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Chapter 24 The end of the preseason

After the first quarter, Yang Ke followed his teammates back to the bench chair and sat down. He grabbed a towel with his left hand to wipe off his sweat, and took a bottle of Gatorade handed by Leonard in his hand. He opened the lid and filled it up. a mouthful.

"Hoo, hoo!"

Then Yang Ke leaned on the back of the chair, breathing comfortably, and played for 7 minutes. On the offensive end, he relied on his tireless movement and soft touch to perform very well. He scored a total of eight points. extremely high.

"Yang, you look tired."

Jefferson drank his drink leisurely, panting heavily, but he was still within his control. Seeing Yang Ke sitting on his back like a dead dog, he smiled.

"It's okay, I was too active just now."

Yang Ke gasped and nodded. He had already found out the reason why his physical strength was exhausted so quickly after just sitting for a while.

Seeing that the rookie Yang Ke himself realized the problem, Jefferson nodded in satisfaction, and then told Yang Ke about his own experience: "It's good that you know, in fact, you don't need to run like that all the time, Parker and the others will attract defensive players. When opportunities are created for you, you just need to wait for them.”

Yang Ke raised his eyebrows thoughtfully, he seemed to understand what Jefferson meant.I should be like an assassin on the field, hiding, not attracting attention, waiting for the opportunity, and hitting the blood.

"Yang, Yang!"

A slightly familiar voice sounded in his ear, and Yang Ke frowned and turned his head. He wanted to see who called him during the break after the first quarter.

At first glance, he saw an unusually dazzling woman with long blond hair wearing sunglasses among the audience. The woman did not cover up, so Yang Ke quickly recognized her, Emma Watson.

"Why are you here?"

Yang Ke frowned, and asked, I don't know why seeing Watson appearing here, I had a bad feeling in my heart, especially since she also took the initiative to greet him.

Watson's hoarse voice carried a plea and fear: "Yang, I need your help. After the game, can we meet?"

It's hard to imagine that the smart and proud Watson I saw before would become so helpless and weak. Yang Ke knew that something must be driving her into a hurry, so he nodded silently.

"Thank you!"

With Watson's thanks ringing in his ears, Yang Ke turned his head back directly, drinking his drink silently, staring at the field, waiting for the start of the second quarter.

Soon after, the second quarter of the two sides officially started. The Spurs kept the same lineup, but the Rockets replaced Budinger with a striker Courtney Lee, which made Martin stand at the point guard. position.

After Lowry took the ball to the frontcourt, he dribbled for a while and failed to find a chance, so he handed the ball to Martin, and then took the initiative to open up the space. Martin's singles ability is not only the best among their Rockets, but even He is among the top swingmen in the league.

"You guarded me today, where is the other rookie?"

Martin controlled the ball skillfully and looked at Yang Ke cautiously. In the last game, he faced Yang Ke's defense when he was misplaced.

Compared with Leonard's close-fitting defense, Yang Ke's defense is more threatening to him in his opinion.

"He talked to me a lot."

Yang Ke said calmly that after the last game against the Rockets, Leonard told him not to try to get started easily when he and Martin were facing each other. Martin is very capable of fouling and finding opportunities.

In the last game, Leonard suffered a lot because of this.

"Really? But even so, you can't prevent me."

Martin chewed gum in his mouth, and said confidently, under his control, the basketball nimbly came to his left hand, then lowered his center of gravity, and quickly slapped the basketball with his arms.

coming!

Yang Ke immediately realized that Martin was about to attack, and quickly stretched his arms to stick up. Obviously, Martin completely ignored Yang Ke's personal defense.

Martin directly pressed Yang Ke's chest with his right shoulder, and a powerful force was transmitted from Yang Ke's chest to his whole body. The huge impact immediately made Yang Ke's body take half a step back.

Such a strong force, Yang Ke sighed in his mind, gritted his teeth and stuck up against the force, this time his body retreated not so obviously.

Sure enough, the physical resistance was not enough, Martin was overjoyed, and his body was slowly advancing. When his figure entered the three-point line, his right hand against Yang Ke suddenly moved.

Just when Yang Ke was guarding against his breakthrough, Martin suddenly took a step back, retreated beyond the three-point line, adjusted his gestures, and met Yang Ke who had reacted without hesitation and directly shot a three-pointer.

Swish!
The basketball hit the net, and Yang Ke reluctantly put down his right arm that was holding up high to block Martin's vision, shook his head, and quickly ran to the front court to settle near the three-point line.

"Rookie, why don't you move?"

Martin quickly retreated to the defensive half, looked at Yang Ke who was quietly standing outside the three-point line, and was stunned for a moment. You must know that Yang Ke had been running non-stop in the first quarter, which made Badin who was defending him Gray is as tired as a dead dog.Originally, Martin was ready to be run around by Yang Ke, but he never thought that Yang Ke would stop quietly.

"I'm a little tired."

Yang Ke bent down, smiled at Martin, moved his feet slightly, found a seat where he could play best, and kept his eyes on the situation on the field.

Parker dribbled the ball slowly across the half court. After a few dribbles, he used several consecutive changes of direction to break through Lowry's defense and went inside.As far as the league is concerned, there are not many players who can block Parker's one-on-one breakthrough.

After attracting the attention of the Rockets inside, Parker didn't attack himself but split the ball and passed it to Jefferson, who was cutting at the same time.

Seeing all this, Yang Ke suddenly sped up and ran. Martin, who was attracted by Jefferson's defensive attention, didn't react immediately and was left behind. He just ran out of the open space. Jefferson's pass The ball followed suit.

After receiving the ball, Yang Ke made a sudden stop, stopped his body, jumped up high, took a shooting position in the air, and then pushed the basketball with his right hand.

Swish!
The basketball lived up to expectations and went into the net, firmly controlling the point difference between the two teams. The pleasant voice sounded, and the home fans applauded happily, while the Spurs players on the bench were all expressionless.

After this attack, Popovich requested a timeout, waved his hand, and went straight up and down. At the same time, he also announced that Yang Ke would not play again tonight.

At the same time, the Rockets also replaced this year's rookie Morris, and then the game continued. Under the leadership of Lowry, the Rockets began to chase.After halfway through this section, the Rockets played a wave of 12-2 attacks and took a 44-38 lead in one fell swoop.The Rockets led by 7 points at most and ended the first half 53-51.

In the last quarter, the two teams sent all their substitutes, Ginobili did not play, and the Spurs led by 10 points under the leadership of the bench gangsters.

With 3 minutes and 31 seconds left in the game, the Rockets launched a final counterattack. Flynn made 4 consecutive free throws, and Martin made two layups and assisted once.With 24.8 seconds left in the game, after Lowry broke through Ford's defense and scored a layup, the battle between the two sides became 95-95.

The Spurs made a key shot, Ford handed the ball to Leonard, he made a mid-range shot 5.3 seconds before the end, and finally killed the suspense of the game. The Spurs defeated the Rockets by two points at home, double play in the preseason
(End of this chapter)