I'm really not a superstar

Chapter 204 Twisted Lineup

After the short Christmas break, the Rockets continued their regular season journey.

The Rockets' first opponent is the New Orleans Hornets.

Under the leadership of Chris Paul, the Hornets have a good record this year. Before that, they overwhelmed the Rockets by 0.5 wins and temporarily ranked first in the Southwest Division.

This ball is also a contest for the pinnacle of the Southwest Division.Whoever wins may be related to the ranking of the future playoffs, which is of great significance to the team's performance throughout the season.

However, before this focus battle, the Rockets received a bad news.

Ci Shiping was injured.

Before Christmas, at the last moment of the game between the Rockets and the Cavaliers, Metta Shiping sprained your ankle in order to be knocked down by the violent James.

After examination, the doctor diagnosed that the soft tissue was strained and needed to rest for a week.

In other words, Metta Shiping will miss the remaining three games of the Rockets in 2008.

Ci Shiping's injury gave Adelman a headache again.

Since McGrady paid, Lao Ah has lost countless brain cells.

The system that was operating efficiently had to be disrupted and redeployed.

No matter what, there seems to be one more person in the main lineup!

In order to place McGrady, the young Dorsey had to play an unfamiliar position, and at the same time other main players had to be adjusted out of the main lineup.

I haven't figured out how to match the lineup, Ci Shiping is injured again here, and has to be redeployed again!

According to common sense, Ci Shiping's first substitute is Battier. "President" was also the main small forward last season.

However, after careful consideration, Adelman did not arrange for Battier to start, but let Dorsey appear in this position.

This is also the fourth position that Dorsey has appeared in as a starter this season!
Now he is short of the starting number one, and he will achieve the unprecedented grand slam of the starting position!

Many players claim to be able to play from the first position to the fifth position, but in reality, I am afraid that only Dorsey is the closest.

Don't think this is a good thing, it only shows that Adelman is full of contradictions and doubts in the use of Dorsey, and Dorsey's field position is very unclear.

To put it mildly, Dorsey is a "panacea", but to put it harshly, Dorsey has not played a dominant performance in any position so far.

Moreover, this directly affects Dorsey's future development and historical status.

In the long run, for example, when people select the top ten, top [-] or top [-] players in a certain position in the future, they will be very confused about Dorsey's position.

He has played in this position, but he has also played in other positions. Is he considered a player in this position?

Forget it, since you are not sure, just remove him and forget it.Wait until the next time you select a top [-] player at another position to consider him.

However, when other positions are selected, Dorsey will be eliminated for the same reason.

More recently, for example, as an All-Star candidate (although Dorsey did not enter this year's All-Star voting list), where is Dorsey considered?
Doesn't play long enough at each position to compete with other players who play there full-time.

After messing around, I became a wandering swinger with no sense of belonging!
Of course, these things are not something Adelman and Dorsey can consider at this stage.One of them has to worry about winning for the team, and the other is very satisfied as long as he can start the game, what more bicycles are needed!

Adelman used Dorsey to play small forward. The main consideration is that Dorsey's recent competitive state is very good. But without the slightest fatigue.

His defense is great, and he is no worse than Battier in one-on-one defense.On the offensive end, he also has cutting running and impact that Battier cannot match, and he can play both with and without the ball.

So Dorsey is undoubtedly the best choice to replace Ci Shiping at present.

Of course, there is another option that may be more reasonable.

That is, let Battier serve as the starting small forward, take McGrady out of the main lineup, and let Dorsey play an outstanding shooting guard.

However, this idea only flashed in Adelman's mind for a while, and then it was thrown out of the sky.

He doesn't have the guts to bench the team's most valuable and talented player.

Besides, during the Christmas period, I and Mosaic had already talked with McGrady, and the other party seemed to accept my opinion humbly, maybe it would work.

Maybe……

However, when the game was played, McGrady was still the same.

McGrady's problems mainly focus on three aspects:
1. Reluctant to break through to the basket, and when there is a chance or even no chance, he just floats outside and shoots.

McGrady's knees, back, and ankles are like rusted bearings, making it difficult for him to move freely, which in turn affects his desire to break through.

Although after three days of rest, McGrady's physical condition has recovered a lot, and his shooting rate is not bad.But floating outside to vote, this matter itself belongs to watching the sky for eating, and no one knows if there is rain under this cloud today.

Besides, if you don't break through to the basket, you can't cause damage, disrupt the opponent's defense deployment, and can't create space. Not only does it not contribute much to the team's overall offense, but it is also easy to be defended by the opponent.

2. In passing the ball, there are still no rabbits or eagles.

Due to the decline in scoring, McGrady now cherishes assist data more and more.

If his teammates can't run a particularly good opportunity, he is reluctant to pass the ball.

When the ball is in his hands, it often comes to a standstill.The fast delivery and smooth movement of the ball advocated by the Princeton system has been greatly hindered by McGrady.

However, one thing is good, that is, the cooperation between McGrady and Dorsey is very tacit.The previous reluctance to pass the ball to Dorsey did not happen again.

It's not that McGrady accepts Dorsey in his heart, but that he needs to brush up the data, and for some reason, Dorsey is the person who understands his intentions best on the court and is most in tune with his rhythm.

3. McGrady's defense.

I don't know if it was really affected by the injury, but his movement speed became very slow, unable to keep up with the opponent's speed.

Now the entire league knows that to deal with McGrady, you have to run more and increase off-ball movement. McGrady can't keep up. Once he gets the ball one-on-one, he must make a decisive breakthrough.

As a result, McGrady was unable to make contributions on both offensive and defensive ends, and instead became a weak link in the opponent's key attack.

Dorsey's contribution at the small forward position is also discounted.

At the small forward position of the Hornets, Russell Butler is facing Dorsey.

This guy is not the main attack point of the Hornets. He averaged 8.9 points per game in the previous game. Dorsey defended him, but it just made him score even less.
On the offensive end, the main responsibility of the small forward is to score, especially some long-range shots are needed to help the team expand the attack range.

But Dorsey's shooting is not stable at present, especially the fixed-point shooting outside the three-point line, and the shooting percentage is not high.

The spot-up inconsistent weakness is magnified at this position.

Now the most important scoring points of the Rockets are the shooting guard and the small forward. One can't shoot, and the other can't shoot.

Among the Big Three of the Rockets, one did not play due to injury, the other was lost in the fear of injury, and only Yao Ming remained.

Adelman's tactics are also quite simple and rude, since others can't open it, then fuck Yao Ming.

He demanded that every attack should go through Yao Ming's hands, and every ball should be dominated by Yao Ming.

Such a resolute tactic had some effect at first.

Whether facing Tyson Chandler or James Posey, Dayao is handy, with long shots and short shots, and various scoring methods emerge in endlessly.

However, as the game time passed, Dayao's physical fitness had problems.

After all, Dayao has a physique of a yellow race. There is a big gap between his stamina and stamina compared to black players. After 1/3 of the season, he has already started to feel tired. In this game, this kind of player has to pass him every ball. The way he played with his hands exacerbated his physical energy consumption.

As his physical strength declined, his technical movements began to deform, his movement and footsteps were no longer so fast, and his shooting feel and stability also declined.

In the first two quarters, he scored a game-high 16 points, but in the second half, he missed shots one after another and only scored 6 points!
In stark contrast, he took 28 shots in this game, setting his own record for the most shots this season.

Yao Ming misfired in the second half, but Paul, the core point guard of the Hornets, controlled the game from beginning to end.

(End of this chapter)