Anthony was also quite happy after beating Cheng Lei twice in a row, which made him feel like he had when he first came to the league.

As a player of the same period as LeBron, Anthony was also a high-profile player when he first entered the league, and he has always been the main force of a team, and compared to LeBron's rookie season, Anthony may have a more comfortable life.

Although Cheng Lei can defend Anthony's strong breakthrough well, there is no way to face Anthony's unreasonable shooting, and then said, do you want to play a game, but the eggs are not guaranteed?

Although Anthony can score the ball by shooting, this does not mean that Cheng Lei will give up, no matter how he has to return Anthony, otherwise he will not be flattened by him.

After the ball passed the half, Cheng Lei took the initiative to ask for the ball like Paul.

When Paul saw Cheng Lei taking the initiative to ask for the ball, he also found an opportunity to pass the ball over for the first time.

After the ball arrived in Cheng Lei's hands, Harden also ran over for the first time to help Cheng Lei block and dismantle, Anthony may have seen through Harden's intentions and retreated a little in advance to avoid being directly blocked by Harden.

After the blocking and dismantling had no effect, Cheng Lei simply used the method that Anthony had just used, directly facing Anthony sideways, and then signaled everyone to pull away and want to single Anthony.

Originally, he was just dribbling the ball smoothly, but the moment Harden passed, Cheng Lei suddenly accelerated the speed of the dribble, dribbled with his left hand, and rushed directly towards the inside line.

Of course, Anthony also followed up as soon as possible, to guard against Cheng Lei, but, obviously, he didn't expect Cheng Lei's speed to be so fast.

After two dribbles, Cheng Lei directly increased his speed to the extreme, and before Anthony could fully react, Cheng Lei had already thrown off Anthony and rushed into the free throw line.

After taking a step into the fire, Cheng Lei's legs violently exerted force, the whole person jumped up, and after taking a step in the air, he held the ball high with his right hand and was about to smash it towards the basket.

and its violent style of play, I don't care if anyone comes up to block it.

It's the first time for Anthony to be so active in pursuit, if he had seen Cheng Lei pass him before, Anthony would definitely not be chasing and defending, and today, Anthony is also full of energy.

jumped up with all his strength and wanted to block Cheng Lei from behind, but he was still a step slow, and Cheng Lei threw the ball in front of him.

"Cameron, I'll give you back the ball first!" After scoring the goal, Cheng Lei said confidently to Anthony.

"Boy, count yourself lucky, next time, your luck may not be so good!" Anthony also shot back.

Barkley also looked at Cheng Lei and Anthony with interest, "It's a little interesting, are the two of them going to go head-to-head?" ”

"No, Cheng Lei shouldn't have reached Anthony's level, right?" Kenyon Martin said from afar.

"It's hard to say, the level shown by Cheng Lei now may still be a little different from Anthony, but the gap will not be too big!" Barkley said earnestly.

Judging from the confidence shown by Cheng Lei's attack, there are not many people in the alliance who can really restrain him.

After paying homage to Anthony, Cheng Lei immediately began to run and was ready to defend, as the current offensive core of the Knicks, Anthony will definitely be their current offensive core.

Sure enough, after Anthony got the ball outside the three-point line, he faced Cheng Lei, and all the Knicks players pulled away directly, which made it clear that they wanted to give Anthony a chance to play alone.

However, their interior Noah and Porzingis also made a quick block, and Anthony unexpectedly stuffed the ball directly into the interior.

After Noah received the ball, he made a small throw and scored two points quickly.

Didn't you say Anthony couldn't pass the ball? This ball doesn't look like someone who can't pass the ball!

The ball was back in the hands of the Rockets again, and this time, Anthony showed his true defensive level, a skill that is rarely shown in normal times.

Close defense, don't give Cheng Lei a chance at all, just the opportunity to connect the ball, don't give Cheng Lei, this kind of defense used to be LeBron, Kobe Bryant's treatment, and now, Anthony used him on Cheng Lei.

This is enough to prove Anthony's affirmation of Cheng Lei.

"Boy, if you score another goal in front of me, I'll admit your strength, how about it!"

"Then look at it!"

After Cheng Lei got the ball, he didn't rush to attack, first controlled the rhythm and looked at the position of the players on the field, his teammates didn't have a good chance, Cheng Lei could only choose to attack by himself.

After continuous dribbling, Cheng Lei quickly made a few crotch dribbles, and when the ball was changed to his left hand, Cheng Lei exerted his strength violently, his left leg was the axis, and the whole person turned around quickly like a spinning top.

As he turned, he made a quick back-to-back dribble with his left hand facing back.

After the ball was changed to the right hand, the whole person also turned around, the timing was just right, this move is also a trick that Cheng Lei often uses surprisingly difficult to use, when he saw Maddie use this trick, Cheng Lei was shocked, and since then, Cheng Lei has liked this trick.

Anthony didn't expect that Cheng Lei's movements would suddenly become so fast, and his turn was not rushing to break through at all, he didn't expect that Cheng Lei would make a circle on the spot.

When Cheng Lei completed this shot, the big screen at the scene also kept playing back the comparison between Cheng Lei's action and Maddie's action, although it was not as elegant as Maddie, Cheng Lei's action was also very chic.

The first quarter ended in the confrontation between the two, and the two pairs are still on the same running line, and the score is still tight.

At the beginning of the second quarter, when the two pairs of substitutes performed, on the Rockets' side, Zhou Qi, who had just recovered from injury, finally appeared on the court.

After playing an intra-team match last month, Zhou Qi has been recuperating from an ankle injury, and today, he was finally put in the list of appearances, and he also got the opportunity to play.

At the beginning, Zhou Qi was selected by the Rockets, and everyone thought that his development would be like Porzingis, but it turned out that Zhou Qi's playing style was still soft and did not achieve the expected results.

Fortunately, this season, after Cheng Lei joined Houston, Zhou Qi's performance slowly began to stabilize.

Now, Zhou Qi appears more in the position of big forward, and Deshuai uses him as Anderson, a tall battery, and the effect is still good.

The first attempt from beyond the three-point line was a smooth three-pointer.

The Rockets relied on their bench bandits and quickly took the lead.

By the time the main team came on, the Rockets had a four-point lead.

"It is worthy of being called a bench bandit, and the substitute firepower in it is so strong, it is estimated that only Team Rocket is there!" Barkley said.

Morey is worthy of being a ghost, he can always spend the least amount of money and get the best people, which is why the Rockets bench is so strong, because now the Rockets, except for Paul and Harden, the salaries of players in other positions are generally not very high.

(End of chapter)