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Chapter 142 Fighting the Rockets Again
After slaughtering the wolf again, the Spurs' next opponent is the Houston Rockets in the same district and state.

Although the Rockets lost to the Warriors in the front, they are happy to mention six consecutive victories in the next wave.

First, the king was bloodbathed 115 to 95.

Then they played the Pistons at home and away, and double-killed the Pistons 108 to 95 and 110 to 100 respectively.

After the second consecutive away game, they stepped on the Cavaliers 121 to 103 and the Wizards 105 to 96.Then go back to Texas to play against the Mavericks and Spurs in the same district and state.

The Lone Ranger, who introduced Doncic and Jr., has shown good combat effectiveness this season. Although there is still a gap between the top teams, it is no longer the team in the lower half of the Western Conference last year. The Rockets almost overturned, and finally relied on Paul The mid-range shot in the last 5 seconds killed the game and won 103 to 101.

After a day off, the Rockets came to San Antonio non-stop to challenge the Spurs.

The previous game between the Spurs and the Warriors has been watched dozens of times in just a few days. Xiao Hang is listed as a key target to watch. Ennis and PJ Tucker have been ordered to take turns to entertain Xiao Hang.

Moreover, the Rockets have more advantages than the Warriors in defending Xiao Hang. The Rockets have all the conditions to defend Xiao Hang. They have a guard who can harass Xiao Hang with Xiao Hang. Xiao Hang prepared it.

In fact, the Rockets' defensive tactics are designed to target all outside players. It can only be said that the inside is weak now, otherwise the Rockets would not be so arrogant.

In fact, the Rockets didn't particularly show their defense against Xiao Hang in the last game. First of all, they were not familiar with it, and they didn't expect Xiao Hang to explode with such great energy.Secondly, they mainly guard against DeRozan, and the DeRozan Rockets know it too well, which caused the game to almost overturn, so this time, the German coach is fully prepared.

And Popovich is very calm here. In fact, when playing against top teams, both sides are naked. The Rockets know the Spurs so well, and the Spurs also know the Rockets.

The Spurs will continue to use the defensive tactics of the previous game, standing at the basket on the inside, not changing defenses on the outside, and stuck on the three-point line. This is by far the best tactic to deal with the magic ball theory, unless it is beaten to death by Harden or Paul's singles. , Popovich has already made this preparation, and Popovich believes that as long as the Rockets can't break the three-pointer and Harden Paul doesn't explode, the chances of victory are still very high.

Popovich has put "pressure" on Poeltl and told him bluntly that you will play 35+ minutes in this game, please be prepared.

Popovich is so willful, and he is so domineering when giving people opportunities. This is how the former emperor Danny Green seized the opportunities given by Popovich and became the core player of the Spurs.

Today, Poeltl, who was more energetic, won the ball, and Xiao Hang took the ball and gave it to Murray.

DeRozan walked over from behind Murray, took advantage of the situation to catch the ball, faced Harden with a tentative step, and after shaking his shoulders, he passed Harden in two steps and made an emergency stop for a jumper.

"Shua—" The sound of the basketball hitting the net was crisp and sweet.

Harden's lateral movement is too easy to be targeted, and he is still his good brother, so he knows how to play too clearly.

Paul received the serve, and it took 7 seconds to pass halftime. In the first round of the game, the Rockets scrambled.

After halftime, it was given to Harden outside the three-point line on the right. Harden dribbled the ball for half a step and shot directly. In 8 seconds, the Rockets scored 3 points.

The first duel between these two youngsters was extremely hot.

Xiao Hang received the ball from outside the three-point line at the bottom corner of the left half, faced Ennis with a fake shot, directly swayed his shoulder and added a tentative step, and broke through from the left side of Ennis.

Capela was already ready inside, Xiao Hang was very fast, Capela started up in front of his body and went up, Xiao Hang threw the basketball into the sky at this time, Poeltl did what Capela did in the Rockets The thing, the alley-oop, and the two-handed basket, caused a burst of cheers from the home Spurs fans.

The Spurs are reciprocating their own way.

Paul continued to dribble the ball across half court, called Capela's pick-and-roll, and broke into the inside. However, Paul held the ball steadily and observed the running position when he walked in. Then he took a step outside the paint area and faced Poeltl. It was also a basketball thrown into the sky, and Capela went inside in an instant in the pick-and-roll, and also caught the ball with both hands and alley-oop.

Paul is Paul, easy to find face for his little brother.

Both the Spurs and the Rockets are in very good condition. The two sides come and go. By the first official timeout, the Spurs temporarily trailed by one point 16-17.

The Spurs have not changed players here, while the Rockets here have Gordon on the field and Harden on the ball. Paul's age is here, and the playing time must be divided.

The Rockets' singles in the first quarter allowed the Spurs to survive. DeRozan, Xiao Hang, and Adelaide all performed well.

So now the Rockets need a three-pointer to open the situation. Although Paul and Harden have maintained their advantage in singles before, how long can they last after such a tiring play.

Harden called Capela's pick-and-roll and went inside, while Capela continued to pick-and-roll outside, and Anthony got an open position. In the first 6 minutes, Anthony played 2 singles and scored 2 points.

Anthony is really comfortable playing other teams, but the Spurs' tactic of getting stuck outside the three-point line makes him uncomfortable.

The position was finally vacated, but Anthony didn't grasp it, Ade took the rebound and gave it to Xiao Hang.

The Rockets' return to defense is still very fast, and the Spurs have no chance of a fast break here.

Xiao Hang gave it to Murray, Murray passed halftime, Xiao Hang came around the screen, after receiving the ball, he went straight to the inside, and made an emergency stop for a jump shot, "Duang—" hit Xiao Hang's first iron.

Harden took the long rebound, picked up speed, and Xiao Hang slashed back towards his own inside line.

"Shua—" Xiao Hang made a mistake in his judgment...

Harden rushed outside the three-point line and made an emergency stop to shoot a three-pointer. Those who were suppressed by your Spurs had no chance to shoot a three-pointer. Now that they finally have a chance, let's hurry up and shoot.

After shooting a three-pointer, the Rockets seemed to have opened up the situation a bit. The Spurs fell after maintaining a high-intensity defense for 9 minutes.

In the last 1 minutes, both sides were on the bench, but Paul played here for the Rockets, while the Spurs still kept Xiao Hang on the court.

I didn't expect the battle between the substitutes to be more exciting than the starting confrontation.

The duel between the substitutes brought individual heroism to the extreme.

The weak point of the substitute's low strength brought out the abilities of Xiao Hang and Paul to the extreme.

In the last 1 minutes of the first quarter and 3 minutes before the second quarter, Xiao Hang scored 8 points and Paul scored 9 points.

As the leading Rockets, they called a timeout first, and now they have a 4-point lead, and the German coach is going to go to Harden to control the field.

The Spurs here put Adelaide and Gasol on the field, and changed their tactics to put pressure on the Rockets' inside line.

The Spurs said that your rocket magic ball theory breaks through the inside and gets closer to the basket to score more easily, but is it easy for you to score outside and inside or for me to hit you inside Alder and Gasol?
(End of this chapter)