321. The situation changes rapidly

After the timeout, as the Trail Blazers coaching staff expected, the Rockets continued to send Yao Ming and Joe Smith's inside combination, and Mike James, Mobri and Jim Jackson were sent from the outside.

The Rockets attacked, Yao Ming stuck Kwame Brown with the ball in the low post.

Kwame Brown made preparations to withstand it, but it failed to hit.

Yao Ming did not continue to press the inside line! Instead, he took a step forward and moved away from the three-second zone, turned over, and shot at the close range... he entered!

Rahim took back his hat and threw it into the air. Kwame Brown reacted quickly, and his bounce speed failed to interfere with Yao Ming.

Liu Xiu took back the ball that bounced from the floor. Looking at Yao Ming, who held his right fist in his chest and turned to retreat, Liu Xiu played with a dribble under his crotch and showed respect, and withdrew from the baseline, he sent the ball to Lynch Hunter.

Originally, Yao Ming's skill flow stage in time and space had just begun, but he gave up because he wanted to become the giant in the minds of "people" who was comparable to O'Neal.

Originally, after the Rockets traded with McGrady in time and space, they were promoting that Yao Ming + McGrady, the new version of the OK combination, would build a championship lineup around the two... But the Rockets were just for gimmicks, and Yao Ming really gave up his original style of playing and gained more than ten kilograms.

Will the Yao Ming, which Liu Xiu saw now, be stronger than the super center who averaged 25 points per game in 33 minutes under Van Gundy? He is not sure about this, but he has the opportunity to fight a small giant on the court who cannot predict the final form. Just thinking about it, he is so excited that his hair is trembling.

Lynch Hunter advanced to the frontcourt and passed it to Liu Xiu, who was on the high position on the right side of the free throw line. Liu Xiu strongly broke into Mobley, and made an emergency stop and jump shot from the right side of the three-second zone...

The power of the West Coast is activated, and Liu Xiu misses a jump shot!

He was not lucky and was less energetic. He hit the front of the basket and moved to the right side line of the three-second zone and raised his hand to grab the rebound. Kwame Brown could only retreat in disappointment.

In the offense and defense transition, Yao Ming received the ball from the inside and passed the ball to Joe Smith. Joe Smith encountered Joe Barry's backup defense and was assigned to Jim Jackson, who scored a high jump shot.

It was the Trail Blazers' turn to attack. Liu Xiu continued to play singles and broke through to the right bottom line on the three-second zone. When he reached the 30-degree angle, he stopped quickly and turned around and jumped...

It is no secret that the 30-degree angle on the right is Liu Xiu's most accurate shooting angle. Last season, Liu Xiu's three-point shooting percentage at this angle was 40.6%, which was his only three-point shooting angle with a shooting percentage of 40%.

Mobri was on guard against this and pressed him to interfere.

But Liu Xiu was also prepared. With the emergency stop +3 bonus of "wing lightning", the emergency stop temporarily reached an excellent level of 80, allowing him to better add a backward in the emergency stop turn and jump shot... In!

The commentator of the imperial court station shouted again that the "Defend between the warden and the little giant" began!

The game lasted less than a quarter, and as long as Liu Xiu and Yao Ming took action one after another, the court commentator would yell like this, and the fans in front of the TV would be numb.

But this time, the two really started to compete!

Later, Liu Xiu continued to play singles for three consecutive rounds, scoring only 1 goal. After the timeout, he scored in this singles, with a total of 2 of 5 shots.

Yao Ming made 3 shots in these 5 rounds, scored 4 points in 2 of 3 shots, and was also a second offensive tip-in and was fouled and made both free throws. As well as an introduction assist for Jim Jackson, he helped the team score 8 points in 5 rounds, and was astonishingly efficient! The strength of the second center in the league was fully demonstrated.

However! When Van Gundy called for a timeout to replace Yao Ming, the two teams scored 17-17!

Liu Xiu missed three times, and one goal Raheem grabbed the offensive rebound and passed it to Joan Barry on the wing, who received the ball and made a three-pointer.

Yao Ming returned to the sidelines and sat down. In the past three minutes, he played extremely coquettishly. He performed very well on both offense and defense in positional battles, leading the team to perform very well, but failed to turn into a leading advantage.

The reason was that the little giant looked at the strange man opposite - the warden.

The Warden's playing style in the past few rounds was completely beyond the Rockets' expectations!

The mid- and long-distance singles shooting time and time again made the Rockets prepared for their defensive cooperation routines useless.

From the beginning of the game, the Rockets were able to effectively curb the attack launched by Randolph, who had Central Blog's singles, and we know that the Rockets have made extremely sufficient preparations for this team that Chinese fans are paying special attention to.

But the warden suddenly began to make singles from outside with his teammates' strong ability to snatch, but he could really make a shot. Not to mention getting 10 points in a single quarter, his teammate actually grabbed an offensive rebound and turned it into a three-pointer.

Looking at the rotation lineup of Flying Squirrels opposite Derek Anderson, extrajudicial madman, butcher, and Mike Dessey, Yao Ming was very worried about the next game. His lineup was Mike James, Jim Jackson, Desmond Mason, Morris Taylor, and Mutombo.

However, Yao Ming, who has long been familiar with Jeff Van Gundy's coaching philosophy, did not ask for more plays. He knew that the 6-9-minute playing time in the first quarter was fixed and could only fluctuate in this range. The playing time in each game fluctuated between 28 and 35 minutes.

However, the teammates performed very well tonight!

Just as David Wesley's adjustment and response at the beginning were excellent, other teammates performed well tonight. After Mobley was replaced, Mike James and Jim Jackson faced the backcourt combination of Flying Squirrels and Derek Anderson started to soar!

In terms of the inside, Mutombo and Morris Taylor have very limited the rushing of the Trail Blazers inside.

Although Yao Ming was not on the court, the Rockets could not defend the Trail Blazers' offense, but they did not lose the board and did not allow the Trail Blazers to get additional offensive rounds.

Mike James and Jim Jackson scored 7 points in less than three minutes and performed very well. Although the Trail Blazers scored 8 points at the end of the first quarter, they only led the Rockets by 1 point 25-24 to enter the break.

...

The score was actually bitten!

This was greatly beyond the expectations of the Trail Blazers. What they thought was that they could easily harvest the game after they survived Yao Ming's stage on the court.

Liu Xiu remembered that the Rockets during the Yao Ming era always seemed to be so tough, and he liked watching Yao Ming's games in his previous life.

For example, in the 2008-09 playoffs, no one expected that Yao Ming and his group could actually play against the Lakers until the tiebreak after losing McGrady.

If the game doesn’t go as smooth as expected, it doesn’t matter, then go on the court!

After returning from the break during the holiday, the Trail Blazers sent a combination of Little Flying Squirrel, Liu Xiu, extrajudicial madman, Rahim, and Kwame Brown.

Liu Xiu looked at the opposite side, and the opponent continued to send Mike James and Jim Jackson, Bob Sulla from the outside, and Joe Smith and Mutombo from the inside.

At the beginning of the second quarter, the Rockets attacked first, Mike James made a single with the ball and made a three-pointer!

When the Trail Blazers attacked, Flying Squirrel missed a three-pointer, Mutombo continued his outstanding positioning performance tonight, with Joe Smith winning a defensive rebound.

In order to block the salary space for one-year, $4.5 million, the Rockets signed Mutombo with a premium contract for a one-year, $4.5 million. They usually performed very well, but they did not expect to play a matching salary performance in the game that the Rockets paid the most at the beginning of the season.

Immediately afterwards, Mike James made another single three-pointer!

30 to 25, the Rockets took a 5-point lead after playing 58 seconds in the second quarter!

At this critical moment, Liu Xiu stood up.

Xiao Feishi broke through and launched an attack. Liu Xiu ran around the bottom line and pulled the bottom line. He received the ball and hit two points, chasing the score to 27-30.

But Mike James continued to play singles with Flying Squirrels and made three consecutive three-pointers!

33 to 27, the Rockets led by 6 points! The Trail Blazers were stopped just at the beginning of the second quarter.

After calling the timeout, neither team made a substitution. The Trail Blazers still have the confidence of a strong team. For the Rockets, Van Gundy, seeing the role players play well, is of course more useful.

The Trail Blazers' timeout successfully interrupted Mike James' continuous scoring momentum, but the Trail Blazers failed to overtake the score in the next few minutes, and the Rockets' role players stubbornly clenched the score.

After 6 minutes and 44 seconds in the second quarter, the Rockets led the Trail Blazers 44-39 by 5 points, and the Trail Blazers called a timeout!

At this time, the Trail Blazers players miss Ruben Patterson. If there is a high-level fixed-point shot as accurate as Ruben Patterson, they may be able to close the gap in this half quarter.

When Liu Xiu returned to the bench, he joked with Randolph, "Why don't we apologize to Kobe Terminator." Randolph responded happily. The two were just joking and complaining, and they did not have too much dissatisfaction with the current situation. They were only 5 points and had a difference in the first half. They had not finished the first half, and their tone was also very relaxed, but the speaker was unintentional and the listener was intentional.

The extrajudicial madman learned what his teammates were thinking. The key is that he felt that he was far less than Ruben Patterson in the last moment of the first quarter and in the second quarter.

As the extra-law madman expected, the coach replaced him with the next rotation.

However, under the influence of the Warden's saying "You are the most talented player on our outside line", the extrajudicial madman is very confident in his talent.

Since you can't compare, then learn! Then practice!

...

Official pause back.

The Trail Blazers sent a combination of Payton, Liu Xiu, Rahim, Randolph, and Kwame Brown.

The Rockets sent David Wesley, Bob Sulla, Desmond Mason, Joe Smith and Yao Ming.

Yao Ming was very excited about the situation in front of him, while Liu Xiu became the one who was under great pressure.

But Liu Xiu has always had a good ability to withstand pressure, and his way of thinking is very simple. This time he played, his goal was still - to hold on to the score during Yao Ming's appearance.

If possible, it would be better to seize opportunities and create advantages.

The situation in the game is always changing rapidly and unpredictable.

After the game started again, after playing a few rounds, Yao Ming couldn't help but yelled at their point guard Sula, "Give me the ball you step on!"
Chapter completed!