium seemed to become quiet at this moment.

Was the block just now because of his quick reaction?

Was the misalignment just now because of the misalignment between him and Payton?

None of them...

With the help of the Zone state, even though his reading of the court information is still not as good as Lin Dong, at least within two quarters, he can already compete with the half-knowledgeable Sakuragi.

To put it bluntly, he can maintain the "Sakuragi prediction" ability within two quarters!

Perhaps because of his physical fitness, athletic ability, etc., even if he has the same defensive prediction as Sakuragi, he cannot reach the defensive intensity of Sakuragi Hanamichi, but it is more than enough to deal with veterans like Christie who are not particularly good at offense.

And it is precisely because of this reading of the changes on the court that when Doug Christie came up to play pick-and-roll for Nash, Rukawa Kaede had already thought that Payton would choose to switch defense because of "distrust".

If he wants to cooperate with Payton, then he will naturally play Christie in a mismatch.

But the problem is that the ball is in Nash's hands. If he defends Christie, it is equivalent to directly withdrawing from the defensive system. With Payton's already old speed, he can't lock Nash's pass, and the result is that Nash will inevitably break into the inside.

Then whether he and Yao Ming are two against one with Chandler, or the ball is directly given to Yao Ming for a single shot, this ball is almost certain to go in.

So, just make the best of it.

Pretend to make a mistake with Payton and move out of position, leaving Christie out. With Nash's sharp vision, he will definitely find the loophole at the first time and pass the ball. Christie will definitely shoot at the first time when he sees the open space, and that will be his chance to make up for the defense and block the shot!

Therefore, in the previous mismatch, Rukawa Kaede has been holding back his strength, and his center of gravity is always in a state of pulling back. He also deliberately hangs one step behind Payton, using Payton's body to block Nash's view of his position, and also to create an illusion of an open position for Christie...

Under the zone, all these ideas were laid out in an instant, and the implementation was extremely smooth.

To be honest, Rukawa Kaede has always been very unconfident.

Maybe he was once, but since the first time that Hidaka faced Lin Dong, his pride and confidence have been buried by himself again and again, hidden in the deepest part of his heart, and he dared not show it at all.

Hidaka, Nike Summit, Mega, and even the Bobcats, Seattle Storm, and finally entered the substitute lineup of the Supersonics.

He has experienced enough and grown enough, especially the training with Sakuragi and Lin Dong in the Supersonics in the past two years, which made him feel that he had already broken through his own limits, but the only thing he could not break through was confidence.

People will always instinctively protect themselves. The more you are hit, the thicker the shell you build on your heart will be.

These shells will protect you from being hit harder, but everything has two sides. It will also restrict the growth of your self-confidence, making you accustomed to relying on the protection of the shell, no longer believing in your own abilities, and finally becoming an obstacle for you to break your own barriers.

In the past two years, he has weakened this shell partly with the experience of the Seattle Storm, but then the experience of being a substitute in the Supersonics, being scolded by McMillan, and even being abused when he and Sakuragi played two-on-one against Lin Dong, which repeatedly strengthened and thinned his shell, leaving him in a state of being about to break.

Until just now, when the omnipotent Lin Dong was in offensive trouble, when the team needed him, when he finally mustered up the courage, put aside all distractions, and played a blockade and two three-pointers against Nash;

When facing the complex situation on the court just now, he relied on the zone to complete the overall deduction and succeeded;

When the fingertips touched the basketball, when the basketball bounced high into the air!

All the confidence that had disappeared, all the dignity that had been lost, all the pursuit of dreams that had been pursued, all returned to Rukawa Kaede's body completely and even exponentially at this moment.

Fuck talent, fuck inability to do it, fuck soft eggs!

"Ahhhhh!" Rukawa Kaede's eyes were red, and he finally burst into a venting roar for the first time in the NBA arena, as if he wanted to vent all the grievances and frustrations of these years.

And his body also reached a peak of balance with this joy!

It was obvious that Rukawa Kaede landed later, and it was obvious that Christie jumped faster, but when the two jumped up for the second time and reached the highest point, Rukawa Kaede was actually a palm higher than Christie!

Lin Dong was very calm in his heart. At the moment when Rukawa Kaede roared, he had already taken the lead and ran to the front court.

Can the explosion of a 21-year-old body be compared with that of a 35-year-old veteran?

Can the sudden eruption of a volcano that has been frustrated for several years be compared with a faucet?

Just yell. No matter how cold-blooded a person is, it is not good for physical and mental health to hold it in for too long... Rebirth, the best sixth man of the Supersonics!

Although Christie has realized that the opponent's jumping and bursting are far better than hers, she is trying her best to put physical confrontation and pressure on Rukawa Kaede, but it is still useless.

Snap!

With a roar, Rukawa Kaede slapped the basketball in the air in the direction of Lin Dong with an absolute height advantage.

Blocked shot! The ball belongs to the Supersonics!