Roy scored 7 points and made 4 assists in a single quarter, Blake hit two open three-pointers, reviving the Trail Blazers’ offense, with a single-quarter score of 26 to 20, narrowing the gap to two points.
In the third quarter, Zhang Yang scored 11 points in a single quarter, leading the Bobcats to a score of 26 to 22, and leading the Bobcats 72 to 66 with a 6-point advantage over the Trail Blazers going into the final quarter.
In the final quarter, Roy led the team to a score of 24 to 18 in a rather unfavorable situation!
With Perkins missing both free throws with 1.8 seconds left, Blake’s three-point attempt was over ti, dragging the ga into overti for the Trail Blazers.
Why was Perkins executing free throws at the last mont... because the two teams fought so fiercely tonight.
Okafor, Oden, Aldridge, and Pietrus fouled out with six fouls, within the regular 48 minutes, Trail Blazers committed 27 fouls, Bobcats 25 fouls.
Roy and Zhang Yang each received 5 and 4 fouls respectively.
In overti, Roy scored 27 points with 7 assists, dragging the ga into overti, but incurred his 6th foul on Felton’s break, fouling out.
anwhile, Felton opened with a 2 1, and then a step-back three-pointer on Blake, single-handedly scoring 6 to 0 against the Trail Blazers, establishing the foundation for the Bobcats to win.
At 4 minutes and 25 seconds into overti, Zhang Yang hit a three-pointer, bringing the overti score to 12 to 4; within half a minute, with an 8-point gap, Zhang Yang’s three-pointer secured the victory for the Bobcats!
In the last 35 seconds, neither side scored. At 10:36 PM, the ga ended.
Zhang Yang had 31 points and 11 rebounds, Felton 22 points and 6 assists, Millsap 10 points 6 rebounds 7 assists, Okafor 15 points and 8 rebounds... Bobcats narrowly defeated the Trail Blazers 102 to 94!
After fighting the entire ga, the team committed 28 fouls, one of the three core players fouled out, another had 5 fouls, and the other accumulated 3 fouls, yet achieved victory. The feeling was marvelous. After the ga, the entire Bobcats team celebrated as if ushering in the New Year.
hours later, at the Portland Rose Garden Arena, the cheers and celebration belonged to the Trail Blazers.
Relying on Roy’s 25 points and 7 assists, Blake’s 14 points and 4 assists, Oden’s 14 points, 14 rebounds, and 8 blocks, the Trail Blazers revenged against the Bobcats in the second ga of the back-to-back, handing the Bobcats their 9th defeat of the season!
The Bobcats defended well against Aldridge tonight, but Oden had an explosive performance, nearly achieving a blocks triple-double.
However, the critical key to the Trail Blazers’ narrow victory was Roy! In the matchup against Zhang Yang across the two gas, he hardly fell behind!
In this alternating ho and away back-to-back, Zhang Yang felt the weight of the titles ’Second Shooting Guard in the West’ and ’Yellow Mamba.’ Roy indeed possessed Kobe’s intense competitiveness and had the ability to translate it into concrete ga performance.
Zhang Yang also noticed the distinct difference between Roy and Kobe; Kobe only plays reasonably under certain conditions, while Roy consistently plays reasonably.
Tonight, Roy hit many crucial shots at monts when the Trail Blazers were about to collapse, when the Bobcats were gaining montum, when the pursuit was about to falter, when disrupting the Bobcats’ montum... his scoring presence was almost always there, albeit finishing a ga with just 27 points, he consistently leveraged his threat optimally, making decisions most beneficial to the team.
From a certain standpoint, Zhang Yang believes Roy is more challenging to deal with than Kobe, feeling both lucky and a bit regretful that Roy still has a qualitative gap in personal ability compared to Kobe.
On the 24th, the Bobcats arrived at the Bradley Center in Milwaukee for an away ga against the Bucks.
This might be Zhang Yang’s last ga at this venue, as Bucks owner Jane Pettit, after yet another failed rebuild attempt, felt the arena conflicted with her team’s energy and planned to switch venues, even considering selling part of her equity, market operating rights, owner title, etc., for more funds, a larger, more advanced arena, investing more in the lineup, continuing her father Harry Pettit’s basketball dream pursuit.
The Bucks owner is recognized as one of the NBA’s ’quality owners.’ Stern is unwilling to see teams relocate, especially teams from small markets, but he has actively suggested the Bucks move to a larger city, admitting this in interviews, considering an owner like Pettit deserves a larger market... but Pettit refused, wishing to see her late father’s beloved team win a championship at ho.
Excluding luck, solely looking at the Bucks’ team-building approach, planning, and execution, they’ve always perford well, as they do this ti, if they wished to tank, they did so completely, had other teams not offered such low prices for Reed and Bogut, they would’ve traded even these two.
Tonight, Zhang Yang played for 15 minutes, 8 minutes in the first quarter, 7 minutes in the second, clocking out at halfti, shooting 10 out of 7, including 2 out of 2 three-pointers, along with 2 out of 2 free throws, scoring 16 points, due to a halfti score of 57 to 28...
Second-half score 55 to 50, Carlisle did not let the three youngsters play in the second half, Hill even played as Point Guard, ultimately Bobcats butchered the Bucks 112 to 78, elevating their record to 34 wins and 9 losses!
This ti, Bobcats played 3 gas in 4 days, primarily due to the arduous battle in the back-to-back, nearly losing both gas; Zhang Yang, for various reasons, saw a significant drop in scoring over the 3 gas, resulting in an average of 31 points per ga afterward.
And this, made those two guys from the 03 class that eyed him feel more distressed.
Wade played painfully in the last 3 gas, while Zhang Yang was better, having one ga with 31 points, another over 20 points, Wade scored less than 25 points in all 3 gas, dropping his average to 30.8!
Originally, Wade wasn’t too concerned about this, but upon seeing Zhang Yang’s score drop as well, his mindset was sowhat shattered, not seizing this valuable opportunity to gain a scoring lead!
As for Jas, he initially found joy when the Bobcats lost one ga in their alternating ho and away back-to-back against the Trail Blazers, but two hours later he was defeated unexpectedly by the Rockets on the road, then lost to the Spurs the next day... Texas 3-ga road trip resulted in 1 win 2 losses!
Failing to seize the opportunity to catch up to the Bobcats’ record, the deficit even expanded by 1 ga!
If he were constantly trailing, Jas wouldn’t feel so bad, just like in the previous few seasons, but this season he was in first place throughout the early part, yet after the first ga in the mid-season, specifically the Christmas battle, he never returned to first place...
On Zhang Yang’s side, after completing the two-ga road, he returned to Charlotte with the team on the afternoon of the 25th; after teammates left, he lingered at the airport briefly and picked up his little "godchild," going ho for New Year!
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