Chapter 35: Half-time Encounter
On the field, the players of the two teams played hotly, and at this time, Gordon sat on the field with a gloomy face.
Before fouling Li Tian, he had already committed two fouls, and the foul rule against Li Tian was that he received his third personal foul, and at that time the second quarter only played less than five minutes, in this case, Gordon naturally could not stay on the court anymore.
wanted to "burst" Li Tian, but not only did Li Tian defend for two rounds, but also let him get 5 points in a steal, which already made Gordon depressed, but at this time he couldn't get back on the court, and Gordon was naturally more and more depressed.
The only thing that made Gordon feel a little better was that just now, Li Tian's shot was lost, but thinking that it was not lost under his defense, he naturally felt no better.
In fact, Li Tian's shot was not interfered with, when he had completely thrown off the opposing veteran Roger Mason and received Evans' pass from outside the three-point line, but the shot felt bad and did not hit.
At this time, the Hornets attacked, Vasquith and Ryan Anderson of the substitute Davis blocked, Thomas was not able to keep up with Ryan Anderson at the first time, so Hayes had to move his feet slightly to block Vasquis's breakthrough, and at this time, Vasquith threw the ball to Ryan Anderson in the back.
After receiving a pass from outside the three-point line, Anderson didn't wait for Hayes to pounce, but he made a direct three-point shot and hit the shot.
Anderson is a high battery, although he plays the center and power forward positions, but the range of shots is obviously outside, and there is a certain deterrent outside the three-point line.
After Anderson scored, because the two interior players were relatively outside, Li Tian ran to the basket and picked up the ball in his hand as soon as possible, and then sent the ball to Evans when Thomas's face changed slightly.
Ignoring Thomas's glaring eyes, Li Tian ran towards the other half court after serving.
At this time, the second quarter had played for more than eight minutes, and after throwing the ball in front, Li Tian had not touched the ball again for two minutes.
In the more than two minutes that Thomas controlled the ball, Thomas started to attack every half, and did not give Evans time to pass the ball, of course, if Evans then had obvious offensive tendencies, he would still put the ball in Evans' hands, but in this way, Li Tian could not get Evans' pass.
As for Thomas himself, he will not pass the ball to Li Tian no matter what.
It is precisely because of this understanding that Li Tian knows that if he wants to get an offensive opportunity, he must be controlled by Evans, so he will serve actively and send the ball to Evans' hands.
Evans received the ball and took it straight across the halfcourt, and Thomas naturally didn't say anything, let alone let Evans pass the ball to him.
Watching Evans dribble to the outside of the three-point line, Li Tian immediately began to run, and next to him, there was still veteran Roger Mason.
After Thomas saw Li Tian running, his eyes immediately looked at Evans, and motioned to the captain to hand over the ball to his organization.
However, Evans didn't seem to see Thomas's gaze, and while controlling the ball and looking ready to attack on his own, his eyes glanced at Li Tian, who was running and constantly changing positions.
Of course, Roger Mason's speed is not as good as before with age, but he has been experienced in many teams, and he has naturally seen more players who run without the ball, and after a few minutes of playing against Li Tian, he also saw that Li Tian's running without the ball is very good, so he didn't dare to be careless at this time, and followed Li Tian's side, so that Li Tian was not able to easily throw him away.
was about to run out of the three-point line, feeling that Mason was still following him, Li Tian's brows moved slightly, and finally the ball was in Evans' hands at this time, and he naturally couldn't let such a good opportunity be missed.
Suddenly turned around and ran back, Li Tianchong, who had rushed outside the three-point line, returned to the vicinity of the three-second zone, and at this time, the interior players of both sides were gathering here.
No longer had any reservations, his body slippery shuttled between several players, and Li Tian began to perfectly display his small-area off-ball running skills.
"The rookie's off-ball run is really good!" On the court, he found that he was thrown away by Li Tian, Roger Mason chased Li Tian while sighing in his heart and said that after being in the league for so many years, he naturally saw more than some young players.
Using a feint to change direction, Li Tian completely shook off Roger Mason, who was following him, and went around to the free throw line, while the ball was still in Evans' hands.
"Ball!" At the same time as the running position was settled, Li Tian was about to wave to Evans for the ball, and then found that the basketball had already flown towards him at this time, and his heart was suddenly overjoyed.
Catch, jump, shoot!
Li Tian repeated the actions he had been repeating in training, and felt that the basketball shot brought him the same feeling as when he scored a goal countless times, and Li Tian also judged the result of the ball.
"Huh!" did not disappoint Li Tian, the basketball fell into the basket and hit a 2-point shot.
"It feels good to work with Lee." On the other hand, Evans was also thinking about it at this time, and it was naturally a great feeling to be able to convert the ball into an assist.
It is precisely because of this feeling that Evans once again controlled the ball in his hands in the subsequent offense, but this time, Li Tian was unable to get an offensive opportunity because of the timely defense of the Hornets players.
However, even so, Thomas was already extremely unhappy, originally thought that as long as he was on the court, even if Li Tian was on the court, he would not get an offensive opportunity, but he didn't expect that after Li Tian came on the court, his own possession of the ball was reduced.
"How could Tyrek be so fond of passing the ball to that kid?" Looking at Evans, who had just completed an attack and retreated to the backcourt, Thomas's eyes flashed, and in this paragraph, Evans rarely grabbed possession with him, which undoubtedly surprised Thomas.
Thomas seemed to have forgotten at this point that Evans was a two-way defender, and that he was in control of the ball when he was playing well in his first season, and the other defender on the team at that time was Kevin Martin, who didn't need the ball much, and it was impossible for Evans not to miss that feeling.
Subsequently, Li Tian received another pass from Evans to shoot, but the strength was not very good, and the basketball bounced out after turning around on the basket.
In the second quarter, Li Tian played 5 minutes on the court, made 3 of 5 shots, 1 of 1 free throw, scored 7 points and 1 steal, and was not replaced until the last 2 minutes of the game in the second quarter.
At the end of the first half, the score of the two teams became 55-52, and the Kings went from a one-point deficit to a three-point lead.
When the whistle blew at the end of halftime, Eric Gordon immediately looked at the Kings bench on the other side, his eyes kept flashing, and he didn't return to the court until the last 2 minutes due to a foul in the second quarter, and controlled not to foul and play extremely carefully, but at this time, Li Tian had been replaced, which made him unable to get back on the court.
Feeling Eric Gordon's gaze, Li Tian raised his head to meet him, and the eyes of the two collided in the air, and they both smiled coldly.
The first half was too short, and the real confrontation naturally had to be left until the second half.
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