basketball talent system

Chapter 414 The Annual Drama in the West

After the first three games between the two teams in the East, the Pacers temporarily lead the Cavaliers with a big score of 2:1.The story on the west side is much more tortuous than that on the east side. After losing to the Warriors in the first game, the Rockets were even more motivated in the second game and played very well. , Although the Warriors have the advantage at home, they still haven't been able to make the Rockets suffer a losing streak.

At the beginning of the game, the Warriors had the upper hand. In the first quarter, although the Rockets gained some points, they still fell behind because of Stephen Curry's superb performance. The Rockets scored 28 points from top to bottom. The efficiency cannot be said to be low, but Curry is not called for nothing. He took 7 shots from outside the three-point line and hit 4 of them. Two plus one, scored 15 points in a single quarter, leading the Warriors to lead the Rockets 36:28 in the first quarter.

However, if this game was spoiled by Curry in this way, it would not be called bizarre twists and turns. Not long after the start of the second quarter, the situation on the Warriors' side took a turn for the worse. The Rockets succeeded in attacking again and again, and the point difference was quickly approaching in just a few minutes.And because the Rockets are more dominant inside, the Warriors' second offense is relatively less, and the Rockets rely on the second offense in a single quarter to have 5 more shots than their opponents. After the game, the Rockets returned their opponents 27:19, and the Warriors scored no more than 20 points in a single quarter, which is also a very rare thing.

After the two teams played 55:55 in the first half, they both began to seek breakthroughs in the second half. The breakthrough point for the Warriors was the Rockets' power forward position. Using Green's ability to open up space, Josh Smith was drawn out. , Let Curry and Thompson attack Howard who has no teammates to cover, but the effect is not very good. Although Howard succeeded in getting 2 fouls, but because Howard only fouled once in the first half, these two fouls have not yet Let the Rockets hurt their muscles.

However, the offense of the Rockets also fell into a bottleneck. Harden went crazy in the second quarter and scored 12 points in a single quarter. Howard used his rebounding ability to support himself in the paint. With 5 offensive rebounds in a single quarter, he got back 3 points for the Rockets, allowing the Rockets to close the score even as Curry began to soar three-pointers again. Hold on tight.In the end, they were only two points behind the Warriors and entered the final quarter.

In the last quarter, the two teams played very entangled, as if the roles of the first quarter were reversed. This time it became the Warriors blooming everywhere, but in the same way, the two cores of the Rockets started Going crazy, Howard continued to put pressure on the inside, so that the Warriors' defense could not care about others, and Harden's chase three-pointer also made the Warriors very uncomfortable. Until the last half minute, the Warriors and the Rockets tied. At 96:96, Howard had already contributed 8 points in a single quarter, and Harden had already contributed 10 points.

The Warriors had the ball. Curry took control of the ball and came to the frontcourt. He slowly pressed the time and waited until the offensive clock was only 10 seconds before starting. He used Green's pick-and-roll to directly pass Harden who was defending him. Under Ariza's supplementary defense, he hit the ball with a small throw, 98:96, and in the end only left the Rockets with 7 seconds of attack time.

It's a pity that the story didn't end here. Just when the fans at Oracle Stadium were preparing to celebrate the victory, Harden stood up again, received a sideline serve from his teammates, first passed the ball through Ariza's hand, and then Use your own running position to run around the crowd to catch the ball, and then make a decisive three-pointer. The light is on and the ball is scored. Harden kills the game with a three-pointer. 99:98, the Rockets won in the away game Tough victory.

It will be their third game back at the Toyota Center since then, a day after the Pacers beat the Cavaliers at Conseco Arena, compared to the distance between Indiana and Ohio State, The distance between San Francisco and Texas is going to be farther. Coupled with the xenophobic nature of Texas, it is impossible for the Warriors to borrow an arena for training here.

In the third game, the two teams still played very fiercely, but the problem of the Rockets was exposed again, that is, they had too few people available. It was only when Howard played for more than 40 minutes that they struggled to win. Although the physical strength of the two main players in this game has basically recovered, the Rockets' benches have not been able to give as much as they did in the previous game. How does the modern combination help? After the first three quarters, the Rockets fell behind by 8 points and entered the final quarter.

In the last quarter, the Rockets once chased the point difference to only two points, but the shameless Warriors started to hack Huo at this time. Howard's free throw was indeed a bit horrible. In such a crucial last quarter In the game, his free throw percentage was only a poor 45%, and he made 4 of [-] free throws.The result is naturally that the momentum of the Rockets chasing points was contained by the opponent, and in the end they could only swallow the bitter fruit of the home defeat helplessly.

After the whole game, in fact, the two cores of the Rockets have performed very well. Harden scored 38 points, Howard scored 29 points, and Josh Smith also contributed 15 points. Good enough, but the rest of the team only scored 25 points in total, which is a bit embarrassing. You must know that the rest of the players shared 35 shots, but only scored 25 points. This is the Rockets game The most critical reason for failure.

While the Western Warriors took the lead 2:1, they also snatched back the lost home court advantage. They will continue to play at the Toyota Center in the next game, but it is estimated that a role player of the Rockets will have a hard time these two days .After the game, Ye Xuan also called to comfort Howard and Harden. Unlike Howard's dull look, Harden was very open-minded. After exchanging pleasantries with Ye Xuan, he also wished Ye Xuan and the others in advance Being able to enter the finals, they don't seem to worry about their own prospects at all.This made Ye Xuan not know whether to say Harden was optimistic or cynical.

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