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Chapter 310 Peak Sabonis!Ask for a subscription, ask for a monthly pass!

Chapter [-] Peak Sabonis!

Otherwise, Jordan and O'Neal back then would not have encountered the triangle offensive system and Phil Jackson had never been able to get involved in the championship before!

So for Van Gundy, how to fully create enough singles space and singles opportunities for Yao Ming will be a huge problem.

After all, compared to Jordan and O'Neal, Yao Ming's movement range and controllable dominance time are smaller and shorter, and it will be more difficult to create perfect singles for Yao Ming!
Of course, judging from this game so far, Yao Ming's dominance in the second quarter was quite successful.

Otherwise, the Rockets wouldn't have closed the gap between the two teams to only two points before Yao Ming left the field in the second quarter after falling behind by seven points in the first game.

In the end, under Yao Ming's sudden effort in the second quarter, the Eagles entered the second half with only a one-point lead at the end of the first half.

"To be honest, in Yao's body, I can see a little shadow of Sabonis in his peak period."

David Robinson, who once represented the US team in international competitions in college and faced the peak Sabonis, said with some memories.

"Soft shooting touch, excellent inside offensive footwork, and extremely wide passing vision."

"The Sabonis back then was like a forward Magic Johnson with a longer version, an enhanced offensive ability, and a weakened passing ability."

"It can be said that the peak Sabonis in the international arena that year was the only one!"

As a player who was once abused by the peak Sabonis, David Robinson now thinks back to the scene where he played against Sabonis at the peak, and he feels that he was abused so badly back then!

At the same time, David Robinson also felt a little bit emotional that Sabonis failed to enter the NBA at his peak, and it was a pity in the world basketball world to play against a group of top center players in the NBA.

I think that if Sabonis could enter the NBA at a normal age and time period, the four major centers in the 90s probably wouldn't have anything to do with O'Neal.

After all, O'Neal, who only entered the NBA in 92, is actually from two generations with Olajuwon and others. When Olajuwon and others were at their peak, O'Neal was still in the state of a baby shark.

And O'Neal's peak period was at the beginning of the century, so if you have to count, O'Neal should actually be counted as the league's first center at the beginning of the century, rather than the four major centers in the 90s.

Of course, the topic is a bit far away. Back to this game, in the first half of the game, in 15 minutes, he scored 21 points, seven rebounds, three assists, one block, one steal, and one turnover. Yao Ming, in terms of data performance, is too similar to Sabonis in his peak period.

If Sabonis at his peak was an enhanced version of the center magician, then Yao Ming this season is an enhanced offensive version and a weakened defensive version of the peak Sabonis.

Sufficient height allows Yao Ming to have a very wide passing vision on the playing field, plus Yao Ming has a high ball quotient that exceeds 99% of center players.

Yao Ming is not inferior to the first-class point guards in the league in terms of pass selection and judgment, but Yao Ming may still be worse than the first-class point guards in the league in terms of passing accuracy .

But this is enough. It is precisely because of Yao Ming's one-on-one attack in the low post that Yao Ming has such a one-handed pass. Don't worry, there are too many players to attack him.

And passing is also the most different place between the former peak Sabonis and the average center.

Although from the data point of view, the assist data of Yao Ming and the peak Sabonis are only considered very good among the centers, with an average of only about 3 assists per game.

However, the commanding role of the two in the team's tactical system obviously far exceeds this assist data.

Especially as Yao Ming became more and more clear about his position in the Rockets' tactical system, he began to be more and more decisive in his pass selection, such as this game.

When Yao Ming faced the Eagles' defensive contraction many times, he made his own pass selection and inside attack selection very well.

Most of the time, the Eagles' shrinking defense failed to achieve good enough results!
Therefore, at least in this game, Yao Ming has already demonstrated the dominance and influence of a top super-heavy center on the offensive end!

"Why, I always feel that this game or McGrady's style of play has become a bit unsmooth!"

"Especially in this game, compared with Yao Ming's outstanding performance, McGrady's performance always seems to be a little uncertain about his offensive position."

"In the matchup with Xu Lang, he has not been able to show his advantages.

Although at the end of the halftime game, McGrady also scored 10 points, 3 rebounds, and 3 assists, but I always feel that McGrady played awkwardly. "

Recalling McGrady's performance in the first half of the game, Reggie Miller always felt that McGrady played less and less like a player who can compete with Kobe for the league's first guard!

"Let me tell you why McGrady is playing so awkwardly, because Yao Ming is getting better and better, because Yao Ming is becoming more and more clear about his tactical positioning."

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Watching himself beating Reggie Miller with a puzzled expression, Pat Riley continued.

"I'm not joking when I say this. After all, Yao Ming this season is obviously different from the role and influence of Yao Ming in the Rockets' tactical system in previous seasons.

In the previous tactical system, the Rockets' main attacker was actually McGrady.

Yao Ming's offense in the low post is more of a second choice in the Rockets' offensive system.

From the obvious comparison between Yao Ming's average of thirteen or four shots per game in the past few seasons, and the average number of shots per game this season, it can be seen that Yao Ming's offensive primary and secondary positions this season There has been a change! "

"It's just that after Yao Ming slowly adjusted to his new role in the Rockets, Tracy McGrady couldn't adjust at the same time."

"As a result, when Yao Ming's inside attack times increased, and the entire Rockets' tactical system began to operate entirely with Yao Ming as the main offensive core, McGrady was somewhat uncertain about his position."

"This is also one of the reasons why the Rockets' dominance and suppression have declined as Yao Ming's performance has gotten better and better recently."

"Especially against some outside teams, McGrady's performance is getting more and more struggling!"

"I think, if McGrady and Yao Ming can be kneaded together as well as they were in the previous seasons in the next few seasons, and if the tactical effect of 1+1 is greater than [-], the Rockets at that time will be truly become an absolutely dominant championship team."

"After all, Yao Ming can only play 323 minutes of normal physical fitness in the regular season. After the playoffs, Yao Ming's average playing time will be further restricted."

"At that time, if McGrady can't help Yao Ming to share the offensive pressure, even if the Rockets break through from the West this year, I'm not too optimistic that they can beat the team that can break through from the East this year!"

In fact, during the intermission, Van Gundy had already begun to notice that McGrady was not playing very comfortably!
But the problem is that the transformation of a tactical core and tactical positioning is not so easy.

With the cooperation of the entire Rockets team, Yao Ming spent nearly half a season of actual combat and more than half a year before he slowly re-found his tactical positioning.

Therefore, at least in this game, it was too late for Van Gundy to help McGrady regain his tactical positioning.

Fortunately, looking at it now, relying on Yao Ming's strength alone, the Rockets don't seem to be very afraid of the Eagles.

If the Rockets can continue the game state of the first half of the game in the second half, the Rockets have a high chance of winning this game.

But obviously, the Eagles don't intend to let the Rockets continue to go smoothly.

The game came to the second half, and the Eagles took the lead in making some changes.

First of all, as soon as the third quarter came up, Mike Woodson brought Josh Childress to the field and replaced Tony Allen, who was not capable of punching the frame.

Obviously, Mike Woodson also saw that Yao Ming is the only offensive core of the current Rockets team. As long as Yao Ming can be brought down, the Rockets' offensive firepower must be cut in half at least.

Therefore, in the third quarter, Mike Woodson put on a punching combination composed of Szczerbiak and Josh Childress in an attempt to further consume Yao Ming's energy.

Not only that, as soon as the third quarter started, Mike Woodson took off the league rookie Marc Gasol, who was not doing well in the first half of the game when defending Yao Ming, and replaced him with the Hawks who played this season. Uncle Mu, who is still old and strong, averaged 7.6 points and 4.6 rebounds per game in 4.3 minutes per game.

To be honest, if you only look at the experience of dealing with super-heavy centers, among all the center players in the current league, if Uncle Mu ranks second, then no one in the league dares to rank first.

After all, in the heyday of the ok combination, Uncle Mu beat the pinnacle O'Neal head-on in the finals.

Although, the end result is not just over.

But in the five games against O'Neal, Uncle Mu's performance was worthy of his title of the strongest defensive center in the league at that time.

Not only that, Uncle Mu came to the Rockets immediately after he toughened O'Neal, which is equivalent to training a new generation of top super-heavy offensive center Yao Ming.

So when it comes to defending the top super-heavy offensive center, Uncle Mu's experience is obviously much better than that of Marc Gasol, a rookie in the league.

Therefore, after Uncle Mu was put on the court by Mike Woodson, Yao Ming instantly felt that he was playing a bit uncomfortable.

Although relying on the tonnage and strong inside offensive ability, Yao Ming can still ensure that his offensive efficiency is above 55%.

But in the face of Uncle Mo's defense, Yao Ming's physical consumption obviously exceeded the normal state.

This caused Yao Ming to start panting a little less than half a quarter into the third quarter!
Fortunately, Uncle Mu, who is also in his 40s, and his real age may even reach 50, has no way to compare his physical fitness with his "young" days.

Therefore, in the confrontation of less than half a quarter of the game, Uncle Mu's physical condition was worse than that of Yao Ming.

At least Yao Ming took a break after nearly half a quarter of the game. In the third quarter, he was still able to play for two to three minutes, but it was impossible for Uncle Mu to play again in this game.

In fact, Uncle Mu's sacrifice is meaningful.

That is to say, relying on Uncle Mu regardless of physical consumption, the Eagles not only failed to allow the Rockets to further widen the gap between the two teams in the third quarter with Yao Ming, but even relied on Xu Lang's two-plus One, the Eagles completely tied the scores of the two teams!
By the second half of the third quarter, when Yao Ming was adjusted by Van Gundy to take a rest off the court to cope with the decisive battle in the final quarter, the Eagles had even begun to occupy a certain advantage in the paint.

After all, without Yao Ming in the penalty area, Darko Milicic, the offensive starting point of the entire Eagles inside, was also liberated again.

This allowed the Eagles to play a smooth pass-and-cut tactical system in the first quarter, and played it again in the second half of the third quarter!

Although due to the exhaustion of physical energy, in the second half of the third quarter, the overall offensive efficiency of the Eagles was not as scary as in the first quarter!

But it is still close to 60%.

In the end, under the leadership of Xu Lang and Darko Milicic, the Eagles scored 17 points in the second half of the third quarter.

It's just different from the first quarter, when the Eagles directly relied on the pass-and-cut tactical system to lead the Rockets by seven points. In the second half of the third quarter, after Yao Ming went off the court, McGrady took over the Rockets' offensive banner.

When Yao Ming stayed on the court before, because McGrady hadn't found his new position in the Rockets' new tactical system, his offensive firepower had not been fully utilized.

But now that Yao Ming is off the field, the Rockets' offensive possession has returned to Tracy McGrady.

McGrady quickly re-found the familiar offensive rhythm!

The dry shooting with the ball, the exquisite pass after the breakthrough, the personal dunk after breaking through the penalty area, all these offensive methods that McGrady is very good at reappeared on the field in the second half of the third quarter.

Even at the end of the third quarter, McGrady, who was fully open, stood one step outside the three-point line against Xu Lang's interference, and completed a super-difficult ultra-long-range three-pointer. The gap widened to four points.

Fortunately, in the reverse direction, Xu Lang and Darko Milicic completed the pick-and-roll with an alley-oop dunk, allowing Darko Milicic to complete a 2+1, narrowing the gap between the two teams to one point.

Therefore, under the leadership of McGrady who scored 13 points in the second half of the third quarter, the Rockets once again tied the game at the end of the third quarter.

"I always feel that it is a waste of talents to put McGrady at the point guard position. I personally think that the best use of McGrady's personal strength and offensive firepower is at the shooting guard position."

"Besides, although McGrady has pretty good passing ability, it is obvious that compared with orthodox point guards, McGrady's field control ability, offensive organization ability, and tactical command ability are relatively weak."

"So, instead of letting McGrady spend some energy on these weak points, it's better to let McGrady concentrate on and maximize his offensive strengths!"

"And I believe that if McGrady can use 100% of his offensive firepower, Yao Ming's offensive environment and living environment in the interior will obviously be improved, so that Yao Ming's physical consumption can also be controlled to a certain extent!"

As one of the top coaches in NBA history, Pat Riley has a unique judgment on player characteristics and advantages.

In fact, McGrady, who was placed at the control guard position in this game, is indeed not as good as his performance and influence at shooting guard in terms of personal game performance and game influence.

But it is obvious that the game is at this time, and it is time for the fourth quarter. Van Gundy does not have the ability and consciousness to make some temporary player position adjustments.

So in the last quarter of the game, when the two teams faced off, McGrady was still left at the point guard position.

I have to say that McGrady is obviously stronger than Xu Lang in terms of pure offensive ability and overall strength.

But when McGrady is placed on the point guard, let McGrady organize the offense and direct the operation of the entire team's tactical system.

McGrady's 96 strength can't be fully utilized. In addition, after Yao Ming played again in the fourth quarter, the Rockets' offensive focus returned to Yao Ming's hands, which made McGrady even more uncomfortable!

This made Xu Lang, who was originally not as strong as McGrady, want to suppress McGrady in terms of game performance.

Especially with the decline of McGrady's physical fitness, Xu Lang has become stronger and stronger than McGrady in terms of control of the rhythm of the game and influence on both ends of the offense and defense.

Fortunately, the Rockets also have Yao Ming inside as the pinnacle of the sea. Although the Eagles are gaining more and more advantage outside, the score between the two teams has not been opened.

It's just the same as the first half of the third quarter. In the first half of the fourth quarter, the Eagles still put Marc Gasol off the court and put another treasure of their own team, Theo Rattle Leaf stayed on the court to deal with Yao Ming.

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