The second half is about to begin, and for the Pacers now, they also know that the Hornets may have to clear them as soon as possible in order to save energy.

The record is also important for the Pacers. They and the Sixers were fighting to the death in the Eastern Conference. The Hornets are already the final battle, but they still have a team to play after the Hornets. If they lose to the Hornets today, the situation will become very serious for them.

Therefore, the Pacers' second half had just begun, and the players of the Pacers who were ready to fight to the death with the Hornets.

But the Hornets didn't want this situation to happen. Although it was not enough to make them the number one in the West, if they failed, they would not have lost one. However, this is the final battle of this season and it is a necessary battle to keep everyone confident to the peak.

The Hornets are only allowed to succeed but not fail.

Zhong Yu was also sent out in the first time in the second half. Now Peterson is hard to find his presence in the Hornets because Zhong Yu squeezed out his previous position. Peterson is now mobilizing his agent to find a good next home for him as soon as possible, because he has a premonition that the Hornets will probably clean up themselves and keep Zhong Yu.

This is also a matter of no suspense - one is a veteran in his 30s, and his defense is not very good, and the power of the offensive end is gradually declining; the other is a young man who is less than 22 years old, and his offense is excellent enough to allow the Hornets to spend most of the games safely and soundly. Moreover, he still has great potential and is constantly improving his scoring and defensive ability. Moreover, Zhong Yu and the Hornets signed a 1+1 contract, which means that in the 2008-09 season, as long as the Hornets execute the team options, they can retain this player who can score 20 points per game at a low price of $500,000.

The advantages and disadvantages of the two are indeed judged immediately.

Zhong Yu's second round pick did make him suffer. His salary next season is only 500,000. The Hornets have team options in the next year. They are of course happy to execute potential players like Zhong Yu. Otherwise, if the Hornets do not execute team options, Zhong Yu will be able to become a free agent.

Of course, in order to protect the interests of those players with high draft rankings, the league also has rigid regulations on free agents. (This is why the Rockets' salary difference between the first two years and the third year of the contract the Rockets gave Jeremy Lin).

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In short, the Hornets are basically determined to keep Zhong Yu.

The game started again, and Paul handed the first ball in the second half to Zhong Yu. Zhong Yu looked at the situation in the inside and thought, and the basketball instantly passed through his crotch. Then he entered his body and came to his first area.

Grange was waiting for the ground to defend. He had been waiting for Zhong Yu for a long time and wanted to take Zhong Yu down now. However, when Zhong Yu came up, he changed hands under his crotch at the moment, and Grange had no choice. Zhong Yu had already accelerated and was about to pass through his left, but at the moment when he was about to succeed, someone from the Pacers blocked him again.

"You use double-teams too?" Zhong Yu couldn't say what it felt like. Double-teaming means that the defense is tighter for him, but from another aspect, double-teaming also means that their abilities make them feel more and more terrifying, and they can only use double-teams to limit themselves.

Zhong Yu couldn't get over such double-teams. After all, he just unblocked the first area. In other places, his breakthrough was just the same. At most, his speed increased a lot and increased a little power. Such power is not that difficult for NBA players to defend.

One of the biggest disadvantages of double-teaming is that once this tactic is used, the opponent will have players free...

The same is true now. They can only briefly empty West to defend Zhong Yu, who has a greater threat. When Zhong Yu saw that he couldn't do anything, of course he would not force himself to throw himself into the inside line, but instead passed the basketball to West on the side. West received the basketball, Yang shot from his hand and hit it.

"Damn." The Pacers' head coach is now very annoyed. The situation he is most worried about is still happening. Zhong Yu can pass the ball while double-teaming.

The Pacers only have the defensive strategy after implementation. While double-teaming Zhong Yu, they also have to limit his passes to prevent him from having obvious opportunities.

West scored the goal, and was very happy, and he slapped Zhong Yu in high fives.

After a few balls of offense and defense conversion, the Hornets and Pacers played hard to solve. The Hornets rely on the pick-and-roll of Paul and Chandler, Paul and West, Paul and Zhong Yu to continuously score, while the Pacers rely on the performance of the entire team to prevent the Hornets from making the score gap too wide.

With six minutes left in the third quarter, the Hornets were still only tens of their opponents, and they were still some distance away from defeating the Pacers.

Zhong Yu was indeed severely restricted. Before opening the first superposition effect of the second area, Zhong Yu's breakthrough did not have enough power to open their double team.

For things like double-teaming, as long as the two players agree well and cooperate well, they will stick them like candy, which is really hard to get rid of.

The Hornets started attacking this ball, and the Pacers also knew that it would be bad for them to continue to entangle like this. After all, the Hornets still have a very strong lead! So, their defense was quite strong, and almost no fly wanted to put it into their inside line.

Zhong Yu stood at the top of the three-point line and walked two steps inside. Paul instantly flew past his ears, and he and Paul completed the first step of pick-and-roll.

Although they knew that this might turn into an assist, the Pacers dared not neglect the inside and outside lines, because Paul's breakthrough ability really forced them to be on guard.

Zhong Yu quickly took two steps back and pushed out the three-point line. At this time, the Pacers' defensive pressure was almost all at Paul's place.

A basketball leaked out of the inside line, as if the fish escaped from the fishing net had escaped from the fishing net. After a bounce on the ground, it accurately came to Zhong Yu's hand. This is Paul's strength. His pass can allow Zhong Yu to catch it in the most comfortable posture and then take action without any worries.

Zhong Yu jumped directly outside the three-point line!

"Swish!" The basketball passed through the center of the net, and Zhong Yu scored 19 points!

"nice shot!"

"Good ball! Zhong Yu is so good!"

The basketball court has become a sea of ​​cheering. The three-pointer in the game has a huge deterrence. The role of a three-pointer and a two-pointer are not very consistent.

Although Zhong Yu's three-pointer cannot be said to defeat the morale of the Pacers, at least several of the Pacers' players became a little depressed...

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