Basketball: Dayao Reopened

The last time the Rockets met the Mavericks was at the beginning of the season, and it is now in mid-to-late February. Although it has only been three and a half months, it feels a little bit ridiculous at this moment.

At that time, the focus of media attention was still on Yao Ming and Michael Finley.

And now, Michael Finley is no longer enough for Yao Ming's celebrity position.

In this game, everyone's focus was on Yao Ming and Nowitzki. Everyone wanted to see what kind of famous scene Yao Ming would have when he met him.

After all, Yao Ming, whether facing Tim Duncan or Kevin Garnett, or facing Chris Weber, has left behind some interesting performances.

Now, it's time to talk about Nowitzki.

Thibodeau made some adjustments to this game.

He put his favorite "ace combination" Yao Ming into the starting position with Mutombo.

With this arrangement, it is obvious that Yao's name will be used to defend the No. 4 position.

Of course, there is no problem with this arrangement. Yao Ming played well against Kevin Garnett in the last game. In this game, facing Nowitzki who can also play inside and outside, Yao Ming is naturally the best. choose.

However, this is not the whole reason.

Thibodeau did this mainly to test the lineup, although this is not the last time they met in the regular season this season, and there will be another one later, but according to the current situation, the Mavericks do not mean that they must enter the postseason. The game, as the Rockets' imaginary enemy in the playoffs, they naturally have to collect their team information.

In this game, Thibodeau just wants to see if his ace insider partner, Yao Ming and Mutombo can well limit Nowitzki.

Everyone knows that playing the Mavericks, if you can limit Nowitzki, it means that you have already held more than half of the victory in your hand.

Nowitzki probably didn't expect Yao Ming to come to defend him. In this game, he was ready to attack from the outside, and he also deliberately practiced three-pointers, but in the first round, he knew that. It is estimated to have been prepared in vain.

Because Yao Ming kept up with his movement well.

When he received the ball from the three-point line, Yao Ming's hand was already pasted and interfered with him not too far away, preventing him from directly shooting or breaking through. In desperation, he could only return the ball back to history. Tiff Nash.

Nash called Bradley's pick and roll with the ball.

The "big bamboo pole" came up, but he couldn't get in the position at all. Francis squeezed past him abruptly and continued to interfere with Nash.

Nash wanted to give the ball to Nowitzki again, but seeing that the latter had no chance, he paused briefly. He suddenly slammed on the accelerator and rushed towards the rim. When approaching the rim, he made a stand up. The action seems to be a direct layup.

Francis hurriedly jumped up when he saw this, but Steve Nash did not lay up from this direction, but ran from the basket, a "looking back at the moon", and scored the ball.

This trick can be regarded as Steve Nash's signature.

Francis, who was fooled, was annoyed: "By the way, this guy likes to make a reverse basket, I forgot it!"

This is also the first reaction of every guy who was deceived by Steve Nash after Steve Nash scored the ball, and then he will continue to be fooled next time...

The Rockets launched a counterattack. Yao Ming held the ball in the high post. It was a "big bamboo pole" to defend him. Nowitzki did not come to defend him because he took the initiative to defend.

Yao Ming was not polite against the "big bamboo pole" and directly played with the ball back.

From the confrontation with "Bamboo Pole", it can be seen that Yao Ming's core strength is indeed much better now. After the first collision, Yao Ming directly squeezed out of his position, and then he was fighting against "Bamboo Pole". In, use a layup to score the ball.

Novas was basically planning to come up on defense, but when he was about to come up, Yao Ming glanced at him first, with the meaning of "Come on, come and help me defend" in his eyes, which made Novi Ski gave up and went forward to help defend.

Otherwise, the person who scored must be Mutombo behind him.

Since there is no difference, let Yao Ming score.

Speaking of which, Yao Ming is now famous for his height of "high pass".

This trick is really difficult to restrict, especially when moving, Yao Ming can see the position of his teammates well, and then pass the ball from the top of the defender to the back of the defender, and it is not that kind of curved. He is a very straight pass, which guarantees the speed of his pass. No matter how fast the defender is, it is difficult to return to the defense in time.

This is why Yao Ming is now less and less flanked during the layup.

This pass is too hard!

How about basketball is a sport for adults? This is really true!

"Yao, relax, don't be so tough!"

It's just that Yao Ming is hitting like this, and Xibodu is not "happy" immediately.

Having said that this month will reduce the strong fight, why did you start strong fight as soon as Tom left? If something happens to you, it's on my head!

Yao Ming also remembered with hindsight that he was now in a "transitional period", and immediately smiled: "I'm sorry, forgot, forgot, I can't fight like this now."

But can you blame him?

How could Yao Ming finally run into a team without a "meat shield" in the lineup?

Of course, he also knew that it was enough if he had a good time. If he really wants to fight like this, he should wait until the "alarm" of the muscle state is lifted. He doesn't want to leave hidden dangers to his body.

Therefore, in the following time, he reinvested in the strategy.

Just like this, the waist of the "big bamboo pole" will be hard, don't you know what brother is best at defending!

The Rockets’ breakthrough efficiency during this period is very low. Fortunately, tonight the Rockets have a good outside line and can’t score goals from the basket, but they can shoot the ball from outside. The "big bamboo pole" is really old. Out of the high position, his movement speed is really slow, and he can't help his teammates to make up for defense at all.

In addition, Nowitzki was also very restricted. Thibodeau’s idea was very successful. It was a good target for Yao Ming to defend Nowitzki. Nowitzki was very uncomfortable whether it was a breakthrough or a back shot.

The Mavericks therefore fell into a passive state.

Yao Ming never expected that he could defend so well... Nowitzki's scoring ability is recognized by the league, saying that he is the best scoring international player without any problems.

When he first heard that he was coming to defend Nowitzki tonight, he thought that it would be a victory if he could give some interference, but he did not expect that now he directly made Nowitzki’s shooting percentage lower than usual at least. 5%.

Did I think Nowitzki was too strong?

It shouldn't be!

It's not that I haven't played against each other...

During the intermission, he suddenly reacted, oh, yes, Nowitzki hasn't learned to "golden rooster independence" yet!

I said that today I can always reach out to his ball!

This guy hasn't learned his strongest killer move yet!

In this way, coupled with the fact that Mutombo has been helping to make up the defense inside, he doesn't have to worry about Nowitzki's breakthrough, and he can naturally limit Nowitzki well.

Even, if Nowitzki can't be restricted in this way, Yao Ming will instead feel that he is too useless.

Facts have proved that when Nowitzki is restricted, the Mavericks will really get into trouble. The Rockets just pressed them all the way and won the final victory.

108 to 100, the Rockets once again won the Mavericks by 8 points.

Yao Ming didn't make much effort on the offensive end of this game. He only scored 18 points, plus 13 rebounds, 5 assists and 2 blocks, but he limited Nowitzki very well.

Nowitzki barely scored 20 points, but his shooting percentage in this game was only about 40%, which was almost 6 percentage points lower than his usual 46% shooting percentage.

"This is Yao, he can play any role!" Thibodeau praised Yao's name after the game.

The media also found a new posture to praise Yao's name after the game. Before the game started, they had guessed the scenes that might be born in this game, such as Yao's name, Nowitzki, or Yao. Ming lore in front of Nowitzki, but they really didn't expect that the highlight of Yao Ming in this game was actually on the defensive end!

At this stage of the season, Nowitzki, who can average 26.1 points per game, was only defended by 20 points, and his field goal percentage exceeded 40%!

This... this guy actually did such a thing!

"Sure enough, this is Yao, as ESPN said before, he always surprises us again and again!" Bill Walton once again praised Yao's name. This is how many times he doesn't know this season. Praise Yao Ming.

Yao Ming asked Thibodeau to meet in the arena the next morning.

"Man, we have to catch a plane today, and you still drag me to the arena? Is there anything you can't say at the airport?" Thibodeau was puzzled.

Yao Ming explained: "I'm afraid I can't say it clearly, or if you understand it wrong later, it will be troublesome. I want to change my shooting posture."

"Ah, is it so sudden?" Thibodeau was a little surprised.

Generally speaking, once a player's shooting gesture is fixed, it will not change easily, because correcting the posture will make the player feel uncomfortable, and it will also affect the feel and muscle memory.

Especially during the season, no one suddenly wants to change his shooting posture.

The coach generally would not agree.

and……

"Yao, there is nothing wrong with your shooting style. Why do you want to change it?" Thibodeau was confused.

Yao Ming went on to explain: "What I want to change is not the shooting hand shape, but the method of controlling the body's center of gravity during the shooting process. Tom, you see if I shoot like this..." He said, turning around to make a single shot. The action of raising the foot and throwing backwards.

"Dang!"

The ball missed.

But Yao Ming didn't care, he just concealed his actions.

"I want to control my center of gravity through the arc of the foot, so that I can turn around quickly, or at other times, make a larger movement, or even one more backward movement, to make the opponent more It's hard to prevent my shooting!"

"Just like just now!"

"I need a similar training ~www.novelmt.com~ instead of changing the shooting posture of my hand."

"Do you understand, Tom?"

What Yao Ming wants to practice is actually "Golden Rooster Independence". This was suddenly decided after he confronted Nowitzki yesterday. After he had the idea of ​​learning "Golden Rooster Independence", he was already very excited. No, second. Early in the morning, I immediately came to discuss with Thibodeau.

If he can start practicing directly, then he plans to start practicing tomorrow.

Of course, if he can't start practicing right away, he also hopes that Thibodeau will help him formulate the plan first.

In this way, even if he finds other shooting coaches to practice "Golden Rooster Independence" in the off season, he can quickly enter the training. This off season he is really busy. If he can save a little time, he will save a little time first.

Thibodeau did not immediately give Yao Ming the answer, because he needed to find out if there were any similar samples or know more about what Yao Ming said before he knew what aspects he needed to practice when practicing this stuff.

"All right." Yao Ming was not disappointed by the result. "You can do it as quickly as possible, Tom."