Xinhua News Agency, Washington, May 6 (reporter Wang Jiyi) the semi-finals between the east and west of the US league continued on the 6th. In the West, Houston Rockets defended the champion Golden State Warriors at home with 112:108 Rick, chase the total score to 2:2. In the eastern competition, Milwaukee Bucks beat Boston Celtics again away and got the match point with a total score of 3:1.
In the fourth battle between the Rockets and the Warriors, both stars Harden and Durant once again staged a split battle. The former scored 38 points and 10 rebounds, while the latter scored 34 points and 7 rebounds, harden won both personal data and team results.
In the first quarter, both teams were impatient, with many mistakes and low attack efficiency. In the second quarter, the Rockets took the lead in stabilizing. With a 17:4 scoring climax, they led by 61:54 in the first half. In the third quarter, the Warriors launched a counterattack under the leadership of Durant and Curry. A wave of 11:0 smackdown quickly approached the score. Fortunately, the Rockets scored a lot of points, again, the difference was extended to about 10 points.
In the fourth quarter, the Warriors increased their speed as a whole. Durant, Curry and Green scored a lot of points in the fast attack. However, the three-point goal on which Warriors rely for fame is not efficient. Rockets rely on active defense and fighting for the rebound in the front court, it still maintains a leading edge of about 10 points for most of the time. However, in the last three minutes of the game, the Warriors gradually approached the score, and there was still a chance to draw the score shoot behind the arc. However, Durant and Curry hit the iron one after another, and the Rockets finally won 4 points.
The rest of the rockets performed well, of which Gordon scored 20 points, while Tucker, who had not contributed much in the previous games, played a role and scored 17 points and 10 rebounds. In addition, Paul scored 13 points and Rivers contributed 10 points as a substitute. In terms of warriors, Curry made efforts in the second half. The whole game scored 30 points and forward Green scored 15 points.
In the eastern semi-final, anttokunbo, the “alphabet elder brother”, was still the leading actor. He scored 39 points and 16 rebounds to help the Bucks beat the Celtics 113:101 in the fourth battle. After winning this battle, the stag was only one step away from the long-lost Eastern finals. The last time the stag entered the East was traced back to the distant 2001. However, after the Celtics fell at home for two consecutive times, the qualifying situation was already in danger.
In the first contest between the two teams, anttokunbo once played an abnormal role. However, in the following three games, anttokunbo and the stag went down three cities. Team coach budenholze praised him very much. He said: “anttokunbo is hard to defend, and his contributions at both ends of attack and defense are huge, and his desire to win is also very strong.”
In this game, the stag substitute scored more than 32 points, while the opponent’s substitute scored only 7 points. Budenholzer said: “If the stag main forces anttokunbo and Middleton are sitting on the bench for a long time, then our opponents should pay attention.”