In this back and forth, the Hornets not only did not score, but were counterattacked by the Trail Blazers, and after returning from a timeout, they immediately dropped another five points.

Faced with this situation, the head coach of the Hornets quickly called a timeout, and now the Trail Blazers have an 8-point lead, and if this momentum continues, the Trail Blazers are likely to take the game away in waves.

"Xue, good job, you just defended Chris's ball is really beautiful, do you just know, I was stunned when I saw Chris off the court, no one thought that you would be able to block Chris to get the ball." Fernandez, who was on the bench, patted Xue Ding's shoulder and couldn't help but praise.

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"The pace of the game just now was too fast, now let's watch Xue Ding's block again through replay." In the CCTV studio, Yang Rui stared at the replay screen and said.

"Yes, look at this ball, Xue Ding has obviously been thrown out of a position by Paul, it stands to reason that this kind of ball is a must-score for Paul, but I didn't expect that, look, when the ball was still in mid-air, Xue Ding had already jumped up, this arm is long, and he was about to touch the ball as soon as he stretched out his hand after jumping." Director Zhang looked at the replay screen and couldn't help but admire while analyzing.

"Xue Ding's goal really shows his talent to the fullest, if you change to a defender, it is likely that this ball will be passed by Paul, but Xue Ding chose to chase back the block, which is really good."

"That's right, it is precisely because Xue Ding fights for every ball and does not give up easily that he has carried the wounded pioneer all the way to the present, I believe that if he is honed again, Xue Ding will definitely achieve great achievements in the future." Director Zhang said.

At this time, CCTV's broadcast screen changed from the replay of Xue Ding's ball to Xue Ding's personal highlights.

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"Chris, hold your breath, we have to play a little bit calmer, the first quarter is not over yet, we still have a chance." The head coach of the Hornets saw at a glance that Paul was eager to take the lead in the opening stages.

But it is clear that the effect is not very good, so I have to let Paul stabilize first, not to worry.

After the timeout, the Hornets quickly made adjustments, and Paul was no longer in a hurry to equalize the game, but began to organize the team's offense in an organized way to try to get the team to the best possible shape.

In the first quarter of the game, when the main players of both sides were on the court, except for the Trail Blazers who took a certain lead in the opening stage, after the Hornets adjusted, the two sides played back and forth, and the point difference did not further widen.

With more than a minute left in the first quarter, in order to ensure the health of the main players and avoid injury problems, Pritchard directly replaced all the team's main players.

But during the period when the main players of the Trail Blazers were replaced, Paul seized the opportunity to lead the Hornets to play a wave of 6-0 against the Trail Blazers, chasing the score to 27-25.

The poor performance of the substitute players made the head coach extremely dissatisfied, but now he has no other way, as the saying goes, it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, and I am afraid that there will not even be enough five people on the bench if I dislike it.

At the beginning of the second quarter of the game, the Trail Blazers still rested most of their main players off the court, and only sent Batum on the court to lead the bench to fight against the Hornets.

On the Hornets' side, Wester Collison is playing with the bench.

Nearly three minutes into the second quarter, Collison and West scored eight points on consecutive shots for the Hornets, while only Batum hit a three-pointer in the opening game and Terry Bo scored four points on one of two free throws.

When Xue Ding and other main players returned to the court, the score had come to 31-33, and the Trail Blazers were two points behind.

Seeing that the Trail Blazers were on the main team, the head coach of the Hornets also hurriedly replaced Paul and other main players on the court.

Before going on the court, the head coach of the Hornets said to Paul: "Chris, now we're ahead, keep that pace." ”

Paul nodded at the manager.

Paul did what the coach told him when he returned to the field, and he was not in a hurry to attack, but was pressing the rhythm to find the best attacking opportunity.

For most of the second quarter, the two sides were almost in the opposing half, and the two teams suddenly fought positional battles, and neither scoring efficiency was very high.

With 1:18 left in the second quarter, the score was 47-48, and the game looked close.

The ball of the Hornets, Paul advanced to the front court with the ball, Stojkovic naturally came over to cover Paul to block and dismantle, Paul took advantage of the cover and went directly to the right side to bypass Chandler's defense.

Then he burst into the penalty area in small steps, faced Blake's defense, directly hit a small and big, and shot a mid-range backward jumper, hit!

47 to 50

Blake served the ball quickly to Roy, who dribbled across the half court and faced Collison for a tussle near the halfline.

Roy pushed the ball outside the three-point line alone, Chandler came to cover, Roy tried to shoot with the cover, but West suddenly knocked the ball off from the right side!

West quickly got the ball and went down, and Paul, who had been observing the situation on the field, also quickly followed.

At this time, in the Trailblazers half, only Xue Ding quickly returned to the defense, and for a while, the Hornets formed a one-on-two situation.

In the face of two offensive players, Lu Yi has always maintained his defensive focus towards Paul.

At this time, the ball was in Collison's hands.

Faced with this situation, Xue Ding is well aware of Paul's tactical position in the Hornets, so as long as the right opportunity arises for a while, Collison will definitely pass the ball to Paul.

Xue Ding's defensive focus has been towards Paul, but his eyes have been on Collison and he is trying to pull the ball out of Collison's hand with his hand.

In the first two attempts, Collison did not get out of the ball, and the two advanced quickly, and soon advanced near the free throw line.

At this time, Xue Ding once again stretched out his hand to Collisson.

And Collison also noticed this, the first two times Xue Ding failed to take the ball out of his hand, this time Xue Ding came again, Collison naturally knew that Xue Ding, who was retreating, was paying attention to him at this time.

Then he deftly stuffed the ball to Paul, and Paul got the ball and was ready to throw it directly!

However, Xue Ding's outstretched hand was not really aimed at Collison, but at Paul!

When Paul received the ball and was about to go to the basket, Xue Ding's palm also covered the ball.

Paul didn't even have time to make a shot, and Xue Ding snatched the ball directly from Paul's hand.

Seeing this scene, the audience was stunned!

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