Basketball boy, starting to shine from the slam dunk

"Too strong, Zhuang is really too strong."

"He has been the scoring champion for two consecutive years, and Zhuang Yu's average points per game this season is no worse than the previous two seasons. It's just that Harden is so crazy this season. Otherwise, Zhuang Yu would still be the scoring champion this season."

"Yes, Zhuang's scoring ability is too strong. We must guard him well and not let him score like this again."

The home fans are still discussing it.

At this moment, everyone couldn't help but feel worried and started to worry about the Raptors.

In fact, Zhuang Yu's average points per game this season (32.8 points) is slightly higher than the previous two seasons, but Harden's statistics this season are really explosive, and Zhuang Yu has no intention of competing with Harden for the scoring title.

But that doesn't mean Zhuang Yu's scoring ability is worse than Harden's.

In terms of scoring ability alone, Zhuang Yu is definitely the best in the league, and there are only a handful of people in the entire league who can match him.

While the fans were discussing, the timeout ended and players from both teams returned to the court with no changes to their respective lineups.

Raptors offense.

After Lowry arrived at the frontcourt, he slowed down and was not in a hurry to attack. They also realized that they could not follow the rhythm of the Lakers. They had to slow down the tempo of the game, fight a positional battle, strive to score every attack, consume every 24 seconds, and not give the opponent a chance to defend and counterattack.

After a few seconds, Lowry started his attack. He passed the ball to Leonard and started running.

Gasol Jr. stepped forward to screen for Leonard, and with the help of the screen, Leonard moved to the left. Seeing Nance Jr. coming up to delay him, he decisively chose to break through.

It is always easier to play against Little Nance than against Zhuang Yu.

Leonard changed sides of his hips continuously, then suddenly accelerated, paused after taking two steps forward, and actively leaned towards Nance who was leaning against him sideways, forcing Nance to stop as well, and then Leonard jumped up.

Swish!

There was a soft sound and the ball was scored.

"Ah."

Coach Nash nodded with satisfaction, thinking that Leonard was still reliable and he had to rely on him at critical moments.

After this goal was scored, the score difference became 4 points.

......

Coming to the frontcourt, Holiday looked at Zhuang Yu. Zhuang Yu ran back to get the ball, then lowered his center of gravity to accelerate the breakthrough. At this moment, it was still Leonard who was standing in front of him. Leonard was defending relatively forward and made it clear that he would not let him shoot three-pointers, so Zhuang Yu decisively chose to break through.

With a change of direction, Zhuang Yu accelerated and passed Leonard by half a body length. Then he paused for a moment, then accelerated again, and with an abrupt stop and start, he completely passed Leonard.

This made Leonard feel helpless.

In order to prevent Zhuang Yu from shooting three-pointers, he had to make some choices on the defensive end, and was quite cautious. This was not the first time that he was passed by Zhuang Yu.

Gasol Jr. immediately came to the rescue and stood in front of Zhuang Yu.

However, this time Zhuang Yu did not plan to shoot himself. After seeing Gasol Jr. coming up to defend, he immediately passed the ball, a ground pass to Nance Jr.

The Raptors reacted quickly and switched defense quickly. Siakam left Anderson behind and rushed in front of Nance Jr.

Ball-handling offense is not Nance's strong point.

If he just needs to catch the ball in the paint, Nance Jr. will have no problem slamming it, but it's hard to count on him when there's a defender in front of him.

What's more, at this time, the score was so delicate that Nance Jr. was a little afraid to play, so he passed the ball to Anderson again.

After two more passes, the ball was given to Korver, who took the ball and shot a three-pointer, but still missed.

Coach Scott on the sidelines frowned, considering whether to replace Korver. His touch today was really bad.

He made 8 of 2 three-pointers, a 25% hit rate, which is not up to standard for a three-point shooter.

In the next few rounds, the Raptors further strengthened their defense against Zhuang Yu.

Since Korver's touch was not good and Anderson's outside shooting was not stable, the Raptors could let these two go. As soon as they saw Zhuang Yu get the ball, Danny Green and Siakam would leave their own defenders and come to help Leonard defend.

Zhuang Yu had to face the help defense of two people. In addition, the Raptors also had a Gasol Jr. in the interior to be responsible for backup defense, making it very difficult for Zhuang Yu to play against him.

Moreover, when Zhuang Yu attracted the defense and passed the ball, his teammates were unable to seize the opportunity to score.

After a few rounds, the score gap widened again.

"Requesting a timeout."

Coach Scott called a timeout.

At this time, there were only more than two minutes left in the fourth quarter, and the gap between the two sides was widened to 4 points.

Several players came to the sidelines, and Coach Scott made a substitution, replacing Korver. He looked at Rose and Clarkson, and finally replaced Clarkson because Clarkson's three-point shooting was better than Rose.

Afterwards, Coach Scott hesitated for a moment, replaced Nance Jr., and shouted, "Zubac, you come on later. No matter what, hold Gasol Jr. back and push him out. Don't let him get too close to the basket. Can you do it?"

Zubac stood up suddenly and answered solemnly: "Yes."

He also knew that he did not perform well today, but he did not expect that the coach was still willing to give him a chance and believe in him at this time.

At this moment, he felt his blood boiling. There was no reason to retreat. He had to do his best to complete the task assigned by the coach.

Then Coach Scott spread out the tactical board and made some tactical arrangements...

......

The pause ends.

The game continues.

Lakers possession of the ball.

Holiday advanced the ball in the backcourt and passed it to Zhuang Yu after reaching the frontcourt. When Zhuang Yu got the ball, Leonard rushed over and Siakam also rushed over.

Since Korver was replaced by Clarkson at this time, the Raptors did not dare to let Clarkson go, so they had to let Anderson go.

Zhuang Yu passed the ball to Anderson. Anderson and Clarkson ran alternately. At the same time, Zhuang Yu cut to the inside to further distract the defense.

Anderson passed the ball to Clarkson and set a side screen for Clarkson, allowing Clarkson to break away from Danny Green's defense.

At this time, because of Zhuang Yu's open cut, the Raptors subconsciously contracted their defense, and no one rushed to the three-point line in time to delay Clarkson.

Seeing that there was no one in front of him, Clarkson decisively shot a three-pointer.

"Shh!"

The ball went in, the score difference was 4 points, and there were 2 minutes left in the game.

Several people quickly retreated to their own half of the court. Zhuang Yu stepped forward to block Leonard and shouted to his teammates, "Defend well."

The teammates all responded in unison, carefully staring at the people opposite them.

Looking at Zhuang Yu in front of him, Leonard did not rush to play, but wasted some time, then called for a pick-and-roll to try to get rid of him, but failed.

He did not force a single play, but instead made a ground pass to Gasol Jr., letting Gasol Jr. play.

During the timeout just now, Coach Nurse made some arrangements. He told Leonard that if there is a chance to get rid of Zhuang Yu, he should do it decisively. If he cannot get rid of Zhuang Yu, he should give the ball to Marc Gasol and let him play one-on-one in the low post. No matter whether Nance or Zubac is at the No. 5 position of the Lakers, they are obviously no match for Gasol.

After getting the ball, Gasol played a one-on-one game with his back to the basket. However, after taking two steps back, he couldn't help frowning. This time Zubac was unexpectedly tough and brought him considerable resistance. After taking two steps, no one pushed Zubac away.

"Humph."

Gasol snorted coldly.

Although it feels that Zubac's defense this time is tougher than ever, he will not give up on the one-on-one game because of this little resistance.

Taking another step back, Gasol Jr. half turned around, from facing the basket with his back to the basket, and raised the ball for a fake shake.

Zubac couldn't help but jumped up.

When he jumped up, he found that Gasol Jr. did not jump. Gasol Jr. sneered, bent down, put the ball down, and raised his butt to hit Zubac.

Now he was sure that Zubac posed no threat to him, but just as he was about to jump up and slam dunk over Zubac's head, he heard a "pop".

"not good."

Gasol's heart trembled, and he felt his hands were empty.

The ball is gone.

The ball was eliminated by Holiday, who knew that Zubac probably couldn't defend Gasol alone, so he ran over to assist in defense and took the opportunity to cut off the ball.

"Damn, the ball was stolen."

"It's really inappropriate to make a mistake at this time."

"Gasol should have just used a hook shot instead of doing so many moves, but now he was intercepted..."

The home fans shouted in annoyance.

"Go!"

After cutting the ball, Holiday yelled and quickly pushed for a counterattack.

At the same time, Zhuang Yu, Anderson and Clarkson all ran to the front court, and the Raptors players also quickly ran to their own half.

This time the Raptors retreated very quickly and did not allow the Lakers to directly launch a fast break, but the Lakers had no intention of slowing down. As soon as Holiday crossed the center line, he pushed the ball to Zhuang Yu with both hands. Zhuang Yu took the ball and first made a fake shot, then accelerated the breakthrough.

The remaining players on the Raptors team quickly retreated to the three-second zone and formed a human wall. However, Zhuang Yu did not rush to the basket. He took a step forward and made a quick stop jump shot.

Swish!

Also scored, the score difference was 2 points.

There was 1 minute and 30 seconds left in the game and the score difference was back to two points.

The home fans were once again worried.

In the next round, the Raptors gave the ball to Gasol Jr. again. Gasol Jr. did not score, but caused Zubac to foul and made one of two free throws.

The difference is 3 points.

Turning around, the Lakers attacked.

Zhuang Yu walked around the inside line, returned to the three-point line, received the ball and shot directly, but this time he missed and the basketball bounced out of the basket.

Just as Gasol was about to grab the rebound, a figure suddenly appeared, as if falling from the sky, and flew out from the side of Gasol. Gasol couldn't help but widen his eyes, with a look of disbelief on his face, that he actually saw Zhuang Yu.

This is impossible, isn't he outside the three-point line?

Zhuang Yu was indeed outside the three-point line just now, but as soon as he shot the ball, he knew that the ball might not go in, so he rushed to the inside as soon as he landed, soared into the sky resolutely, threw himself into the air first, then reached out and grabbed the basketball in the astonished eyes of Gasol Jr.

At this time, Gasol Jr. came to his senses and subconsciously stretched out his hand to grab the basketball, but his body had already begun to fall.

What shocked him even more was that he had already started falling, but Zhuang Yu's body seemed to be unaffected by gravity and actually stopped in the air.

It was only for a moment, but it really hovered in the air.

"Oh..."

There was an uproar in the audience. Gasol, who was closest to Zhuang Yu at the moment, had a buzzing sound in his head and was completely stunned.

This is so fucking unscientific!

Bang!

The next moment, Zhuang Yu dunked the basketball into the basket.

This dunk silenced the audience, who were still immersed in the shock of the dunk.

After a few seconds, cheers broke out. Huge cheers echoed in the stadium. Those were the Lakers fans cheering.

When this ball was scored, the gap between the two sides was reduced to only one point.

There are still dozens of seconds left in the game.