Chapter 327: Two Pairs of Broken Pistons
The first half of the game was a bit of a loss for the Pistons.
In the beginning, the measures taken against Jong-wook were effective, he only scored six points in a single quarter, but in the second quarter, he did not score much, but it included a sharp dunk.
And he used 3 assists in a single quarter to lead the Hornets to start a counterattack and overtake the score.
Crucially, the Pistons intend to regain some of their confidence here.
As soon as this quarter began, the ball came to Zhong Yu.
Jongwook is a key target for the Pistons, but given what happened in the second quarter, they also need to guard against the rest of the Hornets.
In this way, Zhong Yu pulled out the space.
At the beginning of the second minute of the quarter, Jongwook began to score.
At two minutes and thirty-one seconds, Zhong Yu interspersed from near the baseline, West helped him block Hamilton who was chasing frantically behind him, and at this time, he received a pass from Paco, and the whole person stopped a step sharply and completed a two-point shot in the bottom corner.
Hit!
Four minutes and five seconds, Zhong Yu was outside the three-point line, pretending to break through the ball, stopping and changing hands through a crotch control, lifting the basketball with his left hand, and jumping directly.
Outside the three-point line, Zhong Yu's hand fell like a knife.
With an elegant arc, the basketball plunged headlong into the net, and after that, Zhong Yu raised his right hand high, not planning to put it down for the time being.
The leftist was a bit of a pretending to be a bit of a blow in the eyes of the Pistons' players, but the three-point shooting proved that their defense was in trouble again.
Jongwook's speed is particularly impressive, and once the intensity of the opponent's defense decreases, his opportunity appears.
"This won't work!" Saunders, the head coach of the Pistons, paced back and forth in a bit of a panic, looking a little harder and harder to defend Jongwook.
Whether to defend Zhongyu or the rest of the Hornets, Sanders faces a big choice.
In the fifth minute, Sanders called a timeout.
"Next, we're going to play a mixed defense and do away with the special package for Jongwook, but, Richard [Hamilton], you're going to use a man-to-man approach and try to keep Chung Wook from receiving passes. The defense against the rest of the Hornets is still man-to-man, pressing them to the outside for jumpers. ”
Sanders is planning to indulge Zhongyu a little, but Hamilton lives in a place like the Pistons, although he is not the most smoky bad boy army in those years, but the behavior of the team's predecessors makes Hamilton's defense also have a unique Pistons style.
This guy can take on Jongwook's rogue defense.
Of course, whether Zhong Yu can really be prevented is another matter.
As the game continued to start, Jongwook found that he had a lot less defensive pressure on him. It seems that the Pistons can't afford to ignore the rest of the Hornets.
In this way, Zhong Yu is welcome!
The first ball, although Hamilton came up to interfere and made a lot of small movements, Zhong Yu controlled the ball to an angle that the referee could see after receiving the ball, and Hamilton's small movements had to be reluctantly stopped.
Then, Zhong Yu's left shoulder shook and the whole person had accelerated from Hamilton's left side into the inside line, and Hamilton stretched out his left hand to add obstacles to Zhong Yu.
Zhong Yu frowned, changed direction through a crotch change of hands, and received the basketball to the left hand side.
Hamilton was really fooled, his body turned around, Zhong Yu accelerated again, the basketball was mentioned on the right side, Hamilton was shaken by Zhong Yu's ball, and his body was short, and he almost squatted on the ground.
Zhong Yu increased his maximum speed, and Wallace, who was in charge of that area of the Pistons, came up to make up for it, and Zhong Yu had already thrown the basketball high in advance, bounced it on the rebound, and then fell into the net at a very strange angle.
"Good shot!" The audience was in full admiration, and Hamilton finally stood up, reminisced about Zhong Yu's breakthrough just now, and involuntarily glanced at Iverson.
Iverson also glanced at Zhong Yu...... The ball just now does have its own style...... However, it seems that even if he is himself, he can't reach Zhongyu's speed.
This guy is indescribably fast.
The Pistons went on offense, and the Hornets, as always, used a hybrid defense, blocking from the perimeter. Iverson also seemed to be itchy because he saw Zhong Yu's ball just now, so he came to a crossover.
But his jumper missed, and the rebound was grabbed by the Hornets, who immediately launched a counterattack.
Jongwook receives a pass and becomes the initiator of the attack.
Zhong Yu's speed was activated, which really made the Pistons' defense at a loss and even broke through a big hole by him. Zhong Yu directly controlled the ball and drilled to the deepest part of the inside line, several players of the Pistons locked him in this corner, but Zhong Yu passed his basketball from behind, Thomas behind him received the pass, and the opponent's defensive attention was not here.
"Boom!"
The veteran's dunk also detonated the whole court.
The boom continued to echo, and then the Pistons hit an offensive shot, and the ball was back in the hands of the Hornets.
Paco made a layup after a breakaway.
The situation is getting brighter, and the Pistons' defense is being broken down.
Then, Jongwook matched with West outside the three-point line, and then passed the basketball back, and West received the pass and made a step-back jumper.
"Rub!" The basketball grazed the Nets into the basket and the Hornets scored two more points.
The Pistons intend for Hamilton to defend Jongwook desperately, but a Hamilton is clearly not Jongwook's opponent, and although Jongwook has not said that he has no pressure, Jongwook has a lot of scoring means.
Roll over and lean back, drive to the basket, turn and jumper......
Jongwook put his various scoring abilities on display in front of Hamilton's eyes.
However, he also brushed up 3 assists in this quarter!
In this way, the third quarter of the game ended, the score of the two sides became 67-58, and the Hornets had a 9-point lead over their opponents! Jongwook had 11 points, 2 rebounds and 3 assists in the first quarter.
After three quarters, he has 24 points, 5 rebounds and 8 assists!
"In the third quarter of the game, the Pistons made a tactical mistake!" Su Qun said: "Just using a Hamilton to defend Zhongyu stretches his scoring ability away, and also allows him to calmly pass good balls." ”
"It's just that, otherwise, the Hornets can pass the basketball alive when Zhong Yu is trapped." Yu Jia said: "In short, this is a very difficult choice. ”
Su Qun pondered for a moment: "Maybe you can always take that method to exhaust Zhong Yu's physical strength...... Then the Hornets' offense will be at a stalemate! ”
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What Su Qun said only exists in theory, Zhong Yu has also been practicing in the NBA for so long, and he also has his own set of experiences in the preservation and use of physical strength, he knows what to do.
It is impossible to let the opponent play so quickly without strength.
The most important thing is that the Hornets still have scoring points like West, Paco, and Thomas, which can share the scoring pressure on Zhong Yu, otherwise, if the Pistons insist on Zhong Yu's bag, the Hornets will be finished!
The tactics of this last quarter, put on the Pistons, are really not easy to choose.
In the end, they decided to keep Chung in the loop while taking care of the rest of the Hornets' defense.
This kind of defense, which seems to be comprehensive, is actually likely to turn into holes everywhere, and instead be overwhelmed by the opponent.
The following matches confirmed this.
First of all, Jongwook was trapped, and at the same time, they also took care to cut off Jongwook's defensive line.
But they couldn't block Zhong Yu's surroundings, and Zhong Yu would even be able to spot the surrounding team members as long as he was in the air. At the same time, such a bag is prone to artificial fouls like Zhong Yu.
Zhong Yu's ability to make fouls is getting stronger and stronger now, and the opponent may still be fouled by him if he gets his hair, let alone this kind of bag situation.
In the last quarter, there are 3 minutes left!
The ball is in the hands of the Hornets, and as soon as Zhongyu receives the pass, Prince and Hamilton are sandwiched up.
Jongwook forcibly jumps and shoots in the sky, and Prince is tragically fouled by Jongwook! And it was his fifth personal foul, which was already quite dangerous.
Zhong Yu stood on the free throw line, he mastered three free throws well, and he hit all three free throws, and he became: 93-80, and the Hornets led the Pistons by 13 points!
There are only 3 minutes left in the clock, and the Pistons are gone!
The Hornets held the line in the final three minutes and pushed the Pistons to the brink, and the game ended with a score of 101-93.
The Hornets won at home and temporarily secured the second-place position in the West.
In this game, Zhong Yu scored 11 points in the third quarter and 12 points in the fourth quarter, scoring a total of 36 points, 10 assists and 8 rebounds in the whole game, as well as 2 steals and 1 block!
Quasi-triple double!
Jongwook set a new career record for assists and also scored his first career double-double.
The Hornets also used this game to stabilize their record and stabilize themselves in the second place in the West. The Spurs can't catch up with the Hornets for the time being.
The crisis has finally passed a little.
At the same time, Jongwook's performance also answered a lot of people who questioned him, and answered a lot of people who questioned the Hornets.
Zhong Yu did it.
However, in this game, Zhong Yu played for 40 minutes, his body was almost exhausted, and he was sweating like rain after the whole game.
This is also the price.
Jong-wook won a quasi-triple-double to defeat the Pistons, and the audience was already boiling over, and the fans were cheering excitedly for this victory.
Zhong Yu finally defeated the Pistons in everyone's attention.
10 assists allowed Jongwook to get the first double-double in his career, and being able to score a double-double, as a shooting guard, is also an affirmation of his strength.
The Hornets are also about to face a better future.
As soon as the game ended, the official NBA website couldn't wait to put this game in the headlines.
[Zhong Yu cut down a quasi-triple-double to break the enemy, and the Wasps' record remained stable]
This article praised Zhong Yu to a point where it was difficult to repeat, which made Zhong Yu fans look comfortable, but at the same time, it also put Zhong Yu under more pressure.
Because the Hornets still have a lot of opponents......
(To be continued)