"Swish!"

Just as they were thinking this, Tang Tian hit a pull-up three-pointer from the outside to stop the bleeding for the Pelicans.

Walker and Davis both missed consecutive shots, and Tang Tian began to take over the scoring.

Back on the defensive end, Butler also intensified his defensive pressure on Harden.

Walker and Davis weren't in form, but the Pelicans still had Tang Tian and Butler.

Harden's step-back was disrupted by Butler and he missed, and Dedmon secured the defensive rebound.

The Pelicans launched a fast break, Tang Tian received the ball, dribbled past two players, and scored with an easy layup.

After a 5-0 personal scoring run, the score became 9-12.

The Pelicans were only 3 points behind!

With Walker and Davis' pick-and-roll not working, the Pelicans started to reveal their strongest trump card!

Tang Tian hit a turnaround fadeaway jumper in the double team;

Tang Tian dribbled low, crossed over, and made a step-back jumper;

Tang Tian drove to the basket, fought through contact, and scored a 2+1;

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With about 10 minutes left in the quarter, the Pelicans took the lead on the road, leading the Rockets by 5 points with a score of 21-16.

Tang Tian scored 12 consecutive points in just five minutes, showing the true colors of the league's top player.

At this point, both teams began to rotate their players.

Stevens' rotation was very different from the last game. He took Walker and Tang Tian off to rest, and left Davis and Butler on the court.

The pick-and-roll between Walker and Davis didn't work, so he decisively split them up.

Butler and Davis contributed more energy on the defensive end, and made consecutive fast breaks.

However, Bojan was a bit unlucky, getting called for three fouls in two minutes.

Although bench players don't need to control their fouls as much as the starters, this was still a bit too much.

At the end of the first quarter, the Pelicans still led the Rockets 27-22.

Although they were behind, both the Rockets players and the fans at the Toyota Center were extremely excited.

They had stalemated the Pelicans!

This was something that the Bucks and Thunder hadn't been able to do!

Their idea was right, the lineup isn't about how strong it is on paper, but about finding the best fit!

They really had a chance to bring down the Pelicans tonight!

The second quarter was the time for the bench players to take over.

On the Rockets side, D'Antoni had Paul lead the team on the court.

Paul, Gordon, Gerald Green, Mbah a Moute, and Zhou Qi.

On the Pelicans side, Stevens sent out a very interesting lineup.

Because Bojan already had three fouls, he didn't let Bojan play again, but he also didn't let Siakam play the three.

Walker, Lamb, Tang Tian, Siakam, Harrell!

An interesting thing was that Stevens had unknowingly put the UConn Big Three on the court together!

The fans at the scene didn't react much, but some UConn fans on the message boards instantly went wild.

After Walker joined, and Lamb was also traded to the Pelicans, they had been waiting for this moment.

They didn't expect to get it in just the second game!

When the three of them took the court in the same team uniform, they felt like they were dreaming back to the crazy March of 2011!

The Pelicans attacked first in the second quarter.

Walker dribbled the ball past half court, and Tang Tian took the initiative to set a screen for him.

This scene alone made the UConn fans on the message boards go wild again.

After Tang Tian became the league's top player, others were setting screens for him.

But now he was setting a screen for Walker!

Perhaps only Walker could make him voluntarily set a screen!

One screen, one split, Walker dribbled toward the inside, and Tang Tian moved to the outside.

Neither of the Rockets dared to double-team.

Walker went one-on-one against Green, accelerated past him, and scored with his signature low-hand layup!

The familiar feeling brought back his touch!

After scoring, Walker winked at Tang Tian, the two of them showing great understanding.

In the Rockets' offense, Paul and Zhou Qi went inside with a pick-and-roll.

Zhou Qi's screen wasn't very high quality, and Paul's shot was disturbed by Harrell when he shot, the ball hit the front of the rim and bounced out.

Siakam secured the defensive rebound!

The Pelicans immediately launched a fast break, Tang Tian and Walker both sprinted out, and Siakam passed the ball to Walker who was closer.

Walker dribbled twice and then made a long pass, Tang Tian caught the ball and accelerated past Paul, not giving the opponent any chance to make a small move, and directly threw down a one-handed dunk.

"Bang!"

Tang Tian's dunk made the basket ring.

A powerful dunk!

"UConn basketball!"

"UConn connection!"

"Connecticut Huskies!"

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The UConn fans on the message boards had already started shouting in unison.

One for Walker, one for Tang Tian, the two of them's pick-and-roll, fast break, these were distant memories for them, but now they were appearing in front of them again!

This was truly indescribably exciting!

Gordon's three-point catch-and-shoot was disturbed by Tang Tian and went wide.

Harrell secured the defensive rebound.

The Rockets retreated in time this time, not giving the Pelicans a chance to launch a fast break directly.

Walker dribbled the ball to the front court and played a positional game.

Tang Tian continued to come up to set a screen.

One screen, one split, one inside, one outside, the same combination.

However, the Rockets made a defensive adjustment this time, they first double-teamed Walker.

Then when Walker passed the ball back to Tang Tian, Green on the weak side switched over, and Gordon was also ready to pounce out again.

This was equivalent to using help defense rotation to make up for the defensive pressure.

But this was equal to giving Tang Tian a one-on-one opportunity, which was still a considerable risk.

But Tang Tian didn't shoot, he made a signature no-look pass, directly throwing the ball to Lamb!

Lamb also had a great understanding, habitually reaching out to catch the ball, jumping up and shooting directly.

An open three-pointer!

The ball drew a spinning arc in the air.

"Swish!"

The basketball went into the net cleanly!

Walker, Tang Tian, Lamb!

The three of them took turns scoring, the UConn Big Three showing their strength on the NBA stage!

Many UConn fans on the message boards were crying with excitement.

This was really too classic!

Although UConn also won the championship in 2014 led by Napier, it was far from the legend of 2011.

You must know that in 2011, UConn defeated a group of seeded teams and went all the way to the finals!

That was also rated by the NCAA as the most incredible team performance in the past two decades.

Now, 6 years later, they were able to see the UConn Big Three combination again on the NBA court!

Dreaming back to 2011!

The Pelicans started to gain momentum.

Paul dribbled the ball and charged to the basket, but Walker gave him a lot of resistance.

Paul used a hidden small movement to push Walker away to create space for himself, but just as he shot.

Tang Tian rose from behind him.

"Bang!"

A huge block that covered the sky!

He also grabbed the defensive rebound!

The Pelicans launched a counterattack!

Walker took the lead.

At this time, the difference from the UConn period appeared, Tang Tian didn't look for Napier, and directly made a long pass from the backcourt.

Walker comfortably caught the ball, accelerated to the front court, and scored with an easy layup!

9-0!

In the second quarter, Stevens put the UConn Big Three on the court, and the Pelicans played a wave of offense, directly pulling the score difference to 14 points!