Harden took the ball and shook it in front of the three people, tearing it to one side. At this time, Josh Smith took the opportunity to cut into the basket. Harden dropped the basketball and Josh Smith attacked the basket, which caused Kelly to have a foul. ≤

At this time, the Rockets completely played the team's basketball, which caused the Pelicans to foul. Josh Smith made both free throws.

The Rockets played team basketball in a row, but the Pelicans still didn't react, and Van Gundy didn't think there was anything wrong with Li Feng's two matches against Nick Johnson.

When the Pelicans came over again, Van Gundy finally realized something was wrong. The Rockets' defense was obviously letting go of Li Feng.

Ariza was just in front of him and there was no support at all. This should not be the defense that the Rockets should play. Then the other players watching the Rockets looked at their own people tightly.

Van Gundy understood this time. The Rockets were going to release Li Feng, and the Rockets had such a courage to release Li Feng.

Van Gundy was also shocked by his conclusion, but in the current situation, the Rockets are indeed letting Li Feng attack.

At this time, the focus of the game was on Li Feng. If Li Feng could beat the Rockets to the point of suffering, the Rockets' tactics would have failed. However, if Li Feng's offense was not strong or the effect was average, it would not shake McHale's determination.

Li Feng brought the ball at this time. When he saw that his teammates were blocked, he could only attack by himself when he got the ball.

He came up to resist Ariza and walked in. Generally, other teams would double-team, but today the Rockets just didn't double-team, allowing Li Feng and Ariza to fight to the death.

Although Ariza does not have the qualifications of a star, but her physical condition is quite good. Although she cannot stop Li Feng, it also causes a lot of trouble for Li Feng. It depends on where Ariza keeps putting pressure on Li Feng and harassing Li Feng.

Li Feng fought to the death with Ariza, turned around and jumped over and scored two points.

Li Feng scored another two points, but it was not as easy as before. Li Feng used to play Nick Johnson without any effort, but now he has taken a lot of effort to play Ariza to score these two points.

It was quite difficult for Li Feng to score two points, but the Rockets played and quickly played a high pick-and-roll. Priginho came over and stopped and jumped. The rebound flew out and was actually grabbed by Mortiunas at the basket. Mortiunas, who grabbed the rebound, calmly scored a layup.

Compared to his offensive ability on land, Henson still couldn't compare to Motiyunas, he was just flying higher than the opponent.

The Rockets rely on the team's continuous scoring, and the Pelicans played again and changed their tricks.

Li Feng played pick-and-roll with Kelly from a high position. This tactic was very successful and difficult to defend. However, at this time, the Rockets' defense focused on one-man defense. In this way, Kelly still had no offensive opportunity after the pick-and-roll, and the offensive opportunity was still here for Li Feng. Li Feng took the opportunity to jump up and jump shot.

As a result, Li Feng was not lucky this time and missed the jump shot.

Li Feng succeeded several times and finally failed again.

This time, Van Gundy was a little worried. He deeply understood that once Li Feng missed a jump shot, several jump shots would miss it next.

Now is the most critical period, and it will be very dangerous if Li Feng fails to hit the Pelicans.

Sure enough, once Li Feng missed the shot, the Rockets immediately came over to play a combination of offense and defense, and Priginho took the ball from the bottom corner and threw a three-pointer.

The Rockets' tactics have initially shown success. Just let Li Feng be alone, no matter how powerful Li Feng is, he will be alone. He wants him to do it alone every time he attacks, and even Superman will be exhausted.

At this time, Li Feng naturally felt something. He came over and passed the basketball to Kelly. Kelly also forced the ball to Josh Smith once with the ball.

As a result, Josh Smith also made a quick step and had a good defense. He missed the shots. Kelly's singles ability was still poor and he missed the shots.

The Pelicans' offense failed again, and at this time the Rockets came over and created Knight's foul again.

In this way, the Pelicans fell into trouble. The Rockets either succeeded in attacking or caused fouls.

On the other hand, the Pelicans were getting more and more at a loss. The two teams played for a while and reached the second half of the second quarter.

The Rockets have already caught up with the score, and the two teams have tied the score to 53-53.

At this time, everyone also saw the Rockets' movements, just letting go of Li Feng and the rest of them defended desperately.

Under such circumstances, Li Feng felt a little bad in the second quarter and the team was in danger immediately.

At this time, Li Feng also realized that the burden on his body was heavy, and he actually took on most of the offenses of the entire team.

This is definitely a heavy burden. Under such circumstances, Li Feng scored desperately and kept breaking through the basket in order to create a foul and hold the score.

Li Feng relied on the free throw line to stabilize the score at the end of the first half.

In this way, in the midfield, the two teams played 59-59, with high scores, but the game was not good-looking.

The Pelicans saw Li Feng rushing in alone, and the Rockets were also keeping their fights, and it was not until the end of the game to close.

In the midfield, the reporter interviewed Josh Smith, who performed very actively in the second quarter. Josh Smith usually doesn't score much, but today he unexpectedly scored 15 points, and it's already a lot of 15 points in the first half.

So the reporter came to interview him immediately, and Josh Smith was also very excited at this time.

Players with Josh Smith's style and personality are still very popular with Rockets fans. He was interviewed on the sidelines and the fans were cheering.

The Pelicans took advantage of the first quarter of today's game, but the Rockets immediately tied the score with the second quarter.

At this time, the foursome were also excited to comment. Of course, the excitement must be Barkley and Kenny Smith.

At this moment, Barkley said:

"The Pelicans' lineup is still too weak. Once Li Feng encounters difficulties, their scoring efficiency will immediately decline. The lack of depth in the lineup is the Pelicans' biggest weakness."

Kenny Smith also said at this time:

"The Pelicans do lack offensive firepower. Compared with the Rockets, they are really thicker and thicker."

Just as the two of them said this, Reggie Miller said unconvincedly:

"Even if the Rockets are thicker than the Pelicans, they haven't seen them leading the team with eight people to play."

Weber also said at this time:

"Li Feng's shooting was not good in the first half. If there was a slight improvement, it would definitely not be like this."

The four of them had arguing again without saying a few words. When domestic fans saw that the Pelicans were still ahead in the first quarter, they were tied all of a sudden.

The Yu family said:

"Guide Zhang, in the second quarter, you can see that the Pelicans' offense is not very good. Except for Li Feng, almost no one else has performed."

When the Yu family asked this, Coach Zhang immediately said:

"Of course, there is no performance. When playing other teams, Li Feng is the one who opens the gap as a breakthrough, and then the other Pelicans players take action. This way, their efficiency is naturally high. But today the Rockets let Li Feng go and let Li Feng play alone. If others don't have a good chance, they will naturally not have a good performance. During this period, Li Feng's touch is average, and the team is slowly caught up."

"However, although Li Feng felt average, he did not score less. Li Feng scored 23 points in the first half with free throws and scored 23 points in the first half. Li Feng's score was already high enough."

"Under this situation, other Pelicans players need to work harder. Just a little bit, because relying on Li Feng's play, both teams have reached a draw. As long as someone stands up a little, the Pelicans will lead."

Coach Zhang is looking forward to the performance of other Pelicans players. Pelicans fans are also looking forward to the performance of the team at this time, because it is obvious that the Pelicans need to stand up alone outside Li Feng.

At this time, Kelly is more suitable for assisting. Henson can only play in the air, and Gasol can't play hard. At this moment, he can only count on Al Jefferson.

Al Jefferson is always a little out of tune with the team's rhythm. He plays a lot and the rhythm is a little slow. However, when the team encounters help, he still needs to use Al Jefferson.

At this time in the locker room, Van Gundy focused his tactics on Al Jefferson.

He designed several offensive plans for Al Jefferson in a row, and asked Al Jefferson and Li Feng to play more.

The Pelicans are going to play Al Jefferson's card at this time, but the Rockets are going to play Harden's card.

Although Harden got angry several times in the first half, he kept fighting and was not in a state of fighting.

But when the winner needs to be decided in the second half, the killer Harden should come out to kill.

After the halftime break, the two teams returned to the court, and the Pelicans' ball was the opening. At the midfield, the Pelicans' offensive plan had been decided, so at the beginning of the second half, the Pelicans came and played Al Jefferson immediately.

Cory gave the basketball to Li Feng on the wing, and Li Feng gave the basketball to Al Jefferson 45 degrees on the side.

Li Feng ran away from behind him and took the defender away. In this way, Al Jefferson was completely one-on-one with Asik in a short period of time.

Before the game, Al Jefferson said that he was not inferior to anyone, and this was not a random talk. Al Jefferson really felt that he could compare with any number four. What he was looking for now was the timing and the support of his teammates.

Now that Van Gundy puts this important task on his shoulders, he is still very excited.

At this time, he took the ball up, his steps were very solid, and he was skillfully controlling the ball, and he pressed it in. At this time, Harden, who was online, came to harass him, and he paused flexibly, but did not allow Harden to harass him successfully.

Just as Harden retracted, Al Jefferson suddenly pressed towards the middle. Asik's center of gravity moved here, he suddenly turned over and shot towards the bottom line and threw the basketball into the Rockets' basket.

Al Jefferson came back from the opening game and actually ate Asik. Everyone was shocked.

McHale was missing the ball, and he was first dissatisfied. His idea was to block the rest of the Pelicans and let Li Feng play alone, kill Li Feng, but now once Al Jefferson played it, he made a hole in his tactical idea, and this tactical idea was no longer valid.

Al Jefferson scored two points and immediately shouted, and he was excited. The offensive feeling was completely found.

The Rockets lost their points and immediately pushed them over quickly. The Rockets' half-court tactics were indeed exquisite.

Once the offense was launched, the team started running layer by layer. During the running layer by layer, the Rockets came over and passed the basketball to Harden.

Harden held the ball on the wing, shook it slightly, dribbled to the left, then pulled it up and threw it at a middle distance.

Harden's offense is very simple, and Li Feng is desperate to save. However, the opponent's rhythm and shooting arc control are all first-class.

When Li Feng saved, Harden had already completed the attack, and the basketball fell into the Pelicans' basket with a "swish!"

Harden kept playing in the first half, but once the firepower was released in the second half, it was indeed unstoppable.

Li Feng has advantages over Harden in many places, but he is not as delicate as Harden's skill. He clearly watches the opponent's attack, but he cannot complete the defense.

The Rockets activated Harden and scored two points. The Pelicans immediately chased their butt and hit them back.

Corey got the ball at this time and wanted to force a breakthrough, but was almost stolen by Corey Brewer. His physical fitness was indeed much worse.

He couldn't play, so he could only pass the basketball to Li Feng. When Li Feng took the ball, he saw that the Rockets still used Ariza to defend himself alone.

Just when Li Feng wanted to play, he saw Al Jefferson suddenly running out of the basket and reached out to Li Feng for the ball.

When Li Feng saw that Al Jefferson seemed to be very active today, he quickly gave the basketball to this big man.

Al Jefferson is indeed a little excited today. This is the playoffs. If he plays well, his status will definitely be improved and he will play in this series well. He can even become one of the top inside players in the West.

So at this time, he really wanted to fight Asik. He took the ball and turned to face Asik, waved his hands, and immediately forced a step towards the bottom line, leading Asik over, and then he suddenly turned around and a small hook with his left hand.
To be continued...