This game can be said to be the most critical game for Zhang Feng and Harden to compete for MVP, but Zhang Feng first led the Kings to play a wave of 17-0 to attract all the attention, and then in the subsequent counterattack of the Rockets, successfully blocked Harden and diffraction Paul to open the score again, plus the extremely explosive separating dunk, the media reporters and fans present have been conquered by Zhang Feng's performance.

The opponent's popularity is high, which is devastating for Harden, but he has not played in the second team, and he has almost sentenced Harden to 'death', and his only hope now is that the Rockets will win the game and play a few highlight-reel performances against Zhang Feng, otherwise he will never be able to touch the MVP of the regular season.

Different from Harden's depression, Zhang Feng is now happy in his heart, and it is naturally his idea to use the second team to interfere with Harden's mind, David did not agree at first, after all, the risk is too great, the second team of the Kings plays half of the Rockets' starters, which is a bit of a treasure, but under his repeated insistence, David finally agreed.

The reason why he agreed to the tactics that sounded so ridiculous was not that David was afraid of offending Zhang Feng and making his position unstable, but because he believed in Zhang Feng, and he believed that Zhang Feng could do things that ordinary people could not do.

Fortunately, the second quarter of the game has been carried out so far, and the score of 54:46 on the court proves the rationality of Zhang Feng's tactics.

Back on the court, Rose advanced with the ball, and passed the ball to Zhang Feng after halftime, and the person who defended Zhang Feng was Harden.

When the 'enemy' saw each other, his eyes were red, Harden directly made a steal, Zhang Feng turned sideways, easily dodged, and then accelerated the dribble, broke through Harden and went straight to the basket. Without waiting for Capela to make up for the defense, Zhang Feng pulled out his hand at the free throw line and hit a 2-point shot.

"20 points at halftime, Zhang Feng's performance tonight was very good" In the interval between the games, O'Neal took the opportunity to tout.

"Harden scored 28 points in the half, and if this offense is successful, it will be 30 points in the half, how does it perform? After all, he once had 60+ triple-doubles, and 30 points at halftime is nothing," Barkley introduced at a glance.

"Zhang Feng basically didn't play in the second quarter of the game, it can be said that he scored 20 points in a single quarter, although it can't be compared with his 73 points and the scoring record of active players......"

"Stop, stop, you two don't fight, who's the best guy, you'll know when the game is over" Kenny will interrupt the two with a raised hand.

In the blink of an eye, after the second quarter of the game, the two teams returned to their locker rooms, and the fans at the Toyota Center also took advantage of the pause to go to the toilet and buy beer, only Fertitta in the VIP stands looked displeased, and Morey next to him was smiling awkwardly.

"After the second quarter, Harden's MVP approval rating was only 30%, which is not good news"

"It's not a big problem, Coach D'Antoni will make adjustments......"

"Adjustments naturally have to be adjusted, but hopefully he doesn't have to wait until he is out of control like he did in the first quarter of the game."

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In the Rockets locker room, De Anthony's tactics for the second half have been arranged, but Harden is a little dissatisfied.

"I don't think there's a need to wrap Zhang Feng, Chris and I can limit him well, we should divide the defensive attention equally among every Kings player, just stopping Zhang Feng can't solve the problem"

"Why do you have such an idea?" De Anthony asked with interest.

"The data sheet says, you see, Zhang Feng has 12 assists in two quarters......"

"I see what you mean, the coaching staff has considered this plan before, what do you think?" De Antony threw the question out.

Support Harden, the coach has a bad impression, support the coach, Harden may not be satisfied, except for Paul, the other Rockets players have numb scalps when they hear the question, and they don't know how to answer.

"I think when you get to the court, if the package is better, then the package, if the defense is better, not the package, don't make a decision now," Paul gave his advice after dragging his chin and thinking carefully.

In the end, it is the president of the players' union, Paul said it beautifully, that is, he did not offend Harden, nor did he challenge the authority of the head coach, Harden and D'Anthony naturally did not object, and the defensive tactics of the Rockets in the second half were temporarily determined.

At the end of the halftime timeout, the game between the two places continued, the first offense was initiated by the King, Rose brought the ball to the three-point line, and Zhang Feng took the initiative to reach out for the ball.

"Get out of the way, I'll be alone," Harden waved and motioned for Ariza, who wanted to help defend, to walk away.

Unexpectedly, as soon as his words fell, Zhang Feng pulled out his hand on the spot unreasonably, although he used all his strength to make up for the defense, he could only watch the basketball fly towards the hoop.

With a 3-point score, the difference between the two teams reached double digits again, and the angry Harden quickly rushed to the front court with the ball, and before his teammates finished their positions, he began to accelerate the dribble under his crotch to try to break through.

After a few back-to-back shots, Harden seemed to find an opportunity, and he twisted his body and leaned on Zhang Feng's right side to rush inside.

If you didn't think it would have been a perfect 'one-step' case, it happened unexpectedly, and a desperate Harden dribbled the ball to his feet, and then was stealed by Justin.

The classic breakthrough moment turned into a classic mistake moment, and Harden could only play it back in frustration, but what was even more depressing was that he had not yet run past the midcourt when he saw Zhang Feng shoot another ultra-long three-pointer.

If the duel between Zhang Feng and Harden was evenly matched before, then after these two rounds, it began to show a one-sided state.

As the game progressed in the third quarter, Zhang Feng's performance got better and better, not only with three consecutive points, but also violent dunks, and even assists. On the other hand, Harden, although he also had an excellent performance of 5 of 8 shots in the third quarter, it is really a bit insufficient compared to Zhang Feng's 22 points, 9 assists and 5 rebounds in a single quarter.

"Now you have nothing to say, after the third quarter of the game, the Kings led by 25 points, Zhang Feng got 42 points, 21 assists and 12 rebounds of the super triple-double data, and only 2 turnovers, Harden except for 40 points, there is no one who can compare with Zhang Feng......" O'Neal said proudly.

"Alright, alright, I admit defeat, I declare the 17-18 regular season MVP belongs to Zhang Feng," Barkley shook his head and said.

"That's true, unless there is a miracle in the fourth quarter of the game, Harden has completely lost the opportunity to compete for MVP, whether it is data or team records, Zhang Feng is significantly ahead of him, without Harden, no one can pose a threat to Zhang Feng, the upcoming All-Star weekend will also be Zhang Feng's stage, everything has become a foregone conclusion," Kenny said in a serious analysis.

"I don't believe in any miracles, even if there are miracles, they are created by Zhang Feng, and now, I want to tell Zhang Feng loudly: You can celebrate yourself as a rookie in advance to win the regular season MVP" O'Neal sat down and finished this paragraph word by word.