221 Speed is the icing on the cake!
This fast-break layup caused a lot of trouble for the Hornets, at least for now. The ball returned to the hands of the Hornets, and after a fast break by Zhang Chen, the difference between the Hornets and the Suns was much less because of Zhang Chen, and now everyone in the Hornets is very unhappy with Zhang Chen.
And now they are on the attacking side, so Paul immediately passed the ball to Morrison after half the court in possession, and it looked like he was ready for Morrison to complete a goal that would make Zhang Chen deflated.
This time, Morrison faced Zhang Chen's defense, directly used a feint, and then he quickly began to break through to the inside, although Morrison's speed is much worse than Zhang Chen's, but under Zhang Chen's defensive skills that seem to be a little broken, it is really not difficult for him to break through.
Morrison began to break through hard towards Zhang Chen's right, although his speed was a little worse than Zhang Chen's, but he still forced his breakthrough along Zhang Chen's left, although Zhang Chen had stretched out his hands to block, but still couldn't stop his breakthrough. Morrison's breakthrough is more particular, anyway, it is to let Zhang Chen not find his defensive flaws and then take the opportunity to invade.
Zhang Chen really couldn't defend, so he had to let Morrison successfully break through to the free throw line, and then made a pull-up jump shot to pull back two points for the Hornets, and the ball was back in the hands of the Suns again. The audience has seen many of Zhang Chen's goals, and now they are looking forward to Zhang Chen being able to contribute another wonderful goal to them.
However, Nash did not pass the ball to Zhang Chen, but started to organize the offense with his right hand directly outside the three-point line, because at least on the surface, the Hornets are now fully sure that they can intercept Zhang Chen's breakthrough or jump shot.
Nash began to force his way inside on his own, and after a series of dizzying ball possession, he finally came to the inside depth, and this time he didn't let the opportunity that came to him slip away, so he used a layup to give the Suns another two points in their scoring.
In any way, there was a bit of an alternating score for both sides today, and this trend became more and more evident after a few rounds of switching between the two teams.
In the fifth minute of the third quarter of the game, the ball returned to the hands of the Hornets, and in the past few minutes, Paul burst inside and outside and also contributed a few assists, so that his Hornets lost the score with the Suns, and did not let the Suns completely empty and play a wave of small **.
Now, the Hornets have recovered a few points of difference, they are only three points behind the Suns, and most importantly, they are in possession of the ball. Paul in 2008 was not the same Paul who later suffered from a knee injury, but now Paul is full of energy with every breakthrough or pass. He faced the Suns' defense and suddenly began to break through.
Paul's breakthrough Nash is completely unstoppable, the first is because Paul is shorter than him, and the center of gravity and speed of the breakthrough have a certain advantage, and the other aspect is that Paul's speed and breakthrough skills are not Nash can defend successfully, when Paul is full of firepower and wants to score, there are not too many people in this league who can defend him.
Therefore, Nash was not able to completely prevent Paul's offense, and when Paul came to the free throw line and began to throw his body into the air, followed by a signature throw, and then, the throw hit, Paul once again relied on his offensive skills to score two points.
Paul not only plays the role of an organizer on the basketball court, but also can become the person the team needs to rely on at that critical moment in some key moments.
The score of the two sides is still developing in the direction of anxiety, although this situation is a more torturous thing for the players on both sides, but for the audience is addicted, after all, such a situation of the two sides fighting each other is what they like to see, the ball is back in the hands of the Suns again, Zhang Chen did not get too many opportunities in the third quarter, and now the ball received a pass from Nash in the moment he just came to the opponent's half.
Although he was a little confused about Nash's intentions, Zhang Chen still began to protect the basketball in his hand with his back, and began to gradually move towards the three-point line. Although Morrison, who defended him, said that his defensive skills were not bad, he couldn't play much role in Zhang Chen's dribbling state of protecting the ball with his back, and finally could only watch Zhang Chen come to the outside of the three-point line.
Seeing that Morrison was not completely aggressively catching up, Zhang Chen immediately dribbled to the outside of the three-point line, his ball control speed was quite amazing with the help of the nine-level speed, and soon he had come to the opponent's three-point line about half a step outside.
Jump shot!
Zhang Chen didn't drag the mud and water at all, so he jumped directly in front of Morrison, although Morrison has been following Zhang Chen, but he still can't find any benefit under such a sudden jump shot, and finally can only watch the basketball fly into the basket.
The three-point shot added three points to Zhang Chen's technical statistics in this game, although the Hornets have started some more targeted defenses against Zhang Chen's skills, but under Zhang Chen's speed, these defensive measures that were originally based on Zhang Chen's eight-level speed are still facing a fate of falling apart in an instant.
After Zhang Chen scored, there was nothing too out of the cabinet to celebrate, Zhang Chen generally only occasionally used his own celebrations when he broke through, of course, his celebrations were relatively lacking, most of them were beating his chest and occasionally yelling.
Zhang's three-pointer immediately helped the Suns stabilize their situation, and they are still five points ahead of the Hornets, but unfortunately the ball is back in the hands of the Hornets again. Paul doesn't quite resemble a stunned young man who has just been in the league for a few years, on the contrary, this guy plays with a lot of poise, for example, he still uses his pretty skillful speed to control the ball through half court, and then he starts to organize his teammates to start getting into position.
The Hornets were still quite quick to settle down, and under the tutelage of Paul, a very good point guard, the Hornets ran out of a skill that they had been practicing in a matter of moments, and West finally got rid of the Suns defenders, and then came to the 17-foot place and made a jumper.
"Block him!"
A lot of people on the Suns also knew that West's shot at this point was quite accurate, so they all started running in West's direction purposefully, trying to stop him before he could shoot, but unfortunately they were still a step behind and finally let West make a jumper.
"Huh!" The score of the two sides is still in an alternating rising state.
The ball is back in the hands of the Suns, but there is not much time left before the end of the third quarter, of course, Nash's possession is still quite stable, he saw the Hornets' relatively fast ball control, and he knew that they didn't have too many fast break opportunities for this ball, so he directly chose to take a slow positional battle.
Nash's positional skills are relatively good, and after directing his teammates to start getting into position, he found a gap that looked pretty good, and passed the ball directly to Xiao Si on the inside, who began to get rid of his defenders and then started to shoot.
"Bang!" Maybe luck wasn't on the Suns' side, Xiao Si's mid-range jumper knocked out of the basket again and flew out, fortunately the basketball just flew into Marion's hand at this time, and Marion immediately hugged the basketball in his hand.
Marion hugged the basketball, and when he saw Zhang Chen on the outside, he immediately passed the basketball out, his passing speed was quite fast, and it was less than half a second, and the basketball had come to Zhang Chen's hands.
The moment Zhang Chen just received the basketball, his fat and tender Morrison had already blocked it, and this guy's face was completely full of a rather dignified light, and he didn't want Zhang Chen to score easily. Zhang Chen began to lift his heel off the ground the moment he received the basketball, and it seemed that he was going to stare at Morrison's threat and jump shot directly.
Although Morrison is not much shorter than Zhang Chen, under Zhang Chen's backward jumper, Morrison's defensive defense is estimated to be quite limited, so Morrison jumped up quickly, and he was still afraid that he would not be able to completely prevent Zhang Chen's shot.
However, this happened to make Zhang Chen's plan succeed, and in the moment when Morrison jumped high into the sky, Zhang Chen had already withdrawn his basketball, and then quickly slapped it to the ground, and then his body followed extremely high and quickly. Although Morrison's defensive speed is quite good, but under Zhang Chen's attack, he still basically tends to be out of line, after all, Zhang Chen's shooting feint has made him suffer a lot, plus Zhang Chen's shooting feint, in just a moment, Morrison's defense is basically completely invalid, so Zhang Chen took advantage of such a little offensive opportunity and has sprinted into the inside.
Zhang Chen's speed is a force to be reckoned with once he has been fully mobilized by his body, and when Zhang Chen puts away the basketball and quickly goes straight to the inside, the opponent has no time to block it.
Zhang Chen's feint was not a stroke of genius, but he began to make this decision after being optimistic about the opponent's defensive players, after all, the defensive formation of the Hornets is not fully formed, which gives him an opportunity to take advantage of. If it was when he was at the eighth level of speed before, he would probably have to give up in the face of this level of defense, after all, there were too many ways for the opponent to come forward and make up for the loopholes that he had no choice but to do. But obviously, now the opponent is too late, because Zhang Chen's ninth-level speed is already in full swing!
The moment Zhang Chen's speed was completely full of firepower, the opponent would have no way to prevent him, and when the inside line began to have a little defensive hole, if he could reach the peak of speed, he would naturally be able to seize such a loophole and force a breakthrough directly, and now this is the case.
Zhang Chen has come to the front of the opponent's two inside lines, at this time they have been about one step away from the free throw line, at this moment, Zhang Chen has put away the basketball in his hand, and then, starting from the right leg, the whole body quickly followed. The opponent's inside line has seen Zhang Chen's incredible speed on the player who is placed above two meters, and now he naturally has to use all his strength to defend, but now the defensive giants left on the field by the wasps are not too many, and under the impact of Zhang Chen's lightning speed, they have no way to form an encirclement of Zhang Chen in just a moment.
Zhang Chen took advantage of the little time difference between the opponent and himself, and began to hold the ball, and then drew an arc with his right leg forward, and then the whole body followed the arc and drew into the inner line! Zhang Chen's arc speed is not a force to be underestimated in the NBA, and in the current moment, the other party can't react at all, because Zhang Chen's speed is like a lightning, and they don't have time to defend at all!
Zhang Chen relied on this arc to insert the inside line, but in the breakthrough of the last step, he still saw the defensive power on the right side of the blue frame, and then when his body drew an arc in the sky, he also began to consciously let go of the opponent's defense, and then, he had flashed to the left side of the basket.
Zhang Chen used his own series of speeds that made the opponent unable to defend to the left side of the basket, and under his lightning breakthrough, the interior defenders who could react were very few, and then, Zhang Chen was already facing an empty basket.
Zhang Chen has no pressure, although it is impossible to end the offense with a slam dunk in this ball, but in this situation, it is relatively simple for Zhang Chen to dodge the opponent's defense and use a pull-up layup.
"Huh!" Under Zhang Chen's belly-stretching lever layup, the opponent basically had no time to defend at all, Zhang Chen had already made a backward movement with his head back, and then directly started to make a layup. Under Zhang Chen's tenth-level freewheeling layup, the opponent couldn't stop it at all.
This ball was basically not disturbed by the opponent at all, after all, Zhang Chen had dodged the opponent's defense just now, and now this belly pull-up layup is naturally like a fish in water, hitting the basket steadily.
Once again, the Suns scored two points.
(To be continued)