Chapter 363: Tradition and Change (I)
The Chinese derby, the red memory complex, the black is the fierce warrior. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
San Francisco, the city with the highest density of Chinese in the Western Hemisphere, ushered in the long-awaited match.
On the evening of this day, the sea breeze blew in the Bay Bridge, and the stadium in Auckland was full of people, and countless Chinese fans came to the scene to occupy a small half of the stadium.
Yang Di wore knee pads on his legs, making his calves more slender and slender.
His figure is an inverted triangle figure, the upper body is extremely muscular, not only the muscles on the arms are clear, the waist and abdomen are also clearly contoured, the back, shoulders, almost every muscle representing strength contains explosive power. The lower body as a whole is relatively slender, and because of the long Achilles tendon, the entire calf appears very thin.
Before the start of the game, the two sides had an entrance ceremony.
Yang Di pressed his legs, stretched out his arms, grabbed the basket and did two pull-ups.
Rockets lineup: PG David Wesley, SG Tracy McGrady, SF Ryan Bowen, PF Juwan Howard, C Yao Ming.
Because they had to defend Maddie, the Warriors adjusted accordingly.
In the PG position, Byron Davis returned, SG brought Trevor Ariza, a young man with excellent physical fitness and similar height to Maddy, as the starter, and SF was still Dunleavy, PF Yang Di, C Tyson Chandler.
Yao Ming and Chandler jump ball.
Chandler rarely had opponents who couldn't jump, and when he jumped with Yao Ming, he didn't know why, he was a little slower, and Yao Ming took away the basketball.
Rocket offensive.
In the stadium, there were cheers from some Chinese fans.
"Sure enough, a lot of Chinese fans came, and you see, it has become the home stadium." As soon as the veteran Juwan Howard opened, he began to talk nonsense trash talk with Yang Di.
Yang Di responded with interest: "They are all here to support me and Yao Ming, what are you proud of." ā
"I'm not complacent, I just wonder if the Rockets move to San Francisco, will it be more marketable, after all, Chinese fans love to watch Yao Ming play."
"Really? Then you can suggest that Alexander move over. ā
"The boss doesn't have the ability to do this, and the citizens will vote against it."
From the outside, David Wesley beckoned the Rockets players to pull away, then let Yao Ming fall to the low post, hit the ground with a high throw, and give the ball to Yao Ming.
Yao Ming and Chandler were one step away from the baseline paint area, and the outside of the rocket made a personnel transition.
Maddie moved to the high post, directly in front of Yao Ming, Yao Ming received the ball and lifted it high, Chandler defended, and the thin body contrasted sharply with Yao Ming's broad body.
"Bang!"
Yao Ming slammed into him, and Chandler struggled to stay in place.
"Bang!"
The second time, Yang Di had already run over quickly, wrapping Yao Ming.
"Come up and wrap it?" Yao Ming was taken aback, like Chandler, a 2.16-meter-tall insider, there is a slight gap between him and Yao Ming in height, which has already made up for some disadvantages.
But Yang Di was resolute and reached for the ball, and Yao Ming was forced to stop dribbling.
The Warriors' No. 1 on the outside was also actively following Maddie, Yao Ming didn't give Maddie space to pass, and he wanted to find Juwan Howard, who should be vacant at this time.
Spotting that the Warriors were shrinking their defense, the 2.06-meter Dunleavy ran in and blocked the pass to Juwan Howard.
Yao Ming could only take the risk of choosing a horizontal pass and sending the ball to Bowen, who was in the empty space on the bottom line, which actually showed Yao Ming's excellent sense of the overall situation and ability to read the game.
But the force of the pass is a little smaller, and the ball speed is not fast.
Although the Warriors had no one to break the ball, when Bowen received the ball, Dunleavy had already run to the bottom corner and opened his arms to defend.
Yang Di evacuated and turned around to defend Howard unhurriedly.
The offensive of the rocket group failed.
After the defeat, the players switched to their own single-handed attack, and there was no doubt that after they passed the ball to the outside, it was handed to Tracy McGrady.
Maddie held the ball on the outside, and without waiting for Yao Ming to come out to block and dismantle, he crossed and forced Ariza step by step.
The 20-year-old Ariza has only played basketball for a year, is tall and has long arms, excellent athleticism, and he is also a representative of the league's spring man outside line, although the defensive fundamentals are very solid, but the defensive experience is lacking, and some training is needed.
In the face of Maddie, who was holding the ball with three threats, it was clearly too close.
As a result, it was passed by Maddie in one step, and of course, if Danny Granger is replaced, it is estimated that it will be passed faster.
Maddie took a step in, Ariza turned back to chase the defense, and after the second step, he found that he couldn't catch up with Maddie's footsteps, and then Maddie suddenly made a sudden stop.
At a little higher from the free throw line, raise your hand and shoot.
Ariza pounced, her fingers tapping lightly on Maddie's wrist.
"It's a foul!"
Maddie landed and roared "AND ONE!" He turned to look at the referee.
But the referee ignored him, and Ariza wiped his sweat and silently said a word of danger in his heart.
"Bell!"
After the rebound, Yang Di easily squeezed away Juwan Howard, who did not want to grab the frontcourt rebound in his hand, and watched Yang Di wrap his arm and grab the rebound.
The moment Yang Di grabbed the rebound, all the fans stood up.
It's coming! Their eyes dilated, their breathing stagnated, their adrenaline hormones soared, and they couldn't help but let out a cry.
"Attack!"
Davis, Ariza and others had this reaction in their minds for the first time, and then turned around and began to run wildly, Yang Di grabbed the rebound and began to dribble by himself, keeping up with it in one step, and advancing at an amazing speed.
The Warriors are multi-line fast breaks,
Davis took the middle, Ariza ran to the right sideline, and Jandy, after turning and dribbling, immediately rushed to the front, also on the sideline, but on the left.
At this time, the old guys of the Rockets Juwan Howard and Ryan Bowen looked confused, and before they could react, the Warriors players had already run four or five meters, and when they reacted, they were missing I don't know how many positions.
When Yang Di ran to the frontcourt, only David Wesley had time to retreat, but David Wesley, nicknamed "Mickey Mouse", was short in stature, not to mention more than one grade smaller than Yang Di, and several grades worse than Davis.
Yang Di dribbled the ball with his left hand and ran into the three-point line.
Stride to accelerate, and then immediately pick up the basketball, ready to dunk in three steps.
Wesley was so frightened that he got out of the way, Yang Di glanced at the side, although Maddie ran very fast, but it was very difficult to defend him, and looking at his posture, he should not be ready to jump up and forcibly chase the hat.
So Yang Di jumped up very easily, controlled the ball with his left hand, put his hands together, jumped with one foot with his left foot, glided a short distance in the air, and dunked with both hands.
"Bang!"
Yang Di landed with a smile, and the Rockets' transition defense was worse than he thought.
On the other side, Coach Van Gundy touched his increasingly rare head, thinking that the Warriors should have scored this goal just because the rebound bounced too far, right? happened to be grabbed by Yang Di to take advantage of the fast attack, and it was impossible for every ball to bounce so far, and it was impossible for every ball to be grabbed by Yang Di, right?