Chapter 24: Wasp VS Rocket (4)

In the game between the Hornets and the Rockets, there were 24 seconds left before the end of the game, and the score was 103:104 The Rockets led by one point, and Martin took advantage of Yao Ming's blocking to shoot outside the three-point line in the bottom left corner!

"Dang!"

Strike iron! The basketball slammed into the front of the basket, Okafor struggled to protect the rebound, and Monty Williams called a timeout. With just one point left in the game, no one wants to lose this low-hanging fruit!

At such a moment, the old man's heart was also nervously "thumping", and the old man stood up and walked to the bench of the home team.

At the beginning of the game, Paul controlled the ball, Lowry followed Paul closely, his eyes stared at Paul's every move, time passed by minute by minute, Paul was tormenting Lowry, and Lowry was also tormenting Paul.

There are exactly 24 seconds left in the offensive time, a normal offensive round, but at this time, the Hornets are one point behind, Paul does not dare to press the time to the end, even if he can't score in advance, he may grab the rebound and attack twice!

There are only 10 seconds left! Suddenly, West came up to block the demolition, Paul borrowed the block to break through to the left, Lowry bypassed West, followed Paul closely, Paul was not in a hurry to break through, but waited for Lowry to completely bypass West, and then borrowed West's blocking to break through to the right, which completely stuck the small steel cannon, Scola hurriedly made up the defense, West went down, at such a critical moment, the bold Paul actually sacrificed an accurate and ecstatic crotch pass! The basketball flashed between Scola's legs and was delivered to West's hand with precision! West quickly received the ball, and the Rockets had Yao Ming guarding the inside, and West didn't dare to impact the inside and had to stop the jump shot! This is West's forte!

Battier didn't look good, rushed over to block, and between the lightning and flint, West threw the ball and leaned on Battier's arm! From an outsider's point of view, West was "smashed" to the ground by Battier, who pounced on him! Here's the experience of a veteran!

"Toot!"

Defensive fouls!

"Huh!"

Basketball hollow into the net!

"Two plus one!"

The audience stood up and cheered for West!

West stood up, clenched his fists and waved his arms! Roar to the sky, domineering!

The next moment West hits a free throw!

With a score of 106:104, the Hornets led by two points! There are five seconds left in the clock! Adelman called a timeout!

The old man stood behind Monty Williams, but at this moment Williams did not have the heart to talk to the old man, he surrounded the players, held the tactical board in his hands, and kept gesturing. Sweat trickled down Paul, Thorton, Ariza, West, and Okafor's faces, and Okafor picked up a bottle of Gatorade and took a sip of it.

After the pause, the Hornets are still the previous starting lineup, and the Rockets' lineup is a big change, No. 1 Xiaobu, No. 2 Martin, No. 3 Battier, No. 4 Jordan Hill, No. 5 Yao Ming, at such a moment of life and death, the Rockets obviously need Xiaobu's offensive firepower and Jordan Hill's frontcourt rebounds more.

Battier serves in the frontcourt, and every time the Rockets come to such a critical moment, they always let Sean Battier, who has a very high basketball IQ, personally handle it!

Battier held the ball high above his head, Ariza waved his long arm to try to interfere with Battier's sight, Battier shook twice in a row, but did not send the ball out, under the pursuit of Paul and Thorton, Xiaobu and Martin did not open up space to catch the ball!

It's almost five seconds!

Battier chooses the B tactic, sends the ball to Yao Ming, who occupies the commanding heights, and Yao Ming's high vision looks for offensive opportunities!

At this time, Yao Ming stuck Okafor in the left rib and opened his hand to ask for the ball, Battier hoisted the ball high to Yao Ming and began to count the seconds! Only five seconds!

It needs to be noted that Yao Ming has never scored a key ball since he entered the NBA, which is also clearly pointed out in the scouting report, so Okafor's eyes are firmly focused on Yao Ming's pass, and the defensive attention is also on Yao Ming's pass, and Yao Ming's eyes are constantly and quickly scanning the position of his teammates!

Battier ran around the three-point line as soon as he served, and Ariza chased after him! Boo and Martin ran around Yao Ming, but neither of them had a chance to catch the ball under the interference of Paul, Thorton and Ariza! And Jordan Hill is entangled with West on the right rib, which is clearly not Hill's area of attack either!

Having said so much, in fact, it was only three or four seconds of effort, Yao Ming didn't find the right position for his teammates, so he simply - come by himself!

Yao Ming resisted behind his back, and at the same time dribbled the ball with his hand, turned left forward, and threw the ball with Yao Ming's characteristic mid-range shot with a slight backlash!

Okafor obviously didn't expect Yao Ming to shoot by himself, and before he could react, Yao Ming had already finished the offensive action, and Okafor, who had no room to defend, just symbolically defended it with his hands. The moment Yao Ming made a move, it happened that Xiaobu ran to Yao Ming's side, and when he saw Yao Ming making a move, Paul immediately gave up chasing Xiaobu, bowed his legs, and tried to block Yao Ming's shot with all his strength!

Paul is only 183 cm tall, while Yao Ming is 226 cm, a height difference of nearly half a meter, and at this moment, Yao Ming's technical action is still a little backward, Paul used all his strength to jump and block, but only hit Yao Ming's elbow!

"Toot! Honk! ”

Foul on the thug!

"Huh!"

Ball in!

Two plus one!

"Toot!" The rebounding red light is on, and the game is over!

This is the goal that determines the outcome of the game, Yao Ming, who scored the decisive goal, clenched his right fist, hooked his arm in front of his chest, and let out a long roar!

The whole stadium was silent!

The score is 106:106! The two teams are tied! The game time is over, but Yao Ming still has a free throw, and the free throw will be taken away by the Rockets! It is worth mentioning that Yao Ming's career free throw shooting rate is 83.3%, and the free throw shooting rate in the first four games of this season is 91.4%, at such a critical moment, there is no possibility of missing free throws!

The Rockets have already taken away the victory, but everyone present is convinced that Yao Ming has the slightest possibility of not scoring!!

But the referee signaled for the game to be suspended, and the three referees gathered around to watch the computer replay on the technical table.

"Was it a miscalculation? Paul didn't foul? "Everyone is looking forward to it.

After a while, the three referees took off their headphones and signaled that the game was not completely over, and there were 0.8 seconds left!

What can you do in 0.8 seconds!

Everyone sighed that the game was over.

The crowd thinks so, but the players obviously don't think so, and as long as there is time on the clock, the game doesn't stop!

Yao Ming walked to the free throw line, and the five players of the Hornets stared at the rebound.

Yao Ming dribbled the ball a few times, took a deep breath, raised the ball above his head, and calmly shot his shot, and his movements were as standard as the thousands of times he had practiced before.

"Huh!"

Basketball hollow into the net!

106:107, Team Rockets overtook by one point!

The Rockets players waved tomels and celebrated wildly as if the game was in their hands, but the clock -- there were actually 0.8 seconds left. The Hornets players were a little frustrated, but they didn't lose their fighting spirit!

The team is in dire need of a savior!

Head coach Williams called the final timeout of the game, gathered his players around and yelled, "Boys! The game isn't over yet! We still have time to do something! But God only gives us less than a second, everyone should shoot immediately after receiving the ball, and there can be no hesitation! So, Paul, Thornton, Belineri, West, the four of you are in charge of shooting, and Ariza serves on the boundary! The old man stood behind Williams, listening to his high-pitched and somewhat hoarse voice, his heart was beating wildly, the atmosphere and excitement of this game were not experienced by all domestic basketball games, Williams took out the tactical board, drew the tactical stroke in his right hand, and said loudly, "Run!" Let's run a multi-layer pick-and-roll tactic! West blocks Thorton's defenders, and Thorton shoots when he runs out of position, and if he can't run out of position, he gives Pelineri's defenders a pick-and-roll......"

Before he finished speaking, Paul calmly put his hand on the tactical board and said, "I am the one who put everyone in this predicament, and it started because of me, so let it end because of me!" Give me the ball! I'm going to end this damn game with my own hands! ”

Paul's right hand covering the tactical board was exposed, but there was a raging fire burning in his cool eyes!

The people around him were stunned and looked at Paul, and then several people nodded firmly.

The old man looked at Paul and couldn't help but nod in admiration, Paul's kingly temperament is also lacking in domestic point guards, and the national team has one less point guard like Paul, who can dare not run tactics at the critical moment when deciding the outcome of the game, and has the ability and confidence to hold the ball one-on-one and score points alone!

When the game came back, nearly 20,000 spectators stood up, quietly waiting for what would happen in the next second, and the red T-shirts of "China Power" were like the burning flames in Paul's eyes!

"Toot!"

The referee signaled for the game to start, the Rockets obviously sent five players who were good at defense, Chuck Hayes's strong body made West as uncomfortable as he wanted, Thorton was targeted by defensive expert Battier and couldn't shake off the defensive position, Courtney Lee was running with Belinelli all over the court and had no offensive opportunities, Lowry was close to Paul, inseparable! Ariza, who was standing on the left side of the midfield line, held the ball high, his eyes constantly watching the running position of his teammates on the field, while Yao Ming used his heavy body to block Ariza's passing vision, and he couldn't send the ball, and he violated the rule in almost five seconds!

"Pick-and-roll! Pick-and-roll! ”

Paul shouted while running, West hurriedly pulled out his body in the entanglement with Hayes, stepped on the three-point line in a few steps, Paul rushed out from the bottom corner of the right side, Lowry followed closely, but he didn't want to hit West's body headfirst, Hayes was heavy, his feet were slow, and he couldn't prevent it!

Ariza spotted his chance, flicked his wrist and shoved the ball straight to Paul, who was two steps outside the left three-point line! Location close to Ariza! But there is no time to adjust! Not even the time to land! Paul caught the ball in the air and twisted his body and shot!

Battier, who was entangled with Thorton, was the player with the best defensive awareness in the game, and when West blocked Paul, he had a premonition that the last attacker would be Paul, and at the moment when Ariza passed the ball out, Battier gave up the entanglement with Thorton and rushed to the top of the three-point arc to defend Paul!

Instead of trying to block Paul's shot, Battier inserted his hand between Paul's raised hands, blocking Paul's vision and covering his eyes to defend! It's Battier's defensive stunt! Needless to say, the defensive skills are a little slower in terms of timing!

Paul's lower body in the air was still twisted, only the upper half of his body was in a shooting posture, aiming at the basket in the air, and just threw the ball in, a pair of big hands were glued to his façade, and he couldn't see anything in front of him! And the slow motion shows that Battier's hand has not yet touched Paul's face, which of course is an afterthought.

So much happens, just in the fleeting 0.8 seconds!

As soon as the basketball was shot, the red light of the rebound turned on, and the game was officially over! The arc of the ball thrown by Paul was very high, and everyone present held their breath for a long time, 20,000 people, 40,000 eyes were staring at this little basketball that kept rolling in the air!

The old man could feel the sound of everyone's heart beating violently!

"Huh!"

Hollow into the net!

Lore! A real lore! Paul's 0.8 second lore!

The New Orleans Arena was ignited with explosives, and the enthusiasm exploded instantly! The Hornets players waved tomels in celebration, and Paul waved his arms and shouted as he could! Venting!

The stone that has been hanging in the heart of the old man finally fell to the ground, this is the real original NBA game, full of enthusiasm, fierce and exciting, such a game is the game that the old man wants.

The three referees gathered together, watched the replay, and after repeated confirmations, announced, there is no problem, the lore is effective!

The New Orleans Arena was in a state of great revelry.