Super Evolution of Basketball

Chapter 182

The Rockets are really on the move!

Harden felt hot, no matter how he shot, Scott wondered if he had taken a stimulant, why did he not make sense at the beginning of the game, this is not the seventh game of the finals.

The two teams played faster and faster. Facing the unreasonable offense of the Rockets, the Lakers' offense, which had to rely on deliberate calculations every time to score the ball, seemed exhausted.

The psychological pressure of the Lakers players on both ends of the offense and defense gradually magnified as the score widened.

Scott had to call another timeout in the second half of the first quarter. Towns and Kobe were replaced, and Yuan Qingshan moved to the second position to defend Harden.

James Harden, the leader of the visiting team, didn't rest for a second throughout the first quarter, but he didn't look tired at all. Whether it was his footsteps or expression, he was as calm and calm as ever.

When Yuan Qingshan took over the defensive responsibility from Kobe, he suddenly felt an invisible pressure.

Defending someone like Harden requires [-]% concentration, and you can't let go of even a tenth of a second, because you can never guess what his next move is, whether it is a shot or a breakthrough.

If it is a breakthrough, you don't know whether to shoot or score after the first step of the breakthrough.

If it's a shot, you don't know if the ball is a direct shot or tricked into fouling you.

In short, facing an attacker of Harden's level, most defenders have become fools who don't know anything.

Michael Jordan once said: As long as the basketball is in the hands of Harden, it seems that there are infinite possibilities.

Several defensive skills of Yuan Qingshan failed to play a role in dealing with Wade, and it was even more useless tonight.

He even wondered if Harden's beard was a special kind of dark matter-like thing that could eliminate the attribute bonuses given to him by the system.

Amidst the exclamation of the fans, Yuan Qingshan was once again passed by Harden's rapid change of direction, and the first quarter ended in Harden's long two-pointer.

The Lakers players returned to the bench in silence.

Yuan Qingshan sat down and took a big gulp of Gadla, the cold drink slid down the esophagus and gurgled through the chest, but there was no way to extinguish the fire in his chest.

"Let me defend Harden in the second quarter." Kobe had already rested for a while, and his eyes recovered somewhat.

His words made coach Scott fall into a struggle again, when will Kobe's limited physical strength be used.

For this matter, he has struggled from the first game of the season to the present, and it is the same tonight.

Since 2007, Kobe has never averaged more than 40 minutes per game in a season, and now it is even worse than before. It is absolutely impossible to overdraw his physical fitness or even health for a regular season.

"No, Qingshan, you have to hold on. Harden will continue to be defended by you. If Harden goes down, you go down again." Scott finally made up his mind.

At present, the point difference between the two teams is still in single digits, that is to say, I still have room for self-will.

Coach Scott has long realized that even in the face of losing, he must protect his players.

Thinking of the word "lose", Scott couldn't help slipping away. He guessed, maybe Bass Jr. and Kupchak were drinking red wine in some luxury villa, watching the live broadcast, hoping that the team would lose, right?

Business is business, it has nothing to do with competition, and it has nothing to do with human relationships.

Hearing the coach's arrangement, Kobe didn't say anything else. He had a clear understanding of his physical fitness and the difficulties the team would face next. After all, he had been playing for 20 years, and he had already passed the age when he just beat his chest and roared with love.

The benefit of maturity is to allow you to judge more calmly.

Back in the second quarter, coach McHale replaced Howard, and a small lineup that could not be more pure appeared on the stage, and the Rockets played a whirlwind of three-pointers.

Speed ​​up, speed up, speed up, three points, three points, three points!

This is what the Rockets will do next, either kill the enemy or shoot themselves!
The Lakers had to spread their defense beyond the three-point line in an attempt to build a wall of people to stop a round of shells.

But there are too many people in the Rockets who can shoot three-pointers. It wasn't until McHale really used this killer tool that people noticed that Houston had quietly hoarded so many shooters.

PG Beverly made 40% of his three-pointers, SG Terry made 35.6% of his three-pointers, SF Harden made 35.9% of his three-pointers, PF Ariza made 37.1% of his three-pointers, and C Jones made 31.6% of his three-pointers.

The most frightening thing is that, except for Jones, everyone here can hit more than one three-pointer per game, and Harden even averages 1 shots per game and hits close to 8.

As soon as this small lineup was brought out, O'Neal was shocked at the time.

"God, is this really McHale's special move for the Warriors?" O'Neal couldn't help but think of the fear that the Splash Brothers brought to the league after their birth.

If the Rockets' lineup brings the rhythm up and shoots desperately, if the offense is single-handed, and the shooting percentage goes up, they may not really lose to the Warriors.

However, fighting poison with poison, and attacking with offense, may be able to steal a game and a half, but it may not be able to do it in a series. Compared with others, the Rockets always seem to be inferior.

"Except for Harden, they couldn't find a No. [-] killer like Klay Thompson who can convulse." Mark Jackson categorically stated the crux of the matter.

O'Neal couldn't agree more. For most teams, Klay Thompson's best is something that can be met but not sought after.

Mark Jackson took out his mobile phone and looked up the Warriors' lineup: "The Rockets' three-pointers are really strong, but this strength is obviously artificial and relies too much on the shooter's touch. In terms of balance, it's still a lot worse than the Warriors. Let's take this for example: Jones plays center, how can rebounds be guaranteed?"

Under the premise of ensuring a certain number of shots, a three-point shooting rate of 40% can be regarded as an excellent shooter. A shooting rate of about 40% means that when a team plays a three-point shooting tactic, it is bound to generate a lot of offensive rebounds.

Mark Jackson explained a lot, meaning that McHale handed over the heavy responsibility to Jones, which was a bit sloppy.

Sure enough, the Rockets' shooters felt hot and rained three-point arrows, but those balls that failed to score basically became Whiteside's backcourt rebounds.

This is a glimmer of life. The correct way for the Lakers to play should be to press the rhythm with all their strength, use positional offense and rocket grinding, and maybe they can survive until the three-pointer feels cold.

But the fact is that the players on the Lakers are either rookies or substitutes, and they don't have such a good tactical quality and mentality at all.

As soon as the Rockets started running, these young players couldn't hold back their temper, and ran hard with them.

After a while, the Lakers even had to empty the stamina bar of the bench players.

As for the Rockets, they calmly put on another rotation lineup centered on Beasley, Thornton and Brewer.

O'Neill looked up at the scoreboard and shook his head silently: "My God, another group of high scorers!"

Mark Jackson also sighed for the home team: "This time the Lakers are really over. The depth of the lineup is too poor. After this round, the main players of the Rockets have almost rested. There is no way to turn the game around!"

(End of this chapter)