Basketball Legends: Strikers Are King

On the other side, the Kings were pleasantly surprised when they saw Thomas successfully knocking out the opponent's center Hibbert to rest, and the Pacers even put on a small lineup with one player and four players.

"Cousins! I'll leave the inside rebound to you next!"

Smart shouted anxiously to Cousins,

"You must control your rebounds well!"

"I know, I know!"

Cousins ​​turned his head impatiently and said.

Then he looked at the Pacers who were attacking with the ball, and said to himself:

"It's just these people, can't they just grab it?"

Smart looked at the casual Cousins ​​and could only shake his head helplessly.

He was forced to do nothing by this troublesome player.

Granger went out to ask for the ball without hesitation, and held the ball to beat his opponent in singles.

Under the basket, West tried his best to get entangled with Cousins.

Granger used his signature pull-up jump shot, and the basketball came out of his hands.

"clang!"

West turned around and struggled to pick off the rebound, then turned and handed it to Collison on the outside.

Collison broke through and found George in the high post.

George stopped for a jumper.

"clang!"

He actually struck iron again.

Vogel, who was off the court, chewed his teeth gently, feeling a little helpless.

"I still lack the key scoring ability."

Brian Xiao next to him whispered to himself.

He had just arrived at the Pacers and didn't know enough about some things about the team, so he could only infer on his own.

Just from the past few games and trainings, we roughly know that the main reason why the Pacers are unable to make further progress lies with the team's boss Granger.

This is no wonder that Brian Shaw is bold. He used to be an assistant coach for Jackson in the Lakers. He saw O'Neal in the last year of his Lakers career, and he also saw Kobe Bryant who was gradually entering his peak period.

Naturally, we know that the main reason why there is a huge gap between Granger and Kobe in terms of star level is that Granger does not have the key scoring ability that is stable enough to win the game.

In his opinion, a shooting scorer like Granger is not even as good as a player who rarely scores with one move.

Pierce is known as an offensive kaleidoscope. He can use any move to kill the game at critical moments, but Granger cannot. In this case, it is better to practice one move specifically and use Cheng Yaojin's three-blade ax to kill people.

"Where's George?"

Brian Shaw looked at Paul George who was passing the ball to assist his teammate, thought about it for a while, and finally gave up the idea with some pessimism.

Although George is versatile, he also has a major flaw, which is his ability to control the ball.

Yes, George's ball-handling ability is not bad, but compared with the top players in the league, it is definitely not good.

Brian Shaw even thought of the Thunder's Durant. Even compared to Durant, who has the height of a center, George's ball control is not as good as his opponent's.

Some things really come down to talent.

Brian Xiao took a deep breath, but suddenly thought of Qi Tian.

"Perhaps Qi has this potential?"

Brian Shaw couldn't help but think about the possibility of this idea, but suddenly discovered that Qi Tian really had the possibility of becoming a scorer at critical moments.

At least, there is no need to worry about the stability of dribbling and shooting.

But he soon thought of Qitian's biggest shackles.

"I just don't know if any team can trust him and make him the cornerstone of the team."

"At least with the Pacers,"

Brian Shaw looked at the two strikers on the field,

"With Granger and George, I'm afraid Qi won't get into the eyes of the management."

On the court at this time, although the team's inside line was not as good as that of its opponent Cousins ​​​​, Cousins ​​​​'s immature performance gave the Pacers a boost.

"Dudududu!"

Because it hit the groin of West who was grabbing the rebound, the referee immediately blew the whistle and gave Cousins ​​a technical foul.

Collison made a free throw with a technical foul.

"87-82."

"A five-point difference,"

Vogel turned to look at the game with less than 4 minutes left, braced himself, and looked at the court.

"As long as we score this goal, we should be able to stabilize."

George holds the ball from the outside and wants to pass it to Granger on the other side.

But Thomas anticipated the opponent's pass, quickly rushed out, intercepted the basketball, and then ran towards the Pacers' half without stopping.

"Oops!"

When George saw his pass was intercepted, he immediately followed his opponent and ran towards the basket.

Thomas was very fast and quickly ran into the three-point line. Seeing that there was no one under the basket, he was very excited. After two steps into the free throw line, he jumped suddenly and his whole body leaped into the air.

"He's going to dunk!"

George immediately jumped up and tried to intercept it in the air.

"Uh-huh!"

Little Thomas knew that George was behind him, so he didn't care, accelerated and dunked hard, slamming the basketball toward the basket!

"Button!"

Seeing that George failed to block Thomas' pass, the Kings fans on the sidelines stood up and cheered for his score.

"bang!"

The basketball was dunked into the basket by Thomas Jr.

"handsome!"

The cheers of Kings fans immediately started.

But they were happy too early.

I saw the high-speed basketball dunking into the basket and hitting the net hard. The net could hardly withstand the impact of the basketball. It caught the basketball and quickly rebounded, popping the basketball out!

"What?"

"Dunk it!"

Kings fans shouted in frustration from the sidelines.

"hateful!"

Thomas was also very upset when he saw the basketball fly out.

"clang!"

The flying basketball hit the backboard and bounced down.

Under George's delighted gaze, Marcus Thornton followed up and grabbed the rebound and then scored a tip-in.

"87-84."

"Gan!"

Pacers fans are also extremely sorry.

"It's okay, just stay calm."

Granger came to the baseline, served to Collison, and asked him to organize the attack.

Collison broke through and found George again.

"Huh~"

George took a few deep breaths and prepared to fight his opponent alone.

Marcus Thornton moved quickly to keep up with the opponent's breakthrough. The moment the basketball bounced, he quickly reached out and stole the opponent!

"Quick attack!"

After completing the steal, Thornton was about to greet his teammates when he saw a figure flash out like lightning, it was Thomas!

Thornton immediately made a long pass and assisted Thomas for a layup.

"87-86."

The difference is only one point!

There was only the last 3 minutes left in the game.

Vogel on the sidelines quickly called a timeout.

Thomas Jr. returned to the bench after being cheered by Kings fans and high-fiving his teammates.

"too strong!"

Listening to the cheers of his teammates, Thomas' eyes glanced at Kimmer Fredette on the bench intentionally or unintentionally.

Fredette sat on the bench with a livid face. He knew that Thomas had firmly become the team's backup point guard and could even play at critical moments.

In other words, he, the 10th pick in the first round, may have to serve as a substitute for Thomas, the 60th pick!