Chapter 170: Collapsed Howard
In ancient China, in order to deal with stubborn prisoners, officials would use various criminal laws during interrogation to torture prisoners to death, and most of the prisoners could not bear the pain of flesh and skin, and could only confess in the end. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Wang Zhuo's defensive tactics against Howard are to torture Howard to death like interrogating prisoners, O'Quinn's "****" tactics disrupted Budenholzer's tactical rhythm, and Howard's strategy of overthrowing Howard on the offensive end also achieved good results.
However, when O'Quinn was at his hottest, Wang Zhuo replaced O'Quinn and replaced Oden, which is somewhat puzzling, but among the Knicks' players, no one will question Wang Zhuo's substitution strategy, because those who know Wang Zhuo know that he never fights uncertain battles.
Although O'Quin's "****" tactics are easy to use, they come at the cost of paying for personal fouls, after all, the number of fouls committed by a player in a game is limited, and it is not suitable for a long time.
After the timeout, the Hawks attacked, Hardaway Jr. dribbled over half the court, and the players on both sides were rotating lineups, Budenholzer let Howard stay on the court, that is, Howard led the bench to play, so during this time, Howard was the absolute core of the Hawks, which is why Budenholzer did not call a timeout to replace Howard.
After Hardaway Jr. dribbled to the top of the circle, he hoisted the ball to Howard, who led the offense, and Oden bowed his body, bent his left arm against Howard, and raised his right arm, ready to interfere with Howard's shot.
Howard carried the defense, dribbled the ball, easily turned and hooked his hand, and as soon as the ball was off his fingers, Oden suddenly jumped up and intercepted the ball's flight path.
"Bang ......"
The ball flew straight into the audience, and Oden actually gave Howard a big hat and slapped the ball out of the court.
Howard shook his head, incredulous that he had picked up a block and rejoined the offense.
The turnaround hook is a useful anti-block technique, and Howard is tall and has long arms, and it is almost impossible for Oden to get a frontal block.
The success of this block is mainly due to Howard's underestimation and carelessness, when O'Quinn defends, as long as Howard makes a shooting posture, he will immediately foul, and never think about the block, affected by the first two defenses, Howard thinks that Oden will also choose to foul like Oquin, but Oden coldly sent a big hat.
The ball went out of bounds, it was still the Eagles' possession, Severo sofa frontcourt ball, after Hardaway Jr. received the ball, he directed the players to run at the top of the circle, and Howard after being blocked by Oden held his breath in his heart and vowed to save face, so he reached out to Hardaway Jr. to ask for the ball.
You must know that as the best defensive player for three consecutive years, blocking has always been Howard's strength, but now Oden, who is known as the "parallel champion", is simply a great shame, even if Howard has always had a big heart, such a shame is difficult to swallow.
Hardaway Jr.'s original intention was to run tactics, but Howard was the offensive core of the Hawks, and the backbone player asked for the ball but it was not easy to disobey, and after hesitating for a second or two, he still passed the ball to Howard.
Howard learned the lesson of the last time, adjusted slightly after receiving the ball, continued to play with his back to the single, but when he turned and threw it, he raised his left arm in advance to prevent Oden from blocking, Howard was serious and the consequences worked, and Oden was unable to block at all.
I don't know if it was bad luck or emotions affected the feel, Howard's shot hit the front of the basket, missed, and the ball hit the basket and bounced in the direction of Oden.
When Oden failed to block and failed, he turned around and fought for the rebound, but Howard was unwilling to shoot the ball and pounced directly to grab the offensive rebound.
"Beep!"
The referee's whistle sounded on time, signaling to the technical desk that Howard was fouled for the rebound and the Knicks' possession.
After Howard received the foul, he ran back to the front court with a depressed face, this style of play was too embarrassing, but fortunately, Jennings broke through to the layup in the next offense, and Howard grabbed the defensive rebound, which slightly eased some of the resentment in his heart.
The Eagles counterattacked, and Hardaway Jr. faced his old master, showing a strong desire, and made a pull-up jumper around the cover in the attack, and hit two more points to narrow the score to 4 points.
Jennings refused to admit defeat, faced Hardaway Jr., easily passed with a change of direction, and when Howard made up the defense, he broke through the point and assisted Oden to dunk the basket, and the game entered a scorching situation again.
After that, both sides entered a scoring drought at the same time, and neither side even scored a single point in 2 minutes, the referee blew the whistle, and the game entered the official timeout.
Howard took the Gatorade handed over by his teammates, took a sip, and then sat down on the bench with a sullen expression.
After the timeout, Budenholzer put Howard off the bench for a short rest, and Hardaway Jr. and the rest of the main players came on the court, changed to a speed-based lineup, played a few minutes of run-and-gun tactics, and achieved good results, narrowing the gap to 2 points with 5 minutes left in the second quarter.
The game went into timeout again, the Hawks sent Howard again, Wang Zhuo also replaced Oden, and Noah reappeared to take on the responsibility of defending Howard.
"I'm going to play a little tougher."
Before Howard reappeared, he silently said in his heart, you must know that Howard in the first quarter was like a divine soldier descending from the sky, but unexpectedly, in the second quarter, he took a sharp turn, repeatedly missed the attack, and received a big hat, proving his heart again.
The main forces of both sides came on, the Knicks took the lead in attacking, and Anthony, who had been silent for nearly half the court, finally showed the determination to attack, faced Sefrosha's tough defense, made a frontal jumper, and hit a mid-range jumper to stop the Knicks' decline.
The Hawks attacked, Schroder dribbled, and the Knicks suddenly made a full-court press, stifling out the Hawks' fast break, Schroder had no choice but to slow down and enter the half-court position to attack.
The Knicks' defense is very extensive, one-on-one marking, and the Hawks have a hard time finding opportunities from the outside, forming a one-on-one situation between Howard and Noah under the basket.
After two failed tactical runs in a row, Schroder had no choice but to hoist the ball inside and hand it to Howard for a single, with Noah holding on behind him.
Howard was eager to attack, and after dribbling the ball for two steps, he jumped directly, insisting on dunking through Noah, but Noah suddenly withdrew, Howard used too much force, couldn't retract the momentum, and knocked Noah out of the air.
"Beep!"
The referee blew the whistle again and Howard fouled the offense.
Howard could no longer control the anger in his chest, yelled at the referee, but without thinking about it, he rushed into the referee, directly received a technical foul, and honestly ran back to the frontcourt, waiting for the Knicks player to make a technical free throw. (To be continued.) )