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Chapter 227 Harden and Capela’s first meeting
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Toyota Center.

This game still attracted a lot of attention.

After all, this game is a battle between the second place in the Western Conference and the third place in the Western Conference, so there is still a lot of talk.

This season is the season when Harden has officially reached his peak. By getting up at three in the morning to recite and understand the rules, Harden is at home under the new rules.

While improving his ability to touch the basket, Harden has also increased his production of three-pointers, and his shooting percentage has also steadily improved.

Harden this season is actually on Su Chen's planned list.

When Paul was first traded, Su Chen prioritized Paul before asking for Harden's price, before Lillard.

After all, Harden is also the MVP after all, and now is Harden's peak, and his three-point production is enough to match Jokic.

Even if Harden comes to the Clippers, Su Chen may not be so decisive in making sure to focus on Jokic first, and letting Harden take a certain degree of dominance is also an option.

But it can't be changed, and the Rockets are not stupid. They have seen Harden's current ability and are planning to cultivate him as a cornerstone player.

Although Paul is also at his peak, Paul is not considered a young player after all. Even if Su Chen is willing to add some chips, the Rockets do not want to do this deal.

This game originally attracted a lot of attention, but before the game, the Clippers' official website updated the player status.

Clarkson and Lillard actually rested at the same time!

It actually makes sense to let them rest, because the team has been going through a wave of consecutive road trips recently, and Su Chen is trying to protect the players as if there is nothing wrong with doing so.

It's just a collision between the second in the Western Conference and the third in the Western Conference. If one side doesn't exert its full strength, it seems a bit boring.

Of course, Su Chen didn't care at all about the outcome of this game. In fact, Su Chen was very concerned about this game.

Even a few days ago, Su Chen was already thinking about this match.

Of course, we still have to win, but the more important purpose is that Su Chen plans to let new players take over.

This newcomer is naturally Dinwiddie.

In the past game, Dinwiddie watched Clarkson, who was drafted about the same as him, become famous overnight.

Both his popularity and worth are rising rapidly, which makes Dinwiddie very anxious.

During team training matches, he often had direct confrontations with Clarkson. In fact, Clarkson was not much better than him.

Although Clarkson's scoring ability is indeed much better, Clarkson's organizational ability is much worse than him.

This has made Dinwiddie very anxious recently and he needs a chance.

After learning that both Clarkson and Lillard were resting, Dinwiddie knew that his opportunity had come.

Especially before the game, when the coach arranged the tactics, he turned out to be tactics with the point guard as the core.

And the one who is cooperating with him is not Jokic. Jokic is also taking a rest tonight. The one who is cooperating with him is Capela!
In training matches, Clarkson's cooperation with Jokic was better, but his cooperation with Capela was average.

On the contrary, he cooperates better with Capela than with Jokic.

Because Capela is a standard pie-eating center, whether he is setting a pick-and-roll for Clarkson, Lillard or other defenders, the defenders are in charge of their own offense and don't care about him at all.

They are both scoring guards, and in addition to scoring, he can also feed Capela.

In fact, Capela doesn't really like to cooperate with other guards, because when he partners with them, he basically acts as a tool.

When working with Anderson and Dinwiddie, they can find him and feed him cakes.

Soon the game will start.

Although the Clippers have three starters off, after all, this is a battle between second and third in the Western Conference. If the Rockets win, they can take a step closer to the second position.

After winning one game, Rockets fans are still very excited.

The other party didn't value this game, but they were even happier.

The first two teams entered the field.

Rockets starting lineup: Donatas Motiejunas (C), Tarik Black (PF), Trevor Ariza (SF), James Harden (SG), Isaiah Cannan (PG)

Clippers starting lineup: Clint Capela (C), Nicolas Batum (PF), Matt Barnes (SF), Paul George (SG), Spencer Dinwiddie ( PG)

In this game, Su Chen came up with a three-forward lineup, which can trigger the fetters of the strikers and allow the three strikers to increase their abilities to a certain extent.

This Rockets team is actually pretty easy to deal with.

Although the Clippers gave up Jokic, Lillard Clarkson, the Rockets' lineup has not actually traded the hairband brothers, and Happy Beast was absent before the season.

The Rockets have achieved good results this season by relying on Harden's single core. In fact, it is a standard ball-holding and big-core style of play, and the league's current defense of the magic ball is not deep enough.

For this kind of team with a big core holding the ball, just deal with the core holding the ball directly.

Although Harden has begun to enter his peak, Harden's current technical shortcomings are still quite many.

First of all, Harden is a standard left-sided attacker during this period. This means that Harden's right hand is not so proficient, allowing defenders to guard Harden's left side more and put it on the right side.

As for the defense after Harden breaks through, there are two options.

One is for the center to resolutely cover the interior, and the defender who is passed will cut off Harden's passing route, leaving the protection of the basket to the center.

The other is to firmly let Harden play in singles.

The difference between a ball-handler and an attacker is that the ball-handler's organizational skills are usually top-notch, and the ball-handler likes you to double-team him.

The offensive player's organizational ability usually only fluctuates around the passing line, but his offensive ability is very strong.

You can't let him play unlimited singles against attackers, but you can make him fall into unlimited singles against big players with the ball.

Speaking of which, Dinwiddie actually plays a similar style.

But Dinwiddie's ability is limited, so he can't be called a big core with the ball, but can only be called a small core with the ball.

After the game starts.

Donatas Motiejunas jumped to the ball for the Rockets.

It is obvious that Capela's jumping ability is much better than Donatas Motiejunas, but it may be due to lack of experience. After all, this is the first time Capela has served as a starter this season.

The Happy Beasts have not played a game yet. Donatas Motiejunas is a starter for the Rockets, so he is naturally experienced.

The ball is naturally given to Harden and controlled.

Originally, Harden planned to dribble leisurely through the half court as usual, and then slowly organize the offense.

But just when he was at the center line, George rushed over and pressed against him.

Harden was a little surprised, but immediately dismissed it.

What's great about him is not just his scoring ability and passing, but his ball-handling skills are also becoming increasingly among the top in the league.

George wants to use physical pressure to cause mistakes, just deal with other small guards, he wants to deal with him too much.

His body is still relatively strong, and his skills will not be deformed due to George's pressure.

But just when Harden wanted to change direction and accelerate, he found that George was guarding him sideways, which made him unable to perform the smoothest left-hand dribbling movement.

Instead, he could only rely on his unskilled right hand to protect the ball.

This made Harden look a little embarrassed.But behind the three-point line, this allowed Harden to relax a little.

Harden, who was being defended by George, also became a little angry.

Originally, Donatas Motiejunas wanted to come up and set up a pick-and-roll for Harden, but Harden directly let Donatas Motiejunas pull away.

He planned to fight George alone.

George was still mainly guarding his left hand. Harden cursed in his heart and directly hit him with his right hand.

Although Harden's right hand is not very skilled, George gave him a certain amount of space on the right, so he still allowed Harden to break through.

After breaking through, Harden immediately wanted to foul George and leaned his arms towards George.

If George doesn't feel comfortable guarding him, he will have to punish George again.

However, George already knew Harden's offensive habits before the game, especially when it came to conflicts, so George directly chose to give in.

He even gave up half his body to Harden.

Harden didn't hesitate when he saw this and directly chose to go for a layup.

But at this time, Capela moved over at high speed and stood directly at the point where Harden could break through.

Harden wanted to pass the ball, but found Donatas Motiejunas' passing route. George behind him had given up and chose that route.

After all, George has been in the defense and has a good reputation. Harden felt that if the ball was passed to Donatas Motiejunas, it would probably be intercepted by George.

Especially now that he's dribbling with his right hand.

Not only is he unskilled in dribbling, but his accuracy will also be skewed if he tries to pass the ball with his right hand.

Harden chose a layup for this shot.

Originally, Harden thought that building a center was also building a center, giving this rookie center a little lesson.

But Capela also listened to Su Chen's instructions. After standing in Harden's breakthrough route, he just covered his crotch and stopped moving.

Harden originally wanted to lean his arm on Capela's arm, but Capela stood with one hand covering his crotch, making Harden's movements look like a clown.

Under the collision, Capella was knocked to the ground.

beep!
Although generally no penalty will be whistled immediately at the start of the game, the referee will first feel the intensity of the game before setting the scale of the whistle for this game.

But this ball was a standard foul and had to be whistled.

beep!
Offensive foul.

Not only did Harden not get a foul on his first ball, he even got a foul, which made Harden so angry that he blew his beard.

But he also knew that his behavior just now was hard to argue with. After Harden got up from the ground, he went back to defend.

Capela was pulled up by his teammates.

Capela was also very excited at this time. In his first start, he caused a foul on the boss of the opposing team.

Su Chen, who was on the sidelines, couldn't help but laugh while watching the competition between Capela and Harden.

Speaking of which, Capela and Harden have achieved mutual success.

Whether it is for Capela or Harden, they have a strong presence in the opponent's profession.

Even when Harden and Embiid partnered, many fans ridiculed him and asked Embiid to dye a little yellow hair.

But at this time, Capela was still a rookie, and he didn't have that little yellow hair.

In fact, that little yellow hair is quite telling. It looks like it marks an aiming point for Harden, so that Harden can find him immediately.

Clippers possession.

Dinwiddie pushed the ball through half court.

At this time, George made a move to catch the ball.

At the same time, Capela also provided an off-ball screen for George.

Immediately, Ariza and Cannan next to him noticed George. After all, the Clippers' many offensive point rotation coaches also said that George might become the Clippers' first offensive point.

Therefore, George's defense is relatively focused.

Ariza even made a gesture to Donatas Motiejunas, indicating that he should be optimistic about George's inside cut. George's movement can be a three-pointer without the ball or an inside cut.

But at this time, George suddenly ran in reverse and turned into pulling away.

Instead, Dinwiddie suddenly accelerated and walked past Capela's pick-and-roll.

Since Cannan's attention was on George just now, he didn't pay attention to his defender Dinwiddie.

When he tried to follow up again, he collided directly with Capella.

Donatas Motiejunas saw Dinwiddie open in the mid-range.

Although I don’t know who the opponent’s Dinwiddie is, as a professional player, having the opportunity to take an open shot in the mid-range is still quite a threat.

Of course, Donatas Motiejunas didn't dare to actually defend him. He could only serve as a delay. To defend Dinwiddie, he still had to let Cannan go around.

The delay of Donatas Motiejunas still worked. Dinwiddie did not get a good shot at the first time, and Cannan also rushed over.

When Kannan rushed over, Donatas Motiejunas quickly retreated.

But it was already too slow at this time. At his peak, Capela was called the King of Cake. To be able to bear this nickname, he had almost full attributes of eating cakes.

Running fast and jumping high are basic.

For the same position, Capela's athletic ability is very fast.

Not to mention that Donatas Motiejunas was delayed. With Donatas Motiejunas's athletic ability, Capela could get in even if he didn't even try to hold his position.

At this time, Dinwiddie showed his organizational skills with a small core on the ball.

This game naturally gave him the [Fixed Ability Value] skill. Dinwiddie, who has 80% of his peak ability, can be regarded as a ball-handling core.

Donatas Motiejunas was left far behind, and he could only watch Capela jump high.

boom!
Catch the ball and dunk in one go.

Rockets 0:2 Clippers.

In this opening, Dinwiddie will be useful.

The Rockets' lack of understanding of Dinwiddie also allows Dinwiddie to better utilize his abilities.

How did the Rockets know that as the only All-Star player on the Clippers court, George was still playing a supporting role.

This George is used to playing supporting roles, right?

Donatas Motiejunas patted himself, indicating that it was his problem.

But when Harden looked at Capela, he suddenly had a strange feeling.

Especially since Capela jumped so high and ran so fast just now, it seems that this guy named Capela is quite suitable to play with him?
(End of this chapter)