Tomorrow is 515, the anniversary of the starting point, and the day with the most benefits. In addition to the gift bag and school bag, this time's "515 Red Envelope Flip" must be seen, how can there be a reason not to grab the red envelope, set the alarm clock high~

Coming back in the second half, the two sides are still playing quite anxiously, but the Rockets are much inferior to the overall lineup, especially the strength of the bench, and the previous almost desperate style of play makes the main players physically exhausted, and it is impossible to expect them to play the whole game, and by the end of the third quarter, the Clippers gradually mastered the momentum of the game by relying on the play of the bench.

Booker showed his potential after Stephenson was traded, and gradually grew into the team's bench sixth man, although not as crazy as Tang Shuai's previous performance, but the stable play made Kassel trust him a lot, although most of the points in the previous two playoff games came from garbage time, but the consecutive 20+ points still show his excellent scoring ability.

And during this time, it was his outstanding play that led the Clippers to a wave of counterattacks.

At the beginning of the fourth quarter, he first received a pass from Smith and hit an open three-pointer from the outside, then burst into the basket and made two foul free throws, followed by a fast-break layup, scoring eight points in a row to chase the score to 86-91.

The Rockets were forced to call a timeout and had to bring back the main team that had just been rested for a short time.

The Clippers also brought Paul and Griffin on the court.

As soon as the main force of the Rockets came up, Booker was targeted and defended, and he failed to attack twice in a row, and Cassel simply replaced all the main forces on the court. Tang Shuai also appeared again.

At this time, the score on the court was 86-93, and the Clippers still trailed by seven points.

Clippers' offensive round.

Paul holds the ball and advances to the frontcourt. Giving the ball to Tang Shuai, he ran around the three-point line to the other side and cut to the basket.

The tactics of this ball are that Tang Shuai is then going to pass Paul. But the Rockets' defense was very good, and Capela stuck to Paul after the switch, not allowing him to have enough space to receive the ball.

Tang Shuai saw that there was no chance, so he stretched out his hand to beckon Little Jordan to come out and do the blocking.

The quality of Jordan Jr.'s blocking and dismantling is very high, Harden was quickly blocked, and Howard quickly made up for it.

Tang Shuai saw a realistic feint after seeing it.

Howard played a very hard game, scoring 12 points, 18 rebounds and 2 rebounds in the first three quarters of the game, including 5 frontcourt boards, but this also made him physically exhausted. Tang Shuai shook it, and he directly confiscated his body.

Tang Shuai saw the opportunity, followed by an acceleration inside, and the drunkard's breakthrough bag was activated, and he quickly rushed into the basket and sent the ball into the basket before Harden could return to defense.

On the offense of the Rockets, Harden made a mistake in passing under the bag of Brewer and Tang Shuai, and Paul cut off the ball and accelerated directly to the frontcourt. Beverley, who flew back to defense, easily scored 2 points on the board.

That's not all, here Harden showed off his key ball ability and hit a step-back jumper against Brewer's defense. Coming back, Tang Shuai picked up the pass after blocking and dismantling with Brewer and hit the second open three-pointer of the game.

Three rounds of pause to come back. The Clippers scored back-to-back points, and the margin was already chased by only 2 points.

Bickerstaff sees momentum not good. Hurriedly called a timeout.

"We were ahead all night, let's keep that lead until the end. Put your energy, more defensive input, more pick-and-roll, more open cuts, let's win this game, it's a game we deserve! On the Rockets' bench, Bickerstaff yelled at his teammates with a red face, finally seeing an opportunity to win, and he obviously didn't want to watch the victory slip away.

The timeout was quick to arrive, and players from both sides returned to the field from the bench.

Before going on the court, Bickerstaff suddenly grabbed Beverley and said, "Patrick, I don't care what method you use, I must limit CP3, block his breakthrough, cut off the connection between him and his teammates, can you do it?" ”

Bever's head nodded forcefully, then turned to play.

After the timeout, the Rockets' offense, Harden once again showed the fans his key ball ability, using Howard's blocking to open up the distance with Brewer, and directly made a three-point shot from a step back.

Harden's shot is not fast, which requires him to have plenty of room to shoot, and Howard's blocking is obviously enough, and the angle and feel of his shot are almost perfect.

With a "bang", Harden's three-point shot fell into the pocket steadily!

The point difference was stretched to 5 points again!

After scoring this time, Harden looked excited, and when he ran back, he spread out the palm of one hand and kept stirring the other hand on it, showing his most famous "-stirring stick" celebration.

The fans at the scene also burst out in an instant, and this ball was definitely thirst-quenching for the Rockets, which was equivalent to directly suppressing the momentum of the Clippers' continuous counterattack.

"Watch out for a change of guard! Change the guard! Cassel also rushed to the sidelines and yelled at the players.

With only six or seven minutes left in the match, any round counts.

The Clippers' offense, Paul reached out and made a "4" tactical gesture after arriving in the frontcourt, and Brewer and Tang Shuai began to run around the baseline in turnaround.

However, the Rockets' defense at this time was very good, and the change of defense after the block was quite decisive, and Tang Shuai and Brewer did not get a chance after going around in a big circle.

“defense！”

Amid the cheers of the crowd, the Rockets' defense became more and more intense, much harder than the previous two games combined.

Paul saw that there was no chance, so he could only beckon Jordan Jr. to come up and block the demolition.

Jordan Jr. was quickly brought up, and Paul took the opportunity to break straight inside.

Jordan Jr.'s blocking and dismantling was in place, but Beverley rushed fiercely this time, squeezing Jordan Jr. directly towards Paul.

Little Jordan was knocked and staggered, and turned his head to see that the referee didn't blow for a foul.

Beverley sped up towards Paul and reached for the ball.

Sensing Beverley's motives, Paul pulled the ball back with a sudden stop.

But Beverley is really hard this time. He quickly pulled the ball into it, and got it before Paul. Dig up hard.

Paul saw the ball being poked and tried to grab it hard. But at this moment, he somehow suddenly weakened his legs, pulled his hand down, and he didn't stop it, and at this time, Beverley grabbed the ball up and grabbed the ball with the power to confiscate, under the action of the two forces.

"Click!"

With a crisp sound, Paul jerked back his hand and squatted on the ground with a painful expression.

Beverley ignored Paul and grabbed the ball. With a flick of his hand, he threw the ball to Harden on the outside, and Harden rode into the dust, and before the Rockets' defense could come up, one accelerated to the front court to score a layup.

However, in the footage of the camera, Paul did not stand up, and his other hand slammed the floor.

The referee's whistle soon sounded, and Cassell, seeing that the situation was not right, quickly turned around and called the team doctor to the field.

There was a timeout on the sidelines.

After asking a few questions, the team doctor quickly helped Paul to the sidelines, constantly communicating with him.

The game is not interrupted by an injury to a player. Ismael Smith was soon on as a substitute for Paul.

The Clippers' offense, Smith came up and played a block with Brewer, and when he looked back and saw that the others had no offensive opportunities, he was ready to go straight to the basket.

Smith is excellent at passing. But his scoring ability has always been a weakness, and this is when he has to go to the basket and face Howard's defense. When he went to the basket, he took it off his hand, and the ball slid out of the baseline.

The Rockets' possession.

The cheers at the scene were deafening.

When Tang Shuai retreated, he couldn't help but look back at the bench. Paul seems to be trying to move his middle finger, but it doesn't seem to be doing well. The team doctor is in constant communication with Kassel right now.

The Rockets' offense, Beverley helped Harden make a block, Harden faced Smith's defense, and relied on a backward jump ball that turned around after hitting two times to continue the Rockets' score.

The Clippers gave Tang Shuai a single.

Without Paul, the Rockets immediately rushed up to wrap the clamp, and cut off the connection between Tang Shuai and other teammates.

The rebound fell into the hands of Harden, who dribbled two steps and threw his hand to the fast-break Beverley, who accelerated to the basket and squeezed Smith away for a layup.

The margin was reopened to 9 points.

After scoring, Beverley was very excited, looking up and yelling hoarsely, looking quite excited.

Billups walked over to the tech desk and called a timeout.

Paul's injury was caught off guard, the mentality of the players fluctuated, and he had to do something.

At the end of the game, Beverley seemed very excited, waving vigorously at the audience to arouse the emotions of the audience.

At this time, on the Clippers' bench, the players also learned about Paul's injury.

It's more serious, the specific situation is unknown, but this game is absolutely unplayable.

Cassel is still cheering on the players, but from the sad faces of the players, it can be seen that Paul's injury has affected them quite a lot.

At this moment, Paul was persuaded by the team doctor to go back to the locker room first, he stood up from his seat in frustration, and with his other hand slammed the towel from his neck, and threw it heavily on the ground.

Tang Shuai saw Paul's movements and wanted to go over to comfort something, but when he saw his expression, he didn't know what to say, so he took back the steps he was about to take out, just looking at his lonely figure.

Paul walked in the direction of the locker room under the guidance of the team doctor at this time, and when he walked forward, he didn't know where a put away stool came from on the ground, he seemed to have a lot of anger, and kicked directly on the stool, and the stool was kicked forward by him and flew forward more than a meter.

The attention of the players on the sidelines was immediately attracted by the sound.

Tang Shuai saw Paul's actions, and his heart was also mixed, as if he had knocked over a five-flavor bottle.

On many forums, Paul has been ridiculed, saying that the mysterious man of 1.83 meters secretly went to the stadium to touch the floor, talking about Paul's experience.

As a point guard in the top 10 or even the top 5 in history, stable scoring ability, solid passing skills, solid defense, big heart, and first-class scoring ability at key moments, Paul has all the conditions of a top point guard, but he is such a player, but he has never made it to the division finals once, at most in the second round.

Before that, he had nearly completed the union with Kobe Bryant and landed in Los Angeles to make history, but that trade forced the league's president, David Stern, to be forcibly stopped for unfounded "basketball reasons", and a potentially glorious history came to an abrupt end.

That's not all, last year's playoffs in the first round of the Spurs 7 games, in the final seconds he killed the opponent, and in the semifinals, he led the Rockets 3-1, but then there is the well-known Rockets historical reversal.

and then this season's lineup, but at this time, it suddenly suffered an injury, such a situation, who is replaced, I am afraid that it is impossible to accept it at once.

If Paul was brilliant in the first few years of his career, then he can definitely be regarded as one of the tragic figures after that.

"Hey guys, stay focused! Keep your attention! At that moment, Billups suddenly shouted something he had never shouted before.

The Clippers were taken aback by the shout and all looked at Billups in surprise.

"It's not over yet, we're not at the point where we're throwing in the towel, CP3 is injured, why is he injured?"

Billups paused as he spoke, then pointed to the scoreboard on the basket and said aloud, "To win!" In order to win this difficult match, do we have to give up the victory to our opponents lightly now? ”

"Can't!" Smith and Griffin said angrily.

"Yes, we can't! So give your performance, for the sake of the injured CP3 and for ourselves, and win this game! Billups said excitedly.

The Clippers players were moved by Billups' words, and their faces were full of fierce expressions.

Tang Shuai looked extremely surprised at this time, it was the first time for Billups to be so excited to see him after being in the team for so long, and he could feel that CP3's injury had touched him a lot.

"For victory!" Billups said as he held out his hand to the team.

One by one, the players put their hands on Billups' hands.

"For victory!" The team members shouted in unison, which was completely different from before, and they could feel that they were like a rainbow at this time.

The timeout was fast in coming, and the players on both sides walked on the pitch with resolute faces, and the game was played to this point, and both sides had to win the game.

It wasn't until the players came on the pitch that Billups' excitement gradually subsided, and he let out a sigh of relief, turned to Kassel and said, "Sorry, I was a little overexcited. ”

"It's okay, you're doing a good job, look at this group of boys, the hard work on the field is back." Cassel looked at the field and said with satisfaction.

At this moment, Don Shuai jammed Harden, who received the ball, and Smith took advantage of the situation to steal Beverley's pass.

Smith pushed some distance and threw the ball directly into the air, giving Griffin an empty catch, and Griffin seemed to fall from the sky and pressed the ball into the basket.

There was a hint of worry in Billups' eyes at this time, but he didn't speak.

The Clippers played completely out of the court on the court, and even in order to grab a throw-in, Tang Shuai and Brewer both rolled and crawled out of the court at the same time.

94 to 102.

98 to 103.

101 to 105.

104 to 107.

In the blink of an eye, in the last 30 seconds, the Clippers relied on this breath to chase the difference to only 3 points.

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