Chris Anderson and Wang Zhizhi, two players with completely different personalities and backgrounds, became the key combination to contain Yao Ming in the third quarter tonight. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

After relying on a three-quarters of the way around and Anderson's block to block one of Yao's offenses and stop the Rockets, the role of the second general didn't stop there. After the timeout, Van Gundy asked the Rockets to launch more outside attacks in the offense, use more breakthroughs to launch offenses, and give full play to Yao Ming's height advantage to strive for more secondary offenses.

Van Gundy's thinking is correct, since Yao Ming is not easy to open, there is no point in continuing to drag and insist on attacking, after all, Yao Ming is not O'Neal, even O'Neal can't break the Celtics defense alone. With Kevin Garnett and PJ Brown off the court, the intensity of the Celtics' interior protection will inevitably decline, and relying on the assault on the outside, combined with Yao Ming's containment and secondary offensive threat, is the best way to solve the current situation.

Of course, it's a good idea, but it doesn't mean it will work, Van Gundy has two things to think about, which is also inevitable when directing from the sidelines, no one can do everything.

The first point that Van Gundy thinks about is that although Kevin Garnett and Brown are off the court and the Celtics are weakened inside, it does not mean that Anderson and Wang Zhizhi are paper-paste, and the outside players can break through and score whenever they want.

On the contrary, after the two King Kong went off the court, the Celtics strengthened their defense on the inside, and Leon's replacement of Michael Reed with James Posey after a timeout was a significant signal, using the height and assistance defense of the small forward position to make up for the lack of defense of Wang Zhizhi and Anderson.

Moreover, Wang Zhizhi's defense is not a weak chicken as Van Gundy thinks, his assistant defense is still scum and has no sense of existence, but when he is single-mindedly dealing with Yao Ming on the court, he is not like that.

On the first attack after the timeout, Francis played a blocking and pick-and-roll with Yao Ming in the high post, Francis walked through the middle, and Yao Ming went down from the side. But on the Celtics side, Wang Zhizhi didn't care about Francis at all, and let him break in from the middle, and Anderson came to make up for it, and Taylor, who was missed, and Posey on the side came to make up for it.

In this case, Francis failed to find an open pass in the first place, Yao Ming was watched by Wang Zhizhi, Jim Jackson's position was not too good, and Francis had to choose to throw himself. Anderson's fingers almost ran over the ball, which missed due to interference. Posey grabbed the rebound among four and the Celtics launched their counter-attack.

The Celtics' counter-attacks are almost ubiquitous, and the fast offense is in their blood, and whenever they have the opportunity, they will make shots in a short period of time at all costs, without giving opponents time to react.

Paul Pierce hit a back-to-back jumper with the ball away from Jackson on the counter, and he decisively opted for a one-on-one shot when the Rockets' defense was not in position, and the Celtics needed eight seconds to complete the goal.

When Mobley missed a three-pointer in the next attack, the Celtics launched a counterattack again, James Posey received a ground-hitting pass from Arenas, and the layup was successful, Van Gundy only felt that the situation on the court was simply unsolvable. The Celtics just relied on their second team to make the Rockets a bit of a mess.

This is the second point that Van Gundy thinks about, he thinks that if the offensive problem is solved, then the Rockets will slowly gain an advantage in the positional offensive and defensive battle, who knows that his offense is not open, but the fast break that makes the Celtics famous has been successful. This is also a problem that the Rockets have to face when Yao Ming is on the court, even if Yao Ming's retreat speed is not slow in the center, but in the face of Celtic's second rapid counterattack, he is still too slow.

It was undoubtedly a waste of his energy to let Yao Ming continue to run back and forth on the court, so next, Francis was still determined to pass the ball to Yao Ming. This time the ball passed through Jackson's hand in the bottom corner and passed from the baseline defense to Yao Ming. Yao Ming squeezed Wang Zhizhi away and received a pass on the side, which was a good pass, Wang Zhizhi was completely out of position, and Yao Ming could face the basket directly when he got the ball.

This time, Anderson didn't have time to make up for the defense, seeing that Yao Ming was about to make a one-handed heavy buckle, Wang Zhizhi chased up from behind and slapped Yao Ming's small arm, the ball came out of his hand, the referee whistled, and fouled.

A vicious thug fouled, Yao Ming could even feel the pain in his little arm. He looked at Wang Zhizhi, Wang Zhizhi's face was very calm, and there was no fierce expression, this was a normal and necessary foul.

When it comes to friendship, Yao Ming and Wang Zhizhi have a general friendship, the two people's personalities are quite different, Yao Ming is open-minded, optimistic, cheerful, and has a great sense of humor; And Wang Zhizhi, who was born in a military family, is introverted, silent, and sensitive, and with their experience of being sworn enemies of each other in the CBA, they naturally will not become close friends.

But Yao Ming also knows that Wang Zhizhi is a relatively supple person, with first-class playing skills, but his style occasionally seems a little "faced", the offensive end is sometimes domineering and exposed, and the defensive end has been a lot worse. In the CBA, he was able to rely on his height, arm span, and awareness to become China's block king, and when it came to the international arena and the NBA, it was a little far behind, at least the Rockets' video analysts thought so.

But tonight, Yao Ming felt that this Wang Zhizhi was not at all different from his impression, his strength, toughness when defending, and calm and firm eyes were all interpreting a different Wang Zhizhi.

Yao Ming stood at the free throw line and hit both free throws, and the Rockets finally scored, recovering some gaps.

"Offense, too, don't just shoot!" At this time, Dave Cowens, who was sitting on the Celtics bench, yelled at Wang Zhizhi.

Cowens is now in the team to concentrate on training the basic skills of the players, especially the basic skills of the interior players, and Wang Zhizhi is a key target of help. In a business league like the NBA, the team is where the players work, and the players have to rely more on themselves if they want to improve themselves, because the coach is your colleague, unlike the university is your teacher, and there is no obligation to teach you to improve your personal ability.

And one of the good traditions of the Celtics is a strong family team atmosphere, although this atmosphere is also weakening with the times, but the old Celtics like Cowens will treat every Celtic player as a partner and a future successor. So he did his best to guide and help everyone, and Wang Zhizhi benefited a lot from it.

Hearing Cowens's words, Wang Zhizhi quickly ran through the half, and he began to jam Yao Ming in the ribs to ask for the ball, he wanted to single!

In the CBA, he beat Yao Ming very easily, his skills, Yao Ming's relatively thin body, left Yao Ming with eternal regrets. Now it is not what it used to be, a champion, a small role on the edge of the bench, but Wang Zhizhi is still Wang Zhizhi, Yao Ming is still Yao Ming, he will not feel afraid in his heart because of this gap.

Pierce passed the ball to Wang Zhizhi, Wang Zhizhi received the ball and turned his back directly from the bottom line to force it in, which is not the offensive way that Wang Zhizhi is good at, but he still used his speed advantage to squeeze in.

Under the interference of Yao Ming's long arm, Wang Zhizhi missed the layup, and the ball slipped out of the edge of the basket, but Wang Zhizhi stuck in position, held his arm high above his head, and grabbed this frontcourt rebound.

But when he got the ball, he put his hand down, and it was difficult to think about it again.

"Hold your hands up, hold them up!" Cowens got up from the bench and shouted anxiously, some of Wang Zhizhi's previous bad habits still haven't been completely broken.

Yao Ming was like a big mountain on Wang Zhizhi's head, and if he didn't leave a little gap for Wang Zhizhi, Wang Zhizhi would attack for three seconds if he rubbed for a while. Facing Yao Ming with the strength of his lower game, he has no ability to be strong at all.

Just about three seconds later, Wang Zhizhi flicked the ball in his arms behind him with his right hand, and the ball bounced on the ground and flew into the hands of Chris Anderson, who was following.

Wang Zhizhi seemed to have eyes in the back of his head, knowing that Anderson would appear in this place.

The birdman took off.

He didn't care that there were Yao Ming and Wang Zhizhi in front of him, he didn't care that Yao Ming's height was 7 feet 6, and he didn't care that he was three steps away from the basket.

Because he wanted to dunk, he hadn't dunked in a game for too long.

The poor basketball was smashed into the basket, and Chris Anderson was separated by two people, one opponent and one teammate flew the ball into the basket.

After scoring the goal, Wang Zhizhi caught the falling basketball with both hands, he handed the ball to Yao Ming, ran away, high-fived Anderson, and returned to defense. (To be continued.) )