Paul, who left the game early, is now playing early, and it stands to reason that he should rest until 8 or 9 minutes of the second quarter, but now because of their arrogance, Gu Fei caught them off guard, and the current Hornets have four starters who are back, except for Peja Stojakovich, and Butler, who was originally in the second position, was promoted to the third position, and now the main defense Gu Fei is Morris Peterson.

Peterson may not be known by most fans, he has been with the Raptors since 2000 when he was drafted by the Raptors in the first round of 21 and did not come to the Hornets until this season, as a player with a modest pick, the 2005-06 season is his masterpiece so far, averaging 16.8 points and 4.6 rebounds per game, shooting 82% from the free-throw line and 39.5% from three-point range.

In addition, Peterson is also an underrated defensive player, a lesser-known defensive player in the league, with a hard-working attitude, height and movement that is not far behind the league's top swingmen. Unlike other top-notch defenders, he has fewer defensive moves. However, gummy gummy defending can often make the opposition's top offensive players more physically expended than usual to achieve close offensive results. The 05-06 steal count is only 1.3 games that are not eye-catching, but it is already the best in the team. Due to his faster lateral foot movement, Peterson is also among the top 10 players in the league in terms of his ability to make offensive fouls against opponents.

Since Peterson is primarily responsible for defending the opposition's outside arrows, the ability to block can be ignored. Now he has replaced Butler to defend Gu Fei, and the Hornets attach importance to Gu Fei, but this is also in line with Gu Fei's prediction, and now Gu Fei is tearing up the defense according to tactics.

When Kassel landed at the top arc, Gu Fei immediately started and ran towards Kassel who was in the top arc, looking like he was going to go around his back.

And Noah on the inside has already proposed to make a no-ball cover for Gu Fei, but he was blocked by Noah, Peterson failed to continue to give Gu Fei's footsteps, and Chandler, who followed Noah out, was even more unlikely to keep up.

Gu Fei was very fast, and immediately passed behind Cassel, stretched out his hand as if to catch the ball, and Cassel also handed the ball that was originally on the right side of his waist to the back, and the two seemed to be about to complete a hand-to-hand pass.

Gu Fei bypassed Kassel but he didn't have the ball in his hand, but Paul didn't know that Paul, who thought that Gu Fei had successfully received the ball, moved sideways and wanted to make up for Gu Fei, and the next second he found that Gu Fei did not have the ball in his hand, and at this time, Peterson, who had already followed, was entangled with Gu Fei again, but his own people were lost.

Because Paul's lateral move made his position in the defense of Kassel a little off, although it was only a small one, but as an experienced veteran, how could Cassel let go of such an opportunity!

As a veteran, the speed that was not fast suddenly exploded, and an acceleration squeezed past Paul's side. Breakthrough Paul Cassel didn't go inside, he jumped up directly when he came to the three-point line, Paul wanted to jump up and block in the back, but he was too late and so short, he could only watch Cassel jump in front of him.

Kassel's accurate mid-range shot gave the Clippers the first two points of the second quarter, bringing the margin to three points, and now it may be just one ball for the Clippers to tie the score.

Defensive failures, Paul decided to use the offense to get back, although he is a point guard and a pass-first point guard, but no one dares to doubt his offensive ability, the 20+11 stats for two consecutive seasons are the most powerful proof, if you don't believe it, then you will die ugly.

"It looks like Chris is going to attack on his own, and it's time for him to step up as the star of the team." Smith said, looking at Paul's actions.

Paul then waved his hand at the top of the arc to get West back and make room for his teammates, and now he faces Kassel one-on-one.

Paul's dribbling is not very fancy, but the speed is fast, the non-stop high-speed dribble makes Cassel lose accurate judgment, he doesn't know what Paul is going to do next, his center of gravity shifts, at this time Paul accelerates towards Kassel's right, and a simple speed change passes Kassel, who lost his defensive position, and returns a ball to Cassel with the same stop-and-go jump shot in the same position. The score is back to 5 points.

"Chris or Chris is going to color Kassel right away."

"Aren't you supporting Gu? Why is he now supporting his opponents? ”

"I'm just talking about it, Chris is a really strong player, I think he's the best pick-and-roll guard other than Nash, and of course he's very good at singles."

"Now let's see how the Clippers are going to handle this offense."

Seeing that Kassel dribbled after half the game, Barkley immediately turned his eyes back to the court, and now he was extremely looking forward to seeing Gu Fei score.

As soon as Cassel fell into position, he made a gesture, and the Clippers players began to run according to the tactics, Gu Fei and Margeti switched positions along the baseline in pairs, Noah covered for Margeti, and when he saw Margeti's defender blocked, Cassel immediately passed the ball, but Butler quickly squeezed past Noah and reappeared in front of Margeti.

Seeing the loss of offensive opportunities, Margeti slowly walked towards the top arc with the ball, and Kassel, who was originally in the top arc, had moved to the left free throw line, and when Margot reached the top arc, Carman came up at the same time to cover Kassel, and with the help of the cover, Kassel came to the position just now, and Gu Fei mentioned that the high position was ready to receive the ball.

Margeti controlled the ball and looked at the form on the court and found that there seemed to be no good chances, and after thinking about it, according to what the previous coach said, he handed the ball to Gu Fei, in fact, Margeti refused in his heart, originally he thought that as soon as Elton left, he would become the core of the Clippers, who knew that the management would trade Gu Fei, a rookie, was also trained as the core, and suddenly he became the second leader.

Now in this situation where everyone has no chance, he also wants to embarrass Gu Fei when he gives the ball to Gu Fei, he wants to see how Gu Fei can become the core.

Gu Fei received the ball and looked up at the timer, there were only 12 seconds left, dribbling and exiting the three-point line Gu Fei was no longer ready to play any tactics, time was gone, and now he planned to come by himself.

Gu Fei faced Peterson, who was in a defensive posture, his eyes were full of confidence, and he made two tentative steps in a row.

Peterson had to concentrate his spirit highly, he knew that Gu Fei was also very sharp in addition to the three-point breakthrough, and he didn't dare to act rashly in the face of Gu Fei, who was skilled in dribbling, and the continuous crotch connection with a back dribble made Peterson's defensive center of gravity lose somewhat.

Taking advantage of the moment when Peterson lost his defensive center of gravity, Gu Fei swayed from side to side and shook Peterson towards the inside line.

Peterson could only look at Gu Fei's back with a little helplessness, but immediately turned around to chase after the defense, Gu Fei broke through into the inside line and did not attract defensive assists again this time, facing Tyson's supplementary defense Gu Fei rushed up fearlessly, leaning on Chandler to exchange left hand layups to score.

Scoring again still relied on Suddenly, Gu Fei had completely let go, he knew that his current state and feeling were even better than before, and he was more confident in attacking.

Offense and defense switched Paul to control the ball, slowly advanced through the half, and raised his right hand to organize the team's attack. The Hornets immediately went up and down rhythmically to make crossover runs. Paul gave the ball to Peterson, but Peterson couldn't find the chance to pass it back to Paul.

Cassel saw Paul catch the ball again and immediately nervously followed, and Paul did not act rashly but assumed a triple threat pose.

Cassel stared at Gu Fei with a serious face, he didn't want to be Paul's background wall again, he hoped that he could prevent Paul this time.

Just when Cassel's nerves were tense, Paul suddenly put his feet on the ground, and the whole person suddenly stood up straight, and at the same time lifted the ball above his head in a standard shooting position.

Kassel, who was already at the critical point, jumped up subconsciously.

At this time, a smile appeared on the corner of Paul's mouth, he wanted this effect, and Cassel in mid-air also realized that he had been fooled, Paul's shot was just a feint, and there was no time to complain only to see Paul break through past him.

Gu Fei, who was standing on the side, immediately appeared in front of Paul when he saw this, and he felt that he should defend this ball.

Paul made a sudden change of direction and accelerated to a sharp stop, Gu Fei, who was bent on defense, also jumped up immediately, and Paul sent the ball away, and this assist can be said to be the most exciting one of Paul's seasons so far.

Paul, who deceived Gu Fei, did not make a foul because he saw Chandler on the left side of the penalty area, and he was left unattended at the moment. So, Paul opted for passing!

Paul shouted, and the ball flew high past Gu Fei's palm to the left.

"Chris shot this ball a little avoidantly, it seems that Gu's defense has caused him a lot of trouble......" Barkley wanted to praise Gu Fei's words before he finished seeing Chandler blast the ball from Paul into the basket like a bomber.

The basket looked a little shaky under Chandler's hard pull.

'It was a beautiful assist, it was a masterful pass! Chris deserves to be a super point guard, and such an assist is something Gu can't do now. The voice that came out this time was Smith, in fact, he didn't want to hit Gu Fei, but to hit Barkley, who had just been proud.

The big screen began to replay the attack just now, and the audience also broke out into warm applause and cheers again.

Gu Fei looked at the back of Paul's replay and shook his head helplessly, although he didn't hear Smith's words, he also knew that he couldn't compare to Paul in passing the ball now, maybe not only now, but the possibility in the future will not be too great.