As soon as the third quarter came up, Totoro shot a set of combination punches, and the inside line took advantage of Duncan's unstable foothold to stage a strong dunk first, and fired twice outside the three-point line, scoring 8 points in two minutes, directly pulling the difference to more than double digits.

But the Spurs were still not crushed, and Shi Buddha did not exert his power in the second half, but the French sports car Parker began to roar, and three mid-range hits in a row firmly stretched the difference to around 10 points, preventing Totoro from killing the game directly.

They had been waiting for an opportunity, so at 7:43 of the third quarter, this opportunity finally came, and the game changed in an instant.

Led by Totoro, his outside shooting seems to be blinded by a flashbang, how to shoot how to have the basket in the first two and a half quarters from this moment on, it seems to be cursed, Totoro has four consecutive shots by a millimeter, missing a thousand miles, and at this time Totoro remembered to pass the basketball to the players, but maybe he himself has been dominating the feeling, or it may be because of the success of the Spurs' "Jordan tactics", the Rockets did not have a good chance to shoot except for Totoro, and the Rockets scored 13 points in the first four minutes of the third quarter, But in the last 7 minutes, the Rockets scored 5 points, on the contrary, the Spurs troika fired one after another, before Parker's energy ran out, Ginobili took over the offensive banner, incarnated as Jordan in the half of the quarter, he burst out and shot omnipotently, before the end of the third quarter, Shi Buddha stood up again, two hooks and two erased shots to make matters worse, and the Holy City played a wave of 31:13 in the third quarter to directly stunned the Rockets, and the leading score in the first half instantly came to naught.

"Hold the grass, there is no mistake! I haven't played in three quarters, and I scored 48 points in a single quarter, and this team is 11 points behind, and the rest of you are playing snakes! ”

My Neighbor Totoro got off the court in the last few minutes of the third quarter and drank a sip of Gatorade, but the situation on the court made him not at ease at all, in fact, his anger was not unreasonable, his 48 points in the third quarter was definitely a phenomenal performance, and the shooting rate that was close to 50% could not be said to be a wave shot, but in addition to him, only Yao Ming scored 10 points, and none of the other teammates scored a double.

But he complained so much from the other side and it looks unreasonable, so far, Totoro himself has shot 28 times, Yao Ming has shot 7 times, the two of them occupy 70% of the team's right to shoot, and the remaining 7 people together share the pitiful 30% of the right to shoot, on average each person is less than 4 times, in this case it is quite unreasonable to want them to perform, after all, the substitute is also a person, and they also need to waste a few balls to find the feel, they are not microwave plug and play, You don't trust him yourself, how can you expect him to help you at a critical moment?

And these substitute players are also under a lot of pressure, playing next to the star, losing is always the existence of the blame, receiving the boss's pass and not throwing will be sprayed by the boss, receiving the boss's pass and throwing will not be sprayed by the fans, winning the halo is not on himself, losing the focus but always facing himself, who will be comfortable with this? Especially after the first few shots, the more they go to the back, the more pressure they feel, the more pressure they have, the more they can't shoot, and over time the game is cold.

At the end, even Battier, the most consistent player on the team, was not very good at playing, and was played around by the Spurs on the court with a simple block, revealing a "Who am I?" Where am I? Who am I fighting? Who's beating me? In this desperate situation, Totoro's young problems were exposed again, and his mentality was also under pressure under the huge point difference, he began to distrust his teammates on the field, and began to hold the ball to do it, he did not take the initiative to create contradictions during the pause, but he did not comfort his teammates like a qualified leader.

This is the gap between him and Duncan, the cornerstone of the Spurs, you must know that the Spurs have been behind the team for three and a half quarters since the beginning of the game, but even if it is more than ten points behind, Duncan, who has seen strong winds and waves, has never given up, and every time he pauses, he will help Popovich boost morale together, and he is even more in the lead on the field.

At 103:87, Totoro's last hateful three-point shot prevented the Spurs from winning by 20 points, and at the same time increased his playoff single-game score to 63 points, no more, no less, just one point ahead of Joe's single-game playoff scoring record, thus becoming the first person in the history of this record.

There is no doubt that today is a great night for Totoro, and it is hard to imagine that a record that has been in the dust for almost 30 years can be broken by a first-year rookie, or that Totoro is no longer a rookie now, and no one will remember his age in the face of his achievements.

But just like the night when Old Man Joe scored 62 points, Totoro God possessed but also didn't take away a victory, lost the most critical game of the series, and the Rockets were only one breath away from being out.

'He's a great player and I don't think anybody in the league can stop him if he wants to score.'

After the game, Duncan, who scored 34 points, 14 rebounds and 6 assists, also had luxury statistics, approving. 'So we had to make a trade-off, to make a choice between letting him score or letting his team-mates score, and we chose the former, and luckily it was the right choice.

"He's very strong, and from the fact that he can fly over my head and dunk, you can tell that he doesn't look like a yellow person at all, or that he's not an earthling at all."

Ginobili, who scored 23 points, 4 rebounds and 8 assists today, half-jokingly said that his clever self-deprecation not only caused the audience to laugh, but also avoided the embarrassment of waiting for someone to ask him this question, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone, "But even if he is better than everyone on our team, our team is stronger than the Rockets, this is a team game, and the facts have proved it to us again." ”

"Tonight, God came to a Chinese wearing the number 7 jersey." Tony Parker, who had 26 points and 13 assists, took Ginobili's microphone and said, "But this is the earth, so God can't take away the victory." ”