Chapter 117: Defeating the Rocket (Subscription Requested)
After the game restarted, at this time, the Rockets finally changed their lineup, they replaced one veteran Mutombo, and another veteran Juwan. Howard, who finally gave up on the twin towers tactics of Van Gundy, hoped for Juwan. Howard used his experience to take on more defensive loads.
Alstom, who finally came to his senses, made a rare wonderful split, Maddie once again pulled out a jumper, and Joe. Johnson hit a mid-range headshot, which was Maddy's third shot in a row, and he continued to have a good opening touch.
Soon Sun Yue was still colored, seeing that the Rockets wanted to narrow the score advantage, he had to start scoring, this time Sun Yue used two consecutive positioning covers from his teammates, and after receiving the ball, he fired at a 45-degree angle on the right outside the three-point line and hit the three-point shot directly.
With the Hawks and Rockets each hitting an iron in the final minute of the third quarter, the Hawks went into the final twelve minutes of the fourth quarter with an eight-point lead.
At the start of the fourth quarter, Al. Harrington continued to pull out for Sun Yue to block and dismantle in the high post, just in the break, Coach Woodson clearly continued to implement Sun Yue and Harrington's high blocking and dismantling tactics, and Coach Woodson also strengthened a lot of details for this high post blocking and dismantling tactics, and picked out a lot of specific routes for running, including blocking and dismantling, covering and standing positions are explained very, very carefully.
Sun Yue with the help of Al. Harrington's cover, a deft turn and pass, and another step past David. Wesley.
From the second half, the Rockets began to use David. Wesley came to defend Sun Yue, nicknamed "Mickey Mouse" David. Wesley has been in the NBA for 13 years, and although his defensive experience and defensive awareness are much better than Alston's, his running and jumping ability has degraded too much over time, and he is at the level of being passed by one or two steps in the face of Sun Yue.
Building the second line of defense behind Wesley was Juwan. Howard, who is also old, can't resist the fast breakthrough of the young and strong Sun Yue, and I have to say that Van Gundy is indeed very stubborn in employing people, and he would rather use David. Wesley and Juwan. Howard's old bones came up to play with their lives, and they didn't want to send John. Lucas III, Luther. Hyde, these young blood.
This forced Yao Ming in the penalty area to hurriedly move sideways to delay Sun Yue's breakthrough, but Sun Yue did not continue to dribble deeply, and threw the basketball into the sky during the march, and the fans saw Harrington jump into the air, receive the basketball, and then pour the basketball into the basket with a chic and elegant one-handed split!
In the following minutes, the two teams went back and forth, and neither could prevent the opponent's attack. But the disadvantage of the Rockets is slowly expanding, because in front of the continuous singles on the offensive end and being exposed to the high-post blocking tactics on the defensive end, Yao Ming's physical strength is passing rapidly, and he can usually have Mutombo to come off the bench to let him take turns to rest his physical strength, but whether it is the twin towers tactics used by Van Gundy today and the situation of today's game, Yao Ming has no time to rest.
"Jeff is a workaholic, he eats, sleeps, and even breathes in the arena, and everything he does is definitely infectious. Van Gundy is really incomprehensible when it comes to employing people. "Rick. Barry couldn't help but complain about Van Gundy: "He played his good hand badly. ”
"No one knew that Harrington would feel so good today." Next to Bill. Wharton defended Jeff Van Gundy.
And the opposite Hawks, Al. Harrington can still use his speed and skill unscrupulously to trick defenders at the top of the arc, whether it's Yao Ming or Zhu Wan. Howard couldn't stop him, and when the Rockets used the bag, he quickly handed the ball to Sun Yue, who was swimming on one side. Sun Yue, who got the basketball, either attacked it himself, or he would send the basketball to the offensive players who ran out of the vacant position like a cannonball.
On the face of it, Al. Harrington is the biggest threat, Jeff. Van Gundy has always focused on Zach Randolph.
But in fact, Sun Yue is the biggest threat, he is like a vampire hiding in the shadows, coming out from time to time to give Team Rocket a murderous blow.
Yao Ming, who had no physical strength, began to become weak on the offensive end, and the Hawks began to encircle Maddie heavily on the defensive end, and Maddie also lost his shooting touch, and he began to frequently throw the basketball to the hoop to make a sound of iron.
Four minutes and thirty seconds into the fourth quarter, Jeff. Van Gundy had taken out all the notes from his suit pocket, an offensive and defensive tactic he had made up for a night in the gym before the game, but now it was useless, and the current Hawks were very different from the Hawks he saw in the tape in the first leg of the regular season, they played a new tactic, and this tactic was very accurate to choke the Rockets' weaknesses.
Originally, according to Van Gundy's estimate, the Hawks were a weakened version of the Suns, with a fast pace of offense and defense, and strong impact of players, so Van Gundy deliberately arranged for Yao Ming to sink to a low single, reducing the possibility of the opponent launching a quick attack by improving his offensive success rate, and also prepared a double-tower tactic to deal with the impact of the Hawks players.
In fact, Van Gundy had the upper hand in the tactical competition with Woodson, but he didn't expect Sun Yue to come up with a high-post blocking tactic that hit the two major weaknesses of the Rockets: the slow pace of the center and the weakness of the point guard position.
When Maddie missed the third three-pointer in a row, the sad Van Gundy replaced him, because at this time the Rockets were already behind the Hawks by as many as 19 points, and Maddy's moment could not happen every time, not to mention that this time the backward score could not be recovered by relying on Maddy's world, and Yao Shu was replaced by Van Gundy back to the bench in the last round.
This was something that no one expected before the game, and everyone thought that the winner would be the Houston Rockets. After all, the Hawks were the vice president of the East last year, while the Rockets were the Western Conference playoff team.
Before the game, most NBA fans' expectation for the Hawks was that Sun Yue played beautiful statistics to lead the Hawks to the Rockets, which is also the most common expectation of many Chinese basketball fans.
However, what is unexpected is that Sun Yue not only helped the Hawks win but also his statistics are quite eye-catching, 18 points, 13 assists, 3 rebounds and 2 steals, although there are also four turnovers, but it does not hide his wonderful performance and excellent performance.