As it turns out, home court advantage is still crucial in a series like the Trail Blazers and R.

The Trail Blazers are in charge of their Rose Garden Stadium. In the two playoffs, the biggest advantage is naturally that under the cheers of home fans, not only has a better outside shooting percentage than R team, but also Lillard, the absolute core on the back line, performed extremely well at both home courts, becoming the key gentleman who led the team to victory.

After all, a familiar basket, familiar venue, and familiar live sound can still maximize its strength for an outside player.

In two home games, Lillard did not lose the advantage in scoring against Harden, the outside core of the R team, and even steadily defeated the "senior".

Whether it was a three-point shot from the outside or a strong attack and breakthrough from the inside, Lillard used his outstanding performance to bring two consecutive home wins to the Trail Blazers in the game.

The Trail Blazers, who won two home games in total scores, have already gained a considerable lead in this round of the series.

The R team, which had a better record in the regular season, was pushed to the edge of the cliff after four games.

The fifth game between the two sides will move back to Houston, and the R team wants to advance. This home court must be defended to have the opportunity to continue creating a Jedi turnaround.

R team head coach Mike Hale strongly told the media at a press conference before the game that his team has the ability to ensure that they can perform at their best in the next game, defend this home court, and conquer Portland Rose Garden Stadium, bring the game back to Houston, and complete the final big reversal.

After the fifth game began, the overall momentum of Team R was very different from before.

Judging from the broadcast camera, the R team, who played at home, showed a more urgent desire for victory.

Today, the R team changed its previous strategy from the inside line. Howard did not get the offensive power at the beginning of the first quarter like in the previous game. Howard's low-post singles tactics seemed to be rejected by McHale.

From the beginning, James Harden showed his strong desire to score.

Harden almost controls all the ball rights of Team R. From the beginning of the game, he has used his offensive ability to drive the overall offensive of Team R.

Moreover, today, Harden's offensive methods are no longer the offensive method of shooting on the outside like in the previous game, but instead begins to expand inside breakthroughs in the game to create more damage to the Trail Blazers' inside.

All the offenses of Team R were handled by Harden. Even the threat of "Warcraft" Howard's attack in the inside was ignored. His positional offense was not played since the beginning of the game, and the scores he got were almost all easy to eat inside with the help of his teammate Harden.

There is no way, Harden's own threat of breakthrough will inevitably attract Zhang Feng or Robin Lopez's backup defense, and Harden can always find the best solution of his own singles or pass the ball to Howard.

Howard had a few times in the inside line today. Howard, who had saved a lot of physical strength due to no singles on the offensive end, can last longer on the defensive end and play his defensive role more. In terms of on-court performance, when the team encountered a promotion crisis, Howard placed himself in the right position and became a complete "blue-collar" player, and really provided great help to the team.

In today's game, Harden fully demonstrated all the qualities of a top scorer in the league, and perfectly integrated his personal threat with the team's offense, "developing" his passing ability.

In terms of the entire Trail Blazers, there is really no good way to face Harden's personal attack.

Single-player defense, in front of Harden, who has a strong desire to attack, Harden broke through and shot, as if he was in a no-man's realm.

With double teams, Harden can still force his attacks, but he can also perform certain passes and guides to find his teammates.

At home, Harden's attack alone completely drove the offensive state and game rhythm of the entire R team.

With the cheers of the fans on the scene, the soldiers of Team R on the edge of the cliff have reached the real army to use their lives to exert their full strength.

Especially today, the R team has a full firepower Parsons on the outside. Today, Pashuai's three-point shooting percentage is extremely high. His shooting from the outside effectively alleviated the pressure of Harden being double-teamed during the offense.

When Harden was double-teamed by the Trail Blazers, his passes were always able to find open teammates in the game and complete the score.

Since the beginning of the game, Team R has relied on its outstanding offensive performance and has an incredible lead.

In the fifth game, although the team's performance was not very good, Zhang Feng's personal performance was actually quite outstanding.

The rhythm of this series has always been quite distinctive.

The outside players of both teams are obviously much better at home than they are away.

This time when we came to Toyota Center, when many outside players of the team, including Lillard, returned to "mediocrity", the Trail Blazers finally relied on the stable scoring output of inside players and maintained the suspense of this game with all their efforts.

Aldridge is the first scoring point in the Trail Blazers' inside, while Zhang Feng follows Aldridge. As an inside center, he uses his high shooting percentage on the outside to improve the overall outside shooting percentage.

In the whole game, Zhang Feng got a lot of mobile phone opportunities because of his poor outside teammates. He made 9 of 16 shots, and successfully completed his offensive task with 22 points. In terms of the team's final scoring data, it was only less than Aldridge's 31 points.

However, the two inside players scored 53 points together, but the Trail Blazers were suppressed by the R team in terms of overall scoring.

After all, in today's era, the high scores of Trail Blazers inside players cannot catch up with the crazy fire of R team players on the outside.

Especially the three-pointers of Harden and Parsons, you score one, I score one, and every time it will extinguish the sound of the Blazers' counterattack.

Stotts has made various substitution adjustments, hoping that the Trail Blazers can play momentum, outside players can recover and play spirits on the offensive end.

However, not only Batum, who started, Matthews didn't score many points, but even Mo, who was highly anticipated, had a poor shooting touch today. Even McCollum got a few minutes of playing time in the game, but he was unable to provide enough shooting threats from the outside.

In the whole game, the Trail Blazers made only 5 of 21 three-pointers from the outside. Such a low shooting percentage not only lost the threat from the outside, but also allowed the R team's defense to shrink more and more back to within the three-second zone.

It can only be said that Ade has already performed his best in this game. Sometimes, under the pressure of huge assisted defense, he can use his difficult turnover jump shot to complete the shooting, but he is still alone.
Chapter completed!