Defending champion

Chapter 412
Chapter 2 and One
With a "boom", the basketball bounced heavily on the front of the basket, jumping high!

Today's game is completely beyond the scope of people's normal thinking. It has always been the protagonist of the Hornets, Jack.

In the first quarter, there was an invisible situation, which is very rare for Jack.

On the contrary, Peja Stockovich, who has always been the third in command of the Hornets, performed exceptionally perfectly.

From the start of this section to the present, Peja has made 3 three-pointers.Moreover, three of three shots were made, and the hit reached [-]%.

With a bang, the basketball was bounced high.

The Heat missed the offense and David West controlled the rebound.

The ball was in the hands of the Hornets again, and the basketball was still in the hands of Jack, who faced the Sharks' defense under the basket.

Jack still chose to hand the ball to Peja Stockovic, who was on the outside and felt hot.

Jack didn't know why he became like this, he always felt sullen in his heart.It cannot be released no matter what.

Peja took a step outside the three-point line, received the basketball, and shot directly without any hesitation.

Peja's toes tipped lightly, and Peja took off straight. At the moment of rising to the highest point, Peja's wrist trembled slightly, and the basketball left his fingertips, flew across a long distance, and flew into the net. middle. "Shua" the basketball directly aroused a layer of gorgeous waves on the basket.

Peja hit 4 three-pointers one after another!

Today's game deviated from people's pre-match estimates. Jack, who has always been the core of Jack's offense, has now become a supporting role.

Peja, who was hiding behind the scenes, showed his sharpness and scored four consecutive three-pointers plus a dunk.

In the first quarter of the game, the scores of the two sides were once stretched to 10 points, but Peja was always able to miraculously close the score at critical moments.

From the beginning of the game to now, Byron Scott, who is sitting on the coach's bench, has not smiled since the beginning.

Jack and Paul have been watched to death from the beginning of the game to now, which is a very bad thing for the Hornets.

Peja Stockovic is a pitcher after all, and Byron Scott can't expect his touch to last forever.

But how can Paul and Jack get rid of the shadow of Shark and Wade?Is this really a problem?Whether they can come out depends on Jack and Paul themselves.

Even if Byron Scott wanted to help them, there was nothing he could do.

The first quarter is almost coming to an end, but Jack except for the 2 points at the beginning.Jack didn't get any more points.

It can be seen that the shark's defensive skill is really not covered.

With the last 12 seconds left in the first quarter, the Hornets have the ball!

In the last offense of the first quarter, the basketball once again came to Peja's hands, but this time Posey quickly rushed up to defend him.

This guy tried his best to defend this time, clinging to Peja like a conjoined twin. Posy, who had been teased by Peja many times, made Peja feel a little hard to move with his superb defensive skills this time.

At the same time, Posey also started his trash talk: "Hey, I made you stay still... I can guarantee you can't shoot anymore." Hearing this sentence, Peja, who had been silent all the time, immediately felt a little interesting, Then he replied:

"Is it?"

Percy was still a little surprised by this answer, but at this moment, Peja suddenly kicked his legs on the ground, and his body flew up.

He is now outside the free throw line, so he jumped up suddenly, and his body slowly approached the three-point line.

Posy was stunned for a while: "It's dry again... who do you think you are?" After speaking, Posy rushed towards the basketball thrown by Peja in the air.

Because of Peja's continuous take-offs in the first quarter, the strength of his legs.At this moment, he is not very full, and the height of the jump is far lower than the current one.

Peja's behavior gave Posey an opportunity to take advantage of. Posy desperately lifted it up, and Posy just touched lightly, the lower edge of the basketball.

The basketball thrown by Peja changed his original flight trajectory. With a bang, the basketball was shortened and hit the basket heavily.

In less than two seconds, the basketball bounced high, and the Hornets fans in front of the TV shook their heads with regrets on their faces. In their opinion, the ball was useless.The basketball bounced high, and the orange-red sprite attracted countless eyes.

The whistle hasn't sounded yet, and the first quarter isn't over yet.

At this time, a white shadow appeared in the sky above the stadium, as if a god descended from the earth, not jumping up from the ground, but flying down from the sky.

Jack and O'Neill competed for position on the ground, and neither of them gave up.In an instant, Jack's brain accurately judged the landing point of the basketball, stuck in the position, and jumped high.

Jack regards himself as a dynamite package and throws it directly into the air. Jack, who keeps rising in the air, has a tyrannical face and an unusually ferocious face. Jack is bound to win the rebound in front of him...

"This ball belongs to me, shark, get the hell out of here." Jack roared in his heart.

At the beginning of the game, the sharks really hit Jack hard, because in the previous games, none of Jack's opponents was as strong as today's sharks.

Before the start of the game, the sharks did create a lot of trouble for Jack.However, as the game progressed, he began to gradually adapt to the shark's rhythm.Jack also fully grasped the characteristics of sharks.

Although the strength of the shark is strong, Jack can be sure that no matter it is a young or an old shark, it will never be Jack's opponent in terms of speed.

Jack is not in shape today because he was pulled and beaten by a shark at the beginning of the game.At the same time, Jack doesn't believe that he can't beat sharks with his body.That's why it led to the situation just now.

Now that Jack already knew, Jack certainly wouldn't be so stupid as to continue playing physical confrontation with him.

Jack single-handedly caught the bounced basketball in the air, and then Jack was in mid-air, Jack let out a loud roar...

"What is he trying to do?" O'Neill frowned suddenly. "This guy wants to dunk? Face him, dunk? It's too arrogant! It seems that if you don't give him a little bit of trouble, he won't have a long memory."

The big shark also became ferocious, and roared: "Rookie, I will blow you away!"

In front of him was a big shark raising his hand and roaring, but Jack had no fear. Jack roared like thunder, his hands were tense, and all the muscles in his body were tense. He grabbed the basketball with one hand and threw it towards the basket!

The audience in the New Orleans basketball arena stared wide-eyed, their eyes were so incredible. The same situation happened in Miami, across the United States, and even in China...

A loud "boom" resounded through the sky, and a big hand seemed to bend a bow. Jack ruthlessly poured the basketball in his hand into the basket in front of the big shark.

The basket was overwhelmed and kept shaking left and right, and the basket made a humming sound.

"Oh, mygod!" Barkley couldn't help exclaiming. He didn't know how to describe it, and the excitement was beyond words.

Kenny Smith next to him had his head covered, but he had a painful expression on his face, and his hands had already hugged his head involuntarily.

The New Orleans Arena was quiet for a while, and then it exploded like a frying pan.Everyone, whether they were fans or players, were all shocked. A beautiful woman covered her mouth with her hands, and her beautiful eyes were so shocked.

"Jack faced O'Neal, grabbed the rebound, dunked with one hand, and said in one go, "It's unbelievable in your face! "Charles Barkley, who had recovered his calm, was full of praise, and he explained excitedly.

"Jack looks like a Martian, it's too exaggerated. This is the best shot today. There is no doubt that his dunks are so shocking." Charles Barkley continued to praise his idols, except for Jordan, Jack was the first person to receive such praise from Charles Barkley.

"Beep!!!" The whistle at the end of the first quarter also sounded at the right time!
O'Neill acted as Jack's back, and O'Neill's face was also extremely ugly.He looked at Jack with a raging fire reflected in his eyes.

However, Jack added fuel to the fire, spraying trash talk at O'Neill: "How does it feel to be in the background?"

As soon as Jack said this, Jack could feel the anger coming out of O'Neill's nostrils.

However, O'Neill couldn't treat Jack like that.

Because, Jack regained his confidence in the last attack of the first quarter.Therefore, Byron did not let Jack go down to rest in the first half of the second quarter.Instead, let Jack take the substitute to fight on the field.

At the beginning of the second quarter, the Heat's offense failed to score, and the Hornets had the ball!
The basketball came into the hands of Jack on the inside, and Jack caught the ball with his back. The flying dunk just now made Jack regain his confidence.

Jack's sulking from the shark, at this moment, he just wanted to find someone to vent to?How could Jack let go of such a good opportunity?
Jack faced Mourning's defense in the low post. After Jack received the ball, Jack concentrated all his strength on his shoulders.

Jack sent his shoulders to Mourning's chest.Mourning is not O'Neal, he does not have the strength of O'Neal.

Mourning, who was still supporting Jack's waist with his arms and palms, suddenly found that there was a strong sense of oppression coming from the guy whose back was facing him.

Perhaps O'Neill's suppression made Mourning underestimate Jack, and the strength of Jack's first test also made Mourning firm in this idea.

However, Jack quickly corrected his mistake, because the second force of the guy who caught the ball with his back to the basket after the first collision completely made Mourning unable to resist. Jack was caught off guard at the moment He pushed back violently.

The tyrannical power made Mourning, known as the "Iron Man", unable to bear it.In addition to putting more pressure on his arms.He spread his feet and pushed outwards, trying to directly push the approaching Jack.

It's just that he himself feels that resisting that impact is really a very stupid decision.

The moment Mourning stepped back to resist Jack's inward push, Jack had already made his second move.

At the moment Mourning's arm was forced outward, he directly wiped in from the right side of the opponent's defense.Jack's impact just now made Mourning unable to react.

Even the moment he pushed his arm forward, he lost his defensive position due to the impact of Jack's sudden turning around.

Not only did he let Jack wipe past him, but he also cleared the basket for the opponent.At this simple moment of turning around, Jack has seized the most favorable offensive position.

Jack, who was still stepping near the three-second zone line just now, has moved into a position enough for him to make a shot with one step of body movement.But now he can't only see where the basket is, there is a hand waiting for him besides the basket, and now the owner of that hand has come up from the flank.

Haslem, the guy who has been clamoring for an annual salary of tens of millions, rushed forward the moment Jack wiped Mourning sideways.Use your big hand across the square of Jack's attack basket.

It depends on the situation if Jack doesn't want to be slapped directly by this big slap.Then he can only slow down his pace.

Pat Riley would never naively think that the old Mourning can defend Jack.He arranged double-teaming tasks under the basket early.In particular, I told Haslem that he must try his best to prevent Jack from attacking, no matter what method he used.

Now this double-teamer has reached his intended position.That big hand was warning Jack that this was a no-go area.He didn't just stand there horizontally, but slapped downwards fiercely.

Haslem has resolutely implemented such a tactical arrangement when defending, but Jack chose to pass the ball before and did not give him a chance to pinch himself.

But this guy doesn't easily let go of any chance to catch his opponent, especially when Jack gets the ball with his back.This guy is already sensitive to his opportunity.

He quickly got rid of David's entanglement with him, and the moment Jack got rid of Mourning's defense, he rushed forward.

With ugly braids and rough defensive moves, Haslem finally found an opportunity to stop the big guy from making a shot in this attack. He swung his big hand towards the opponent's offensive line without hesitation.

That momentum is almost warning Jack, if you want to pass through his defense zone, then you have to be prepared for everything, because that big slap will do everything possible to stop you.

However, the defensive action of Haslem's claws did not seem to have any impact on Jack, and Jack directly pushed his hand against the opponent's block.

The wooden floor he stepped on rose into the air, holding the basketball and raising his right hand straight up, as if he could touch the 23 who had never played for Miami on the court as soon as he stretched out his hand number jersey.

In the most direct confrontation, Jack almost used an attitude of ignoring his opponents to head-on to the defense line Haslem set up for him.

"Haslem, do you think you are O'Neill?" Jack directly ignored Hamles in front of him.

Haslem's right hand struck towards Jack fiercely, and Jack had already made up his mind to directly defeat the opponent's basket defense in a frontal confrontation.No matter who it is, he can't stop his attack now.

The hunched muscle of Jack's upraised arm represents his determination as he lunges for the opponent's basket.The big hand pressing down seems to be able to tear away any defenses that stop him, and the only thing left in his eyes is the basket, and he doesn't care about the existence of a big hand between them.

"Snapped"

Haslem didn't choose to close his big hand, he directly slapped Jack's arm hard with a big slap.

Now he would rather pay for the last foul than pull his opponent back from the sky. He doesn't want his opponent to continue to be so arrogant.

Now he doesn't want to do it again, even if it is a thug foul, let this guy know that in this space under the basket, Haslem is also a defender, and he will not let anyone easily pass him to get points .

But the big slap that was slapped fiercely was not what Haslem imagined.Can successfully pull Jack's hand holding the ball out of the attack range of the basket.

Jack raised his right hand, and with a force that Haslem couldn't resist, he took the hand that was patted on his arm by the opponent, and slammed it hard at the basket.

Flying with the power that a person exerts on his arms, probably all the people in the New Orleans arena were stunned by this scene.

They saw a strong guy slam a basketball into the rim with unstoppable force.The person hanging on his arm had already been ruthlessly knocked away by that force.

The heavy blow made the basketball hoop tremble.Haslem was like a doll, being directly driven by Jack's strength to fly out of the bottom line.

If it weren't for a bunch of reporters who had been a human cushion for him for free.This guy is sure to fall like a dog.But now he's not doing much better, with his braces coming out.

Jack was very calm, he didn't even celebrate.The tyrannical confrontation just now seemed to have nothing to do with this somewhat thin guy.

It's just that the guy lying on the bouncing basketball and the board under his feet proved everything that happened here just now.

"Not everyone is a big shark!" Haslem said when he was knocked into the air.He vaguely heard a voice ringing in his ear.Of course he knew who the owner of that voice was.But all he can do now is to prevent himself from falling too embarrassingly.

Jack looked at Haslem who got up from the floor. He didn't have the habit of being sympathetic, especially when dealing with such an annoying guy.

However, Jack still looked at this guy with a playful look because his opponent paid for the crime and still ended up like this.This is for him.It is a very perfect result.

The referee will not let Haslem go because of Jack's dunk.

"Foul by the thug, one additional penalty."

(End of this chapter)