basketball pope

Chapter 758 [The most popular, inspirational story]

In order to compete for the NBA championship, Yao Ming gave up the 2012 Olympic Games under domestic pressure.

Yao Ming suffered a little ankle injury last season. Although it is not serious, he needs to rest.If he plays in the Olympics and then plays in the new NBA season, the outcome is likely to be a stress fracture.

2008 was the peak period of the Chinese men's basketball team. They also failed to achieve a breakthrough in the record. Now that the overall strength of the men's basketball team is weakening, Yao Ming is naturally reluctant to risk his career to fight for the result of a group qualifying.

After a full rest, the 32-year-old Yao Ming showed a good start to the game, averaging 17.4 points, 8.6 rebounds and 2.6 assists per game, helping the Nets beat the Cavaliers and ranking first in the East.

Now, the Nets' goal is to compete for the championship.

The star contest, Yang Rui's duel with his disciple Brad Stevens, are the highlights of the game. The league started its promotion three days in advance, and it was broadcast live in the United States.

In a regular season, when the players appeared, the staff turned off the lights to create an atmosphere, boost morale, and make it as grand as the playoffs.

This game should indeed be more grand, with a lot of stars.

Clippers starting: Paul, Danny Green, Gay, Griffin, Chandler.

Nets starting: Deron Williams, Joe Johnson, Jimmy Butler, Derek Favors, Yao Ming.

Chandler jumped to win and the game started.

Paul dribbled the ball to the three-point line and observed the movement of his teammates. Yang Rui arranged for outside shots to attack, and he wanted to withdraw Yao Ming from the basket.

Because of his slow movement and poor pick-and-roll defense, Yao Ming has not been selected for the All-Defensive Team, but if he defends near the penalty area, no team can easily hit the basket.Therefore, the common way to deal with Yao Ming's team is to pick and roll, shoot the guard, or attract him to switch out.

Paul and Griffin played pick-and-rolls in the middle, Chandler gave Green a no-ball screen on the right side, the Nets used a mixed defense, Yao Ming defended near the penalty area, and the outsiders were man-marking.

Paul brought it to 45 degrees to the left, attracting Delong to pursue defense and Yao Ming to follow defense, and distribute the ball to the middle.Griffin catches a jump shot from the free throw line. 2 to 0.

The Nets' offense followed the same pattern as the Clippers. In the middle, Delong held the ball and Yao Ming played a pick-and-roll. Favors on the side gave Joe Johnson no-ball cover, and Butler pulled away.

The difference is that Yao Ming's shooting range is farther than Griffin. Yao Ming has been practicing three-pointers in the middle for 8 years. The shooting rate of this point is very high, reaching 40.7% last season.Deron is one of the best point guards at pick-and-rolls. He got rid of Paul by covering, and he swooped from the left to the horn to attract Chandler and pass to the middle.

Paul failed to interfere with Yao Ming's catch, and it was completely impossible to interfere with Yao Ming's shooting. The height difference between the two was the largest on the court, reaching 44CM. This is the gap between the Hobbit and Gandalf...

Yao Ming lifted his toes and shot, Paul could only watch, without jumping, the ball went into the net hollow. 2 to 3.

The Nets home fans stood up and clapped, shouting Yao Ming's name.He is the most popular star in New York. Yao Ming, who was not a champion in his previous life, and Yao Ming, who won MVP with 4 championships, are not the same level of popularity.Because of him, many New York fans began to tend to watch Nets games, especially Chinese fans, who regarded Yao Ming as the spiritual symbol of the city.

New York is the city with the best economic development in the United States. It is for this reason that it has attracted a large number of Chinese to enter. It is the city with the largest number of Chinese. New York's Chinatown and Flushing are very famous.

Yao Ming is very grateful to Yang Rui for his original suggestion. New York is more suitable for his development than Los Angeles. His commercial value has increased, and the Nets have also risen rapidly, which is a win-win situation.

The Clippers attacked, Paul and Griffin played a pick-and-roll, opened up the space, and quickly moved the ball to the middle after Deron chased and defended. Griffin caught the ball and made a jumper and made another mid-range shot from a high position. 4 to 3.

Yang Rui cultivated Griffin in the same way as Yao Ming, and asked them to do the same thing. Griffin has made obvious progress. Although he still rarely shoots three-pointers this season, his three-point shooting rate is average, but his mid-range shooting has been very stable. .

From a statistical perspective, Griffin's 39.4 percent shooting from the mid-range might not seem like a great start, but compared to some of the other post players who are considered good at shooting, he's not bad at all.

Power forward Aldridge, who is considered to be the best mid-range shooter, shot 41.8% from mid-range this season; Kevin Love, a representative of the shooting power forward with a long range to the three-point line, made 41.5% of mid-range shots ; Mark Gasol, who is considered to be the representative of the European interior and has a good shooting ability, only hit 38.8% in the field.

It is true that Griffin's damage in the mid-range is not as good as some pure pitchers, but he is already at an upper-middle level among interior players, which makes his tactical role more obvious.

The Nets attacked, Delong made a pull-up jumper from the right after a pick-and-roll, and returned with color. 4 to 5.

Although Paul is very active in pursuit and defense, it is difficult to block Delong from the side with a height of 183CM. The inside line must be blocked by Delong. He is accurate in mid-range shots.

Paul was able to enter the defense for a while because of the relatively good restrictions on point guards and a good sense of defense, but once he was out of position, Paul suffered a lot.Does height matter?Fans will know when they go to the field to try to defend someone who is 15cm taller than themselves.

After 6 minutes, the two sides battled 10 to 18, the Nets gradually opened up the score, and the Clippers' offense was restricted.

Chandler can only score at the basket, and he can be empty when he pulls out, while the Nets can shoot from both inside lines, opening up the space to a greater extent.

The outside Deron has always been Paul's nemesis. It was good that he didn't press Paul today. The two of them mainly passed the ball at the beginning, and scored 2 points and 3 assists respectively.

Joe Johnson is known as "Single Joe". He has an advantage in single-handed Danny Green, and he can run and catch the ball without the ball.He hit a 7-pointer, a mid-range shot, and made two free throws for a foul to score [-] points.

In the small forward position, Gay failed to play one-on-one. He was blocked by Butler and scored no points. Butler cut a pass from Yao Ming and scored two points with one-handed dunk.

After Butler entered the league, he was trained as a blue-collar perimeter defense. This season, he averaged 8.6 points, 4 rebounds, 1.3 assists and 1 steal per game. His offensive performance was average, but he greatly enhanced the Nets' flank defense.

He is an excellent immediate combat force, even if his defensive awareness still needs to be improved, he is very tough and has unlimited physical strength.

Butler's upbringing is even more of an inspirational story. He was kicked out of the house by his mother when he was 13 years old.When his mother chased him away, he even said something like this: "I don't like your appearance, so let's go."

Afterwards, he had to stay at a friend's house. It can be said that he had 1 reasons to choose to give up on himself, but he chose to work hard. When he entered the NBA, he had this speech: "Thanks for the past experience, it has made me who I am now."

Seeing Butler's success today, his ugly mother would probably cry and faint in the toilet. After joining the NBA, Butler is fully capable of living a rich life.

In the second half, Yang Rui made a substitution. Paul, Gay, and Chandler rested. Curry, Parsons, and Shane came on and started small-ball tactics in advance.Griffin topped the center position and defended Yao Ming.

CCTV5 Zhang Lili said: "It seems that the Clippers are going to speed up. This is a test for Yao Ming, but playing small ball tactics is also an opportunity for Yao Ming. He definitely has an advantage over Griffin."

Yu Jia said: "Green didn't do a good job defending Joe Johnson. Yang Rui asked Gay to defend for a few rounds. Now it is estimated that Battier will defend. Keeping Green on the court is for the offense. He has now completely squeezed Korver to the bench. superior."

Zhang Lili said: "If we are on a counterattack, the game will look good."

(End of this chapter)