It may not be effective to play other teams, but the defensive strategy that the Lakers have come up with will definitely be effective against the Rockets. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

With Thackeray and Howard being tough, every ball is hand-to-hand combat, consuming each other's physical strength, and playing like a pair, this is the defensive strategy that these people on the Lakers' side came up with.

Thackeray is just a pseudo-starter for the Lakers, and he only plays for about ten minutes per game, and his role is to consume the physical strength of the opponent's starter, but this time the Lakers have played his role to the extreme.

Thackeray and Howard were exhausted by a hand-to-hand fight, and Howard was also exhausted.

But Thackeray's exhaustion has no effect on the Lakers at all, and once Howard runs out of energy, the Rockets interior line will be finished.

Howard is the only interior star of the Rockets, he plays 378 minutes per game, and McHale doesn't care if he has an injury history or not, he can use it in death.

Just like now, after Whiteside, Antetokounmpo, and Liu Ren formed an inside no-fly zone, Howard couldn't move at all, and the rockets could only float outside and throw.

But the Rockets' starters turned back and ran on the court for more than eight minutes, and their hands had already been lost to the Pacific Ocean, because they had all watched Howard play before, and the other four starters did not consume much physical energy, McHale was reluctant to replace them, because the Rockets' bench was much worse than the starters.

The Rockets performed a variety of positions to the Staples Center fans, with Howard scoring 24 points in a single quarter, and the Rockets still scoring only 24 points after the first quarter.

The Lakers began to run wildly, playing a wave of 15-0 in more than 3 minutes, and the Lakers led 37-24 after the first quarter!

In the second quarter, the Rockets began to adapt and put on a fast lineup to deal with the Lakers' running and shooting, Jeremy Lin, Brooks, Cosby, Garcia, and Motai Yunas.

The Rockets' lineup is faster than the Lakers' side, and McHale wants to use this lineup to fight the Lakers' run-and-gun and use super-fast speed to prevent the Lakers from counterattacking.

But D'Antoni had anticipated McHale's strategy and switched to the traditional lineup of Famar, Kobe, Bazemore, Gasol, and Whiteside, and began to play positional warfare!

Kobe Bryant and Gasol didn't use much energy in the first quarter and continued to start in the second quarter.

Kobe Bryant and Gasol took turns in the low post, showing their huge low post offensive ability, both singles and strategies.

The overall strength of the Lakers team is much stronger than that of the Rockets, and this rotation lineup is much stronger than the rotation lineup on the Rockets' side.

The Rockets players were completely passive, and their head coach McHale told them how to deal with the run-and-gun just now during the break, but the Lakers suddenly stopped playing and started to play the position, and the group suddenly didn't know how to play.

Finally, McHale reacted that the opponent was going to play the position, and when Howard was replaced, the Lakers made another substitution, Nash, McCollum, Liu Ren, Antetokounmpo, and Thackeray.

Thackeray came up provocatively and went to provoke Howard in the inside card position with Howard, Howard rested for most of the quarter, recovered some strength, and saw Thackeray's provocation his brain was congested again, and continued to fight Thackeray.

Then Thackeray and Howard turned on the red light again, and the last four or five minutes of the second quarter became two pairs again.

It couldn't have been better for the Lakers, who used Thackeray to exhaust Howard's physical strength, and the Lakers had a 22-point lead at halftime, 62-40.

In the third quarter, the Lakers ended as usual, replacing the strongest lineup Antetokounmpo, Kobe, Liu Ren, Gasol, and Whiteside, a huge lineup that can run, has a height advantage, and has an advantage in three-pointers, mid-range shooting, and interior offense.

Antetokounmpo plays a proper point guard, he has a wide vision and does not stick to the ball, he repeatedly sends good balls, and Gasol is mobilizing offensive running, and the Lakers play sharp offense.

On the Rockets' side, Howard was made by Thackeray for a long time, Howard is no longer the Howard of the Magic era, and he is not much better than the state of last season in the Lakers, and continued to rest at the beginning of the third quarter.

So the game became a team-to-head battle between Harden and the Lakers.

As for Parsons, who was blown up so much, he had no chance to score at all under the defense of Liu Ren and Bazemore.

Liu Ren has always looked down on Parsons, Parsons except for the 12-13 season and the 13-14 season for two years, the rest of the time is a pit, especially after signing the maximum salary with the Mavericks, the Mavericks treat him as a thigh and let him take the team's biggest contract, but in the end it was found that he couldn't play a few games a year, and he pit the Mavericks for two years.

Harden is very good, without scoring a point in the first quarter, he still scored 27 points after the third quarter, but he couldn't prevent the Rockets from collapsing, and the Lakers had a 95-69 lead of 26 points after the third quarter.

The Lakers began to show their bloodthirsty fangs after the All-Star break, showing the strength of one of the three strongest teams in the league, and beating the Rockets, the second-tier team in the league.

Of course, Howard's brain-congested "support" is indispensable, but winning is winning, and the two sides changed to bench players in the fourth quarter, and the game went into garbage time, and the Lakers finally won 129-102 easily over the Rockets in this high-profile game.

Liu Ren 26 points and 8 boards, Kobe Bryant 24 points, 3 boards and 4 assists, Whiteside 10 points and 15 boards, Gasol 8 points, 5 boards and 7 assists, Nash 7 points and 7 assists, all played at an average level, when the Lakers played at a normal level, the other party was basically finished, and none of the core personnel of the Lakers were prevented below the average level of the season, proving that everyone in the Lakers played at a normal level, which means that the Rockets' defense in this game was completely ineffective.

Add to that the fact that Thackeray has both scored 19 points, Antetokounmpo has 9 points, and the Rockets are playing like they are being played by the Lakers.

After the game, Harden was very dissatisfied, and ran to the Lakers to spray Liu Ren and Kobe Bryant: "Treacherous! Shameless! There is a kind of strength to fight with us! ”

Harden is not a fool, when the Lakers saw Howard use Thackeray to be tough with Howard in the second quarter, he knew the Lakers' strategy, but his own head coach didn't have any ability to see it! It was a few minutes before Howard and Thackeray on the other side were stunned, and the physical strength that had been so hard to recover was exhausted again.

There was no way, Harden could only fight for 19 points in a single quarter in the third quarter, but to no avail.

Liu Ren said proudly: "We are so treacherous and shameless, you bite me!" ”

Harden was almost choked to death by Liu Ren, pointed at Liu Ren and said loudly: "It's so shameless!" (To be continued.) )