hall of fame small forward

Chapter 93

In the next game, the Rockets will challenge the San Antonio Spurs away.

The Spurs are a weird team.

A few years is a very long time for other NBA teams, because just because of a few years, the team you were familiar with will become unrecognizable, and the speed and extent of the team's major changes are beyond your expectations.

But the Spurs will always be made up of those few people. Entering the arena, you can always see the old man Popovich standing on the sidelines and spitting at the referee, and you can see Shifo standing on the court with a blank face for warm-up training , you can see a semi-bald Argentinian uncle making fun of it, you can see a French sports car flirting with his beautiful wife on the field, when you see these pictures, you know that you are already in AT ; It's inside the arena.

The city of San Antonio is not small. It is the second largest city in Texas and the seventh largest city in the United States, with 1205 square kilometers, but the city's ball market is really small.

For some reason, the people of San Antonio are not very interested in the sport of basketball. When Duncan came to the Holy City, the team even faced the dilemma of being sold under the leadership of Admiral David Robinson. However, the stone Buddha A power forward destined to be a top-20 Hall of Famer came here and changed it.

Odd-numbered championships one after another have made people in the Holy City fall in love with the sport of basketball, although the Spurs still give people a relatively poor feeling.
When mobilizing in the locker room before the game, Adelman also knew that the game was not easy to play, so he rationally did not ask the team to win, but asked them to use their best in this game.

The Spurs are now also facing the embarrassment of aging and being out of date.

Needless to say GDP, Duncan, who was born in 76, is now 33 years old, Ginobili, who was born in 77, is 32 years old, and Parker, who was born in the 80s, is still a little younger, but he seems to be in the third year.

Looking at the other players, Horry is 70 years old in 39, Bowen is 71 years old in 38, Kurt Thomas is 72 years old in 37, Finley is 73 years old in 36, Mason is 80 years old in 29 years, 81 years old Gooden is 28 years old, and this is an out-and-out legion of old men.
But what's interesting is that no matter how unreasonable the Spurs' lineup structure is, they are always strong contenders for the championship every year. As long as Popovich and gdp are around, they are frequent visitors of 50 wins in the regular season every year. You can You can attribute them to Shifo's getting older and more demonic, and you can also attribute it to Popovich's resourcefulness, but in any case, this is the Spurs, a team that has never dared to underestimate since entering the 20th century. Watch the team.

The Rockets said that they did not underestimate their opponents, but the Rockets lost themselves in the ATT Arena today.

Duncan blocked Yao Ming, and many players could only double-team against Yao Ming, but Shi Fu was one of the few players who could limit the little giant on his own and play a role on the offensive end in addition to the defensive end.

Parker and Ginobili took turns to attack the direction of Totoro. The young and vigorous Totoro naturally never refused to come. In the first half, he sent out 6 hot pots in a row. Going to the North, I think it broke the record of the Rockets in the history of the Rockets in the halftime held by Olajuwon in one fell swoop. The Rockets entered the second half with a 6-point advantage.

However, just after the interruption of the third quarter, the over-excited Totoro on the defensive end graduated with 6 fouls
This is still under the condition that the referee's whistle is not a big problem, otherwise, according to the whistle of Yao Ming, Totoro may not be able to survive the first half.

Popovich smiled happily off the court. Everyone saw that Totoro was awesome. Indeed, his potential was so good, but the old man could see Totoro's current weakness.

In 8 games, he averaged 4.3 fouls per game. Including 2 games where he graduated with 6 fouls, one game with 5 fouls, and the rest were 4 fouls and 3 fouls. This rookie can't control the scale of defense at all.

As a defensive end, you can't block every ball, and you can't reach out to steal every ball. This is to foul the referee.
Even if you cap ten opponents, and these ten balls are all good caps, the referee will blow at least five of them, because no matter how capable you are, you can’t play like this. How can you let other teams play like this?
So when to play and when to cap is a very profound knowledge. It seems that Chinchilla needs several months to understand this defensive technique.

But don't look at Popovich mocking Totoro in his heart. If the Rockets are willing to trade Totoro now, the old man is willing to use any bargaining chip except GPD to trade Totoro. If it is not possible, let a G or a P is not non-negotiable.
After being defeated by the Spurs, the Rockets had no time to sum up the failure, and all flew to New Orleans by plane to challenge the Hornets led by Chris Paul.

The current queen bee is still the top point guard in the league. Before the meniscus is torn next season, Chris Paul has almost shown all the qualities that a superstar point guard should possess. Except for height, Paul has almost no weaknesses.

Yao Ming and boxing champion Tyson Chandler had a slight advantage in the matchup, Rotten Tofu and David West were evenly divided, Totoro beat Serbian shooter Jape Stojakovic all the way, Battier and James Poe West blasted each other on the defensive end.

The Rockets still lost the game, however, because the Queen Bee did a ton of damage to them.

41 points, 16 assists and 4 steals, scoring only 2 points less than his career high, assists only 5 times less than his career high, and Paul also broke the record, becoming the first in history to score 40+16+ 4 players, this is something that no great player in history has ever done.

The Rockets lack a qualified No. [-] right now. Little Black Bean is really a small black hole. His defensive ability is more urgent than Nash. The offensive end is not as capable of playing back as Zonda, and Lowry is too young. The defenders who are at their peak can only explode on the spot.
The Rockets rushed to Oklahoma with a two-game losing streak to challenge the Thunder, which had just moved their location and changed their new team name.

(End of this chapter)