"He hasn’t given up, the Lakers haven’t given up," Reggie Miller exaggeratedly shouted, "Dwight saved Los Angeles like Superman, he was practically flying!"
In a flash, Chauncey Billups, who received the blocked ball, had already started the counterattack.
Due to the principle of nearby defense, Roger was chasing Kobe, and the person chasing Chauncey Billups was Roy, who was just blocked.
Billups stopped abruptly outside the three-point line, staring at Kobe, seemingly ready to pass.
Roy pounced on him, trying to cover Billups, but Billups suddenly shifted to the left, opting for a breakthrough!
"Damn Brother Ni!" Roy swore, turning to chase.
Billups stopped abruptly for a mid-range jump shot, which he’s not very good at, but Roy’s interference covered Billups’ eyes.
"Boom, swish!"
The basketball brushed off the backboard and went into the net, Ernie Johnson next to Reggie Miller scread emotionally: "Mr. Big Shot! Chauncey Billups, this is the level of FMVP! Even if his scoring performance throughout the ga was poor, he can still deliver a heavy blow at a critical mont!"
Billups howled at the sky and then jumped up to chest bump with Kobe.
Bill Simmons was greatly shocked, "Could I have judged wrong?"
When Roger scored his 62nd point, Bill Simmons and most of the world thought that the Los Angeles Lakers were dood.
But now, with 53 seconds left in the ga, the Lakers had caught up by only 4 points.
Kobe Bryant’s fighting spirit wasn’t surprising, but it was unexpected that Billups and Howard were also fired up.
After celebrating with Billups, Kobe glared fiercely at Roger, "Take back your victory, Staples Center isn’t selling!"
Roger maintained a smile, still looking as if he had victory in hand.
He didn’t retort to Kobe, but instead glanced at Jas.
Then, he signaled Spoelstra not to call a tiout.
Normally, at this ti, a tiout would definitely be needed to break the opposing team’s montum.
Everyone knows how disappointing it is to suddenly stop when you’re enjoying.
But the Warriors didn’t do it; Spoelstra originally intended to call it, but he preferred to take Roger’s suggestion.
Ga continued, Warriors attacked.
This ti, Roger handed the ball to Roy, running without the ball himself.
Kobe didn’t believe anything would go wrong defensively this round, the whole team was energized now, no one would give the Warriors player an easy shooting chance.
Roger attempting to kill the ga with an easy shot was simply delusional.
Either he holds the ball and aggressively attacks through the double-team, or he continues passing to others.
Just when Kobe thought of this, Roy passed the ball, and the target was unsurprisingly Roger.
And the next scene, Kobe would never forget.
This series had already presented a scene that Kobe would never forget. That’s in Ga 1 of the series, when Jas dribbled for 20 seconds at the crucial mont, ending up passing to Kobe, who had no chance.
Kobe never imagined that he could experience a scene he’d never forget twice in one series.
After Roy passed the ball over, Kobe saw that Roger was in a big open spot outside the three-point line!
No one around him was defending!
Where’s Jas? Where’s Jas!?
Jas was already filled with tears.
Chauncey Billups, Dwight Howard, and Kobe, they may still want to fight, but Jas had already been defeated the mont Roger scored his 62nd point and kneeled to the ground.
He was thinking, what if he won? The fans here see Kobe as a hero and himself as a clown. Winning the ga, this is Kobe’s ode of praise, having nothing to do with him.
He was thinking about what his image in the dia would turn into in the future.
He was thinking about where his career should go.
He thought a lot, but he simply didn’t think about victory.
You can’t expect soone who has already surrendered, soone not focused on victory, to pursue defense without the ball desperately.
Hence, the inconceivable happened.
Jas, while chasing Roger’s off-ball movent and encountering Stoudemire’s screen, suddenly lost, stopped chasing. He seed to want Howard to switch defense, but he didn’t shout to communicate, eventually leading Roger to pop outside the three-point line alone, gaining the opportunity for a wide-open shot.
In fact, when realizing Howard had no intention to switch defense, Jas actually still had the chance to rush out and interfere with Roger.
But he didn’t do that, he just stood in place, dumbfoundedly watching Roger catch the ball and shoot.
Then...
"Ball in! Roger scored his 65th point tonight, LeBron Jas made an unforgivable mistake! What is he doing!? He wasted the entire team’s effort!" If Reggie Miller had a gun now, he wasn’t sure if he would rush up and press it against LBJ’s head.
With Reggie Miller’s character, he couldn’t comprehend LBJ’s actions at all, even thinking such behavior betrayed the sport of basketball.
In the 90s, people said Reggie Miller resisted gods with a mortal’s body. This partly praised his courage, but also showed his diocre talent (compared to other stars).
Yet even if his talent was diocre, Reggie Miller never gave up on any ga, never submitted to any opponent.
LBJ? He has such extraordinary talent but chose to be a deserter and coward.
When he fled from Cleveland to Los Angeles, you could say, a player leaving hotown to pursue a championship isn’t wrong.
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