Basketball: The Chosen Victim

Chapter 143
"CCTV, CCTV, what is broadcasting for you now is the Cleveland Cavaliers' away game against the New Orleans Hornets!"

In the live broadcast room of the sports channel, Zhang Weiping explained the game in a relaxed tone.

"There shouldn't be any suspense in today's game, but because of Byron Scott, the two teams probably have a lot of sparks..."

Su Qun, who was sitting by the side, pointed out the entanglement between the two teams with great interest.

"Jump ball, Jordan turned the ball... ouch! Paul suddenly ran in front of Davis and grabbed the ball! As expected of the number one point guard in the league, no one has this awareness..."

There was a burst of cheers in the Smoothie King Center Arena, and Paul dribbled forward, pointing to the sky and shouting:

"David, take your position and play a tactic!"

Paul came to the top of the arc and used David West's pick-and-roll to replace Davis who was guarding him with Love.

Love became nervous all of a sudden, looking away from time to time to Davis, who wanted to switch back, but Paul and West intentionally separated, so he had to bite the bullet and put on a defensive stance.

In the NBA, even if it is narrowed down to the range of point guards, Paul is considered short, but he likes to play big men very much, using his small to play big to take advantage of his flexible position.

I saw him changing directions continuously, and after mobilizing Love's footsteps, he suddenly swiped his right hand, and the basketball passed under Love's body!

Le Fu's brain crashed on the spot, Wang Defa?

He was actually insulted by Paul's visually striking action of piercing through the crotch?
However, Paul took advantage of his daze and quickly bypassed him on the left!
Love reacted, turned around and chased after Paul with his arms thrown, but he could only watch helplessly as he threw the ball in before Jordan came over to defend him!
0-2!

The smoothie king center arena once again gave warm cheers!
The Hornets' home attendance rate was originally only at the mid-range level of the league, but because the local fans wanted to watch the scene where Scott was slapped in the face, nearly [-] seats were almost filled today!

"Hey, Kevin! I'm in a daze thinking about Nima!"

On the Cavaliers bench, Beverly put his hands on the loudspeaker and shouted: "If he dares to wear his crotch again, he will hold him with his body and prevent him from passing!"

The veins on Le Fu's forehead were throbbing violently. Could he not know how to pierce his crotch?

But the key point is that being attacked so suddenly under the watchful eyes of nearly [-] spectators, anyone would be paralyzed!
"Haha, Kevin Love was trained by the queen bee Paul. It's ridiculous. Such a tall man is being played around!"

Hornets home commentator Antonio Daniels burst into laughter.

"I said before the game that the Cavaliers' twin towers will not only not be an advantage for the Hornets, but will also become a breakthrough for the Hornets!"

The famous Hornets player and commentator of the game, Dell Curry, said with a smile, "The only thing that can be called a threat to the Cavaliers is Wu Di, and Wu Di is most afraid of a defensive champion like Ariza who has both size and speed..."

On the field, Wu Di did find out that Ariza was difficult to deal with. Just now when he launched a flank cover tactic, Ariza unexpectedly completed the chase in advance and did not lose his position at all. He sealed him to death with a brutal defense.

Ariza is an out-and-out "tear of the times". He is an excellent 3D player. He averaged 21 points, 14 rebounds, 9 assists, 3 blocks and 3 steals per game in high school. More than 40%, and Lao Zhan is a five-star high school student of the same year.

But in the era when 3-pointers were not valued, Ariza was very unlucky to meet Larry Brown, an old stubborn, when he entered the NBA, and was even banned from shooting 3-pointers.

This led to less than 3 0.5-point shots per game in the first two years of his career.

Then he was traded to the Magic in a dramatic way. When he encountered a coach with advanced concepts and biased shooting tactics like Van Gundy, he was accused of not being able to shoot 3-pointers and not giving hands...

Ariza put this kind of distress into the hard training of defense, and finally developed a strong defensive ability, which was discovered by Mayfair Jackson and became an important puzzle for the Lakers to win the championship in 09.

However, the Lakers management thought that he was only worth the mid-level contract when renewing the contract. Was traded to the Hornets again.

It is no exaggeration to say that if Ariza meets a good coach who knows how to teach according to his aptitude at the beginning, he will become a top 3D like Klay Thompson.

Instead of being traded 4 times like now, and will become the player with the most trades in NBA history in the future.

Ariza is very dissatisfied with Wu Di. His static talent is the top level in the small forward position. He is 2 meters tall and has a wingspan of 03 meters.

Because of this static talent, he was trained by the Rockets as McGrady's successor. He is stronger than Wu Di...

Well, Wu Di has now grown to 2 meters in height, and his wingspan has also grown to 01 meters, which is almost the same as him...

But Ariza is so jealous that he can hardly sleep every day!

Obviously the static talent is similar, and the style of play is so similar, but Wu Di became a superstar in the league in his rookie season, and he will start in the upcoming 2011 All-Star Game!

And he is just Paul's thug, how can this not make him jealous?
"I'm going to prevent you from being autistic!"

Ariza said fiercely, now Wu Di has almost no whistle, which makes him more unscrupulous to use some obscene little tricks.

Just as Wu Di crossed down and rushed down, Ariza directly reached out to grab his shoulder joint. Wu Di's eyes froze. This was no small move, and it might even dislocate his arm!

In this regard, he directly forced himself on the spot, not only hit a mid-range shot, but also smashed his elbow hard on Ariza's chin!
beep!
Sure enough, the whistle sounded, but it was Wu Di's offensive foul!
"Continue to greet me, I see how many offensive fouls you can get!"

Ariza was lying on the ground, although his eyes were full of gold stars, he was still carried away by the chaotic booing of the audience, with a mean smile on his face.

Although he did not become famous at a young age like Wu Di, he has accumulated a lot of experience as an actor in the past few years of wandering around!
He is a dirty thug, but Wu Di is the core of the team, come on, anyway, he is absolutely worth it... Let's go!

"Fake squid! You're just bragging about your father! What the hell is your wife being threatened by poisonous insects? Or did you end up buying it yourself?"

Scott was yelling at the sidelines. This game was about his dignity. The referee forced him to add drama, which made him intolerable.

However, the assistant referee gave him a T when he saw this, and Scott beat his chest and stamped his feet!

Wu Di's eyes turned cold. He was able to touch Ariza's chin just now because Ariza wanted to get his shoulder first, but the referee called him an offensive foul indiscriminately!
Well now, not only did Ariza not restrain himself, but he also clamored to continue fouling as if encouraged. Is this something a human can do?

On the sidelines, Dell Curry, the elementary school student Curry's father, didn't realize that the next victim would be his older son, and he was still rocking and laughing with Daniels.

"Hehe! Let me just say, you should change to a coach who is really promising!"

Paul, who was assigned to execute free throws, walked up to Wu Di and teased.

"6 against 5, it won't look good if you still lose!"

Wu Di laughed and said, "It's just a ball, so what if Paul takes the penalty?"

"you……!"

Paul was at a loss for words for a while, obviously choked by Wu Di's words.

Damn it, they are now ahead at the start, but Wu Di still has the mind to brag here, interrupting his train of thought.

boom!
The mentally unstable Paul missed a rare free throw, and the basketball came out of the basket!

However, the ball has just been called a technical foul, and the ball still belongs to the Hornets.

Paul came to the frontcourt, repeated his old tricks, and called David West's pick-and-roll again.

But this time Davis was the first to break the pick-and-roll, and it didn't let Paul form a small game.

He breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately, the old lady saved it, so she didn't have to be greeted by Beverly.

Paul tried to break through, but it was a false pass. With a flick of his little elbow, the ball came to Ariza.

Ariza pretended to take a tentative step to shoot, but Wu Di didn't move at the same place, pretended again, Wu Di still didn't move, this time he really shot, bang!

Ariza's neck suddenly shrank!
Cover your face with a hot pot and encoffin on the spot!
What the hell!

Don't be so cruel!
He felt as if the sky cap had been lifted off by an airplane!
The basketball was directly blocked by Wu Di brutally to the backcourt!

Accompanied by the exclamation on the scene, Wu Di took the ball in stride, cast a glance at Paul who was chasing after him, and easily stuck the little man behind him with one step.

Paul gritted his teeth and tugged at his clothes, but Wu Di jumped straight up, turning 360 degrees in the air and dunking with both hands!
boom!
【Ding! ! !It was detected that the host scored +2 in the game against the Hornets, and the wealth value was credited, +20000 US dollars! 】

2-2!

"The serve doesn't have to run so fast!"

Wu Di put down a sentence and walked away.

Paul gritted his teeth with hatred, dribbled the ball to the baseline and got back to the line, then turned around suddenly, and scored against Jordan's blocking throw.

This is his signature move. Defenders are often most vigilant when he lays up and are ready to block shots at any time. But when he slips to the bottom line and his vigilance naturally drops, he suddenly kills the carbine, which often makes the defense People are caught off guard.

2-4!

In the next few rounds, the two teams fought back and forth.

Paul led the Hornets to fight the Cavaliers with all their strength, but the Cavaliers led by Wu Di were not to be outdone, and used absolute firepower to teach the Hornets not to be demons again and again.

The more Wu Di played, the more angry he became, not because Paul, the so-called No. 10000 point guard in the league, was only worth $[-] a ball, but because of the crazy referee.

The first quarter of the game has not yet finished, but the Cavaliers have already received 3 offensive fouls in the starting lineup, covering fouls, interference with the ball and walking fouls, and the referees have not fallen behind!

The overall number of fouls for the Cavaliers is 4 more than that of the Hornets!
Damn, it's almost becoming an exhibition match for referees!
What a shit.

Especially when the Hornets' foul moves are bigger than them!

If it weren't for the 4 extra fouls, the Cavaliers would have lost the Hornets for a long time, but now it is only 19 point over 18-1.

And Ariza's foul moves are getting bigger and bigger, and he is annoyed by harassment.

For the Hornets to attack, Paul called Ariza's pick-and-roll this time, facing Wu Di to form a small game.

Wu Di's touch has always been accurate today, Jordan and Jamison's touch is not bad, and for the Hornets, Ariza made 3 for 0 shots, and was completely autistic by Wu Di. David West felt 4 for 1 shots. cold...

All this forced him to take the risk and try to play against Wu Di to break the opponent's mentality.

Paul turned around and pulled back, tricking Wu Di into shifting his center of gravity, and immediately seized the opportunity to slip to the bottom line.

Wu Di was chasing very closely. Paul seemed to feel that the opportunity was not good, and he didn't make a shot after walking the baseline. But when he saw Wu Di distracted and turned his head from the corner of his eye, he immediately turned around and shot.

However, this is a flaw that Wu Di deliberately sold to Paul, just to lure him to turn around and make a move!
The moment Paul made a shot, Wu Di immediately started, pounced on Paul, and slapped the ball hard from top to bottom!

Paul shrank his neck suddenly in fright, and he instantly understood Ariza's fear just now!

"Hey, this cover!"

In the live broadcast room of the sports channel, Zhang Weiping was taken aback: "Most of the young players play power forwards or centers. Isn't it self-defeating for Paul to find Wu Di? Ross can defend against him. How can you be... eh? etc?"

boom!
The basketball bounced violently on the floor, and then, at a tricky angle, it hit the crotch of the referee who had called several offensive fouls by the Cavaliers just now!
Faced with this sudden situation, the referee decisively chose——

Blow the whistle!

beep-!
The whistle stopped abruptly, he clutched his crotch directly, and the pain mask on his face was welded to death.

"My God? Is this a comet hitting the moon?!"

Even though Su Qun was well-informed, he could only sigh at this moment!
On the court, Wu Di came to the referee with a concerned face and said:

"Azhe... the attack was a million points heavier, you didn't die, did you?"

He turned his head and said angrily to Paul:

"Damn it, why did you hide? If you didn't hide, this wouldn't happen!"

Paul was stunned, good guy, so it was his fault for not hiding?

If he doesn't hide, he is the one who gets smashed, okay?

The referee was also confused for a while, but he was directly hit on a key part, and no matter how good a mathematician was, he couldn't calculate the area of ​​his psychological shadow at the moment.

He was sweating profusely from the pain, not to mention blowing the whistle, he couldn't stand still, so he could only call the substitute referee to come on and replace the whistle.

At this moment, the netizens in the live broadcast room are full of joy beyond the barrage style:
"A comet hit the earth? Look at that expression, it's almost like a stone smashing an egg!"

"It turned out that the black whistle turned out to be the one that can break eggs hhh"

"There is a wrong and a debt, the referee can just find Paul off the field!"

"I swear on Kun Kun's eggs, it's all thanks to Paul!"

"It's the first time I've seen the referee change tactic, Di Ge's move is really good!"

"It's better for the tiles than for the eggs to be broken. I hope the referees will take warning and protect their eggs!"

The new referee learned the lesson of blood and tears, and never dared to brag again.

Without the referee's whistle to protect his body, Ariza instantly restrained his arrogance.

The Cavaliers did not have the hindrance of the referee, and at the end of the first quarter, the score was 26-21!

In the second quarter, the Hornets still had the ball at the beginning, but Paul's offensive organization encountered obstacles.

Paul wins in strength and rhythm changes, and his speed is not fast, but Beverly's mad dog-style winding defense specializes in rhythmic play.

The only firepower of the Hornets was also limited, and the point difference between the two teams widened rapidly. By the end of the first half, the score had reached 61-40!

In the third quarter, the Orleans couldn't wait for a miracle, and the point difference soon widened to 30 points. The Cavaliers replaced the full bench midway, and the game was directly reduced to garbage time.

The Hornets' lineup is too limited and relies too much on Paul, and West and Ariza's performances are too unstable. Once restricted, it will be difficult to break the game.

Unlike the Hornets fans who were so disappointed that they left the field one after another, Byron Scott had a neat suit and a smile on his face.

"Look, the reason for the poor performance in the playoffs is not because of me at all!"

In the fourth quarter, due to the lack of 3 McGrady, the Hornets failed to comeback, and the Cavaliers took away the victory from New Orleans 120-95!
Their record came to 35 wins and 19 losses.

On the same day, the Celtics were picked off by the Dallas Mavericks, and their record became 36 wins and 18 losses, only one game ahead of the Cavaliers!

The Cavaliers are infinitely close to third in the Eastern Conference!

(End of this chapter)