Chapter 341: Alternation
There is still an hour and a half before the start of the second game between the Bulls and the Pacers, the visiting team's locker room is open to the media on time, but when a large number of reporters walk into this slightly cramped room with a full stomach, the person they most want to see is gone, Joakim Noah, the Bulls' main center, in the locker room open to the media for 45 minutes, he has always been in the massage room in the back room, and when he walked out of the locker room before the game and went to the court to get bloody, Noah's side was always followed by security guards, the reason is simple, He has become an enemy of the city of Indianapolis...... Enemy of the whole people!
Noah is a player, the defense on the inside is average, the offense is average, the rebounding is also average, his most invincible is the ability to make people speechless, this is his strength, he seems to be unable to get along with the big stars, he stole the limelight off the court in the first round of this year's playoffs, as if overnight, there is an extra 'public enemy' type figure on this earth, almost everyone has been sprayed by him, but all of them just say a word, lazy to ignore him...... The Pacers, on their side, are going all out to win.
Others, like Garnett, obviously didn't have the heart to bother with the Bulls.
Now that they're fighting the Hawks, how can they care about the Bulls and Pacers in Indiana.
With a barren chorus of boos and the slogan 'Noah is really bad,' the Pacers' second game against the Bulls came as promised.
And before the start of the game, the camera on the scene also deliberately gave Zhang Kong's new sneakers a close-up, which can be regarded as giving Zhang Kong face, just yesterday, New York Steve &Barry Company began to overwhelmingly promote the concept of Zhang Kong's new sneakers Kong1 generation, as long as 35 US dollars, you can buy home sneakers, in the United States is really very cheap.
In China, there are few such cheap sneakers for such imported brands, but Steve &Barry has not yet expanded its business to distant China, and the US market still has a large share of the market.
Originally, everyone had doubts about whether this Kong1 generation sneakers were really endorsed by Zhang Kong, and it wasn't until today that Zhang Kong wore this pair of blue, yellow, and white matching sneakers, and everyone understood that the basketball shoes in those sneaker stores yesterday were really worn by Zhang Kong! Seeing such a situation, everyone can't help but want to buy a pair.
Because $35 is really cheap in the United States, Marbury's sneakers couldn't be sold for 14.98 at the beginning, mainly because Marbury was no longer the original All-Star at that time, and now Zhang Kong's sneakers are sold for 35 yuan, and they will definitely be sold out of stock!
On the court today, Zhang Kong was still the penultimate debut, he didn't like the feeling of being the last to appear, and he didn't have the intention of grabbing the position of Granger's boss, so he directly returned the honor of the last appearance to Granger.
The fourth one jumped out, and as the electronic bell rang, the second game between the Pacers and the Bulls officially began!
The starters on both sides did not change, but Hibbert did not jump over the angry Noah, who was angry, and Noah slapped the basketball into Rose's hands, but Rose did not rush to attack after the opening, and he also knew that Noah was angry now.
So seeing that Noah was about to be in place on the inside, he immediately passed the ball over, Noah faced Hibbert, in the first game, Noah was bullied by the Pacers' inside line completely lost his temper, and he couldn't be violent anymore, and at the beginning of the game, he was very active, in the whole court Noah really bad 'cheering', he came up to eat Hibbert, deceived Hibbert's foul, got the opportunity to make free throws, two free throws, Noah just opened and gave the Pacers a dismount.
But how can the Pacers be so easily provoked? In the next attack, Zhang Kong also learned from Rose, slowly passed the half, and then hoisted the ball directly to Hibbert on the inside, Hibbert knew that this was Zhang Kong believing in himself and giving himself a chance to take revenge, after receiving the ball, he pushed Noah behind him, suddenly turned around, and went straight to the basket, although the basketball was not dunked, but he also got Noah's foul, and the first round of the two young insiders was tied! But then Hibbert had a great performance.
Then, he held the ball in the low post, and after seeing the situation on the spot, he made a ground-hitting pass and handed the ball directly to Granger, who slipped to the baseline, and Granger flew to the basket to help the Pacers tie the score at 4-4...... Although the Bulls relied on outside shooting to rewrite the score to 10-6, the subsequent game had nothing to do with them. Then he assisted Granger for a three-pointer, Al Jefferson on the inside to beat Ty Gibson, Dundee Jones also hit a three-pointer from the outside, and Hibbert made a turnaround jumper on the inside...... A wave of 13-4 offense** allowed the Pacers to directly overtake the score to 19-14, overtaking the opponent by 5 points throughout the day, and the Bulls could only rely on Rose's burst in to narrow the score.
Rose used two consecutive blocks to block the open and hit two consecutive shots to narrow the gap from five to one.
may be really depressed by Rose, if Rose breaks through one-on-one, Zhang Kong can't help but admit it!
But every time with such a double block, even if Zhang Kong has a 360-degree vision without dead ends, it is impossible to prevent Rose, and the Pacers' interior defense is really not powerful, and Rose's height, speed and offensive means also make the Pacers' interior line unguardable, if the Pacers' defense is very tough, like the Spurs, maybe Rose burst into the interior, except for looking for abuse, there is no other possible surname, but unfortunately now the Pacers' interior defensive strength is really called a time.
Although they have a lot of times, the number of successes is pitiful! Zhang Kong, who had been pressed so tightly by the opponent, finally couldn't help it, and the next time the Pacers attacked, he dribbled through the half court by himself, and didn't wait for the players to settle down at all.
directly scored a three-point shot to help the Pacers stabilize their position, and then immediately after the next three three-point attempts, he hit a three-point shot again, and Zhang Kong hit three points alone in the first quarter and scored nine points! And Granger, who seemed to be infected by Zhang Kong, also hit three points in the next offense, and after scoring nine points in a row, the Pacers firmly suppressed the Bulls.
At the end of the first quarter, the Pacers led the Bulls by eight points at 28-20, and it looked like the Bulls were just as bad as they were yesterday.
And if Rose wants to break through Zhang Kong, then he must use a double block, in this case, the role of others has been minimized, Zhang Kong shot 3 of 6 in the first quarter, cut 9 points and 5 assists, and Granger also had 8 points, two three-pointers and a layup, the Pacers felt good in the backcourt in the first quarter, maintaining quite strong offensive firepower.
However, because the ball is not played so smoothly, Jim O'Brien dares to play a small trap like yesterday.
Especially at the most critical moment, the bull chased only one point behind the pacers, such a critical time to play a small trap, and it may not be the bull who falls into it at that time, but it may also be himself! In such a situation, conventional tactics are useful.
In the second quarter of the game, the main players of the Pacers went to rest, but the firepower of the second team of the hospitalized patients was still very fierce, Murphy, Dunleavy, Watson, Tyler Hansbrough, Milicic, the second team they formed, played an 8-4 attack wave at the beginning of the second quarter, and the Cavaliers directly rewrote the score to 36-26, and the score was stretched to 10.
The Bulls were also very tenacious, Murray hit two three-pointers in a row from the outside, leading the team to respond with an 8-0 counterattack**, and with 7 minutes and 32 seconds left in the quarter, the Bulls were stunned to chase the score back to 34-36...... At this time, the Pacers' side was replaced by Zhang Kong again, and Zhang Kong immediately had an immediate effect after he came on the court.
Serving at halftime, Zhang Kong received Murphy's pass and took a look at the situation on the court, before this game, Zhang Kong's three-point rating had reached level 91 (the basic surname of level 90 plus level 1 perfect offensive card), and the shooting rate increased again.
That's why he's tried so many threes in this game, and he wants to see what his current shooting percentage is.
In Zhang Kong's feeling, his own shooting rate plus the increase in the shooting rate of the finger guard, about 50% of the shooting rate, under such a shooting rate, Zhang Kong's offense will be extremely sharp, after all, two shots will be scored into one, which is very scary!
After dribbling to the top of the three-point arc, Rose had already taken the first step to defend it, because Zhang Kong had hit three three-pointers in this position before, and all in front of him, Rose was quite unhappy in his heart now, so he had to come over to defend Zhang Kong! Although Zhang Kong likes to break through and is extremely confident in his strength, Zhang Kong is not stupid.
Seeing Rose's defense, Zhang Kong also knew that there was no need to entangle with him here, so he secretly made a gesture, Milicic was the first to react, pulled over from the inside line and quietly stood beside Rose, Zhang Kong suddenly made a fake breakthrough.
Let Rose hit Milicic directly, and the moment delayed by Milicic was enough for Zhang Kong to complete a step-back three-point shot, the new shoes rubbed against the floor, and Zhang Kong also threw the basketball in his hand!
(To be continued)