The Rockets' half-court offense is basically all from Yao Ming at the low post. When Yao Ming encounters a front or double-team defense, the ball will be too strong to Scola, who is on the weak side.

Scola has good singles and support skills, and usually guarantees that Yao Ming will pay the corresponding price when encountering key defenses.

When neither of these points can be opened, McGrady's personal singles will come in handy.

However, in order to help Jefferson take care of Yao Ming, Li Rong chose to half-leave Scola most of the time.

His athletic ability is very mediocre, and most of the time Li Rong can have time to go over and make up for defense.

But he ignored one point. As the game progresses, the players will sweat more and more.

So Li Rong was in a tragedy...

When Scola is doing the movement, he will shook his head left and right.

Just like a naughty naughty child constantly pouring water on your face while you were taking a nap, Li Rong felt deeply offended.

"Coach, can you let the Argentinian turn off the faucet on his head? This is not the site of the pool party!" Li Rong came to Adelman when he passed the ball and complained to him.

Adelman pretended to see nothing and spread his hands at him: "I don't know what you rookie want to say?"

"Then do you know what will happen next?" Li Rong asked angrily.

"I don't know anything!"

"You will see the waterfall!"

Adelman also figured out what the waterfall meant, so Li Rong dribbled the ball and used Jefferson's pick-and-roll to shoot another three-pointer after halftime.

"Swish!" The ball flew steadily into the basket.

"Do you know what the waterfall means now?" Li Rong made the three-pointer and turned around and shouted at Adelman.

"It's just a little splash!" Adelman shrugged indifferently. If you have the ability, you can use this three-pointer to kill me with this kind of dribble.

"Wow!" Director Zhang's surprise voice came from the TV, "Another three-pointer blocked the breakout! Although this goal was scored, it was unreasonable. You just passed the half, and the game was too simple."

"It's a little simpler," said Yu Jia, "but there is no other good way to attack the Timberwolves position now. Apart from Jefferson's low-post singles, there should be only two pick-and-roll cooperation."

"If the Timberwolves fight like this, you can't guarantee the hit rate, it's going to be troublesome!"

Yao Ming finally received the ball in the Rockets' offense this time, and he turned over and made a mid-range shot against Jefferson.

"Beautiful, this ball has to be played like this, and the Rockets have to hand the ball to Yao Ming..." Zhang Weiping was halfway through his speech, and saw Li Rong make another long shot that was one step away from the three-point line. "Hu throw it... Oh, it's really in!"

As soon as the ball enters, the volume in the center of the target reaches a new height.

The DJ on the scene also extended the volume: "Three~points~ball!"

"Do you think the water volume is not large enough?" Li Rong asked as he ran past Adelman.

Adelman tilted his head and didn't want to pay attention to him, so he called a timeout to the referee on the sidelines.

17 to 12, half a quarter has passed, and the Timberwolves has established a 5-point lead. Li Rong scored 3 three-pointers alone and has scored 9 points.

"We can't let this guy take the outside line anymore!" Adelman said, "When you go online to defend, you must grab the position and leave the open space in the bottom corner for them. The rookie's outside line shooting is not very accurate!"

McGrady knew that Adelman was talking about Brewer and nodded to show that she understood.

After the timeout, McGrady also used Yao Ming's pick-and-roll to shoot a three-pointer.

His shot curve is very flat, making it difficult to tell whether the ball can be scored.

The ball hit the outside of the inner edge of the basket, tumbling upwards, and then fell into the basket.

McGrady didn't seem to be very excited after scoring the goal, and just simply hit Yao Ming, who was pick-and-rolling, with a simple hit on his palm.

The Rockets' defense changes were expected. Li Rong faced the opponent's arc top double-team and distributed the ball to Brewer at the bottom corner.

Brewer decisively made an outside shot after receiving the ball, but unfortunately he missed the iron.

"Cory," Li Rong said to Brewer during the process of returning to defense, "If you don't feel good, I think you can dribble and kill the ball inside."

"OK!"

Unfortunately, Brewer's ability to hold the ball is not very good. His advantage lies in his ability to find the ability to attack the basket during counterattack.

The Timberwolves fell into scoring drought for the rest of the first quarter, and scored two sports goals with only Jefferson's low post.

Fortunately, the Rockets' success rate is also very low, and the score difference between the two teams is always tight.

After the first quarter, the Timberwolves led their opponent by 2 points 24 to 22.

Because Li Rong had to lead a substitute, he almost played the first quarter. It was not until the last round that the Rockets had little time left in offensive, and Whitman replaced him with a rest.

The rotation lineups of both sides were very impressive in the early stage of the second quarter. Rockets rookie Carl Landry broke the Timberwolves inside and scored 7 points alone.

However, the Timberwolves' firepower in the rotation lineup has also increased as Randy Foye's comeback rotation lineup. He and McCantz scored 10 points, once again establishing a leading advantage of more than 5 points for the team.

However, after both sides changed their main lineups, the Rockets once again recovered the point difference.

Li Rong only made a mid-range shot under the opponent's strict defense in this quarter, scoring 2 points.

At the end of the half, the Timberwolves temporarily led the Rockets by 1 point 47 to 46.

"From this half game, we can see that the Rockets' hard strength is much stronger than the Timberwolves," Zhang Weiping commented. "Especially for defense, the Rockets' defense is very targeted. Li Rong didn't get a mobile phone in this quarter, and passed it to his outside teammates. His teammates don't have much personal offensive ability, but Jefferson is indeed good. He has already got a double-double in the halftime against Yao Yao."

"Yes!" Yu Jia looked down at the technical statistics, "Jefferson scored 16 points and 10 rebounds in the first half, and there were 3 steals."

"Yes," Zhang Weiping nodded, "These three steals were obtained when they were guarding Yao Ming in front of the front. I haven't watched the Timberwolves game much before and don't know much about this young player. Today, I look at it a little bit like the shadow of Olajuwon in the past."

"Jefferson's low footsteps are indeed beautiful," Yu Jia agreed, "Yao Da is a little unable to keep up."

"Actually, it can't be said that I can't keep up," Zhang Weiping defended Yao Ming, "The Rockets' defensive strategy is to let Yao Ming protect the penalty area. Jefferson has a certain ability to shoot at mid- and long distances. Yao Ming can't always follow him. If you go out with him, there will be no one to protect him. Scola is only 2.03 meters, not as good as Li Ronggao. When the draft was first drafted, the Rockets really should have chosen Li Rong."
Chapter completed!