naaapseattle Chapter 707 All Chinese class!The debut of China's five tigers!
Chapter 707 All Chinese class!The debut of China's five tigers!
Recently, when fans talk about the Rockets, one of the most common arguments is——
The Rockets team is really terrifying, their strength seems to have no upper limit...
The Lakers have strengthened the power forward position and have no weaknesses?
The rocket can break it!
The Heat completely liberated Janeway on the offensive end, and the defensive counterattack is invincible?
The rocket can break it!
A simple summary is... No matter how strong the opponent is, if you encounter the Rockets, you still have to give up!
In March, the Rockets had one of the losses of the Heat and the Lakers.
The Rockets have achieved an impressive record of 14 wins and 1 loss this month.
The only game he lost was when he met the Bobcats and capsized in the gutter.
Shen Fei is very satisfied with the team's record.
But what makes him the happiest is not the record...
After Xu Yong shined in that training match, he was promoted to the first team and officially became a member of the rotation.
After Salmons and Thornton left the team, Sun Yue also returned to the first team.
So far, the Rockets lineup also has: Jeremy Lin, Sun Yue, Xu Yong, Yi Jianlian, Yao Ming, five Chinese players.
And five people can just make up a complete lineup, with all positions in place!
Mark Jackson, as the specially hired head coach of the Huaxia men's basketball team, often puts five players on the court at the same time at the right time and rehearses the lineup in advance.
And the "China Five Tigers" did not disappoint the head coach.
When several people played at the same time, the Rockets not only did not lose points, but also won a lot of points.
After Shen Fei saw the effect, he immediately sent a text message to Mark Jackson, asking the latter to take a proper rotation of the main players in the last month of the regular season; find an opportunity to let the China Five Tigers play as the starting lineup!
Of course, the premise is to keep the first place in the league.
After all, the Rockets' two opponents this year, the Lakers and the Heat, have excellent records. If they are not careful, they may catch up from behind and lose their home court advantage in the playoffs.
Mark - Jackson has no reason to refuse, said he would find the right time.
And the starting debut of the China Five Tigers finally arrived on April 4, the penultimate game day of the regular season, as scheduled!
The Rockets' opponent in this game is the Oklahoma City Thunder led by San Shao.
The Thunder have improved tremendously this season.
From the previous middle reaches of the west, it has become the third in the west.
If the records of the Rockets and the Lakers were not too abnormal, they would have the opportunity to hit a higher ranking!
This season, the three minors perform their duties.
Durant is neck and neck with Curry in the scoring list, steadily providing strong firepower support for the Thunder.
Westbrook is as fast as the wind, using explosive performances again and again to boost the team's morale.
Harden is the one who sacrificed the most.He obviously has strong strength, but he is willing to be green leaves for Durant and Westbrook, shining on the bench.
This Thunder team may overturn the gutter on weak teams, but any team, including the Rockets, Lakers, and Heat, does not want to meet them in the series.
The sky is the limit for this Thunder team!
Today, all Thunder players gathered and came to China Times Arena to challenge the leader Rockets!
Before the game, Westbrook also uttered harsh words, intending to explode Curry on the offensive end.
I never thought that today, Curry raised his exemption card and didn't give him a chance at all.
After seeing the five players on the field from the Rockets, the Thunder players secretly made up their minds that they must win this game!
Just like today's ESPN commentator - A-Smith said, today's game is more like a confrontation between the Chinese national team and the best young team in the beautiful country!
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With the referee throwing the ball high, the game officially begins!
With a big wave of his hand, Yao Ming easily won the scrum with Perkins.
The rocket strikes first!
Shu Hao passed the half court with the ball and came to the top of the arc to organize.
Xu Yong used the cover to go out, and after receiving the pass, he went to the basket to kill.
But his layup was interfered by Ibaka, and the iron missed.
Fortunately, Yi Jianlian made a prediction in advance and quickly accepted the rebound.
At this time, he found that Sun Yue, who was ambushing in the bottom corner, was unguarded.
Ah Lian didn't think much, and immediately passed the ball.
Sun Yue catches the ball and shoots...
"duang!"
The ball hit the front of the basket and bounced out.
This time, the rebound was taken by Westbrook who was recycled to the basket.
The tortoise immediately turned on its full horsepower and ran toward the Rockets halfway.
His speed was so fast that he passed halftime in a few steps.
Sun Yue stepped forward to block, but was passed by Westbrook without slowing down and changing direction.
"bang!"
Westbrook rushed into the basket, as if entering no one's land, and succeeded in smashing and dunking with one hand!
2:0, the Thunder took the lead!
For this ball, they played Yao Ming's difficulty in retreating immediately, and the Rockets were empty inside.
Of course, the reason is that Sun Yue's wide-open three-pointer failed to hit, and the Thunder had a chance to counterattack.
Therefore, after Westbrook completed the dunk, Sun Yue also raised his right hand, indicating that the ball was his problem.
Offensive and defensive conversion.
After Jeremy dribbled the ball to the left at a 45-degree angle, he passed the ball to Yao Ming in the low post.
But as soon as Dayao received the ball, Sefolosha, who was facing Sun Yue, stepped forward to pinch.
Yao Ming had difficulty dribbling and could only pass the ball out.
The ball was passed three times and directed twice, and it came to Sun Yue again.
Dasheng was emptied again, but he didn't choose to shoot, but dribbled towards the basket to kill.
Along the way, Sun Yue was almost unimpeded, and Lei Ting seemed to want to lead him in on purpose.
"Snapped!"
There was a crisp sound, the poor great saint, was slapped by Ibaka for a layup...
The ball fell into Durant's hands, and the Thunder counterattacked again.
Adu dribbled the ball all the way and reached the top of the arc. Seeing that the Rockets player was not on a firm footing, he pulled up directly and chased for a three-pointer!
......
......
"Shu~"
hit!
5:0, the Thunder made a strong start!
In the stands, Shen Fei frowned slightly.
The current Rockets lineup has an obvious weakness, which is insufficient shooting ability.
The players with the most accurate outside shots on the field turned out to be the two insiders—Yao Ming and Yi Jianlian, and Jeremy Lin.
As for Xu Yong and Sun Yue, both of them shot about [-]% of their three-pointers, so they couldn't make any shots at all.
After the opening, the Thunder seized the weakness of the Rockets and deliberately let Sun Yue shoot, so they played so smoothly!
"When it comes to the international arena, the distance from the three-point line will be shortened, and this problem may be improved to a certain extent."
"but..."
Shen Fei was still a little worried.
Except for the five players on the court, Zhou Qi and Kyle Anderson are not players who are good at shooting.
In other words, although this Huaxia men's basketball team is good on paper, it has obvious shortcomings, which is a bit similar to the previous Heat team.
Such a team may be able to beat many teams by relying on hard power.
But once you encounter an opponent of comparable strength, it will be difficult.
For example, now that the Rockets are not inferior to the Thunder on paper, they are completely suppressed.
As for the way to break the game, I am afraid that only a certain player will come forward...
Shen Fei believed that someone would stand up and solve the problem!
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Sure enough, after Durant made a chasing three-pointer, Yao Ming took advantage of the serve gap to gather his teammates together.
"Etsuko, stop squatting in the bottom corner, make air cuts as much as possible, and help others pick and roll off the ball at any time."
"Shuhao, you have to increase your shots and shoot boldly!"
"Xiao Yong, you too, don't worry if you can't make the shot, Ah Lian and I will help you grab rebounds under the basket and shoot boldly!"
"Also... Our positional warfare is difficult to fight, so try to defend and try to counterattack!"
Time was running out, Yao Ming could only briefly outline the strategy, and made demands on several "brothers".
The other four nodded.
The game continued, and Jeremy advanced with the ball.
Yi Jianlian was promoted from a high position to set up a cover for him.
With the help of the pick-and-roll, Jeremy successfully got rid of Westbrook's defense, and then accelerated to the basket.
At this time, Sefolosha, who was defending Sun Yue, once again shrunk inside to help defend.
At this time, Sun Yue did not stay in place as before, but quickly cut to the basket.
Shuhao understood, and passed the ball with a handsome no-look-pass.
After receiving the ball, Sun Yue jumped high and faced Ibaka to attack the frame again!
Because Sun Yue started this time very suddenly, he didn't give Ibaka enough time to prepare, which caused his help defense to be a bit slower, and he had to pay for a foul in the end...
Sun Yue stepped to the free throw line and made two free throws to rewrite the score to 5:2.
After this ball, the all-China class gradually found their status.
In the next round, Shu Hao and Ah Lian still had a pick-and-roll at the top of the arc.
This time, Shu Hao found that Ibaka did not follow, but huddled near the free throw line.
Brother Hao passed the ball behind his back and passed the ball to Ah Lian, who played outside.
The latter drew his bow and set an arrow, and decisively shot a three-pointer!
After the basketball left his fingertips, it spun at a high speed, drawing a beautiful arc in the air...
"Shu~"
Hollow into the network!
At 5:5, the two sides returned to the same starting line!
After the offense went smoothly, the Rockets also began to exert force on the defensive end.
Before Sun Yue was emptied, the Rockets' offense stalled.
But now, they return to him in the same way, and they also try to empty Westbrook.
For two consecutive rounds, Sun Yue, who was in charge of defending Westbrook, defended with his heels on the free throw line.
Westbrook felt that he was underestimated, so he made two consecutive shots.
A three-pointer and a long two-pointer were all shot with almost no interference.
But... things backfired. The more Westbrook tried to prove his shooting ability, the more bleak the result.
His two long shots both ended in iron strikes.
The Rockets seized these two missed shots and took the opportunity to play a fast break.
Xu Yong, who made his debut for the first time, completely released his talent in the fast break.
He advanced one-stop first, and hit a hard layup against Westbrook!
In the next round, Xu Yong raised the ball with one hand and used an extremely freehand fingerroll (fingertip pick basket) to complete the finish on Durant's head.
In just 1 minute, Xu Yong successively strengthened both Thunder and Thunder!
Such a move not only ignited the home fans, but also raised the morale of the teammates!
In the following games, the Rockets fought more and more courageously, hitting a wave of 10:2 shock waves, and achieved a double-digit lead in one fell swoop.
The Thunder can only request a timeout.
After the timeout ended, Harden came off the bench.
As soon as he played, the Thunder's offense immediately became orderly.
Under Harden's scheduling, Durant and Westbrook frequently showed their power, scoring goals one after another.
After only 2 minutes, the point difference was reduced to 3 points!
At the end of the first quarter, the two teams tied at 30.
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After watching the first section, Shen Fei already had a plan in mind.
In the next period of time, he will hire the best shooting coach to help Shu Hao, Xu Yong and others strengthen their three-point shooting.
In addition, Shen Fei is also planning to use the spare reputation points to buy skill packs to see if he can get some shooting skills.
It would be great if we could get another [Lewis Shooting Pack]!
In the next game, the two teams played very stalemate, and the point difference never exceeded 5 points.
It was not until the last 3 minutes of the game that the outcome was gradually revealed.
Thunder's offensive round.
Durant singled out Xu Yong at the top of the arc.
After Xu Yong integrated the [Pippen Skill Pack], his defensive ability has been fully stretched.
You know, Pippen is a top defensive gate who has been selected to the best defensive team 8 times!
He and Jordan formed a defensive combination back then, and I don't know how many star shooting guards have been deflated.
simply put...
If all the wing players in history are put together and sorted by defensive ability, Pippen can be ranked in the top five!
And Durant, although he also has the top offensive talent in history, he didn't take Xu Yong too seriously.
At this time, KD just treated Xu Yong as a rookie with good defense.
Therefore, in this attack, Durant lowered his center of gravity after a crossover, intending to force a breakthrough.
Unexpectedly, Xu Yong had already seen through his offensive intentions.
Xu Yong used Pippen's stealing ability to steal the king, stretched out his long arms, and left the ball in place.
KD's center of gravity was forward, and it was difficult to turn around for a while, so he could only turn his head and watch Xu Yong dribble away with the ball.
Xu Yong was as fast as the wind, and he was in the front field in a blink of an eye.
At this time, only Westbrook of the Thunder rushed back to their own half and defended hard!
He and Xu Yong took off at the same time.
In the air, the two had a talent competition!
They both jump high, and they both bounce fast.
But in the end, Xu Yong's height and arm length had the upper hand.
He overwhelmed Westbrook and smashed the ball into the basket hard!
"Roar!!!"
After scoring the goal, Xu Yong roared passionately towards the stands.
Westbrook hunted geese all day long, but he didn't expect to be pecked by geese...
But he was not discouraged after being dunked. He immediately picked up the basketball and retreated to the bottom line to serve.
Xu Yong quickly stopped celebrating and devoted himself to defense.
At this time, the atmosphere at the scene has been ignited.
The fans all stood up and shouted in unison:
"defense!!!"
"defense!!!"
"defense!!!"
Amidst the sound waves all over the sky, the adrenaline of the Rockets players was crazily secreted, and the fatigue also temporarily subsided.
Sun Yue began to bite Harden from the backcourt.
Xu Yong and Yi Jianlian also put up a first-level defense, keeping an eye on the opposing defender.
In the end, the Thunder could only let Westbrook do the key attack.
But the tortoise made a low-level mistake at this critical moment.
When he made a mid-range zombie jumper, the ball was accidentally released.
With sharp eyes and quick hands, Yi Jianlian jumped up and received the rebound.
Looking back, Yao Ming received the ball in the low post.
Before Harden stepped forward to pinch, he turned around and shot back...
Perkins was powerless to block the shot, and couldn't even block the line of sight.
The basketball draws a wonderful arc and hits the net!
At 120:115, the Rockets gained a 5-point advantage.
At this time, there are only 30 seconds left before the end of the game!
The Thunder requested a timeout.
But after the timeout ended, they actually made a mistake when serving the sideline.
Xu Yong directly completed the steal and staged a counterattack dunk again!
"bang!"
He used a powerful one-handed dunk to help the Rockets widen the point difference to 7 points, and also killed the game!
So far, the first show of the China Five Tigers has come to a perfect curtain call!
Shen Fei left the arena with satisfaction.
Next, just find a way to help these outside players in Huaxia improve their shooting ability, and that's it!
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Two days later, the regular season came to an end.
The Rockets rank first in the Western Conference (and first in the league) with a record of 68 wins and 13 losses.
Soon, they will face the challenge of the Utah Jazz in the first round as the top seed!