Chapter 192: Preparing for Los Angeles
"Wipe the ......" Zhang Kong smashed the ball to the ground hard, his face was helpless, if it was a normal time, of course the referee would not let go of such an opportunity, a t may have gone up a long time ago, but now the referee is in a good mood, so let Zhang Kong go.
Zhang Kong threw the ball like this for no reason, just now, Zhang Kong held the ball with both hands, and just held it steady, Delong Williams next to him slapped it over, and didn't give Zhang Kong any time to react at all, so he directly slapped the ball away.
The ball obviously slapped Zhang Kong's hand, but the referee didn't even say a word, this is the home court of the Jazz, the most difficult place to conquer in the legend, because such a violation here is almost not a foul, you can do the same, and the referee will not give a penalty, but Zhang Kong is usually used to being honest, and now let him play like this, he really can't do it.
Watching Deron once again hoist the ball in front of him to Boozer on the inside, Boozer shook his big butt and shook Murphy behind him in a daze, and then drilled into the inside, and a right-handed layup for a right-handed layup was easily scored.
Zhang Kong doesn't know what to say now, Delong is revenge today, and today's Zhang Kong is depressed.
At the beginning of the game, the Jazz made an amazing start, they only allowed the opponent to score 3 points in the last eight minutes, and Boozer alone cut down as many as 12 points, leading the team to play a wave of 23-3 dream start, and this three-point was thrown in after Zhang Kong's character twice, although Granger was ashamed and brave, and scored consecutive points.
But the continuous away games, has consumed too much of their physical strength, whether it is to play the Warriors or the King, it is a physical work, the scores on both sides have not been opened, this time the Jazz team took advantage of the Pacers' opening feeling of collective cold, although Zhang Kong in the rest of the first quarter, brushed three assists, the Pacers also hit a lot of good shots, but the huge gap is still there, the Jazz led the opponent by as many as 12 points in the first quarter 32-20.
In the second quarter, the Pacers launched a counterattack, Hansblu, Granger and Zhang Kong became the three offensive initiation points on the court, with Zhang Kong's assist, the first two scored in a row, playing a wave of 10-2 small **, narrowing the score to 4 points, but at this time AK47 Kirilenko and Boozer's two shots, let the Pacers' counterattack come to naught.
After each side traded a few offenses, Dunleavy, Watson and Murphy hit back-to-back three-pointers off the bench to narrow the score to just two points, and Boozer and Millsap combined for eight points at the crucial moment.
Matthews then scored six straight points with a three-pointer and a three-pointer to give the Jazz a seven-point lead over the Pacers at 57-50 at halftime.
Re-battle, Jazz's three main forces, Delon, Boozer and Oku teamed up to make a move, they swept the team's first 17 points in the third quarter, in the middle of the third quarter, Zhang Kong also began to make a biao, giving Delon and Boozer three blocks in a row, helping the Pacers to play a wave of counterattack small **, narrowing the score back to 6 points, within these three minutes, the Jazz team did not score a point, and the Pacers took the opportunity to attack each other, but at this time Jazz Boozer made a layup again, making the Pacers depressed.
The huge disadvantage of the interior made it difficult for the Pacers to catch up with the score on the outside, but then it was pulled away by the Jazz using the interior.
At the end of the third quarter, the Jazz still led the opponent by seven points at 79-72 and entered the final quarter.
In the final quarter, the game entered the white-hot stage, Granger finally broke out, dunked and scored five points in a row, Dunleavy and Zhang Kong cooperated, received Zhang Kong's ground-hitting pass and hit a layup The Pacers were only 1 point behind the opponent...... But at this moment, the Pacers' interior line made another mistake! Boozer and Millsap hit three consecutive shots to pull the score away again, and Zhang Kong could be blocked from the side when Boozer or Millsap made a layup or dunk.
Or they play with leaning back or something, but now they don't play anything, they just throw in front of you in a daze, even if Zhang Kong's cover reaches 99, there is no way at all, Zhang Kong can only try his best to block, but the effect is very poor.
With Deron Williams hitting two free throws in the end, the game officially ended, and the Pacers lost to the Jazz 90-96 on the road.
Although Deron Williams said that the game was avenged, the effect was not good, because if it weren't for his last two free throws, he couldn't even score ten points, and Zhang Kong's defense was like a wall, directly across it.
The main contributor to the Toggas victory today was actually Boozer, who scored 35 points and 13 rebounds on Murphy...... Deron Williams only has 11 points and 13 assists, the score is too low, even Sloan has to admit that Zhang Kong's defense is really sharp, and he won't give anyone else any chance at all! Oku had 13 points and 8 rebounds, Matthew had 18 points, Millsap had 11 points, and the Jazz were all over the place, and the Pacers were completely powerless.
On the Pacers' side, Granger scored a team-high 26 points and 8 rebounds, and Murphy was beaten up today, and it was miserable! Although the 16 points and 10 rebounds in the game are good, those who have watched the game know that he is about to be cried by Boozer.
TJ Ford scored 13 points, Mike Dunleavy scored 10 and Roy Hibbert played 15 minutes without a point.
Dundee Jones had a cold hand today, scoring just 4 points on 1-of-6 shooting, and that's the difference between an average player and a star.
Zhang Kong contributed 13 points, 8 assists, 7 blocks and 3 rebounds in the whole game, scoring higher than Delon, but the assists are a little ugly, Zhang Kong has been difficult to have fewer than ten assists since the beginning of this season, but this time he is low again.
The Pacers lost their fourth game of the season, 12-4, such a result, such a result, is not enough for them to continue to sit at the top of the Eastern Conference, the Magic and the Celtics have pressed the Pacers behind themselves, the Magic 16-4 is at the top of the East, behind the Celtics 15-4, and then the Pacers 12-4, the Cavaliers' 15-5 is fourth, the Hawks are 13-6 and fifth, and the dispute between the top few in the East can be described as extremely fierce, Compared to the East, the West is better, the top of the list is still the Lakers' 15-3 record, which has ranked first in the league, and the Nuggets in second place are 14-6, this game, not so much that they lost in the hands of the Jazz's cut-ball tactics, but that they lost in the hands of their own people, and the first quarter of the game was too many points.
If the first quarter of the game had not been so bad, the outcome of the game would have been different! However, Zhang Kong didn't have much time to study their first quarter loss, they needed to rest quickly, and they needed to rush to Los Angeles the next day.
There they will face their final opponent on their Western Conference trip, Los Angeles...... It's not the Lakers, it's the Clippers.
For this game, the Pacers will still need to be careful, because the Clippers' results have been very good recently.
So far in the season, they have played a total of 20 games, but the results are good, 9 wins and 11 losses, of course, this is only compared with their results in previous years, the winning rate is not more than 50%, and it is still a bad team!
This season, the Clippers' interior double-tower tactics have once achieved good results, brushing data masters Marcus Camby and German Chris Carman, this offense and defense of the two long men stationed on the Clippers' interior line, and the Clippers' offense has also played well, plus the bearded bandits on the outside, Baron Davis, Al Thornton and Eric Gordon, the ability to grab points is also not weak.
Although there is no superstar player on the team, the Clippers are also notoriously difficult to bite among some of the best teams in the West, especially the teams with poor interior lines, and the Pacers are the worst teams in the league's top rankings right now.
So everyone says that the current Pacers are not a strong team, at most a pseudo-strong team.
Even if a pseudo-powerhouse like the Hawks has an Al Horford, the Pacers don't have a single one that can make a move.
So this game is more dangerous, and if you are not careful, the Pacers may usher in their first losing streak of the season.
This is something that no one intend to see, and the Pacers can now be ranked fourth in the East, which is also unexpected, but their recent losing streak is also a bit confusing, which also gives the Clippers people a good opportunity to think that this is a good opportunity, after all, the Pacers just lost, and they played back-to-backs.
No matter how you look at it, this game is good for the Clippers, before the game starts, the coach of the Clippers, Dunleavy Sr. did not give face to his son in the Pacers, and directly said that his goal in this game is to win, there is nothing to say except victory, and the Pacers are just a stepping stone for their team to enter the playoffs.
Hearing this, everyone on the Pacers' side was angry, and Dunleavy was embarrassed, after all, it was his dad who said this.
Only Zhang Kong knew in the whole team, and Dunleavy was not untargeted when he said this, because he also felt that the whole team was now in a state of exhaustion, which was the weakness of the young team, and he rushed too hard at the beginning of the season.
The first month was really beautiful, and the honor of being first in the East is also very amazing.
But when the recent games get up, the physical strength of the Pacers is obviously overwhelmed! Whether it's the main force or the substitute, I feel very tired, I can lie down and never sit, and I can sit and never stand! This is a manifestation of physical exhaustion.
"Looks like this game is going to trouble me again!" Looking at the surname points stored in his system in the past few days, Zhang Kong thought.
(To be continued)