The Rockets, who returned to their home court, 99-92, won a hard-fought victory over the Mavericks and pulled the big score to 1-2.

Maddy played well in this game, scoring 29 points and 9 assists on 11-of-20 shooting from the field, shooting more than 50 percent, which is very rare since entering the playoffs.

Yao Ming, on the other hand, still steadily scored 28 points and 14 rebounds with a double-double, and the dual-core was effective, and it seemed that Nowitzki was unable to support himself.

In the playoffs two years ago, the Rockets played against the Mavericks.

Since Nash left, the Mavericks have been like Nowitzki leading the team single-core, and later Finley also went to the Spurs, and the Mavericks have more determined the tactical idea of taking Nowitzki as the core and many scoring experts playing together, there are many good players, but there is only one core.

Whether it's the Suns, Spurs, Warriors or Rockets, there are at least 2 stars above the All-Star level.

In the East, the Bulls lost to the Pistons 74-81 at home, falling behind 0-3 in the big score, while the Nets were 96-85 and fought bravely at home to pull the big score back.

In the subsequent G4 game, the Nets lost to the Cavaliers at home, falling behind 1-3, and the Bulls defeated the Pistons 102-87 to avoid being swept and embarrassed, and they also fell behind 1-3.

The situation in the East is very clear, with the Cavaliers and Pistons holding match points and winning only one of the next three games to reach the Eastern Conference Finals.

Comparatively speaking, the West Conference has become extremely anxious.

In the fourth game between the Rockets and the Mavericks, the two teams played another overtime, but this time, the Rockets played a full team in overtime, narrowly defeating the Mavericks 105-101, and the big score was tied 2-2.

The two teams will play the battle of Tennoyama that will affect the overall situation the most in the entire series.

In the fourth game between the Warriors and the Suns, the Warriors who were playing at home also did not extend the victory, losing to the Suns 98-107.

In this game, the Warriors started with a lead, but in the third quarter, the Suns went 35-22 to lose the game.

The two sides will return to Phoenix for a crucial fifth match, and it will be a matter of mystery who will win and who will lose.

……

The first and second rounds both experienced Tianwang Mountain, and Yang Di estimated that if the Warriors entered the Western Conference Finals, they might also experience the battle of Tianwang Mountain.

This year's road to the championship has been particularly difficult, with Byron not and the Warriors always having a flaw at the No. 1 spot.

When he went to Phoenix to play, he suddenly received a call from his agent, Bill Duffy, who told him that the Chinese Basketball Association had notified him to participate in the Stankovic Cup in Macau this summer.

After listening to this, Yang Di only replied with two words: "Don't go." ”

"Wasn't there an agreement that we wouldn't participate in such an event? Why do you want me to go to participate now, whoever you love, I won't go anyway. "Yang Di doesn't care what the market calls for, he may use some games in the summer to ensure his condition, but it will definitely not be such an international competition, and it is not interesting at all to practice with the second and third teams of other countries.

“OK。”

Bill Duffy knew that Yang Di would say this, in fact, he had negotiated with the Basketball Association on behalf of Yang Di before, and when he was selected for the national team to participate in the World Championships, he said that he would only participate in international competitions, but the Basketball Association believes that international competitions naturally include commercial leagues such as the Stankovic Cup.

Yang Di doesn't think so, the international events he recognizes, at least the participation of the American team, right?

The two chatted about recent commercial contracts and summer business arrangements, with Bill Duffy saying that Warriors' general manager Mullin and the head of Nike Inc. have recently begun negotiations with him for the next contract.

……

Phoenix, West America Arena.

The Warriors and Suns played the G5 battle on time.

There have been a lot of opinions about this series ahead of the game, with experts having mixed opinions, and the Suns' regaining home-court advantage could be a key factor in this scorching series.

From the point of view of paper strength, between the Warriors and the Suns, even the Suns are superior.

But the Warriors have Yang Di, who is a top five or even top three superstar in the league, the most dominant man on the court since Shaquille O'Neal, and Yang Di's play dictates the game.

In the fifth game, the two sides were already bayonets and-for-tat.

At the beginning of the game, the two teams had a confrontational aggressive defense, Marion rudely pulled Yang Di off on the defensive end, Yang Di staggered to the ground, but fortunately he was strong and balanced, so he was not injured.

Marion is not considered a technical foul, but the action is a little bigger, and there is no protection action behind, so it annoys the Warriors generals including Chandler.

When attacking, Danny Granger made a three-point shot and raised his leg and was whistled for an offensive foul.

The Warriors were in a difficult situation, and when the referees blew the Suns' home whistle, there was no ambiguity at all, and there was a clear double standard in the first quarter.

"What do you mean by double standards?"

In the NBA's blowing scale, the double standard refers to the use of different blowing penalty scales for players to defend, the same aggressive defense, one team is blown foul, the other team does not blow fouls, the player's mentality is easy to change, and it takes a strong psychological adjustment quality to overcome such difficulties.

"Steady!"

Yang Di shouted at his teammates, two years ago, when he encountered this kind of thing, maybe he had already clashed with others, but now, he wants to respond to the opponent with his performance on the field, he has become more mature, even if there is a conflict, it must be that he takes the initiative to provoke the opponent.

The scores of the two teams alternated and the Warriors led the Suns 59-55 at halftime.

"Maybe looking back on the past 10 years, we will still think of this game, and still think that it will be a classic competition, with many stars in their prime, the most representative teams of the era of small ball, and endless stories of characters, everyone can write about it."

Cai Nan commented on the half-time game, so said.

Danny Granger suffered a foul crisis in the first half, receiving three early fouls and going off the court early, and he still got fouled not long after the third quarter.

Montgomery made roster changes, Matt Barnes came on as a substitute, the Warriors strengthened their perimeter defense, and Youngdy needed to take on more responsibility on the offensive end.

Yang Di turned on the offensive mode, turned around and hooked his hands, broke through to the basket, grabbed the frontcourt rebound and then attacked the basket, scoring 17 points in a single quarter, helping the Warriors continue to maintain the lead and end the third quarter of the game 89-81.

At this time, Yang Di had 31 points and 11 rebounds, four of which were frontcourt rebounds.

In the league, Yang Di has the strongest frontcourt rebounding ability, averaging 13.5 rebounds per game, 4.9 of which are frontcourt rebounds, which is even more fierce than last year.