Basketball Legends: Strikers Are King

After five or six rounds, Granger only improved his score by 1 point. Instead, Qi Tian hit consecutive jump shots to rewrite the score to "7-3".

Granger forcibly accelerated, jumped up, and threw the basketball in his hand with a difficult drift jumper in the air.

"Whoa!"

"8-3."

"pretty!"

Seeing the basketball accurately hitting the basket, several people watching immediately cheered for Granger.

However, Brian Shaw's expression changed, and he hit a difficult jump shot. On the one hand, it was a reflection of Granger's ability, and on the other hand, it meant...

"I see through his path!"

Qi Tian looked at his opponent with intense eyes, and when his opponent was dribbling, he quietly changed his defensive direction.

Sure enough, Granger, who prefers to shoot with his right hand, finally chose to break through to the right side. Qi Tian successfully blocked the opponent, then stretched out his hand to interfere and destroyed the basketball.

Granger was well prepared this time, quickly turned around and broke through, grabbing the basketball before Qi Tian could.

But his second takeoff was also interfered with by Qi Tian and missed the basket.

Qi Tian got the basketball and quickly retreated to the three-point line, preparing to attack.

Granger defended expressionlessly.

Qi Tian dribbled the ball behind his back and quickly changed direction, but Granger caught up with him. Qi Tian was squeezed by his opponent and staggered a few steps.

"Be careful!"

Seeing that Qi Tian was about to give up the ball, Jack immediately shouted.

Qi Tian also knew the danger of a dead ball, so he quickly took a step back and shot a jump shot while Granger was not paying attention.

"Dang! Swish."

The basketball jumped up, hit the backboard, and finally fell into the basket.

"8-4."

"handsome!"

The audience also applauded this difficult goal.

Qi Tian got positive feedback and immediately got excited and took decisive shots one after another. Although Granger defended well, he still failed to defend.

"8-7."

When the crucial goal came, Granger finally predicted Qi Tian's shot and successfully blocked the shot.

"You are very brave."

Granger felt the pressure and his touch immediately returned. After the breakthrough, he pulled back to create distance and scored a step-back jumper.

"9-7."

“Not bad.”

Qi Tian focused on defending Granger's right side, and he successfully defended the ball.

The two of them chased each other and rewritten the score to "15-13."

Just when Qi Tian shook Granger away and turned around to throw up the ball in an attempt to catch up with the score, the basketball he shot hit the neck of the basket and bounced out.

Next to him, Kent's expression immediately became a little strange.

Qi Tian didn't want to let the opportunity slip away, so he played more and more impatiently and made several low-level mistakes;

Granger, on the other hand, played steadily and scored consecutively.

"Whoa!"

Granger flew up to the sky, easily hit a layup, and got the match point.

"20-16."

After receiving Qi Tian's pass, Granger looked at his opponent provocatively and said:

"Would you like to bet on whether I can end the game?"

"Then give it a try!"

After fighting until now, Qi Tian also knew that his chances of turning defeat into victory were low, but he still refused to admit defeat.

Granger looked at him approvingly, then suddenly launched a breakthrough, and Qi Tian immediately followed.

But Granger ended the game with a very difficult turnaround and fadeaway jumper.

"Whoa!"

"21-16."

Seeing the result of the game settled, Granger's friends immediately said "cut" in disappointment and turned around to walk back to the other half.

"You are still very strong."

Granger turned around and shook hands with Qi Tian.

"Relax, you can do better, maybe I can see you in the official lineup."

Qi Tian adjusted his mentality after losing and said to Granger:

"I will try my best."

Granger took a deep look at him, turned around, said hello to Brian Shaw and others, and left with his friends.

This one-on-one duel with Granger successfully made Qi Tian understand the gap between him and the top stars. It also made him more confident about his future.

His training lasted until four o'clock in the afternoon. After Kent placed him in an apartment building near the training ground, he returned to the training ground, took the elevator to the second floor, turned around and knocked on the door of the tactics room.

"Please come in."

Kent walked into the room and saw a man in his forties who was watching a video of a playoff game. He was the Pacers' interim head coach, Frank Vogel.

After former coach O'Brien was fired by Pacers general manager Bird, Vogel, who was originally an assistant coach, was promoted to interim head coach. Although the Pacers lost to the Bulls and stopped in the first round, everyone saw the Pacers' revival.

hope.

Everyone also knows that Vogel becoming the new head coach is a sure thing.

However, Vogel did not slack off and kept watching game videos in the tactical room even in the off-season.

"Kent?"

Vogel was in a daze for a moment before he asked:

"You haven't gone to join Xiao to train the rookies?"

Kent shook his head without any surprise and said:

"I knew you lost track of time. It's already 4:30 in the afternoon, and all the training for rookie Qi Tian has been completed."

"Yeah?"

Vogel picked up the watch on his right hand in surprise and learned from it that he had watched the game video for another day. He patted his head helplessly and said:

"My question is, by the way, what are you doing here?"

Kent came over and helped Vogel turn off the video and said to him:

"This year's newcomer is very interesting, I think I should tell you about it."

"Who's coming?"

Vogel frowned and thought about a name:

"Kawhi...?"

Kent shook his head speechlessly and said:

"Kawhi Leonard."

"Yes, yes, that's him. He behaves very well?"

Kent said angrily:

"He has been traded! Traded to the Spurs! I'm talking about this year's 59th overall pick, Qi Tian from the University of Connecticut!"

Vogel, who suddenly understood, nodded and asked:

"How's the defense?"

This hit Kent's weakness. He recalled Qi Tian's defensive ability during today's training, nodded and said:

“Not bad.”

"That's good!"

Vogel was deeply pleased, and then asked tentatively:

"Is he a shooting guard?"

Kent was struck by the coach's deafness, so he found a chair and told him what happened today from beginning to end.

When he heard that Qi Tian could be on par with Granger in a short period of time, Vogel nodded with satisfaction:

"It seems that the general manager has chosen a suitable person."

Kent desperately gave up trying to let Vogel know the whole story and said directly:

"Based on my experience, Qi Tian's performance was greatly affected by his emotions. For a period of time, he could compete with Grizz with great confidence, but once the emotion passed, he returned to rationality and was beaten by Grizz.

It exploded."

Vogel pointed out the facts Kent wanted to illustrate:

"So, this is a killer player?"

Kent nodded and thought about another person on the team:

"Now we have three nerve knives."

Vogel said his name:

"Paul George, Grizz, and the new guy are three crazy knives!"