Chapter Fifty-Seven: The Runaway Little Schoolbag
On Nov. 2, at 10:30 p.m., Houston will take on the Seattle SuperSonics from afar at the Toyota Center.
Due to the arrival of Yao Ming, the Rockets are not the only harvesters of the little giants, and the league has also relied on Yao Ming to open up the Chinese market that has been developing.
10:30 p.m. in Houston is exactly 8:30 a.m. Beijing time, and most of the Rockets' games are gathered on Fridays and Saturdays in the United States.
After talking about rockets, let's talk about the Seattle SuperSonics that we visited today.
Since the last century by Glove Peyton, Rain Man Kemp, supplemented by Ricky Pierce and a strong veteran, the SuperSonics team has reached the Finals for the first time, but thirty years in the east and thirty years in the west, since that time by the Chicago Bulls, the fortunes of the SuperSonics seem to have been exhausted, the team has been blocked out of the playoffs, in order to get rid of the decline, the supersonic executives decided to rebuild, they traded Ray Allen to the Celtics to get the emperor West and the No. 5 rookie Jeff Green, Signing last year's Rookie of the Year Kevin Durant with his No. 2 spot is half the battle.
But because Durant was too iron at the beginning, his and Green's arrival did not bring a substantial improvement to the SuperSonics' record, but instead went straight to achieve the worst record in team history with a 20-62 record, so that they got the fourth pick this year and are still slowly walking on the road of rebuilding.
A summer has passed, and Durant's bony body has now become a lot stronger, but that is only a limited improvement, and when he stands with Totoro, who can compete with James as soon as he enters the league because he has opened the cheat, his body is still a little thin.
But the height and arm span of the schoolbag Du is really frustrating, the strength and height of at least 2.1 meters upwards and his 225cm long arms make him a little too perverted in the small forward position, and now he is too thin to adapt to the NBA-level confrontation, and the weak ability to dribble makes him unable to attack with the ball, but this is only temporary, and when he connects his strength and dribble, and stabilizes the mid-range three-point shooting, it is estimated that no one in this league can prevent him one-on-one.........
When the whistle blew, Collison and Yao Ming competed for the ball, and the little giant died again on his 20cm bounce, and Collison grabbed the ball with a half-palm advantage.
Russell. Westbrook ball came to the front court, the current Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are not the impulsive teenager who takes the ball in the future, just came to the unfamiliar arena of the NBA, Westbrook is still a very good child, since the team coach said that Durant is the core of his team, he naturally handed the first attack to the hands of the schoolbag Du.
Artest took two steps forward to resist Durant, he let out all his big words a few days ago, in this game he in addition to deliberately squeezing out Totoro and not giving him a pass, he also has to play a convincing good data.
As for why Artest misplaced to defend Durant, it was also his own pre-game coach who volunteered to play the small forward position, and he wanted to freeze the top scorer on the opposing team to prove himself.
Now Tiedu still belongs to the type that falls when the wind blows, and the beast's serious defensive attitude on the first ball suddenly made the unprepared Durant a little overwhelmed, but it was not a 1-on-1 bullfight on the basketball court, and power forward Jeff Green made a block for him to come up, and the schoolbag Du instantly got a starting space.
Artest squeezed Green hard, and Durant didn't get rid of the beast this time, but it was enough.
Tiedu held the ball above his head and threw it, Artest next to him could really only look at the ball and sigh, the two people had a difference of at least 15cm in height, unless he could fly, the only thing he could expect was that the opponent couldn't shoot.
"Huh!"
However, today Durant's hand was very smooth, and he felt very good, hitting a solid first shot to open the scoring for the SuperSonics.
The Rockets attacked, the first ball naturally fell into Yao Ming's hands, even if Artest wanted to prove himself today, he didn't dare to grab the first ball with the team boss, and the little giant still turned over and jumped after receiving the ball as always, so that Collison, who was also defective in height, felt the helplessness of the beast just now.
The two sides went back and forth until the first official timeout, when the Rockets and SuperSonics played 19:21, and the Rockets still trailed by two points in the face of the fish belly.
There is no problem with the Rockets' own feel and shooting, but the problem is that Durant, a sophomore, is in too good shape, except for the first two balls that need teammates to help him with a few blocks, the schoolbag that shot the ball Du seems to be full of firepower, and the rest are all shot on the beast's head one after another, and the first 7 minutes 7 minutes 7 shots and 6 minutes with two free throws scored 15 points, and the unlucky Artest can be said to have been completely blown up by others.
If it weren't for the supersonic defense, which was as shit as last season, maybe the Rockets would not be in the stage of entanglement with the opponent now, but were completely thrown behind the ass by the opponent and eaten with ashes.......
The Beast lost face on the defensive end, and the offensive end certainly wanted to fight back.
This kind of thing is related to the face of the players, of course, the players on the field will not give Atai face, but except for Brooks, the other players are not very dedicated, Randolph just came to the team and has no intersection with Artai, Yao Ming must have chosen not to stand side, and Totoro will not deliberately make the ball for the beast to block, which caused the beast to be lost under the defense of the whole supersonic team.