Chapter 954 Sir, Times Have Really Changed!

"Although Milicic's athletic ability has dropped a lot this season, his better strength gives him an advantage when playing many big centers who are not very strong. But Yao Ming's strength is not as strong as his current body looks. So 'thin'."

"This is normal. Although Yao Ming has lost weight now, even in Yao Ming's rookie season, Yao Ming's confrontation ability cannot be bullied by so-called heavy centers."

"People who don't have the strength to fight can't block O'Neal so many shots."

Speaking of Yao Ming's story, both Kenny Smith and Barkley know it very well. After all, this legendary Chinese center is really a point in their lives that they can never bypass.

Before Yes appeared, this Chinese player was the most amazing Chinese player they knew.

Even now there is Yes.

Yao Ming's magical aura has not dissipated, and has even become stronger than before.

This Chinese center is really a perfect center player now.

After losing weight, Yao Ming seems to have reduced strength.

But the actual decline is not that much.

Especially in the current NBA, where there are fewer and fewer heavy centers like O'Neal.

Even though Yao Ming's strength in confrontation is slightly less than when he was heavy, he still has the advantage.

After all, he is 2.26 meters tall, which is at least 10 centimeters taller than most NBA centers.

Milicic wants to use his own power to suppress Yao Ming, which is really too simple.

After a setback at the start, Nelson obviously realized that he had misjudged Yao Ming's current strength level.

And this is also the most uncomfortable part.

You originally thought that the problem you wanted to solve was difficult enough. In fact, this problem is even more difficult than you thought.

Originally you thought you already loved your first love very much.

In fact, you are more in love with your first love than you thought!

It is simply painful and joyful.

On the court, Yao Ming was grabbing Milicic and fucking him hard. On the other side, when the Seattle SuperSonics were attacking, the Rockets' defense was also stretched thin by Ye's rapid attack.

In order to allow Yao Ming and Roy to have the physical strength for the whole game.

Adelman reduced the team's offensive and defensive rhythm very drastically.

In today's league that pursues speed, the Rockets are simply going against the trend.

But there is really no way.

The only two pillars that the Rockets can rely on now are Yao Ming and Roy.

On the court, it was really fun to watch Yao Ming abuse Milicic.

But without Roy's support from the outside, no matter how strong Yao Ming is, he can't beat Milicic.

He can't imagine Aaron Brooks or other outside players passing the ball to Yao Ming now.

Yao Ming is the team's tactical pillar.

Roy is the team's tactical core.

Yao Ming needs Roy's support to exert his greatest energy.

Roy can organize and score with ease on the court, but he needs the support of Yao Ming.

These two people support the current Rockets system.

These two people are indispensable to the Rockets.

There isn't even a replacement.

When Artest and McGrady were there, McGrady could replace Yao Ming's supporting role to a certain extent, and Artest and McGrady could replace Roy's supporting role to a certain extent.

How deep the Rockets' lineup was at that time, how luxurious the rotation was, and how stretched they are now.

Many people say that the Rockets still have outstanding players such as Gerald Wallace, Aaron Brooks and Scola, so the team's strength will not drop too much.

The overall strength did not drop as much as imagined.

But the strength of the core and the toughness of strong dialogue have declined unimaginably. When McGrady and Artest were there, it was hard to imagine that the Rockets would collapse in the fourth quarter.

It was precisely because of the tragic collapse in the fourth quarter last season that the Rockets missed the playoffs that Adelman learned from the experience and went against the trend this season.

As a former trendsetter, he didn't want to.

But there's really no way.

It can be said that the current fast-paced game between the Rockets and any league is a battle of rhythm control.

Fast and slow rhythm control.

The Rockets lost to the Warriors, the Lakers, and the Mavericks before. Many people only saw the Rockets' collapse and were played out of garbage time.

But as a head coach, Adelman certainly sees something deeper.

The Rockets were defeated because they lost on rhythm.

Roy, Curry, Nash, and Kidd lost the game due to their rhythm control...

This is actually not Roy's fault.

Roy is not a slow player.

Roy is very versatile, like the Yellow Mamba, who can be fast or slow. When the Rockets had to abandon his fast side due to the lack of thickness in the team's core lineup, and could only give up half of his martial arts and play slow, Roy and others In a duel, regardless of whether the opponent is strong or weak, Roy himself is not at his full strength and cannot do his best.

This is the most difficult thing for him and the Rockets now. Aaron Brooks, Scola, Gerald Wallace, these players are not weak, but they can only play side drums and cannot play tactics around them.

The Rockets can only rely on Yao Ming and Roy, and they cannot be separated. They need to be used together to be the strongest.

And neither of them is a physical maniac.

This directly leads to the Rockets having only two choices to make, whether to choose lasting or to choose the pleasure of release.

Last season, he chose to release his enthusiasm, and the team collapsed into a mess in the end.

This season he chose to endure, and the team still had a crashing start...

Looking at the offensive rhythm driven by Yes on the court, in the rhythm driven by Yes, Durant, Rondo, Millsap, and Milicic fired like crazy for free, Adelman was very confused.

In order to keep the pace down, Roy can't really take some unreasonable outside shots like Kobe did.

In order to control the rhythm, Yao Ming's offensive choices cannot be arbitrary.

Your attack is very cautious, but your opponent's attack is very reckless.

In the end, your players feel uncomfortable playing and the results are not good, but the rhythm of the game is still brought up.

He has gone to the extreme with this dish for the Rockets, and he has really gone to the extreme.

Before the big changes in the NBA, the combination of Roy and Yao Ming was a trend-setting powerhouse in any era.

But in the past two seasons, the Rockets have become self-rescuers drowned by the tide.

In the game between the Seattle SuperSonics and the Rockets, the Rockets fans were only excited for the first minute or two.

Because in the next game, the score difference between the SuperSonics and the Rockets is really getting bigger and bigger.

Roy has been working very hard to control the rhythm of the game.

But this kind of slow-paced game is really not his area of ​​expertise.

No, it won't.

As the Black Mamba, Roy is as versatile as Kobe.

Kobe can also organize the game and get a triple-double in the game, but this is not their full-time job.

The strongest Kobe or Roy is definitely not the Kobe or Roy who organizes triple-doubles in games, but the one who can score as he pleases on the court and use his offense to drive his teammates and the team as he pleases. Kobe and Roy.

In the current Rockets game, Roy's organizational tasks are too heavy.

Adelman also knows this, but there is no way he can use Aaron Brooks to share Roy's organizational responsibilities.

Last season was okay, and Aaron Brooks was okay, because last season he and the Rockets chose the maximum release, which can be fast and bring up the rhythm, but this season's Rockets are slow and require persistence. At this time, Aaron Brooks' This game accelerator is no longer available.

It can be said that Roy was very uncomfortable last season.

This season, Roy has been even more uncomfortable during games.

On the court, Roy finally suppressed the rhythm again and assisted Yao Ming to score. On the other side of the Seattle SuperSonics, Milicic did not pause at all. After a quick baseline ball to Ye Si, Ye Si made a long pass. In the half, Durant, who was on a fast break, received the ball just past the center circle. He took several long strides with his long legs and reached the basket while Gerald Wallace was stunned.

Durant has long legs and span, coupled with his current strength and speed, explosive power and agility that have not been reduced after confrontation. Before catching the ball, he leans against the defensive player, then leans away from the defense and strides toward the basket. If you kill him, no one can stop him.

Scola has worked very hard to retreat and defend.

But his defensive ability simply cannot support him from being able to defend a 2.1-meter big man playing the European step!

And it’s such a long stride, such a high-speed European step!

After easily pulling Scoo over, Durant even pulled a very coquettishly unnecessary lever...

Seeing Durant pouting and shrugging under the basket after completing the layup, the faces of the Rockets fans at Toyota Center were dull, just like Gerald Wallace and other Rockets players on the court.

After watching Durant celebrating on the court, he raised his right hand and pointed at Ye Si in the other half.

The entire Toyota Center was once again filled with the only sounds of Seattle SuperSonics fans and coconut fans.

"Yes! Yes! Yes!"

"It's so brutal. Yes's fast break passing in this game is still so brutal!"

Barkley was very excited now, while Kenny Smith on the side opened his mouth and didn't know what to say.

Because I really don’t know what to say.

This season, Yes's fast break is really brutal.

There are many fast break scenes like this in almost every game.

The most typical ones are Durant's three-point fast break that goes straight to the basket and Rondo's three-point fast break that stops outside the three-point line.

"Garfield's hurricane swept through the NBA again, sweeping the entire NBA in another way!"

Buckley's voice became more and more excited, while Kenny Smith's mood became more and more serious.

He has a lot of expectations for this game between the Rockets and the SuperSonics.

The Rockets have been the SuperSonics' regular season killers in recent seasons.

But this game clearly told him that the era of the Rockets restraining the SuperSonics was over.

Yes, who controls the ball, is really strong!

In the past, when Yes was valued more and more and his defense became stronger and stronger, Yes' own Garfield Hurricane actually disappeared from the NBA for a long time.

But now, after Yes took control of the ball, he attracted the defense to his side, but used Garfield's hurricane to reproduce again with the hands of his teammates!

Rondo and Durant, who have been very eye-catching on the court this season, seem to be the two tentacles that Yes stretched out after being heavily defended by the opponent.

The SuperSonics' fast break is outstanding this season.

Media experts and fans all praised Durant and Rondo's fast breaks to Leafs.

But Yeas knows very well that the reason why the SuperSonics have such a strong fast break performance this season is mainly because of the respective characteristics and strengths of Durant and Rondo.

These two wing bosses are really strong.

When Durant was not so thin and tall, his speed, explosive power and agility seemed to be average and not outstanding.

But as Durant's body grows taller and stronger, his speed, explosive power and agility have not decreased. Coupled with his weight and height, this is quite outstanding.

Coupled with his unique long-striding dribbling and ability to play tricks in high-speed dribbling.

Gee, it is simply a holy object that can be tied with James in the fast break world!

As for Rondo, his touch that appears as soon as he appears may not be that fast, but his sense of rhythm is very strong. He throws it whenever he wants, asking you whether you are afraid or not, and there is no sense of pressure or urgency.

The Rockets are the slowest team in the league this season, and the SuperSonics are the fastest team in the league this season.

When the tempo was entirely on the Sonics' side, the Rockets simply didn't get it.

After falling behind in the first quarter, the Rockets never caught up.

The score difference is also getting bigger and bigger.

By the third quarter, the score between the two sides had become 120 to 90.

Roy and the Rockets are already trying to control the situation, but the rhythm of the game is still on the SuperSonics side.

After three quarters, the game was declared over.

Yao Ming still showed his strong dominance in this game, making 12 of 16 shots and scoring 34 points in three quarters.

But such scores and performances did not create even a ripple in the rhythm and torrent of this game.

149 to 110!

This is the final score between the Seattle SuperSonics and Rockets.

When the game ended, Roy, Yao Ming and Adelman on the sidelines looked at the bloody numbers on the scoreboard and couldn't believe it.

In just two years.

The Rockets, once the strongest team in history, have fallen into such a situation...

"Individual players of this Rockets have advantages in one-on-one situations, but in this era led by Yes, individual strength advantages need to be put into a strong team in order to be effective. .”

Jerry West watched the results on TV with satisfaction.

Rondo became the scoring leader again in this game.

Yes got another triple-double in this game.

But none of this matters.

The important thing is that the Rockets played a heart-breaking game.

A game that made everyone feel the changes of the times.

"Times have really changed!"

This kind of personal powerlessness will come sooner or later. Jerry West had already thought of it when the Heat teamed up to lead the league.

Personal strength is meaningless in front of a group of superstars.

Only a team can beat a team!

However, what he didn't expect was that such changes in the times were not brought about by the Heat, Lakers and Grizzlies.

It was actually Yes and his civilian teammates who brought it up.

Yes uses his organization and passing to elevate the strength of his teammates and his team to a level stronger than those of the team!

"Incredible!"

Sure enough, this was the player he had always coveted but could not get.

However, although there was no way to get Yes, he did get a player who could replace Yes to some extent.

Thinking of the No. 30 player on the team, the expression on Jerry West's face was excitement.

He loves the feeling of building a team from scratch.

Turning a nearly zero team into a full-level team is the greatest joy he still has in the league.

He and Nelson are both enjoying the fun of basketball, but Nelson is on the court and he is off the court.

And the goals of the two of them...

It seems to be the same person.

"Little Ye Zi, your team is very, very strong."

This was a game that made Yao Ming realize the reality and crush all the expectations and fairy tales in his heart.

Losing in such a game is more bitter than in previous games.

But in the end, Yao Ming calmed down and gave Ye Si his blessing.

"This season, maybe we can really see the first Chinese dynasty in the NBA."

Is the NBA’s first Chinese dynasty?

Yes nodded.

"must."