NBA: The man who passed the ball to Yao Ming

In the second half, the starting lineups of both sides remained unchanged.

At the beginning of the game, the Heat made a three-pointer from Flash Wade who received a breakthrough from White Chocolate.

After Zhang Jinshui's 45-degree three-point shot and Yao Ming's hook shot hit the iron, Flash Wade's breakthrough layup and Shaquille O'Neal's low singles helped the Heat play a 7-0 spurt.

The perfect performance of Rockets players such as Zhang Jinshui, Yao Ming and McGrady in the first half was completely wiped out, and it also helped the Heat lead the score 69-67.

After the climax, the Toyota Center suddenly fell into emptiness and depression.

Little Van Gundy had no choice but to call a short timeout immediately.

"It doesn't matter, looking forward, it's nothing to be behind by 2 points. Stay focused and do a good job in every next offensive and defensive round. The victory is ours!"

On the bench, Van Gundy Jr. did not make tactical adjustments, but kept loudly helping the Rockets with psychological massage.

After returning to the court again, McGrady stood up in time, received Zhang Jinshui's pass, and hit a three-pointer with a jumper, helping the Rockets temporarily stabilize the situation.

On the Heat's side, O'Neal began to show his dominance as the league's top center. After Wade and Jason Williams missed two consecutive three-pointers, he grabbed offensive rebounds in the interior twice.

When he was about to dunk for the second time, Yao Ming had no choice but to hug the opponent directly and claimed his third foul.

Fortunately, O'Neal embarrassingly missed two free throws, leaving the Rockets still only 1 point behind.

After Yao Ming grabbed the rebound, he passed the ball to Zhang Jinshui.

"Zhang Jinshui, rush inside and cause damage." Van Gundy Jr. shouted from the sidelines.

Zhang Jinshui was taken aback, and immediately understood what Van Gundy meant. O'Neal had already committed three fouls. If he could be beaten to four fouls, the Heat would definitely put him back on the bench.

It just so happened that Jason Williams was facing Zhang Jinshui at this time.

His defense is not worth mentioning in front of Zhang Jinshui.

In the next three rounds, Zhang Jinshui didn't call the pick-and-roll, and used [Lightning First Step] to break through Jason Williams three times in a row, and then threw himself into the crowded inside of the Heat.

After barely making a layup and eating a hot pot from the Sharks, he finally managed to foul the Sharks and made two free throws.

The head coach of the Heat really obediently used the kidney fighter Mourning to replace O'Neal who made 4 fouls.

Little Van Gundy applauded vigorously from the sidelines: "Zhang Jinshui, well done!"

If you only use 3 points in 2 offenses to calculate, the Rockets must have lost these three rounds.

After Zhang Jinshui scored 2 free throws, the Rockets still trailed their opponents by 76 points 79-3.

But counting off the Heat's thigh and liberating Yao Ming, the Rockets will make a lot of money.

Yao Ming lived up to the good intentions of Van Gundy and Zhang Jinshui. After O'Neal left the court, Mourning succeeded in two consecutive post-up singles, allowing the Rockets to regain a one-point advantage in the game.

It's a pity that the good times didn't last long, and the Heat also began to blast Yao Ming on a fixed-point basis.

After breaking through Derek Anderson's defense, Wade went inside and stuck to Yao Ming's body before raising his hand for a layup, which also sent Yao Ming off the field with 4 fouls.

When Wade made two free throws, he once again helped the Heat get back a 1-point lead.

In the next few minutes, the two teams began to repeatedly entangle in the 1-point difference.

火箭队从80比81，打到85比84，再到91比90。

This game was simply tragic to the extreme.

The fans in the stands were all nervous and speechless. They would only shout wildly after the Rockets scored or defended successfully, and booed when the opponent attacked.

Some fans kept using alcohol to numb their nervous emotions, and their faces were flushed from drinking without knowing it.

Some fans couldn't bear the psychological pressure brought by such intense scenes. At every critical moment of offense and defense, they even covered their eyes with their hands and judged the situation on the field based on the surrounding voices.

This situation lasted until the last 3 minutes of the game. Since the two teams did not call a timeout for a long time, the official automatically consumed a timeout for the Heat and entered the official timeout time.

Such a fierce competition is really exhausting.

McGrady, Zhang Jinshui and others returned to the sidelines already sweating profusely.

"McGrady, come down and rest first, get ready to play the fourth quarter."

Because of Yao Ming's early exit, Van Gundy asked McGrady to play for a few more minutes. Seeing that the Heat hadn't replaced Wade, Van Gundy couldn't ignore McGrady's repeated back and waist injuries in recent years.

He said to Zhang Jinshui:

"It looks like the Heat will continue to play with the main lineup.

In order to pick up the firepower in the early part of the fourth quarter, McGrady must first withdraw to rest.

Next, I can only put you and the substitute players on the court, facing most of the opponent's main players, you must be mentally prepared. "

Zhang Jinshui wiped the sweat that was falling like rain with a towel, and said resolutely: "Coach, don't worry, there is no problem."

"I don't ask you to hold on to this 1-point lead. Try to delay the time in each offensive round. Even if you lose by 5 or 6 points, I can accept it. Let's wait for the final quarter to fight against them."

Zhang Jinshui's heart is naturally not to lose 5 or 6 points.

But seeing Flash Wade, Anton Wan Walker, Glove Payton and Mourning have stood up from the bench, Zhang Jinshui knew that the head coach of the Heat was determined to win this game.

He didn't dare to talk too much, and replied: "Okay, I will try to lose points as little as possible."

After the game started again, Wade immediately broke through David Wesley, completed a drop shot, and regained the 1-point lead in the hands of the Heat.

The Rockets fans in the auditorium have completely died down.

They can understand the situation on the field.

Now, one side of the game is their own team, with a rookie leading 4 substitutes, while the other side is more than half of the Heat's main lineup, and the two substitutes are veterans who have entered the Hall of Fame after retirement.

The gap in the lineup meant that the only suspense for the rest of the third quarter was how much their team lost.

Zhang Jinshui naturally knew this very well.

He didn't even dare to think deeply about what kind of disaster might happen in the next two and a half minutes.

All he can do now is try his best every round.

In the transition between offense and defense, as Van Gundy arranged, he took the ball to the frontcourt and stopped for a while.

In order to avoid the worst possible result, he can only reduce the number of attacks on the opposite side by delaying time on the offensive end.

Ten seconds later, he called Uncle Mu's pick-and-roll, faced Mourning's misplaced defense, and used [Lightning First Step] to rush straight into the paint.

However, when James Posey came up to make up defense, Zhang Jinshui's four prompt lines in [Assessing the Situation] turned out to be yellow.

Obviously, the Heat's defense looks much better than today's high-point loss. Even Swift, who was let go by James Posey, is also covered by the defense of other Heat players.

Zhang Jinshui could only grit his teeth and resist Posey for a layup, but unfortunately, under the interference, the ball bounced out of the frame.

Fortunately, Swift came out and grabbed the offensive rebound and dunked the ball into the basket, and finally stumbled to get two points.

But this process, compared with the Heat, is really too difficult.

Next, the Heat easily scored 4 points on the Rockets, but the Rockets did not score a single point.

The only fortunate thing is that under Zhang Jinshui's intentional delay, the Rockets only trailed by 93 points 96 to 3, and still had the ball for the final attack, barely completing the task assigned by Van Gundy.

At this point, there are only 20 seconds left in the third quarter.

It's been a long time in the stands at the Toyota Center

But when Zhang Jinshui came to the front court with the ball, the fans suddenly became energetic.

In the Rockets' first two NBA regular season games, Zhang Jinshui hit three three-pointers at the buzzer.

Most of the fans at the scene have seen those wonderful shots.

Some unrealistic fantasies began to appear in their hearts. Can Zhang Jinshui hit another three-pointer and help the Rockets tie the score?

The Rockets, who were dragged into the quagmire by the Heat in the third quarter, really needed a three-pointer at the buzzer to boost morale.

"Sharp shot!"

"Sharp shot!"

"Sharp shot!"

......

I don't know which spectator got the lead. Eight seconds later, there was a uniform shout from the stands of the Toyota Center.