The Rockets are a very different team from the Suns, and the game against the Suns is like thunder, breaking out wave after wave, but the game against the Rockets is even slower than the pace of the Spurs.

Head coach Jeff Van Gundy emphasizes defense, and the requirement for Rockets players is to reduce all speed, not fast offense, no turnovers, and drag all games into a quagmire of positional offense.

After two rounds, the Warriors players were a little uncomfortable, and no matter how fast they were, the Rockets were still crawling slowly like a turtle.

Maddie faced Danny Granger and hit a jumper against the defense, and the Rockets were 4-3 and uptook by one point

At this time, 3 minutes have passed in the first quarter, and the Warriors seem to be unable to find their form in such a rhythm of the game.

Montgomery called a timeout, and the bustle of the arena lowered its tone for the first time.

"We've got to get up to the pace, we're going to have to make transitions, we're going to take the rebounds and the pushing, we're going to get a little bit more speed, we're going to go down to the basket, we're going to shoot threes, we're going to get the most out of us."

In the midst of the cacophony, Montgomery drew tactics and shouted shouts to the Warriors players.

Yang Di nodded, thinking deeply, from the first quarter to now, he hasn't scored a single goal, and then it's time to attack with all his might.

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The pause came back and the fans applauded.

The Warriors kicked off in the backcourt, Fisher advanced to the frontcourt, and Yang Di came out, still in the elbow area to form two human walls with Tyson Chandler.

Ray Allen came around, the Rockets switched defenses, and Hayes interfered with Ray Allen receiving the ball.

At that moment, Yang Di narrowed his eyes and immediately turned around and ran backwards under the basket.

"Be careful!"

Van Gundy exclaimed, Yang Di turned too fast, as soon as Hayes transferred, he found an opportunity to use the speed to cut into the air, Fisher was quick and hit the ground.

Yao Ming followed Yang Di's footsteps, his right hand raised high, ready to defend Yang Di.

Yang Di dribbled with his left hand, walked to the middle line, and after dribbling twice, he opened his five fingers to catch the ball, wrapped his arm around his back, passed the ball behind his back, and hit the ground to Tyson Chandler, who followed up.

"Bang dang!"

Chandler's hands were clasped violently, and Yao Ming couldn't guard against it, so he got out of the way early.

"Beautiful!"

This time the goal was extremely exciting, Yang Di passed it, and he felt very happy.

The fans were even more excited, high-fiveing each other in celebration, and Monta Ellis and others on the bench stood up to imitate the movement of Jandy's behind-the-back pass, or waved a towel.

In fact, it was just a simple attack, but because of Yang Di's slightly coquettish pass, the entire Oracle Arena was boiling.

The Warriors' morale was up and they were ready for the half.

Alston advanced with the ball, Fisher began to step forward before half court, Alstom's ability to control the ball is too good, but the body is too poor, Fisher is stronger than him is his good body, hoping that the physical confrontation can destroy Alston's dribbling feeling.

If you can make a pass mistake or something, that's for the best.

In the frontcourt, Maddie asked for the ball, and at 45 degrees from the three-point line, Danny Granger opened his arms to defend Maddy.

Maddie is two steps away from the three-point line, Yao Ming comes out to block and dismantle for Maddie, the combination of the two, and the longest move is to block and dismantle.

Maddie took advantage of Yao Ming's high-quality blocking and dismantling to occupy a favorable position.

Tyson Chandler stepped back to defend, Maddie resisted the desire to pull out, pulled the ball out, and moved Chandler away, but Chandler remained unmoved.

The moment he hesitated to grab a rebound in the frontcourt, Danny Granger had already caught up.

At this time, Yao Ming was in order, and Tyson Chandler followed unhurriedly.

Maddie held the ball in both hands and held it high and Danny Granger was almost the same height as him, and he moved the ball to the wing and gave it to Battier, who was picking up.

Yao Ming received the ball in the low post, and 19 seconds had passed at this time, leaving him with the last 5 seconds of offensive time.

He didn't have time to react much, his back to Chandler, and he turned around and hooked his hands, his body almost on the edge of the paint zone.

"So far?"

Yao Ming's hook is indeed a bit scary from afar, and that is the offensive range of Tiangou Jabbar.

The fans widened their eyes, guessing that this ball might be Yao Ming's casual hook after the time was almost up, and it was impossible to score.

"Huh!"

But the basketball didn't even play rebounds, and went directly into the net.

"Hook hands so far?"

Yang Di was also taken aback, when he played with the Mavericks before, Yao Ming's hook hand under the basket was very accurate, but the distance was so far, but it had never been, and his hand seemed to be a little good today.

Yao Ming clenched his fists and secretly celebrated, and the Rockets quickly completed the retreat.

Ray Allen came to the half-court with the ball and Sean Battier was ready early, arms outstretched, and he was on guard.

The interesting thing about this game is that the outside scorers on both sides are defended by small forwards, and in today's league, scoring guards are still doing scoring work, and small forwards are mostly defensive giants.

Battier defended very cleanly, with long hands and long feet, and firmly followed Ray Allen, who had no room to shoot, and passed to Yang Di in the low post.

Yang Di turned his body, held the ball under him with both hands, and then drew a circle and lifted the ball up, making a shooting feint.

Unmoved, Hayes raised one hand in the air.

Yang Di stepped on the ground on his toes and suddenly exerted force, and the whole person jumped up like a spring, and after raising his arm, he flicked it slightly, ignoring the big hand in front of him that almost covered his face.

"Huh!"

Medium-range hits.

Hayes glanced back, and ran to the front with Yang Di with a blank face.

But he sighed in his heart, very helpless, Yang Di is about ten centimeters taller than him, plus the advantage of arm span, he can't interfere much when he shoots the basket, and the last round of playing the Mavericks, as long as he is against Nowitzki, it is also obviously misplaced.

Although Hayes is only in his second season in the NBA this year, his actual age is one year older than Yang Di, and he has a lot of experience on the court, his strongest thing is rebounding and defense, if he is making him ten centimeters longer, with this terrifying power, at least it is the level of Yang Di's first season in the Warriors.

At the beginning of meeting Hayes, Yang Di also singled out this player with his back, and later found that this unattractive guy was very powerful, and he was stable like an old tree, and the efficiency of playing Hayes with his back was very low, so it was better to attack directly in the frame.

The Warriors scored four straight points to take a 7-6 lead over the Rockets.

The momentum of this rapid scoring seems to have a bit of the style of beating the Suns in the last round.

But then, two more offenses missed, and Yang Di's jumper was also missed, and the Warriors' scoring rose slowly, and the Rockets were entangled in a one-point and two-point gap.

At the end of the first quarter, the Warriors led the Rockets by one point at 21-20.