The NBA regular season competition continues, the Rockets go to the away to challenge the Bucks, before the game the Rockets won 5 consecutive wins, ranked eighth in the fiercely competitive West, the Bucks are also in good shape, the past 6 games have won 5 wins and 1 loss, ranking has reached the second place in the East, second only to the Green Army, which has won 14 consecutive wins at home.
At the beginning of the game, Lillard played an inexplicable personal offensive state, shooting 5 of 6 in a single quarter, scoring 15 points, 3 rebounds, 5 assists and 2 steals in a single quarter, leading the Rockets by 5 points at 33-28 at the end of the first quarter.
In the second quarter, the Bucks continued their hot state, and the Rockets were also in good shape, but there was a significant gap in the level of stars, and the team's margin for error was extremely low, and the difference was stretched to 11 points by the Bucks at halftime.
The two teams fought a tug-of-war around the 10-point difference, and the Rockets approached the point difference many times, but they were never able to turn the situation around, and finally the Rockets lost to the Bucks 119-128 and ended their five-game winning streak.
For the Bucks, Brother Alphabet played 39 minutes, shooting 10-of-22 and getting a big double-double of 26 points, 17 rebounds and 3 assists.
With this performance, the total number of career rebounds of the Bucks reached 7,165, surpassing the legendary superstar Abdul-Jabbar to become the Bucks' all-time rebounding leader.
In doing so, he became the Bucks' all-time leading scorer, assists and rebounding leader, and also became the fourth player in NBA history to do so, alongside Jordan (Bulls), Garnett (Timberwolves) and James (Cavaliers).
Lillard also had a team-high 39 points and 11 assists, plus five rebounds and three steals, playing 36 minutes and 43 seconds on 11-of-19 shooting (5-of-8 from three-point range).
With such performance, Lillard scored at least 35 points and 10 assists for the 19th time in history, while hitting at least five three-pointers, which is the second-highest all-time and second only to Harden's 33.
Lillard hit 3-pointers in 102 consecutive games, and after Curry made 0-of-8 three-pointers, it became the longest three-point streak in existence.
On the other hand, on the Rockets, the four new stars are ice and fire, among which Eason and Jalen Green performed well.
Eason shot 5-of-8 (1-of-2 from three-point range), got 11 points, 6 rebounds, 1 assist, 2 steals and 0 turnovers, and was everywhere on both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, the only fly in the ointment was that there was not enough ball.
Jalen Green shot 6-of-11 from the field and 2-of-4 from three-point range for 16 points, 2 rebounds and 7 assists, providing the hard solution that the team needs.
The other two rising stars, Jabari Smith Jr. and Shin Jing, were mediocre, and they were comprehensively suppressed in the face of the top interior configuration of Brother Alphabet and Da Luo.
Among them, Shen Jing was 8 of 15, 0 of 3 three-pointers, scored 20 points, 8 rebounds, 5 assists, 1 steal and 1 block.
Jabari Smith Jr. made 7 of 13 shots, scored 16 points, 5 rebounds, 2 assists and 1 Pato.
Compared with the performance of the players, the referee's blowing penalty in this game was more eye-catching, because the confrontation between the two sides was extremely strong, and the whole game could be described as elbow slaps flying all over the sky.
Soon after the start of the game, Da Luo directly elbowed VanVleet on the head, and the latter fell to the ground in pain, and after getting up, his eyes were visibly bruised, but the referee did not blow the penalty.
Soon after, Tate gave Lillard a big slap and was whistled for a foul in the process of defending Lillard.
In the third 5 minutes, Dillon broke through and hit a layup, and the defensive Connaughton fell to the ground in pain, and the referee checked the replay and saw that Dillon elbowed Connaughton in the face, so he blew Dillon for a foul and the 2 points were cancelled.
With 38 seconds left in the final quarter, Dillon was reversed after breaking the ball, and was suspected of being pushed out by Middleton, and the referee also did not blow the penalty, and Dillon, who was dissatisfied with the referee, angrily sprayed the referee and was ejected.