Chapter Forty-Seven: There Are Comings and Goings
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49 to 47.
Rockets coach Adelman's strategy worked, replacing slow-paced big center Brad Miller with Jordan Hill after Kevin Martin was gone.
Kyle Lowry was able to lead a group of bench players to play a fast break, constantly speeding up the pace of the game, taking advantage of the Mavericks' missed shots to play a quick counterattack, chasing the score to 47-49, only two points behind.
Lin Hao did not play well under the double of Lowry and Conteney Lee, basically bringing the ball to the front court and getting the ball out, with his current ball control ability, he can't guarantee that he can not make mistakes under the crazy pressing of the two.
The third quarter of the game began quickly.
The Mavericks and Rockets both fielded their own starters.
At the beginning of the third quarter, Yao Ming opened his hand to ask for the ball inside, and Brooks saw the timing and made a ground-hitting pass.
Yao Ming was not in a hurry to dribble after receiving the ball, but turned his head and looked around to see if anyone came over to help defend or wrap up.
The rest of the Rockets ran around and started to open up space for Yao Ming to play single.
Yao Ming turned sideways to Brandon Haywood, his shoulders sank, pretending to dribble through, and when Heywood's defensive focus shifted to Yao Ming's breakthrough, he turned around lightly and skillfully.
Jump, hook, ball in.
It's that simple, no fancy moves.
The audience burst into thunderous applause.
Yao Ming scored a goal as soon as he came on the pitch to equalize the score for his team, and the two sides were on the same running line again.
Brandon Haywood is a little helpless, they are all centers, I am not short at 2.13 meters, the problem is Yao Ming 2.26 meters, even if I am so tall, the technique is so delicate, it is really painful.
The most important thing is a big center, the free throw shooting rate is the same as those backcourt players, foul is basically equivalent to two points, and scoring is three points, so how can we be embarrassed by the rough brother who only has a free throw shooting rate of about 60.
The Mavericks serve, and a sad look on his face Haywood passes the ball to Kidd.
Kidd looked at Haywood's expression and was speechless for a while, I don't know what happened to this guy in these two games, he averaged about 10 points per game last season.
Now it's a good thing, in order to continue to attack the championship, the Mavericks owner Cuban experienced a crushing defeat to the Spurs last season, and finally found that his team's internal strength was seriously lacking, and simply signed a six-year contract extension with Brandon Haywood on July 9, 2010 worth $55 million.
Cuban's idea is very good, the inside strength is insufficient, right, then I will keep the main center in the team in the big contract, and then dig a strong substitute center, so it's always okay.
It's a pity that after Haywood signed this big contract, instead of playing more energetically, he had a tendency to lie on the banknotes and get drunk and dream to death, thinking of this, Kidd couldn't help frowning helplessly.
There have been many examples of this in the NBA, where many players have played well when their contract period is approaching, and they have played all kinds of All-Star stats as if they were gods.
Then he signed a multi-year contract with the team based on his performance, and then there was no follow-up.
Kidd can clearly see Haywood's state of mind from these two games, after all, he is an old man, why the Mavericks starting lineup in these two games has gradually become a pure jump shooting team, which is also related to Haywood, not only the average points per game have dropped by half compared with last season, but even the average rebounds per game have dropped a lot.
Kidd brought the ball to the frontcourt, and the Rockets didn't adopt a two-man wrap-and-match tactic against Kidd, which is not to say that Kidd is inferior to Lin Hao.
It's that Kidd is not only experienced, but also top-notch ball protection, and if the Rockets adopt a two-man package strategy against Kidd, it will play into Kidd's arms, and Kidd will show you what it means to be a master passer.
Kidd looked at the Rockets' position, and seeing that there were no good opportunities, he passed the ball to small forward Caron Butler.
Butler had no choice but to pass the ball back to Kidd, who hoisted it to Dirk Nowitzki.
Now the interior can only be handed over to Nowitzki to play, Haywood is not dead, staying on the inside line and not thinking much about catching the ball, just scrambling for rebounds under the basket, as if completing the daily routine.
Nowitzki's catch on Scola was also a feint, followed by a hook shot, which was intended to return Yao Ming.
However, Scola was also extremely quick to react, and after being deceived, he still tried his best to block, intending to interfere with Nowitzki's shooting.
Unfortunately, it didn't work softly, and the ball went in.
Lin Hao sat on the bench and watched with his eyes twitching, I have to say that Nowitzki is amazing, as a big forward, there are three points in the middle of the shot, these are not terrible, what is terrible is that the shooting rate is really fucking high, the first quarter was all in the middle, and he just scored another one in the second half, which simply didn't give people a way to live.
Nowitzki repeatedly singled Scola and Coach Adelman, who was sitting on the sidelines, was also a little dissatisfied and waved his hands at Scola.
Scola is also a little helpless, he is an offensive power forward, with average defense, not to mention blocks, basically nothing.
The ordinary big forwards in the defense league are okay, but when he encounters a big forward like Nowitzki, who can have a golden rooster inside and outside, Scola is also directly blinded.
The Rockets served, and Brooks took half the court and originally wanted to hand it over to Yao Ming to continue playing, after all, it seems that Yao Ming's comeback state is not bad, whether he enters or not, it can be regarded as warming up Yao Ming.
Brooks was just about to pass when he saw Scola raise his hand and shout at him for the ball.
Originally, Scola also thought that even if he couldn't prevent Nowitzki, it would be a big deal to explode with each other, and in the first half, his face was almost swollen after being hit by Nowitzki.
As a result, in the second half, he came up directly on the face that had not yet subsided, and Scola was also angry, and decided to retaliate with a tooth for a tooth and also beat Nowitzki.
Scola leaned on Nowitzki and turned around to shoot, Nowitzki also smiled, one routine is enough.
Yao Ming just used it, I used it again, and now you still come, wait for me to cover it, Nowitzki stepped forward to cover it.
As a result, Scola took the ball back, moved his pivot foot, got under Nowitzki, and threw the ball up with one hand.
A wipe shot and the ball goes in.
"Today's game was very exciting, the Mavericks and Rockets were hot in the second half, and now the score is 51-51, and the two sides are on the same running line again."
"Scola is very flexible with his feet, and he returned to the Mavericks by a two-pointer, and it seems that he was also hit by Nowitzki, haha."
Lin Hao sat on the bench and chatted with Jones while paying attention to the game on the field.
The two teams have different styles, one is fast-paced and the other is more positional.
The two sides went back and forth until the end of the third quarter, and the two sides did not pull the score apart.
75 to 75.
It's another deuce, and Lin Hao is a little drunk when he sees it.