Chapter fifty-seven top ten ball-level cooperation
"Swish!" With the last five seconds left in the third quarter, Zhong Yu came back from the bottom line instantly. Before Durant had time to defend, Paul's assist came.
Zhong Yu shot when he received the ball.
Playing with the league's top point guards has an advantage. Zhong Yu basically just runs to a familiar position and finds an open position under the team's tactical system, so Paul's pass basically comes. At present, Zhong Yu is far from being an offensive player with a ball, and he still relies on his teammates to assist.
With Paul, Zhong Yu's move will become easier. All he has to do is maintain his shooting percentage. With Zhong Yu, Paul has also become easier. He can find a target that can easily convert his passes into assists. At the same time, Zhong Yu can also share more pressure on him on the offensive end.
It is because of this that Scott believes that the Hornets will soon have one of the most terrifying backcourt combinations in the league.
In the face of this backcourt combination, the Hornets can be more sharp than their opponents when facing fast-attack teams. In the face of opponents who like positional battles, they can not get into their opponents' routines, which is quite meaningful to them.
In the last five seconds, Zhong Yu made a jump shot, and the Hornets led the opponent 15 points into the last quarter. The scale of victory had been tilted seriously in their direction.
"Hey, our team seems to be in trouble now." Jack, a long-faced person, felt very depressed now, because although Durant worked hard, the current Thunder is not the Thunder four years later, and often he is powerless to make the situation come true.
"Yes... the damn rookie on the other side... His shooting percentage is too high, and we can't guard against it." Although this flat-faced Jeff refused to admit that they despised Zhong Yu's bankruptcy, they also began to admit that the strength of the other side's rookie.
"Damn it, how can NBA have such a player?" Jack looked angry: "His damn hit rate and a breakthrough that is difficult to guard against... How can such a damn thing appear on a second round pick? Could it be that the uniform groups of other teams were filled with feces on the day of the draft?"
"Now, nothing is unnecessary..." Jeff said in a flat face: "But Kevin will grow up..."
At the end of the third quarter, it seemed that the Hornets won the game, although it was not settled, but it was almost the same. Everyone sat on the bench, and Byron Scott stood in front of them and began to explain the tactics. Everyone was a little tired.
Zhong Yu was also a little tired. He sat alone on a stool, wiped away the sweat from his face with a towel, opened his mouth, and grabbed a glass of Gatorade with his right hand.
If it were in the past when he was struggling in the dark bench, he would now have to bring drinks and hand over towels to the old players. But now Zhong Yu no longer has the old players asked him to do that, and he dared not have any players asked him to do that. After all, Zhong Yu is no longer the Zhong Yu of the past. He has a head coach cover and Paul and the other players. Of course, no one dares to cause trouble for Zhong Yu.
On the other hand, in daily life, Zhong Yu is as modest as a Chinese, polite, and relaxed in his manners. Everyone likes him very much.
The fourth quarter game began, and Durant was really angry now. This is not to say that he was always angry at Zhong Yu. In fact, he was still a little angry at himself. Because in that second-round pick, he felt a sense of oppression that made him very annoyed but had to face him.
A second-round pick brought a sense of oppression to himself? Kevin Durant was reluctant to admit this, but he couldn't deny it because Zhong Yu now did put a lot of pressure on himself.
However, as the game started, one of his own jump shots went wrong again.
The basketball flew out, and Zhong Yu was seventeen feet away. He saw the trajectory of the basketball and ran over quickly. Because he was closest to the basketball landing point at this time, when he accelerated, he hugged the basketball from the air.
In this way, Zhong Yu scored 6 rebounds in this game, which was also the highest rebound in his career. Recently, Zhong Yu has skyrocketed in scoring, but he has not performed much in rebounding and assists.
"Occurrence!" Zhong Yu passed the basketball to Paul, and Paul immediately shouted, and the Hornets and Thunder people ran back. Zhong Yu stood at the top of the arc and blocked the Thunder's point guard. Paul seized the opportunity to sneak into the inside and score a layup.
"..." Durant was a little powerless when he saw this situation, because at this time he discovered that a cooperation between Paul and Zhong Yu seemed to be forming.
This kind of cooperation means that Zhong Yu can shoot most basketballs to assist Paul while also making the team's attack power stronger. On the other hand, the combination of Paul and Zhong Yu can make the backcourt defense of many teams in the league fall into a different degree of chaos.
"This kid is lucky and has a good point guard." Durant secretly complained in his heart, and then thought: "But... he is really good at strength, otherwise he would not be able to form such a combination."
At this time, the Thunder attacked again and the basketball passed back. After halftime, Paul handed the basketball over to Zhong Yu. Zhong Yu controlled the ball, stood in front of Durant, then spread his legs and left leg in front. The basketball passed through the crotch left and right, and jumped with the slap of both hands.
Durant had no good way to make Zhong Yu's breakthrough. At this moment, he could only kill with all his might, trying to use the means of candy to prevent Zhong Yu from getting ahead. But at this time, Zhong Yu used a very real and fake move. The moment the basketball passed through the hips and went down to his left hand, his body also shifted to the left.
Durant was deceived for a moment, and was a little surprised. Zhong Yu seized the time to enter the inside. Durant had no time to defend, and Zhong Yu came to the front of several powerful players in the inside. These people came up to defend, which made Zhong Yu not sure to hit the target.
Just then, he saw that Paul had also cut into the inside line, so he passed the basketball over.
At this time, Zhong Yu was outside those areas and did not dare to make a strong shot. However, he had Paul's help. For example, now, Paul's cut received Zhong Yu's pass, which was a very terrifying threat to the Thunder.
So several strong players changed their defense direction, Paul laughed and threw the basketball above Zhong Yu.
"I'm not Chandler..." Zhong Yu was depressed, but Paul's pass was just right. He received the pass comfortably in the air and could not dunk it. However, he used the soft touch brought by Chinese blood to easily put the basketball into the basket. At this moment, the opponent's block was late, and it was too late.
"Good ball!" Paul and Zhong Yu came over to slap the high fives. The cooperation between Zhong Yu and Paul was enough to enter the top ten today.
Zhong Yu also scored 20 points, so he scored more than 20 in four consecutive games.
Such a second-round pick is indeed almost impossible for the NBA to find.
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ps: Another update...
Chapter completed!