All-Around Forward Swingman

After O'Neal came on the court, Yang Shan naturally still focused on the inside. O'Neal's favorite player to play is a player like Gasol. This kind of player is not so good in physical fitness, but he has good skills.

He only needs someone to teach basketball to pass to him, and then use his huge weight advantage to squeeze out the opponent for dunks. He was hit by O'Neal for four consecutive times, and Kobe's face was very ugly.

Because it is difficult for Gasol to respond offensively. Odom hit Scola twice with the ball, but only scored one goal.

The score came, 40:23, the Rockets led by 17 points, taking advantage of a dead ball, the helpless Zen master had to replace Kobe.

Kobe played and started his personal scoring mode again, but this time it was not Yang Shan who defended him, but Stevenson.

Kobe was exhausted by Yang Shan on the offensive end in the first quarter, and his physical strength naturally declined in the second quarter. Stevenson defended him, but he was able to keep up.

More importantly, Yang Shan started to exert force. Post-up singles, forced breakthroughs, pick-and-rolls, offenses, all kinds of simple coordination, plus my super personal ability.

Kobe beat Stevenson one, and Yang Shan gave the Lakers two.

The harder Kobe defended Yang Shan, the greater the energy consumption on the offensive end. What's more, he didn't get back his touch in the second quarter either.

In the second quarter, Yang Shan made 7 of 9 shots and 4 of 4 free throws, including 2 of 2 three-pointers and scored 20 points.

On the other hand, Kobe made 15 shots, only hit 6 of them, and scored 13 points.

At halftime, the Rockets 65:42, leading the Lakers by 23 points.

You know, in the first two quarters, the Lakers didn't even score 23 points in one quarter.

At the beginning of the third quarter, Yang Shan took a rest and Cassel took the position of point guard.

This time Kobe finally didn't have to defend Yang Shan, and even McGrady didn't defend, because he knew his physical strength, and if he tried to defend the opponent's players, he might not be able to support the game, so he could only defend Battier on the defensive end. The offensive end goes all out.

Without Yang Shan's defense, Kobe could still have some advantage against Battier.

But at this time, the physical gap between the two sides reappeared.

In the first round, both sides swept their opponents 4:0, but in the second round, the Rockets swept the Jazz, while the Lakers played seven games against the Suns.

In this way, the Rockets took five more days of rest than the Lakers, and maintained their physical fitness very well. In addition, Kobe tried his best to defend Yang Shan in the first half, and was stalked by Yang Shan for a quarter and a half. His physical fitness was also in a hurry.

However, the third quarter was his best performance. He hit 7 of 12 shots, including 2 of 4 three-pointers, 4 of 5 free throws, and scored 16 points.

But other players were not as good as him, and they scored a total of 31 points.

The Rockets were not much worse than them. Tracy McGrady scored 11 points, Yao Ming also scored 9 points, Cassel and Battier each hit a three-pointer. James Posey scored 4 points and the Rockets scored 30 points in the third quarter.

In this way, the Lakers only recovered 1 point in the third quarter, and they came to the fourth quarter with a 22-point difference. .