Chapter 143: Outstanding Talent
During the halftime break, the Heat were fighting among themselves, while the Bulls were studying how to strangle the Heat's strange lineup. Finally, at the suggestion of Derrick Rose, the targeted defensive strategy was for Rose to take the initiative to defend Shaun Livingston and strangle his connection. As for the Heat's offensive terminator Beasley, he was handed over to Luol Deng to defend.
This created a mismatch advantage, completely locking down the Heat's offense.
The Bulls' calculations were very accurate and precise. After the game started, when Chalmers dribbled across half court and passed the ball to Livingston as usual, Rose immediately followed the basketball to Livingston's side, constantly using his body to squeeze the space to defend Livingston.
Although Livingston is much taller than Rose, his body is too thin, and his leg has been broken once, so he can only dodge backwards. As he dodges, the Heat's originally smooth offensive system immediately stops working because the basketball cannot be passed from his hands at all.
Seeing that Livingston was struggling and about to lose the ball, Yang Mo quickly ran to the outside line to help him clear the ball and caught it. When he was about to pass it back, he found that Rose was always beside Livingston and the basketball could not be passed in at all.
Seeing this, Yang Mo had no choice but to pass the ball to Beasley. After Beasley received the ball, his defensive target became Luol Deng, who was famous for his defense. He suddenly seemed to be a little overwhelmed, and finally shook off his opponent with difficulty and made a jump shot... Bang!
Basketball missed shots.
Since Yang Mo had already moved to the outside, he had no way of grabbing the rebound and could only return to defense.
Finally…the drawbacks of this lineup emerged, as the initiator of the offense and the only independent offensive creator were strangled.
At this
Swish!
Back in the backcourt, Ben Gordon used his running position to shake off Livingston's defense and threw in a three-pointer. The Heat, who were leading by one point, immediately fell behind by two points.
The ball was back in play, but the Heat still failed to break the Bulls' defense. In the end, Beasley still missed the shot.
Seeing this, Spoelstra on the sidelines subconsciously wanted to call a timeout. However, due to selfishness, he did not call a timeout. He wanted to see if Yang Mo could turn the tide this time. Or he hoped that Yang Mo would be defeated on the court, and then come down to ask him to arrange tactics.
From the beginning, Spoelstra had a prejudice against Yang Mo, which was not due to personal problems, but his so-called national pride. When he saw Yang Mo, he couldn't help but think of the South China Sea and the islands stationed by the Chinese navy at the gate of the capital.
But what can we do? Who wants you Filipino maids to be so weak? That area has been Chinese territory since ancient times.
When the team's offense was limited twice and the head coach did not call a timeout, Yang Mo took the initiative to step forward. When he returned to the half court to defend, he shouted to his teammates: "Next, we will focus on the inside, let me handle the ball."
The teammates had no objection to Yang Mo's statement, because the role of a leader is reflected in critical moments .
Back in the half court, Derrick Rose immediately passed the ball to Luol Deng. Luol Deng received the ball near the free throw line and faced the defense of James Jones. He just pointed up to the sky and tricked Jones into jumping up. Seizing the opportunity, Luol Deng leisurely threw the ball... Bang!
The basketball missed the target, and Yang Mo slightly raised her butt to push Noah away from behind, then stretched out her arm and easily caught the basketball.
Then he passed the ball directly to Qian Moss and ran quickly to the front court. When he ran into the penalty area, Yang Mo immediately blocked Joakim Noah and reached out for the ball. Qian Moss did not hesitate and quickly hoisted the ball in.
Yang Mo received the ball, lowered his butt, and pushed forward. Joakim Noah did not take the initiative to make physical contact, but stepped back and let Yang Mo squeeze in. Anyway, he was determined to wait for Yang Mo to stop, and as long as he shot, he would use his height to block him and block his shot.
His defensive strategy was correct, but Yang Mo would never let him do as he wished.
After Yang Mo pushed the ball into the three-second zone, he suddenly turned . Noah, who had taken a step back to defend, rushed over and raised his arms high, ready to jump and block the shot.
Seeing this, Yang Mo directly moved the ball up a little bit and took a step forward with his right foot. Noah quickly shifted his center of gravity to this side, preparing to block the shot.
At this moment, Yang Mo suddenly turned around his central leg and turned back. Noah was afraid that Yang Mo would shoot, so he rushed over again. As soon as he adjusted his center of gravity and rushed over, Yang Mo had already put his butt down and stuck to his body, quickly turned around and came directly to the basket, took a step forward, jumped high, and dunked the ball into the basket.
At the moment when Yang Mo made a powerful dunk, Noah's eyes were even looking in the opposite direction.
He never expected that Yang Mo would actually turn around three times in front of him in a row, and the total number of fake moves was more than four.
It’s hard to guard against!
Noah couldn't help feeling confused and helpless. He really tried his best on this ball.
But in this cruel world, "try your best" is a very pale and powerless word, because talent is always greater than hard work. Those who say "genius is 99% perspiration and 1% talent" are usually not geniuses. Only geniuses know how important that 1% talent is.
Yang Mo is obviously a genius, and his talent is far more than one percent.
At least his spinning dunk shocked the Bulls fans.
Michael Jordan in the VIP box stood up excitedly and waved his arms vigorously.
"So smart , so awesome! He actually combined his inside footwork with my post-up play. The tentative step at the beginning was very much like Olajuwon, but the rotation around the body at the end was the hip rotation method I taught him. It's...an amazing learning talent. I can't believe he only learned it for an hour." Michael Jordan was so excited that he wouldn't frown even if he swapped his own sons with Pat Riley, because his two useless sons had learned for almost thirty years combined and were not even one percent as agile as Yang Mo.
But... Pat Riley would never trade with him. Why would he trade with those two dandies? Are they money losers?
