Harris' play in the first quarter was completely disastrous, but at this moment, the Clippers' offense was stymied, and as the team's second scorer, Harris had to step up and take over the game.

When Li Yang came off the court, Harris naturally became the first point of attack on the court, and Reed also took the initiative to hand over the basketball to Harris.

Let Harris complete the final score.

The Rockets, on their part, relied on Gordon's two three-pointers to continue to widen the margin to double digits.

Harris must respond at this point, otherwise the game may fall apart, and the time has come to test his ability to lead the team alone.

After the reed stepped on Ling Bo's micro step, flashed and moved, and directly hit the basket, in the face of Capela's all-round block, he struggled to pass the basketball from under the basket to Harris in the bottom corner of the left side.

Standing in front of Harris at this time was none other than the round-faced Gordon.

No one would have thought that Eric Gordon, who was known for his offense back then, would switch to the Rockets and become an excellent 3-and-D player after suffering a major injury in his career.

Last year, Eric Gordon was crowned the three-point king by beating Kyrie Irving in the All-Star three-point contest play-offs.

Therefore, his three-point point is also the top existence in the league, and it can be said that the Rockets have the most stable empty three-point point.

At the same time, although Gordon's defensive ability is average, he is still very tough in terms of physical confrontation.

Harris's eyes had been on the basket, and this time he had to shoot the damn basketball into the basket no matter what.

Harris took the lead with a standard tentative step, and Gordon's body immediately responded.

Harden's defense is still relatively oppressive, and he sticks to Harris's body, hoping to limit Harris's breakthrough through this aggressive pressing defensive style.

But Harris is still Harris after all, and with the absolute advantage of height and weight, when he wants to complete the score, he can't prevent it with a mere round face!!

Harris, who had been accelerating, suddenly came to a sudden brake!

Harris, who stopped urgently, ignored the block of the round-faced den, and directly pulled up and shot, making a standard jumping basket action!!

"Whew!!"

Harris ignored the round-faced defense and hit a mid-range jumper!!

This time, Harris finally showed his very good singles ability!!

It's not for nothing that Harris is dubbed "Anthony Jr.", and his main scoring methods include back-to-back singles, spot-up shots, singles, transition offense, pick-and-rolls with the ball, and catch-and-shoot without the ball.

He's very proficient in everything and has a very balanced number of rounds in every game and every offensive game, and he has a lot of ways to score.

After Harris used his personal strength to complete the score, the Toyota Center Arena also broke out with a sparse applause.

This is a situation that Rockets fans don't want to see!!

"Tieha has bloomed, but it's useless! Who doesn't have to eat turkey for Christmas!! ”

"Eric has defended well enough, but Harris's offense is really ugly, he hasn't made much progress in the past two years, although he can do everything, but he doesn't have a shot!!"

"Little Anthony can only be Little Anthony, and let our Cameron teach him what a real offensive kaleidoscope is!!"

"Beat the Clippers, Rockets championship!!"

Sure enough, it is worthy of being the home court of the Rockets, and there are basically very few Clippers fans in the Toyota Center Arena......

Perhaps this is the result of the long-term operation of the Rockets.

After Harris found his offensive touch, the Clippers finally began to return to the offense, frequently hitting the basket and attacking the Rockets' basket.

However, on the Rockets' side, Chris Paul and Capela also maintained a high shooting percentage with the tacit cooperation of the two.

In particular, Anthony's singles are completely super-god-like existences, and the old trees are blooming new flowers.

The Clippers' two interior players, the old combination of Gortat and Scott, are obviously unable to hold up a blue sky for the Clippers under the basket.

Capela's excellent bounce power, coupled with unmatched upper body strength......

As long as Paul can pass a good hand to Capela, then Capela can basically put the basketball into the basket.

The defense of the two Clippers interior big men is more like paper paste at this moment, and it can be broken by blowing!

They could only turn around and quietly admire Capela's wanton bombing of the basket!!

Weak interior defense is indeed the biggest problem the Clippers face right now, and if the Clippers want to make it to the Western Conference Finals, they must acquire a super-defensive center before the trade deadline closes.

The Rockets' offense is under Paul's control, and the combing is quite fluid.

Players such as Gordon and Anthony also had more scoring opportunities during this time.

Every Rockets player on the court has also found their shooting touch, whether it is the Rockets or the Clippers, they seem to have given up defense, and the second quarter has completely degenerated into an offensive battle!!

Harris scored through his own low singles, while the Rockets relied on Paul and Capela's aerial relay to score!!

For a while, the game was quite good, and the fans of the Rockets were also very excited, but Coach Rivers's face was getting more and more ugly.

The Clippers' defense has had old problems again during this time.

Coupled with the fact that Beverley had already committed three fouls early, it had a very negative impact on the Clippers' next game.

For Rivers, he has to solve the team's defensive problems as soon as possible.

Rivers glanced at the team's bench and finally shook his head helplessly.

Judging by the current roster of the Clippers, it is absolutely futile to try to improve the team's defense by making substitutions!!

After some thought, Rivers had no choice but to send in Lai Yang and Harrell to replace Gortat and Beverley in advance.

Li Yang continued to play the No. 1 position, Harrell was the No. 4 position, and Scott, who was originally in the No. 4 position, played the center position.

One of the main reasons why Rivers made this personnel change was that he didn't think Beverley was doing a good job of limiting Paul on the defensive end.

As we all know, although Harden is the boss on the surface of the Rockets, Paul is the real organizational core of the team.

The first and most important thing for the Clippers to win tonight is to limit Paul's passing on the defensive end and cut off teammates from him.

Paul seems to be like the offensive brain of the Rockets, and almost every attack of the Rockets will pass through Paul's hands.

Before Li Yang came on the court, Clippers head coach Rivers told Li Yang that he must intercept Paul in all directions.

In the last three minutes or so of the second quarter, the Rockets, who were playing at home, temporarily led the Clippers by a full ten points at 64:54.

Paul continued to play well in the second quarter, and in addition to scoring 9 points, he also handed out 7 assists!

Capella, the king of cakes, almost vomited when he ate bread under the basket.

After Li Yang came on the court, in addition to limiting Paul's passing as much as possible on the defensive end, he also had to score as much as possible to help the team catch up with the score.

Clippers' offensive round.

Li Yang held the ball to the frontcourt, and he turned his head to look at Harris on the weak side, and saw that there were at least two Clippers players around him ready to wrap up.

Now Harris has become the focus of the Rockets' defense, if he continues to hand over the basketball to Harris, with Harris's current dribbling ability, if he wants to score under the pressure of two Rockets defenders, it is not ordinary, and it is likely to be successfully tackled by the opponent.

Li Yang made a quick decision, since there was no way to complete the assist, then he could only attack by himself!

Paul is not a very good defensive perimeter player, and when he plays one-on-one with Li Yang, he has no advantage in terms of height or speed, and is not Li Yang's opponent at all.

Outside the three-point line on the right side, Li Yang lowered his center of gravity and leaned over to hold the ball.

Paul knew that he was not enough, so he directly avoided the confrontation with Li Yang, and the defender of Li Yang also became P.J. Tucker.

"Come on, P.J, kick him in the ass!!"

"I really can't prevent it, so I'll happily give him an ultimate thousand-year kill!!"

"Prevent him ......"

Tucker viciously threatened Li Yang and said: "Rookie, if you dare to play the porcelain touch in front of me, then in the next round, I will mercilessly send you a savage collision and an iron fist of shame, I just don't know that your small body can withstand my play a few times." ”

"Oh, you mountain cannon, I'm so scared!! Come on, you have the ability to hurt each other, see if Lao Tzu eats your set!! Li Yang shot back strongly.

"Fack, you goddamn rookie, we'll see!!" After speaking, Tucker's face was gloomy, and his eyes glared at Li Yang.

"Whoever is afraid is a grandson, and Lao Tzu is not scared! Still staring? I'm going to drop my eyeballs, but it's none of my business!! ”

As the saying goes, the speaker has no intention, but the listener has the intention.

Tucker said it so casually, but it reminded Li Yang that maybe it would be a good choice to touch porcelain occasionally.

"These two guys are quite interesting." In the commentary seat, Barkley became more and more excited the more he watched, he liked to watch this kind of scene full of gunpowder.

In Barkley's opinion, Young is already the strongest arrow on the perimeter, while Tucker is an excellent defensive specialist.

Especially one-on-one single defense!!

After Tucker joined the Rockets in the 17-18 season, he immediately became an important defensive gate on the team's perimeter, Tucker's strong body can even defend interior players, and at the same time, he is often arranged by D'Antoni to defend a good small forward like James.

This powerful duel between spear and shield makes people passionate when they think about it!!