After halftime, the third quarter battle continued!

On the Clippers' side, Rivers made personnel changes.

Beverley had already been fouled early on the back and was pressed directly by Rivers on the bench to think behind closed doors, and in addition, the aging Gortat was replaced by Harrell due to poor frame protection in the first half.

Clippers' lineup for the third quarter: Young, Gallinari, Reed, Harrell, Teodosic (a bit of a surprise indeed!) ）。

The two core players of the Rockets, Paul and Melon, still appeared on the court, leading the three bench bandits Green + McCarvey + Harden to fight.

D'Antoni is well aware of the depth of the bench at the moment, and once the two main players are allowed to return to the off-court rest, the Rockets' offense will immediately come to a standstill, and they will basically go their separate ways.

In order to be able to achieve the final victory of this game, D'Antoni can only play the main force, continue to keep Paul and Melon on the court, survive the rotation, and stabilize the lead.

After halftime, Paul and Melon also recovered more than half of their physical strength, so at the beginning of the third quarter, the Rockets did not suffer too much physical impact.

Anthony has been playing with his back in the low post as he did in the first half.

As the offensive brain of the team, Paul passes through his hands every time he attacks, and he does not dare to slack off.

In contrast, Li Yang will need to lead the Clippers to complete the comeback in the third quarter.

After the start of the third quarter, Li Yang's first task was to chase points.

Li Yang first ran according to Coach Rivers' tactical arrangement, and after taking advantage of the elevator doors of Gallinari and Harrell to cover, he successfully got rid of Paul's close pursuit and ran out of a position.

Reed also didn't stick to the ball and quickly passed the ball to Li Yang.

However, the well-trained Rockets are worthy of being the team that reached the Western Conference finals last season.

I saw that Green and McCarvey immediately made up for Li Yang.

On the field, Li Yang exchanged a look with Harrell, until the other party nodded and turned around to grab the board, Li Yang decisively faced the bag clamp that the two were about to complete directly**!!

Kick your legs, stay in the air, shake your wrists!!

There is a board under the basket, no fear!

"Whew!!"

"Toot ~ Toot!"

The whistle blows!!

Because the outside line of the Rocket team pounced too hard and inadvertently violated Li Yang's body hair, Li Yang took advantage of the situation and retreated directly, staggering backwards.

Li Yang relied on his amazing acting skills comparable to the Oscar actor level to complete a 3+1 in the first round of the third quarter!!

In front of the Clippers' bench, Coach Rivers swung his fist hard.

And when Li Yang shot, Harrell was already ready to rush to grab the rebound.

With Harrell's brutalist image, strengthening his exaggerated arm span and excellent jumping, against the fledgling Harten, as long as Li Yang doesn't shoot too outrageously, more than ninety percent of the rebounds are Harrell's.

On the court, Li Yang, who walked to the free throw line, steadily hit the free throw.

At 68:70, the Clippers were only 2 points away.

On the field, the game continued, and the Rockets attacked.

This time, when defending Paul, Li Yang decisively adopted a dog-brother Beverley-style pressing defense.

At the same time, European magician Theodosius is making up for it in the back, and Li Yang's lateral speed far exceeds that of the first-line defender, he is not afraid of losing his position at all.

In the end, Chris Paul made another mistake......

Of course, Li Yang, who broke the ball, directly started to play a fast attack, and he did not forget the meritorious man just now, directly passing the ball to the ground, assisting the European magician Te'o who followed up in the middle, and the opponent completed a mediocre "gliding dunk".

Well, in Li Yang's opinion, as long as it flies, it can be regarded as gliding!!

As for how far it skidd?

That doesn't matter at all!

And, it's a slam dunk!

The focus is on dunks!

70：70！

The Clippers, who scored six straight points, tied the score.

In the next round, Li Yang continued to use his speed advantage to tear apart the Rockets' backline.

Then he struck out from the diagonal side, received Te'o's ground-hitting pass, and completed a two-handed dunk directly in the box where Harden was sitting.

"Bang!!"

Li Yang was like a heavy tank, rampage in front of Hatten, and completed a strong slam dunk with his thick hands!!

Harden is a 2.13-meter-tall sophomore rookie interior who can protect the basket and compete for rebounds, even if he is mediocre, but as a competitor to Zhou's regular rotation lineup, he has completely replaced Zhou Qi.

But when he met Li Yang, Hatten became a piece of wood completely.

Li Yang's speed, rhythm and strength made the big man Hatten completely unparried.

And Li Yang's slack instantly destroyed the self-confidence of rookie Hatten.

"Big brother...... How much enmity and resentment you have with me, I'm just coming up to make soy sauce!! ”

Hatten was stunned in place, he had obviously made a defensive move just now, but there was still no way to stop Li Yang who was jumping.

Li Yang used a dunk to directly stop the Rockets.

In just two and a half minutes of the opening game, Li Yang personally scored six points and added one assist.

Through the tacit cooperation with his teammates, Li Yang completed the continuous bombardment of the inside and outside of the Rockets!!

After the timeout ended, the game resumed.

The Rockets started to attack, and D'Antoni set up a high-post playout at the timeout.

After receiving Paul's hand-handed pass, Anthony scored a mid-range two-point shot directly in the high post.

After the iron-blooded jumper hit with unmistakable accuracy, Anthony was so excited that he thumped his chest and screamed to the sky......

Of course, what makes Anthony so excited is because ......

The Rockets have finally broken the deadlock and broken the scoring drought!!

72：72。

The pause time still failed to stop Li Yang's hot hand.

The Clippers attack.

This time, under the cover of his teammate Harrell, Li Yang quietly slipped from the bottom left corner along the bottom line to the bottom right corner, and ran out of at least half a body.

The Rockets' wing players didn't have time to make up for it, and they could only count on Paul to get around the pick-and-roll quickly on his own.

And Paul is also worthy of being the absolute core of the Rockets, this time, he desperately went around to Li Yang's side.

It's a pity that in the eyes of European magicians Te'o and Li Yang, as long as the ball is passed in time, then Li Yang has every chance to shoot quickly.

As an excellent playmaker, the observant Te'o quickly transferred the ball to Li Yang's hands.

Li Yang ignored Paul's defense and directly **!!

It's still a textbook step-back jumper!!

"Whew!!"

Three-point hit.

Next, in addition to attacking by himself, Li Yang is constantly looking for opportunities to pass the ball and assist his teammates to score.

As long as there is a gap in front of his teammates, Li Yang will pass the basketball to the opponent as soon as possible.

In the next round, Li Yang held the ball to the inside, and then distributed the basketball to Gallinari, who was ambushed outside the three-point line, before attracting Hatten to block.

In this round, the Italian anti-aircraft gun Gallinari finally stood up and received a pass from Li Yang on the three-point line, and did not live up to Li Yang's trust again.

In just two minutes, Li Yang led the team to play a wave of 6:2 small attacks.

At 78:74, the Clippers stretched the score to 49 points.

During this time, the Rockets' defense has encountered big problems, and the team's offensive efficiency has also dropped off a cliff.

Li Yang completely severed the connection between Paul and the inside line through his own active pressing.

Li Yang is a player with a high ball IQ, and he knows very well what the Rockets' offensive core is.

As long as Paul and the interior are disconnected, and these two players play on their own, it will greatly reduce the offensive efficiency of the Rockets.

So during this time, Li Yang transformed himself and completely became Paul's terminator.

Wherever Paul went, he would always follow him.

This dogskin plaster style of sticking to the defense did make Paul's mentality start to explode a bit......

Paul is not a star with super offensive ability, if Paul is allowed to hold the ball and play Li Yang, who is strong in defense, it is simply a meat bun and a dog, and there is no return!!

Under Li Yang's suffocating oppressive defense, Chris Paul also made a passing error!!

The Clippers decisively seized this opportunity, and the reeds scored a fast attack, and the margin continued to stretch to 6 points.

D'Antoni saw that the score difference was about to go to double digits, and he immediately went to the rostrum to signal the referee, and hurriedly called a tactical timeout.