The brutality of the NBA

Chapter 312 Prepare to perform
After scrolling through the comments for a while, the netizens began to ask Xiaoxiong if he could post the picture of Xue Ding shooting the three-pointer just now, so that everyone can have a look.

For the student party and office workers who can only watch the text live broadcast, any picture of the game scene, together with the description of the text live broadcast, can bring their thoughts to the game scene.

And the Cubs lived up to expectations, took several pictures of Xue Ding's last three-pointer and blocked Paul's two goals and posted them in the live broadcast room.

In the era when there were no moving pictures, after the picture of Cubs was released, some netizens clicked and downloaded it to their mobile phones one after another. Some even immediately set the picture of Xue Ding shooting as the screen saver of their mobile phones.

Facing Xue Ding's wonderful performance in the first half, many netizens always felt that 15 minutes passed too slowly when they were waiting at halftime, and they kept checking how long the second half was until the start of the second half in the live broadcast room.

It seems that every second of waiting is suffering.

Finally, after a 15-minute half-time break, the second half finally started.

In the first half of the third quarter, the two sides still had the main lineup on the court. Although Xue Ding had an outstanding personal performance in the first half, he failed to open the score and only led by three points at halftime.

After the start of the third quarter, the Hornets team suddenly strengthened their defensive strength, and tried their best to fight for offensive rebounds on the offensive end.

Stojkovic even snatched the rebound from the Blazers' three defensive teammates in a rebound and dunked it successfully.

Therefore, both sides played very stalemate in the third quarter, and the rhythm of the game was also very slow. At the end of the third quarter, the score of the two sides was 76 to 75.

For the Hornets, they have no retreat in this game and must win, otherwise they will completely lose their qualifications for the playoffs.

After a 2-minute break, the fourth quarter began.

As usual, at the beginning of the fourth quarter, the substitutes will play for a period of time on the court to win some rest time for the main players.

Therefore, the Blazers did not let Xue Ding play at the beginning of the fourth quarter.

As for the Hornets, the fourth quarter started with a full main lineup, and their main lineup was replaced with a rest after fighting the Blazers for about 10 minutes in the third quarter.

This means that as long as the game is not suddenly interrupted by the Blazers, the main players of the Hornets will play more than 21 minutes in the second half.

Paul is very good at seizing the opportunity. Taking advantage of the time when the Trail Blazers were on the bench, Paul led the Hornets to directly overtake the score to 86 to 79.

In just 2 minutes of the opening of the fourth quarter, the Blazers were beaten 9-3 by the Hornets.

But in this case, Pritchard did not call a timeout, nor did he intend to replace the main players.

Seeing that the point difference was getting bigger and bigger, Xue Ding finally couldn't bear it, and walked up to Pritchard, asking to be replaced.

But Pritchard smiled, patted Xue Ding on the shoulder, and said, "Xue, it's not the time yet. You should sit down and rest for a while, and I will call you when it's time for you to play."

Seeing Pritchard's unhurried look, Xue Ding didn't understand why Pritchard would do this.

Had no choice but to return to the bench angrily.

With 8 minutes and 33 seconds left in the fourth quarter, Pritchard finally called the first timeout.

The point difference at this time, the Blazers 83 to 91 behind the Hornets by 8 points.

During the timeout, Pritchard arranged some simple tactics for Xue Ding and others, and then replaced the main players except Roy.

In Xue Ding's first attack after returning to the court, facing West's defense, he easily picked a basket and scored two points.

The players on the Hornets' side felt surprisingly better than in the first half. Looking back, Paul played a 2+1 under Blake's defense!

For this reason, Paul specially shouted at Xue Ding: "Rookie, you are still too tender."

After Paul finished speaking, he proudly walked to the free throw line and made an additional free throw.

The next time is when the Blazers are going crazy to counterattack. Xue Ding, as the main force of the team, not only scores himself, but also drives his teammates to score.

However, after most of the game, the Blazers were not able to recover the point difference. Every time the Blazers counterattacked and scored, the Hornets were able to respond quickly.

During this period, Xue Ding made 8 of 6 shots and 3 of 2 three-pointers, scoring 15 points.

But even so, the Blazers are still 101 points behind the Hornets 108 to 7.

There are 2 and a half minutes left in the game.

The Hornets called a tactical timeout. Now, for them, the victory is almost in their hands. As long as the last two and a half minutes of offense are not misfiring and there are no major mistakes, this game can definitely be won.

Therefore, during the timeout, the head coach of the Hornets has only one tactic, which is to be steady, try to use up the 24 seconds as much as possible, and while running out of time, you must be steady in your shots and strive for every ball You can score, even if you can't score, you must do your best to grab rebounds.

On the Trail Blazers side, Pritchard has only one requirement for his players, and that is not to get injured. It seems that winning or losing this game is not that important in his eyes.

Back from the timeout, the Hornets players started to attack.

Paul and Collison took turns controlling the time and pressing the rhythm near the center line.

And the Blazers did not choose oppressive defense, because there is still a game, once oppressive defense is likely to cause fouls.

Now the team's foul count is full, as long as there is a foul, the Hornets players will make free throws.

Paul pressed the time to the last 6 seconds before starting to attack. He went straight to the left and threw away Blake in disguise, and rushed to the paint area to throw a small hook.

"Hey, Paul's little hook is really good." Director Zhang couldn't help but praise Paul's little hook.

"Yeah, but after scoring this goal, the Hornets have already led by 9 points. Although the Blazers have no problem entering the playoffs, but the playoff seats have not been finalized yet, I think the Blazers are definitely not willing. They met Kobe Bryant's Lakers, so they have to do their best to win this game." Yang Rui said.

"So the next thing to see is whether Xue Ding can continue to perform well on the defensive end like he did in the first half. As long as he can defend the Hornets' two or three offenses and score again by himself, then the final outcome of this game will be really good." It's hard to say." Director Zhang followed up.

Blake served the baseline ball, and Xue Ding took the ball to the frontcourt, ready to start his performance.

(End of this chapter)