King of the Point Guard Era

Chapter 75 "Slim" Kevin Martin
The current head coach of the Rockets is Adelman, the coach who led the Kings to the peak of the team at the beginning of the century.The Princeton system shined in the Kings, but they had no choice but to meet the OK combination that was in full swing at the time.Before the start of the game, when Adelman entered the field at home, a big slogan was written on the screen: Thank you Adelman for his eight years in the Kings and dedicating countless wonderful games to us.Many fans also played slogans welcoming Adelman at home.

But the welcome is the welcome, Adelman's touch is the touch, the game still has to continue.Rockets in the first few games have verified Hayes's infeasibility, Adelman must strengthen the height of the inside, and another King's old player Brad Miller was sent to the field.But Miller's height is enough, and the confrontation is not good enough. The king also has no choice but to double-team Cousins. Although Cousins ​​is a center forward, his passing vision is good. The ball was given to He Yixiang, and the three-pointer went up and down, and the basketball fell straight into the net.

The Kings relied on the powerful inside to play impressively, and the Rockets also started to exert their strength, but they started to go crazy from the outside.Martin took advantage of Battier's pick-and-roll without the ball and then made a three-pointer in an extremely weird way after receiving the ball. Regardless of this guy's awkward posture, the three-pointer is really fast and accurate.He Yixiang was only delayed for a while, and Martin directly and three-pointed.

In the next round, Martin continued to face He Yixiang's defense. This time he actually planned to dribble aggressively. Compared with his shooting ability, his dribbling ability can only be said to be good among guards.However, He Yixiang is the league's steal king this season. He stepped up, saw the opportunity, and directly made a steal with his excellent wingspan.

After breaking the ball, He Yixiang smiled slightly, the breaking of the ball was really relaxed and comfortable!He was about to take the ball for a fast break, but the whistle sounded, and the referee decisively called He Yixiang a pushing foul.He thought that He Yixiang had a pushing action before the steal.He Yixiang was stunned for a moment, and when he saw Martin lying on the ground, even He Yixiang himself felt that he had made a foul.He looked at the big screen curiously, did he really push Martin down without noticing?

But immediately the big screen told He Yixiang and the fans in the audience that although there was some physical contact, He Yixiang's long arm touched the ball first, and then Martin only made physical contact when he wanted to regain the ball after being intercepted.Although He Yixiang is 195cm and weighs 93kg, he is definitely not a strong defender, but Martin is too thin. He is only 201kg at 84cm.In this snatching process, it is completely normal physical contact when neither side has the ball.There is no way, the two of them together will give the referee such a feeling, with Martin's body, standing next to him, you should feel that you have fouled.

There were bursts of boos in the audience. Although Martin also won a lot of whistles in the Kings. In 09, he averaged 10.3 free throws per game. moments, plus Martin's pregame "domination of the arena" tweet.You must know that Martin was criticized for not having a bossy temperament in the Kings before, but now he is a lot more confident in the Rockets. The combination of various reasons also makes Kings fans extremely dissatisfied with this.

Westphal was angry at the foul: "It was a beautiful strike. He didn't touch that guy at all. He was too thin." If it weren't for the assistant coach Scholes hugging him calmly , Westphal is estimated to go to the field to eat T.

"This foul is simply a body whistle. He's steal can easily score two points. We all know Martin's speed, and he will never catch up with him."

"No, this can't even be called a body whistle, at most it can only be called a sympathy whistle!"

"Is this really our home court? Why can't I feel the treatment of the home court at all?"

Despite the arena booing everywhere and the coach complaining angrily, the referee will firmly uphold the original verdict. The Rockets continued to attack. At the first moment of the ball, he found Martin, who felt good. This crooked machine gun once again received a pass in the open space, fired again, and hit another three-pointer.The Rockets chased the score to only three points.

Martin's performance is far from over. I have to say that Martin's breakthrough was a thief. The next ball was in front of Iguodala, a defensive champion. He still stumbled into the inside line and made a strong layup. When La tried to block him, there was a physical confrontation in the air with Iguodala, who was a stronger guy than He Yixiang, and Martin flew back of course.

The whistle sounded again, and Iguodala blocked the foul.Iguodala frowned when he heard the whistle, and he immediately went to the referee to argue that his ball was not out of position or violated the cylinder, but the referee ignored it.

"Martin is starting to touch porcelain, the king is not used to it!" Director Zhang saw that Martin was destroying the king's defense with his familiar routine.

Another commentator, Yang Yi, also nodded: "These two fouls will cause the Kings a headache. They only have 8 players available, and Darnell Jackson is a big gift package, which means that the Kings can actually fight. There are only 7 of them, and letting the two core players commit a foul so early will definitely have an impact on the next team's rotation."

However, the king's dual-core is still brave. In the final attack of the first quarter, Cousins ​​didn't give Miller any face when he returned to his home team. stand up.When Miller stood on his heels and came up again, he could only send a meaningless foul and a free throw.Cousins, who was hanging on the basket, looked down at Miller with a look down. That look seemed to be swearing that the King's restricted area now belongs to me.

At the end of the first quarter, the Kings led by 31 points at 22:9.He Yixiang had 9 points and 3 assists, and Cousins ​​had 11 points and 4 rebounds.The two broke out directly in the first quarter and wanted to open the score.On the other hand, the Rockets were not going well. If it weren't for Martin's two-for-two three-pointers and four free throws to support the Rockets, the Rockets might have opened up a double-digit point difference in the first quarter.

But on the surface, the Kings still have an advantage in the score, but Westphal frowned because of the team's foul.If you don't want to lose this ranking battle, the average playing time of the three core players is 10 minutes per game.And He Yixiang has already got one foul, and Iguodala has got two fouls.Coincidentally, their fouls were committed by the same person - Martin.

(End of this chapter)