Chapter 821
Without the perfect performance in the second half of the five minutes, Yao Ming's comeback premiere would definitely not be considered a success, but now Yao Ming's comeback is considered very successful. In the first half, he just didn't find the feeling of a match. Yao Ming adapted to the game very quickly, and soon found the feeling, which led to the success of the second half.
The Seattle Supersonics made a very suitable deal, and the Houston Rockets made a loss-making deal. In the past month, Chris Wilcox has gained more playing time and assumed a more important tactical position, but the data has not increased significantly. Because the deterioration of the inside strength has caused a decline in the outside offensive efficiency. The Houston Rockets have played so far, with a winning rate of less than 50%, ranking seventh in the West.
Although on the surface, Houston's ranking has not dropped much, in fact, if it weren't for the advantage of the schedule and opponents, the Rockets would not be in their current position at all. Moreover, they can win games more often because of the players' personal abilities. After losing Yao Ming, Adelman still cannot change the team to Princeton's playing style, because Princeton has two points against the players, one is to run and the other is to pass.
When Yao Ming was still with the Rockets, many people attributed the reason why the Rockets could not play Princeton to Yao Ming, believing that Yao Ming was slow and had insufficient pass and response ability, and was the team's least adapted to Princeton's style of play. As a result, Yao Ming has left, and the Rockets still cannot play Princeton's style of play.
Because McGrady, who is in charge of the Rockets now, rarely runs. After getting the ball, he either attacks or passes the ball directly to others. If the ball cannot be passed, he cannot run. The team's recruitment Ron Artest is the same. The ball basically stops when it reaches his hand, and when there is no ball in his hand, he doesn't like to run.
Princeton's style of play was not a successful style of play. Apart from his success in college, the only one of the so gorgeous Sacramento Kings in the league was played. However, even that Kings team is just a strong team in the regular season, similar to the current Phoenix Suns, and because they always use dodge-style play, they are called the Queens by the Shark O'Neal.
In this regard, it is really incomparable to other people's triangular offensive tactics. Triangular offensive requires organizational strikers, while Princeton needs to organize centers, which pay attention to people and ball movements. In fact, no matter how complex the tactics are, they are composed of some basic tactics. Just like the San Antonio Spurs, they seem to be playing some simple tactics, but in fact, no one can match the tactical literacy league.
The Supersonics inherited the San Antonio Spurs' style of playing, starting with simple tactics, and then slowly increasing the complexity of the tactics. However, because Stephen's ability is too outrageous, the Supersonics are not like the Spurs, nor do they need to play more than a dozen tactics like the Spurs. Each attack requires more than a dozen tactics.
In the past, no one in the team had that ability, so the team usually scored at the basket, outside players broke through and scored. There were very few real inside ball attacks at the basket. But now with one more Yao Ming, this part cannot be ignored. While observing Yao Ming's ability shown in training, Caresimo was thinking about how to increase this part of the tactics.
However, before Yao Ming lifted the playing time limit, the team's offense could not be counted on him, but the homework had to be ahead. Fortunately, Stephen and Yao Ming had cooperated before and knew Yao Ming very well. Being a teammate and being an opponent is different. The research you use as an opponent cannot be used when you are a teammate, so Caresimo asked someone to carefully collect the videos of Yao Ming starting from this game to prepare for the formulation of tactics.
After defeating the Minnesota Timberwolves, the Supersonics set off overnight to Memphis to play this back-to-back second game. The Memphis Grizzlies have great potential, but now, it still poses no threat to the Supersonics.
In the league, the youth guards are coming, the Chicago Bulls in the east and the Memphis Grizzlies in the west. Let’s see the lineup set up by the Grizzlies in this game, center Marc Gasol, power forward Darrell Arthur, small forward Rudy Guy, shooting guard OJ Mayo, point guard Mike Conley.
OJ Mayo is the Tsinghua show this year, while Michael Conley is the No. 4 show last year, Rudy Gay is the No. 8 show last year, only Darrell Arthur is the No. 27 show this year and Marc Gasol is the No. 48 show last year, and they are both a little lower.
This is the youngest lineup in the league. All five people hold rookie contracts, but this lineup has no rules and is all young players. It is understandable, especially when the Supersonics strengthen their defense, their outside scoring obviously encountered great difficulties.
But at this time, Marc Gasol began to slowly show his ability. Although he could not pass the ball like his brother Paul Gasol, his protection of the basket was much better than his brother Paul Gasol, and the offensive effect at the basket was obviously more threatening than Paul Gasol. In several confrontations, Kupad could not gain any advantage in front of him.
At this time, Calesimo replaced Yao Ming. Although the two had fought many times in the international arena, it was the first time in the league. It was obvious that even after he returned from injury, Yao Ming was not at all inferior. Relying on his understanding and adaptation to the rules, Yao Ming quickly caused a foul by Marc Gasol.
However, Marc Gasol also seemed very mature, unmoved at all, and still fought against Yao Ming steadily. Yao Ming was helpless with him for a while, so the Supersonics had to turn the center of the offense to the periphery.
Although Mike Conley's offensive choice was not very good, his defense was extremely outstanding. Even after Watson left the court and replaced Russell Westbrook, Mike Conley was the best restrictive person to him in so many games. Of course, it is also possible that other people did not pay attention to Westbrook.
The second back-to-back game once again affected the Supersonics' condition. The two sides played until the first half of the fourth quarter before they decided to have a clear victory or defeat. Especially when Yao Ming appeared again, it provided great help to the team.
Chapter completed!