socalfunplaces Chapter 675 The competition is only just beginning! Do you remember the last time you were...
Chapter 675 The competition is only just beginning! Do you remember the last time you were...
"How many points?" Barkley suddenly asked out of the blue right after Lin Tian hit that long-range three-pointer.
"27 points!" Kenny immediately understood Barkley's meaning and chimed in, "Lin scored 20 points in the first quarter, and has scored 7 more in the second quarter so far! The probability of him breaking Chamberlain's record tonight is quite high!"
"After all, the second quarter isn't even halfway through!"
"I think you're too conservative!" Barkley retorted. "Kenny, when can you be a little bolder? I think Lin's goal tonight shouldn't just be breaking Chamberlain's record!"
"The suspense tonight is how high Lin can break the record! He'll definitely break Chamberlain's record of 52.4 points per game! I think he can break that record tonight to 53 points!"
"53 points?" Kenny paused, then said, "Are you kidding me, Charles?! Did you even go to school properly? Do you know what Lin needs to do tonight to average 53 points per game?"
"Just score 77 points, isn't that enough?" Barkley looked at Kenny like he was an idiot. "Do you think 77 points is that hard for Lin?"
"Ah...this...then...I think...FUXX!" Kenny finally surrendered after being speechless for a long time.
"Okay, considering Lin's form this season and the level he played tonight, 77 points is indeed not impossible! The Spurs' defense clearly can't stop Lin at all, and can't withstand his firepower!"
"Not to mention, tonight is the Knicks' home game! Look, Lin's at the free-throw line!"
As Kenny was speaking, the Spurs missed another shot.
The Knicks failed to launch a fast break this time, but Lin Tian was not in a hurry at all. He calmly dribbled to the frontcourt, then faked out Francis outside the three-point line, and finally forced a shot while leaning on him. Although the ball did not go in, he successfully got three free throws!
"The game is only just beginning! Do you remember how you beat us last time?" Lin Tian, who had successfully drawn a foul, looked at Francis, while his gaze swept over everyone on the Spurs' court.
Then, Lin Tian regretted it.
Damn it, neither James nor Bosh are here right now! All that trash talk was just for Francis to hear.
What a waste! Such a cool line wasted.
Lin Tian curled his lip, finding it quite boring.
Then, Lin Tian saw the Spurs start making substitutions!
Bosh and James walked onto the court and stood on either side of the basket, ready to grab rebounds. With O'Neal joining them, the Spurs' strongest trio was now standing in front of Lin Tian in the blink of an eye.
What a coincidence! What a coincidence!
"The game is only just beginning! Do you remember how you beat us last time?" Lin Tian, who had successfully drawn a foul, looked at James, while his gaze swept over everyone on the Spurs' court.
Yeah, that felt good this time!
This time, the trash talk hit the mark.
Then, Lin Tian ignored whether James and the others responded to him and took three free throws in a row, making them all!
These three free throws were Lin Tian's fifth point tonight from free throws!
He made all five of his free throws.
And next, it will be time for Lin Tian to once again demonstrate his 'explosive power'!
Would you like it to rain even a little bit?
As for your question about why Lin Tian didn't do this in the first quarter and in the previous games?
forgotten.
Hmm... I've completely forgotten that it would be more interesting to retaliate in the same way!
In the next possession, James returned to the court and immediately made a layup to break the team's scoring drought and stabilize the situation.
But when Lin Tian faced Francis again at the top of the arc, he finally started playing dirty.
After a series of crossover dribbles, Lin Tian suddenly called for a screen, sending Smith forward to cooperate with him. As Smith moved forward, Lin Tian subtly took a half-step back, giving Francis a chance to squeeze through the screen.
Then, just as Francis stretched out his arm to squeeze through the screen and wanted to continue pressing Lin Tian, Lin Tian suddenly threw!
At the same time, as Lin Tian made his move, he specifically caught Francis's outstretched hand with one arm, followed by a scream: "AND 1!"
Then Lin Tian struck a rather contorted pose, indicating that he had been violated!
Lin Tian was more cautious this time. Although he made a shooting motion, he didn't rush to throw the ball out. Instead, he kept an eye on the referee out of the corner of his eye.
After confirming that the referee had blown the whistle, Lin Tian casually tossed the ball away.
In that instant, if the referee hadn't understood this brand-new version that was 15 years ahead, Lin Tian would have passed the ball to Smith nearby, so that the referee wouldn't not only not call a foul, but also give him a traveling violation.
But clearly, Lin Tian's worries were unnecessary.
This "one-point rain" move would be an incredibly powerful and unstoppable technique even in the NBA more than 10 years later, let alone today.
As long as it's our home game, and as long as the referee is biased towards us, there's no reason why this goal shouldn't be called!
It's time for Master Lin to give this alliance a good lesson again!
Honestly, it's just that Lin Tian doesn't like this kind of offensive style, thinking it's too dirty and ugly. Otherwise, if Lin Tian were to go all out to draw fouls, with his acting skills and energy, plus his status and popularity, he could easily average 15 free throws per game!
He alone could change the entire officiating rules of the league, and he alone could change the rules of the league and the defense of all players!
"I didn't touch him!" Francis raised his hands, looking at the referee with an innocent expression. "I just squeezed through the screen! I didn't intend to foul!"
"Everyone who hasn't broken the rules says they haven't, and every criminal says they're innocent." Lin Tian said, pursing his lips as he walked past Francis, "Steve, you need to mature. A man has to face reality."
"I didn't foul!" Unfortunately, Francis's verbal skills were clearly far inferior to Lin Tian's. He had no way to refute Lin Tian's words and could only repeat the phrase "I didn't foul" over and over again.
But this kind of protest, like that of Xianglin's wife, will obviously not gain the approval or sympathy of the referees; they will only think that Francis is being unreasonable.
Having achieved his goal, Lin Tian stopped paying attention to Francis and went to shoot his free throws.
You know what, free throws are actually quite fun!
Especially free throws won through such dirty means give one a sense of blissful relief and the joy of getting something for nothing!
That's why people say the happiest days are when you have food served to you and clothes put on your plate.
This kind of behavior of reaping benefits without sowing and openly infringing on the interests of others does indeed bring a sense of satisfaction from the bottom of one's heart!
"Swish! Swish! Swish!"
After three more crisp sounds, Lin Tian scored 6 points with free throws, and the gap between the two sides once again reached double digits!
Francis, who had been fouled in two consecutive possessions, giving his opponent six free throws, was now furious. He was determined to take one himself and get revenge!
He's going to teach Lin Tian a lesson!
So after arriving at the frontcourt, this guy ignored both James and O'Neal's calls for the ball, and instead watched Lin Tian dribble continuously before suddenly accelerating and trying to rush past Lin Tian.
"My grandma is faster than you!"
"Steve, did you eat too much shit tonight? That's why your breath stinks and your legs are moving so slowly?"
"Could you be a little faster next time you break through? At least let me have a moment to catch my breath!"
"I guess you're going to go to the left! Hey, I mean your left!"
"Keep it up! You'll be in the three-second zone soon!"
"I suggest you pass the ball, pass it now! Otherwise you'll commit a 24-second violation!"
"No way, no way, does anyone really think they can score a goal 1-on-1 against me?"
"Give up, Steve, you can't get in! Just like you can't get in with your wife at night! And the reason you can't is quite simple: because you're a coward!"
Lin Tian's trash talk was incredibly dense and vicious, yet beneath his relentless barrage of trash talk lay a tight-knit defense!
Francis put in all his energy and effort, but he was still unable to break through or get past Lin Tian.
He dribbled continuously for at least 17-8 seconds, but couldn't create even a moment's worth of shooting space for himself!
He has deteriorated too much, and Lin Tian's defense is too good!
If Lin Tian is only good at defense, then Francis is just good at passing the ball, which is nothing to be ashamed of.
But Lin Tian's trash talk was as dense as bees in a hive, and Francis's mentality became more and more tense!
Finally, when Francis tried to get past Lin Tian with a turn but found that his path was completely blocked, Francis finally broke down!
He raised his elbow and slapped Lin Tian!
He wanted to use this move to create some space for his attack!
In fact, he succeeded!
Lin Tian let out a scream and flew backward! It was as if what had just hit him wasn't Francis's elbow, but Astro Boy's mechanical arm.
Seeing Lin Tianru stagger backward as if struck by lightning, the referee on site quickly issued a ruling!
"Steve Francis commits an offensive foul! Change of possession!"
Francis committed 3 fouls in 1 minute!
He hadn't committed a single foul before, but now he's committed three in the blink of an eye!
"FUXX!" Popovich cursed, then signaled to the referee to substitute.
He replaced Francis and brought JR Smith, who had just come off the court for a rest, back onto the court.
"I think Francis' elbow is the most important reason why he's never quite reached the elite level!" Barkley said. "A point guard who can't control his emotions and is completely dominated by his opponent will find it very difficult to succeed!"
"LeBron, I bet you're not guarding me." After taking down Francis, Lin Tian immediately turned to James and said, "You're a coward! After all, it's not a one-on-one blowout unless you're matched up against each other, right?"
Faced with Lin Tian's provocation, James did not respond, but quickly retreated on defense and stood with Hill once again.
His actions showed that he wasn't going to be on guard against the other person today, so what?
Lin Tian: Fine, don't bother with defense then! Watch how I teach your little brother JR a lesson!
Lin Tian dribbled the ball to the frontcourt once again. Facing JR, whose eyes were burning with excitement, Lin Tian turned his back and started pushing hard towards the inside from the top of the arc!
Logically speaking, JR is about 5 centimeters taller than him and has an absolute advantage in size, but Lin Tian used this method to push hard towards the inside!
"Bang! Bang!"
After two consecutive collisions, Lin Tian suddenly turned and drove towards the inside, but this time he only pushed the ball one step towards the inside before stopping. Then he raised the ball into the air with both hands, and JR immediately jumped up!
If you jump up when facing Lin Tian, it means you're finished.
JR could only watch as he got further and further away from Lin Tian, and then, as he fell, he saw Lin Tian jumping.
"Bang!"
The two collided again in mid-air, and the referee's whistle blew once more.
A foul that was never going to be a surprise!
If Lin Tian's two fouls against Francis were dirty and disgusting, as if he were playing with an NBA rulebook in mind, then this time drawing a foul at least looks much more normal.
This is a textbook example of drawing a foul based on timing, relying on technique and rhythm.
As for those two times just now, it was all about shamelessness.
Only those with thick skin can use that kind of move repeatedly.
But how should I put it? When Lin Da Guanren was young, he was even more shameless, and he could use these things without any scruples.
But not now. Now that he's older, he's become more thin-skinned and he's really embarrassed to keep using such dirty tricks.
There are now concerns and bottom lines.
Let's take it one step at a time, step by step!
When you can no longer get calls for legitimate fouls, then you can resort to those dirty tricks!
Although he said he didn't need to use those dirty things, when Lin Tian was determined to break into the paint, beat his opponents to death, and draw fouls like crazy, he was simply unstoppable, and no one could stop him!
At the very least, the Spurs are definitely not a good fit!
In this quarter alone, Lin Tian had 13 free throw opportunities! He stepped to the free throw line 13 times and made 12 of them!
In the latter part of the second quarter, the referees were really blowing their whistles until their cheeks hurt.
They felt like their whistles were always in their mouths, never being put down.
I'm so tired, so very tired!
I've never heard of a match with this much intensity before!
In the first half tonight, Lin Tian has already stepped to the free-throw line 15 times and made 14 of them.
Judging from his attitude tonight, he's really going to teach the Spurs a lesson about drawing fouls and how to keep getting to the free-throw line!
Under Lin Tian's fierce and continuous attacks, the Spurs also fell into serious foul trouble.
JR and Francis both have 3 fouls, O'Neal and Bosh both have 2, and the team's top backup center, Elson, also has 3 fouls.
Although Lin Tian wasn't solely responsible for all of these fouls, he definitely played a significant role in them!
Meanwhile, because this was Madison Square Garden, and because Lin Tian kept drawing fouls, in order to maintain the already limited flow of the game, and to prevent the game from dragging on too long and fragmented, the three referees had no choice but to ignore those fouls that could be called or not.
Try to blow less.
They don't want this match to last for 3 hours or even longer without ending.
Who likes working overtime?!
This resulted in both sides having very few free throw attempts, except for Lin Tian!
Lin Tian scored 15 free throws by himself, while all the other players from both sides combined only scored 17!
Lin Tian narrowly lost to everyone else by two free throws.
However, given Lin Tian's playing style and tactics, he will most likely be able to overtake everyone else in the second half.
He might just get 30 free throws tonight!
During halftime, Popovich was naturally instructing his players on how to defend, telling them not to jump around recklessly, not to make unnecessary moves, and to be careful not to get fouled by Lin Tian. He even personally taught Francis and JR how to match up against Lin Tian and how not to get fouled by him.
As for Francis and JR?
Although the two men kept nodding on the surface, their expressions showed that they didn't take Popovich's words to heart at all.
It's not that they're troublemakers; it's just that once they're on the court and facing off against Lin Tian, they realize how dirty and difficult to defend against his foul-drawing tricks are!
It's something that ordinary humans simply can't defend against!
What can they do? They can't exactly put their hands behind their backs and mimic the stance of a football player defending in the penalty area!
Are we even going to fight or not?!
Even if it were really Lin Tian's grandma playing, and the two of them were defending with their hands behind their backs, Lin Tian's grandma could still shoot them both to pieces!
Popovich has no idea just how disgusting and terrifying Lin Tian's playing style is!
While the others were dismissing Popovich's coaching, Old Nelson was also criticizing Lin Tian in the locker room.
He rarely criticized Lin Tian so harshly!
"Those two moves you made against Francis were really good! I loved those two moves! I think you should keep using them, keep using them against those bastards on the Spurs! Instead of those moves against JR later."
"Those moves against JR were so boring, no creativity whatsoever, no entertainment value whatsoever! Put all that stuff away! Put away everything that doesn't belong in New York!"
"In the third quarter, keep using your best moves! Those moves you used on Francis, like the ones where you entangled his arm, punched his arm, actively contested the play, and then he'd scream and fall to the ground!"
"I love this performance art-like style of attack!" (End of Chapter)