hall of fame small forward

Chapter 136 The Smart Chinese
Even from the perspective of a third party, Paul breaking through Lowry is as effortless as breaking through the air, but the physical confrontation between them still exists, and in order to cope with the Rockets' targeted defense, Chris Paul himself Every shot is basically a high-difficulty fadeaway jumper, hand-changing layup and emergency stop jumper. In order to score, he needs to use faster speed and more running distance than usual, otherwise he may face the ball. The dilemma of not being able to make a move.

Of course, this will consume more energy than usual games, and the Queen Bee himself is not a player known for his endurance. After the first quarter of the game, Chris Paul has a feeling of sitting on the bench and never wanting to get up again. Feel.
It's not that the Queen Bee didn't think about distributing the ball to other players, but the Rockets' defense against him was too targeted.

At every point in the first quarter, as soon as he touched the ball, at least three Rockets players surrounded him, some of them were blocking his passing route, and some were leaning over to defend at any time. In an easy-to-understand sentence, the Rockets only have 1/2 of their attention in this game.

If Paul can take the initiative to give up the ball and hand over the basketball to others to play an off-the-ball role, then the Rockets' defense will naturally break down. He alone can hold back the three Rockets, and then there are four left. Isn't it possible to get a big vacant seat with just a few transmissions?
But let Paul, a superstar point guard, play the role of a running player without the ball, and not participate in the team's tactics at all, even if it is only for a short while, is it possible for him to do this kind of thing?
Even the queen bee knows the way to crack the Rockets' layout, but any well-known player will not do this in the regular season to become a global team, let alone a newly promoted superstar in the league like Chris Paul. Even if the team loses today, Chris Paul will not hand over the ball that should belong to him.
In this point of comparison, Totoro's attitude of being able to bend and stretch is considered a relatively powerful skill in the NBA.

The Hornets also use two people to look at Totoro and Yao Ming, but Totoro and Yao Ming will know that they will give up the ball when they are double-teamed. They have the spirit of being willing to be green leaves for other players. Some people may say that they don't have the perverted desire to win like black players, but on the other hand, Totoro and Yao Ming are far smarter than those black players.

More importantly, Totoro and Yao Ming are two people
The scoring speed of the Hornets will soon be unable to keep up with the scoring speed of the Rockets. How much does physical strength affect a player?That said, it must be said that the loss of physical strength can completely turn Chris Paul, who dominates nba guards, into a level where he can't even beat cba point guards in an instant.

The mid-range shot is either light or heavy, and difficult layups are always disturbed and knocked out of the basket. Paul's scoring success rate begins to decrease at a speed visible to the naked eye. The other players of the Hornets also rely too much on Paul. I started to get out of order because of the team's brain out of order. On the contrary, the advantages of the Rockets began to be reflected at this time.

Except for Totoro's lucky three-pointers at the beginning, he and the little giant's scoring efficiency is not very high today. After all, the Hornets also put a lot of attention on them, except for the few opening games when they were physically strong. In addition to beautiful goals, it is impossible for Totoro and Yao Ming to score goals every time they perform difficult 1VN like Kobe.

But when the game changes from the hands of superstars to the hands of main players and even substitute players, what can the Hornets do to defeat the Rockets, which has one of the deepest lineups in the league?
Hornets coach Byron Scott was frowning off the court. He had seen through the Rockets' intentions as early as the second half of the first quarter, but what could he do as the head coach?
The Hornets have been trading reinforcements around their team-building core Chris Paul in recent years. At first glance, they are a very talented and experienced western team, but in fact Scott knows their team well. The deformity hidden within.

David West is just a regular star, no matter how hard his defense is, he can steadily contribute a 19+8 data every game, but this kind of too stable player can only be played in the game It plays an icing on the cake, 20+10 can't beat a team at all.

Tyson Chandler looks like a defensive champion, but on the offensive end, he only has three simple scoring methods: missed layups and alley-oops.

Japez Stojakovic has lost the ball-handling offensive ability he had in the Kings since he came to the Hornets. At this time, he is just a high-paid fixed fort.

James Posey has always been the best role defensive player in the league, but his offensive ability is inversely proportional to his defensive ability. Without other players to help him create open three-pointers, the Hornets frontcourt is equal to 4v5 .

They are all players with their own obvious flaws. They usually rely on Paul as the engine and superstar ability to cover up their weaknesses. What can the players rely on to save the team?

The final score was 93:78. The Rockets not only avenged their last defeat at home, but also achieved a hearty victory with 15 points of crushing. In addition to making the fans feel the adrenaline drama at the beginning of the game, Except for the star matchups, the Rockets were playing the Hornets at other times, which made the basketball game suddenly dull. More than 1/3 of the Hornets fans left the field early at the end of the third quarter. They didn’t want to Seeing his home team being beaten up by challengers on his own territory.

(End of this chapter)