VanVleet, who had the best touch of the game, was completely emptied, and the other four were crammed into a narrow space in the corner of the court to play extremely inefficient basketball. This moment is the epitome of the whole game.
Coach Spo really studied the rocket thoroughly. First of all, the 15th connection, which fans are very disgusted by, is really the best tactic of the Rockets, so cutting off this connection is equivalent to cutting off the main arteries of the Rockets. How to cut it, Spo's method is simple and crude, that is, to make fouls. Shen Jing is not on the field, naturally there will be no 15 connections, if Shen Jing is on the field, it will also be a desperate military training of Shen Jing, and he will beat Shen Jing to tie his hands. Once the best offense can't be played, the Rockets suddenly find that they can't find any other reliable offensive mode that can be replaced.
Secondly, VanVleet's importance to this Rockets team was vividly demonstrated in this game, he is a real brain on the court, and his role in threading the needle on the court is really underrated. Spo's arrangement is four words: put the shot and pinch the pass, no matter how good your VanVleet feels, you won't score 81 points to pay tribute to Kobe, so this seems to be a gambling defensive strategy, but it just happened to hold down the Rockets' shot. So the "island" effect as shown in the picture above is there, you VanVleet has the ability to shoot the Heat, but if you want to pass the ball, make sure that the ball you pass will go and never return.
In the face of Spo's layout, does Udoka have any countermeasures?Unfortunately, no.
Green has proven not to be a great playmaker, Amen is even less able to carry the responsibility of the playmaker at this stage, and Holiday is a pure shooting guard. So without the organizers, can the Rocket's style of play not be chaotic?
So what about disrupting the war?How many players does the Rockets have with hard decotic?Big Green or Little Green?Whitmore?Little Smith?Finally Van Vliet sighed, come on, I'll do it myself.
Udoka once wanted to play a small lineup to push speed, but first of all, the Heat are also a team that is good at pushing speed, and secondly, we are really not the Warriors.
Finally, we really need Dillon and Ethan, as a team known for defense, even if the offense can't be opened, we still have the hole card of defense to turn the tide of the game, but now that we don't even have these two hole cards, it is really not surprising that the Rockets lost.
To sum up, this time, we really lost in the supremacy of strength.
To accept the fact that we are a civilian team, that our young players are still a long way from cashing in on their talent, and that we have a serious lack of capital to be proud of. In fact, we don't have the capital to pick and choose, and we hate the poor and love the rich. Only by lowering expectations and calming down can we continue to accompany the growth of the rocket and feel the surprise in the bitterness. Too high expectations are nothing more than mere mediocrity and annoyance.