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0041 One-sided crushing

Pause time, Trail Blazers bench.

The players stood in a circle, McMillan happily praised the excellent start of the offense, then looked at Su Yang, and asked if there was anything to add. Su Yang nodded and said, "Fry is ready to shoot a three-pointer..."

Judging from the opening few rounds, Adr took the ball against Hayes, and he neither made the ball to find the rhythm nor did he squeeze the space on his back. He raised his straight arm to shoot, making Hayes' defense look like air, and the Rockets will definitely make adjustments.

With Su Yang's years of experience watching the Rockets, every time a player who restrains Hayes plays, Adelman will arrange for Yao Ming to change defense, trying to use his height advantage to limit it, but it causes Hayes to change defense centers.

Su Yang was sure that Adelman would do that, so he prepared Fry to take a three-pointer and hit the Rockets.

After talking about the main ideas and setting up a few specific tactics, Su Yang finally emphasized that he should be proactive and not be afraid of mistakes.

McMillan then added a few words, and the whistle that ended the pause sounded and the game continued.

The players of both teams re-entered, the Rockets kicked off at the bottom, and Alston quickly led the ball across the center line.

Yao Ming was still stuck in the elbow area on the right, and slowly pushed Fry down with his weight advantage.

Roy hurriedly collected the search from the bottom corner, followed Su Yang's pre-match arrangement, assisted in defense in advance, and interfered with the ball reception.

Seeing this, Alston put down his hands and stopped the cross, then twisted his hips to the left. At the same time, Hayes set up a wall in the left elbow area to cover it. McGrady took the opportunity to get rid of Webster, took a big step to the top of the arc, bowed and raised his hand to signal the ball.

Su Yang saw it and shouted and waved, reminding him to double-team McGrady and ignore Hayes.

Ad did as he heard the sound, and at the moment McGrady received the ball, he formed a double-team with Webster who was squeezed through the cover.

When he was young, McGrady might have been directly pressing the double-team, but unfortunately, he was still injured when he got older. McGrady hesitated for a while, turned around and double-teamed the two teams, bent down and passed the ball back to the right 45 degrees.

Alston reached out to catch the ball, took advantage of Yao Ming's cover, twisted his hips and rushed straight to the paint area.

The impact was very fast, but after Ade completed the double-team, he was ready to shrink. A simple horizontal shift position blocked Alstom's route to the basket, and he was not worried that Hayes would get an open shot.

Amid the cheers of the whole audience, Alstom stopped, turned around and threw the ball to Hayes.

With only four seconds left in the attack, Hayes stepped out without hesitation and turned around to cover it.

McGrady rushed up to catch the ball, then jumped up, and interfered with the ball with Ad's pounce and Webster.

Dangdang! The basketball hit the basket and rebounded and fell into the Nets.

"YEAH!" The Toyota Center immediately cheered, and Rockets fans were very excited to see McGrady scored.

McGrady turned around and returned to defense calmly, as if she was unwilling to shoot at such a difficult shot at the beginning. Hayes also waved at McGrady from a distance, as if she was a little embarrassed at his buck-style pass.

Su Yang saw it and suddenly recalled the scene where Hayes took the ball at the open space under the basket and actually shot across the bridge.

The offense and defense were switched, Jack dribbled the ball to the top of the arc, passed it to Roy on the right wing, and then asked Fry to cover it and ran to the basket.

As predicted, Yao Ming was defending Ade in the short corner on the left, and Hayes was defending Fry.

Hayes did not follow Fry out, but waved his hands to interfere with Roy's passing to the basket. Roy immediately threw the ball to the top of the arc, and Fry held the ball high. Seeing that Hayes was still in the paint area, he raised his hand and scored a three-pointer.

Dong! The basketball flips into the net 14 to 4.

The Rockets bench players were confused, and Adelman also frowned slightly, realizing that things were not that simple.

The two teams changed offensively, Alstom received the ball from the bottom line and rushed two steps, raising his hand to pass vigorously.

The basketball flew straight to the 4th periphery on the right side of the front court. McGrady received the ball and patted it with her left hand, raised her right hand to signal the placement.

Seeing this, Yao Ming started to get in the right waist position. Fry failed to hold it up twice, but McGrady passed the ball to the left.

Fry suddenly breathed a sigh of relief. He thought that Yao Ming took the opportunity to continue to get stuck on his back, and he couldn't stand it.

McGrady also wanted to go back to the basketball and passed it to the waist position, while other Rockets players retreated one after another.

It was obvious that he wanted to play a single shot for Yao Ming, and Su Yang immediately shouted to remind him to shrink and attack. Webster and others followed suit after hearing the sound.

In a hurry, Yao Ming turned forward with the ball, raised his hand and passed directly to the top of the arc, and Alstom received the ball in a large open space.

Jack hurriedly pulled back to defend, and was so fast that he almost fell to the ground. Unexpectedly, Alstom did not make a move and passed the ball to McGrady at the 45-degree three-point line on the right, but Webster also returned to defend at the same time, raising his left hand high to interfere with McGrady's rush to shoot.

There are 8 seconds left in the offensive time. McGrady observes for a moment, closes the ball on the upper step, and shoots as soon as she pulls it up.

When! Basketball smashes the basket and hits the iron.

Ade jumped high and got the rebound, landed and passed it to Jack, and the Trail Blazers launched a fast break counterattack.

It was still a tactic of last round, and the basketball was first passed by the right wing, while Fry brought it to cover.

Hayes hesitated for a while and still didn't go out to defend, but bent his knees in advance to prepare.

Fry didn't care about that much, he took the ball and looked up at the basket, and confidently shot three points like training.

Swish! The basketball is hollow into the net, 17 to 4.

The booing in the stadium suddenly stopped, and the players, coaching staff, and fans on and off the Rockets all noticed that there was something wrong.

Fry made a three-pointer after covering the arc, which was not an accidental position, but a fixed common tactic!

Adelman quickly turned his head and discussed with the assistant teacher, and even stroked his hair, paying great attention to hairstyle.

The Rockets attacked, Alston dribbled the ball and ran across the center line, raising his hand to pass directly to the right wing position.

McGrady received the ball and observed sideways, while Alston rushed to the waist position and covered Yao Ming with no ball.

The entire Trail Blazers' defense naturally focused on the right area, but McGrady suddenly turned left, raised her hand to throw the ball towards the top of the arc, then bowed and started, with the help of Yao Ming lifting the cover, and headed straight to the left half along the free throw line.

Meanwhile, Bathir held the ball on the left wing with his hands high, as if waiting for McGrady to land.

"Oh? Adelman was scared by Phil Jackson back then, so he also played triangle offense?" Looking at the Rockets' typical triangle tactical running position, Su Yang was immediately confused, "Medina route, Kobe often runs?"

"No! This is 2IN     ROLL tactic..."

Su Yang suddenly reacted and immediately shouted at the field, reminding McGrady to cut outside.

Before he finished speaking, McGrady stopped and twisted her hips. Instead of following the triangular attack routine, he rushed to the top of the arc. With the help of Hayes' downward cover, he threw away Webster, who was chasing her close-knit Webster, raised his hand to take the pass from Bathir and pulled out a three-pointer.

Perhaps it was Su Yang's cry to remind him that Webster actually squeezed through the cover in time and flew to interfere with the shooting.

When! Basketball smashes the basket and hits the iron.

Ad jumped and grabbed the rebound, landed and turned around and threw it to Jack, and the Trail Blazers launched a fast break counterattack.

Fry mentioned the top of the arc as a cover, and Jack passed the ball to Roy on the right wing and took the opportunity to cut.

This time, Hayes chose to follow up to defend Fry, and he was still holding on tightly, as if facing a great enemy.

That thought, Roy passed the ball straight to the basket, and Jack cut the ball to catch it, carrying Alstom to layup.

The basketball bounced back into the net, and the referee whistled at the same time, whistling Alstom for a foul.

With the booing of the whole field, Jack stood on the free throw line and made easy hits and the Trail Blazers led 20-4.

The pause of whistle sounded again, and Adelman didn't even care about his messy hairstyle and hurriedly entered the venue.

In the ESPN commentator's seat, Van Gundy laughed unconcealedly, as if he was no longer depressed by the Rockets firing him.

"The Rockets are facing the same problem when playing against the Jazz in the playoffs. Chuck Hayes is a player who works extremely hard and has great ability in low post defense, but his shortcomings are also outstanding. The Rockets need to introduce..."

After Van Gundy finished speaking, Jackson continued: "The game turned into a one-sided crush. If the Rockets cannot solve the defensive problems of Fry and Aldridge, they are very likely to lose the home opening game."
Chapter completed!
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