The brutality of the NBA

Chapter 309 Covering the sky
With Xue Ding's three-pointer into the net, the score came to 5-2.
The Blazers took the lead for the first time since the opening game, and the home audience began to cheer.

In the opening few rounds, the two sides played a fast pace, and Paul wanted to rely on speed to establish an advantage at the beginning.

But after the next round, the shooting percentage of both sides was not bad. The Hornets did not catch up with the score. After the first half of the first quarter, the Blazers led the Hornets 16 to 13 and entered the commercial timeout.

During the timeout, facing the backward situation, Paul was a little excited. Now the Hornets have three games left in the regular season, and they are still one game away from the eighth in the Western Conference.

This means that the Hornets must win at least two of the next three games, and the Nuggets, who are eighth in the Western Conference, must lose at least two games before they can catch up with the win. .

So facing the situation of falling behind at the beginning, Paul is obviously a little dissatisfied.

During the timeout, when the head coach of the Hornets was preparing to arrange tactics, Paul stood aside and kept telling his teammates how to move and how to defend the pioneers of the Blazers. The key point was naturally how to defend in a targeted manner Xue Ding.

As for the Trail Blazers, due to the team's serious injuries this season, Aldridge was reimbursed for the season due to an accidental injury in the last game. More arrangements, in the current situation, as long as the health of all employees can be guaranteed.

Because of the current situation of the Blazers, it can be said that as long as there is no extremely low probability of events, they can definitely enter the playoffs. The rest of the airport game is just to choose the first round opponent of the playoffs.

After the timeout expires, players from both teams return to the field.

The Blazers have the ball and start the first attack on the field.

Blake served the ball to Roy in the back court, and Roy slowly dribbled the ball across the half court, signaling his teammates to press the rhythm.

Apparently, Roy's knees were struggling after half a quarter of fastball with the Hornets.

Roy held the ball outside the arc on the left for 14 seconds, then began to direct his teammates to run, and then passed the ball to Xue Ding, who faced Stojkovic in a disguised form and broke into the three-point line.

Seeing that Xue Ding got rid of Stojkovic easily, Paul saw that, thinking that Xue Ding was about to make a layup, he immediately defended and stood in a good position to make Xue Ding an offensive foul.

When Xue Ding took the ball and was about to dash in, he happened to see Paul standing up, trying to avoid Paul for a layup, but it was too late, and he was about to bump into Paul!

Xue Ding then turned his back and passed the ball to Batum, who was open outside the three-point line, and he turned sideways to avoid Paul as if he lost his balance. The whole process took less than two seconds.

Even the bottom-line referee at the side already thought that Xue Ding would dribble the ball into Paul who was already standing, and raised one arm slightly. As long as Xue Ding made contact with Paul and knocked Paul down, he would The whistle can be blown immediately to punish Xue Ding for his foul.

But he didn't expect that after Xue Ding passed the ball, he turned sideways to avoid Paul, and the two had no direct physical contact.

Everything came too fast.

Batum, who was outside the three-point line, received a pass from Xue Ding and directly shot a three-pointer on the spot.

"Shh!"

Hollow into the net.

The cheers of the audience lasted for a long time, not only for Batum's three-pointer, but also for Xue Ding's beautiful back pass.

One round after returning from a timeout, not only did Xue Ding not make a mistake, but he hit a three-pointer because Batum, who was facing him, was emptied by himself.

Paul looked a little frustrated, and slapped the ball hard after receiving the serve.

Paul took the ball to the frontcourt, Collison came to cover, and Paul handed the ball to West.

West took the ball and tested it in the penalty area, then passed the ball back to Paul.

Paul took the ball, and after some defenses, Xue Ding appeared next to Paul.

Facing Xue Ding, Paul was obviously still worried about the ball just now, and signaled his teammates to pull away, and he wanted to single-handedly play Xue Ding.

You know, when Paul just entered the league, he made his mark. Under his leadership, the Hornets can enter the playoffs every year. In the game, there was also an amazing performance of Howard who dunked Warcraft.

Now facing Xue Ding, a rookie who has just entered the league for a year, and a trailblazer who is full of injuries, he not only failed to lead the Hornets to take the lead in the away game, but let Xue Ding just show off in front of him. , actually assists Batum with a back pass for a three-pointer!

The players of the Hornets quickly opened up the space for singles. Facing Xue Ding, Paul dribbled the ball rhythmically and continuously under the crotch.

Suddenly a start, wanting to break through from Xue Ding's right side.

Although the meniscus was removed, Paul still had some explosive power, and he did manage to get past Xue Ding and slipped into the paint.

At this time, in the three-second zone, there was no one under the Blazers basket. Chandler saw that Paul suddenly dropped Xue Ding, and was ready to come to defend, but Stojkovic was entangled with him. .

Facing Konglan, Paul chose the safest way to score with a throw.

This scoring method is simply trivial to him.

But what happened next was something Paul never thought of, and it was enough to make him remember his whole life.

After Paul threw the shot, he was ready to return to defense, but at this moment Xue Ding suddenly jumped up from behind Paul.

The thrown ball was already running towards the basket in the air and was still in the ascending stage, but judging from this arc, it was definitely a steady ball. In a split second, Xue Ding's palm appeared above the ball.

Paul didn't even react from the joy of scoring, Xue Ding had already covered it with a firm palm!

"Wow~"

The audience applauded Xue Ding's wonderful block. Many audience members stood up from their seats and waved their fists towards the field.

Undoubtedly, Xue Ding's block greatly boosted the morale of the Blazers, and the enthusiasm of the audience was completely ignited by Xue Ding's block.

Xue Ding, who successfully picked off the rebound, held the ball in his hand. Paul, who was blocked, froze for a moment, and immediately wanted to snatch the ball from Xue Ding after he realized it.

But how could Xue Ding, who is nearly two meters tall, give Paul such an opportunity and pass the ball directly to Chandler.

Chandler made a transition and threw it to Batum, who had already stepped down to the frontcourt. Batum held the ball and tried to break through, and Chandler went down the blue bottom.

When the ball arrives, Chandler gets the ball in the three-second zone and dunks!
(End of this chapter)