On the morning of March 21, Beijing time, the Portland Trail Blazers' thirteen-game winning streak was ended by the Houston Rockets at home.

115 to 111.

The strong team in the west and the favorite to win the championship are judged.

But the course of the game was not as clear as the final result. With the Trail Blazers holding the lead for more time and the two sides still locked in the fourth quarter, the Rockets relied on James Harden's MVP-level performance to open the gap.

And it was Yang Yiming who escorted the victory of the Rockets.

His offensive rebounds, to be exact.

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Before entering the final battle, Yang Yiming played 26 minutes, scoring 18 points, 7 rebounds and 1 steal, but there was only one offensive rebound, and the assists and blocks were all zero.

In the fourth quarter, the Rockets finally slowly picked up momentum and turned the score behind. Coach D'Antoni arranged for Yang Yiming to sit on the bench all the time, and waited until the Rockets led 104-100 with four minutes left in the game, and called a regular timeout on the court, before finally waving the flag and sending him to replace PJ Tucker.

Capela, Yang Yiming, Ariza, Harden, Paul.

The Rockets Five Tigers take on the Trail Blazers' Nurkic, Aminu, Harkraz, CJ McCollum, and Lillard!

The Trail Blazers' role players played exceptionally well today, and at the end of the timeout, Nurkic was going to take Capela hard, and Aminu slipped to the basket with an outside line without the ball. Nurkic proved that he also had a good passing hand that did not lose to his former teammate "Mr. Yoo", and Aminu arrived at the ball, who put the ball into the board with an extremely twisted posture against Yang Yiming's supplementary defense.

But no matter how strong a role player is, he must be taught to be the only MVP on the court after all. James Harden turned around, took advantage of Yang Yiming's blocking and dismantling cover, and got Nurkic who had just shown his hand in front of him, he broke through and killed countless times today, and he didn't hesitate to take the ball, and he was going to kill inside!

Nurkic jammed Harden's right hand, and teammate Harkless, who was on the left, was ready to come up and pinch him.

Who knew that Harden braked suddenly, collected the ball in one step, jumped in another step, and retreated to the outside of the three-point line in minutes. Even though Nurkic is seven feet tall, he can only let Harden play his famous trick - a three-point step back. He didn't dare to pounce too hard, Harden's shot was still in the air, the ball was still flying, Nurkic had turned to look back, and the more than 20,000 fans in the stadium watched the ball hollow into the net in despair.

Yang Yiming, who was not far from the place of the incident, felt that Nurkic was just like the fans, and sighed regretfully on the spot. 107 to 102!

In 3 minutes and 21 seconds, the advantage of the rocket came to 5 points!

There is no doubt that the Trail Blazers' hopes of turning defeat into victory at this point all fall to Agent 0 Damian Lillard!

But the drama of this lonely hero, not only the Trail Blazers fans know it!

Yang Yiming, as a player who once gave the Trail Blazers 4 blocks in a row in 6 minutes, knows better!

Lillard broke through the duo of Capela and Paul and slotted into the restricted area. Yang Yiming in the penalty area waited for a long time, and saw the timing of his jump to block the interference! The ball pops out of the frame, and teammate Ariza takes the rebound! The first cap hot pot came at the right time.

Team Rocket's counterattack.

Ariza, who protected the rebound, passed the ball to Paul, Paul dribbled, and Harden blocked and dismantled. Paul dribbled across the halfcourt, faced the three-point line and jumped to Ariza at 45 degrees on the right side, and Ariza transitioned to Yang Yiming on the baseline - that's right! Yang Yiming, who was still guarding the penalty area just now, had already rushed to the farthest position in the entire stadium! He received the ball, opened the gap with Ariza's one-block cover, and hit a three-point jumper!

110 to 102!

The Trail Blazers had to pause to stop the bleeding!

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2 minutes and 43 seconds.

The suspension ends.

Nurkic first assisted Aminu on behalf of the Trail Blazers and pulled back two points from a mid-range shot.

The Rockets continue to rely on Harden. Harden and Yang Yiming are still the same old routine, switching defenses after blocking and dismantling, Harden breaks through, and he pauses at the free throw line. This simple change of pace disrupted Nurkic's defense, after all, he had a painful experience of being beaten back by Harden in the previous round, but the more he hesitated, the more unpredictable Harden became. Nurkic was ready to save to block the three-pointer, but Harden stopped and got up again, just past him, and the basket was open!

A steady high hand layup!

But to everyone's surprise, the more steady the shot, the more Harden actually didn't enter!

But fortunately, among all these people who take it for granted, Yang Yiming is not included!

After blocking and dismantling, he had already cut into the basket, and after Harden made a basket, he was like a director who had arranged the ball in advance to get out of the script, and before the ball finished spinning on the hoop, he was already stuck on the line of the reasonable collision zone in advance. The rebounding protectors of the Trail Blazers all jumped half a second early, and Yang Yiming took advantage of the time difference and standing position to snatch the rebounds over the high-standing inside forest!

Without a chance to shoot, Yang Yiming controlled the ball and observed that Paul and a black figure were close to each other, and there was a red lonely figure standing on the outside in the corner of his eye, and he chose to pass the ball to the latter!

It was Harden who just lost the basket and was on the way to retreat!

Brother Hu Zi received the ball while retreating, and when the ball was in his hand, the person was already outside the three-point line. Lillard's defense didn't help, this time it's a drift dry three-pointer!

The huge Moda Center Arena made a silent shot -

At 113 to 104, the Rockets almost killed the game.

But even if everyone gave up, there would still be one member of the Trail Blazers who said no! He's the star Lillard. Before the arena fans could recover their strength, Lillard had already single-handedly rushed to the Rockets half. He dummered a shot, causing Capela to foul. Foul from beyond the three-point line! Three free throws!

The three balls fall into the pocket in turn.

Nurkic, who was beaten twice in a row, was not transferred this time and blocked Harden's throw on the inside. The ball was converted, and Lillard launched a counterattack again, passing Capela and Ariza through flowers, and facing Paul to score the ball!

It's only four points off.

Lillard is not to be outdone, and the second leader of the Trail Blazers, CJ McCollum, is not to be outdone. With Paul's dry pull missing, he threw a shot to chase two more points.

113-111, a 7-0 run away at the Rockets' advantage with just two points left and 28 seconds remaining.

Coach Mike D'Antoni didn't call a timeout!

The Rockets have to believe in the talent of their players on the court, and the Trail Blazers have to believe that they can hold this round!

A battle for talent.

But no one thought that in the end, the talent would be the Chinese on the field!

The Rockets' last attack was not executed successfully, Harden did not shake off Lillard, and handed the ball to Yang Yiming on the outside to transition. With 7 seconds left in the offensive time, Lillard was entangled in front of Harden, and Yang Yiming had no chance to pass! 5 seconds! He saw that Paul had an angle to catch the ball, and he stuffed the ball for Paul to deal with! 3 seconds! Paul dribbled the ball under his crotch and buried his head in McCollum, McCollum did not hesitate to pay for the foul, but Paul shook his ball arm away, 1 second! Paul's right hand throw!

The ball hits the back edge of the basket and doesn't go in!

Just one second after this decisive victory, Yang Yiming, who was still responding outside the three-point line, rushed into the penalty area. Like a god in the dark, he hit the basket before Paul shot, squeezed all the players away, and immediately ran in the opposite direction, and the ball Paul missed jumped between Yang Yiming and the free throw line. He picked up the rebound and rushed out of the box, Aminu hurriedly hugged the foul, but the timer was gone!

Rockets are in danger!