super point guard

Chapter 156 New Year, New Beginning
After all the players sat down in front of their lockers, Coach Larry Brown stood in front of the tactical board as usual.

"I see the relief on all of your faces," began Coach Larry Brown, looking around. "Maybe you guys thought you had a good first half with a five-point lead. That's good?" Having said that, Coach Larry Brown paused, looked around again, and looked at his players.

Xu Nuo, who was sitting next to Roy Hibbert, swallowed nervously. Under the watchful eyes of Coach Larry Brown, every player present was stared at by Coach Larry Brown and dared not speak out.

"We are holding a five-point lead at this time. Of course, it is a good thing to be able to take the lead, but the crux of the problem is that we lost 54 points in the first half of the game!" Coach Larry Brown continued, his tone Even harsher, "I can live with losing a game, but I absolutely can't stand us dropping so many points in a game!"

Under Coach Larry Brown's loud reprimand, the players couldn't help but bow their heads.

"We lost 54 points in the half, so we will lose nearly 110 points in the whole game!" Coach Larry Brown continued, "In my memory, we have a few games where our opponents can win Nearly 110 points? What’s more, our opponent is the Cleveland Cavaliers! 59 points in the half is nothing, I just hope that you can defend harder in the second half of the game, so that our defense will be more oppressive!”

Coach Larry Brown said, turning to face the tactical board.

"In the first half, we had Tristan Thompson and Antawn Jamison of the Cleveland Cavaliers play too much together, and Antawn Jamison scored [-] points in the half!" Larry Coach Brown said loudly, "Antawn Jamison's usual scoring method is a half-hook throw after receiving the ball with his back in the penalty area and moving laterally. Today we have let him score on us three times like this, and Jamison Mison's scores were all assisted by Tristan Thompson. Today Antawn Jamison's outside three-pointer was not very good, so we must squeeze Antawn Jamison out of the penalty area!"

Coach Larry Brown said, looking at Duntai Jones. "We have to adjust the team lineup in the second half. Dengtai Jones replaced DeMar DeRozan. The main task is to defend Antawn Jamison." Coach Larry Brown said, "Danny, you are in charge of defense in the second half Anthony Parker."

Dengtai Jones, DeMar DeRozan and Danny Granger nodded at the same time, and Xu Nuo always felt that Coach Larry Brown would definitely talk about himself, but until the second half started, Larry Brown The coach didn't mention a word of promise in his speech.

From the first minute of the second half, Dengtai Jones was close to Antawn Jamison, making it difficult for Antawn Jamison to receive the ball from his teammates.After the team's first offensive point was seen dead by the opponent, the Cleveland Cavaliers' offense began to have problems. They missed consecutive offenses and the Indiana Pacers took the opportunity to expand the score to 1:66.

"Give the ball to the paint!" Cleveland Cavaliers coach Byron Scott yelled from the sidelines.

So Ramon Sessions passed the ball to Anderson Varejao inside after dribbling the ball to the frontcourt, but because Anderson Varejao's personal offensive ability is not good, the Indiana Pacers did not. The ball comes inside and the defense shrinks.However, at this moment, Antawn Jamison suddenly started and made an empty cut towards the basket.Anderson Varejao passed the ball in time, Antawn Jamison was about to layup after receiving the ball, Dengtai Jones had no choice but to foul.

Standing near the center line, Xu Nuo couldn't help but let out a long breath as he watched Antawn Jamison make free throws.In the 4 minutes after the start of the second half, Xu Nuo didn't make a single shot or even an assist. He was just following his teammates in useless back and forth runs, which consumed too much of Xu Nuo's physical strength.However, it is not only the promise of a person who consumes too much energy, but also Antawn Jamison standing at the free throw line.

During these 4 minutes, the only thing Antawn Jamison did was to fight Tangtai Jones hand-to-hand, which was more exhausting than running back and forth.Perhaps because of this, Antawn Jamison made only the first free throw, and the second hit the neck of the basket.David West jumped high and put the ball in his arms.

"Hurry up and pass the ball!" Xu Nuo yelled at David West while running wildly forward, raising his arms high.And David West didn't make any adjustments at all after taking the rebound from the backcourt, and directly threw the ball to the frontcourt.When Xu Xu got the ball, Ramon Sessions appeared in front of Xu Nuo.

"Your speed is really not slow." Xu Nuo thought in his heart, and at the same time, he broke through Ramon Sessions with a clean jump, and then made a reverse layup.

"Beautiful!" Ellen Page stood up in the first row of spectators beside the court, shouting excitedly at the promise.The other fans in the Conseco Arena also looked excited. Now the Indiana Pacers are already [-] points ahead of the Cleveland Cavaliers.

"Their defense was so good in the second half. How can they solve the problem of the team's unfavorable offense?" Cleveland Cavaliers coach Byron Scott thought while pacing back and forth on the side of the court.

Coach Byron Scott was thinking this, and the Indiana Pacers rebounded and launched another quick counterattack after Antawn Jamison missed a field goal.Promise hit the ground pass in the fast break and assisted teammate Danny Granger for a layup. At 70:57, the Indiana Pacers continued to widen the gap, and Cleveland Cavaliers coach Byron Scott only requested a timeout.

"Promise, these two fast breaks were good." Coach Larry Brown said to Xu Nuo, "But there is still more than one quarter in the game, you have to maintain your physical strength, and don't show signs of lack of physical strength in the fourth quarter. question."

"I understand, Coach Brown." Xu Nuo said.

"You take a few minutes off the court," Coach Larry Brown said, and then looked at Darren Collison, "Darren, you promise to play!"

Hearing what Coach Larry Brown said, Xu Nuo sat in a seat near the end of the bench.After the players came on the field, Paul George, who was originally sitting in the promise seat, stared at promise with wide eyes.

"Hey, promise, you don't need to sit so close to the end of the bench, I think you can play again soon." Paul George said to promise.

Promise didn't say anything to Paul George, but took a breath, stood up and took the seat where Darren Collison had been sitting before.Now Xu Nuo doesn't want to talk, just wants to sit on the bench and have a good rest.

But soon, Xu Nuo found that his rest time was too long. In the rest of the third quarter, Xu Nuo didn't get even a second of playing time, and the playing time was completely taken by Darren Collison and Divided by George Hill.At the end of the third quarter, the Indiana Pacers led the Cleveland Cavaliers by 86 points, 73:[-].

"In this way, I won't even get playing time in the fourth quarter." Xu Nuo thought with such frustration in his heart.

However, unexpectedly, at the beginning of the fourth quarter, coach Larry Brown put himself on the field.

"Now you can give full play to your own speed advantage and go to the opponent's basket." Before promising to play, coach Larry Brown said to promise, "if we can play in the first few minutes of the fourth quarter Continue to expand our lead, then we will be able to win tonight's game."

Xu Nuo knew that coach Larry Brown wanted him to use his speed advantage to launch a quick counterattack to expand the team's lead, as he did in the third quarter, and Xu Nuo also understood why Larry Brown The coach allowed himself to rest that much in the third quarter.

And just as coach Larry Brown prearranged, Xu Nuo, who was full of energy at this time, had an advantage in the face of the already very tired Ramon Sessions and Daniel Gibson, and Xu Nuo also played as in the past. That quick offense in the third quarter.Cleveland Cavaliers head coach Byron Scott looked at the technical statistics in his hands. His team scored only [-] fast break points in this game, while the opponent Indiana Pacers had [-] points. Comes from fast break.

"Alas..." Coach Byron Scott sighed and put the technical statistics in his pocket.

Relying on the promised fast attack, the Indiana Pacers widened the point difference to 5 points in the first [-] minutes of the fourth quarter.After that, Xu Nuo was replaced by coach Larry Brown, and he didn't get another chance to play until the end of the game.

In the end, the Indiana Pacers defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers 105:87 at home and won the last game of 2011.Xu Nuo scored 11 points and 7 assists in this game, but his role was not fully reflected in the statistics. 2011 has passed, and 2012 is coming. For the Indiana Pacers and the promise, a new year is a new beginning.

(End of this chapter)