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The timeout ended soon and the game resumed, with neither side making much of any changes to their lineups. It was still the same lineup that had just been played, and the smile on Paul's lips disappeared as soon as he came on the court, replaced by a serious face, as if he was facing the same seriousness as cutting the red line or the green line when he was facing the bomb disposal. Now it's the Hornets, who possessed the ball very seriously through the half, and then the Suns' defense has been a little leaky because of the speed.
Originally, the Suns' defense was not very good, and after a little hole, it was even more vulnerable to a super attacker like Paul, but Paul seemed to be born with a little problem in this regard, he did not directly enter the interior on the outside, but stopped on the outside and did not continue to go deeper. Paul sometimes stagnates against some balls that are clearly porous in the opposition's defense, perhaps because of the professional illness of his point guards, or perhaps because of their tactical set-up. But all in all, this stagnation is still a bit of a pain in the eye, especially for some Paul fans.
However, Paul did so to get all the players from both sides back, and then the two players started a positional battle. Paul passed the ball to Morrison, but Morrison saw that he didn't have a chance to re-pass the ball to Paul, so Paul didn't pass the ball again, but used two consecutive crotch dribbles to face Nash.
In this short moment, Paul was activated! He and Nash are now in a position about 20 centimeters outside the 45-degree angle on the left wing of the three-point line, Paul suddenly started and forced a breakthrough towards Nash's left, the current Paul has not suffered any serious injuries, and when his speed is increased to the extreme, it looks like he is still faster than Zhang Chen.
Paul's forced breakthrough was a bit of a scramble even for Nash, but Nash adjusted quite quickly, and he immediately sideways his steps and then got back in front of Paul - his defensive skills were so bad that he could only try to keep up with Paul's footsteps.
Seeing Nash in front of him, Paul suddenly changed direction quite violently, and then Paul had already passed Nash's left hand side, and quickly came to the left side of the basket, and Marion was already chasing after him. That's when Paul came up with his signature move: a high toss.
Paul's toss looked quite unreliable, anyway, it seemed like he just threw it casually, but this casual basketball just rushed high into the sky, reached the highest point, began to fall, and then flew into the basket. The arc of this throw is quite beautiful, and Paul's throw has a certain amount of backwards at the moment, and his right hand is also able to nimble and maneuver to dodge opponents, and his speed is quite awesome. All in all, Paul's throw has become one of the most difficult shots in the league to defend.
Paul hit a throw, and it looked like the Hornets had recovered their touch after returning from a timeout.
There was no doubt that it was a pretty good attack just now, and the score between the two sides was back on the same page again.
The two sides began to retreat again, but Zhang Chen was reminiscing about Paul's breakthrough just now, and he could only see him dribbling under the crotch in front of Nash for a few consecutive crotch dribbles, and then the basketball suddenly passed to his left hand, and then began to force a breakthrough, and when Nash came up, his left hand quickly pushed the basketball to the right, and then his right hand caught the high-speed flying basketball, under this wonderful speed and ball control, Nash naturally could not block Paul.
Zhang Chen was amazed, but he still has a reputation for self-knowledge, he knows that his ball control skills are still too scummy compared to Paul, without that kind of ball control skills, there will be no such wonderful change of direction, and without such a wonderful change of direction, he will not be as good as Paul to understate.
If Zhang Chen has Paul's kind of ball control skills and that kind of breakthrough technology, Zhang Chen will have a more obvious advantage than Paul - height, Zhang Chen is 20 centimeters taller than Paul, if he uses Paul's breakthrough speed to directly enter the inside, he can block two meters and three, and his interior line with quite excellent shooting skills is basically not too much.
Ball control, ball control! Zhang Chen began to look forward to the development of speed after gaining speed, eager to have a pretty good ball control technique.
Offensive and defensive switching, Nash controlled the ball more calmly through the half, compared to Kidd, Nash is still better at positional warfare, facing Paul, Nash has nothing to panic in front of the new generation of point guards in this league, he just uses his body to protect the ball, and then uses his free hand to begin to direct his teammates to land.
Nash began to break through, this time Nash didn't seem to be ready to hand over the ball to his teammates, Nash's attack was close to being inexplicable, but in the team of Zhang Chen and Xiao Si, the two scoring maniacs, Nash gradually learned to suppress his own shots, and instead concentrated on his own assists.
In fact, Paul's physical fitness is not bad, the physical confrontation of this one-meter-eighty-three guy is still quite good, and his disadvantage is only his height. It was really difficult for Nash to use his 30-something body to break through him, but Nash didn't care too much, and after using two changes of direction in a row, he broke through directly and came to the free throw line near the pull-up jump shot to the basket steadily.
After the goal, Nash's face was still the kind of pampering that he had grown to in the league for many years, and the hit of the ball didn't bring him much joy, he was still just yelling for his teammates to retreat into the half court as soon as possible and start to retreat.
Paul glanced at his senior, then received a pass from the baseline and again possessed the ball through the half. Paul's possession was unusually consistent, and he was a little sluggish on the road, and by the time he reached the three-point line, almost ten seconds had passed. The Hornets players also started their own runs, and Morrison in front of Zhang Chen was also ready to move, although Zhang Chen knew that he might not cause him much trouble, but he also followed closely.
Morrison followed the Hornets' tactics in front and ran to the left wing of the three-point line, just as Paul began to make a block with Chandler, and then Paul began to break through inside. The Suns' interior defense was still a little empty, but Paul didn't have much of an advantage in this ball, so when he faced the opponent's interior line, there was no room to shoot.
And Chandler was supposed to go down with Paul, but at this time he obviously didn't have an advantage, because the Suns sensed the two people's fast-break attempts, so the Suns' defense quickly followed.
Then, Paul's ball flew out of the inside, and the direction of the pass was not Chandler, but flew straight out, until it came to the hands of Morrison, who was opposite Zhang Chen. Zhang Chen happened to be blocked by the opponent's West at this time, and could only watch Morrison jump shot without pressure, and then hit a three-point shot to get three points.
Zhang Chen patted his head in annoyance, the Hornets' offense just now was orderly, this tactic successfully opened up a gap for Morrison, and Paul also had Chandler and Morrison after breaking through into the interior line, no matter what, they were able to find a relatively good position.
The duel between the old and new point guards is really eye-catching, but Zhang Chen is a little depressed, although his speed has reached level nine, but what really highlights his speed in this game is that there is a rather amazing breakthrough at the beginning, and then there are not many opportunities to perform.
The main reason is that the inner line of the wasp is like an iron bucket, and a person with no physical fitness like Zhang Chen forcibly breaks in, if he doesn't pinch one of his rhythms, it will probably cause an embarrassing ending of being blocked.
Therefore, Zhang Chen had a little resentment in his heart, and then began to ask for the ball from Nash, it seems that the Hornets' interior lineup has not completely shrunk successfully, and he still has a chance. Nash saw that he was asking for the ball, and immediately passed the ball over, Zhang Chen looked at the basketball that was constantly flying, and also prayed in his heart to hurry up and hurry up.
Seeing that the pass was about to fly halfway through, a Paul suddenly came out of the oblique stab, Paul shot like lightning, and the steal of this season's steal king was quite a headache, only to see his right hand flash slightly, and then the basketball came to his hand.
As soon as Paul made a steal, his body immediately rushed towards the opponent's half, his speed was quite amazing, and in a short moment, he had already taken two big strides forward, and instantly shook off the players on both sides.
"Say!" Seeing that the pass that should have belonged to him was intercepted by Paul, Zhang Chen also felt a wave of annoyance in his heart, and at the moment when Paul just started to dribble and run wildly, he had already taken a step forward and chased after Paul's back.
In the eyes of the fans, seeing this season's steal king Paul steal Nash's pass, and then immediately started to dribble in the direction of the half, Paul's speed was also quite good, and he quickly opened up the distance with the big team in such an undefended situation.
However, people soon saw Zhang Chen chasing after him, but when Zhang Chen started, Paul had already taken a big stride, and he had already left Zhang Chen at a distance that seemed a little far.
Then, something happened to the audience's surprise - everyone had already acquiesced to the fact that Paul was going to make a layup again, but Zhang Chen took a big step to catch up after Paul, and when the two came to the middle line, the two of them were only half a step away!
Zhang Chen doesn't need to dribble, his speed can be fully exerted unrestrained, and although Paul's ball control skills are quite amazing, after all, the ball is still in his hands, so his speed is naturally slower, which gives Zhang Chen an opportunity.
Strictly speaking, Zhang Chen's speed is a little slower than Paul's, but Paul has restraints in his hands, and Zhang Chen runs forward without pressure.
Then, it was discovered that the distance between Zhang Chen and Paul was getting closer and closer. The distance between the two is slowly shrinking...... Then, when he came to the three-point line, Zhang Chen caught up with Paul in one step! Then, after running one step further, Zhang Chen was already in front of Paul!
This chase made everyone feel incredible, no one expected Zhang Chen to catch up in the case of falling behind, the most important thing is that Paul was really caught up by him, and now Zhang Chen has completely blocked Paul's front, seeing that Paul's extremely fast breakthrough from breaking the ball to a dragon fast attack is going to be completely bankrupt!
"Oh my God...... When did this guy have such terrifying speed? All the Suns players were silently muttering in their hearts, and Barbosa was about to see through, and Zhang Chen's speed really scared him.
When Paul saw Zhang Chen standing in front of him, he also chuckled in his heart...... This guy's speed boost is terrifying, isn't it? At the All-Star Rookie Challenge, he was just a player who could run and shoot, when did he have such tricky speed? However, since it has reached this point, Paul naturally will not give up, and his body has already jumped into the air.
Zhang Chen was also relieved to see that he had finally caught up with Paul, and immediately raised his hands in front of Paul, and then did not move anymore, just in front of Paul, and at this time he saw that Paul had jumped towards the sky.
"This thing isn't going to use his sore toss again, is it?" Zhang Chen quickly found Paul's possible way to attack, and then jumped towards him, and then, he soon found that he couldn't find Paul.
Then he heard the sound of a basketball going into the net behind him, and he didn't know what was going on.
It's just that the audience can see it clearly, and the big screen is also playing Paul's quite surprising fast break just now: Paul met Zhang Chen inside the three-point line, and then he threw his body into the air, and then with Zhang Chen's body as the axis, his body rotated in the sky, and then after a 360° body rotation, he had turned behind Zhang Chen, and then took advantage of the last bit of air to make a successful layup.
This one, a 360-degree layup, is also quite good, making people look thrilling, but the replay is quite beautiful.
And Zhang Chen has become the background this time, but now people are not only reminiscing about Paul's super difficult layup, but also reminiscing about Zhang Chen's series of heart-wrenching pursuits just now! Zhang Chen's speed just now far exceeded the limit of what people could bear, and they all felt a little incredible when they saw a big man of two meters and three catching up with Paul like a fish in water, and standing in front of Paul at the last moment.
The audience applauded sincerely this time, not only for such a wonderful layup by Paul, but also for Zhang Chen's extraordinary speed. Players from both sides returned to half-court and reorganized the attack.
This time, Zhang Chen really received the pass, but the Hornets' interior defense was still like an iron bucket, and it didn't look like there was much of a chance. Zhang Chen was about to give up this breakthrough, when he suddenly saw Xiao Si and West on the inside line leave the basket a little, and their direction was still away from the direction of the basket. It turned out that Xiao Si wanted to move out a little bit to catch the ball, and West immediately followed.
The two of them moved a little bit, and they were still in the process of moving, so that Zhang Chen immediately found an opportunity to break through! As the saying goes, there is no chance to be lost, Zhang Chen took advantage of the moment when the two of them had just moved and were still moving.
Morrison is naturally not easy to mess with, he immediately followed Zhang Chen's left side, and at this time Zhang Chen came to a crotch change direction, fortunately at this time, his character exploded, and there was no mistake at such a violent speed, and Zhang Chen took advantage of such a small opportunity to quickly cut straight into the basket!
Morrison followed up directly to Zhang Chen's left, but he soon encountered Marion's block from the inside, and then the Hornets suddenly didn't have time to defend all of Zhang Chen's body, Zhang Chen quickly cut in at the moment when his ninth-level speed firepower was fully opened, and he had come to a place not far from the basket.
At this time, West also found out that something was wrong, but it was too late, because Xiao Si saw that this guy might be about to slip, so he immediately blocked his way, and in such a short moment, Zhang Chen had already broken through the barrier on the outside and arrived at the basket in an instant!
Zhang Chen used his extremely fast speed to find a good space to shoot, at least the left side of the basket was already his world, and the people chasing behind him didn't have time to keep up. Zhang Chen took advantage of such a little time to rise from the ground.
"Bang!"
The basket trembled slightly, and immediately after, the arena emitted a series of tsunami-like sounds!
Another breakthrough! Zhang Chen is the kind of breakthrough that makes the defenders have no time to reflect! His speed was like lightning, and the audience was fascinated by it. Compared with the moment when Zhang Chen first appeared in front of the Suns audience when he only shot a little bit and ran some positions, now Zhang Chen has a terrifying speed, and at the same time, he also has a shot that is difficult for the opponent to stop...... This guy is always improving!
Zhang Chen's breakthrough has further confirmed his nickname of the god of wind, in the past, his god of wind mostly came from the kind of erratic when he was running, coming and going like the wind, but now he can fully match that nickname. Zhang Chen's speed is terrifying, and he has successfully broken through in an instant when the opponent has no time to notice, and his breakthrough is like a gust of wind, so that the defenders have no time to react!
Morrison glanced at Zhang Chen helplessly, at this time, Scott's eyes were a little inquisitive towards him, Morrison felt a little aggrieved, so he shrugged his shoulders at Scott, expressing helplessness...... In fact, he couldn't find a way to contain Zhang Chen...... Unless there is never a flaw in the inner line...... But as you can imagine, that's impossible.
As long as there is a flaw, Zhang Chen's speed may grasp that flaw, and then take advantage of the weakness to find his own breakthrough space.
The Hornets players are starting to get a little worried......
(To be continued)