Adelman had thought well before, but when the Grizzlies were able to play inextricably with their own strong lineup, making it difficult for the Rockets to pull the score apart with such a lineup, he knew that his conjecture in the locker room at that time was unfortunately true. This year's Grizzlies are really not the belly of fish that anyone can step on in the past!

And the Rockets players on the court naturally can't sit back and watch the Grizzlies close the score. Maddy, the core of the outside line, also took the ball to match Ding Mo'an again, and he failed to hit several consecutive shots before. Among them, there is the impact of injuries, but there is also a part of Ding Mo'an, since he suffered a loss, he has been interfered with his close defense, entangled him.

Maddy, who returned from injury, shot 1-of-4 from the field tonight and hit just one three-pointer in the last nine minutes of the game. Such an answer is definitely not satisfactory for Maddie. So after holding the ball, Maddy, attacking. Desire. It's violent. In an instant, against the pressure given by Ding Mo'an, he held the ball until he most often broke through the bottom line of the area.

And this is also the gap between ordinary players and superstars, if it is replaced by someone else, and still runs to the bottom side of Ding Mo'an's death entanglement, if you can not lose the ball, you should burn incense and worship Buddha. And the bottom side is where Maddie is most accustomed to breaking through. The fingers continue to pluck the basketball, which is very confusing.

At the same time, the bottom line where Maddie is located is the corridor where the breakthrough is located. His famous trick is to rely on explosiveness and flexibility to get rid of opponents in the dead corners of the baseline. At this time, Maddie wanted to do the same. So his fingers continued to flick the basketball, intending to shake Ding Mo'an, who seemed inexperienced, and wanted to take advantage of Ding Mo'an's shaking or dribbling to make way for the corridor to cut in.

But Ding Mo'an was unmoved. He was meticulous in his pre-game preparations, and he had already edited the videographer report distributed to him by the assistant coach and read it word for word. It's not like other players in the league who took the report and threw it away without a few glances. It is precisely because of this that Ding Moan knows a lot about Maddie's baseline offensive methods.

Therefore, now, you can't let go of the bottom line, otherwise you will be wiped out.

And the continuous dribbling and shaking failed to shake Ding Mo'an away, and Maddie could only take the initiative to attack. Maddie wouldn't have considered it for a back-to-back single, so he went straight to a frontal attack, relying on his natural dribbling rhythm and big stride to get rid of Ding Moan. Maddie's frontal onslaught finally left a little hole in Ding Mo'an's defense.

At this time, Maddie did not let go of the opportunity to appear, and hugged the ball violently as usual, intending to use his excellent leg reflexes and explosive power, wanting to take the first step to rush past Ding Mo'an. However, due to knee and foot injuries in recent years, Maddie's explosiveness will inevitably be problematic.

If he didn't face Ding Mo'an, who was fast and explosive enough to beat most players in the league, he would be able to sprint past the defense at his current speed and get inside. It's just that with today's physical fitness, Maddie's breakthrough is not so sharp in Ding Mo'an's eyes.

On the contrary, it gave Ding Mo'an enough time to react, and at the moment when he rushed up, his right palm aimed precisely and neatly at the basketball in his arms and cut it violently. The basketball immediately fell from Maddie's arms and fell to the ground in an instant. And Ding Mo'an, who broke the ball, directly picked up the fallen basketball at this moment and blew the horn of defensive counterattack.

Suddenly, a figure stabbed out of the Grizzly Bear's backcourt, like a dustless sports car, throwing the Grizzly Bear and the Rocket players behind him far away. It wasn't until Ding Mo'an, who sprinted with the ball and dunked the ball, and Shi Ran got off the basket, that everyone reacted from this lightning-like break.

Rocket fans immediately gave Ding Mo'an the biggest boo, expressing their dissatisfaction, because with Ding Mo'an's defensive counterattack after breaking the ball, the Grizzlies and the Rockets, the Western giants, equalized in the continuous chasing points! This news is the most wonderful for Grizzlies fans in front of the TV!

Being able to play inextricably with the Rockets, a Western giant, and even today's equalizer makes Grizzlies fans feel like they are living in a dream. But they all know who is making the Grizzlies a team that has been reborn. Then only in this quarter of the game, Ding Mo'an, who kept renewing the firepower for the team, and in front of Maddie, a rocket star who was not in good shape after returning from injury, but was still a top-level guard, cut down 12 points and 1 steal.

If the game had been played at FedEx Arena, the MVP would have been loud throughout Memphis. The game continued after Ding Mo'an's equalizer, and Ding Mo'an no longer began to run without the ball and fight with Artest, and began to break through the inside line with the ball. Ding Mo'an's speed gave the Rockets a headache, but fortunately, Yao Ming suppressed the Grizzlies' inside, and by the end of the first quarter, the Rockets once again opened a one-goal gap and entered the second quarter with a two-point advantage.

When the two teams entered the first quarter of the intermission, the melon-eating crowd who followed the game in front of the TV couldn't help but discuss it when they looked at such a similar score. The Grizzlies, who were predicted by them to win little, played with the Rockets in full swing after the first quarter of the game, and finally relied on Yao Ming's goal to overtake the score again.

It can be seen how tenacious the Grizzlies played tonight, but what shocked them the most was Ding Moan's scoring ability. Because in the two minutes after the steal, Ding Mo'an used the breakthrough to make his score 16 points, beating Maddie, who only scored three points, and only scored 18 points on 9 out of 10 shots with Yao Ming.

Maddie, although he is returning from injury and his strength has not recovered for the time being, the name of the top defender in the West is still there. Ding Mo'an scored to beat Maddie, and even faced Maddie, he gave a wonderful steal, so that the Chinese fans on the other side of the ocean at this moment, all threw up the Maddie in the former Yao Mai combination and threw themselves into the arms of Ding Mo'an.

And at this moment, what makes Chinese fans feel even more honored is that it is two Chinese players who dominate the game tonight, and they are the core of their respective teams with the highest score and the most inseparable. Many Chinese fans couldn't help but sigh when they saw this scene, and the previous derby battles were simply tarnishing the word derby.

Because, this is the real derby!

At the beginning of the second quarter, Hollins also put the starting lineup on the court, intending to continue to fight with the Rockets. And the Rockets, who let the starters play a quarter in a row, were a little uncomfortable. Because the current roster of the Rockets is not a team with young players as the main members like the Grizzlies.

Not only is the team's outside core just returned from injury tonight, Maddie, who has injury concerns, but also Yao Ming, who was tired enough to bear most of the scoring in the first quarter. The physical strength of the inner and outer core must not be used up in the first half, otherwise who will play in the final critical quarter of the game?