Chapter 813 The second round of the Houston Rockets chapter is over~ Happy Holidays everyone~
Los Angeles Lakers VS Houston Rockets, this is much more interesting than the previous round.
The Mavericks are short of stars. Apart from the 36-year-old Nowitzki, there are no more stars.
But the Rockets are different. First of all, Howard + Harden alone are enough for countless people to look forward to, because before the start of this season, they were ranked first in the league and the first center in the league by ESPN. In addition, the two people's unobtrusive words made it invisible.
I have been attracted to "hate" in China. Kobe VS Harden and Tang Qian VS Howard are obviously a major focus of attention.
Secondly, the Rockets' lineup is also much stronger than the Mavericks. They have a strong scoring ability and averaged 107+ points per game in the regular season. This is even more than the Thunder. Looking at the details, they have close to 17+6+4+1 from the outside.
Chandler Parsons, Patrick Beverley who was selected as the second defense this season, Terrence Jones who had 12+7+1+1, and Jeremy Lin who fell to the bench.
This lineup is very explosive, and the bench also has excellent finishing points and scoring firepower. At the beginning of the season, ESPN believed that they had the top five winning odds in the league. This is not unreasonable. However, the flaws of this lineup are also very obvious. And James
.Harden has a fatal problem until at least the 2017 playoffs.
This was especially true in the 2013-14 season. Tang Qian was well aware of this before September 2015.
ESPN's broadcast gimmick for this game is "Are you ready?" This means that this series will be extremely exciting.
Fans on the Internet also exploded, and fans of the Lakers and Rockets began to "fight":
Kill the Lakers! We are ready! Victory belongs to Space City! Harden + Howard! GOGOGO!!!
Destroy the Texans!!! Victory belongs to Los Angeles!!!
We killed Los Angeles once!!! We don’t care if we do it again!!! (This refers to the Los Angeles Clippers who destroyed the high-rise earthquake in the previous round)
Can the Clippers also represent Los Angeles??? Look carefully!!! Where are the championship trophies in the city of Los Angeles!!!
Howard is the number one center! Look at his first-round statistics! 26+13.7+1.8+2.8! 54.7% shooting rate!!! This is called the true ruler of offense and defense!!! No matter how hard you play in the regular season,
Is that all? Not in the playoffs!!!
He just implemented D'Antoni's defensive arrangement and sacrificed his own data, idiot! Besides, when it comes to James Harden's playing, are you sure you don't need to use a magnifying glass to watch it a hundred times? There are flops everywhere, that's enough! I'm optimistic about it
Kobe beat him to death! Teach him how to behave!!!
Neutral fans are:
Super excited!!! I love changing this series!!!
Both sides have strong soldiers and horses!!! Is this going to start a war of the gods? Looking forward to it!!!
Compared with this, the discussion in the east is full of "badmouthing":
Damn it! It’s the Heat again!!! Are our Nets destined to stop in the second round???
Your Nets also have a luxurious lineup with a star-studded lineup. What are you afraid of? Lopez + Joe Johnson + Deron + Pierce + Garnett, Kirilenko, Livingston, etc. I definitely don’t want it better than the Heat.
Bad right???
Lopez??? Man, I haven't seen this guy a few times, okay? He's been injured a long time ago, and he won't have a role in the playoffs! Besides, if these people are 7 to 8 years younger, it's almost the same, otherwise
Did you also see the results of last year's Lakers team's four senior kings? Their combat effectiveness was not that great!
Moreover, our Net-breaking team is not very harmonious within the team, which is also a fatal flaw!
Okay, okay, I can’t wait to be swept again!!!
Thanks.Fuck.the.Heat!!!
The Heat should be allowed to go to the West!!! Damn the Heat!!! Damn the Big Three who are together at the top!!!
Pregame press conference, Houston Rockets.
We will win! This year's Houston is the strongest in the past ten years! - Dwight Howard.
The Lakers are very strong, but we are not bad either! The playoffs are a fresh start! I don’t care whether the opponent is first in the league or has the regular season MVP trophy! - James Harden.
We have our own advantages! - Kevin McHale.
The Lakers responded:
It doesn’t matter if the Houston Rockets are the best in the past ten years! I only know that the Lakers are the championship team! - Kobe Bryant.
I will try my best! This may be my last playoff trip! - Steve Nash.
Howard? I will still get him! He is not Dirk, is he? ——Tang Qian.
Kevin may have been great as a player, but as a head coach, he still has a lot of room for growth! - D'Antoni.
As the "opening game" of the second round of the playoffs, ESPN was fully prepared for this game. First of all, it did an analysis and preview. It is probably the Rockets' inside line, which is a main point, because Howard will play in the playoffs.
The state of No. 29 of the Lakers is very good, but the personal state of No. 29 of the Lakers is just the opposite, very poor. The average data of 26+13.7+1.8+2.8 and the shooting rate of 54.7% are undoubtedly higher than the current playoff data of the opponent Dongfang Fang.
9.3+11.2+0.8+3.2 and a shooting percentage of just over 40%.
This undoubtedly made some people at ESPN feel happy. They felt that they had finally predicted correctly. Howard is still the number one center in the league. As for Tang Qian? He is just a regular season player!!! The playoffs are the big stage, right?
??
Kobe's statistics in the last round were relatively hard and hard to beat, at least not comparable to Harden, but Tang Qian and Howard can definitely make a big fuss. With Tang Qian's "disrespect" and "grievance" towards them, there is no reason to be so easy.
Just "forgive" and "let go".
Dongfang Fang VS World of Warcraft? Maybe the former can improve a little bit in the regular season, but in the playoffs, everything will be decided.
Howard's data crushes Dongfang Hot!!! This is why we say "Warcraft" is still the number one center in the league!
Offense and defense! This is the true nature of a superstar!!! Dongfang Fang is still far away from the playoffs!!!
If Howard were still with the Lakers, the Lakers could indeed compete with the Heat this season. But unfortunately, they made the wrong choice and left the weak! Abandoned the strong! This is definitely Kupp
One of the biggest professional stains in Cheek's life!
In the game against the Clippers, Howard's efficiency was higher than that of Dongfang in terms of limiting the scoring of inside players or protecting the basket, so I think he is still the number one center in the league! He should be in both the first team and first defense next season.
Give him priority! Otherwise it is actually unfair!
Most of these words are bullshit taken out of context. Let’s just talk about the data. Tang Qian’s task is to stay away from the basket and the penalty area to specifically guard Dirk Nowitzki. In this case, what rebounds do you ask him to grab? What to block?
Caps? Even so, he also surrendered 11+rebounds and 3+blocks in the series, right? Let Howard go out and focus on Nowitzki to try? What else limits the scoring and basket-protecting efficiency of inside players? This is more
It's nonsense, just nonsense! Tang Qian didn't stay under the basket for too long in the entire series, especially on the defensive end, so this number is naturally much lower than that of Dwight Howard, who has been staying in the paint.
ESPN's approach is really "disgusting". It deliberately avoids the truth and only pulls out some data that is beneficial to its own point of view.
Tang Qian had been holding his breath, so he looked at Howard with a "ferocious" look, as if he wanted to knock his opponent over and tear him apart. Howard had never seen this kind of look before, so he was a little bit
He shrunk his neck and turned his head to avoid looking directly at Tang Qian.
Before the game, Kobe received the MVP trophy. This trophy was also the second time in Kobe's career. However, his acceptance speech always ran through one center, that is... now is just the beginning, winning the championship is everything.
These words soon made the Staples Center enthusiastic and loud.
After the award ceremony, the two sides began to warm up, then introduced the players one by one, and the starting lineup of both sides officially took the field.
The Lakers are still Kobe + Nash + Gasol + Meeks + Tang Qian, while the Rockets are Harden + Howard + Chandler Parsons + Patrick Beverley + Terrence Jones.
"Bryant, I will not lose to you." Harden and Kobe walked to the opposite position and said.
Kobe glanced at him and said in an extremely calm tone: "You are too young."
Tang Qian and Howard stood in the center circle, preparing to compete for the ball.
Although Howard tried his best, he is no match for Tang Qian now for the jump ball. In fact, so far in the regular season, Tang Qian has rarely made mistakes when fighting for the ball. It doesn't matter whether he is a "Warcraft" or not.
"A center forward", nothing bad.
Of course, Harden is a little annoyed by Kobe's attitude. After all, he also played well in the first round, but if he goes one-on-one with the super-peak Kobe, he is looking for abuse. This Kobe now is not the Kobe in the 11-12 season. Tonnage + speed
+ Strength + Explosiveness + Flexibility, that is more than the Rockets No. 13. So on the first ball, Kobe broke through Harden, then rushed into the paint and dunked.
Boom~ The basket made a loud noise. Howard was pulled away by Tang Qian, so he didn't have time to defend the ball.
The Lakers took the lead thanks to Kobe's dunk.
2-0.
The Rockets didn't feel very good and fell into a stalemate. The first few balls were all shot.
This is not surprising, the Rockets do not have a complete offensive system and offensive system, and McHale's head coaching level is limited, so they cannot open up. And Harden is nominally a shooting guard, but in this and the Rockets,
What he plays is the two-group combination function of the 1st position + the 2nd position. Just look at the assists of the Rockets and you will know that Harden is the undisputed No. 1. Most of the ball rights are actually concentrated in his
In hand. As for No. 1 Beverley??? He is a defensive champion and a 3D player. On the offensive end this season, even if he is often let go and there is not much defensive pressure, he can still only surrender.
With a shooting percentage of just over 41%. Coupled with his poor independent offensive ability and offensive organization ability, and his limited height, he will not expand Nash's defensive loopholes too much. The Lakers are lucky in this regard, because no matter it is
The Mavericks in the first round are still the current Rockets. Their No. 1 position has limited offensive capabilities. Therefore, Nash's biggest shortcoming has not been shown much. The Lakers' shortcomings have been invisibly strengthened.
As for Beverley relying on his physical fitness and youth to defeat Nash? That doesn't matter.
First, although Nash's defense is completely sluggish due to physical fitness, his basketball IQ and experience have not weakened. He only needs to block one side and prevent Beverley from being able to move freely on both sides. Second, now
The Rockets are not the Mavericks in the last round. Without Dirk Nowitzki, the king of 7-foot shooting, Tang Qian can also return to the inside, return to the penalty area, and return to the basket. The Lakers' basket has
He is here. Even if the "Inner Demon" weakens his competitive status by 16% tonight, he is still a strong rim protector in the league! At least with Beverley's scoring level, entering the basket and hitting Tang Qian, that's...
"A block!!! He used the big block to tell Beverley that the Lakers' basket is not a public parking lot. You can come and go when you want!!!"
At the same time, Nash skillfully held the ball and pushed quickly. In a wave of fast breaks, 3 and 1 were scored, and Lakers Meeks succeeded in a layup.
The Lakers scored another 2 points, 4-0.
The Rockets offered Beverley again, but it still came back in vain. Rockets head coach McHale had good intentions. He also knew that the weakest point of the Lakers on the current court was the two-time MVP coach Steve
husband Nash. He has already celebrated his 40th birthday, and his defense is completely out of control. It is not a problem for Beverley to break through him. Many teams in the regular season will attack this point intentionally or unintentionally as long as Nash is on the court. Previous article
Didn’t the Mavericks also let Jose Calderon do this?
The effect was decent. At least when facing the 40-year-old Nash, Calderon seemed to have an idea. His independent offensive ability suddenly improved a lot. In fact, this is of course the same as Calderon's.
The offense doesn't matter, but the defender's defense is really bad. Therefore, the opponent is in good shape. But there is a problem here, that is, when playing with the Mavericks, Tang Qian spent most of the time because of Nowitzki.
He is far away from the high post and wings of the penalty area, and cannot take care of the basket or protect the basket. Although Gasol is also good, when it comes to assisting defense and supplementary defense, he is far behind Tang Qian. Therefore, Calderon is in the series.
There are many shots and direct layups after breaking through Nash. But now, this is not easy to use, because Tang Qian returned to the basket in this round of the series. With him there, Beverley wants to rush in and attack the basket at close range.
It’s all a daydream! Secondly, Beverley does not have the ability to shoot from mid-range. He is a typical player who relies on a lot of fixed-point and muscle exercises to improve his three-pointers quickly. This kind of player will be rare in the future.
.Look at the distribution of Beverley’s mid-range and mid-range basket hits this season.
It can only be described as horrific.
35% and 23.5%.
This is the shooting percentage when most of the shots are open.
Of course, Steve Nash carefully looked at various statistics of his opponents before the game. One of them, the mid-range, allowed him to find something that he could use. Especially the mid-to-long-range shot of more than 16 feet, Beverley
Even if it is completely shorted, the problem will not be too troublesome.
Sure enough, after Beverley failed to attack the inside twice, this time he chose to stop and take a mid-range shot.
And this scene almost made Nash laugh.
You are a "blacksmith" when it comes to ordinary mid-range shots, let alone the more difficult and technical pull-up jump shots?
There are fewer and fewer people who are good at mid-range shooting. ESPN's article "On the cost-effectiveness of mid-range and three-point line" has played a great role in guiding public opinion. So even if Nash doesn't guard this kind of ball, the hit rate is estimated
It will not be higher than 23.5%.
When~
Tang Qian grabbed the rebound and passed the ball. Nash passed the ball to Kobe. Kobe ran back without the ball and slightly leaned back to shoot.
Swipe~The basketball passed through the defender's fingers and entered the net smoothly.
6-0, it didn't take long for McHale to call a timeout. It seemed that the "surprise attack tactic" he had arranged before the game had declared bankruptcy and failed.
Although Nash's defense is completely sluggish, it is definitely not something that Beverley, who has extremely poor independent offensive ability, can manipulate at will.
Kevin McHale paid the price for his smartness.
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