hall of fame small forward

Chapter 60
On November 11nd, at 2:10 pm, Houston will face the Seattle SuperSonics from afar at the Toyota Center.

Due to the arrival of Yao Ming, the Rockets are not the only winners of the little giant. The league has also opened up the Chinese market that has been developing by virtue of Yao Ming. It takes good care of the Chinese audience.

10:30 in Houston is exactly like 8:30 in BJ time, and most of the Rockets games are gathered on Friday and Saturday in the United States. Every Chinese fan who likes the Rockets can enjoy it leisurely on the morning of weekends. While eating fried dough sticks, he turned on the TV to watch Dayao's performance.

After talking about the Rockets, let's talk about the Seattle Supersonics who visited today.

Since Payton the Glove, Kemp the Rainman, supplemented by Ricky Pierce in the last century, the supersonic team has reached the finals for the first time, but 30 years in east and 30 years in river west, since that time by Chicago After the Bulls were killed, the Sonics' luck seemed to be exhausted. The team was kept out of the playoffs. In order to get rid of the decline, the Sonics' top management decided to rebuild. They traded Ray Allen The Celtics acquired the emperor West and the No. 5 rookie Jeff Green, and then used their No. 2 position to sign last year's best rookie Kevin Durant. The team's road to reconstruction is half successful.

However, because Durant was too strong at the beginning, the arrival of him and Green did not bring substantial improvement to the Sonics' record. Instead, they dived straight and achieved the worst record in team history of 20 wins and 62 losses. Got the fourth overall pick and is still slowly on the road to reconstruction.

One summer has passed, and Durant's originally skinny body has become a lot stronger now, but that is only a limited improvement. When he and James enter the league because of cheating, they can compete with James. When chinchillas of a smaller size stood together, his figure was still thinner.

But Schoolbag Du's height and wingspan are really insane. He is at least 2 meters tall and has 1cm long arms, which makes him a bit too perverted at the small forward position. Now it is because he is too Thin has not adapted to the confrontation at the nba level, and his weak dribbling ability prevents him from attacking with the ball, but this is only temporary. In time, he can connect his strength and dribbling, and stabilize the mid-range three-pointer. This league I guess no one can defend him one-on-one.
The game whistle sounded, and Collison and Yao Ming scrambled for the ball. The little giant once again died on his 20cm bounce, and Collison snatched the ball with the advantage of half a palm.

Russell Westbrook came to the front court with the ball. Now the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are not the impulsive teenager who takes the ball and does it. He just came to the strange arena of the NBA. Westbrook is still a very good boy. The coach of the team said that Durant is the core of his team, so he naturally handed over the first attack to Schoolbag Du.

Artest took two steps forward to resist Durant. He let out his big words a few days ago. In this game, in addition to deliberately pushing out Totoro and not passing the ball to him, he also had to play an impressive game. Convincing good data will do.

As for why Artest would dislocate Durant, it was because he volunteered with the coach to play the small forward position before the game. He wanted to prove himself by freezing the top scorer in the opposing team. Totoro Of course there is no objection, the Chinese are happy to play as a guest shooting guard.

The current Tiedu is still of the type that will fall when the wind blows. The Beast's serious defensive attitude on the first ball immediately overwhelmed the underprepared Durant, but the basketball court is not a one-on-one bullfight. Power forward Jeff Green made a pick-and-roll for him, and Schoolbag Du got a starting space in an instant.

Artest squeezed Green hard, and Durant didn't get rid of the beast in this pick-and-roll, but it was enough.

Tiedu raised the ball above his head and threw it. Artest next to him could only look at the ball and sigh. There is at least a 15cm gap between the two of them. Unless he can fly the ball, the only thing he can hope for is The opponent missed his own shot.

"Shh!"

However, today Durant played very smoothly and felt very good. He hit the first shot steadily and opened the scoring for the Sonics.

The Rockets attacked, and the first ball naturally fell into Yao Ming's hands. Even if Artest wanted to prove himself today, he would not dare to compete with the team boss for the first ball. The little giant still turned over after receiving the ball as usual The jump shot made Collison, who was also flawed in height, feel the helplessness of a beast just now.

The two sides came and went, until the first official timeout, the Rockets and the Supersonics played at 19:21, and the Rockets were still two points behind in the face of the belly.

The Rockets have no problem with their touch and shooting, but the problem lies in the fact that Durant, a sophomore, is in such a good state. Except for the first two balls that require his teammates to help him with a few pick-and-rolls, the schoolbag that made the goal Du seemed to be fully fired, and the rest of them bukkake on the head of the beast one after another. In the first 7 minutes, he scored 7 points on 6 shots, 15 minutes and two free throws. The unlucky Artest was completely blown away by others. Clean up.

If it weren't for the Sonics' defense being as shitty as last season, maybe the Rockets are not in the stage of entanglement with the opponent now, but have been completely dumped by the opponent to eat ashes.
The Beast lost all face on the defensive end, but of course the offensive end wants to fight back.

Of course, the players on the court will not give Artest face for such a matter of the players' face, but other players except Brooks are not so hardworking. Randolph just came to the team and Artest has no intersection. It must have chosen not to stand on the sidelines, and Totoro would not deliberately serve the beast as a pick-and-roll, which caused the beast to get lost under the defense of the Sonics.

(End of this chapter)