This night, the Rockets and Spurs are about to face off for the third time this season.
Many media predict that the highlight of this game between the Rockets and the Spurs will be the confrontation between the Spurs' GDP trio and the Rockets' modern combination plus Jeremy Lin. Although Jeremy Lin was not reused by head coach McHale last season
, but he is not like Asikna
He asked the Rockets to trade him, but he kept training hard. Whenever Harden was absent due to injury, he replaced Harden and always performed efficiently. This season, Harden and Jeremy Lin finally found a tacit understanding, and Jeremy Lin was on the court.
You can also fully perform to your own level.
Therefore, the media compared the GDP combination with the modern and Jeremy Lin combination.
Of course, in the eyes of the media, there is still a gap between the Rockets' trio and GDP. Harden is too easy to stick to the ball, which leads to too many singles, and the other two are suspected of being wasted.
Under the guidance of **Vicci, the three members of GDP each perform their own duties and can always achieve the most reasonable cooperation.
So in this game, the media were unanimously optimistic about the Spurs and negative about the Rockets.
But this is the home court of the Rockets after all. There are more media in Houston, and almost all the fans are from the Rockets, so you can only hear cheers and cheers for the Rockets, but very few cheers for the Spurs.
Voice.
However, the Spurs have been through a lot of storms over the years, and they have never seen anything like this before. In addition, with Zhugovich sitting in charge, they are very relaxed, as if they are at their home court.
At the beginning of the game, the Rockets still had Jeremy Lin as the starting point guard, Harden as the shooting guard, and the other starters were the same. Wen Hao and Dayao were still sitting on the sidelines watching the game.
However, they were not idle. After the game started, Dayao sat next to Wen Hao, pointed at Parker and Duncan of the Spurs, and kept explaining the pick-and-roll of those two in Wen Hao's ears. Regarding the pick-and-roll, although
The two of them have practiced a lot, and McHale often gives them some pointers, but they are worse than Parker and Duncan who have played pick-and-roll for many years. So they must seize the opportunity to learn from their advanced experience.
With four minutes left in the first quarter, the Rockets trailed by 9 points, 15-24.
At the beginning of the game, the Rockets followed the coach's instructions and played the ball inside four times in a row, allowing Howard and Duncan to play in singles. As a result, Howard made 0-for-5 from the field. Seeing this, Harden stopped passing the ball inside.
, more of their own singles. This once again caused the Rockets to fall into a problem that had occurred in many previous games.
**In the live broadcast room, Ke Fan shook his head helplessly: "The problem of Harden and Howard's lack of tacit cooperation has been plaguing the Rockets since the formation of the modern combination. Unexpectedly, one and a half seasons later, McHale is still
Couldn't solve it."
"This is just a superficial appearance," commentator Yang Yi said. "The biggest problem of the Rockets is that the leader is not clear enough. Many other problems are derived from this problem. On many occasions and interviews, Harden and Warcraft have said
However, they themselves are the leaders of this team. In other words, it is bad that these two people have the intention to compete for the leadership position. What is even worse is that neither of them has the leadership ability.
Temperament. Needless to say, Warcraft, he laughs and laughs all day long, even sometimes when it is obvious that he is about to lose, he is still laughing, of course he cannot be a leader; although Harden currently seems to be the most like the leader of the Rockets, in fact, he is still
He lacks the temperament of true leaders who carry the team forward at critical moments. Like Kobe James, when it comes to life and death, I take over the game alone. That is the real leader. And Harden is obviously not it."
"Well, this is the biggest problem for the Rockets now. But let's not talk about anything else first. Let's just say that in this game, the modern combination no longer works on the court. Only Xiao Linzi can still score occasionally.
If the difference is to be extended to double digits, McHale must find some way. However, I really don’t think he will have any way. Are the Rockets going to kneel again in this game?" Ke Fan said.
…
McHale was also a little anxious at this time. Even if the Rockets are obviously not as strong as the Spurs, they can't be defeated in the first quarter. That would be too unreasonable. However, Harden and Warcraft have already begun to fight randomly on the court.
If the trend doesn't change, I'm afraid it will really collapse.
In desperation, McHale had to call a timeout and replace Harden and Warcraft. What he meant was to let Harden and Warcraft rest off the court for a while, and let Parker and Duncan go crazy for a while, waiting for their physical strength to decrease.
Okay, let’s play the modern combination again.
But McHale's little trick couldn't escape Zhugovich's eyes. When the two sides took the field again, McHale was a little dumbfounded. Parker and Duncan were also resting off the court. And Zhugovich looked at him.
At that moment, there was a slight sense of pride, which almost made McHale furious.
At this time, Wen Hao replaced Harden and Dayao replaced Warcraft.
As soon as he came on the court, Jeremy Lin dribbled the ball past half court and handed it to Wen Hao. After Wen Hao got the ball, he didn't even look at anyone else and gave it directly to Dayao inside.
Dayao played as the Spurs' backup center as if for fun. Facing the opponent's backup center, he dunked twice in a row.
Seeing this, **Vicci on the sidelines was not panicked and shouted to the substitute center: "Go around, go around!"
Going around, this is the method used by many players to defend Dayao during his peak period. Unable to defend Dayao from behind, he had to go around in front of Dayao to prevent Dayao from catching the ball.
However, after Dayao came back, the new generation of players disdained this approach.
But now it was obviously impossible to use the center, so the next time he defended Dayao, he directly bypassed Dayao and stood in front of Dayao.
At this time, Jeremy Lin was at 45 degrees on the right side and wanted to pass the ball to Dayao, but was bypassed by the opponent and could not pass the ball at all. He had to pass the ball to Wen Hao at the top of the three-point arc.
When **Vicci saw this, he nodded secretly in his heart. It seemed that he was on guard this time.
But before the thought completely passed his mind, he saw Wen Hao at the top of the arc receiving the ball and throwing it straight into the inside. Although Dayao inside was bypassed on the right side, he was almost unmanned from the center.
In a defensive state, after receiving the ball at this time, he turns around and jumps directly.
Seeing this, the Spurs' substitute center hurriedly turned around and pounced. However, facing Yao, who was 2.26 meters tall and had already jumped to the highest point, he had only one end - he was dunked. And it was a two plus one.
