"Huh!"

A crunch, a two-point hit!

There was an uproar throughout the arena.

Pierce, hit the crucial two-pointer!

Bickerstaff hurriedly called a timeout.

There were still 8 seconds left in the race.

Pierce clenched his right hand into a fist, slapped his chest, and held it high into the air.

Tang Shuai rushed over at this time and hugged him directly, followed by Green, then Jordan Jr., a bunch of people directly surrounded Pierce in the middle, and then pulled and walked to the bench.

Tang Shuai is extremely excited at the moment, Pierce's performance at a critical time is too stable, especially when he flies Ariza, it is no longer a big heart that can be described, it is simply too calm!

It is said that there is an old man in the family, if there is a treasure, it is really not a lie!

"We press the time to play a ball, we must press the time, and we must always be ready to retreat, even if the ball can't be scored, we can't give them a chance to play a fast attack!" As soon as the Rockets players arrived, Bickerstaff said hurriedly, and he judged the situation on the court this time in a good way.

On the other end of the court, Cassel took out his strategy board and said quickly, "Guys, let's do this again, this time we set up two pick-and-rolls for Paul, so that we can get rid of the Rockets' response." ”

"Sam, let Don hit this ball." As soon as Cassel said this, Pierce suddenly spoke again.

Cassel looked at him in surprise and said, "Why?" ”

"Don has a good grasp and I can be the team's second offensive option and draw some defensive pressure from the Rockets." Pierce explained.

After speaking, he glanced at Tang Shuai and said, "He also needs such an opportunity to grow." ”

After Pierce finished speaking, Tang Shuai's whole person couldn't help but tremble.

Players need to be experienced to gain experience and build self-confidence. Playing the key ball is one of the most effective parts, and I don't know how many players have started to play the key ball in the team, and their status in the league has risen rapidly.

The well-known ones are like Harden and Ginobili, while the low-profile ones are like Sandiata Gaines, who was signed on a ten-day contract by the Jazz. Just because he hit a three-point shot against the Cavaliers, not only gave him a big boost in confidence, but also allowed him to get a guaranteed contract and stay in the league for a long time, and the situation is similar to the former Rockets' "elixir" Daniels.

These all show the importance of key shots, Tang Shuai also hit several key shots in the regular season, which also gave him a lot of confidence, but now is the playoffs, and it is such an important occasion. What's more critical is that the team is still 2 points behind, and not scoring means losing, so you can imagine the pressure of this goal and the value of his experience.

Pierce handed over such an opportunity, definitely not because he was afraid of taking on this responsibility, but as he said, he hoped that Tang Shuai could experience this and then transform.

"Okay. Paul is right, Don has been our ace in this game. Paul's threat also made it impossible for the Rockets to defend as they did in the opening game, which is good advice. Kassel quickly agreed with Pierce's suggestion.

"Thank you, Paul." Tang Shuai cast a grateful glance at Pierce.

"Needless to say thank you, it's a responsibility you should take on your shoulders." Pierce followed.

Tang Shuai nodded vigorously, Pierce was right, this was an opportunity. But it also represents a responsibility, whether you can lead the team to win this game, it all depends on the next round of attack.

"Toot!"

The timeout was not long in coming, and the starters from both sides went straight off the bench.

Cassel made changes to the lineup, replacing Green with Booker. It seems that it is an additional insurance on the basis of the previous one, which also makes the Rockets' defense more fearful.

Sure enough, seeing Booker on the court, Bickerstaff's brows were obviously furrowed, after all, he was still a little inexperienced, and he didn't make tactical arrangements for this aspect at all during the pause.

The Clippers serve in the frontcourt, and the person who serves is Brewer.

The presence of Billups makes Kassel much better than Bickerstaff in terms of tactics, which can be seen in the tactical arrangement of this serve.

When the two teams met in the third game, Bickerstaff called two timeouts at the last moment and didn't send the ball out, if it weren't for Harden's foul shot, the Rockets would probably have been eliminated by this time.

In contrast, Cassel's deployment this time was much more perfect, Booker, Pierce and Jordan Jr. were all at the free throw line to block and pick, and when the referee's whistle blew, Pierce ran out first, reached out and made a move to ask for the ball.

This time, Ariza hurriedly ran up, and Pierce hit the key ball in the last round, and they couldn't just let it go.

And at this moment, Booker and Tang Shuai ran in two directions at the same time, and Booker ran in the direction of the right wing bottom line, which happened to be the bottom corner of Brewer's serve.

This time, Harden had to run over again, after all, Booker's three-point shooting rate in the previous series was quite impressive, and even in the regular season against the Warriors, Cassell really arranged for Booker to shoot key three-pointers, so they didn't dare to let it go.

This time, Pierce and Booker took away two defenses, and Tang Shuai ran outside the three-point line with great ease, and even Jordan Jr. blocked Beverley, who was defending him.

He saw Beverley following far away and stopped directly at the three-point line.

Brewer, who served, dodged Morris, who was constantly interfering with him, and gave the ball to Tang Shuai with a direct pass.

When Tang Shuai received the ball, the timer on the sidelines moved.

7.23 seconds.

After Beverley was blocked by Jordan Jr., he pulled away more than a meter away from Tang Shuai when he ran out.

When Tang Shuai saw this, it was directly a three-point feint.

Beverley jumped up suddenly, and the Rockets' best result was to defend against the ball, but if they couldn't prevent it, they would rather put a two-point shot than let you shoot a three-pointer, so Beverley made a resolute pounce.

Tang Shuai was overjoyed, this Beverley was directly flown off, and the tactics after that were completely useless.

But just when he wanted to do this, he found that it couldn't be done, although Beverley pounced fiercely, but his feet did not mean to leave the ground, which was almost impossible to fly.

It all happened between the lights and the fire. When he realized that the dot couldn't fly, he suddenly changed direction to the right, and then accelerated and broke through.

Although Beverley's feet did not leave the ground, his center of gravity was rushing forward, and he couldn't do it if he wanted to retract, so he could only watch Tang Shuai rub his body and rush inside.

But he didn't give up. slower, turned around and chased back, at this time there was Howard on the inside, and he still had a chance.

Jordan Jr. was standing on the left side of the basket at this time, his purpose was to pull Howard out, but in fact Howard did not follow, Jordan Jr. did not have the ability to reach the middle, and there was no offensive threat except for grabbing rebounds.

In fact, at this time, Ariza also went to Tang Shuai's bag, and the three of them wrapped up one person. Make it clear that you don't give it a chance.

Tang Shuai quickly rushed to the basket, saw Howard standing on the inside, and suddenly turned his head to the left.

Pierce was running to the left.

This one was fast, but it didn't escape Bickerstaff's eyes, and when he saw that Ariza hadn't followed Pierce, he jumped up sharply: "Paul! Pay attention to Paul! ”

When he shouted, both Beverly and Howard couldn't help but turn their heads to look at Pierce.

Pierce made an outreach to catch the ball while moving.

Tang Shuai pulled the ball behind him with his right hand at this time.

Pass the ball from behind!

A thought crossed the minds of Howard, Ariza, and Beverley, and the ball was played the same as before. Or to Pierce!

"Paul!" Bickerstaff jumped up and shouted from the sidelines.

Ariza and Beverly turned around and were about to rush over.

But at this moment, Tang Shuai's right hand behind suddenly pulled back violently.

There was an uproar at the scene!

Fake Fax Cast!

Iverson's classic move!

Beverly and Ariza looked back and saw that it was too late. Their body center of gravity couldn't be contained at all, and they could only watch Tang Shuai go to the basket.

There are 3 seconds left in the game!

However, the Rockets' defensive formation has not been completely lost, and Howard is still in front of Tang Shuai.

Tang Shuai had no choice at all, he gritted his teeth and bumped directly into Howard.

Before his body could make contact, he followed up with a Weiping Bryant hook bag.

A moving hook hand. The basketball was thrown lightly from Tang Shuai's hand.

The basketball sliced through the air in a small parabola and landed straight towards the net bag.

There was a hint of joy in his eyes, this goal is going in!

"Bang!"

Before he could see the ball go in, he and Howard collided hard, and then the whole person was knocked backwards and flew back.

"Huh!"

Basketball hollow into the net!

Ball in!

93 drawn!

"Toot!"

The referee's whistle sounded.

Howard blocks fouls!

There are 1.2 seconds left in the race!

Howard froze. Bickerstaff also jumped up suddenly, and the fans at the scene were even more crazy, and the referee actually blew the whistle at the last moment!

Under normal circumstances, the referee will choose to hand over the victory or defeat of the game to the players, and will not make a penalty, even if the foul is obvious, but on the home court of the Rockets, after giving Harden almost a full game of free throws, he actually blew a foul that was absolutely fatal to the Rockets in the last 1.2 seconds!

The scene was followed by an overwhelming boo.

The referee who blew the penalty was a little weak, but the referee was completely indifferent at the moment.

"Black Whistle! Black Whistle! ”

The boos at the scene have turned into a flood of scolding.

The referee remained indifferent because his name was Joey Crawford, one of the oldest referees in the NBA.

Tang Shuai stood up at this time with the support of Brewer and Booker, this time he collided directly with Howard head-on, which was much more fierce than the previous side collision, even if he heard the penalty foul, he didn't have the strength to stand up, and it wasn't until he was finally helped up that he relieved himself.

ps: Thanks to the 1888 tip of the fish wings! Thanks to Jiangsu Run, Porcupine 12, Ghost of a Rainy Night, K Tiger, Obsession, Cloud, and Deadwood Shirong for their monthly ticket support. (To be continued.) )