Chapter 477: Team Rocket's Confidence
Of course, the information that the Lakers' starters in this game can reveal makes the entire Forum Arena fall into an uproar at this time, and as the opponent of the Lakers, the Rockets have certainly seen the changes in the Lakers in this game, in fact, they are more sensitive than these media experts!
Of course, the Rockets' sensitivity is definitely not because of fear, nor because they are afraid of Lin Han's cancerous singles.
"Hole cards, the Lakers have finally taken out their hole cards, hahahaha, the Lakers have finally taken out their hole cards!"
When I saw the Lakers' starters and their own team walking to the court before, although Barkley, the leader of the Rockets, did not provoke Lin Han in person, after all, now these three leading players of the Rockets have extremely restrained themselves from provoking Lin Han, after all, Lin Han's mouth is too poisonous, although Lin Han is an American citizen, but as a non-banana Chinese who is deeply influenced by the culture of the Celestial Empire, if Lin Han is willing to be a gentleman, then Lin Han will become a gentleman with a good temper, After all, the culture of the Celestial Empire is also known as the culture of forbearance and implicit culture many times, which Lin Han can actually do as long as he suppresses himself, but in the same way, as a person who has been influenced by the culture of the Celestial Empire, and at the same time has been discriminated against by many black and white colorful children when he was a child, if Lin Han really gives up those gentlemanly ideas in his heart, he can also become a rather lethal [perverted] pervert, at least compared to those ruthless people in the NBA, he can be more fierce [malignant] perverted, in fact, Whether in words or behavior, although after coming to Los Angeles, because of the request of Sister Sandrine, I hope that Lin Han can change his image, so Lin Han is still relatively restrained in the Lakers this season, but there is no doubt that no matter how restrained the metamorphosis is, it is still a metamorphosis.
In the face of a player like Lin Han, not to mention Barkley, Olajuwon and Drexler, who are relatively normal players, even the ruthless gang of New York gangsters, last season's finals were almost broken by the unscrupulous Lin Han.
It's just that even if you don't want to make any provocations against Lin Han in person, there is no doubt that the Lakers' change of formation is really quite happy for the Rockets.
Because this team has been seeking a showdown with the Lakers since the beginning of this series, for the Rockets, who have absolute confidence in strength, when facing the opponent, it is the best choice to directly defeat the opponent, and it is the most boring to go to the intrigue or hide and seek with the team that is not as strong as itself
This is also a common problem of strong teams, as a stronger team, the favorite is direct, and the Lakers are now playing Lin Han's cancer singles this hole card, then after defeating Lin Han and the Lakers in this game, this team will really be over, and in the next game, the Rockets will even just sit and wait for victory, and wait for promotion!
"Hmph, this kid has always thought that the victory in the last game was their own strength, so let's sober up this kid in this game, Hakim, Clyde, we not only want to win this game, we also want to win!"
Looking at the Lakers who were already warming up on the other side, Barkley was already excited at this time.
For the Lakers' hole cards, the Rockets have of course studied it for a long time, after all, the worst game they lost in the regular season was when Lin Han scored 96 points in a single game, and the team's leading players Olajuwon and Drexler were all sent off by Lin Han, although Lin Han in that game was called a miracle and a miracle, which was an accident, but even if it was an accident, Lin Han was also a player with more than 90 points in two games.
As the three superstars of the Rockets, Olajuwon Barkley and Drexler are more thinking about how to get revenge on Lin Han, but as the head coach of the team, Tomjanovic is constantly thinking about how to deal with the Lakers' one-on-one cancer tactics.
Because they thought too much, Olajuwon and they came up with a perverted trick of copying revenge to get Lin Han, although in the end, there was a variable like a magician in the last game, so that Olajuwon and the revenge tactic they came up with failed, but it was still very successful from the first two games.
Therefore, as long as you think a lot, the time and personnel are enough, even some relatively ordinary head coaches will have their own answers to some unsolvable questions, not to mention that Tomjanovic is not a mediocre person, in fact, he already has a good idea of the Lakers and Lin Han's single tumor tactics, although it may not be able to block Lin Han, but it is still possible to limit Lin Han as much as possible.
Therefore, in the face of the Lakers' change of formation that surprised many experts and media, the Rockets were really not surprised and afraid at all, and even for the Rockets, they even kept expecting the Lakers to come like this earlier.
Of course, for the Rockets to have such a mentality after seeing the Lakers show their hole cards at this time, everyone else in the world does not know, and Lin Han and the Lakers do not know either.
After the starters of both sides warmed up and stood in the designated position in the center circle, the game officially began when the referee of the game, Bavita, threw the basketball in his hand into the air.
And this time the jump ball, of course, the Lakers lost again, after all, Rodman and Olajuwon jumped at the same time, and fools know who to choose, so to speak, Rodman didn't even jump high, and after directly meaning it, he fell directly from the air and returned to defense.
After taking over the basketball from Olajuwon Doug Reaves, Drexler also advanced with the Rockets with the ball.
Although Doug Reaves is also an All-Star level point guard, but after all, this point guard is not young, the reason why he was able to be brought by the Rockets is not because he still has the strength of an All-Star, in fact, for the Rockets who play double interior inout tactics, Reaves has no All-Star strength, in fact, the Rockets do not need an All-Star strength point guard, this is not because the Rockets have three superstars and are high, just because of the Rockets' tactics, It's enough to have Olajuwon and Barkley and Drexler, after all, these three have good organizational talents, and the inout tactic is the most unnecessary, and the team that plays the inout tactic has not many teams in history that need an All-Star level point guard, as the team's point guard, almost as long as he can shoot three points and be able to control the ball and dribble.
If it weren't for the fact that the Rockets were defeated by the Jazz in the playoffs last season in the form of full-court pressing, and even the Rockets didn't need Reaves at all, the reason why Reaves was brought here was to prevent the opponent from pressing the Rockets all over the court, and the strongest teams in the league could press the whole court very well, such as the Knicks, who were the strongest in the past, was one of the best teams in the league before, and even the pressing tactics were the reason why this team became the New York Gangster, after all, the New York Knicks are known as the most difficult team, And the most difficult defense in the NBA is the pressing defense, of course, now the Knicks are played bad by Lin Han, and the Jazz are also played bad by Lin Han, the two strongest pressing teams are gone, but they don't die, Jordan is back, and he also got the All-Star strength of Harpa, which makes the Bulls quite bullish outside, in this case, Reaves is the Rockets' alternative to the Rockets after the Bulls are the imaginary enemy of the Finals to deal with Drexler's unexpected pressing.
In addition to the Bulls and the Knicks and Jazz who have been played by Lin Han, the Rockets are really not afraid of the other teams in the league, of course, the supersonic does not count, this team no matter what the staffing is, in short, it is a natural Rocket.
Of course, the Lakers did not press the Rockets to defend in this game, and even the Lakers did not play tight defense against the Rockets in this series, in this case, Reaves' role is of course quite limited, not to mention Reaves, a former All-Star point guard who is already old and decrepit, even if a popular All-Star point guard like Tim Hardaway or Kevin Johnson arrives at the Rockets, he can only be a dribbling point guard and a three-point battery, in this case, these guys are absolutely unwilling, In the end, if the Rockets really have an All-Star point guard team that is in their prime, there may be civil unrest, so an experienced and capable former All-Star like Reaves is what the Rockets need most, in fact, let alone an All-Star point guard, even if it is Kenny Smith, the former starting point guard of the Rockets, the Rockets are now not satisfied with this guy snatching the Big Three when he starts.
And among all the point guards now, although Reaves is not the top in three-point shooting ability, compared to Mark Price of the Cavaliers and Stockton of the Jazz, it belongs to the level of being blown out, but even if it is not the top, it is relatively first-class, plus he does not have the sticky ball and tumor attributes like Kenny Smith and super offensive desire, so he can be said to be the most perfect puzzle player for the Rockets, not only is it a good Pei Village Big Three, but also a good liberation of Kenny Smith, isn't this guy a toxic tumor attribute? You can enjoy the cancer in the bench lineup.
It's just obvious that although Reaves is quite in line with the requirements of the Rockets, in the first three games, Reaves is the same as his former good friend Dominic Wilkins in the Hawks, because the Rockets basically did not integrate into the team's offensive system in the first three games except for the Big Three, and the Rockets played too directly offensively, as for Wilkins, when the Lakers played Princeton, Wilkins was actually quite entangled, although he ran very well and cut well, But this guy doesn't know how to cooperate!
Wilkins's lack of understanding of cooperation is not that he doesn't know how to cooperate with his teammates, in fact, he and his teammates can cooperate, whether it is the cooperation with his good friend Reaves in the Hawks or the Lakers, Lin Han feeds him the ball, he can show his own attack power very well, but Princeton's tactics seem to be Lin Han and Magic feeding the whole team, in fact, the whole team is around Lin Han and Magic to serve Magic and Lin Han, the core of the team is not the offensive one, but the passing one, in this case, Wilkins needs to serve Linhan, not Linhan to serve him.
Although Wilkins' superstar level is not very high, it is considered a low-level superstar, but this is also a superstar, in the past when the Hawks were in the past, the whole team was for him, and his running and air cutting are also uncle-style running and air cutting, plus the ball quotient is average, it can be said that Wilkins is one of the most tangled players in the Lakers' tactics to play Princeton, not to mention, Wilkins is unsolvable in the face of this tangled problem, and even many ball quotients are very high, but the superstar who has been playing uncle ball in his career, It's hard to get them to learn how to run in a green grass type.
In order to be able to better deal with the Rocket team, before the start of this round of the series, Lin Han deliberately found himself a rather terrifying lineup in the system training space, almost a powerful version of the Rocket team, after all, the magicians in the system are too terrifying, and the players in the system are only at the peak and not old and young, so this Lakers team is almost completely destroyed in the current Rocket team in the system, after all, the peak Wilkins, Lin Han and the magician, as well as Eddie Jones plus Rodman simply made Lin Han extremely desperate, Originally, Lin Han wanted to have some reference value, but in the end he found that it was not at all, and he had to strengthen the Rockets, and finally listened to Ellie's construction, and strengthened the power of the Rockets by a few players, there was a player named LeBron James who made Lin Han quite concerned, this guy is the same as Wilkins in a certain kind of Cheng dù, the uncle ball is quite heavy, and even more uncley than Wilkins, after all, although Wilkins will not cooperate with others, but he will run anyway, but that guy is too lazy to run, Originally, Lin Han wanted to strengthen the Rocket team, but in the end, the Rocket team lost even more.
It's not that the uncle type player is bad, in fact, Lin Han himself is an uncle type player, and even Lin Han and Jordan are more uncle than that James, but for a team, if the uncle type player cannot become the first master of the team, it is to hurt the team, the Rockets have Olajuwon and Barkley and Drexler After the super offensive system, there is no need for the uncle type player, and what is even more helpless is that James does not have the offensive versatility of Lin Han and Jordan, can not only be the uncle, but also the second master, so don't look at Lin Han and Jordan are called super tumors, but there are not many players in the history of the league who can make others serve themselves and serve others.
Therefore, after being by Lin Han for a long time, until he strengthened the power of the Rockets with a man named Durant, it is not that this guy is stronger than James, but that this guy is too compatible with the Rockets, this is also a player who can be an uncle and a second master, the same as Lin Han Jordan, maybe his uncle's ability is not as good as James Lin Han and Jordan, but when it comes to the ability of the second master, Lin Han is ashamed of himself.
Of course, because the system players are all players at their peak, the reference value of such a simulated game is limited, but although the reference value is limited, it can make some lineup and tactical adjustments for his team, so that after Lin Han meets the opponent, he can be more aware of the characteristics of the opponent, such as Olajuwon, Lin Han's current characteristics of Olajuwon are definitely not the level of a young player who has only entered the league for two seasons.
Of course, Reeves and Wilkins didn't play much in the first three games, they didn't have a sense of zài, and they weren't too good, but in this game, the two definitely had enough chances.
After the Rockets advanced with the ball in Drexler, the first offense played quite exciting, Drexler after dribbling the ball through the half, directly hoisted the basketball in his hand to Barkley, who had been at the free throw line and relied on Rodman's big forward, Barkley has always been the team's first offensive end this season and even in the playoffs, because Olajuwon needs to take on too many tasks, the Rockets' defense basically requires Olajuwon to pay a lot of energy, plus Barkley is not weak in offensive ability, Although Barkley's offense is a little flawed, whether it is a conventional offensive ability or an unconventional offensive ability, Barkley is no worse than Olajuwon, in this case, the two are actually dominated by Barkley on the offensive end.
Therefore, Drexler's first offense is to find Barkley This is the most conventional tactic of the Rockets, if it is placed in the first three games, Barkley is probably directly relying on Rodman who returned to defense after the hurried jump ball at this time and pushed back with his big ass inside, but this time, the Rockets' leading inside line did not do that, but after leaning on Rodman after a symbolic push twice, he directly threw the basketball in his hand to the right side behind him, almost at the moment he threw the ball, Olajuwon and Lin Han rushed to the waist position under the basket together, although Lin Han's speed is faster than Olajuwon, but because the disadvantage of the body is too great, after the body is relied on by Olajuwon, the speed can't get up at all, if it weren't for the first three games and the competition in the system, Lin Han is too familiar with this old opponent, plus Lin Han's strength is not very bad, although after being relied on, it is difficult to block ahead, but Lin Han still forcibly turned around with Ben Thunder when he finally came to the waist position, After turning sideways for half a circle, he blocked in front of Olajuwon and hugged Olajuwon to death!
For Olajuwon, it is a rather embarrassing situation after being hugged by Lin Han head-on, although Olajuwon's offense is excellent, but he is not without weaknesses, his back and footsteps are incomparably bullish, but because of the face frame ability, especially the face frame shooting ability, is only stronger than O'Neal among the four centers, so his shooting is not very reliable, the face frame offense basically relies on holding the ball, especially after he holds the ball and turns to become his back, it is basically impossible to defend.
Because of his ability to control the ball like a small forward, coupled with a good enough physical element, under normal circumstances, the NBA's ordinary interior line does not break his ball when he holds the ball, and those short players who are not as physical as him do not have his strength, so even if he has the height to break the ball, but he can't break his ball, and maybe only Camp in the entire league can make him not be able to turn lightly, so every time Olajuwon meets Camp, he is quite a wolf. The natural camp can not only make Olajuwon's back quite difficult, but also Olajuwon's ball is quite difficult, after all, Camp is one of the few players in the league who has the ability to average 2.5 + 2.5 per game, and Camp has the ability to average blocks and steals per game in a season to be able to go to double digits, you know, Camp is a typical defensive player with rough defensive skills, so that players with rough defensive skills can average 2 + 2 per game, which shows how terrifying his physical talent is.
Although Lin Han does not have the terrifying physical talent of Camp, he used to face Olajuwon because he did not have enough lower body strength, so Lin Han actually suffered quite a loss, and after having the talent of infinite strength, Lin Han was quite handy in the face of Olajuwon's ball-holding attack, especially after these three games, Lin Han was quite familiar with Olajuwon's offensive mode, it can be said that Lin Han's defense of Olajuwon is getting better and better, Especially after Olajuwon's frontal ball-holding offense was directly held and pasted by Lin Han, it was difficult for this guy to complete the turn of his back, if he was placed in the first three games, after Olajuwon was stuck by Lin Han, at this time he would directly and forcibly press Lin Han to complete the hook or throw, and this is also the reason why the offensive efficiency of Olajuwon in the first three games when facing Lin Han was only sixty percent, in fact, if there were no forced shots, Olajuwon's offensive efficiency could even exceed seventy percent, This guy is in the same state as Barkley in this round of the series, and this is why the outside media think that the Rockets can abuse the Lakers, after all, if it is just strong, n basketball is round, the game is not over, even if the team is strong, it is difficult to beat the opponent, but if the team is strong and the state is excellent, it will be completely different.
Therefore, in the first three games, Lin Han was able to defend Olajuwon in such a state one-on-one to only sixty percent of the shooting rate, it is a miracle, in fact, even Olajuwon himself is quite surprised, although he knows that Lin Han is quite good at defending in the face of David Robinson, but although the four centers all share a title, but everyone's characteristics are completely different, defending David Robinson does not mean that he can defend him well, and Camp who can defend him well has to kneel when he meets O'Neill, Dale Davis, who was able to defend O'Neal well, met Ewing and was also beaten.
And this time, in the face of Lin Han's blocking, Olajuwon did not choose to force his shot, but under Lin Han's gaze, this guy directly passed the basketball in his hand to his side, and Drexler, who is the core of the Rockets' outside line, has already directly relied on Eddie Jones to complete the layup!
This is the most proficient inside and outside cooperation on the offensive end of the Rockets last season, the Rockets are using this trick to play the dead Nuggets playing crying Mutombo, using Olajuwon to contain the opponent, Drexler uses his league's top five off-ball and air-cutting ability to constantly cruise, and with Barkley, plus Olajuwon and Barkley can pass, the Rockets' move is even more terrifying!
After all, the cooperation of these three people requires the opponent to have at least three players with strong personal defensive ability, otherwise they can only shrink the basket, and in the face of the Rockets shrinking the basket, it really belongs to the rhythm of looking for death, you know, Barkley is the league's best interior line in the face of shrinking opponents, his big ass can be squeezed in no matter how many people under the basket, although Olajuwon's face frame shooting is not very good, but this guy's back-to-back jumper is a must, don't press Olajuwon, Let Olajuwon shoot in the middle range of the frame, this is a good idea, Olajuwon is not David Robinson, David Robinson because the back jumper is not as good as the face frame shooting, so zoom in on Robinson's mid-range jumper, David Robinson is really good at jumping, but Olajuwon is not, even if he is given the opportunity to shoot in the middle distance, this guy will dribble and turn into a back, and even Lin Han thinks of those attributes in his dream footsteps, this Nima is actually Olajuwon's ability to break the contraction is no worse than Barkley.
"The Lakers can't defend the Rockets at all"
Just the first offense, the Rockets tore the Lakers' defense to shreds with just a simple inside pass and air cut between the three superstars, and all the spectators present were quite shocked to see this scene.
"This is the advantage of the Rockets, it is difficult for the Lakers to play efficient defense, if they don't have an efficient enough offense, then they are basically killed!"
Why the Rockets are stronger than the Lakers, why this team is almost completely destroyed by the Lakers in front of so many expert media, this is definitely not without reason, although many expert media in the NBA have limited discipline, but since these guys are called experts or media, their vision is naturally not an ordinary level.
In the NBA, it is indeed difficult to say the relationship between victory and defeat because of the similar strength of each team, and even because the NBA can overcome high and fast with high and fast, even if it is a team with an internal advantage, it will lose when it encounters a team like the Bulls that makes the opponent's internal advantage not play, in this case, the Rockets and the Lakers are the first and second teams in the league, in fact, if you look at it traditionally, there is absolutely no such huge gap in support between the two first and second teams before the game.
The reason why it really became such a huge gap in the end is not because of anything else, but because the Rockets restrained the Lakers, because the Lakers' fast Rockets can keep up, and the Rockets' high, the Lakers are beyond the reach of the Lakers, and even in the eyes of many people, the Lakers have no actual disadvantage when they encounter any team in the league, especially after they beat the Spurs, when they prove that their fast can restrain the high, but in the face of the Rockets, the Lakers are quite embarrassing.
"Boy, see no, this is the strength of Team Rocket!"
"And, I'm kind enough to remind you, this is just the beginning, Team Rocket's strength is more than that, hahahaha"
The Rockets' first offense was almost like beating the Lakers and showing their strong advantage, as the Rockets' interior leader, Barkley was really excited at this time, in fact, Olajuwon and Drexler were also quite excited, but these two were still restrained.
Of course, in the face of the extremely arrogant Rockets at this time, the players of the Lakers, including Lin Han, did not look very good at this time.
"It looks like the Lakers really broke down in this game."
Even before the Lakers started their first wave of offense in this game, many media and reporters on the sidelines who supported the Lakers were already quite pessimistic at this time!
You know, this is just the cooperation between the Big Three of the Rockets, and the Lakers' defense has collapsed before they have brought their teammates, and the Lakers' defense like this, how many points is this going to make the Rockets score in this game?
Even if Lin Han's offense is really super strong, and even set a scoring record in the playoffs, the horror of losing in the end is the Lakers!
Moreover, can Lin Han break the NBA's playoff scoring record in this game? Horror is very hanging! R1152