Chapter 366: The battle for the top spot

Seeing this ball Jiang Yang, it's called a helplessness! In fact, Jiang Yang's current blocking and demolition tactics have done a good job, let go of the blocking and dismantling, and then follow Marc Gasol to wrap Paul, this tactic, whether it is Jiang Yang or Marc Gasol, is not wrong.

But Jiang Yang forgot that this Okafor has the ability to shoot...... That's trouble! And the most troublesome part is at Paul's point, if it is someone else, Jiang Yang can catch up, then it doesn't hurt to let Marc Gasol go out, but this Paul, Jiang Yang is not to say that he can't catch up, but because this guy is too smart, others block and dismantle at the three-point line or outside the three-point line, and his blocking and dismantling is near the free throw line, don't underestimate the distance of these two or three steps.

After others block and dismantle, Jiang Yang has a time to start, whether it is the opponent's jump shot or layup, Jiang Yang can catch up.

Don't underestimate the distance of these two or three steps, if it were someone else, these two or three steps, Jiang Yang would have to kill him, because Jiang Yang's close defense and steals are not fun, the first in the league, but it's not just talking! But it's Paul, the steal master, Jiang Yang can't grab his ball, and Jiang Yang is missing these two or three steps, as long as the opponent is not too slow, then Jiang Yang is difficult to catch up, this is a matter of first hand and then hand, if it's just like this, Jiang Yang also has a way, Mark Gasol defends it, isn't there anyone else? Basketball is a five-player game, and other people can help defend as well.

But at this time, I have to say Paul's passing skills, this guy's passing ability, although it is not said to be superb, but it is definitely not an ordinary person, and he can definitely rank in the top four in the league.

He is a little similar to Jiang Yang, don't look at him as only 183 cm, but even if Jiang Yang sees his vision, he will be scared into a cold sweat!

This is Paul's ability, and this is also Jiang Yang's biggest headache now, and at this time, I can see the importance of coaching.

Jay Tria next to him waved his hand and motioned for Jiang Yang to press! Only then did Jiang Yang react...... The Hornets are a defensive team, with Ariza and Okafor, but our Raptors are an offensive team...... Thinking of this, Jiang Yang couldn't help but laugh at himself, it's really Paul's reputation, playing with Paul is so bad that Jiang Yang himself is scared of himself into a cold sweat! But now that I've figured it out, it's much easier to do, Jiang Yang dribbled the ball again and shot after half the court.

Then he shot Paul directly outside the three-point line, although Paul had already judged Jiang Yang's meaning, and had already shot to defend Jiang Yang, but Jiang Yang's shooting was never something he could prevent, and the three-point shot was thrown out directly.

With a crisp sound of "brush", Jiang Yang's three-point shot hit, and the score on both sides became 10-4, and the Raptors continued to open the score!

But the Hornets are not good at it, Paul's passing can always play the role of saving soldier Ryan at the most critical time, if it weren't for Paul, maybe the Raptors would have pulled the score away......

At the end of the first quarter, the Raptors led the Hornets by two points, 22-20, and the Hornets played with their defense.

Although it didn't reduce the Raptors' shooting percentage too much, they would rather foul than let the Raptors get up.

This kind of routine is really a little unbearable! But even if they are playing so hard, Jiang Yang and they have almost the other party's pulse, in the first quarter of the game, in fact, everyone in the industry can see that the Raptors have not been able to exert their strength!

And as soon as the second quarter began, the Raptors began to exert their strength! First of all, Bargnani hit a layup, causing David Anderson's second foul, David Anderson was originally also a Raptors team, but was used to trade Jerry Bayless and Peja, originally Peja was the main game, but now it seems that Jerry Bayless is much more stable in the team than Peja.

In fact, Peja is also to blame, what position is not good? occupies the No. 3 position with the largest number of people on the team now, other people's teams lack small forwards, but the Raptors are not lacking, and now the Raptors have small forwards, which is not ordinary.

Peja not only has to face Kirilenko's suppression, but also has to compete with Sam Young, Ronald Dupri, Gordon Hayward and others for playing time, which is indeed a position that is not very wise, but David Anderson, who was traded by the Raptors, has gained a foothold in the Hornets and is now a member of the interior rotation lineup! After hitting a successful three-pointer, Banyani hit a two-point turnaround jumper on the inside, scoring five points in a row to help the Raptors directly stretch the score to 27-22, and then Aamir Johnson received a pass from Jerry Bayless and hit a layup, Banyani hit a three-point shot, and Barbossa hit a three-point shot...... After Banjani went off, Ed Davis also had a strong shot on the inside......

After Jiang Yang came on the court, he also hit three points! The Raptors' offense became more and more fluid, while the Hornets' offense was more and more troublesome by the Raptors, and at the end of the quarter, the Raptors led the opponent by as many as 11 points at 28-17 in a single quarter.

The halftime lead of the opponent was 50-37 by a full 13 points, and it can be seen from here how fierce the current Raptors' offense is!

This is even more the case in the third quarter, the Raptors' offense is still sharp, and although the Hornets barely brushed the score to more than 20 points in this quarter with Paul's assist, they scored 25 points, but the Raptors scored as many as 31 points!

What is called strength, this is called strength...... At the end of the third quarter, the Raptors' lead had expanded to 19 points!

In fact, in this case, the last quarter is basically garbage time, although Paul is very dealing, but it does not mean that the Hornets are also difficult to deal with, in the last quarter of the game, the Hornets launched a Jedi counterattack, and chased the score to 80-89 with 3 minutes and 47 seconds left in the game, only nine points behind, but at this critical moment, Jiang Yang, the guy who suffered a thousand knives, reappeared.

A three-point shot thrown out by Ariza was already on the court in the second quarter, and the Hornets changed formations.

It was up to Ariza to defend Jiang Yang, otherwise Jiang Yang would not have scored only 24 points in the third quarter! And in this last quarter, Jiang Yang was still sharp, after hitting three points, another three-pointer, Jiang Yang scored six points in a row, increasing his score to 30 points, and at the same time, it also made the Hornets lose hope of winning, Jiang Yang had 30 points, 13 rebounds and 12 assists, and after two games, he brushed out a triple-double again, and sent five blocks at the same time, three of the five blocks were given to Paul.

Paul's idea is that when someone else can score, I'll pass the ball, and if someone else can't score, then I'll attack......

But in the face of Jiang Yang's defense, it was obvious that he would not give Paul any opportunity to attack, so Paul's only few attacks also made Jiang Yang slap a few times, fanned on the rebound, and had no power to fight back!

In addition to Jiang Yang, the Raptors also had five players score double-doubles, DeMar DeRozan had a complete outburst today, Belinelli scored the team's second-highest 20 points, Mark Gasol 17 points and 8 rebounds, Maniani scored 11 points with his play in the second quarter, but unfortunately he kept playing iron in the second half, because the opponent strengthened his defense against him.

It turns out that this Banyani is still muddy and can't hold up the wall! Andrei Srilenko scored 11 points, Ed Davis, who came off the bench, scored 11 points, and no one else scored in double figures! On the Hornets side, the highest scorer was David West, who scored 23 points, plus 10 rebounds, Okafor got 17 points and 12 rebounds, Paul was very miserable today, only 6 points were scored by Jiang Yang, although there were 11 assists, but there were also 4 turnovers, but he had three steals, two of which were steals from Jiang Yang, and the reputation of the steal master is indeed undeserved.

In Jiang Yang's defense, there are blocks, stickers, black hands, and top lines, and there is really no ability to steal......

And the Hornets bench only had one player in double figures, Jarrett Jack, this player scored 17 points today, this guy's scoring ability is pretty good, it's just right to be a sixth man, and his passing is too bad if he wants to start.

In the end, the Raptors won the game 95-81, which is also the only game in the Raptors this season with a score of less than 100.

However, after beating the Wasp, it doesn't mean that Jiang Yang can breathe a sigh of relief, in fact, this breath has just been mentioned.

Because after playing the Hornets, the next teams the Raptors will face are more difficult to deal with.

First of all, they have to face the current league's No. 1 Spurs, the current Raptors' record, 34-7, and the Spurs' record is 35-6, only one win difference between the two sides, if this game, the Raptors win, they will rely on the relationship between the winners, beat the Spurs, become the first in the current league, which was unthinkable in the Raptors before.

But now they are very likely to sit down, so this game is also known as the focus of the battle, so some media are focusing on the Raptors and Spurs for the first time, and now the Spurs, Raptors and Celtics three teams, the first column of the league, is indeed shocking a lot of people, before that, at least before the start of this season, no one would have thought that the Raptors, Spurs and Celtics would achieve such results, Before the start of the game, most people thought that the Raptors might be missing the playoffs, and it was not known if they could be at the bottom, and the Spurs, judging from their past records, this year's Spurs are likely to be at the level of the lower half of the West, after all, Duncan They are too old! And the Celtics, don't look at winning the championship last season, that's because Jiang Yang and their green leaves are there, but after the start of this season, after the introduction of O'Neal and others to strengthen the inside, the lineup of the bench and backcourt has become weaker, with only a few veterans, everyone thinks that they can rank in the top four in the East, which is really different, but I didn't expect it...... Really didn't think of it.

The fact that these three teams came out on top after two and a half months of playing also broke the glasses of those who said they didn't like these three teams at the start of the season, especially the Spurs and Raptors who are now in first and second place.

It can be said that it is a breakthrough, and the Heat, who have been very hot this summer, are now only in third place in the East, and have just completed the first BO 4...... Losing streak! Yes, a losing streak! It was also their first four-game losing streak of the season.

Although James came back, they still lost to the Hawks, and the Hawks are now in fifth place, beating the Magic team that doesn't give them a good look, and the Lakers, who reached the finals last year, have a relatively stable record recently.

Maybe it's also because their performance was so bad a while ago that Kobe Bryant and others began to go crazy! After losing to the Clippers, who have been crushed by the Lakers, the Lakers have recently shown a relatively strong performance, defeating the incoming Thunder with a 31-12 record, sitting firmly in the second position in the West, and it is the Thunder who is pressed by them.

And the Mavericks, who were crazy at the beginning of the season and played very well, have now slipped to the fifth place in the West, because their main player Caron Butler is injured, so their current results are really not good.

And recently, the Mavericks have been interested in approaching the Raptors to ask about Peja's offer, and the two teams are currently negotiating.

Obviously, after Peja arrived at the team, he really didn't give the Raptors what they wanted, so it might not be a bad idea to be traded.

Regardless of Peja's belonging, at this time, everyone is still focusing more on the upcoming game between the Raptors and the Spurs. This game not only caused a lot of sensation in reality, but also heated discussions on the Internet.

"The game between the Raptors and the Spurs will be the best game of this round!" An audience member named Canghai Mingyue said on the Internet. This battle for the first place in the league has also been concerned by many netizens and bricks on the Internet, if it is the former Spurs and Raptors, it is estimated that no one will pay attention to it, but the current Spurs and Raptors are all 10,000 people.

"Since the Spurs' tactics have changed, the Spurs have more and more balls, and their style of play has become more and more beautiful, but when it comes to offense, I am still more optimistic about the Raptors!" This is a message on the Internet for the ball mi.

"Shenma Raptor, Shenma Jiangyang, these things are floating clouds! I am optimistic about the Spurs, the old powerhouse, will definitely wash the Raptors! This is a message from netizen Cricket on the Internet, and it can be seen that this guy is not optimistic about Jiang Yang, the new scoring champion.

"No matter what, just play well, don't defend, eh...... Will the Raptors defend? This is a sad message from netizens on the Internet, for them, such a game can also be said to be highly anticipated!

At 8:30 p.m. on January 19, 2011, the game between the Raptors and the Spurs officially began, the battle for the first battle in the league, at the home of the Spurs, the San Antonio Center was officially staged, this game sat on the sidelines of of course, the national live broadcast seat of N, Charles Barkley and Kenny Smith, a pair of golden partners, appeared on the commentary stage on time, it can be seen that for tonight's battle, whether it is NB officials or these two people, they are very important.

"Hey Kenny, which side are you pressing tonight?" Seeing that the live broadcast had begun, Charles Buckley asked with a smile.

"In terms of experience, I'm more optimistic about the Spurs, and you know I'm a Texas cowboy too! Oh~" "yes, but now you're retired, haha, you guy who can't even dunk now!" So you say I'm pressing the Spurs? Listening to his partner's words, Charles Buckley laughed loudly, and Kenny Smith pouted after listening to Buckley's words.

"I said, that's just experience, but now Jiang Yang is really getting more and more powerful, let's take a look at the data in the current alliance!" With Kenny Smith's words, a table appeared on the TV screens of all NB watching families across the United States, and it was written that the current scoring list for this season, Jiang Yang was at the top of the list.

Below him is Durant, the third is Amare Stoudemire, the fourth is Méng Ta Ellis, and the fifth is James.

"Jiang Yang, this guy is really terrifying now, it is certain that he has won the throne of the scoring champion! Even if he gets injured from now until the end of the season, he will still be the average scorer, assist, block and steal king per game! It's hard to imagine what the players in the league will be like if this guy stays healthy! Looking at this scoring list, Charles Barkley next to him couldn't help laughing, not caring about the boos of the ball mi.

"It's not just the scoreboard...... Tsk, he almost scourged the first, second, third, and fourth positions in this league, fortunately his rebounding numbers are not high, but even so, his average number of rebounds per game has also made countless centers hesitate. Kenny Smith looked at the data in his hand and couldn't help but say with emotion that Jiang Yang's current results are indeed a bit too rebellious.

"Welcome to the center! ......" Just as the two were laughing, suddenly the whole court was dark, and then the roar of the DJ came out, and when this sound was heard, all the ball Mi stood up and cheered, and the game finally began...... ro@。