After Harden was singled by Thunderwater, he began to change his offensive strategy, no longer playing one-on-one singles, but began to call for cover.

Capela's movement speed and bounce ability are better than Gasol's, and it is difficult for Gasol to completely block Capela's down, and with Anderson's long-range cannon on the outside, Ade does not dare to return to the basket to help defend.

Harden has a lot of options at this time, if Thunder Water and Gasol switch defenses, Harden will use his speed advantage to go directly to the basket, if Thunder Water catches up, he will tear up the space and send an empty catch for Capela.

At this time, although Gasol could respond on the offensive end, the disadvantage of slow movement on the defensive end was exploited by the Rockets.

Thunderwater can still get good opportunities on the offensive end, but defending Harden is indeed a thankless job, and Harden's choices are very smart, and it is difficult to limit scoring and passing at the same time.

The two sides went back and forth, the Spurs couldn't close the score, and the Rockets couldn't widen the difference.

At halftime, the Spurs 58:64 Rockets, Harden got 21 points, 7 assists, and 6 rebounds in the first half, which was very comprehensive, and Thunder Water was not far behind, with 19 points, 8 assists, and 5 rebounds.

At halftime, the Spurs went to the locker room to discuss how to play in the second half, and everyone was almost unanimous that they had to limit Harden first.

Old man Bobo also thinks so: "Everyone, pay attention! In the second half, everyone held their positions, don't lose their position, pay attention to cut off the passing route, Ray defended James, Paul rested first, David's movement was better, it could delay Harden's breakthrough and force him to shoot outside..."

"But his shot is accurate enough today, in case..."

"Judging from past experience, the Rockets' efficiency in the third quarter is usually low, you just have to stick to this defensive strategy, and if he can shoot all, we will admit it!" Old man Bobo said.

Lei Shui nodded: "Okay, I will definitely do my best!" ”

After halftime, the game continued, Harden still played with Capela, David Lee was really much better than Gasol's legs and feet in terms of defensive cover, and Harden's first breakthrough layup was deflected wide by his interference.

Although David Lee is not as good as Gasol in terms of strategy, but he is quite active in covering, this side has just completed the defense, and he immediately turned around to cover Lei Shui, although Beverley is very entangled, but David Lee is also very pestering, and if the first cover fails, he will do a second cover until he blocks the person, under the cover of David Lee, Lei Shui successfully broke through and won the one-handed split.

Harden attacked again, and this time David Lee once again failed to make Harden and Capela play through active movement, and finally completed the switch with Thunderwater, so that Harden always faced Thunderwater's defense.

Harden couldn't break through, and finally chose to step back for three points, and missed under the interference of Thunder Water.

The Spurs immediately counterattacked, and David Lee followed up again, and Thunderwater assisted David Lee for a layup.

The Spurs came up with this adjustment, and directly hit the Rockets with a wave of 6:0 to tie the score.

D'Antoni immediately called a timeout to make adjustments...

After adjusting back, Harden no longer blindly wanted to rush in, but shot decisively, a single-block cover, and immediately shot when he came out of the space, hitting three-point shots.

After finally scoring, Harden played his own salt action to celebrate, but Lei Shui's ball action was very fast, a long pass found Green, Harden was happy, suddenly found that Green had taken the ball, and hurriedly rushed over to interfere, but everyone knows that Harden's defense is mostly bluffing, Green is a little easier, after deceiving Harden, Harden decisively gave up the defense, and saw Green shoot three points.

Next, although the Rockets also resumed scoring, they were still slightly inferior to the Spurs, and after a while, the Spurs took the lead and changed from the chasing side to the active side.

During this period of the third quarter, although Harden still maintained a good shooting rate, the collective defense of the Spurs limited Harden's passing to the greatest extent, allowing him to continue to fall into a solo battle, which consumed him very much.

As Harden's physical strength declined, some technical moves were not done so well, and his shooting percentage began to decrease.

Harden stepped back again to shoot, the retreat stride was a little smaller, Lei Shui stepped on the step point, sent a block in the front, and took the lead in delivering a tomahawk dunk.

After Harden realized that his physical strength had decreased, he began to pass the ball, but without the support of the breakthrough, the pass could not form an assist, and could only be played by others.

At this time, the staffing on the Rockets court is basically centered on Harden, and Harden attracts defense to get shots, and if it is put into one-on-one, there is no advantage at all.

In two more rounds, the Spurs began to get a six-point advantage, and D'Antoni saw that the situation was not good, and immediately adjusted the lineup, with Gordon coming on as the main attack, relieving the pressure on Harden.

Although the Spurs were temporarily ahead, they were unable to further open up the gap as time came to the bench.

In the fourth quarter, the Rockets once relied on the god of substitution to chase the difference to 2 points, but fortunately, the Spurs' substitute was not vegetarian, even offensive and defensive, and resisted the momentum of the Rocket's chasing points.

D'Antoni was deflated when he saw that he chased twice to the critical moment, and knew that the players on the field were also a little frustrated, so he immediately advanced half of the main force.

After a period of rest, Harden regained his strength and came back to make two fouls in a row and score four points to tie the score.

Bobo old man also hurriedly took the main force back to the court, the main forces of the two sides faced each other again, it was a critical time, the defense was not ambiguous at all, Lei Shui died against Harden as soon as he passed half court, and Beverley stared at Lei Shui all over the court, as long as Lei Shui got the ball, Beverley tried his best to interfere, making Lei Shui very uncomfortable.

Because both sides used the strongest defense at the same time, the scoring method on the court for a while became free throws, but in terms of fouls, the Rockets were slightly stronger than the Spurs, after all, with the porcelain king Harden, the Rockets had a 2-point advantage.

At the critical moment, Old Man Bobo took back Ginobili, and after Ginobili returned to the court, he whispered to Lei Shui: "Give me the ball and see how I deal with Beverley." ”

Ginobili took over from Thunder Water to play point guard, Beverley naturally went to entangle Ginobili again, Ginobili, an old bird with bald hair, was naturally very cunning, and made Beverley's foul on the first time he held the ball, and then, using the opportunity of Thunder Water to play against Harden, sent a second pass that led the way to the ball, and Thunder Water scored two points after receiving the ball.

After Ginobili came up, Thunder Water instantly felt a lot more relaxed, Harden's defensive willingness was much worse than Beverley's, Thunder Water cut 7 points in front of Harden in a row, and re-established a 5-point advantage.

When the game reached a critical moment, the Rockets also began to fight, first Anderson, who was silent for most of the quarter, hit a three-pointer, and then Harden hit another difficult three-pointer, and the difference was still 1 point.