"Clap"
Howard’s hand firmly clapped Zhang Yang’s hand, he launched out with an exaggerated speed and leap, but the distance was still a bit too far, beyond the limit of his rim protection range!
The referee’s whistle followed the sound of their ’clap’, and the sound of the ball hitting the rim was heard simultaneously. All the players on the court, including Howard who was descending from the air, turned their heads to look at the hoop, seeing the ball bounce off the rim and fall into the basket!
The referee confird, the basket counted, and there would be a bonus free throw!
The referee’s whistle imdiately sounded again, Van Gundy called a tiout.
After landing, Howard took two steps and walked up to the referee, jumping with his arms spread wide, which startled the referee, but he couldn’t get a word out, making the referee speechless.
He was purely ntally exploded, wanting to find soone to vent on, but he really did foul, even if he wanted to vent he didn’t know what to say.
Since the official tiout in the last quarter, he hadn’t played a role, especially at the crucial monts, apart from protecting defensive rebounds, he was almost nonexistent. If they were leading, on the way to winning, he naturally wouldn’t care about these, but with just over ten seconds left, they were trailing, and the opponent had just made a go-ahead shot right in his face, and he fouled too!
Two others had the sa ntal explosion as Howard.
One was Courtney Lee, at the mont he pounced in thinking he had judged Zhang Yang’s shooting action perfectly, he was overjoyed, only to be toyed with miserably. Also, Zhang Yang shot from the exact sa position as he did in the previous play, and Zhang Yang’s shooting difficulty was much higher, encountering a shot blocker like Howard in training, he would never dare to shoot, whereas he only faced Felton’s blocking... but he missed, and Zhang Yang made it!
A blow, a blow etched deep within mory, unforgettable!
The other one was Turkoglu...
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Entering the tiout, the bonus free throw was delayed, Zhang Yang and his teammates briefly celebrated, then quickly exercised his right hand.
He really wanted to find soone to complain about Van Gundy’s on-the-spot reaction ability, using one word to describe it—jumpy.
The other side was definitely going to call a tiout, regardless of whether he made the shot or not.
But after he made the shot and got the bonus free throw, Howard slapped his hand hard, and Van Gundy didn’t wait for him to finish the free throw before calling a tiout...
Honestly, high-fiving with the Beast really hurt! It went numb instantly.
He wanted to trash talk a bit to vent, but the opponent didn’t give him the chance, ran over to the referee hopping around, his brain seed underdeveloped, extinguishing the unnad fire within him, Beast was rather adept at cooling people down.
After Carlisle praised the players, they quickly made lineup adjustnts and defensive arrangents.
After the tiout, the two teams’ players returned to the court.
The Magic Team didn’t make any player changes, Carlisle made adjustnts, Felton, Brad Miller were substituted out, and Afflalo, Millsap were put in, with Zhang Yang, Hill, and Okafor continuing to play.
Zhang Yang stepped to the free-throw line, after the long tiout, his ’critical hit’ hand felt no discomfort, after getting a feel for the ball, the bonus free throw was made steadily!
to 106, the Bobcats lead by 3 points!
With 18 seconds left on the clock, the Magic Team attacked, Alston quickly pushed into the frontcourt and passed to Turkoglu, the Magic Team’s other players quickly got into positions.
In fact, during the tiout, it wasn’t only Zhang Yang who secretly criticized Van Gundy’s timing of calling a tiout, even so of the Magic Team players were silently cursing internally, as it not only gave Zhang Yang ti to recover but also wasted a few seconds to push past half-court.
At this mont, they couldn’t care less about complaining, once Turkoglu received the ball, the other four imdiately started team offense movents.
However, Turkoglu didn’t initiate the attack at the tactically set mont, there was simply no chance!
Trailing by 3 points, the opponents ignored fake penetration threats and focused on guarding the periter!
His heart sank, signaling teammates to spread out, deciding to go at it alone, waiting until 3 seconds left, taking a step sideways to the right under Hill’s defense who was closely sticking to him, then dribbling behind his back to the left back to the original position, jumping in Hill’s face during full lateral movent, the three-pointer released under duress...
The ball reached its peak as the long whistle blew, falling into the net with the sound of the long whistle!
The live audience erupted in cheers, Turkoglu let out a roar, punching his chest forcefully, then chest-bumping and high-fiving with teammates rushing to him to celebrate.
In the anti, he didn’t forget to lift his chin looking at Zhang Yang.
Zhang Yang saw the Husky Magician’s taunting... nose hair?
He rolled his eyes and patted the back of a remorseful Hill.
It truly wasn’t Hill’s fault for that shot, if Zhang San went to guard, he might not have done as well as Hill, being at a disadvantage in height, Turkoglu being 208 cm tall with good skills, in his pri, making such clutch shots can’t really bla the defender.
From Turkoglu’s side, he finally vented the frustration of the second half!
Actually, he just dislikes not only Zhang Yang, but all superstars who act arbitrarily with talent and personal ability, he feels that is not the basketball he truly admires.
But sadly, when it ca to the crucial mont, he also relied on his personal ability to solve problems, yet he didn’t realize it himself...
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