For the next period of time, it was basically in the rhythm of the Rockets. Pen, Fun, and Pavilion www.biquge.info were upset by the Grizzlies, and played a wave of 4 consecutive wins. Lost to the Kings by 5 points, and played another wave of 5 consecutive wins. Then he lost by three points to his old rival Spurs. In short, the Rockets have a good rhythm and still hold the first place in the league.

The January contest is over. Probably due to the "hip tension" break, Maddie was finally taken away by Garnett after 2 months of Western Conference Player of the Month. But for Maddie, who enjoys the joy of basketball at this time, he doesn't care at all.

Maddie and the rest of the Rockets focused on how to avoid a losing streak after a loss, but the next opponent was the Lakers, who waited for O'Neal to return. The enemies are very angry when they see each other, and this is bound to be another fierce battle.

On February 11, the Rockets sat at home to face the Lakers led by the Big Three (Malone still failed to play). As soon as the two sides started the game, the Toyota Center Arena was filled with a tense atmosphere, but O'Neill laughed and stepped forward to shake Yao Ming's hand.

"Yao, you're going to start again this All-Star, and I'm still your substitute. I really envy the 1.2 billion Chinese fans behind you (refer to the census data at the time). O'Neill smiled.

Yao Ming was a little embarrassed and said, "Don't dare to be, this is the preference of the people of my motherland." ”

"But you're not like last year, you've really grown into a first-line center in the league. I won't be polite anymore and will definitely give it my all. O'Neill put away his smile and said seriously.

"Please advise me." Da Yao is also welcome.

On the other side, Maddie and Kobe Bryant have a very personal relationship, but they don't give in to each other on the court. The two did not greet each other, but looked at each other for a few seconds, and the hostility was very strong.

Losing the last game, the Lakers were holding their breath. The old fox of the Zen master naturally had a plan. At the beginning of this game, he set a strange move, focusing on Medvidenko. It's a pity that the first shot hit the iron, and Maddie on the Rockets' side insisted on the last way of playing against the Lakers - revitalizing the whole team. He assisted on Turkoglou's three-pointer.

"Kobe, keep an eye on you!" Phil. Jackson shouted in anger. Kobe Bryant is too competitive and wants to compete with Maddie too much. As soon as Maddie attracted him, he stepped forward and missed Tekoglu.

Immediately afterwards, O'Neal singled Yao Ming to win, and Billups, who stepped forward to wait for the opportunity to break the ball, was knocked to the ground by him, but the referee did not blow a foul. Chaunse's expression was painful after he fell to the ground, and Tang Shuai hurriedly replaced him with Reed.

Yao Ming wanted to return O'Neal a goal, but today O'Neill was fully focused and defended very aggressively. Da Yao barely missed the hook shot, and Payton got the ball and advanced quickly, returning to Medvidenko for a shot. 4:3 The Lakers overtook the score.

The Rockets also showed no weakness, and Reed assisted Yao Ming for a dunk.

O'Neal once again singled Yao Ming with the ball, attracting Oku to go up and wrap the ball up to Fox, who hit a jumper, 6-5.

Maddy assisted Reed on a jumper to score 2 points, and Bryant immediately assisted Payton to shoot a three-pointer, and the scores of the two sides rose alternately in just 4 minutes at 9:7.

Maddy's jumper hit the iron, and Medvedenko's jumper also missed. The Rockets gave the ball to Yao Ming, who singled out O'Neal for a hat. But Yao Ming grabbed the offensive rebound and immediately transferred it to the outside Maddie, Maddy took advantage of the Lakers' defensive chaos to break through Fox's defense, and easily stuffed the unmarked Yao in the face of the supplementary defense. Yao Ming dunked and scored, 9:9 draw!

The audience held their breath for a long time, and finally broke out into a burst of thunderous applause. It was a great game and a great goal. O'Neal's big hat, Yao Ming's rebound, Maddie's breakthrough and passing, in this ball, reflect the skill of the star.

The two sides fought fiercely for a long time, and the hit rate was not high, and the score came to 15:16. With less than 4 minutes left in the first quarter, Tang Shuai waved his hand, and Battle Wallace came up to replace Yao Mingte Koglou.

O'Neill was stunned for a moment when he saw Battle, who is this big man? I haven't played with him much, so I'm not familiar with him. Although I have heard that there are three Chinese in the Houston Rockets, the Lakers are generally more familiar with Yao and Wang (Battle and O'Neal have only played once in the NBA, and it is this encounter that is talked about by Chinese fans).

Battle is indeed ready to play, before Tang Shuai said that the big dream will be rested, and the bus will be ready to play against O'Neal, the league's No. 1 center.

Payton steals Wallace and scores on a layup, 17-16.

Maddie assisted Wallace for a layup to add 2 points, and at 17:18 Maddy has already delivered his fifth assist!

Payton kept the ball steady and waited for O'Neal to slowly run over and fall into position, and Battle immediately met O'Neal. But Grant, who came off the bench for the Lakers, keenly saw the opportunity, and he slowly retracted his strength as if he was pushed away by Oku, and moved closer to Battle.

O'Neal took advantage of the situation to start, Battle wanted to keep up but was stuck by the veteran Grant, the league's top point guard Payton naturally would not let go of this opportunity, and the ball had been stuffed into O'Fat's hands. Battle is one position behind, O'Neal has no one to defend in front of him, only the basket, and it looks like a shark's signature dunk!

There was a loud "boom", and O'Neill fell to the ground.

The referee's whistle blows, and Batella fouls.

In the TNT studio, the narrator Barkley was dumbfounded, and there was nothing to say for a while.

"This 。。。。。。 That Chinese player Monk, how did he bring down O'Neal? Let's take a closer look at the slow-motion replay!"

The slow motion clearly shows that Battle couldn't catch up with O'Fat, so he put his right palm on the latter's right shoulder, and pulled it violently, and O'Neal, who was jumping and dunking, was instantly pulled to the ground by the strange force. The dedicated O'Neal didn't forget to turn the dunk into a jumper and threw the ball out, which went in beautifully. And the honest bus also reached out to Rao'Neill to get up.

"Make no mistake! The big shark, who is also known as the strongest in the alliance with Big Ben, was actually put down by an unknown substitute center! Barkley reacted and began to gush out: "It's amazing! O'Neal is known as a strong man who can easily dunk with two defenders on his body, and he actually suffered from an unnamed center. ”

CCTV in China also broadcast the game, and the Rockets, needless to say, are the parent team of Chinese fans. The Lakers are also one of the favorite teams of Chinese fans. At this moment, CCTV's Sun Zhengping commentator was also very shocked, but there was a lot of nonsense in his old man's commentary. "Battle's palm can be called the 'Rulai Divine Palm', and Chinese fans can explain to their American friends that this is Chinese kung fu from the East."

O'Neal also smiled awkwardly when he stood up and walked to the free throw line, but unfortunately missed the free throw.

(Small allusion: On November 12, 2003, in the Raptors' away game against the Lakers, O'Neal used his teammates to cover the empty cut basket and received a wonderful pass, and was fouled and knocked down by Battle, who was blocked behind him.) This picture was magnified and rendered by Chinese fans as "Ba Shen knocked over O'Neill with one hand". ）

At the end of the first quarter, the Lakers trailed the Rockets slightly at 25:27. O'Neal scored eight points on 4-of-5 shooting, but Medvidenko dragged his feet and scored just two points on 1-of-7 shooting. For the Rockets, Yao Ming was suppressed by O'Neal and got 4+4 on 2-of-7 shooting, Maddy played 12 minutes and cut 7+3+5, and Battle contributed 1 rebound, 1 foul and 1 legendary story.