In the fifth minute of the fourth quarter, Marcin Gortat returned to the court with Adrian, and Millsap was replaced. Please visit the latest free chapter of this book. The Orlando Magic temporarily leads the New Orleans Hornets with 101:98 points.
Three-pointer. After coming on the stage, Adrian took over the ball from Turkoglu, reached the three-point line and suddenly pulled out a jumper. It seemed that he did not expect Adrian to choose an offensive method so hastily. Morris-
Evans didn't even have time to react. Unfortunately, there was some deviation in the power of Adrian's shot. As soon as the basketball was released, he knew that the shot was short. Sure enough, the basketball hit the front of the basket and came out, and the crowd
Chris Paul, the shortest among them, jumped high and was lucky enough to pick up the rebound.
Adrian stepped back with an expression on his face.
Instead of changing positions with Maurice Evans, when Chris Paul attacked with the ball, Adrian went directly to meet him.
"Are you going to guard me?" Chris Paul hunched over, the basketball going back and forth between his hands. As an excellent point guard, Adrian could feel the speed of the basketball on Chris Paul.
It was constantly changing in his hands, and... never left Paul's control at all.
There was a smile on his face: "You can't guard against me."[
"This is not a certain thing. Basketball is not mathematics. The results can be obtained by calculation." Adrian lowered his body, keeping a step away from Paul and said word by word: "You can prepare it in advance to be beaten by me."
Prepare for a complete lockdown."
Are you prepared to be completely blocked?
Chris Paul thinks this is a complete joke. Of course he has not been guarded before, and he is not a robot. Naturally, there will be times when he performs well and times when he performs poorly. Sometimes he will also fall into the trap of failing to score no matter how hard he shoots.
In a strange situation, but to be completely blocked... Chris Paul asked himself that he had never experienced such a thing, and he did not believe that anyone in this world could completely block him. So for Adri
An's words were automatically classified as provocative trash talk.
But when Adrian said this, his completely serious and unpretentious expression seemed to be talking about something that was a matter of course and the future that was bound to come. Of course, this kind of attitude could not scare Paul, but it was enough to make him scared.
He is angry.
"If you can do it, just give it a try!" Although he didn't believe that Adrian could completely block himself as he said. But because of the anger in his heart, Chris Paul did not dismiss it or laugh at it, but
It was in response to Adrian's provocation.
Bang bang bang bang...
Chris Paul's dribbling speed suddenly accelerated, and his shoulders shook regularly. Every shake seemed to be a possible further movement. Adrian did not start shaking with Chris Paul. He had already done it before.
It has been proven that this defensive method does not work for Chris Paul. Now he needs to change his defensive method to maximize his physical advantage in defense.
Lowering his body a little further, Adrian took a half step back. With his height advantage, even if he took another half step back, Adrian could still maintain defensive pressure on Chris Paul's sudden shot.
, and the sufficient buffer distance allows Adrian to more fully observe Chris Paul's movements.
Adrian is not confident that he will be able to defend against Chris Paul's attack. What he said just now was partly provocative and partly to encourage himself. However, through observation and several encounters in the first quarter, coupled with the previous brief confrontation
Having experienced typical small and fast point guards like Steve Nash and Allen Iverson, Adrian has indeed "touched" some tips on guarding Paul.
Chris Paul made several fake moves in a row. However, Adrian, who had widened the defensive distance, did not move at all and just blocked his breakthrough route. Although Adrian aroused his anger,
.But he still maintained calmness and restraint. Under such a situation, Chris Paul understood deeply that if he chose to break through, it would be difficult to deceive Adrian into making wrong judgments through fake moves. As long as he stayed close to him, Adrian would
He can use his height advantage to block most of his offensive options.
Chris Paul held his head high and scanned the situation with his smart eyes. There was not much offensive time left, but no one else had a suitable offensive opportunity yet. David West was
Kwame Brown was so entangled that even if Chris Paul passed the basketball, David West didn't actually have a good chance to score at that position. The situation for everyone else was similar.
After a little thought, Chris Paul finally decided to do it himself.
After continuous shaking, Adrian remained unmoved. Chris Paul chose to break out and took the first step. Adrian slightly changed his body direction and waited until Chris Paul actually took a step forward.
After taking the second step, Adrian followed in the footsteps of Chris Paul.
Instead of directly sticking up to interfere with him as before, exercising his physical fitness to make it more difficult for the opposing offensive player to dribble and causing mistakes, Adrian chose to let go of a distance and follow Chris Paul's pace unhurriedly.
.In this way, you can minimize the impact of fake actions on yourself.
After taking two steps, Chris Paul suddenly stopped.
"Emergency stop, is it a change of direction? No..."
Step back...jump shot!
With a large amount of leaning back, Chris Paul jumped up high and shot the basketball in his hand. With such a distance and such a leaning back, Chris Paul definitely thought that Adrian should take his shot.
There is no way to shoot the ball...should be.
The moment Chris Paul made a step-back jumper, Adrian also took a step forward, and then jumped high. In Adrian's defensive strategy, "forcing"
Chris Paul's choice of such an offensive method when facing himself can be classified as a successful defense. Because his shooting preparation movements, especially the preparation movements for three-point shooting, are more obvious than other guards.
There is a slight sluggishness, and the sluggishness is very short. If you don't slow down the camera to observe, it would be difficult to detect this slowness caused by the habits developed since childhood, but it does bring more to Adrian.
The blocking success rate.[
Adrian, who jumped high, had a smile on his face, because he really felt that his fingertips touched the lower end of the basketball. Although such a touch could cover the basketball, he still had to
Changing the trajectory of the shot is enough.
"Rebound!"
The smile on Adrian's face made Chris Paul's heart skip a beat, and he instinctively screamed.
Sure enough, the shot that was changed by Adrian was obviously short because it lacked a little strength. It hit the front of the basket and bounced out. Chris Paul also wanted to grab the offensive rebound, but the rebound was quick and quick.
Far away, Kwame Brown, Marcin Gortat and even David West under the basket failed to touch the basketball in the first place.
Chris Paul tried hard to take off, but Adrian used his height advantage to grab the rebound first. Paul had no choice but to retreat.
After grabbing the rebound, Adrian took the ball all the way to the frontcourt. At the three-point line, Peterson was waiting for Adrian's arrival. As soon as he stepped on the three-point line with one foot, Adrian did not pause at all.
He directly picked up the basketball in his hand and threw it.
Although Peterson responded, he jumped with all his strength and could only reach Adrian's wrist when he stretched his arms.
"How dare he vote like this?"
In such a tense situation, the courage required for such a random shot is extraordinary. Chris Paul asked himself, under such circumstances, he would not dare to choose to attack so roughly. It is not that he does not have such a right, but that
He would not make such a choice.
The basketball flew out of Adrian's hands, drew a perfect arc, and plunged into the hoop like a baby swallow returning to its nest.
104:98, Orlando Magic leads by 6 points.
Hornets head coach Byron Scott called a timeout and replaced Tyson Chandler. Looking back, David West also hit a three-pointer in return.
The Hornets continued to hold on to the score.
Adrian did not continue to gamble on three-pointers, but instead passed the ball to Marcin Gortat after breaking into the paint. Gortat immediately dunked after receiving the basketball, but Tyson Chandler slapped the ball away.
Fly away.
Chris Paul received the basketball and immediately launched a fast break. Adrian entangled Chris Paul. Chris Paul, who was lowering his head all the way, suddenly threw the basketball towards the backboard!
"Clang!"
Tyson Chandler scored two points for the Hornets once again with a rock-shattering two-hand chop.
The two sides went back and forth, and the offensive did not stop at all.
The game quickly reached the last minute. With the last thirty seconds left in the game, 110:108, the Magic still led the Hornets by 2 points, and the Hornets had the ball.
Chris Paul controls the ball and cruises around the three-point line, looking for possible offensive opportunities. Everyone on the Magic team has awakened their spirits. As long as they can prevent the Hornets' attack, this game will be
The victory is already in your pocket.
"I'm going to shoot a three-pointer." Chris Paul, who was wandering around, suddenly said to Adrian, who was following him step by step: "I'm going to shoot a three-pointer and kill the Magic with a three-pointer."
"If you can do it, come and try it." Although he answered in his mouth, Adrian's energy was concentrated without any slack. Whether Chris Paul chose three-pointers or two-pointers, whether he chose to attack by himself or to pass the ball
, the only thing I can do at this time is to stop him!
"You can only leave with failure!" (To be continued. Mobile phone users please go to m to read.) [
