novelhk Chapter 558 The Ultimate Showdown When Ammunition and Supplies Are All Gone! Lin Tian: I am willing
Chapter 558 The Ultimate Showdown When Ammunition and Supplies Are All Gone! Lin Tian: I am willing
When Brown called a timeout and both teams' players walked off the court, Lin Tian raised his left hand and placed it to his ear, as if he were listening carefully to the sounds from the court.
provocative!
It's a provocation against the wildness and rudeness that you at the Palace of Auburn Hills are so proud of.
Today, Mr. Lin, I'm going to see just how arrogant you really are.
"We're still leading by 5 points!"
"What are you so smug about!"
"Go ahead and score if you dare! Go ahead and score another 5-0, forcing overtime!"
"Richard will teach you a lesson right away!"
"Chauncey will hit a super long three-pointer and seal the game!"
"Can't you guys shut the fans up? He's revealing my tactics." Brown spread his hands, actually making a joke, which made the entire Pistons bench relax a lot.
After seeing that the players were much more relaxed, Brown picked up the tactical board and began to lay out the tactics.
As for the Knicks, Lin Tian leaned back in his chair, remaining silent and not engaging in further verbal sparring with the fans.
He needs to conserve his energy; he can't let the fans in the arena down. They're all waiting to see him score another 5 points, drag the game into overtime, or even win it outright!
Tonight, we can't let them have any regrets!
The timeout ended, and both teams returned to the court.
After the Pistons inbounded the ball, Billups looked at Lin Tian provocatively and said, "Even you must be too tired to speak by now. You played a full 47 minutes, took 37 shots, and still had to grab rebounds, organize the offense, and guard me. You must be exhausted."
"Playing the whole game, taking 37 shots, grabbing rebounds, and organizing the offense, it's really tiring." Lin Tian suddenly made a steal, sticking close to Billups and cutting the ball at the same time: "But guarding you, damn it, it's not tiring at all! It doesn't take up any energy at all."
"Fuck you." Billups was forced into a sorry state by Lin Tian and almost lost the ball. After being forced to hold the ball with both hands, he raised his elbow and slapped Lin Tian, trying to use this to create some space for himself to handle the ball.
But he didn't expect that this move would be just like Thor's elbow or God's iron arm. Before it even touched Lin Tian, the guy let out a scream and was sent flying backward.
It was incredibly tragic. Back then, even when Tyson punched Lin Tian in the stomach from the front, he didn't fly this far.
"Offensive foul!" Even though this was a home game, even though this was Detroit, Billups's move was just too obvious, and the referee had to call a foul.
The stadium was immediately filled with a chorus of boos as fans hurled insults at the referee, accusing him of biased officiating, while also calling Lin Tian a damn clown.
Lin Tian remained unmoved.
In this possession, the Pistons were fouled by Lin Tian in just 10 seconds, with a full 50 seconds left in the game!
The Knicks didn't call a timeout. Lin Tian quickly moved to the frontcourt. After glancing at his watch, Lin Tian didn't waste any words. Instead, he dribbled between his legs and accelerated, once again charging into the Pistons' paint.
Facing the double Wallace's encirclement and interception, Lin Tian drew a circle in the air with both hands holding the basketball, successfully dodging their block and interference. Then, Lin Tian slightly passed the ball forward with his left hand, and the basketball flew past the two defenders and towards the basket.
"Whoosh!"
With a crisp sound, the basketball swished through the hoop once again!
Lin Tian's attack this time only took 10 seconds!
With 40 seconds left, the Knicks were only 3 points behind!
82: 85!
Brown didn't call a timeout this time; he wanted to hold onto the last timeout a little longer.
He felt that there would be even more dangerous and important moments in the game, and that he needed to save his last timeout.
After Billups dribbled the ball to the frontcourt, the entire Pistons offensive system immediately sprang into action. All the players started running according to Billups' instructions. Their textbook-perfect positioning, screens, and tactical setups made it extremely difficult for the Knicks players to keep up.
But at this point, all the Knicks players were on high alert, gritting their teeth and sticking to their assigned defenders.
As time passed, the basketball passed back and forth between the five Pistons players, eventually ending up in Rasheed's hands. Hamilton quickly ran towards him and set a handoff screen with him on the wing.
Hamilton caught the ball and immediately pulled it up and threw it!
This is his favorite shooting spot, his best shooting method, and also his most comfortable receiving and shooting posture.
Jackson tried his best, but could only jump from the side to interfere. However, judging from Hamilton's determined expression, Jackson was unable to interfere with the shot.
Whether it goes in or not depends entirely on Hamilton's touch!
The entire Knicks team, the fans in the arena, and those watching on television held their breath at that moment, awaiting the final verdict.
"Bang!"
After a muffled thud, the basket bounced off the rim and missed. Lin Tian rushed into the paint, grabbed the backboard, and then turned around to start his drive!
He still wouldn't call a timeout! That's Lin Tian's habit!
Billups quickly approached Lin Tian and began to harass him. Hamilton, who had just missed a shot and failed to win the game, was right next to Billups, ready to double-team him at any moment.
With 15 seconds left, Lin Tian brought the ball to the frontcourt. This time, Hamilton didn't try to double-team him; he charged straight up and formed a double-team with Billups. This time, Lin Tian chose to pass the ball.
He immediately passed the ball to Anthony, but at the same time, Lin Tian sprinted towards Anthony after passing the ball.
Then, after a screen and handoff on the wing, Anthony screened Hamilton and Billups for Lin Tian, while Lin Tian forced a three-pointer over the onrushing Artest!
"Whoosh!"
After a crisp snap, the score was tied!
10: 0!
In the final two minutes, Lin Tian single-handedly unleashed a 10-0 offensive surge!
He left the Pistons with less than 6 seconds!
At this moment, Brown didn't know whether he should breathe a sigh of relief for having saved a timeout, or feel regret that Hamilton's crucial shot hadn't gone in.
But he did call one last timeout.
Then the whole team gathered together.
He needs to carefully plan his next game-winning shot.
At this moment, the Palace of Auburn Hills was completely silent!
The fans dared not provoke Lin Tian anymore.
They knew they had messed with the wrong person.
They knew they should shut up.
One minute later, the players from both sides returned to the court. The Pistons made a rather complicated run, and Rasheed on the wing eventually received the ball, but he couldn't get a shot off because Stoudemire's defense was in position!
Stoudemire's aggressive defense made Rasheed uncomfortable, and he couldn't find any space to shoot. So he passed the ball to Artest again. When Artest received the ball, there was only one second left in the game. He could only grab the ball and shoot, and he didn't have time to adjust.
"Bang!"
After a muffled thud, the Pistons' game-winning shot failed, allowing Lin Tian to tie the game and sending it into overtime!
In overtime, both sides were exhausted and their scoring efficiency was extremely low. In the first 4 minutes and 30 seconds, the two sides only scored a total of 8 points!
5: 3!
The Pistons still held a two-point lead with 30 seconds left in the game.
And then it was Lin Tian again!
After scoring 3 points with a 2+1 play on the first possession of overtime, Lin Tian went 0-for-4 for the next 4 minutes without scoring a single point. But this time he still chose to take the shot himself, driving all the way to the basket and scoring a layup despite Ben Wallace's defense!
It's a tie again!
After that goal, Lin Tian looked at the referee with a wry smile.
His nose was bleeding, and he pointed to the blood flowing from his nose, indicating that Ben Wallace had fouled him. However, the referee chose to ignore it and simply called a timeout to let Lin Tian go down for treatment.
As for why the nose was bleeding but no foul was called, the referee said: That's how we referees do things!
I won't blow the whistle at the last minute, I just won't!
As for Lin Tian, he knew very well that protesting at this time would be useless, so after showing his wound, he went to the sidelines to have the team doctor stop the bleeding, and then quickly returned to the field.
With 20 seconds left, the Pistons had another chance to seal the game!
This time, the ball was passed to Artest, who once again drove to the basket with his rather awkward gait, and then forced a shot over the defense of Anthony and Okur.
"Bang!"
After another muffled thud, the Pistons' game-winning shot still missed!
At the same time, the 5 minutes of overtime expired.
Second overtime!
In the second overtime, the scoring efficiency of both sides was even lower than in the first overtime!
Apart from Ben Wallace grabbing an offensive rebound and dunking with 3 minutes left in the second overtime, the other 9 players didn't score a single point!
90: 92!
Time ticked to the very end, and with only 28 seconds left in the game, the Pistons still had possession of the ball.
They controlled the time until there were only 5 seconds left on the shot clock, when Billups suddenly started his attack! He drove all the way to the basket and, despite Lin Tian's defense, made a difficult floater!
This shot still missed!
Okur grabbed the rebound and quickly called a timeout.
4.8 seconds!
After reviewing the replay, the referees gave the Knicks 4.8 seconds to make their final shot.
Don Nelson also called a timeout to give his final instructions on the court.
As the timeout ended, the Knicks players went onto the court and took a starburst formation.
This is Phil Jackson's favorite move, but this time it was brought out by Don Nelson and made to be used by his players.
After the whistle blew, the Knicks players exploded into action, with four players sprinting in all directions. Among them, Anthony ran towards Jackson, who was inbounding the ball, and successfully caught it.
The moment he received the basketball, he had already passed it back towards the baseline.
That was Lin Tian, who had just run into position and started to lift himself up.
Lin Tian received a pass from Anthony, faked a shot to fool Billups, took a step forward, and then stopped abruptly and jumped to shoot!
This was a mid-range shot from near the right corner.
"Whoosh!"
hit!
Lin Tian hit the game-tying shot for the third time tonight!
The two sides then went into a third overtime period.
By this point in the match, Lin Tian was so exhausted he was almost out of breath.
The game lasted a full 58 minutes without a break, and he had to give his all on both offense and defense every second. On defense, he had to guard Billups and Hamilton, and on offense, he had to face double-teams from the two of them.
It can only be said that, in the same 58-minute game, Lin Tian's exertion was probably greater than that of other players who played for 70 minutes.
After a short break, the third overtime begins!
This time, both sides were clearly at their physical limits, having exhausted all their strength.
0: 0!
For the first 4 minutes and 30 seconds of the game, neither side had scored a single point.
Even at the free-throw line, the Pistons went 0-for-4, while the Knicks went 0-for-2.
When even the best athletes can't make their free throws, it really shows how exhausted they are.
Soon, time was down to the last 10 seconds. In the previous play, Rasheed's strong drive to the basket missed, giving the Knicks a chance to win the game.
Lin Tian once again arrived at the top of the key, where he had appeared countless times. He held the ball and faced off against Billups and Hamilton. Then, Lin Tian, who was clearly exhausted and almost unable to walk during the entire third overtime, suddenly burst out with incredible power and speed.
He dribbled past two players with a crossover dribble, while Lin Tian himself quickly followed the ball, getting past the double team in the blink of an eye.
Then Lin Tian stopped rushing in; his physical strength no longer allowed him to continue.
Lin Tianchang took a two-point shot from just inside the three-point line!
"Whoosh!"
With another crisp sound, Lin Tian scored the last goal of the night!
Decisive strike!
An absolute decisive blow!
They left the Pistons with no chance whatsoever!
Lin Tian killed the game!
94: 92!
After three hours of fierce fighting, the battle finally came to a conclusion.
Both teams were exhausted after the fierce battle, and the usual post-match hugs were cancelled by both sides in perfect unison.
Lin Tian and Da Ben and the others waved to each other, which was considered a greeting.
Everyone is exhausted!
After all, Lin Tian wasn't the only one who played the full 63 minutes that night.
Besides him, Carmelo Anthony played 60 minutes, Jackson played 59 minutes, and Okur and Stoudemire also played more than 50 minutes!
As for the Pistons, their backcourt duo, Hamilton and Billups, who were matched up against Lin Tian, both played 61 minutes, while Artest and Ben Wallace both played the full 63 minutes! Rasheed also played 57 minutes!
That night would be a major battle between the two sides' main forces, a head-on clash between their main forces.
Meanwhile, this night was also a battle of rebounds and a contest of missed shots!
For the Knicks, Lin Tian took a staggering 51 shots, a career high, but only made 20, missing 31 shots – also a career high!
但同时，林天还投中了3个3分球，命中了13个罚球，这个晚上，他一个人就爆砍56分21篮板8助攻3抢断2盖帽的恐怖数据！
安东尼今晚17投5中，拿下13分11篮板，奥库10投2中拿下5分9篮板，小斯15投4中，拿下9分10篮板，杰克逊则是11投3中，拿下7分12篮板。
The Knicks' starters alone grabbed 63 rebounds tonight, and the team as a whole grabbed 71 rebounds!
The situation is similar for the Pistons.
比卢普斯今晚31投11中拿下全队最高的28分，另外还有9篮板5助攻主让，汉密尔顿25投8中拿下20分9篮板3助攻，拉希德18投6中拿下16分17篮板，大本8投6中拿下13分27篮板，阿泰斯特18投5中拿下12分15篮板。
The starters on this side grabbed a total of 77 rebounds, and the team as a whole grabbed 82 rebounds!
The two teams combined for over 150 rebounds tonight! That's a new NBA playoff record!
Never before have two teams been so inefficient yet taken so many shots!
From any perspective, both teams' players were pushed to their limits tonight.
This is because both coaches became more conservative tonight; no one dared to bench their starters, nor did they dare to let role players play for too long.
In such situations, the fewer people involved, the lower the chance of making a mistake.
Compared to betting on the extremely low probability of a surprise player coming out to save the team, it's better to place your bets on the more trustworthy main players and let them decide the game.
At the press conference after the match, even Lin Tian wasn't in the mood to say anything outrageous or arrogant to attract the attention of fans and the media.
He practically dragged himself to the press conference, then turned to the coaches and said, "I want to apologize to the Timberwolves and the Lakers tonight. I cursed them to play 100 overtimes last year. I was wrong. I was so malicious."
"This is fucking exhausting!"
"From now on, I will never curse others like that again. What goes around comes around, and no one escapes the judgment of Heaven!"
Lin Tian's words made the reporters burst into laughter, and then what the reporters said next made Lin Tian laugh even harder.
"Richard and Chansey came in with IV drips and in wheelchairs. They were both exhausted."
Upon hearing that his opponent was in even worse shape than him, Lin Tian immediately beamed with joy!
What could be more delightful than this news? (End of Chapter)