Chapter 040: Winning in Chaos

For many senior coaches in the United States, they emphasize the understanding of the game of basketball all the time. In their eyes, the players who often appear in the best footage of TV are not yet the ones who know how to work as a team and like to do the dirty work are likable.

In the eyes of many people, they pay attention to the big-name stars who are entangled in scandals all day long, but what they really appreciate and love in their hearts are some "traditional to old-fashioned" players who are insulated from lace news.

Undoubtedly, Battier is such a person, a player who never likes to pursue photogenic results, a player whose ultimate goal is the team's victory, a player who always only praises his teammates, coaches and even opponents, a musician who exudes nobility from his bones, and a model husband who has never been insulated from scandals.

From Duke's absolute core to the Grizzlies' top-notch blue-collar team, Battier has always been the perfect fighter on the court. Not only does he have solid basic skills and superb shooting skills, but he also has a good sense of the big picture and a sense of normalcy that is not shocked, which can already be summed up as Battier's characteristics on the court.

Especially in today's NBA, which has become more and more wild and impetuous, what I see from the Rockets forward is only calmness and rationality, and this slightly noble but approachable special temperament is what he cultivated and experienced from his family atmosphere when he was a child and later in the best basketball school.

"Basketball is a game of brain, not body. People with high IQs win basketball games, and people with good physical fitness win track and field games. This is Battier's famous quote, in order to better confirm this sentence, he has always said to the outside world that the core of the Rockets is Yao Ming and Maddie, but he has never relaxed his requirements for himself on the court.

On the court, he spared no effort to defend, run, block and grab rebounds, contributing his strength to the team's offensive and defensive ends. Coach "Old K" and Van Gundy describe Battier most appropriately: "He was able to contribute in a different way in every game. "It's this kind of performance that makes the all-round warrior on the pitch.

At the beginning of the third quarter, the Batman caught the Lakers off guard with two baseline three-pointers, and the score was instantly overtaken by the Rockets. 52-51, the Lakers struggled hard for the entire first half to achieve a slight advantage, and it took Battier only a minute and a half to beat it into a floating cloud.

Perhaps the president's contribution on the defensive end is so dazzling that people tend to overlook his presence on the offensive end. Battier has an extremely consistent shooting ability that allows him to shoot from under the rim to anywhere beyond the three-point line. He knows how to time his shots, and this kind of thing rarely happens to him.

As a result, Battier has maintained a high shooting percentage despite not taking many shots per game, shooting 44.4 percent from the field and 38.5 percent from 3-point range in his career, a statistic that makes him even look a bit like the league's top shooters.

"Hey, we have to start from scratch again." Li Chen picked up the ball helplessly, Battier's sudden play made him feel that today's Rockets, like the Mavericks that day, are not like a team that can be easily solved, even if two of their core players are not in shape, but a large group of excellent role players make the Rockets still maintain a strong fighting force.

Bryant attacked with the ball, and he was defended by Battier, who started playing in the second quarter. The fifteen-minute break caused Bryant's hand to drop slightly, and in the face of Batman's blindfolded defense, the boss found that scoring was no longer as easy as the first two quarters.

The feeling of suddenly losing the target at the moment of shootingEven after many attempts, Kobe Bryant still can't think of a good way to crack this trick. Unless it feels very good, the gods won't shoot too well against Battier.

Pass! After several offensive attempts, the poor shooting percentage made Bryant reluctant to pass. After receiving the ball, Li Chen faced his former idol, and quickly remembered it in his heart, and then he took advantage of the situation to attack, accelerate, stop the ball, and turn right, which was a feint.

Li Chen, who thought he had deceived No. 1, then made a left turn, and at the same time brought a small hook that seemed good. I'm not going to tell you that this guy recently secretly learned this trick from Lakers assistant coach Abdul-Jabbar.

Syllable! Maddie's block brought his opponent back to reality. In this game, No. 1 has been in poor shape, causing Li Chen to ignore one point, even if Maddie's defense is no longer focused, the opponent's ultra-long arm span and air superiority are still not what he can compete with now.

While Maddie's eyes have been foggy, it's important to remember that No. 1 started out doing dirty work on defense, and he was the only guard in the league's top 20 blocks and rebounds in the '98-99 season.

His defensive talent comes from his long reach and excellent aerial superiority, and in 1-on-1 situations, few people can bargain in front of him, and his grasp of space and knowledge of the ball has made him a good blocker among defenders, and those who underestimate Maddy will have to pay a price.

Li Chen paid the price for his carelessness, a bloody hat not only made him recognize the current situation, but also helped the Rockets' Brooks successfully score two points quickly, and the difference between the two teams was instantly pulled down by 6 points.

The disadvantage of the Lakers made the old monk hurriedly call a timeout, in the face of the current problem, the old monk asked the players to strengthen their running, and falling into a positional battle is what the Rockets are most looking forward to with a team with excellent defense, because they have the advantage of the score, so they have enough patience to accompany the Lakers to the end.

In order to deal with this situation, what the Lakers should do is to strengthen their running and bring up the rhythm, and the Lakers, who have a large number of good passers, can play a great advantage in the fast-paced game, compared to which the Rockets are not good, passing has always been their hard injury, and the Rockets' point guard Brooks does not look like a good passer.

After the timeout, the old monk replaced the aging old fish with Famar, who was too heavy to fit the coach's plan, and Famar was substituted at the crucial moment.

After leaving behind the last baggage that affected the speed, the Lakers began a rare run-and-roll, and all the Lakers players, including Kobe, began to run at high speed. The inside line continued to pull in and out, and the outside line continued to cross and run, and the situation on the court suddenly became particularly chaotic.

For this complex situation, except for Li Chen, no one in the Lakers dared to stand up and guarantee that they could control the situation, so the command was naturally handed over to No. 0, "As long as you have a vacant seat, I can pass it!" Li Chen swore to his teammates, "So, run as much as you want!" ”

"Huh, run boom? You're thinking too simply, just wait to be strangled by my defense! The legacy of his predecessors made Adelman find that every player under his command seems to have good individual defense ability, and he seems to be very disdainful of the Lakers' tactical changes.

"The fake monk is being forced to a dead end, and he doesn't even understand the simple principle of defending and running and bombing." The feeling of getting a city back from an old rival is very comforting to him.

Seriously, Adelman has been doing really well since turning from player to coach, and the only thing to blame may be his luck. He often lost to that year's championship, and Phil Jackson seemed to be the disaster of his hit. Adelman and Zen Master are perhaps two of the strangest comparisons among NBA coaches.

Like Nelson Sr., Adelman is adept at building a weak team into a strong team, with Nelson Sr. relying on Frankenstein's weapons to give young people weapons to go to the front line and fire wildly, while Adelman relies on his fantastic puzzle skills.

However, they all lack the ability to make a team to the top, and they can't do it consistently in a place like the playoffs where bigots and conspirators can survive. Phil Jackson, on the other hand, is better at making the final step and getting a team that has reached 50 wins to the championship.

In 1992 and 2002, Adelman was confronted with Fill's treacherous troop use and rhetoric twice in the decade, and Adelman was too urbane to respond. He was as embarrassed as he was when he first met Phil 37 years ago in 1970, when he had a dashing head and a beautiful face, and was on the cover of a Trailblazer's magazine; And Jackson had a big beard and rushed into Madison every game like a hippie.

Contrary to the assumption, the changing situation on the field made Adelman, who was already in doubt, once again full of doubts about the outcome of the match. He couldn't think of a proper word to describe the situation, and if he had to impose a word to describe it, it would be "chaos", and it was very chaotic.

Unlike the Suns' runs, the Lakers players have no trajectory to follow at all, and sometimes even their own people will get in the way of their own people, so you can imagine how tragic it must be for the Rockets to run behind them.

Saliva and sweat fly together, and muscles are the same color! The situation on the Lakers' court has simply reached an uncontrollable situation in Adelman's opinion.

"Is that rookie really that capable? In this chaotic situation, I think even if the Sun's Nash comes over, he will have a headache! The old monk's trust in Li Chen's ability made Adelman feel incredible, he didn't believe that a rookie could have so much ability.

And the Lakers super rookie showed a masterful ability to control the court in the next game, so that Adelman, as an opponent, had to be amazed, even if in his opinion, the Lakers no longer have the so-called vacancy and opportunity at this time.

Because everyone seems to have a chance, but everyone is also deeply encircled by the Rockets, but the rookie always seems to be able to throw the most appropriate ball at the right time, and his insight into the position of the personnel on the court and the holes in the opponent's defense is amazing.

In fact, if you take a closer look, you will find that although the Lakers now have no rules to follow, Li Chen's pass always seems to be handed over to two fixed people - Kobe Bryant and Gasol, the scoring ability of the two All-Stars makes them like a fish in water in complex situations, and their personal strength is perfectly displayed in these offensive rounds.

Kobe Bryant hit a jump shot directly after receiving the ball!

Gasol dribbles and dunks after receiving the ball!

Kobe Bryant cuts the basket and catches the ball and lays up 2+1!

Gasol catches the ball in the three-second zone and shoots the basket!

What the Lakers are thinking about now is a mess to win. The core of the triangle offense stood tall in the chaos of the field, and the other two men existed only to make the game more chaotic.

In just 6 minutes, the Lakers not only recovered the 6 points they had fallen behind, but also surpassed them by 5 points, playing a wave of 14:3**, the Rockets' defense disappeared under the Lakers' disorderly run, and the players defended each other, and the original tight defensive chain instantly appeared a lot of weak links.

All Li Chen had to do was to hand over the ball to Kobe Bryant and Gasol, who had the ability to break this weak link, and let the two bigwigs deliver a fatal blow to the Rockets. He had already collected five assists in just one third quarter, and the game was still going on.

"Joint defense! Players should work together to maintain the integrity of the defense! Adelman urged his disciples to change their defensive strategy, and the old monk caught him off guard with a strange move, which was too elegant and not reflexes well enough to be the favorite place for the Houston media to accuse Adelman.

The old opponent's strategic change made the old monk also respond, called a timeout and asked the players to return to the positional battle, relying on the advantage of the lineup and the advantage of the score to start a dead fight with the rocket again. It is not good to run like this, the consumption of physical strength is too great, and Adelman's reaction just allows the old monk to take the opportunity to make changes.

Soon, fans who had been following the game found that the chaotic arena seemed to suddenly return to calm, and the game returned to the hand-to-hand combat of the first half, with muscle collisions and sweat flying at the same time as organized offensive tactics, Houstonians watched with relish.

Because of the problem of industrial distribution, the fans of the space city are mostly white-collar workers, you can never expect this group of people to be as passionate as the group of rogue workers in the palace of Auburn Hills, they like to watch the game, yes, it is simply "watching" the game, calm is their main characteristic, and now this kind of well-organized game is their dish, like the chaotic passion just now will make them feel pressured.

At 70:74, after a quarter's effort, the Lakers once again entered the next quarter with a narrow advantage.

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