In Houston, on the street outside the Toyota Center, a crowd of fans surrounded the stadium. Although the Toyota Center is a playing arena with more than 18,300 seats, that is not enough for the big city of Houston, and more fans are not getting tickets.

They were outside in the square, watching the big screen. Likewise erupted from time to time with cheers, sighs and boos

On the field of the Western Finals, the battle of life and death is seven, the winner advances to the finals, and the loser goes home to fish, this year's hard work depends on the victory or defeat of this game, which is a battle of life and death with you and without me.

In this kind of game that has attracted the attention of the whole world, ordinary referees really don't have the strength to blow penalties, even the "golden whistle" Crawford invited today is sweating profusely.

So far in the series, Birdman Anderson's improvement has been the most noticeable. In the face of Yao Ming's solid footsteps and realistic shaking feints, he is no longer as flying as he did at the beginning. Of course, in the face of Yao Ming's inexplicable step-back jumper, Anderson still struggled to make effective limiting moves.

For the Timberwolves, the center position will certainly be a key one to strengthen in the summer. Anderson can contribute a lot of energy when he's a substitute, but it's a bit difficult for him to play 30 minutes or more in a game.

Zheng Ke is not invincible. It's just that he's too well-rounded, and now only James can match him in terms of physical fitness. When it comes to face-frame offense, he's adept at using feints to deceive his opponents. and the use of strong protrusions at speed; In the back-to-back singles, he took his strength advantage to the extreme. Battier and Artest are both top wing defenders, and Zheng Ke is actually playing hard. The drop in shooting percentages and points per game in this series is a clear feature.

Fortunately, the Timberwolves also have Billups, Afralo, and Love, all of whom are very good and united players, and when the single core of the single-core team is locked, it needs other players to play.

The coaches of the two teams showed their talents and boosted the morale of the players. Deploy corresponding tactics.

The audience held their breath for fear of missing out on the wonderful picture if they were not careful.

Before the break, the two teams were tied at 52. This is the 11th time in the first half that there has been a draw, and the situation on the pitch is very anxious.

From a business standpoint, whether the Rockets make it to the Finals or the Timberwolves make it to the Finals. All have the guarantee of ratings. Of course. As a Rockets team that survives in a big city, it should have an advantage over the Timberwolves in this aspect. There is a report that says that the NBA president dreams of letting the Knicks and Lakers meet in the Finals.

How many expert glasses have the Timberwolves been able to get to this point with a crippled roster to the ground? There are so many of them.

They lack a reliable defensive man on the inside, they lack a reliable sixth man off the bench, most of their team are "rookies" who are making the playoffs for the first time, and their head coach has only coached more than 100 games in the NBA. In other words, the Timberwolves are rookies from head to toe. If you really win the championship, it will be unreasonable! The experts couldn't stop wailing in the column.

It's a pity. Several teams with playoff seasons have already been eliminated. Such as the Spurs, Lakers, Jazz, Mavericks, etc. Among the remaining teams, the Rockets and the Timberwolves are not much better, at least for the first time in the Western Conference Finals. There must have been a lot of problems in the course of the game, such as letting Zheng Ke score 51 points in the third quarter, such as letting the Timberwolves outside shooters explode, such as letting the Rockets endlessly attack the Timberwolves' interior and so on. These made the Spurs players and Lakers players who had already fished shake their heads after watching it, why did they lose to them in the first place?

After the start of the second half, the Rockets' interior attack power began to weaken as usual, and Yao Ming's physical strength was a very important reason.

In order to prevent the Timberwolves from counterattacking, the Rockets players must retreat as quickly as possible, which is a big burden for Yao Ming. And Scola as the N option for the Rockets' offense, he definitely doesn't have many opportunities to attack on his own.

Even so, the Rockets' offense was sharp, and Brooks' outside three-pointer opened to keep the Rockets on a four-point lead.

A few minutes later, Zheng Ke fired a three-pointer from the outside, and the Timberwolves tied the score again.

The Timberwolves' resilience is astonishing, as if they never knew that they were behind them, and they always gritted their iron teeth and did not let go.

At the end of the third quarter, the Timberwolves led the Rockets by one point at 76-75.

The fans at the scene could no longer sit still, and they stood up one after another, watching the game on the field, with worried looks on their eyebrows.

"I can accept whoever of the two teams enters the finals!" A fan with a Chinese flag painted on his face shouted there in a distinctive way.

"The Timberwolves are really perverted, and the key is that they are too strong on key shots. Billups and Zheng Ke are both big-hearted players, and they were both players who were able to stand up and take responsibility in the fourth quarter. In comparison, the Rockets are a lot worse in this regard. "Heading into the fourth quarter, Timberwolves fans were significantly more relaxed than Rockets fans, believing that their team's ability in the fourth quarter was unstoppable.

Zheng Ke's one-handed ball, and the terminator skills were not used in the first three quarters, and they were retained. This is great news for him.

Zheng Ke did not go to rest, and the Timberwolves' offense became more and more fierce

"Bang!"

Battier was knocked out of space by Zheng Ke, who grabbed the basketball and jumped to the middle. Yao Ming hurriedly took a step forward, stretched out the Giant Spirit Divine Palm, and pounced over in the sky.

"Slow!"

A light flashed in Zheng Ke's eyes, the corners of his mouth turned up slightly, and he keenly felt that Yao Ming's rhythm of supplementing defense had slowed down, and it seemed that Yao Ming's physical strength was about to reach its limit.

"Huh!"

The basketball crossed Yao Ming's fingertips and plunged headlong into the net under the curse of more than 18,000 people at the Toyota Center.

"Huh."

Zheng Ke raised his hand, tilted his head, and smiled slightly.

Zheng Ke seems to have a bloodthirsty brilliance on his body, he becomes more and more brave the more he fights, and his body seems to be like an iron man made of steel, and he still maintains a strong fighting spirit and infinite energy.

2 points.

4 points.

8 points.

In the fourth quarter, Zheng Ke once again exploded, and at the moment when the physical strength of many players of the Rockets reached a critical point, Zheng Ke showed his iron man style, which made it a little difficult for the Rockets to guard against.

"Give me the ball!"

Zheng yelled at Billups after half-time, with his hands on his chest, ready to catch the ball and jump.

"Don't let him get the ball! Don't let him get the ball! Adelman's eyes widened in anger and he roared at the Rockets players on the court like a King Kong Arhat. He is really scared, he is already 5 points behind, and if this continues, the Rocket's season may really be over!

"Bang!"

Artest slammed into Zheng Ke in the chest, and the two began to wrestle outside the three-point line.

"Bang!"

Zheng Ke lowered his head and slammed into it, without knocking Artest away, the two of them snorted at the same time, each took a small step back, Zheng Ke stumbled, and the basketball almost didn't get out of his hand.

"It's fucking barbaric." Zheng Ke muttered and began to change the way of breakthrough.

But before he could break through for the second time, Battier's bag arrived just in time, and the two of them blocked Zheng Ke's front like two walls, faintly surrounding him.

Zheng Ke divided the ball with Billups, and Billups gave it to Lefou, who was in the empty space on the bottom line.

"Huh!"

Lefu shot calmly and hit the shot steadily.

Both teams are top teams, and the seven-point gap is already a relatively large difference in the fourth quarter, and Adelman quickly asked for a timeout.

In the last five minutes of the game, this is already the stage of fighting willpower and luck, although the Timberwolves lead by 7 points, this is not absolute insurance.

Zheng Ke knew this very well, so he did not relax himself, and even increased his defense, almost breaking Artest's crooked dribble, and the frightened Artest quickly held the ball and stood up, and then distributed it to Maddie on the outside.

If you want to say that Artest's worst offensive link is that he has some poor dribbling, which also leads to his average offensive ability with the ball. Usually his offensive means is two points, three-point shooting from the outside, and strong hitting from the inside box. Of course, with Zheng Ke's divine power, Artest's inside attack is difficult to please.

The battle between the two was captured on camera in this series, and Zheng Ke's slight dominance made countless pundits sing his praises, and he deserved the title of the No. 1 small forward in the West.

"Pass!"

Zheng Ke took advantage of Lefou's cover and inserted it diagonally into the penalty area at 45 degrees, and his eyes motioned for Billups to pass the ball quickly.

Billups had a heart, turned his head to look at Lu's right, flicked his right wrist, and passed the ball to Zheng Ke who cut inside on the left.

Zheng Ke took two steps, stepped on the floor with his left foot, and instantly exploded in strength.

"Find the hat!"

Yao Ming was angry and yelled and jumped up to defend.

The two collided in the air, their muscles collided together, Yao Ming's weight was amazing, and Zheng Ke's impact was unparalleled in the world, this was the most direct conversation between Yao Ming and Zheng Ke in this round of the Chinese derby series!

"Drink!"

Zheng Ke let out a loud shout, his waist sank, he twisted his body, and grabbed the ball with both hands and drew a large circle in the air, which was able to avoid Yao Ming's outstretched right hand.

"Bang!"

"Huh!"

Bypassing Yao Ming's right hand to hold the basketball, Zheng Ke threw the basketball in the diagonal drift. Like thousands of trainings, basketball is played into the frame under Zheng Ke's fiery hand.

Zheng Ke sat on the floor with his buttocks, flew out of the bottom line, and fell into the group of camera divisions.

The ass is hot and painful, but the heart is explosively hot!

Without waiting for his teammates to come and help, Zheng Ke stood up like a carp, his hands clenched into fists, and he let out a deep roar of anger as if catharsis!

The referee also blew the whistle at this time: "Two points are valid, Timberwolves No. 17 plus 1 free throw!" ”

Team Rockets are worse, and the balance of victory is tipping (to be continued......)