In the 2002-2003 season, the Hawks and Rockets met for the second time and the last time this season.

The game between the Hawks and the Rockets is naturally the most concerned thing for Chinese fans, and the league has taken great pains to put the Hawks and Rockets game on the first game day after the All-Star Weekend to consolidate China's ratings after the All-Star Weekend.

This is the first time Liu Mang has come to the Toyota Center in Houston since Yao Ming joined the NBA, not to mention, because of Yao Ming's arrival, the strangely deserted Toyota Center finally has some life, mainly because there are many fans with Chinese faces.

Before the game, Liu Mang and Yao Ming were interviewed by the imperial court station again.

In this year's All-Star Weekend, although Liu Mang also had an interview on the All-Star Weekend, he did not have the whole team interviewed and hyped up in China like last year, and the objects of praise in this year's All-Star Weekend became Yao Ming and the Rockets.

There are no too nutritious topics, very regular pre-game interviews, greeting domestic fans in their old age or something, wishing a happy Lantern Festival and other things.

Soon, the pre-game interviews were over, the pre-game activities of the game were over, and the Hawks' away game against the Rockets began immediately.

The big screen over the court showed the record of the two teams, the Hawks 25-23 and the Rockets 28-22.

However, playing such a record comparison shows that the Rockets are weak in heart and already need to use their records to enhance their self-confidence.

There's no way, the Hawks have a 20-5 record in the past two months, which is simply brutal.

The Eagles continue to field the starting lineup of Jason Terry, Prince, Raheem, Mohammed, and Ratliff today.

The Rockets fielded Francis, Mobley, James Posey, Eddie Griffin, Yao Ming.

Liu Mang continued to enjoy what it was like to be a substitute and watched Jason Terry go and play with Francis again.

This time, Jason Terry has plenty of fighting spirit to go against Francis, and the reason is that this year's All-Star Weekend, Francis was selected for the All-Star Weekend, but Jason Terry did not, which gave Francis the fullest motivation.

The Rockets are under a lot of pressure right now, they are in eighth place in the West by a narrow margin, and the Suns are close behind with a 27-24 record, which puts a lot of pressure on the Rockets players to dare not lose any game.

And the Hawks are the same, 25-23, and they don't dare to lose more than a game.

After a week's absence, the regular season restarted, and the Hawks players were excited, so the pre-game opening action was a little longer.

The main thing is the home of the Rockets, even if there are some Chinese fans who are a little lively on the spot, but the opponent is the Eagles, there are the most popular players among the Chinese players in the Hawks, Aiwu and Wu, the Eagles players are quite popular in the Chinese circle, so the opening actions of the Hawks players pretending to be forced received a lot of cheers, which can have cheers in the away stadium, which is not so easy for the Hawks, so the start is relatively long.

With the referee's urging whistle, the two teams started on the field.

The referee blew the whistle at the start of the game and threw the ball into the air, Yao Ming won the jump ball with his height advantage, and the Rockets took the lead in attacking.

Both teams are well prepared for this game, because the preparation time is long enough, from the end of the last game before the All-Star Weekend, the Hawks' coaching staff are preparing for the next six consecutive away games, the first game of the six consecutive away games, in order to get off to a good start, the Rockets' opponent is naturally the opponent that the Hawks focus on researching.

Similarly, the Rockets also want to get off to a good start after All-Star Weekend, so they focus on how to play this game against the Hawks.

The Rockets' first attack, Francis's decisive inside line to make a kill, this is the key to victory researched by the Rockets coaching staff.

However, Mike Woodson, an assistant coach on the Hawks' side, showed the accurate judgment of a championship-level defensive assistant coach, and had long instructed Ratliffe and Muhammad to pay attention, every time Francis successfully broke through Prince, a young man who was still young, and entered the interior line, it was Muhammad who blocked up to make up for the defense, and Muhammad was not afraid of fouls, anyway, there was Boozer on the bench.

Team Rocket's first move failed.

After a few rounds, Team Rocket came up with a second trick, using Yao Ming to beat Ratliff!

Then, Ratliff taught Yao Ming to be a man with practical actions, and the thin Yao Ming was squeezed to death by Ratliff, and the strong physical confrontation taught Yao Ming what to fight inside.

The two advantageous styles of play that were taken for granted did not end up in any good way.

On the Hawks' side, there are not as many fancy intestines on the offensive end as the Rockets, and it is Raheem who is chiseled! Jason Terry is so simple and crude.

There is already a strength advantage, and there is no need to do so many new tricks or new ideas on the offensive end, and the offensive routine of a strong team with the goal of building a championship is actually very simple, just keep the scoring means that they have been effective, mainly to prevent the opponent.

At the beginning of the game, the Hawks probably didn't play for too long, and the outside shooting was a bit iron, but they still played a very high-quality game, and on the defensive end, the Hawks put some of the offensive routines that the Rockets coaching staff had been thinking about, and the Hawks relied on hard power to tear them apart, and after the first quarter, the Hawks had a 20-14 lead.

In order to let the starters who were not in good offensive condition play a little longer, Liu Mang was not replaced until the second quarter.

After Liu Mang came up, it happened to be a few minutes after Francis and James Posey were replaced and rested, these two were probably the best outside defense of the Rockets, neither of them was there, Liu Mang came on the court with Jason Terry, Barnes, Boozer, Muhammad's lineup pressed the Rockets' second team and beat it hard, and by the halfway point of the second quarter, the Hawks had a 15-point lead of 35-20.

The key is not the 35 points the Hawks scored, but the Rockets played a quarter and a half and scored only 20 points.

In fact, most of the reasons for this are to blame Liu Mang.

Why did Coach Tomjanovic suddenly come up with some special tactics? Mainly because Coach Tomjanovich's most optimistic Kings team this year just lost, why did the Kings lose? Is it because their head coach Adelman and Peja quarreled, why did Peja and Adelman quarrel? Adelman was in a bad mood because he lost when he was coaching the All-Star Game and was ravaged by teasing, while Peja felt that he was the strongest player on the Kings team, but he did not have the status of the boss in the team, so that on the All-Star stage, he had no status at all, and his opponents and teammates did not consider his ideas at all, and he quarreled with the somewhat depressed Adelman on the night of the All-Star weekend, and the team atmosphere was very embarrassing.

And why was Adelman ravaged at All-Star Weekend, and why did Peja feel like he had no place?

It's all because of the magical tactics of the last attack of the Eastern Army, that is, because of Liu Mang.

Therefore, the Rockets only scored 20 points after a quarter and a half, and Liu Mang was all to blame.

Coach Tomjanovic found that it was not useful to do something special! It's better to fight hard and get those bells and whistles, but you lose what you're good at.

After the official timeout came back in the second quarter, the Rockets played a good offensive wave, but the Hawks relied on the first quarter and a half to find a feeling, and the state has improved, although the Rockets found the feeling, but it is still not the opponent of the Hawks.

They didn't give the Rockets too many chances, and the Rockets themselves wasted the opportunity for the Hawks to get off to a bad start. That was their only chance in this game, but to miss it is to miss it.

Liu Mang has been excited these days, and all the tasks of the All-Star Weekend have been completed, so he has been very excited and excited recently.

After playing in the second quarter, he switched back and forth between scoring and passing, scoring 11 points and 4 assists in a single quarter, leading the Hawks to a 29-20 score, and the Hawks led by 16 points at 49-34 at halftime into the second half.

After the start of the second half of the game, Liu Mang completely devoted himself to shooting, scoring 18 points in a single quarter, coupled with the Hawks' getting better and better, after the third quarter, the Hawks' 22-point difference opened up to a 20-point lead of 77-57, and the Hawks' main players clocked out in the third quarter, leaving only Jason Terry to play the fourth quarter with the second team.

The Rockets are actually not that bad, the main reason is that they are not good at riot operations, but they have to come to a wave of operations at the beginning, which is good, and they have played themselves out.

In the end, with Liu Mang scoring 29 points and 5 assists, Raheem scoring 17 points and 22 bosses, and Jason Terry scoring 14 points, 4 rebounds and 7 assists, the Hawks beat the Rockets 109-95 to get a good start to the back-to-back away games after the All-Star weekend.

is also a domestic player, Liu Mang proved his world-class point guard strength in this live broadcast of the domestic court station, giving domestic fans endless hope.

After playing the Rockets, the Hawks left Houston that night and came to Los Angeles for a day off, and they are about to usher in a brutal five-day four-game game, the first opponent is the Lakers!