Super Small Forward

When Harden was still in the Thunder, his rookie year, along with the team boss Durant and the old two-dimensional Sbrook, led the team to 50 regular season wins and made the playoffs for the first time, facing the ball in front of him. team.

Harden still remembers how the Lakers dealt with his brother Westbrook back then!

The Lakers offense.

Liu Ren plunged into the Rockets like a sharp edge, attracting the Rockets to shrink the defense. Liu Ren passed to Jeremy Lin, who was undefended in the bottom corner. Jeremy Lin played the Rockets with great strength and made a hollow three-pointer.

Harden was a little disappointed in this game, a feeling of inability to win came to his mind, and he had a big shot across the three-point line in the frontcourt.

The ball hit the front of the rim and bounced into the hands of Whiteside, who judged where the ball was.

Seeing the strength of the opponent's defense, Howard felt like Harden could not win.

Howard glanced at the Lakers coach D'Antoni, who was talking and laughing with Kobe, and then at his side of coach McHale, who looked bitter and anxious, and Howard regretted.

The Rockets did not score in the next five consecutive rounds, and the Lakers shot a wave of 12 to 3 scoring shock waves to pull the score to double digits.

Seeing that the opponent's main force had been beaten out of fighting spirit, Howard and Harden were clearly out of their minds in this game, D'Antoni decided to completely defeat the opponent.

D'Antoni called a timeout and replaced Jeremy Lin, Korver, Liu Ren, Green, Whiteside. Although Jeremy Lin and Green’s outside three-point ability are not particularly strong, they are accurate, especially Green’s rapid progress. Halfway through the hit, the three-point shooting rate has exceeded 35% without knowing it.

There are also Liu Ren and Korver on the court, D'Antoni's order is to shoot from the outside to the dead, Whiteside must grab all the rebounds!

In the first half, Whiteside, who held back the entire half of the game, was as fierce as a tiger came out, and Howard had consumed too much energy to deal with Thackeray, Liu Ren, and Green in the first half, and it was not the original Howard encounter with the iron man. Whiteside was robbed of the runaway!

The Rockets, which have been hit on the verge of collapse, did not make adjustments to the opponent’s substitutions at all. Surprisingly, McHale did not make any targeted response to such a situation. In fact, he did not have the ability to respond. I still hope that the outside line can suddenly change.

The Rockets kept shooting from the outside, and shot against the defense, rarely hitting.

Whiteside laughed at the rebounds, and the Lakers used the same style of play as the Rockets, shooting wildly from beyond the three-point line.

The Lakers have become addicted to learning how to play the Rockets in the past two years. Sometimes D'Antoni is lamenting that what the novice coach thinks sometimes works really well! One Cole and one McHale are the masters who make trouble.

The Lakers are now playing the same way as the Rockets. The difference is that the Lakers are very accurate here, but the Rockets can’t make them. There is also Whiteside rebounding crazy in the second half, and Howard can’t grab it!

In the third minute of the fourth quarter, the Rockets announced their surrender and replaced the main lineup with a score difference of 25 points.

115 to 90, the game entered garbage time.

When there were 3 minutes left in the game, the fans left early. The Rockets could barely contend in the first half, and they were completely beaten in the second half. Nicholson waved to the fans and left. This was his celebration of the Lakers. The way to win!

With 42 points, 8 rebounds and 6 assists, Liu Ren said he was very happy looking at his own statistics and winning.

Whiteside scored 7 points and 22 rebounds in the second half, and the Lakers' rebounds in the second half were almost all by him!

In the end, the Lakers beat the Rockets 122 to 97, winning their 11th this month and their 40th this season, becoming the first team in the league to exceed 40 wins!

...

The Lakers won, but there were many questions after the game that made fans and the media curious.

The Lakers clearly had a crushing advantage over the Rockets in the second half, but why did they play so anxiously in the first half? Why did Whiteside, who got 22 rebounds in the second half, failed to play in the first half? Otherwise, it is possible to see a performance feast of 30 rebounds in a single game.

And why Gasol was replaced after playing for two minutes?

and also……

Only the Lakers games will have so many weird situations, and the media and fans are bothered to ask why.

As for why, the Lakers players did not come out to explain, because they did not understand what D'Antoni was thinking.

"Why? It's just fun, do you believe it?" D'Antoni thought like this...

D'Antoni is such an old romantic coach...

Then, some fans began to express their guesses.

"I think D'Antoni wants to use a small lineup to consume Howard's stamina. You can see Howard can do nothing against Whiteside in the second half. When the two teams met for the first time this season, Whiteside still had to deal with Howard. It's hard work."

"I think so too. There is a Chinese fable called Tian Ji Horse Racing. D'Antoni should have used this tactic."

"I think the Lakers' five small lineup is also very interesting. It is a bit imitating the Warriors. Do you want to find a way to deal with the Warriors?"

"What I said upstairs is also possible. Compared with the Rockets, the Lakers' biggest opponent this season may be the Warriors. There is still a big gap between the Rockets and the Lakers, but the Warriors are different. The Warriors lost five more games than the Lakers. Except for November, the Warriors' record in the other two months is about the same as the Lakers. The Lakers should feel the pressure and start looking for ways to deal with the Warriors."

"..."

"..."

D'Antoni dived into the water and looked at the speculation of the fans in the forum. He actually wanted to try the five small lineups. He didn't expect the fans to think so much.

But these fans seem to have good ideas?

I can't think of a way to deal with the Warriors. Why use the same offense as the Warriors? Like playing with the Rockets? The offense of others is also worth learning!

Thinking of this, D'Antoni couldn't wait to call Bickerstaff and discuss it carefully...

...

After playing the Rockets, the Lakers rested for two days and played against the Cleveland Cavaliers on the 28th.

This time the Lakers weren't as comfortable playing the Pelicans, Rockets, Trailblazers and so on.

Although the Cavaliers' record is not as good as these teams, it is the Cavaliers! In the second half of December to the present, the Cavaliers have only lost two games in a month and a half! Played a nine-game winning streak! The record has been firmly seated third in the East, and began to attack the second Knicks.

Even if these are aside, a team with James should not be underestimated!

LeBron James is the only superstar in active service who will turn into a championship contender wherever he goes. The ability to make the team qualitatively change is rare throughout the history of the NBA. James has never improved the team. The upper limit of the player, but which team he is in, which team has the lowest limit is at least the conference finals!

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