After the first quarter, David Stern received a message from the NBA League office.

The news is simple, that is, the Nuggets and the Trail Blazers' fifth game ratings are about to break the second round of playoff ratings record.

In this shrinking season, the NBA's influence has been reduced a lot. Stern is worried about restoring influence. After Jordan retired for the second time, he was determined to establish a second Jordan.

Among these candidates, O'Neal, Grant Hill, Iverson and others were among the candidates and the ranking was not outstanding.

Stern didn't expect this situation to happen, of course, this is good news for the league.

Why does this happen?

After thinking about it carefully, Stern thought of the reasons, and there were three reasons.

1. In the last game, there were too many hot news topics and great influence, which made the Nuggets and Trail Blazers series known to everyone.

2. In the second round of the playoffs, all the other teams won and lost. The Nuggets and the Trail Blazers are the only teams that have achieved fruitful results, and they are indistinguishable from each other.

3. Chi Liang’s personal influence!

In terms of draft picks, Chi Liang was the most underrated rookie in history and is also among the strongest rookies.

In this season, Chi Liang's performance is very strong. Needless to say, the data and honors have been discussed, and he has also broken many records, which has also made his fame soar.

In addition, Chi Liang is also a foreign player, especially in Asia, where his reputation can be said to be a household name.

Although there is no investigation, Chi Liang has a place in the most influential players this year.

After thinking, Stern immediately held a high-level meeting and discussed with senior executives such as Adam Xiaohua for a while, and finally determined the tone.

When the league held a meeting, the second quarter finally began and the Nuggets replaced the replacement lineup, but since Chi Liang played the whole game, it took a certain amount of time to recover and was replaced by Van Exel.

In this way, Van Exel became the core of the field. In addition to his own attack, he also had to allocate the ball rights reasonably and turn the team into a whole.

On the other hand, the Trail Blazers continued to send their starting lineup.

Judging from the lineup, the Trail Blazers are very strong, but without Sabonis and Wallace, they are not much stronger than the Nuggets. At least they still have the ability to resist.

At the beginning of the second quarter, Van Exel was in good shape. It was difficult for him to limit his performance, either Stadamier or Greg Anthony. Sometimes he broke through and hit the basket, sometimes he organized team offense, showing his personal abilities to the fullest.

In addition, there are Billups' three-pointers, Williams' back-to-back, Fordson's rebound, and Clark's hard work.

But they also find it difficult to limit the Trail Blazers' offense. The Nuggets are not good at defense, so they naturally cannot stop the opponent's offense.

However, the Trail Blazers were unable to narrow the gap. The scores of both sides rose alternately, and the two teams did not decide the winner for a while.

In this case, the scene continued to stalemate!

However, just three minutes later, the situation suddenly changed. Under Dunleavy's arrangement, Van Exel's performance was limited, causing the Nuggets' shooting percentage to begin to decline and the opponent began to quickly narrow the score difference.

In the fifth minute of the second quarter, seeing that the situation was becoming increasingly unfavorable, D'Antoni immediately arranged for Chi Liang to play.

Chi Liang replaced Williams as a small forward, and a lineup was also the strongest lineup that the Nuggets could rank.

As soon as he got on the court, Chi Liang pressed Walter Williams and made a jump shot.

After being suppressed by Chi Liang, Wolft Williams couldn't jump up at all, making it difficult to cause powerful interference.

"Brian, come and defend him!" At this time, Dunleavy, who was frowning, came to the sidelines and shouted at Grant.

Compared with Walter Williams, Grant is obviously much stronger, at least not being pushed by Chi Liang to shoot.

However, Grant's speed was a flaw in the end, and Chi Liang naturally did not miss this opportunity. Even if his right hand was inconvenient, he would always be able to take advantage of the speed.

In addition, Chi Liang also increased his running, and he could always use his speed and flexibility to get the chance to shoot openly.

However, compared with the first quarter, Chi Liang reduced his shots, increased the number of breakthroughs and passes the ball, and passed the ball to his teammates who ran out of the position to attack.

Relying on his personal ability, Chi Liang revitalized the Nuggets again, improved the team's offense, and began to play indistinguishable from the Trail Blazers.

49:58

By the end of the first half, Chi Liang scored 7 points again, and a total of 29 points in the first half.

With his performance in the first half alone, Chi Liang got extremely excellent data, which is closely related to Chi Liang's hot touch.

Of course, it also has to do with the fact that the Trail Blazers cannot limit Chi Liang.

Chi Liang's performance was not over, and his hot touch remained until the second half.

By the beginning of the second half, the Trail Blazers players were in excellent form and did whatever they shot. Leidel even made two three-pointers.

But even with this performance, the Trail Blazers still did not overtake the score.

After discovering that his teammates' touch was reduced, Chi Liang had to increase his personal offenses and once again staged a scene of fighting against the entire team alone. Under his leadership, the Trail Blazers never took much advantage.

Chi Liang's touch was so good that neither Walter Williams nor Grant could impose many restrictions on him. In Iverson's words, the basket was like the sea.

In the entire third quarter, Chi Liang scored 15 points again in seven minutes, and his personal score reached 44 points.

But in the fourth quarter, Chi Liang's touch suddenly became cold. Even if he activated the dynamic field of vision, he could only maintain his normal hit rate.

However, D'Antoni was not in a hurry. Perhaps due to physical loss, the Trail Blazers' feel tended to decline, and the Nuggets always maintained their score advantage.

Swish~

At this time, there were still two minutes left before the end of the game, Chi Liang made another mid-range shot, increasing his personal score to 48 points.

Just score another goal and you can join the 50-point player club in the playoffs.

The teammates were naturally happy to achieve success and handed the ball to Chi Liang, but perhaps because they were too excited, Chi Liang failed to hit two consecutive shots.

So, the Trail Blazers took the opportunity to catch up and were about to overtake the score.

In this case, Chi Liang had to put his scoring aside and reorganize the team's offense.

If you plant flowers and flowers, you will not bloom, and if you plant willows and willows, you will become shade!

Just when Chi Liang gave up scoring, his teammates shot and then bounced farther away, and flew towards him.

Chi Liang took advantage of the situation to capture the frontcourt rebound, and before the opponent made up for defense, he scored two points in the jump shot, increasing his personal score to 50 points.

Soon, the game is over!
Chapter completed!