With the last minute left in the second quarter, the Hornets finally tied the score, and in this quarter, Paul scored five points and three assists to help the Hornets finally tie the score, and the Hornets' morale was boosted!

Zhang Chen was already in a hurry, but it seemed that D'Antoni didn't seem to be in a hurry, he still pressed Zhang Chen on the bench and didn't let him play. Zhang Chen was ready to take the initiative to ask for help, but D'Antoni still only gave him a roll of the eyes, and Zhang Chen had to retract his request to play again and again. Without D'Antoni's permission, Zhang Chen had to reluctantly sit on the bench and watch the game with his eyes open.

Now there are 54 seconds left before the end of the first half, the score of the Hornets and the Knicks is tied at 41:41, neither team has been able to take advantage, the Hornets have recovered eleven points immediately after Paul came on the court, and now is the time for morale, what they want most now is to defend the Knicks' offense, so that they can overtake the score, and at that time they will naturally be able to be like a rainbow, and may even have to defeat the Knicks in one fell swoop.

The ball was in Duhon's hands, Duhon's face was full of solemnity, slowly controlled the ball through the half court, and finally came to the opponent's three-point line, glanced at the inside of the three-point line, and he hoisted the basketball from the air to Randolph. Suddenly, all eyes of the audience were focused on Randolph, who also felt this blatant pressure, and had to prepare to carefully handle the basketball in his hand.

The basketball began to fly in Randolph's hands, and Randolph began to use his various skills to start a fierce confrontation with West. In fact, West is more of a shooting power forward, and his defensive skills are not perfect, and it is clear that he lost his defensive position in the process of defending Randolph, so that Randolph finally found an opportunity to make a successful layup, and then rushed to the vicinity of the basketball hoop and roared.

"Good shot!" Zhang Chen followed the surrounding audience and his teammates next to him to cheer for Randolph's performance, Randolph still has a few brushes at this critical moment, and his goal is very important for the Knicks to stabilize the army.

In the audience next to the stadium, Taylor saw Randolph score a goal, and also saw Zhang Chen and his teammates standing up to cheer and applaud for Randolph, and her heart was a little better. In fact, she had just heard a lot of fan discussions, a large part of which was why Zhang Chen was not able to play in the entire second quarter, Taylor listened carefully, and finally many people got a common opinion, that is, Zhang Chen's performance in the first quarter really took up too much of the team's right to shoot, although he could score a lot of points, but this kind of behavior is also difficult for the coach to tolerate, so Zhang Chen was pressed on the stool.

Taylor was still very flustered when she heard these words, she felt that if Zhang Chen and the coach had conflicts or different opinions, there would definitely be no good fruit to eat in the end, so Taylor had been worried about Zhang Chen. Just saw Zhang Chen standing up and applauding, with a heartfelt smile on the corner of her mouth, her mood was much better.

43:41, the ball of the Hornets, Paul controlled the ball and came to the three-point line, Dujon did not try to steal Paul, and Paul basically came to the front of Dujon unblocked, and then he suddenly accelerated, and then borrowed David who came up next to him. West's block, one step into the inside, Dujon also had no way to defend a player who was pressed down the fast-forward button, he had to try to defend Paul's continued deep.

However, Paul did not choose to continue to enter the ball, but suddenly used a jump step before Gallinari blocked it, which made him jump to the other side of the free throw line, and then used a step-back jumper to avoid Gallinari's chase jumper.

"Huh!"

The basketball went in neatly, and the queen bee's performance at the critical moment was not ambiguous at all, and the score of the two teams became 43:43, and the two teams were tied again. There are 15 seconds left. Not only is Paul super capable of breaking, but he can also tear apart the Knicks' defense with his jump shot.

With fifteen seconds left, Dujon took control of the basketball to the halfcourt, and when there were five seconds left, he passed the ball to Wilson next to him. Chandler, Chandler received the ball and immediately stuffed it inside, and the basketball came to David Lee's hands. With three seconds left, David Lee's face did not panic at all, but launched a wonderful pace, finally making Chandler dizzy, and finally hit a layup, and when David Lee's basketball shot and gently knocked on the rebound, the whistle at the end of the second quarter also sounded.

The basketball went into the net, the score became 45:45, and David Lee did not disappoint the fans in the final moments, contributing a wonderful offense.

"Good shot!"

"Well done!" Zhang Chen and the bench that had just sat next to him went up to pat the buttocks of the players who had just come off the field, Zhang Chen also patted David Lee's buttocks, and then said in front of him that he had done a good job. It's just that as soon as he said this, David Li heard Zhang Chen praise him, and quickly added: "Hey, Chen...... It was a credit to you for teaching me some of the footwork, and in that moment I felt as light as a swallow, Tyson. Chandler wasn't my match at all. ”

Zhang Chen smiled: "That's natural, my footwork is quite exquisite, as long as you can keep practicing, I dare to guarantee that you will become a world-famous center." ”

David Li smiled proudly, and then hugged Zhang Chen's shoulders like this, and Zhang Chen was hugged by him and said things for a long, long time. After saying that, Zhang Chen was already a little exhausted, and at this time D'Antoni also stood in front of everyone, and then said: "Guys, although we experienced a miserable situation in the first half, but I think we will be able to regain the score soon, as long as we can strictly follow the offensive and defensive tactics to execute, and everyone does their part, then I believe we will be able to win the final victory." ”

Everyone thought this was nonsense again, so they started chatting, D'Antoni quickly made a gesture to suppress everyone's noise, and then said: "In the second half, we have to focus more on defense. Paul's defense, we still have to adopt the trap tactic, we must make it difficult for him to move an inch, he can only score or pass the ball hard! As long as we can completely limit Chris, then the Hornets certainly don't have much energy. In the second half of the game, Chen, you and Chris will take a trap defense against Chris Paul, in short, you must make him unable to pass the ball and score, and even force him directly out of the three-point line! Chen, maybe you can let your guard down a little bit with your opposing player, but you're going to have to jam Chris anyway. Paul. ”

"Hmm......" Zhang Chen and Du Hong both nodded, and then D'Antoni began to explain some precautions for defending Paul, after all, the coach also has some memos in his hands, and players like Paul are the focus of attention in their files, and for D'Antoni, a lot of countermeasures have been prepared for such players, and he is now explaining some possible ways to defend Paul. However, he can only teach it like this, after all, Paul is extremely clever and cunning, and he may fall for him if he is not careful, besides, his various offensive and passing moves are also endlessly varied, and the real play still depends on the defensive performance of Zhang Chen and David Lee on the court.

At the beginning of the third quarter of the game, Taylor's hanging heart finally relaxed, because she saw that Zhang Chen had already played.

"Tatsumi is finally on the field...... Early morning! Come on! The surrounding crowd cheered one after another, Zhang Chen also came to the court, began to build a defensive line in the half, the first ball after the second half was in the hands of the Hornets, Paul controlled the ball over the half, and then faced Duhon's defense.

Paul first passed the ball to Peterson next to him, and he himself turned out of the corner to pick up the pass back, then Paul controlled the ball with his left hand and began to direct his teammates to the defensive position with his right hand. Paul's move seemed very casual, just preparing his teammates to run out of space and rush to pass the ball.

However, just when Dujon's mind was also more relaxed, Paul suddenly took a step, then put his left foot on the ground a little, and his whole body turned into a sharp arrow, and stabbed it into the inner line. Once Paul's body reaches its maximum speed, that speed is impossible to chase. However, when Paul was just about to step out of Du Hong's encirclement, Zhang Chen suddenly grabbed up, he came directly to Paul's left, and Zhang Chen, who was tall, quickly surrounded Paul's left, making it difficult for him to move an inch, and Du Hong also took advantage of Paul's stunned opportunity to come to Paul's right, and the two of them trapped Paul left and right.

"Damn it!" Byron was watching the game with his hands on his chest. Scott cried out angrily in his heart in annoyance after seeing Zhang Chen and Du Hong wrap Paul left and right. Zhang Chen's defense was originally quite good, and after adding a Du Hong, the embarrassment of the two people immediately made Paul's breakthrough difficult. When Zhang Chen and Du Hong locked all the space, it was difficult for Paul to go further.

Therefore, Paul was caught in the middle, Zhang Chen's right hand had already gone to steal, he had learned enough defensive skills in the learning space, and now he had already made a steal, so when his right hand began to reach towards the basketball in Paul's hand, Paul panicked and almost let Zhang Chen take the ball off his hand.

But Paul is Paul after all, at this time, he can also protect the basketball in his hand, although he can no longer get out of the whole body, but he also successfully protected the basketball in his hand, passed to David who came to pick up on his right. West.

West made a jumper from outside the three-point line, and in order to avoid Randolph's defense, he pulled directly beyond the three-point line, which he was not very good at, and shot directly.

Perhaps luck was on the Hornets' side today, the ball flew into the basket crookedly, and West shook his right fist hard before running back towards half court.

"The bag clip is useless to me!" Paul didn't forget to spray Zhang Chen with a trash talk before running through the half.

However, Zhang Chen quickly replied to Paul: "Your ball has already been missed, you must see, it is just your teammate's accurate shot." ”

Zhang Chen's words are still quite objective, but Paul was a little annoyed when he heard it, because what happened just now was really like that. If Zhang Chen and Du Hong made up their minds to block him, he really didn't have much to think about. Therefore, he is also more cautious, and at the same time staring at Zhang Chen's side, at least he can't let him take what he wants from the Hornets inside the first quarter just at the beginning of the first quarter.

Zhang Chen came to the three-point line, then stopped, then looked at his teammate's position before passing the ball to Gallinari.

Gallinari was put on guard by Peterson as soon as he received the ball, and although Gallinari's height advantage was obvious, he didn't have much use in the opponent's kraft gum defense. Gallinari had no choice but to prepare to pass it back to his teammates, and the ball was not merit but not faulty, as long as he could get it safely to the hands of his teammates.

Zhang Chen made a detour at this time and came to Gallinari's side to pick him up, Gallinari found a life-saving straw and hurriedly passed the basketball over, Zhang Chen received the basketball The moment he received it, he had already stepped into the inside line at a rapid pace, his speed was quite amazing, and in a blink of an eye, he had bypassed Gallinari, so that Percy hurriedly defended up, and the people who came up to defend together were also Peterson, these two people also came up to wrap up, just like Zhang Chen and they wrapped Paul.

It's just that Zhang Chen didn't fall into Paul's predicament, because he basically jumped out of the encirclement with his speed the moment the two of them caught up. Zhang Chen took a step outside the free throw line, and then at the moment when the two of them were about to entangle, the basketball was in the control of his right hand and his body was directly circled with his right foot as the axis.

"**......" is a word that everyone who saw this turn was thinking.

Because Zhang Chen's turn is so gorgeous, so gorgeous that everyone is stunned, his right hand's perfect ball control ability and sticky ball ability make the basketball unable to get out of the control of his right hand, and this turn is also neat and neat, making Zhang Chen's turn like a butterfly flying, smart and abnormal, dazzling, just like a street ball. It was unimaginable for everyone to imagine that a big man of two meters and three could make such a slippery, gorgeous, and beautiful turn, and they were all dumbfounded.

However, Zhang Chen didn't give them much time to be stunned, he himself used this turn, directly brushed shoulders with Posey who came to block on his right, and then his speed rose to the peak, and he killed towards the inside line.

“**…… He's here again......" Chandler looked at Zhang Chen with a sad face and rushed in again towards the inside line, and suddenly his heart was full of sadness, thinking about the fact that he was made faceless by him in the first quarter, Chandler directly brought himself to the peak state.

Zhang Chen's speed was extremely high, and when he rushed in front of Chandler, he used the first step of the three-step basket, and his right leg stepped in the sky, like a beating note, and his body also took off, and it seemed that he was ready to fly in the sky again.

Chandler was already nervous, he watched Zhang Chen's body soar into the air again, and hurriedly jumped up to defend.

"If you want to bump it, hit it!" Chandler made himself an impassioned warrior who looked at death as if he were at home, and he met Zhang Chen's charge without hesitation, believing that he would be able to shoot Zhang Chen down in the air.

However, the imaginary collision did not come, Zhang Chen's small jump made his body turn around, the direction and plane of the body were directly parallel to the rebound, Zhang Chen relied on this to glide to the other side of the basket, and then his left foot also jumped, at this time Zhang Chen rose into the air and had turned around to face the basket again.

There was no one in front of him to stop it, Zhang Chen easily came to a throw, and the basketball was steadily swept into the net, and everyone was relaxed and applauded.

If Zhang Chen said that the balls in the first quarter were wide open and closed, domineering and exposed, then his ball was light as a butterfly, dazzling in the flying beautifully, from the first turn, Zhang Chen showed everyone his perfect grasp of basketball and his ability to control basketball as if fabricating art, his ball control is beautifully not sticky to floating dust.

Then there is the small jump, Zhang Chen takes the sky as the stage, Chandler as the background, and dances directly in the sky, as if gliding to stagger and Chandler's defense, and then he follows this jump to the other side of the basket, and then throws his hand, the whole process is beautifully done in one go, without the slightest mud and water.

"Beautiful! It's so beautiful! The fan next to Taylor yelled excitedly, and then couldn't help but say, regardless of whether he knew him or not, and said directly to Taylor: "Hey, man, you know what? This ball is so beautiful...... I want such a beautiful goal, even if it's Chris. Paul couldn't do it, right? ”

Taylor really doesn't know how to watch the ball, and she can't see too many benefits of this ball, but Zhang Chen is like a fallen leaf flying, shifting phantoms in the air and the ground, and the opponent is shaken by him like this.

Moreover, Taylor found that Zhang Chen's playing style was different in the first quarter, and Zhang Chen's breakthrough in the entire first quarter almost ended with a violent dunk, but this ball Zhang Chen was like a shock, not a single leaf sticked, and it was so beautiful that people were embarrassed.

Everyone on the Hornets also saw the sluggishness on each other's faces, they didn't expect Zhang Chen's breakthrough to be so smooth and beautiful, and it was impossible for them to even pinch the corners of Zhang Chen's clothes, because Zhang Chen was not only fast, but also his body was absolutely slippery, as unpredictable as Paul's.

(To be continued)