Although the score is catching up, but Wang Meng still has a lot of data to catch up, in order to score, Wang Meng basically did not pass the ball a few times, and did not cause many assists, so far it is only 7 assists, and Kobe Bryant has also made up 3 assists so far, Wang Meng's assists in this game must be ten more than Kobe, not to mention rebounding blocks and steals, Wang Meng still needs to do a lot.

More importantly, Wang Meng's mission goal is not completely fixed, if Kobe's data rises again, then Wang Meng's goal will also increase.

At the end of the third quarter, Wang Meng finally brushed his assists to 9, completed 2 blocks and 2 steals, and grabbed 4 rebounds.

After the completion of the third quarter of the game, Wang Meng frantically cut down the data of 40 points, 9 assists, 4 rebounds, 2 blocks and 2 steals, which is not a joke, many people can't get such data in the fourth quarter of the game together.

"There's the last quarter left, and this bet is probably your loss." Barkley said triumphantly again. "Remember your bet."

"Got it, got it!" O'Neill said impatiently: "It's like I'm going to regret it, am I that kind of person?" "That's the case, don't look at O'Neal all day long, but he has never defaulted, and he lost a bet with Barkley at the beginning of 12, and he was quite willing to gamble and lose, and took off his pants directly in front of the national audience.

"Wang Meng! Great work! Monty said this again after Wang Meng's departure, and the Hornets players kept high-five Wang.

Although Wang Meng's whole body was soaked with sweat, he was in good spirits, because he was not far from completing the task.

Kobe Bryant only scored four more points at the end of the third quarter, grabbed one rebound and handed out one assist, and his current stats are 24 points, three rebounds, three assists and one steal. Wang Meng completely surpassed Kobe Bryant from the distance, leaving only 4 points, 6 rebounds, 4 assists and 1 steal.

This data is not too high, even if Kobe Bryant continues to score next, he has absolute certainty to catch up.

The only thing that worries Wang Meng a little is the score between the Lakers and the Hornets.

Although Wang Meng played so well, the score between the Hornets and the Lakers has never been wide-rang from the beginning, no matter how hard Wang Meng tries to score and how he limits Kobe, the Lakers always have a way to score easily from others, because the Lakers have the existence of Paul, the second point guard in the current league.

Paul's data in this game so far is not particularly outstanding, 13 points and 7 assists, which is much inferior to Wang Meng's quasi-40+10, but the position of point guard is different from that of a scoring guard, small forward, etc., the strength of this position and the data relationship between the player is not very important, the point guard is the brain of a team, and what the team's tactics can play depends entirely on the strength of the point guard in the team.

Paul's stats are indeed average, but under the control of his excellent team, the Lakers' offense has always been organized and methodical, which is what a good point guard should do, not to score efficiently, nor to brush assists aimlessly, but through the transmission of basketball, so that other players can better attack.

Wang Meng is now very headache, is Paul's ability, although Wang Meng's mission goal is to surpass Kobe Bryant in all aspects, but the premise of the task is to lead the team to victory, if the team loses the game, even if Wang Meng scores more than Kobe Bryant 40 points, 50 points, the task will not succeed.

"Paul on the other side is a big problem, someone has to be able to restrain him!" Wang Meng said with a frown.

At this time, a hand was pressed on Wang Meng's shoulder, Wang Meng looked back, but it was Roy, Roy smiled at him, and said, "Paul leave it to me." ”

Wang Meng's single defense ability is very good, but this is not very useful for Paul, because Paul will not choose to play Wang Meng alone at all, but more choose to pass the ball to other players. No matter how strong Wang Meng's single defense is, he can't defend other players at the same time when he is marking Paul, and more importantly, Wang Meng still needs to defend Kobe, if he lets Kobe be smooth and his personal score rises again, it will be more difficult for Wang Meng to complete the task.

Roy was different. Paul is a good player who controls the rhythm of the game, but Roy is also not weak, Roy was able to become famous back then, a large part of the reason is because of his excellent rhythm control ability, in his own rhythm, Roy can score or assist more easily, in the face of Paul, a player who also controls the rhythm type, Roy is more authoritative than Wang Meng.

"Okay!" Wang Meng nodded, a little let go of his worries, since coming to the Hornets, Roy's performance has surprised many people, he played so well, it doesn't look like he hasn't played in a season, of course Wang Meng knows that the injury is cured, but many times it is not that the injury can play the strength of a star at its peak, the state of the player itself, and the physical feeling are all important factors that determine a player's feel, obviously, Roy did very well, Not only has he maintained the flashy style of the Trail Blazers, but his outside shooting ability has been improved more efficiently.

So far this season, not counting the game with the Lakers, the Hornets have played a total of 16 games, in these 16 games, Roy has all been off the bench, averaging 25 minutes per game, and in these 25 minutes, Roy has averaged 17 points, 5 assists and 4 rebounds per game, with a shooting rate of 48%. This data and efficiency are the highest among all the sixth men in the league, even if it is placed in the starters of most teams, it is an absolutely strong data, so many people in the league are shouting that the Hornets have taken shit luck and signed Roy without a meniscus, but he can play at such a surprising level, and the annual salary is only 5 million, which is too lucky.

How do they know, all of this is thanks to Wang Meng's perverted system store, otherwise with Roy's physical competitive state, it is almost impossible to still get such a performance in the high-intensity game of the NBA.

As the fourth quarter began, players from both sides took the court. On the Hornets side, Wang Meng, Roy, Gasol, Wallace Oden all played, and the Lakers side was not to be outdone, with Paul, Kobe, Jamison, Kenyon Martin and Howard on the court.

"The Hornets and Lakers put all their main players on the court at the beginning of the fourth quarter, and it seems that none of them want to lose this game." Smith said: "But also, for both of their teams, no one can accept the loss of this game, the Hornets side 14 consecutive wins after 2 consecutive defeats, if you lose this game, it will become 3 consecutive defeats, not only that, the Hornets with 3 defeats in the Western Conference record will also be surpassed by the Spurs with only 2 defeats in the Western Conference record and fall to second place." ”

"And if the Lakers win against the Hornets, then they will surpass the Thunder and rise to third in the West, so no one wants to lose this game."

"Let's get the assists and rebounds to the target first!" After playing the court, Wang Meng first set his first goal, his score gap is not big, only 4 points, it is easy to catch up, so Wang Meng decided to chase assists and rebounds first.

Relying on the heart-eye skills, Wang Meng's first assist was very easy to send his assists in this game to 10 times, and he got a double.

Immediately afterwards, Wang Meng and Gasol continued to rely on the cooperation of blocking and dismantling, and passed the ball to Gasol to shoot in a high position after blocking and dismantling, brushing their assists to 13 times, reaching the minimum upper limit of task completion.

It is worth mentioning that in the process, Kobe Bryant scored another three-pointer, which once again added pressure to Wang Meng's scoring.

When the game continued to about five minutes, Howard hit the inside, Gasol ran over to help defend and was fouled by Howard, taking advantage of the opportunity of two free throws, the Hornets temporarily replaced Roy off the court, there were 12 minutes in a quarter, but Roy could only play 10 minutes, in order to ensure that Roy was on the court at the last critical moment, the Hornets must now let Roy stay off the court for two minutes.

Roy went off the court, Paul was the first to breathe a sigh of relief, Roy's defense of Paul was in place, although it was not completely limited to Paul, but it also made Paul very uncomfortable, because Roy knew Paul's style of play very well, he could basically predict what Paul wanted to do when, although Paul said that he could continue to score or connect the whole team under Roy's defense, but he was extremely aggrieved in his heart.

This will Roy play, and Paul immediately rebounds strongly.

Facing Tony Allen, who had just come off the bench, Paul first made a three-pointer at the top of the three-point line [***] Allen, and then used the breakthrough to break inside, threw the ball into the air, and assisted Howard with an aerial relay. This is not over, and then, he relied on Jamison's blocking and return pass to assist Jamison's mid-range jumper, directly leading the Lakers to play a wave of 7:0 strong offense.

The Hornets were beaten a little stunned, Wallace pulled out his shot from the three-point line and missed, Wang Meng took the opportunity to open the instant explosion, taking advantage of Howard's inattention, grabbed a rebound above his head, Wang Meng, who grabbed the rebound, wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to pull up and make a layup, but because Wang Meng snatched the rebound, Howard, who was a little crazy, slapped the basketball on the rebound.

Martin grabbed the blocked basketball and passed it to Paul, who immediately went down and passed the ball to Jamison, who drew the Hornets defense and passed the ball to Kobe, who hit an easy mid-range jumper.

At 9:00, the wasp called a timeout.

Wang Meng's brows furrowed tightly, this time it was too sudden, the score of the two sides was 91:94, and the Hornets were still 3 points ahead of the Lakers, but this time it was too sudden, and the Hornets were caught off guard, and the 3-point advantage was buried at once, not only that, but also overtaken by the Lakers by 6 points, 100:94. Although there are still 6 minutes left at the end of the game, the Lakers' momentum has risen, and the Hornets are a little difficult to play.

"Coach, why don't I play early?" Roy asked, although there are still 6 minutes, but Roy knows that if he doesn't play now, the Hornets, who lack offensive firepower, will definitely be continued to open up the score gap by the Lakers, who have been gaining momentum, although it is only 1 minute, but it is likely to determine the outcome of this game.

"That's all there is to it." Monty nodded, now let Roy play, Wang Meng Roy two outside to stabilize the situation first, and then find a chance to let Roy rest for a minute, although it may waste a timeout, but it is definitely much more useful than now.

"It doesn't have to be this way!" Wang Meng said firmly: "It's only 1 minute, don't worry, I'll get it!" ”

Since Wang Meng has said so, Monty and Roy don't have much to say, as the trust of the boss of one more team, none of the Hornets will have any doubts, and look at Wang Meng's data so far in this game, who will say anything?

"It's time to fight hard!" At the end of the timeout, Wang Meng re-entered the court, his eyes flashing with a hint of madness. "Paul? Bryant? Howard? Come on! ”

The ball belonged to the Hornets, Wang Meng controlled the ball to the top arc of the three-point line, looked at Kobe, sank down and accelerated the speed of dribbling.

"Are you going to break through?" Kobe Bryant stared at Wang Meng with sharp eyes, his body lowered with Wang Meng's amplitude, and throughout the game, Kobe Bryant had no way to defend Wang Meng's breakthrough, Allen Iverson's peak butterfly wore flower steps, and it was really not Kobe Bryant, who was already 34 years old, could keep up.

At this moment, Wang Meng, who was originally underneath, suddenly jumped up on the spot without warning.

Kobe Bryant reacted extremely quickly, pounced on it as soon as possible, and rose high with one hand, blocking the path of Wang Meng's shot.

Immediately afterwards, Kobe Bryant was surprised to find that Wang Meng maintained his shooting posture and slowly fell backwards.

"Leaning back?" As soon as such a thought came to Kobe's mind, he saw that Wang Meng had already thrown the basketball in his hand.

"Box!" This shot did not enter the frame like Wang Meng usually does, but the basketball snorted on the inside of the basket and also bounced into the frame, crisply and neatly.

"I didn't expect to lean back." Kobe Bryant looked at Wang Meng, who didn't look back after landing, and secretly said in his heart, compared with Wang Meng's unpredictable butterfly walking steps, the efficiency of the outside backward jump shot is undoubtedly much lower, but Wang Meng did not hesitate to use this trick at this moment, which shows that he is very confident in his hand.

It is worth mentioning that Kobe Bryant noticed that Wang Meng's backward jumper is a little different from Kobe's, Kobe's backward jumper always likes to rely on his excellent ability to stay in the air after jumping, floating in the air and waiting for the opponent to hold on to the air before he can shoot. Wang Meng is different, Wang Meng took advantage of the little shooting space that was pulled out at the moment he just leaned back, and quickly threw the basketball out, the shooting speed was very fast, and it was extremely decisive. Because Wang Meng's ability to stay in the air is not as perverted as Kobe, Wang Meng knows that if he learns from Kobe Bryant to stay in the air for too long, it is likely that before Kobe lands, he will not be able to hold on to falling first in advance, and the success rate of shooting at that time will undoubtedly be much lower.

Offensive and defensive transition, Paul controlled the ball over half the court, and it was Tony Allen standing in front of him, but after a pause, Paul's momentum just now slowed down a little, and began to re-examine the situation on the court, it is obvious that the current situation on the court Hornets are still weak, and the Lakers occupy the advantage in terms of score and momentum.

One of the Lakers' best spots to play is undoubtedly Kobe Bryant's here, so Paul waited until there were 12 seconds left on the offensive clock to pass the basketball to Kobe.

Paul had just shot the basketball when he saw a shadow flash.

"Not good!" Paul was taken aback and hurriedly wanted to take the basketball back, but where could Paul take back the basketball that had already been shot? The basketball hit the ground according to the predetermined trajectory, and just as it was about to bounce back, it was grabbed by a yellow palm. "It's Wang Meng! Wang Meng broke the ball! ”

Paul was annoyed in his heart, he had already paid attention to the positions of all the players when he passed the ball just now, and Wang Meng, who was defending Kobe, was relatively close to the basketball, so for safety, Paul chose to hit the ground with a more tricky angle, but he didn't expect Wang Meng to react so quickly, and he rushed over to break the basketball in an instant.

Wang Meng had actually been eyeing Paul from the beginning, and after fighting Paul so many times, Wang Meng naturally knew a little about Paul's spleen surname, and he knew what kind of choice Paul would make in this situation. Although Paul is very dependent on the ball and his basketball strength will be greatly reduced without it, he has never been alone, and in this case, he is very likely to give the ball to Kobe or Howard and let them play.

Among the two Kobe Bryant and Howard, Howard is now almost hand-to-hand with Odengarnett on the inside, and he still maintains a shooting rate of more than 50% throughout the game, but at this critical moment, Paul will obviously trust Kobe Bryant more.

So Wang Meng was ready for a long time, and the moment Paul made a move, Wang Meng started an instant burst and rushed towards the route between Paul and Kobe.

grabbed the basketball, Wang Meng's feet did not stop at all, because in the state of instant explosion, Wang Meng's speed was amazing, Paul Kobe and the two could only follow Wang Meng to eat ashes.

In less than three seconds, Wang Meng rushed to the Lakers backcourt, in order to save physical strength, Wang Meng did not choose a fancy dunk by the derby, but ended the attack with a simple two-handed dunk.

scored 5 points in a row and completed 1 steal, only about 30 seconds after the pause, Wang Meng chased the score gap to 1 point, not only that, Wang Meng's steals rose to 3 times, just more than Kobe's 1 steal, and completed another goal of the task.

Now, Wang Meng's steals, blocks and assists have all surpassed Kobe, leaving only 2 points and 4 rebounds.

And there are 5 minutes and 25 seconds left in the game.

(To be continued)