Chapter 124: Pseudo-Dream Footsteps

"Houston, we're in trouble!"

When Zhang Qi was interviewed in the halftime, he made another riotous remark that made Lakers fans feel very happy, which also made Houston fans angry. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

But no matter how angry he is, Horry was completely outfitted by Zhang Mao today, and there were only a handful of rounds successfully defended in the first half, if you want to find a guy from the Rockets who is about to explode, it must be him.

"Why should I have a power forward to defend him?"

Tang Shuai found a problem related to IQ at halftime, and the Lakers knew that they couldn't prevent big dreams, so they immediately discharged a magic to carry out asymmetrical alignment, which reduced Olajuwon's damage to the Lakers in disguise.

This trick was obviously placed in front of him, why didn't he learn it secretly?

So it's obviously an IQ problem, and his brain doesn't seem to be flexible enough for that gray-haired guy today?

Harris is really smart today, in fact, he put two three-point shots on the outside, which is to learn the Rockets' style of play in these two games.

Now think about it, the Lakers have two super-notch passers on the inside, how much ammunition will the outside battery get as a result?

This style of play will definitely make the unprepared opponent look confused, especially since they have a baseline mouse constantly interspersed, which constitutes a three-in-one strike firepower of land, sea and air, and the Rockets have no idea how to defend themselves in the first half.

In the second half, the Rockets' lineup changed, and Tomjanovic also put on a small lineup: Kassel, Drexler, Mario Elie, Chaki Brown, Olajuwon.

The Lakers' lineup has not changed: Van Exel, Cebaros, Finley, Zhang Mao, Campbell.

"Small lineup, this is learning from us?"

Zhang Wei didn't know what Harris was thinking when he saw the Rockets' lineup, but as the on-court commander, he had to have his own ideas at this time.

"The Rockets are out of this lineup, do I raise the speed, or stabilize and play positional battles?"

Zhang Qi is also a little entangled in his heart, the Rockets' lineup is not as good as them in height, and it is not impossible to play steadily, but considering that Olajuwon is likely to become the king of blocks in this rhythm, it seems that it is more beneficial for the Rockets to play like this.

But if he increases the speed faster, although the Rockets are also a small lineup, they should not be able to play small ball rhythm, and they are likely to be dragged down by their speed.

When they think about it, they have a good idea of how to play next, and they must choose the style of play they are good at.

Tomjanovic soon felt that his IQ was indeed a little insufficient today, and the Lakers played a small lineup because people could play, because their lineup was suitable for this style of play, and speeding up could give full play to Zhang Zhu's impact.

But the Rockets are a bit of a second to follow the Lakers to play a small lineup, and Olajuwon's ability needs to be fully exerted in the positional battle, and how can he play his dream steps when he runs? Isn't this a head-to-head confrontation between one's own shortcomings and the strengths of the other party?

Besides, speed is not something that can be mentioned if you want to, as soon as the pace is fast, it is easy to make mistakes, and without a long time of drilling, a lot of mistakes are enough to destroy a team.

The score was 10:06 in the third quarter, and the score was 63:48.

The Rockets only played a small lineup for less than two minutes, and immediately switched back to the regular lineup, only to be stretched to 15 points in a moment, and the Rockets still couldn't score after changing the lineup, and the Lakers widened the point difference to a dangerous point in a blink of an eye.

The 15-point deficit was already dangerous, and once the Lakers extended their advantage to 20 points, the game was almost over.

The Rockets now need someone to step up, a task that should have been done by Olajuwon, but the Lakers also know the threat of Big Dream at this time, and they do not hesitate to use three people to wrap it up.

In this case, even if Olajuwon's dream steps are against the sky, he will not be able to break through the defense of three people to score at one time, which can only be seen in the highlights, or a handful of shots in his entire career.

Tomjanovic is an excellent head coach, otherwise he would not have been able to lead the Rockets, who are not dominant in overall strength, to win two championships, but after receiving that fatal punch back then, he did occasionally be a little stupid.

But every time it comes to a critical moment, Tang Shuai's head will be very clear, and he decided to trust the veteran in this headwind, and quickly replaced Cassel with Kenny Smith.

Kenny Smith has won two championships with the Rockets, and of course it can't be said that he is a "mixed" champion, Smith's three-point shooting rate of more than 40% for three consecutive seasons is the Rockets' most consistent outside output point. And Smith can not only shoot, he is also very fast, he can even fly in the past few years, participated in the slam dunk contest and three-point game many times, and in 1990, he and Wilkins, the "essence of human movies", fought 300 rounds before losing to the runner-up.

The future T· N· The members of the T team are not small characters, and he can be on an equal footing with Barkley to win the championship twice, especially in the first game of the Rockets vs. Magic finals in 95, Kenny Smith hit a three-pointer in the last second before the end of the game, equalized the score and dragged the game into overtime, and finally the Rockets won the game 120-118. Kenny Smith made seven three-pointers throughout the game, setting an NBA Finals three-point record and being named one of the NBA's Top 60 Moments in the Playoffs.

The Rockets went to the edge of the cliff, and it turned out that it was the veteran who saved the team.

Kenny Smith hit two three-pointers in a row from his teammates inside to help the Rockets narrow the margin to single digits.

"Damn, don't try to mess up my show today."

Zhang Yu didn't know if it was to raise his father's face, or to make him feel strange and excited all the time, anyway, he had to win today, and whoever dared to stop him would have to "die"!

"Man, I can't remember how many times I've scored on you, why are you still here? Are you a masochist? "Zhang Yu saw that Huo Li was replaced again, and felt that he could continue to score on this guy, but he didn't say that." I tell you, I'm going to use your skull as a bowl when I come again. ”

Horry is a good-natured player, the kind of good guy who doesn't get into trouble everywhere.

This kind of player is generally not affected by trash talk, and Zhang Fu's trash talk is ineffective today, and the last time this happened was against Hill.

These players, who have a relatively strong psychological quality and character, generally do not provoke others, and at the same time, they will not be affected by the opponent's trash talk.

Zhang's next two attacks were missed by Horry's defense, which also made him give up on the intention of talking trash again.

Now as long as he finds that his trash talk is useless, he will not use it all the time, which is more or less respectful of the other party, and also to avoid making himself like a clown, he has gradually learned how to use his trash talk.

"You think you'll be able to stop me? I'm not just a trash talker! ”

Zhang Zhu found that his breakthrough began to cause the Rockets to be a higher-level bag, and even Olajuwon would choose to let go of his defender to close his teammates, which actually recognized his ability in disguise, and there are not many players in the league who can enjoy the Rockets' bag treatment, and he can be regarded as a character.

The Rockets strengthened their interior defense, the Magic was not replaced early, and Zhang Fu saw that scoring became difficult, so he decisively left the restricted area and began to return to his regular style of play.

Harris soon replaced Finley with Bisson, and Zhang returned to the No. 3 position, and both sides began to play regular tactics.

Zhang Qi set his sights on Horry, and he began to repeatedly block and dismantle with Bisen, actively creating opportunities for a heads-up with Horry.

Huo Li's feeling has become very bad again, and his feelings are still opposite Zhang Qi.

Zhang Zhu didn't even change his playing style, still using his faster speed to shake the opponent's center of gravity, looking for opportunities to enter the inside.

But what is different about him this time is that he is actively engaging Olajuwon to help defend himself and create scoring opportunities for his teammates to attract the defense.

The rocket is prepared for Zhang Fu's style of play, but Zhang Fu's state today is too good, when he played the fourth position before, his ability value rose to 86, and now he has returned to the third position, and he still maintains the same value, which also gives him more confidence, and it seems that even his ball control skills are much stronger.

At 7 minutes and 22 seconds in the third quarter, Zhang Yi used Campbell's cover to kill the low post on the right side, and slowed down and stopped the ball in the face of Olajuwon, who switched to him, which was a small and big dislocation.

This kind of misplaced defense after the pick-and-roll was allowed, and Campbell immediately moved to the weak side to help Zhang Zhu lure the defender away, allowing him to go one-on-one with Olajuwon in the low post.

This is the first time that Zhang Yu has directly faced off with Olajuwon, and he doesn't talk much nonsense, and immediately crosses steps to accelerate and break through.

Olajuwon relied on his height advantage, and he was not very far away, striding in time to keep up, his eyes were always on the basketball and ready to block at any time, but he always felt that there seemed to be something wrong with Zhang Mao's ball?

Of course, this ball is very wrong, Olajuwon was affected by his height, and did not pay attention to Zhang Zhu's face to make a cross-step, not a step, and the left foot followed up to stop the ball while landing on the ground, which is completely different from the pace of a three-step layup, not the kind of big stride, but similar to a small jump.

After Zhang Qi stopped the ball, he took his left foot as the pivot foot, pointed out his right foot to the side and forward, and at the same time raised the ball with his right hand to the side, and made a very smooth dummy layup.

Olajuwon had been staring at the basketball in his hand, and when he saw that Zhang was going to make a layup, he immediately jumped up with an emergency stop to block it.

"Haha, it turns out that you will also be deceived by this trick!"

Zhang Zhu smiled very proudly at this moment, and after opening his hand to make a false movement, he immediately took his left foot as the axis, quickly collected the ball, and then turned to complete a real layup - this is Olajuwon's dream footsteps!

"Oops!"

Da Meng knew in his heart that it was not good, this action was too familiar to him.

But now I realized that it was too late, Zhang Fu successfully shook Olajuwon and reflexively scored the ball easily.

The players on both sides were stupid, no one could have thought that Zhang Zhu would use such a move, especially the Lakers players, they had never seen Zhang Zhu practice dream steps?

"I'm sorry, I learned your steps after watching them once, and it's not a big deal, you call this a dream step?"

Zhang Yu began to pretend to be 13 again, in fact, he was just painting a cat and a tiger, as long as you look at the replay, you can know that he can't catch up with the pace when he takes a step, as if he can't step on the point.

This is mainly due to the fact that when he does this movement, his right leg drives his left leg to follow, and his left leg does not step out naturally, it is more like jumping with both feet, and the center of gravity is not stable enough to lead to a lack of coherence.

If Da Meng was prepared, he would definitely not be fooled like this, but how could he have thought that Zhang Yu could learn the dream steps by learning and selling now?

I have to say that although Zhang Fu's dreamy steps are a little unstepped, his movements are very coordinated, which is his body coordination against the sky, although the step point is not good, but still a whole set of movements are completed smoothly, this kind of anti-sky imitation ability makes Olajuwon a little unacceptable.

At the beginning, he secretly practiced this set of dream steps for the playoffs, and I don't know how much time and sweat it took to master this set of footwork, but Zhang Wei only watched it a few times and learned his three successes, which made him calm down.

However, Da Meng didn't know that although Zhang Fu learned things ridiculously fast, it was difficult for him to be proficient.

This time, he just relied on his solid basic skills to force this move, that is, to take it by surprise, and he will definitely not be able to succeed next time.

But it doesn't matter, Zhang Yu doesn't plan to learn any dream steps, at most he will learn Olajuwon's turning and swaying movements in the future, but he won't learn the whole set of steps, and he doesn't really want to play inside.

This time, his purpose was to avenge the scene of being dangled by Olajuwon in the first quarter, and the position where Da Meng was standing just now was too comfortable, so he couldn't help but use this trick of pseudo "dream footsteps".

The Lakers fans at the scene couldn't see that Zhang Zhu's action was tangible and godless, and even if those media saw it, they would definitely deliberately exaggerate the facts after the game, and focus on the topic that an outside line can explode Olajuwon with fantastic steps, and strive to make a big news.

This is just like the action of Iverson shaking off Jordan later, which is obviously a classic duel of "wonderful offense and beautiful defense", which can be called a chess opponent, on par.

But when it came to the mouths of these guys, it became Iverson "shaking Jordan" and "stunning Jordan", and then took Iverson's sentence "On the court, I don't need to respect anyone, but when I faced Jordan, my brain was confused", only intercepted the first half of the sentence and kept rendering, forcibly portraying Iverson into an unruly and empty-eyed player.

But Zhang Zhu didn't care that the media also took it out of context for him, and even wanted the media to report it after the game......