Chapter 341: The Giant Slayer
Chapter 341: The Giant Slayer
Sure enough, just as Jiang Yang thought, the second quarter of the game began, because there were almost no substitutes and second team reasons.
The shooting rate of the Knicks began to go down quickly, and the Raptors slowly launched a counterattack, Jiang Yang's bench player Jerry Bayless was really good, hitting two three-pointers from the outside in a row, helping the Raptors directly overtake the score, substitute power forward Aamir Johnson blocked the little bully, although Tony Douglas completed the breakthrough layup, and then the little bully scored four points in a row, but Bayless hit three three-pointers again, and in Bayless's short playing time, he actually hit three three-pointers in a row.
Then the two teams began to score each other, after Jiang Yang came on the court, this soaring score was even more cool, Fields and DeRozan each completed the inside dunk, Barbossa and Gallinari respectively shot from a distance, Jiang Yang made a successful basket at the last moment! In the second quarter of the game, the Raptors beat the Knicks 32-27 and tied the score 60-60! Jiang Yang had 19 points, 6 rebounds and 8 assists in the half.
In the second half, it was still Jiang Yang's violent dunk that kicked off, but then Stoudemire's mid-range shot did not show weakness.
After this guy developed the CIC, it was indeed very difficult! Even Marc Gasol, a new defensive master in the league, is a little powerless in the face of Xiao Si! After that, the Knicks started to rain three-pointers.
Gallinari, Chandler, and Fields hit three points in a row, and the Raptors are not soft persimmons, Jiang Yang's firepower is on, and the gods and ghosts are shocked! While Jiang Yang himself hit two three-pointers in a row, Kirilenko, who came off the bench, also hit a three-pointer.
His career three-point shooting rate of 36.7% is not too high, but it is not very low, at least from the outside!
Xiaobawang staged a violent dunk on behalf of the flying body, and Jiang Yang over there scored five points in a row, and Jiang Yang had already scored 13 points in this section!
Amir Johnson, who came off the bench, also scored consecutive strong attacks, and the Raptors overtook the score again at the end of the third quarter, playing a 25-22 in a single quarter, leading by three points at 85-82 and entering the final quarter of the game.
The last quarter of the game, abbreviation: Jiang Yang's IME, Jiang Yang, who had scored 32 points in the first three quarters, started again in the last quarter! At the beginning of the last quarter, Jiang Yang hit a three-point shot, and then Xiao Si hit a shot, Banyani also received a pass from Jiang Yang, broke through to the layup, and Xiao Si hit another shot, scoring four points in a row, and Jiang Yang rushed into the inside line to dunk again.
Jiang Yang's score rose to 37 points, but also stretched the difference to six points, and the Knicks had to ask for a timeout.
After the timeout came back, Sean Williams, who came off the bench, hit a three-point shot, and Jiang Yang over there hit a three-point shot again, bringing the total score to 40! Jiang Yang is now completely hi, and Jiang Yang, who is hi, is not something that the Knicks can restrict.
Sean Weems grabbed the offensive rebound and then made the basket, Jiang Yang rushed into the interior and caused Tony Douglas's foul, two free throws, Tony Douglas hit a layup, Jiang Yang assisted Banyani to also hit a layup, the second ball also assisted Banjani to hit a shot, Banyani Palace scored four points, and the difference was stretched to eight points.
But then Marc Gasol also hit a layup after opening up Xiao Si under the basket, Xiao Si hit a shot, and Srilenko hit another three points! The gap was slowly widened, and there were still more than 5 minutes left before the end of the game.
The Knicks tried to fight back, Sean Williams hit a three-pointer, Raymond Felton hit a shot, but the Raptors players were still on the line, and with 2:14 left in the game, the Raptors led by five points at 117-112!
At the critical moment, Jiang Yang scored three more points, scoring a total of 48 points, and at the same time, he also officially announced the end of the game.
At the end of the game, the Raptors ended today's game with a 124-116 lead of the opponent by eight points, and Jiang Yang had a super triple-double!
Although he didn't score more than 50, he also scored 48 points, and also contributed 14 rebounds, 18 assists, 4 seals and 4 steals.
In addition to Jiang Yang, the Raptors also had six double-doubles, the inside of Banjani scored 16 points on 8-of-19 shooting today, Marc Gasol 12 points and 16 rebounds, Amir Johnson 10 points and 8 rebounds, Andre Keery scored 13 points in a row, and Jerry Bayless scored 12 points on 4-of-5 three-pointers! DeMar DeRozan also scored 12 points.
Watching the Raptors score so evenly, uh, except for Jiang Yang...... Although everyone is a little unhappy in their hearts, this is indeed a fact.
As long as Jiang Yang revitalizes the team, then others can also score! On the Knicks' side, the scoring is also very average.
The highest scorer was the little bully, Amare Stoudemire, who got 31 points and 16 rebounds, and then Landry Fields got 15 points and 10 rebounds, the rebounds on the Knicks' side were really bad, Raymond Felton got 12 points and 8 assists, which is really high or low, Wilson Chandmiao scored 21 points, and the first ten points were scored by Sonny Weems, although he didn't say that he couldn't score when facing Kirilenko, but it was difficult to score.
Sean Williams scored 14 points on 4-of-4 three-pointers, and the Raptors would have won long ago without this bench!
But even if they lose, the current Knicks are still defeated, think about the current configuration of the Raptors, and their main center Ronnie Turiaf is injured, so losing this game has no effect.
It can be said that in this game, there are no real losers, both teams are counted as winners, and in terms of impact, the Knicks are better!
The Knicks have been really hot lately, and if you don't count this game, they have won eight of their last nine games.
And they lost to the current Eastern leader Raptors, they have nothing to be reluctant to, and when Kirilenko is fully integrated into the team, the entire Raptors will rise to a higher level again, and this game can be regarded as a great joy for all!
"Now our record has improved a lot since the end of October, but we are still improving on the dunk, we will continue to work hard, keep going, we have to keep the hunger for victory, although we lost this game, but I don't think we lost in tactics or strategy, luck is not on our side today, of course, luck is also part of the strength, I will not blame my bad luck for losing this game!" That's what Xiao Si said after the game.
It can be seen that after losing, the impact on the Knicks is not great, as long as they stay in the top eight, it is a victory.
The Knicks don't have Jiang Yang's ambitions, they are still in the rebuilding stage, and only one All-Star is enough.
"Hey, do you have any other thoughts for Andre today?" This is what Jiang Yang said in the post-match interview.
Of course, this is not in the press conference, otherwise he would not just say such a sentence, this post-match interview, is after the game is played, with the selection of the best player of the game after the interview, from this sentence I can hear that Jiang Yang is very satisfied with Kirilenko, and he really can't find a reason to be dissatisfied with him? A defender has to be a defender.
Kirilenko's positioning is to assist Jiang Yang, and then the main thing is to defend, by the way, it is enough.
Although they are enjoying three consecutive wins, but the Raptors players have no time to rest, they need to go to Indiana to play away immediately, such consecutive games, fortunately, although it is better than back-to-back, but it is also a major test of the players' physical strength, the Pacers are now winning 9-9, the ranking is not high, but no one dares to underestimate this team.
With the nickname of the giant killer of the walkers, Jiang Yang and they didn't dare to be careless! Sure enough, after coming to Indiana today, the Pacers gave the Raptors a dismount, in fact, Jiang Yang is very optimistic about the current lineup of the Pacers.
Center Roy Hibbert can be said to be a quasi-All-Star, and Danny Granger in the team, known as the most well-rounded player in the league, is excellent in offense and defense, and is capable of three-point and breakthrough breakthroughs, and is a person who feels very tricky.
Today's starters on both sides are as follows, the Raptors are still the starting five, center Marc Gasol, power forward Banyani, small forward Sonny Weems, scoring guard DeMar DeRozan, point guard Jiang did not, although Andrei Kirilenko played well in the last game, but after all, he has just played a game, and he still needs to adapt to the run-in.
But just as Jiang Yang looks at the current level of Sony Weems, the No. 3 starter will be Kirilenko sooner or later.
The starter on the Pacers' side, the center is Roy Hibbert, a potential rising star with a height of 218 cm, although he is physically at a disadvantage, that is, he has good athleticism, and after a few years of training, he may not be able to become a strong All-Star level player.
Power forward Josh McRoberts, who was originally the No. 4 position last season was Troy Murphy, and after Murphy played his value last season, he moved to another team this season! Small forward Danny Granger and the league's most well-rounded star after Big Bird Larry Bird, but as far as the current situation stands, he has not inherited Big Bird's other abilities except for inheriting Big Bird's terrible physical fitness, and the point guard is Darren Collison, a rookie last season, who played very well when he was a substitute for Paul, and it was last season that he played a value.
So this season, the Pacers will recruit him to the team and directly put the former main point guard J. Ford on the bench.
As soon as the game began, the Pacers gave the Raptors a dismount, although in the league's scoring average per game, the Pacers ranked 16th, and the Raptors ranked first, but today the Pacers seemed to play the 'league's No. 1' offensive level.
After Hibbert's layup, the Pacers took an eight-point lead at the end of the first quarter with four minutes left, while the Pacers' 18 points were scored by six players, with Granger and Rush coming off the bench to stand out.
Jiang Yang now finally understands what it means to bloom more and what it means to rain down like a ball! Although there was a recent rumor that the team was going to trade Rush, but Rush's recent state has not been affected by rumors at all, he directly contributed seven points in the second half of the first quarter, beat DeMar Derot, and led the team to a 13-point lead, if it wasn't for Jiang Yang's frenzy at the last moment, the first quarter of the game would not know what to do, the first quarter of the game ended, the Raptors trailed the opponent by six points 25-31 into the second quarter of the game, And the Pacers, who are playing at home, seem to have turned up the basket a lot bigger after the first quarter!
Originally, Jiang Yang was still thinking about waiting until their hand felt gone, and then he would lead the team to counterattack......
However, at the beginning of the second quarter of the game, Jiang Yang's hopes were dashed, and less than four minutes into the second quarter, the Pacers hit four three-pointers. Coupled with a three-pointer from Dunleavy that stepped on the line, the Pacers instantly stretched the score to double digits, and when Jiang Yang and Banyani hoped to suppress the Pacers' momentum with the same three-pointers, that unlucky kid, Brandon Rush, came out and hit two three-pointers in a row!
I've seen three-point rain, in the last game, the Knicks shot twelve three-pointers, and Jiang Yang was not afraid!
But now, the Pacers hit ten three-pointers in less than half the game...... Then Granger maintained the situation on the court, the Pacers scored as many as 37 points in this quarter, and although Jiang Yang led the Raptors to score 29 points, he still trailed the opponent by as many as 14 points at 68-54! As soon as the third quarter of the game began, the Raptors launched a strong counterattack, the Pacers after a short break, it seems that the hand has also cooled a little, after Collison's layup, the difference was reopened to 18 points, the Pacers' hand began to decline, and Jiang Yang took the opportunity to score seven points in a row, leading the Raptors to play a wave of 12-1 scoring, and the score difference was also pulled back to seven points, at this time Rush was another three-pointer, completely hit the Raptors chasing points, the Pacers this quarter of the game, Only allowed the Raptors to chase back two points at 21-23.
Leading the Raptors by a full 12 points into the final quarter of the battle, Jiang Yang was crazy in the last quarter, and Banyani was also crazy! In the fourth quarter of the game, they began to score like crazy, and under the leadership of Jiang Yang and Baniani, the Raptors played a poor 10-4 start, narrowing the score back to less than 10 points, and only trailing the opponent by six points at 87-93.
But in the minutes that followed, the damned Darren Collison began to take over the game while Jiang Yang was not returning.
After Hibbert punched Banjani for a three-pointer, he reopened the score to more than 10 points.
The unwilling Jiang Yang organized the players to fight back again, but the difference of 12 points was too big, and when there were 2 minutes and 11 seconds left in the game, Jiang Yang couldn't care so much, and directly turned on the excitement, and the excitement also appeared in the offensive attributes! Jiang Yang had three minutes + offensive attributes, and then Jiang Yang began to go crazy, in 2 minutes and 11 seconds, Jiang Yang scored three three-pointers in a row plus an inside three-point shot, and he scored 12 points in a row! However, what made Jiang Yang helpless was that the Pacers, who felt so good that they were overwhelmed, also scored 8 points, and Jiang Yang chased hard, but only chased back 4 points......
"Squeak!" As Jiang Yang hit the dunk at the last moment, the whistle at the end of the game also sounded, and Jiang Yang sat down on the ground helplessly, in this game, Jiang Yang got 50+, but what is the use of this? The Raptors still lost the game 118-124, and the shooting rate of the Pacers team as a whole was 56%, looking at such a shooting rate, Jiang Yang was helpless.
Even if the Raptors also hit a terrible 48%, the poor 8 shooting percentages are enough!
124-118, the Raptors' three-game winning streak was ended here, and the Giant Killer once again proved his strength!
The Raptors lost this game, and the first position in the East was officially given to the Celtics.
Jiang Yang scored 54 points, 12 rebounds, 9 assists, 2 blocks and 5 steals in this game, but he should still lose.
On the Pacers' side, seven players scored double-doubles, Roy Hibbert 13 points, Josh McRoberts 12 points, Darren Collison 17 points, Mike Dunleavy 11 points, Danny Granger 21 points, James Posey 11 points, Blanton Rush 26 points, the Pacers shot 16 of 26 three-pointers in the game, this hit rate Jiang Yang's heart was dead, in the last quarter, the Raptors played a terrifying score of 41 points in a single quarter under the leadership of Jiang Yang, but the Pacers still told Jiang Yang with 35 points, Even if you can score again, it doesn't matter!
Compared to the Pacers, only five Raptors scored double-doubles, including Jiang Yang, Banjani withered today with only 12 points, Marc Gasol 15 points and 9 rebounds, Amir Johnson 11 points, Andrei Kirilenko 12 points, Leandro Barbossa 12 points, the others almost disappeared, and after the game, the Raptors players rushed back to the hotel immediately.
Jiang Yang is out of strength now, he needs to take a good rest, this is the first time that Jiang Yang has lost when he is 'excited'...... And he was so depressed when he lost, he was simply killed by the other party, Jiang Yang was unwilling! ro! ~!