The battle between Rocket and Maverick on Tianwang Mountain seems to have returned to the summer of two years ago.

At that time, it was also at the Mavericks' home court, the two teams also played a 2-2 draw in front, the Mavericks' lineup has hardly changed much, Diop replaced the injured Dampier as the Mavericks' starting center today, the mature Harris replaced Finley as an important firepower point for the Mavericks' outside line, and on the bench, Jerry Starhouse is two years older, and his shooting percentage and efficiency have improved.

The Rockets are a big change, the Rockets ushered in Sean Battier who ushered in a major turning point this season, what Bob Sula, Scott Padget, David Wesley, all the starters of the year left, veteran Joan Barry retired, Mike James went to the Timberwolves, Ryan Bowen went to the Turkish Super League, the only familiar face turned out to be in his forties, and I don't know when the veteran Dicambe Mutombo will retire at any time.

The Rockets' tactics have also changed greatly, the Rockets pay more attention to defense than two years ago, and also pay more attention to rhythm changes, and the tactical core has changed from Maddie on the outside to Yao Ming on the inside.

Maddie is more of an offensive starting point, while Yao Ming has become an offensive endpoint.

Maddy is averaging just around 23 points per game this season, a new low in recent seasons, and just like Ray Allen with the Warriors, when they have a significantly more efficient scorer on the team, they are clearly choosing to sacrifice.

The main reason for the success of the "OK" combination is that the Zen master clearly established O'Neal as the core, although Kobe Bryant at that time also had super-giant strength, but compared with the two, it is obvious that O'Neal's efficiency is higher, especially in terms of scoring, when the two super scorers who occupy the ball meet together, they should focus on the one with higher scoring efficiency.

Today's Nuggets are experiencing the embarrassing problem of not knowing who to focus on, resulting in a poor record and being swept out of the playoffs.

Yao Ming and Nowitzki are facing each other, two interior players who may have the strongest scoring ability in the league today, except for Yang Di.

Yang Di feels that in terms of scoring, Yao Ming at this time is no less than Nowitzki, and even in terms of offensive ability, he is better than Nowitzki.

A game related to who can take the lead in the series between the Mavericks and the Rockets, the whole court is anxious and nervous, and the audience is no less attractive than the Rockets vs. Suns.

Relatively speaking, the Cavaliers and Nets, Pistons and Bulls in the East have not had that high ratings.

In this game, Maddy performed well, especially in the third to fourth quarters, with a high shooting percentage, and in the face of the Mavericks' rotational defense, he suddenly found his touch outside, soared into three points and assisted Yao Ming to dunk inside, and the Rockets overtook the score from the beginning of the fourth quarter, and their morale was greatly boosted.

The Mavericks are doing well from the outside, but the Rockets are doing a little more damage on the inside.

Many Mavericks fans wonder whose home court this is, because in the Rockets, Yao Ming and Maddy have been making free throws at the free throw line and scoring points steadily.

The fan interference was useless, and in the last 3 minutes, the Rockets led by 5 points.

After Nowitzki hit a three-pointer to recover the difference, Yao Ming forcefully crashed into Diop on the inside, and the shot was a two-and-one.

Terry hit a mid-range pullup jump shot, and the Rockets missed but then blocked the Mavericks several times in a row.

In the end, the Rockets defeated the Mavericks 99-96, and like the Warriors, they won the crucial G5 game with great difficulty, while avenging the one-shot victory two years ago.

Maddy had the best performance of the game, finishing with a near-triple-double of 34 points, 11 rebounds and eight assists on 10-of-22 shooting.

Yao Ming also scored 30 points, two people made 14 free throws, one made 16 free throws, Diop left the court with six fouls, and Nowitzki also had five fouls in the final moments, and the two armies battled, and the Mavericks were defeated by a tougher team.

After the game, Cuban bombarded the league referees.

"They got too many free throws, I think the referee was problematic, a lot of times, we just defend normally and fight normally, but whether they are inside or outside, they can always get body hair level counter-rules, and they haven't even made feints to cheat, it's like we're playing away, it's very tough."

Cuban is so direct when he speaks, the more he says, the more outrageous it becomes, and of course he can't slander others, but he just said that the league should re-investigate the footage, the Mavericks were treated too unfairly, and it was an ugly game.

Then, the league acted quickly and gave Cuban a $25,000 fine.

Yang Di is happy for Yao Ming, in the system score, Yao Ming's offense has reached the S+ level, and the overall score is also as high as 108 S-level score, which is between Novitzky and Novisky.

The Rockets have undoubtedly done the most correct thing with Yao Ming as the core, Yao Ming is still about 55 percent even if the shooting rate drops, and the shooting rate is more than 40 percent, which is higher than anyone on the outside of the Rockets.

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May 18, Oakland, Oracle Arena.

The Warriors and Suns are about to play G6, and the Warriors are leading 3-2 in the series, holding the match point.

At this time, the Bulls and Nets in the East worked hard at the same time, winning two games in a row, bringing the score back to 2-3, and the four groups of games in the division semifinals were all played with a scorching score of 2-3.

But that's what David Stern wants to see, he doesn't want too many big wins in a series, and the further down the series is, the higher the ratings, the higher the revenue.

The Warriors' home arena was packed, not only from San Francisco, but also from overseas, especially Chinese, who accounted for about 20 to 30 percent.

The Chinese support rate for the Warriors is very high, and they are like die-hard fans for Yang Di, many Chinese still came from Miami, they are Yang Di's fans who had contact with Yang Di during the Heat period, and fell hopelessly in love with Yang Di.

The atmosphere was hot, and the DJ began to introduce the players to the venue.

The away team is in front, the home team is in the back.

When the Suns' star players such as Nash, Smalls, and Marion entered, they were booed like a tsunami by the audience, and all eyes were full of black solemn scenes.

Wearing a black jersey, Oracle Arena is more like the Devil's home stadium.

Fans held signs, some wrote "4 to 2", some wrote "enter the Western Finals", some fans also held up the big avatars of Nash, Xiao Si and others to interfere with them, and some fans painted oil paint on their faces and held a big horn that blew "Ula Ula" in their hands to make enough noise.

Everyone is shouting, and that's the atmosphere of the live game.

When Yang Di appeared on the stage, the audience chanted "MVP, MVP......."