Chapter 143: Liu Hanxia who started the rage mode
The first quarter of the Lakers-Rockets game ended in chaos, the two teams tied at 24, and both sides had a core player on the inside being sent off, but for the Lakers, their losses were a little greater, O'Neal was the only full center for the Lakers, except for him, there was no qualified center player, and Robert Horry also went off the court due to injury and is likely to miss the game.
George Krent is in dire straits, and now the situation is not good for the Lakers, who are missing the only two barriers on the inside - O'Neal and Horry.
Liu Han said to George during the break after the first quarter: "Coach, I don't want to rest in this game, please give me enough playing time, and I want to score." Liu Han's words were very concise, but they revealed incomparable firmness.
George felt that Liu Han was a little angry, this was one of the few times he saw Liu Han angry, although he was a little worried that Liu Han would be too impulsive after he played, but George didn't want to criticize Liu Han at this time, obviously, the current situation requires someone in the Lakers team to stand up strongly.
"Okay, Liu, you can play all the time, and I agree to give you unlimited fire, but you have to make sure to protect your body and not be too impulsive. Okay, guys, let's go big, and since we don't have any good defenders on the inside, let's give up on the inside. ”
After much consideration, Coach George agreed to Liu Han's request, and at the same time, he also decided to give it a go.
At the start of the second quarter, the Lakers fielded a very strange lineup. On point guard are Steve Nash, shooting guard Liu Han, small forward Ray Allen, power forward Brent Barry, and center Michael Finley. Such a lineup made the Rockets a little dumbfounded, because the tallest of the Lakers team at this time was actually Michael Finley and Brent Barry, who were only two meters and one, so to speak, the Lakers' lineup was purely a no-inside lineup.
The Rockets attacked first, and seeing that the Lakers did not have height on the inside, Olajuwon immediately went to the inside line, Matt Maloney hoisted the ball into the inside, and Olajuwon turned around and shot directly to score two points. Michael Finley had nothing to do in the face of Olajuwon, who was more than a dozen centimeters taller than him.
While the Rockets were still a little complacent about the easy goal, the Lakers had already launched a counterattack. Finley served on the baseline and threw it directly to Nash, who had reached the center circle near the circle, and the latter received the ball without the slightest pause and passed to Liu Han on the three-point line of the Rockets' halfcourt.
The Rockets were taken aback by the super fast break, and it can be said that the time of this attack was almost just over three seconds, which is probably the fastest goal in the league.
The Rockets continued to force the Lakers inside in the next game, and the Lakers seemed to be completely ignorant of the interior defense, and their minds seemed to be on the counterattack, which made the Rockets players very uncomfortable, because they had to retreat immediately after scoring or not scoring, and the Lakers would seize the opportunity to counterattack if they were not careful, and now the Rockets players are a little afraid of their offensive goals, because if they can't shoot, they may still grab rebounds, but entering means that the Lakers' counterattack is about to begin.
Liu Han not only increased his shots on the three-point line in the second quarter of the game, but he also took advantage of the opponent's attention to focus on his three-point line to hit the inside dunk.
The Rockets were completely disrupted by a strange formation like the Lakers, and all four players on the opposing side had a three-point shooting rate of nearly 40%, and Liu Han was even more exaggerated, his three-point shooting rate last season reached 78.3%, which is more accurate than the average player's free throws. And when the Rockets focused on defending the perimeter, the Lakers' players were able to break through each of them, which made the Rockets almost unguardable.
In the second quarter, the Lakers did not make any substitutions at all, and it was these five players who played the entire quarter of the game, and the Lakers completely collapsed the Rockets with super-fast offensive and defensive transitions and desperate three-point shots.
In the second quarter, the Lakers scored 47 points in a single quarter, and Liu Han alone contributed 29 points, and he was four points short of tying George Gervin's record of 33 points in a single quarter. The Rockets also scored 33 points, but compared to the Lakers' 47, they scored a little less.
At halftime, the Lakers stretched the gap to 14 points.
At half-time, George Krent praised the performance of his players, but he also asked every player not to be too impulsive on the pitch, and he didn't want the team to hurt another person.
The second half continued, still a purely small lineup, the only difference was that Kittels replaced Brent Barry, Barry didn't feel good today, and he was slower than Kittes, George hoped the Lakers could play faster.
After halftime, the Rockets still didn't find a way to deal with the Lakers' lineup, because this lineup was simply too extreme, so extreme that the Rockets couldn't find a suitable defensive lineup, no matter who was sent, the Lakers' speed was overwhelming.
At the beginning of the third quarter, Liu Han used two three-pointers to open the gap to 20 points, and these two shots were Steve Nash broke into the interior and then distributed the ball to the outside, and the Lakers' rotation was very fast, which made the Rockets a little tired.
The Rockets still focus on the interior after reluctance, because they have always been known for their outstanding interior strength, and their outside shooting ability is average except for their shooting posture and their eccentric Drexler's certain shooting percentage.
The Lakers attacked, Liu Han came to the outside line to take the initiative to receive the ball, and in the face of Drexler's defense, Liu Han did not have any feints, but completely relied on speed and physical advantages to force Drexler, and the 35-year-old Drexler had no way to make such an unreasonable breakthrough to Liu Han.
After breaking into the inside line, Liu Han did not have the slightest fear in the face of Olajuwon's defense, he jumped up directly, and Olajuwon relied on his height advantage to try to block Liu Han. Liu Han half-turned his body in the air and leaned his back against Olajuwon, and then gently threw the ball to the basket behind his head with his right hand, and the basketball flew directly into the basket like an eye.
Such a wonderful goal made Olajuwon very helpless, because even if Oxla-Chamberlain was replaced, he couldn't let go of the ball.
In the third quarter, the Lakers still did not make substitutions, but these five players played the whole quarter, the Lakers once again scored 41 points in a single quarter, and Liu Han scored 24 points alone. With the Lakers' swift style of play, the Rockets' physical strength began to gradually fail to keep up with the pace of the game, after all, they were much older than the Lakers. The Rockets' shooting percentage also began to decline after the physical decline began, and the Lakers took the opportunity to play more counterattacks. The Rockets scored only 24 points in the third quarter, so that the Lakers led the Rockets by 31 points in the third quarter, and the game in the fourth quarter was basically reduced to garbage time.
Sure enough, at the beginning of the fourth quarter, the Rockets replaced the bench players and gave up the game, while the Lakers also replaced Liu Han and other main players and replaced the bench lineup.
In the end, the Lakers defeated the Rockets by 32 points 122-90. Liu Han scored 60 points in the third quarter of the game, which shocked everyone, and such a scoring ability, if he played the whole game, he was likely to get even more exaggerated data. (To be continued.) )