Chapter 493: Steals Paul's dribble
Lin Sen looked at the bench provocatively, and at this time, Harden could no longer sit still. Every time he opened the score and finished the game, he immediately saw the score getting closer step by step under the Pacers' various styles of play, which made him unable to rest seriously off the court.
Rockets fans are a little disappointed that Paul has always wanted to use passes to drive the team instead of scoring by himself. Although everyone knows that even the peak Paul is not a super scorer, this is a player who has been replaced by the Rockets' heavy bleeding this season. When Harden cannot play, he naturally stands up.
Paul himself also understood this. The continuous passes did not allow more opportunities to appear on the court. The Rockets shouted Chris Paul in the whole game that he had to do it himself. D'Antoni looked at the situation and decided to see what effect Paul's personal attack could have before deciding whether to let Harden play now.
Paul couldn't take advantage when facing Oladipo. Without Harden, Oladipo, who had the best defender defense, naturally came for him, and the defense effect was quite good.
Normal direction change and various operations can no longer get rid of Oladipo, and Paul's famous small moves have been launched. He dribbled the ball with his right hand and pushed his left elbow against Oladipo's waist suddenly exerted force, then pushed it open and then accelerated to rush into the basket.
"shit!" Oladipo complained and quickly returned to defense. At this time, he knew that he could no longer catch up with Paul, but Paul didn't need him to solve the problem. Instead, he ran towards another direction under the basket.
Lin Sen has made up the defense, and now Capela has several positions away from him who should have defended. Paul can pass this ball, but Lin Sen's sensitivity to passing is not comparable to that of an ordinary frame-protecting center. This is also the fact that many defenders dare not pass the ball easily even if they pass their defenders, they don't dare to pass the ball easily in a small range of 2-to-1.
Besides, he wanted to score points on this ball at the beginning. Paul has always been one of the smartest players in the league. At this time, he will not go to the inside to face the Pacers' crazy inside defense. The mid-range emergency stop is one of Paul's biggest killer moves on the offensive end.
At the middle distance, he is more lethal than at the three-point line. He takes a quick shot and has a high arc. This is also the reason why such a 183cm small man can frequently shoot at this position. Unfortunately, this time, Lin Sen's pounce is faster than that of all the centers in Paul's impression.
In his thirteen-year career, he has played against countless top inside frame guards, the best defensive player Howard, his own teammate, the defensive core of the champion Mavericks, all of which are top frame guard centers, but he has never seen a center who can make up for defense so quickly.
This shot that was originally real and turned into a fake pass, and his goal of passing this time became Capela in the inside. Because of Lin Sen's height, he could not pass a high throw all-in contact, but stuffed it from the bottom. The ball was just about to be chased back by Oladipo, who had just completed the steal.
The Pacers' defense core is Lin Sen, but their defense will never rely solely on Lin Sen. For example, the F4 Lakers in 2012-2013 have Howard, the best defensive player in the league for three consecutive times, but their defense that season is definitely difficult to describe in terms of excellent words.
After Oladipo lost his position at the first time, the team's training and defensive habits made him quickly find the best fill-up position, which caused this steal.
After the steal, a dragon that quickly counterattacked directly against Paul and scored the ball. After scoring, he angrily mocked: "Hey! You can't win the championship with small moves. You won't have a championship in the Clippers! You won't have a championship in the Rockets! Oh! Sorry, you'd better make it to the Western Conference Finals first!"
Countless fans have ridiculed Paul by this joke on the floor of the Western Conference Finals, but Oladipo was the first to ridicule this in the game. He didn't learn anything else to play with Lin Sen. The skills of ridicule are now full.
But the effect is surprisingly good. Paul's four mistakes in the first half made this defender, who has always been famous for his high assist-revolutionary error ratio, but this mistake that Lin Sen just forced him to take a step further towards his mistake record. Coupled with Oladipo's ridicule, it was difficult for Paul to calm down.
The offensive end was desperately looking for this opportunity. This time, Paul did not go to the middle distance again, but opened the three-point line to find opportunities. He played a big military training man in small military service. This should be Paul's advantage. Lin Sen once again changed defense in front of him, this time outside the three-point line.
Paul's dribble is very good. In the ranking of dribble by major media last year, Irving, Curry, and Paul, these three people are in the top three no matter how they rank. This time, Lin Sen really dared not to pounce too close at the three-point line.
It seemed like a good opportunity to take a three-pointer, but Paul was hesitant, really hesitant. Lin Sen's speed of predicament just now Paul still remembers that he wanted to make Lin Sen more outward, but it didn't work at all. After hesitating, Paul chose to break through.
This time, his elbow was still secretly pressing towards Lin Sen's waist, and he also wanted to use Lin Sen's waist to exert some force, but this time, the attack similar to that of the last round was completely seen through by Lin Sen.
He quickly retreated so that Paul did not borrow any force, and the two did not have any physical contact. Paul's breakthrough was very fast, but in this way, Lin Sen's position was able to give his arm length advantage to completely bypass his waist from behind Paul and shot the basketball from the left.
Paul's shocked expression showed that he obviously did not expect that Lin Sen, a center, could complete a steal behind him. When he was stunned, Lin Sen had already run to their half. On this side, Grant received the ball he took and immediately passed a long pass. Lin Sen easily scored and scored himself in double digits.
"Lin completed the steal while dribbling. What did I see? I know that he has a lot of steals. He is a passer master, with a height of 210cm, an arm span of nearly 230cm, and a speed that is completely inconsistent with his height. This season, 1.7 steals per game made all players dare not pass easily in front of him, but now he dribbles in Chris's hands! This is even more surprising to me than he won 5 steals in this game!" McHale seemed to have seen the eighth miracle in the world, and was incredible.
Chapter completed!