Chapter Twenty-Nine: Under the Battle Rocket
The teams that can occupy a place in the NBA actually have their outstanding points, even if they are the teams at the bottom of the league, their real combat power actually has the strength to win the championship in the World Series, and whether the team's comprehensive combat power can be adjusted will require the head coach to adjust the team. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Van Gundy came from a family of coaches, and his brother Stan? Van Gundy's coaching career started smoothly compared to Jeff's coaching career, he took over the New York Knicks in 1996 and coached the Knicks for seven seasons. In terms of Van Gundy's tactical level, he is still far from the top coaches.
When he was with the Knicks, thanks to the fact that the Knicks had a group of very good players, and these players fit his style very well, the Knicks achieved a lot of good results after Van Gundy coached.
But when he arrived at the Houston Rockets, he encountered a lot of trouble, he replaced Tomjanovic as the head coach of the Rockets, Tang Shuai had to retire due to heart disease, and it was Tang Shuai who insisted on signing Yao Min with the top pick, but Yao Min is not Patrick Ewing, and Francis is not Alan Houston, so Van Gundy and the Rockets always have a feeling of not working together.
After the timeout, the Rockets' predicament has not changed in the slightest, Yao Min's height gives him a natural advantage in positional battles, but when encountering a team like the Mavericks who only pursue speed, Yao Min's height has become his disadvantage, after all, his speed cannot catch up with the Mavericks players, he can only waste his physical strength in the switchback run again and again, which will also cause a decline in offensive efficiency.
After Yao Min fell into passivity, the Rockets' offense could only be borne by Francis and Mobley in the backcourt, but these two really didn't concentrate on playing positional battles, Mobley could still play without the ball, but Francis, you might be able to let him make a folding layup, as for controlling the rhythm, he never knew what the rhythm was.
So Yao Min was replaced in the seventh minute of the first quarter of the game, and he completely became a "drag" on the court, which made Yao Min extremely depressed, and at the same time made the Chinese audience who followed the game keep scolding the "bald man".
Without the only advantage point, and at the same time the rhythm was disrupted by the Mavericks, the Rockets fell into chaos.
However, in the chaotic battle, Jim Jackson burst onto the surface, and he hit three-pointers from the outside one after another, helping the Rockets not let the pull go too far.
Jim Jackson is also a sad guy, he and Jason Kidd have been wandering from team to team since they fell out with the Suns, but he still has the ability, especially the three-point range, and can still maintain a certain shooting percentage in the open space.
Liu Han went off the break with three minutes left in the first quarter, and by this time the Rockets were already trailing the Mavericks by 13 points.
Liu Han played a very easy game, Van Gundy emphasized defense, but he really didn't have a particularly good outside defender in his hands, and even if there were, it was not easy to defend Liu Han.
Faced with such an easy situation, Liu Han reduced some shots and increased passing and running without the ball.
By the end of the first quarter, the Rockets were 15 points behind the Mavericks.
In the second quarter, the Mavericks sent off the bench and rookie players, and the Rockets also replaced Yao Min on the court, which allowed the Rockets to catch up with some points at the beginning of the second quarter.
However, after Liu Han came on in the third minute of the second quarter, the Rockets fell into passivity again.
Liu Han followed the "agreement" with Yao Min, he did not assault the Rockets too violently, but relied on shooting and low-post singles to score.
The Rockets didn't have a particularly good outside defender in the starting lineup, and even less in the bench lineup, so Liu Han almost got the score he wanted.
However, Xue Yuyang's newborn calf was not afraid of tigers, and he worked hard with Yao Min on the inside several times, but unfortunately he only added two blocks for Yao Min.
Liu Han didn't break through, but Josh Howard was very active in breaking into the interior line to seek confrontation.
Yao Min got two consecutive fouls on Josh Howard, and he had to go off the court again because he already had three individual fouls on him.
After Yao Min went off the court, the Rockets became more passive, and the Mavericks continued to expand their lead in the score.
At halftime, the Rockets trailed the Mavericks by 23 points.
In the third quarter, the Rockets changed their starting lineup again, but at this time even Van Gundy knew that there was no hope for this game.
In the third quarter, the Rockets still did not have a style of play that fit the team's lineup, Francis and Mobley took turns to work on the outside, and Yao Min was reduced to a blue-collar job, but fortunately, the Mavericks' rebounding has always been a big problem, so Yao Min grabbed a lot of frontcourt rebounds in a row, which allowed the Rockets not to be widened by the Mavericks again.
However, by the end of the third quarter, the Rockets still trailed the Mavericks by as many as 22 points.
In the fourth quarter, Nelson boldly sent bench players, only Nowitzki and Odom were on the court in the main force, and the Rockets finally seemed to have a direction to catch up, Yao Min successfully beat Nowitzki inside, and Jim Jackson's three-point shot also helped the Rockets catch up with a few points.
However, there were also surprise players on the Mavericks' side, Jamison caused Yao Min's fouls on the inside in the offense, Yao Min had to rest again, and the Rockets lost the only advantage point on the court.
The next game was not as unexpected as the Mavericks took advantage of the Rockets' loopholes to score one after another, while the Rockets went their separate offense.
With four minutes left in the fourth quarter, Van Gundy replaced his main player and the Rockets surrendered.
In the end, this game that attracted the attention of Oriental fans ended with a 26-point victory for the Mavericks, Liu Han cut a quasi-triple-double, 28 points, 8 rebounds and 15 assists The data is still quite eye-catching, Yao Min also scored a double-double, but his score was less, only 15 points, this is because his playing time is too short, only less than 30 minutes of playing time.
After the game, Liu Han did not leave immediately, he followed Liu Han and Xue Yuyang to the best restaurant in Dallas to eat, of course, Anna was also there, she was very popular with Liu Han's teammates in the national team, and several young men from the national team expected that Anna could help them introduce the beauties of Eastern Europe.
"Brother Liu, it's so miserable to lose today, I'm really depressed."
"Da Yao, don't worry, sometimes failure is also a kind of growth, but you have to have a spectrum in your heart, don't be fooled by the management of Team Rocket, you really can't see any hope and leave, Team Rocket just selected you, you don't have to stay there."
Liu Han had to remind Yao Min because he felt that the current Rocket team really didn't see much hope.