Chapter 283: First Halftime Behind
Haugist dribbled to the front court, commanded his teammates to run, Jeremy Lin cut into the inside line from the wing, circled Nance and Turner, got rid of the defender and got an open opportunity in the bottom corner, Hougist quickly stuffed the ball straight over, Jeremy Lin did not make adjustments, received the ball and shot directly three-point shot, 52:44, the difference returned to single digits again.
Just when the audience was cheering for the Lakers, Lowry showed the true colors of "little steel cannon", crossed the three-point line and faced Jeremy Lin, who was pressing from the high position, and began to play back, and when he was close to the three-point line on the wing, he actually overturned Jeremy Lin, and saw the central referee standing next to him expressionless and did not say anything, Lowry directly jumped and hit a three-point shot in color.
"This Nima is definitely racist, this kind of foul is not blown!" Haugist stepped forward and pulled Jeremy Lin to complain in Chinese, but after eating a trench and growing wise, Haugist would not let the referee hear him again.
"It's okay, I'm used to it!" Jeremy Lin shook his head and smiled bitterly.
Haugist dribbled back to the offensive end and distributed the ball to Jeremy Lin in the elbow area, who also arched Lowry in the low post and turned to wipe the board to shoot, although he didn't shoot, but the referee blew the whistle just now. It's not bad to have free throws, Hoggist thought to himself. But what surprised him was that the referee blew for an offensive foul on Jeremy Lin.
Hougist was about to scold, but Jeremy Lin hurriedly grabbed him, "Don't be impulsive, we're still 11 points behind now, but we don't have the capital to be impulsive." ”
Hougist had to endure his anger and turn back to defend, but Lowry, who had taken advantage of the penalty for two consecutive rounds, was even more complacent, and hit another three-pointer under the cover of Valanciunas, and the difference returned to 14 points.
Jeremy Lin dribbled to the front court, broke through to the low post and gave the ball to the weak side of Haugist, Hougist raised his hand to shake DeRozan when he received the ball, but DeRozan forcibly restrained the urge to jump, and sure enough, Hougist just shook a shot, and began to lower the center of gravity to break through when he saw DeRozan's center of gravity was unstable.
DeRozan hurriedly slid back to the defense, but Hougist only took a step forward and made a quick stop jumper, DeRozan's body was still retreating, and he could no longer control his body, so he could only watch Hougist easily hit this two-pointer.
Lowry and Valan continued to block the attack, and this time Turner came out with a big delay, but it blocked Jeremy Lin's defensive line, giving Lowry another opportunity to shoot in the open space, but Lowry's confident shot turned into a hit. At this time, with 1 minute and 17 seconds left in the second quarter, Hoggist received the rebound and dribbled to instigate a counterattack, Jeremy Lin's bottom corner three-point iron, and Hougist followed up and tried to make a basket but missed. Valan picked up the rebound and gave it to Lowry, and the Raptors also made a quick counterattack.
Lowry dribbled to the frontcourt to DeRozan on the wing, DeRozan had no space to shoot in the face of Haugist, but he saw Carroll cut to the basket in the aftermath, so he made a gorgeous "No-looking Pass", turned 360 degrees on the spot in style, and passed the ball straight inside.
However, DeRozan's self-thinking chic move is really a big knife in front of Guan Gong in front of Hoggist, and the bank sells cut cakes, Hogist saw through DeRozan's intentions at a glance, accurately judged the way of the ball, and easily intercepted the ball and re-pushed the fast attack.
Seeing that Hoggist was about to dunk someone when he rushed up, DeRozan had no choice but to hug Haugist and send him to the free throw line. With 56.7 seconds left in the second quarter, the Raptors replaced the exhausted Scola and DeRozan with Terrence Rose to defend Haugist, and Shashewski also removed Turner for Blake, and the Lakers' four-foot-9-inch roster came online for the first time this season.
On the night of Kobe Bryant's 81 points, Kobe Bryant's second free throw was missed in the first half of the two free throws, but he grabbed the offensive rebound that fell to the ground and scored two points in the chaos, but Horgist didn't want to deliberately miss the second free throw to grab the frontcourt rebound, so Horgist decided to follow Kobe's process to fight for a rebound and play a two-point, if he hit both free throws, he would shoot a three-pointer in the next two-point opportunity, at least consistent in scoring.
Hougist's free throws proved to be as solid as a dog, and even though he was affected by complex psychological factors, he still hit both free throws. Lowry went out of his way to continue to block and dismantle with Valan, and this time Valan took the absolute height of the interior and hit a two-point shot with an easy hook under the basket.
There are 31.5 seconds left in the game, and in my memory, Kobe Bryant scored two points from the top of the arc to the inside layup, so I grabbed a three-pointer to tie Kobe's half-court score!
Hougist signaled to Nance to send a floor ball, the ball slowly rolled forward on the floor, the timer will not move until no one touches it, Rose stepped forward to make a steal, trying to force Hoggist to touch the ball, Hoggist also bent down and was ready to pick up the ball at any time, Rose was afraid of the defense out of position, did not dare to recklessly lower waist steal, waiting for a suitable time, and Hoggist was also waiting for Rose to move first, so that he could easily pass Rose to shoot.
Seeing that the ball was about to roll over the halfcourt, Rose still didn't dare to act rashly, and Horgist suddenly asked without a clue: "Terrence, Jalen. What is Ross's relationship with you? ”
"His surname is Rose, my surname is Ross, the pronunciation and spelling are different, what does it matter?" Terrance. Ross replied unhappily that although their surnames sounded similar to Chinese in Chinese, they sounded very different in Americans, and that Horgist was asking someone in China as if he were asking someone in China, "Mr. Zhang, you have the same surname as Mr. Zang, are you related?" This is a malicious ridicule that is knowingly asked, so Ross is naturally very unhappy.
However, Haugist was still smiling, "It doesn't matter now, your name will be compared to people from now on!" ”
Before Haugist's words fell, Ross suddenly swooped over and was about to reach out to break the ball, but Hoggist was also prepared, quickly bent down to pick up the ball, changed direction and let Rose go, rushed forward two steps before the three-point line, and made a jumper, hitting a ...... Belch...... Hit a shot to the Nets.
Even Haugist himself didn't expect that the three-point shot he threw with confidence was so bad that he didn't even touch the basket and fell out of the bottom line with the net.
Terrance. Rose didn't understand the meaning of Hougist's words just now, but after he was reckless and out of position, thinking that Hoggist must have given away the score for nothing, he saw Hoggist actually throw such an outrageous three-pointer, and he was still in a good mood, Ross smiled: "I don't understand why people put me and Jay. Ross is connected, but you didn't run away from the top five balls and fell directly into the top five! Hahahaha! ”
Hougist didn't have time to pay attention to Rose's taunts, he was more worried that his score could not keep pace with Kobe, Hoggist cursed in a low voice while running back: "Damn, such a simple three-point shot didn't score, fortunately, this offense only took less than 2 seconds, and I should have one more chance to attack after ensuring that the backcourt rebound is good!" Don't mess it up next time! ”
The Raptors drove the baseline ball, Lowry dribbled past the halfway line and began to press the time, and he slowly began to push towards the three-point line with 7 seconds left on the offensive time. Valanciunas was covering again, and Lowry hit the buzzer again with a three-pointer at the top of the arc, and the ball slid into the basket as the timer reset to zero beep.
Lowry proudly showed off his arm muscles, as if he was provoking Jeremy Lin and the Lakers team, with 5.5 seconds left in the game, the Raptors pressed all over the court, Randle opened the baseline ball, Hougist shook off Rose with a feint and ran to the frontcourt, and Randle hoisted the ball over.
After receiving the ball, Haugist had two new defenders in front of him, and it was hard to get rid of Carroll and Patterson's supplements, and Rose chased after him. Seeing that there was not much time left in the game, Horgist had just rushed past halfcourt, and he didn't wait for his teammates to answer, he jumped up and leaned back to avoid Rose's interference and forced a long-range three-pointer. The ball was lit up, and Hoggist also returned a three-point whistle, and it was a more difficult three-point whistle. At the end of the first half, even though Hougist made this buzzer-beating three-pointer, the Lakers still trailed the Raptors by as many as 12 points at 51:63.
After landing on the ground, Hougist rubbed his hands and mocked: "It seems that without your defense, I won't shoot three points!" ”
"We'll see in the second half!" Rose said viciously.
In response to Rose's provocation, Haugerist still smiled back, "Of course I look forward to being able to play against you all the time, after all, you are much easier to deal with than DeRozan." ”
After saying that, Hougist didn't give Rose a chance to fight back, and walked to the locker room with a high-five and celebration. At halftime, Shashewski stared at Haugist with a pair of big eyes, and Haugist didn't speak, and he also stood up to the old K coach, but Haugist's face had a calm smile.
"What do you have to say about the scoreline?" Shashewski finally couldn't help it and took the lead in breaking the atmosphere of weakness and solemnity.
"It's okay, 12 points behind, four three-pointers can tie it." Hoggist shrugged and said disapprovingly.
Shashewski stabbed the tactical board with a marker, "You're embarrassed to ask others to have a strong desire to win, but what about you? ”
"Me?" Hoggist flipped through the statistics table, "Played 18 minutes in the first half, scored 26 points, 5 rebounds, 5 assists, 1 steal and 2 blocks, 9 of 12 shots, including 2 of 3 points and 6 free throws, let me do the math, the true shooting rate is 111, I have no one else with this efficiency, right?" Can you blame me for falling behind? Besides, I've promised you many times that you can win today, as long as you have a little more patience! ”
"You made me patient and trailed by 12 points after the second quarter, and that's what I waited for? Are you going to put out 20 points after the whole game? Without you, I can also chase points by arranging troops, if you don't do a good job of assisting in defense, you can rest as soon as possible! Shashewski snapped.
"I defended well enough, it was Lowry's luck in the first half that he scored a few more threes, and he wasn't me, he couldn't have maintained that kind of shooting percentage throughout the game!" Hougist patiently reassured.
"It's okay if you don't mention Lowry, I'm angry when I mention him, why don't you switch defenses with Jeremy, if you come to defend Lowry, can he still score so many threes?" Hearing Lowry's name, Shashewski was even more upset.
"Calm down, I said coach, the Raptors don't have only one Lowry, isn't there also DeRozan! There is a saying in China called 'press the gourd and get the scoop', and these two people can't do both, if I lock Lowry, you'll see DeRozan go crazy again! Hougist spread his hands helplessly, "Besides, Jeremy's defense against Lowry is really no problem, the main thing is that the referee's whistle is black!" You see that when we were chasing the momentum, the referee's two counter-judgments directly interrupted our momentum, and you touched your conscience and said, is it true that Lowry didn't foul Jeremy when he flew so far overhead? Jeremy used the same move to push up Lowry, why did he get a foul again? Won't the referee's conscience hurt to blow the punishment like this? ”
"Alas, don't keep struggling with the referee's decision, we can't control this factor, although what you said seems to have some truth, but can you really chase points in the second half like this? Is there really no need for me to rearrange my tactics? Shashefsky asked.
Hogist smiled confidently, "Let me tell you that!" This game doesn't say 20 points, at least I promise you how about winning them by 18 points? ”
"18 points? Where does your self-confidence come from? There are also bits and pieces that are guaranteed. Shashewski was on the verge of laughing.
"How about I donate $10,000 to the 'Wuyang China Youth Basketball School'?" Hoggist rolled his eyes and said slyly.
"What kind of institution is that?" Shashewski asked suspiciously, only Jeremy Lin and Yi Jianlian knew that it was a basketball school funded by Li Ning in the name of Hogist, aiming to export high-level talents for the Chinese men's basketball team.
Hoggist did not say his relationship with the school, but only introduced the school's purpose, "In short, this is a school that realizes the dreams of Chinese teenagers who love basketball." So if the final finish is not 18 points, I will donate $10,000 to this school for every 1 point difference! ”
Howgist's enthusiastic attitude to public welfare touched everyone present except Jeremy Lin and Yi Jianlian, Shashewski and other players said that if the final finishing score difference is 18 points, then each of them will donate $10,000 to this school, only Jeremy Lin and Yi Jianlian secretly laughed at these people, you must know that no matter how much money Hoggist donates to this school, it will come out of Li Ning's special funds, and he has nothing to lose. From this bet, Haugist is going to make a lot of money for his school.