Vinny Del Nigro was very satisfied with the current situation of the Clippers. He sat on the coach's seat with a smile on his face and was discussing something with the assistant coach.)

Hawks coach Larry Drew is not in the mood to sit at this moment. He is standing on the sidelines, anxiously reminding the players to defend, pass more balls, and cooperate.

The Clippers' outside line is very crazy. The Clippers' outside line led by Chris Paul has brought great impact to the Hawks.

Larry Drew quickly called a timeout and prepared to arrange the defense in the last two minutes of the first half to find the right opportunity to narrow the gap.

Now, the Hawks are 11 points behind the Clippers. This is a very big problem for the Hawks. If they cannot narrow the gap to single digits before the end of the first half, it will be difficult to play in the second half.

Larry Drew also understood that the continuous back-to-back had exhausted the players physically and mentally. So during the timeout, he did not criticize the players' performance with a stern face, but encouraged them earnestly.

"There are two minutes left, and we must do the defense well next. The Clippers' outer touch is too hot, and they can always hit our basket. We have to strangle them to death, and then use our inside advantage to pose a threat to the opponent's inside. So next..." Larry Drew held the tactical board, drawing and placing tactics in detail to the players.

The tactics laid out by Larry Drew worked in the following time. Not only were the Clippers' outside shots pinned by the Hawks, but the firepower that hit the basket was extinguished by the Hawks.

Moreover, the Hawks used oppressive defense to force the Clippers to make mistakes, and they used these mistakes to make a fast break counterattack.

With the end of the first half, the score between the two sides reached 46:51.

The Hawks scored a 12:4 climax in the last two minutes, successfully narrowing the gap to 5 points. It can be said that the tactics laid out by Larry Drew at the last moment of the first half were very successful.

However, Larry Drew also understood that this situation could not always happen. The opponent would definitely come up with a coping strategy during the halftime break.

Chris Paul walked towards the rest area, and fans at Staples Center are calling his name.

It is also understandable that Chris Paul, as the best player in the first half, deserves such warm treatment as home fans.

In the first half, Chris Paul played a total of 19 minutes and only had about four minutes of rest. In these nineteen minutes, Paul made eight of fourteen shots. He contributed 19 points almost crazy, making him the second highest scorer in the first half.

In addition to scoring 19 points, the 'new captain' Chris Paul also sent 9 assists, almost using halftime to contribute a double-double.

Paul was also very good on the defensive end, forcing Wu Feng to make three mistakes. Such performance was completely reasonable to get cheers from all the fans.

Wu Feng played almost the same time as Chris Paul in the first half, and his personal scoring efficiency was better than Paul.

With nine out of 16 shots, Wu Feng scored 22 points, making him the highest scorer among all the players on both sides in the first half.

As the best players in their respective teams, Wu Feng and Chris Paul were interviewed by reporters during the break.

"Wu, your performance in the first half was so exciting. How do you think your opponent tonight, Chris, is his performance?" Espn's female reporter handed the microphone to Wu Feng.

Wu Feng coughed twice, then thought for a while, and replied to the microphone: "I have always liked Chris. He is a very good player, and he is one of the best players in the current service. Of course, he is no.1 in the position of the organizational guard. And the performance he just played also showed his worth."

"Then are you sure to lead the team to beat them? I mean, can you help your team take a victory away from the Staples Center Arena?" the female reporter continued.

Wu Feng smiled and spread his hands. He said, "No one likes losing, we are the same. We really want to win. We really want to beat strong opponents like them. But beating them is a very difficult thing. However, we are never afraid to do such things. I believe that as long as we still play like the second half of the first half, we can definitely beat them."

"Thank you for your cooperation, and I wish you and your team a wonderful performance in the second half."

"Thanks."

After the interview, Wu Feng breathed a sigh of relief and rushed back to the visiting team's locker room.

It is a very hard thing to confront opponents like Chris Paul. The reason why he took more rest in the first half than Paul was because he consumed too quickly.

Chris Paul was very fast, and he had to increase his speed to the fastest to defend him.

Unfortunately, in the first half, he did not effectively defend Chris Paul. He allowed the opponent to score 19 points in the first half and had a shooting percentage of nearly 55%.

This made Wu Feng a little depressed.

Just after Wu Feng sat down in the locker room, his personal physiotherapist Deng Houjian came to him and asked him if he would take this time to have a massage or something to relieve his fatigue.

Wu Feng naturally accepted without hesitation. It is very comfortable to be able to relax at this time.

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The fifteen-minute intermission time ended soon. When Wu Feng and others returned to the court, the atmosphere on the scene gradually became warmer.

At the beginning of the second half, Chris Paul and Wu Feng, the two leading players in the organizational defenders, once again.

Chris Paul used a fake move to try to cheat a foul from Wu Feng. However, Wu Feng, who had learned foul fraud with Reggie Miller and Clyde Drexler for a long time, could not be fooled.

However, Chris Paul passed the ball back and sent it to Chaunci Billups.

After receiving the ball, Chaunci Billups jumped up and shot directly.

With a "swish", Chaunci Billups hit his second three-pointer in the game.

The score on the field became 54:46, and the Clippers expanded their lead to 8 points.

As soon as the third quarter started, the Clippers quickly entered the offensive state.

Wu Feng used the ball and quickly advanced towards the Clippers' half. Chris Paul watched Wu Feng come to the frontcourt and quickly posted it up.

Since Wu Feng had already made three mistakes before, Chris Paul is also a little careless now. After seeing Wu Feng vaguely revealing his flaws, he immediately stretched out his hand and wanted to break Wu Feng's ball.

But just when Chris Paul thought he was going to break the ball in Wu Feng's hand again, a magic flashed across Wu Feng's eyes and he suddenly pulled to the left. He threw Chris Paul behind him.

Getting rid of Chris Paul's defense, Wu Feng rushed straight toward the Clippers' basket.

At this moment, at the Clippers' basket, DeAndre Jordan was guarding there. DeAndre Jordan did not dare to easily defend Wu Feng because Al Horford was behind him.

Seeing that DeAndre Jordan did not make up, Wu Feng felt secretly proud, and without any pause, he still rushed to the Clippers' basket and then layup.

DeAndre Jordan was anxious now. He quickly came up to block the block, but when he rushed to block the block, Wu Feng shook his wrist and the ball reached Al Horford behind DeAndre Jordan.

After receiving the ball, Al Horford yelled and dunked his hands to score.

"**, I was careless!" Chris Paul immediately realized that his defense was out of place and immediately regretted it.

The Clippers' ball rights. Chris Paul dribbled through half the game. The person who defended him was still Wu Feng.

Chris Paul broke through with the ball at the top of the arc, then used Blake Griffin's pick-and-roll to get rid of Wu Feng's defense, and then rushed to a quick stop jumper near the free throw line, and the ball took the shot.

Then, just after Chris Paul took the ball, the basketball that was taking off was actually slapped away.

Chris Paul was surprised to find that the one who blocked him was Wu Feng who had been thrown away by him before!

"this?"

But the facts happened before our eyes, and no matter how much we didn't believe it, we had to accept it.

Although he was blocked by one goal, Chris Paul did not feel impatient. This is also one of his advantages, and his psychological quality is very good.

The basketball was snatched by Josh Smith and passed it directly to Wu Feng.

Wu Feng dribbled through half the ball and passed it to Al Horford at the basket. The latter made a layup, but was interfered by Blake Griffin. But then, the ball was judged by the referee as a disturbing ball, and 2 points were counted.

Chris Paul organized the Clippers' offense, and Wu Feng was defending him.

All the shots were still aimed at him and Wu Feng, as if they had completely become the focus of the audience.

The dunk beast Blake Griffin was a little star-blank tonight. In fact, he had a lot of exciting dunks in this game, but Wu Feng and Chris Paul were too dazzling and had already covered him up.

Chris Paul slowly dribbled outside the three-point line, looking for an opportunity to attack. However, after searching for a long time, he could not find Wu Feng's flaws.

Wu Feng's defense is now like a wall of iron in Chris Paul's eyes, unbreakable and without any flaws.

Time passed by minute by minute, and Chris Paul was still walking back and forth outside the three-point line, without any signs of passing or breaking through, which confused many fans.

So, some fans who were eagerly expecting Paul to beat Wu Feng began to make noises.

The fans' noise and Wu Feng's iron-like defense suddenly increased the pressure on Chris Paul.

In the end, Chris Paul was a little anxious and suddenly started, trying to force his breakthrough from Wu Feng's right. The consequence of his impulse was that Chris Paul's men broke through Wu Feng's defense, but the ball in his hand disappeared for no reason!

When Chris Paul turned around, he could only see Wu Feng dribbling the ball and killing for half the game, rushing into the Clippers' completely undefensive penalty area.

"How is this possible?"

Chris Paul's heart was filled with self-blame and doubt because he had no idea how his ball was lost.

But he didn't know, the fans at the scene knew it.

At the moment he broke through, Wu Feng's right hand quickly touched Chris Paul's basketball like lightning, allowing the ball to escape from Chris Paul's control.

While Chris Paul was unable to come back to his senses, Wu Feng quickly slapped the rolling basketball on the ground with his left hand and drove the ball to the Clippers' half.

After this steal, Wu Feng activated his own extreme speed to run, leaving other Clippers team members and his teammates far behind.

Stepping into the three-point line, Wu Feng grabbed the ball with both hands, took three big steps, and all his attention was placed on the basket.

At this time, Wu Feng's heart was beating rapidly, every cell in his body seemed to be beating, and the blood in his body was boiling.

One step, two steps. Three steps.

Wu Feng had just stepped across the free throw line, but his body had already flew like an eagle soaring in the sky.

Every fan who went to the Staples Center Stadium with the entire Hawks to watch the game was very excited. Their hearts were beating nervously, and their blood was boiling like Wu Feng who was rushing towards the basket.

Wu Feng held the ball with both hands high. He slowly approached the basket.

All the fans held their breath and widened their eyes. No one was willing to miss this that might become the best dunk today.

"Bang", the orange basketball was poured into the basket by Wu Feng's hands, and the entire basketball rack began to shake.

"Squeak squeak", the basket seemed to be expressing its miserable experience.

The Staples Center Staples Stadium became a little quiet, and most people in Los Angeles were shocked by Wu Feng's dunk this time.

But after a moment, Staples Center Staples began to become restless. Fierce booing sounds rushed into the field from the audience.

"One more. One more!"
To be continued...