Tang Shuai's breakthrough was very threatening. The two of them got mostly opportunities to take open positions, which also made the Clippers' offensive success rate quite high, especially Griffin. Although the injury limited his athletic ability, it actually improved his mid-range stability a lot, and he scored frequently in-game scored.

However, the score on the field has never been widened. The Rockets are still the main player Harden as always. Harden plays very smartly and knows that Pierce's defense cannot keep up, so he switches defense with Ariza in a different way. This approach makes his performance on the offensive end very efficient. As long as the Clippers tie the team, he quickly passes the ball. The other four Rockets players play three Clippers players, and the success rate is also good.

18 to 18, the two sides fought against each other in the first half of the first quarter. The score was very anxious.

The Clippers quickly made substitution adjustments, replacing Pierce and Griffin with Josh Smith and Booker.

The Rockets also replaced Howard with Beasley.

Beasley's experience this season can be said to be a legend. In the first half of the NBA season, he also played for the CBA Shandong team and won the CBA regular season MVP. When the CBA season ended, he was immediately recruited by the Rockets.

In recent years, CBA foreign players have become commonplace in playing in the NBA. They are nicknamed "CBA leveling return" by fans. The most well-known foreign player Hudson of Liaoning team. Although these players have been fighting in the CBA, most of them are soy sauce when they go to the NBA. They are basically eliminated after playing for half a season.

However, Beasley successfully made a comeback this time. After being recruited by the Rockets, he quickly became the Rockets' bench and became the sixth man after a few games. He scored nearly 15 points per game with a shooting rate of more than 50%. He didn't play much time, but his scoring efficiency was surprisingly high.

It was his outstanding performance in the regular season that made the Rockets head coach Bickstaff trust him very much, and it was his magical performance that allowed the Rockets to win the game in the fourth game.

As soon as Beasley came up, Harden made a pick-and-roll with him, then broke the ball and gave it to him. He jumped directly from the free throw line from a step outside, and made a two-pointer and entered.

This is better than Morris than Morris. As an inside player, he can cut in and out like Morris and pull to the middle distance to shoot.

Beasley was a big winner in college and beat Westbrook and Love in the draft to be the second-tier pick. He still has strength, but he also has many weaknesses, and defense is one of them.

Tang Shuai also knew this, so when he took the ball to the frontcourt, he directly signaled Smith to take the position to play Bisley alone.

Smith is much stronger than Bisley in both size and strength. As soon as he catches the ball, Bisley is pushed back.

But Smith's football quotient is indeed quite average. When he saw that he had an advantage, he didn't look at his teammate's running position, he directly chose to play hard, pressing Beasley to walk down the basket.

Back-playing is a scoring method with extremely high success rate and strong lethality. In the league, there are fewer and fewer players themselves to pay attention to this technical training. The main reason is the change in basketball style, and inside players are becoming more and more flexible. This leads to the speed of double-teaming and assisting defense much faster than before.

Smith soon encountered the Rockets' inside defense, and Capela raised her hands and came up.

It was not until Capela came up that Smith wanted to pass the ball, but Capela held up his hands and he couldn't pass it at once. After he played too deeply, his teammates on the outside were also cut off. In desperation, he had to choose to make a backward jump shot.

With a "bang", Smith turned around and jumped out of the basket. His strength was his athletic ability, and this tilt was obviously not his strength.

Tang Shuai was also a little helpless. If Griffin was present at this point, he would definitely be accurate at one shot. Smith's ability was still relatively poor.

The Rockets grabbed the rebound, and Harden broke through one-stop and rushed to the frontcourt. He forced a layup regardless of defense, causing Booker to make a defensive foul.

The fans at the scene were booing.

Harden walked onto the free throw line.

Taking advantage of Harden's free throw, Kassel called Tang Shuai to his side.

"Score, you have to break through and score, Howard goes down, the Rockets' inside defense is not good, you have to break through and score more points." Kassel said bluntly.

Tang Shuai nodded. In fact, after Smith failed to play so hard, he knew that it would not work, and it was time to stand up and score.

Harden made two free throws, and the Rockets led by 4 points 22-18.

Bickstaff's face was full of joy. If he continued to play at the current pace, the Rockets had a high probability of winning the Battle of Tianwang Mountain. Once he won this game, it would mean he had a home advantage and he would play in Houston in the next game. Then advancing was basically a foregone conclusion.

"The Clippers still have no choice but to use Michael (referring to Beasley). He is the biggest gain of the Rockets this season, and it may also be the biggest x-factor of whether the Rockets can advance." Rick Barry analyzed in the comment seat.

"The Clippers' score behind doesn't count." Mike Smith is the home commentator of the Clippers and speaks naturally to the home team.

"The Clippers' scoring points are concentrated on Blake and Paul, but they are injured and the other is older. The playing time is limited. Look at these two rounds, the Clippers have no offensive points, and the score is being pulled apart bit by bit." Barry, like the outside media, does not seem to be optimistic about the Clippers.

"But Tang..."

"Don? He's too young!" Before Smith finished speaking, Barry interrupted him directly. "It was a mistake for the Clippers to let him control the team. In the last game in Houston, he couldn't control the ball too much. Although he scored a lot, the rhythm was completely messy. But now, Blake and Paul are out of the field and he won't take action when he wants him to score!"

Smith looked at the famous man in surprise.

Barry noticed Smith's gaze and realized that it was at the Clippers' home court. What he said was so direct and inappropriate, and then added: "I mean Don has not learned how to control the rhythm of the game. This is the most important trait of becoming an excellent point guard. He also needs to play to accumulate experience."

Just as Barry was commenting, Tang Shuai still pushed the ball into the frontcourt. After that, he immediately asked Smith for a pick-and-roll and made an additional gesture to ask Smith to disassemble the ball.

Smith is tall and big, and the quality of the pick-and-roll is still very good. The pick-and-roll step inside the three-point line blocked Beverly.

Tang Shuai's defender was instantly replaced by Beasley.

Tang Shuai suddenly swayed with a cross step, and the Ai exclusive OSover exclusive package was instantly activated.

Beasley wanted to retreat to the defense, but immediately found that Tang Shuai was filled with fake moves at the moment of starting up. He couldn't tell which direction Tang Shuai was going to break through.

Tang Shuai made two consecutive cross steps, and the Street Ball King's exclusive bag allowed him to fully exert the power of Iverson's rossover bag. The changing steps drove his body, and his whole person turned into a sharp arrow full of strings.

But Beasley didn't know which direction the arrow was going to shoot.

Tang Shuai suddenly moved, and he accelerated and broke through to the right.

Beasley's center of gravity was unstable. Before he could come back to his senses, Tang Shuai had already rushed past him.

Too fast! Too sudden!

After the breakthrough, Tang Shuai was very fast. Before Capela's assisting defense came up, he just picked the basket and scored.

The fans at the scene were in an uproar.

Bickstaff's eyes widened. In the previous round of competition, although Tang Shuai's breakthrough had a certain deterrent effect, it was not at the same level as in front of him! Although he knew that Beasley's defensive ability was not very good, the dazzling breakthrough made him dazed, not to mention that this sudden moment, ordinary players could not react at all!

In fact, it was not just Bickstaff, but even Kassel and Billups were stunned. They knew Tang Shuai's breakthrough ability very well. It was not bad, but he didn't have the ability in front of him. This was simply a qualitative leap!
Chapter completed!