"Use the Hayes Star Card."

"Ding...... The host uses Chuck Hayes 2010-2011 version of the star card, and the time limit for this game can obtain matching bonus attributes: comprehensive strength 90, lower limb strength 100...... Sixty percent fit, ...... in ability matching bonus"

"Ding...... The host's overall strength increased to 84, and the lower limb strength increased to 91. ”

"Ding...... Due to the impact of the surge in lower limb strength, the host's speed is increased to 95 and the bounce is increased to 94. ”

Liu Mang obviously felt that the waist and hips were more powerful!

Instead of using O'Neal and Ben Wallace star cards to feel full of strength all over his body, he also felt that his upper body strength was a little different, but it didn't have much impact, mainly the strength of his lower limbs, which was obviously very different!

Ben Wallace's lower body strength can only be said to be excellent, every time he meets Yao Ming, he is beaten, and Yao Ming can easily score 20 points on Ben Wallace's head in his rookie year, Yao Ming just cut a 25 points, 20 rebounds and 5 blocks on Ben Wallace's head a while ago.

O'Neal's lower limb strength mainly comes from tonnage, not to mention Howard's lower limb strength.

And Hayes, this lower limb strength is too exaggerated!

Liu Mang only improved to the strength of his lower limbs to 91, and he obviously felt that his lower limbs were more powerful, far stronger than the strength of his upper body.

It's a bit of a mouthful!

Sure enough, just like Liu Mang thought, the star cards of role players sometimes have a very different effect.

This is the third game to play at home without the roar of Rashid Wallace, feeling a little unaccustomed, Liu Mang stood at his free throw line and waited to receive the serve.

On the other side, the Rockets players are ready to step back and defend.

Yao Ming and Ratliff came to the center circle to jump the ball, and the two jumped the ball for half a pound and eight taels, both of which made the home team fans feel congested.

The referee blows the whistle and the game begins, throwing the ball into the air.

The two jumping ball weakers both jumped up and reached for the ball, Yao Ming flicked the ball back with a slight advantage, and the Rockets attacked first.

Liu Mang came to the top arc and waited for Francis to come over.

The Hawks' judgment on the Rockets' offense is that the Rockets will definitely give the ball to Yao Ming again.

However, unexpectedly, Yao Ming pulled to the middle distance, and instead of hitting Ratliffe, he came to the middle distance to open up the space and pulled Ratliff out, destroying the Eagles' idea of using Ratliff's defensive advantage to deal with Yao Ming at the beginning!

There are not many times that Ratliff and Yao Ming have played one-on-one, and the two have not played head-to-head this season, but Yao Ming didn't get a favor with Ratliff last season, so he simply pulled Ratliff out.

Francis passed the ball to Maurice Taylor in the middle of the baseline, Maurice Taylor received the ball box and singled Boozer, leaned up and pressed Boozer to turn around, Maurice Taylor cut inside and made an easy layup to score two points.

Liu Mang was ready to retreat to the free throw line to defend and prepare to pinch Yao Ming, but when he saw Yao Ming pull it out, he thought that the Rockets were going to play blocking and dismantling, and Liu Mang expanded to the three-point line, but he didn't expect the Rockets to attack from Morris Taylor!

The last time the two teams met, Ratliff took turns to rest, and Boozer didn't defend Yao Ming, but Rasheed Wallace defended Morris Taylor to death, and Boozer defended Maurice Taylor, and was passed by one step.

Liu Mang can obviously see that the Rockets' playing style has changed since it was determined that Morris Taylor replaced Kevin Cato as the starter! When the opponent has a defensive warrior under the basket, pulling away to shoot obviously consumes less for Yao Ming.

Such a player with a mid-range shot and a giant under the basket is simply amazing.

The Rockets immediately returned to defense after scoring, and Liu Mang received the serve and advanced to the frontcourt.

The Eagles' style of play is also clear, seeing Francis's menacing defensive posture, although Liu Mang plays Francis very easily, the team's goal is not him, but Yao Ming!

Ratliff came out to block Liu Mang, Yao Ming had to follow, and if he stayed under the basket for Morris Taylor to come out, he could be shot to death by Boozer or suddenly killed.

With the help of Ratliffe's blocking, Liu Mang's blocking and dismantling master level 5 was triggered, and the speed skyrocketed, passing by Yao Ming's side like the wind, Francis was blocked by Ratliffe, and Yao Ming couldn't keep up with Liu Mang's speed at all.

The Rockets' defense of Liu Mang is more than this defense, Jim Jackson, who has been transformed by Pat Riley for two years, played very actively, and when Liu Mang wanted to block and dismantle, he judged that Yao Ming and Francis could not prevent Liu Mang's blocking and dismantling, and stuck in front of Liu Mang for the first time, Liu Mang shook his hand and passed the ball to Rahim on the bottom line, Rahim received the ball and rushed into the basket, Morris Taylor was too late to make up the defense, so he could only try his best to move to the right side of the Nets, seeing that Raheem could directly block the dunk, but he passed!

Raheem threw the ball to the left side of the basket and Boozer scored two points with an easy open catch.

It is quite a team selfless transmission and cooperation, but Liu Mang is bleeding in his heart when he sees this scene...... Raheem has assists, Boozer has scored, he has nothing!

Liu Mang turned around and returned to defense with resentment, which was even more unhappy with the Rockets, especially that Morris Taylor, who couldn't defend Boozer well, so he had to find something to do and learn from Cato to make up for it.

However, Morris Taylor is not good on the defensive end, he does a good job on the offensive end, averaging 17 points and 6 rebounds per game in the last two years of his rookie contract, and the Clippers' strategy in recent years is that no matter how good the rookie plays, he will not want to renew the contract when the contract expires, so the Rockets can take Morris Taylor with a contract that exceeds the middle class.

It's just that Morris Taylor played for a year after he arrived with the Rockets and basically didn't improve, and the Rockets wanted an interior core level player, so they abandoned him and cultivated Eddie Griffin, but Eddie Griffin was also useless, and later got Yao Ming, and the interior core was established.

But now as a role player, Morris Taylor's value is shown.

There was a mid-range shot, Ratliff went to defend, Morris Taylor pulled the mid-range shot, and Boozer defended to hit the basket.

And after Yao Ming pulled it out, he saw Boozer's defense, and immediately cut back to the basket, although Boozer was also tired, it was much better than playing Ratliff, and Yao Ming began to rage under the basket again.

The Hawks tried to shrink from the outside, and Jim Jackson's rebounding impact, Mobley's three-pointers, and Francis' open cut were all excellent.

Rashid Wallace is not there, the Hawks' interior defense has indeed dropped a notch, and if Muhammad or Kwame Brown is brought up to play as a big forward when Yao Ming is there, the independent offense of the interior players is basically gone, and the mid-range shooting is completely gone, so they can only rely on Liu Mang to organize the offense, especially Kwame Brown, which directly consumes the physical strength of the two big centers.

Therefore, the Eagles can only use Liu Mang and Ratliffe's blocking and dismantling to consume Yao Ming, and at the same time attack or respond to the offense, and try their best to defend on the defensive end.

Obviously, no one on either side could prevent anyone from the other side of the game, and the Hawks trailed the Rockets by 2 points at 16-18 in the first quarter.

Liu Mang got 6 points and 2 assists in more than half a quarter, and he didn't deliberately increase his shots today, this game was much more difficult to play than those weak teams when he won seven consecutive games.

Whether it was Liu Mang or the Hawks coaching staff, they didn't expect the Rockets to assist Morris Taylor today, and it worked wonders!

With 7 points and 3 assists in the first quarter, Morris Taylor gave Mobley a three-point pass assist, Yao Ming squeezed Boozer and ran back to the basket with an open dunk, and a free cut for Francis.

Now Morris Taylor has a good center teammate, a pitcher on the outside, and the ball in his own hand, playing the feeling of a rising star back then, at the age of 28, he is at the peak of his career, although the technique has not improved much, but as long as it suits his style of play, his teammates are better, and the Rockets are following the trend of the league this year, and the stars are also willing to sacrifice to let teammates with better chances score, Morris Taylor played a very good start today.

Liu Mang thinks that today's performance of Morris Taylor is really amazing, which is a little different from the memory that Yao Ming did not have a good power forward as a helper, although Morris Taylor is not the top, but the offensive end is still very good.

The Rockets grabbed Rashid Wallace not in this defect, and kept the defect that no one else could shoot on the inside except for Boozer, and Yao Ming's defensive mask under the basket, and the Hawks could only attack at the beginning!

Moreover, when Yao Ming came up with only 1 of 2 shots and 2 free throws, and only scored 4 points in the first quarter, the Hawks failed to gain an advantage.

But when it comes to rotating the lineup, the Eagles' advantage comes out.

At the end of the official timeout, the Hawks replaced Liu Mang with Stockton, and brought Prince, Jason Terry, Boozer, and Kwame Brown to play.

The Rockets, on their side, sent Mark Jackson to deal with Stockton, as well as Mobley, Witherspoon, and Morris Taylor, who played well today, continued to play, and Cato replaced Yao Ming.

So far, the all-time assist king and the second-place all-time assist list are in the showdown.

The duel sounds loud, but in fact, one of them is in his 40s, and the other is almost 40, and both of them are already past their prime.

Moreover, the assist king in his 40s is far stronger than the one who has not yet reached 40, and after the two sides rotate the lineup, the Hawks have a clear advantage.

The Rockets can only rely on the old cat Mobley to play alone, Mark Jackson is now just passing the ball to the right teammates, he has long lost the ability to tear apart the opponent's defense with his big ass, and Stockton still has an offensive threat.

Morris Taylor withered without Yao Ming to attract the best defenders, Cato basically had no scoring ability, Boozer defended him, and Maurice Taylor met Kwame Brown...... It's miserable.

In the second half of the first quarter, Francis and Yao Ming were not there, and the Hawks relied on the old and young version of the duo to lead the team to easily overtake the score in the last five minutes.

At 33-29, the Hawks went into the break with a four-point lead.

……

After returning from the break, the game started before the second quarter, and Stockton, who was in good shape and had 2 points and 2 assists in the first quarter, continued to play, taking the combination of Jason Terry, Raheem, Mohammed, and Kwame Brown.

The Rockets brought on Francis, Witherspoon, Jim Jackson, Charles Oakley, Cato on their side.

The Rockets are obviously going to scare on the outside, and the inside line is replaced by the two defensive combinations of veterans Oakley and Cato.

At the beginning of the second quarter, Stockton struggled to maintain a slight lead with Muhammad, Raheem, and Kwame Brown in the pick-and-roll.

Liu Mang didn't replace Stockton here, he went to fight against the Rockets outside trio, he went up with Stockton and his teammates to block and dismantle, the effect is not much worse, the Rockets are not those weak teams during the seven-game winning streak, the Rockets' outside trio firepower is really fierce, Prince wants to rest, Liu Mang and Rahim can prevent the two of them from preventing the third, they are all playing against each other, the Hawks coaching staff would rather let Stockton go up for a while, Stockton plays more than ten minutes per game in the regular season, which is also very good for the Hawks playoffsto maintain the status of a veteran.

Liu Mang was discussing defense with Mike Woodson, and Mike Woodson's face was getting worse and worse.

"Mike, do it or do it?"

Mike Woodson rolled his dead fish eyes and looked at Liu Mang, could he have any other choice?