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Chapter 292 Yao Ming lacks arrogance!Ask for a subscription, ask for a monthly pass!
Chapter 290 Yao Ming lacks arrogance!
"Well, to be honest, I really didn't expect this game to be played like this."

George Gervin looked at the scores of the two teams at the end of the first quarter, and said slightly unexpectedly.

"Actually, I don't think any of you thought that the game would turn out like this."

"How should I put it? Although the Rockets are still in the leading position, the performance of the Rockets in the first quarter always makes me feel that this is not a team that can win the championship steadily or even establish a dynasty!"

"Originally, I thought that with the current strength of the Rockets, at the end of the first quarter, they might not necessarily have a big lead, but it should have already started, and they should take some initiative in the game!"

"It even made many people feel that the Rockets are stable in this game at a glance."

"But looking at it now, let alone the Rockets have taken the initiative, they are even in a state of being counter-suppressed by the Eagles!"

"Facing the performance of the Rockets in such a game, I really don't understand what is the reason?"

Looking at the slightly puzzled George Gervin, Olajuwon explained.

"Yes, that's true. As for why the Rockets are playing like this, I personally think it's because of Yao Ming's indecisiveness."

"As the leader of the Rockets and the absolute core of the team, in the first quarter, Yao Ming's performance was not as terrifying as everyone imagined!"

"In the first quarter of the game, Yao Ming always passed the basketball when the Eagles tended to form a three-man siege, but did not resolutely put further pressure on the inside."

"In fact, I personally think that Yao Ming's current personal offensive strength, if he can be more determined when attacking inside, it will bring a huge sense of oppression to the Eagles' inside defense!"

"At that time, the Eagles, a relatively immature inside combination, can only be rubbed under Yao Ming!"

"Of course, part of the reason is that there are indeed some problems with the shooting touch and offensive state of the outside players of the Rockets today."

"After all, Yao Ming has compressed the overall defense of the Eagles to the three-second zone, and other players can get a lot of shooting opportunities from beyond the three-point line or in the middle and long distances."

"If the outside players of the Rockets can maintain their normal shooting percentage and shooting touch, the Eagles will be at least two goals behind at the end of the first quarter."

"Yes, I agree with Hajim's judgment, and from my personal point of view.

The Eagles’ interior defense is actually more of a false contraction defense. Whether it is Xu Lang or Darko Milicic, they always move half a step to the interior to force Yao Ming to pass the ball to the outside. , will quickly return to their defensive position. "

"This is also one of the reasons why the outside players of the Rockets hesitated a little and had poor shooting touch after opportunities appeared on the outside."

"I think if Yao Ming can be more resolute in compressing the interior, it will be difficult for the Eagles to withstand Yao Ming's strong attack in the interior with the current strength of the interior defense."

As two former super insiders, Ewing and Olajuwon both know very clearly that as a super insider, they want to truly play their role and restraint on the field.

Then a decisive and resolute inside attack is the best method.

Of course, this strong attack does not mean that he must attack violently with his back like O'Neill. After all, not everyone belongs to O'Neill.

Just like Olajuwon's offense most of the time, more is to use footsteps and breakthrough shots to complete the offense.

Obviously, Yao Ming failed to do this in the first quarter.

In fact, as a coach who once coached a super insider like Ewing, Van Gundy Jr. also saw Yao Ming's problem on the offensive end in the first quarter.

So when Yao Ming was resting, Van Gundy kept emphasizing with Yao Ming that he should be more decisive and tough when attacking inside.

"Yao, I need you to play tougher after you come on the field."

"I don't even require you to be able to attack successfully. As long as you can complete the offensive action inside, I believe that the Eagles' inside defense is completely unstoppable."

"At that point they'll either let you complete the shot, or they can only foul you."

"In this way, no matter what, Yao can better control the inside line."

"There is still a second quarter, Love, you go on the court to lead the bench lineup first, Sean, you will replace Love and cooperate with the starting lineup."

I have to say that Van Gundy in the first two quarters is still very good in terms of personal tactical quality.

Whether it's the timely player rotation or the enlightenment of Yao Ming, Van Gundy's performance is completely at the level of a championship-level coach.

Van Gundy can clearly see that the current starting lineup of the Rockets does not need a point guard with good ball handling and passing quality.

Instead, you only need a point guard who can shoot from the outside.

After all, the Rockets now have too many players in control of the ball!
And as long as McGrady can hand the ball to Yao Ming, the entire Rockets tactical system can be fully operational.

Therefore, when the second quarter came up, the Rockets' bench lineup became the state led by Ralph Alston.

In fact, compared with the starting lineup, the Rockets' bench lineup actually needs a player with better ball handling and passing skills to organize the offense.

Originally, Van Gundy planned to put Francis on the bench and become a control player on the bench.

After all, although Francis is a little older, as a veteran, Francis' age is now in the period when the veteran can play the most residual heat.

However, the impact of the injury Francis could not stand was too serious.

In the preseason, Francis performed well in the face of a relatively low-intensity game, and the impact of injury problems did not seem to be too great.

But in the last few minutes of the first quarter of the game, Francis played against the Hawks' bench lineup, but after making two turnovers in less than 4 minutes.

The efficiency of the offensive end is not high, and the speed of the defensive end can't keep up. Don't say that Francis will lead the bench lineup like Van Gundy originally planned.
This also made Van Gundy dare not put Francis on the court again in the second quarter.

Facts have proved that Van Gundy's choice is a very correct choice.

After Ralph Alston replaced Francis to lead the Rockets' bench.

The Eagles, who originally wanted to tie the score or even overtake the score in the rotation time at the beginning of the second quarter, not only failed to close the gap between the two teams.

He was also joined by Alstom, who had just come to the NBA in his first year and played Scola in his first regular season game.

Directly helped the Rockets further expand their lead to 4 points in the 4th minute of the second quarter.

Fortunately, at this critical moment, the two veteran insiders on the Hawks bench played the role of Ding Haishenzhen.

First, Theo Ratliff received a pass from Uncle Mu and made a small throw, reducing the gap between the two teams to two points.

Then back on the defensive end, Uncle Mu and Theo Ratliff made efforts at the same time, and Scola, who once again wanted to use his footsteps inside to complete a low-handed layup, fell to the ground.

At the same time, after stopping Scola's attack, Uncle Mu also quickly received the rebound, made a direct long pass, and handed the ball to Josh Childress who had already run across the half court.

Directly helped the Eagles complete a quick counterattack.

At the same time, with Josh Childress' counterattack dunk this time, the Eagles also officially evened the score gap between the two teams.

At the moment when the score gap between the two teams was completely evened out, the Rockets also decisively called a timeout and replaced their starting lineup again.

At the same time, the performance of the Rockets' bench lineup first rose and then fell, and once again alerted Van Gundy. Although the Rockets already have a bench lineup that can wrestle with any team in the league.

But for this bench lineup to perform well enough, it still needs more training and running-in.

Fortunately, at least the performance of the bench lineup in this game can still be accepted by Van Gundy.

In particular, Van Gundy compared the performance of the Rockets' bench in this game with the poor performance of the Rockets' bench last year.

He is very satisfied with the Rockets' bench lineup this year, being able to fight back and forth against the Hawks' bench lineup, and even gain the upper hand at certain times.

And the most important thing is because of the stable performance of the substitute lineup during this period.

Let Yao Ming, Tracy McGrady and several other main players get a full 5-minute rest time in the second quarter.

After all, whether Yao Ming and Tracy McGrady, the core inside and outside of the Rockets, can get enough rest time has always been the most important prerequisite for the Rockets to win in the past two seasons!

"Yao, you must be decisive and tough."

When Van Gundy played in Yao Ming's ear, he once again emphasized in his ear that he needed a more decisive request for a strong inside attack.

Yao Ming nodded solemnly when he heard Van Gundy's request.

In fact, since Yao Ming entered the NBA until now, he has been adhering to the basketball philosophy, which is a team-based basketball philosophy.

Of course, it's not that Yao Ming doesn't have the responsibility and courage of singles. After all, before entering the NBA, Yao Ming was the inside player who played the most singles in the CBA.

At the same time, it is precisely because of his experience in the CBA that Yao Ming knows that the team knows that the ability to attack inside has always been the best way for inside players to prove themselves!
But that was in the CBA!
In the past few seasons in the NBA, Yao Ming regarded himself more as a team player.

One of the very important reasons is because Yao Ming has too high demands on himself.

In Yao Ming's view, as long as he can't become the strongest singles player at the center position like the CBA, the singles offensive method will not be his first choice on the offensive end.

Even now, it's actually the same, although Yao Ming believes that his own strength after gaining weight is already the top existence in the league!

However, Yao Ming still prefers to be a team player in his heart.

On the one hand, Yao Ming knew very well that with his current weight, his physical fitness would be a huge problem.

If every attack he made was a singles attack, Yao Ming estimated that his physical fitness might not be able to last 20 minutes.

Even now, Yao Ming nodded in agreement when he heard that Van Gundy needed his resolute attack, and it was more because Yao Ming felt that this method of attack could better help the Rockets improve the overall offensive efficiency of the team. .

Therefore, even though Yao Ming reappeared in the second half of the second quarter, according to Van Gundy's original request, when attacking, he would press one more step inside.

However, Yao Ming still has no way to show a strong sense of oppression and a sense of lone wolf in the interior like O'Neal, Olajuwon and others did.

Or to put it more generally, when O'Neal attacked inside, he never considered passing the ball, as long as O'Neal stepped into the penalty area with one foot.

O'Neal will only see the basket in his eyes. No matter how many people around him are defending O'Neal, all of O'Neal's actions are towards the basket.

This is also an important reason why O'Neal was called a shark at his peak.

On the one hand, it’s because O’Neill’s name is somewhat similar to the English name of a shark, but more because of O’Neill’s bloodthirsty attack in the interior that can completely devour his opponent, just like a shark’s predation behavior when facing its own prey Same.

On the other hand, Yao Ming's performance in the second half of the second quarter, although it also gave the Eagles a huge sense of oppression inside.

But that kind of bloodthirsty feeling, when attacking, completely thinking about tearing the opponent to shreds, directly smashing the hunting feeling is obviously not enough.

This led to the second half of the second quarter. Although Yao Ming made a more decisive inside attack, the defensive pressure on the Eagles inside was indeed constantly increasing!

The overall defensive front is also constantly shrinking.

But Yao Ming did not achieve the frenzied state that can collapse the opponent's internal defense at any time like the peak O'Neal.

Of course, this must be a good thing for the Eagles.

As long as Yao Ming can't directly penetrate the Eagles' inside line, then the Eagles can continue to fight against the Rockets relying on a sound defensive system.

It's just that although the Eagles can continue to fight with the Rockets.

However, in the game scene, the Eagles are actually still at a disadvantage.

Because of Yao Ming's strong inside attack, the Eagles had to shrink the inside to defend. This allowed Sean Battier, Tracy McGrady and others to gain more shooting space in the second half of the second quarter than in the first quarter.

Although, Szczerbiak and Tony Allen are already doing their best to defend against interference!

However, Sean Battier and Tracy McGrady made 3 three-pointers from outside the three-point line in the second half of the second quarter.

Although the two combined, the three-point shooting percentage of [-] out of [-] shots is not very high, but it is enough!
So on the whole, in the second half of the second quarter, with Yao Ming's inside attack, the Rockets slowly regained the initiative in the game.

In the end, at the end of the half, the Rockets regained a three-point lead.

Just watching the Eagles face Yao Ming's strong attack on the field, they can still play impressively, and it even seems to be in a state of back and forth.

Olajuwon and Ewing, the two former super insiders, are still somewhat dissatisfied with Yao Ming's performance in the first half of the game.

Although, neither Olajuwon nor Ewing are players who can show such a strong sense of bloodthirsty on the offensive end like O'Neal.

However, both of them are players who have positively experienced the way O'Neal played at the peak.

In the eyes of the two, as a center player with the same weight, Yao Ming has the conditions and potential to become the next O'Neal in the league!
However, in the second half of the second quarter, Yao Ming actually scored only four times.

At other times, although Yao Ming has already stepped into the penalty area with one foot, he still has more choices when facing the Eagles' three-man shrinking inside defense and returning the ball to the outside players. .

In fact, in the entire first half of the game, Yao Ming only completed 8 shots.

This is obviously not the number of shots a core super giant inside player should have.

You must know that O'Neal at the peak is a player who can take 21 shots per game, and even in the playoffs, O'Neal's average shots per game will be higher.

Of course, Yao Ming's choice cannot be said to be wrong, but it is obviously not the choice and performance that the league's No. 1 center should make when the team needs to break the situation.

In fact, Yao Ming also felt that in the second half of the second quarter, his game was not very smooth.

It's just that Yao Ming didn't know exactly where his problem was.

And Van Gundy also felt that Yao Ming in the second half of the second quarter didn't seem to use his offensive firepower to [-]%.

Just like Yao Ming, as a coach, Van Gundy really doesn't know what Yao Ming did wrong.

From Van Gundy's point of view, Yao Ming has followed his request to attack more inside!

And the effect of Yao Ming's strong attack on the inside is indeed not bad, after all, the Rockets are still expanding their lead.

It's just that because of the Rockets' outside players, the feel of this game is really not very good. As a result, the Rockets don't seem to have much lead in the current game scene.

But in fact, in the first half of the third quarter, when Yao Ming continued to play on the court, the Rockets had already begun to slowly widen the gap between the two teams!
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