Basketball Legends: Strikers Are King

Chapter 235

Magic fans were pleasantly surprised to see that even though Howard was away, the team's offense gradually revived. Richardson made 3 of 4 three-pointers in a single quarter, finally changing the situation on the court:

The Pacers were frightened by their opponent's three-point accuracy. As expected, they began to deploy defensive forces on the outside and lost ground one after another on the inside.

Hibbert acted like a god of war in front of Glen Davis, but the Magic relied on accurate mid-range jumpers to gradually widen the point difference.

"51-44."

At the end of the first half, the Magic actually entered the second half with a 7-point lead.

"Orlando! GO!!"

“United as one!”

Among the large blocks of yellow, Magic fans looked very inconspicuous in the Bankers Life Arena, but they still used a small number of people to shout the loudest to cheer for the team.

Although they do not have a home field advantage, if they can win first on the road and draw 1-1 in two away games, it will be enough to make Magic fans ecstatic:

After all, in the next five games, the Magic will have three home games, and the Pacers will only have two games left. The Magic will have the home court advantage.

Not to mention that in Howard's absence, other players performed well, maybe they can win Howard back? After all, Howard still has one year of contract.

As for the previous discord, what else can I do? Of course I choose to forgive him!

"Strengthen your defense!"

Vogel continued to explain to everyone in the locker room,

"The opponent's inside line no longer has an advantage. We don't need to supplement the inside line defense. We only need to strengthen our single defense capabilities!"

In terms of individual defense capabilities, he has great faith in his players.

Nelson, Richardson, Anderson and Turkoglu on the opposite side are all players who focus on offense but not defense. Without Howard, how big of a monster can they be?

"We also have to be decisive when attacking from the outside, we have the advantage inside!"

Granger and his teammates nodded in unison.

The third quarter was still a battleground for the main force. As expected, Granger and George Hill fired from outside one after another, hitting consecutive three-pointers within three minutes, successfully narrowing the point difference.

"53-50."

"Defend!"

The Pacers fans were overjoyed and cheered for the team when Nelson was attacking with the ball.

Turkoglu got the ball inside and was about to attack, but West suddenly reached out and interrupted his opponent's dribbling. George rushed over and picked up the rebound, then turned and handed it to his teammate.

"Quick attack!"

George Hill dribbled through and quickly organized the offense.

Without Howard's inside defense, the Magic's defense was like a sieve, successfully filtering out all opponents.

Granger quickly broke through and caught the ball for a layup.

"53-52."

The point difference continued to narrow, and the Pacers became more and more powerful. Glenn Davis asked for the ball inside and scored consecutive singles. West hit a jump shot. Granger returned the favor with a foul and a free throw. George Hill caused the opponent's three-pointer.

After a shooting foul, he made all three free throws and finally took the lead midway through the third quarter.

"57-58."

"Apply for substitution!"

The Magic and Pacers made substitutions at the same time.

The Magic team intends to buy them time to rest because Turkoglu and others' physical strength is obviously not as unlimited as Howard's;

The Pacers simply wanted to reap the three-point bonus, so they directly replaced George with Qi Tian. Then Hansbrough and Collison came on the stage, hoping to use their shooting range to liberate the offense.

"Stay steady!"

George didn't mention the pressure, but decided to wait and let him figure it out on his own.

"Don't worry."

Qi Tian, who had had enough rest, answered calmly and came on the stage to high-five his teammates.

After coming off the bench, Hibbert and Nelson exchanged experience on behalf of the two teams. In the end, Hibbert was the better, and Nelson made a pull-up jumper to help the team take the lead again.

"59-58."

"Steady, steady!"

Looking at Qi Tian and Collison who were no different from the first quarter, the fans on the sidelines clenched their fists nervously and prayed.

At this critical moment, I don’t expect them to perform well, as long as they don’t cheat the team.

With Granger on the court, others only need to defend well, and there will definitely be no problems, right?

Hibbert made a mistake inside, but fortunately the Pacers defended well and did not let Nelson open the score.

"clang!"

The basketball bounced out of the frame. Hansbrough got the defensive rebound and turned around to find Granger.

"Run!"

There were only 2 minutes and 21 seconds left in the third quarter, and Granger was preparing to take a step back... That's strange.

He looked at Richardson, who was 198 centimeters tall in front of him, and chose the most confident shot method - diffraction three-pointer!

The basketball flew out of Granger's hands and pointed directly at the basket.

As the basketball gets closer, the light in the eyes of Pacers fans becomes brighter.

"clang!"

"Who is special!"

The sound of iron strikes made Pacers fans helpless, but the result had already been announced, and their emotions obviously had no effect.

At the critical moment, Hansbrough actually took off the offensive rebound from Anderson's head!

Well, to take it away from the classic white insider, using the word "even" is a bit too disrespectful to Hansbrough.

But the cheers of the fans at the scene cannot be faked, and they all gave him advice:

"Shoot, keep throwing, no one is guarding you!"

"No, let's stabilize the outside and make a second attack!"

"Give it to Danny, what do you want?"

Hansbrough instinctively wanted to choose the safest method-just give it to Granger.

At this moment, he heard his teammates shouting:

"right!"

He instinctively passed the basketball before he felt something was wrong.

This voice is seven, right?

When Qi Tian received the ball from the outside, he did not pass it to Collison or Granger as fans thought. Instead, he directly shot a jumper and the basketball flew out immediately.

"Whoosh!"

"59-61."

"Isn't this a blind vote,...eh?"

As soon as the Pacers fans shouted, they heard the crisp sound of the basketball falling into the net, and they suddenly choked.

It took a while for them to react and cheered:

"Beautiful!"

"Too accurate!"

"As expected of you, Qi!"

Qi Tian’s previous doubts and misunderstandings were wiped out.

There was also a burst of cheers from the Pacers bench:

“Great pen!!”

The Pacers regained their momentum and Redick hit a jumper to tie the score, but Granger quickly responded from the outside.