Los Angeles Lakers vs Houston Rockets, this is much more interesting than the previous round.

The Mavericks are star-stard, and there are no more stars other than a 36-year-old Nowitzki.

But the Rockets are different, first of all, Howard + Harden alone is enough for countless people to look forward to, because they were the league's first percentile and the league's first center before the start of the season. Coupled with the open-mouthedness of the two people, they were invisibly attracted to "hatred", Kobe Bryant VS Harden, Tang Qian VS Howard, which is obviously a big concern.

Secondly, the Rockets' lineup is also much stronger than the Mavericks, and they are very capable of scoring, averaging 107+ points per game in the regular season. That's more than the Thunder. Looking at it in detail, there is Chandler who is close to 17+6+4+1 on the outside. Parsons, who was selected for the second defence, was named to the second defence. Beverley, Terrence at 12+7+1+1. Jones. and Jeremy Lin, who fell to the bench.

With this lineup, explosive and excellent finishing points and scoring firepower on the bench, ESPN started the season thinking that they had the league's top-five odds to win the championship, which is not a matter of fortuit. However, the flaws of this lineup are also very obvious. And James. Harden had a fatal problem until at least the 2017 playoffs.

This is especially true in the 13-14 season, which Tang Qian also knew before September 2015.

ESPN's broadcast gimmick for this game is "Are you ready"? It means that this series will be full of excitement.

The fans on the Internet also exploded, and the Lakers and Rockets fans began to "fight":

Kill the Lakers! We're ready! Victory belongs to the Sky City! Harden + Howard! GOGOGO！！！

Kill the Texans!! Victory belongs to Los Angeles!!

We took out Los Angeles once!! I don't care about doing it again!! (This is a reference to the Los Angeles Clippers who destroyed the high-rise earthquake in the previous round)

The Clippers can also represent Los Angeles??? Take a good look at the !! Where are the championship trophies in the city of Los Angeles!!

Howard is the number one center! Take a look at his first-round stats! 26+13.7+1.8+2.8！ Hit rate 54.7%!! This is called the true ruler of offense and defense!! Isn't that the same as the regular season? Not so in the playoffs!!

Scalding just executed D'Antoni's defensive set-up at the expense of his own stats, idiot! Let's talk about James. Harden plays, are you sure you don't need to look at it a hundred times with a magnifying glass? Fake falls everywhere, that's enough! I'm optimistic that Kobe Bryant will blow him up! Teach him how to be a human being!!

Neutral fans are:

Super excited!! I love switching to this series matchup!!

Both sides are strong!! Is this about to start a war of the gods??? Looking forward to it!!

Compared with this, the discussion in the east is a "singing decline":

Dry! It's the Heat again!! Is our Nets destined to stop in the second round???

Your Nets team is also very luxurious and star-studded, what are you afraid of? López + Joe. Johnson + Deron + Pierce + Garnett, as well as Kirilenko, Livingston, etc., I'm definitely not worse than the Heat, right???

Lopez??? Dude, I haven't seen this guy a few times, okay? He's already injured, and he doesn't have his share in the playoffs! Besides, if these people are all 7~8 years younger, it will be about the same, otherwise you also saw the results of the Lakers last year's group of the four kings of the elderly? The combat power is not very strong!

And there is not much harmony within our net-breaking team, which is also a fatal injury!

Okay, okay, I can't wait to be swept again!!

Thanks.. Heat！！！ (Thank you, Grass Mud Horse's Heat!! This phrase was popular in foreign forums in those years)

The Heat should be allowed to go to the West!! Damn the Heat!! Damn the pinnacle huddle triumvirate!!

Pre-game press conference, Houston Rockets.

We're going to win! This year's Houston is the strongest in the last decade! - Dwight. Howard.

The Lakers are strong, but we're not bad either! The playoffs are all about starting over! I don't care if the opponent is No. 1 in the league or not, or if he 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 strongest in the last decade! All I know is that the Lakers are championship teams! - Kobe Bryant. Bryant.

I'll do my best! This may be my last trip to the playoffs! - Steve. Nash.

Howard? I'll get him right! He's 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 to grow! - D'Antoni.

As the "opening game" of the second round of the playoffs, ESPN has made full preparations for this game, first of all, it has done a gear analysis and preview, which is probably the inside line of the Rockets, which is a main point, because Howard is in excellent playoff form, while the personal state of the Lakers No. 29 is just the opposite, very poor. The average data of 26 + 13.7 + 1.8 + 2.8 per game and the shooting rate of 54.7% undoubtedly exceed the current data of 9.3 + 11.2 + 0.8 + 3.2 and just over 40% of the shooting rate in the playoffs.

This undoubtedly made some people at ESPN feel like they had finally made a prediction, and Howard was still the league's No. 1 center. As for Tang Qian? He's just a regular season player!! The playoffs are the big stage, aren't they???

Kobe's data in the last round is relatively hard, not black, at least Harden can't compare, but Tang Qian and Howard can definitely make a big fuss. With Tang Qian's "disrespect" and "grievances" towards them, there is no reason to "forgive" and "let go" so easily.

Oriental hot VS Warcraft? Maybe the former can brush a little bit in the regular season, but in the playoffs, everything will be known.

Howard's data crushes the Oriental hot !! That's why we say that "Warcraft" is still the league's number one center!

Attack and defense in one! That's what a superstar is all about!! Dongfang Scalping is still far from the playoffs!!

If Howard were still on the Lakers, the Lakers would indeed be as short as the Heat this season, but unfortunately, they made the wrong choice and left the underdog! Abandon the strong! This is definitely one of the biggest professional stains in Kupchak's life!

Howard is more efficient than Oriental Hot in the game against the Clippers, whether it is limiting the scoring of interior players or protecting the basket, so I think he is still the No. 1 center in the league! Next season's first team and first defense, he should be given priority! Otherwise, it's actually an injustice!

Most of these words are bullshit taken out of context, just to say the data, Tang Qian's task is to stay away from the basket and the restricted area, and go to specifically target Dirk Nowitzki. In this case, what rebound do you let him grab? What kind of cap? Even so, he handed over 11+ rebounds and 3+ blocks in the series, didn't he? You asked Howard to go out and keep an eye on Nowitzki? What else limits the scoring and basket protection efficiency of interior players, this is even more nonsense, a few nonsense! Tang Qian didn't spend much time under the basket in the entire series, especially on the defensive end, so this kind of number is naturally much inferior to Dwight, who has been staying inside. This approach is really "disgusting", deliberately avoiding the truth and making up for nothing, just pulling some data that is beneficial to one's own point of view.

Tang Qian had been holding his breath, so when he looked at Howard, his eyes were also full of "fierce gods", as if he wanted to tear the opponent apart directly. This kind of gaze, Howard hadn't seen it before, so he shrunk his neck a little and turned his head to avoid looking directly at Tang Qian.

Before the game, Kobe Bryant won the MVP trophy, which was also the second time in Kobe's career, but his acceptance speech always ran through a center, that is...... It's just the beginning, winning is all there is to it.

These words quickly made the Staples Center enthusiastic and high.

After the award ceremony, the two sides began to warm up, and then introduced the players one by one, and the two sides officially started the game.

The Lakers are still Kobe Bryant + Nash + Gasol + Meeks + Tang Qian, and the Rockets are Harden + Howard + Chandler. Parsons + Patrick. Beverly + Terrence. Jones.

"Bryant, I'm not going to lose to you." Harden and Bryant walked to the opposite position.

Kobe Bryant glanced at him, and said in an extremely flat tone: "You are too tender." ”

Tang Qian and Howard stood in the middle circle, ready to scramble for the ball.

Although Howard also tried his best, but jumping the ball, he is not Tang Qian's opponent now, in fact, so far in the regular season, Tang Qian has fought for the ball, and there are few mistakes. It doesn't matter if he is a "Warcraft" or "the first center in the league".

Of course, Harden was a little annoyed by Kobe's attitude, after all, he also played well in the first round, but he and Kobe Bryant went head-to-head, that is, looking for abuse. Now this Kobe is not the Kobe of the 11-12 season. Tonnage + speed + strength + explosiveness + elasticity, that is more than Rocket 13 in an all-round way. So the first ball Kobe Bryant broke through Harden, and then rushed inside to make a dunk.

Bang~ The basket was loud, and Howard didn't have time to defend this ball because he was pulled away by Tang Qian.

The Lakers relied on Kobe's dunk to take the lead first.

2-0。

The Rockets, on the other hand, didn't feel very well and were at an impasse. The first few shots were all shots.

It's not surprising that the Rockets didn't have a complete offensive system and offensive system in the first place, and McHale's head coach level was limited, so they couldn't open it. And Harden is nominally a scoring guard, but in this team and the Rockets, he plays the two sets of combination functions of the No. 1 position + the No. 2 position. Just look at the Rockets' assists, Harden is the undisputed No.1. Most of the ball was actually in his hands. As for Beverley at No. 1??? He's a defensive stalw, a 3-and-D player. On the offensive end this season, even if he is often let go and the defensive pressure is not great, he can still only hand over a shooting rate of more than 41%. Coupled with the fact that his independent offensive ability and playmaking ability are a mess, and his height is limited, he will not expand Nash's defensive holes too much. The Lakers are lucky in this regard, because whether it is the Mavericks in the first round or the current Rockets, their No. 1 position has limited offensive ability. Therefore, Nash's biggest shortcoming at this point has not been shown much, and the shortcomings of the Lakers have been strengthened invisibly.

As for Beverley's reliance on his physical fitness and youthful powerhouse? That doesn't matter.

First, although Nash is forced by physical fitness and his defense is completely scummy, his basketball IQ and experience have not weakened, and he only needs to block one side so that Beverley can move freely on both sides of the left and right. Second, the current Rockets are not the Mavericks in the last round, and there is no 7-foot projection king Dirk. Nowitzki, Tang Qian can also go back to the inside, back to the box, back to the basket. And the Lakers have him in the basket, even if the "heart demon" has weakened his competitive state by 16% tonight, it is also a powerful league basket protector! At least Beverley's scoring level, into the basket hard to go to the dive, that is......

"A cap!! Burning the hat told Beverley that the Lakers' basket is not a public parking lot, you can come and go if you want!! ”

At the same time, Nash was very familiar with the ball and pushed quickly, a wave of fast break 3 to 1, and the Lakers' Meeks made a layup.

The Lakers scored two more points to make it 4-0.

The Rockets gave Beverley again, but it was still in vain, the Rockets' head coach McHale had good intentions, and he also knew that the weakest point of the Lakers on the court was the 2-time MVP master, Steve. Nash. Having already celebrated his 40th birthday, his defense is completely out of action, and Beverley is not a problem breaking through him. Many teams in the regular season, as long as Nash is on the floor, will also attack this point intentionally or unintentionally. The Mavericks didn't let Jose in the last round. Did Calderón do it?

The effect is still passable, at least in the face of the 40-year-old Nash, Calderon seems to have opened his mind, and his independent offensive ability has improved a lot at once. In fact, of course, this has nothing to do with Calderón's offense, it's just the defense of the defenders, which really doesn't work. Therefore, the opponent is in good shape. However, there is a problem here, that is, when playing with the Mavericks, Tang Qian spends most of his time in the high post and wing away from the restricted area because of Nowitzki, and can't take care of the basket and the basket. So Calderon has no shortage of shots and straight layups after breaking through Nash in the series. But now, this is not very easy to use, because Tang Qian is in this round of the series, returning to the basket, with him, Beverley wants to rush in and attack the basket at close range, it is all a pipe dream! Secondly, Beverley does not have the ability to shoot from mid-range. He's the kind of player who typically relies on a lot of spotting and muscle practice to improve quickly with a three-point shot. This kind of player is also not a rare situation in the future. Take a look at Beverley's mid-range and mid-range basket shot distribution this season.

It can only be described as miserable.

35% and 23.5%.

Again, that's mostly the percentage of shots that are made in the open space.

Steve. Of course, Nash carefully looked at the opponent's stats before the game, and one of them, the mid-range, allowed him to find a little bit to use. Especially with mid-to-long-range projections of more than 16 feet, Beverley won't be too much of a problem even if it's completely empty.

Sure enough, Beverley failed to attack the inside line twice, and this time, he chose to shoot in a stop.

And this scene almost made Nash laugh.

You are a "blacksmith" in ordinary shots, let alone a more difficult and technical emergency stop jump shot?

There are fewer and fewer people who are good at mid-distance projection, and ESPN's article "On the Cost Performance of Mid-range and Three-Point Line" has played a great role in guiding public opinion. So even if Nash doesn't defend this kind of ball, the shooting percentage is estimated to be no higher than 23.5%.

While~

Tang Qian grabbed the rebound and passed, Nash passed Kobe, Kobe Bryant ran back without the ball and projected slightly.

Brush ~ The basketball crossed the defender's fingers and went into the net smoothly.

6-0, it didn't take long for McHale to call a timeout, and it looked like the "surprise tactics" he had arranged before the game had been declared bankrupt and failed.

Although Nash's defense is completely scummy, it is definitely not something that Beverley, who has extremely poor offensive ability, can knead at will.

Kevin. McHale paid the price for his self-inflicted cleverness.

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