7-14, Yao Ming missed one free throw.

The Trail Blazers showed a broken rhythm.

Fortunately, Maurice Cheeks was used to strong winds and waves, so he calmly adjusted.

The combination of Liu Xiu, Reuben Patterson, Travis Outlaw, Dale Davis, and Rasheed Wallace came on the court.

Today, the NBA president came to the Rose Garden Arena and watched the game in a private room.

Stern looked at the Trail Blazers' adjustment and was unable to complain - as expected, he was indecisive and went on defense again!

But he was very happy to see Liu Xiu play.

In the 2003 class, Liu Xiu, Anthony, and James competed against each other...

Liu Xiu is a foreign bad boy, and Anthony is a local bad boy. The two bad boys do evil in the world of basketball. The script of James' hero saving the world?

Love it, love it!

On the court, the Trail Blazers made adjustments to their lineup and playing style, but they had little effect.

After Yao Ming made an extra free throw to widen the point difference to 8 points, the Trail Blazers failed to complete their counterattack in the second half of the first quarter.

Yao Ming played 9 minutes in the first quarter, making 3 of 4 shots, plus 2 of 3 free throws, and scored 9 points, 3 rebounds, 1 assist, and 2 blocks, destroying the Blazers' established tactics on both offense and defense.

When Yao Ming was replaced and rested, the Trail Blazers failed to narrow the point difference.

After the first quarter, the Trail Blazers trailed the Rockets by 11 points, 16-27!

Tianzun made 3 of 7 shots and scored 6 points, Liu Xiu made 2 of 2 free throws, Flying Squirrel made 1 of 4 three-pointers, Randolph made 3 of 4 free throws, and the Outlaws scored a counterattack dunk. The Trail Blazers had nothing else in the first quarter.

Score.

The Mark Jackson copied by Liu Xiu this time has post-playing talent and bonus effects, post-playing power +1, and back-up passing accuracy +3.

It is far behind Andre Miller. After all, Mark Jackson is about to be 39 years old and will retire soon, but it is better than the random bounce +1 of the incomplete version of the 'all-around player' that copied Francis with a 25% matching degree last time.

too much.

The second highest scorer between the two teams so far is Francis, with 8 points, 3 rebounds and 2 assists in a single quarter.

When the whistle sounded at the end of the first quarter, Francis shouted at Liu Xiu: "Rookie, this is the performance of an All-Star!"

Francis also wanted to say one more thing - Chinese fans, don’t you love me anymore?

I was obviously the one who came first!

"I know, I know, but my vote is higher than yours."

After Liu Xiu finished speaking, he turned and returned to the bench.

Francis was successfully cured, and 88 healing points were credited to his account.

After tonight's game started, Francis had already given hundreds of healing points to him, and he started to have them even before Warden came on the field.

With his sudden emergence, it cannot be said that not everyone is as happy as Yao Ming... To be precise, there are only a few top players who are happy.

Liu Xiu... was extremely happy about this situation.

Francis is a big experience baby in Liu Xiu’s eyes!

He began to imagine how much fun it would be to fight with the little blacksmith in the future...

Putting his beautiful vision aside, after returning to the bench, his mind started to work quickly, his thoughts gradually became clearer, and he ran to find the coaching staff to communicate.

The head coach and chief assistant coach's ideas were similar to Liu Xiu's. Maurice Cheeks made adjustments based on the ideas of his best colleagues and the players with the best brains.

When the players on the court gathered around to discuss the details, Kevin Plitchar said excitedly to the coach: "This kid doesn't think about immature suggestions all day long, he has serious ideas!"

Maurice Cheeks feels bad for his friend.

Shouldn't it be the most basic thing for a ball-savvy point guard to have normal tactical thinking?

the other side.

Looking at the No. 2 overall pick of the 2000 class with "I will never work hard anymore" written all over his face, Liu Xiu said: "The more rebellious you are and the more you want to use this method to cause trouble, the more blocked the road ahead of you will be.

It’s not like we can’t do without you, the outlaws are much more talented than you, and they’re also more competitive and hardworking than you.”

Damn Vaco!

Although the outlaw gangsters are not afraid of competing with parallel importers, they are not afraid of being hated by them either.

But the warden went too far with this overwhelming hatred from heaven!

In this life, you never want to hear me call you boss!

As the saying goes, a word can wake up a dreamer.

Miles looked at his teammates, as if no one really cared about him...

He discovered that the Trail Blazers, who he thought traded him back for their starting point guard, valued him.

Until just now, he still held this idea.

For more than half a month, he only played in garbage time. He was very unhappy, but his idea was quite strange - the team wanted him to familiarize himself with the team's tactics first, but he felt that it was too shameful to play in garbage time.

Fight well.

Even if he plays in regular time now, he doesn't think about playing well, he just wants to go up and paddle, which makes the Trail Blazers regret it!

But after this weird idea was exposed and ridiculed by Liu Xiu, Miles suddenly saw the reality clearly and panicked.

The referee signaled that the intermission was over, and Miles, who was confused, followed several teammates on the court.

Originally, he wanted to just go up and paddle around casually, but now he felt that he had to play hard!

How to fight?

correct!

Quick flank attack with unlimited defense changes!

This, his little KG is so familiar!

…

The Trail Blazers fielded a combination of Flying Squirrel, Liu Xiu, Travis Outlaw, Darius Miles and Tianzun.

The Rockets fielded a combination of Francis, Mobley, Piakowsky, Maurice Taylor, and Cato.

At the beginning of the second quarter, the Rockets attacked first.

Francis receives the serve and advances.

Mobley directed his teammates to open up space.

As an all-around shooting guard, Mobley is the player who has sacrificed the most for the Rockets. In order to make room for teammates such as Yao Ming, Francis, Jim Jackson, Mark Jackson, etc., he has turned himself into a receiver this season.

With a ball-based shooting style, he has averaged 2.2 three-pointers per game so far this season, which has doubled from last season. The three-point shooting rate of 40.6% has also increased by more than 5 percentage points compared to last season.

With Mobley like this, Van Gundy Jr. is very comfortable coaching this season.

A big center who can shoot, a point guard who can score sharply, a shooting guard who can run to catch and shoot, a power forward who is strong in rushing, an all-around single player...

Little Van Gundy wanted to yell - Give me a better substitute and I can reach the finals! The total salary should not be 100 million, not 80 million, 7,000... No! 6,500 is fine...

He still couldn't yell...

On the court.

Francis came to the frontcourt, faced Liu Xiu's defense, and made a strong breakthrough!

Liu Xiu could use his strength to limit Francis' breakthrough, but it was impossible to lock him down.

Travis Outlaw's defense was in place and Francis scored the ball.

The ball came to Piakowsky on the wing, and the little flying squirrel made up for it. Piakowsky raised the ball and did not dare to put it down to make a jump shot. Mobley came to the receiving point in time, and Piakowsky

Sky quickly passed the ball...Myers intercepted the pass and swatted the ball away!

The little flying squirrel quickly grabbed the ball and turned Miles' chip into a steal.

Mobley reacted sharply and fouled the little flying squirrel. The referee determined that it was a regular foul. When Mobley fouled, there was a Rockets player who was closer to the Rockets basket than the little flying squirrel.

The Rockets' awareness of pressing the tempo, as opponents, the Trail Blazers admire the Rockets' ability in this regard.

Van Gundy did a good job of continuing the defensive discipline of his former coach Tomjanovich and labeling him an iron-blooded player.

But who could have imagined that the alliance would soon attack the iron-blooded style of play...

But what surprised the Trail Blazers players even more was Miles!

This little KG's supplementary defense is really interesting.

When the Trail Blazers attacked, there was no Yao Ming inside, so Liu Xiu fell into the low post and hit Francis with his back.

Francis lowered his center of gravity to prevent being run over and hit. He weighed 88 kilograms, which was pretty good, while his opponent weighed 95 kilograms.

Liu Xiu turned over and hit a jump shot!

Francis was feeling a bit envious and jealous at this time. The last time he played against the Trail Blazers, it had only been 40 days before Liu Xiu made this move!

This attack and defense fully demonstrated the Blazers' tactical strategy at the beginning of the second quarter.
To be continued...