Chapter 142: Liu Hanshang who turned on the berserk mode
The Lakers have four wins in the first six games of the regular season, and although Liu Han has been consistent in scoring, he has taken a lot fewer shots than in the second half of last season, one reason is that Coach George wants the whole team to play a good team game, and the other is that Liu Han needs to put a lot of energy into defense, which makes him have to take fewer shots on the offensive end.
George Krent has been a bit confused lately, and while the team has played four games that have been called offensive frenzy according to his tactics, George believes that this is still a certain gap from his imagined tactics. George has accepted a lot of oriental ideas in his relationship with Li Rui, and there is a sentence that has a great influence on him, that is, "water is impermanent, soldiers are impermanent", George has always hoped that the team can play an attack like mercury in the game, which will make the opponent unable to figure out his head at all, but now it seems that there is a big contradiction between Liu Han and the whole team.
Liu Han is arguably the most effective player on offense in the last two decades, but now the Lakers' tactics prevent Liu Han from fully exerting his power, so it will be difficult for Liu Han to save the team if the team is in crisis.
Liu Han himself has a certain resistance to reducing shots, and one of the reasons why he likes basketball is that Liu Han likes to hear the sound of the basketball passing through the net, and this mental refreshment fascinates Liu Han.
On November 14, after yesterday's game against the Spurs, the Lakers played another strong team in Texas - the Houston Rockets - in a back-to-back away game.
Houston hasn't had the same championship appearance since Jordan returned to the basketball court, even with the addition of Charles Barkley. Charles Barkley, who has been plagued by his back, is no longer as brave as he used to be, when he was in the Suns, Charles could compete with a team alone, whether it was on the defensive end or on the offensive end, Barkley had a dominant performance, but after arriving at the Rockets, Barkley's physical fitness has begun to decline.
The Lakers just lost to the Spurs yesterday, and the Spurs' rookie Tim Duncan and core player David Robinson teamed up to blow up O'Neal. Liu Han turned on the furious mode in the fourth quarter to frequently chase points, but the pit dug too deep in the previous game was too deep, and Liu Han failed to complete the reversal. In this game against the Rockets, the Lakers don't want to leave Texas with a loss.
At the beginning of the game, O'Neal jumped the ball to win. The Lakers attack first.
Steve Nash dribbled the ball past halftime and immediately handed the ball to Liu Han, who came up to pick it up, and Liu Han held the ball to face Drexler's defense.
Liu Han tried to step with his left foot, and then suddenly started to break through to the right with his right foot, and Liu Han conducted special training for explosiveness in the training camp during the holiday, which made Liu Han now have a very fast first step.
Drexler entered the NBA in the draft a year before Jordan, and in the late 80s and early 90s, he and Jordan were hailed as the two strongest swingmen in the league, but now 35 and close to 36 years old, Drexler couldn't keep up with Liu Han's super fast first step, and he was left behind by Liu Han in one step.
Liu's breakthrough was so fast that the Rockets were caught off guard, and he dribbled directly into the three-second zone and jumped up for a dunk one step behind the free throw line. Charles Barkley, who came to make up for the defense inside, didn't want Liu Han to dunk easily, he used his strong body to block Liu Han's flight path, hoping to block Liu Han's dunk. But what Charles Barkley didn't expect was that Liu Han's strength was very strong now, and he directly knocked Barkley away in the air and then scored two points. The referee's whistle also sounded, and Liu Han played two plus one.
Liu Han gave the Rockets a dismissal as soon as he opened the game.
The Rockets' offense, although Olajuwon is now completely less strong than the championship period, he still has a wealth of experience and a very good passing vision, so the Rockets' current offense is initiated by the big center Olajuwon on the inside.
Olajuwon received the ball at the top of the arc, Drexler relied on Charles Barkley's cover to run away from Liu Han's defense, Olajuwon passed directly to Drexler, who received the ball and flew to dunk, but O'Neal's supplement was very timely, and he completely blocked Drexler's route.
Drexler saw that O'Neal in front of him did not dunk strongly, but passed the ball to Olajuwon at the top of the arc, and "Big Dream" received the ball and scored two points with a step-inside jumper inside the three-point line. Olajuwon, who is getting older, is starting to shoot more accurately.
The Lakers are about five years younger than the Rockets overall, which means they have a lot less experience playing than the Rockets, but it also means they're more impactful.
The Rockets, on the other hand, rely entirely on their experience and skill to play.
Eight minutes into the first quarter, the situation on the court changed, Barkley grabbed an offensive rebound in the frontcourt, and O'Neal kept trying to block Barkley behind him. O'Neal was actually a little black-bellied, he propped up his elbow while defending, Barkley was hit in the back of the head, the referee's whistle blew and awarded O'Neal a foul, this should have ended there, but the angry Barkley smashed the ball directly into O'Neal's head, O'Neal was never a guy who would admit it, he punched directly at Barkley, the two were immediately entangled together, and players on both sides began to run towards the place of the incident, pushing each other.
Liu Han was not far from the place of the incident, and he couldn't tolerate his friend being bullied, so Liu Han pounced on Barkley as soon as possible, but Drexler pushed Liu Han away, and the court fell into chaos for a while.
It wasn't until the referee, coaching staff and stadium security pulled away the entangled crowd that it was discovered that O'Neal and Barkley both had blood on their faces.
After a brief discussion, the referee sent O'Neal and Barkley off together for the confusion, and imposed technical fouls on the other players on both sides who pushed each other.
The rest of the players on the pitch also calmed down after O'Neill and Ross Barkley were sent off, after all, this was a game, and the league would not be relentless if it made a big mess, and the league has been controlling the clashes on the pitch in recent years.
For the rest of the first quarter, neither side focused on the game, and although the emotions of both sides calmed down, the Lakers were a predominantly young team, and now that there was a fight, it was difficult for the young people to calm down completely.
What happened next made Liu Han a little angry, the Rockets attacked by Matt Maloney into the restricted area and tried to dunk, Robert Horry made up for the block, Maloney deliberately lifted his knee in the air, and Horry was directly knocked down in the lower body. Maloney was given a technical foul by the referee, but Horry had to go off the court to check his body, after all, it is the softest part of the human body, and it will be difficult for Horry to hold on to this game after such an impact.
Liu Han was not silent, he disagreed with the referee's decision, Maloney's deliberate hurtful action could have been directly sent off, but the referee let Maloney go because it was the home court of the Rockets.
Seeing that the referee still upheld the penalty Liu Han began to get angry, he was very disgusted with such a deliberate hurtful action on the court, every player here was able to enter the NBA after thousands of days and nights of hard practice, every player standing on the NBA basketball court is worthy of respect, and such a hurtful action may make a player leave the court, Liu Han felt that a fire rose in his heart. (To be continued.) )