Now the rocket doesn't seem to be able to compete with the Bobcat!

Adelman yelled from the sidelines: "Pass! Pass it on! ”

Looking at his appearance, I can't wait to change my clothes and go out to fight. Listening to Adelman's roar, the Rockets passed the ball. The Bobcats have a joint defense against the surname, the main defense breaks through, and if you want to shoot, then shoot.

David Lee also pulled up to the top, and Bidrins followed. Maddie catches the ball and breaks through on the right.

"I'm coming!" Hayes shouted, switching positions to cover Maddie.

You're here, just what I want! Maddie's eyes froze, and he slowed down with the ball and faced Hayes.

It is now rumored in the United States that the Rockets won the championship last season because the Rockets had Hayes and Yao Ming, and Maddie was a cancer that broke the team's cooperation. This statement upset Maddie. Hayes is now known as "Elvis" and his popularity has overwhelmed him, and Maddie wants to prove that he's the best by ending the Bobcats' winning streak!

Hayes was half a step away from Maddie. He could clearly see the score in Maddie's eyes. Hayes knew Maddie's last name and suddenly had an idea. He didn't get close to Maddie, but deliberately distanced himself from him. It's easy to break through at this distance, but it's hard to prevent jump shots...... A lot of Hayes' defensive experience came from Maddie. If he defends closely, Maddie will break through or pass the ball. Because of the injury, Maddie's breakthrough is not as sharp as the Magic period, but it is not something that ordinary players can prevent, he is especially good at using the change of pace to find the time difference, so Maddie's movements look slow, but he can still find opportunities. When defending against opponents, Hayes likes to set a target for himself. Today his goal is to cut Maddy's ties to his teammates, put Maddy on a shot, and then interfere with the shot.

Both of them are well aware of each other's characteristics, and Maddie also knows that Hayes will not be able to cover him at this time.

Maddie takes a step with her left foot and pulls the ball up with her right hand. Then he retracted his left foot, stepped back and pulled away from Hayes, and made a jumper. The ball went in. 7 to 4.

Hayes failed to block and smiled at Maddie.

Maddie smiled too. His pull-up jump shot is a masterpiece, the shot is high, and it is also difficult for Hayes to seal his eyes to interfere with his vision, let alone block the shot, he doesn't understand why Hayes doesn't stick tighter, is it because his old teammates deliberately release water?

"Gerrard, let's switch positions, you go inside and grab the rebound! Maddie over to me! Hayes said to Wallace as he ran toward the Rockets halfcourt.

"Understood." Wallace replied. He thinks it's Hayes wanting to fight Maddie.

The Bobcats offense went through a couple of passes and Wallace missed a jumper. David Lee won the rebound, the Rockets attacked the frontcourt, Blake passed the ball to Maddy, and Hayes still pulled a step away from Maddie this round. As soon as Maddie saw an opportunity, he didn't wait for his teammates to cover and shoot outside the three-point line. Hayes can't get it, the ball goes in again! 7 to 7.

The Rockets equalized. Lynn, the Bobcats on-site commentator, said: "Maddie deserves to be the MVP of the regular season last season, and the Rockets' 7 points were all handled by him alone, and he had the upper hand in the confrontation with Hayes, who looked a little out of shape when he met his old teammates in this game." ”

After Maddy made the shot, Bobcats coach D'Antoni stood up on the sidelines, and he wanted to shout a few times to get Hayes to follow a little closer, so that Maddy could not catch the ball easily, but Van Gundy stopped him. "Mike, don't worry. Chuck did this on purpose. ”

"Deliberately? Why? D'Antoni was stunned, Maddy averaged 30 points per game, how could he deliberately let him go?

"You'll find out in a moment. When training last season, Chuck was always defensive. Training in groups, he can take the bench to beat Maddie. Van Gundy said confidently.

The Bobcats attacked, and this time Hayes singled Millsap on the left side. In a one-on-one situation, Millsap certainly couldn't guard against Hayes. If it's a back hit, Millsap can resist with a strong body, but Hayes attacks with the ball and frames, and he can't bear it, so Hayes just turned around with the ball, and Battier immediately came to help. With a flick of his hands, Hayes handed the ball to Wallace in the high post. Wallace made a slight adjustment and hit a two-point jumper. 9 to 7.

"Tracy! Complement the defense! Don't stand and watch! Battier was a little anxious and shouted at Maddie.

Maddie glanced at Battier, her expression surprised.

In the attack just now, Blake was pulled to the other side by Calderon, and only Maddie was close to Wallace. But he ignored Wallace and stared intently at Azubuuk. Maddie doesn't suffer one-on-one defense, but he is always slow when switching defenses and helping defenses, which is a problem he had last season and has not improved this season.

Battier stopped talking, he knew it was useless to say anything. In the past, the Rockets, Fisher and Hayes had a very strong sense of co-defense, and the defense of the three of them could reduce the outside shooting rate of almost all teams in the league, but now Maddy is not active in helping to defend, and Blake is too poor in physical confrontation and has a weak heart. The rocket's outer line holes could not be filled. He is just one person, how is it possible to fill two vacancies?

The Rockets attacked, Hayes still took a step away from Maddie, Maddy received the ball outside and made a dry pull-out jumper, no way, Hayes gave up a step to let him shoot, if he didn't shoot, he would live up to the other party's good intentions. Maddie thought so, and the shot was missed.

Wallace jammed Millsap and grabbed the rebound in the backcourt. Before Wallace could land, he saw Hayes start running to the front. Wallace immediately handed the ball to Calderon in a straight line for himself. This team has been practicing fast breaking, and straight passes are not easy to make mistakes.

Three-on-two in the frontcourt. Millsap and David Lee were both under the basket, Battier also went to the bottom, and only Blake and Maddy were back in time.

Calderon passes to Hayes, Maddie gambles on a steal, gets a behind-the-back dribble from Hayes, and there is only one Blake left in front of him. Although it was Hayes who got the ball, Blake was smart enough to "follow" Calderon and let Hayes go to the basket. It didn't help him to block there, and it would be worse if he made Hayes hit people with the ball, and if he succeeded, he would die.

Hayes seized the opportunity to perform a two-handed back buckle! 11 to 7.

"Chuck Hayes!" Lynx, the on-site commentator of the Bobcats, exclaimed passionately. It aroused the emotions of the audience.

Back on the defensive end, Hayes followed Maddie and said with a smile: "Tracy, if I defend like this, you can't score more than 40 points, and I'm embarrassed to say hello when I go back." ”

As soon as Maddie received the ball, Hayes immediately stepped back, Maddie made a shot, and he stepped forward to interfere. This time, Maddy hit a one-step jumper from inside the three-point line, 11-9.

On the offensive end, Hayes asked for the ball inside, and dribbled twice with his back, this time Maddie came up to wrap up, Hayes immediately distributed the ball to the outside, this time there was no good vacancy, when Calderon transferred to Azubuuk, Battier had already made up the defense in place, Azubuike missed the shot, the ball bounced far away, Biedrins saw the opportunity and grabbed a frontcourt rebound, he didn't shoot under the interference of David Lee, Hayes rushed into the basket and won the frontcourt rebound, and passed the ball to Azubuuk, who was empty, Azubuk throws the ball into the basket! 13 to 9.

With Maddie on the ball, the Bobcats' defense became man-marking, leaving Hayes alone to play against Maddie. Hayes always deliberately distanced himself.

The temptation of this step, Maddie couldn't stand it, and the shooting opportunity came too easily. He can attack with ease on his own, so what reason is there to pass the ball? Maddie received the ball in the high post without any feints and shot dry, but this time Hayes' interference worked, and the shot was missed. Biedrins grabbed the rebound, the Bobcats went down together, Hayes drew Battier to the defense, Calderon dribbled the ball across the half court to Azubuke on the left, and Azubuke scored with an open three-pointer. 16 to 9!

The Bobcats quietly led by seven points. The Rockets' nine points were all scored by Maddy, except for Millsap, who didn't take a single shot, and Battier didn't even take the ball a few times.

As soon as the players came off the field, Adelman frowned and said: "How many times have I said it, pass the ball more, run more, run out of space, don't leave it to Tracy alone." Tracy you have to break through, create opportunities for your teammates, control the tempo, and don't play all the time! ”

Maddie is somewhat dismissive of Adelman's request. He had a shot and didn't see his teammates run out of position. Breakthrough? Hayes's defense is his breakthrough, isn't the breakthrough right in the hands of the other party? The Rockets were more than one notch weaker than him offensively. Breakthrough pass, who can you pass to?

In the Bobcats bench, D'Antoni asked, "Chuck, you deliberately gave Maddie a spot to shoot?" ”

"yes, that kind of distance he usually chooses to shoot. It's me who defends, and he has more reason to do it. I had a lot of supporters when I was with the Rockets, and he should be eager to up and prove that he was the MVP. I'll let him vote. With my interference, even if he misses, he has a 50% shooting percentage. With his kind of throwing, his teammates can't touch the ball a few times, can he feel it? My teammates can't open it, even if he scores 60 points on my head, we can beat the Rockets by a big margin, as long as he doesn't score, we can immediately fight back when he grabs the rebound, and the shooting percentage is much higher. And now the Rockets' offense is also playing fast, isn't that the rhythm we like? Hayes explained with a smile.

"Is that okay?" D'Antoni felt like he had seen a lot, and he never asked his players to play like that.

"Why not? Maddie's surname is like this, as long as the others guard it and give him space, he will definitely shoot. Maddie is shooting only 41.2% from the field this season, so what's there to be afraid of? Van Gundy laughed.

It was a trap that Hayes had set with himself as bait. Blowing up Hayes is undoubtedly a face-saving thing, and Maddie can't stand the temptation. If he continues to work alone like this, he will score a lot of points, but it destroys the team's tactical system, Maddie attacks alone, and Bobcats attack as a whole. Can you win this way? Maddie is just a data seeming leader.

"The first time I saw a core of the team who was willing to be beaten. Just do it, and be more resolute when you fight back. D'Antoni smiled wryly. Generally, the stars like to compete with each other and are bound to beat each other. That's how different Hayes is, he doesn't care how many shots Maddie throws over his head.

After the timeout, players from both sides return to the field and the game continues.

The Bobcats continued their defensive strategy in the opening phase, closely following the other Rockets players and putting Maddie and Hayes heads-up.

Maddie scored 31 points on 8-of-24 shooting in the last game and on free throws. In this game, he found that his hand felt much better. The opportunity was in front of him, and what kind of tactic Princeton was, he forgot as soon as he got on the court. Maddie received the ball on the right side, didn't wait for the pick-and-roll, broke through with the ball, and hit a one-step pull-up jump shot. 16 to 11.

Less than halfway through the first quarter, Maddie scored 11 points on Hayes' defense.

Hayes scored just two points, but he had five assists!

(To be continued)