Chapter 236: Defending Harden
The Spurs took advantage of the opportunity to break quickly, and Leonard made two fouls and two free throws on a layup. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
The Rockets still rely on Harden's sudden points and misalignments to score points, and Harden has too many advantages to play Parker.
The Spurs took advantage of the Rockets' defensive weaknesses and used Ade to play Papera and force the Rockets to return to the inside package, so as to transfer the ball to the weak side to find open shooting opportunities.
The Spurs missed another empty shot, Harden took the rebound and advanced quickly, due to the fast transition between offense and defense, the position was not right, Harden had already come to the three-point line, Harden saw that no one was defending, and directly opened his hand to hit a three-point shot, leading by 7 points.
Old man Bobo was very angry, shouted a timeout, emphasized the defense, and was first very dissatisfied with Parker's defense: "TP! What about the people when you retreat? How can you make Harden swagger to the three-point line like that!? ”
Old man Bobo's attitude towards defense is that it is forgivable if he tries his best to prevent it, and it cannot be forgiven if he misses the defense directly, perhaps considering that Parker has just returned, and he replaced Parker with Mills when he played again.
Although Mills is shorter, he is not afraid of physical confrontation, and his mission is to prevent Harden from breaking through.
Coming back from a timeout, Mills burst into points, and Ade missed a shot in the open space.
Harden dribbled through again, Mills defended Harden on one side, and the other side casually burst out, the Spurs just adjusted the defense, as soon as Harden burst in, two defenders immediately came up close to line up to defend in turn, Harden plunged in, and saw that the sky was covered by four long arms, and on the other side, Mills stared at the ball in his hand, and the passing route was all locked, and he could only force the ball in the gap, and he made a mistake...
Lei Shui broke the ball and advanced quickly, rushed directly to the basket, the rocket's retreat was very fast, Lei Shui saw that there were too many people on the offensive line, and he stopped and turned around and passed to Mills on the wing, Mills did not hesitate to hit a three-point shot directly.
Looking back, it's the same defensive strategy again, Harden is very smart, he won't drill in again after a loss, while pushing Mills in with his butt to observe his teammate's position, and distribute the ball to Anderson in the best position, but Anderson didn't understand the Spurs' defense, misplaced and didn't shoot, had to break through, and was stealed.
In the offensive and defensive transition, Gordon defended Leonard, Thunder Shui found this misalignment, and immediately passed the ball to Leonard, Leonard directly squeezed Gordon to raise the ball with one hand for a layup, but he was a little careless, and was made up by Capela with a big hat and fanned off, and Harden and Gordon took the opportunity to make two quick layups and make a layup.
It was the Spurs' turn to attack, Ade Capela, using his physical advantage to eat strongly, causing Capela's foul, taking advantage of the dead ball time, the two sides began to make substitutions, D'Antoni replaced Capela with NN Hilario, and Bobo replaced David Lee with Dedmon.
With Dedmon there, Ade returned to the power forward position, and against Anderson, who had a worse defense, he immediately ate Anderson with his back, and as soon as the Rockets assisted in defense, Ademar passed the ball, and Thunder Water hit a three-point shot.
The Rockets did not grind at all, served quickly, Harden took advantage of the Spurs' unstable position, forced the basket, attracted the defense to turn back and pass to the follow-up NN, NN received the ball and took advantage of Dedmon's unstable position, raised the fire with one hand, rushed to the basket bravely, and skillfully dodged Dedmon's block and came to a powerful one-handed dunk, fully showing what it means to be 'a testicle bold' (NN suffered from a testicular tumor and removed a ball, so there is only one egg left).
At this time, it was Gordon who defended Thunder Water for the Rockets, his defense was not good, he saw NN's wonderful dunk, he was excited, but he didn't think that at this time Thunder Water was already about to fall, Leonard made a long pass to Thunder Water, and Lei Shui received the ball in the three-point line, at this time there was only Anderson in front of him, Lei Shui dribbled to the right to shake Anderson's center of gravity, pulled the ball around the waist with his right hand and changed to his left hand at the same time to shake Anderson, rushed to the bottom of the basket, and looked back at the moon to dunk with one arm.
As soon as Lei Shui finished dunking, Anderson picked up the ball and passed directly through the half, Harden feinted to attract defensive attention, and then passed the ball to Gordon in the vacant position, Gordon made a three-point shot, the ball was still at his fingertips, Lei Shui killed from the backcourt, jumped high and fanned the ball away, at this time the referee did not blow, but the fans had already begun to cheer, but seeing Gordon fall to the ground, the referee hesitated for a moment and blew it again, Lei Shui looked back at the referee suspiciously, and looked at the referee's gesture to make sure that it was his own foul, because the whistle was blown too late.
The old man Bobo was very displeased, and asked the referee to theorize, at this time the big screen began to play back, and the screen showed that Lei Shui's cap was no problem at all, but Gordon reacted quickly, and as soon as he saw someone flying over to block it, he immediately stretched his arm forward, collided with Lei Shui's arm one by one, and fell to the ground again when he landed.
Elliott looked at the replay and shook his head, crossed out the 2 he had written, and said to Rand: "Take a good look, how clean this ball is, he actually blew a foul, this level of collision is not worth mentioning at all!" What does this referee want, he's going to mess up Shaq's wedding like this! ”
Gordon made three free throws, at which point Bobo replaced Mills with Ginobili and motioned for Thunder to go and match Harden.
The Spurs attacked, the ball fell backwards, and when it was passed to Thunder Water, Harden took a risk and failed to steal, Thunder Water saw the opportunity to stride into the interior, and encountered the Rockets three-person surrounding, Thunder Water shook his wrist, and the ball hit the ground from the crotch of NN, just in time for Dedmon to dunk it.
Rocket offense, Harden controls the ball, Thunder Water front guarding, Lei Shui knows that as long as he can control Harden, the Rockets' offense will be difficult to play, but it is not so easy to prevent Harden, breakthroughs, shooting, fouls, Harden can do everything.
Harden also wanted to try this rookie who had just won 13 blocks, waved his hand to signal others to pull away, and then lowered his center of gravity and increased the speed of the dribble...
"Watch what you do!" Ginobili reminded him when he saw Thunder trying to reach out and interfere with Harden's dribbling.
Lei Shui suddenly remembered the essentials of defending Harden specifically mentioned in the pre-game meeting, the most important of which is to put his hand in a place where the referee can see, and don't let Harden have a chance to cheat and foul, because he can't be prevented from the free throw line.
As soon as Lei Shui flattened his arms, Harden shook to the right and ran to the left side to start breaking through, and the defensive assistant coach said before the game that Harden's main offensive means at present is three-point and breakthrough, if he doesn't shoot three-pointers, then his biggest possibility is to attack the basket directly.
Now that Harden began to break through, Lei Shui did not spare any strength, and moved sideways with all his strength to raise his arm to interfere with Harden, the first step was okay, from the second step Harden was attached to Lei Shui's body, Harden had a lot of strength in his limbs, and he squeezed Lei Shui in order to take the lead, and it was more convenient for him to attack by using the time difference and rhythm.
Harden collected the ball, and by the way, leaned on Lei Shui with his shoulder, Harden's purpose in doing this was obvious, that is, to make a layup, Lei Shui deliberately retracted his strength a little, because Harden would definitely have a strength with himself in the end, and then with the help of this collision, the distance between the two was widened, creating space for shots, and sure enough, Harden took advantage of this collision to jump up and slide low, and struggled forward with the ball in his left hand to make a layup...
Lei Shui retracted his strength, reduced the confrontation, and at this time also jumped hard, using the advantage of the speed of the bullet to reward Harden with a big hat, and the ball was hit by the Thunder Water Cap and flew out of bounds with Harden.
The referee's whistle sounded, everyone held their breath, staring at the referee, the Spurs players all stretched out their hands to point to the Rocket's half, signaling to the referee that the ball was the Spurs' possession, Lei Shui was also very nervous after covering it, and was busy looking at the referee's gesture, when the referee decisively pointed his finger to the Rockets half, Lei Shui knew that his defense was successful, clenched his fists and yelled, and high-fived his teammates to celebrate.