Defending champion

Chapter 118 The Devil's Race
Tonight the Hornets ushered in the Boston Celtics at home, this is the second time the Hornets and Celtics have faced each other this season.

In the last confrontation between the Hornets and the Celtics, the Hornets relied on 3 wins.This time the Celtics played this game with a heart of revenge.The Hornets have to be careful.

At the beginning of the game, although the Boston Celtics were not in the period of the Big Three, the Celtics played extremely fiercely at the beginning.

The Celtics first handed the ball to Perkins on the inside. Perkins held it hard and took advantage of his strength to score four points in a row.Then the Celtics Paul Pierce was unwilling to be lonely and made a large three-pointer. After a forced breakthrough, he made a breakthrough shot with an emergency stop.

There was a 9-0 spurt in the opening game, and the Hornets dug a hole for themselves again.

A few minutes ahead. , The Hornets' offense can be summed up in four words: iron strikes, turnovers.This is the habitual slow heat of the Hornets.

Paul made a bad pass and was intercepted by Tony Allen.

Jr Smith dribbled and walked, Butler was caught for a layup...

Jack couldn't sit still, asked for the ball in the low post, and wanted to use his half-bucket fadeaway shot for a single.However, facing such a high-intensity defense from the Celtics.Jack threw the basketball and it went out of the basket.

After the three-pointer, the Hornets used Paul and Jack to pass the pick-and-roll. Paul scored the ball and Jack shot from the middle distance to break the team's scoring shortage.

After that, Jack passed Paul's assists and scored two more points in the alley-oop.

However, after so long in the game, only Jack scored 4 points. The other players of the Hornets didn't get any of them, but they made a lot of mistakes.

Jr Smith's cross pass was interrupted by Tony Allen. In less than 4 minutes of the game, the Hornets had already made 5 turnovers.Byron Scott couldn't stand it anymore, and immediately called a timeout, but this timeout didn't have much effect.Except for Jack and Chris Paul, the players are like sleepwalking on the court. The players have not recovered from the holidays, and this is all caused by the holidays.

Fortunately, the Celtics' touch also dropped in the second half of the first quarter, which caused the Hornets' points to not be stretched too much.

However, after the end of the first quarter, the Hornets still trailed by 13 to 25 points.

In the second quarter, the Hornets' bench was led by David West.He played very well, and during this period of rotation, the score was not further narrowed, but even chased for three points.David West also performed well, scoring 6 points and 8 rebounds in 4 minutes.

The main players of the Hornets' team were stimulated. As soon as Butler came on the court, he continued to go crazy, scoring two three-pointers, and approaching the score to three points.

The Celtics also quickly responded with a three-pointer.It was enough to see his little brother, and Paul also stood up and had a blast.Breaking through and killing the inside line of the Celtics, there is only one point left to close the score.

However, at this time, Danny Green's nerve knife has begun to go crazy.In 2 minutes, Biao hit two consecutive three-pointers and a mid-range shot.Danny Green's touch is so hot, and his teammates are also deliberately creating opportunities for him.

The long-range attack is still in!Being disrupted by Danny, the Hornets led by 9 points at the end of the second quarter, 40 to 49.

At the beginning of the third quarter, the Hornets took the lead, and Jack scored the ball with a mid-range shot.Jack's performance was not over yet, and then he rewarded Perkins with a hot pot.After grabbing the rebound, the Hornets' fast break started again.Butler scored a dunk.With these waves of offense, the passion of the Hornets has also been played out.

The Hornets hit three consecutive three-pointers and directly overtook the score.The Hornets, who had been frustrated for halftime, were finally able to overtake the score this time.After that, the Hornets seized the opportunity and did not give the Celtics a chance to overtake.

Jack and Paul's pick-and-roll cooperation, lobs...continuously destroyed the Celtics' restricted area.

The Celtics let up at the beginning of the third quarter.After that, I couldn't stand it anymore. ... At the end of the third quarter, the Celtics trailed by 12 points.For most of the time in this quarter, the Celtics could only bombard the Huang Feng team with a harmless crosshair.How can the Celtics be undefeated?
In the fourth quarter, the form on the court showed a one-sided form. Jack used powerful alley-oops again and again to rape the Celtics' basket.The spectators on the sidelines were still reluctant to leave after the game ended.

In the end, the Hornets won the game 100-80, completing the sweep of the Celtics this season.At the same time, the Hornets also achieved the longest winning streak of the season with 8 consecutive victories.

In this game, Jack scored 22 points, 13 rebounds and 4 blocks as a starter. At the same time, he also had three turnovers.After the game against the Celtics, Jack has to play an away game.

However, this time the away trip was not very smooth for the Hornets. The Hornets only won one game in three games.

First, a 100-87 loss to the Washington Wizards ended the Hornets' eight-game winning streak this season.Then when the Hornets moved to Golden State, they regained a little face 88 to 84.However, when they came to Charlotte, they still lost to the bobcats by a big score.Achieved a record of one win and two losses.

In the past few games, Jack's performance has been very stable, averaging 15 points, 15 rebounds and 2 blocks per game.However, the number of turnovers that Jack has made in these games is a big problem for Jack. When he played against the Washington Wizards, he made 6 turnovers.When he came to Charlotte, Jack's performance was even worse. Jack scored a season-high 8 turnovers.In Golden State, Jack's turnovers were well controlled, but Jack still had 3 turnovers.Reached his turnover average this season.

On the contrary, players who are as strong as the Hornets have undoubtedly won the games in the current few games.The Lakers' three-game winning streak, the Grizzlies are also very rare to achieve three consecutive victories.The Rockets, which are ahead of the Hornets, have won two of their three away games, adding one more win to the Hornets.

Behind the Lakers is the Hornets. At the end of this game, the Lakers are only half a game away from the Hornets.The Hornets looked very dangerous.

Not only the Lakers, but even the Grizzlies are still very threatening to the Hornets, and they are only one game short of the Hornets.

The Hornets can't lose again. If they lose, then the Lakers' eighth position in the Western Conference will definitely be lost.The Hornets had to be on their toes.

Originally, the Hornets' plan was to win the underdogs in the away game, but the Hornets carelessly missed Jingzhou.They only won one game in three away games, so they couldn't catch up with the Rockets in front of them, and they were chased by the Lakers behind them.This feeling is really very uncomfortable.

(End of this chapter)