608. Fire Collapses!
"Ace's goal is really ...... Domineering, haha, Da Yao still has a long way to go in the NBA! Facing Ace, an opponent who is already an NBA superstar, Da Yao still looks a little worse, after all, he is only in the second year, and Ace is already second on the scoring list......"
On the live broadcast of the imperial court station, Director Zhang distracted himself by helping Yao Ming to be detained, what else could he do, the palms and backs of his hands were full of meat, and Liu Mang was raised to the height of a superstar, Yao Ming had only entered the second year of the NBA, and it didn't look so embarrassing.
But will Yao Ming give up?
Of course not!
If it's detained, it's going to be recovered!
It is basically impossible to dunk Liu Mang, and the inside player has to buckle the outside player, unless it is an air-cut physical man like Kwame Brown, who has the opportunity to try to dunk the outside line when blocking and dismantling, or when making up the dunk, and the probability is extremely low.
Therefore, Boozer suffered, and after Liu Mang hit a free throw to make the score 50-41, Yao Ming went crazy after coming over, and he didn't care about physical problems, and used the waist and abdominal strength brought by his strong lower limbs to pout Boozer behind him, and after receiving Francis's pass, he struggled to smash the ball into the basket through Boozer's crazy arm!
For giants like O'Neal and Yao Ming, the most unfriendly thing is the whistle, they are too tall and strong, the referee seems to think that ordinary fouls are not fouls on them, O'Neal is okay, often receive the ball and be cut directly, directly on the free throw line, Yao Ming is the worst, because the free throws are too accurate, the Rockets' technical fouls let him come to the free throws, the other party didn't dare to cut, like Boozer was about to hang on Yao Ming, and the referee didn't blow it, because Yao Ming looked too big and was completely crushed.
Yao Ming roared angrily after dunking the ball into the basket through Boozer, venting his frustration, and it seemed that his movements had become faster, and he ran back to his own half.
Liu Mang patted Boozer on the shoulder, and Boozer signaled that he was okay and continued to follow the tactics.
Liu Mang nodded, received the serve and advanced to the front court, and continued to break through! Past Francis, Liu Mang played as if he was playing the other party, and broke through from the right side again, not that Francis didn't know that Liu Mang was going to go from his left, who knew that Liu Mang was going to break through from the right, but if Liu Mang didn't block it when he accelerated from the left, Francis believed that Liu Mang would definitely rush in directly from the middle, because he himself was the same, knowing that the opponent's breakthrough changed direction.
And to prevent Liu Mang and not dare to press too tightly, the most shameless person in the alliance is the only one, who uses the rules to cheat and foul and does not blush, Francis can only keep up with his footsteps, and it is already very good to be able to stick to Liu Mang and Liu Mang in the parallel line.
Liu Mang rushed to the basket from the right side with Francis, and at this time, Kwame Brown cut in from the middle again, Cato let go of Boozer to chase after him, but he couldn't catch up! Yao Ming hesitated on the inside, but still went to block Kwamei Brown, Liu Mang rushed to the right edge of the three-second zone and strode with a big hook! When he took the first kick in three steps, he grabbed the ball directly and hooked the ball from the bottom to the top, hit the rebound and fell into the basket!
Liu Mang deeply remembered Stockton's joke, "I actually want to score every time I block and dismantle, and I accidentally get the assist king", Liu Mang's first reaction when he heard this sentence, this middle-aged man is pretending to be forced, but if you think about it, how can you attract the defense away if you don't show your posture of wanting to score?
Liu Mang strictly implemented this concept, accidentally overimplemented it, and then became the new generation of iron kings in the league, second only to Maddie in the number of iron strikes this season.
It was the Rockets' turn to attack, Yao Ming began to go crazy on the inside, whether it was Boozer or Kwame Brown, they were all eaten alive by Yao Ming, once the Hawks were trapped, Yao Ming's points were also very timely, not necessarily a direct pass assist, but the Hawks' defense was torn apart, Cato's air cut dunk, Francis's air cut layup, Mobley and Jim Jackson are all shooting masters who average nearly two three-pointers per game and have a shooting rate of nearly 40%. The Rockets' offense played very well, just like in the first quarter.
And the Hawks are relatively not playing so well, mainly because Yao Ming's deterrence under the basket is too strong, after the defense is more focused, Liu Mang can only shoot at the position around the sideline of the three-second zone when he breaks through, the shooting rate is not bad, but it is not as high as the layup, Yao Ming's dominance under the basket is beginning to show, if he does not hesitate to defend physically, he can also put pressure on Liu Mang while blocking Kwamei Brown, and it is precisely because of Yao Ming's defensive dominance under the basket that the Rockets don't have to worry about the inside line on the outside line, and the Hawks don't have too many opportunities on the outside.
As they played, the point difference began to be gradually narrowed by the Rockets.
At the end of the half, Yao Ming scored 26 points, 6 rebounds and 4 assists in the half, helping the Rockets chase the difference to 61-63 at the end of the half, with only two points left.
After a 20-minute break at halftime, the match between the two teams resumed.
Yao Ming rested for a while, continued to start in the second half, and scored 15 points in the first half of the quarter, helping the Rockets successfully overtake the score at the halfway point of the third quarter, 80-79 over the Hawks by one point.
But the Eagles are not in a hurry, everything is in plan!
Because Yao Ming's last shot just now, he had already retreated to the free throw line to top Kwame Brown's close-up jumper!
From the second half of the second quarter to the middle of the third quarter, the Hawks Yao Ming exploded and slashed 27 points, and used Boozer, Kwame Brown, and Muhammad to fight Yao Ming hand-to-hand, consuming Yao Ming's physical energy, and Yao Ming played from the third quarter to the fourth minute, and the shot was getting farther and farther away from the basket!
During this period, Liu Mang used Boozer's mid-range shot, or Kwame Brown and Muhammad's air-cutting ability to attract the opponent's defense, and the outside Prince or Raheem and Jason Terry opened the space, rushed into the basket and shot wildly, just biting the score, not letting the Rockets overtake the score so quickly, everything went according to plan.
It seems that Yao Ming scored 41 points before the third quarter was played, but Liu Mang's side was not bad, and when he only scored 3 points in the first seventeen minutes of the game, he silently increased the score to 24 points, Yao Ming slashed 27 points from the middle of the second quarter to the middle of the third quarter, and Liu Mang also scored 21 points silently!
The Rockets overtook the score, and Liu Mang saw that Yao Ming was so tired that he could only shoot, so he immediately called a timeout!
are all brothers, of course Liu Mang has to help Yao Ming get some time to rest!
Yao Ming breathed a sigh of relief, returned to the bench and sat on the chair, leaned on the chair with his head tilted and opened his mouth wide to rest, taking advantage of this rare break to take a good rest, Coach Van Gundy did not have the idea of calling a timeout, this half of the game The Rockets offense played very smoothly, the Hawks did not call a timeout, and Coach Van Gundy certainly did not call to avoid destroying the team's good offensive rhythm.
As for Liu Mang's side, is it really so kind to suspend Yao Ming's rest?
Just kidding! The unkind brother Yao Ming is ruthless to grab the title of the first person in China, of course his unrighteous brother wants to play the little giant to death!
People who like sports may understand that after an intense exercise close to the physical limit, if you brace hard, you can continue to hold at the physical limit for a while, but if you take a break after approaching the physical limit, it will be difficult to continue the intense exercise you just had! All the negative situations exploded straight at once.
But when you are at the limit of your physical fitness, you will definitely want to take a good rest when you have a break, and you can't think of that much at all.
Liu Mang knows too much about Yao Ming's physical problems, and this time Yao Ming can last so long in this situation, which is far beyond Liu Mang's expectations, but he finally carried it over, and did not let the Rockets use Yao Ming's physical strength to pull the difference apart, and after the pause came back, the Hawks changed the lineup of Liu Mang, Jason Terry, Prince, Rahim, and Kwame Brown, and the cavalry company was dispatched!
The Rockets have such a tight score, and they don't dare to replace Yao Ming, and now in addition to the Hawks, there are very few large-scale rotation systems with 10-man rotation in the league, and when the score is anxious, the Rockets continue to play with the main lineup, Francis, Mobley, Jim Jackson, Cato, and Yao Ming continue to come up.
The Hawks attacked, the ball in the front court, Liu Mang received the ball and dribbled to the top arc, beckoned Kwamei Brown to come out to block and dismantle, and through Kwamei Brown to block and dismantle straight to the basket, Kwamei Brown cut to the inside line at the same time, Liu Mang took the first step into the inside line to attract Yao Ming to the right side of the three-second zone, Liu Mang threw the ball high to the left side of the basket, Kwamei Brown rushed in and pressed the ball into the basket!
The Hawks overtook 81-80!
Yao Ming can't do it now if he wants to move sideways quickly!
It's not that in the first quarter, because of Liu Mang's threat, he was forced to pay attention to Liu Mang, but he really had no choice but to choose to defend one!
When it came to the Rockets' offense, Yao Ming couldn't move under the basket, and after receiving the ball in the middle distance, he shot in the block of Kwame Brown, but he felt good and hit the mid-range shot, and the Rockets once again led by 1 point.
The moment Yao Ming made a move, Rahim had already rushed back to the basket, picked up the ball and immediately sent it to Liu Mang, and the whole Eagles team impacted!
Yao Ming couldn't keep up, the Eagles played 4 5 in the frontcourt, and Liu Mang rushed to the front court to chase after a three-point shot...... Again!
84-82, the Eagles overtook the score again!
It's time for the Rockets to attack again, and Yao Ming received the ball on the left side of the three-second zone and played high!
Liu Mang rushed back to the basket as soon as possible, and after grabbing the rebound, he directly pushed the counterattack!
Yao Ming was able to rush through the half court last time when Liu Mang was chasing three points, and he couldn't run this time, but Yao Ming is the kind of character who does his best, and he struggles to chase back, the harder he works, the more bitter he becomes, and he saw Liu Mang take advantage of the threat brought by the last three points to make a sharp stop outside the three-point line to shake the pursuer and then accelerate into the inside line to make a layup......
After Yao Ming missed twice, Francis also saw that Yao Ming's physical fitness was not good! Much earlier than Francis remembered!
Francis has the impression that Yao Ming plays seven or eight minutes per quarter of the game, and the playing time is controlled to about 30 minutes, which can be maintained throughout the whole process.
However, today they encountered a little hooligan who did everything he could, and Yao Ming only hit the average in the third quarter, and his physical fitness collapsed!
Francis had no choice but to turn on the personal burst mode and confront the cavalry company of the Eagles.
In the second half of the third quarter, it was still able to hold on, and after the third quarter, the Hawks led 96-92, and the Rockets barely kept up with the rhythm, Yao Ming brought up the Rockets' easy shooting touch, and Yao Ming's physical fitness was too wide, and the Hawks' Kwame Brown defense had to pull out to defend, Raheem was too short to interfere, the Hawks were open under the basket, Cato's height was obviously dominant, and Francis organized the offense well.
But at the beginning of the fourth quarter, Van Gundy saw that Yao Ming couldn't hold on, so he reluctantly put him on the bench first and replaced him with Francis, Mobley, Jim Jackson, Morris Taylor, and Cato.
The Eagles, for their part, continue to field a combination of Liu Mang, Jason Terry, Prince, Raheem, and Kwame Brown.
Without Yao Ming, the Rockets' ball-holding threat was only Francis and Mobley, Liu Mang tried his best to limit Francis, Mobley was directly locked by Prince, and the Rockets collapsed in the fourth quarter!
Van Gundy pointed to the fact that the current lineup could last until Yao Ming rested enough to come up and threaten, but under the leadership of Liu Mang, the Hawks played a wave of 14-3 in more than three minutes in the fourth quarter, and stretched the difference to 15 points in one sentence!
Van Gundy called several timeouts in a row, but Yao Ming was not there, and the lineup gap between the two teams was reversed all of a sudden, Yao Ming's role for the Rockets was not something that others could replace, and the Hawks' advantage became very obvious, and by the middle of the fourth quarter, the Hawks had a 121-100 lead of 21 points!
Now, even if Yao Ming's physical strength is fully recovered, it is useless!
Van Gundy reluctantly replaced the main force and announced his surrender!
The Hawks also replaced the main team, Liu Mang scored 35 points and 12 assists, leading the Hawks to collapse the Rockets in the fourth quarter!
In the end, the Hawks defeated the Rockets 133-117 away!
It doesn't seem like a big difference, but the Rockets were beaten 25-8 by the Hawks in the fourth half of the fourth quarter, and the collapse was too bad, and it was impossible to describe the absolute crushing of the Hawks in the first half of the fourth quarter without a big victory!
Yao Ming's 43 points, 8 rebounds and 7 assists in the first three quarters looked like a dominating monster comparable to O'Neal, and the superstar in the third quarter was not just talking.
But under Liu Mang's strategy, and Jeff Van Gundy's poor on-the-spot command, no problems encountered by Yao Ming were found, although the playing time was well controlled, but Yao Ming was targeted at him and he didn't find out, the Rockets didn't seem to lose at all in the first three quarters to the Spurs, Lakers, Timberwolves, Nets and the full lineup of the Hawks, but the fourth quarter collapsed!
And Liu Mang quietly got 35 points, 12 assists and 6 rebounds, which is not inferior to Yao Ming's 43+8+7!