178. It's a hand-to-hand fight
Thackeray will tell you that his father, Greg Lafleur Thackeray, was once a strong guard for the NFL Hawks? Specializing in using a large body to block the impact of the opponent's close strikers? Will he tell you that his mother, Leslie Thackeray, was the first Canadian women's basketball player to enter the WNBA when the WNBA was just formed? With a soft touch, there is a place in the world of women's basketball?
Thackeray inherited his father's large body and his mother's soft touch, but at the same time, he also inherited his father's lack of explosiveness and his mother's poor jump. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Since his parents are role players in the NFL and WNBA, Thackeray has no shortcuts to enter the NBA, and no one pays attention to him, and his parents really have nothing to teach him in basketball, but to teach him to be stronger.
Thackeray's ability to stay with the Lakers after being drafted by the Lakers is also due to his ubiquitous energy, which can infect his teammates.
Fortunately, Thackeray himself seized the opportunity to rest for three or four months due to an injury, and unlike Liu Ren's memory, Thackeray now has Whiteside, a mentor and friend to teach him to defend, and Gasol will practice with him from time to time on the offensive end, so he learned some low-post offensive skills, and gradually gained a foothold in the Lakers, and it is not impossible to continue to develop as a high-quality role player!
Coupled with the huge popularity that comes with being selected as an All-Star, the Lakers are ready to offer Thackeray a long-term contract.
Eaten by Thackeray!
Howard felt his face hot, and his face was so humiliating!
It's true that Thackeray is the All-Star starter this year, but even those who voted for Thackeray know that it's a complete accident, Thackeray's real strength is that he is a role player, and he only plays about 10 minutes per game.
The fans at the scene cheered loudly, and from time to time some people shouted loudly mocking Howard, and some even temporarily scratched the board that originally said "I love Kobe" with a pen, and wrote that Thackeray was greater than Howard.
Of course, Howard couldn't bear it and continued to ask for the ball to play singles!
Without much resistance, Thackeray was unsurprisingly forced by the irascible Howard again.
But Thackeray was not discouraged, Nash said, and he was detained and sent back!
In Howard's restless pressing defense, Thackeray inserted his left foot between Howard's legs, picked up the ball, turned left and got under Howard's constantly waving left arm, and suddenly raised his right hand and hit a layup with a low hand!
At the same time, Howard slapped Thackeray's head and was whistled for a foul by the referee!
Thackeray beat Howard to make it 2+1!
Thackeray was excited and Liu Ren, who had just rushed directly out of the bottom line and didn't have time to jump, bumped his chest to celebrate.
Liu Ren is also happy, if he doesn't make up for it, he won't make up for it, it's still very cool to see Howard's angry appearance up close!
Howard ran directly to the referee and yelled: "He's walking!" It must be a step! ”
Howard didn't believe that the stupid big man who played him off the bench last season could actually beat himself, how could Thackeray, who had always been a stupid big man in his mind, have such good footsteps?
Since Howard never relied on his feet to play by himself, because he couldn't practice, he didn't believe that Thackeray had practiced his steps less than a year later, and decided that Thackeray was walking.
But the referee just saw it clearly, Thackeray didn't get the ball out of his hand, and his left foot was stuck between Howard's legs like a nail board, and the referee waved his hands to get Howard ready to attack.
The referees didn't like Howard in the first place, and he was ready for Howard to give a technical foul if he pestered again.
After the league gave referees more freedom to blow technical fouls in the 10-11 season, it was also revealed that the referee association reached a consensus against Howard and did not give Howard a star whistle, and Howard was sent off 6 times from time to time in those two years.
This incident used to make a lot of noise, because Howard was too fond of provoking the referee, once the penalty did not satisfy him, he yelled at the referee, and later after the referee got the freedom to blow technical fouls, Howard replaced Rashid Wallace in the low position of the technical foul world for a while.
At this time, the big screen gave a replay, which can be said to have swollen Howard's face, the ball just now was just like what the referee saw, Thackeray's goal was a good ball!
This ball can only be blamed on Howard for being too anxious and irritable, and being played by the other party!
Thackeray stepped to the free-throw line and slotted the ball in.
Thackeray has improved too much in shooting this year, and it has improved more than the two years that Thackeray has played for two years at the beginning of the 13-14 season in Liu Ren's memory!
The reason is very simple, although the Thackeray in Liu Ren's memory signed a 3-year contract, he knew that he was only used to make up the numbers during the Lakers' mess, so he was energetic, he was playing without thinking about anything, he knew that he was the same as other second-round picks, he couldn't stay in the NBA for a few years, and the average career life of the NBA's second-round picks was only less than 3 years.
But Thackeray in Liu Ren's life is completely different, the Lakers are so strong, he can have stable playing time, and he can play almost one quarter in each game!
The feeling of having a stable playing time in a strong team and playing a fake main force in a bad team is completely different, the Lakers are undoubtedly aiming for the championship so far, Thackeray's aggressiveness is completely stimulated, training hard and studying hard, he has a good hand talent and slowly develops his projection ability, of course, he is still mainly focusing on shooting under the basket.
Howard felt offended and continued to single Thackeray! Fight to your heart's content!
Thackeray is not scared at all, and in turn he is playing hard!
Who would have thought before the game that the Rockets-Lakers game would turn into Howard and Thackeray vs. Biao?
The Lakers and Rockets have attracted a lot of attention in this game, and no matter which of the top four teams in the West has the possibility of entering the Finals, even the Heat teams in the East have gathered to watch this game.
"When did Robert get this inside technique?" James, who has a good relationship with the Lakers, subconsciously glanced at his own centers, Birdman Anderson and Haslem, and was speechless, his center is not as good as the Lakers' towel man.
In this way, Howard and Thackeray collided with muscles and sweat for a few minutes, and the success rate of both of them was terrifyingly high, Howard could not shoot and could still bump away from Thackeray to grab the offensive rebound and then dunk it, and Thackeray did not score on the other side, Liu Ren's opportunity came, and directly pressed Howard to make up for the dunk, making Howard even more angry and continue to play singles.
Nash watched as both Howard and Thackeray began to gasp for air, and then looked at D'Antoni.
D'Antoni made an OK gesture and then folded his hands.
Nash nodded, and gestured to his teammates for Tactic No. 1. (To be continued.) )