Seeing that it was Yao Ming's time to play, Van Gundy quickly changed the lineup, trying to get the score back during the halftime break.

The Eagles have also begun to make substitutions. Coach Kruger seems a little desperate for this substitution. However, in the first half of the first quarter and the last time he played against the Rockets, it has been proven that when Yao Ming has sufficient physical fitness, he can usually

The defense couldn't stop him at all. When Ratliff was here, Yao Ming was smart enough to open up the space and play mid-range shots and reverse runs to the basket to catch and shoot. He couldn't stop him at all.

Unless the Hawks have Mutombo, the super defensive star of the late 1990s, and a top blue-collar power forward, they have a chance to defend against the combination of Yao Ming and Maurice Taylor.

Therefore, Coach Kruger can only give the unreliable defense developed by Liu Mang and Mike Woodson a try. He cannot just watch Yao Ming come back and eat away at the point difference! Yao Ming will definitely start to strengthen now that he comes back.

If the ball goes under the basket, then it will definitely have to be double-teamed. You can't just watch Yao Ming take advantage of it, otherwise the Rockets' offense will be revitalized again.

Liu Mang also went up with the mentality of giving it a try. Anyway, we just opened up a 10-point difference, so we can give it a try, and if it doesn't work, we'll talk about it later.

Liu Mang now understands why some people say that Yao Ming's inside teammates are bad in the future. If Yao Ming is on the court, his inside partners will look very good, because Yao Ming takes away the defense, and his inside teammates will look good, but Yao Ming is not there.

His inside teammates look as hot as they can be.

Mike Woodson called several players who were going to play with Liu Mang to draw tactics together. Liu Mang walked onto the court and twisted his waist in preparation. He was going to do something big next!

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The two teams began to rotate, and the Rockets put on their full lineup, hoping to chase points before the end of the second quarter.

Yao Ming is ready to kill everyone in the paint!

Although Ratliff or Kwame Brown are good at one-on-one defense, there is only one person. If Rasheed Wallace is not around, Yao Ming is very confident and can beat him! And he has also done a good job with Muhammad or Boozer.

The preparations for the flanking attack with Ratliff, anyway, that’s it!

However, Yao Ming saw that the Hawks' lineup was Liu Mang, Jason Terry, Prince, Raheem, and Ratliff.

This is a bit incomprehensible. Yao Ming knows that Rahim is very good at defense and can also defend against power forwards. It is also difficult to defend Maurice Taylor! Moreover, Yao Ming is confident that even if Rahim and Ratliff attack him together,

He can also directly dig in and dunk hard. When he played against the Pistons before, Ben Wallace and Bosh couldn't stop him.

Yao Ming only had one idea, thinking that the Hawks probably wanted to speed up the counterattack. He was confident that as long as he played more steadily on the offensive end, he could stop the Hawks' cavalry tactics and deny them a chance to grab rebounds and counterattack!

The timeout ends and the Rockets have the ball.

Francis advanced to the frontcourt and saw Liu Mang retreating to the free throw line to defend, so he stopped trying. He wanted to finish the game quickly and go home to figure out what happened!

Yao Ming relied on his strong lower body strength to trap Ratliff under the basket. Although Ratliff also had strong lower body strength, this time, he felt like he had met O'Neal. Although he did not have O'Neal's violent explosiveness, Yao Ming was very

Stable! Use static force to firmly block the position.

Francis lobs the ball to Yao Ming.

Although Yao Ming has a strength advantage, it is not huge. It was okay when he was stuck, but now he needs to fight desperately!

As soon as Yao Ming received the ball, he suddenly saw Liu Mang shrinking directly to the basket!

That position is not a position where the outside line doubles up on the inside line, but a position where two inside lines attack!

Yao Ming clearly felt that as soon as he knocked Ratliff away and turned around, Liu Mang would pounce on him to form a double attack, and it would be a double attack on the ball!

If it's two inside defenders, as long as it's not a combination like Rasheed Wallace and Ratliff, Yao Ming doesn't care so much, just just do it, but Liu Mang is so short, it's too easy to cut the ball!

Seeing Liu Mang retreating to that position, Francis immediately cut inside from the center. Yao Ming immediately passed the ball to Francis. Francis went straight to the basket. He felt that if he rushed like this, Liu Mang would not be able to stop him even if he was strong.

Not to mention Liu Mang, he started sprinting and rushed to the basket, even the center couldn't stop him!

But as soon as Francis reached the free throw line, he saw Raheem blocking in front of him. Just when Yao Ming was passing the ball, Raheem blocked him. At the same time, Ratliff began to move around Yao Ming.

Yao Ming was on the right edge of the three-second zone. This small distance was awkward. He did not have the ability to run back and get out of the way. Liu Mang switched to Maurice Taylor.

Francis immediately passed the ball to Maurice Taylor on the left, expecting his teammates to knock Liu Mang over and dunk directly!

Maurice Taylor received the ball a little outside the left side of the three-second zone. Seeing Liu Mang behind him, he felt that he finally had the opportunity to perform as coquettishly as he did in the first half of the first quarter!

It may take some effort to beat Raheem, but to beat that short guy who is over 1.9 meters tall, Maurice Taylor relied on Liu Mang to hit the ball on the ground and squeezed it hard. It was useless and was knocked over in the low post.

An opponent with such a big height difference who stood firm would definitely hit someone with the ball, so he squeezed.

When Maurice Taylor squeezed forward, he had already begun to imagine what action he would use to dunk. However, when he exerted his force on Liu Mang, he found that the opponent was like nailing to the floor and could not push forward at all!

Maurice Taylor didn't believe it and squeezed again, but he still couldn't squeeze!

As a power forward, Maurice Taylor has a strength of 83. Even if he has a weight advantage, he is at most on par with Raheem. But Liu Mang's current lower body strength is at the level of a true center with strong lower body strength.

Maurice Taylor blocked it!

Maurice Taylor couldn't squeeze, so he was surprised, and chose to turn around and cut in. He wanted to rely on his weight and height to deal with Liu Mang, but he couldn't squeeze in, so he turned around and suppressed the head office with his weight!

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Maurice Taylor turned around from the baseline and wanted to directly attack the basket for a layup. Don't expect to be domineering and play honestly.

Just when Maurice Taylor turned around to squeeze Liu Mang away, Liu Mang also judged that he would not be able to withstand the opponent's beating like this. However, his short height and light weight could also be turned into an advantage! Liu Mang looked at

When Maurice Taylor turned around and pressed on him, he suddenly took a step back and withdrew his chair to defend!

Maurice Taylor didn't expect this at all. It was too late to take back the force of his pressing force and his upper body had already moved. He lost his center of gravity and fell to the ground!

The ball goes out of bounds, the Eagles baseline ball!

Everyone at the scene was shocked. Liu Mang was able to defend Maurice Taylor, an opponent with a height difference of 13 centimeters and a weight difference of 15 kilograms, one-on-one in the low post!

Even though the Eagles players had blind confidence in Liu Mang, when Mike Woodson deployed this defense, they all felt it was too unreliable. However, based on their trust in Liu Mang, they felt that Liu Mang must have some tricks up his sleeve.

, so he executed it with all his strength, but he didn't expect that Liu Mang would defend head-on and resist hard like that, and then he really defended Maurice Taylor until he could only go to the baseline and rely on his weight to suppress him, and then Liu Mang withdrew his chair and fell down!

At least the Eagles had some tactical arrangements and were mentally prepared, but the Rockets were going crazy, especially Francis. He didn't expect that he couldn't handle Liu Mang, and Maurice Taylor didn't just pass either!

The big fat guy from T.N.T who was broadcasting the game was also frightened. How did he feel that this scene was so familiar?

But this guy, with his size, is not the type to be able to defend like this!

Taking advantage of the dead ball, Coach Kruger followed the plan and replaced Boozer when he could on the offensive end. Boozer was replaced.

Originally, if there was Rasheed Wallace, there wouldn't be such trouble, but now there isn't.

The Eagles attacked, Liu Mang went to serve and passed the ball to Jason Terry.

Jason Terry advanced with the ball. After Liu Mang ran to the frontcourt, he did not ask for the ball in singles or open up the space. Instead, he ran inside and asked for the ball in the low post on the right!

Boozer took a step inside the 45-degree three-point line on the right side and pulled Yao Ming out. Rahim went to the left corner to open up space. Prince went to the right corner to open up space. Jason Te

Liu Mang lobbed the ball to Liu Mang, who stuck Francis in the three-second zone.

Liu Mang has low-post ability, which he showed off a little bit last season. When he played with the Nets this year, he even used it as a regular offensive method. The Rockets were not particularly surprised.

Francis has excellent physical fitness and has played against Kobe many times. Compared with perimeter defense, Francis did a surprisingly good job in low post defense. The Rockets players were quite relieved that Francis had to defend Liu Mang in the low post alone.

However……

Liu Mang received the ball and observed the position between himself and the basket. He stabilized it for two seconds, waited until his teammates had completely opened up the space, swatted the ball, and bumped directly into Francis. Then he turned left and took the ball away.

Swinging towards the basket with his right hand, one foot got stuck on the path that Francis was trying to move to the left. He directly used the strength of his waist and abdomen to push Francis away. He forced his way into the inside and caught the ball with both hands. He took off on the spot and jumped high with both hands.

Smash the ball into the basket!

Everyone at the scene was dumbfounded. When did Francis become so good? Both offense and defense were reduced to rubbish!
Chapter completed!