The Whip of the God of Basketball - Chapter 412

Chapter 415: Barometer

The Rockets just fought a defensive battle with the Spurs of the same state yesterday. Yao Ming played 39 minutes. After four quarters of a fierce battle, they lost to their rival Spurs by an 84:90, 6-point disadvantage. Both sides of the game were in a stalemate, knowing the final moment of the fourth quarter, the Rockets lost to their old opponents because they did not have Tracy McGrady, leading to the lack of possession at the critical moment.

Playing back to back with the Suns today, Yao Ming’s physical strength was obviously affected. He didn’t feel well at the beginning. He rested on the bench for most of the quarter and played in the middle of the second quarter. He still didn’t find an offensive feeling. In the matchup with Stoudemire, Yao Ming rarely suffered a big loss in the first half. In fact, in the previous years of the two sides, regardless of the team’s victory or defeat, Yao Ming still has the advantage to face Stoudemire.

Any player who wants to rely on impact and brute force to do whatever he wants on Yao Ming will find it difficult to take advantage in the end, and so is Stoudemire. He is a fierce general, even Duncan has been smashed by his powerful face basket attack, embarrassed. Almost all the inside lines in the league have been ravaged by Stoudemire’s impact, but Yao Ming is the highest wall in the league, or the kind of wall that can’t fly easily.

Therefore, it is common for Stoudemire to get a hat under Yao Ming, and therefore every time he encounters Yao Ming, he is always excited and wants to do something on Yao Ming. It’s just that Stoudemire looked much calmer tonight. With Leon’s arrangement, Stoudemire increased mid-range jumpers and pick-and-rolls on offensive end, reducing the number of singles facing the basket. Moreover, he actively moves, participates in quick counterattacks, mobilizes Yao Ming’s defense, and attacks his shortcomings of small movement range and weak mobility.

This allowed Stoudemire to play extremely efficiently in the first half. He made 4 of 4 shots and 4 of 4 free throws. He scored 12 points with a 100% shooting rate, helping the Suns and the Rockets in the final stage of the first half. Opened the points difference. If it weren’t for Luis Scola to continue his amazing and outstanding performance, the Rockets would enter the second half with a double-digit lag.

During the intermission, Stoudemire, who played well in the first half, looked very excited in the locker room, but Leon reminded him not to be happy too early and must maintain this performance and “play smarter”. This is Leon’s warning to Stoudemire. As a high school player, sometimes being too clever and reckless on the court is a shortcoming of Stoudemire, which makes his influence on the court far less powerful than Nash.

This season, Leon trained Stoudemire as a team leader. Stoudemire should not only be the team’s scoring machine, but also the tactical core and leader on the court, so that the Suns have the qualifications and ability to be the best in the league. The strong team wrestles. Otherwise, they will only be the background board for the finals or championship teams as they did in previous years.

Stoudemire took note of Leon’s cold water, he calmed himself down and listened carefully to Leon’s tactics for the second half. Leon didn’t call a timeout throughout the first half. The players played well and satisfied them. Because of the addition of Hill, their offense is indeed getting better and better, and the smaller lineups move more freely.

But they still have a lot of problems on the defensive end. Leon does not expect the Suns to become a strong defensive team. He hopes to win the championship with offense. But he can’t stand the team making too many low-level mistakes on the defensive end. For him, not making mistakes on the defensive end is winning. So during the intermission, he replayed every defensive mistake made by the Suns in the first half with amazing memory, telling the players who made the mistake not to make the same mistake again.

It was not Nash or Stoudemire who was scolded the worst, but Dior. Offensive Dior played well today and sent 4 assists, but on the defensive end he was about to be rubbed on the ground by Luis Scola a hundred times. Dioben is not good at defensively. Recently, he has always been drawn inside to defend against the opponent’s center and power forward, especially Yao Ming and O’Neal, which made him miserable.

I think that in the 2006 season, there was still a low-post defense expert like Kurt Thomas in the top cylinder. Now Dior is considered a low-post defender himself, which makes him very uncomfortable. Leon was scolded again during the intermission. Anyway, he was scolded by Leon in Boston. He was a little used to it. It’s just that he is no longer the one he was when he was stunned. He once played his own value in the sun, and after leaving the Celtics, he proved that he can be alone.

If in the locker room it is not Fox Leon but some other coach who scolded him, Dior’s temper would definitely be a shame, but he would not dare to be in front of Leon. This is when he first entered the NBA. Coach, the awe for him is deeply imprinted in my heart; secondly, Leon’s fist is not vegetarian.

Suffering, Dior still started in the second half and continued to fight Yao Ming at the center position. Yao Ming stopped there, and when he asked for the ball in the low post, Dior was in the back, like no one else. Sure enough, as soon as the second half started, the Rockets used Yao Ming’s low offense to score consecutively. Yao Ming’s feel has returned.

When he has the feeling, the difference is not very big. Seeing Dior’s continuous defensive failure and losing points, Leon couldn’t sit still on the sidelines. It’s time to scold and scold during the intermission, and scolding again has no effect. He doesn’t want to replace Dior from the field for the time being, because he still plays a very important role in the offensive.

Leon knows that this kid has a relatively lazy personality, does not have the competitive spirit of many stars, and is highly talented, but sometimes he has to pass it off. If he wants to work **** the defensive end, he has to take a whip and draw him behind. This is what he did in the Celtics, but in the Celtics Leon would whip everyone, and it was only natural for Dior to be slapped twice~www.mtlnovel.com~ But in the sun, Leon changed The coaching policy is to get along with the players with a more gentle defense. If you catch Dior at this time, it will inevitably break his mentality.

Leon decided to find an opportunity to give Dior some special training, thinking that the young people like Reed, Arenas, and Joe Johnson were all trained by Leon one by one. . This point of Dior is actually very important in the Suns’ current system. After many games, he is the barometer of the team. If Dior plays well, the Suns will definitely win easy and happy, if Dior does not play well, the team will definitely play very hard.

The game continued in the third quarter. After Yao Ming resumed his offensive state, he helped the Rockets draw closer. But at this time, Steve Nash, who had been dormant in the first half without much eye-catching performance, showed his sharp fangs, ate Ralph Alston twice on the offensive end, right after a pick and roll. A 45-degree three-pointer from the side made a three-pointer, and once used continuous footsteps to sway Alstom into the inside, facing Yao Ming’s supplementary defense, a master throwing hollow into the net, helping the Sun re-expand the lead.

Nash’s role as a team regulator is becoming more and more prominent. As long as the solar lasts through the third quarter, and in the fourth quarter, without Tracy McGrady, the rocket has always collapsed four quarters again, what can we use to fight the sun?

(End of this chapter)