Chapter 480: Surpassing Jordan

At the end of the third quarter, Paul stepped up again and hit two consecutive 3-pointers to help the Rockets hold up the situation that was about to collapse.

All the fans who watched this game, whether it was Rockets fans, Kings fans, or neutral fans, felt that Paul was awesome.

It seems that touching the floor of the Western Conference for the first time has brought Paul back to the top, and so far, his 22 points, 8 assists and 6 rebounds are not as good as Zhang Feng's super luxurious double-double of 44 points and 13 assists, but it also completely sends out his strength.

But De Anthony on the sidelines still has a cold face, he knows that this is the last struggle of the rocket, as far as Zhang Feng's two shots are reasonable, as long as Paul's good luck is no longer good, he will be stabbed by Zhang Feng immediately.

Despite this, he still tried to think about countermeasures, and he still had a glimmer of hope in his heart, what if Paul and Harden were really unlucky and shot 9 out of 10 from three-point range, or even 10 from 10 shots?

But in a blink of an eye, he was stupid, the king attacked again, Zhang Feng didn't even use blocking and dismantling, stopped the ball directly on the left wing, and forced a 3-point shot against Paul's defense.

This made him sober up instantly, even if Paul and Harden were unlucky, the king also had Zhang Feng, who had both luck and strength, and 9 of 10 shots could not save the Rockets.

The only hope was still to press the defense and counterattack, and he made up his mind to get up and call a timeout whenever Paul and Harden lost consecutive balls.

The Rockets attacked again, and Paul, who was addicted to shooting, just crossed the halfway line, beckoned Capela to block and dismantle, wanting to repeat the old trick and use the pick-and-roll cover again to quickly shoot three points.

The plan couldn't catch up with the change, Capela didn't step forward to block Bogdan, Zhang Feng rushed to Paul first.

In the previous 2 three-point attempts, Paul faced Bogdan, but now he is replaced by Zhang Feng, and he is obviously a little hesitant. However, the consecutive hits gave him a lot of confidence, and he directly bent down and accelerated to the right side for 45 degrees.

Under Zhang Feng's close defense, Paul, who rushed to the established position, did not have any chance to adjust his posture, and he threw the ball in the air with a twist.

Bang dang hit the iron, the rebound was caught by Lefu, and immediately passed to Zhang Feng to launch a fast attack.

But the Rockets seemed to have expected that Paul's shot just now would not hit, except for Paul himself, all of them slipped back to defense in advance, and Zhang Feng could only control the ball at the top of the arc and wait for his teammates to fall into place.

It seems that because of the discomfort of being defended just now, after Paul rushed to the frontcourt, he immediately waved at Gordon, who was defending Zhang Feng, signaling to change the defense, and clearly wanted to find face on Zhang Feng.

Gordon hesitated slightly, but walked away as Paul instructed. Unexpectedly, as soon as the two handed over, Zhang Feng handed over the ball to the unguarded Buddy.

Originally, Buddy was squatting on the bottom line, Zhang Feng had long wanted to pass, but it was only because Gordon was in front of him, and there was an Ariza waiting for an opportunity near Buddy, and the passing route was very bad, so he didn't shoot, but Harden and Paul gave him the best chance to switch defenses this time.

Buddy took the ball and made a slight adjustment to shoot, Ariza couldn't pounce and hit a 3-pointer.

De Antony on the sidelines instantly stood up and made a pause gesture, but Paul on the field shook his head frequently at the referee, and the stalemate lasted less than 1 second.

Paul took the ball across the half court, didn't dare to hold it up, lowered the center to control the ball, and waited until Capela was in place to block Zhang Feng, then he rushed to the right side at 45 degrees, straightened up and shot.

Striking the iron again, because of the excessive strength, the basketball rebounded from a long distance and happened to fall in front of Zhang Feng.

Picking up the basketball, Zhang Feng quickly rushed to the front court, at this time there was only Ariza under the basket, he didn't want to, he rushed straight into the paint area, and a European step shook off Ariza to hit the board.

At 47 points, the fans erupted in cheers, and there was a full quarter of the game, and they felt that Zhang Feng could hit the playoff scoring record, if not the highest 63 points, at least 50 points.

The Rockets attacked again, and Paul once again told De Anthony that there was no need to take a timeout, and he went to the front court with the ball, perhaps losing confidence in his own hand, and handed the ball to Harden after crossing the halfway line.

Since Zhang Feng went to defend Paul before, this time it was Bogdan who defended Harden.

Harden seems to be very unimpressed by Bogdan's defense, he doesn't even bother to do technical moves, European steps, emergency stops, retreats and so on, casually change hands under the crotch a few times, and then pull out a 3-pointer.

Perhaps because he felt slighted, he usually didn't work hard to defend Bogdan and jumped hard, and actually touched the basketball with his fingertips the moment it left Harden's hands.

With this touch, the original perfect flight trajectory of the basketball changed instantly, not only did it not hit the hollow, but because the height of the flight was not enough, it finally became a three-non-stick.

The basketball fell straight into Carter's hand, he turned around and didn't find Zhang Feng's position at first glance, but he didn't have any scruples, and threw the ball directly to the front court, he knew that with Zhang Feng's speed, he would definitely be the first to grab the ball.

Sure enough, in a group of players running wildly, Zhang Feng took the lead, and he picked up the basketball two steps from the three-point line.

Just when Gordon and Paul thought he was going to steal a 3-pointer and thus defend him closely, he slipped to the basket and played a 360-degree windy dunk.

This slam dunk scene, the scene exploded, and it was the first time for fans to see the Western Conference finals who dared to play like this.

Coupled with the dunk and 2 points, Zhang Feng's personal score in this game has reached 49 points, only 14 points away from Jordan's record, and there is still a full quarter of the game.

De Antony called a timeout again, and this time Paul had no objections.

"It's useless to take a timeout now, I don't understand why I didn't pause before, I was so far behind, I was on the bench, I thought about how to play the next game, I thought this game would be more exciting, and it turned out to be spent so quickly" Kenny shook his head and sighed.

"Whether the timeout is not the key, they actually did not play defensive counterattacks, but grabbed 3 points, and as a result, they missed 3 consecutive shots, which directly buried the last hope of a reversal," Barkley said.

"That's it for this round of the series, the king continues to hang, Zhang Feng is super godlike, I hope that the opponent in the final will be a little stronger, otherwise there is really nothing to look at" O'Neal seemed a little unhappy.

Between the three chatting, the game went to the last minute of the third quarter, Zhang Feng scored 52 points, and the Rockets' counterattack after the timeout still did not improve, and Paul even made a low-level mistake such as dribbling to his foot.

In the fourth quarter of the game, Zhang Feng played for 3 minutes, his personal score reached 58 points, and the whole audience shouted 'Break the record', and the whole team of Kings made the ball for him.

After another 5 consecutive 3-point shots, Zhang Feng finally hit 2 balls and successfully scored 64 points, surpassing Jordan and becoming the highest individual single-game score in the playoffs.