Basketball Legends: Strikers Are King

Chapter 238 The last struggle

"Yes, yes, I saw it in the first few games. What kind of potential does Qi Tian have? What potential can a guy with the 59th overall pick have?"

"It's okay, I just want to grab the starting position, it's just a dream!"

As a traffic team, the Pacers are not usually very popular, but after entering the playoffs, many people will notice.

In addition, because of Qi Tian's Chinese identity, the attention from across the ocean is still very high, so many fans hope that Qi Tian can go one step further and become a starter.

But the team already has starting small forward Granger, and George has already been converted into a shooting guard. How can first-year rookie Qi Tian squeeze out the limited time?

Although Granger fans usually don't talk about it, they saw that Qi Tian's performance was not as impressive as in the regular season, so they stepped on it at the right time, trying to consolidate Granger's main position.

The second quarter of the game is still the main battlefield for substitutes. After entering the playoffs, George relied on his abundant physical strength to successfully reduce the playing time of other substitute shooting guards and fight side by side with his teammates for a long time.

However, the Magic were already prepared for George's offense. Richardson was in a good position and focused on preventing the opponent's jump shot.

Clark picked off the defensive rebound in front of Hansbrough and turned to his teammates.

Redick held the ball in the high post, attracted the defense, and then passed the ball to Clark under the basket, assisting his teammates to score.

"24-23."

"Look, what I said, the substitute is really useless!"

Seeing the score difference being closed by their opponents, Pacers fans immediately became disillusioned.

"If the Pacers have not been able to go further in the playoffs in the past two years, Danny's support is too little."

After the two sides exchanged blows, George picked up the rebound and turned around to speed up the fast break.

"careful!"

Although Howard was missing, the Magic relied on their rich experience in defending fast breaks to quickly return to their own half and force George into the encirclement.

"seven!"

George didn't panic, turned around and handed the ball to Qi Tian who was following up, assisting Qi Tian for a layup.

"26-23."

"Well……"

The Pacers fans who originally looked down on Qi Tian immediately didn’t know what to say and could only make up for it by saying,

"Just stealing a chicken."

"Yeah, yeah, it's thanks to George that he attracted the defense that he was able to have this opportunity!"

"Very decisive!"

After George high-fived Qi Tian who came over, he asked doubtfully,

"Why didn't you dunk just now? Everything in front of you was empty."

"There will be plenty of opportunities in the future."

Ever since Qi Tian decided to use all means to prolong his career, he has been very cautious about such risky technical moves.

"What's more, after dunking, if someone is a little dissatisfied, what should I do if they give you a boost while you're down?"

In order to prevent George from going down the old path in his mind, he took every opportunity to instill in George the idea of preserving himself.

It's a pity that George couldn't see the attention slipping through his fingers, and scorned Qi Tian's overly steady approach.

"That's not a big deal, I'd better show off my dunking action to be more cool!"

Knowing that the thought of appearing as a saint in front of the Georges had penetrated deep into his bones, Qi Tian could only shake his head and turned back to defend himself.

The Magic's Redick made another jump shot, and then took advantage of Collison's attack and Anderson hit a three-pointer from the outside.

"26-28."

The Magic, who scored 5 points in a row, completed their first comeback!

"pretty!"

"Too accurate!"

Magic fans immediately cheered.

"Go ahead and overtake!"

The game process was familiar to the first game, giving them more fantasies:

If it can be tied at 2-2, who will win in the battle of Tianwang Mountain is really not sure who will win. Can the young Pacers really compare to us old guys?

If he reaches the second round, maybe Howard can change his mind and the Magic still have a chance!

The Magic obviously thought so, and quickly requested a substitution, replacing Turkoglu and Glen Davis.

In the games where Howard was absent, Glen Davis endured too much, and his average playing time was close to 40 minutes per game, but there was nothing that could be done. The Magic no longer had a center rotation player they could trust.

Vogel only replaced Amandasson with West to strengthen the inside line.

Hansbrough held the ball in a high position. Qi Tian glanced at him, quickly slipped from the baseline to the basket, received a pass from his teammate, and shot directly for a layup.

"Dang-dang-dang, swish!"

"Dudu!"

The basketball staggered into the basket, and the referee's whistle sounded at the right time, signaling Redick's foul.

"Additional penalty!"

2+1!

"Woo~~!!!"

"Woo~~"

Qitian stepped to the free throw line and was greeted with boos from the fans. They did everything they could to distract Qitian.

Qi Tian's extra penalty was unexpected, and the rebound was also won by Glen Davis.

"Defend!"

"It's fine."

Collison and George on the outside both comforted Qi Tian and quickly followed up with their opponents.

The Pacers quickly rotated and indeed blocked Clark's attack. However, when Qi Tian rushed to the basket to grab the rebound, the referee called a foul and the ball was handed to the Magic.

"Gan!"

Qi Tian reluctantly raised his hand to accept the foul. He was convinced that he had not committed a foul just now, but it was obviously irrational to confront the referee.

The successive misfortunes made Qitian's mentality fluctuate a bit.

"Stay steady!"

Although Collison was impatient, he still comforted his teammates.

If there is a teammate with an explosive mentality in the team, it is likely to bring down the team, and he himself will be implicated.

"Defend!"

Everyone on the bench saw that the team's offense was not going well, and they quickly shouted to cheer them on.

George planned to use practical actions to help his brother regain face. He followed Anderson closely and fell to the ground first when his opponent broke through.

"ah!!"

George shouted exaggeratedly.

"Dudu!"

The referee immediately blew the whistle, called an offensive foul on Anderson, and awarded the ball to the Pacers.

"How's it going? Is big brother awesome?"

George, who fell to the ground, stood up with the help of Collison and Qi Tian. He winked at Qi Tian and said,

"The ball still has to be ours."

Only then did Qi Tian realize that George was planning to regain his position, and he was a little touched.

"Thank you."

"Just ask me to go to a nightclub later."

"Forget it, my salary is not enough for you to spend on a meal."

"I'll dig you to death, *uc*U!"