After defeating the Spurs in back-to-back games, the Trail Blazers will travel to New Orleans to challenge the Pelicans away from home.

The Pelicans performed quite well this season. When No. 1 pick Anthony Davis gradually adapted to the rhythm of NBA games and began to realize his potential in the paint.

The Pelicans have Anthony Davis inside and Holiday outside. They have two outstanding team building cores, one inside and one outside, and they also have certain ambitions.

I want to perform better in the game.

So far this season, the Pelicans have 13 wins and 13 losses. Although due to the team's lineup configuration and running-in problems, they have not produced a very impressive offensive performance.

However, it has gradually become a mid-tier team in the Western Conference.

But facing the Trail Blazers, who have been in the spotlight recently, although the Pelicans are sitting at home, the team is obviously out of shape.

The Trail Blazers just defeated the Spurs in the game. This is a huge boost of confidence for the Trail Blazers. Therefore, even if they are playing back-to-back games, the players of the Blazers, who are in excellent mental condition, do not care about their physical condition at all.

During the game,

They have a better mental state to show themselves, prove themselves, and prove that they are no longer a team that only abuses food, but a team that can also compete for the championship. They want to take back the team.

The glory lost over the years

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This game against the Pelicans can be regarded as a battle between the powerful teams in the Western Conference. As for Zhang Feng, the players he is facing in this game should not face Anthony Davis in the game. After all, everyone knows,

Although Anthony Davis was selected by the Pelicans as a center as the team's inside core, during the game, Anthony Davis is more willing to use his athletic talent to bully at the power forward position.

Power forwards from other teams and retain more energy to perform on the offensive end

, rather than being willing to become the team's "human shield" at the center position.

For Anthony Davis' defense, Aldridge should make more contributions, and Zhang Feng will not surprisingly be facing off against Pelicans starting center Omer Asik.

Although he is only a player who has played in the NBA for one season, Zhang Feng also roughly knows the status of the players on his respective teams, especially his opponent players.

Zhang Feng also knew the information about the inside players of each team in the league last season and had played against them.

Zhang Feng knows that when facing Asik, he actually has a larger offensive space that he can use. Asik can be said to be a very good human shield defender, but you want to let Asik

For Sigg to move faster during the game and use his foot speed to keep up with Zhang Feng's rhythm on the defensive end, that is actually a bit difficult.

From the beginning of this game, the Trail Blazers performed the offensive performance they wanted on the offensive end.

Although the Pelicans were at home, the visiting Trail Blazers performed very well at the beginning of the game to restrict the opponent's players.

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It was Anthony Davis who launched the offense for the first time.

Anthony Davis still chooses to play floating on the outside. Facing Aldridge's defense, Anthony Davis cannot play a strong offense.

Davis, who was floating outside, took advantage of running without the ball, received Holiday's pass and directly completed the shot from the outside.

But with Aldridge's follow-up defense, Anthony Davis' shooting was still affected to a certain extent.

Anthony Davis failed to make a shot in his first outside attempt, and the Blazers' first attack was also handed over to Aldridge at the power forward position.

Facing Anthony Davis's defense, Aldridge rarely relied on his body to push forward forcefully.

Although Anthony Davis has recently adapted to the rhythm of NBA games, his physical confrontation ability has not been strengthened too much because he needs to continue to maintain his flexibility and jumping ability, so he is tough when facing Aldridge.

When playing post-up, there is no good way to block Ade's low attack.

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Ade continued to push inside. Although Anthony Davis could not provide enough defensive threats, Ade directly encountered the Pelicans' double defense.

Under double defense, Ade did not dare to push the ball forward and could only pass the ball to Matthews outside the three-point line.

Matthews received the ball and took an open three-point shot. Unfortunately, Matthews' touch was not good this time and he did not hit the first shot.

After Anthony Davis collected the backcourt rebound this time, he handed the ball to Evans to advance. Evans, as a defender, dribbled the ball forward quickly and broke through, but the Blazers' defense was already in place.

Facing the opponent's offense, the Trail Blazers showed excellent defensive positioning.

Evans originally wanted to take advantage of the fact that the Trail Blazers players were not in a defensive formation on the outside, and suddenly broke through his defender and hit the basket, but Zhang Feng on the inside was waiting for him.

Zhang Feng directly blocked Evans's layup with a big block. Evans's offense this time was indeed a bit too much.

Zhang Feng blocked the shot and the ball was still controlled by the Pelicans. It was Jrue Holiday who started the offense in the game. Holiday wanted to use his personal ability to attack, but

Facing the entangled defense of Matthews on the Trail Blazers' back line, Holiday did not have much room for personal offense.

In the end, he could only choose to make a hasty stop. Under Matthews' defensive threat, Holiday did not make the ball.

The Pelicans did not have very good offensive results in their first two offenses at home.

The Trail Blazers, playing away from home, still chose the tactics they used at the beginning of the game.

Insisting on focusing on his own All-Star player Aldridge. Facing Anthony Davis, Aldridge played very tough in the game. Perhaps this is a display of self-strength by seniors to young players. Aldridge

This time Qi pushed forward with a post-up single, and Anthony Davis had no ability to resist.

Starting from the outside, Ade continued to crush Anthony Davis and advance inside.

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However, this time, in order to prevent advancing to a deep position and encountering the opponent's defense, Ade did not push too deep. Instead, he chose to collect the ball suddenly while moving, made a fake move with his back turned, and then turned back.

, but did not jump immediately, but stopped in place.

A series of actions sent the young and inexperienced Anthony Davis flying directly, and then Ade took the initiative to jump towards Anthony Davis.

This ball was directly in the free throw line area, causing a foul on Davis. Moreover, Ade forced to complete the shot before landing and threw the ball in. Two plus one!

At the beginning of the game, the Trail Blazers used a very amazing offensive method from Aldridge to score two plus one, taking the lead in scoring for the team.

Aldridge hit the extra free throw without any suspense, giving the Trail Blazers a 3-0 lead at the start.

The Pelicans finally started to run some of the team's offensive tactics during the game, hoping to use offensive tactics to gain some offensive opportunities.

Using continuous off-ball screens, the Pelicans finally formed a position change among the inside players.

The two inside players of the Pelicans exchanged with the Trail Blazers' inside players. After a screen, Aldridge was forced to defend Asik nearby, while Zhang Feng proposed to defend Anthony Davis.

After Anthony Davis got rid of Aldridge's defense, when facing Zhang Feng's defense this time, he was obviously still a little anxious when handling the ball.

Perhaps Anthony Davis himself ignored Zhang Feng's movement speed. He thought that he had formed a mismatch and was playing small. Facing the opponent's center player, Anthony Davis chose to catch the ball and use a method similar to

The defender takes a quick shot and wants to complete an easy shot from the outside.

But Zhang Feng's movement speed is not slow. Although Zhang Feng stepped forward quickly this time and did not slap Anthony Davis's shot, Zhang Feng still attacked quickly and gave Anthony Davis a shot.

Wes caused huge psychological disruption.

Anthony Davis did not expect that Zhang Feng's defensive speed would be so fast. This time in the final stage of the shot, Anthony Davis obviously made a hand error in the shot. The ball hit the backboard directly, without any impact.

Creates no shooting threat

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The Blazers' counterattack started very quickly this time.

Under the other basket, Aldridge successfully collected the rebound and passed the ball directly to Lillard in midfield.

Lillard quickly advanced and passed the ball to Batum, who was following up on the left.

Batum made an emergency stop after receiving Lillard's quick pass. He did not choose to continue to rush towards the basket with defensive players. Instead, he directly completed a mid-range shot on the left in the open position.

Just like on the training field, he scored the goal very easily.

The Trail Blazers took a 5:0 lead.

As a young team, the Pelicans were obviously stunned by the Trail Blazers' excellent offensive performance at the beginning.

When the team was unable to create a good offensive space under the tough defense of the Trail Blazers, Holiday tried to attack from the outside. When there was no shooting space, he still chose to continue to find Anthony Davis with the ball.

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After missing two outside shots before, Anthony Davis did not have the confidence to continue to complete outside shots this time.

He chose to force Aldridge in the low post.

Although he relied on his own momentum to push Aldridge to the bottom line near the three-second zone under Aldridge's defense, but unable to push Aldridge further, Anthony Davis chose to sway to the right.

Immediately turn to the left.

He wanted to use his fake move to open up the offensive space and then complete a hook shot, but Aldridge, who was an experienced defender, was waiting for him.

Aldridge has played in the NBA for so many seasons and faced various offensive methods from inside players. Anthony Davis's slightly naive fake move this time was directly seen through by Aldridge.

During the game, Ade took the lead to seize the position, and just waited until Anthony Davis turned back.

Directly extending his palm to swat the ball, Aldridge gave Anthony Davis a hot pot gift

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After sending a big block, the ball was also taken away by Lillard.

It was the Blazers' counterattack again. Fortunately, for the Pelicans, Matthews was not in very good condition in this game. When Matthews was advancing, he lobbed the ball to Zhang Feng who was about to leave.

Made a mistake.

Because the power of the pass was too light, he was intercepted by a Pelicans player first. Holiday quickly advanced forward and during the counterattack, he hit the ground pass and found the slowest defender before. Instead, he could directly threaten the opponent's basket.
To be continued...