Chapter 834: Finals
In the third game, they went all out, still vulnerable in front of the Rockets, which greatly damaged the Lakers' self-confidence, and in the fourth game, they were sluggish, and they made mistakes again and again, and were counterattacked by the Rockets, and soon, the Rockets opened up the score gap. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
In the first half of the game, the Rockets had a lead of more than 20 points, and after the start of the second half, the Lakers' performance did not improve, they seemed to have accepted the fate of defeat, and by the end of the third quarter, their trail had reached 35 points, and Jackson replaced all the main players with a blue face and admitted defeat.
In the end, the Rockets defeated the Los Angeles Lakers with a 51-point victory that set the record for the largest point difference in the history of the two sides and advanced to the Finals.
The Houston Rockets swept their opponents in three consecutive rounds in the Western Conference playoffs, and no matter what kind of strong team they are, they look so vulnerable under their iron hooves.
After the Rockets swept the Lakers, the Eastern Conference Finals also ended on June 3, when the Indiana Pacers defeated the New York Knicks 4-2 and became the Rockets' opponent in the Finals.
For this matchup, the media's prediction is one-sided optimistic about the Rockets, the Lakers still have an advantage on the inside when they play against the Rockets, but who is the center of the Pacers? Dell. Davis, although he is also a good center, but compared to O'Neal, he is too far behind.
Reggie on the Pacers' perimeter. Miller is their number one star, but he is about to turn 35 years old and has reached the twilight of his career, and there is no comparison with Ding Hongxing.
In fact, in this season, the situation of the West being strong and the East weak has been very obvious, in real history, after the Pacers entered the Finals, they tried their best and only won the Lakers one game, and in the end, the Lakers won the championship easily with a score of 4 to 1.
In this case, the Pacers are facing a stronger Rockets, and naturally no one will be optimistic about them.
The first game of the Finals in June was played at the Compaq Center, home of the Houston Rockets, with the Pacers taking on the Rockets on the road.
The Pacers have limited strength, but they are an Eastern team, and the characteristics of the Eastern team are that they are more fierce in the competition, and they can even be said to be iron-blooded, and their fighting spirit is also very strong.
In the face of the powerful Rockets, they were undaunted and fought fiercely with the Rockets on the court.
This completely different style from the Lakers makes the young players of the Rockets very uncomfortable, but Ding Hongxing and Olajuwon are still very calm, not panicked at all, they have seen a lot of such scenes, they do not flinch on the court, and their composure also gives the young teammates infinite strength, the first to regain composure is Rashid. Wallace, he is a fearless roaring Tianzun, what is he afraid of? He hit two consecutive baskets and hit a three-pointer.
Next, the martial saint Stephen who was replaced on the field. Jackson also used his unrelenting strength to entangle Reggie as soon as he came up. Miller made a mistake and Big Ben completely froze Dell. Davis, and then, Marion, Mobley and others were also resurrected.
When all the players of the Rockets are resurrected, this is an invincible team, which is the purpose of Ding Hongxing's selection of these players in the first place, none of them are superstars, but each of them has proven their tenacity and fearlessness in real history, they are all fighters eager to win.
In the first quarter, the Pacers were able to confront the Rockets, but then the Rockets blossomed more, with thousands of arrows, and their three-point rain made the Pacers unguardable.
In the end, the Pacers couldn't resist such a three-dimensional attack by the Rockets, and lost by 45 points from 88 to 133, and Ding Hongxing only made nine shots, scoring a new low of 21 points in a single game since the playoffs this season.
However, he reached 30 assists, a new assist record in Finals history, and he also grabbed 20 rebounds, eight steals and three blocks.
Ding Hongxing's outstanding performance seems to have made the media feel numb, although they are also discussing Ding Hongxing's data, but they are discussing more about the performance of the Rockets' seven double-doubles and four scoring more than 20, such a team is really terrible!
The result of the first game also set the tone of the entire Finals, although the Pacers worked hard, but their strength is too far from the Rockets, their proud iron-blooded defense, in the eyes of Ding Hongxing, ww.uukanhu) is like paper.
This is entirely because of Ding Hongxing's physical fitness, which has almost reached the peak of human beings, and the technology that has entered the realm, when Ding Hongxing runs faster than the defender, jumps higher, has more strength, better agility, shoots more accurately, and has higher concentration, how do you defend such a player? If you want to defend against him, you have to change the existing defensive system, and the end result of this is that their defense is pierced by Ding Hongxing's pass.
In the second game, the Pacers changed the defensive strategy of the first game, they always used a single person to defend Ding Hongxing, but kept making substitutions for car ** battles, and actively sought physical contact with Ding Hongxing, and never relaxed the defense of other players on the Rockets, their meaning is very simple, you Ding Hongxing wants to kill me, then you can do it yourself, I see how good your physical strength is.
Ding Hongxing quickly let them know how good his physical strength was.
Ding Hongxing took 15 shots in the first quarter and scored 12 to score 35 points, and the Rockets led by 21 points at 42-21, which made all the Pacers players look like dirt.
The TV commentator laughed and said that the Pacers were simply stupid enough to dare to defend against Ding Hongxing alone, and they would die miserably in this game.
In the second quarter of the game, the Pacers' defense of Ding Hongxing was more ferocious, but the consequences of this did not play any role except for allowing Ding Hongxing to get more free throws.
In this quarter of the game, Ding Hongxing cut another 30 points, and the Rockets' lead expanded to as many as 36 points, while Ding Hongxing scored 65 points in two quarters.
All the home fans and media reporters were excited, and they seemed to have a vague feeling that an incredible record was about to be made.