Chapter 158 Pincer attack and strangulation

Author: Dong Wangyi

Chapter 158 Pincer attack and strangulation

"We'll give you one more."

Looking at the celebrating Pistons, morale was improving at a visible speed. Jordan, who looked extremely serious, said to his teammates in a deep voice.

Twelve seconds later, he drove to the basket and was about to dunk when Rodman caught up from behind and pulled him out of the air.

"Without John Salley, the Pistons can only use fouls to interrupt Michael's attack on the basket." Ringo Wilson laughed.

After Jordan made two free throws, the Pistons attacked.

Zhou Quan still used the pick-and-roll to get rid of Jordan, and Jordan still double-teamed John Paxson. In this way, Joe Dumars once again found an open space outside the three-point line and received Zhou Quan's pass.

"brush!"

This time, he lived up to Zhou Chuan's trust and repaid his teammates with a hollow three-pointer.

15:18, Bulls attack.

Jordan caught the ball as he passed the midline. The Pistons were chasing points. He had to press the ball again before the Pistons' morale increased.

On the right three-point line, he faked a shot in front of Zhou Quan and broke through from the outside with the ball.

Zhou Quan's single defense is as high as level 95. Without significantly improving his prediction ability, he has almost reached his current limit of single defense. He was not shaken by Jordan in face-to-face situations, and retreated extremely quickly.

After Jordan took a step into the three-point line, he stuck to the left side in time.

However, Jordan immediately stopped and forced a fadeaway jumper.

Zhou Quan reacted super quickly and kept up with the rhythm, but faced the ultimate fadeaway jumper, he was still powerless. The height difference was at least one foot. He took off with all his strength, and his body almost fell on Jordan, but his hands still only reached the opponent's.

Elbow.

"brush!"

The water splashed and he hit two points from far away.

"Haha, no matter how you defend, no matter how strong your defense is, you just can't defend it!" Ringo Wilson roared excitedly.

Robert Guida shook his head and said: "Joe Dumars has been selected to the defensive first team consecutively, but Michael Jordan can beat him almost every time.

In this world, no one can guard Jordan alone, no matter how strong his defense is."

Looking back, Zhou Quan still used the pick-and-roll to get rid of Jordan.

But this time, Jordan slowed down his breakthrough with the ball by half a beat by preemptively delaying the action, and then was delayed by Paxson for another half beat. As a result, Jordan was once again blocked in front, and the breakthrough after the pick-and-roll failed.

At this time, Paxson cut off the passing line between him and Joe Dumars, and he could only force a mid-range shot over Michael Jordan's head.

"Crack!"

Jordan reacted very quickly, had more experience, and accurately predicted the situation, so he directly gave him a big shot.

Paxson grabbed the ball and passed it to Jordan who was following. Joe Dumars caught up to the front. Jordan actually made a move of passing the ball and passed Joe Dumars.

"boom!"

As soon as the ball was passed, the entire United Center erupted.

Zhou Quan took the opportunity to overtake Joe Dumars, followed Jordan, and blocked his right side.

But Jordan dribbled the ball with his left hand, pushed Zhou Quan with his right elbow and forced his way into the paint. Then he jumped up, picked the basket with one hand with his left hand, and scored the ball. At the same time, he also caused Zhou Quan's thug to foul.

Ringo Wilson said excitedly: "Beautiful! Michael blocked Iron Fist, and then hit Iron Fist to score a two plus one. Now the Pistons' morale has been frustrated again, and the Bulls' momentum is even higher."

"Boy, you really almost guarded me." Jordan's trash talk came again.

He doesn't have the strength to challenge Iron Fist off the court, but on the court, he can rely on his own strength, including trash talk, to humiliate the opponent to his heart's content, attack the opponent's psychology, and undermine the opponent's morale.

Zhou Quan smiled. If you are not strong enough, you should be prepared to be beaten, but you still have to respond to trash talk. He elbowed Jordan away who was standing next to him and spat back: "Old boy, two to two.

You can be proud of yourself after winning the Eastern Conference Finals."

"I not only want to win the Eastern Conference Finals, but I also want to beat you."

Jordan snorted coldly, dropped a word, turned and walked to the free throw line.

"You also said you would sweep us away, but I haven't received your thanks to this day. Have you forgotten that I helped you save half a million dollars?" Zhou Quan shouted from behind.

"asshole!"

Michael Jordan was so angry that he wanted to jump. He failed to complete the sweep and was forced into a two-to-two draw. It was a shame for him.

"Ha ha……"

Seeing Jordan close his mouth, several people on the Pistons side burst into laughter.

"Michael Jordan scored 5 points in a row, 15:23, 8 points behind."

At Zhang Lili's home, he said thoughtfully: "Jordan is in very good condition today, while Joe Dumars is in average condition, so it's difficult to chase points!"

His wife said: "Don't Zhou Quan have the strength to chase points? I saw that he played well in the past, and he played back and forth with Jordan, scoring 6 points in a row."

"He? His personal offensive ability and finishing ability have not yet reached the top level of a final decision. Facing Jordan's defense, he cannot guarantee overall high efficiency. He can only occasionally hit a few good goals and lacks durability.

Sometimes offense also depends on luck. When luck comes, no matter how you play, your opponent may make mistakes for no reason."

Zhang Lili shook his head and said: "Phil Jackson called a timeout just now, that was a turning point, and then the Bulls started double-teaming Zhou Quan, and they were double-teamed from the outside.

This is an obvious target. The Bulls have never double-teamed him on the outside. The Bulls want to strangle his offense, his organization and passing. They would rather let Joe Dumars play than strangle him.

This must be because Phil Jackson decided that Joe Dumars would not be in good condition today, so he dared to defend like this. Otherwise, Zhou Quan would not dare to pass the ball so well.

With the Bulls' perimeter defense, it is destined that Zhou Quan's personal offense will be difficult to break out today, and even his organizational functions will be limited. Next, the score should slowly open up."

Zhang Lili is indeed very experienced, and he predicted the course of the next game.

Zhou Quan had to use pick-and-rolls to get rid of Jordan, which gave the Bulls the opportunity to easily double-team him on the outside. He was repeatedly double-teamed, and his personal offense was hindered. Occasionally he could play one or two, but it couldn't solve the big problem.

Even if he wants to hit the basket with the ball, he won't have many opportunities. Jordan's confrontation ability is not weaker than him at all, and he has more experience than him.

He couldn't hit the ball, so he could only distribute the ball. The target of the first point was of course to play a pick-and-roll with him and get the open Joe Dumars.

As for the others, Ulrich was marked by Pippen on the weak side and had no chance to run away. His offensive ability with the ball was also poor, so he could only take advantage of the situation. If he was marked, he would not even have a chance to take advantage of the situation.

Rodman's height under the basket was too low, his offensive skills were poor, and he had no chance.

As for Bedford's fringe player, even when facing the average blue-collar center Carter White, he was still at a disadvantage.

In this way, the Pistons' offensive pressure was piled on Joe Dumars. Although he relied on the Bulls' opportunities to double-team Zhou Quan, he repeatedly found openings, but they were all small openings. In addition, his outside shooting touch was really not good today, and he shot again later.

After conceding two goals, he could only get the ball and rush inwards.

However, although Cartwright and Grant's defense was not as good as John Salley and Rodman, it was not too bad. They dared to attack. They repeatedly attacked the basket, but the success rate was not high. Grant took two big shots, but it was a good fight.

Scored a few free throws.

After the first quarter, at 22:34, the Pistons were already 12 points behind.

Falling behind, the Pistons did not dare to replace their main players. Both Zhou Quan and Joe Dumars played the entire first quarter.

Zhou Quan scored 6 points in the front and 4 points in the back. He made 3 of 7 shots in a single quarter, 1 of 3-pointers, and 3 of 3 free throws. He scored 10 points, 2 rebounds, 3 assists, 2 steals, 3 turnovers, and 1 foul.

Joe Dumars made only 3 of 10 shots, 1 of 3 three-pointers, and 3 of 4 free throws. He scored 10 points, 1 assist, 1 steal, 1 turnover, and 1 foul.

The two basically took over the scoring in the first quarter, with Ulrich scoring the remaining two points.

In the second quarter, Chuck Daly held down Zhou Quan and Joe Dumars, allowing them to recover their physical fitness first, and sent in Assassin and Mark Aguirre.

However, in order to defeat the Pistons as quickly as possible, Jordan came on the court at the beginning of the second quarter, which dealt a continuous and huge blow to the Pistons.

With crazy attacks, he defeated the assassin and Mark Aguirre alone.

Within four minutes, he stole the assassin once, successfully defended Mark Aguirre once, made two defensive counterattacks, made 4 of 5 shots, 1 of 1 free throw, and scored 9 points. At the same time, he only allowed the Pistons to score 5 points.

The difference widened to 16 points, and it took four minutes to defeat the Pistons.

Daly could only be replaced in the main lineup, but the Bulls also replaced Pippen, and Jordan did not come off. The main lineups of both sides were on the same pitch.

"Bang!"

After Pippen scored a goal, only half a minute into the second quarter, Joe Dumars once again hit the basket with the ball and collided with Grant. When he fell to the ground, his waist was twisted and he was unable to continue fighting and had to leave the game.

He was in so much pain that he couldn't stand up. The team doctor came to check and found out that he had strained his lumbar muscle. He would not be able to play this game, and he would definitely not be able to play again. He would need at least a month of recovery time.

"Pa bang bang..."

When he was helped down, two thousand Pistons fans stood up and applauded him.

"Qiao, thank you, you are always worthy of my respect." Zhou Quan said to Joe Dumas.

Joe Dumas, who was holding his waist with one hand, nodded regretfully, waved to the fans, and said to Zhou Quan: "Iron Fist, my Eastern Conference Finals should be over. It's up to you. Don't let me down."

Zhou Quan's eyes twitched and he nodded and said: "I will not give up. To give up is to accept failure. Even if I lose, I will never accept failure."

In the TNT commentary box, Robert Guida said: "Joe Dumars played very hard today. If he couldn't make a shot from the outside, he would hit the basket, but his efficiency was average. He had fallen several times before. This injury was actually expected.

thing."

"The Pistons can surrender."
To be continued...