full court guidance

Chapter 98

The role players of the Rockets played as stable as ever. It took only 4 minutes for the Spurs to play a 12:4 spurt, which greatly stimulated the fans of the Rockets—especially a large group of Chinese fans who are glass-hearted.

Since winning the championship last year, the attention of the NBA in China has been greatly improved. Many fake fans have also begun to pay attention to the NBA. They never care about the overall structure and tactics of the team. They only look at the player data. Two people working together can blow up the entire league, as long as their performance is a little unstable, it will be overwhelming saliva.

For example, Yao Ming is seriously overrated, his speed is astonishingly slow, even dunks are barely dunked, his height of 229cm is completely a display, his lateness is a hot chicken, and he can only shoot three-pointers after playing for a year.

Today, the Chinese fans were stimulated again. They took the Rockets up to the management and down to the water dispenser administrator to call and spray them one by one.

In particular, Van Gundy's employment was wildly questioned by Chinese fans. They wished that Yao Ming and Late would never leave the game, completely ignoring the difference between reality and the game.

Speaking of the game, here is an aside. The latest issue of NBA2K has adjusted the data. The ability value evaluation of being late has reached 85, but countless players complained wildly. The lateness in the game is not as exaggerated as it is in reality, at least in the game The late three-point shooting rate of the team is only normal.

ESPN's commentary here believes that the Spurs' bench lineup performed well today. If the Rockets want to win, it depends on McGrady's performance, because he is the real core of the Rockets-the above remarks are from Pippen.

Although Pippen is a bit brain-dead, and he said that the core of the Rockets is McGrady and he has some ulterior motives, but this time he really hit the mark.

Because the strength of the role players is weak, the Rockets must rely on the performance of the Big Three, without any one of them, especially McGrady's ability to hold the ball is what the Rockets need most at present.

The Spurs' bench lineup is strong offensively and weak defensively, and has a strong ability to grab points. It is easy to overwhelm the opponent in a wave. So anxious.

During the intermission, Van Gundy once again emphasized the team's defensive tactics, asking the Rockets' players to increase their outside rotation and not give the Spurs easy opportunities to get shots from the outside.

This adjustment has achieved certain results. This season Duncan has been plagued by plantar fasciitis. Although the team has an excellent record, his average playing time and scoring efficiency have declined significantly. After the first quarter , Duncan had to rest.

Without the inside core, the Spurs' threat on the periphery has also been affected.

On the Rockets side, are the players not strong enough?
It doesn't matter, let's break the jar, as long as we defend well, we don't need to score, anyway, we will play whoever can.

In the first 3 minutes of the second quarter, the Rockets and the Spurs played a "wonderful" defensive battle, and both sides scored only 2 points.

At 8:43, Yao Ming and late came back into battle, McGrady took a rest, and the Spurs led by 32:30.

Late just came on the field, and he played immediately. Ralph Alston broke through with the ball and gave it to Late, who turned to Yao Ming inside.

After Duncan left the court, the Spurs had no reliable center forward. Horry barely stepped up, but his ability to fight was significantly reduced as he was old. Yao Ming ate his back singles and completed a tiptoe dunk.

The Spurs quickly sent the baseline ball and wanted to counterattack, but the other four Rockets players retreated quickly, and Ginobili failed to get a good chance.

He passed the ball to Michael Finley, and Finley opened his hand from the three-point line against the late defense, and the ball slammed on the rim and fell in.

Today, the Spurs have a good offensive efficiency. Almost all players have played. Finley has shouldered his responsibilities very well, not only working very hard on the defensive end, but also on the offensive end.

The Rockets players pressed the offensive rhythm and waited for Yao Ming to settle under the basket before starting to cooperate tactically.

Alston broke through with the ball, Van Exel failed to keep up with the defense, Alstom got a mobile phone opportunity, but missed the throw, Yao Ming grabbed the offensive rebound, Ginobili immediately moved to the inside to double-team.

Yao Ming relied on his height advantage to pass the ball to the middle distance. David Lee got an open shot and made an easy shot after adjusting.

The Spurs' defense today has only one core point, which is to stare at him late, at least keep him with someone at all times, and not give him an easy chance to make a shot.

This led to a small number of shots late today, but he still contained the Spurs' defense on the outside.

For the Spurs, Manu Ginobili had possession of the ball for halftime, and his teammates pulled him away to give him a single. Manu Ginobili's serpentine breakthrough caused a foul by Juwan Howard, and he made both free throws.

The Rockets still mainly attack Yao Ming. As long as Duncan is not on the court, no one in the Spurs can effectively limit him in single defense.

Both sides have a clear core point on the offensive end. They are late and in a semi-stealth state. Even if they occasionally receive the ball, they will pass the ball to the inside and are not in a hurry to score.

Pippen couldn't control his mouth, and Barabara said: "Obviously being late was overwhelmed by the Spurs' defense. He didn't get many shots in the whole game. I think he might not even get [-] points today."

You must know that since his late debut, there has never been a game where he scored less than ten points.

Even the fans couldn't stand Pippen's nonsense, and sprayed on the Internet: "Is Pippen an idiot? Even ordinary fans like me can see that the core of the Rockets' current offense is Yao Ming, and they are not willing to make late shots. Why did Pippen say that he was late and was blocked by the Spurs? You must know that he only took two shots late, but his role on the court cannot be ignored."

"Pippen was an idiot, don't you just know now?"

The Rockets' offensive tactics were very effective. Popovich frowned. Seeing Yao Ming wreak havoc at the basket time and time again, easily destroying the Spurs' defense, he felt his head was getting bigger.

A super sharp shooter on the outside and a super center on the inside, this combination is enough for them to compete for the championship, plus a top swingman, such a Big Three has never been seen in the entire league.

"Tim, can you play?" After a headache for a while, Popovich called Duncan.

Duncan nodded affirmatively: "Coach, I don't want to lose!"

Popovich sighed: "I don't want your injury to destroy your career, and after next year, the Rockets' Big Three will inevitably be dismantled, and that's our chance."

Duncan was expressionless, looking at Yao Ming who was raging around the basket: "Yao's progress in the past two seasons has been very obvious. He is already the most dominant center in the league. I don't have much confidence that I can limit him."

"Go up and try. If it doesn't work, we have to give up this year and tell Manu to play more late, try to make a few fouls, and beat him down so that we have the hope of winning." Popovich was very happy. Knowing Duncan's intelligence, he didn't hide it when he spoke.

Duncan nodded vigorously, and went into battle again.

The Big Three of the Spurs vs. the Rockets' internal and external dual-core!
Just after playing, Duncan pulled Ginobili aside and told him the coach's arrangement.

Ginobili glanced at Popovich and nodded slightly.

In the Spurs' team tactics, Ginobili has a higher degree of freedom than Duncan, and some unreasonable styles of play. Popovich doesn't even allow Duncan to use it, but allows Ginobili to use what he likes. way to end the game.

The Spurs have the ball, and Finley picks and rolls with Ginobili on the outside, making him late for the switch.

Ginobili's style of play is very different from that of traditional American players. When NBA players break through, they will emphasize the use of small steps as much as possible, so that they have more reaction time and space to avoid defensive players.

But Ginobili's breakthrough is a European-style stride, so defensive players often complain that Ginobili walks when he breaks through.

Moreover, even if Ginobili breaks through to the densely defensive basket, he often uses behind-the-back changes-this is unbelievable in the eyes of most players, because such actions are very absurd and prone to mistakes, Zhu Gewei Because of this habit of Ginobili, I have communicated with him many times, but Ginobili has not changed it, but has turned this behind-the-scenes change into his signature move.

The snake-shaped breakthrough we often talk about is actually the Eurostep that everyone is familiar with now. However, in the 05-06 season, there were not many players in the league who used the Eurostep breakthrough.

Ginobili's breakthrough was a big threat, so he didn't dare to be careless when he was late, so he immediately stepped up and confronted him, trying to prevent Ginobili from starting up.

Ginobili took two steps back a little, and got a breakthrough space outside the three-point line. He dribbled the ball with his left hand and pretended to go left. When he was late, his center of gravity was slightly deflected. Right.

The late reaction was extremely quick, and he immediately adjusted his center of gravity to keep up, and gave him a body contact very covertly.

But Ginobili yelled immediately, threw the ball up with one hand, and then fell to the ground.

The referee hesitated and called a late defensive foul.

Since his debut, Late has always controlled his defensive fouls very well. He averaged less than three fouls per game, and of course he was not fouled many times.

Ginobili stood up expressionlessly, and adjusted his posture at the free throw line.

When he was late, he took a look at the Spurs coaching bench. Popovich clapped his hands twice casually, as if he was satisfied with Ginobili's performance.

Ginobili made free throws very steadily, making both free throws, leading the team to cling to the score.

For the Rockets to attack, Alston still dribbled the ball. After Yao Ming asked for a position, he would try to pass the ball in.

Duncan was in charge of defense at the basket, but was still successfully blocked by Yao Ming. After receiving the ball, Yao Ming made a fake move to the baseline and turned around, then immediately turned to the middle and hit a small hook.

(End of this chapter)