: One hundred and eighty. Victory depends on Howard's "support"

Playing against other teams may not be effective, but the defensive strategies that the Lakers have come up with will definitely be effective against the Rockets.
Using Thackeray and Howard to be tough, each ball is hand-to-hand tough, consuming each other's physical strength, and playing in pairs. This is the defensive strategy that the Lakers came up with.
Thackeray is just a fake for the Lakers, and he plays for ten minutes per game. His role is to consume the opponent's physical strength, but this time the Lakers have taken his role to the extreme.
Thackeray and Howard were exhausted by the hand-to-hand combat, and the same Howard was also exhausted.
But Thackeray's exhaustion has no effect on the Lakers. Once Howard runs out of energy, the Rockets' interior will be over.
Howard is the only inside star of the Rockets. He plays 37-eight minutes per game. McHale doesn't matter whether he has a history of injuries or not, he can use it to the death.
Just like now, after Whiteside, Antetokounmpo, and Liu Ren formed an inside no-fly zone, Howard could not move at all, and the Rockets could only float outside and shoot.
But the Rockets ran back and forth on the court for more than eight minutes, and the touch had long been lost to the Pacific. Because they had been watching Howard before, and the other four did not consume much physical energy, McHale was unwilling to replace them. Because the Rockets' bench is far worse than that.
The Rockets performed various postures for the Staples Center fans. Howard scored 24 points in a single quarter, and the Rockets still only had 24 points after the quarter.
The Lakers started running frantically and played a wave of 15-o in more than 3 minutes. After the quarter, the Lakers were ahead of the game by 37 to 24!
In the second quarter, the Rockets began to make changes and put on a quick lineup to deal with the Lakers' running and bombing, Jeremy Lin, Brooks, Cassby, Garcia, and Motel Yunus.
The Rockets' lineup is faster than the Lakers. McHale wants to use this lineup to compete with the Lakers and stop the Lakers from counterattacking quickly.
However, D'Antoni had anticipated McHale's afterthought strategy and replaced the traditional lineup of Farmar, Kobe, Baezmore, Gasol, and Whiteside, and began to play positional warfare!
Kobe and Gasol did not consume much energy in the first quarter and continued in the second quarter.
Kobe and Gasol took turns in the low post, showing their huge offensive ability in the low post, both singles and strategy response.
The overall strength of the Lakers is a lot stronger than the Rockets. This rotation is much stronger than that of the Rockets. They continue to widen the point difference. After a few minutes, the Lakers widened the point difference.
The Rockets players were completely passive. Just now during the break, their head coach McHale told them how to deal with running and bombing, but the Lakers suddenly stopped running and bombing and began to play positions. The group suddenly didn't know how to fight. .
Finally, McHale realized that the opponent was going to play positions. When Howard was replaced, the Lakers changed again, with Nash, McCollum, Liu Ren, Antetokounmpo and Thackeray.
Thackeray came up and provocatively went with Howard on the inside and angered Howard. Howard took a break for most of the time and recovered a bit. Seeing Thackeray's provocation, his brain was congested again, and he continued to confront Thackeray.
Then Thackeray and Howard both turned on red lights again, and in the last four or five minutes of the second quarter, they became a rivalry again.
This was great for the Lakers, who used Thackeray to exhaust Howard's energy. At halftime, the Lakers had a lead of 62 to 4o by 22 points.
In the third quarter, the Lakers ended as usual, replaced by the strongest lineup Antetokounmpo, Kobe, Liu Ren, Gasol, Whiteside, this huge lineup, which can run and have a height advantage. Points, CIC, and inside offense all have an advantage lineup.
Antetokounmpo played the point guard properly. He had a wide field of vision and did not stick the ball. He repeatedly sent good shots. Gasol was also mobilizing offensive moves, and the Lakers played sharp offense.
Howard on the Rockets' side was beaten by Thackeray for a long time. Howard was no longer the Howard of the Magic, and compared with the state of the Lakers last season, he continued to rest at the beginning of the third quarter.
So the game turned into Harden and the Lakers team.
As for Parsons, who was blown up by people, the audience had no chance to score under the defense of Liu Ren and Baezmore.
Liu Ren has always looked down upon Parsons. Except for the 12-13 and 13-14 seasons, Parsons has brushed up the data for two years. At other times, it was a pit, especially after signing the maximum salary with the Mavericks. , The Mavericks used him as a thigh and allowed him to get the team's largest contract, but in the end it turned out that he could not play a few games in a year and pitted the Mavericks for two years.
Harden is very good. Without a point in the quarter, he still scored 27 points after three quarters, but he couldn't stop the Rockets from crashing~EbookFREE.me~ After three quarters, the Lakers had a lead of 95 to 69 and 26 points.
The Lakers began to show bloodthirsty fangs after the All-Stars, showing the strength of a member of the three strongest teams in the league, and beating the Rockets, the second-tier team in the league.
Of course, Howard's brain-filled "support" is indispensable, but if you win, you win. In the fourth quarter, both sides replaced bench players, and the game entered garbage time. This high-profile game finally easily defeated the Rockets by 129-1o2.
Liu Ren had 26 points and 8 rebounds, Kobe Bryant had 24 points, 3 rebounds and 4 assists. Whiteside had 1o points and 15 rebounds. Gasol had 8 points, 5 rebounds and 7 assists. Nash had 7 points and 7 assists. When all played at normal levels, the opponent was basically finished. None of the Lakers’ core personnel were defended below the season average level. This proved that everyone in the Lakers played at normal levels. That is to say, the Rockets’ defense in this game was completely lacking. effect.
In addition, Thackeray scored 19 points, Antetokounmpo also had 9 points, and the Rockets were played by the Lakers.
Harden was very dissatisfied after the game, and went to the Lakers to spray Liu Ren and Kobe: "treacherous! Shameless! There is something to fight with us!"
Harden is not a fool. When the Lakers saw Howard in the second quarter and used Thackeray to fight Howard, he knew the strategy of the Lakers, but his head coach had no ability to see it! Frozen, it was just a few minutes with Howard and the opponent's Thackeray, exhausting the hard-to-recover physical strength again.
No way, Harden could only score 19 points in a single quarter in the third quarter, but to no avail.
Liu Ren proudly said: "We are so treacherous and shameless, you bite me!"
Harden almost didn't choke to death by Liu Ren, and pointed at Liu Ren and said loudly: "It's shameless!" (To be continued.)