"Thank you, Jay (Crowder), you're defending Harden to death."

"By the way, and you, Jaylen (Brown), you're doing a great job."

Taking advantage of the third and fourth quarter breaks, Roy also praised Jay Crowder and Jaylen Brown decently, Roy's praise surprised the two defensive giants, in fact, they were not satisfied with their defense at all, Harden has scored 48 points after playing three quarters, and the difference of 2 points is to the 50-point mark.

Indeed, as long as you listen to the shouts of "MVP" that resounded throughout the court, you can know what kind of supernatural statistics James Harden played in the first three quarters, and he single-handedly killed Crowder and Brown.

However, even so, Roy still wants to encourage Crowder and Brown, it is precisely because of the unremitting stalking between the two of them that Harden's most precious physical strength has been consumed, and then it will be Roy's turn to appear, Roy is now confident in chasing himself, if the judgment is correct, Harden's physical strength is already at the end of the crossbow, he thinks that he has no problem catching up with Harden's 48 points, don't forget that Roy also has a "physical strength bursting bag" at the bottom of the box, this thing is really terrible......

In the live broadcast room, the four bigwigs are obviously still unsatisfied with the score war that ended just now, although they were poured cold water by Van Gundy before, but this did not affect their heated discussion about the development of the plot after Roy and Harden.

"Although Jeff (Van Gundy) may be upset to watch, but from my personal point of view, I am still more happy to see Harden and Roy continue to score points, basketball games are all about fast pacing, high scores to be good-looking, if everyone played the same rhythm with the Spurs and Grizzlies, then the NBA would have been finished a long time ago." Fraser is the quintessential militant, he wasn't the kind of guy who kept to himself when he was a player, and when he saw Roy and Harden play against each other, he felt his blood boil all over his body, and he really wanted to go up and show his hands himself.

And interestingly, Walter Fraser once said in an interview that James Harden's style of play is very similar to himself, he said, "Harden reminds him of himself, like looking in a mirror." Because Harden makes the game look so easy, he's so calm and in control, it's rare to see a player like that, especially a player of his calibre, it's crazy for him. ”

Fraser loves offensive players, and on the contrary, the other big guy in the live broadcast room is a complete defensive basketball obsession, and that person is of course Van Gundy the Bald.

It may be that the fire in front of him has not been extinguished, and this time it was poured on by Fraser, and Van Gundy's dissatisfaction rose again.

As the meritorious head coach who single-handedly created the New York Gangs and the iron-blooded Rockets, Van Gundy watched the third quarter of the game, not to mention how much he didn't pinch it, the scores of both teams were 90 points after three quarters (Knicks 92:99 Rockets), which may have been the score of their own teams in a game before, which shows how poor the defense of the two teams is, if Van Gundy is still the head coach of these two teams, then waiting for Harden and Roy must be a scolding.

For this kind of high-tempo, untactical star attack, Van Gundy bluntly said that he couldn't understand it, "To be honest, I don't appreciate the run-and-shoot tactics and three-point shooting tactics that have become popular in the league in recent years, no, I should say that I am very disgusted." The real essence of basketball is tactics, it is the coordinated operation between players, it is constantly finding the opponent's weakness and using it, and basketball without tactics and defense can not be called basketball at all. ”

Van Gundy's complaint was comfortable, but Fraser was upset again, and he continued to shoot back: "Hey, Jeff (Van Gundy), are you questioning my basketball philosophy?" Without offense, basketball can't develop, basketball is all about offense, there's no doubt about that, otherwise we might as well go to football, and if I were 40 years younger, I would be able to average 34 points per game. ”

"No way, Walter, it's not me boasting, if you meet the team I coach, you can't score 20 points."

"Jeff (Van Gundy), I don't like to hear what you say, or we make a bet......"

While Fraser and Van Gundy were discussing basketball ideas in the live broadcast room, Roy also communicated with the team, and his next move shocked Hornacek and the rest of his teammates, as Roy intended to defend Harden one-on-one in the fourth quarter.

"Roy, is your stamina really okay? You've been inconsistent in the last few games, so I'd suggest you don't spend too much energy on defense, don't we have Crowder and Brown? You have to use more stamina on offense. ”

"That's right, Roy, and don't forget that Contney's defense isn't bad, and they can all help you share the pressure. If you're defending against Harden alone, you're playing into his hands, and you've learned Harden's cunning (referring to Roy's encounter in the first round). ”

Hornacek and Rose were kind, but Roy just waved his hand and he wanted to stick to his plan.

"Trust me, Jeff [Hornacek], the fourth quarter is when I really play to my strength, I planned it for a long time, so let's do it."

In the face of Roy's insistence, Hornacek was helpless, and Malone on the side laughed again, "Roy, this kid is really domineering, this tough temper can really be compared with that guy (referring to Kobe)." ”

"Alright, Carl (Malone), can you look like a coach?" Stockton scolded Malone with a look of disgust, but he now had to admit that Roy did have ideas and courage beyond ordinary people.

One-on-one defense of Harden is not a simple decision to make, even if the physical fitness of Jay Crowder and Jaylen Brown defensive giants, Harden scored 48 points in the third quarter, defending Harden is definitely a hell of a challenge, and the number of players who can say that Harden is not afraid of one-on-one defense in the whole league is probably less than one hand.

In the face of such a hot Harden, I am afraid it would be too late to hide if it were someone else, but Roy took the initiative to ask to defend Harden in the most critical fourth quarter, and the courage to defend Harden, who had left painful memories for himself in the first round, was definitely not simple.

Roy was by no means easy, and when Roy stepped onto the court, faced Harden, stretched out his hands to him, and put on a defensive stance, everyone's eyes widened.

The "ignorant Roy" is going to face the "omnipotent" James Harden defensively.

Roy and Harden, who were in charge of each other's crazy scoring before, finally came face to face.

Seeing this situation, the happiest person is Harden himself, if the previous air explosion has not made him enjoy and made him feel good, then being able to directly knock out Roy is undoubtedly the picture he wants to see the most, and now the opportunity is in front of him, Harden is of course happy. This is a fat meat that has been sent, with my James Harden's unique offensive talent, where can anyone defend me.

Roy defends Harden, and that's hitting a stone with an egg.

Roy will definitely be beaten by Harden as they did in the first round.

Roy is beyond his means, and the outcome of this game has been decided.

Although the audience was almost overwhelmingly optimistic about Harden, Roy seemed to have a chance to win, and he did not forget to continue to fight with Harden.

"Bearded, the game between us is still valid, it's 31:48 now, and we'll be able to decide the winner in this quarter."

Looking at Roy, who was full of confidence in front of him, Harden was really a little crying and laughing, "Rookie, I don't know where you got your confidence, anyway, I know that you will lose this game, as well as the game between me and you." From the moment you were going to defend me, you were going to lose, and you were going to lose more than in the first leg. ”

As soon as Harden blew his beard, the fourth quarter of the game officially began......

"It's a really interesting game, it's rare to see this kind of star-to-star head-to-head game in the NBA nowadays. But it's just a coincidence that the Rockets and the Knicks are both single-core teams, and this game is really getting more and more interesting, what do you think? Abby? I'm guessing you'll support your idol Roy. ”

In the media booth on the sidelines, Abby and a group of reporter friends were also watching the game intently, when Roy didn't start the game, Abby really thought that Roy had suffered some accident, Abby was really anxious at that time, she immediately asked her father Honacek Sr. through her mobile phone, but fortunately, the answer was that Roy was not injured.

But even so, after watching Roy's short 8 minutes of play in the first half, Abby was still very worried, Roy's state is almost the same as the previous two games, the same physical strength is not good, the same highlights are few, how to report Roy's performance?

Abby has been really miserable recently, with the continuous highlight performance of the previous period, and now Roy is easy to attract questions from the outside world as long as there is a little slippage in performance and data, which makes himself the "number one Romy" very embarrassed, Abby has been very careful in the choice of words, but if Roy still can't respond with a good performance, then I'm afraid he will inevitably mention some of Roy's shortcomings in the article.

Fortunately, Abby's worries didn't last long, and Roy suddenly exploded in the third quarter, scoring an astonishing 29 points in a single quarter, leading the Knicks to chase back the trail little by little. Originally, Roy had done a very good job, but why did he choose to defend Harden alone? Doesn't he know how tough Harden will be this season? Isn't he worried about his physical strength?

Not to mention anything else, just looking at the technical statistics, the players who have played against Harden across the league, except for Kawhi Leonard, Harden almost played one by one, his offense is really terrible, what is Roy's reason for wanting to defend Harden alone?

"It's hard to say what the situation is now." Abby thought about it for a long time and gave her peers an ambiguous answer.

Yes, she didn't know whether Roy's decision was right or wrong, Hornacek didn't know, Malone and Stockton didn't know, and Bryn, Frazier, Van Gundy, and Yao Ming didn't know.

It's really hard to say whether Roy took the initiative to challenge Harden or whether it was right or wrong......