The Rockets were beaten a bit in the first quarter. The Lakers scored 38 points in the first quarter, and they only scored 19 points. They lost by 19 points in the first quarter. But Kevin McHale still

Let the team not be anxious, because in his opinion, although the Lakers' offense in the first quarter was fierce, there were also many problems. Playing so fast, the turnover rate will also increase, which is definitely inevitable. And who is Jeremy Lin?

He has been coaching for several years, and he knows how much he despises him, so he doesn't think the Lakers' offense can continue.

"Defend well and don't be anxious. Let's attack steadily and steadily. If the Lakers play so fast, they are seeking death!" Kevin McHale said: "When they are in chaos, we will take advantage of the situation and overtake them to kill them! Understand.

Yet?"

Tang Qian spent more time off the court in the second quarter. Although it was not the same as last season. He stayed off the court for almost the entire second quarter, but he was away for at least half of the time. During this period, the Rockets' offense was not weak, both inside and outside.

Blossom, scoring almost 29 points in 8 minutes. This is already a high success rate, but looking at the score difference, they have not narrowed it much. Because even if the Lakers have a substitute lineup, they have poor offensive ability.

Poor, Nick Young, Meeks, Landry, Bosh, and Hinrich all played a very good offense. In 8 minutes, the Lakers lost 29 points, but they also scored 21 points

, it seems that when Tang Qian plays again, the score difference is still not small, there are still 11 points.

This is D'Antoni's way of playing during the substitute period. He doesn't consider too much defense at all. He still attacks fiercely and uses offense instead of defense. This can not only stimulate the enthusiasm of substitute players on the court, but also can score points on offense, so that they will not be in the substitute stage.

They were frantically chasing points. As long as they can successfully push Tang Qian onto the court, the Lakers' defense will stand up again.

D'Antoni has become very accustomed to Tang Qian's inside defensive ability, so the task he assigned to the substitutes is to maintain the score difference in the attack, and then wait for the main force to come up and solve the problem. He is not Popovich, he

There is no intention of relying on substitutes to create surprise effects. D'Antoni himself still likes to use the main force to solve the game.

Anyway, winning is the last word.

As soon as Tang Qian came up, he looked at Howard and said, "Okay, your good days are over. The next games will be your time to suffer." "You are still so arrogant! Dongfang... Dongfang is hot!!

!" Howard's statistics in the second quarter were very good. Now he is no worse than Tang Qian and even better in terms of scoring. Therefore, he also said with some confidence: "But it is not last season now. Everything I suffered last season

, I want you to vomit it all out this season! I’ll give it back to you twice as much!”

Tang Qian just laughed when he heard this: "I've always been so arrogant to you, don't you know? Give me back double the amount? Don't talk about this season, I bet you will never be able to do it!"

"You...wait for me!" Howard went to the basket to defend. Jeremy Lin made a mistake in passing the ball and the Rockets won it. Originally, Harden wanted to push a fast break, but he suddenly discovered that this ball

The Lakers' defense speed this season has been much stronger in every game. Whether it's Ariza or Jimmy Butler, they are very defensive and their defensive awareness is not weak, so they can quickly return to defense to contain the Rockets' fast break.

, is not a problem. After all, Harden has never been a particularly fast person.

When he plays, he still focuses on strength and rhythm. At least for now, his shooting has not reached the level that it will be as strong as it will be in the next few years.

Just kidding, what kind of perimeter defensive lineup did the Lakers have last year? Except for Kobe, everyone else was almost below par and vulnerable. The most important thing to contain fast breaks is the defensive ability of the perimeter players, because compared to the inside players, their

The position is more towards the three-point line, so the speed and distance of returning to defense are shorter than those of inside players. No matter how strong Tang Qian's physical fitness is, he still needs to run back from the basket. In this case, he basically cannot catch up. Last year, the Lakers were defeated

The opponent plays crazy fast breaks and is difficult to suppress. The biggest disadvantage is here. The perimeter defense is too weak. However, this season, the situation has changed dramatically. Ariza and Jimmy Butler are both strong defensive players, both in their 20s.

He is less than 30 years old, and his athletic ability is at its peak. With this kind of double-wing retracement, the speed is much faster than that of the Lakers last season. And the defensive fast break only needs to delay the starting point and wait for the first one.

Once the attacking opportunity is contained, you can wait for Tang Qian to return to defense and sit inside, greatly improving the Lakers' defensive attributes.

Sure enough, Harden was entangled by Butler on this ball, and he had no chance to counterattack immediately.

With this delay, the rest of the Lakers basically fell back into position, and the Rockets fell into a positional battle.

In positional warfare, the Rockets don't have many options, and McHale doesn't have enough tactical ability. In addition to basic small coordination, what they can use is Howard's singles and Harden's singles or pick-and-roll attacks. This kind of attack power can't deal with the Lakers.

team, obviously not enough.

The basketball was passed to Howard. Howard is not awake yet. He is still addicted to the illusion that he is a "low-post killer". He will not wake up until he leaves the Rockets. So, he played Tang Qian alone.

When playing alone against Tang Qian, he basically has no advantage now. Although he is still slightly heavier than Tang Qian, he no longer feels as crushed as before. Besides, Howard's body cannot bear this kind of weight of 290+ pounds.

, Tang Qian clearly remembers that this season Howard will be injured and rest for nearly half a season before returning because his body cannot bear it anymore.

When he came back this time, his first task was to lose weight.

At this point, Howard, who weighs 290+ pounds, no longer exists. He has also lost his absolute advantage due to his tonnage and strength, and his lethality at the basket has been greatly reduced. With such rough offensive skills, without the support of a huge physical advantage, his offense has become more and more offensive.

It started to decline. Since then, it has basically been in decline, and the offensive end has degenerated to the "blue-collar level".

It followed a trajectory almost completely opposite to that of Tang Qian's career.

From an offense and defense player, he became a blue-collar player, while Tang Qian changed from a blue-collar player to an offense and defense player.

Howard wanted to face the basket and use his body to counter Tang Qian's shot at the basket, but this time, the effect was very poor. Tang Qian, who also weighed 290+ pounds, would no longer be so easily countered by Howard.

.Look at this, basically there is nothing out of place.

In order to avoid attacking for three seconds, Howard could only continue to take shots. In this way, what else can be said, Tang Qian slapped him away with a big block. The basketball rolled out of the Lakers' sideline.

"No wonder you are getting worse and worse as you play, and your physical fitness has declined. You still want to attack like you did when you were young. Aren't you dreaming?" Howard listened to Tang Qian's words and said with a little embarrassment: "Don't think you are blocked.

You are awesome alone. I don’t need you to teach me how to play!” “I’m too lazy to teach you.” Tang Qian walked past Howard leisurely and said: “Anyway, when your body can’t handle this body, you can

Your scoring ability is bound to decline again, and in that case, I can beat you to death with one foot."

"You are so crazy! You will be slapped in the face by me! One day! You will be slapped in the face by me!" Faced with Howard's shouting, Tang Qian only raised his fingers and said: "Come on, if you have the guts,

Just come, I'll wait for you, come as long as you can."

This time the Rockets wanted to play a slide without the ball, but Tang Qian interfered again. The basketball slipped out of the basket. Bosh got the rebound and quickly passed it to Jeremy Lin. The entire Lakers team attacked. This is

The typical D'Antoni system can no longer be typical. D'Antoni's style of play is to reduce positional battles. If there is a chance, he will defend and counterattack and hit sports battles. What if there is no chance? Even if there is no chance, he must forcefully create opportunities! Anyway, as long as positional battles can be avoided and there is a slight chance,

You can throw them away.

This is also one of the reasons why role players are prone to "data overflow" under this system. Regardless of things like offensive rhythm and offensive rounds, just saying that they can take such decisive shots can improve the players' confidence and shooting percentage, right?

.

Lakers Ariza Biao scored a three-pointer.

Basketball hit.

For the Rockets, Harden wants to step up and break the Rockets' scoring difficulty. This season, due to Kobe's retirement, Harden has begun to act openly and become the league's signature No. 1 point guard. This season, there is finally no point.

Objection. Harden is also glad that the Lakers' No. 24 was injured and retired. Otherwise, with the state he was in last year, he probably won't be able to make a difference for several more years. He doesn't want to be like Wade, who hasn't worn out Kobe yet.

Aging first.

That's too miserable.

However, Harden himself has indeed grown a lot this season. Tang Qian remembers that his basic statistics this season have improved to almost 27+6+7+2, which is quite impressive. His scoring ability has firmly ranked among the top scorers.

The level is no longer the entry-level level of last year and the year before. After becoming a first-class scorer, it is not easy to improve every point per game. Harden went from 25+ to 27+. This improvement is not small.

Now even if Butler is on the second defense, it is difficult to say that he can completely block him and make it difficult for him to score. With an average of 27+ per game, even if he is on the first defense, he will feel overwhelmed.

Harden's future does indeed have the potential to be a super scorer.

This is rare, because there are only a handful of super scorers who can reach the standard in the league within a few years. From this point of view, if not compared with Kobe, Harden is still very good. As for bragging about his assists...

...Well, let’s take a look at his assist-to-turnover ratio first. The assist-to-turnover ratio is as high as 2:1. Compared with real No. 1 positions like Paul Nash, Stockton and “Magic” Johnson, it is simply miserable.

In a simple sentence, this is the number of assists accumulated by the possession of the ball. The data of the all-inclusive style of play will inevitably increase. Look at Westbrook, look at LeBron James, they are basically in this mode, with high statistics.

High turnovers, not a true point guard master, high statistics, low turnovers.

Do you need to elaborate more on the gap? Even Rajon Rondo is a representative of high statistics and low turnovers.

After all, he is not a pure point guard, and his ability is not enough to accumulate the ball. If you look at the data, you will know that the higher the assist data of the all-inclusive play, the turnover data will also be greatly improved. The best player in the all-inclusive style of play will

Strong spokesperson LeBron James, in fact, after averaging 8+ assists per game, he also has a turnover ratio of 2:1, and who is the real point guard master? This is why if Jordan wants to play like this, he

His data will only be stronger than these people. Doubt it? For example, in the season when Jordan had the highest assists, he averaged 8+ assists per game, and his turnover ratio was less than 2:1. Don’t look at it, it’s only a few tenths of a difference, but you

The more you hold the ball, the more exaggerated the gap between the numbers will be.

So if you let Jordan average more than 5+ turnovers per game, then it would be easy for him to get over 10+ assists, and even 11+ would be a piece of cake. The same goes for when Kobe Bryant played point guard and increased his possession of the ball.

You can easily produce triple-doubles and near-triple-doubles. Therefore, it is a blanket play with high turnovers and high statistics. It is normal to have high statistics. There are not a few outside superstars with comprehensive abilities who can do this. And the real test of the organization is

And the ability to connect in series should be high data and low mistakes. This is the real skill.

Simply looking at data is too much of a pseudo-fan, and there is no real awareness of being a "data party".

But this season Harden has not yet begun to completely take over the game. His identity is more of a pure attacker at the 2nd position. Harden forcibly broke through Butler's defense and reached the inside for a layup.

, but how could Tang Qian agree so easily? He is no longer what he was last season. With the increase in weight and strength, his defensive ability and defensive pressure have begun to be further exerted. The power of nine defensive crystal bricks and blocking crystal bricks

Able to do so, it began to truly show itself gradually.

Harden bumped into Tang Qian, but did not open up any gaps or space at all, so in the end he received a solid blow from Tang Qian.

Snap~The basketball flew directly out of the Lakers' penalty area.

How did his body become so strong in one offseason? Has he completely turned into a heavy center???

Harden himself is actually among the back line, and he is considered to be relatively outstanding in strength and tonnage. This is also a basic weapon for him to survive. Coupled with his fairly good acceleration and explosive power, when it comes to impact, he can almost do anything with ordinary insiders.

Earning a little cheap. Of course, this is also related to the fact that there are no heavy centers in the league at the moment. They are all insiders weighing more than 250 to 260 pounds. The impact of Harden knocked open the air gap and knocked out the shooting space. What's strange?

In the past, Tang Qian would have been knocked back or knocked away a lot by this. It was only by relying on his extraordinary wingspan and physical fitness that he could barely fill up the gap and exert his defensive power. Now, it is no longer like that.

That's it. After the opponent can't hit him, he has more space and time to adjust and block shots. Why do you say that with nine crystal bricks, he still can't reach the defensive ability and block number of Marshal Zhang at his peak?

This is the reason.

The Lakers went on a fast break and missed, but Tang Qian came up from behind and grabbed the offensive rebound from Terrence Jones' head. At the same time, he pulled up his shot as soon as it landed, pressed his body against the latter, and scored easily

The second offensive goal was scored under the basket.
To be continued...