Super all-around point guard

Chapter 127 A Showdown Between Gentlemen
In the last game between the Heat and the Clippers, Paul told Xie Chen that point guards can do more than just score and assist. A good point guard can make the game more interesting, and then he showed Xie Chen his ability with alleys.
So, now, in this scene, Paul said to Xie Chen, I will perform it 6 times!Paul knows that Xie Chen is a guy who refuses to admit defeat. Although he is a fledgling and it is only the first season, he is not convinced by killing the Quartet. He wants to stimulate Xie Chen in this way. It is best to let Xie Chen show his determination to complete 7 alley-oops tonight, because alley-oops are very difficult and are most likely to cause pass errors. Paul's goal is to make Xie Chen make mistakes!

Paul didn't know why Xie Chen was so afraid of making mistakes, but he knew that once Xie Chen's mistakes increased, it would have a great impact on Xie Chen's psychology.

Xie Chen glanced at Paul, and did not respond verbally to Paul's provocation. The last time he played the alley-oop, it was because of the reward of the system task. This time, it was purely for responding to Paul. Xie Chen felt that the gain outweighed the loss. Of course, if there is a good opportunity, he will definitely not give up the opportunity to cooperate with his teammates.

The biggest difference between this game and the previous game is the inside line. When they played against the Clippers in the last game, the Heat did not have Hassan Whiteside. As a result, the inside line was ravaged by the Clippers' various lobs and dunks, and there were no rebounds.

The Heat served, and after Xie Chen received the pass, he found that Paul was still defending himself from the backcourt. Not far away, Wade reached out for the ball to try to help Wade relieve his worries, but this time the stubborn Xie Chen did not choose to pass the ball to his teammates.

"Hmph, arrogant guy! Even if I don't use any of my skills and have played basketball for more than ten years, as a point guard, I still can't dribble past half court?"

Xie Chen felt that Paul's approach seriously underestimated his dribbling ability, so Lowry immediately possessed his skills and broke through Paul from the backcourt!
With such a huge space in front of him, Xie Chen could completely pass Paul by changing direction and speed, but Xie Chen just wanted to squeeze Paul away with his body. Paul, who was ready to steal at any time, was just about to reach out, when Xie Chen's body hit him, Paul stepped back instantly, and was suddenly shocked in his heart: "This guy's strength...so strong!"

Lowry is at least seven kilograms heavier than Paul. In terms of physical confrontation, Paul is naturally not comparable to Xie Chen when he broke through. After Xie Chen knocked Paul away with absolute strength, he felt refreshed and quickly passed halftime.

"I've been defending close, are you so unafraid of my breakthrough layup!" Xie Chen was a little serious with Paul. Seeing Paul's close defense, he immediately took a breakthrough attack, passed Paul and went straight to the basket for a layup, but just one step in, for some reason, Matt Barnes suddenly rushed over from the right side, slapped Xie Chen's basketball, and stopped Xie Chen's breakthrough layup in the first place!

"Great job! Matt!" Paul was overjoyed. He received the basketball and quickly made a three-pointer.

Paul scored 5 points in a row and sent an assist as soon as he came up. On the other hand, Xie Chen didn't show any performance, but made two mistakes.

Xie Chen was really impatient at this moment. He wanted to earn points desperately in this game, but now he didn't get the points, but lost 4 points first!This is only the first quarter. If this continues for the entire game, the consequences will be unimaginable.

Paul glanced at Xie Chen's anxious mood, and secretly smiled. Sure enough, the work Paul did in advance had an effect. Xie Chen has made two mistakes so far. If Paul guessed correctly, he will become more cautious next time. He dare not pass the ball, dare not break through.

Since Paul focused on Xie Chen, Wade held the ball most of the time, and the Heat played fairly well in the first place. However, the Clippers seemed to be very excited. Paul assisted JJ Redick to score twice in a row.

Paul played more and more vigorously. Seeing that the score was leading at this time, he wanted to play an alley-oop with Jordan. The basketball was thrown to the basket without warning. Jordan, who had long been accustomed to Paul's unpredictable passing, jumped high at the first time, ready to wreak havoc on the Heat's basket, but just when Jordan was about to touch the basketball, Hassan slapped him out!
Paul frowned. He didn't expect Hassan, a young boy, to react so quickly, and his actions didn't lag behind his thinking. If it was the last game, I believe he and DeAndre Jordan have completed a beautiful alley-oop cooperation.

Hassan interfered with Paul's pass. In the end, the ball fell into the hands of the Heat. Xie Chen ran out of the half court immediately and started a fast break!

"Damn it, I was deducted four points as soon as I came up. It's finally my turn to score this time!" Xie Chen rushed to the Clippers' basket like crazy after holding the ball.

"Prevent him!" Paul yelled at JJ Redick while chasing after him.

At this time, Wade was also involved in the Heat's quick play, but Paul completely emptied Wade!The reason is very simple. He didn't think Xie Chen would pass the ball in this situation. With such a fast speed and Wade was behind Xie Chen, Xie Chen must have made a layup first to pass to Wade, but would Xie Chen do this?Paul didn't think that Xie Chen would be willing to take this risk. In terms of passing, except for the few games before the Cavaliers, in order to compete with James, Xie Chen passed some difficult passes. At other times, Xie Chen was very cautious in passing.

Sure enough, Xie Chen jumped past JJ Redick and made a backhand layup.

Xie Chen just shot the basketball, and Paul, who had been staring at Xie Chen, flew over and shot the basketball out of bounds with both hands!

beep!

Paul did make the right prediction, but his height disadvantage limited his ability, and Paul made a foul by pushing from behind.

Xie Chen was taken aback, thinking that Paul had blocked him once, but fortunately the melodious whistle sounded, and Xie Chen saw that it was the female angel referee who was blowing the whistle!Xie Chen quickly stepped forward and thanked: "God bless, you are the referee tonight!"

The angelic female referee who has always been unsmiling gave a light chuckle for the first time, and walked away. In the distance, Jordan, who wanted to attack his chest in the future, saw this scene and picked his nose. The simple thing is that this time, Jordan did not put the nose on Redick's jersey...

Little Jordan was calm, but Paul was extremely angry, and went to argue with the female referee. He felt that he did not commit a foul. In fact, he did not know whether he had committed a foul, but he knew that he had predicted Xie Chen’s layup in advance. For the first time in the past two years, Paul was unhappy with his height.

Xie Chen made two free throws and scored two points. He finally made up for a mistake, but Xie Chen didn't pay back the money on the court, he came to make money!

Points, assists, rebounds, must start to play!

In the last game, Xie Chen got so many rebounds in the first quarter because the shooting rate of both sides was not high, and the basketball bounced to his side. But in this quarter, the Clippers' shooting rate was very good. Even if there were rebounds, Hassan was able to intercept them first.

When Xie Chen left the court in the first quarter, his statistics were 4 points, 1 assist, 1 rebound and 2 turnovers, while Chris Paul's data was 8 points, 4 assists and 2 steals. In the first quarter, Chris Paul completely suppressed Xie Chen.

The fans at the scene were ecstatic, and Paul's fans in the major basketball forums also sprung up one by one.They all posted that Jiang is still old and hot, Xie Chen is still far behind Paul in terms of basic skills, and his stability and leadership ability are even worse than Paul. They even threatened that Xie Chen would not be Paul's opponent in a one-on-one duel.

Xie Chen sat on the bench and breathed a sigh of relief. His performance in the first quarter was too bad. In the second quarter, he must recover. He must not make any more mistakes, but also score, help his teammates to score, grab rebounds, and get points. In this game, Xie Chen has already planned not to get 95 points.

Not long after, Wade also took a break. He sat next to Xie Chen, wiped his sweat with a towel, and asked Xie Chen, "Brother, why do I feel that CP3 seems to be targeting you tonight? Is there something wrong with you two?"

Xie Chen smiled helplessly: "We haven't even been to a nightclub together, so what can we do? He may feel threatened by me."

Wade nodded. He knew that Paul didn't like to reveal much, and he kept a lot of things in his heart: "It is possible that what Shaq said really irritated him, but you can rest assured that even if he targets you again, he will not make some malicious actions to hurt you with his character. You are both point guards that I admire very much. I really hope to see a gentleman's duel between the two of you at the No. [-] position."

Xie Chen looked at Paul in the Clippers' bench opposite, and found that Paul was looking at him at this time. Xie Chen smiled and looked forward to the second quarter contest between the two.

(End of this chapter)