Chapter 20: When the Lid Meets the Closure
"Coach, I'm all right!" At the break in the first quarter, Salmons returned to the team, Salmons is a relatively talented player, I have to say that although this player is unlikely to become a superstar, but it is easy to become a star player, but unfortunately, in the Kings, his strengths can not be played, Salmons you must let him hold the ball and attack, in the face of big defenders, his speed will become a sharp weapon, in the face of small defenders, he can shoot again, Therefore, he is a relatively jack-of-all-trades character, and he has never been able to find a position suitable for him in the Kings and Bulls, and it is indeed very difficult for him to have such a position until he arrives at the Bucks.
Now Salmons is standing in front of Reggie Cias, although he said that he has nothing to do, but from his eyes can still see the hatred for Zhang Kong, but Zhang Kong is simply ignoring him, the defense of the first quarter of the twelve minutes is not too tiring, but he still needs to drink a drink and rest, and his physical strength is not unlimited.
"Well, if that's okay, you'll be on from the second quarter! Martin come down and take a break! Reggie Cias looked at Salmons and thought about it, and decided to replace Kevin Martin with him, Martin's hand felt bad to a certain limit today, and he only scored 2 points so far, and the rest of the balls have not been scored, I have to say that Martin's play like this is expected by some people.
Martin's breakthrough is almost 0, purely relying on the feel and shooting to play the game, when he encounters a tougher defensive master, or a powerful person, he will be depressed, for Martin, comfortable shooting is more important than anything else, and Udri's advantage is more reflected in the offense, he is not very attentive to passing, so that now Martin's play is getting worse and worse.
At the beginning of the second quarter of the game, basically the benches of the two teams fought on the court, and the Nuggets' bench had a very strong existence, the nerve knife JR Smith, an existence that could shoot anyone crazy and die, JR Smith's shooting was particularly joyful, and now he and Birdman Anderson have become the Nuggets' bench stars, one main defense, one main offense, if it weren't for the Nuggets' configuration is indeed impossible to compete with those super strong teams, the Nuggets' strength would be very strong.
At the beginning of the second quarter, Jr-Smith dominated the Nuggets' offense, making layups and assists for everything! With ten minutes left in the second quarter, Anthony Carter fouled Salmons and Zhang Kong came on with Hawes.
This is the first time Zhang Kong has appeared with Salmons, seeing Zhang Kong on the court, Salmons didn't say anything, and Zhang Kong didn't go over to high-five him, he is not the kind of person who likes to put a hot face on other people's cold butts, and on the Nuggets side, Anthony is also on the field, Zhang Kong originally came on the court to defend JR-Smith, but Anthony came up, so he naturally had to defend Anthony.
The next three teams had a three-minute scoring drought, but the Nuggets scored enough points in the first quarter, and it didn't matter if they slowed down the pace of offense in the second quarter, while the Kings were still a lot of points behind, but fortunately, the Kings could still rely on foul making to score.
Today's hand is already so bad that they don't score, and Zhang Kong can't shoot at all.
Every time he attacked, he was four or five in the front court, although he didn't dare to let Zhang Kong go there, after all, he would still hold the ball and break it, but the center of gravity of the defense didn't need to move like Zhang Kong, as the Nuggets also began to play iron, the Kings' hand began to gradually warm, first Garcia received an assist from Yudri and hit a three-point shot, and then Garcia scored two points on a layup, and Yudri also made the same layup, scoring two points, looking at the score has chased to only 11 points, the Nuggets can't sit still, Anthony and Billups made a cooperation and introduced the ball into Anthony's hands, Anthony just received the ball, Zhang Kong had already defended it, and stuck to Anthony, because he saw Anthony's next move, and the prediction was only a prediction of the next human action, not the ball! So all Zhang Kong can do is to know the opponent's offensive line, whether the ball goes in or not is not what he understands, all he can do is to interfere as much as possible, seeing Zhang Kong jump up again to interfere with himself, Anthony only feels bitter in his mouth, Zhang Kong's hand is just blocking the forward path of his basketball, if he sends the ball out, it is a block.
Anthony had no choice but to start raising the height of the shot, but in this way he lost his original rhythm and feel, this time the basketball shot a three-not, but the lucky Nuggets actually had someone standing in the position where the basketball fell.
Rieziz Creza easily received the falling basketball, and the original three non-sticks became a wonderful pass at this time.
Kreiza scored the ball with an easy layup, breaking the Nuggets' scoring drought of nearly three minutes, and the next time was not Zhang Kong and Anthony's performance time, the two teams' interior began to slowly increase the score, with Chauncey Billups hitting two free throws, the first half of the game ended, Anthony was really Zhang Kong 0 sealed, did not score a point, but the Nuggets led the Kings 60-39 by as many as 21 points.
The entire second half became garbage time, and it was almost impossible for the current Kings to recover the Nuggets' 21 points in the half, and Anthony only played 3 minutes in the second half before he went off, and he didn't feel good today.
However, on the Nuggets side, Anthony has a bad hand, others can be replaced, on the Kings side, Martin's hand is not good, there is no one to replace, Salmons scored 22 points, but it was difficult to beat Billups's 29 points, Thompson grabbed 15 rebounds but it was useless, the two teams were not on the same level at all, the game soon came to the last moment of the final quarter, there was only 1 minute and 12 seconds left before the end of the game, Bobby Brown received a pass from Hawes, and the air relay dunk was successful, At this point, the score was 114-85, and the Kings had no chance at all.
Most of the fans have already left the stadium early, and I have to say that this year's Kings do have some mud that can't hold up the wall.
The Nuggets' shot didn't go in, and after Udri got the rebound, he went straight to the opponent in a straight line, and after he got inside, he got up and went to the basket, and as soon as the basketball left his hand, he was directly fanned out by Anderson in front of him with a big hat.
This Anderson is usually a very likable character, and he has no special skills other than blocking.
Later, he was banned by the league for smoking marijuana, and I heard that he also played in China, but now that he is back in the NBA, Anderson can take a pretty good contract and occupy a considerable amount of playing time in the NBA.
The basketball in Udri's hand was ruthlessly slapped away by him, and after being picked up by Billups in front, Billups stabilized a little, and when Anderson came up, he handed the ball to Anderson, and he played the block just now, and he naturally wanted him to play this time, now Anthony is off the court, Udri is covered, Zhang Kong made up for the defense to Billups, after Billups and Anderson blocked and dismantled, Zhang Kong directly faced Anderson, looking at Zhang Kong in front of him, Anderson also admitted that this kid's defense was good.
However, the huge gap in body and tonnage made him think that Zhang Kong could not pose any threat to him, and he yelled and dribbled the basketball towards the basket in front of him.
It's a pity that there is also an alternative existence of Zhang Kong! Looking at Anderson who rushed over, Zhang Kong jumped up with the other party, but the difference was that when Zhang Kong's body was in the air, he miraculously floated half a foot to the left, letting go of Anderson's frontal impact, and then what he did was very simple, his right hand pressed heavily on the opponent's hands holding the ball, and a thin defender used one hand to block an inside line holding the ball in both hands...... It's a simple sentence, but it can make people's mouths open wide in surprise.
Anthony once again saw 'himself' at the end of the first quarter on the bench, this time it was not Zhang Kong who became a rolling gourd, it was Anderson, a tall man! Anderson rolled on the ground twice before standing up, looking at Zhang Kong, who was standing there with a basketball in both hands, his eyes full of surprise and puzzlement...... He definitely doesn't know Chinese martial arts novels, with the other way, the other way, the other body!
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Khan, this click is too little! The point-to-push ratio is indeed quite against the sky, but this click is really a little troublesome! Hope to have a recommendation next week! Tomorrow will be given
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