As the game continued, the ball returned to the Rockets, and Harden hit another step-back shot to extend the margin to nine points.

Just over halfway through the first quarter, the Rockets were so far ahead, and Old Man Bobo was about to take a timeout to explain the offense.

Old man Bobo first said to Lei Shui: "Don't be affected by the penalty just now, you have to play decisively when you have a chance, but pay attention to the way, don't go head-to-head with Beverley, now it's up to Paul to respond, you run without the ball, try to find opportunities close to the basket, and use the height..."

After some explanation, the game continued, Lei Shui no longer held the ball after half the court, and handed it over to Gasol to deal with, Gasol mentioned the online strategy, Lei Shui ran without the ball, although Beverley's defense with the ball is relatively good, but it is difficult to defend without the ball...

Thunder Water inadvertently suddenly touched, cut to the wing, received Gasol's pass, held high, and hit a small board easily, although Beverley kept up, but the defensive height was limited, and he couldn't do anything in such a close basket position.

After this ball, Lei Shui also found a way to deal with Beverley's defense, on this move twice in a row, when the third time, Anderson was forced to come out to help defend, Lei Shui received the ball and wanted to pull out another one, when he turned around, he saw Anderson pounced, the action did not stop, and he used his afterglow to find Ade, at this time Ade also knew that the opportunity was coming, raised his hands and cut to the basket, Lei Shui's wrist flicked, faked the real pass, and sent the ball to Ade's hand, and Ade took advantage of the situation to catch the dunk.

The way the Rockets play now is that no matter how the opponent scores on their heads, their first task is not to prevent the opponent from scoring, but to score more points than the opponent on their side, Ade has just completed the dunk, Anderson has already served Harden quickly, and while the Spurs' defense has not yet formed, a rush to the basket and assisted Ariza to hit a three-pointer.

On the Spurs' side, after Gasol and Thunderwater formed a midline double attack and pass threat, the shooting percentage skyrocketed.

Although the Rockets' shooting rate is not as good as that of the Spurs, it is not too bad, and they have quite a three-point shot, even if the Spurs start to chase points, it is impossible to get close in a short time.

When the Spurs chased the difference to 6 points, the Spurs' regular rotation time was also up, and the old man Bobo was still very principled in this regard, and he did not hesitate to give up the momentum of chasing points and immediately rotated.

With the rotation of personnel, the Spurs' tactics have changed accordingly, and their efficiency has decreased, but the Rockets have a better connection point, Eric Gordon, Gordon has a strong scoring ability, and in the bench stage, he single-handedly helped the team re-establish a 9-point advantage.

At the beginning of the second quarter, Gordon continued to have a good hand, and the Spurs' bench also found a rhythm, and the margin hovered around 10 points.

Finally, when it was time for the main force to come back, Thunder Water and Gasol continued to use the tactics of the first quarter, but it was too slow to chase points like this, the Spurs scored two 2-point points, and the Rockets scored a 3-point, chasing 1 point in two rounds on average, which was a bit inefficient.

The main problem is that although the offensive problem is solved, the defensive problem is still a big problem, the Rockets are full of three-point firepower points, and the defense does not dare to shrink at all, and Harden has a strong breakthrough ability, and it is difficult to limit him with one-on-one defense.

After changing the defense, although it had some effect, Leonard also paid a certain price and suffered a second foul, if he continued to defend, either the defensive effect decreased, or he fell into foul trouble.

During a timeout, Bobo said: "We're going to use a wheel battle against James Harden, and then change to Ray to defend, remember the offensive skills of Harden you've seen, and be careful of fouls!" ”

The game continued, and Harden saw that the defender was replaced by Leonard to Thunder Water, so he naturally had an idea, and even a defensive expert like Leonard was fouled by himself, not to mention this rookie.

Harden took the ball at the top of the arc, and the others hurriedly dispersed when they saw this, leaving enough space for Harden to break through, and Harden's various scoring skills immediately began to flash in Lei Shui's mind...

At this time, I saw Harden bending over with the ball, exposing the ball in front of him, Lei Shui subconsciously wanted to cut it, his hand was just halfway out, and the picture of Harden making a foul suddenly flashed in his mind, and he hurriedly retracted his hand, and at the same time as Lei Shui shrank his hand, Harden picked up with both hands, fortunately Lei Shui dodged quickly, otherwise this was a shooting foul.

Harden saw that Thunder Water dodged and repeated it again, but Thunder Water controlled his hand well in his cylinder and did not give Harden any chance to make a foul.

However, in order to prevent Harden from really throwing, Lei Shui straightened his body a little, and as soon as the center of gravity moved up, Harden took advantage of this opportunity, an arrow step began to break through, Lei Shui's side sliding step kept up with the defensive position firmly, Harden's breakthrough did not rely entirely on speed, after the first step, the body began to lean on Lei Shui's body, his upper body strength was very sufficient, close to Lei Shui's chest with his big forearm to hit Lei Shui at the same time as he retracted his strength, Lei Shui was hit, in order to maintain his body, naturally unable to jump, and Harden slowed down to create a shot space, a gentle throw scores.

Thunderwater came back and scored a goal on Beverley's head.

Coming back to defend, Harden continued to signal to move out of the way, this time hitting a step-back shot after the confrontation.

For a while, Harden hit Thunderwater 3 of 3, and Thunder Shui hit Beverley with 2 of 2 plus 2 assists, no score up or down, but fortunately, Thunderwater did not pay for the foul.

Lei Shui began to think about how to prevent Harden's ball, Harden's several attacks are based on physical confrontation every time, using confrontation to control himself on the ground, but he himself occupies the jump opportunity, and when he jumps, the ball has flown to the highest point, if you want to defend it, you must first avoid Harden's confrontation, and you must have a certain amount of jumping space to block.

Harden leaned in again, ready to exert force, and Lei Shui tried to control the distance between the two, neither too far away for Harden to have space for direct shooting, but also not too close to cause physical contact. Between one advance and one retreat, Harden came to the elbow position, if this distance is broken, it will not be too easy, but Harden knows his advantages, and he has also tasted the sweetness of the breakthrough, how can he give up easily, a fake retreat, take advantage of the thunder water in front of him, and immediately lean forward, wanting to take advantage of the thunder water to create a scoring opportunity.

Lei Shui is very sensitive to physical contact this time, when he found that Harden hit him, Lei Shui quickly pulled away like a plague, Harden hit a void, his strength could not be contained, a little staggering, but the road leading to the basket in front of him was given up by Lei Shui, although he stumbled two steps, but still used strong leg strength to stabilize his body, and made a layup...

Harden's layup this time, the leg power in the early action was overused, so the last layup failed to jump, and Lei Shui dodged Harden's collision, mastered plenty of room for movement, jumped back to his height, and a big hat fanned down, and the ball was almost slapped straight up and down on the ground.

The ball was slapped on the ground and bounced high, and the Spurs immediately stuck in position to win the ball, launched a counterattack, and scored two points.