Chapter 309: Cover the sky

With Xue Ding's three-pointer into the net, the score came to 5-2.
The Blazers took the lead for the first time since the opening, and the home audience began to cheer.
In the opening rounds, both sides played a fast pace, and Paul wanted to rely on speed to establish an advantage in the opening.
But after the next round, the shooting rate of both sides was pretty good. The Hornets were not able to catch up with the score. After the first half of the first quarter, the Blazers led the Hornets 16 to 13 into the advertising timeout.
During the suspension period, Paul was a little excited in the face of backwardness. Now the Hornets have three games left in the regular season. They are still one win away from the eighth in the west.
This means that the Hornets must win at least two of the next three games, and the Nuggets in the eighth position in the west must lose at least two games before they can catch up with the difference. .
So in the face of the situation behind the opening, Paul is obviously a little dissatisfied.
During the suspension, when the Hornets head coach was preparing to arrange tactics, Paul stood by and kept talking to his teammates about how to run and how to defend the pioneers. The focus is naturally on how to target defense. Xue Ding.
On the Blazers side, due to the serious injury of the team this season, Aldridge was injured in the last game and was reimbursed in the season. The coach Pritchard let the players rest as much as possible during the suspension. More arrangements, in this case, as long as you can ensure the health of all employees.
Because the Trail Blazers' current situation can be said that as long as there is no minimum probability of occurrence, they can definitely enter the playoffs. The remaining airport games are just the first round of opponents in the playoffs.
After the timeout period, players from both sides return to the court.
The Blazers had the right to start the first attack on the field.
Blake served to Roy in the backcourt, and Roy slowly took the ball through the half, indicating his teammates to press the rhythm.
Obviously, Roy's knee was a bit unbearable after playing a half-ball fastball with the Hornets.
Roy controlled the ball from the top of the left arc to 14 seconds, then began to command his teammates to run the position, and then passed the ball to Xue Ding. Xue Ding faced Stojkovic, a disguise, and broke into the three-point line.
Seeing that Xue Ding easily got rid of Stojkovic, Paul saw it, thinking that Xue Ding was about to make a layup, and then came back to defend his position to prepare Xue Ding for an offensive foul.
Xue Ding happened to see Paul standing over when he was ready to burst into the ball and wanted to avoid Paul's layup, but it was too late at this time and he was about to hit Paul!
Xue Ding immediately passed the ball to Batum, who was out of the three-point line. He lost his balance and sideways to avoid Paul. The whole process took less than two seconds.
Even the side referee at the side already thought that Xue Ding would definitely hit the ball with Paul who was already in position. One arm had been raised slightly. As soon as Xue Ding and Paul touched and knocked Paul down, he would You can ring the whistle immediately and blow Xue Ding's foul.
But he didn't expect that Xue Ding evaded Paul sideways after talking about the pass, and the two did not have positive physical contact.
Everything came too fast.
Batum outside the three-point line received Xue Ding's pass and directly made a three-point shot.
"Uh!"
Hollow into the net.
The cheers of the audience at the scene lasted for a long time, not only to cheer for Batum's three-pointer, but also to the beautiful back pass of Xue Ding before.
One round after the suspension came back, not only did not cause Xue Ding's mistakes, but because of his opposing Batum was empty by himself, and hit a three-pointer.
Paul seemed a little frustrated, and after receiving the serve, he slammed the ball.
Paul held the ball to the frontcourt, Collison came over to cover, and Paul handed the ball to West.
West took the ball and tried it in the penalty area, and then passed the ball back to Paul.
Paul took the ball, and after some defense changes, Xue Ding appeared beside him.
In the face of Xue Ding, Paul is obviously still worried because of the ball just now, indicating that all his teammates are pulled away, he wants to play Xue Ding alone.
You know, Paul made his debut when he entered the league. Under his leadership, the Hornets can enter the playoffs every year. In addition to wearing a good shot, Paul’s middle distance is also a killing weapon, and in the previous There was also a stunning performance of Warcraft Howard in the game.
Now facing Xue Ding, a rookie who has just entered the league for a year, and a pioneer full of injuries, he not only failed to lead the Hornets to take the lead on the road, but instead let Xue Ding just show a slap in front of him. , Actually back pass assists Batum three points!
The Hornets players quickly opened up space for singles. In the face of Xue Ding, Paul had a rhythmic continuous hip dribble.
Suddenly a start, wanted to break in from Xue Ding's right side.
Although the meniscus was removed, Paul's explosive power was still there. He did indeed pass Xue Ding and slipped into the paint area.
In the three-second zone at this time, the Trailblazers had no one under the basket. After Chandler saw Paul suddenly break out of Xue Ding, he was going to come to make up the defense. But Stojkovic was entangled with him. .
Facing the empty blue, Paul chose the safest way to throw a score.
This way of scoring is a trivial matter for him.
But what happened next was something Paul didn't think of, enough to make him remember for a lifetime.
After Paul's shot, he was ready to return to defense, but at this time Xue Ding suddenly jumped from behind Paul.
The thrown ball has been running to the basket in the air and is still in the ascending stage, but from this arc, it is definitely a stable ball Appeared over the ball.
Paul didn't even respond to the joy of scoring, Xue Ding had covered it with a sturdy palm!
"Wow~"
The audience at the scene applauded Xue Ding's wonderful shot. Many audiences had stood up from their seats and waved their fists at the venue.
Undoubtedly, Xue Ding's block cap greatly boosted the morale of the Blazers, and the passion of the audience at the scene was completely ignited by Xue Ding's block cap.
Xue Ding, who successfully removed the rebound, took the ball in his hand. Paul, who was covered, froze for a moment. After the reaction, he immediately wanted to steal the ball from Xue Ding.
How could Xue Ding, two meters tall, give Paul this opportunity to pass the ball directly to Chandler.
Chandler made a transition and threw it to Batum, who had already reached the frontcourt. Batum took the ball and tried to break in. Chandler went down the blue background.
When the ball arrives, Chandler gets the ball in the three-second zone and dunks!