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Chapter 820 Second round, Houston Rockets

The Los Angeles Lakers VS Houston Rockets, this is much more interesting than the previous round.

The Mavericks lack star power, except for a 36-year-old Dirk Nowitzki, there are no more stars.

But the Rockets are different. First of all, Howard + Harden alone is enough for countless people to look forward to, because before the start of this season, they were the league's No. [-] center and the league's No. [-] center awarded by ESPN.Coupled with the unobstructed words of the two people, they were virtually attracted to "hatred". Kobe VS Harden, Tang Qian VS Howard, are obviously a major concern.

其次火箭队的阵容也比小牛队强了不少，他们得分能力很强, 常规赛高达场均107+得分。这比雷霆队还要多了。详细看，外线有接近17+6+4+1的钱德勒.帕森斯, 本赛季入选了二防的帕特里克.贝弗利，12+7+1+1的泰伦斯.琼斯。以及掉到了替补席的林书豪。

This lineup is very explosive, and the bench also has excellent finishing points and scoring firepower. At the beginning of the season, ESPN believed that they had the top five odds of winning the league. This is not a random thing.However, this lineup has obvious flaws.And James Harden has a fatal problem until at least the 2017 playoffs.

This is even more so in the 13-14 season. Before September 2015, Tang Qian knew it well.

ESPN's broadcast gimmick for this game is "Are you ready?"It means that this round of the series will be full of excitement.

Fans on the Internet also exploded, and Lakers and Rockets fans began to "fight":
Get rid of the Lakers!We are ready!Victory belongs to Space City!Harden + Howard! GOGOGO! ! !

Kill the Texans! ! !Victory belongs to Los Angeles! ! !
We took out Los Angeles once! ! !Don't care to do it again! ! ! (This is referring to the Los Angeles Clippers who eliminated the high-level earthquakes in the previous round)
Can the Clippers also represent Los Angeles? ? ?Take a good look! ! !Where are the championship trophies in the city of Los Angeles! ! !
霍华德才是第一中锋！看看他的首轮数据！26+13.7+1.8+2.8！命中率54.7%！！！这才叫做攻防一体的真正统治者！！！常规赛刷得再狠也不也就那样吗？季后赛就不行了！！！

Tang just implemented D'Antoni's defensive arrangement and sacrificed his own data, idiot!Besides, James Harden plays basketball, are you sure you don't need to use a magnifying glass to look at it a hundred times?Dipping everywhere, enough is enough!I like Kobe to blow him up!Teach him to be a man! ! !

Neutral fans are:

super excited! ! !I love switching to this set of series matchups! ! !
Both sides are strong and strong! ! !Is this about to start a battle of the gods? ? ?looking forward to! ! !
Compared with this, the discussion in the east is full of "bad-mouthing":
Dry!It's the Heat again! ! !Are our Nets doomed to stop in the second round? ? ?

Your Nets team is also very luxurious and star-studded, what are you afraid of?Lopez + Joe. Johnson + Deron + Pierce + Garnett, as well as Kirilenko, Livingston, etc., I am definitely not worse than the Heat, right? ? ?
Lopez? ? ?Dude, I haven't seen this guy a few times, okay?He has been injured a long time ago, and he has no place in the playoffs!Besides, if these people are all 7 to 8 years younger, then it's about the same. Otherwise, you have also seen the results of the old four kings of the Lakers team last year?The fighting power is not very strong!
Moreover, our broken net team is not very harmonious, which is also a fatal injury!
Okay, okay, I can't wait to be swept away again! ! !

Thanks. Fuck. the. Heat! ! ! (Thank you, the heat of the grass mud horse!!! This sentence was very popular in foreign forums in those years)

The Heat should be allowed to go west! ! !Damn Heat! ! !Damn the pinnacle of the Big Three! ! !
Pregame press conference, Houston Rockets.

We will win!This year's Houston is the strongest in the past ten years! — Dwight Howard.

The Lakers are strong, but we're not bad either!The playoffs are a fresh start!I don't care if the opponent is number one in the league or has the regular season MVP trophy! —James Harden.

We have our own advantages! —Kevin McHale.

The Lakers responded:
It doesn't matter whether the Houston Rockets are the strongest in the past ten years!All I know is that the Lakers are a championship team! — Kobe Bryant.

I will do my best!This may be my last trip to the playoffs! - Steve Nash.

Howard?I'll get him too!He's not Dirk, is he? ——Tang Qian.

Kevin may have been great as a player, but as a head coach, he still has a lot of room for growth! — D'Antoni.

As the "opening game" of the second round of the playoffs, ESPN has made sufficient preparations for this game. First of all, it has done an analysis and preview. It is probably the Rockets' inside line, which is a main point, because Howard The state is very good, but the personal state of No. 29 of the Lakers is just the opposite, very poor. The average data of 26+13.7+1.8+2.8 and the shooting percentage of 54.7% undoubtedly surpassed the current data of the opponent Dongfang Tang in the playoffs of 9.3+11.2+0.8+3.2 and the shooting percentage of just over 40%.

This undoubtedly made some people at ESPN feel happy, feeling that they had finally made a prediction, and Howard was still the league's number one center.As for Tang Qian?He is a regular season player! ! !The playoffs are the big stage, right? ? ?

Kobe's last round of data is relatively hard, not easy to black, at least Harden can't compare, but Tang Qian and Howard can definitely make a big fuss.With Tang Qian's "disrespect" and "grievances" towards them, there is no reason to "forgive" and "let go" so easily.

Dongfangtang VS Warcraft?Maybe the former can do a little bit in the regular season, but in the playoffs, everything will be decided.

Howard's data crushed Dongfang Hot! ! !This is why we say that "Warcraft" is still the first center in the league!
Attack and defense in one!This is the true nature of a superstar! ! !Dongfang Hot is still far from the playoffs! ! !

If Howard was still on the Lakers, the Lakers could indeed compete with the Heat this season, but unfortunately, they made the wrong choice and left the weak!Give up the strong!This is definitely one of the biggest professional stains in Kupchak's life!

In the game against the Clippers, Howard's efficiency was higher than Dongfang Hot, whether it was restricting inside players from scoring or protecting the basket, so I think he is still the league's number one center!For the first team and first defense next season, he should be given priority!Otherwise, it is actually unfair!

Most of these words are bullshit taken out of context. In terms of statistics, Tang Qian's task is to stay away from the basket and the penalty area, and to specifically mark Dirk Nowitzki.In this case, what rebounds do you let him grab?What kind of cap?Even so, he also surrendered 11+ rebounds and 3+ blocks in the series, didn't he?You let Howard go out to mark Nowitzki to try?What else is there to limit the efficiency of inside players scoring and protecting the basket? This is even more nonsense, a bit of nonsense!Tang Qian didn't stay under the basket for a long time in the entire series, especially on the defensive end, so this number is naturally much inferior to that of Dwight Howard who has been staying in the paint. ESPN's approach is really "disgusting", deliberately avoiding the truth and just talking about some data that is beneficial to their own views.

Tang Qian kept holding his breath, so when he looked at Howard, his gaze was also full of "vicious spirits", as if he wanted to turn his opponent directly and tear him apart.It's not that Howard has never seen this kind of gaze before, so he shrank his neck a little bit, turned his head to avoid looking directly at Tang Qian.

Before the game, Kobe won the MVP trophy, which is the second time in Kobe's career, but his acceptance speech has always run through one center, that is... now is just the beginning, and winning the championship is all.

These words quickly made the Staples Center enthusiastic and shouted loudly.

After the awards ceremony, the two sides began to warm up, and then introduced the players one by one, and the two sides started to play officially.

The Lakers are still Kobe + Nash + Gasol + Meeks + Tang Qian, while the Rockets are Harden + Howard + Chandler Parsons + Patrick Beverly + Terrence Jones.

"Bryant, I will not lose to you." Harden and Kobe walked to the opposing position and said.

Kobe glanced at him, and said in an extremely flat tone: "You are too young."

Tang Qian and Howard stood in the middle circle, ready to fight for the ball.

Although Howard tried his best, he is not Tang Qian's opponent for jumping the ball. In fact, Tang Qian has rarely made mistakes in the regular season until now.It doesn't matter whether he is a "Warcraft" or "the first center in the league".

Of course, Harden was a little annoyed by Kobe's attitude. After all, he played well in the first round, but he and the super-peak Kobe singled out, that is to seek abuse.Now this Kobe is not the Kobe of the 11-12 season.Tonnage + speed + strength + explosive force + elasticity, that is more than Rocket 13 in an all-round way.So Kobe broke through Harden on the first ball, and then rushed inside for a dunk.

Bang~ The basket slammed loudly, and because Howard was pulled away by Tang Qian, he didn't have time to defend the ball.

The Lakers took the first place by relying on Kobe's dunk.

2-0.

The Rockets didn't feel very good and fell into a stalemate.The first few balls were shot and ironed.

This is not surprising, the Rockets did not have a complete offensive system and offensive system, and McHale's head coach level is limited, so they can't open it.And Harden is a shooting guard in name, but in this team and the Rockets, he plays the two-group combination of position 1 + position 2.Just look at the Rockets' assists, but Harden is the undisputed NO.1.Most of the ball power is actually concentrated in his hands.As for the No. 1 Beverly? ? ?He's a defensive fighter, a 3-and-D player.On the offensive end this season, even though he is frequently released and the defensive pressure is not high, he can still only surrender a shooting percentage in the early 41%.Coupled with the mess of autonomous offensive ability and organizational offensive ability, and his limited height, he will not magnify Nash's defensive loopholes too much.At this point, the Lakers are lucky, because whether it is the Mavericks in the first round or the current Rockets, their No. 1 position has limited offensive capabilities.Therefore, the biggest shortcoming of Nash has not been shown much. The shortcomings of the Lakers have been strengthened invisibly.

As for Beverly relying on his own physical fitness and young and strong Nash?That's okay too.

First, although Nash's defense is completely sloppy due to his physical fitness, his basketball IQ and experience have not weakened. He only needs to block one side so that Beverly can move freely on both sides.Second, the current Rockets are not the Mavericks in the last round. Without Dirk Nowitzki, the king of 7-foot shooting, Tang Qian can also return to the inside, return to the penalty area, and return to the basket.And the Lakers have him at the basket, even if the "Demon" has weakened his competitive state by 16% tonight, he is still a strong league rim protector!At least Beverly's scoring level, entering the basket and attacking Tang Qian, that is...

"A block!!! Tang told Beverly with a big cap that the Lakers' basket is not a public parking lot. Come and go if you want!!!"

At the same time, Nash quickly pushed the ball with the ball very familiarly, a wave of fast breaks, 3 and 1, and the Lakers Meeks made a layup.

The Lakers scored another 2 points, 4-0.

The Rockets gave Beverley again, but they still returned without success. The head coach of the Rockets, McHale, had good intentions. He also knew that the weakest point of the Lakers on the field is the 2-time MVP owner, Steve. husband. Nash.He has passed his 40th birthday, and his defense is completely broken. It is not a problem for Beverly to break through him.Many teams in the regular season, as long as Nash is on the court, will attack this point intentionally or unintentionally.Didn't the Mavericks let Jose Calderon do that last round?
The effect is decent, at least facing the 40-year-old Nash, Calderon seems to have opened up, and his ability to attack independently has improved a lot.In fact, of course, this has nothing to do with Calderon's offense, it's just the defender's defense, which really doesn't work.Therefore, the opponent is in good condition.But there is a problem here, that is, when playing with the Mavericks, because of Nowitzki, Tang Qian spent most of his time in the high position and flanks away from the penalty area, unable to take care of the basket and protect the basket. Although Gasol is not bad , but when it comes to assisting defense and supplementary defense, he is far behind Tang Qian.Therefore, Calderon has no shortage of shots and direct layups after breaking through Nash in the series.But now, this is not easy to use, because Tang Qian returned to the basket in this round of the series. With him, Beverly wanted to rush in and attack the basket at close range, that was all a daydream!Secondly, Beverley does not have the ability to shoot mid-range.He is the typical three-pointer who relies on a lot of fixed-point and muscle exercises to improve quickly.This kind of player will not be rare in the future.Look at the distribution of Beverley's mid-range and mid-range baskets this season.

It can only be described as appalling.

35% and 23.5%.

This is still the shooting percentage when most of the shots are open.

Of course, Steve Nash carefully looked at the statistics of his opponent before the game. Among them, the mid-range, he found something that he could use.Especially for medium and long-range shots over 16 feet, even if Beverly is completely empty, the problem will not be too much trouble.

Sure enough, when Beverly failed to attack the inside twice, he chose to stop and shoot in this attack.

And this scene almost made Nash laugh.

You are a "blacksmith" in ordinary CIC, let alone the more difficult and technical emergency stop jumper?

There are fewer and fewer people who are good at mid-range shooting. ESPN's article "On the Cost-effectiveness of Mid-range and Three-point Lines" has played a great role in guiding public opinion.So even if Nash can't defend against this kind of ball, the shooting rate is estimated to not be higher than 23.5%.

when~
Tang Qian grabbed the rebound and passed the ball, Nash passed the ball to Kobe, Kobe ran back without the ball and shot slightly backwards.

Swipe~ The basketball passed through the defender's fingers and entered the net smoothly.

6-0, it didn't take long for McHale to call a timeout. It seemed that the "surprise tactics" he arranged before the game had declared bankruptcy and failed.

Although Nash's defense is completely sloppy, it is definitely not something that Beverly, who has extremely poor autonomous offensive ability, can knead at will.

Kevin McHale paid the price for being smart.

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