Liu Mang complained to the referee, but the referee gave Liu Mang a blank look and ignored it completely.

First of all, the referee really didn't see Yao Ming's small movements, just now it seemed that Liu Mang rushed over and bumped into Yao Ming who wanted to stop him, when Yao Ming blocked Liu Mang, when Liu Mang wanted to change direction and accelerate before Yao Ming was about to come into contact with each other, Yao Ming suddenly pushed his crotch, that small action was too hidden, even if the referee saw it, it was reasonable to say that it was the action during the run.

The point is that the referee really didn't see it.

Moreover, Yao Ming is also one of the few stars in the west, although there is still a big gap between him and the former first center in the west, but in terms of the position of the weaker and weaker center, Yao Ming is now the second center in the league, and if he is someone else, Liu Mang complains that the referee may find an opportunity to make up for a whistle next time.

But if it is Yao Ming, the referee will not give Liu Mang face to make up the whistle at will, Yao Ming is also a player praised by the league, with an average of 7.5 free throws per game in 32 minutes per game, and this season there are only five players registered as center who average 5 or more free throws per game, only O'Neal, Yao Ming, Howard, Ben Wallace, and Eddie Curry.

O'Neal, Howard, and Ben Wallace are the kind of players who would be targeted for tactical fouls, with O'Neal averaging 10 free throws per game and Howard and Ben Wallace both averaging just five per game.

Yao Ming and Eddie Curry are really free throws made purely by ability, because both of them have a high free throw shooting rate, Yao Ming's 85 percent free throw shooting rate, Eddie Curry's 78 percent, basically will not be the target of tactical fouls, and Eddie Curry only averages 5.3 free throws per game.

Yao Ming's free throw shooting percentage and number of free throws are also very good in history at the center position, and Olajuwon's career-high free throw average is just 8 free throws per game.

Seeing Yao Ming's bewildered expression when he was pointed at, Liu Mang didn't expect that this guy would actually learn to act! It's so good!

During Liu Mang's previous four days of rest, he watched many video recordings of the Rockets' games this season, and the reason why he felt that Yao Ming began to have signs of iron-bloodedness was not because Yao Ming now clenched his fists and roared more times after dunking, but because Yao Ming's small actions became more!

However, Yao Ming has a Chinese character face that looks honest and honest, and the referee rarely notices his small movements, even if he does, it will be because those small actions are not hurtful small actions, and Yao Ming looks loyal and honest, and rarely whistles, which is similar to Garnett's face that looks like "Lao Tzu has a lot of small movements".

Liu Mang didn't expect it, Yao Ming didn't know when the more he learned, the more "bad" he became, if it was a national team game, Liu Mang would be happy, but now he is an opponent......

Liu Mang saw that the referee ignored him, so he could only run to the front court and fall into a positional battle.

After Liu Mang crossed the halfway line, Maddie passed the ball to Liu Mang first, Liu Mang dribbled to the top arc, and David Wesley defended it.

Liu Mang looked at David Wesley's small broken steps that looked like Mickey Mouse, his defensive mobility was very good, his height was short, and his speed was fast, Liu Mang pretended to break through, David Wesley immediately came up and gave a physical contact, and when Liu Mang wanted to change direction, David Wesley immediately withdrew half a step, and he could keep up with Liu Mang's footsteps without being too far apart.

The defense is really good!

Liu Mang feels that the Rockets have all kinds of cheap transactions, and the 34-year-old veteran can be regarded as cheap, and the veteran who was abandoned by the Hornets is too suitable for him to come to the Rockets, much better than Sula.

Afraid of Yao Ming's deterrent power under the basket, Liu Mang had no good opportunities to shoot in the middle and long distances, and did not want to make a strong shot in the middle and long distances at the beginning, so he was attached to the basket, and there was Yao Ming under the basket, Liu Mang beckoned Maddie over, handed the ball to Maddie, and then rushed into the interior with David Wesley from the middle empty-handed, trying to disrupt the Rockets' defense.

Kwame Brown came out to help Liu Mang block David Wesley, Liu Mang cut in from the middle, but he stepped on the semi-arc of the reasonable collision area, and the defensive area was almost to the free throw line, the terrifying height of two meters and twenty-six was too much of a defensive threat under the basket, Liu Mang took advantage of Kwame Brown's off-ball blocking and dismantling to accelerate violently, ran out from the left side of the three-second area, and came to a 45-degree angle on the left, Maddie's pass just passed to Liu Mang.

Match the middle lane that Stockton has learned!

But Richard Jefferson had already blocked Liu Mang when he just received the ball at a 45-degree angle on the left side, and David Wesley, who was blocked by Kwame Brown, did not chase Liu Mang around the block at all, but switched defenses with Richard Jefferson to defend Maddie as soon as possible!

The Rockets have David Wesley as a point guard, and the defensive rotation has become much better!

Time was running out, and there was no chance to create a chance for Liu Mang to make a shot, so Liu Mang immediately threw the ball to Maddie, and Maddie, who had a height advantage, attacked.

Maddie received the ball and pulled out a three-point shot......

didn't go in, Yao Ming turned around and used his wide back to block Kwame Brown, who might rush in to grab the offensive rebound, one arm to block Rasheed Wallace who rushed in, and Juwan Howard ran in to easily collect the defensive rebound.

Liu Mang hurriedly beckoned his teammates to hurry back to defense, and the defense of the Rocket team surprised Liu Mang! It is worthy of being a top defensive team that only allows opponents to score 91 points per game!

Van Gundy Jr. plus Thibodeau, the speed killer, the coaching staff of this team, that is, there are fewer players who can score, otherwise the defensive system of Van Gundy Jr. and Thibodeau, if the Rockets have a guard with better passing, they will not be able to take off!

Liu Mang suddenly felt some sympathy for Van Gundy, who hugged Mourning's thighs back then, and only allowed his opponent to score 91 points per game, but his own team could only score 93 points, which was worse than the Spurs' offense......

Sure enough, the Rockets' current offensive style has stabilized, that is, Yao Ming singled at the beginning, David Wesley is much more self-aware than Sulla, and waited for Yao Ming to be in the position after halftime.

Yao Ming pouted his butt and sank his waist in Kwame Brown's rough pushing, and his 135 kilograms were one kilogram heavier than Eddie Curry's big fat man, second only to O'Neal's weight in the league, and pressed Kwame Brown behind him.

David Wesley hoisted the ball to Yao Ming, and Kwame Brown tried to consume Yao Ming with the same strategy of consuming O'Neal as he defended O'Neal, and at the moment when Yao Ming leaned forward and was ready to force back, Kwame Brown pressed up and wanted to steal with his reach.

However, Yao Ming spent no less time studying the Eagles than the Eagles players did studying him! It has long been clear that Mourning and Kwame Brown, the two inside lines, will deal with O'Neal, who is also a giant center, the moment Kwame Brown pressed up, Yao Ming turned in a spiral, took the ball with his right foot as the axis, picked up the ball with his left hand and turned to the right for a half time, stepped out with his left foot and leaned towards the basket, and threw the ball directly to the basket.

Kwame Brown also wanted to let the opponent make a cutting move and then retreat to the basket to face Yao Ming's defensive frame, who knew that Yao Ming got a gap in that position and threw it directly with one hand!

Yao Ming's hand was excellent, and the ball was thrown out and rolled around the basket and fell into the frame.

Wonderful low-post singles, such height, such weight, and such footsteps and feel,. Kenny Smith of T Sports shouted "best center" in the very unhappy expression of fat Barkley.

Liu Mang watched Yao Ming play with Kwame Brown, and then looked at Rashid Wallace, who was pulled away by Second Uncle Huo, should he let Rashid Wallace go to the bag, or let Kwame Brown continue to be abused?

Yao Ming is too good to play Kwame Brown and Howard as a type of center, so it is too wasteful for Kwame Brown to gain weight to the size of the Lakers in the original time and space, and Kwame Brown in this time and space has developed a very good way to use physical fitness.

Liu Mang received the serve, the Rockets had already retreated, Yao Ming worked hard to defend after the goal, the overall retreat speed of the Rockets was still good, and the team that could suppress the Suns' speed was really not covered.

Let's start on the offensive end and break down the Rockets' defense.

After Liu Mang advanced through the half, he passed the ball to Maddie, and then directly helped Maddie block Richard Jefferson in the top arc.

Maddie borrowed Liu Mang to block Richard Jefferson to cut inside, the first three steps of Maddie's outburst were very fast, and David Wesley couldn't keep up at once, so he could only try his best to stick to Maddie.

At the same time, after Liu Mang blocked Richard Jefferson, he bypassed Richard Jefferson and cut to the basket from the left side of the top arc.

After Maddie rushed into the free throw line, he took three steps, from the right side of the three-second zone to the left side of the three-second zone, trying to bypass Yao Ming to throw, Richard Jefferson let go of Liu Mang as soon as possible to chase Maddy, and David Wesley also tacitly changed the defense and came back to block Liu Mang.

At this time, Kwame Brown came up to block David Wesley, Liu Mang cut into the way to a sharp stop, ran out to the top arc, Maddie took three steps and jumped, there was no chance, and threw the ball in the air to the top arc.

Liu Mang received the ball, the Rockets made up the defense quickly, Sula rushed over to make up for Liu Mang, Liu Mang received the ball and immediately threw it to Prince, Prince moved to the right side of the 45-degree angle outside the three-point line to receive the ball and adjusted, and the empty three-point shot!

After a match, Prince finally got a shooting opportunity, Prince grasped it, and hit a three-point shot.

The Rockets' current defense is much stronger than Liu Mang's impression of David Wesley, Sula, Maddy, Huo Ershu, and Yao Ming's defense, mainly because Richard Jefferson doesn't need to be as tired on the offensive end as Maddy, his scoring means are empty cuts and three-pointers, mainly responsible for defense, and then he can average 23 points and 7 boards per game, the Rockets' defense is much better than Maddie, who has a look defense in the original time and space!

The high-speed defensive rotation of the outside trio, Yao Ming under the basket, although the strength of Uncle Huo is not good, but the degree of hard work is commendable, he is only criticized for not being worthy of the big contract he has won all year round, and his attitude is very positive.

The Hawks can see that the Rockets have now played half a season and run in to the mid-season "peak" performance that they will have almost every season, and they don't need to deliberately suppress the rhythm at all, they can suppress the rhythm on the court very slowly when they play normally.

Liu Mang thought that the Rockets would go crazy every year in the month before and after the All-Star Weekend, and even the 22-game winning streak was played during the period from the end of January to mid-March when other teams were complaining, and there was no one on this team.

When it came to the Rockets' offense again, Yao Ming continued to go to the low post to ask for the ball, and stuck Kwame Brown to ask for the ball.

The method of defending against O'Neal is not good, and Kwame Brown has a good sense of single defense, and immediately began to try to defend against Yao Ming with another defensive method.

Kwame-Brown tried to directly use explosive force to give Yao Ming an impact, Yao Ming hit back and felt the impact of Kwame-Brown, and found Kwame-Brown's intentions, so he slapped the ball to the ground with force at the same time, and made a backward collision action, before Kwame-Brown came up, he turned around suddenly, picked up the ball with his right hand and bounced up quickly, wiped Kwame-Brown, took a step forward, and buckled the gorilla-style frame with both hands!

The bounce five centimeters off the ground, Yao Ming was stunned when he dunked the ball into the basket, his hands fell on the basket and his feet were suspended in the air, making a posture of jumping 20 centimeters.

After Yao Ming landed, he clenched his fists and ran back with a low roar, there is no Boozer, Yao Ming is so urinating when he beats the Eagles!

Kwame Brown is going to cry!

Liu Mang looked at Yao Ming, who was running back with all his strength with a roar, and looked at Kwame Brown, but he didn't expect that before Howard was powerful, Yao Ming, who was eating and sleeping and fighting Warcraft, would use the skills of fighting Warcraft to Kwame Brown.

It's really a hammer! Liu Mang remembers that Yao Ming played Howard with an average of nearly 24+12 per game, and prevented Howard from averaging 12+9 per game far below the career average, Howard's peak 08-09 season was wantonly bullied by Yao Ming without Maddy, the Magic 08-09 season is similar to the Suns this season, relying on the three-point team to win at least once against 28 teams in the league, but only the Rockets were swept in the regular season.

Now playing Kwame Brown with a similar style, Yao Ming also plays according to Kwame Brown!

It's really choking, this kind of team with the same style of play......

Top 3 in Texas......

Liu Mang continued to advance with the ball, and Maddie played with each other on the perimeter to deal with David Wesley and Richard Jefferson's excellent one-on-one defense.

Originally, the single defense effect of the two was not so good, if the opponent was Liu Mang and Maddie, they couldn't block the breakthrough if they blocked the outside line, but with Yao Ming under the basket, they only needed to block the long-range shot, Liu Mang and Maddie broke through and they could stick to Liu Mang and Maddie into the distance that Yao Ming could interfere with, Liu Mang and Maddie used their footsteps, they switched defenses, and would rather let the Hawks get a chance to pass the ball to their teammates on the outside, rather than let the two score.

The Rockets' defensive execution is really speechless, and the defensive strategy is very targeted, preferring to let the Hawks' Prince and Rasheed Wallace shoot three-pointers rather than let Liu Mang and Maddy have good shots.

The combination of Liu Mang and Maddie created a lot of mid-range shooting opportunities for Rashid Wallace and Prince, but fortunately, the two rested for a few days, and now they are in good physical condition and feel good, and the Eagles started to carry Yao Ming's strong inside play.

On the Rockets' side, after Yao Ming played a few, he began to use his blocking ability and mid-range shooting to cooperate with David Wesley to create scoring opportunities for Richard Jefferson, after Yao Ming played, it was David Wesley's turn and Richard Jefferson to score, David Wesley's three-point after blocking and pick-and-roll, Richard Jefferson's air cut and reverse running three-point are very powerful, all of them are first-class three-point shooters, and the Rockets relied on Yao Ming to start the game and threatened, and the offensive end played very hard.

The key thing is that every time the Rockets score, there is a group of local Houston college students on the scene who go to boo their own teams with a "mission" and a "sense of ceremony", and the Rockets players play harder.

Due to Yao Ming's presence, the Hawks did not dare to easily reduce the height of the lineup, so the starters of the two teams were stunned to play the first quarter.

Liu Mang successfully shot only 3 times in the first quarter, this kind of anxious situation is really not good to shoot blindly, 2 of 3 shots, 2 of 2 free throws, Liu Mang only scored 6 points in the first quarter, but had 3 assists! This is very rare when Maddie is there, and Liu Mang sometimes doesn't have 3 assists in a game when Maddie is there.

When Maddie was away, Liu Mang also assisted a little more in the first quarter, and after Jason Terry Iguodala and Calderon came on the court, Liu Mang was mainly shooting, and the pass was handed over to the three of them, and Jason Terry was more willing to pass than Liu Mang.

Maddie got 3 points and 3 assists, and Liu Mang combined for 9 points and 6 assists in the first quarter, helping the Hawks score 24 points, Rasheed Wallace and Prince performed well today, shooting a total of 4 three-pointers in the first quarter, one person and two, plus a rare two counterattacks, Prince dunked once and added a free throw, Prince became the player who scored the most points in the first quarter on the court, scoring 9 points.

Kwame Brown had 0 points and 3 rebounds, he couldn't attack Yao Ming under the basket, and it was difficult to defend Yao Ming's mid-range shots, and he was abused in singles under the basket.

Kwame Brown felt the desolation of Howard in advance......

However, the Hawks only scored 24 points, and the Rockets really didn't have any advantage, the two teams were evenly matched, the Rockets just prevented the Hawks' fast break, and the positional battle forced the Hawks to pass the ball to Prince and Rasheed Wallace, their own scoring, except for Yao Ming, who scored 8 points on 4-of-6 in the first quarter, and the shooting percentage of others was as bad as usual.

The Hawks' defense is not vegetarian, and when the Rockets played hard, the Rockets only scored 24 points in the first quarter, which was on par with the Hawks.

Yao Ming scored 8 points, and Richard Jefferson also scored 8 points, making two three-pointers and a layup that caused Liu Mang to make up for a foul and hit both free throws.

The Rockets' two cores combined for 16 points, and the Rockets scored only 24 points in the entire quarter.

At the intermission, Liu Mang returned to the bench, it was really difficult to deal with, the top three in Texas were really terrible, the three teams had their own characteristics, and they were all so strong.

It's a shame that the league didn't arrange a trip to the top three in Texas this season, otherwise they would have to peel off their skin!

Fortunately, it was Yao Ming who was able to eat, sleep, and fight...... During the time of playing the center of high school students, Liu Mang and Jason Terry, who took off his training clothes, glanced at each other, their time was up!