On February 28, 2014, the Lakers hosted the Houston Rockets. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Compared to the Pacers, who have lost six in a row after back-to-back games, the Lakers pay more attention to the Rockets, and even if the Pacers may reach the Finals, the Lakers do not pay as much attention to the Rockets.

After all, the Rockets are likely to meet in the second round, and it is not a matter of whether the Lakers can kill this group of strong teams in the West and reach the Finals, so D'Antoni started Nash, Kobe, and Gasol, who had a break.

The Rockets had just been beaten by the Clippers the day before, whether they were back-to-back against the Lakers or back-to-back from Houston.

Relatively speaking, the Lakers have a physical advantage in this game.

Because of the thorn in the hearts of all the Lakers, Harden, who is very familiar with Kobe, Liu Ren, and Thackeray, did not greet the Lakers brother before the game, but only saw this brother on the court.

Harden was shocked when he saw Liu Ren's bloodthirsty eyes.

"What's wrong? Didn't they all play together happily when they were all-stars a while ago? Why does this guy Liu feel like he wants to eat people today? Harden showed standard Harden-esque doubts.

Fortunately, Harden was slightly relieved to find that Liu Ren's eyes were not looking at him.

Harden followed Liu Ren's line of sight to the center of the court, and his eyes went straight to Howard!

Then Harden saw that Howard had the same cannibalistic eyes, but at Thackeray......

"I'll just say that Dwight didn't play tricks today, it seems that he wants to get angry on Thackeray's head! However, he didn't seem to know that Liu was already eyeing him. Harden's eyes wandered over Liu Ren, Howard, and Thackeray several times, and he decided that he should not get involved, and just play it himself.

And Harden thinks it's funny! He thought about it for a long time and didn't come up with what happened to Liu Ren and Howard, although the two were on the same team for a year, but the two didn't seem to have many opportunities to communicate, even if Liu Ren became the starter at the end of last season, and Howard should be mutually beneficial, so he was curious why Liu Ren was so hostile to Howard today.

is different from Harden's mentality of watching the excitement, Thackeray's sad urging in his heart, what should come will always come, the All-Star is cool for a while, and it is estimated that he will be targeted by the guy in front of him who likes to play happy basketball in the future.

Thackeray is a bastard, thinking about it, he thinks about it in his heart, and sticking out his head is also a knife, shrinking his head or being abused, he decided to fight with Howard!

D'Antoni's Lakers have always let the players handle their own defense, and other fans often refer to the Lakers' defense as liberal democracy.

Thackeray looked at Liu Ren and gave him a look, and Liu Ren replied to Thackeray with a determined look.

The two are very familiar with each other, and this kind of communication on the field can be understood with a glance.

Seeing this, Thackeray could only leave a strong man's sad eyes to Liu Ren, and turned his head viciously to prepare to jump the ball.

From yesterday's training to today's warm-up, Liu Ren and Kobe Bryant have been arguing non-stop.

Kobe Bryant said that he was swept in the first round of the playoffs, Kobe has not been swept in the first round, and Liu Ren, who boasted that he wanted to surpass Kobe, was caught by Kobe Bryant and held on to it, and Liu Ren really couldn't refute it.

Liu Ren wanted to reason with Kobe, but Kobe Bryant looked like I didn't listen to you, I didn't listen to you, the playoffs were swept and we were despised by the league, so Liu Ren counted this matter on Howard's head.

In the playoffs last year, Howard was affected by Popovich's rumor tactics, did not work hard in the playoffs, and had a poor performance of a foul leaving, Liu Ren recalled that at that time, if Howard fought hard, he would not end up with a game that could not be won, even if Howard made an expression of wanting to die with the Spurs, Popovich was probably scared to release the water to prevent Howard from being angry and avoid Duncan being injured.

Yes, Liu Ren directly ignored his behavior of brushing data in the series with the Spurs, and selectively forgot that there was still half of the responsibility for this matter.

So Liu Ren and Thackeray discussed before the game, and this time the two "took care" of Howard together on the defensive end, one was to show Kobe's poisonous mouth, and the other was to help Thackeray, Howard was definitely going to be mad when he saw Thackeray.

Not only did Howard not make the All-Star starter this time, he was not even drafted off the bench, his stomach was full of anger, and he was abused by the Clippers in the last game, he is angry when he sees Thackeray now, and he can't bite Thackeray.

In fact, Howard knows that Thackeray's ability to make the All-Star starter is inseparable from Kobe's huge group of fans, and at least half of the people who voted for Kobe voted for Thackeray.

But Howard didn't dare to fight with Kobe, this year, Kobe's state has decreased a little bit in addition to being one year older, and his explosiveness has been weakened a little because of Achilles tendon repair surgery, but the shooting options have become better, and the weight loss has increased agility, and overall it is not much worse than last season.

This made Howard even angrier, and persimmons always had to pick soft pinchs, so Howard was ready to spill his anger on Thackeray, who had picked up a big bargain.

The referee blows the whistle for the start of the game and jumps the ball!

Howard blew up and won the jump ball with a huge advantage, and Thackeray immediately turned back to the basket to defend without being annoyed.

The Rockets pushed Beverley, handed it to Harden after halftime, and then went to the bottom corner to wait for the ball.

Nash's poor defense also comes into play, and he can defend against fixed-point shooters.

It is Liu Ren who defends Harden, and Harden has attracted a lot of attention in China, and when Liu Ren was still a fan, he often discussed with others on the forum how to defend the Thunder Sanshao's big loop foul making technique.

Harden continued to test the steps to no avail, Liu Ren just stepped on small steps and stared at him, with a posture that you love to vote or not.

The defensive conclusion that people have come to is very simple, Tony Allen's defensive strategy is the most effective, shoot and wait for Harden to really shoot before interfering, anyway, we have good physical fitness, Harden breaks through and is close to defense, does not reach out, does not jump, only gives physical contact.

Harden saw that the outside line could not make a foul, and immediately burst from the left side.

The most difficult thing to defend against Harden is not that he makes fouls, but that he is left-handed! Just because he's left-handed! His one-handed breakthrough shot is very weird, like a strengthened version of Ginobili.

Harden didn't go for fouls this time, he wanted to make fouls and made a big joke when he played against the Lakers last time, and he made a big joke several times, and the video of Liu Ren preventing him from making fouls has become the object of imitation by defensive giants. (To be continued.) )