NBA: Interior Overlord!

In the first four minutes of the second quarter, the Raptors bench began to fill in the holes for the starters.

VanVleet burst out in succession, hitting three three-pointers in quick succession, gradually narrowing the gap.

Had it not been for Hield’s response, the Kings would have been in a backward position when Zhang Tao played.

For the gap in the strength of the two teams’ second team, Jorgel does not have a good way, the gap in strength does exist, and only the starters can make up for it.

Zhang Tao came on with 7:44 left in the second quarter to make it 44-42, and the Raptors had already chased the score to 2 points.

In the first round of his appearance, Zhang Tao showed his power!

Hield missed the mid-range stop in the emergency stop.

Ibaka, who debuted, was about to take a backcourt rebound.

But just when Ibaka was about to touch the ball, a pair of palms directly took the ball away from the top of Ibaka’s head!!

Ibaka was furious, and instinctively immediately turned around to cover the guy behind him, there were too many people, and it was Zhang Tao who grabbed the offensive rebound before Ibaka could react.

Zhang Tao took the ball and landed on the ground and jumped for the second time instantly, and he was pushed by Ibaka again, but it did not affect the continuation of the attack!!

“Beep!!”

“Box!!”

Zhang Tao still completed the one-handed splitting !!!

46 to 42.

Two plus one is done again.

Seeing that it was Zhang Tao, Ibaka wanted to cry without tears.

Even the referee couldn’t help but shake his head!!

It is impossible not to blow such an obvious foul!!

Fortunately, Zhang Tao failed to score this free throw, and the rebound was also protected by Varan waving his elbow.

Zhang Tao stepped back to defend with a little regret.

The fans at the scene sympathized with Ibaka a little, this guy only played more than 1 minute in the first quarter, and he won’t go down again.

The fans’ fears soon came.

After the Raptors passed, Lori Cuisu hit a three-pointer, and the Raptors big man had not completely passed the position.

46 to 45.

The King launched a quick serve and Fox passed to Zhang Tao in front.

Zhang Tao held the ball in front of the court to play two, and the Raptors back court were Varan and Ibaka.

Ibaka saw Zhang Tao holding the ball and constantly rushing towards him, he knew that he could not foul, and immediately raised his hand and kept retreating.

I would rather let Zhang Tao this ball than foul it.

But!

“Bang!”

When Ibaka retreated, he collided with Varan who was about to rush forward!!

“Bang!”

Ibaka waved his finger and pounced on Zhang Tao, who started to collect the ball!!

Serial crashes!!!

“Beep!!”

Faced with the scene of a large car accident, the referee reluctantly sounded the whistle again.

At the home court of the Raptors, the referees really didn’t want to blow it that way, but there was no way.

All three big men fell down….

To blow this ball is again only to blow Ibaka’s foul.

Instead of standing up directly, Ibaka knelt with his head in his hands.

“OMG, poor Serge, he played less than two minutes in the second quarter!”

“Hey!!”

“This ball is Varan’s pot, he shouldn’t rush forward, so that he won’t collide with Ibaka, and Ibaka won’t pounce on Zhang Tao.”

“Pathetic!!”

Without any surprises, when Zhang Tao made a free throw, Casey replaced Ibaka.

Casey didn’t say anything about Ibaka this time, he saw the big man trying to avoid fouls, this time it was just an accident.

Ibaka walked towards the bench with a little blank eyes, and his teammates came to comfort him.

4 offenses without much fighting, so it’s strange not to collapse.

Standing on the free throw line again, Zhang Tao hit both free throws steadily.

48 to 45.

Zhang Tao himself did not expect Ibaka to end up so quickly.

Ibaka slowly regained his firm gaze, glaring at Zhang Tao, constantly hinting that he must not foul in the second half.

Coach Casey expressed pessimism about the Raptors’ interior, without Ibaka, the interior strength was cut in half, can Varan hold on?

Soon, Varan told him the answer, and he couldn’t hold on.

With 3:11 left in the second quarter, Varan also made four fouls.

Casey still didn’t say anything to complain about the big man, but just patted the big man’s shoulder and replaced it with the “Norquela” that had been prepared earlier, Noquera’s appearance was to foul, this guy didn’t care.

But Noquela’s foul control is very good…

The overall rhythm of the second quarter is very similar to the first quarter.

Zhang Tao has almost no opponents inside, and the Raptors keep wrapping him, and he keeps splitting the ball.

The king’s outer line can only say that it passes….

And the outside shooting percentage on the Raptors side remains stable!!

At the end of the first half, the score was 66-60, and the Kings entered the locker room with a six-point lead.

Zhang Tao’s half-court stats were 32 points, 12 rebounds, 5 assists and 5 blocks.

Such data also shows that the Raptors’ inside line can hardly do anything about Zhang Tao.

Varan and Ibaka may be the two best people to limit Zhang Tao, but their playing time is too small, and Zhang Tao plays very brutally in their absence.