rocket i am king

Chapter 225 The Counterattack of the Mavericks' Bench
In the second quarter of the game, Xia Tian and Harden's main players all rested, and the old rookies of the Rockets were still playing. This has become the regular rotation of the Rockets.

As the old men of the Rockets, their tacit understanding is no worse than that of the current rookies.

At the start of the game, you can see that Dirk and others on the Mavericks' side are also off the field, so the Mavericks' lineup has become Kidd point guard, Stevenson at point guard, Bryan small forward, and Peja power forward , Haywood center.

The Mavericks had the ball, and Kidd began to control the ball and slowly advanced. After reaching the top of the arc, Peja's pick-and-roll also came. Breakout.

Hitting the ball to Peja, Peja feinted and stepped forward to defend Scola and then passed to Stevenson who cut inside. Stevenson dribbled a few steps after receiving the ball and passed the ball to Peja again.

Peja catches the ball and shoots, but Scola does not defend in time because he shrinks his position, which is considered a good open space.

"Swish"

An open three-pointer hit the net, and it can be seen that Peja's hand feels good.

When it was the Rockets' turn to attack, Lowry dribbled past Kidd. Although Kidd's defense was good, Lowry's physical fitness forced him to push Kidd into the penalty area.

Pulling back, Lowry took a good position and aimed at the basket to make a shot. At this time, Heywood, who was protecting the basket, came over to help defend, and looked at the basketball that had left Lowry's palm and shot it without thinking.

"Snapped"

The basketball was covered in the hands of Brian on the wing. Seeing this, Dragic quickly took it out. Brian also responded in a timely manner and turned his back to Dragic. Seeing that the ball didn’t reach Dragic, he didn’t do anything. After staying, he started to defend himself.

Passed to Kidd, who was about to get off, the latter made a hard layup, facing Dragic, Kidd squeezed him into the penalty area abruptly and then made a hook shot.

The "Didi" whistle sounded and the ball scored.

Kidd got a 2+1 chance.

Kidd stepped on the free throw line and made a steady free throw. At 27:23, the Rockets were beaten by the Mavericks 6:0 and successfully approached the score.

"Nice!" Dirk, who was sitting on the bench beside him, couldn't help but clenched his fists. At this time, Dirk began to look forward to it. Although the Rockets are now led by Yao Ming, Dirk always felt that this bench player could give him an opportunity. surprise.

The game continued, and the Rockets began to stabilize. When they came to the front court, Lowry stopped playing randomly. After Yao Ming took his position, Lowry passed the ball to Yao Ming, ready to let him finish the attack.

Yao Ming hit Heywood with the ball on his back. He pushed the opponent first, and then Yao Ming directly started to dribble and break through after Heywood was pushed away.

"bang"

Another top. After Yao Ming finished the top, he turned around and hit a low-handed basket. The basketball went into the net hollow. This is Yao Ming, an existence that no one can guard against!

Even O'Neill can only sigh with Yao Ming, "I can't guard him, he can't guard me, all he can do is explode each other."

29:23
Kidd advances with the ball, and when he comes to the frontcourt, Brian goes down quickly. Kidd sends the ball to his hands with a second pass. The latter catches the ball and makes a quick stop for a jump shot. Bryan hits a solid shot.

29:25
The Rockets still handed the ball to Yao Ming, but Yao Ming started double-teaming the Mavericks as soon as he received the ball. Faced with the double-teaming, Yao Ming helplessly passed the ball to Dragic on one side.

Dragic dribbled the ball to find the rhythm. When the rhythm was found, Bryan popped up, and then he pulled back suddenly after a physical confrontation with Bryan, standing still and shooting.

"Duang"

Under Bryan's interference, Dragic's shot missed the basket, and the rebound was firmly won by Heywood who was stuck in the position.

Pushing a fast break counterattack, after Kidd received the ball, he passed the ball with a long pass to Peja, who was already in his position. The latter caught the ball and shook Scola. Although Scola did not take off, Peja But still started to break through.

Against Scola's impact to the basket, under Peja's weight, Scola was completely unable to block his breakthrough. He gently pushed Scola with his hand, and Peja withdrew to shoot.

29:27
The basketball was hit steadily. Although Peja pushed Scola, but because of the secret angle, only the two of them may know about it.

The score was forced to close to 2 points, and Adelman called a timeout. When the score was narrowed to [-] points at the beginning, Adelman was not in a hurry, because he believed that this group of old players could adjust.

But now it seems that this is not the case. A wave of 3-12 was played in 4 minutes. Adelman really didn't want to understand, how did this come about?

During the timeout, Adelman arranged tactics and defensive strategies for everyone. Facing the Mavericks' offense, Adelman changed his defensive strategy to a three-two defense, because Adelman also felt that it was unnecessary for the top shooters like Marion. Continue to engage in defense around the front.

The game continued, and the Rockets finally stabilized the situation after changing their defensive strategy. Although it was impossible to completely limit the opponent, their shooting percentage plummeted.

Halfway through the second quarter, the Mavericks started to make substitutions. Terry and other top shooters returned to the field. Adelman also replaced Xia Tian and Harden without any haste.

39:34
Under the leadership of Yao Ming, although the score did not open to double digits again, it is very good to be able to open to five points again. After all, Dragic and Lowry will not open this game, and only Scola and Yao Ming alone supported.

Back on the court, Harden began to organize the team's offense. Xia Tian gave Harden two thumbs and then came over to make a screen for him. After the screen, Harden broke into the three-point line in one step.

Xia Tian also split the inside cut at this time, the Mavericks' defense actually made a mistake for a while, Kidd and Marion both chased Harden, so Xia Tian quickly braked and ran out of the three-point line. ,

At this time, Harden obviously saw Xia Tian's actions, and a jump pass that looked back at the moon gave the ball to Xia Tian, ​​and he caught the ball and dribbled one step to shoot.

"Swish"

After finding the rhythm, Xia Tian's three-pointer was also a precise basket.

42:34
The Mavericks started to fight back. Kidd lobbed to Dirk on the inside. Dirk singled out Scola.

Also hit!

42:36
Scola's expression became depressed. He had already defended with all his strength against Dirk just now, but it was really helpless for others to still be able to enter him.

The Rockets counterattacked. Xia Tian sent the ball to Harden. As soon as he received the ball, Harden compared a finger to Xia Tian. This is to start the singles. Seeing this, Xia Tian also understood. Dragic, who responded, was called to the side, and he also ran to the other corner.

Harden started playing singles at the top of the arc. Facing Kidd, Harden first approached the three-point line with a cross step, and then when Kidd took the ball, Harden quickly stretched out his left leg, and dribbled the ball under the crotch. The ball went to the right hand.

Harden dribbled the ball with his right hand against Kidd and slowly pushed it up. When he hit Kidd for the first time, Harden turned his back to him and made a fake pass, and then took advantage of Kidd's attention being drawn away. Quickly turned around and broke into the inside line.

Dirk came to help defend, Harden grabbed the ball and took the Eurostep. After the great change of direction of the Eurostep, Harden bypassed Dirk. At this time, Harden raised his left hand, facing the basket Toss lightly.

"Swish"

Goal scored, 44:36.
I have to say that Harden has practiced his European step to perfection. Perhaps Harden's European step is the strongest except for the demon knife.

"Oh oh oh~ European step from Harden, look at Dirk's dumbfounded look, maybe he was fooled, haha!" Our big mouth Barkley began to mock Dirk.

You must know that some old players don't like Dirk very much. It's all because they think Dirk is too soft. As a big man, you should play hard inside!But as for Dirk, he floated outside and shot at every turn. When Dirk bought and didn't win the championship, many insiders looked down on Dirk, including Barkley.

(End of this chapter)