The Rockets were able to thwart the Warriors in G2, and the prep meeting the day before the game was extremely important. The meeting started early at 8 a.m. and took place behind closed doors in the video analysis room of the Rocket Training Gym until nearly 11 a.m. Although it lasted for almost three hours, in terms of its central idea, the arrangement of the rocket was only three steps!

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The first step is aggressiveness.

At the time of 1, because of the use of the auxiliary player skills of the CAMS system, "the aggressiveness of one-on-one defense is increased by 50", and the reference player template is the Celtics' fierce Marcus Smart", and Yang Yiming's defense is also extremely aggressive. But apparently the "Grim Reaper" Durant played high, not only Yang Yiming's aggressiveness was resolved by him one by one, but it did not play a role at all, but he scored 37 points while making five fouls to the opponent just after halftime.

But after it was determined that Yang Yiming would defend Durant again in this game, the first priority implemented by the coaching staff was: to stay aggressive!

D'Antoni first showed Yang Yiming the action video of the foul caused by his defense in the first game, and then compared several sets of successful defenses between him and his teammates: "The playoffs are a stage for advocating physical confrontation, and the referee will also relax the scale. But this confrontation is about using the 'body' to invade, not the 'hand' to invade! The latter will only get you a whistle! ”

Yang Yiming is really talented, and he understands it when he is a little bit by the coach.

It is true that there are more small movements on his hands in the first game, on the one hand, he is a subconscious on-court reaction from the domestic training system, often trying to make up for the disadvantage in confrontation with the twisting of his hands; On the other hand, he is also afraid of Durant's speed and height, and is afraid of giving him the opportunity to shoot easily. Under the effect of the two phases, five fouls were received at the beginning of the third quarter, which is completely reasonable.

But experiencing Durant's true ability, coupled with the coach's nudge, G2 Yang Yiming's aggressiveness is completely different! In addition, G2 continues to use aggressiveness and 50% player skills, which is even more powerful!

Physical confrontation!

The Warriors wanted to pass the ball, and Yang Yiming began to wrestle with Durant when he was in the position. Durant was still playing high, and he sank into the center and resisted him to play the game, not giving him a chance to play in the most comfortable attack area. Often when Durant settles down and can spread his long arms and start to attack the ball, most of the 24 seconds have gone, and when the ball really reaches him, he only has to take the ball and attack a way out.

Durant gets the ball, and Yang Yiming's strategy is to prevent sudden shots. Durant is slender and slender, Yang Yiming's shoulders and upper limbs are thicker, plus he spreads his legs, puts his head at the height of Durant's chest, and wraps his arms around, as if participating in defensive training, directly blocking Durant's way. Durant rushed left and right, but because Yang Yiming's center of gravity was extremely low, Durant only took one step out, and he would quickly move sideways, using his body and feet - not his hands! - Blocking the way, so that Durant's several breakthrough attempts after the opening were deflated, and finally had to switch to focused shooting.

But even if the purpose of shooting is to prevent sudden shooting, Yang Yiming must also add aggression. As long as Durant has a tendency to shoot, he will lean further and use the power of the next set to push Durant out of the shooting zone. Several times Durant had already asked for the ball near the paint area under the basket, and wanted to use the horse archery after turning, but he didn't expect that every time he took a step, he was pushed by Yang Yiming to go one meter, and finally leaned back 45 degrees, and the shooting position had reached the free throw line before throwing the ball.

Although the goal was scored, the referee did not blow the whistle, and Yang Yiming knew that such a defensive scale was allowed; The second is that Durant has been cornered when he shoots, and he has no choice to pass the ball anymore, so he can only shoot the ball most securely, so that the second step of the Rockets' plan has a chance!

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The second step is to cut off Durant's connection with his teammates.

With Yang Yiming's ferocious one-on-one defense against Durant's aggressive skyrocketing, it is possible for the Rockets to cut off the tandem between the Warriors players. In the first game, the Warriors opened with five deaths: Durant, Thompson, Iguodala, Green, and Curry, which greatly surprised everyone. But in the second game, the Rockets returned the favor with their own way, and also took the initiative to downgrade the altitude, improve mobility, and respond with the lineup of Yang Yiming, Harden, Ariza, Pj Tucker, and Paul.

With this highly mobile lineup, the Rockets switched defenses at all positions except Durant, forcing the Warriors to be unable to play effective pick-and-roll and shooting coordination, forcing them to give the ball to Durant, who made tactical choices. However, Yiming's defensive aggressiveness infinitely challenged Durant's pressure on the ball, and once he got the ball, he could only use his own finishing shot to escape the edge of mistakes and conceding the ball.

As the coaching staff said the day before, as long as the rest of the Warriors don't score, the Rockets are not afraid, because then they can only rely on Durant; And as long as Durant just shoots and doesn't pass, the Rockets are not afraid, because Durant can't shoot all the time!

Facts come true!

In the second quarter, the Rockets began to lead by 5 points, and the two sides were still stalemate, the Warriors substitute lineup was replaced by West, but the Rockets took the initiative to remove the Brazilian center Nene and replace it with PJ Tucker, and suddenly the situation on the court changed!

I saw Curry and Livingston attacking with two guns in the backcourt, and Paul and Gordon did not suffer a loss in the opposite defense. Block and dismantle, Paul vs. Livingston, Gordon vs. Curry, Curry holds the ball! Curry kept changing lines and dribbling, but he couldn't escape Gordon's blockade, so he had no choice but to pass the ball to Livingston, trying to take advantage of the latter's height misalignment to eat Paul. Although Paul suffered from his height, he was really accurate and ruthless in defense, and he took advantage of Livingston's inattention to grab a step from the cat's waist, and the latter could only stop dribbling in order to protect the ball from being stolen. This stop the ball on the spot, naturally lost the opportunity to break through and shoot, and could only wait for reorganization. Fortunately, Klay Thompson bypassed the defense to pick up, but was immediately entangled by Ariza. With only 6 seconds left on the offensive time, Thompson had no choice but to give the ball to Durant and let him think of a final solution. Durant was near the free throw line, and the crotch dribble didn't find a break from Yang Yiming, and forced a shot back, but he seemed to see Westka under the basket to the shooting position again. Durant changed his mind and hoisted the ball to West in the air, but he didn't expect the short and thick Tucker to squeeze past West and go around the front to intercept the pass.

After breaking the ball, the rocket immediately counterattacked across the board!

Ariza went straight into the bottom corner of the right side, Tucker stood in the middle to block Paul and dismantle it, Yang Yiming rushed the most fiercely, and drove everyone to the bottom left corner to stand still. Paul took advantage of Tucker's pick-and-roll to get past the two of them, flicked his wrist at full speed, and thought he was going to pass the ball, but he jumped and pulled the ball back. Livingston, who was shaking in front of him, didn't know what to do, and Paul made a lateral pass to find Yang Yiming in the bottom corner. He raised his hand to feint, and West chased back with all his might, and was easily dodged. Gordon slapped the horse and rushed to the front court to respond, Yang Yiming made a pass, one step away from the 45-degree oblique three-point line, Gordon sat on the ground and fired, and the ball hit the basket!

The Rockets beat the Warriors 10-2 and pulled the score to double digits at once. The chance to win the series is coming to Houston Skycity for the first time!