The night after the game against the Washington Wizards must have been a sleepless night for the Rockets.

At least for Yang Yiming, although his body has been occupied by tiredness, his sleepiness is like an old friend who has lost contact, and there is no news.

What he remembered over and over again was the image of the game.

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Yang Yiming hasn't had insomnia like this for a long time.

Since coming to the NBA, the high frequency of games and the almost non-stop travel have made his sleep quality high, and he can sleep almost every night, but today sleeping seems to have become a luxury that cannot be enjoyed.

Yang Yiming only remembers this experience when he first started playing basketball. At that time, he was still in elementary school, and he was often dragged to play with junior high school and even high school students who were several years older than him. Although he is not as tall as a middle and high school student, his technique is the best, and once he has the ball, few people can snatch it again. At that time, Steve Curry had not yet become famous, but Yang Yiming played with the eldest child and had Curry's current style in the NBA: fancy dribbling, threading the needle, breaking through the layup, and even the shooting posture of the child who shot from the chest due to lack of strength was a little similar to Curry.

So every time he came back after playing wild ball, Xiao Yang Yiming tossed and turned at night, and he couldn't sleep for a long time because he recalled his highlight performance during the day. Every breakthrough, every time he enters the basket, he will take it out and touch it carefully, and taste it repeatedly. Just like a whole box of delicious candies received on a child's holiday, it is rare that you no longer have to be subject to the control of preventing tooth decay, but you have become extremely cherished.

This game with the Wizards is actually not without highlights worth remembering.

Yang Yiming had 5 rebounds, 3 blocks and 1 steal in this game, which can be regarded as a continuation of his recent defensive performance.

One offensive rebound in 5 rebounds - Capela continued to be absent from the Rockets' interior line, and Yang Yiming could only share most of the interior defense tasks with the old Brazilian center Nene. He came off the bench and midway through the second quarter Eric Gordon hit a three-pointer with a positive trajectory and a little less force. He was caught in the bag of the Wizards' three interior linemen, Gortat, Porter Jr., and Morris, and seeing that he was outnumbered and had no hope of fighting for the rebound, he was in a hurry, pretending to jump a second before the ball hit the basket, but in fact, only his toes gently left the ground. The Wizards were on the inside line, lest Yang Yiming snatch the basketball, and scrambled to jump into the air, but he didn't expect this three-point shot to smash in front of the basket, bounce high, and stop in the air for at least half a second before falling. Yang Yiming, who was the last to come, took advantage of the fact that the three of them had not jumped up again, jumped hard, and scored the ball directly in the air!

One of his steals and blocks was also quite spectacular. At that time, the Wizards launched a fast break, and the Rockets only had two people in position. Wizards main John Wall didn't go straight to the basket and dribbled diagonally from the Rockets paint area to beyond the three-point line. He made a shooting feint, but he didn't expect that the real intention was actually to pass it to Bradley Beal, his partner who ran straight to the basket, and let the latter relay directly in the air! It's just that the ball is a little high, Bill is a step slower, and he has to make a railing adjustment to take the basketball in the air before he can shoot, just when Yang Yiming, who was chasing the whole court, caught up and took the shot away!

Beal, who was blocked for a layup, reacted very quickly and grabbed the rebound in the front court. Yang Yiming's Rockets teammate Ariza was also in place at this time, his arm was up, Beal had no direct shooting opportunity, and was ready to divide the ball to Wall outside the three-point line. Who knew that Yang Yiming, who had just flown out of the bottom line, turned his head and killed a horse pistol, and with a wave of his arm, he directly intercepted the pass!

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It's a pity that Yang Yiming, who was lying on the bed, could only fill in the sweet memories of this night's game for a few short seconds, and the rest of the time was bitter.

The Houston Rockets are on a five-game losing streak.

A month ago at this time, the Rockets were still the number one team in the league with multiple wins, and the team seemed to be invincible. Now, a month later, before setting foot on the way home, the longest losing streak since January 2013, and to make matters worse, not only did the comeback Chris Paul fail to save the team, but the Rockets themselves seemed to have lost their sharpness, and the league's raining three-point shot turned into a series of iron shots!

In the last loss, Yang Yiming also kept a clean sheet of the "lifelong enemy" Jayson Tatum's three-point shot, but he didn't expect this game to be replaced by his own style, and he missed three three-point shots!

Those three three-pointers are the pictures that Yang Yiming, who can't sleep, recalls the most.

The first shot occurred in the last minute of the first quarter, with 36 seconds left in the game, Eric Gordon dribbled quickly to the frontcourt, and Yang Yiming made a block, and the defenders were taken away by Gordon, Yang Yiming formed an empty space and received a pass! He was still hesitating to find a teammate with a better offensive position, but he didn't expect Gordon to start shouting "shot", apparently trying to grab the offense and leave another offensive opportunity for the team. Yang Yiming comprehended, and shot out of a three-point shot from a long distance, and the trajectory of the ball was very positive, but unfortunately it bounced out after a circle on the basket and missed.

His second three-point shot was already in the second half, and this time it was the Rockets' established three-point strategy. James Harden went one-on-one with the ball at the top of the arc, and everyone pulled away with one vote, two bottom corners and two 45-degree shots. Harden dribbled under his crotch, shook off defenders with successive center of gravity changes, and smashed into the paint zone. Wizards center Gortat pounced like a beast out of the cage, apparently determined to rather foul than let Harden play. But the bearded man is a bearded man after all, and his body shrank in the air, not only resisting this beast, but also wrapping his left hand behind Gortat like magic, hitting the ground and passing, and the basketball was sent to Yang Yiming, who had been waiting for a long time, along the bottom line!

Sell!

When the basketball came out of his fingers, Yang Yiming even saw everyone in the Rockets' player area at the far end of the box standing up, ready to celebrate.

It's a pity that the shot is off again!

The Rockets and the Wizards fell behind by 9 points in the third quarter 78-87, originally thought that there would be a fight in the fourth quarter, but they didn't expect that the fourth quarter was only halfway through, and the Wizards had already ridden the dust, playing a 15-8 attack wave to widen the difference to nearly 20 points. Yang Yiming's feel was also implicated, in a fast-break counterattack, the Rockets were originally a three-on-two advantage in the frontcourt, Paul took the lead, attracting two defenders, Ariza and Yang Yiming fell on both sides, all of which were empty. When Paul arrived at the ball, facing the two people under the basket, he half-turned around to share the ball, the ball was passed neither high nor low, impartial, and it was just stuffed into Yang Yiming's chest, and he could shoot directly and comfortably!

It's time to hit this time!

Yang Yiming threw on tiptoe, there was no defender within three meters in front of him, and his vision was wide.

Bend your arms, shake your wrists, shoot perfectly with your fingers, and point to the basket!

Swish.

Hollow into the net.

No, it's actually hollow outside the basket!

Throw an air balloon from an empty spot!

It seems that Yang Yiming is destined to be sleepless tonight.