Horn started the second quarter with a beautiful offense, and Carlisle on the Mavericks' side immediately stood up and yelled at his players.

It can be seen how much the Mavericks attach importance to Horn, and Horn is also a lot more comfortable after scoring these two points. He finally understood what Paul meant, since the other party wants to restrict you, the best way for you to respond is not to bypass, but to run over the past.

The Mavericks' bench lineup has a lot of individual attackers, and Barria came over and played a pick-and-roll with Haywood right away.

Barria is the type of guard who is very nasty, he is very fast and shoots accurately if he finds his rhythm. The most important thing is that he is shorter than everyone else, and his rhythm is completely different from others.

Somebody takes one step, he takes two steps, or three steps, so you have no way of knowing what he's going to do next. It's also an advantage to be very short on the pitch at times, because then you'll have a completely different pace than everyone else.

After this round, Barria directly blocked and broke through, and Horn caught up, and was messed up by Barria's weird rhythm. Barria scored two points on a layup straight on Horn's body.

Although Horn is very good at defending, it is really difficult to defend a super little like Barria.

The Mavericks' bench lineup is very offensive and has strong uncertainty, and when it is strong, it is more powerful than their main lineup, and when it is weak, it will fall into a scoring drought.

Today, the Mavericks played very smoothly, so these people also played relatively smoothly. By the time the Mavericks half-court ball was in Horn's hands again.

Horn gets the ball at the top of the arc, and the Mavericks are very concerned about this position, and whenever Horn gets the ball in this position, they desperately squeeze Horn to the sideline. It's the same this time, Marion and Butler come up together to squeeze Horn to the right for liquidation.

If it had been before, Horn would have succumbed, but this time Horn didn't follow the Mavericks' script, he took a step towards the right side of possession with the ball, and suddenly turned to the left with a big turn.

This time Horn threw the side Butler behind, and when Marion came to help defend again, Horn had already stepped into the restricted area, at this time the Mavericks' Haywood quickly topped the basket, but let Horn to the center of the penalty area, Horn had a lot of choices, he immediately transferred the ball in a wide range, and the basketball went directly to Peja's hand on the right foot, Peja took the ball and shot a three-point shot.

The Mavericks controlled Horn to the sideline in order to prevent such a situation, and if Horn entered the halfway, it was too simple to pass the ball to both sides at Horn's height, and only by compressing Horn to the side and lengthening Horn's passing distance could Horn's playmaking ability be minimized.

Horn attacked himself in the last round, and he had an assist in this round, and he was completely awakened.

The Mavericks are not as stable as the Hornets, whose bench lineup is centered on Horn, while the Mavericks' bench lineup has no obvious tactical core.

The Mavericks' bench lineup in the last round can play very well, and the Mavericks can also play badly in this round.

Butler singled out Peja from the baseline, only to miss his own shot, giving the Hornets a cheap backcourt rebound.

After Hornka got to the rebound, he passed the ball to Thorton, and immediately said a word to Thorton; "I'm going to play inside! Give me the ball then! ”

Horn rarely plays inside, and taking the initiative to play inside at this time actually shows an attitude, that is, to play the game with hardness.

Thorton wasn't very convinced of Horn before, but now when he heard that Horn was going to fight like this, he suddenly felt a sense of identification with Horn from the bottom of his heart.

When the Hornets arrived at the opposing half, Horne began to pretend to block on the outside, and suddenly hit the right midfield and turned to get Marion. Thorton had been prepared beforehand, and split the ball all at once.

Horn didn't hesitate to take the ball, and at the first moment of receiving the ball, he turned around and walked to the bottom line to force a breakthrough.

Horn slammed Marion with his shoulder at the moment of turning, blocking with his elbow outward, the movement of his arm is very important when making physical contact, and he can take advantage of it if he uses it just right not to foul, and if he uses it a little badly, he will definitely foul. At this time, Horn's scale was very good, and he just pushed Marion behind him with a block, and this time Horne faced the Hornets' basket.

Haywood, who pounced on the side, was about to defend, Horn made a feint, and then immediately turned and twisted back to make a layup.

"Brush!"

Horn played an Olajuwon-esque feint on the baseline, beating Marion and turning Heywood around.

It was New Orleans' home stadium, and Horn played this kind of good ball, and the court immediately burst into applause.

Carlisle frowned at this point, as he saw Horn start attacking the interior.

Horn scored points again, Horn played badly in the first quarter, and now he finally regained his feelings, and his confidence was immediately improved, if he forced to crush the opponent's defense, it was really not so strong.

The Mavericks did have a difficult side of Barria, and when it came to the Hornets' half, there was no organization at all, and it was a god-chasing pull-up jump shot to score 2 points.

The Mavericks played fast, and the Hornets were not to be outdone, and the Hornets kicked off quickly on the bottom line, and chased the Mavericks to the half of the court very quickly.

At this point, Horn used his running speed to take advantage of their unstable footing to get to the right side of the waist again.

An interior lineman can attack the low post if he is fast enough. If the opponent's foothold is not stable, the inner line is also quite weak.

Like last time, Horn didn't wait for the Mavericks to react with the ball, there was a sudden breakthrough of the bottom line, Marion stuck up at this time, Horn hit his shoulder fiercely, and squeezed Marion away half a step at once, at this time Haywood had not yet defended, Horn flew up directly and dunked.

"Bang dang!"

Horn hit another one under the basket, or a dunk! At this time, the Orleans fans at home were excited, and the fans cheered all over the stadium.

The players on the Hornets bench also jumped up and suppressed a quarter, and now it was Horne who took the lead in blowing the horn of the counterattack!

Bill Wharton also said at this time: "Horn is starting to play the inside, and he does have a slight advantage in height and strength when he plays Marion on the inside. It's a great choice! ”

Horn scored back-to-back points and began to turn the tide on the court, which Carlisle didn't like. He hurriedly went to the sideline and loudly arranged the defense.

Carlisle was originally a defensive coach, from the Pistons to Indiana to the Mavericks, he has always adhered to a defensive strategy.

The Mavericks had been playing well before, and Barria had played well, but now Horn has risen all of a sudden. There were some ups and downs on the Mavericks' side, and Barria's baseline breakthrough was stopped by the Hornets' sudden warm-up defense.

Under the basket, Horne picked up the basketball and passed it back to Thorton, and the Hornets hit another chasing fast break.

Horn ran desperately along the sideline at this time, and he was one step faster than Thornton to the Mavericks' half.

Horn arrived at the bottom line, Thorton immediately passed the ball, Horn received the ball and shook towards the bottom line, Marion thought that Horn was going to break through the baseline again, he hurriedly moved towards the bottom line, but at this time Horn was dribbling to the line and passed Marion, past Marion Horn up a violent dunk and smashed it on the Mavericks' basket.

"Bang dang!"

Horn hit the low post one after another, and there was nothing he could do about the Mavericks.

The New Orleans arena was completely hot at this time, and Carlisle had to call a timeout.

Horn scored eight straight points to cut the deficit to 28; 35, the point difference has entered single digits, and the Mavericks really need to do something at this time.