Chapter 304: Tacit understanding

Chris Anderson, Wang Zhizhi, two players with completely different personalities and backgrounds, became the key combination to contain Yao Ming in the third quarter tonight.
After relying on three-quarters of the front and Anderson's block to successfully block Yao Ming's offense and stop the Rockets, the role of the second general did not stop there. After the timeout ended, Van Gundy asked the Rockets to launch more outside lines in the offense, use more breakthroughs to initiate offenses, and use Yao Ming's height advantage to fight for more offenses.
Van Gundy's thinking is correct. Since Yao Ming is not very good at opening up this point, there is no point in continuing to hold on to the attack. After all, Yao Ming is not O'Neal, and even O'Neal can't defeat the Celtics' defense alone. With Kevin Garnett and PJ-Brown coming off the field, the Celtics' inside protection will inevitably decrease in strength. Relying on outside assaults, combined with Yao Ming's containment and secondary offensive threats, is the best way to crack the current situation.
Of course, thinking well, but it does not mean it will work. Van Gundy has two points of confusion. This is also inevitable when conducting on the sidelines. No one can know everything.
Van Gundy’s first point is that although Kevin Garnett and Brown are off the field and the Celtics are weakened inside, it does not mean that Anderson and Wang Zhizhi are papery. The outside players want to be sudden and want to enter. Just go in.
On the contrary, after the two King Kongs came off the field, the Celtics strengthened their defense against the inside. Leon replaced Michael Reid with James Posey after a timeout, which was a significant signal, using the height and defense of the small forward position. Make up for the lack of defense of Wang Zhizhi and Anderson.
Moreover, Wang Zhizhi's defense was not what Van Gundy thought was a weak chicken. His defense was still scumbag and had no sense of existence, but when he dealt with Yao Ming wholeheartedly on the court, he was not like that.
In the first offense after the timeout, Francis made a pick-and-roll cooperation with Yao Ming in the high post. Francis walked from the middle and Yao Ming went down from the side. But on the Celtics' side, Wang Zhizhi didn't care about Francis at all, letting him break in from the middle, and Anderson came to make up for the defense, the missed Taylor, and Posey on the side came to make up again.
In this case, Francis failed to find an open pass in the first time, Yao Ming was watched by Wang Zhizhi, Jim Jackson's position was not too good, Francis had to choose his own throw. Anderson's fingers almost crossed the ball, but the ball missed because of interference. Posey grabbed the rebound among the four, and then the Celtics launched their counterattack.
The Celtics' counterattack is almost omnipresent, and the fast offense has been integrated into their blood. As long as they have the opportunity, they will make shots in a short time at all costs and give no time for the opponent to react.
In the counterattack, Paul Pierce squeezed the ball away from Jackson and made a fallback jumper. He decisively chose singles without the Rockets defending, and the Celtics completed the goal in 8 seconds.
When Mobley missed a three-pointer in the next offense, the Celtics launched a counterattack again. James Posey received a pass from Arenas. The layup was successful. Van Gundy only felt the situation on the court. There is simply no solution. The Celtics only relied on their second team to make the Rockets a little embarrassed.
This is the second point that Van Gundy wanted to make. He thought that the offensive problem was solved, so the Rockets would slowly gain the advantage in the positional offensive and defensive battle. How could he know that his offense was not opened, but let the Celtics' famous fast break succeed in succession. This is also a problem that the Rockets have to face when Yao Ming is on the court. Even if Yao Ming's retreat speed is not slow in the center, he is still too slow to face the second quick counterattack like the Celtics.
It is undoubtedly a waste of his energy to let Yao Ming continue to run back and forth on the court, so Francis still resolutely wants to pass the ball to Yao Ming. This time the ball passed through Jackson's hand in the bottom corner and passed from the bottom line to Yao Ming's hand. Yao Ming squeezed away Wang Zhizhi and received the pass from the side. This is a good pass. Wang Zhizhi has completely lost position and Yao Ming can directly face the basket with the ball.
This time Anderson did not have time to defend. Yao Ming was about to make a one-handed slam dunk. Wang Zhizhi caught up from behind and slapped Yao Ming's small arm. The ball was released, the referee blew the whistle, and fouled.
A fierce thug fouls, Yao Ming can even feel the pain in his little arm. He looked at Wang Zhizhi, Wang Zhizhi's face was calm, and he did not have a fierce look. This was a normal and necessary foul.
In terms of friendship, Yao Ming and Wang Zhizhi have a so-so friendship. The two people have a big difference in personalities. Yao Ming is open-minded, optimistic, cheerful, and has a great sense of humor; while Wang Zhizhi, who comes from a military family, is introverted, silent, and sensitive. In addition, they are each other in CBA. The experience of a mortal enemy will naturally not become a close friend.
But Yao Ming also knows that Wang Zhizhi is a relatively submissive person, with first-class playing skills, but his style is occasionally "faceted", the offensive end is sometimes domineering, and the defensive end is a lot worse. In CBA, he was able to rely on his height, wingspan, and consciousness to become China's shot-blocking champion. When it comes to the international arena and the NBA, he is a little far behind, at least the Rockets video analysts think so.
But tonight, Yao Ming felt that Wang Zhizhi was different from what he had in mind. His strength, toughness in defense, and calm and firm eyes all explained a different Wang Zhizhi.
Yao Ming got to the free throw line and made two free throws. The Rockets finally scored and recovered some gaps.
"You have to work harder on offense, don't just shoot!" At this moment, Dave Cowens, sitting on the Celtics bench, yelled at Wang Zhizhi.
Cowens is now in the team focusing on training the basic skills of the players, especially the basic skills of the inside players. Wang Zhizhi is a key target of assistance. In a commercial league like the NBA, the team is where the players work, and players want to improve themselves more on their own, because the coach is your colleague, unlike the university, who is your teacher, and does not teach you to improve your personal ability obligation.
A good tradition of the Celtics is a strong family team atmosphere. Although this atmosphere is also weakening with the changes of the times, old Celtics like Cowens will treat every Celtic Human players are treated as partners, as future successors. So he tried his best to guide and help everyone, and Wang Zhizhi benefited a lot from it.
Hearing what Cowens said, Wang Zhizhi ran through the half-court quickly. He began to get stuck in his ribs and Yao Ming wanted the ball. He wanted to play singles!
In CBA he played Yao Ming very easily. His technique, Yao Ming's relatively thin body, left Yao Ming with eternal regret. Today is not what it used to be, a champion, a small character on the edge of the bench, but Wang Zhizhi is still Wang Zhizhi, and Yao Ming is still Yao Ming. He will not feel intimidated by this gap.
Pierce passed the ball to Wang Zhizhi. Wang Zhizhi turned back and forced to squeeze in from the baseline. This is not the offensive method Wang Zhizhi is good at, but he still used the speed advantage to squeeze in.
Under the interference of Yao Ming's long arm, Wang Zhizhi missed a layup and the ball slipped out of the edge of the basket, but Wang Zhizhi got stuck in the position and raised his arms high on his head to grab the offensive rebound.
But he put his hand down when he got the ball, and it was hard to think of it again.
"Hold up your hands, hold it up!" Cowens stood up from the bench and shouted anxiously. Some of Wang Zhizhi's previous bad habits have not been completely changed.
Yao Ming is like a big mountain covering Wang Zhizhi's head~EbookFREE.me~ Without leaving a little gap for Wang Zhizhi, Wang Zhizhi will attack for three seconds if he drags on for a while. Facing Yao Ming with the strength of his next game, he has no ability to strengthen.
Just three seconds later, Wang Zhizhi swiped the ball in his arms back with his right hand. The ball bounced on the ground and flew into the hands of Chris Anderson who was following.
Wang Zhizhi seemed to have eyes behind his head, knowing that Anderson would appear in this place.
Birdman took off.
He doesn't care if there are Yao Ming and Wang Zhizhi in front of him. He doesn't care if Yao Ming is 7-foot-6 or he is three steps away from the basket.
Because he was going to dunk, he didn't dunk in the game for too long.
The poor basketball was smashed into the rim. Chris Anderson separated two people, one opponent and one teammate, and the ball flew into the rim.
After the goal, Wang Zhizhi caught the falling basketball with both hands. He handed the ball to Yao Ming, ran away, and high-five Anderson and returned to defense. (To be continued.)