Basketball's most talented forward is on the left

For every fan who watched the last quarter of the game, Yu Jia's words spoke to their hearts.

Trailing by 16 points in the third quarter, two of the five starters were lost, the best sixth man made 1 of 9 shots, the team's three-point shooting percentage was 30%, and the first substitute in the paint committed too many fouls...

The combination of these circumstances is simply the rhythm of a collapse, and no matter how you look at it, it does not have the conditions for a comeback.

However, 11 minutes later, Zuo Li led the team to a lead with 18 points, 3 assists, 6 rebounds and 2 blocks, telling everyone that nothing is impossible before the end of the game.

Zuo Li's performance also reminded people of Kobe Bryant when he faced the Timberwolves in the 2004 Western Conference Finals at the beginning of the century. In the last six and a half minutes of the third quarter of Game 4, Kobe Bryant scored 16 points to lead the team to reverse the score and completely kill him.

The Wolf King’s dream of the finals.

That was also a sign that Kobe's personal ability had reached its peak. Kobe was 26 years old that year.

And this year, 21-year-old Zuo Li used a crazier and more comprehensive personal performance to rub magic to the ground.

In the last minute, if the Magic cannot score this goal, then they will face failure.

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Obviously, Da Fan knows the importance of this attack. In one minute, at most, the two teams will have two attack opportunities. They are two points behind. If this attack fails, it will be equivalent to completely handing over the initiative.

Apart from fouling, the only thing is to wait for the Knicks to make mistakes.

So this attack must be scored!

"Don't worry, we haven't lost yet!" It was too late to pour chicken soup. Da Fan had to devise an effective offensive tactic.

"Howard came up for a pick-and-roll. This time it was a real pick-and-roll, not a fake pick-and-roll."

Dafan focused on Howard, who had 15 points and 10 rebounds in this game. He has been criticized for being unwilling to pick and roll. He prefers to swing inside and wait for the defender to pass the ball. This is also a sign of Howard's immaturity.

, because he didn’t have a basket, the pick-and-roll threat wasn’t great enough, and he was unwilling to really block the defender. The defender was also very depressed.

So at this time, Dafan must tell him the importance of this ball.

Howard nodded reluctantly. He actually wanted to stand up and save the team at the last moment. He is the core and the leader.

However, Da Fan never gave him a chance at the last moment. He also wanted to experience the feeling of killing his opponent!

This time I'm taking the big shot...You, Howard, made the buzzer-beating shot at the last moment. No coach with a right mind would do that unless there was really no other way out.

The ball was finally given to Carter. Although Carter usually only scored 17 points in this game, as the top four point shooters and the core of the Magic's perimeter, Carter did his job, while Nelson was considered the second choice.

This is roughly the same as the Knicks' judgment. The reason why a buzzer-beater is difficult to shoot is because you can basically guess who you are shooting for. If the defense is directly aimed at you, it will make you uncomfortable.

The reason why a superstar is a superstar is that he can still hit a shot under such a defense, or pass it out to a teammate who surprises the opponent.

For example, Fisher in the Lakers plays such a role, and Horry, who has seven championships, is also a leader, playing a big-hearted teammate next to the superstar.

Of course, this kind of teammate is hard to come by. If he scores, it's a good goal. For example, if Jordan gives Cole a goal, if he doesn't score, it's over. The boss must bear the greatest responsibility.

Unfortunately, Lao Zhan usually does not have such teammates around him.

However, Carter is not an ordinary player. He moved away from the pick-and-roll and received the ball. After dribbling for two or three seconds, Howard did the usual pick-and-roll.

This tactic is very good. At least Zuo Li can't double-team Carter. After all, as long as Howard goes down, David Lee will foul five times, and it will be inconvenient no matter how he handles it.

After successfully completing the pick-and-roll, Carter took the ball to the three-point line and was about to make a move to force Dragic, but Howard made an uncool move over there!

The big elbow opened the way, and Howard elbowed him to the left!

Zuo Li took a look and realized it was not my fault!

So he took advantage of the situation!

"Ahem! It's down! Did the referee say anything?" Barkley pointed at the court and yelled.

Of course!

This elbow hit was so obvious that the referee could not turn a blind eye and had to call an offensive foul.

Howard quits now!

"Shit! Are you going to call it! He's diving!!!" Howard complained after chasing the referee. If his teammates hadn't stopped him, he would have wanted to punch the referee.

The referee saw this and gave a technical foul without hesitation.

In anger, Howard was pulled aside by his teammates, and there were boos to the home team players from the sidelines.

They were very dissatisfied with Howard's uncool behavior at critical moments.

Da Fan was speechless. He threw out all the tactical boards. It was ruined, everything was ruined!

Dragic took a technical foul free throw, faced the boos and curses from the audience, touched the wristband on his calf, adjusted his breathing, and made a steady free throw.

The point difference becomes three points!

Zuo Li also had to take two free throws for offensive fouls!

On the first free throw, Zuo Li missed.

"It's a bit tight!" Director Zhang said.

For the second free throw, Zuo stood down, squatted, pushed off the ground, stood up, raised his arms, and shot steadily, and hit this key free throw.

Four points!

This is a relatively safe score, which means it is almost impossible for the Magic to even out the score difference in one round.

The Magic's offense this time is directly related to the outcome of the game.

In the last timeout, there were 41 seconds left, and the Magic had no way out.

After the timeout, the Magic chose to go for a three-pointer. However, Nelson's three-pointer was too unreliable. After the pop-up, the two teams crowded together to scramble for rebounds.

In the chaos, David Lee, who had been depressed the whole game, pushed the ball out with a diving jump. Dragic bent down to get it and dribbled directly through the frontcourt.

"Defend! Defend! Defend!" Dafan roared crazily, while the Magic three chased after him frantically.

Losing their composure, they all went to guard Dragic, completely missing Zuo Li who was following up...

Dafan:……

He caught the ball at the top of the arc, no one was guarding him, scored a three-pointer, and Zuo Li killed the game with his own hands.

The entire American Airlines Arena suddenly became quiet.

Coach Da Fan squatted on the ground, raised his head, and stared directly at the big screen. At this moment, he hoped that the goal would time out and be an invalid goal.

Unfortunately, this is impossible.

Seven points!

15 seconds!

The suspense has been completely killed!

In the end, the Magic desperately shot two three-pointers and scored one, but it was too late.

114-109, the Knicks came back with a five-point advantage in the away game. They survived and retreated from the away game!

3-0!

The Knicks already have one foot on the floor of the Eastern Conference Finals.

"The Magic didn't even last until the final moment." Barkley said sadly.

Who could have imagined that the Magic, which was leading by 16 points, would be overturned in this way.

At this moment, everyone looked in awe at Zuo Li who was celebrating wildly on the sidelines.

With 23 points, 7 rebounds and 3 assists in a single quarter, he was the Knicks’ biggest contributor in this game!