Standing on the sidelines, Kidd watched the game between the two teams on the field, his brows furrowed.

At this time, it was the king's offense, Cousins took the ball in the high post, and Li Tian ran actively in the half, rushing outside the three-point line, under the interference of two defenders, Li Tian was not able to receive the ball, but the Nets' defense also left Thompson empty.

Thompson, who cut to the basket, received a pass from Cousins, and just as Lopez was about to make up the defense, Thompson passed the ball back to Cousins, allowing Cousins to rush inside and end the offense with a dunk.

Li Tian's resurgence is a huge help for the Kings, which means that the Nets have to put a lot of effort into defending his shots from the outside, and even sometimes have to arrange two people on the outside to prevent him from receiving the ball.

At this time, for the rest of the Kings players, there were many opportunities, and obviously, several players in the Kings field were not weak in attack, so they always firmly occupied the initiative in the court.

And once the Nets don't pay attention to Li Tian's defense, Li Tian will use his excellent running position to find a gap to complete the offense.

So although the Nets strengthened their defense against him after Li Tian came on the court in the second quarter, when there were still 2 minutes before the end of the second quarter, Li Tian's score had reached 23, and Li Tian scored 9 points in the second quarter, and the shooting rate remained good, shooting 3 of 4 and 2 free throws.

After Lopez's malicious foul, Li Tianlian scored 6 points with free throws, and the difference between the two teams had widened to 9 points, and at this time, the difference was further widened to 12 points.

48:60, the 12-point difference was maintained until the end of halftime, and the King's offense in the first half played extremely well, with 23 points, 2 rebounds, 2 assists and 1 steal.

In addition to Li Tian, the best performance in the Kings team is Thomas, who scored 14 points, but when he entered the locker room, he was not happy, whether it was the number of shots or the number of points, he and Li Tian had a gap, which made Thomas worried after the game.

The Kings' offense played smoothly in the first half, but in the second half, it was a sudden change.

Two minutes and 45 seconds into the second half, Evans took the ball to the half court and gave it to Cousins in the high post.

At this time, it was not Lopez who stopped in front of Cousins, but Garnett, which was a change in the defensive end of the Nets since the start of the second half, Lopez played against Jason Thompson, but for Thompson Lopez in the middle distance, he basically didn't care, just wandering around the three-second zone.

"Don't waste your energy, little one, your teammates can't run out of the empty seats, and they don't dare to attack on their own, so let's go home and drink milk."

In front of Cousins, Garnett kept spewing trash talk, and after entering the second half, Cousins has been receiving such verbal harassment from Garnett, which has made Cousins's impatience index skyrocket.

What made Cousins even more impatient was that the team had not scored since the third quarter of the game, and he had raised the high post in every round to respond, but his teammates had not been given the right offensive opportunities.

Li Tian was completely classified into the key defensive objects of the Nets, as long as Li Tian showed signs of receiving the ball, there must be two Nets players who stepped forward to stop it, and in the past 2 minutes, Li Tian basically did not receive the ball.

For Li Tianyan's defense, for the other players of the Kings, the Nets are consciously leaking defense, such as Thompson, the Nets basically don't care, even if he receives the ball in the middle distance, there are no Nets players to interfere, but Thompson is not good at offense, and today he has no feeling at all, and after missing the shot twice, he didn't dare to shoot again.

For Iguodala, Pierce followed quite closely, and although Iguodala didn't feel particularly good on the outside today, he also shot two or three goals. Evans became another target of the Nets' contempt, and if Evans received the ball from beyond the three-point line, Deron Williams basically used a two-step defense to let you shoot, and determined that Evans couldn't shoot from the outside.

If Evans is going to make a run to the basket, Lopez is there and will be caught between two as soon as he rushes into the box.

So this period of the King's offense did not play at all, which made Cousins, who was responsible for the important task of the court at this time, very impatient, he also tried to attack himself just now, and Garnett was very dead in the mid-range shooting, and if he played inside, he would encounter Lopez's pinch.

At this moment, Cousins is in this extremely impatient situation, Li Tian was stopped and had no chance to catch the ball, Thompson was useless when he was empty, and he couldn't score anyway, and Iguodala and Evans didn't seem to have a chance to run out of the attack.

"Are your legs weak? Let's ask your coach to go to the adult store and buy some powerful medicine. Seeing that Cousins' expression was already a little impatient at this time, Garnett continued to irritate with trash talk.

"Shit!" Seeing his teammates unable to run for a long time, coupled with Garnett's constant stimulation on the sidelines, Cousins finally decided to attack by himself.

Smashing the ball to the floor, Cousins dribbled the ball and rushed inside.

Although he plays as a center forward, Cousins has a lot of the time playing as an outside player, with excellent dribbling and very flexible footwork.

However, he is facing Garnett, who has a lot of experience in defense, and although Garnett's mobility ability has declined, it is difficult to completely defend Cousins' breakthrough, but he can still use his veteran experience to force Cousins to move to the side.

"Porphyry!" Cousins walked the side of the baseline and rushed outside the three-second zone, just in time to crash into Lopez, who was already waiting there.

Picking up the ball, Cousins leaned over Garnett and Lopez trying to find space between the two to shoot.

"Smack!" Garnett, who judged accurately on the side, slapped the ball down.

"That guy is thugping!" Cousins, who was about to attack, found that the ball in his hand was missing, and immediately yelled at the referee on the baseline to complain.

The referee ignored it, and the Nets players saw that the referee did not blow it, and immediately began to launch a counterattack.

But at this time, Cousins turned a blind eye to the Nets' counterattack, and the referee, who was still pestering the bottom line, shouted: "That guy is definitely a hitter, you should watch the replay!" ”

The referee ignored Cousins' complaints and ran to the halfcourt, by which time the Nets had launched a counterattack on the other half, and the front court was five to four.

The Nets didn't waste that opportunity, and by the time Cousins ran across the halfway line in anger, the Nets had already had a chance by guiding the ball, and Pierce hit a shot from outside the three-point line.

"Tick!"

Adelman called a timeout, and the team was scoreless for nearly three minutes, leaving the difference between the two teams by only five points at this time, and Cousins's impatience also made him realize that if he didn't call a timeout, there would be a lot of problems.

"Damn, that guy is definitely a thug." Until he walked to the sidelines, Cousins was still swearing, if it wasn't for Iguodala to pull him, maybe he would continue to go to the referee, but even so, the referee's eyes have been on this side, as long as Cousins has any excesses, he will not hesitate to give a technical foul.

"Thomas, Chris, come on for DeMarcus and Jason." Seeing that Cousins was so uncool, Adelman directly replaced Cousins, which undoubtedly made Cousins surprised and extremely dissatisfied.

"Demarcus!" Just when Cousins wanted to refute, Jim Ain, who was on the side, immediately pulled Cousins aside and began to persuade.

After a few years as an assistant coach at the Kings, Jim Ain knows Cousins' temper well and is more familiar with Cousins.

Adelman ignored Cousins at this time and began to set up tactics.

"We need to pick up the tempo, Terek, push a little bit faster, don't let the guys on the opposite side get down to the defense, and find a quick break through in the half, rush inside to attract the defense."

"If Lee and Chris have a chance, pass the ball out, and if not, give it to Andre. Andre, your task is to take Tyrek's pass and continue to break through, completely tear the opponent's defense completely, and then look for Lee and Chris on the outside. ”

"Thomas, you cover for Lee and Chris in the half, and after doing all that, you rush to the front court to rebound."

Adelman took the tactical board and assigned everyone the task of replacing Cousins off the court, and he did not put Hayes, who is familiar with Princeton's tactics, into the court, but replaced Thomas Robinson, who is more capable of rushing, and also replaced Jason Thompson with Middleton.

It's a big lineup with four small, a small lineup to be exact, because Robinson's height is also not outstanding at the number four position.

Since the Nets prefer half-court defense, Adelman simply doesn't give the Nets such a chance to speed up the tempo, in this regard, Robinson, who is good at running, is more suitable than Hayes, as for the transmission strategy on the offensive end, Adelman handed it to Evans and Iguodala, and did not stick to the high post on the inside.

"Run, get up to the tempo!" At the end of the timeout, Adelman continued to shout reminders to the players who were going to take the game.

(PS: This chapter is made up for yesterday.) )