Tang Shuai had been touching the back of his head in the middle of the game, and he suddenly wanted to take a look at the scar that almost killed him.

Now he has such a way to limit Zhang Mao, and if he hits 20 points, 5 rebounds and 9 assists in the half, the Rockets can plan for the summer as soon as possible.

But look around at your own players, where can anyone carry out such an order?

Looking at the No. 14 jersey that can even appear at home, how dare he give an order for such a thing?

Touching the back of his head again, Tang Shuai was also very helpless!

It's not the 80s after all, there are too many things that have been eliminated by the long river of history, what will happen if you go against the trend? Shouldn't it be good, right?

Tang Shuai couldn't make up his mind, and finally slapped the back of his head hard, but he still didn't dare to mess around.

As a result, the Rockets didn't even see the last bit of chance......

The name of the Houston Big Three sounds loud, but all three of them are old, and there are not so many emotions in the arena, no matter what the reason, as long as you are not as good as others, you can only be a loser!

Drexler was completely lost in the third quarter, and he actually scored 0 points in this quarter, and he couldn't find a way to score under Zhang Mao's defense, and he wanted to help his teammates from other aspects, but he repeatedly returned in vain, and his performance was a mess!

It's still that reason - "old", no matter how martial he was back then, old is old.

Zhang Qian even felt that with his state this year, even if the Lakers were still the same Lakers last year, what should he be afraid of?

At this moment, he realized that he didn't compete much in this series, and the real reason was that he had the chance to win!

In the second half, the embarrassment of the Rockets continued, the combination of Zhang Zhu + Kidd + Starks kept the entire backcourt airtight, and the Rockets could only rely on the scores of two inside linemen to continue their lives, but as the gap widened, the Rockets obviously died soon.

What's even more embarrassing is that even Finley, who has been average in this series, played an eye-catching performance off the bench today, with his accurate shooting and more impactful cuts, once he is in shape, he can cause more lethality on the offensive end than Starks, which is where his potential lies.

The Lakers really don't have a shortage of defenders right now, with an excellent rotation player on the outside and one on the inside, which has met the seven-man rotation needs in the playoffs. The rest of the players will only play a few minutes in the playoffs, and the Lakers don't need them to play well, as long as any team has seven players to play.

But the terrible thing about the Lakers is that in addition to the seven people they can play a big role, the eighth and ninth people are not small roles, if they are in the Rockets, they can play an important rotation role, which shows the difference in strength between the two teams.

Veteran Ricky Pierce played another big part in this game, taking two shots in the day, but two accurate open three-pointers kept the Rockets bleeding and unable to stop the bleeding in the rotation.

Although Big Ben was still taught by Barkley after he came on the court, his contribution to rebounding caused the Rockets to hurt a lot. Really calculated, he only played about ten minutes of playing time, but he had already grabbed 2 frontcourt rebounds and protected 4 backcourt rebounds.

This kind of performance made Zhang Mao a little unhappy, which is why he struggled to rebound today, and there are too many people competing with him for rebounds on this team.

But you can also see how terrifying the bench depth of this Lakers team is now!?

In the end, it is natural to look back at these old, weak, sick and disabled people in the Rockets, I believe that fans should be able to fully understand why the Rockets fell behind by 18 points after three quarters, and they can also understand why the outside handicap is willing to offer anti-sky odds for the Rockets' promotion, because this is impossible!

Zhang Yu felt that there was no need to play again in the fourth quarter, and after the third quarter, the score was 82:62, and the gap of a full 20 points wanted to complete the turnaround on the Lakers, which was a fool's dream.

Of course, he doesn't care about himself, but hopes that the Rockets won't surrender so early, because his current stats are embarrassing - 26 points, 8 rebounds and 13 assists, and he is two rebounds away from a triple-double at the moment.

The Rockets didn't give up in the fourth quarter, and that fighting spirit must be recognized.

Zhang Fu is happy in her heart, as long as she gets her teammates right, her first triple-double in this year's playoffs will be stable.

In fact, he didn't have to go out of his way to order, and he didn't have to knock on the side, Harris, a guy with an EQ higher than IQ, had already taken the initiative to do things for him.

In the fourth quarter, Zhang led Starks, Ricky Pierce, Michael Finley, and Ben Wallace into the rotation, and the Lakers will use this lineup with an average height of less than 2M to fight the Rockets' Big Three.

Among them, the worst is naturally Ben Wallace, who was tyrannized by Barkley all the way before, and now he has been beaten out of by Olajuwon, so miserable that he can't even bear to look at it, and would rather let Barkley go and support Ben Wallace instead.

However, this devastation is undoubtedly the best catalyst for the growth of a defensive player, and Harris was meant to get Ben Wallace up and get beaten.

The current situation is that no matter how Big Ben is exposed on the court, the Lakers have the winning position.

It's hard to find such a good exercise opportunity, and Zhang Yu went up to help, but it wasn't beautiful.

Zhang Wei didn't think of this for a while, but he soon saw Harris on the sidelines signaling him not to help, although he still didn't figure it out, but he knew that he couldn't lose if he didn't help, since the coach didn't let him go, then don't go, this bit of face still has to be given.

Harris refused to help, and Zhang Fu focused on organizing the attack.

In this Lakers lineup, he is actually the point guard.

Today's Zhang Zhu is artistic in command and offense, in the first three quarters when his teammates were in hot form, he played mostly without the ball during this time, but relying on his familiarity with his teammates, even if he just touched the ball, he can find ways to create many scoring opportunities, which is his strength when playing without the ball.

When a player is playing without the ball, their running position is usually to receive a teammate's ball to complete the final attack, with the ultimate goal of scoring.

Zhang Zhu, on the other hand, is in the position to create scoring opportunities, and "creating" here refers not only to scoring himself, but also to find other teammates at the moment of receiving the ball. At this point, he can choose to attack on his own, or he can choose to pass the ball and let other teammates with better chances complete the score.

This is not easy to do, first of all, you must have superhuman reflexes and decisiveness, but also have a sense of space and location against the sky, and a strong calculation ability. Because you have to pay attention to where your teammates are when you run, and even where your teammates might move next.

Such a requirement is not enough to use a 4-core processor to calculate, it has to be 8 or even 16 cores, so that so as to process so much information in an instant and make correct judgments.

This is similar to playing Go, you need to calculate many steps in the future, and the world only knows that Zhang Fu's body is against the sky, but they don't know that the body alone can't do this, brain power is the key to the limits of the body, without enough brain power, no matter how good the body is, it can only fall into the calculations of others.

In the fourth quarter, Kidd and Mason were absent, and Zhang Fu returned to his old style of play, holding a lot of the ball to organize the offense, first assisting Finley to score in the blue, and then successfully breaking through the ball to score a three-point shot for Ricky Pierce.

The Rockets know how to play the pill like this, and although they can score back-to-back points now, if they can't let the Lakers stop scoring first, it's still no different from the first three quarters, and the margin won't change.

Finley and Ricky Pierce, who had just scored, were quickly guarded by the Rockets, who chose to let go of Ben Wallace, who had no scoring ability, to strengthen the defense against other Lakers players.

However, Big Ben does not have any scoring skills, but that doesn't mean he really can't score, at least in the open space from close range, he can still shoot, and he has no problem with dunks and layups after grabbing rebounds in the frontcourt.

These scoring tools are available even to the most offensive NBA players, and it's okay to let him go, but you have to make sure that no one passes the ball to the basket.

Zhang Zhu has the ability to pass the ball to the empty big hand, and the Rockets saw that even this guy who couldn't attack completed a two-handed dunk under the basket, and then almost received Zhang Zhu's pass and played a 2+1, and the morale of the whole team immediately plummeted!

It's not that I can't wait for power, but even such a person can score, how can the game be played?

The Rockets really don't have much confidence now, they know that the cause of the problem has always been on Zhang Mao, but they just can't stop this guy's scoring and passing, the two of them can't hold him together, and the result of the three of them is like just now, they can pass the ball to their teammates who are empty, and help the Lakers score more easily.

Zhang Qi has not forgotten his true purpose, and here is to thank the Rockets for their low morale.

Now that there is no morale, can the hit rate still be guaranteed?

Of course not, so Zhang Qi quickly collected his rebounds.

The first triple-double of this year's playoffs came unusually well, along with an even more smooth victory.

Zhang was substituted in the last six minutes of the final quarter, when the fans at the "Compaq Center" were already exiting.

After the Lakers used the rotation lineup to still widen the difference to 22 points, the Rockets no longer had the face to hold on, and the Big Three were replaced one by one with a frown, and then sat on the court with a black face and didn't say a word.

Zhang Qi likes to see his opponent show this expression the most, but he doesn't want to know what is going on in these people's hearts.

At this time, if it's really boring, you can imagine who will take the blame when the Rockets are eliminated? This seems to be a little more interesting.

The final score was 112-93, and the Lakers won another big win on the road.

Zhang Qi and his companions just raised their arms and shouted at the final whistle, and then quickly gathered the joy on their faces and disappeared in front of the eyes of the extremely disappointed and even disgruntled Rockets fans. At the same time, Jerry West, the president of the Lakers in the VIP seat, also got up and left calmly, as if it was just a small scene that did not need to show much joy.

With an away win, a 3-1 lead on aggregate, and the twists and turns of the previous game, the Lakers had plenty of reasons to rejoice in this victory, but their composure made people feel a little scary.

This game, of course, is not a small scene, although the Lakers did not completely eliminate the Rockets in this battle, but with a huge advantage of 3:1, returning to the home court must be the last battle.

Rocket fans have no objection to this, even if they refuse to accept it and their eyes are very unhappy, but they should all understand in their hearts that saying that the Rockets have no hope at this moment is not that they let the Lakers get three match points, but that they make people unable to see the hope of winning in the game.

In these few games, the Rockets have always been helpless against Zhang Mao. On the other hand, the Lakers can put the Big Three in a difficult situation, how can they expect to win in such a situation?

Let's take a look at the statistics of today's Rockets players, Olajuwon got 22 points and 9 rebounds, Barkley 25 points and 10 rebounds, Drexler 8 points and 4 assists, the Big Three didn't even have a real explosion, but one person was trapped by the opponent, how to win?

Looking at the Lakers' side, Zhang Yu alone scored 34 points, 11 rebounds, 16 assists, 3 steals and 1 block, such all-round data is rare in the playoffs, and the Rockets let him alone score at least 66 points directly for the team, not counting his steals and frontcourt rebounding contributions. According to conservative estimates, almost 60% of the Lakers' 112 points today are directly or indirectly related to him. If a team allows the opponent's core to play this kind of anti-sky performance, unless there are people on their side who are equal, it is impossible to win the game, and it is not bad if it does not lose by three or forty points.

Before the game, Anthony Mason of the Lakers boldly predicted that the Lakers would definitely win this game. And in this game, the hot-tempered "Los Angeles murderer" "spawned" the realization of the prophecy with 10 points, 6 rebounds and 4 assists.

Lakers head coach Harris said after the game: "Our defense, especially on the perimeter — was incredible! It's so well guarded tonight! ”

Zhang Mao's performance was speechless, so he said something after the game that made his teammates feel not so comfortable: "Let me judge myself? Well, I hate to say that, but I'm an army today alone. ”

This time, I don't know if I feel that I am stable, and Zhang Fu is no longer cautious in what he says.

In other words, he's about to start pretending......

A reporter asked him again, what is the fate of the Rockets?

He replied: "Everyone can only live in the tide that cannot be resisted, and there is only one destiny, which everyone has equally, and that is failure." ”

There is a flaw in this statement, if "defeat" is equal for everyone, then "victory" should also be the same.

Zhang Qi quickly said: "Don't make trouble, that fate is mine, and it has nothing to do with them." ”

Such an answer is obviously doing something, and it seems that he is still not mature enough.

But you also have to think that Zhang Qi has been holding back for four games, and now he is not allowed to go out to make waves and make a commotion, so can't he suffocate him?