Stockton is Stockton, stunned in the case of no physical advantage at all, with technology and experience, to help the Hawks tightly maintain the score, and when it came to the fifth minute of the second quarter, the Rockets finally tied the score, the two teams tied at 42, and the Hawks called a timeout.

Although Stockton had a few minutes of rest during the intermission, it was obvious that he couldn't hold on for 10 minutes in a row.

Liu Mang re-entered the game, bringing Jason Terry and Prince, Mohammed and Kwame Brown on the field.

The Rockets brought on Francis, Mobley, Jim Jackson, Morris Taylor, and Cato on the court.

Mobley is back, Morris Taylor is back, but Yao Ming is still resting, and Van Gundy Jr. is becoming more and more cautious about Yao Ming's use, wanting to rely on the outside line that played well in the first half of the second quarter to continue to hold on for a while and help Yao Ming retain a little more physical strength.

For this, the Hawks also thought of it, so for the time being, they have not implemented the defensive methods discussed by Liu Mang and Mike Woodson, but played normally.

Coming back from a timeout, the Hawks possessed the ball.

Liu Mang advanced to the frontcourt, Francis may not be so attentive to defend others, and Liu Mang is very active every time.

It's just, the more active Francis is, the easier it is for Liu Mang to pass him, Francis relies on his physical fitness and wants to rely on pressing to steal, but Francis's defensive awareness is really too poor, regardless of his height, his physical fitness may be better than Kobe Bryant and Maddie, but the defensive awareness is terrible, and pressing is a hard robbery.

As soon as Liu Mang arrived outside the three-point line, Francis pressed up, Liu Mang followed the action of Francis to press up and pulled the ball to the left, Francis pounced on the right side, Liu Mang easily left Francis behind him with a change of direction, and Francis flew out directly to the right.

Fighting Francis, Liu Mang is getting more and more experienced.

After passing Francis, Liu Mang entered the three-point line and rushed to the basket, Kwame Brown and Muhammad stuck their defenders on both sides of the three-second zone, and Liu Mang entered the basket in the middle and easily dunked to score two points.

Francis's defensive aggressiveness was positive, but the effect was really touching, and it was passed in one step, and the Rockets didn't even have time to help defend inside, and they were stuck by the expected Hawks inside.

Offense and defense switched, and the Rockets attacked.

Francis feels that he is about to be beaten by Liu Mang again, that feeling is very weak, now Liu Mang is no longer fighting with him by small tricks like in his rookie season, since last season, Liu Mang has not been very useless to him, and this year, Liu Mang's strength has obviously surpassed him.

This sense of powerlessness drives Francis crazy, and although his style of play has been criticized and his defense is surprisingly bad for his physical qualities, his fighting spirit and competitiveness have always been praised.

If you can't beat it, you have to make hard steel!

And Francis has a physical advantage over most people except for very few point guards such as Byron Davis, and he is ready to use his body to chisel hard!

The Hawks didn't send Ratliff or Rasheed Wallace, and Francis was confident that even if Liu Mang let him go two meters, he could go in and stir up the inside.

However, after Francis advanced to the frontcourt, he found that Liu Mang was waiting for him on the three-point line! No humiliating defense that retreats to the free throw line!

Francis was a little confused, but more ecstatic!

Finally have a chance to bully this bastard with his body!

Francis immediately got up and crushed towards the right side of Liu Mang's body, Liu Mang did not dodge, nor did he choose to retreat to the side, but took a step to the front position of Francis's breakthrough and lowered his center of gravity to wait for the impact!

At this moment, Francis's facial expression became hideous, and he bumped into Liu Mang with all his might, Liu Mang moved from behind, even if he knocked over, it was a blocking foul, and according to such a big blowing penalty scale this season, it is very likely that the foul will not be blown!

Francis slammed into Liu Mang hard, and then ......

Francis seemed to have hit a tumbler, Liu Mang's foot just retreated a little bit because of the force caused by the impact, Francis himself was stumbled by the force that he hit and rebounded, and Francis himself was knocked back!

Liu Mang's eyes were quick, and when Francis didn't control the ball in a panic, he bullied the ball and poked it out, and then immediately pounced to control the ball and counterattacked directly!

Francis was shocked and angry!

His whole body was about to explode, and he immediately chased after Liu Mang, and the speed of the two was comparable.

After Liu Mang arrived at the front court, he entered the free throw line and jumped up, changed the ball from his right hand to his left hand in the air, dodged the hand of Francis, who chased back and wanted to chase the hat, and dunked the ball into the basket with his left hand!

After Liu Mang landed, he patted the muscles in his chest, and said to Francis with a very sincere expression: "You have a lot of strength, I hit it a little painfully, but it's not enough, next time I use more force." ”

After speaking, Liu Mang turned around and returned to defense.

Francis looked at Liu Mang's figure and felt that he was dreaming? And it's a nightmare!

If it was after playing last season, until now it was the first time that the two had played against each other, if Francis was carried when he forcibly crushed Liu Mang by strength, he would still be able to accept it, but just over a month ago, on December 10, the two had to fight, at that time Liu Mang could only step back and defend and rely on the inside line to defend him, but it was only more than forty days later, and Liu Mang was able to carry him!

Francis is a little confused!

He didn't believe what was happening, and after Jim Jackson ran back to send the ball to Francis, Francis pushed in to continue singled Liu Mang.

However, Hayes was originally a well-known master of blocking and dismantling who could carry Howard and Bynum inside and change guards outside, Liu Mang relied on the strength of Hayes's star card to stabilize the next handicap, as well as his own better movement ability, and the single defense trapped Francis in the three-point line position!

Francis saw Liu Mang's contemptuous eyes and was smiling to defend himself, he was so angry!

Squeezing Liu Mang, Francis insisted on breaking through into the inner line, but under Liu Mang's defense, Francis's strength did not have as obvious advantages as before, standing up to confrontation, Liu Mang's strength was as high as 91, center-level, and even many jump-type centers were not as strong as Liu Mang, and the power of mobile confrontation Liu Mang also had 84, although it was not as good as Francis's terrifying 88 power, but it was enough to suppress Francis to the side.

Francis was forced to burst into the inside from the bottom line and came to the right edge of the three-second zone, at which time Kwame Brown blocked up and covered Francis's passing space with Liu Mang, and Francis could only stand up to Liu Mang and wanted to push Liu Mang up.

But when Francis squeezed Liu Mang to get strong, he didn't squeeze it! On the contrary, after Liu Mang arrived at the basket, the hot pot feast was triggered, and he accurately predicted Francis's action of picking up the ball, and cut the ball off with one palm!

Another steal!

This is not over, when it comes to the next round of rocket attack, Francis still loses his basic judgment, continues to break through, and in two consecutive rounds he wants to beat Liu Mang with the ball, counting the first steal, Francis was robbed by Liu Mang three times in a row!

After Liu Mang's second steal, Jason Terry and Prince immediately went down, using Jason Terry's ability to attract defense, Liu Mang passed to Prince who ran to a 45-degree angle on the right side, and Prince received the ball and shot a three-pointer.

After the third steal, the Rockets retreated and became vigilant and returned to defend as soon as possible, but the Hawks pressed up with five people, and the Rockets were not on a stable footing.

In just 59 seconds, the Hawks played a wave of 7-0 and called a timeout on the Rockets' side!

It's just a minute past and there is still a second left, and he was fucked 7-0, Van Gundy Jr. was angry and sprayed wildly at Francis, and it was not yet time for Yao Ming to play, Van Gundy Jr. tried to let Yao Ming play more in the first quarter and the last quarter, play three or four minutes at the end of the second quarter, and start playing for three or four minutes in the third quarter, so that Yao Ming has enough physical fitness to play the fourth quarter, which is a trick learned from the Lakers using O'Neal, Yao Ming's physical fitness is about the same as O'Neal at this stage, and the team with weak interior defense can play 378 minutes, playing a team with strong interior defense, can maintain the physical fitness of only about 30 minutes.

Van Gundy Jr. resisted the idea of replacing Yao Ming now, angrily reprimanded Francis's style of playing with the ball, and asked Francis to share the ball with Mobley and Morris Taylor and others to play a little more united.

Van Gundy Jr. relied on the style of play they played in the first half of the second quarter to make arrangements, the Rockets all three outside lines have ball-holding offense, the offensive effect is very good in the first half of the second quarter, this time Morris Taylor was replaced, Van Gundy Jr. is more confident, he feels that he was beaten 7-0 just now, it was completely Francis alone, a point guard was stealed three times in a row, which is too exaggerated in the eyes of Van Gundy Jr., it is the other party's luck is too good, Francis is a point guard, how can he be stealed so easily, It's all because Francis was careless and played too alone in these rounds.

And Francis could only nod with a dull expression, he still couldn't believe what had just happened, but the facts were in front of him, he couldn't even attack Liu Mang!

At this minute, Francis felt the kind of oppression of that bastard in Los Angeles from Liu Mang, and the feeling that the offense and defense were going to kill him!

Francis had no opinion on Van Gundy Jr.'s arrangement, he ...... Cowardly!

Neither team made any substitutions, continuing the lineup just now.

However, after returning from a timeout, the Rockets' offense still couldn't open even though Francis began to share the ball.

Liu Mang locked Francis, mainly because Francis didn't expect this situation at all, when Francis didn't expect Liu Mang to be able to carry his strength, he was robbed by Liu Mang three times, which made Francis lose his accurate judgment and was beaten, and in the next confrontation with Liu Mang, he completely ignored that he still had skills, and he couldn't carry Liu Mang and passed it out.

And Mobley, on the other hand, met Prince......

Mobley is good, very good, quite a good quasi-first-class star, breakouts, three-pointers, stop-and-go jump shots and basket pull-up rods are all very good, but in the face of Prince, except for three-point strong shots and pull-up jump shots, he has no way at all, strong shots can still be thrown back, Prince's height, arm span and mobility are terrible for non-top physical fitness outside linemen!

As for Morris Taylor, when he encountered the defense of Muhammad and Kwame Brown under the basket, pulled out and was targeted to death by Muhammad, and wanted to be shot to death by Kwame Brown under the basket, Cato was an ornament on the offensive end, except for the second offense and a direct dunk layup after receiving the ball, he had no offensive ability.

Jim Jackson ...... It's to blame Pat Riley, he's now completely a shooting offensive rebounding impactor, in addition to fixed-point shooting and strategy, the offensive end is also impacting rebounding, entering the interior to meet Kwame Brown and Muhammad, there is no chance at all, Jim Jackson can only shoot under Jason Terry's interference, and the efficiency is not high.

The Rockets called a timeout and didn't call it, the difference was that the strong pitchers changed from Francis to Mobley and Jim Jackson, and the two of them could shoot.

Counting that wave of 7-0, starting in the fifth minute of the second quarter, the Hawks played three and a half minutes and played a wave of 16-6 scoring shockwaves, that is, Jim Jackson and Mobley felt good today, and one of them made a three-pointer.

Van Gundy Jr. called a timeout again.

The Rockets with Yao Ming and the Rockets without Yao Ming are completely two teams, less than 30 winning teams and the Western Conference playoff powerhouses!

The Rockets scored 48 points with three and a half minutes left, which can be said to be a good offensive performance, but the Hawks scored 58 points!

Seeing that it was up to Yao Ming's time to play, Van Gundy Jr. hurriedly changed the starting lineup, trying to chase the score back between halftime.

The Hawks also began to make substitutions, and Coach Kruger seemed to be a little desperate for this substitution, but in the first half of the first quarter and the last time he played against the Rockets, it has been proven that when Yao Ming is physically fit, the conventional defense can't prevent it at all, and when Ratliff is there, Yao Ming is still very smart to open up the space to play, play mid-range shooting and reverse running basket catch-and-shoot shots, and can't prevent it at all.

Unless the Eagles have the super defensive stalwart Mutombo from the late 90s, and a top blue-collar power forward, they have a chance to defend against the combination of Yao Ming and Morris Taylor.

Therefore, Coach Kruger can only give it a try for the unreliable defense that Liu Mang and Mike Woodson have studied, and he can't just watch Yao Ming come back and eat away at the point difference! Sure that Yao Ming is going to start to chisel the basket when he comes back now, then he must be trapped, and he can't watch Yao Ming eat strongly, so that the Rockets' offense will be revitalized again.

Liu Mang's side also went up with the mentality of giving it a try, anyway, he opened a 10-point difference just now, you can give it a try, and if it doesn't work, let's talk about it.

Liu Mang now understands why some people say that Yao Ming's inside teammates are bad in the future, if Yao Ming is there, his inside partner looks very powerful, because Yao Ming takes away the defense, his inside teammates look good, but Yao Ming is not there, and his inside teammates look like how spicy and spicy chicken.

Mike Woodson called out a few players who were going to play with Liu Mang to draw tactics together, and Liu Mang walked on the court to twist his waist to prepare, and then he was going to do big things!

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The two teams began to rotate, and the Rockets switched to an all-starting lineup in an attempt to chase down points before the end of the second quarter.

Yao Ming is ready to kill all sides on the inside!

Although Ratliffe or Kwame Brown's single defense is good, there is only one person, and if Rashid Wallace is not there, Yao Ming is very confident, just him! And he was also ready for Muhammad or Boozer to flank with Ratliff, anyway!

However, Yao Ming saw that the lineup sent by the Hawks was Liu Mang, Jason Terry, Prince, Raheem, and Ratliff.

This is a bit incomprehensible, Yao Ming knows that Raheem has a good defense, and he can also defend against power forwards, and it is also difficult to defend against Morris Taylor! And Yao Ming is confident that even if Raheem and Ratliff pinch him together, he can directly chisel in and dunk hard, and when he hit the Pistons before, Ben Wallace and Bosh together couldn't stop him.

Yao Ming only had one idea, thinking that probably the Eagles wanted to speed up the counterattack, and he was confident that as long as he was stable on the offensive end, he could stop the cavalry tactics of the Eagles and not give them a chance to grab rebounds and counterattack!

The timeout ends, and the Rockets have the ball.

Francis advanced to the front court, saw Liu Mang retreat to the free throw line to defend, and didn't go to the fight, he wanted to finish the game quickly and go home to figure out what happened!

Yao Ming stuck Ratliff under the basket with his strong lower body strength, although Ratliff also has strong lower body strength, but this time, he felt like he had met O'Neal, although he didn't have O'Neal's irascible explosiveness, but Yao Ming was very stable! Stuck in position with static force.

Francis hoisted the ball to Yao Ming.

Although Yao Ming has a strength advantage, it is not big, and it is okay when he is stuck, but now he needs to fight with his life!

Yao Ming just received the ball, and suddenly saw Liu Mang shrink directly to the basket!

That position is not the kind of station where the outside line is sandwiched by the inner line, but the position where two inside lines are sandwiched!

Yao Ming obviously felt that as long as he knocked away from Ratliff and turned around, Liu Mang would pounce to form a pinch, and it was a pinching attack on the ball!

If it's two interior defenses, as long as it's not a combination like Rashid Wallace and Ratliff, Yao Ming doesn't care so much, just do it, but Liu Mang is so short, it's too easy to cut the ball off!

Seeing Liu Mang retreat to that position, Francis immediately cut from the middle to the inside, Yao Ming immediately divided the ball to cut in Francis, Francis rushed straight to the basket, he felt that if he rushed up like this, Liu Mang couldn't stop it even if he was strong, not to mention Liu Mang, he rushed up to the basket at full speed, and the center couldn't stop it!

But as soon as Francis entered the free throw line, he saw Rahim block in front of him, just when Yao Ming just split the ball, Rahim blocked it, and at the same time, Ratliff began to go around Yao Ming, Yao Ming was on the right edge of the three-second zone, this little distance was very embarrassing, he did not have the ability to run back to get rid of the front, Liu Mang switched to Morris Taylor.

Francis immediately distributed the ball to Morris Taylor on the left, expecting his teammates to knock Liu Mang over and dunk directly!

Morris Taylor received the ball a little outside the left side of the three-second zone, and when he saw Liu Mang behind him, he felt that he finally had the opportunity to play that coquettishly in the first half of the first quarter!

It may take a little effort to beat Rahim, but to beat the little man who is more than 1.9 meters, Morris Taylor leaned on Liu Mang to slap the ball to the ground, squeezed it hard, and it was useless to hit an opponent with a height difference of such a large standing in the low position, and he definitely hit people with the ball, so he squeezed it.

When Morris Taylor squeezed up, he had already begun to fantasize about what action to use to dunk, but when his strength was exerted on Liu Mang, he found that the other party was like nailing to the floor, and he couldn't squeeze at all!

Maurice Taylor squeezed a little more unbelievingly, but still couldn't squeeze!

Morris Taylor, as a big forward, has a strength of 83, even if he has a weight advantage, he is at most a wave with Rahim, but Liu Mang's current lower limb strength is the level of a real center with strong lower limb strength, blocking Morris Taylor to death!

Morris Taylor didn't squeeze it, he was surprised, and chose to turn around and cut in, wanting to rely on his weight and height to deal with Liu Mang, and he couldn't squeeze it, so turn around and suppress the weight of the general!

Morris Taylor turned from the baseline and wanted to attack the basket directly for a layup, not to expect to be domineering, and to play honestly.

Just when Morris Taylor turned around and wanted to squeeze Liu Mang away, Liu Mang also judged that the other party would definitely not be able to bear it like this, but the disadvantage of his short height and light weight can also become an advantage! Liu Mang saw Morris Taylor turn around and press on him, and suddenly took a step back and withdrew his chair to defend!

Maurice Taylor didn't expect this at all, it was too late to regain the force he pressed on and the upper body that had already made a move, and he lost his center of gravity and fell to the ground!

The ball is out of bounds, the Eagles baseline ball!

Everyone at the scene was stunned, Liu Mang's defense of Morris Taylor, an opponent with a height gap of 13 cm and a weight gap of 15 kg, actually defended one-on-one in the low position!

Rao is Eagles players have blind confidence in Liu Mang, when Mike Woodson arranged this defense, they all felt that it was too unreliable, but in line with their trust in Liu Mang, they felt that Liu Mang must have some small tricks, so they did their best to implement it, but they didn't expect Liu Mang to defend like that, resist hard, and then really defend Morris Taylor so much that he could only go to the bottom line and rely on his weight to suppress, and then Liu Mang withdrew his chair to prevent him from lying down!

The Hawks still had a tactical arrangement and were a little mentally prepared before, and the Rockets were going crazy, especially Francis, he didn't expect that he couldn't carry Liu Mang, and Morris Taylor didn't just get it!

. T's big fat man was also frightened, how did he feel that this scene was so familiar?

But this guy, that size, is not the type to be able to defend like this at all!

Taking advantage of the dead ball, Coach Kruger followed the plan and replaced Boozer on the offensive end if he could replace Boozer.

Originally, if there was Rashid Wallace, it wouldn't have been so troublesome, but now it's not nothing.

The Eagles attacked, and Liu Mang went to serve and sent the ball to Jason Terry.

Jason Terry advanced with the ball, and after Liu Mang ran to the front court, he didn't ask for the ball alone or to open up the space, but ran to the inside and asked for the ball in the low post on the right side!

Boozer pulled a step inside the three-point line at a 45-degree angle on the right side and pulled Yao Ming out, Raheem went to the left corner to open up space, Prince went to the right corner to open up space, and Jason Terry hoisted the ball to Liu Mang, who stuck Francis in the three-second zone.

Liu Mang has the ability to play in the low post, which was shown by Xiao Lu last season, and when he played the Nets this year, he was once used as a conventional offensive means, and the Rockets were not particularly surprised.

And Francis has excellent physical fitness, has played against Kobe Bryant a lot, and compared with the low post defense and the outside defense, Francis has unexpectedly done a good job, and the Rockets players are still very relieved that Francis wants to defend Liu Mang in the low position.

However......

Liu Mang received the ball and observed the position of himself and the basket, stabilized it for two seconds, waited until his teammates completely opened the space, slapped the ball, and hit Francis directly, and then turned to the left to turn the ball to the basket with his right hand, and stuck on the line where Francis was going to move left, directly relying on the strength of the waist and abdomen to squeeze Francis away, forcibly squeezed into the inner line to catch the ball with both hands, jumped on the spot, jumped high, and smashed the ball into the basket with both hands!

Everyone at the scene looked stupid, when did Francis become so good? Both offensive and defensive ends were blown into slag!

The most surprising thing is that Liu Mang's playing style seems familiar!

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