Chapter 244: Revenge Rocket (3)
NN is strong after all, he and Capela are more difficult to get along with on the inside, the inside line is a cross cover to change defense, Lei Shui is not so easy to defend against NN, NN squeezes away Lei Shui and cuts to the basket, the pass is immediately given in, in the basket near the basket, NN and Lei Shui are close to each other, NN has the advantage when they don't jump, Lei Shui has to use a foul to pull NN's layup down.
Taking advantage of NN's free throws, Old Man Bobo immediately switched back to Gasol, with the twin towers, NN immediately couldn't play, and after scoring 2 points on free throws, he never scored again.
The Rockets' cooperation couldn't be played, and finally it fell to Harden alone, Bobo Old Man asked Thunder Water and Leonard to take turns to defend Harden, which made Harden very uncomfortable, this defense didn't wait to get used to it, and then went on another defense, and the defense of Harden was miserable, and all 3 shots were missed, and he only scored 3 points by touching porcelain stunt free throws.
Watching Harden struggling on the court, D'Antoni couldn't find a solution, so he could only keep changing the bench to see if anyone could break out, but it was in vain to change from the head of the bench to the end of the bench.
When the whistle blew at halftime, the Rockets' players rushed to the locker room with a sense of relief, hoping to find a solution to the offense at halftime.
The Rockets scored only 17 points in the second quarter, only scored one three-pointer, shot only 10%, shot less than 30% overall, and only scored 38 points in the half, which is also a big scoring shame for the Rockets.
The Spurs scored 58 points, a full 20-point lead over the Rockets.
During the intermission, Old Man Bobo was very satisfied with the team's performance, and sure enough, after all the players were healthy, there was a lot more room for adjustment, and no matter how the opponent changed, he could always come up with a restrained lineup.
Ginobili looked at the data and got up and said to everyone: "Wow, we are really good at defense, look at their outside hit rate, it's really miserable!" ”
Mills said: "yes, it's also a pleasure to listen to the sound of them shooting iron. ”
Parker said to Gasol, "Well, they're playing best right now with Capela, Paul, you've got to find a way to hold him down, this kid has a lot of money on your turf." ”
Gasol smiled: "This is the NBA, you have to have some fun for the fans at home, otherwise no one will watch it for a while." ”
Parker said, "Speaking of fun, don't we have better performers." As he spoke, he looked at Lei Shui: "Hey, Lei, Paul is so old that he can't even jump, it seems that it is no fun to expect him to dunk, it depends on you and Kehuai." ”
Lei Shui said: "If it's purely for the fans to have some fun, there is no need for me and Kehuai's dunks, I believe that the fans love to watch your dunks the most." ”
After Lei Shui finished speaking, everyone began to laugh, and everyone remembered the scene when Parker was flipped to the ground by the basket and almost flashed his waist when he was dunk in the empty frontcourt.
Parker laughed at Lei Shuiyi's teasing himself, shook his head and smiled: "Okay, I'll admit that my dunk is much more attractive than yours, maybe I can even play a top ten or something." ”
Old man Bobo had been looking at the data just now, and after reading it now, he got up and interjected: "Maybe it's the five embarrassments!" ”
The Spurs' locker room was even more joyful, and everyone burst out laughing, even Leonard, who had always been paralyzed.
At this time, the Rockets' locker room was not so good, and D'Antoni said loudly while going back and forth: "Look! 38 points! It was supposed to be a single quarter score, and now it takes us two quarters to get it! We didn't make any sense of shots, we moved the ball badly, and we needed to move more to create better catch-and-shoot opportunities..."
The Rockets players all listened silently to the lecture, without saying a word, and when D'Antoni finished speaking, Ariza stood up first as a defensive spearhead and said: "There is something wrong with our offense, it doesn't matter, we have to believe in our shooting, but we should start with defense first..."
After returning from halftime, everyone in the Rockets held their strength, after all, at home, it must be a big loss of face to be by someone for 20 points in the half.
At the beginning of the third quarter, Parker and Thunder Shui blocked and dismantled, and while the Rockets were changing defenses, Parker hit a direct shot.
Turning back, Harden immediately forced a breakthrough through Parker, drew the bag and sent a pass to Capela, causing Gasol to foul, and Capela made two free throws in a hurry.
The two teams played back and forth for a few rounds, each scoring in their own accounts, Harden desperately rushed inside, and then split the ball to create scoring opportunities for his teammates, while the Spurs were responded by Thunder Water, or shot or pass.
After 3 minutes of play, the margin was still 20 points, and then Ariza first saw the opportunity, stealing Parker's pass, and Harden scored a fast break.
Immediately after the Spurs missed the offense, in the transition between offense and defense, Ariza hit a three-point shot, and two consecutive scores made the Rockets angry, Capela capped Gasol's shot again, Harden quickly took the ball and went down, assisted Ariza in the same position, and hit another three-pointer, the 20-point difference instantly came to 12 points, and the old man Bobo hurriedly shouted a timeout, but he couldn't let the Rockets play such an offense.
After adjustment, Bobo replaced Green to strengthen the defense, and decided to suppress the rhythm to play the inside line first, Lei Shui handed the ball to Ade singles, Ade hit Anderson with his back, Anderson didn't like to resist hard, so he thought of a way to withdraw the chair, Ade pushed out twice, Anderson found the right time to suddenly withdraw, Ade couldn't stand up to people, one stumbled, and walked in violation of the rules.
Looking back, Anderson played Ade, caught the ball outside the three-point line and attracted Ade first, and then took the opportunity to cooperate with Harden with a pass to make it 2+1 under the basket.
The score difference suddenly reached single digits, and the faces of the Spurs players began to become serious, and Old Man Bobo couldn't sit still, so he got up and stood on the sidelines to command.
The Spurs attacked again, Lei Shui controlled the ball, and felt that Ade could no longer play alone, but it was still efficient to block and dismantle, he glanced at the old man Bobo, and made a gesture to block and dismantle, and the old man Bobo nodded and agreed to Lei Shui's blocking and demolition.
Lei Shui asked Gasol for a block, after blocking, Lei Shui faced Capela's defense with a pause and glanced at Gasol, flicked his wrist, made a pass feint, took advantage of Capela's stunned, immediately accelerated to throw off the defense, and rushed straight to the basket, in the face of Anderson's supplementary defense, Lei Shui directly burst out, although Anderson was to make up for the defense, but when he saw Lei Shui's jump height, he consciously flashed to the side, and saw Lei Shui's flying buckle.
Lei Shui's flying buckle aroused the passion of the whole team, everyone was very excited, but patronizing the excitement, the attention was loosened, the rocket took the opportunity to serve quickly, Lei Shui's kung fu ball turned around was already past half court, Brewer wanted to take the opportunity to sneak attack one, fortunately, the Spurs had a Leonard who was not excited for 10,000 years, and he defended it early, Brewer was gradually marginalized in this system due to the instability of the three points, and finally seized this opportunity to rush the basket, it must be on, Brewer, who only had baskets in his eyes, completely underestimated Leonard's chasing ability, exposed the ball too early, and was capped by Leonard at once.
Leonard won the ball and quickly counterattacked, Lei Shui guessed his fate when he saw Brewer hard, stopped early, and saw Leonard block successfully, Lei Shui ran to the basket and raised his hand to signal, his side is a good opportunity for no one to defend, Leonard sent a long pass near the three-point line in the backcourt, Lei Shui jumped high with his back to the basket, and caught the ball with both hands and dunked it empty.