Chapter 144 Chen Yan is mature? This rookie is awesome!
Raptors offensive possession.
Pierce is at it again…
To be honest, the Raptors teammates are a little annoyed. Pierce is holding the team's ball rights and fighting with Chen Yan. The key is that he still can't score. Anyone else would be unhappy.
However, after a circle of transmission, the ball still landed in Pierce's hands.
There was no way, Pierce's desire to attack was so strong in this round that his hands almost turned into electric fan blades when he wanted the ball.
Pierce holds the ball in a high position, and Laja Bale is very close to him, but Pierce doesn't want to have close contact with him at all. He only has Chen Yan in his heart.
Pierce dribbled the ball laterally and used Anthony Parker's pick-and-roll to switch defense and find Chen Yan.
Pure old star style, if you hit me, I will definitely find an opportunity to return the favor.
However, the Suns did not switch defense, and Raja Bell bypassed Anthony Parker and blocked Pierce again.
After all, Anthony Parker is an outside player, so we cannot place too high demands on his pick-and-roll quality.
Pierce did not give up and used Anthony Parker's body to set another screen after pulling back.
This time Chen Yan finally stood in front of Pierce, but standing in front of Pierce with Chen Yan was Laga Bell. The Suns double-teamed him this round!
Pierce said he was so miserable and yet he was double-teamed?
Can you be a human being?
Chen Yan just wants to mess with his mentality. He knows that Pierce is already very impatient now.
Sure enough, Pierce made a super backward move at the moment when the attack was formed.
"Clang!"
It's a pity that he is not Kobe, this kind of scoring method is not what he is good at.
In the transition between offense and defense, Nash omitted the organization process and handed the ball directly to Chen Yan.
Chen Yan has already scored 38 points, and there is only more than 1 minute left before halftime. Everyone in the Suns wants to see Chen Yan score 40 points in the first half.
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
Facing Pierce's defense, Chen Yan continued to carry the ball behind his hips.
Dribbling faster and faster, show off!
The audience at the scene was very excited. Chen Yan's dribbling this round had a bit of a street feel, which was very entertaining to watch!
Faced with Chen Yan's dazzling skills, Pierce felt that he was insulted and moved his hands more and more loudly.
Chen Yan saw that Pierce's mind was no longer on defense, so he accelerated and directly tore through his defense!
The moment he broke through, Pierce hung his hand on Chen Yan's shoulder arrogantly and pulled him hard!
Pierce's mentality has collapsed...
"Beep beep!"
The moment the referee's whistle blew, Raja Bell and Stoudemire immediately accelerated and rushed to Pierce's side!
Pierce's move was too big, causing dissatisfaction among the players on the Sunshine Court!
Soon, Pierce was surrounded by Suns players. The last conflict made the whole team more united.
Even Nash, who has always been gentle, went up.
In the game against the Spurs, Chen Yan punched Horry in order to help Nash. Now that Chen Yan is being raped by Nash, he cannot sit idly by and ignore it.
There was no one on the Raptors side to help Pierce. He was not a good member of the team. The most important thing was that Chen Yan, the strongest player, came forward. Basically all NBA players had seen the video of him KOing three Spurs generals.
Chen Yan's fists have been certified by Tyson, and no one will mess with him.
Barkley laughed when he saw this scene: "Pierce said before the game that if the Raptors want to win, they can play around him. Now the Raptors are not playing around Pierce, but the Suns are playing around him."
Just when everyone thought a conflict was about to break out, Chen Yan suddenly separated Pierce and his Suns teammates, signaling both sides to calm down.
Fans across the United States expressed their disbelief when they saw this scene.
"Did I read that correctly? Chen actually stepped forward to break up the fight?"
"Hahaha, with this attitude of trying to break up the fight, I thought he was going to do a Chinese Kung Fu fight against Pierce!"
"Maybe Chen just doesn't despise the crowd bullying the minority. Later he may find an opportunity to KO Pierce alone."
"Chen has really matured. The last suspension made him grow!"
In fact, it's not that Chen Yan has matured, he just doesn't want to experience another large-scale suspension, which will be a harm to the team, and Pierce is different from Bowen. Bowen went for useless people, while Pierce was just anxious.
After the conflict subsided, Pierce received a secondary flagrant foul for the pull he just made.
Nash is usually the one who takes free throws for the Suns, but this time he gave up the free throw opportunity to Chen Yan.
"Whoa!"
"Whoa!"
After making two free throws, Chen Yan scored his 40th point of the game!
This is also the last time Chen Yan followed up with 40 in the second half at the Staples Center, home of the Lakers!
He also became the second player to score 40 points in a half in the regular season multiple times since NBA officials began to have detailed single-quarter statistics in the 1996-97 season!
The first player was Kobe Bryant, who accomplished this feat three times.
Kobe scored 42 points in the first half of the Lakers' victory over the Wizards on March 28, 2003, shooting 73.7% from the field and 72.7% from three-point range.
On January 7, 2006, when the Lakers defeated the Clippers, he scored 40 points in the second half with a shooting percentage of 51.7% and a three-point shooting percentage of 54.5%.
Kobe also scored 55 points in the second half of the "Night of the Century" when the Lakers defeated the Raptors on January 22, 2006, shooting 64.3% from the field and 54.5% from three-point range!
Although Chen Yan currently does not have the abnormal performance of 55 points in a half like Kobe, as a rookie he was able to score 40 points in two halves in his first season. His performance is already impressive enough!