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Chapter 167 Just play the pick and roll
Only one three-pointer was used, and the seemingly large point difference suddenly became smaller.

This is also the biggest problem for the Rockets at present-they lack a stable three-point shooter!

As a result, although the Rockets have a good record in the regular season, they are almost always small victories. As fans of the Rockets, it is the most tormented. They rarely have the opportunity to see a hearty victory, even when the Rockets lose. Sometimes, it is very common for the opponent to lead by a large score.

Billups' three-point shooting rate is good, but that's just a pure shooting rate. He doesn't average a lot of shots per game. When he was playing for the Pistons, Larry Brown hated his players throwing three-pointers the most, even in San Francisco. In the Des era, the Pistons did not pay enough attention to three-pointers.

Thibodeau on the sidelines immediately walked up and down excitedly, shouting into the court, asking the Rockets players to increase their peripheral rotation speed and continue to improve their defensive strength.

In fact, he is more nervous than the players on the court. Since Jordan retired, only the Pistons have won a championship in the East. The pattern of the West being strong and the East being weak is very obvious. As long as they can make it out of the West, it means that the championship has already been won. Seventy percent!

This is not only related to Thibodeau's own job, but also whether he can make history.

If he can win the championship in the first season of leading the team, Tom Thibodeau will leave a strong mark in the history of the NBA league. Even if he breaks up with the Rockets in the future, he can also seek a bigger Contracts.

After being an assistant coach with Van Gundy for several years, and having personally experienced the period of the Rockets' Big Three, Thibodeau knows how terrible it is to be late.

He believes that this year is the best chance for the Rockets to create a dynasty. If they fail to win the championship this year, when the Warriors really grow up, they will become the biggest threat to the Rockets—and Thibodeau is actually not very optimistic about Yao Ming. It is his greatest advantage, yes, but that is also his greatest potential hidden danger. Once injured, whether Yao Ming can continue to maintain his peak state will be a big question mark. Billups is not young anymore. , will soon enter a period of decline.

Compared with Thibodeau's passion, the Rockets players seemed much calmer.

After all, they have experienced two consecutive championships. Even Prince and Billups, who are new to the Rockets, have won championships and seen big scenes. This is the background of the so-called championship.

The Rockets attacked in a position, and Billups and David Lee played a pick-and-roll and cooperated with Yao Ming.

Yao Ming is very clear that although he has a great advantage in the interior, it is difficult for Milicic to limit his offensive firepower, but he must mobilize the offensive firepower of his teammates. It is impossible for him to defeat the entire Warriors alone.

So this time Yao Ming did not choose the inside line to confront Milicic head-on, but passed the ball to David Lee who ran near the free throw line.

David Lee's defense is terrible, and Harrington's defense is actually not much better.

He is a very representative high school student player-many players in the NBA were poor before the draft, the famous Ibaka even begged, and Chris Paul once said that before the draft, his bank card had a total of only 120 or 200 dollars.Before the draft, Antetokounmpo earned $200 a month and had to help his parents support the family.

The poverty without a path to advancement has caused these NBA players to have a hard work far beyond ordinary people, but many of them are quite immature.

After Harrington entered the league, he quickly gained a foothold in the league with his good offensive ability and face-to-face threat, but his immature mind prevented him from becoming a first-line star-see him teaming up with Jackson to grab the boss from late It can be seen how ignorant this person is.

Harrington's performance on the defensive end has always been weak, especially his ability to defend against opponents is extremely poor, but with good athletic ability, he occasionally blocks when he defends.

But Harrington is a good person. He usually likes reading, sports and playing games. He has a common language with many players. In private, he also conducts some community activities to contribute positive energy to the whole society.

This time Harrington's defense went wrong, and David Lee was completely emptied near the free throw line.

As the Rockets' scorer second only to Yao Ming, of course David Lee would not be polite, and immediately took off with all his strength and shot.

It probably has something to do with being late as a teammate. Anyway, David Lee’s shot speed is not slow. When Harrington reacted and rushed to interfere, it was too late. David Lee contributed 2 points for the Rockets. Help the Rockets stabilize the situation.

is it really like this?
The rhythm of the Warriors is completely different from that of the Rockets. When David Lee is still celebrating his scoring for the team, the Warriors are already almost serving the baseline.

David Lee had no choice but to use all his strength to rush towards his own half. Yao Ming, who was more experienced, had already retreated after he was sure that he didn't need to grab rebounds.

The Warriors' counterattack was very fast this time. Before David Lee reached his position, he was late and directed Harrington to play a pick-and-roll for himself.

The late dribbling movement is very concise, there is no redundant movement at all, while looking for a breakthrough opportunity, he has already noticed the running position of his teammates out of the corner of his eye.

Seeing Billups chasing him, Late immediately stopped thinking about continuing to break through.

A joke, there is an unshakable Great Wall of China standing under the basket, even if it is late, it will be greatly affected. Hitting a stone with a pebble is never a choice that a smart person will make.

Late made up his mind, the rhythm of his feet changed immediately, he took another step to the right, and chose to pass the ball behind him.

Billups himself is a top pass master, and he immediately screamed in his heart that it was terrible. He hurriedly turned his head and saw that Harrington had been completely emptied. Shot in case of interference.

It wasn't until he landed completely that David Lee came belatedly and waved his hand in vain to show that he was not defenseless.

"Shh!"

Harrington's three-point shooting rate is very high, and he seized this open opportunity.

After landing, Harrington took the initiative to find Late, reached out and patted him.

The difference between the two sides is only 2 points!

The Rockets used all of the first 4 offenses, while the Warriors only scored two goals.

Seeing that the point difference between the two sides was close, the Rockets remained unmoved, and continued to play positional battles slowly according to their own habits. Yao Ming wanted to position inside, and when Milicic was defending himself, Harrington immediately came to help defend .

Yao Ming is also a very sensible player. He knows that Harrington has excellent jumping ability. Even though he has an advantage in height, with the assistance of Milicic, his offensive efficiency will definitely be greatly reduced.

It's not terrible to have a low offensive efficiency. What's terrible is that one of your opponents has a super scorer with terrifying efficiency, so you can't mess around.

Yao Ming wanted to increase his chances of success, so he immediately changed his game thinking and moved the ball from the center line to the outside line.

According to the arrangement of being late on the court before, Hill immediately chose to keep up with David Lee.

Although Hill is a little taller than David Lee, he is Jordan's successor after all, with an excellent wingspan. He is in his 30s and still has strong athletic ability.

David Lee gestured and found that there was no good shot, and immediately transferred the ball again.

Prince received the ball at the bottom corner of the outside line. Roy immediately gave up the defense of David Wesley and turned to Prince.

Prince's shooting ability can only be regarded as average, and his shooting posture is not standard. When he was in the Pistons, Prince could average about 14 points per game. After arriving in the Rockets, his scoring average dropped.

Instead of risking a shot against Roy's defense, he immediately moved the ball out again. Billups received the ball again and at the same time moved to the left. David Wesley was emptied in the left corner.

This is where the Rockets have a lot of experience. When they were still playing for the Rockets late in the first two seasons, they were very disgusted on the offensive end with those players who stood in fixed positions and acted as spot-up shooters. They will keep running and pulling in order to gain room for shots.

This is a good habit, even if you leave the Rockets late, this habit is still preserved.

David Wesley saw Roy going to defend Prince, and immediately used his experience to run in reverse to open the distance.

At this time, it was too late for the Warriors inside to come over to defend, and Billups passed the ball immediately.

David Wesley stabilized for a moment, aimed at the basket and shot, with a "bang", he hit the iron neatly.

Yao Ming immediately stuck at the basket and tried to grab an offensive rebound, but David Wesley obviously overshot the ball, and the ball hit the basket and jumped out of the sideline.

The Warriors have no chance to counterattack quickly, so they can only look for opportunities on the ground.

After several transfers of the ball from the outside, it still fell into the late hands.

When he was late, he immediately waved to Harrington for a pick-and-roll.

Now even Director Sun from the imperial court can see it: "Director Zhang, the Warriors seem to be learning from the Jazz's style of play today. They usually don't use pick-and-roll as their main offensive method. I don't know if this is the coach. deliberate arrangement."

Zhang Lili immediately answered: "I guess it's the Warriors' tactical arrangement. Although David Lee has a strong scoring ability, his movement speed is not fast, and his ability to switch to pick-and-rolls is weak. The Warriors obviously want to seize this point to play." .”

After all, it is China's own commentary. Zhang Lili didn't actually say it, and Yao Ming is not good at defending pick-and-rolls. The Warriors' tactical choice is actually correct.

In fact, as long as there is a level of coaches, they will know that with Yao Ming's advantage in the interior, he must not be allowed to go out to defend the pick-and-roll, otherwise his strength will be at least half.

Yao Ming still guards the basket. He needs a good helper who can help him defend against pick-and-rolls on the defensive end, but David Lee is obviously not the right candidate.

When he defended against Harrington, he not only failed to play a role, but even slightly blocked Billups' pursuit and defense.

He was delayed for a while, and immediately made a shot without hesitation when he was late, and hit a three-pointer again, and the Warriors overtook the score!
(End of this chapter)