NBA: Art is trash talk

Chapter 298 Winning at Half Time 29
On the court, Trail Blazers coach McMillan was yelling at the players to hold on.

The start was interrupted two times in a row, which was too ugly.

Jarrett controlled the ball and advanced, and Livingston continued to press.

This time he was prepared, dodged the press and got past Livingston.

This is the risk of steals, but the Clippers don't care, let the Blazers shoot whatever they want.

Anyway, the Blazers didn't shoot very well.

Fighting against each other is by no means an opponent of the Clippers.

Jarrett was embarrassed after passing Livingston. If it was He Xinghui, he could throw it directly in this case.

But Jarrett's three-pointer is not stable enough, so he can't do it like this.

He will continue to drive to the basket, or pass to other teammates with better opportunities.

Jarrett chose to go to the basket, but unfortunately the rest of the Clippers used a shrinking defense. He had to stop halfway through the burst, and then gave the ball to Roy on the outside.

Roy raised the knife and hit a three-pointer.

However, He Xinghui didn't care.

This season, Roy's three-pointer is not stable enough. If he hits it this time, it doesn't mean he can hit it next time.As long as Roy throws more, his hit rate will definitely drop.

The Clippers counterattacked, and they started running and bombing.

The court was messy, and the Blazers players couldn't find their matchups for a while.

He Xinghui caught and shot the ball in the chaos and scored.

3 to 8, the start was soaring.

The Blazers need to control the rhythm at this time, but unfortunately this kind of thing seems simple, but it is difficult to do.

Jarrett was under pressure and could only choose to go beyond.

After passing, he is empty.

If you don't make a shot, it's too unreasonable, and he is not a long center forward.

But if he makes a shot, his three-pointer is not very good.

Jarrett felt that the Clippers looked down on him too much, so he couldn't bear the three-pointer.

The basketball hit the rim, Kaman withstood Randolph, Gasol picked up the rebound and made a long pass directly.

Maggette and He Xinghui had already made fast breaks, and Roy, a rookie, had to defend one and two, and wanted to cry without tears.

Maggette scored and the rhythm soared.

McMillan directly called a timeout, trying to interrupt the momentum of the Clippers.

"Is there a mistake, you called a timeout before we sweated?"

He Xinghui came to McMillan and complained.

"."

McMillan.

"Fack squid, get back to your side."

Randolph said angrily.

In the few rounds just now, he didn't even touch the ball, and he was full of anger.

"The real strong will not worry about the enemy eavesdropping on the tactics. If you want, I can invite your whole team to our side to observe Mike's tactical arrangements."

He Xinghui laughed.

"."

All the pioneers.

The timeout is over, and both sides return to the court.

In fact, McMillan didn't say anything, he just asked them to slow down, fight positional warfare, and hit the success rate.

The Blazers attacked, and Jarrett took control of the ball slowly, wishing to wait until the 8th second before halftime (otherwise it would be a violation).

However, Livingston would not agree.

He rushed forward to snatch it.

There were only two results, one was robbed, and the other was that he passed Livingston.

After passing, he had to accelerate again, otherwise Livingston could turn around and continue to harass.

And once he speeds up the breakthrough, the rhythm will speed up again.

All the problems actually lie in their lack of offensive ability.

Otherwise, passing Livingston is an opportunity.

On the court, facing Livingston's pressing, Jarrett dodged and passed.

Then, he passed the ball to Roy.

This time he finally made no mistakes and did not speed up.

However, his role has become to dribble the ball across the half.

What Roy needs to face after receiving the ball is He Xinghui, which is too difficult.

Roy is not afraid of tigers as a newborn calf, and breaks through with the ball.

He Xinghui didn't deliberately prevent death, but just interfered and gave Roy a chance to make a move.

As long as it can reduce Roy's hit rate, He Xinghui hopes that he can make a quick shot without ink marks.

Facing such an 'opportunity', Roy had no reason to back down.

Roy shot, the ball missed.

In the transition between offense and defense, Gasol of the Clippers also directly threw a three-pointer, which was quite capricious.

The ball missed, Gasol smiled awkwardly.

Maggette rushed to grab the offensive rebound and then distributed the ball.

He Xinghui made a three-pointer and scored.

3:13.

"."

The Blazers players have nothing to say.

"According to this rhythm, I'm afraid it will take half the time."

Barkley complained.

"It's brutal. This is the Clippers' peak firepower."

Smith said.

The game continued, the Blazers attacked, and Randolph finally received the ball in the basketball, staring at Gasol to make a strong goal.

"Dry."

Randolph vented his anger.

However, McMillan was already calling for him to retreat, because the Clippers were already serving the baseline, and He Xinghui and Maggette had already rushed towards the Blazers' half.

"Fake."

Randolph quickly retreated to defend, but the speed of others running, after all, could not run the speed of the ball flying.

He Xinghui received the pass, passed Roy with one step, and scored a dunk.

5:15.

This goal made Randolph's goal meaningless.

The Blazers controlled the rhythm and advanced, and Livingston stepped forward to interfere.

The annoyed Jarrett chose to pass the ball. He Xinghui stepped forward to press Roy. Roy passed He Xinghui and went to the basket to score.

The problem is not big, the Clippers quickly serve and counterattack.

However, this time the Blazers retreated quickly and settled down first to prevent the Clippers from breaking through.

He Xinghui received the ball at the logo position, walked directly to the props, and hit a super long three-pointer.

"Roy, please follow me closely, this is the minimum respect for a master."

He Xinghui said.

"."

Roy wanted to cry, but he seemed to stop for a moment and think about how to deal with He Xinghui.

However, the Clippers did not give him a chance.

Facing the closed court of the Clippers, Roy didn't even have a chance to catch his breath.

Hastily shot, missed.

The Clippers counterattacked, He Xinghui dribbled the ball to the logo position, Roy rushed up, He Xinghui dribbled the ball behind his butt, passed Roy directly, went to the basket to attract the defense, threw the ball away, Gasol took off and made an alley-oop .

7:20.

This started in less than 5 minutes.

McMillan nearly collapsed and called a timeout again.

After a timeout, the Clippers replaced Millsap, Kassel, and Perkins.

They played too fast just now, and the Clippers were actually far more tired than usual.

Dunleavy made the substitution operation in advance, which also allowed everyone to get a better rest.

After the substitution, the Clippers' rhythm dropped slightly, and Cassel's speed was far inferior to Livingston's.

However, he has more experience and completed a steal when he came up.

He Xinghui scored two more points.

Jarrett already regretted playing this game, he should have pretended to have a stomachache if he knew it earlier.

The Blazers attacked, and Jarrett carefully protected the ball for half court, and then passed the ball to Randolph who was about to reach the basket.

Randolph pushed Millsap away and made a mid-range shot.

This ball took a lot of effort from Randolph, after all, Millsap, a big stupid guy, is not so easy to knock away.

The Clippers counterattacked, and He Xinghui rushed to make a shot against Roy, but the ball missed.

It wasn't a big problem, He Xinghui wasn't even in a hurry to retreat, and he followed Roy, waiting for the opportunity of a sneak attack.

The Blazers almost missed the ball, which was embarrassing.

Ukadu, who got the ball, controlled the ball and pushed forward. He Xinghui suddenly rushed over and shouted: "Ah!"

Ukadu was startled, and He Xinghui reached out for the ball.

Subsequently, He Xinghui rushed to the basket to score two points.

Ukadu had a bitter face, he really wanted to complain, for such a big star as He Xinghui, playing like this is too tasteless and loses his status.

It's a pity that He Xinghui doesn't care about those things.

On the field, the game continues.

The Clippers' shooting percentages are down, the Blazers' are up, and they're getting past the initial panic phase.

But even so, the Clippers' shooting percentage is still higher than that of the Blazers, and the point difference continues to widen.

By the end of the first quarter, the score was 18 to 40, and the Blazers were 22 points behind.

What made them collapse even more was that at the beginning of the second quarter, they saw He Xinghui continue to play without rest, which was outrageous.

This is just a regular season, not the playoffs, let alone the finals. Is it necessary to fight like this?
Looking at He Xinghui's figure off the court, Roy had to admire him.

It's hard to think about the Clippers' record if they are so strong and still working so hard.

On the court, the Clippers lineup is Mobley, He Xinghui, Craig, Millsap, and Norman.

For the Blazers, Dan Dickau, Juan Dixon, Martell, Aldridge, Olot.

They are all unknown people, and the only star Aldridge is still too young at this time.

He is not an instant fighter like Roy, he still needs time to grow, and he will not be able to explode until next season.

Mobley and He Xinghui were not polite to each other, they continued to press and exert pressure, then speeded up and beat away.

The Clippers attacked, He Xinghui made a shooting action from the outside, Dan Dikao and Dixon rushed forward, and He Xinghui scored the ball to Mobley.

Mobley hit the empty basket and scored with a small throw.

Compared with defense, the offense of the Blazers' bench lineup is more problematic, and there is no strong point.

Dandy Kau carefully handles the ball, looking for teammates who have opportunities
Unfortunately, he couldn't find it, and Mobley was still harassing him, constantly pulling out balls.

There is no way, Dandy Kao can only throw this hot potato to Dixon.

Dixon made a three-pointer and missed.

The Clippers counterattacked, and He Xinghui broke through, attracting the double-teaming of Aldridge and Olot at the basket.

He Xinghui passed the ball to Nuo Wen, and Nuo Wen made a standard jumper and scored.

McMillan shook his head off the court, but he didn't make a substitution.

He knew in his heart that he must have lost this game, and there was no need to struggle, it was right to accumulate experience.

The Blazers attacked again and ended in a strike.

The Clippers counterattacked and Mobley contributed an iron.

However, no problem.

After half a quarter, 28 to 58, the Clippers led by 30 points.

McMillan finally replaced the main force, and the Clippers also replaced Gasol, Kaman and others.

However, He Xinghui chose to rest.

He couldn't bear to play halftime without a break for 1 minute.

On the field, Gasol led the team to play.

Roy broke through Mobley and hit a goal, embarrassing Mobley.

This rookie who was bullied by He Xinghui just now scored points against him in the blink of an eye.

In the transition between offense and defense, Mobley wanted the ball, and wanted to single Roy to save face.

Naturally, his teammates would not object to this small request, and Livingston passed the ball.

Mobley starts and Roy follows.

Mobley turned and burst from the left, and Roy continued to keep up.

In the end, Mobley forced a shot and the ball missed.

He still underestimated Roy too much. The current Roy is no worse than Mobley on both offense and defense.

Face did not come back, Mobley was very helpless.

However, this is something every player must experience, and Mobley is not too entangled.

The Blazers attacked, Randolph squeezed Gasol away from the basket, and scored the ball with a hook.

Gasol is not too defensive live Randolph.

However, in turn, Randolph is also difficult to defend against Gasol.

Gasol relied on his footsteps and successfully tricked Randolph into taking off.

After Randolph landed, Gasol took off and shot without any haste, and the ball scored.

For a while, the two teams played back and forth, evenly matched.

"Without He, this Clippers team is just an ordinary team."

Barkley commented.

These words hurt Gasol a bit, but who made him have a big mouth, he can say whatever he thinks.

Fortunately, he didn't say a word, and it doesn't matter if Gasol is missing.

On the field, the game continues.

Gasol still has some effect. When He Xinghui was away, he led the team to withstand the opponent's counterattack.

After the first half, 45 to 74, the Clippers led by 29 points.

With this point difference, He Xinghui can leave the field early now.

Even without He Xinghui, it is impossible for the Clippers to lose to the Blazers by 29 points in halftime.

However, He Xinghui didn't do this. He said he would play three quarters, and he would play three quarters, just being so trustworthy.

Of course, the main reason is that he wants to score more points in the third quarter.

During the intermission, the Clippers were laughing and laughing, while the visiting team's locker room was dead.

After losing like this, Randolph was in no mood to speak.

The boss of the team was silent, and Roy wanted to say a few words to boost morale, but he couldn't open his mouth.Otherwise, it seems that he can't wait to take the position.

During the intermission, McMillan received news that He Xinghui threatened to beat the Blazers in three quarters.

The moment he heard the news, McMillan was speechless.

It was originally a game that could be lost at will, but now it has become too ugly to lose, otherwise it will become the next Celtics.

So, McMillan came to the locker room and said: "We don't care about losing in this game, but at least we can't lose too badly. At least, the difference in the first three quarters should not exceed 20 points. Can it be done?"

Roy wanted to cry when he heard the words, but this way of motivating morale is too weird, just don't lose so much.

After playing for so many years, it was the first time he heard such a strange request.

"No, we're going to beat them."

Randolph said.

This is quite politically correct, but everyone can only smile wryly after hearing this.

Trailing by 29 points at halftime and beating the Clippers?
No matter how you listen to this slogan, it sounds like nonsense.

"Yes, defeat them."

Roy agrees.

The others weakly followed suit, obviously not from the bottom of their hearts.

In this regard, McMillan has nothing to do.

After the intermission, the two teams returned to the field.

In the Clippers lineup, He Xinghui is impressively on the list.

"Shet!"

McMillan.

(End of this chapter)