NBA: The man who passed the ball to Yao Ming

"No problem!" Zhang Jinshui's chest was full of pride.

At this time, the Rockets have already led the Grizzlies by 72 points 57 to 15. If they can defend this round and hit a three-pointer in the next round, then the Rockets, who had many troubles in the first half, will be touched again. It's time to hit the threshold of the three quarters.

The Grizzlies made a free throw from the baseline, and Bobby Jackson, who came off the bench, brought the ball to the frontcourt, and Zhang Jinshui, who was waiting near the center circle, immediately posted it.

At this time, there were still 29 seconds left in the third quarter, and it was too late to get the chance of the last attack through the attack. The experienced Bobby Jackson used up the attack time in the middle circle, striving for the attack time left for the Rockets. The less the better.

When there were 10 seconds left in the attack time, Bobby Jackson slowly advanced to the top of the arc, and Pau Gasol, who had played the entire third quarter, stepped up and blocked Zhang Jinshui's defensive line from the right.

When Huo Ershu and Zhang Jinshui were cross-defending, Pau Gasol made a spiritual half-turn close to Zhang Jinshui, got rid of Zhang Jinshui, and rushed down to the inside.

Bobby Jackson's pass was immediately killed.

At this time, Zhang Jinshui wanted to turn around and chase again, but it was too late. The front of Pau Gasol, who had received the pass, was already empty and smooth.

But at this moment, Sprewell, who was watching Mike Miller in the right corner, came out from the oblique side, just in time to block Paul Gasol before he entered the reasonable collision zone.

In order to avoid an offensive foul, Pau Gasol passed the ball to the unguarded Mike Miller before making physical contact with Sprewell, forming an excellent opportunity for an open three-pointer.

It's a pity that the Grizzlies seemed to have exhausted all their luck in the first half. Mike Miller's three-pointer drew a perfect arc in the air, but finally hit the edge of the basket and bounced high. After falling straight down, it didn't fall into the basket, but bumped a few times, and finally fell out of the basket.

I have to admit that in this offensive round, Pau Gasol's turn and pass and the timely score when facing Sprewell's defense were very exciting, showing the strength of a top power forward in the NBA, but basketball The field has always been so unreasonable, the most reasonable style of play may not be able to exchange for the most desired results.

After holding Pau Gasol tightly outside the reasonable collision zone, Sprewell successfully held the basketball in his arms, and then threw it directly to Zhang Jinshui: "Zhang Jinshui, it's up to you next."

Zhang Jinshui took the ball and ran to the front court. He looked up at the timer above the Grizzlies basket. There were still 10 seconds left in the third quarter. At the same time, a charming flash flashed at the Grizzlies basket. Purple rays.

The purple badge [Fu Lin Xinzhi] was triggered at the right time.

Zhang Jinshui laughed loudly and said, "Sprewell, you have to keep an eye on this ball."

Entering the frontcourt, Zhang Jinshui ran directly to the bottom corner on the right side of the Grizzlies against Bobby Jackson's defense.

His running direction immediately aroused the doubts of the audience, the coaches and players on the benches of the two teams, and the ball critics and experts on the sidelines.

An ESPN commentator pushed his Harry Potter glasses on the tip of his nose, and said in surprise: "What is Zhang Jinshui doing? He can obviously directly consider rushing to the opponent's basket and try to counterattack for a layup, but this running direction, Aren't you going into a dead end by yourself?"

His partner said thoughtfully: "I can't figure out what Zhang Jinshui is thinking, but let's not raise any doubts and read on. After all, he has made us open our mouths countless times and make us fall into the wrong eye." Zhang Jinshui."

In fact, Zhang Jinshui's running direction naturally has his considerations. On the one hand, he can consume extra game time while running. On the other hand, the gap in the basket of one's own side can also avoid defensive harassment by the Grizzlies players who return to defense later if they stop at the middle circle or the top of the arc.

When reaching the bottom corner on the right, there were only 3 seconds left in the third quarter. Bobby Jackson pushed Zhang Jinshui to the dead corner all the way, and he defended his counterattack very well.

Some unconvinced Grizzlies fans on the sidelines even cheered Bobby Jackson on the ball: "Good job, Jackson! Just seal him here and interfere with his three-point shooting!"

Zhang Jinshui smiled coldly in his heart, and by virtue of the inertia of dribbling, he directly threw his body out of the sideline. At the same time, he threw the basketball in his hand from high in the air at an extremely exaggerated angle, without disturbing Bobby Jackson at all. His three-point shooting opportunities.

At this time, everyone in the Pyramid Stadium looked at Zhang Jinshui's shot with a dumbfounded expression. In their long career watching the NBA, or in the long history of the NBA, there has never been a player who deliberately Under the circumstances, he made such a weird three-pointer.

The basketball drew a very high and very long arc in the air. After the whistle sounded at the end of the third quarter, it slowly rose to the highest point and fell towards the basket.

With a sound of "swipe", it is hollow into the net.

In the stands of the Pyramid Stadium, exclamations sounded uncontrollably one after another.

In the ESPN commentary booth, the two hosts shouted at the same time: "I got in! I got in!"

"This is the most incredible goal I have ever seen in the 15 years I have commented on the NBA!"

The score on the field became 75 to 57, and Zhang Jinshui helped the Rockets extend their lead to 18 points.

You must know that when there were only 2 minutes left in the second quarter, the Rockets were still 7 points behind the Grizzlies. He even played the game to the rhythm of three quarters.

Sprewell rushed up, hugged Zhang Jinshui from behind, and laughed loudly: "Boy, your shot is too elegant, I almost thought we were playing in the street in New York! "

"Haha, I just want to run out of game time and then shoot."

After Zhang Jinshui finished speaking, he wanted to jump off Sprewell.

Unexpectedly, the foster brother hugged him excitedly and carried him all the way back to the Rockets' bench to welcome Yao Ming, Tracy McGrady and other players to celebrate.

When everyone sat back on the bench, Sprewell said excitedly: "Coach, I have been hearing that our Rockets are lazy recently. We usually only work for three quarters in a game. Now we lead by 18 points. Is it about to usher in this legend?" In the three quarters, I clocked out of work."

Van Gundy thought for a while and said, "Originally, it's almost time to withdraw, but I want you and Battier to play for a while. After all, you just joined the Rockets. Those running tactics are still familiar, which is also rare. What do you two think of the opportunity to use the game as a substitute for training?"

"I have no problem, coach." Sean Battier said directly.

Sprewell made a helpless expression on purpose, and said half-jokingly: "Okay, okay, coach, don't think I didn't see it, you just saw that I don't need to run laps next time, I'm not angry, and now I deliberately make up I."

Van Gundy laughed and said, "It's good that you know."

At the end of the intermission, Van Gundy, Zhang Jinshui and others looked at the Grizzlies bench and found that they were still standing with the full main lineup.

Obviously, the Grizzlies still don't want to give up this game.

Zhang Jinshui can also fully understand, after all, the Grizzlies played well in the first half.

Especially Pau Gasol, Zhang Jinshui glanced at the statistics just now, Pau Gasol has scored 30 points, 11 rebounds, 5 assists and 2 blocks in three quarters, he is definitely the best player of the two teams, he should not want to be so explosive The stats were finally tarnished by a defeat.

Van Gundy immediately made adjustments to the Rockets lineup. Bowen and other stretched marginal players continued to look after the drinking fountains. McGrady, who had already put on a long-sleeved jacket, went into battle again, bringing Uncle Mu, Alston and two newcomers. The championship puzzle back on the field together.

As soon as Pau Gasol came up, he launched a fierce attack on Shane Battier, who mentioned the power forward position, but he did not expect that Battier, who was a little shorter than Gasol, showed a very good defensive position.

In this game, Paul Gasol, who made Yao Ming, Chuck Hayes and Uncle Huo very helpless on the offensive end, had no good mid-range shooting opportunities under Battier's defense. There is no way to break into the inside line smoothly.

He got the ball near the free throw line three times in a row, and after repeated attempts, he finally had to separate the ball from his teammates to complete the attack, only in exchange for 2 points.

Sean Battier finally demonstrated his value on the defensive end in this 2-minute game: from the second position to the fourth position, he is an absolutely reliable and excellent defender.

On the offensive end of the Rockets, Tracy McGrady continued his state of gradually warming up in the third quarter. He made a pull-up mid-range shot, scored an inside layup and scored 4 points easily.

Sprewell, who tried his best like a mad dog when he played, also made a three-pointer from beyond the three-point line.

After scoring the goal, Sprewell ran to the sidelines and gave Zhang Jinshui a high-five, proudly saying: "See, I'm actually an excellent three-point shooter."

Zhang Jinshui certainly knows that Sprewell, who has a big heart, is a high-quality three-point shooter, especially since he still holds the league record of hitting nine consecutive three-pointers.

"Absolutely!" Zhang Jinshui affirmed loudly.

In the third minute of the fourth quarter, the Rockets had already led the Grizzlies by 3 points 82 to 59. The game completely lost suspense. A piece of vacancy.

Seeing that the Grizzlies replaced all the main players, Van Gundy also replaced McGrady, Uncle Mu and Alstom first.

After letting Sprewell and Battier play with fringe players for another 4 or 5 minutes, in the end, the Rockets won 90-73 after most of the first half was extremely rough. Surprisingly won the game.

在这场比赛中，张金水18投9中，其中三分球11投5中，获得了23分5助攻2篮板的数据。

就数据层面而言，张金水的技术统计和姚明的22分12篮板3盖帽，麦迪的23分5助攻5篮板难分伯仲。

But his 4 consecutive three-pointers at the end of the second quarter helped the Rockets change from 7 points behind to 4 points ahead in one fell swoop, and inspired the team's momentum, so they made a final decision in the third quarter and basically ended the game .

So Zhang Jinshui was selected as the best player of the game, and together with Sprewell and Sean Battier, who had just joined the Rockets, were designated by the official on-site team to attend the post-match press conference.

This is also the first time since Tracy McGrady was traded to the Rockets last season that the Rockets' post-game press conference did not include Yao Ming and Tracy McGrady.

Since he had to return to Houston overnight to prepare for the home game against the Bulls tomorrow night, Van Gundy did not speak in the locker room, but asked Zhang Jinshui and the others to hurry up and change clothes, and went to the post-game conference with him.

At the press conference, Van Gundy praised the Rockets' performance in this game.

Especially when talking about Sprewell and Sean Battier who just joined, Van Gundy was not at all stingy with his praise, claiming that these two gave the Rockets the confidence to attack the championship.

The performance of the two in this game is absolutely worthy of Van Gundy's praise.

虽然数据层面，斯普雷维尔的11分2助攻2篮板2抢断和巴蒂尔的6分8篮板1抢断只能算是水准之上。

But the vitality that Sprewell injected into the Rockets, as well as Battier's strategic value on the defensive end and beyond the three-point line, are obvious to all media reporters.

After the two shared their feelings about joining the Rockets with the reporters, Zhang Jinshui was the last to answer questions from the reporters.

He casually talked about the reporter's four consecutive three-point hits and the buzzer-beater three-pointer in the third quarter, and then skipped it. Instead, he expressed that the Grizzlies fans booed Battier. Dissatisfied, and call on all NBA fans to be considerate of the players who are traded. Most of the time, they are involuntary.

The press conference lasted only 20 minutes and ended early at 10:20. Zhang Jinshui and the others followed Van Gundy to the parking lot of the Pyramid Stadium without stopping.

The other Rockets players and coaching staff were already waiting for them on the bus. As soon as they got on the bus, the bus immediately drove to Memphis Airport.

At 11 o'clock in the evening, the special plane carrying the Rockets took off at the airport on time.

After the plane slowly climbed to the high altitude and gradually stabilized, Van Gundy stood up, clapped his hands, and said loudly: "Everyone, I just got the news that the Mavericks lost to the Clippers today, and now the game is the same as ours. As long as we can beat the Bulls tomorrow, we can pass the Mavericks and rise to No. [-] in the Western Conference."