Zhang Jiawei: The Bucks let KD open the one-on-one duel at the last moment. Uduka is quite suitable to deal with Lao Li.

November 10th NBA regular season news, the Rockets beat the Bucks 122-115 away.

After the game, freelance writer Zhang Jiawei commented on the game. The original text is as follows:

The Rockets beat the Bucks. Is this the first time they have beaten a strong team this season? And indeed the first big reversal.

The Rockets’ rite of passage this season?

A question mark for strong teams is that although the Bucks are fourth in the Eastern Conference, they can't tell whether it's Giannis's miraculous power or Lao Li's teaching skills.

The assists per game are in the middle of the league, but the passing rate is 278, which is the third in the league: Giannis + Rollins + Anthony are the three ball handlers who take turns to take over. Giannis averages 33+13+7 in 32 minutes per game. Rollins and Ke'an are on the line and play alternately. There is no front board. No matter what is interspersed, the whole team shoots 54 three-pointers. This is the Bucks. Lao Li: Hey, that’s not enough!

But the reversal is real.

The Rockets trailed by 8 points with 4 and a half minutes left in the fourth quarter, and they set up a five-man team of Shepard/Okogie + Durant + Jabari + Shen Jing + Amen, and then, here they come.

Durant broke through Kuzma and fed Amen to the basket for a three-pointer.

——Durant is afraid of the iron threshold and is not afraid of long forwards, but the Bucks have no iron threshold: Holiday? Tucker? No longer exists.

Amen Dragons and Tigers hit a three-pointer. The beauty of this goal is that Giannis was involved in the bottom corner by Jabari and could not make up for it.

Jabari: Seven feet in 3D.

Jabari counterattacked until Kuzma fouled. This is the second meaning of Jabari: a seven-foot 3D player who can also run fast breaks with long strides!

The Bucks relied on Gary Trent to trap Durant, but failed in a double attack; Durant made a jump shot: Trent was 196 centimeters away, but the bottom plate was not hard enough, allowing Durant to take off from the mid-range, and there was no way.

Then I think Durant’s best goal of the game was.

Trent cut out, jumped Durant, and broke through; Durant was already out of position and pursued relentlessly. He interfered with Trent three times in one round and finally did not let Trent throw the ball.

Starting from this ball, the Bucks' offense was cracked: who has the ball and who plays alone, it is clear at a glance without burning your brain; Durant goes out to defend, how much encouragement does it give to his teammates?

In the next round, Durant took Giannis alone. The enemies were extremely jealous when they met, but they were on the weak side: Trent had realized that Durant would look for Jabari, but he was 196 centimeters long and could not block the seven-foot Jabari long shot.

Jabari: Seven-foot 3D, have you seen it?

Giannis still wanted to pester Durant, but Durant named Turner and pulled the ball to break through the mid-range shot-it is still an old topic: the Bucks have no iron threshold that can buckle Durant. As long as Giannis is restrained, Durant can hit whomever he wants.

The Bucks continued the same old routine: Trent cut out, Okogie didn't give him a chance; Giannis attacked Durant, Shen Jing was waiting for him under the basket, and Giannis missed.

Then, Shen Jing hit the ball with the highest golf quotient in the game:

First he got close to Durant, then moved away, and even gestured "not in a hurry, not in a hurry".

Giannis rushed over, and Shen Jing broke through Giannis, then turned around and passed Turner for a layup: the time difference, the rhythm, including that "no rush, no rush", are full of worries.

Such a reversal is clear:

Shen Jing scored 23+11+7 in the game, the second-highest +21 in the team: the Rockets were behind for most of the time, but he was able to +21, and scored 10 points on all 4 shots in the fourth quarter.

Jabari Smith's team-high +25: Of course he made 5 of 15 shots, but in the last few rounds, his meaning was very clear:

Seven-foot 3D, pulling Giannis, counterattacking and drawing fouls, and receiving three-pointers from the weak side. Drawing, running, pulling, and a team-high 8 defensive rebounds.

Okogie scored 0 points in the game, but he basically played the role of a weakened version of Tucker: Back then, the Bucks used Tucker to entangle Durant, and today the Rockets use Okogie to consume Giannis.

Shepard is the biggest surprise: he scored 16 points in the past two games. He was occasionally chased as a weak point, but he has gradually been able to stand firm in high-intensity games.

The Rockets' reversal today is a bit like the third to fifth games of the 2018 Western Conference Finals: Jabari is like an extended version of Ariza, Okogie is like Tucker, and Capela is probably familiar with it: winning by hardness and passion.

Having said that, plus today: Lao Li played against Udoka's Rockets in the Bucks, 2 wins and 4 losses.

Uduka is too strong to fight against Cole's tricks; but it seems to be quite suitable to deal with Lao Li's stubbornness?

At the end of the fourth quarter today, Lao Li asked Giannis and Trent to go back and forth with Durant.

Durant: Oops! Singled out, right? Nothing else, right?

When Durant is not flanked by the center circle or blocked by the iron threshold, he can shoot 31 points on 15 shots. And as mentioned above, his most critical performance today was not his 7 points and 4 assists in the fourth quarter, but his blocking of Trent and Giannis. After all, Durant can give you 20 points even if he sleepwalks, but at the last moment today, when the Bucks insisted on attacking him, he stood still. The triple interference in Trent's turn was particularly moving: he was jumped, old, out of position, and pursued relentlessly.

Durant: It’s just a one-on-one, it doesn’t involve going around the screen to block the wheel and look around, right? Old Li is truly an honest man!

After all, Durant’s career-high 50 points in the playoffs was scored against Lao Li’s Clippers in 2019.