Relying on the combined efforts of Prince and Rasheed Wallace to score 15 points in the first quarter, the Hawks side withstood the pressure brought by the Rockets' super positional defensive combination around David Wesley, Yao Ming, and Richard Jefferson when Maddy did not score a single goal and only made 3 of 4 free throws, and Liu Mang only scored 6 points.

The Eagles' role player dominance showcased.

At the break, the Eagles switched to a rotating lineup of Liu Mang and Jason Terry, Iguodala, Muhammad and Alonzo Mourning.

Three rebounding and defensive frontcourts, two wave shooting guards, the regular lineup of the Hawks' rotation lineup, Jason Terry should have brought Korver up, but there was no point difference, and the Rockets were tied, and Liu Mang had to come up to press the lineup.

Liu Mang looked at the lineup that the Rockets came up on the bench......

What kind of lineup is this!

Mike James, this point guard is good, with an ability rating of 78, offense 84, defense 71, three-point shooting 86, shooting 77 from the midrange, and 87 from the ground......

Liu Mang remembers that this is the only one on the Rockets bench who averages more than 5 points per game, averaging 5.6 points and 3.7 assists per game, but this is a scoring point guard, who scored 10 points in 20 minutes off the bench with the Celtics, but came to the Rockets because there was no passer and was forced to organize the offense with 3.7 assists and 2.9 turnovers......

Liu Mang has an impression of him that he broke out with the Celtics last season and killed them once, which reminded Liu Mang that this guy was the winner of the "ESPY Most Inspirational Award" in the first decade of the 21st century, mainly because this guy was Kobe Bryant scored 81 points in that defense Kobe Bryant scored 27 points in the third quarter of the third quarter, and he had the impression that he averaged 20 points per game in the Raptors that season, and got a 5-year 30 million contract in the summer of 06, counterattacked, and finally played 12 seasons as a draft pick, and retired in 2014.

After last season, this guy averaged 10 points, 3 rebounds and 2 assists per game, and the Bucks signed him on a two-year contract, which is considered to have finally gained a foothold in the NBA, which was previously a non-guaranteed contract.

But the Bucks were in a mess, so it was almost for nothing to the Rockets.

In addition to Mike James, a player with an average of 10+ points per game, and Richard Jefferson leading the team, Liu Mang looked at the other players in the Rockets' rotation, it was really miserable!

Richard Jefferson continues to be strong, the young lad has good physical strength, Joan Barry, averaging 4.3 points per game, Morris Taylor, who got a big contract from the Rockets this season with a salary of 9 million and has played 15 games so far, looks like he is averaging 7 points and 4 rebounds per game, but his stats have little effect on the Rockets' points per game.

Mutombo, averaging 2.9 points, 7.1 rebounds and 1.9 blocks per game, rebounds and blocks are still very good, but he can't score! 0 points, 7 rebounds and 2 blocks in a single game is Mutombo's standard this season......

Originally, there was also one of the 3J's Jim Jackson, but he not only overlapped with Richard Jefferson, but also made a fuss about the middle class to renew his contract early after playing 12+6 data last season, where did the Rockets give up that money, so he was used in a three-way trade to the Suns for David Wesley of the Hornets.

Now the Rockets' bench lineup is really miserable!

Liu Mang took the court with a bench lineup, and Richard Jefferson took the court with a bench lineup, and the second quarter began.

Rockets possession.

When Richard Jefferson is needed to score singles, you know that the Rockets have reached the "end of the road", Richard Jefferson wants to rely on physical fitness, but Iguodala's physical fitness is not lost to him, Iguodala's defensive experience is gradually enriched, sticking to the strong Richard Jefferson, bringing Richard Jefferson to Mourning's defensive range, Richard Jefferson forced a throw, Mutombo wanted to help Richard Jefferson block Mourning's defense, but was squeezed away by the stronger Mourning, Mourning slapped Richard Jefferson's throw away.

Liu Mang rushed up alertly to grab the ball, collected a defensive rebound, and advanced quickly!

Liu Mang, Jason Terry, Iguodala and Mohammed quickly rushed to the front.

Liu Mang rushed to the outside of the 45-degree angle three-point line on the right side of the opponent's basket and jumped!

Richard Jefferson and Mike James, who were chasing back, both pounced on Liu Mang, Liu Mang threw the ball in the air to Jason Terry, who followed up in the middle, Jason Terry's first three-point shot missed, but Muhammad, who was following closely, blocked Morris Taylor, who rushed back to grab a defensive rebound, and Iguodala grabbed the offensive rebound!

Iguodala didn't go straight to the basket, but passed it to Jason Terry again!

Iguodala, who was already selfless, has become more selfless with the Eagles...... Joan Barry and Mutombo, who were chasing back, just crossed the halfway line, and when they saw Iguodala grabbing the offensive rebound and facing the empty basket, they all turned around and ran back to the front court, who knew that Iguodala would actually pass the ball in this situation!

Jason Terry received the ball again and continued to shoot decisively.

I tried to shoot Jason Terry, who knew that the force was wrong just now, and this time he hit it steadily!

27-24, the Hawks came up and overtook the difference by three points!

Offense and defense switched, and the Rockets attacked.

Richard Jefferson's breakthrough attracted a mid-range block from Muhammad, and Richard Jefferson rushed to Maurice Taylor.

Maurice Taylor's position made Richard Jefferson vomit blood after passing the ball, he actually stood in the three-second zone, and when he received the ball, he didn't want to shake it to attract Mourning's defense to pass to Mutombo, but squeezed together with the two and forced a shot, and was interfered with by Mourning standing with his arms outstretched, and the strong shot missed!

Muhammad turned around and picked up the defensive rebound.

Richard Jefferson is really good with the ball, can break through, can attract Mourning or Muhammad's bag, but Mutombo has no offensive threat, Morris Taylor's injury after taking a big contract is one thing, but the motivation is getting worse and worse, just standing under the basket like that and not relying on the mid-range shot to open up space, so angry that Richard Jefferson is about to vomit blood.

The Rockets retreated much faster this time, Richard Jefferson interfered with Muhammad and tried to steal, Muhammad protected the ball and passed to Liu Mang, and the Hawks missed the first fast break.

Liu Mang has a regret, the Rockets' lineup is not only slow at the center, but also old, which is an excellent opportunity to counterattack.

Liu Mang advanced to the frontcourt, and the person who defended him was not Richard Jefferson, which shocked Liu Mang's body, and Richard Jefferson defended Jason Terry!

Liu Mang dribbled the ball and singled the "inspirational man" in front of him.

Mike James is very positive, but he can't prevent it!

Mike James is short and has good speed, Liu Mang can't get rid of the other party with speed and rhythm, so he squeezed Mike James to the right top corner of the free throw line, turned his back against Mike James, suddenly jumped and turned around, and shot from a medium distance!

Liu Mang turned over for a jumper with his back in a high position, relying on his height advantage, easily threw the ball from Mike James's head, and won two points steadily.

29-24, the Hawks have a five-point lead!

Finally, Richard Jefferson relied on his three-point ability, stood up to Iguodala's defense, and forced a shot from outside the three-point line, and the Rockets eased the scoring crisis a little.

It's time for the Hawks to attack again, Liu Mang continues to hold the ball and play alone, Richard Jefferson came to defend Liu Mang this time, Liu Mang saw Richard Jefferson defend up, and immediately passed it to Jason Terry.

Jason Terry took two steps against Mike James, broke through, and then stepped back and jumped outside the three-point line...... In fact, this action is useless, Mike James is not out of position at all, Mike James' bad defense is not because of his defensive attitude and enthusiasm, he has a good defensive outside shot, but he can't prevent breakthroughs and ...... The height is too short to prevent strong throwing!

After Jason Terry stepped back with a few blind breakaways, he forced a backward jump shot against Mike James' block!

Dare to vote, really dare to enter!

In the chanting of the court station commentator Director Zhang, Jason Terry really scored a few three-point shots that were thrown blindly!

Liu Mang saw Jason Terry's operation, and felt that this guy's actions were just to not give him an assist!

The direction of the game was completely different from what the fans expected.

Fans in front of the TV saw the defensive battle between the two teams in the first quarter, saw Yao Ming's footsteps, Liu Mang and Maddie's outside blocking and dismantling, and the two teams' high-speed and effective defensive switching strategies, and were full of expectations for the next three quarters of the game, and felt that a fierce and anxious battle had just begun.

However, the Rockets told fans that the team in Space City is different from other teams, and the team flying in space is not something ordinary people can predict?

After the second quarter of the Rockets game, it was not at all obvious that it was the same team as the first quarter!

Just like the strength of the Chinese national team plummeted without Yao Ming in the original time and space, the Rocket team is now very prominent in this aspect.

The Rockets are known as Houston's five-five start, because they only played well in the first and fourth quarters, and they played poorly in the middle two quarters!

Because Yao Ming's physical fitness can only support him to play the first quarter and the last quarter, the middle two quarters are at the end of the quarter to go up to play the last three or four minutes.

Liu Mang and Jason Terry scored 8 points in a row, and they felt hot, and in the next game between the two teams, Liu Mang and Jason Terry's singles hit at a high efficiency level of 50 percent, that is, they could make at least one shot twice.

The Rockets, on the other hand, can only make one shot in three or four offenses.

In terms of rebounding, Mourning and Muhammad took advantage of Yao Ming's absence to bully the Rockets' bench inside, Mutombo is very strong, and he doesn't know how old he is still very strong, but he has never understood what offense is, and he only relies on offensive rebounds and catch-and-dunk when scoring at his peak, and now there is no offensive rebounding, except for the defensive end to deter, the offensive end is completely ineffective.

The Rockets could only try to keep the tempo down, relying on Mutombo's defensive rebounding ability to barely let the score pull away so quickly, and on the offensive end, they could only rely on Mike James and Richard Jefferson to take turns scoring the ball.

By the time the official timeout reached the first quarter, the Hawks were already 42-34, leading the Rockets by 8 points!

The Hawks went on a 18-10 run!

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With 5 and a half minutes left in the second quarter, it was too early for the Rockets to replace Yao Ming at this time, but the Rockets' offense was frustrated, and Van Gundy Jr. could only replace Juwan Howard, expecting Juwan Howard to help the team resist Liu Mang and Jason Terry's onslaught with a comprehensive offensive approach.

The Eagles' side also made timely substitutions, replacing the twin towers of Muhammad and Mourning with Josh Smith and Kwame Brown to increase interior mobility.

After returning from the pause, Juwan Howard, who was replaced as the main attacker, played very positively, his career attitude has always been good, but the effect has not been very good, and the fact that he has not played much in the playoffs shows that his strength and his value are really not matched.

Juwan Howard's mid-range singles were not pleasing to Josh Smith's sticky defense, he was very good at shooting, but Novitzki, who had a similar technique and style of play to get rid of the defense, was 108,000 miles behind; It was not good to turn around and attack the basket with low footsteps, and Kwame Brown, who was mistreated by Yao Ming, pounced on it like a vicious dog to block it.

When Richard Jefferson and Mike James took turns to split the ball, they could have noticed the control of the tempo, but Juwan Howard didn't have that awareness and was counterattacked by the Hawks in a row.

The cavalry company has finally found an opportunity to charge!

Jason Terry and Liu Mang took turns to be the counterattack pioneer, the first ball was Jason Terry quickly down, to Liu Mang passed, Liu Mang received Jason Terry's counterattack rushed into the basket and hit a three-point shot.

Immediately after that, Liu Mang gave Jason Terry another three-point opportunity, and Jason Terry also scored.

In the ninth minute of the second quarter, Jason Terry received a pass from Liu Mang, directly pulled up a three-point throw and threw it in, and scored again! Hit his third three-pointer of the game to take his personal score to 11 points!

When the Hawks scored nine points in a row in two and a half minutes, the Rockets only relied on Richard Jefferson to make a dunk and make a foul in the air, and only scored 4 points!

When the tempo was fully into the rhythm of the Hawks, the Rockets were miserable.

The Hawks, who only scored 24 points in the first quarter, had already scored 27 points when they played 9 minutes in the second quarter, beating the Rockets 27-14 and leading by 13 points at 51-38!

The Rockets called a long timeout again and were about to make a substitution.

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In the first quarter, the commentators of the court station were about to blow the game into a "finals rehearsal", who knew that in the second quarter, the situation suddenly changed, and the Rockets went from being able to play according to the Suns and playing evenly with the Hawks, and suddenly became a weak chicken.

What else can I do with the commentary? Find a way to make up for it.

Zhang's knowledge of coaching basketball is still very good, although he is trying to analyze the reasons, and he really analyzes it.

Director Zhang explained to the fans that the reason why the Hawks played differently from the Suns when facing the Rockets was that the Rockets were role players who defended the Suns when they were on the outside, and the Suns had the most points, while the Suns' core point guard Nash was the Suns' five starters with the lowest average points per game.

The Hawks score concentrated on Liu Mang, the Hawks averaged 109.7 points per game, second in the league, but Liu Mang's score is the highest proportion of the team's total points among all players in the league, one person scored 33 percent of the team's scores, and the average of 26.5 shots per game accounted for 29.1 percent of the Hawks' average of 91 shots per game, only Iverson's 98-99 season to 01-02 season accounted for a higher proportion of the team's shots than Liu Mang in the four years.

Therefore, the Rockets' rotation defense in the first quarter mainly defended Liu Mang and the former scoring champion Maddy, but Prince and Rasheed Wallace combined for 15 points in a single quarter to withstand the Rockets' best defensive performance.

The Suns lost to the Rockets in three consecutive games because they didn't score more than 20 points in the first quarter of three consecutive games, and the Suns' poor defense and the Rockets' cheating offense could beat them to 133 points in one game.

Although the Hawks were blocked in the first quarter, Prince and Rasheed Wallace broke out, allowing the Hawks not to fall behind when the style of play was overcome.

In addition, the Hawks' defense is not comparable to the Suns, the Rockets scored 39 points in the first quarter and the Hawks could only score 24 points in the first quarter.

So when the Rockets rotated the lineup, they didn't have the opportunity to take advantage of the lead to breathe, and the Hawks suddenly opened up the difference.

Yu Jia, the commentator of the imperial court station, listened to Director Zhang's hard hold and held back his explanation, which was really like that, and he was about to applaud!

In fact, that's exactly what happened, and that's what the Eagles had already anticipated.

After watching the game between the Rockets and the Suns, the Hawks had expected that the Rockets' slow-paced style of play was very restrained by their defensive counterattack team, so Coach Krueger carried the whole quarter with an all-starter in the first quarter, biting the score, and in the second quarter, he put a double wave, and really occupied the absolute initiative all of a sudden.

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With 3 minutes left in the second quarter, the Rockets returned four main players plus the league's worst sixth man, David Wesley, Mike James, Richard Jefferson, Juwan Howard, and Yao Ming.

This is the strongest lineup of the Rockets, David Wesley, Mike James, Richard Jefferson, the three best passing players of the Rockets are all on.

The Eagles brought on Calderon, Maddy, Korver, Rashid Wallace, Kwame Brown.

In the face of the Rockets' main lineup, what is needed is not such a good defense, Maddie is enough to defend Richard Jefferson, and what he wants is offense, so Maddie takes two pitchers to the outside.

Liu Mang returned to the bench to rest for a while, he scored 7 points and 2 assists in the second quarter, and Jason Terry got 13 points and 3 assists.

I can't help it! After Jason Terry's style of play, which started to play tricks, it was the fourth year that he had partnered with Jason Terry, and Liu Mang immediately knew that this guy was feeling, and he could solve the problem by giving him.

Sure enough, Jason Terry scored 13 points in 9 minutes and also handed out 3 assists!

After the pause, the referee blew the whistle and the game restarted, Liu Mang set his eyes on the field, watching Kwame Brown start to be abused by Yao Ming again, and felt that Kwame Brown was too pitiful!

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