Chapter 233: Accidentally Hurting Paul

What Bamot said is indeed right, it is too perverted for a player as tall as Hoggist to play point guard, which directly destroys the defensive formation of the team against Hoggist, the average point guard is far inferior to Hoggist, although many small forwards can be paired with Hoggist, but send a small forward to defend the Lakers' point guard, so how to solve the Lakers' small forward? Of course, the opponent can send two small forwards to defend the Lakers' No. 1 and No. 3 positions, but do you still want to attack the playmaker? While it's a great strategy to play fast with a small ball, the problem is that Hoggist is not only high, but also not slow!

At the beginning of the game, Jordan Jr., who had a better bounce, grabbed the ball first, and Paul dribbled to the front court to face Horgist. To be honest, although Hoggist is more than 20 centimeters taller than Paul, Paul did not put Hoggist in his eyes, he is confident that with his dexterity, he can definitely play Haugist, Hoggist's height is the right way to play forward, and it is simply humiliating to come to our defenders, waiting for the foreign appearance!

In the face of Hougist's stern waiting, Paul looked very relaxed, smiled and winked at Hoggist, "Welcome to the NBA, rookie." ”

Saying that, Paul made a quick continuous forward change of direction to try to shake off Haugist and get inside, but when Paul successfully drilled into the inside from the air that Haugist was "shaken off" by him, the ball was no longer in his hand. Paul looked back, and Hougist dribbled quickly, threw the ball at the free-throw line and sent himself an aerial relay, completing a wonderful self-throwing and self-dunking.

This dunk instantly ignited the enthusiasm of the fans, and the first ball of the game was so exciting, today's tickets are worth it! And Paul didn't even remember how Haugist broke the ball, Hougist ran slowly to the backfield, and when he passed by Paul, he replied: "Welcome to China, rookie!" ”

Paul himself is not an arrogant person, and he bullied Hougist just now just as an old bird to give the rookie a dismount according to the custom, but he didn't expect to be slapped in the face by Hoggist on the spot. Paul immediately understood that since Hougist dared to play point guard, he must have something extraordinary, recalling that he was also killed and tackled by Leonard in the regular season last season, Paul seemed to vaguely see Leonard's shadow in Hougist.

Hoggist's defense in positional battles is almost flawless, so let's see how fast he moves! Having made up his mind, Paul directed Short Fen to the high post to receive the ball and play himself, while he went to run without the ball. Relying on his "small size", Paul also chose to drill around the crowd to create obstacles for Hoggist's pursuit. However, Hoggist's position and coquettishness, he did not strictly follow Paul's line to pursue, but predicted Paul's movement direction in advance, and always stood on the line between Short Fen and Paul, so that Short Fen could not play the ball to Paul in time.

At this time, Bamot ran a fleeting opportunity in the high post, and Short Fen handed the ball to Bamot, who made a quick shot against Buss's defense, but he was never known for his projection but this time he put the ball into the basket.

Hoggist advanced quickly with the ball, originally he wanted to try his hand with Paul to make a three-point shot, but after thinking about it, he had already dunked one in the opening game, and then he would seem a little selfish to attack by himself, should he feed Kobe Bryant the ball first and let him play happily? Thinking of this, Hoggist directly gave the ball to Kobe, Kobe's weight and back-to-back ability still have an advantage over Redick, Kobe Bryant received the ball with his back to Redick twice, and made the iconic back-to-back jumper, the posture was still picturesque, and the ball obediently flew into the basket.

Although it was just Kobe's most ordinary shot, the cheers received overshadowed Haugist's self-throwing and self-dunking. Because of various injuries, Kobe Bryant has not really played a full season in health for two years, and the technical moves shown in this comeback show that he is still young, which is enough to make 60E Komi feel gratified.

But Kobe didn't want to rush to play alone, and during the return visit, Kobe came to Haugist's side and said: "Haugie, don't pass me this kind of one-and-four-watch ball, I want to see you use your ability to create absolute easyball offensive opportunities for us like the summer league!" ”

Hoggist smiled bitterly: "I want to too!" But I'm afraid that the many Komi sprays in the room, I play too one-eyed and disrespectful. ”

"It's okay, you create chances for your teammates to score, I can praise you as much as I can in my body language! Besides, this is your motherland, are you still afraid that your compatriots will boo you because of me? Bryant patted Howgist on the back and said.

"Alright! Then I'll just play as I please! Haugest nodded.

Paul dribbled back to the frontcourt, and he found that Hoggist did a good job of defending with and without the ball in positional battles, and he didn't look like an inexperienced rookie at all, and he had no choice but to try to block and attack. Paul glanced inside, and Xinyi Qiao consciously raised it to cover, the quality of NBA-level players' coverage is indeed much better than that of opponents in the Asian Championships, and Hougist was careless and was blocked by Xinyi Qiao.

Paul accelerated into the interior line, overtook the inexperienced rookie Turner in an instant, and easily prepared an empty basket. But Hougist finally got rid of Jordan Jr.'s entanglement, made three steps and made two steps, pushed away the blocking Turner and chased after him in a big stride, and sent a pegboard cap when Paul was about to make a layup with a low hand, and even Paul's left hand for a layup was paddled on the rebound through the ball.

After landing, Hougist jumped twice and took the rebound to push the fast attack, the Clippers hurriedly retreated, Hoggist advanced to the top of the frontcourt arc in the middle, facing Bamot's defense, and Randle on the right side had also slapped the horse to the inside, Griffin was stuck by Randle on the outside of the basket and ran to the basket side by side with him.

Because of Griffin's interference, it was difficult for Randle to catch the ball, but as long as he passed the ball to Randle, he could attack the basket smoothly, and Griffin on the other side was difficult to defend and easily take a foul. Horgist passed very resolutely, throwing the ball with one hand to Randle on the right, and Bamot also knew that it was not easy for Griffin to defend the ball, so he hurriedly went diagonally behind to help defend.

But Hougist didn't throw the ball out as hard as he could, and the ball was pinched in his big hand, which was a fake action of passing! Tricking Bamot away, there was no one in front of Haugist, and he didn't hesitate, calmly jumping up and throwing a three-pointer before the pursuers behind him arrived.

Hougist's three-pointer was also a tried and tested one, and he would never miss it, and after hitting the three-pointer, the Lakers led the Clippers 7-2. But at this time, the referee suddenly stopped the game, it turned out that Paul was still under the Lakers basket and did not come back, and he bent over to cover his left hand with a painful expression. Hoggist looked at Paul's appearance and guessed that it might be that he blocked too hard just now, hurting Paul's hand, and injured the star opposite in the first NBA-level game, Hoggist felt very upset, and hurriedly ran back to ask Paul's injury guiltily, "Big brother, are you okay?" Did I hurt you by blocking it too hard? I'm sorry, but I didn't have any experience in the NBA for the first time, so I didn't know how to make a difference. ”

Paul was a little embarrassed in the face of Hougist's concerned question, although he was indeed smashed by Hougist's violent block, but the younger generation who caused the accident was already actively making amends, if he said, "You hurt me!" "It's a little bit of a little angry, but if you want to say it's okay, it's really not light to catch up with the strength of the inch, this kind of pain is afraid that there is a bone fracture!

Hougist saw that Paul was still silent, and the expression of pain on his face was even worse, and even a trace of paleness could be seen in Paul's swarthy face. Hoggist apologized again and again, and even planned to bow to Paul. Paul smiled wryly, "What are you bowing to?" It's not a farewell to the body, injuries in the scramble often happen in the league, you don't have to blame yourself too much, keep playing your ball! ”

After Paul followed the team doctor back to the locker room, Coach Rivers happily sent in a backup point guard when the situation was "unavoidable". Rivers. Austin was the No. 1 high school player in the nation in 2011 and was a good athlete in high school and college, with good athleticism, excellent flexibility, and plenty of explosiveness, speed, and agility. But in high school, his body was not strong enough, and after entering the NBA, his physical disadvantage was more obvious, which also seriously affected his strengths, and since entering the league for three years, the three-point shooting rate has been a little dismal, and last season it fell below 30%. And although he is a two-way guard, his style of play is more like a shooting guard, his vision is narrower than that of a true point guard, and passing is not his first choice. So he struggled with the Pelicans before.

Doug also wants to give his son more opportunities to practice, but what a good point guard Paul is, playing him off the bench, if he doesn't play well enough, then the contrast is absolutely stark, even if it is decent, it will be seen as a disaster by fans. After the arrival of the Clippers, who were traded last season, Austin is still criticized by fans. Now Paul's injury is a God-given opportunity, after all, the point guard is only 38-year-old Prigioni except for his son, and if this old man is sent, I am afraid the fans will not agree.

Life is always full of uncertainties, and now Doug can justifiably let Paul rest during the preseason and devote a lot of time to his son. Of course, Doug would never have imagined that the gap between Austin and Hougist, who is also the No. 1 high school student in the United States, would be so huge.

Austin is a full 10 centimeters taller than Paul, although this is useless in front of Haugist, but this brings Austin a mysterious confidence, or he is already very confident, and on the offensive end, Rivers Jr. actually wants to make Haugist without even calling a pick-and-roll. This kind of opponent who took the initiative to send people to the head on the grounds of self-confidence naturally did not refuse, Hoggist sold a flaw, deliberately dragged back half a step to Austin's side, Austin leaned on his left side of Haugist jumped, stretched his right hand to the limit, ready to use his right hand to make a layup, but he underestimated Hougist's exaggerated arm span, even if Austin's body was separated in the middle, Hougist still covered the basketball on Austin's right hand.

sent two wonderful hats in a row, and the audience was about to cheer for Helian Wu's wonderful performance, but unfortunately the low-post little Jordan caught the ball that was fanned away and completed a two-handed basket dunk. Many viewers let out bursts of sighs. Little Jordan jumped off the basket and was full of doubts, what is wrong with the Chinese audience? I don't like to watch this kind of violent basket-style dunk, even if I don't applaud, I still sigh so regretfully.

Turner hurriedly took the initiative to take responsibility for his defensive misposition, but Haugist waved his hand and said: "I don't blame you, I was too big, I could have stolen him from the outside, but I wanted to use a block to dismount him." ”

Everyone came to the frontcourt, Hoggist took the ball with his back and singled Austin like Kobe Bryant just singled Redick, the power gap between Austin and Hoggist was even greater, Hougist arched into the interior and turned over to shoot with hook hands, this kind of high shot Little Rivers could only be out of reach, watching Hoggist score easily.

Hoggist understands that if he wants to play the kind of state that Kobe Bryant requires to easily assist his teammates, he must first raise his offensive threat to the level where he can attract the bag, and Austin in front of him is a qualified ATM for him, so let's use him to score points first!

Looking back, Austin didn't dare to break through easily, and he didn't have any chances to organize on the outside for a long time, and in the end Griffin could only ask for the ball to play alone, Randle's defense was still a little immature, and he turned around and wiped the board and threw it after being pushed into the interior by Griffin. Hoggist continued to trouble Austin with the ball, and Austin knew that he was not physically a match for Hoggist, so he tried to step forward and make a gambling steal.

As the so-called nine out of ten bets are lost, Austin's luck is not much stronger than others, so his gamble also ended in failure, Hougist let Austin pass Austin with a back dribble, and in the face of the Clippers defense line with the city gate open, Hougist dribbled straight to the basket, and prepared to split the ball with one hand.

When it was too late, Jordan Jr. turned around and let go of Turner, choosing to meet the onslaught of Hougist head-on. Hougist didn't know how strong Jordan Jr.'s body was, but he didn't turn back when he opened the bow, and Hougist accelerated his heart to the basket. Jordan Jr. jumped vertically, his height and long arms blocking the line of Hoogist's shot. However, this could not stump Haugist, who deftly gave the ball to Turner behind Jordan Jr. with unconventional moves in the air, and Turner was not polite to everyone, and directly returned a violent basket dunk after receiving the ball. 18310