Chapter 1561: You Know the Tortoise and Hare Race
14 points means a chance, doesn't it?
So how did this change from 36 to 14? Very simply, Tang Qian alone scored 30 of the Lakers' 40 points in the third quarter. So far, 55 points have been scored. And since the second quarter, the athletic war has not lost a single one. It's all in. Well, except for free throws. The single-quarter shooting rate is terrifyingly high, 100%, who is not confused???
And the most terrifying thing is that he did all this, and there was no big turmoil, there was no kind of continuous three-point shooting that swept all at once, and there was no kind of continuous scoring explosion that took advantage of the opponent's mistakes, which was all played normally by No. 29 one ball at a time. That is to say, he has a normal offensive rhythm, attacking and defending, attacking and defending, so it doesn't look very remarkable in terms of senses. It's even a little hard to notice. But that's it, paralyzing Team Rocket and everyone on the scene.
Everyone thinks he has no chance to play like this, 2-pointer? It should be 3 points now.
However, D'Antoni is also completely unguarded, because he has coached Tang Qian, so he knows very well that this oriental man, as long as he is standing on the field, he will not come to play soy sauce and brush up on the data. He definitely wants to lead the team to fight back. But...... 2-point shot? This choice D'Antoni really wasn't afraid. How many shots can you score on a 2-pointer? 6 into 7 into 7? It's high, right? It's basically a super hit rate on the inside. But it's still not enough, 36 points, even if we don't score, you have to chase it for a while. So 2 points chasing points, it's still so much, it's really too much.
This is a largely impossible task.
Unless he scores all the balls, that's still a bit possible, but all of them go in, is it realistic?
So don't talk about him, everyone in the world didn't expect that the Lakers' No. 29 shooting rate in these two quarters was actually 100%! In other words, not a single ball has ever been missed! This...... It's a big problem. The offensive efficiency of the Rockets team has declined, but the opponent is playing higher and higher, directly against the sky, and the situation has changed now. But seriously, that's too unlikely.
So D'Antoni didn't even think about it.
But when the Lakers No. 29 really did all this, he couldn't help but face this reality, this guy...... Really with a 2-point shot, ball by ball, chased up. At least now the game is starting to be suspenseful. And the previous complete despair is two situations.
This guy is quiet, and he eats away so many points with one look? Yes, it's cannibalization! There are not too many stormy waves, there are not too many thunderbolts, it is just ordinary coming and going, but because the efficiency is too high, it still does this seemingly impossible thing. Dependent ...... It was his unbeatable scoring efficiency tonight.
I didn't expect such an ending, it's amazing, tyrant, I have to admire you. But...... There is still a 14-point difference. It's not too late. We're going back up and lining up now, and we're just going to use the main players to play against each other well. This was D'Antoni's inner thoughts, so he didn't feel that the situation had deteriorated beyond control.
After coming back in the fourth quarter, the Houston Rockets really made a substitution and re-replaced the main lineup, and it seemed that D'Antoni was also ready to end the game in one go. And don't look at the Lakers catching up with so many scores, but there is still a 14-point advantage, and the Lakers are not a strong offensive team, as long as they are also scoring. are all scoring, which means that the leading side has an absolute advantage. After all, there is a time limit for competitions.
So time is consumed, and it is enough for the team on the leading side.
There is no need to bother to widen the score difference.
And now D'Antoni is to let the team's strongest lineup go up, and then attack the opponent, just hold on to those 14 points.
Knowing that the "magic ball field" has come down now, it is unrealistic to play as much as in the first quarter, and the Lakers are now chasing 22 points, so the momentum has risen, so it is better to be direct. Stop messing with all that nonsense. Anyway, just keep one section, and it's easy to have problems if you do too many tricks.
It's good to be simple and crude.
It's really like this, it's best to be simple and rude at this juncture, because at this time, the opponent is gaining momentum, and ordinary players are prone to problems in attack, and it is easy to get out of the basket if they engage in tactics or something. Besides, the Lakers' ability to defend the ballgame is now well known in the league. Don't talk about the Rockets, even if the Warriors play tactical offense with them, they won't be pleased. So D'Antoni doesn't talk nonsense, to put it simply, superstar time begins.
Come on, my Pikachu, okay, it's up to us São Paulo, come on my beard!
Take turns to play, that is, singles, so that the overall defensive energy of the opposing side can also be weakened to a minimum. As for the other party to come to the bag and the like, feel free, I can't wait. Both of us on the team can be used as passing masters, and if you come over and wrap up, then I can't wait for it.
In the end, it's not a headwind now, there is still a 14-point advantage in his hands, it's hard to say, in the face of vacant opportunity shots, he still has confidence in these players. The magic ball system has been playing for so long, it's hard to say anything else, projection ability, this group of people on the Rocket team has grown a lot. It's like the Suns back then, if you go, you'll basically shoot three-pointers.
This is a compulsory course in the system of virtue and handsomeness.
Especially for role players, you have to be able to shoot 3-pointers, otherwise you will have very few opportunities to play.
Therefore, in order to have a chance to play, these role players also have to practice 3-point shooting to the death.
And if the Lakers don't flank the attack, then it's time to test the superstar's ability, although the light bulb combination is not as good as the Tsunami brothers, but now looking at the league, there are few teams that can compare. D'Antoni also did so with confidence.
As long as you go back and forth and you hit and drag, it will be considered a success, even if it is a win.
American basketball, basically playing in the back, becomes simpler, which is the opposite of European basketball. But the problem, no matter how much you try to ill the individual heroism of American basketball, you have to admit that the United States is the first in the current basketball world. And it's the kind of unshakable first. In recent years, instead of shrinking, the advantage has grown.
The results are on the table, can you say that American basketball is not the right way? Isn't that? In the field of competition, the winner is king.
Especially in the last quarter, the superstar time of American basketball completely crushed the basketball concept and basketball style of the rest of Europe. It has been proved with practical actions that the last side of basketball has to be played like this. Unless you pull them off the horse, this way of playing is the best way to play at the moment. So D'Antoni didn't have a problem choosing that way in the fourth quarter.
There are also two superstars in the Rockets, and they also have capital to do so, so they don't suffer losses.
In fact, everyone understands that at the last moment, unless you are the kind of metaphysical spurs in 2014, it is better to obediently bow to the "classics". Because this is the most reliable way. At this time, if you engage in any tactics or routines, do you know what the outside world will say? Once you mess up? I'm sure many of you have been involved in it themselves. That's crazy complaining, why don't you hit the giant planet at this juncture? Why not have so many superstars on the team? What kind of operation? Is there something wrong??? What to show??? Yes...... That's it. The outside world will also say that the head coach is too self-righteous and has to find another way, and let the big road not go off the wrong path to take the small road.
So, D'Antoni's choice is superstar singles, and that's it.
He also doesn't think he can make any sucky moves now, more than the superstar singles choose.
The Rockets gave Harden, Harden got the first ball, the whole team pulled away, Paul went to the other side, and the rest of the people ambushed in the bottom corner to contain the Lakers' defenders. And then Capella was also ready to pull away from the other side at any time. It seems that for this, Team Rocket is also playing very slippery. The team that has the first place in the league is just different. The Lakers' defender of Harden is still Butler. Because apart from him, no one else is very easy to defend. Harden's power advantage is big in this position, otherwise how do you think he can get a foul so easily? The stability of the upper limbs at the historical level is his magic weapon. Plus you are a tank guard yourself, you don't have a little tonnage and strength, how can you fight him? was directly suppressed by him with his body.
Butler is the best candidate for the Lakers to defend him, but the problem is that now Butler is a bit of a snake. Defending Harden, he is too neurotic, so he can be easily exploited by the opponent. Harden also saw Butler's point, so he kept hitting him, and he didn't want to call it a misplaced block at all. Butler was broken by Harden and scored on a European layup, and the margin widened back to 16 points.
Butler's offense on this side seems to want to play one, and he is also a little impatient, Harden has been away from Kardashian's big ass, not to mention how much the defense has improved, at least the situation of eye defense is no longer there. In addition, Butler's mentality has been problematic, and the ball has not been able to score, and it is missed. Harden defended it.
However, this offensive rebound was taken by Tang Qian, and he directly attacked the second time to dunk strongly, bang, hit, and the score difference became 14 points again. But turning his head, Harden played another one, this time in fact, Butler's defense was already good, and he didn't have too many out of position, and even kept up, which could delay and press. However, inexplicably, following along, he suddenly seemed to be leaking oil, suddenly slowed down his movements, and was stuck, this time, it was enough for Harden to take advantage of it, and he took the opportunity to squeeze over a close basket shot. Hit!
Why is this happening? Isn't it because at the moment of the shot, Harden played a little trick and made a small move?
What do you mean? It means that when Butler was defending himself, Harden deliberately put his hand under the former's arm as soon as he started. This immediately caused Butler to overreact, and then his attention shifted, and Harden took the opportunity to squeeze through the defense, get the opportunity, and hit the shot. After he entered, he also sprayed a trash word at Butler, and it could be seen that he also knew that Butler was a breakthrough point for himself in this series.
A generation of defensive giants was so targeted, and Butler was pitiful enough. But what can be done? Butler's defensive mode, this defensive method, was originally restrained by Harden. Harden's favorite game is like this, the defense likes to give physical confrontation, and likes to be tough and sticky to the defense. In his opinion, it is simply the best goal for him to "touch porcelain".
Therefore, his fight against Butler, whether it is the original time and space or the current time and space, is a complete match.
In the past, he looked defensively, and Butler could also find it back from the offensive end and make a switch, but now, it's not that easy. Therefore, the situation of two people opposing each other gradually appeared to be one-sided. Harden Butler's defense is already a real hammer.
On the offensive end, although Tang Qian hit another one, ravaged Capela again, and chased the score difference to 14 points, it is equivalent to such a period of time, the Lakers played in vain and wasted game time. It's not the first half, there's more time, it's the fourth quarter now, okay, there's not much time to waste. D'Antoni also saw this, nodded secretly in his heart, thinking that Harden was doing a good job, playing slowly, not in a hurry, and the other party is now in a tug-of-war, that is victory.
Team Rocket doesn't lack time. It's the Lakers who are short of time.
Playing like this means that the Lakers are about to lose, and even Yao Ming is now saying:
Time is running out, the Lakers must find a way to come out, and there is no chance to play like this.
But Tang Qian was not moved at all, his state tonight has been completely "fed", plus the Rockets' defensive countermeasures are very different from the Trail Blazers, the Rockets insist on trying to defend as much as possible and suppress the rest of the Lakers. It's like an insider version of Jordan's Rule. Then use offense and Lakers offense. Even if the Lakers are strong defensively, it is difficult to win when there is only one person on the offensive end. That's what D'Antoni intended.
He is very confident in his team, so that he can "trap" the Lakers.
Tang Qian turned his back and opened the defender to hit the board in the low post.
Rockets Paul misplaced a single miss, almost a little bit, Lakers rebound.
Tang Qian got the ball and continued, a basket low three threats started, Capela took a move, Tang Qian suddenly cut into the left side, drove straight in, pressed Capela's head, and scored this goal. Or a 2+1. The free throw was also hit.
The Rockets are still Harden, Harden dribbles and dribbles, feints to break through, and Butler retreats a little for a moment, and suddenly steps back and shoots.
Brush ~three-point hit~
Tang made a layup and made 1 of 2 free throws from the free throw line.
Rockets Harden attacked, tried to step after three threats, and then cut into a feint, Butler was a little farther away because he was afraid that the opponent would rely on him, and then the opponent made a shot and went straight in. Butler's defense feels completely disrupted tonight, and Harden is really "eating, sleeping, and playing dad" tonight.
But Tang Qian is still attacking, or 2 points, 2 points, free throws, free throws, it doesn't look conspicuous, because the opponent is also scoring, isn't it? And in the slow-paced positional battle, this kind of scoring is not as eye-catching as the occasional three-pointer and breakthrough singles on the opposite side.
Even the Lakers' Covington contributed 2 three-pointers, and Butler finally hit 1, which was still not enough.
The Rockets' shooting percentage is really high enough. Harden and Paul's light bulb combination combined singles is powerful.
But there is one problem that arises, and that is......
The score difference was near the end of the game, and the Lakers were only 3 points short of the Rockets?
This...... What the hell???
The whole court is in a state of confusion, and people all over the world who watch this game are also in a state of confusion, how can it ...... How?
D'Antoni also didn't know what to say? This...... It's illogical.
In fact, this is very logical, because Tang Qian has not missed a single shot since the beginning of the second quarter of the sports battle so far.
In addition, the Rockets deliberately slowed down the pace, so there were fewer offensive rounds, and Tang Qian's scoring was more weighty. It's just that seriously, the 2-point shot is indeed not as eye-catching as these sudden step-back three-pointers and sudden stop-and-shoot shots. It's just, big brothers, do you want to take a look...... What about the hit rate?
Harden and Paul played such consecutive singles at the last moment, and there were 3-point shots, and they could still maintain a shooting rate of 5 percent, which is already very unnatural, because generally speaking, the efficiency of outside singles is relatively low. It's just that at the last moment, the opponent's attack will be worse, less efficient, and more prone to errors, so it seems to be a solution. In fact, plus Harden also likes to shoot three-pointers, so the shooting percentage is even more difficult to stabilize.
At the last moment, the intensity of the defensive scale confrontation will be further increased, and it is not easy to stabilize the original hit rate, let alone 5 percent? This, to be honest, Butler is very responsible. It was too easy for him to let Harden score in this segment.
So if that's the case, why are the Rockets still being caught up by the Lakers?
There is no complicated reason, it is that the Lakers have a higher shooting percentage in this quarter, and it is more against the sky. Your hit rate was lower than mine, so I caught up with the score, nothing wrong with it. It's just that everyone didn't realize how terrible the Lakers' personal shooting rate was on the 29th tonight.
Tang Qian has now scored 70 points.
Just finished speaking, it was another 2-point shot, bang ~ deducted Capela, Capela fouled 6 times, fouled, and went off.
It's a pity that the free throw didn't go in, 72 points, and the Lakers only trailed the Rockets by 1 point.
For Houston fans, it was really a dream game, the opponent from start to finish, not a single small high, it seemed to be a steady score little by little, and then to the last look...... I rubbed and caught up. Like a basketball version of the tortoise-hare race, the Rockets started 60 meters away, and the Lakers were not far from the starting line. However, then, Team Rocket began to play all kinds of tricks, resting for a while, jumping on one leg for a while, squirming for a while, and then slowly walking forward.
When I got to the finish line, I saw that the other party had been catching up because he had been at a constant speed.
Maybe it's not so exaggerated, but there is some truth to this story, the Lakers' little turtle ...... Caught up.
Then near the finish line, he suddenly stiffened slightly, tripped the rocket team with his head, and then unexpectedly crossed the finish line first.
There weren't too many ups and downs, just little by little, without stopping, and then having the last laugh.
It was so bland that when the Lakers caught up, everyone hadn't reacted yet.
PS: I really didn't expect that the Raptors won, I'll go, Toronto championship??? The Warriors have injured another Iguodala, and in that case, the situation is very unfavorable. Adu doesn't come back, it's estimated that it's a bit hanging.
Thank you for not giving a big reward~ Today's chapter code has been coded several times.,It's enough.,Every time it suddenly flashes back.,And then it's a good way to change the typing software.,It's not good.,It's very depressing~~~.
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