On May 22, 2005, the Rockets traveled to San Antonio, Texas, to challenge their old rivals, the Spurs. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info players are all like facing a big enemy, nervously preparing for the game, but the staff seems refreshed and interested. I guess the night of Chinese food spent at Yao Restaurant the day before was very pleasant.

Tomjanovic and Curry laid out the tactics, but Maddy didn't listen to a word. He had a handful of sweat on his hands, and his veins seemed to be tense, as if they were about to explode.

Is this nervousness? He asked himself: Probably excited? He had waited too long for this day. Two years ago, on May 11, he was injured by Bowen and missed a crucial game, which led to the team's elimination from the competition, a thorn that has been stuck in the deepest part of Maddie's heart.

But at this time, he is no longer a hairy young man who is casually swayed by feelings, Maddie did not rush to attack at the beginning, and only after a few rounds did he break through into the penalty area for the first time, and still passed back to Bosh behind him, who made a jumper.

Spurs gave the ball to center Nazre. Mohammed, who missed several games late in the regular season with a sprained ankle, was replaced by substitute Mohammed. Not enough, this time he didn't handle the ball properly, and Jefferson cut the ball down.

Maddie finally made a move, and he ran to the front of the crowd for the first time, receiving a pass from Jefferson and making an easy layup. The Rockets started with a 10-4 advantage.

The Spurs' most creative "demon knife" Ginobili is facing Maddy on the offensive end, and Bowen, who has the best individual defense, is defending Maddie on the defensive end. This is almost the most difficult combination in the league to deal with, and Bowen saw that Maddie only relied on the fast break to score 2 points in half a day, not only was he complacent, but he thought that Maddie was afraid of himself.

But Maddie was completely right, he suddenly started to steal the pass that Bowen wanted to give to Ginobili, and it was another fast-break layup.

"Hey, are you a? Only dare to run ahead of me to score? Bowen spews trash talk in an attempt to provoke Maddie. But Maddie only glared at him coldly, and did not answer him.

Bowen's trash talk was so empty that he had to settle down and play ball. The two sides entered the mode of slashing with interior players, and Yao Ming and Duncan scored one after another to impact the opponent's defense. However, due to the solid defense of both sides, the scoring efficiency is not high. With only three and a half minutes left in the first quarter, the score was still 14:10.

Ginobili's knife was finally unsheathed, and he threw a long pass from beyond the three-point line, and the ball flew out like a cannonball, directly finding Mohammed under the basket. The latter scored the ball and made an easy layup.

"Yao, give your attention. The slightest flaw will also be discovered by the Argentine, who has a great sense of insight. Maddie reminded Yao Ming, turned his head and said to Billups: "Chauncey, give me more balls next!" ”

Yao Ming and Billups both nodded. They saw a scrappy Maddie, a responsible leader.

After Maddie held the ball and tried to move, he picked up a footstep action that turned around and pulled back and forced a dry jump shot, Bowen couldn't react and couldn't block it, and the ball scored 17:12!

"It's hard enough!" Yuan Fei secretly wiped his sweat. After all, Bowen is a long-established defensive stalwart, and he can force Maddie to take out the difficult ball that presses the bottom of the box. Can Maddie keep hitting these difficult shots?

Duncan singled Bosh and hit a wipe shot.

Maddie once again got the ball to force Bowen and changed hands behind the emergency stop in the breakaway. Bowen's center of gravity was in his hips and he was retreating to defend, and this emergency stop made him move his center of gravity forward, and then saw Maddie change hands in a hurry, and he tripped himself to the ground with an imbalance left and right. Maddie switched to a left-handed pull-up shot and hit 19:14. He glanced coldly at Bowen who had fallen to the ground, but said nothing.

Spurs made a mistake in the middle of the game, and another pass was stealed by Maddy. Fortunately, this time the defense was quickly retreated and was not easily won by the fast attack, but Maddie dribbled to the front court and directly pulled it up and shot, which is giving up the frontcourt rebound, that is, having the confidence to shoot!

The ball hit steadily!

Popovich immediately called a timeout, and scolded Bowen in the face. Bowen is very aggrieved, Maddie's score is not at all that no one can defend against the high shot point dry shot, and I am afraid that there is no way to replace anyone. But Popovich's authority within the Spurs cannot be questioned, and he can only say that he has the right attitude and goes all out to defend.

When he returned to the court, Bowen was so angry that he jumped out. Maddie sat directly off the court and rested, and the Rockets replaced Reed, which really made him angry and had nowhere to vent.

After all, the Spurs are old and hot, and Arenas hit two three-pointers in a row to narrow the gap to 2 points. Bowen also gradually calmed down, Maddie will play anyway, and there is a chance to teach him a lesson. But as soon as the second quarter began, he understood that he was afraid that he was being educated this time.

Maddie's hands were so hot that he pulled out the eighteen weapons in his arsenal as if he had been planning for a long time, and cut them on Bowen's head one by one, as if he was deliberately trying to insult him. First, he hit a pull-up jumper from Bowen, then a turnaround jumper with a back, and then a stride meteor that broke through Bowen and piggybacked on Ginobili for a layup.

Bowen became more and more impatient the more he played, and his movements became bigger and bigger, and finally once Maddie just jumped he got started, and the moment the referee's whistle sounded, Maddie twisted his body in the air and threw the ball out with one hand, or went in!

The Spurs' home stadium was quiet, and a handful of fans even began to applaud Maddy's brilliant goal. There are also penalties for Mediga, 2+1! Suddenly the MVP shouted from the sidelines.

When the opponent thinks that he can beat the Spurs smoothly, it is often when the other MVP Duncan starts to exert his power, he suddenly bursts out and jumps high to complete a violent dunk through Bosh! The home fans were rekindled and rejoiced by the button.

This time the ball was given to the outside, and Turkoglu shot a little hastily, his movements were slightly deformed, and he missed the iron, and Duncan grabbed the rebound.

Arenas had just received the ball and was casually turning to dribble when Maddy popped up at his side and reached out to cut it off. Arenas chased the ball too hard and fell to the ground. Maddie was open in front of him, and Duncan was the only one under the basket.

"Slam Dunk!" The Rockets bench was already cheering.

Maddie holds the ball with one arm, strides up, bends his elbow and raises the ball behind his head, obviously in a slam dunk stance. Duncan also raised his arms to stop his opponent.

With a "bang", Maddie fell to the ground. The referee's whistle blew, and the Rockets players immediately rushed up and surrounded Bowen. It's this dirty guy again, he followed behind Maddie, and seeing that he couldn't interfere with the dunk anymore, he simply grabbed the jersey and pulled Maddie off.

Seeing that the tension between the two sides was about to turn into a group fight, Maddie suddenly got up and stopped his teammates.

"This is a villain, 2 penalties and 1 throw, we earned it!" He laughs.

Yuanfei nodded repeatedly. Maddie has matured, and his revenge is not a low-level opportunism or crookedness like Bowen, but a dignified victory over his opponent on the court.

Even Popovich couldn't stand the ugliness of his disciple, and replaced Bowen with a wave of his hand. But then he tried to use Ginobili, Barry and Brown to defend Maddie, but to no avail. Maddie scored 20 points on 8-of-10 shooting in the first quarter, and with the scoring in the first quarter, he scored a full 30 points in the first half. (To be continued.) )