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Chapter 275 The Setter

The Wukesong Ballpark tonight is full of people. Today the Rockets will play against the Orlando Magic here. Although there should be no home and away games for the two teams to travel to China, when the Magic players enter the arena In an instant, when they saw countless Chinese fans wearing Totoro jerseys and Yao Ming jerseys in the auditorium, they realized that they were too naive. This is the ultimate home of the two Chinese.
But think about it, Yao Ming alone turned the Rockets into the home team of the Chinese. Now there is a Chinchilla who is stronger than Yao Zhi, and he brought the Rockets to win the championship. Mainland China supports the Rockets The speed is even more explosive. Walking in the streets of China, even people who don’t watch basketball know that there are two Chinese named Yao Ming and Totoro on the other side of the ocean who are winning glory for their country. It can be seen that their team is now popularity.

Although the preseason is a time for the team to train, most teams will not choose to play for real, but it also depends on which team the preseason is played against and what kind of state your team is in, like the Rockets. For a team that changed most of their roster during the offseason, they will definitely take it very seriously in the preseason. After all, the preseason is for the team to test and adjust the lineup. The problems exposed in the regular season are always worse than in the playoffs. Exposing the problem is strong, so in the same way, losing in the preseason is always better than losing in the regular season.

In addition, the Magic was their opponent in the finals last year. Although everyone in the market has a lot of opinions on the dark horse that won the Magic's East Finals, they feel that this guy is giving the Rockets a championship. It's not that the Rockets are too strong, but If the Celtics or the Lakers appear in the Finals, basically nothing will happen to the Magic.

But the Magic also made reinforcements this summer. On the basis of retaining the original core team, they used a few draft picks and substitutes to trade for the half-human and half-god who is still at the peak. Although the demigod can be seamlessly connected The Magic is still unknown, but judging from the fighting power on the books, the lineup of Howard + Lewis + Turkoglu + Carter + Nelson is luxurious enough, at least a little stronger than the Rockets' starting lineup.

The Rockets and the Magic embraced each other after a simple warm-up. Strictly speaking, there is no feud between the two teams. Last year’s sweep of the finals was a tie for the two teams, but it would not make the Magic team People hate the Rockets on the surface, and they will not escalate to the confrontation between cities. The Rockets have to beat Orlando in the Finals for at least three consecutive years, so they probably look at Houston with red eyes.

At the opening jump ball, Totoro unexpectedly replaced Yao Ming and stood at the jump ball position. Howard, who was in charge of the jump ball opposite, felt a chill in his heart.

People call him the best big man in the league who can scrimmage the ball, but that is also on the premise that Totoro almost does not scrimmage the ball. The outsider watches the excitement, and the insider watches the doorway. If you really want to talk about jump balls, there is really no such thing in the NBA. Man is the opponent of Totoro. Totoro defeated him in the jump ball twice last year. Although each time it was within a few centimeters, Warcraft knew that the distance of only a few centimeters was that he and Totoro were indistinguishable. It is said that this year he practiced hard in Houston for a summer. In contrast, he gave himself a few illegitimate children, and the gap between them will only be widened.

Sure enough, the referee blew the whistle and threw the ball up. Howard was still thinking about something. Totoro flew up like a missile in the air. It stretched its ape arm and swiped the ball with a distance of one palm. This is no longer a victory. Instead, it killed Howard in seconds.

There was thunderous applause at the scene. Totoro just grabbed a ball, but the fans acted as if he had completed the lore. Could it be that the audience who watched Totoro once played with their own eyes decided to combine the shouts of last year with the cheers of this year's regular season? Make it all up, after all, most of them don't have so much free time to go to the United States to watch him play in the NBA.

The queen bee firmly received the ball. Totoro has not cooperated with the superstar of the guard group yet, but Totoro still showed his greatest sincerity. He is going to see how good this Chris Paul is. If he really He can organize the team in an orderly manner and attack reasonably. He doesn't mind playing off the ball. Unlike James who can't play off the ball, when he was not proficient in offense with the ball at the beginning, he averaged 22's scoring is all based on running, catching, and jumping shots. If you think about it carefully, this is still his old profession.

But he was not going to run at the first ball. This is not the Rockets' regular tactics. The Rockets players pulled away, and Howard still stubbornly stood behind the little giant, but refused to go around the front to defend. Paul Emotional intelligence is also high. Seeing that this is Dayao's home court, he pushed the ball lightly, and the ball was given to Yao Ming in a very comfortable posture.

Passing in basketball also has a lot of knowledge. Whether the passing angle is tricky or not, and whether there is a good awareness of open passing, these are just the most basic qualities of passing. Many fans have seen some point guards breaking through the crowd , and then use a very coquettish movement to pass the ball through the man's seam, which is very powerful. In fact, this is really just a routine operation.

A true pass master does not see the open space passing the ball, but relies on his own pass to lead others to run out of the open space. Some pass masters feed the ball comfortably, not only allowing the receiver to Taking advantage of the movement can significantly improve the hit rate of the receiver, but these things are invisible to the fans, and only pure point guard masters like Kidd can pass the ball .

My Neighbor Totoro believes that Paul is undoubtedly an enhanced version of Kidd. I don’t know who is better than Kidd of the same age in passing skills, but in terms of offensive ability and athletic ability, Paul is better than the old monsters of the same period. It's not a star and a half. Although Kidd was also very offensive when he was young, the Queen Bee is a point guard who has slammed in front of Howard!

Paul's pass seemed ordinary, but Yao Ming took it very comfortably. His body even followed the ball involuntarily to make a jump shot. The basketball passed Howard's fingers and fell steadily into the basket.

"Pretty!"

Dayao couldn't help giving Paul a thumbs up. He hasn't met a guard who can pass the ball like this since he played in the NBA. Alston and his ilk will not be mentioned. McGrady is very talented in passing the ball. , but Ruanmaizi doesn't like passing the ball and prefers to attack by himself, the little giant is also helpless about this.

Looking back on the defensive end, the Magic realized the power of the Rockets' upgraded lineup this year.

Last year, Paul was the point guard of the best defensive team, and Iguodala was the shooting guard of the best defensive team. Although Totoro and Battier are both players in the third team, everyone knows that they have the ability to compete for the first team. A burst or even a burst.

Coupled with the absolute height of Yao Ming and the champion of the best defensive second team on the bench, if Adelman frantically puts on a set of Paul+Battier+Iguodala+My Neighbor Totoro+Yao Ming or Chandler this year With such a lineup, it is estimated that they don't need to score, and defense alone can paralyze other teams' defenses.

Nelson wants to bring the ball across the half court to organize the offense, but how can the queen bee let him do what he wants?In the first round of attacking Paul, Paul began to press in the half. In terms of physical strength, Nelson is considered a strong body among defenders and has no advantage over Paul. In terms of speed, he is not Paul's opponent. With the power of stealing the king in [-], Nelson suddenly felt that he was going to lose the ball in his hands. Others wanted to come out to meet him, but Iguodala and Totoro also responded immediately, using their athletic ability beyond ordinary players to stop them. The ball path, the violation that was about to be forced by the Rockets, in the end it was the rookie Jordan Hill who made a mistake. Although this black guy was really active in playing, his brain was a little simple, and he was shaken away by Lewis's continuous backrunning. Empty received the ball, then dribbled it beyond the three-point line and was shaken by the opponent. He just gave him three free throws.

"Don't be nervous, boy, this is just a preseason game, pay attention to control your movements, don't get too many fouls, otherwise you will play less time and get stats that will not look good, it will be very unfavorable to you as a rookie of."

Hill became panicked now. As a rookie, he was able to start as a starter, and he was still on a championship team. This was something that he would never even have thought about before, but now the fact has happened to him. in front of you.

Jordan Hill would be lying if he said he was not excited, but he felt a lot of pressure at the same time as he was excited, just like the previous ball, the other four big shots had completed 90% of the work, and in the end Yihuan made a mistake on the 10% that he was in charge of. Who wouldn't be annoyed by this?

But Totoro seemed to see Jordan Hill's uneasiness, and ran over to pat him on the shoulder to comfort him. Totoro has just been promoted from the first year to the second year. No one in the Rockets can be more right than him. The right to speak for rookies, he thinks the first year of entering the NBA is a very important period, he largely determines the path you can take in the future, and it is of course the best for capable rookies to show their abilities Yes, but is there no way out for rookies with ordinary abilities?The answer is not.

As long as you have confidence, have confidence in yourself every day and are ready to play, you will always shine. How can the players who can be favored by NBA scouts be worse?I must have a certain skill. These specialties may be discovered by myself, or I may not have discovered them, but it doesn’t matter. As long as you don’t disappoint yourself, then you will eventually succeed one day.

"Thank you boss, I will definitely pay attention next time!"

Lewis made three free throws, Totoro ran to the frontcourt, and Turkoglu stuck to Totoro tightly. He still vaguely remembered the scene where he was hanged by the opponent for the championship last year, so this summer, Totoro is not alone. After practicing hard, the Turks also didn't go on vacation. Because of the stimulation of Totoro, Turkoglu was not traded by the Magic, but also improved himself more than before. Now the Turkish agent's physical strength has obviously improved. Chinchilla himself can no longer squeeze him with tonnage to create space for himself as easily as he did a few months ago.

It’s just that Totoro still has a way to cure him. Talent is a constant thing. You can work hard to reach the top of your talent, but hard work can be done by anyone, but talent is not equal to everyone. People who work hard, the final achievement will only change drastically in that little bit of unfairness.

Although the Turk gained weight, his speed and agility decreased accordingly, because his skeleton could not bear the pressure of this weight, but Totoro did not have this kind of distress. He was born more suitable for fighting than Koglu. basketball.

My Neighbor Totoro turned back lightly and asked the Turkish agents to stalk me. Chris Paul, who has been in the league for 5 years, is not Stephen Curry, who just entered the league. The moment he turned around from Totoro Noticing his movement and judging his traveling route, he threw the ball into the air quickly and just right, preparing to complete an alley-oop with Totoro.

Howard reacted and wanted to defend, but Warcraft was obviously a bit slower this time. Although he also flew into the air, Totoro was 100% sure to dunk the ball through Warcraft.

However, Totoro did not do this, because he saw that Jordan Hill had already settled on the other side of the basket and was ready to fight for the ball if Totoro accidentally dunked the ball. A big gift to him, he didn’t dunk after receiving the basketball in the air. Instead, he acted like a setter and lightly hit the ball on the backboard. The ball bounced obediently from the left side of his side to the right side of the backboard. side.

Hill's reaction was also very fast. He immediately jumped up high to catch the basketball with both hands, and then used all his strength to dunk the basket. There was a loud "bang!", and the entire basket was thrown by him. Pulling down a bit, the blue shelf shook slightly under his furious button this time, and what was so unbelievable was that his forward body just hit Howard who had just landed, and the poor monster didn't even have time to react He was knocked down to the ground by this rookie. Although anyone who knows the ball knows that Jordan Hill knocked Howard down, it can only be regarded as his sneak attack, but most of the people in this world are still fakes. Fans.

"Roar!!"

Excited Jordan Hill tore his jersey and roared loudly at the auditorium!He was able to dunk the league's No. [-] center with the first goal. Is he really that strong?
Totoro and Paul looked at each other and smiled. The Queen Bee didn't care that Totoro passed the ball to him and passed it out again, which made him miss an assist. The preseason data is not recorded in the official statistics, and He is not a stat control either. If there is an easier way to play the game in a good-looking and simple way and win, Paul feels that he does not mind playing as the second master.

(End of this chapter)