Basketball's most talented forward is on the left

Chapter 975 Targeted

Zuo Li obviously overestimated his recovery speed.

Back to four hours ago, Zuo Li, who had missed 14 training sessions with the Knicks, finally returned to the court, which greatly boosted the Knicks' morale.

"Hey, Zuo Li is back! We are going to win the championship!"

"Yes, guys, I'm back. Tonight, we will fight side by side." Zuo Liye replied with a smile.

Happiness is written on the faces of every Knicks player. Originally, they were already prepared to play the game without Zuoli, or even be prepared to lose. This also made the excitement of winning the Tianwangshan Mountain in the past two days soaring.

Morale becomes low.

But now, they have regained their confidence, and they feel that the championship is already waving to them.

Among them, only Stephen Curry, who was most familiar with Zuo Li, did not celebrate with him. Seeing Zuo Li smiling but unable to hide his fatigue, Curry felt that everything was not as beautiful as it seemed.

Yes, the immediate shooting training proved his suspicion. It can be said that Zuo Li lost all his touch and kept hitting the ball.

But this seems to be normal. Basketball is like this. If you don't play for a few days, you will lose some feeling and aim. Just practice it and it will be fine.

Sure enough, Zuo Li's hand gradually recovered, but as the one-hour shooting training ended, Zuo Li's foot suddenly became weak while running and almost fell down, which still attracted more people's attention.

Curry couldn't help it anymore and went to Zuo Li specifically: "How much has your body recovered? Do you still have a fever?"

"Stop making trouble! How can you still have a fever!" Zuo Li straightened up and shouted, but his voice was a little guilty: "It's just the sequelae of a cold, Aqiu!"

As he spoke, Zuo Li sneezed, and the tears and snot that he had just managed to stop flowed out again.

Seeing Zuo Li's breakthrough, the German coach who knew the truth stopped pretending. He summoned all the players to tell the truth: "Yes, things are not so optimistic. Zuo Li's cold has not completely recovered, and his condition is not 100%."

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"Yes, I asked the coach not to say it, because I think I can maintain a good condition, but it seems that I overestimated myself." Zuo Li shook his head helplessly. This was the weakest he had ever been since time travel.

"However, I still ask to play this game and please trust me."

"Yes, Zuo Li insisted on doing this. I was unwilling to do so, but obviously, he did not want to miss this game. I also think that the boss of the team should be with everyone at this time, so Zuo Li will

Come out." D'Antoni said, these were the exact words Zuo Li used to convince him just now.

D'Antoni also thought it made sense, and the team doctor also confirmed that Zuo Li had serious cold sequelae and did not have any fever.

The current NBA is not a league where you will have to rest for a long time if you get injured in the future. Here, tough guys who play through injuries are still everywhere, especially in key battles. Not to mention, with Dayao absent, playing against the Jazz.

Tracy McGrady, who fought bloody battles, is still a man worthy of respect, so D'Antoni had no reason to refuse Zuo Li's request, but secretly made up his mind to strictly control Zuo Li's playing time.

So there was the fact that Zuo Li made his debut.

But it seems that the matter is more serious than Deshuai and Zuo Li imagined, and Zuo Li's strength is worse than imagined.

The camera returns to the playing field.

Chandler chased the referee and yelled aggrievedly: "I didn't exert any force! He fell by himself, he flopped! You should call him a foul!"

At this moment, Chandler's resentment against Zuo Li rose to another level. He had just dunked on him in the last game. He was so powerful that he could kill a cow. Now it's better, and he even used a dive!

I am so unjust!!!

But the referee was unmoved. Zuo Li left a deep impression on all the referees. He was a tough guy who would never give up. He had no record of flopping. He was always full of confrontations. Such a man, what do you think?

Did he dive?

"It's you who did it. Stop talking nonsense and I'll give you a T." The referee waved his hand impatiently and told Chandler to go back and stay.

Over there, Zuo Li was pulled up by Curry and Randolph. Zach supported Zuo Li and said, "It's okay, buddy."

"I'm fine. It's just that I don't think we can fight like this tonight." Zuo Li shook his head. Back posture requires a lot of strength. He just wanted to try it, but unexpectedly he was pushed down by Chandler's force without paying attention.

Already.

It's a shame for Chandler. He really didn't foul on this shot, but he was just unlucky.

But this also means that tonight it will be impossible for him to achieve the dominance he had in previous games in the low post.

"I need to change my fighting style." Zuo Li moved his body.

Over there, Curry assisted Randolph to score the first goal of the game. Zuo Li slowly returned to defense while thinking about how he should play this game.

He now admires the senior who came out even though he was ill. Now he just feels that his body is not his at all, and the movements he usually does casually now feel very jerky.

He believed that Jordan would only be more difficult back then.

But Jordan still led the team to victory and produced data that was not inferior to his peak state. This kind of will is worthy of being the god of basketball.

However, Zuo Li would not admit defeat.

But before Zuo Li can find an offensive method that suits him, he has to face the test of the Mavericks.

In a word, he was targeted.

Chandler was very aggrieved that he was called for a foul, but the old fox Carlisle discovered something unusual.

He knew that Zuo Li was sick, and he had doubts about whether Zuo Li could recover to 100%. But through the attack just now, he found that Zuo Li seemed to be holding on to fight.

"The Mavericks' opportunity has come." Carlisle punched his fist in his heart. If this was the case, what they were afraid of in the past would become their opportunity.

So Carlisle waved his hand, and the Mavericks immediately accelerated. Kidd and Chandler picked and rolled, Chandler passed down, Kidd passed the ball, and Zuo Li couldn't keep up!

Bang!

The Mavericks tied the score with a dunk.

"OMG!" Chandler looked at his hands in disbelief after scoring the goal. This was the first time he had dunked so hard.

In the past, Zuo Li had never lost his defensive position, and Chandler didn't dare to dunk when he got the ball, but today, Zuo Li was pushed far away by him.

In the next round, Zuo Li received the ball at the top of the arc, and the Mavericks immediately went up to the line to attack. Kidd took advantage of Zuo Li's bend to cut the ball away, and then directly assisted Stephenson to complete the dunk!

4-2, the Mavericks lead!

Madison Square Garden was completely silent, but the score didn't seem to be even, but these two times, anyone with a discerning eye could see that the problem was Zuo Li, who seemed completely out of shape.

Especially the ball just now, he was actually cut away by Kidd directly from his hand!

"This must be the first time, Zuo Li made a mistake." O'Neal was dumbfounded. Has Zuo Li ever lost a ball like this? No...

(End of chapter)