Christmas game, Houston Rockets visit Oklahoma City Thunder's Chesapeake Energy Stadium.

First-year rookie Yang Yiming and league superstar Carmelo Anthony are locked in a battle, winning and losing each other, and neither can have the upper hand, as if the two teams are in the epitome of the game.

At the end of the two quarters, the Rockets trailed by one point.

After "Melon" Anthony shot 5 points in the first quarter, he only added 2 points with free throws in the second quarter, and the halftime data was 2 of 5 shots, and the 7-point score was the most inconspicuous of the Big Three.

However, it is difficult to decide whether a basketball game is won or lost until the last minute, let alone a full 24 minutes of battle.

1/

"Koharu..."

"What's wrong, Yiming?"

"I feel like I screwed up."

"Is it because of that dribble error?"

"Hmm." Yang Yiming's brows tightened, as if he was still recalling the game just now. In fact, on the entire Rockets bus that left the court, everyone looked solemn and had a low air pressure. "It was my mistake that killed the game."

"At that time we were five points down, and it was supposed to be the last fight, even if that goal went in..."

"At least there is hope, there is a chase. Hey..."

Yu Xiaochun knew that Yang Yiming, as a professional player, would not accept self-consoling excuses, so he didn't say anything more. He knew the ball that Yang Yiming regretted. It was the last 20 seconds of the game, in the previous round, Harden's forced shot was intercepted by Wei Shao, the Thunder team's fast-break counterattack was successful, and the difference was expanded to 5 points.

In that offense, Yang Yiming was assigned the role of hand-to-hand cooperation with Anderson, and then dribbled to the top of the three-point arc, observing the Rockets' outside shooting point, waiting for an opportunity to pass. Because the two-point shot is not the best choice for the Rockets, only when the other four shooting points are all blocked, Yang Yiming has the tactical freedom to choose to break through to the basket.

It's a pity that Yang Yiming encountered Russell Westbrook's close defense after receiving the ball, and the latter's tough physical confrontation forced him not only not to find a suitable passing opportunity, but to stumble, and after his leg hit the basketball, he made a mistake, and the floor ball was won by the Thunder, and the Rockets completely lost the opportunity to fight. At 107-112, the game was frozen at a five-point gap and it was over.

"If I can get that ball down a little bit faster, control the ball, or be prepared for the intensity..."

"But..."Yu Xiaochun is not a person who is good at comforting, but he silently feels that retreating at this time may be a better way.

"But?"

"But, as you said, there are no buts on the basketball court, and there are no ifs, if any..."

Well. Yang Yiming withdrew his gaze from the window and nodded imperceptibly, as if a kind of self-confirmation: "If there is, then there is no point in doing your best for it." ”

"Life is like this."

"It's the same with basketball!"

2/

In fact, until Harden missed a three-pointer in the final 24 seconds to tie the score, the Rockets always had a chance.

The two sides tied 88 in the third quarter and returned to the same running line to start the fourth quarter.

The race between Carmelo Anthony and Yang Yiming also continues. According to the rhythm of the regular rotation, Anthony and Yang Yiming will lead the second lineup, one offensive and one defending, leading the bench forward. The beginning of the fourth quarter was the time period of rotation, and Anthony started to attack first! He realized that physical confrontation may not be able to take advantage of this Chinese, and immediately changed his offensive strategy, first taking the ball with his back, pretending to sit and play, but only leaned on it and immediately turned over and jumped and threw the ball neatly.

The little melon who regained the upper hand was more confident, and in the next round, he did not move his feet to support the ball, and after turning on the spot, he continued to change direction and dribble in front of him, Yang Yiming also lowered his center of gravity when he saw this situation and focused on defense. But helplessly, Anthony is a Hall of Fame-level offensive master after all, with a height of more than 2 meters, the dribble is not inferior to the top guard at all, seeing Yang Yiming's footsteps hesitating slightly, he jumped diagonally behind and threw the ball at the same time. Yiming slowed down, although he barely reached it, but the ball was still hit!

Anthony, who felt hot in his hand, was unstoppable, the Rockets switched offense by Eric Gordon and missed a three-point shot, turned his head and dribbled across the half court, the Rockets formation has not yet settled, he returned the other way with the other way, and there was one step outside the three-point line to pull out the jump shot, and the basketball fell into the net!

The Thunder hit a 7-0 mini-climax, forcing the Rockets to take a timeout!

"Coach..."The defender single-handedly played a scoring climax, which Yang Yiming had never encountered in previous games, especially with the bonus of "blocking cheats", he often only needed one round to see through the opponent's offensive routine, and ended with a hot pot block in the second round. Today, however, he was deflated for three straight rounds and clearly met a stronger opponent!

"One Ming!"

"It's the coach, my defense is wrong, my fault!" Yang Yiming apologized first.

"Whatever happened, after a timeout, you come on the court and get the ball back." Coach Mike D'Antoni rarely had a look on his face, and his words were loud and non-negotiable.

"But..."Yang Yiming thought that with his unsuccessful performance, the coach would replace him first. What's more, the time for squad rotation is indeed almost up.

"No faith? If you don't have confidence, look for confidence in your opponent! Completely ignoring his hesitation, D'Antoni grabbed his jersey and dragged him to his side, pointing across the technical bench to the Thunder players. A group of people Cameron's No. 7 back was right at them: "Everyone in the NBA will have the possibility of blowing you up, but the important thing is that in the next round of being blown up, you have to return the color and let him know that you are not easy to mess with!" ”

"It's... I understand. ”

"Do you really understand?" The old man roared in his ear, making his eardrums tremble.

"I really get it!" In response to the roar, Yang Yiming actually quickly understood - this is not only his task, but also the basketball philosophy of the Rockets, isn't it.

"Go ahead!"

"Come on!" Even James Harden, who has always been quiet, deliberately got up from the bench where he was resting and punched Yang Yiming in the chest.

Encouraged Yang Yiming returned to the court, as soon as the ball passed the halfcourt, he did not hesitate to shoot three points, Anthony obviously did not expect that this rookie rookie would start to respond in this way after the team timeout, it was too late to remedy, and the three-point shot smashed the board and fell into the frame!

Feeling challenged, Melon couldn't hold it anymore and once again sought the most inefficient physical confrontation, turning over and shooting in the three-second zone. Yang Yiming, who was firmly in position, had already taken precautions this time, and his entire upper body blocked the basketball, Anthony couldn't shoot, and the ball was intercepted in the air. He also protested to the referee for a foul in the penalty area, but the rocket that got the ball was already like mercury, Yang Yiming fought hard all over the court, and finally rushed ahead of everyone, relayed with his teammates in the air, and scored a slam dunk.

At 5:0, the rocket also changed the color to the thunder to stop!

Sure enough, to deal with the opponent who blew up himself, he can only return the color with the same explosive power!

After this round of substitutions, Carmelo Anthony and Yang Yiming were both substituted for the break until the decisive moment described above.

In this game, Anthony had 20 points and 5 rebounds.

Yang Yiming had 11 points, 3 rebounds and 3 blocks.

In the battle against melons, Dr. Yang did not fall all!