During this round and round, the Hornets not only did not score, but were hit by the Trail Blazers. After returning from the timeout, they lost another five points. 1

Faced with this situation, the Hornets' head coach quickly called a timeout. Now the Trail Blazers are already 8 points ahead. If the momentum continues, the Trail Blazers are likely to take away the game in one wave.

"Xue, you did a good job. The ball you just defended Chris was so beautiful. Do you only know? I was stunned when I saw Chris off the court. No one thought you could block Chris from getting the ball." Fernandez, on the bench, patted Xue Ding on the shoulder and couldn't help but praise.

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"The competition was going on so fast just now. Now let's watch Xue Ding's blockade through replay." In CCTV's studio, Yang Rui stared at the replay screen and said.

"Yes, look at this ball. Xue Ding has obviously been thrown away by Paul. Logically speaking, this kind of ball is a must-scoring goal for Paul, but unexpectedly, look, when the ball was still in mid-air, Xue Ding had already jumped up, his arm was long, and after he jumped up, he was about to touch the ball as soon as he reached out." Director Zhang looked at the playback screen, and couldn't help but exclaim while analyzing.

"Xue Ding's ball really demonstrates his talent to the fullest. If it were a defender, it would be possible that Paul would pass the ball, but Xue Ding chose to return to the block. It's really good."

"That's right, it is precisely because Xue Ding must fight every goal and does not give up easily that the injured Trail Blazers have been withered all the way to the present. I believe that if he trains it further, Xue Ding will definitely achieve great success in the future." Director Zhang said.

At this time, the broadcast screen of CCTV changed from the ball that played Xue Ding back to Xue Ding's personal highlights.

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"Chris, keep calm. We have to play more calmly. The first quarter is not over yet, and we still have a chance." The Hornets head coach saw at a glance that Paul was eager to take the lead in the opening stage.

But it is obvious that the effect is not very good, so I had to let Paul stabilize first and don’t worry.

After the timeout came back, the Hornets quickly made adjustments. Paul no longer rushes to equalize the game, but instead started organizing the team's offense in an orderly manner to strive to get the team to the best state.

In the first quarter, when the main players of both sides were on the court, in addition to the Trail Blazers taking a certain lead at the beginning, after the Hornets adjusted, the two sides played back and forth, and the score difference did not widen further.

With more than one minute left in the first quarter, in order to ensure the health of the main players and avoid injury problems, Pritchard directly replaced all the main players of the team.

But during the period when the main player of the Trail Blazers was replaced, Paul seized the opportunity to lead the Hornets to a 6-o wave, catching the score to 27-25.

The poor performance of the substitute player made the head coach extremely dissatisfied, but now he has no other way. As the saying goes, a good wife cannot cook without rice. If you dislike him, you may not even be able to get five people on the bench.

At the beginning of the second quarter, most of the main players of the Trail Blazers were still resting off the court, and only sent Batum to the field to lead the substitute to fight against the Hornets.

On the Hornets, Westcock Corrison and the other players were playing with the substitute.

Nearly three minutes after the second quarter, Collison and West scored eight points for the Hornets, while Batum, the Trail Blazers only hit a three-pointer at the beginning, and Tribo made two free throws and scored four points.

When Xue Ding and other main players returned to the court, the score had reached 31 to 33, and the Trail Blazers were two points behind.

Seeing the Trail Blazers as the main force, the Hornets head coach also quickly replaced Paul and other main force on the court.

Before playing, the Hornets head coach told Paul: "Chris, we are the leader now, keep this pace."

Paul nodded to the head coach.

Paul, who returned to the court, did indeed do what the head coach told him, and was not rushing to attack, but was looking for the best offensive opportunity at the pace.

For most of the second quarter, almost both sides conducted their respective offensive and defensive drills at the opponent's half. The two teams suddenly fought a positional battle, and the scoring efficiency was not very high.

With 1 minute and 18 seconds left in the second quarter, the score between the two sides was 47 to 48, and the game seemed very stalemate.

The Hornets' ball rights, Paul held the ball and advanced to the frontcourt, Stoykovic naturally came over to cover the pick-and-roll for Paul. Paul used the cover to go directly to the right and bypass Chandler's defense.

Then he made a small step into the penalty area, facing Blake's defense, and directly hit a small shot, and made a mid-range backward jump shot and hit!

47 to 5o

Blake quickly got the ball from the bottom line and gave Roy. Roy dribbled the ball across the half. Facing Collison, the two first fought a battle near the center line.

Roy pushed the ball out of the three-point line alone, Chandler came to cover it, Roy used the cover to try, but West suddenly knocked the ball from the right side!

West quickly got the ball and got off the ball. Paul, who had been observing the situation on the field, quickly followed him and got off.

At this time, only Xue Ding came back to defend in the half of the Trail Blazers, and for a moment the Hornets formed a one-on-two situation.

Facing two offensive players, 61 has always maintained his defensive focus towards Paul.

But at this time the ball was in Corrison's hands.

Faced with this situation, Xue Ding knew Paul's tactical position in the Hornets, so whenever there was a suitable opportunity, Collison would definitely pass the ball to Paul.

Xue Ding's defensive focus was always on Paul, but his eyes were always on Corrison and he tried to take off the ball in Corrison's hand with his hands.

In the first two tests, Collison did not make the ball, and the two advanced very quickly and quickly advanced to the free throw line.

At this time, Xue Ding once again reached out to Collison.

Collison also noticed this. Xue Ding failed to take the ball away from him the first two times. This time Xue Ding came again. Collison naturally knew that Xue Ding, who was retreating from defense, was paying attention to him at this time.

Then he cleverly stuffed the ball to Paul. After Paul got the ball, he was ready to shoot directly!

However, Xue Ding's hand stretched out was not really for Corrison, but for Paul!

When Paul received the ball and was about to make a layup, Xue Ding's palm also covered the ball.

Before Paul even had time to make a shooting move, Xue Ding snatched the ball from Paul.
Chapter completed!