186. Twin stars shine
After Su Jiu completed the unreasonable jump shot on his head, Bruce's face turned a little dark.
This made the already black little black bean turn even more black now. To put it in a Chinese saying, "Iron, your Yin Tang is black!!"
Due to his height and weight, Brooks's efficiency on the defensive end has also been very inefficient. He usually takes advantage of his speed to steal the ball in the hands of the attacker without paying attention.
As a result, Su Jiu did not play according to the routine after coming up. He took advantage of the pick-and-roll and directly used his height advantage to complete the pull-up jump shot, and did not give him any chance to play in the future.
Although this style of play looks simple and clear, and even has some brainlessness, for Brooks, this happens to be his most annoying offensive method!!
"He is just sprinkling salt on the wound!!"
Brooks, on the offensive end, also wanted to face Su Jiu to get a goal. After all, before Su Jiu came on the court, his touch was so hot that he stopped the magic with his own strength.
Standing outside the three-point line, Brooks gestured to his teammates and signaled Carl Landry to come up and make a pick-and-roll for himself.
As for why it is Landry in the power forward position, not Hayes in the center position.
Because judging from Hayes' height, this is no different from Carl Landry.
The most important thing is that after returning from pick-and-roll with Landry, he can still complete a mid-range jump shot, but if it were Hayes, he would probably have to stand at a high position and wait foolishly for support.
However, when facing the Rockets' pick-and-roll, Su Jiu's entire defense was not lost at all, and it can be said that he was accurately stuck on Brooks' breakthrough route.
Faced with this situation, Brooks immediately returned the ball to Carl Landry near the free throw line.
After receiving Brooks' return, looking at Tegru, who was still a distance away from him, Landry also made a mid-range shot with his hand.
"Swish~"
This shot, which did not have much defensive pressure, also came into the net steadily.
The moment the basketball was shot, Carl Landry showed off his biceps in the audience, and his expression seemed to be as harsh as possible.
"hiss!"
This legendary iron-blooded jump shot is indeed so terrifying...
In fact, facing Tkogrulandri, he has a very big physical advantage, because one of the two people plays with their brains and the other relies on physical fitness, which can be said to be two extremes.
As the Rockets' No. 2 scorer on the Rockets' bench, Carl Landry has only 21.1 minutes of playing time this season, but he can contribute 9.3 points and 5.1 rebounds per game.
This offensive efficiency can definitely be regarded as very outstanding.
As for why not talk about Landry's assist data?!
Because there is no need at all!!
Average 0.4 times in 21 minutes per game!!
I have to say that this is definitely Nick Yang among the inside players!!
This is also the main reason why even though Landry's offensive efficiency is so high, Adelman still dares not put him in the starting lineup.
Because once Landry plays as the starting position, Yao Ming's ball rights may be in danger.
What?! Do you want me to pass the ball?!
Why are you weird, old man? I don't understand what you are saying...
With Su Jiu's appearance, the Magic team has obviously improved greatly on the offensive end. The biggest difference is that there is an absolutely stable offensive backbone in this second team.
Basically, all the ball rights distribution on the offensive end will be passed through Su Jiu's hands.
And it feels natural for players on the court in this situation.
Because whether it is Redick or Courtney Lee, these two are stable off-ball pitchers, and it would be a dream to expect them to play with the ball on the court.
As for Rashad Lewis, he is even a second-in-commander who doesn't need the ball rights at all.
So after Su Jiu led the second team to the court, he directly made a wave of smooth attacks.
Since the Rockets are currently defending Lewis on the substitute third position is "Batman" Battier, a player with particularly outstanding defensive skills.
You should know that although Bathir can only contribute 8.1 points and 4.3 rebounds per game this season, his defensive efficiency is indeed as high as 24.3.
This value is expected to be selected as the best defensive team in any year, so it can definitely be called a real horror.
And according to the Rockets' team statistics this season, when Battier is on the court, the Rockets' points lost by 5.3 points per 100 rounds, which is definitely an elite defensive expert!!
So this also led to Su Jiu not wanting to hold too much of the ball, he had to force him to attack on the court!!
Facing the defense of Little Black Bean Brooks, Su Jiu completely blocked the god of killing in the next few minutes, and he was quite stunning in all directions.
Whether it is the mid-range pull-out after the pick-and-roll, or the turn-over jump shot directly after the ball is required at the bull horn position, it can be said to have a very high offensive efficiency.
After all, the two are actually taller than 15 cm apart. In addition, Su Jiu has DeRozan's skillful offensive skills at the moment, which makes it difficult for Brooks to interfere too much on the defensive end.
Seeing this situation, Rockets head coach Adelman also looked frowning. After several rounds of beaten, he had to change to his main lineup.
Because of the momentum that was originally on the side of the Rockets in the first half of the second quarter, Su Jiu completely returned to the side of the Magic after he came back.
Although Adelman didn't want to take his main player so early, he also knew that once he made adjustments to the lineup, the Magic would probably make timely responses.
The first quarter has proved that the Rockets are also at an absolute disadvantage in the competition of the starting lineup, so Adelman also placed more hope on the substitute players in this game.
However, as Brooks was beaten by Su Jiu in various ways on the court, if Adelman saw that he would not make any adjustments, the game would have to enter the personal performance stage...
With the Rockets' substitution, Van Gundy also made a response immediately and brought his starting lineup back to the court.
Due to Yao Ming's reappearance, the power forward on the Rockets had to replace Louis Scola with the field again.
After all, the passing ability of the magic bird Landry is not! To be precise, he has no idea of passing the ball at all!!
If you partner with Yao Ming on the court, it would be really eye-catching!!
As Yao Ming returned to the court, the Rockets continued to play the Princeton tactics they were quite familiar with.
The Magic continues to make more outside projections against the Rockets' gap.
Finally, 0.3 seconds before the end of the midfield, Su Jiu hit a quasi-buzzer-beat mid-range jump shot against Alstom, which completely frozen the score of the half-time:
53:48
Five points ahead of the Rockets and ended the first half of the competition.
Throughout the first half, Su Jiu played for up to 18 minutes of playing time. He made 8 of 10 shots and 2 of 3 free throws on the court. He contributed 18 points, 3 rebounds and 4 assists with a shooting percentage of up to 80%.
18 points in the first half also made Su Jiu's name completely resound throughout the Toyota Center Stadium.
After all, there are many Chinese fans at the Rockets' home court today. In addition to Yao Ming, who supports the home team, Su Jiu's personal fans are definitely not a small number.
Especially the number of female fans has reached a very amazing number, which makes people sigh that they are handsome and able to play. I, Kuz...
Pooh!
I'm Su Jiu!!
On the Rockets, as another protagonist of the Chinese derby, Yao Ming's performance after the half-time was definitely far beyond people's expectations.
Yao Ming played for a total of 16 minutes in the first half, making 7 of 11 shots, 6 free throws, and eventually scored 20 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists.
Yao Ming got such comprehensive data at the end of the half-time game, which also made people look forward to whether Yao Ming could get a triple-double in this game!!
You should know that in today's era, the number of triple-double players can be said to be extremely small.
And if a center player gets a triple-double in the game, then you don’t have to think too much about the next day, this is definitely the headlines of the next day!!
After the half, for the Rockets' home fans, the team is still on the back side, which is more or less disappointing.
However, for those Chinese fans who are watching the game in front of the TV at the moment, the winner and loss of this game have long become no longer important.
Because both of Su Jiu or Yao Ming have performed very efficiently so far.
Chapter completed!