The Kings prepared for the game as usual, and the four days ended soon. On the evening of May 20, they would play at home against the Rockets.

With more than 17,000 fans cheering, Su Yang waved and said, the pre-match introduction ceremony ended, and the lights were on the whole audience.

The long whistle sounded and the Kings players made their final preparations. Covington started in this game with Antetokounmpo.

The arrangement is to strengthen Harden's defense on the one hand, and to improve the Kings' three-point shooting ability to avoid the Rockets from double-teaming Curry. In short, confidence is not just confidence, and the operation that should be done is still required. The Rockets are not fools to advance to the Western Conference Finals.

Su Yang clapped his hands and summoned the entire team to gather: "The Rockets are like the Thunder, with a challenger mentality. Their offense and defense will definitely work hard after the game. We don't have to match the rhythm and intensity, just play normally, catch them mistakes and push back and score easily."

Curry and others nodded to show their understanding, then turned around and stepped into the court, and the Rockets started at the center screen.

Terry, Harden, Ariza, Josh, Howard.

The Tornado Five looks aggressive.

Van Gundy said: "Before the game, we interviewed Coach Mike Malone. He revealed that Harden's positioning in this game will be different from before. He has prepared the Kings to focus on Harden, which may surprise the fans."

Jackson said: "It's a coincidence! We interviewed Coach Su Yang before the game. He also revealed that the Rockets are ready to target Curry, but Curry's positioning will not change, which will allow Curry to destroy the Rockets' backcourt defense line, hoping that the Rockets will play a stronger level."

While talking, the Rockets won the jump ball and launched their first attack. Harden put away his horse and jumped to the frontcourt.

The five-for-one formation started, Harden took the pass from Terry on the right and turned to Ariza who was walking to the top of the arc with Howard's cover. Terry cut into the bottom line, and with Josh cover, he went to the bottom corner on the left, and with Howard's cover, he caught the ball and hit the basket.

With continuous cover, Curry had no time to catch up.

Cousins' horizontal movement speed was not very good.

Green hurriedly shrank and repaired the defense, while Terry raised his hand and threw the ball towards the short corner on the right. Josh received the ball and scored two points.

The basketball went into the net with a hollow hole, and the name of a handsome guy from the Central Poker became true.

"Awesome, Mike Malone's tactics are guaranteed!" Assistant coach Mike Brown chuckled, probably because he was the head coach of Malone in the Cavaliers, and he recalled the past, but it is difficult to explain why the Cavaliers' tactics were so rigid back then, all of which were routines.

Su Yang nodded and agreed. The Rockets were playing in the loop series just now. Before using Howard's cover, Ariza first used Josh to get rid of it. After Josh finished covering the left, he quickly crossed the paint area and ran to the left, and then provided cover for Terry.

With that running position, the Rockets and the five people were moving.

The Kings had no defensive focus for the moment and were difficult to predict, so Cousins ​​didn't have time to help Curry delay Terry.

With thoughts, the king counterattacked.

Terry started to interfere with Curry directly from the backcourt.

The defensive strategy is quite clear and consumes the entire process.

The basketball was brought to the right wing, and Covington used Cousins ​​to cover the cover and took the ball and held it against the defender Harden.

Harden is very aggressive, pushing his legs and pulling his hands. He is full of defense and is not lazy at all.

At the same time, Laven took advantage of Cousins' cover and moved from left to right to the right wing, received a pass from Covington to the ground, twisted his hips to the free throw line, and forced his jump to the trolley against Howard. Unfortunately, the basketball was hit hard, but Cousins ​​grabbed the offensive rebound.

The King reorganized the attack, Covington received the ball at the top of the arc, and saw Harden quickly return to defense, and threw the ball to 45 degrees to the left.

Compared to Harden's return to defense so quickly, Josh's pace was slightly slower.

Maybe he is lazy and maybe he thinks Green is just three points.

The sound of smashing the basket and hitting the iron sounded, and the basketball rebounded and flew backwards. Harden and Ariza jumped and fought at the same time, but they never snatched it.

Harden was not unhappy either, so he immediately turned around and rushed forward, receiving the ball in the middle line, making a move to hit Covington, but in fact he scored again after hitting the ground.

Howard bent over to catch the ball, turned around and made a strong shot, rushed to a two-step rush and pulled the ball and turned around, flew Cousins ​​with a fake move, jumped and sent the basket again, causing Cousins ​​to foul, but failed to hit the basket, and only two free throws, and boos in the stadium exploded.

The first penalty is to smash the basket and hit the iron.

The second penalty is also smashing the basket and hitting the iron.

Green grabbed the rebound and counterattacked, and reached the frontcourt penalty area in one dragon, and forced Harden and Ariza to play a layup.

The basketball bounced back into the net.

Su Yang was a little surprised. Harden was the fastest person to retreat from defense. His attitude was like a 10-day contract. He couldn't help but wonder what made Harden so big, from a defensive black hole to a defensive gate, which was comparable to changing individuals.

The Rockets attacked with the Yibian, and started with one inside and four outside formations.

Ariza used Howard's cover to get rid of Covington, took Harden's pass 45 degrees from the left, turned around and entered the paint area, ignored Cousins ​​and Green's block, made a three-step layup, and handed the ball to Josh in the air. However, Josh failed to score, but Josh grabbed the offensive rebound himself, yelled and squeezed out the siege, and put the ball into the Nets, making him look like a super tough guy.

Curry received the ball from the bottom line, glanced at the front, threw the ball into the center line, Covington received the ball with his back and turned around to prepare for a fast attack.

Then he thought, Harden quickly returned to the center line.

He also pressed closely and poked the ball out directly.

Covington quickly bent down and picked up the ball, then put his butt on his back to open the way, carrying Harden with difficulty to carry the ball to the left wing.

Su Yang was stunned.

Although I have seen Harden work hard to defend, I didn't expect to work hard to such a level. That tm defensive madman.

The strongest Harden is so terrifying.

Perhaps it was shaken by Harden's domineering momentum, and the Kings' generals hurriedly changed their strength and weakness, and Raven took advantage of the cover to catch the ball and rush to shoot.

Three-pointer slamming the iron.

The Rockets grabbed the rebound and counterattacked.

Harden did not get the ball, but Josh took the ball and pushed it into the three-point line at the top of the arc, and made a move to break through with Howard's cover, but in fact he retreated to the outside of the three-point line, successfully attracting the defensive attention of Cousins ​​and Green, and then passed the ball straight to the penalty area.

Howard took the ball and took off, and scored a dunk with both hands.

Seeing that basketball was entering the net, Terry approached Curry closely and continued to implement the defensive strategy of interfering the entire game, with full execution.

Covington stayed in the backcourt to meet, and slowly led the ball across the center line. Seeing that Harden had already set his defensive posture and passed the ball in a hurry.

But the tactical cooperation did not come out.

Basketball is back in Covington's hands, and it is difficult for others to respond for the time being, so they can only try to bite the bullet and find an opportunity.

I thought that Harden's defense was instantly maximized.

While slid and chased, he protected the breakthrough, raised his hand to compress the pass, and he also held his feet and carried the impact hard, giving him a super rebound.

In a hurry, Covington lost his basketball.

Seeing this, Ariza flew out, snatched the basketball, rushed to the center line three steps in a row, and passed it to Josh who followed up. The two played two against Green in the frontcourt and made Green unable to take care of both the round trip. In the end, Ariza easily scored a layup.

The Rockets started 8-2.

Su Yang looked calm. Except for Harden's super defense, everything else was expected, so there was no need to pause the adjustment.

The main task at the moment is to let the Rockets play cards. After the Rockets have not changed, they will try the Ace's final kill.

In short, there is no gap of 15 or 16 points, so there is no need to worry.

When you and I went back and forth, as Harden assisted Josh to score a layup, the game was 9 minutes and 15 seconds left in the second quarter.

The Rockets lead the Kings 47 to 33.

Su Yang stood up and asked for a pause.
Chapter completed!