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Chapter 61 The So-Called Star

Whether a player can become a star depends mainly on four aspects: physical talent, basketball skills, sense of the ball and leadership temperament. Among them, if you have three, you are a proper All-Star, and if you have four, you are a superstar. .

The first is his physical fitness, which is almost a necessary condition for every player to stand out and become a star. Nash, Thomas Jr., Paul, Iverson all have inhuman speed, Kobe has sky-defying stagnation, Wade has Excellent explosive power, O'Neal and Howard are powerful, Yao Ming, Nowitzki and Gasol are the best static talents (height, wingspan), James is very strong in every physical quality.
Stars always have one or several items of physical talent that surpass other ordinary players. Artest's body is particularly tough, which is barely qualified.

But in terms of two technologies, the Beast is far behind.

Artest's mid-range shot is not very stable, you can see it when it's accurate, but when it feels bad, you can't make it, and your breakthrough skills are even worse.
Do you have any reels where you see The Beast dribble in disguise or do a deft turn around someone?Did you see the Beast score with a skilled post-up technique with some hooks or big dream steps?Anyway, Totoro said that he has never seen it before. The only way Artest can score is to use his body to kill a bloody path or to catch and shoot open shots. Artest, who has degenerated in one step, is a bit out of control.

Finally, in terms of ball sense and leadership, I am afraid that no one thinks that the beast can have it. Fighting for a player does not represent a player's leadership. This is a basketball arena, not a boxing arena.
Durant is skinny, but his height and wingspan are there. Even if Artest squeezes him a step away, Durant's raised hands can still affect the beast's shooting. At that time, the beast had no way to stop it except for fouls. This is the gap in physical talent, and it is also the fundamental reason why Tie Du can become a league superstar in the end but Artest is only a quasi-All-Star.

The Beast shot three times in a row, but the Rockets were not opened up by the Supersonics. The reason was that the Rockets' powerful inside line finally showed its power in this game. Yao Ming was in charge of the middle, and Randolph and Totoro were alone. On the one hand, the Rockets have a height and weight advantage in almost every position. As long as the basketball does not bounce very far or very low, it is almost in the Rockets' pocket.

Artest and Brooks missed five shots in total. This is the only five shots the Rockets have missed since the opening game. However, the combination of Little Giant + Rotten Tofu + Dragon grabbed four offensive rebounds and put The missed bullets were scored again last time, which made the Sonics a bit unbearable.

During the official timeout, Adelman didn't say a word, didn't arrange tactics or criticize the players, he directly pushed the beast who was out of order and had a bit of a bad mood on the bench, replaced Battier and put the Totoro back on the bench. Transferred back to the small forward position, that's all he did in 60 seconds.

The corners of Totoro's mouth curled up slightly, but he didn't do anything. Artest was sent to the bench by the coach because of his arrears IQ. Black and hard is really a creature with well-developed limbs but a simple mind.

The old coach thinks the Princeton system is more important than his own life. You are on the court alone with the ball and doing a few blind jobs. There is no conduction or movement. The most important thing is that you miss three shots. The coach doesn’t mess with you. Damn it.
Now that the beast has stepped down, it's time for his own show.

Facing Durant, especially Tie Du, who is in explosive form, Chinchilla said that he has no good way.

People’s jump shots are like shooting from the balcony on the second floor. The most important thing is that after the first summer’s hard work, Durant’s breakthrough with the ball has not yet been practiced, but the emergency stop jump shot is already accurate. Totoro It does not completely limit Durant.

But when Yao Ming deliberately handed over the ball to Totoro, the Rockets' offensive situation was completely different.

Totoro was strong with the ball, and the Sonics still sent a person to double-team Chinchilla just like they did to Artest, and then they found that the basketball had disappeared from Totoro's hands.

Totoro doesn't care about the huge gap in scoring between himself and Durant. Although before the game, this ordinary regular season was played up as a duel between the best first-year sf and the best second-year sf in the league, Kelong Cats really don't care about their short-term lag in statistics.

The basketball was passed to the unguarded weak side by him, the Sonics players made up, and the Rockets players continued to rotate.

The Sonics are undoubtedly a young team with full potential and unlimited youth.

But no matter how fast young players are, they can't really run to a running basketball.

After the Rockets player started from the right corner with the ball on, and ran around the Sonics player like a dog around the three-point line, Battier, who was ambushing in the left corner, finally had his chance, and the president decisively Shot, the hand raised the knife and fell, and the three-pointer hit the front of the basket and missed.

Although the attack was not marked, Adelman stood up from the bench and applauded the players on the field.

This is the basketball concept he wants to see. Create open opportunities through continuous interspersed running and continuous sharing of the ball. Failure to make open shots is something that every coach can’t blame, but it’s not according to the coach’s formula It is something that every coach cannot forgive.

However, the chinchilla, which leaped high, told the old man with a ground-breaking back button that you applauded a little too early this time.

Durant is a little taller than Totoro, and his wingspan is a little longer than Totoro, but in terms of jumping ability, Du Ke, a schoolbag with a vertical bounce of only 85cm, is not as good as Totoro, who can bounce 100cm in place.

The first is the physical contact when the position is blocked. Durant and the small bamboo pole are a little out of balance by the chinchilla behind. Once the physical contact is made in the air, Durant is no longer an opponent.
Totoro, with the momentum of a god, pressed the schoolbag Du from behind and poured the basketball into the basket, while Tie Du staggered from the air and fell to the ground.

"boom!"

The air defense siren sounded in the arena above the Toyota Center. All the Rockets fans who came to the scene were stunned for a moment, and then they tried their best to shout out the excitement in their hearts!

(End of this chapter)