Chapter 211: Too Young and Too Old
After the change of the rules of the league in later generations, later generations called this defensive rule called body hair defense, to the effect that the defending side will be tried to foul when it touches the other party, but this is also a kind of exaggeration and ridicule by fans, how can there be no physical contact on the basketball court, this is not snooker.
But under the league's completely unforced face blowing penalty, James experienced what is called true. Body hair defense, he single-handedly beat both Mr. 100 million and Warcraft, and at the same time indirectly killed their coach Big Van Gundy, who is the opponent of such an amazing record? Barkley got the news after the game and was going to kneel down for the gorillas.
In the second game, the Lakers also defended their home-court advantage and cleaned up the visiting Hornets, who did not rely on the help of the referees, but relied on their hard power to defeat them in a bright way.
In this game, Phil Jackson made a big change before the game, replacing Odom from the sixth man to the starting position, and at the same time demoting Ariza to the position of the back of the bench.
Fans who don't pay much attention to the Hornets may not know much about how important the Queen Bee is to the Hornets, but it can be seen from the fact that Paul has to share more than 45% of the team's possession in one game, and he is the Hornets' goal.
With Paul's threading of the needle, Toja and James Posey's set of batteries can work, David West's mid-range can work, and Chandler can operate in the air on the opside's inside, but these are all dependent on Queen Bee's passes.
This is like the Lakers a few years ago, when the team only relied on Kobe Bryant, and the boss also had a lot of ball possession at that time, but unlike Paul, the volute converted his possession into scoring and hit the opponent in the most direct way, while Paul turned these balls into assists and helped the team from the side.
But the same thing is that they are all a crucial point of the team, and they are the soul of the team or the leader of the team is the engine of the team, they are players who are higher than the cornerstone of the team, for the Hornets and Lakers, Paul and Kobe Bryant are the fathers of the two teams, if one day the father can't carry, they will only have to rest.
The coach of the Hornets also saw this problem, but I don't know if it was because he had already snatched a victory and was lax, this game Coster did not decisively target the Black Mamba, the result was that Kobe Bryant only shot 4 of 15 from the field, only got 13 points, 7 assists and 4 turnovers of the unqualified data, and Kobe Bryant relied on his height and weight advantage to frequently drop back on James Posey's head and shoot the name, he scored a total of 31 points, 6 rebounds and 4 assists, The difference in data between the two cores in this game is clear at a glance, Kobe Bryant has 18 points more than Paul, and in the final point difference, the Lakers also beat the Hornets by exactly 18 points.
Paul is also a playoff rookie this year. Counting this year's only one round of playoff experience last year, he was not untargeted by the Suns in the first round of the playoffs against the Suns, but the Suns' own team characteristics that are good at offense and defense did not bring much trouble to Queen Bee, and it wasn't until they met the Lakers, an aristocratic team that could attack and defend well and get serious, that he realized what the real playoff intensity looked like.
He has become the league's No. 1 point guard this year, won the competition with Deron Williams, successfully pushed to the altar by fans and media, and was also promoted to the ranks of superstars, but he must find a way to deal with the crack in the series with the Lakers later, otherwise his super-giant name will be questioned, and he may be driven down again before his ass is hot on the throne.
Eyes on Boston's North Shore Garden Arena for the Celtics to continue to play at home today. Once again, the Greenshirts suffered a defeat.
Pierce felt inaccurate without warning, Ray Allen's state seems to have been extremely bad from the first round of the series against the Nets, and the data of the two giants of the Big Three today combined are only 23 points, 10 boards, and 13 assists.
As soon as the first quarter came up, Ray Allen followed Garnett's cover and threw a three-pointer, and Pierce then hit two mid-ranges, the Celtics led the Hawks with a score of 9:0 at the beginning, everyone thought that the Green Shirts were stable in this game, but who knows, just after the highlight performance in the opening 3 minutes, the gentleman's sword and truth immediately fell into the curse of missing 100 shots.
Garnett struggled to support the team alone, but the problem was that Ray Allen and Pierce couldn't attack, even if they couldn't attack, their sluggish state also affected the defense, so that they couldn't defend against the new Hawks on the opposite side of the defensive end, this TM Green Shirts collapsed, the Green Wolf King suddenly remembered that he was full of strength but very tired when he was in the Timberwolves, no matter how good he was, he couldn't beat four hands with two fists, he didn't do it when he was the boss of the Timberwolves.
What's more, Garnett now doesn't have the fighting energy he had when he was in the Timberwolves, he is also about 32 years old this year, and the life span of interior players is shorter than that of outside players.
On the Hawks side, Joe Johnson got 26 points, 6 rebounds and 7 assists, Josh Smith also got 16 points and 13 rebounds, and the most eye-catching is rookie Horford, facing the Celtics' two big treasures, or the two big meat balls Glen Davis and Perkins, with excellent footwork and long arms to knock down a double-double of 14 points and 12 boards, and his score is exactly twice as many as the two Celtics.
In the blink of an eye, all the 8 teams that advanced to the second round have all finished the second round of games, and the Rockets and Celtics have been pushed to the edge of the cliff by their respective opponents, and they have one foot in the ground, and the two home-court advantages have been lost, what does the home-court advantage mean? Not only the strong support of the fans but also the help of the referee, it can be said that the time and place are favorable, and they all lose in this situation, do you still want to expect them to win back two more games when the time is in the right place and on the opponent's side?
The only difference is that the Rockets are criticized for being too young, while the Green Shirts are criticized for being too old, the Celtics in addition to the Big Three and their own Rondo and Thorton, the team really has no players to do, the salary space of the Big Three is too high, although they have made sacrifices when they roared Boston, but it is still too burdensome to come to three at once, just like the Big Three of the Heat in the later period, they have no money to sign other players except James Wade Bosh.
It's a very deformed development, the main team is gathered but not necessarily strong, because there is only one basketball, and the three of them can only make one shot a round, and they have to waste a long time trying to solve the problem of ball possession.
But the substitute is absolutely weak into a chicken, going up is to give someone a head to others, they dare to lose as many points as the main force can pull away, if the big three fail to open up enough advantages in the time when the main force is on the field, it will be over, and most of this game will be cold.
The Big Three behind the Heat are not bad, because the three of them are still very young, and in the playoffs, the head coach can reasonably arrange the playing time of the three to ensure that at least two Big Men are on the court at every moment in a game, but the Celtics can't play like this when the three are 100 years old together.
If the Big Three play more than 25 minutes, their efficiency will decrease, if they exceed 30 minutes, they will sleepwalk on the court, if they exceed 35 minutes, they will be a burden.
This can't be helped, it's not that Garnett Pierce and Ray Allen are not as great as James Wade and Bosh, but in the face of age, the biggest enemy, even if you are as strong as a basketball god, you have to bow to time, this is the same for every player, the phoenix that sheds hair is not as good as a chicken, just like the 50-year-old James can't beat the 20-year-old Sun Dasheng.
In Game 3, the Rockets' battle for life and death will be played in San Antonio, and Totoro will return from suspension for the first time in the playoffs, and everyone will want to see how he will perform in the first game.
Maybe it's because he knows that his game is more important, today Totoro's several harems are all on the scene to support, originally Totoro's harem has not been very concerned about his game, because their girls are usually very busy, but today Lufa is willing not to update, Taylor Swift is willing to postpone his new song release, Little Lori is willing to take her laptop to the plane to deal with official business, Ivan is willing to give up the banquet, several girls have made time for Totoro and have traveled thousands of miles to fly to the Holy City, It can be seen that Totoro's position in their hearts is still quite important.
My Neighbor Totoro didn't know the arrival of a few girls before the game, and he saw his girlfriends in the audience during the pre-game warm-up, and the warm-up shots immediately missed repeatedly, which scared Adelman out of a cold sweat off the court.
Generally, the girlfriends of NBA stars will come to the scene to support their boyfriend's game, but Totoro is an outlier, first, Totoro is not concerned about whether they come to watch him play, he does not have obsessive-compulsive disorder and must be on the court, and secondly, her harem girls are not very interested in basketball, plus they are usually busy, so they didn't come to the scene to watch Totoro's performance a few more times.
But now it's good, either none of them come, or all of them all at once, My Neighbor Totoro feels that this spending strength has been stretched from negative to explosive at once, and his little heart can't accept such a big change.
"Hey, boy, I said, it's not your time yet, you don't have a chance in this series, your performance really sucks, if I don't think about the game now, but think about how you face the reporters and fans in the post-game press conference after the game is lost."
Ginobili stepped forward and provoked Totoro, the opponent was revealing his bald scars for the whole game in the first game, how could he let the other party go so easily now?
2:0 lead, he still has two home court advantages, the Spurs have a tailwind can no longer be downwind, this is like lol in the first 10 minutes of a game to beat the opponent a 15:0, eat chicken their own three-level first three-level clothes 8 times silence 98k plus Geely suit, as long as it is an ordinary person, it will basically not swell.
"Bald, have you forgotten the lesson you learned when you were in opposition to me? You and I have been in the opposite position for less than 10 minutes in total, and you will be replaced by ** Vicky unbearable, in fact, if I were you in this game, I would try to avoid playing against me, otherwise you should now think about how you would feel if you were questioned by the media after the game. ”
My Neighbor Totoro glanced at Ginobili coldly, because of his height, Totoro not only looked contemptuous, but also condescending, quite domineering, and the Argentine Demon Knife suddenly felt that he had fallen into the disadvantage in the momentum of the confrontation, and he was unhappy all of a sudden.
"Boy, didn't anyone teach you such a thing as politeness when you were a child? If you want to gain a foothold in the alliance, you must learn how to respect your seniors, especially those whose honors and achievements are higher than yours. ”
Ginobili said angrily, but Totoro ignored him at all, and walked to the position of the jump ball after he finished speaking, and today he was going to fight for the ball instead of Yao Ming and Duncan.
The Argentine demon knife instantly wanted to vomit blood, he had a feeling of punching the cotton, and the most angry thing about a person was not when he sprayed with others, but when he sprayed people, the other party scolded himself and suddenly blocked it, which is the most embarrassing.
Duncan also frowned slightly, the referee blew the whistle and threw the ball into the air, Shi Buddha didn't even mean to toss, and ran to his backcourt without looking back, he knew that even if he was serious, he would not be able to compete for the legendary Totoro who was 4 meters high.
But maybe it's because this is the home of the Spurs, the referee deliberately threw the ball a lot lower, and it was a little biased to Duncan's side, throwing low is equivalent to reducing the advantage of Totoro's bounce, and increasing the advantage of Shi Buddha's height, if Duncan didn't give up this scrum, maybe Totoro will experience the first jump ball failure, but in fact this situation did not happen, this small detail tells us that as long as there is a little chance, people should not give up their efforts, What if Lady Luck plays a little joke on herself one day?
My neighbor totoro got off to a good start for the Rockets, the Spurs were already in good gear due to Duncan's early return to defense, Totoro didn't mess around, and after handing the ball to Calderon, he honestly began to run, and finally the basketball flew into Yao Ming's hands, and the little giant turned around and ignored Oberto's defensive small hook to score.