Chapter 401 Don't Give Me the Ball
"Snapped!"
Catch the ball with both hands.
"drink!"
Li Ba let out a muffled grunt, contracted his waist and abdomen forcefully, and smashed his arms violently.
"boom!"
The arms were dunked heavily, and the basket was steep.
"Beep!"
The beep sounded.
Webb and Miller looked up at Li Ba who was high above them, feeling as strong a sense of powerlessness in their hearts as they were in their bodies.
"ah!!!!!!"
Cheers and shouts erupted in the American West Arena.
"Oh, it's the time for the Hammer show again. The brutal death dunk is so frightening!" The sun's on-site commentator's roar resounded through the arena.
Li Ba missed an extra free throw, Miller grabbed the rebound, and the Kings attacked.
Miller took the ball in a high position, and the others ran, looking for offensive opportunities by constantly piercing and counter-running.
Suddenly, Peja pulled to the left bottom corner on the left wing.
Battier followed closely.
At the moment of reaching the bottom corner, Peja suddenly stopped and ran back, threw off Battier, passed through the block, rushed to the paint along the sideline, and reached for the ball.
Miller held the ball high in both hands, ready to pass.
Li Ba noticed Peja's cut, but he couldn't immediately return to the basket. Miller had a high mid-range shot.
Peja cuts into the paint when Miller makes a pass.
He didn't dare to pass the lob in a straight line, for fear of being intercepted by Li Ba.
The lob gave Li Ba time to return to the basket.
Li Ba turned around.
"Snapped!"
Peja receives the ball.
At this time, Li Ba rushed back in two steps.
Peja took off and dunked.
To be on the safe side, he chose a dunk instead of a layup.
He doesn't have many dunks, but his height of 206 cm makes it not difficult for him to dunk.
Li Ba took another step, jumped up quickly, and pressed his right palm over.
"boom!"
Li Ba slapped the basketball.
The sudden force made Peja's upper body stagnate, he rolled over from the air, and fell to the floor with a bang.
"Yeah! Another catch from the Hammer!" the Suns commentator roared excitedly.
Li Ba landed, and looking back, Barbosa was already falling like a bolt of lightning, and he threw it over quickly.
"Shua!"
Barbosa made a layup and gave Li Ba an assist.
"Oh, congratulations Hammer, you got a 5*5 again, this is your second NBA regular season 5*5, and it is also your fourth league 5*5..."
The roar of the Suns' on-site commentator immediately sounded.
"ah!!!!!"
In the American West Arena, everyone stood up and began to cheer for this data,
"It's so beautiful, I completed 5*5 in one round..." Yu Jia said excitedly.
"No way, the hammer is so omnipotent." Zhang Lili laughed.
"Charles, the Hammers said they wanted to get 82 double-doubles, but I'm not talking about that. With his rebounding and scoring ability, it's not difficult at all. What I want to ask is, this season, how many times do you think he will get 5 times? *5?" Kenny Smith asked.
"This is a question. If he plays 40 minutes per game, I think he will get at least 10 times? If he keeps it at 30 minutes, with his versatility, 3 to 5 times in the regular season?" Barkley guessed.
"This is a terrible guess." Kenny Smith smiled bitterly.
After Li Ba came on the field, the Kings lost their chance to counterattack. In the end, 86:100, the Suns won by 14 points at home.
Li Ba scored 19 points, 17 rebounds, 6 assists, 7 steals, 5 blocks and 2 fouls in 29 minutes. He made 7 of 7 shots and 5 of 9 free throws.
Playing 5*5 data, he naturally became the best player in the field and accepted the on-site interview.
"Hammer, will your focus shift to the offensive end in the future?" Barkley asked.
"Charles, do you think I performed poorly on the defensive end in this game?" Li Ba asked in surprise.
"Of course not, I just think you are too efficient on the offensive end, and you can put more energy there." Barkley laughed.
Li Ba smiled and did not answer the question again.
He is now averaging 30 minutes per game and taking the ball about 8 to 10 times. For him, this is actually not too little. Any more will affect his energy on the defensive end, and that is his foundation and the Suns The fundamentals of winning.
After this home game, the Suns will have two more away games, but this time it is an away game in the West, playing the Mavericks three days later, and then playing the New Orleans Hornets back to back.
On the 15th, the Suns came to Dallas.
On the evening of the 16th, before the start of the game, Li Ba wandered into the locker room of the home team, and ran into Mavericks owner Mark Cuban outside the locker room.
"Hey, Hammer, I'm very glad to meet you here! You can call me Mark." Cuban warmly said, and gave Li Ba a hug.
"Hello, Mark. You are so enthusiastic, I can consider winning less tonight." Li Ba said with a smile.
"Oh, Dirk will teach you a lesson." Cuban laughed.
"Haha, I heard that you have introduced a second center in the league this season, the No. 1 center in the Western Conference. How about letting me meet?" Li Ba laughed.
"Oh Hammer, it's just a joke about Eric, let's not talk about it, talk about something else. Your contract is coming to an end, like Dallas? We have Dirk, you one inside and one outside, One offense and one defense, will be the best partner..."
Cuban yelled excitedly.
At this moment, the locker room door opened, and Nowitzki walked out.
"Hey, Hammer."
"Hey, Dirk."
The two greeted each other.
Next, Nowitzki invited Li Ba to visit the locker room of the home team.
"The No. 1 center in the Western Conference, shall we match up tonight?" Li Ba smiled authentically when he saw Dampier.
Dampier's face was a little dark, and he sat there expressionless and did not speak.
He suffered a lot from Li Ba in the Warriors last season. He saw the team boss Jason Richardson being brutally thrown to the floor. The brutality Li Ba showed is still fresh in his memory.
He played well last season, with 13+12 statistics. This season, he was favored by the Mavericks and signed a contract second only to O'Neal. In a moment of excitement, he uttered wild words that he was second in the league and first in the Western Conference.
But in fact, he regretted it after he finished speaking, because he didn't mean it that way. What he said was the contract amount, not the strength.
"Hammer, Eric is an honest man, don't bully him." Nowitzki laughed.
"Then perform well tonight and ask for a few more goals."
Li Ba was taken aback, smiled, patted Dampier on the shoulder, and after a word of encouragement, turned and left the locker room.
"He just wanted to block me and steal me, I know that, so I won't ask for the ball tonight, I won't let him do what he wants, don't give me the ball, don't give it."
After Li Ba left, Dampier said to other players.
"..."
The others looked at each other in blank dismay.
In this game, Dampier kept his promise. When facing Li Ba, he took 0 shots and never wanted the ball.
107:95, the Suns won by 12 points, started the 7-game winning streak, and continued the league's first record.
Li Ba played 33 minutes and made 5 of 6 shots. One ball was dunked under the interference of Dampier. In addition, he made 4 of 7 free throws and scored 14 points, 26 rebounds, 4 assists, 2 steals, 2 blocks, 0 turnovers and 0 fouls. .
Dampier's performance on the offensive end has caused Li Ba's performance on the defensive end to decline a lot, and the statistics are not impressive enough.
"Damn it, why would I sign him?"
The performance of the No. 1 center in the Western Conference that he signed at a high price made Cuban black with anger on the sidelines.
After the game, he approached Li Ba, pulled him aside and said, "Tie Hammer, as long as you are willing to come, you can pay as high a contract as you want, and I don't care about the luxury line..."
"Mark, I can't promise you anything. We can talk about it after the season is over." Li Ba laughed.
"Okay, okay, you just need to know that Dallas will always welcome you, and there will always be a top-level big contract waiting for you to sign..."
Cuban babbled enthusiastically.