"Wife, I miss you and my son."

"Husband, I miss you too, you are thin again, and you still smoke, pay attention to your body."

After the game, Wang Lei was on a video call with his family in his hotel room.

No matter what the result of every game is, it is a mental test and training for Wang Lei, he needs to consider the changes of the opponent, and also have to pay attention to the state of his players.

Wang Lei's smoking was only discovered by Ma Dongmei when she saw it on TV.

After the Rockets' first game loss, a reporter photographed Wang Lei smoking in the corner outside the arena, which made many people a little uncomfortable, after all, Wang Lei had never smoked before.

For Wang Lei's smoking, Ma Dongmei actually has a distressed mentality, she knows how much pressure she is under in the game as a coach, and she also knows that her husband is actually very lonely to live alone in North America.

No matter how much Wang Lei is loved and respected in the runner team, but in daily life, if there is no family company, basically every adult man will be lonely and lonely, which has little to do with whether he has a heterosexual partner.

"Well, it's okay, don't worry, I don't smoke much, I only smoke when I'm a little distressed."

"Anyway, you still have to smoke less, alas, by the way, I forgot to tell you, Shanshan will call his mother now, hehe, envy, right?"

"Really? Haha, of course my son is smart, alas, don't forget to show him my picture, and then call me dad, how embarrassing it would be if you didn't call dad. ”

Wang Lei and Ma Dongmei often have videos, which is a good means for him to relieve pressure, although he can't be with his family, but it's better to have psychological comfort than nothing, and Ma Dongmei really cares about and loves Wang Lei, she can give up her peak volleyball career for Wang Lei, and gave birth to a big fat son for Wang Lei, so whenever he sees his wife's bright smiling face, Wang Lei will completely relax no matter how much pressure he has.

After a day off in Houston, the Runners have their second away game.

Basically all the media before the game lost confidence in the Rockets, even their local media did not have the arrogance after the first victory, and they are now discussing more about how the Rockets should improve their playing style in the future, increase their offensive strength and trade real core players.

However, when the game started, the Rockets' style of play suddenly shocked the Runners and the Rockets fans present.

The Rockets, who have always emphasized iron-blooded defense, looked like they were fighting with the Runners as soon as they started the game, and they played quite methodically on offense, and at the same time, some blocking and pick-and-roll cooperation also played new ideas, not like the previous games were strong offenses in positional battles.

However, the Runners started the game trailing by a few points, but they quickly relied on Turgun, Sallich and Blair's outside shots to pull back and overtake the score.

John Schmidt originally wanted to take a desperate gamble and fight his opponent completely, but he underestimated the Runners' scoring ability and overestimated his team's offensive ability.

At the end of the first quarter, the Runners once again led the Rockets by seven points.

After that, the game returned to the rhythm of the previous game, although the Rockets were still tenaciously competing, but under the Runners' multi-point offense and accurate outside shooting, the Rockets still quickly lost their rhythm.

In fact, the Rockets' obsession with defensive style of play this season is itself detrimental to them, after all, the entire league has now entered a period of change, but they relied on the low tide caused by the rapid change of the playing style of many teams during the change period to break into the top four in the West in the regular season, but if you really talk about the style of play, the Rockets' style of play has indeed fallen behind.

Passive defence is meaningless in itself in a game that is getting faster and faster, and all teams are looking to take the initiative to attack and score, and although these defensive teams can have an advantage in certain games, in the long run, the tide of development will completely sweep these backward styles of play into the old papers.

Trailing by 20 points in the third quarter, the Rockets really looked powerless in the face of the Runners who led the change in the entire league, and although their fighting spirit was commendable, their conservative style of play was really a bit unmatched.

In the fourth quarter of the game, the Rockets still maintained a high fighting spirit, as if they were not behind, and I have to admit that in terms of fighting spirit, John Schmidt of German origin did coach the Rockets team very well, which is the most attractive and most acceptable point in competitive sports.

Wang Lei replaced some substitute players at this time to rest the starters, although he respected the Rockets, but there was no need to let his starters and core fight with the opponent at the risk of injury.

In the end, the Rockets lost to the Runners by 14 points in their second home game, which was the fewest loss in the next three games since the first game.

With a three-to-one lead, the Runners returned to Sacramento.

Wang Lei unexpectedly saw his wife Ma Dongmei when he went home.

After the last video, Ma Dongmei thought about going to North America to accompany her husband, after all, her husband was under a lot of pressure during the next period of time, and what she had to do as a wife was to share the pressure for her husband, so she took an international flight to Sacramento the next day.

Wang Lei is very happy about the arrival of his wife, at least he will not have a sense of fear of the empty house now.

The Rockets, who were already 3-1 down, did not give up on the game after arriving in Sachs, or rather, the word "waiver" does not exist in the dictionary of John Schmidt and the current players of the Rockets.

So in the fifth game, the Rockets still played hard.

However, back at home, and the fact that the Runners have now completely come out of the previous period of slump, so although the Rockets are exhausted, they still can't shake the lead of the Runners.

In the fifth game, Blair finally fired up, and he felt hot today, scoring 17 points in the first quarter.

At halftime, the Runners once again built a double-digit lead.

Entering the third quarter, Blair completely broke out, scoring 24 points in a single quarter, and scoring a total of 45 points in the third quarter.

In the end, the Rockets fought hard to the end, but still lost the game 111-92.

In this way, the Runners eliminated the Rockets by a total score of 4-1 and became the first team to reach the Western Conference Finals.