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Chapter 158 Dominance on the court

Yao Ming, who rested for almost the second quarter and added a midfielder, returned to the court alive and well at the beginning of the second half. Not long after the start of this season, many experts pointed out that the only thing that troubled Yao Ming from good to great The factor is physical strength. This season, Yao Ming has become an inside monster with an average of [-] points per game and [-] rebounds per game. Among the inside players, only Yao Ming, Boozer, and Brand can achieve this data. The position of center is only Yao Ming.

Yao Ming, who is in good defensive physical condition, has only one way, and that is to foul, but Yao Ming's free throws are not as bad as O'Neal's, with a free throw rate of more than 80.00%, fouls are basically equal to giving points, so against Yao Ming, many shots The team has no skills to do, they can only either flank or go around.

However, both of these two defensive strategies have certain flaws. If they flank, it will inevitably cause a player of the Rockets to be in an unguarded state. Since the players who come to flank are usually inside players, this gives the power forward around Yao Ming A very good offensive opportunity, so Howard rejuvenated because of this, and squeezed Swift, who was signed by the Rockets with a lot of money, to the bench, because compared to Swift, his offense is more reliable.

As for the forward circle, this is a strategy specially used to deal with Yao Ming who is powerful but inflexible. Since the defender circles in front of the offensive player, as long as the ball is passed to the back of the offensive player in a high lob, Or transfer the ball to the weak side, and go around the front, which is naturally self-defeating, but this requires very high quality passing. When McGrady was there, naturally no player dared to adopt these two defensive strategies easily, but now McGrady can't play, Alston's passing skills are good, but the quality of the pass is not just good or bad, you need to have the skills, you need awareness, Alston's awareness is a little bit worse, but This is the most suitable point guard for Yao Ming that the Rockets can find.

At the beginning of the second half, Alston resolutely implemented Van Gundy's strict requirements. The first shot must be Yao Ming. After seeing Yao Ming starting to get a position in the interior, he immediately lobbed the ball to Yao Ming. This is Yao Ming's favorite and favorite Adaptive passing methods, such as the flat pass that many point guards like to hit the ground or push out with both hands, are not suitable for Yao Ming.

The Spurs' defense against Yao Ming adopted a flanking strategy, with Nesterovic defending behind Yao Ming, and Robert Horry came to flank the moment he waited for Yao Ming to turn around after receiving the ball , this strategy seems to be effective in the first half. Yao Ming only scored two points at the beginning of the game, and then he didn't score again until the end of the first quarter. A dunk after a rebound and a free throw after a foul by Muhammad scored four points.

Although the person behind him has changed from Muhammad to Nesterovic, and the assistant defense has changed from Duncan to Robert Horry, Yao Ming is still as in the first half. The shooting position is closer to the basket, and the basket is his lifeline. As long as he is close to the three feet of the basket, no one can restrict him anymore, or a guy named O'Neal could do it before, but now that guy It's just that he uses an excellent performance every now and then to prove to everyone that he is not old, and he usually seems to be old and can't move his legs.

Nesterovic exhausted all his strength and still couldn't stop Yao Ming from squeezing backwards. Robert Horry next to him was defending Juwan Howard while keeping an eye out for flanking Yao Ming. The next sinking seemed to turn to the bottom line, because if it turned to the bottom line, it would not be so easy for Robert Horry to come and attack.

But just as Nesterovich pushed this way, Yao Ming suddenly turned left, leaned on his body, and stretched his legs to block Nesterovich behind him. Robert Horry came over and stretched out his hand, preferring to foul Yao Ming. The ball in his hand went down, but Yao Ming's thick arm stretched out and blocked him. He raised his hand, and a small hook under the basket hooked the ball into the basket.

After returning, Robert Horry intends to bully Howard, who is not very good at defending, but at this time Howard is desperately blocking him from going this way, only letting him take the middle path, Robert Horry naturally knows His idea was nothing more than trying to force himself into Yao Ming's defensive range, but relying on his skill and boldness, he just got rid of Howard in three or two steps and rushed towards the basket.

Yao Ming's footwork is slow, but when it comes to the periphery, compared with the flexible players, Yao Ming's movement ability is quite good in the square inch of the basket, and no matter how you count your footsteps, there is no one else. Turn around quickly, and when Robert Horry rushed to the basket, Yao Ming was already standing there like a mountain.

If you are in front of a player with outstanding bounce and quick response, Robert Horry has more than a hundred ways to deal with this kind of player, but standing here like Yao Ming, he doesn't even jump, he just relies on his height to wait for the opportunity to block the shot However, Robert Horry has no good way.

False moves are useless, because everyone knows that Yao Ming has no bounce at all, and he has great power just by standing there. Robert Horry didn't dare to try it lightly, so he had to jump up when he was still some distance away from Yao Ming. Forcibly shot.

Such a shot naturally failed, the rebound was easily taken down by Yao Ming, and then Yao Ming handed the ball to Alston, who controlled the ball forward, and Udic followed Alston closely, Want to steal from Alstom, and don't think about what Alstom is.

Nicknamed "Jumping Soul", Alston is the most respected king in the New York street court. In terms of ball control, no one in the league can match him, let alone Uditch. After halftime, Alston immediately slowed down. This is also one of Van Gundy's prohibitions. As long as the chance of fast break is not particularly good, you must wait until Yao Ming is in position before you can attack. This is an exception to the prohibition. The latter is only McGrady, and without him, naturally no one dares to violate it.

As soon as Alston slowed down, Yao Ming ran over. There was a statistic that among the more than 70 center players in the league, Yao Ming ranked No.13 in the speed of retreating and attacking halftime. From this statistics, it can be seen that Yao Ming's speed is not as slow as everyone imagined. Of course, this is also related to Yao Ming's enthusiasm for the game.

Few big players are willing to run back and forth on the court so tirelessly. For Yao Ming, who is [-] meters tall and weighs nearly [-] pounds, running back and forth on both ends of the court is a very difficult task. In this regard, Yao Ming is better than many people. Didn't you see that Nesterovic followed behind him?

As the defensive side, running slower than the opponent, how can this work? Yao Ming also immediately discovered this opportunity. As soon as he crossed the three-point line, he reached out to ask Alstom. Alstom did not dare to neglect , and immediately dropped the ball to Yao Ming.

After Yao Ming received the ball, he went straight to the basket. Since Nesterovic hadn't settled down yet, although he had tried to speed up his pace, he had just reached the three-point line. Robert Horry had to bravely It's a pity that even if he has the determination to prevent Yao Ming from scoring a foul, but facing the huge disadvantage of the two people in height, this cannot be made up with determination and hard work. Yao Ming scored the ball.

When Yao Ming made a free throw, Popovich had already replaced Nesterovic with Oberto. Before Nesterovic came to the front, Popovich had already told Nesterovic with a roar. Qi Zi is so angry, the gap in ability can be forgiven, but he is not even active, and he does not try his best on the court, this is absolutely unforgivable by Popovich.

Speaking of the Spurs attacking, seeing Oberto come to the field, Ginobili gave him a gesture that no one else could understand. This is a tactical gesture that the two often make in the Argentine national team , so even if others know that they are going to play a coordinated tactic, those who have not watched the Argentine national team don't know what they are going to do.

This is also a pick-and-roll tactic, but it is different from the general pick-and-roll tactic. After Oberto blocked Luther Head's footsteps chasing behind for Ginobili, he did not separate from Ginobili, but moved forward to replace him. Ginobili blocked Howard, who had switched positions.

Although he alone could not completely block the two of them, he managed to delay Hyde's close pursuit, and at the same time blocked Howard, creating a small space for Ginobili's shot. So close to Oberto, he threw the basketball in his hand.

The tactic is very successful, but it does not mean that the shot will definitely be scored. This is unavoidable. Ginobili's shot was a little bit smaller, hit one side of the basket, then bounced to the other side, and then After falling outside the basket, Yao Ming stretched out his long arms again and grabbed the basket. Although Stephen also took off not far away, Stephen was used to squeezing the opponent away in the air before grabbing the rebound. After getting on Yao Ming, the one who was knocked away was himself. He had already touched the basketball, but he was pushed aside. Stephen had no choice but to stand there as if his feet were rooted. The impact of his jumping up was naturally not his fault. opponent.

The Rockets once again fell into a positional attack mode, but seeing that the Spurs' defensive attention was focused on Yao Ming, Howard immediately asked for the ball, made a shooting posture to attract attention, and then threw the ball It was passed to Alston, and Alston passed it to Yao Ming immediately without losing the opportunity. Facing Oberto's defense alone, Yao Ming squeezed directly to the basket and made a small dunk. Oberto could only watch but did not dare There is no action.

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