Basketball boy, starting to shine from the slam dunk

Just when Bamot was panicking, Zhuang Yu accelerated suddenly and rushed past Bamot in an instant.

Bamot cried out inwardly, "Oh no!" and hastily retreated, but it was too late.

After passing Bamford, Zhuang Yu ran straight to the basket, jumped towards the defender, dodged in the air, avoided the opponent's block with his right hand, grabbed the basketball and sent it towards the basket. When it was almost level with the basket, he twisted his fingertips lightly, and the basketball fell into the net with a little rotation force.

"The defense on this ball was too poor. The opponent passed it in one step."

"Shouldn't Coach D'Antoni change someone to defend Zhuang Yu? Although Mbah a Moute is tall enough, he is already 32 years old. His pace cannot keep up with Zhuang Yu. At most, he can only defend Zhuang Yu's outside shots. Once Zhuang Yu breaks through, he will be completely unstoppable."

"Who to replace? The problem is that the Rockets don't have anyone who can defend Zhuang Yu. Who do you want Coach D'Antoni to replace? Ariza? Did Ariza defend well in the first three quarters?"

"The current lineup on the court cannot be relied upon for defense, and can only play offense against the Lakers..."

Some people shook their heads, some looked helpless, and some looked at Paul.

At this moment, the Rockets obviously cannot defend against the Lakers with this lineup. The only way is to fight against the Lakers, so that they may not fall into a disadvantage.

Of course, the Rockets also need to play a sharp enough offensively, and Paul is the key.

When the Rockets attacked, Paul advanced with the ball.

After Paul crossed the center line, Holiday quickly stepped forward and made a gesture to his teammates, indicating that they should provide timely backup defense.

Although Paul is 33 years old, he still averaged 18.6 points, 5.4 rebounds and 7.9 assists per game in this season's regular season. His points were even a little more than last season on the Clippers. It was just that the number of assists decreased due to the presence of Harden.

Such statistics are still quite outstanding, and are not inferior to Holiday, the young man who was selected as an All-Star.

So the Lakers dare not be careless at all.

After Paul came to the frontcourt, he did not play one-on-one, but wandered outside the three-point line while gesturing to his teammates. His teammates came up for screen and Paul moved to the left to form a switch defense, and Nance Jr. rushed forward to delay.

While Paul was scanning the positions of his teammates with his eyes, he seemed to be dribbling the ball around the court casually, but in fact he was directing Nance Jr.'s steps, and then suddenly jumped up.

At this time, Nance Jr. was retreating and had no time to move forward, so he could only jump up and stretch his arms as far as possible to block the shot.

However, Paul is good at playing small against big.

He will carefully observe the defender's footsteps, estimate the defender's height and the distance between him and himself, and then decide how to shoot.

This time he chose a pull-up fade away.

Because Nance Jr. didn't have time to adjust his steps, but Nance Jr.'s jumping ability was excellent. However, Paul shot with a fade away, which made it impossible for Nance Jr. to reach the ball.

Swish!

The ball goes in.

There was a burst of applause from the audience.

Little Nance was a little depressed, Zhuang Yu patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "It's okay."

......

When it came to the offensive end, Zhuang Yu got the ball again and broke through directly. Bamford's face was full of helplessness.

Just as the fans said, although he has enough height, he is already 32 years old and his speed is far inferior to Zhuang Yu, so he can be easily overtaken.

The Rockets quickly contracted their defense and surrounded Zhuang Yu, but Zhuang Yu threw the ball back to Holiday, assisting Holiday to hit a three-pointer.

In the next two rounds, the Rockets mainly relied on Paul. Paul did not pass the ball too much. He knew very well what he should do on the court at this time.

Surrounded by substitute players, he is not as simple as the fans think, thinking that he can shoot three-pointers whenever he wants.

Facing the outside defensive combination of Zhuang Yu + Holiday, Kuzma and Nance Jr. move very fast. It is not easy for the Rockets to find three-point opportunities by relying on simple tactical cooperation.

At this time, Harden is not on the court, and the team needs a strong scoring point.

If Paul is not on the court, then this scoring point will only fall on Eric Gordon, but when Paul is on the court, this scoring point will naturally be Paul himself.

But soon Paul discovered that the person defending him changed from Holiday to Zhuang Yu.

Holiday's defense is very good, but he is only 193cm tall. Although he is much taller than Paul, his one-on-one defense ability is obviously not as good as Zhuang Yu's.

When Paul saw that the person defending him became Zhuang Yu, he couldn't help but frown. He still called for a pick-and-roll to try to get rid of Zhuang Yu's defense.

However, Zhuang Yu reacted very quickly, bypassed Paul in advance, and relied on his speed to get back in front of Paul.

Paul hesitated for a moment and gave up the idea of ​​playing one-on-one.

It would be okay if he was a few years younger. At his age, playing basketball depends on his brain and fake moves. But he is a young boxing champion, so it would be a bit difficult for him to play against Zhuang Yu alone.

Paul had no choice but to pass the ball to Eric Gordon, who chose to shoot a three-pointer directly.

boom!

It didn't hit.

When the Lakers counterattacked, Zhuang Yu came to the front court to ask for the ball, and then played one-on-one, which made the Rockets helpless. Zhuang Yu was too difficult to deal with, and Mbah a Moute could not keep up with him and passed him. The Rockets could only rely on their teammates to make up for the defense. At this time, the Lakers had more than Zhuang Yu who could score, including Holiday and Clarkson.

When the Rockets tightened their defense to surround Zhuang Yu, they would naturally miss other Lakers players, which made it really hard to defend against.

Coach D'Antoni quickly made a substitution, replacing Capela with Paul to form an inside-outside partnership, hoping that he could last a few minutes.

However, his thinking was still too idealistic.

It is true that the Rockets have the inside-outside combination of Paul and Capela, but facing Zhuang Yu's defense, Paul is limited in scoring and can only make some contributions in organization. However, Capela is not a very good scorer.

Of course, there is Eric Gordon.

However, Eric Gordon missed two three-pointers because Holiday was defending him.

On the other hand, the Lakers' Zhuang Yu was too unstoppable, leaving the Rockets helpless. If the Rockets relaxed a little, Zhuang Yu would score by himself.

But if all the defense is concentrated on Zhuang Yu, the defensive intensity against other Lakers players will be reduced, and people will be missed. Whether it is missing Holiday or Clarkson, it is almost equivalent to losing points for the Rockets.

After a few rounds, the gap between the two sides widened uncontrollably.

"Shh!"

With a slight sound, Kuzma made a three-pointer.

This made the home fans a little depressed. It was nothing for Zhuang Yu, Holiday and Lopez to score, but it was hard to accept that Kuzma also made a three-pointer.

After this three-pointer, the difference between the two sides became 9 points.