Barkley is very embarrassed with the Rockets right now.

If the Rockets want to win the championship, they must rush out of the West.

And to rush out of the West, you must defeat Lin Han and the Lakers!

However, when Barkley faced Lin Han, it really had no effect at all.

The offense can't beat Lin Han, and the defense can't be prevented.

The Rockets faced the Lakers, especially those who joined Mutombo this season, and Barkley's performance was completely deplorable for his status as one of the league's top eight superstars.

In the past, Barkley was restrained in the face of Lin Han, and this season is even more tragic.

The addition of Mutombo and Jo Dumas allows Lin Han to withdraw from specific roles and become a free agent on the pitch.

The top man on the inside can be handed over to Rodman, the assistant defense can be handed over to Mutombo, and the outside single defense Joe Dumas and Eddie Jones are all above the level.

In particular, Joe Dumas is a player at the level of the defensive team.

Therefore, Lin Han can defend whoever he wants on the court and on the defensive end.

It's not like last season, where he has to defend whoever he needs to defend, and he doesn't even have a choice.

Barkley is one of the best offensive players in the NBA right now, and one of the hardest to defend.

Taller than him, not as fast as him, not as strong as him, plus a very good ball-handling attack and all-round low-post skills.

It can be said that before Lin Han appeared, there was no player in the league who could defend him.

Even now, except for Lin Han, there is no one who can defend him.

If the Rockets have a player on the perimeter who can blow up Joe Dumas and Eddie Jones, like Jordan, like Hardaway.

So Lin Han was forced to defend Jordan or Hardaway.

Then Barkley can be unblocked.

However, although Drexler is strong, he is not strong in one-on-one battles in positional warfare.

So, positional defense Drexler, Joe Dumas and Eddie Jones can all be.

Since Drexler can't attract Lin Han's defense, then when the Rockets face the Lakers, Barkley must face Lin Han.

That's miserable.

Lin Han looks a little taller than Barkley, with more power, and faster, and defensively excellent.

If you're a Rockets fan, you can't bear to look at Barkley when you see Barkley playing Lin Han.

For the Rockets, Barkley is very strong, but what the Rockets need is a star who faces Lin Han, has a positional advantage, is still strong, and does not compromise.

Whether it's a height advantage, a speed advantage or something else, you have to have it.

If you can't face other people, you are a tiger, and if you face Lin Han, you will become a sick cat.

Even if he is not a tiger in the face of others, at least he must be a wolf when he faces Lin Han, right?

It must not be like Barkley, who is fully surrounded by Lin Han.

It is precisely because of this that Barkley is almost equivalent to scrapping in the rocket.

Against other teams in the league, the Rockets of the Twin Towers are almost invincible, but it is useless to be invincible against other teams.

If you want to enter the finals and win the championship, you must beat the Lakers and Lin Han in the West Finals!

If they can't beat Lin Han and the Lakers, even if the Rockets can beat the Bulls, they can only be the runner-up in the West, not even the overall runner-up.

Barkley is now a bit of a chicken problem for the Rockets to beat the Lakers and Lin Han.

But for most of the rest of the league, that's a real treat.

Barkley is very popular in the United States! The commercial value is so great that you can sell tickets!

Barkley is not a superstar of the brush type, his ability to lead the team is very strong, even if the lottery team has him, he can easily enter the playoffs.

Barkley's nemesis in the league is only Lin Han, so much so that even the Bulls and Magic want Barkley desperately.

The Bulls have Jordan, the Magic have Hardaway, and neither Eddie Jones nor Joe Dumas can defend against them.

With Jordan and Hardaway to attract Linhan's defense, Barkley faces other players, and his offensive grasp is better than Mourning's, not even much worse than O'Neal's.

Even if Lin Han is still staring at Barkley and does not change the defense, these Bulls and Magic will not lose.

To be able to keep Lin Han by Barkley's side, this is already earning!

Even, if the Rockets didn't send away all the team's high-quality role players in order to form the Big Three, they would be willing to keep Barkley.

Even if Barkley scores zero points, as long as he can contain Lin Han, he will not lose.

It was a rocket with a strong lineup in the past.

Now the Rockets, Barkley really can't score zero points!

Therefore, they can only exchange Barkley for a player who will not score zero points against Lin Han.

It is precisely because of Barkley's attributes that after the Rockets decided to trade Barkley, the entire league, whether it was a strong team, a weak team or a championship team, took action!

Even Barkley's old club, the 76ers, are in contention.

They certainly won't give away this year's draft pick, but they can send Jordan's second-best Jerry Starkerhouse.

It's just clear that Jerry Stackhouse has zero appeal to the Rockets.

Jerry Starkerhouse faced Lin Han no better than Barkley.

That's right, they change their moults.

Now the Rockets are looking for star players all over the world who don't suffer against Lin Han.

Even if there is no such player, their priority is to find an interior player who can help defend Lin Han.

In short, although the Rockets want to trade Barkley, there is absolutely no intention of a big sale.

Barkley is valuable, it's just not valuable in the Rockets.

It doesn't matter if the Bulls or the Magic or other strong teams or weak teams want to get Barkley, you have to pay a sufficient price.

So much so that the entire coalition took action in this Barkley deal.

And the Lakers are definitely the outliers in the league now.

Because, they have neither the chips nor the interest in Barkley.

What's more, the Lakers are now happy with the team's roster.

The team has also been on a winning streak.

It's just that although the Lakers don't have any interest in Barkley, it doesn't mean that they don't pay attention to Barkley's trade!

This year's NBA trade deadline is Feb. 22, and the closer it gets, the more attention Lin and the Lakers will be.

After all, according to information from the American media.

The Bulls and Magic are indeed desperately looking for chips to trade Barkley right now.

Of course, the Bulls' chips aren't as good as magic's.

Regardless of whether the Magic or the Bulls get Barkley, the threat to the Lakers will rise to an extremely high level.

It's just that the biggest problem with the Magic and the Bulls is that they need to borrow multiple trades regardless of whether the chips are good or bad.

And no team in the league wants to be a bridge between their multiple trades.

Unless these teams can get Pippen from the Bulls or O'Neal or Hardaway from the Magic.

Otherwise, the strong team can't get a stronger superstar, why trade, the weak team can't get Barkley, ready to take off, what's the use of changing some leftovers.

This is also the reason why the Barkley deal is now full of news, but there is no concrete news.

Everyone has to eat Barkley alone, and there will be no multi-party cooperation, and naturally there will be no absolute inside story.

On February 22, 1996, the Los Angeles Lakers hosted the Indiana Pacers, a powerhouse in the East.

The Pacers have a good record this season and are currently in third place in the East, behind the Bulls who are first in the East and the Magic who are second in the East.

However, despite being third in the East, the Pacers have a 33-20 record so far, which is a bit far from the Bulls and Magic.

If you divide it from the grade, the Bulls and Magic are the first gear, one empty gear, and then one empty gear, before the turn to get the Pacers.

As a team with only pursuits, the Pacers are embarrassed in the face of such a situation.

The Pacers are indeed a very embarrassing team.

The overall strength of this kind of team is very strong, and the team has a lot of strong players, so the lower limit of this team is very high.

However, there is a problem with the dominant player of this team.

It's not that Reggie Miller is belittling, but that Reggie Miller does have a gap compared to the other eight superstars.

The gap in strength is still secondary, mainly because there is no willfulness of the eight superstars.

Don't dare to play too much under Larry Brown.

Miller's style of play is too conservative relative to his strength.

The shot is so strong, throw it and you're done.

I have to suppress my desire to make a move.

You have to pull down the opponent's rhythm and play against the opponent in a slow pace.

Of course, such a Pacers would be a very difficult team for most teams in the league.

This season, they have allowed their opponents to average only 96 points per game, while they have only scored 100 points themselves.

This is the style of this team all along, and against a team of this style, most teams will fall into a quagmire, except for Lin Han.

To be precise, except for Lin Han this season.

The overall defense of the Pacers is difficult to do even if the Bulls encounter, but Lin Han.

Just walk in three minutes!

Lin Han didn't go to the three-point line to fight the Pacers hand-to-hand, just throw it outside!

And the Pacers still have a bunch of players on the watch list in this game, who didn't play, and these injured players didn't even come to the game arena.

In the end, the Lakers defeated the Pacers, who are third in the East, 122-98 at home, to earn their fiftieth win of the season.

"Reggie, your coach looks in a bad mood after losing this game."

After the game, Pacers head coach Larry Brown left the Great Western Forum arena with a very ugly face.

This made Reggie Miller, who stayed to greet Lin Han, also a little embarrassed.

"Larry was not happy with our performance in this game and it was normal"

"It's already like this, and you're not satisfied? You've been missing almost half of your main players in this game, and Davis Davis, the pillar of defense, is not there, and if it weren't for your excellent performance, the Lakers would have scored 130 points in this game."

"If the Lakers score 130 points in this game, we can all get out"

Reggie Miller's words were poignant.

But Lin Han can understand.

Brown doesn't like players like him and Reggie Miller who shoot a lot from three-point range.

I don't like it very much.

Larry Brown likes the kind of player who can't mess around on the offensive end.

If Larry Brown were the head coach of the Lakers, he would have been driven crazy by his three-point shots and unreasonable shots.

Unless Larry Brown can drive him crazy first.

Reggie Miller has not been a top superstar though.

But he has always been the representative of the most efficient player in the league, and reasonable scoring, efficient scoring, has always been his label.

Even so, Reggie Miller's first season as head coach with Larry Brown cut his shot average to 13 per game.

An All-Star, and also an All-Star perimeter player, averaging just 13 shots per game.

You know, when Reggie Miller was in his third grade, he was able to average 24.6 points per game with an average of 15.7 shots per game!

In his first season with Larry Brown, Miller was the NBA's No. 1 shooter and didn't even shoot four three-pointers in a game.

Why is this happening?

It was clearly Larry Brown's request.

Throwing three points means low hits, low hits mean being counterattacked by the opponent, and being hit by counterattacks means simply losing points and the defensive formation is chaotic.

This is absolutely not allowed!

Larry Brown is definitely the NBA's most hated three-point coach.

Ideally, basketball shouldn't have such a three-point shot.

And Lin Han is definitely Larry Brown's most hated player.

Lin Han's appearance made Reggie Miller, who had always been very obedient, not listen to him.

This season, he actually followed Lin Han Jordan and threw three points wildly.

So, it's understandable that Larry Brown is in a bad mood, and he's definitely thinking about it in his heart.

If Reggie Miller had thrown in fewer threes in this game, the Pacers wouldn't have conceded 122 points.

The academy head coach would not have considered that the Pacers would have lost even worse if it weren't for Reggie Miller's 6-of-11 three-pointers in this game.

"Reggie has had a very good season."

"It's a little bit like I've been arguing with Larry"

Reggie Miller has a lot of respect for Larry Brown, and Larry Brown's status in the American basketball world is indeed very high.

But let's be honest, a coach like Larry Brown has been doing something to stifle offensive talent.

Even Reggie Miller's shots are restricted, so you can know how stubborn and old-fashioned he is.

If Larry Brown is the head coach of the Lakers, no matter how high his status is, he will have to get out.

Lao Tzu wants to brush up points, do you want to take care of it?

What's more, Reggie Miller hasn't scored yet.

Didn't he average 19 shots per game this season, with a shooting rate of 47% and a three-point shooting rate of 40%, such a shooting rate is called scoring?

Throwing fewer threes can really reduce the opponent's counterattack.

But I don't want to think about Reggie Miller's more three-pointers and more points for the team.

Of course, if Larry Brown had thought that way, there wouldn't have been a problem like Reggie Miller's now.

Fortunately, although Reggie Miller is a little melancholy, he is still full of expectations for the future.

In particular, after averaging 19 shots per game this season, setting a career record for shots, it seems that he has also fallen in love with the feeling of scoring three-pointers.

In fact, I fell in love with the feeling of brushing points.

It seems that Larry Brown will never see that obedient Reggie Miller again......

"Lin, I only scored 6 three-pointers in this game, and I will definitely score more than you in the finals!"

"Finals, Reggie, how dare you think about it"

Reggie Miller didn't argue with Lin Han about anything, but left with a smile freely.

Soon, less than an hour after the end of the game, it was the final whistle of the trade deadline.

Lin Han knew why Reggie Miller was so confident.

"Forest, the latest news, the Rockets Pacers complete the trade, Barkley goes to the Pacers!"

Actually a walker?

Didn't those absent Pacers players get food poisoning?!