NBA: I really just want to be a second-in-command

Chapter 162

At this point, half of the fourth quarter has passed.

The scores of the two sides remained deadlocked.

Rocket attack!

After Alston dribbled the ball for halftime, he handed it directly to McGrady!

At the critical moment, the ball still has to be handled by the core figures.

After McGrady got the ball, facing Luke Walton's defense, he was still a classic three-threat!

For Luke Walton, defending McGrady will always be an extremely difficult thing.

Although the Lakers defended McGrady's ball just now, in fact, it has little to do with him.

It was Lu Yusheng's own prediction that blocked the ball.

For Luke Wharton, there is still only one way to defend McGrady, and that is predictive defense.

Although he made a wrong prediction for the ball just now, McGrady didn't shoot, but went to the basket.

But he can only do this, there is no way, McGrady's shooting percentage is too high when facing him.

If he is allowed to break through, teammates may still be able to help defend, and there may be a chance to defend.

Once he is allowed to shoot, it is basically a final decision, and there is no room for negotiation.

So, now Luke Walton's defensive strategy is, you can attack me, but I will try my best to interfere with you when you shoot, and never let you score easily.

McGrady faced Walton and started dribbling.

McGrady's mind just now was to break into the inside and drive the inside to score.

But I didn't expect that the boy Lu Yusheng would destroy it when he got close to the door.

This time, he intends to shoot and score directly. After all, this is his best way to score.

But what he didn't expect was that this time, he didn't quickly get rid of Wharton's defense and get too good shooting space.

The reason is not that Walton's defense has improved, it is purely because, when Walton was defending before, he would worry about McGrady's breakthrough, so it was difficult to limit McGrady's dry shots.

But now his defensive strategy is to only target McGrady's shots, regardless of your breakthrough.

Everyone who plays basketball knows that when you lose the threat of a breakthrough, the opponent is easy to defend against you.

Even if McGrady's dry pull shot is invincible, but in this case, it is still difficult to make a shot!
McGrady was a little annoyed, he didn't find a shot opportunity, and after making a fake shot, Wharton was instantly sent flying!
McGrady dribbles inside and breaks through!

Instantly attract the defense of the Lakers inside players!
It was the opportunity just now, Yao Ming was unguarded!

Mai Di glanced subconsciously, looking for Lu Yusheng's location, but in an instant, he didn't find Lu Yusheng's location!
This made him afraid to pass the ball to Yao Ming again, for fear that this kid would repeat his old tricks!

So he decided to pull the bar directly against Bynum for a layup!
McGrady takes off and rises higher and higher!
Bynum also jumped up high to block McGrady!

But McGrady folded in the air, pulled down the bar, and instantly avoided Bynum's block!

Low layup!

"Wow! This layup is too difficult!" Mason exclaimed in surprise!
Snapped! !

As soon as McGrady took the shot, he slammed the basketball on the backboard with one hand!

Lu Yusheng! !

Lu Yusheng originally planned to steal the ball like just now, but unexpectedly, McGrady did not choose to pass the ball to Yao Ming, but made a difficult layup by himself!

Lu Yusheng happened to be under the basket, and without hesitation, he gave McGrady a pegboard hat!
Slapped the ball directly onto the backboard and bounced into Odom's hands!
Odom passed the ball instantly and wanted to launch a fast break!

But McGrady pulled him down!
The referee whistles!foul!
Originally, at Lu Yusheng's level, it was still a bit difficult to nail McGrady's big hat, but McGrady just used a pull-bar layup in order to avoid Bynum's block, and when he passed Bynum in the air, it was already He exhausted all his strength, so the low-handed layup behind him was actually very easy to cover.

"Oh my god!" Mason exclaimed, "I can't even imagine that Lu actually blocked McGrady's wonderful tie-bar layup. It's simply unbelievable!"

"McGrady's ball is really beautiful," Barkley also said, "It's a pity that people in the league who can make such moves can be counted with one hand like this with a pull-up after confrontation."

"Yeah, what's rare is that his movements are still so elegant. It's really rare."

"There's something about this kid Lu. He predicted McGrady's next move twice. The first time he intercepted McGrady's pass, and the second time he directly sent him a pegboard cap. I think McGrady is also on fire now! With such a big name, he will definitely lose his face." Barkley laughed.

In fact, McGrady was really angry on the field. He was easily resolved by a rookie for two consecutive offenses. He couldn't hold back his face. Now, according to the current situation, it may be very difficult to win the game, can you not be anxious?

"Hey Yao!"

McGrady complained to Yao Ming, "What's the matter with you? Why didn't you get stuck on the ball?"

McGrady meant that since he had already made a layup, Yao Ming should be in the basket and block all interference for him.

Yao Ming also looked confused.

He felt that McGrady must pass the ball to him. After all, he was completely empty under the basket.

Even if the last ball was missed and was intercepted, but this ball, he has already focused on it, it is impossible to be intercepted twice in a row.

But McGrady not only didn't choose to pass the ball to him, but now he started to complain about himself after being blocked?

"TMC, I thought you'd pass me the ball, I'm ready."

Yao Ming did not directly confront Tracy McGrady, but put it in a euphemistic way.

After all, he doesn't want to break up with his teammates because of a mistake, especially McGrady. He is still counting on teaming up with McGrady to achieve better results this year. Now that the two of them are at odds at the beginning of the season, what should we do in the future?
Of course, Yao Ming's response was not a compromise. While explaining the reason, it also made McGrady understand that this situation was caused by you not passing the ball.

Of course, McGrady understands the meaning behind Yao Ming's words, and he naturally doesn't want to openly contradict Yao Ming directly.

What's more, what Yao Ming said was right, he didn't pass the ball to Yao Ming just now, it really couldn't be justified.

"I don't think there is any need for everyone to argue about this trivial matter." Alston said on the side, "Come on, we have to win this game!"

He didn't say this, Maddie wasn't that angry yet, and now this kid suddenly said such a sentence, Maddie was furious immediately!

"You kid still has the right to say such things?! If your defense is not like shit, if you don't keep an eye on that kid, he can run around? You are here to say such things like nothing!" McGrady said to Alstom is a meal!

"Hey, TMC, it was your mistake just now, you can't attribute all the responsibility to others, you have no responsibility at all!"

Alston is not a fuel-efficient lamp. Even if McGrady is the team's top card, he couldn't stand this guy who sprayed him so unscrupulously, and immediately returned it!

"What did you say?!"

McGrady didn't expect that Alston would dare to talk back. In McGrady's view, the rookie Lu Yusheng on the opposite side could perform so well, and the reason why he was able to lead the Lakers to overtake the score was all because of Alston. This guy is really good!
Now I just pointed out this guy's problem, and he even broke out, where is the status of the boss of my team? !

With Maddie's fiery temper, no matter what the occasion is, he must do it at that time!

Alston didn't get used to him at all, "TMC, just say, how many times have you sprayed me for no reason after I came to the team? It's fine if you don't have the same knowledge as you, and you haven't finished yet?! I Tell you, the leader of this team is Yao Ming. When the team is at a disadvantage, he stands up again and again to help the team turn the tide! He is not like you. Every time the team falls behind, you will only lose your temper , you are not worthy to be the leader of this team!"

This hit directly hits McGrady's sore spot!

You know, the reason why McGrady left the Raptors before was because in the hazy, the boss is always his cousin Vince Carter, he left Toronto just to prove himself, but after going to the Magic, he always prepared People criticize the lack of leadership ability.

This is his demon!

Now when he came to the Rockets, he was still criticized for this, and it was not someone else, but his teammate who fought side by side!

Speaking from his mouth, this lethality is much more lethal than what is said from fans and the media!!
Super double! !

So he exploded instantly! !

Aiming at Alstom is a meal output! !

Yao Ming and other teammates pulled desperately, and they could hardly hold these two together!

The arena suddenly became chaotic.

The Rockets fans at the Toyota Center finally saw the riots on the field, but what made them dumbfounded was that it turned out to be internal strife in their own team, and they couldn't help booing for a while.

More importantly, after Kobe was injured, they all thought that their team would win this time, but no one thought that the Lakers could actually bite and overtake the score, which made them a little disappointed with their home team.

Therefore, for a while, the Toyota Center booed all over the sky.

The referee had to stop the game.

"This makes me a little confused." The commentator Mason said, "Why did the Rockets have their own internal strife? The current situation on the court is not completely inferior, nor is it impossible to fight, can't it be like this? And I think McGrady and Alston directly pressed that the conflict seemed to be quite sharp, and both of them had forbidden words in their mouths."

Barkley laughed loudly, "You may not know this. In fact, in the last game, there was a little conflict between McGrady and Alston, but Alstom didn't explode at that time, so he calmed down. But in today's game, Alstom obviously didn't want to bear it anymore, so the conflict completely broke out."

"But I don't think it's necessary. We're still in the game. If there's any conflict to be resolved on the court, if we insist on putting it on the court, the impact will be extremely bad. Coupled with the media hype, the gap between the two It might not be possible to reconcile," Mason said.

"This thing is like this. In fact, in the team, when you are not playing well, the head star will spray you a few words. Under normal circumstances, everyone will bear it, but Alston did not bear it. Instead, it broke out, and I think the problem lies with McGrady." Barkley said.

"Do you think it's McGrady's problem?" Mason obviously couldn't understand, "I don't think it's a problem for McGrady to spray him, after all, Alston really didn't play well in this game. Lu Yusheng was blown away. In this case, it's understandable for McGrady to say something about him, right?"

"It's okay, I think you misunderstood me a bit." Barkley said, "The reason why I said that this is McGrady's problem is not that McGrady's spray is wrong. In fact, Alston's offense and defense tonight The performance at both ends, if it were me, I would have criticized him a long time ago. The reason why I say this is McGrady's problem is because..."

Barkley laughed and said, "When I say this, fans of the Rockets and McGrady may criticize me, but I don't think my point of view is wrong. The reason is... McGrady's lack of leadership."

"Oh, brother, you're clearly looking for a joke." Mason laughed.

"No, Mason, listen to me. For a long time, I have no doubts about McGrady's scoring ability. I have always said that his scoring ability is second only to Kobe in the league today. Is this the greatest praise?"

"Well. It does count."

"But scoring ability and leadership ability are two different things. Mason, think about it. If it was Kobe or Michael who sprayed Alston just now, do you think Alston would dare to jump up and fight back like this? I think he would never dare , Rodman was notoriously thorny back then, Michael sprayed him on the court, did you see any temper in him?" Barkley said.

"Well, that seems to be the case."

"Leadership ability is a very profound knowledge. It is a combination of EQ and IQ, as well as character and method. Mason, I have to admit that I am very lacking in this aspect, so McGrady's point There’s nothing wrong with not doing enough.”

"I know what you said makes sense, but as media people, we shouldn't talk about this here, Barkley, I think we should talk about what happened on the court." Mason said.

He didn't want to cause trouble for himself because of this, the fans of Rockets and Tracy McGrady are not vegetarians.

"There's nothing left to say on the court," Barkley said. "I'm ready to apologize to that rookie after the game."

"You mean... the Lakers won this game?"

"The Lakers will win, there is no doubt." Barkley said with certainty, "The Rockets are already at a disadvantage. Now that there is such a big internal strife, who is still in the mood to play? Look, after the timeout is over , Alston will be replaced, and Tracy McGrady will become extremely negative on the court. In this way, what do you think the Rockets will use to win against the vigorous Lakers?

I don't think there's any chance at all.yeah man i know you want to wait for me to say that, i can say it right now, the rockets got beat by a rookie who only played five games, yeah so i can tell you responsibly Well, the Rockets are useless this season, and the Lakers, because of the addition of this kid, have a bright future! "

(End of this chapter)