With Xue Ding's three-pointer, he scored 5-2

The Trail Blazers took the lead for the first time after the opening game, and the home audience began to cheer.

The two sides played fast in the opening rounds, and Paul wanted to build an advantage at the beginning by relying on speed.

However, after a round, the shooting percentages of both sides were pretty good. The Hornets were not able to catch up with the score. After the first half of the first quarter, the Trail Blazers led the Hornets 16-1 to enter the advertising pause time.

During the suspension period, Paul was a little excited in the face of the backward situation. Now the Hornets have three games left in the regular season, and they are still 1 win-win situation away from the eighth place in the West.

This means that the Hornets must win at least two games in the next three games, and the Nuggets, who are in the eighth position in the Western Conference, must lose at least two games before they can catch up with the winning margin.

So Paul was obviously a little dissatisfied with the situation of falling behind at the beginning.

During the suspension period, when the Hornets' head coach was preparing to arrange tactics, Paul stood aside and kept telling his teammates how to run and how to defend the Trail Blazers' vanguard. The focus of the team is naturally on how to defend Xue Ding in a targeted manner.

For the Trail Blazers, due to the serious injury this season, Aldridge was accidentally injured in the last game and was reimbursed for the season. Head coach Prichard gave the players as much as possible during the suspension period, and did not make too many arrangements. In this case, as long as the health of all members can be guaranteed.

Because the current situation of the Trail Blazers can be said that as long as there is no extremely low probability of events, they will definitely enter the playoffs. The remaining airport games are just to choose the first round opponents in the playoffs.

The timeout ends and players from both sides return to the court.

The Trail Blazers started their first attack on the court.

Blake served the ball in the backcourt to Roy, who slowly dribbled the ball through the half, signaling his teammates to suppress the rhythm.

Obviously, Roy's knee could not stand it after following the Hornets for half a quarter of fastball.

Roy controlled the ball outside the top of the arc on the left for 14 seconds, then began to direct his teammates to run, and then passed the ball to Xue Ding. Xue Ding faced Stoykovic and broke into the three-point line in disguise.

Seeing that Xue Ding easily got rid of Stoykovic, Paul saw this and thought Xue Ding was going to make a layup. Then he made up for defense and stood in place to make Xue Ding an offensive foul.

When Xue Ding took the ball and was about to break in, he happened to see Paul standing up and trying to avoid Paul's layup, but it was too late at this time and was about to hit Paul!

Xue Ding then passed the ball to Batum, who was out of the three-point line, and he lost his balance and avoided Paul. The whole process took less than two seconds.

Even the bottom line referee on the side thought that Xue Ding would definitely dribble the ball and hit Paul who was already standing. One arm was slightly raised. As soon as Xue Ding and Paul came into contact with each other and knocked Paul down, he could immediately whistle and punish Xue Ding for a foul.

But he didn't expect that after Xue Ding said that the ball was passed, he turned his body sideways and avoided Paul. The two of them did not have direct physical contact.

Everything came too fast.

Batum, outside the three-point line, received a pass from Xue Ding and directly made a three-pointer on the spot.

"Swish!"

Hollow into

The cheers of the audience at the scene lasted for a long time, not only cheering for Batum's three-pointer, but also cheering for Xue Ding's beautiful back pass before.

One round after the timeout came back, not only did not cause Xue Ding's mistake, but instead, he hit a three-pointer because Batum who was facing him was empty.

Paul seemed a little depressed and slapped the ball hard after receiving the serve.

Paul held the ball to the frontcourt, and Collison came to cover it, and Paul handed the ball to West.

West took the ball and tried it in the penalty area, then passed the ball back to Paul.

Paul got the ball, and after some defense change, Xue Ding appeared beside Paul.

Facing Xue Ding, Paul was obviously still worried about the ball just now, and signaled his teammates to pull all the ball away, and he wanted to play Xue Ding alone by himself.

You know, Paul made his mark when he first entered the league. Under his leadership, the Hornets can enter the playoffs every year. In addition to being well-dressed, Paul's mid-range is also a killer weapon, and in previous games, he also had the amazing performance of Howard, the dunk beast, in the previous games.

Now facing Xue Ding, a rookie who has just entered the league for a year and a Trail Blazers with injuries, not only failed to lead the Hornets to take the lead away, but instead made Xue Ding show off a trick in front of him, and actually passed the back to assist Batum with a three-pointer!

The Hornets players quickly opened up the singles space. Facing Xue Ding, Paul dribbled the ball rhythmically under his crotch.

Suddenly, he started and wanted to break through from Xue Ding's right side.

Although the meniscus was removed, Paul still had explosive power, and he did succeed in passing Xue Ding and slipped into the paint area.

At this time, in the three-second zone, the Trail Blazers' basket was empty. Chandler saw Paul breaking out of Xue Ding and was about to come to make up for defense, but Stoykovic was entangled with him.

Facing the Sky Blue, Paul chose the safest way to score by throwing.

This kind of scoring method is simply a slight connotation for him.

But what happened next was something that Paul never thought of, and it was enough for him to remember for a lifetime.

After Paul threw the ball, he was ready to return to defense, but at this time Xue Ding suddenly jumped up from behind Paul.

The ball that was shot out was already running in the air and was still in the rising stage, but from this arc, it was definitely a stable ball. In the midst of lightning, Xue Ding's palm appeared above the ball.

Paul didn't even react from the joy of scoring, and Xue Ding had already covered his palm with a firm hand!

“Wow~”

The audience applauded Xue Ding's wonderful block, and many of the audience had already stood up from their seats and waved their fists at the stadium.

Undoubtedly, Xue Ding's block greatly boosted the morale of the Trail Blazers, and the passion of the audience was completely ignited by Xue Ding's block.

Xue Ding, who successfully took the rebound, held the ball in his hand. Paul was stunned for a moment, and after he realized that he immediately wanted to snatch the ball from Xue Ding.

But how could Xue Ding, who was two meters high, give Paul such a chance to pass the ball directly to Chandler?

Chandler transitioned and threw it to Batum who had already reached the frontcourt. Batum tried to break in with the ball, and Chandler went to the blue bottom.
Chapter completed!