After the victory over the Cavaliers, the Kings did not spend the night in Cleveland, they flew directly south to New Orleans, and they will take on the Pelicans at the Smoothie King Center two days later.

Last time at the Golden One Arena, Cousins was provoked by Zhang Feng's tricks, impulsively ate two technical fouls, and finally ended up being ejected from the game.

But surprisingly, Cousins was very low-key in his pre-game interview, he first praised Zhang Feng's good results in leading the team, and also thanked Zhang Feng for donating money to Texas residents.

At the same time, Kim Terry bluntly said in a phone interview that Zhang Feng is the fifth point guard in the West after Curry, Paul, Rondo, and Westbrook, and in terms of making his teammates better, Zhang Feng is even better than Westbrook; He also believes that within 2 years, Zhang Feng will be an NBA All-Star regular, and the Kings will definitely occupy a place in the West in the future.

Even Rondo, who couldn't play, also spoke of praise to Zhang Feng on Twitter, first thanking Zhang Feng for simulating his layup action in the game against the Cavaliers, and specifically emphasized that Zhang Feng is an all-round ghost, and the king has picked up a treasure.

Seeing the praise of the three Pelicans, Zhang Feng rubbed his eyes, how to learn Cole's routine, crazy 'poisoned milk' before the game?

Maybe that's the trick, right? Praise the opponent before the game, if you lose, who makes the opponent so awesome? But if you win, it will be terrible, and the opponent is so awesome that he wins, isn't it even more hanging?

"Would you like to say something too? Praising the other party is conducive to improving your image, and you can win more fan support", pre-game training, Brandon found Zhang Feng with a Samsung tablet.

"Do you think it helps?" Zhang Feng asked with a smile.

"Of course it works......" Brandon was going to explain.

"It's definitely useless, if you praise the other party to win the fans, why are we fighting for the championship?" Zhang Feng asked and answered himself.

"In the words of you Chinese, the icing on the cake" Brandon was a little surprised, he didn't believe that Zhang Feng didn't even understand this.

"Have you seen Carlisle's news? The head coach of the Mavericks, he praises each other wildly every time he plays a strong team, but do you think there will be many Mavericks fans this season? Zhang Feng shook his head.

"It's not a conflict, and you can't win if you don't praise the other party......" Brandon's eyes widened, and he almost blurted out, 'Are you stupid?'"

"I'm who I am, even if it's LeBron, I didn't compliment me, and now suddenly praising the Pelicans players, wouldn't it seem hypocritical?" Zhang Feng's tone was slightly domineering.

"Okay......" Brad departed.

At half past six in the afternoon, the whole team of Kings entered the Smoothie King Center to warm up. As soon as Zhang Feng walked out of the players' tunnel, Pelican fans booed, and several extreme fans even shouted that Zhang Feng likes to use intrigue and tricks, hoping that the referees in this game will keep their eyes open and enforce the law impartially.

Being reasonable and provoking the other party is also a strategy, but this is a very inferior means in the eyes of Pelican fans, especially since they also have a moody Cousins, who are very disgusted by Zhang Feng for inducing Cousins to foul.

Although Zhang Feng doesn't care about these ridicules, he is too far from the praise of the Pelicans players, right? Once again, it turns out that it is useless to win any compliment, and Warriors fans will be happy with the Cavaliers fans praising the Warriors in the 16-17 season for being very strong? Will Harden fans be happy when Westbrook fans compliment Harden on how much better than before?

Therefore, the praise of the enemy is nothing more than a declaration of victory.

At 7 o'clock, the game between the two teams officially began. The Kings' starting lineup for this game has changed dramatically, and they have sent an all-young lineup – Zhang Feng, Willy, Scal, Justin, Bogdan.

On the Pelicans side, the inside twin towers (Cousins, Davis) plus Holiday are the remaining two players Itovan Moore and Ian Clark.

The two teams jumped the ball in the middle circle, Cousins won it strongly, and Holiday held the ball in his hands, slowly waiting for the other Pelicans players to settle down on the right wing. Zhang Feng glanced at the formation and realized that the Pelicans should be trying to play a high position.

Sure enough, Cousins and Willie managed to grab the left corner after some pushing, and Holiday handed the ball over when he saw this, while Holiday slipped the bottom line with Clarke's cover in the left corner.

If Zhang Feng hadn't predicted in advance that the Pelicans would play a high position, he would not be able to defend, he shook his head at Bogdan, who wanted to change the defense, and turned to follow the inside.

The high-position strategy tactics relied on pulling out space through running, but Zhang Feng did not play according to the routine and did not change the defense, Holiday failed to win the precious time difference, and the bottom-line tactics could only be declared a failure.

Originally, Rondo lacked organization when he was not on the Pelicans' offense, but this offense was not successful, and Holiday was unable to catch the ball again by Zhang Fengfang, and after Cousins looked left and right, he jumped out on the spot.

It's not impossible for a center to shoot behind the free throw line, if you can have a three-point shooting rate like Love, there is no problem at all, but now it's Cousins who shoots, he floats outside and shoots very low, and has been criticized many times by O'Neal and other celebrities, but he did it again! He's headstrong.

Cousins' willful punishment came quickly, the basketball smashed on the hoop and missed, Willie grabbed the rebound and immediately handed it to Zhang Feng next to him.

Zhang Feng took the ball and attacked directly, and Holiday chased after him. Seeing that the two were about to reach the three-point line one after the other, Cousins in the middle circle suddenly reached out and tried to steal.

After so many quick attacks, Zhang Feng was not tackled once, and Cousins' attempts were in vain, but the big arms he stretched out 'succeeded' in blocking Holiday who was chasing Zhang Feng.

Zhang Feng got rid of the threat and pulled his hand directly from the three-point line, while Holiday was tripped by Cousins. 0.5 seconds later, Zhang Feng hit a shot, he turned around and spread his hands to imitate a bird flying, but Holiday fell to the ground and glided.

Even the Pelicans fans at the scene couldn't hold back this scene, and Cousins could only pull Holiday up in embarrassment amid laughter.

"Cousins' defensive play is really good, but it's a pity that he and Holiday didn't communicate well," the Pelicans commentator said on the sidelines trying to find a plausible explanation for Cousins' behavior.

Turning back to the Pelicans' attack, it was still Cousins who took the ball in the high post, but this time the offense was initiated by 'Thick Eyebrows' Davis, who turned around and ran inside at the right three-point line with the help of Moore's cover.

At this time, the basket was empty, and it was obviously useless to let Willy chase after the thick eyebrows, not only could not prevent it, but it was also easy to foul on his back, so Zhang Feng had to hand Skar a color (the player who defended Moore) - the bottom of the kettle.

The so-called bottom draw is the person who guards the pass, and Skar instantly turned and stuck to Cousins.

Cousins suffered a loss of no pass just now, and was yelled at by Pelicans coach Kim Terry, this time he had a firm expression and looked like he was going to pass the ball even though Skar was in front of him, but he still passed the ball.

It's a pity that Cousins used a ground-hitting pass, which was very risky to hit the ground on the inside, not to mention that he was stared at by the other 9 people on the court at the same time, and his intentions were exposed too quickly.

Zhang Feng, who had long recognized this, ran ahead of time and successfully touched the basketball with his foot before it reached the thick eyebrows.

"Beep" kick ball violation, Pelicans possession of the ball.

In this minute, Kawis tried to steal Zhang Feng, but he not only did not succeed, but also delayed Holiday to chase the defense, and Zhang Feng's steal, although it was also successful, but it successfully stopped the Pelicans from attacking, if you evaluate it by the standard of the Pelicans' courtside commentary just now, Zhang Feng's foot kicking is the real tactical genius, and the king really picked up the treasure.