The second half began.

The Suns made changes to the lineup. Defensively tough Kurt Thomas came on as a central striker in place of Stoudamire. James Jones replaced Dio, who had a poor first half and only scored one point from the free throw.

The Rockets' triumvirate of Yao Ming, Maddy, and Hayes are all there, and the guard line is Azubuke and Spanouerys.

The Suns attack first. Nash and Kurt Thomas blocked and cooperated, the Rockets did not switch defenses, and Nash tried to split the ball after breaking through, only to find that everyone else was followed to death. He immediately drove straight in and made a layup before Yao Ming could make a stoppage.

The Rockets turned around and handed Hayes to single Marion.

Defensively, Marion not only has speed, but also amazing reach, nimble footwork, and excellent jumping. All of this is what a good solo player has. His sense of defense is also very good, once the Suns are pressed to a low position and hit with their backs, they need someone to make up for it. Marion is doing this kind of thing. Whether he needs to pinch the inside or catch up on missing someone, he can rely on his excellent footwork to get in place. It can be said that where there is a leak, there will be Marion.

However, Marion is not a good power forward in a single defense. His block, steal, and rebounding statistics are stable, and he has not been able to enter the best defensive team, all because of an irreparable shortcoming - thin!

Before the game, many experts put forward the view that Marion would be played to death if he played a single defense of power forward. Hayes split the first half with Stadamyer, a claim that was not verified, and at the start of the second half, Hayes taught Marion a lesson with his ass...... You have to jump high.

Hayes received the ball and arched Marion to the outside of the baseline with a few arches, Marion pounced on him and fouled, Hayes jumped with Marion on his body, and threw the ball into the basket with one hand, but unfortunately the free throw was missed.

Nash relied on a pick-and-roll pullup jump shot.

The Rockets were handed to Hayes again, and Hayes used his body to eat Marion again, squeezing under the basket and making a jumper. This time, Marion didn't even dare to stretch out his hand, and if he fouled again, he would be the fourth foul and had to go to rest.

The Suns made lineup changes, replacing Stoudamire with James Jones and putting Marion at the small forward position.

In the offense, Nash still relied on blocking and breaking, and the Rockets were determined to hand over the defensive task to Spanolys.

Nash couldn't pass the ball, and after the break, he played by himself again. Spanoulis was half a beat slower, and Nash hit another pull-up jumper.

The Rockets offense, and the defender of Hayes was replaced by Kurt Thomas. Hayes passed the ball to Spanoulis on the perimeter, ran towards Yao Ming, found a pick-and-roll, he ran from outside the three-second zone on the left to the bottom corner on the right, Spanoulis understood the wide transfer of the ball, and Hayes hit another three-point shot.

The Suns also handed the ball to the Nash organization, and Nash scored eight points in a row after hitting another jumper and was about to become a shooting guard.

It's not that Nash doesn't want to pass, it's that his teammates can't run away, and he always has a gap in front of him after blocking and dismantling, so he can't talk about it.

Hayes repeated his old tricks, found his own block, and then ran to the baseline to catch the ball, Kurt Thomas defended the inside, and the pace was still a little slower to follow. Outside Raja Bell had to go up to make up for the defense, and when Hayes saw him coming up, he immediately distributed the ball to Maddy, who then passed to the empty Azubuk.

Azubuuk didn't disappoint his teammates and shot steadily in the open space.

Both teams were efficient on offense at the start of the second half, with the Rockets leading 76-71.

The Suns called a timeout.

Suns head coach Mike Anthony has seen a hidden danger.

If they don't curb the rocket attack, they will be in trouble.

The Suns are playing too simple now, the fast break is gone, the cooperation is gone, and they are completely relying on Nash to do it alone, and the other players are not shooting at all.

He sensed that the sun was falling into Team Rocket's conspiracy.

"Amare (Stodameyer) is going to defend Hayes, you can resist him, keep an eye on him, don't let him shoot easily. Kurt (Thomas) single-handedly defends Yao Ming, and Sean (Marion) is always in the pack. When attacking, Amare goes to block and dismantle, and the others run more. "Mike Anthony laid out the tactics, he had no bottom in his heart, he could only walk and see.

After Yao Ming came on the field, it was difficult to defend when he fell into the position, and he had to send someone to cover it. As for Hayes, Mike Anthony had no choice but to send Stadamire to the opposite position, and only he had the best physical fitness on the Suns' interior.

After this timeout, the Suns' offense went wrong again.

Nash carried through on his coach's intentions and did not single himself again, handing the ball back to Stadamire. Hayes' approach was to prevent breakaways and not prevent shots, and just now Nash attacked four times in a row and other players didn't touch the ball much, and this time Stoudamire's hand was a little cold. He missed a jumper, and Yao Ming won the rebound.

Before Stadamire's jumper landed, Hayes was already running forward.

He saw that Stoudeyer's shooting rhythm was not good, his posture was not stretched, the ball was very off, and the direction of the pop-up was biased towards Yao Ming, and he believed that Yao Ming could get the rebound.

Yao Ming received the ball and immediately made a long pass to Hayes, and the person who chased back was Nash, Hayes didn't pay attention to Nash's air-level defense at all, and after receiving the ball, he dribbled and squeezed Nash into the basketball in three steps.

The Rockets defended Nash's pass with a hard heart, ignoring his singles.

Nash maintained a high shooting percentage, scoring 16 points in a single quarter, but the rest of the Suns team's shooting percentage plummeted, with Bell, Marion, Dio, and even Stoudmeire not good back-frame attackers, only good at breaking through strong shots and catch-and-shoot shots to score points, and the Suns scored only 21 points in the third quarter. Hayes was once again the best player for the Rockets in the quarter, scoring 10 points, and Yao Ming also found his senses, scoring 8 points, and the two led the Rockets to pull away the score.

In the crucial fourth quarter, Nash went off the court to rest, and the Suns sent Barbosa to attack the Rockets' defense.

Barbosa broke through the layup and chased consecutive points, but their cooperation was still not good, and they just relied on their individual ability to play alone.

Nash rested for a few minutes and returned to the court, and the Rockets tasted the sweetness in the third quarter, and the defense against Nash was still one-on-one, and he did not change the defense after blocking and dismantling.

As long as Nash catches the ball, the Rockets will follow the others closely, never let them receive the ball comfortably, and they can't handcuff the defender's hands with themselves. Even if Nash passes the ball to others, the sun sets the position to attack, and the efficiency is greatly reduced.

"Hacker" Marion lost face in this game, when the big forward couldn't guard people, and returned to the small forward position and was defended by Battier as a "blacksmith", in addition to hitting three mid-range shots in the first quarter, he hit all the long-range shots in the second half.

With seven minutes left in the fourth quarter, the Suns finally led by Nash to play a 9-2 offensive wave to narrow the score to five points.

The Rockets asked for a timeout.

Spanoulis had already been fouled five times, and Jeff Van Gundy was ready to switch to Alston, saying, "Raf, you have to guard Nash, you can't let him score again." ”

"That's too easy, isn't it?" Alston asked dumbfounded. In this game, he was relatively successful in defending Nash, and when he defended, Nash only scored 6 points. Although, it has to do with the team's tactical play.

Jeff Van Gundy frowned and said, "You have to guard against Nash, if you can't prevent death, then foul hard and find a way to kill him." ”

The Rockettes who listened to this were terrified and looked at Jeff Van Gundy, who suddenly became a violent maniac.

"I'm just figurative." Jeff Van Gundy said word for word.

"They're feeling back now. In order to disrupt their shooting rhythm and reduce their momentum, we ask that you do not allow them to score in the field for at least three minutes after this timeout. At the cost of foul play! A team like the Suns, if they don't score for a few minutes, they are likely to feel completely cold, and the colder they are, the more they dare not shoot, so we will disrupt their fast-break rhythm. "Jeff Van Gundy spoke tactically.

"It's a good idea." Hayes said, who said Jeff Van Gundy couldn't be on the spot?

"I learned it when I lost to Spurs. Once the players' hands are cold, it's hard to get them back. Jeff Van Gundy whispered.

When both teams returned to the court, the game turned into a foul battle.

The Suns were so guarded that they could barely shoot. As soon as the Suns broke through, the Rockets immediately fouled and sent the opponent to the free throw line without hesitation. Nash became the man with the most free throws at the line, and was almost killed by Alston.

Nash made accurate free throws, but the rhythm he had just found was disrupted.

The most deflated scene happened to Marion, who received the ball in the middle, jumped two steps from the free throw line, and wanted to dunk with one hand. Hayes waited under the basket, jumped with all his might, pressed the ball with one hand, and dunked down as he knocked Marion to the ground.

This goal made the Suns' home commentator exclaim: "Flying Pig is back in the rivers and lakes!" ”

Two elderly Chinese fans were eating popcorn and talking......

"Husband, do you remember a trick that fell from the sky?"

"Is it the 'Divine Palm' that has been lost?"

The Rockets managed to keep the Suns from scoring for three minutes, and the Suns' outside shooting was inaccurate again due to consecutive fouls.

The Rockets, on the other hand, played positional offense without impatience, striving to use up 24 seconds in each round, and always controlled the situation.

The Rockets led 105-98 with three minutes to go. The Suns were in a hurry to chase the points, but Nash, Marion, and Raja Bell missed consecutive three-pointers at critical moments, and the Rockets counterattacked successfully, and the Suns were no longer able to turn the tables around.

With a final score of 112-104, the Rockets won a hard-fought away victory over the Suns.

The Suns' top scorer was Nash, with a double-double of 32 points and 13 assists, but only four assists in the entire second half.

Stoudeyer also had a double-double of 30 points and 11 rebounds, but he was too ugly on the defensive end and was completely blown out by Hayes.

Marion finished with 13 points, 11 rebounds and three blocks on 5-of-16 shooting. Become the toughest person.

In addition, Raja Bell played well, contributing 16 points, Barbosa 13 points, and the others were basically killed.

Hayes set a number of new highs under the "absent-minded" defense of Stoudamire, and played his most amazing stats since the start of the game! He played a game-high 44 minutes, shooting a new high and scoring a new high, shooting 16-of-30, 7-of-13 three-pointers, 10-of-13 free throws, and scoring 49 points, 8 rebounds, 5 assists and 2 blocks, almost breaking the 50-point mark.

Maddie and Yao Ming also scored 18 and 19 points respectively, and the Rockets triumvirate beat the Suns trio.

In the post-game press conference, Suns head coach Mike Anthony said in frustration: "The Suns are playing well, but the Rockets' offense can't be stopped, Chaco Hayes's offensive approach is very comprehensive, there is no solution to the singles, he makes us have nothing to do." I think he's reached the heights of Charles Barkley in his prime, and if he can maintain that level every night, I don't know who can guard him...... There is no Jordan left in the league. ”

This passage detonated the audience, and no one expected that Sun Mike Anthony would give Hayes such a high rating.

Hayes and Van Gundy were stunned.

I rub! That's too high, isn't it? What does this guy mean by that? You want me to be the target of everyone? Hayes thought hatefully.

Obviously, the whole team of the Suns does not pay attention to defense, and Stoudamire is not active in defense, giving him too many opportunities to shoot. Why did you say that there was no solution to the attack?

Peak Barkley? Is he so strong?

Of course not! He's just in great shape, how he throws, how he plays, and he just played a few good games. At his peak, Barkley scored 30 points per game.

Mike Anthony's remarks are very insidious.

His words are a heavy bomb, which will definitely make Hayes get the attention of all teams in the league, and his value will double, everyone knows that Hayes and the Rockets only have one year left on their contract, if the Rockets do not come up with a high-salary extension next year, Hayes is likely to leave the Rockets and become a big fish in the transfer market next summer. The Suns not only lost a regular season game in this game, but also felt a huge threat to the future Rockets. Now that the Rockets' lineup is close to insoluble, even if Hayes can't get to the Suns, he must not be allowed to stay in a strong team like the Rockets.

Touting Hayes as a top player, Hayes is likely to leave for money as long as a team is willing to cap his salary. It's better to move to the East End, to the deep-pocketed New York, or to the Buncats. In this way, there is less threat in the West End, and it is easier to break through. That's what Mike Anthony intended.

In an interview, Hayes gave Jeff Van Gundy a good shot.

"It would have been difficult for us to win without Coach Van Gundy's beautiful, brilliant, well-targeted tactical set-up and just the right on-the-spot response, because he taught me to use my strengths to attack other people's weaknesses. I must place a high amount of gratitude to him here. ”

Jeff Van Gundy said: "Hayes proved his quality again today and he is an indispensable member of the Rockets. But to say he's at the peak of Barkley's level would be an exaggeration, and the Suns were a little slackened defensively today and let us take our chances. ”

Praising Hayes has become a regular opener for Jeff Van Gundy at every press conference, and this time with Mike Anthony's exaggerated comments, he's a little more modest.

The reporter asked, "Mr. Hayes, how do you evaluate your performance today?" ”

"Meng's. How to pitch today, if I play like this in every game, I will be invincible in the world. But how is that possible? I can only play as best I can in every game, and the stats depend on my form on the day and the intensity of my opponent's defense. Hayes laughed.

The reporter asked, "Do you mean the Suns don't have enough defensive intensity?" ”

Hayes shook his head and smiled: "I don't want to offend people, but to be honest, the Suns really don't pay much attention to defense. Selling tickets relies on offense, and if you want to win the championship, you have to fight defense. ”

It was definitely a far-reaching press conference.

After the game, Mike Anthony's remarks caused all teams to target Hayes, and positive teams began to extend invitations to him; Hayes' remarks caused the Suns hierarchy to focus on Mike Anthony and began to question his ability, and if the Suns can't make a name for themselves on offense, the owner is ready to let him go.

There were too many highlights in the game between the Suns and Rockets, and it occupied the top five balls of the day.

The fifth goal, Yao Ming's opening hat - "Xiaobawang hits the basket in the air, and Yao-style hot pot is open today!" ”

In the fourth ball, Stoudeyer dunked vigorously - "Nash hit the ground and passed, and the little bully eagle hit the sky!" ”

In the third ball, Stoudeyer received a technical foul in the air - "Little Overlord Air Relay, full of domineering!" ”

The fourth goal, Maddie's windmill - "Hayes fakes a real pass, Maddie one-handed windmill!" ”

Best Ball, Hayes 4th Quarter Big Hat Marion - "The sun is setting. Shrek haunts attention! ”

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Maybe some friends will question that the rocket strength written in the book is too strong, and Hai Ye is getting stronger too quickly.

In fact, from 2007 to 2009, the Rockets were really not weak, if it weren't for the frequent injuries of Maddie and Yao Ming, plus the lack of a big forward who can score and defend, such as David Lee, they would probably win the championship.

Although Scola was able to score later, his defense was relatively weak, and he was not yet comfortable with the rhythm when he first arrived at the Rockets. Hayes is now able to shoot and makes up for that shortcoming.

Hayes was able to put up this kind of statistic because Stoudamire was not good at defending and restrained Marion. In addition, he has been running in with his teammates for a long time and has a tacit understanding. His stats have a lot to do with his teammates pinning down the defence. Therefore, he is still far from really seeing who is a superstar.

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