Now on the Rockets, Harden's offense has overshadowed the light of many people, including Paul, and now his teammates are strong, and he is willing to make the ball for his teammates, but don't forget, he is also a scoring master.

As a perennial All-Star starting point guard, there can be no carelessness, Conley was just a slight distraction, and Paul seized the opportunity.

Offense and defense switched, the Grizzlies had the ball, Marc Gasol still stood near the halfway line to respond, and in today's game, in addition to scoring, he also played a role in the middle of the team.

Parsons was not discouraged by the first offensive dunk of the ball, on the contrary, he became more confident, the dunk just now, although the dunk was flying, but also made Parsons feel that his injury has no effect on him.

Defending himself is his old teammate, Ariza, Parsons knows Ariza's ability very well, and if he wants to force him, it is almost impossible, so Parsons can only seek opportunities by constantly running and blocking.

Ariza, like Tony Allen, has a tough defense, but Ariza's trash talk is still a little bit worse, otherwise, this defense will definitely be the same as Bowen of the Spurs back then.

Still blocking without the ball, Parsons still ran directly to the basket, the ball was in the hands of Marc Gasol, and his hand shook, but the ball was not passed to Parsons, who cut in empty.

Mark Gasol found that Ariza's follow-up was really fast, and after Wright helped Parsons block and dismantle, he didn't listen to it, and ran in the direction of Parsons, and also ran towards the inside line.

Running to the average, suddenly there is an emergency stop, and running in the opposite direction towards the outside line.

Tony Allen stepped forward and made a pick-and-roll, and a flurry of pick-and-rolls gave Wright a great opportunity.

Marc Gasol passed the ball, and Wright paused, steadied himself, and threw the ball out.

Today's Tony Allen seems to be on the bar with Harden, constantly sticking to Harden, which makes Harden's physical decline particularly obvious, plus he is too chic, the first quarter of the game, just after the average, Harden's sweat is a lot more than usual.

By the end of the first quarter, on the offensive end, when Paul dribbled past half court, Harden stayed outside the three-point line, his hands on his knees, and the sweat on his head was dripping to the ground like droplets.

Oh no, Harden couldn't bear it, and Cheng Lei on the bench became worried.

The two teams played inextricably in the first quarter, and now the score is still twenty-four draws, whether they can enter the second quarter with the lead, just look at the last attack.

Due to the severe decline in physical fitness, Harden began to run less, just standing straight outside the three-point line, waiting to receive the ball.

Harden can't count on it now, and can only look at the rest of his teammates.

Ariza was very aggressive, constantly covering up with Anderson, and finally left Parsons behind and left him in the bottom corner on the other side.

Paul played a long game, the ball went to Ariza's hand, and Ariza opened his hand to shoot.

He lived up to his iron name, the sound of iron was still the same, and after Marc Gasol won the rebound, with three seconds left in the clock, the Grizzlies coach immediately called a timeout to arrange the final attack of the first quarter.

"Ray, you go up, replace Harden!" Coach D'Antoni saw that Harden was physically exhausted, and took advantage of the timeout to replace him directly.

After coming on the court, this last opportunity to attack was prepared for Tony Allen, that is, he saw that Harden was physically exhausted, and who knows, Harden was directly replaced.

"Young man, will you defend?" Tony Allen looked at Cheng Lei standing beside him and asked.

"What do you think?"

"You don't know how to defend, I'll teach you what it means to defend!"

"Huh!" Cheng Lei's answer was just two words, representing his mood at this time.

Run, cover, run, cover.

The Grizzlies sent the ball out and into the hands of Mark Gasol, and Cheng Lei defended Tony Allen in the same way he defended Harden, a kraft candy defense.

Originally, if Harden hadn't been replaced, Tony Allen would definitely have run out of the vacant position with his physical advantage, but now he is facing Cheng Lei and has not been able to run out of a good position.

The time was about to come to an end, and Marc Gasol had no choice but to force the ball out.

DUANG!

The ball didn't go in, and the first quarter ended with the two teams tied.

In the second quarter of the game, the two sides were surprisingly consistent in intention, the Grizzlies only replaced one Parsons and replaced Evans, and on the Rockets' side, Harden was replaced by Cheng Lei.

Today is to the end.

"Tony, you don't seem to be able to attack just now!" Cheng Lei seized the opportunity and spewed trash talk at the right time.

"You seem to be attacking very well, yes, young man, you still give a little tender!" Tony Allen shot back.

The two of them were like red-eyed roosters, chattering and spewing trash talk.

"Look, those two are kind of interesting!" Barkley said.

"Is this rookie still very confident, an average rookie, don't dare to come like this!" O'Neill said.

"Anyway, I admire this rookie very much, the defense is very strong, the offense, and I still need to hone more!"

"You can invite him to your training camp!"

"Hey, that's a great idea!"

After Cheng Lei received Paul's pass, he looked at Tony Allen defiantly, "Can you stop me?" ”

"Kid, when you say this, you should ask your boss Harden and ask him how he feels!"

The two of them pointed to Mai Mang, and no one let anyone talk trash talk.

Although Cheng Lei said so, but in the face of Tony Allen, he didn't dare to have any carelessness, people's defensive reputation was there, but it was not for nothing.

Cheng Lei's tentative steps seemed to have been seen through by Tony Allen, and he didn't accept Cheng Lei's deception at all, Cheng Lei wanted to break in, but couldn't find a little opportunity.

Since it is not possible to force a sudden attack, Cheng Lei can only choose to fight alone with his back and rely on brute force to eat.

Boom... Boom... Boom...

Cheng Lei slapped the ball hard, and the weight of his entire body was used to press Tony Allen, exerting all his strength and squeezing it in.

The rhythm is just right, and the continuous impact makes Tony Allen very painful, and Tony Allen didn't expect that Cheng Lei doesn't seem to have muscles, and his strength is indeed very good.

Boom... Boom...

The superposition of power finally made Tony Allen take a small step back, and Cheng Lei was waiting for this moment, the moment Tony Allen stepped back, he quickly turned around and faced the basket.

"If you want to be lazy, no way!" Tony Allen paused for a moment and pounced on Cheng Lei.

When the opportunity came, Cheng Lei dribbled to the left, opened up the distance, and shot.

scored the ball, scored two points, and studied with Olajuwon for a month, Cheng Lei's biggest gain is that no matter when, he can't be in a hurry, and he understands the importance of feints more and more.

"Oh, Tony, your defense isn't good either!" After the goal, Cheng Lei continued to trash talk at Tony.

This is Tony's first contact with Cheng Lei, he doesn't know much about Cheng Lei's routines, and he also despises Cheng Lei a little, so he was deceived by Cheng Lei, however, he also admitted that Cheng Lei is more mature than the average rookie, and rookies rarely make this kind of continuous shaking, but Cheng Lei did it.