Chapter 1041 The Nightmare that Was Supposed to Come Finally Came

Li Ba was indeed attracted and jumped up. After jumping up, he saw Kobe taking the ball back, and he knew that this guy had bad intentions.

At this time, he could choose to foul directly, but he never chose to do so in this situation. Unless it was a key ball at the last critical moment, he would rather let the opponent make a shot.

"Bang!" Kobe successfully dunked.

Phil Jackson nodded after seeing it. If he didn't foul, he would score, which was also a success.

There is one thing about double team defense. When the opponent breaks through, teammates in other positions will defend.

This time, after Kobe broke in, Ginobili was still outside, and he turned around and rushed down.

"Manu!"

Li Ba picked up the ball under the basket, quickly retreated to the baseline, moved sideways to avoid Duncan, shouted, and threw the ball with one hand, hitting Ginobili.

Ginobili received the ball and rushed into the frontcourt. Parker in the middle left Rondo to defend. The former passed the ball, and Rondo received the ball and made a layup.

6:15, the score difference remained unchanged.

"This fast break was too easy!" Zhang Heli laughed.

Looking back, Parker broke through.

He tried to break through Rondo directly at the top of the arc, but failed. Rondo blocked him in front of him. The ball did not stop in his hands, but his dribbling was a bit awkward.

This gave the Suns a chance to double-team.

Rondo blocked the front, which means that Parker's passing line to the low post was blocked, so the low-post players had the opportunity to double-team.

The time was short. As long as Parker dodged Rondo and saw that there was an open space in the low post, he would pass it directly.

A-Lin was a little slow to react, but Li Ba's nerve reaction speed and decisive character gave him the opportunity to double-team. He started directly and rushed to the top of the arc.

At the top of the arc, Parker retreated urgently, and Rondo continued to come up to press. The former turned around and avoided the latter's press.

But at this time, Li Ba's double-team arrived.

Li Ba and Rondo stood in front of Parker on the left and right, blocking all his passing lines, and Parker could only continue to retreat.

"Here."

At this time, Kobe ran to the midline urgently and shouted for the ball.

Parker turned around quickly, pulled up the ball with his right hand, and then pushed it with one hand to pass it to Kobe.

But at this moment, Li Ba, who was on the left front of Parker, quickly took a step forward, moved his left hand forward, and completed the steal in an instant.

After the steal, Li Ba rushed to the front court with the ball. Two seconds later, with a bang, the Lakers' basket was smashed two feet.

In the following time, the Lakers continued to implement the killing tactics and did not stop because of a mistake.

After the first quarter, 21:40, the Suns led by 19 points, and the score almost doubled.

Li Ba made 4 of 4 shots and 1 of 1 free throws in a single quarter, scoring 9 points, 4 rebounds, 3 assists, 5 steals, 5 blocks, 1 turnover and 1 foul.

Thanks to Li Ba's strong defense, the Suns far exceeded the Lakers in the number of shots, and with the high efficiency of fast breaks, they scored 40 points in a single quarter.

This is also the first time in several seasons that the Suns have scored 40 points in a single quarter.

Phil Jackson was very disappointed. Li Ba's defense was too calm. He would rather let Kobe and Parker score than commit a foul. The killing tactic was not successful. Instead, Li Ba played an extremely dazzling defense, which also allowed the Suns to get too many shots and played a high-quality defensive counterattack.

On the TNT live broadcast, Barkley said: "In terms of tactics, there is really no other way. Phil Jackson will always play this killing tactic. But the result proves that the defense of the Hammer is really a bug. He can let you make one shot, but he can definitely defend two. Three times of attacking the basket, the success rate of one-third is too miserable. It's better to throw three-pointers outside."

Kenny Smith said: "The Lakers were really terrible in the first quarter! On average, there are about 20 shots in a quarter. Look at the data of the Hammer, not counting rebounds, 5 steals and 5 blocks, which killed 10 shots of the Lakers. How can the Lakers beat the Suns? It's better to go out and shoot, so that the touch is bursting and there are still some chances."

On the CCTV live broadcast. Zhang Heli said: "Phil Jackson's tactics are useless against the Hammers.

The Hammers' defense is too calm, especially he is too decisive in making choices. If he can't defend, he won't defend. I let you score, and I won't foul.

After you score, I will play another fast break here. Anyway, you are rushing in from the outside, and my outside is still outside, so the chance of a fast break is very high. Look, how many fast breaks did the Suns play today?"

Yu Jia said: "There were 15 fast breaks in the whole quarter, 11 of which were successful, and one was switched to a positional battle and also succeeded."

Xu Jicheng said: "That's 12 times, the success rate is too high!"

Zhang Heli said: "This game is basically like this. With the Suns' defense, the Lakers can't come back."

Next, Phil Jackson can only play outside offense.

In the second quarter, Garnett and Duncan took turns to play for half a quarter. On the outside, Kobe, Parker and Artest continued to play. Four of the five starters played, trying to come back.

Li Ba continued to play here, but he played point guard, shooting guard Kevin Martin, small forward Tony Allen, inside was Gasol and Diaw, and the other four starters all rested.

In the second quarter, the Lakers attacked, Parker pushed forward in the backcourt, and saw Li Ba staring at him at the top of the arc, and knew that it was bad, he was going to face Li Ba.

Although he was small, he really didn't have the confidence to get rid of Li Ba, because Li Ba's turn and first step were really too fast.

"Tony, let's play a one-on-one?" Li Ba shouted loudly.

"Pa pa pa..."

There was a lot of applause at the scene, as if to encourage Parker.

"Shameless, using the big to beat the small, I won't play with you."

Parker's face was dark, and he didn't come to the top of the arc. He pulled to the right wing and went to play with Kobe.

Li Ba followed immediately.

At this time, Kobe and Parker were doing pick-and-rolls with each other outside the three-point line on the right wing.

Li Ba immediately pointed his big hand inward, signaling Kevin Martin to follow in.

At this time, Kobe and Parker separated, the ball was in Kobe's hands, and Parker rushed into the wing from behind Kobe.

Facing Li Ba's switch defense, Kobe promptly passed the ball back to Parker who cut in.

Kevin Martin's defense was hopeless. With Li Ba's advance instructions, he didn't keep up with Parker.

At this time, Dio came up from the low post on the right wing to make up for the defense, but the substitute power forward Powell missed.

But fortunately, Gasol made up for the leak in time and blocked it from under the basket.

Parker wanted to pass the ball to Garnett who was in the open space, but was blocked in front by Dio and Gasol, two big guys, and the pass was a bit risky.

At this time, Kobe suddenly ran to the right corner and asked Parker for the ball. The latter passed the ball to Parker, who jumped up instantly after receiving the ball, trying to shoot before Li Ba blocked it.

But the nightmare still came. Li Ba followed and caught up with Kobe in the air at the moment when Kobe jumped up. The two flew to the bottom corner together, and he slapped his ball and grabbed it with one hand in the air.

"It's wonderful!" Barkley shouted excitedly.

"Click, click..."

Some reporters behind the baseline pressed the shutter to freeze the moment of this aerial attack and defense.