Chapter 254: Pumping Bees

"Who's special!" Watching David West beat Murphy with his back again, after forcibly squeezing Murphy, he turned around and hit a backward jumper, Zhang Kong couldn't help but say a foul word, there is no way, now in such a situation except scolding Zhang Kong really doesn't know what else to say! It was a game between the Pacers and the Hornets, and after playing the Nets, the Pacers were back at home.

This is a continuous game, after playing the Nets, the Pacers are about to play against the Hornets, originally the Hornets' record is not too good, so the Pacers still think they can win the game, but things are not as simple as they thought, this unintentionally inserted the game at the beginning, the two sides launched an offensive battle, Peja hit a three-pointer, the Glen Brown here also scored four points in a row, Okafor's dunk made the two-point battle 14-14, and then Tyler Hansbrough, who came off the bench, scored three points, Murphy also hit a three-pointer from the outside, slowly widening the gap between the two teams, everything was going as Zhang Kong thought, but at critical moments, someone always came out to make trouble. This time the troublemaker was David West.

This guy's mid-range shot has not allowed the Pacers to pull the score away, Dundee Jones scored in the middle of the shot, David West made a layup, Zhang Kong burst into the interior and relied on Okafor to score the ball, and West relied on Murphy to turn around and make a jumper.

In the first quarter of the game, the Hornets trailed the Pacers by two points 26-28, which was originally nothing, but the key problem appeared on the bench, in the second quarter of the game, the substitutes were ready to get off the court, but at the critical moment, the core of the Pacers' bench outside, Dunleavy, had no complete hand, and three consecutive shots ended in iron, fortunately, Watson's can also be interspersed smoothly in the opponent's lineup, looking for opportunities, so the centimeters on the two sides of the second quarter are still rising alternately.

It wasn't until there were 6 minutes and 11 seconds left in the second quarter that it entered the official timeout, and then the Hornets first changed their main players on the court, Chris Paul, Wadet, Okafor, these people just came on the court, and began to attack.

Such a round of offense, the Pacers played completely out of discipline, but fortunately, Zhang Kong and Paul were on the bar at a critical moment, stepped forward, and hit two three-pointers in a row, and Paul also seized the opportunity of Zhang Kong's offense and began to score himself, and also hit two three-pointers in a row, and the two began to score each other, but the feeling on the Pacers' side was really bad to a limit.

In addition to Zhang Kong, the Pacers didn't score a point in the last two minutes of the second quarter, which also gave the Hornets a chance.

The Hornets unintentionally inserted a 52-50 two-point lead over the Pacers into the second half, and at halftime, Jim O'Brien deliberately investigated, and now the Pacers have a very obvious weakness on the Hornets and the Hornets' interior line.

Okafor's height is only 6 feet 10 inches (208 cm), and David West is only 6 feet 9 inches (206 cm), such a height is obviously the biggest weakness of the Hornets, in order to prevent the opponent, the Pacers changed the big worm Milicic and Hibbert to the court, Roy Hibbert is 7 feet 2 inches, 2.18 meters tall, such a height is definitely quite tall in the NBA, although there is no way to compare with Yao Ming, but such a height is definitely not an ordinary height.

And the big bug Milicic is also 213 centimeters tall, so this height is not a problem at all to deal with Okafor and West.

After the start of the third quarter, the defense on the Pacers' side really had an immediate effect, Hibbert made Okafort uncomfortable on the inside, and David West, who had been bullying Murphy and Al Jefferson in the first half, faced the big bug Milicic who had been trying to defend wholeheartedly.

But what's the endure, the offense on the Pacers' side really hasn't improved much, it's obviously impossible to win the game just by relying on Zhang Kong, Zhang Kong's offense is all data to be found, he can't break out in an instant, and this game scored more than 30 points.

And Granger, Dundee Jones, Dunleavy and others' feel have dropped below freezing, and Granger only scored 6 points in the first half, which is really a bit surprising, at such a moment, Jim O'Brien can only put the ball in Zhang Kong's hands, and now Zhang Kong can't care about whether he is a brush or not, in the face of Paul, Zhang Kong must attack.

Now Zhang Kong has some regrets, why didn't he add his remaining survival points to his family name earlier.

Or you can top it like this, but there is no regret medicine to take in this world, Zhang Kong can only rely on himself to fight Paul and his Hornets, the defensive ability of the Yellows is very strong, although Okafor's performance on the offensive end is unsatisfactory, but his performance on the defensive end is definitely the league's dominant level, the whole body level is 88, the offensive aspect is not strong, but the defensive aspect is higher than Zhang Kong's best defensive interior line, Al Jefferson's defensive level is higher.

However, Jefferson didn't have much playing time today, because he mainly played the No. 4 position, and he still had some advantages over David West at the No. 4 position, but David West always jumped shots, which made him a little depressed.

And Murphy's strongest on the defensive end is to grab rebounds, and the rest is not good, and he was completely beaten by David West.

Now on the inside, both sides are strong and weak, Hiberwood and Milicic's defense has limited Okafor and West, and West and Okafor have also limited Milicic and Hibbert on the offensive end.

Dundee-Jones is now only left with defense, and Granger's offense is also a little tired, and in a blink of an eye, the two sides have changed from the beginning of the mutual attack battle to the current defensive battle, whether it is the inside or the outside, the defense on both sides is extremely sharp.

Muscles hit muscles, constantly squeezing the opponent's body space, and the main point of attack of the two teams has slowly shifted from the inside line to the position where the most should not be shot, the point guard! Zhang Kong looked at Paul in front of him, and now the two are on the right track.

Paul feels good today, and Zhang Kong's hand feels completely dependent on his data pile, plus he has an advantage in height and strength over Paul, and he is not afraid of Paul on the offensive end, and Paul is on the offensive end, when Zhang Kong disperses his energy to attack, he also started his own offensive drama, here Zhang Kong dribbled through Paul and then dunked well, and Paul over there borrowed the inside line to help him get rid of Zhang Kong's defensive throwing shot, and Zhang Kong here pulled out a three-point shot in front of Paul.

Paul over there took advantage of the fast break and waited until Zhang Kong fell into a defensive position, and then grabbed a three-point shot.

The ball on both sides shifted to the point guard, and the player who was supposed to assist now started scoring.

And they show their strong offensive ability like tens of thousands of spectators in the stadium, Paul's offensive ability has been famous for a long time, but Zhang Kong's offensive ability has not been known by others, in the eyes of others, Zhang Kong's offense is not stable, but his passing and defense are very good, but today Zhang Kong also let them know what is called offense.

Against the offense, Biao points, this is what Zhang Kong and Paul need to do now, time flies by, the scores on both sides are slowly increasing, and when there are 3 minutes and 14 seconds left in the third quarter of the game, Zhang Kong dribbles again to the opponent's half.

Paul watched Zhang Kong coming, and immediately greeted him, and the ball that Zhang Kong just threw in front of his face.

So he didn't dare to let Zhang Kong get too close to the three-point line, and Zhang Kong was also paying attention to the rhythm on the court at this time.

"NND, it's not easy to do!" Looking at the score on the court, Zhang Kong muttered in a low voice, what he is most afraid of now is to fall into such a tug-of-war, because his shooting is completely data-based, forty percent is forty percent, and six out of ten shots must not go in, no matter how you adjust it, it is useless, if you don't score, you don't score, even if your ball has fallen into the basket, it can also transfer it out for you, and Paul on the opposite side obviously has no such restrictions.

Ordinary players like this, they may not score a single game, or they may score a dozen goals in a game.

This is all possible, and Zhang Kong has no chance at all now, Paul feels good today, at least much higher than Zhang Kong's 40 percent shooting rate, at this time the Pacers are already a full 6 points behind the Hornets, this is the result of Paul and Zhang Kong's attack, at least in the attack, Zhang Kong has no way to compete with these superstars.

But what's the solution? If it weren't for Zhang Kong's offense, the Pacers' side now only has a 37% shooting rate, how to compete with the 45% shooting rate on the Hornets' side, today the Hornets are obviously pumping 'bees', David West's pressure on the Pacers' interior is too great, so that although Milicic can limit him, but there is no way to attack like Al Jefferson and Murphy, things are getting more and more difficult to handle, just when Zhang Kong is hesitating whether to continue to attack with Paul.

Zhang Kong saw Hibbert on the inside line secretly moving outside, what is this kid going to do? Zhang Kong's gaze froze.

Suddenly, he felt as if there was some chance on the inside...... The moment Hibbert raised his hand, Zhang Kong's pass also shot, and the basketball jumped past Paul and flew gently into Hibbert's hand, and Hibbert took the ball and faced Okafor directly!

(To be continued)