After commenting for a while, netizens began to ask Xiao Xiong if he could send out the picture of Xue Ding's three-point shot just now for everyone to take a look.

For student parties and office workers who can only watch the live text broadcast, any picture of the game site, plus the description of the text live broadcast, can bring their thoughts to the game site.

And Xiao Xiong also lived up to expectations, intercepting several pictures of Xue Ding's last three points and blocking Paul's two goals in a row and posted them in the live broadcast room.

In that era when there were no animated pictures, after the picture of the bear was sent, some netizens clicked and downloaded it to their mobile phones, and some even set the picture of Xue Ding's shooting as their mobile phone screensaver for the first time.

In the face of Xue Ding's wonderful performance in the first half, many netizens always felt that the fifteen minutes passed too slowly when they were waiting in the middle of the game, and kept brushing up on how long the second half would start in the live broadcast room.

It was as if every extra second of waiting was tormenting.

Eventually, after a fifteen-minute half-time break, the second half of the game finally began.

In the first half of the third quarter of the game, the two sides were still the main lineups on the court, although Xue Ding had an excellent individual performance in the first half, but failed to pull the score away, only led by three points at halftime.

After the start of the third quarter, the whole Hornets suddenly strengthened their defensive intensity as if they were playing chickens, and they also tried their best to grab frontcourt rebounds on the offensive end.

Stojkovic grabbed the rebound from three of the Trail Blazers' defensive teammates in a scramble for rebounds and dunked.

As a result, the third quarter was a close game and the pace of the game was slow, with the score at 76-75 at the end of the third quarter.

For the Hornets, there is no way back for this game and they must win it or they will completely lose their qualification for the playoffs.

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

As is customary, the bench was on the court for a while at the beginning of the fourth quarter to earn some rest time for the main team.

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

On the Hornets' side, the fourth quarter started with an all-main lineup, and their main lineup was replaced and rested after fighting with the Trail Blazers for about ten minutes in the third quarter.

That means as long as the game isn't suddenly spoiled by the Trail Blazers, the Hornets' main players 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 are on the bench, Paul led the Hornets to directly overtake the score to 86-79.

Just two minutes into the fourth quarter, the Trail Blazers were beaten 9-3 by the Hornets.

However, in this case, Pritchard did not call a timeout, nor did he mean to replace the main player.

Seeing that the score difference was getting wider and wider, Xue Ding finally couldn't help it, and took the initiative to walk in front of Pritchard and asked to replace him on the field.

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

Seeing Pritchard's unhurried appearance, Xue Ding didn't understand why Pritchard did this.

had to go back to the bench stupidly.

With 8:33 left in the fourth quarter, Pritchard finally called the first timeout.

At this time, the Trail Blazers trailed the Hornets by 8 points 83-91.

During the pause, Pritchard simply arranged some tactics for Xue Ding and others, and then replaced the main players except Roy on the field.

Xue Ding's first attack after returning to the court, facing West's defense, easily scored two points.

The players on the Hornets side felt surprisingly good compared to the first half, and in retrospect, Paul played a 2+1 under Blake's defense!

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

After Paul finished speaking, he proudly walked to the free throw line and hit the free throw.

The next time is when the Trailblazers are frantically counterattacking, Xue Ding, as the main force of the team, not only scores himself, but also drives his teammates to score.

However, most of the game passed, the Trail Blazers were not able to recover the difference, and every time the Trail Blazers scored on a counterattack, the Hornets were able to respond quickly.

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

But even so, the Trail Blazers still trailed the Hornets by seven points 101-108.

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

The Hornets called a tactical timeout, and now for them, the victory is almost within reach, and as long as the final two and a half minutes of offense don't go dumb and don't make too many mistakes, this game can definitely be won.

Therefore, at the time of the pause, the head coach of the Hornets arranged only one tactic, that is, to be stable, to consume 24 seconds as much as possible, and at the same time to consume the time, he must shoot steadily, strive to score every goal, even if he can't score, he must do his best to grab rebounds.

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

Coming back from the timeout, the Hornets players went on offense.

Paul and Collison took turns controlling the tempo near the halfway line.

And the Trail Blazers didn't choose to play an oppressive defense, because there is still a game in the game, and once the oppressive defense is likely to cause a foul.

Now the team's foul count is full, and as long as one foul is a free throw, it is a Hornets player.

Paul pressed the clock to the last six seconds before he began to attack, directly on the left side of the disguised throw off Blake, and burst into the paint area with a small hook throw.

"Hey, that's a good little hook for Paul." Director Zhang couldn't help but praise Paul's little hook hand.

"Yes, but after scoring this goal, the Hornets have a 9-point lead, although the Trail Blazers have no problem entering the playoffs, but now the playoff spots have not been finalized, I think the Trail Blazers definitely don't want to meet Kobe's Lakers, so they have to go all out to win this game." Yang Rui said.

"So then it depends on whether Xue Ding can continue to perform well on the defensive end like he did in the first half, as long as he can prevent two or three attacks from the Hornets and score again, then the final outcome of this game is really hard to say." Director Zhang followed.

Blake served the baseline ball, and Xue Ding held the ball to the front court, ready to start his performance.