Healing Basketball

Chapter 321 321. The situation is changing rapidly

Back from the timeout, as expected by the Trail Blazers coaching staff, the Rockets continued to deploy the inside combination of Yao Ming and Joe Smith, and Mike James, Mobley, and Jim Jackson on the outside.

The Rockets attack, and Yao Ming blocks Kwame Brown in the low post to receive the ball.

Kwame Brown's preparation was to hold it hard, but he didn't usher in the impact.

Yao Ming did not continue to press inside!Instead, he took a step forward to stay away from the three-second zone, turned over, and shot from a close range...in!
Raheem withdrew his cap and made a pounce. Kwame Brown reacted quickly and pounced quickly, but he failed to interfere with Yao Ming.

Liu Xiu retracted to catch the ball bouncing off the floor, looked at Yao Ming who was turning around with his right fist in his chest and retreated, Liu Xiu dribbled the ball under the crotch with a "wow" to show respect, and stepped back from the baseline to pass the ball To Lynch Hunter.

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

Originally, after the Rockets traded 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 doing it for a gimmick, and Yao Ming really gave up the original style of play, adding It weighs more than ten kilograms.

Now Liu Xiu sees Yao Ming, will he be better than the super center who averaged 33 points per game in 25 minutes under Van Gundy? Just thinking about it, he was so excited that his hairs were trembling.

Lynch Hunter advances to the frontcourt and passes to Liu Xiu who is high on the right side of the free throw line.

The power of the West Coast starts, and Liu Xiu misses a jumper!

Unlucky and weak, he hit the front of the basket and moved to the right sideline of the three-second zone. Yao Ming raised his hand and grabbed the rebound. Kwame Brown could only retreat angrily.

In the transition between offense and defense, Yao Ming received the ball inside and passed it to Joe Smith. Joe Smith encountered Joan Barry's supplementary defense and passed it to Jim Jackson, who made a high jumper.

When it was the Trail Blazers' turn to attack, Liu Xiu continued to play singles, broke through to the bottom line on the right side of the three-second zone, stopped suddenly at a 30-degree angle, turned around and made a jump shot...

It’s no secret that the 30-degree angle on the right is Liu Xiu’s most accurate shooting angle. Last season, Liu Xiu shot 40.6% of his three-pointers from this angle. .

Mobley guarded against this and pressed forward to interfere.

But Liu Xiu was also prepared. Relying on the bonus of the emergency stop +3 of the 'Flanking Lightning', the emergency stop temporarily reached an excellent level of 80, allowing him to add a fallback to the emergency stop turn jump shot... up!
The court commentator once again shouted "The duel between the warden and the little giant" has begun!

The game lasted less than a quarter, as long as Liu Xiu and Yao Ming made shots one after another, the commentator of the court TV would shout such a voice, and the fans in front of the TV were already numb.

But this time, the two really hit it off!
Later, Liu Xiu continued to make singles shots for three consecutive rounds, and only scored 1 goal. After a timeout, Liu Xiu scored in this wave of singles shots, making a total of 5 of 2 shots.

And Yao Ming shot 5 times in these 3 rounds, scored 3 points on 2 of 4 shots, had a second offensive tip-up and was fouled and made two free throws, and the introduction assist to Jim Jackson helped the team 5 points in 8 rounds, amazingly efficient!The strength of the league's second center is fully demonstrated.

But!At 9 minutes and 11 seconds into the first quarter, when Van Gundy Jr. called a timeout to replace Yao Ming, the score between the two teams was 17-17!

In Liu Xiu's 3 strikes, Rahim grabbed an offensive rebound and passed it to Joan Barry on the wing, who caught the ball and made a three-pointer.

Yao Ming returned to the sidelines and sat down. In the past 3 minutes or so, he played extremely coquettishly. He performed very well on both offense and defense in the positional battle. He led the team to play a very good performance, but it failed to turn into a leading advantage.

Investigating the reason, the little giant looked at the strange man on the opposite side - the warden.

The warden's play style in the past few rounds has completely exceeded the expectations of the Rockets!
The mid-range and long-range singles shots again and again made the Rockets' prepared defensive coordination routine useless.

From the beginning stage, the Rockets were able to effectively contain the offense launched by Randolph's singles with the mid-range shot. We knew that the Rockets had made full preparations for this team that Chinese fans paid special attention to.

But the warden suddenly began to rely on his teammates' strong rushing ability to shoot outside singles, but he was able to make shots. Not to mention scoring 10 points in a single quarter, his teammates really grabbed an offensive rebound and converted it into a three-pointer. points hit.

Looking at the rotation lineup of Flying Squirrel, Derek Anderson, Outlaws, Butcher, and McDyess, Yao Ming was very worried about the next game. His lineup was Mike James, Jim Jackson, Germany Smond Mason, Morris Taylor, Dikembe Mutombo.

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

However, the teammates performed extremely well tonight!

Just like David Wesley's excellent adjustments to start the game, so did the rest of the team tonight, with Mobley replaced, Mike James and Jim Jackson facing the Flying Squirrels and Derek Anderson The backcourt combination soared!

In terms of inside, Mutombo and Morris Taylor restricted the Blazers' inside rush very well.

Although Yao Ming was not on the court, the Rockets could not prevent the Blazers from attacking, but they did not lose the board and did not allow the Blazers to get an extra offensive round.

迈克-詹姆斯和吉姆-杰克逊在不到3分钟时间里拿到7分，表现非常出色，尽管开拓者队在首节末拿到了8分，也仅以25比24领先火箭队1分进入节间休息。

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The score was actually bitten!

This greatly exceeded the expectations of the Trail Blazers. What they thought was that after Yao Ming was on the court, they could easily reap the game.

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

For example, in the playoffs of the 08-09 season, no one expected that Yao Ming's group would be able to play the Lakers to tiebreaker without Tracy McGrady.

It doesn't matter if the game didn't go as smoothly as expected, let's fight!

Back from the intermission, the Trail Blazers sent a combination of Little Flying Squirrel, Liu Xiu, Outlaws, Raheem, and Kwame Brown.

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

At the beginning of the second quarter, the Rockets took the lead, Mike James hit a single with the ball and hit a three-pointer!

When it came to the Blazers' offense, the Flying Squirrel missed a three-pointer in return. Mutombo continued his excellent card performance tonight, and Joe Smith scored a defensive rebound.

During the offseason, the Rockets signed Dikembe Mutombo to a one-year, $1 million premium contract in order to block the salary space. He usually performed so-so, but he did not expect to match his salary in the most important game at the beginning of the season for the Rockets. Performance.

Immediately afterwards, Mike James made another singles three-pointer!
30 to 25, the Rockets took a 58-point lead after playing 5 seconds in the second quarter!

At this critical moment, Liu Xiu stood up.

Little Flying Squirrel broke through and launched an attack. Liu Xiu ran around the baseline and pulled back to the baseline. He caught the ball and made a two-pointer, chasing the score to 27-30.

But Mike James continued to single the little flying mouse, and hit three consecutive three-pointers!
33 to 27, the Rockets lead by 6 points!The Trail Blazers were stopped at the beginning of the second quarter.

After returning from a timeout, neither team made any substitutions. The Trail Blazers still had the confidence of being a strong team. As for the Rockets, Van Gundy Jr. saw that the role players played well, of course he used it more.

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

打到第二节6分44秒，火箭队以44比39领先开拓者队5分，开拓者队叫暂停！
At this time, the Trail Blazers players miss Ruben Patterson. If there is Ruben Patterson's precise high-point shooting, they may close the point difference in this half of the quarter.

When Liu Xiu returned to the bench, he teased Randolph, "Why don't we apologize to the Kobe Terminator", Randolph responded cheerfully, and the two were just joking and complaining, and didn't say anything to each other. There is too much dissatisfaction in the current situation, the difference is only 5 points, the first half has not yet been played, and the tone is very relaxed, but the speaker has no intention but the listener does.

The extrajudicial lunatic understands the thoughts of his teammates, the key is that he himself feels that he has done far less than Ruben Patterson at the end of the first quarter and the half of the second quarter.

As the outlaw fanatics expected, the coach's next rotation replaced him.

However, under the influence of the warden's "you are our most talented outside player", the outlaw fanatic is very confident in his talent.

Since you can't compare, then learn!Then practice!
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Official suspension back.

The Trail Blazers sent Payton, Liu Xiu, Raheem, Randolph, and Kwame Brown.

The Rockets sent a combination of David Wesley, Bob Sura, 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 under great pressure.

But Liu Xiu's ability to resist pressure has always been very good, and his way of thinking is very simple. This time, his goal is still - to bite the score when Yao Ming is on the court.

If you can, it is even better to seize the opportunity to create an advantage.

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

After the game restarted, within a few rounds, Yao Ming couldn't help yelling at their ball-handling defender Sura: "Give me the ball!"

(End of this chapter)