Chapter 1534 is too strong
The injury incident before the start of this round of showdown was caused by Li Feng's two consecutive defeats, and he did not attend the press conference after the game. After this series of things were piled up, more and more people tended toward the Warriors' side, and many media even predicted that the Warriors would eliminate the Pelicans 4-1.
Some people may not think that the Warriors will eliminate the Pelicans 4-1, but they just think that the scores are different, but the results are not different.
For example, after the third game, there was news that the marketing manager of the famous American fashion brand ck talked about when chatting with his friends that if possible, he was willing to sponsor underwear for Li Feng. He believed that when Li Feng was wearing underwear around the stadium, it would bring huge advertising benefits.
When Li Feng just appeared in the hotel the next day, he was immediately surrounded by a group of reporters, and various problems emerged one after another. Li Feng, who had a good ear, immediately raised his eyebrows when he heard the questions of one of the reporters.
"Li Feng, I heard that ck is going to sponsor you underwear. Is this news true?"
Staring at the reporter, Li Feng curled his lips and said coldly—"ck? Sorry, I don't wear underwear"
"Hey, guys, good morning." When Li Feng appeared at the temporary venue rented by the Pelicans in Oakland, all the Pelicans players showed a hellish expression. Li Feng showed a state that was too different from last night.
"Hey, what's wrong with you? Have I become more handsome when I get up all night?" Li Feng asked with a smile when he saw the expressions of his teammates.
After Li Feng finished speaking, all the Pelicans players rolled their eyes, and Van Gundy had a smile on his face.
Walking to Van Gundy, Li Feng bent down and bowed, then turned around and bowed to all his teammates and said, "Brothers, I'm sorry."
A group of players looked at Li Feng blankly until Van Gundy clapped his palms with a smile on his face, and everyone clapped.
He admitted his mistake with his coach and teammates because Li Feng knew that the most reason why the team fell behind 1-2 is himself. Watching the video of the game in the hotel, Li Feng already understood that he had made a mistake in this game.
After the second game, Li Feng was very upset because he knew that if it weren't for his foul, the team would not have lost the lead in the end and allowed the Warriors to reverse the victory at the Pelicans' home court.
When he arrived at the Warriors' home court, Li Feng's urgent hope led the team to victory, and this urgency caused a subtle fluctuation in his mentality.
The pressure of the Western Conference Finals, the annoyance in the last game, and the eagerness to win. These reasons gave Li Feng a super strong attack in this game. However, his name was a bit too strong. After he came to the court, he focused on the offense and ignored that basketball was a five-person sport.
When he turned back to watch the game that night, he realized that he was alone on the offensive end that night. He did show his super attack power in this game, but he made the rest of his teammates at a loss on the offensive end.
Only after understanding that his desire to win made the team lose again did Li Feng's actions happen at this time.
"Brothers, I'm sorry, because of my reasons in the past two games, the team has suffered consecutive defeats, and I should bear the responsibility for failure." When Li Feng said this again, almost all the Pelicans players felt Li Feng's sincerity in their hearts, which made them feel deeply moved. It is difficult to find a leader who can lead the team to victory, but it is even more difficult to find a leader who can realize his mistakes after failure and take all responsibilities.
Seeing that the Pelicans players were serious and smiled, Li Feng relaxed his tone and then clapped and said, "Okay, guys, the Oaklanders took advantage of our carelessness to steal two wins. Now, the score has become 1-2, and we are behind.
Many Warriors fans are looking forward to the finals, but they obviously forgot that this round of duel only took 3 games. The Pelicans' goal is the championship. We need to kill all the teams that are blocking in front of us. Now, it is the Warriors' turn.
1-2? What does this matter? The team that advances to the finals is the team that wins 4 games first, rather than the team that wins 2 games first, wins three more games, and kills the Warriors, believe me, we can definitely do it.”
"Ok, no problem", "Win three more games", "Kill the Warriors", "We can definitely do it", after Li Feng's words fell, Pelicans players immediately yelled. In the past season, Li Feng's performance has made everyone in the Pelicans trust him extremely.
When Li Feng has confidence, the entire Pelicans have confidence because he is the soul of this team.
Van Gundy looked at the court with a smile. Last night, he and his coaching staff were still thinking about how to do Li Feng's ideological work, so that the team's head mentality would return to normal and the entire team would return to normal. But now it seems that their preparations are redundant.
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When Li Feng stepped into the Auckland Stadium again, he found that the atmosphere here was much easier than the previous one, and even when the camera was aimed at him, the booed more than the previous one.
Behind the Pelicans bench, Li Feng's eyes fell on a very conspicuous slogan, which read: "Hey, man, were you wearing underwear today?"
Obviously, this is a slogan made in response to what Li Feng said in an interview. Seeing this, the corner of Li Feng's mouth raised slightly. Many people seem to want to see themselves taking off their pants and wearing only underwear, but they will definitely not let them go.
Li Feng may not know that, in fact, more people want to see him look like he doesn’t wear underwear, especially after he said the sentence “Sorry, I don’t wear underwear” in an interview.
"Hey, Kenny, can you guess if Li Feng was wearing underwear today?" Barkley asked Kenny Smith with a smile on the commentator's seat.
Turning his head, Smith looked at Barkley in surprise and said, "Charles, I thought women would pay more attention to such things, but now it seems that your taste...Tsk, Charles, don't you think you should be more concerned about the game at this time? The Pelicans are behind 1-2 now, which is their first time in the playoffs this season."
Shrugged, Barkley said with a smile—"Nothing is worrying, after this game, the score will be tied again."
"So sure?" Smith asked in surprise.
"Of course, the Pelicans have changed..." Barkley suddenly became surprised again as he said.
The Pelicans have changed. In the power forward position, Henson replaced Antoine Millsap, and this is also Henson's first appearance after returning from injury.
"I didn't hear Antoine's injury problem before the game. Did Jeff adjust at this time because of tactical needs?" Smith asked in confusion at this time.
Since the third game of the Spurs, Henson has maintained a good form, and Millsap's performance is also quite good. However, with his current state, Millsap should obviously be stronger than Henson. So Van Gundy put it on the bench so that he has more mobility in player rotation.
On the other hand, compared with Millsap, Henson has certain advantages in rebounding and height. Although Li Feng was the most responsible for the previous two games, the Pelicans still suffered a considerable loss in the inside defense and rebounding.
Only the Pelicans' power forwards have changed in the two teams, while the rest of the personnel remain unchanged. Li Feng stood near the center circle and breathed softly. 2-2 and 1-3 are a world of difference. He only had one result in this game and won.
"Beep" As the referee whistle sounded, Al Jefferson and West jumped almost at the same time.
"Bang" With the advantage of half a palm, Al Jefferson rapped the racket in Ross's hand and drove the ball forward. Ross fell to half an ugly place and did not directly hand the ball to Li Feng, but instead picked and rolled the ball with Henson who was behind.
Li Feng did not take the initiative to ask for the ball, but just as Ross and Henson completed a pick-and-roll breakthrough, he suddenly shook his head outside the three-point line and started running from the right.
Iguodala hurriedly followed Li Feng and ran. Regardless of whether Li Feng led the team to victory in the end, one thing is obvious. Iguodala, who has strong outside defense skills, has not been very good at Li Feng's offensive and defensiveness in the past three games.
Iguodala's defensive skills in the small forward position are indeed extraordinary. Players in the small forward position are generally relatively strong. Compared with the shooting guard, the small forward is responsible for more impacting the basket, and many people like to break through under physical confrontation, which also makes Iguodala's defensive role very obvious.
However, Li Feng is an exception. Li Feng's external attack firepower is very strong and stable. When Li Feng chose to attack from the outside, Iguodala's abnormal confrontation ability was useless, especially after Li Feng ran and received the ball again and again.
Li Feng also has many breakthroughs, but the biggest reliance on Li Feng's breakthrough is not the physical confrontation ability, but the speed and dribbling. In other words, Li Feng's breakthrough method is more like a defender than a small forward. In the face of Li Feng's speed, Iguodala's confrontation ability is also often unable to play a role.
If Iguodala wants to choose the player he thinks is the worst defense in the small forward position, the only name is Li Feng.
For example, now, when Li Feng used the false movement of running to shake off Iguodala's center of gravity, Iguodala could only passively follow Li Feng.
From the left three-point line to the bottom corner, Li Feng suddenly slid when he rushed to the right three-second zone, and the man had already turned around and rushed to the right sixty-degree three-point line. At this time, Iguodala, who was following Li Feng, directly hit El Jefferson because he didn't react quickly enough.
Rose, who was also on this side, suddenly threw the ball out of the back and landed in Li Feng's hand who had already reached outside the three-point line.
Li Feng's movements were completed in one go when he received the ball, took off, and when Iguodala rushed over, he could only look up to Li Feng and shoot the ball from the highest point.
"Swish" made a clean and neat move, and the goal flew out of the three-point line and fell straight into the basket, hitting a hollow shot.
The Warriors attacked and arrived at halftime. Oladipo directly handed the ball to Durant's hand. Durant, who was holding the ball in his hand, quickly rushed towards the inside line. Corey's reaction was very quick and accurate in judgment. He stood on Durant's forward route. He opened his hands and stopped Durant's first wave of forward rush.
Turning his back to Corey, Durant turned his head and looked behind him, and when he found that Henson was approaching him, he grabbed the ball with his right hand and threw it at Green.
"Hey" Just as Durant threw the ball out, Li Feng, who was outside the three-point line on the left, suddenly started and rushed towards Green.
Green reached out to catch the ball, and just as the ball was about to fall into his hand, Li Feng suddenly rushed out from behind and stopped the ball.
"Farke" Someone was pressing his food on the tiger's mouth, which naturally made Green extremely unhappy. Thinking of the fact that the Pelicans couldn't launch a fast attack, he immediately reached out to hold Li Feng, but his movements were too slow. His outstretched hand only caught a handful of air, but at this time, Li Feng was already rushing to the half with the ball.
"Yeah, Li Feng's steal seems to be completely different from the previous game..."
As early as he rushed towards Green, Iguodala had already started to retreat slowly. Seeing Li Feng catch the ball, he quickly retreated to the other side of the half. In addition to Iguodala, there were two players in front of Li Feng, Durant and Cory.
The Warriors don't seem to be at a disadvantage in 2 against 2 in the frontcourt, but considering Li Feng's attack power in the fast attack, the Warriors obviously cannot get more relaxed.
Seeing Li Feng approaching him quickly, Iguodala's attention became more and more focused. Li Feng was difficult to defend, and Li Feng was even more difficult to defend after rushing.
In almost the blink of an eye, Li Feng had already arrived outside the three-point line and had already arrived in front of Iguodala.
Without warning, Li Feng, who was rushing forward, suddenly rushed to the left. Li Feng's super-level speed and agility made Iguodala have no reaction time. At this time, Iguodala had to follow Li Feng sideways.
Durant, who had already entered the inside with Cory in advance, carefully followed Cory, but his eyes fell on Li Feng.
Li Feng rushed into the free throw line, and saw that he was about to jump directly to attack the basket. Durant no longer cared about Corey beside him and quickly moved his foot to participate in the assisting defense.
Continuing to rush forward, Li Feng plunged into Durant's defense. Seeing this, the Warriors fans at the scene suddenly became excited.
"That guy wants to attack? It's great. Just like the last game, letting this guy fall into a single fight, and victory will belong to us again."
After being slightly blocked by Durant, Iguodala had already stepped forward at this time. However, Li Feng seemed to have not noticed it at all. Li Feng held the ball in his arms and jumped up. Iguodala and Durant also jumped up at this moment.
Chapter completed!