Lin Tian grinned and thought to himself, the King of the End is not so easy to call, I think back then Iverson was also famous as the King of the End!

After the Lakers served, Crowder came over again. Although his defense against Lin Tian was very poor, Smart was even more unable to guard against Lin Tian.

If Claude were to defend Lin Tian, ​​at least there wouldn't be much difference in height between the two.

Lin Tian was preparing to attack the inside when Avery Bradley, who was guarding Nick Young next to him, rushed over to double-team him.

This was also what Lin Tian expected. He passed the ball to Nick Young on the wing.

Nick Young had a rare opportunity to get an open shot. He glanced at the basket, took a random shot, and hit a three-pointer!

After the ball hit, Nick Young made his standard celebration move: making an OK gesture with his hands in front of his eyes.

At the same time, he did not forget to challenge the Celtics players on the court: "You all go and double-team Lin! This way I can shoot more three-pointers!"

Thomas Jr. immediately fired back: "Shut your mouth! A guy who can only shoot three-pointers!"

Nick Young also wanted to argue with Thomas, but Thomas didn't give him a chance at all. After receiving the serve, he wanted to play a fast break. Fortunately, Clarkson stopped him.

Lin Tian shouted to Clarkson: "Hey! Let me come and meet him!"

Clarkson was under a lot of pressure when facing Thomas Jr., and he couldn't keep up with Thomas, so he was relieved when he heard Lin Tian's words.

After the two switched defenses, Lin Tian faced the strongest 175 on the surface.

Looking at Thomas Jr. in front of him, Lin Tian was not used to it. He had never faced such a short player since he entered the NBA.

The biggest advantage of short players is speed! Their speed is often faster than that of tall players, otherwise it is impossible to survive in the NBA.

Even Iverson is like this, and Lin Tian just copied the ability of peak Iverson!

To be honest, Iverson may not be slower than Thomas.

Thomas had to look up when facing Clarkson, let alone Lin Tian.

But the more he faced the taller man, the more confident Thomas became. He even said, "Let me teach you what changing direction means!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Thomas began to change direction drastically.

His dribbling movements are extremely coordinated, and he seems to be close to reaching the state of man-ball integration.

But all changes remain true to their roots. No matter how drastic a change of direction, there is only one purpose, and that is to excel.

Using his extremely skillful ability to change direction, Thomas wanted to shake Lin Tian away.

What he didn't expect was that Lin Tian, ​​who had just entered the league, had such mature defensive experience that he didn't look like a rookie at all!

This rookie, who is 2.05 meters tall, doesn’t even dare to eat!

The players on the Lakers team were extremely confident in Lin Tian's one-on-one defense, and had no intention of double-teaming him. They only allowed Lin Tian to defend Thomas alone.

The change of direction failed, and Thomas was already a little impatient. He gritted his teeth and could only lean forward with his upper body and start to force the inside line.

Lin Tian's body was standing straight, with a pair of big hands in front of Matos, like a thick steel wall! Thomas couldn't break through at all! After playing so many NBA games, this was Lin Tian's defense against breaking through.

The most relaxing time! Little Thomas is too thin! There is no threat to him!

He can't change direction, nor can he forcefully break out! Little Thomas rarely feels so aggrieved, but he still has one last trump card!

I saw him suddenly stop because he couldn't get in, and directly collected the ball and made a shooting gesture!

Lin Tian instantly thought of what Thomas was going to do. He raised his right hand high and didn't even take off!

Thomas Jr.'s intention was to ask Lin Tian to take off and then trick him into committing a shooting foul. He averaged 6.5 free throws per game this season, many of which were obtained in this way.

But he didn't expect that Lin Tiantiao didn't even jump and stood upright, so there was no way he could cause a foul.

Thomas was so anxious that he could only take the ball back to look for his teammates.

Every one of his teammates was pestered by the Lakers players! They didn't give him a chance to pass the ball.

There was not much attack time left. Thomas sighed and made another fake shooting action. This was still not enough to fool Lin Tian.

In desperation, he could only push Lin Tian forward forcibly, and then shot a fadeaway jumper from behind the frame.

Although Lin Tian was pushed away by Thomas Jr., the impact was not significant.

Seeing that Thomas had already taken off to shoot, he directly chose to take off on the spot!

As one of the shortest players in the league today, Thomas' shooting angle has always been relatively high in order to avoid being blocked as much as possible.

But this time, Lin Tian’s height after taking off was too exaggerated! Even if Thomas raised the angle, he still had a big hit!

Snapped!

The stadium was in an uproar!

Thomas is one of the players who has been blocked the most this season, and his fans are actually mentally prepared for this block.

They were mainly amazed at Lin Tian's extremely terrifying bounce.

Lin Tian's block did not knock the ball out of the sideline, but allowed Nick Young to pick up the ball, but the Lakers also lost the opportunity to play a fast break.

Nick Young honestly put the ball back into Lin Tian's hands.

Claude, who was responsible for defending Lin Tian, ​​took the lead in wiping the sweat from his head.

This season he has never defended such a difficult player. Crowder was in a very depressed mood, and he might have to take the blame for losing.

But this time, Lin Tian, ​​who had a very high success rate against Claude in singles, did not choose to fight Claude.

He held the ball in one hand and waved at Clarkson with the other.

A knowing smile appeared on Clarkson's face, and he ran over quickly. Following Clarkson, there was Thomas Jr. who was keeping an eye on him.

After playing a fairly standard pick-and-roll for Lin Tian, ​​the Celtics had no choice but to switch to substitution defense.

Crowder defended Clarkson, while Thomas was forced to defend Lin Tian.

When other teams play against the Celtics, they often use this mismatch to beat the Celtics.

The saying "one inch is long and one inch is strong" is extremely applicable in the NBA!

Although Thomas's personal offensive ability is very strong, he has also become a breakthrough point due to his height problem!

Because if he is asked to guard a player over two meters tall, no matter how fast he is, the height gap cannot be made up!

The reason why Thomas was able to break out in the 2016-2017 season in his previous life was closely related to the genius coach Stevens who coached him.

He can do whatever he wants on the offensive end, and he also has several players with the strongest defense at the same position to help him wipe his ass on the defensive end, but Thomas doesn't understand.

Now, Lin Tian wants to use his performance to tell Thomas why his height suffers so much.

Thomas is also very aware of his shortcomings. Defending Lin Tian alone made him feel a lot of pressure.

He put one hand on Lin Tian's waist and kept trying to steal the ball with the other hand, but he couldn't touch the ball at all!

As a small man, Thomas's steal ability is very average, averaging less than 1 steal per game in his career.

He wanted to snatch the ball away from Lin Tian's hands, which was simply a fool's errand.

Lin Tian began to hit Thomas from behind.

It has been a while since he entered the league, and Lin Tian has beaten so many players from behind, but it has never been as easy as today.

Little Thomas was almost knocked away with just a slight push from his back.

The difference in physical confrontation between the two was too obvious. After pushing away Thomas, Lin Tian turned around and rushed to the penalty area and scored a layup.

When he looked back at Thomas Jr. again, he said harshly: "Your defense is zero!"

These words were tantamount to killing someone. Thomas gritted his teeth and prepared to attack with the ball again, not to be outdone.

For the Lakers, Lin Tian still defends Thomas.

With the lessons learned from the previous offensive round, Thomas no longer chose to break through easily, but actively asked his teammates to pick and roll for him.

If a pick-and-roll fails to replace Lin Tian, ​​then there will be another pick-and-roll!

No matter how he asked his teammates to help with the pick-and-roll, Lin Tian's defensive strategy was always not to switch defenses. He chose to follow Thomas.

Sometimes even if he is pushed away by Celtic players, he will try to bypass the defense.

Thomas really couldn't get rid of Lin Tian, ​​and finally chose to shoot a three-pointer after a pick-and-roll.

The three-pointer was not made, and the rebound was grabbed by Lin Tian.

In the Lakers' offensive round, Lin Tian still used his teammates' pick-and-roll to find Thomas.

Whoever Thomas is guarding, he will pick and roll with whomever he is guarding, in order to forcefully eat Thomas.

The reason why he didn't do this in the first three quarters was because the team was always in an advantage at that time and there was no need to do this.

And now, he wants to wake up little Thomas and let him know a cruel reality!

The first ball was hit successfully, Lin Tian hit it with his back.

And this second time, he directly chose to change direction and break through!

When a big man faces a small man and makes a breakthrough, he is quite insulting to the little man!

Because when a big man can use a change of direction to break through a small man, the small man has no advantage in either offense or defense!

Although Crowder and Olynyk inside were also trying their best to wipe Thomas's butt, it was to no avail.
To be continued...