Chapter 954: My Lord, Times Have Really Changed!
"Although Milicic has dropped a lot in athleticism this season, his better strength gives him an advantage when playing a lot of big centers that are not very strong, but Yao Ming's strength is not as 'skinny' as his current body looks."
"This is normal, although Yao Ming has lost weight now, even if it is Yao Ming's rookie season, Yao Ming's confrontation ability is not something that the so-called heavy center can bully."
"People who don't have the strength to fight can't give O'Neill so many blocks."
Speaking of Yao Ming's story, Kenny Smith and Barkley are both 'treasured', after all, this legendary Chinese center forward is really a point in their lives that can never be bypassed.
Before Yes came along, this Chinese player was the most amazing Chinese player they knew.
Even now with Yes.
Yao Ming's magical aura has not dissipated, and has even become stronger than before.
This Chinese center forward is really a perfect center forward player right now.
After losing weight, Yao Ming looked as if his strength had decreased.
But in reality, it hasn't gone that much.
Especially in the current NBA, there are fewer and fewer heavy centers like O'Neal.
Yao Ming's strength confrontation still has an advantage, even if it rarely decreases when it is heavy gravity.
After all, the height of 2.26 meters is placed there, which is at least 10 centimeters taller than most NBA centers.
Milicic wanted to use his own strength to suppress Yao Ming, but it was really too simple.
After the setback at the beginning, Nelson Sr. obviously realized that he had misjudged Yao Ming's current power level.
And that's where it's the hardest.
You thought the puzzle you were trying to solve was hard enough, but in reality, it was even more difficult than you thought.
Originally, you thought you were already in love with your first love.
In fact, you love your first love more than you think!
It's just painful and happy.
On the court, Yao Ming was grabbing Milicic and doing hard, and on the other side, when the Seattle SuperSonics attacked, the Rockets' defense was also stretched thin in Yes's fast-moving offense.
In order to allow Yao Ming and Roy to have the physical strength of the whole game.
Adelman has reduced the team's offensive and defensive tempo very much.
In the current fast-paced league, the Rockets are simply going against the tide.
But there's really no way.
The pillars that the rocket can now rely on are Yao Ming and Roy.
On the court, Yao Ming abused Milicic to watch really well.
But without Roy's support outside, no matter how strong Yao Ming is, he can't abuse Milicic.
He can't imagine Aaron Brooks or any other outside player passing the ball to Yao now.
Yao Ming is the tactical pillar of the team.
Roy is the tactical heart of the team.
Yao Ming needs Roy's support to exert his maximum energy.
Roy can organize and score with ease on the court, but he needs Yao Ming's support.
These two people supported the current rocket system.
Both of these people are indispensable to the rocket.
Not even a replacement.
When there was Artest and Maddie, Maddie could replace Yao Ming's supporting role to a certain extent, and Artest and Maddie could replace Roy's supporting role to a certain extent.
How deep the Rockets were at that time, how extravagant the rotation was, and how stretched they are now.
Many people say that the Rockets still have good players such as Gerald Wallace, Aaron Brooks and Scola now, and the strength of the team will not drop too much.
The overall strength is indeed not as much as the decline imagined.
But the strength of the core, the resilience of the strong dialogue is unimaginable, when Maddie and Artest were there, it is hard to imagine that the Rockets will collapse in the fourth quarter one after another.
It was precisely because of the tragedy of the crash in the fourth quarter of last season that the Rockets missed the playoffs, and this season Adelman learned from the pain to go against the trend.
As a former trendsetter, he didn't want to.
But it really can't be helped.
It can be said that the fast-paced game between the Rockets and any league is a big battle of rhythm control.
Fast and slow tempo control.
Before the Rockets lost to the Warriors, the Lakers, and the Mavericks, many people only saw the collapse of the Rockets and were beaten out of garbage time.
But as a manager, Adelman sees something deeper, of course.
The rocket was knocked down, and it was lost in the rhythm.
Roy and Curry, and Nash, and Kidd in the rhythm control, lost......
It's not really Roy's fault.
Roy isn't a player who only plays slow.
Roy is very versatile, Huang Mamba, can be fast and slow, when the Rockets because of the lack of thickness of the team's core lineup, so that Roy must abandon his fast side, can only scrap half of his martial arts to play slowly, when Roy and others face off, not to mention whether the opponent is strong or weak, Roy himself is not full strength, and he can't go all out.
That's the hardest thing for him and the Rockets right now, Aaron Brooks, Scola, Gerard Wallace, these players are not weak, but they can only beat the side drum and can't play tactics around them.
The only thing that the rocket can rely on is Yao Ming and Roy, and the two can't be disassembled, so they need to be combined to be the strongest.
And neither of them is a physical maniac.
This directly leads to the fact that the rocket can only make two choices, whether to choose to last or choose to release the refreshing.
Last season he opted for a brisk release, and the team ended up in a mess.
This season he chose to be long-lasting, and the team's start was still a crashing start......
Looking at the offensive rhythm on the court driven by Yes, in the rhythm brought up by Yes, Durant, Rondo, Millsap, and Milicic fired like crazy without money, Adelman was very confused.
In order to press the tempo, Roy can't really shoot some unreasonable outside shots like Kobe Bryant.
In order to suppress the rhythm, Yao Ming's offensive choices are also not arbitrary.
Your offense is cautious, but your opponent's offense is presumptuous.
In the end, your players are playing hard and not working well, and the rhythm of the game is still being carried up
He has done the ultimate in this dish of the rocket, and he has really done it to the extreme.
Combinations like Roy and Yao Ming were trendsetting powerhouses in any era before the NBA's great upheaval.
But in the past two seasons, the rocket has become a self-rescuer who has been overwhelmed by the tide.
In this game between the Seattle SuperSonics and the Rockets, the fans of the Rockets actually had the first minute or two.
Because in the next game, the difference between the supersonic and the rocket is really getting bigger and bigger.
Roy was already trying very hard to control the tempo of the game.
But this kind of slow-paced game is really not his area of expertise.
It's not that it won't.
As a black mamba, Roy is as versatile as Kobe.
Bryant can also be organized in the game and get a triple-double in the game, but that's not their full-time job.
The strongest Kobe Bryant or the strongest Roy is definitely not Kobe or Roy who organizes a triple-double in the game, but Kobe and Roy who can score as much as they want on the court and use their offense to drive their teammates to drive the team as they like.
Now in the game of the Rockets, Roy's organizational task is too heavy and too heavy.
Adelman knew this, too, but he couldn't use Aaron Brooks to share Roy's organizational responsibilities.
Last season was okay, Aaron Brooks was okay, because last season he and the Rockets chose the biggest release, which can be fast and bring up the rhythm, but this season's Rockets are slow and the requirements are long-lasting, and at this time Aaron Brooks's game accelerator can't be used.
It can be said that Roy was already very uncomfortable playing last season.
This season, Roy has played even more uncomfortable in the game.
On the court, Roy finally pressed down the rhythm again and assisted Yao Ming to score, while on the other side of the Seattle SuperSonics, Milicic did not pause at all, after a fast baseline ball to Yes, a long throw of Yes over the half, the fast-breaking Durant received the ball just past the center circle, and his long legs strode several times, and he had already hit the basket in the stunned eyes of Gerard Wallace.
Durant's long legs, that span, coupled with his current strength and good speed, explosive and dexterous after the confrontation has not decreased, he received the ball and leaned on the defender's body, and then strode to the basket by the defense, and no one could stop it at all.
Scola has been working very the back and defending.
But his defensive ability can't support it at all, he can defend a big man of 2.1 meters and play European steps!
And it's such a big stride, such a high-speed European step!
After easily pulling Skoll over, Durant also pulled a pole that was not necessary......
Looking at the appearance of Durant shrugging his shoulders after the basket was completed, the look on the faces of the Rockets fans at the Toyota Center was sluggish, just like the Rockets players such as Gerard Wallace on the court.
Watching the celebration on the court, Durant raised his right hand and pointed at Yes in the other half of the court.
Once again, all that remains of the entire Toyota Center is the voices of Seattle supersonic fans and coconut fans.
“Yes! Yes! Yes! ”
"It's so ferocious, Yes's fast-break passing in this game is still so ferocious!"
Barkley was now agitated, while Kenny Smith on the side opened his mouth and didn't know what to say.
Because I really don't know what to say.
Yes's fast-break launch this season is really brutal.
There are quite a few of these fast-break images in almost every game.
The most typical of these are Durant's straight to the basket and Rondo's three-point fast break outside the three-point line.
"Garfield's hurricane swept the NBA again, and in another way, it swept the entire NBA again!"
Barkley's voice grew more agitated, and Kenny Smith's mood grew heavier and heavier.
In this game between the rocket and the supersonic, he has a lot of expectations.
The Rockets have been the SuperSonics' regular season killers in recent seasons.
But in this game, he was clearly told that the era of rockets restraining supersonic speed is over.
Yes in possession of the ball, it's really strong!
In the past, when Yes was more and more valued and the defense became stronger and stronger, Yes's own Garfield Hurricane has actually disappeared in the NBA for a long time.
But now, with Yes in control of the ball, he draws the defense to his side, only to recreate Garfield's hurricane with the hands of his teammates!
Rondo and Durant, who have been very eye-catching on the court this season, seem to be the two tentacles that Yes stretched out after being defended by the opponent.
This season, the supersonics' fast break is eye-catching.
Media pundits and fans have praised Durant and Rondo's fast break to Yes.
But Yes knows very well that the reason why the SuperSonics have such a strong fast-break performance this season is mainly because of the characteristics and strength of Durant and Rondo.
These two winged bosses are really strong.
When Durant wasn't so tall before, his speed, explosiveness, and dexterity seemed to be mediocre and not outstanding.
But when Durant's body grows taller and stronger, his speed, explosiveness and dexterity still haven't decreased, and combined with his weight and height, it's quite outstanding.
Add to that his unique ability to play with stride dribbling and high-speed dribbling.
Tsk, it's simply a holy relic that can be tied with James in the fast attack world!
And what about Rondo, his hand that appears when he says it appears, maybe the sense of speed is not so fast, but the sense of rhythm is strong.
The Rockets are the slowest team in the league this season, and the SuperSonics are the fastest team in the league this season.
When the tempo was completely on the supersonic side, the Rockets didn't get it at all.
Since trailing in the first quarter, the Rockets have never caught up.
The score difference is also getting bigger and bigger.
By the third quarter, the score had become 120-90.
Roy and the Rockets are already trying to control it, but the pace of the game is still on the supersonic side.
After three quarters, the game was declared over.
Yao Ming still showed his strong dominance in this game, shooting 12-of-16 and scoring 34 points in the third quarter.
But such scoring and performance did not even produce a ripple in the rhythm and torrent of this game.
149 to 110!
This is the final score of the Seattle SuperSonics and the Rockets.
When the game was over, Roy, Yao Ming and Adelman on the sidelines looked at the bloody numbers on the scoreboard in disbelief.
In just two years.
The Rockets, who were once the strongest team in history, have fallen into such a situation......
"The individual players of this Rocket have an advantage in one-on-one, but in this era brought by Yes, the advantage of individual strength has to put one's advantage in a strong team to be able to play a role."
Jerry West watched the results on TV with satisfaction.
Rondo became the scoring champion again in this game.
Yes had another triple-double in this game.
But none of that matters.
Importantly, the Rockets played a heart-wrenching game.
A race that made everyone feel the change of the times.
"Times have really changed!"
This kind of personal powerlessness will come sooner or later, and Jerry West has thought of it when the Heat huddle to bring the league down.
Individual strength is meaningless in the face of a bunch of superstars.
Only the team can beat the team!
It's just that what he didn't expect was that such a change of the times was not brought up by the Heat, Lakers and Grizzlies.
Yes and his civilian teammates brought it up.
Yes uses his playmaking and passing to elevate the strength of his teammates and the strength of his team to a stronger level than those huddle teams!
"Incredible!"
Sure enough, this is the player he has been salivating for a long time.
However, while there was no way to get Yes, he did get a player who could replace Yes to some extent.
Thinking of the No. 30 player on the team, the expression on Jerry West's face was excited.
He loves the feeling of building a team from scratch.
Turning a near-zero team into a max team is the greatest joy he has in the league right now.
He and Nelson Sr. were enjoying basketball, just Nelson Sr. was on the court and he was off the court.
And the goal of the two......
Seems to be the same person.
"Xiao Yezi, your team is very strong, very strong."
This is a game that allows Yao Ming to recognize reality and crush all the expectations and fairy tales in his heart.
This kind of game is more bitter than the previous one.
But in the end, Yao Ming cleaned up his mood and gave Ye Si blessings.
"This season, maybe we can really see the first Chinese dynasty in the NBA."
Is the NBA's first Chinese dynasty?
Yass nodded.
"Definitely."