Chapter 390: The First Defeat of the Rocket
In the third quarter of the game, the Rockets finally saw a little light.
Yao Ming's aerial relay led the next Rockets to a 9-2 shockwave, and the score became 62-56, with the Hornets only leading by six points.
There are 6 minutes left.
The Hornets called a timeout.
Although in terms of overall strength, the Hornets are better than the Rockets, but things in the world have never been absolutely high over low strength.
For example, a game like today's.
Team Rocket's feel is up! The Hornets didn't kneel, but they did receive a harsh wave of attacks.
The Rockets' feel in the playoffs this season is really a bit against the sky, when facing the Trail Blazers, their shooting rate in the fourth game exceeded 65%, and the Trail Blazers knelt down convincingly in that game.
In this game, their touch seems to have come.
The game restarted and the basketball came to the Rockets' side, Yao Ming received Artest's pass near the baseline on the right, and then he bent down to test Chandler's reaction.
Chandler was a little vacant, and Yao Ming immediately changed to his left hand!
Some of the Chinese players are still good, such as soft shooting touch and ball control skills...... Yao Ming is a 226CM big center who can shake off defenders with the ball behind his back, which can say a lot.
This time, he shook Chandler to the side with a change of direction, and at the same time took a big step forward, very close to the basket, and then he put away the basketball and turned to the right. Then he jumped up......
"Bang!"
Another slam dunk!
For the average person, a dunk is a very strenuous and hurtful thing, but for Yao Ming's height...... A dunk is really not a big deal.
This time slam dunk. Won the appreciation of some Chinese fans next to the stadium.
It also made Director Zhang say a little excitedly: "Yao Ming's turn is so good!" ”
The score was 62-58, and the Rockets were only 4 points behind! Their dawn is brighter! This defense of the Rockets. They are also very powerful, and the difference of only 4 points suddenly makes them full of confidence.
The Rockets' defense was raised all at once. The Hornets were also a little uncomfortable, and Paul's breakaways were popped up on a couple of occasions.
Paul passed the basketball to Jongwoo, who is the Hornets' most venvenomous thorn, and he has a good way to deal with such a tough battle. After Zhong Yu received the ball, Battier quickly followed, sticking to Zhong Yu, Zhong Yu made a shooting feint and he was unmoved, so Zhong Yu continued to lift his body. Battier was also worried that Zhong Yu was really pretending, and when he lifted his body a little, Zhong Yu instantly lowered his body, slapped the basketball to the ground, moved a step sideways to the right, and then shot directly with a backward jumper!
Battier sealed in front of Zhong Yu's eyes, but it was still too late.
His basketball bounced straight into the net, and Jongwook hit a three-pointer. The score was 65-58, and the gap became 7 points again.
"Zhong Yu's key ball ability!" Yu Jia said with emotion: "It is indeed very good, look at this three points...... He voted too accurately. ”
Director Zhang said a little faintly: "The score gap is 7 points again...... The little hope that Team Rocket had just raised was now gone. ”
That's really the case...... After Zhong Yu made a three-pointer, the Rockets' score gap was opened up a bit. But. FORTUNATELY, THE MORALE OF THE ROCKETS IS GOOD NOW, AND THEY ARE BACK ON OFFENSE AND PLAYING RELATIVELY HIGH. Xiaobu missed a three-point shot from the outside, Yao Ming grabbed the rebound and forced a basket, Chandler was pressed down by him, Yao Ming got a rebound and two points, making the score 65-60, and the Rockets were still 5 points away from catching up with the opponent.
"There's still a five-point gap."
The hearts of the fans were lifted up, watching the Hornets attack.
Because, if they miss the next offense and are counterattacked by the Rockets, they are likely to be directly equalized. …,
Paul carries the ball and breaks through the inside, Brooks really has nothing to do with Paul, Paul is physically better than him, and Xiaobu has become a defensive black hole in front of Paul.
Paul broke through to the free throw line, put away the basketball, took a step inside, attracted enough clips, and passed the basketball to Chung Yu, who was following up quickly.
Zhong Yu is also the defensive object that the Rockets focus on, Yao Ming and they let go of Paul to wrap Zhong Yu, and Zhong Yu threw the basketball into the sky!
"Bang!" The dull sound of the dunk seemed to make the entire basket experience an explosion, and when Yao Ming and the others looked back, they could only see Chandler's right hand muscles, full of explosive tension, hanging on the basket, flashing with indescribable hideousness.
"Well done!" Chandler's way of expressing his excitement was to pat Jong Wook on the head, and Jong Wook also punched him in the chest, these things have to be returned, right......
This ball, Paul attracted the bag, and Zhong Yu received the pass and distributed it to Chandler, giving full play to the advantage of the Hornets.
As long as they pass the basketball, the Rockets will be very difficult to deal with - Zhong Yu and Paul are the masters who need to be clamped, Chandler on the inside is amazingly explosive, West has an accurate jump shot, and Peja can shoot three-pointers...... The combination of these five people, offensively, is really worth giving any team in the league a headache for them.
The margin is back to seven.
"The Hornets game is getting better!" "After they pass the ball alive, the Rockets often don't know who they should defend, and that's a disaster for them," Yu Jia said. ”
The Rockets' offense quickly went into trouble, and this time, their shooting percentage wasn't as perverted as before.
Yao Ming is a player, although he is a center, but many times his technical style is a bit similar to that of a guard, in the reasonable collision zone, as long as he can turn around, his shooting can only make people pray to God.
But he didn't hit the shot.
The rebound was picked up by Chandler, and then, Zhong Yu dunked the ball past half court, and then passed the ball to Paul, cut into the inside, attracting the attention of several people, Paul broke through again, attracted several people's bags and Zhong Yu had already exited, Chandler blocked Battier for him, so that Paul passed the ball to Zhong Yu's hands, and there was basically no one left in front of him who could interfere with his shooting.
Zhong Yu took a step back from the ball, made a sharp stop, and then made a jumper from beyond the three-point line in the bottom corner, and Battier could only come up and seal his eyes......
Battier's closed eyes obviously didn't have much use for Jongwook...... Zhong Yu's jumper turned up a net on the basket a few meters away!
Three-point shot! Once again, the score gap is in double digits!
Zhong Yu looked at Battier's depressed appearance, smiled, and suddenly said: "For a shooter, you can block his eyes, but you can't block his heart that can see through the world." ”
Battier was immediately given goosebumps by the thunder and went back to the attack sullenly.
In the third quarter of the game, the Hornets maintained their lead.
At the end of the quarter, the difference between the two sides was 11 points, and the Rockets still had a lot of hope, but the team was ...... It is clearly unwise to place your hopes in the fourth verse.
In the past, the Rockets had to sigh at their habitual fourth-quarter collapse, and now it's hard to expect them to regroup and take out the Hornets in the fourth quarter.
Back on the bench, the Hornets were really talking and laughing.
"That's a good pass, wait a minute!" Chandler gestured to his hand and said, "I'll cover you, you run away, and when the time comes, if they defend you, you'll pass me and dunk, and if they defend me, you'll dunk yourself!" ”…,
When Chandler said this, he also roughly described the location or something, Zhong Yu nodded, but still said, "There is something wrong with your idea." ”
"What's the problem?"
"There's a chance they'll wrap it up." Zhong Yu said.
Scott heard Zhong Yu and their words chatting next to him, and also knew the position they were talking about, so he interjected and said: "So, once you meet someone in the bag, you can pass the ball, this is the benefit of our team's lineup." Of course, if you encounter them blocking the passing route after the bag or death, you can only look at the battlefield yourself. ”
After Scott laid out the general tactics for the final quarter, the time was almost up.
There was a lot of rest at halftime, but there was very little break between quarters, and the game had to start again.
"Long live the Wasp!"
All sorts of fan slogans came out, and then the Hornets home stadium gave the fans a noise-making tool that reverberated wildly throughout the arena.
The atmosphere of the Hornets' home fans is very good, especially in the playoffs, and the hurricane-ravaged city worships the Hornets in the playoffs as if it were their own faith.
There's even a dedicated Hornets Playoff Guide for fans.
The game scene was very messy, and the main players of the two teams also returned to the court, the Rockets scored the first ball, the basketball passed to the inside, Yao Ming was in the reasonable collision area, and another small jumper turned around, and the basketball hit!
Yao Ming has 25 points and 4 assists today...... It's not easy to be a father and a mother at the same time.
It's just that on the Hornets' side, Zhong Yu received a pass from Paul, and outside the three-point line, after making two jump shots in a row, the third became a real action, and Zhong Yu pushed the basketball out with both hands......
"Huh!"
A three-pointer stretched the gap to 12 points, and the situation for the Rockets became more and more serious.
And the next fourth quarter of the game is also developing in this direction.
The Rockets couldn't beat the Hornets at all, especially in the fourth quarter, when their shooting percentage began to decline, and even Yao Ming, who had already scored 27 points, didn't have that much of a jump shot.
As a result, the Rockets surrendered in the first game, allowing the Hornets to get their fifth win in the playoffs this season!
The Hornets crush the Rockets at home! (Your support on this site is my biggest motivation.) )